Episode 20: The Best Is Yet to Come

On this episode of the Jerry & Jacobe Podcast, hosts Jerry and Jacobe ask you a question. Is your best behind you, or is it yet to come? There are ways to look to the past that will help launch you into the future, but be careful when you walk that line!

Episode Highlights: 

• When working with his youth group, Jerry hears plenty of students talk about how these are the best years of their lives.
• Winning 3 state championships and 1 national championship in high school represent a great time in Jacobe’s life, but not the best.
• Jerry breaks his life down into different stages, ranging from different school levels to post-graduation life segments.
• For so many years, Jerry was forced to live in survival mode, so he has always had a more positive outlook on the future than the present.
• College brought the first semblance of regularity and stability that Jerry had ever seen.
• Jerry began to let go of what he couldn’t control at a young age and let life happen as it went.
• With such an unstable upbringing, Jerry always knew that the future was going to hold something better.
• One of the laws of the universe is that you are either evolving or dying, going forward or backward.
• Whether our life events are positive or negative, you have to learn from them and move forward.
• This idea of better days in the past is something that is often affiliated with sports.
• Jacobe has noticed that the other guys that he played with back in the day have used their pasts to propel themselves into the future.
• Different groups of athletes that Jerry spends time with tend to focus more on the relationships that have been developed rather than the accolades.
• Feelings of nostalgia are mainly driven by the feeling of community rather than the actual events.
• As we go through different stages of our lives, our visions change along with the times and have expiration dates.
• For Jacobe back in Midland, Texas, the vision growing up was that he was going to play football.
• While it’s important to have short-term goals, everyone should accompany those goals with a long-term vision.
• Jacobe was able to take the skills that he learned in sports and transfer those into the business world.
• A vision and a plan mean nothing without the preparation beforehand and the ultimate execution.
• The transition between a household that has kids and one that no longer does is a very hard one for many people.
• You can choose to be reactive and have no control or be proactive and experience a smoother transition.
• Pain is unavoidable in life, so rather than running from it, you can push towards it and become comfortable with it.
• There is really only one formula for being successful in real estate, but the speed at which you achieve success is determined by your tolerance for pain.
• Whether it’s in boxing or real estate, everybody has a plan until they get that proverbial punch in the face.
• When looking back, focus on relationships; when looking forward, focus on the plan.
• Decide what things you actually want and what things that you think are cool because other people have achieved them.
• Consistency is key to improving your life, your kid’s lives, their kid’s lives, and so on and so forth.
• Jacobe’s last deal came in the form of a vacant, off-market property with a lot of equity and an out-of-state owner.
• Jerry’s last deal was a probate property, meaning the court determined how to distribute the property.

3 Key Points:

1. Our individual perspectives on how our lives play out will eventually determine our individual futures, so make sure yours is a positive one.
2. Using past memories as lessons learned and relationships gained can be very useful as long as you don’t live in those past time periods.
3. It’s the transitions between life stages that scare people the most, but if you can stay proactive and think about these shifts before they happen, you can better prepare yourself for the change.

Resources Mentioned:

• Jacobe Kendrick (Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram)
• Jerry Weaver (Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram)
• Success Without Sacrifice Facebook page
• Principles (book)
• Extreme Ownership (book)
• Hattie B’s