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Coming up, I'm going to tell you 5 ways to start guarding your time by saying no.
And then, the United Auto Worker Strike could cost our economy 5 billion in county and
I'll explain why and why unions are bad.
Let's go.
Helping you win at work, by helping you see what's wrong with the matrix of work, helping
you see the type of work that allows you to use what you do best to do what you love,
to produce results that matter to you.
More money, more meaning is the result.
Let's get to it.
We've thoughtful ways to say no, to put some actual thought into it.
So essentially, you have these five ways of saying no, essentially in a tool belt, all
right?
So I don't know if anybody know what a tool belt is, but I grew up, my dad used to build
and my father and I was a custom home builder.
So, you know, they have these leather tool belts and they put it on just like a belt.
It's got buckle, the whole nine, what doesn't have a buckle, I guess, I guess it does.
But it's got all these pockets on it.
And in this tool belt, I mean, they've got everything from a pencil to a level, some
little square thing they do to a measuring tape.
They've got the hammer hanging off the side.
I mean, it's pretty impressive.
And so I want you to think about freedom in your life attached to a very powerful word
that we don't use enough.
No.
Now, you say it like that, that's already freaking some of you out.
There's some people, there's a guy on the front row watching the lobby or an A star to laugh
and like, I'm telling a joke, I get it because it makes you uncomfortable, you know, he
just, somebody asks you to do something, you look at him and you go, no, that's horrible.
You awful human being.
How dare you be so rude.
But why do we think that at the end of the day, if it's truly an option, I'm deciding
whether or not I'm going to say yes to your request.
Then if it's my option and there are times, we don't have an option.
So I'm not speaking about that today, but I'm talking about personally and professionally.
When you do have the option, we always tend to lead towards the yes because we're so worried
about the confrontation that may or may not exist when we say no, if you want more
freedom, less stress, more opportunity, learn the power of no.
So because I know that most of you are like our audience member who was like, easy man,
easy with the no easy man, that was a little rude, I'm going to give you five ways to
say no.
And I'm going to tell you why this is important.
If you don't say no, I promise you someone else is going to say yes for you.
Now you might be the one that says yes, but let's be honest, they've decided that you
need to say yes because you don't have a freaking backbone because you don't have a process
that makes the backbone stiffer.
You're going to have someone else say yes for you.
Now, before I dive into this, I don't want you to skip what I'm saying.
I'm not in a bad mood this morning, you know, I didn't wake up, you know, grumpy.
I'm just telling you, I've had to learn this lesson and I see so much data out there.
I reported on the show, people are burned out, they're stressed out, busy, busy as become
a label.
And we just think we got to say yes to everything, yes to every request that our teenagers
ask.
I got three teenagers, one of them drives.
Let me tell you something.
Sometimes they say no, they say why I go because I'm not an Uber driver.
I want to sit here and watch golf.
That's why I'm very comfortable right now.
My butt is comfortable, literally it's comfortable.
It's right like where it's sitting.
I want to watch golf.
I'm really into this, they want to go now.
This is not my problem.
Now, I'm just telling you, this happens in everyday life, parents, endless parties, endless
birthday invitations, soccer, football, basketball, all the things, I got to say yes to it all
the time.
No.
You don't.
All right.
So now I've set the problem.
Some of your stressed out right now, you're looking at your week ahead.
This doesn't even take into account your coworker asking you to do something, your boss asked
you to do something, and you feel like you got to say yes all the time, well you don't,
but we're going to have to build this muscle for saying no.
So here we go.
So think of this as personal and professional.
Because when you don't say no, let me tell you what's happened, you've lost control
of your time and your priorities.
Oh, who wants to live a life where you don't have the time you desire and the priorities
leading your life?
That's a, that is a rudderless life, folks.
No thanks.
Here we go.
It's just the way I worded these, get the spirit of it.
One way to say no, I've got another commitment.
So essentially you've already said yes to something else.
I think it's off.
It's the blow.
Oh.
You can put a little drama in it if you want to.
I'd really like to say yes, but I've already said yes to this.
I've got another commitment.
Sorry, I've committed to something and I can't commit to both.
I've said yes to something else.
I love that approach.
Second, I would love to, I would like to in the future.
Do you have another possibility?
Well, that's a fun one too.
I'm saying no, but I'm kind of saying not yet, right?
Got another option for me.
This happens a lot for me.
People want me to be on their show, on their podcast,
things of that nature.
And sometimes my schedule is predetermined.
I can't do it.
I can't do it on this date.
Can we, can we do this date?
Can you give me three or four other options?
That's a bandwidth issue, owning bandwidth.
By the way, responsible mature people understand bandwidth.
I've only got so much in this block of time,
can you give me something else?
All right, next.
I'm honored, really grateful, that you thought of me.
I'm not the, I don't think I'm the best fit for that.
What?
Yeah, you could say that.
People have asked me to do a speaking engagement
before on a certain topic and I go,
you know what, I am really honored that you'd want me to speak,
but if you want me to speak on something else,
and more in my lane, that's great.
But, you know, that's not my thing.
I think that some other people are better fit.
In fact, I got a couple of ideas.
Now again, I'm using this in my examples,
but also for you to see, you know,
somebody asked you to do something,
just go, you know what?
I don't think I'm the best for that.
Hey, we'd really like for you to volunteer
to be chairman of this committee.
Yeah, that's a, that's a hard pass,
but cause I just am not very organized or whatever.
Tell the truth, but you're deflecting
more towards you aren't a good fit.
Here's another one.
I don't say yes to those requests, and here's why.
So the other day, I get this request
probably about 10, 15 times a year, Kim,
when you endorse my book,
will you write a forward of the book?
And most of the time, my answer is no.
And it's, I don't want to create this precedent
where I'm writing forwards for books.
If I say yes to this person, and I say no to this person,
and they meet each other,
and that could happen in my world.
It's a very small world.
And I don't want to piss somebody off,
because I went, no, I don't want to write a forward
for that book.
I think it's a crappy book.
I can't say that.
I can't go, well, your book titles crappy.
It looks like a piece of crap.
I don't want to attach myself to that.
Well, that's a jerk move.
Nothing noting wins with that.
So what do I do?
I go, you know what, I'm going to eliminate that.
I'm going to say no.
And here's why I say no to that request.
I'm so sorry.
I can't say yes to that.
I had to do one of those the other day.
By the way, that's been done to me before.
Number five, last one.
There are a lot of reasons to say yes.
But I need to say no.
And it's personal.
It's private.
I wish I could say yes.
A lot of good reasons.
But I'm going to have to pass.
And so those are five ways to be very honest,
to take control of the narrative,
and say yes to the life you want to be living,
and notice something that distracts you from it.
Bringing common sense back to the conversation,
I'm Kent.
This is the Kent Coleman Show.
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It's the number one area of your life
that you spend time in.
And it ought not be just something that you go,
well, I just got a show up and do it.
And piss away all that time.
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In the headlines, we just got through,
we haveverted, if you will, the crisis with UPS,
one of the largest unions in the country, UPS,
they closed the deal.
I said they would.
And most of the time, you see these union fights get settled.
Because honestly, it's an absolute fricking disaster
if both sides don't figure it out.
So you fill in the blank company, ABC, and then the union.
And if they don't figure it out, it can be a real mess.
And that's part of the problem.
So I want to inform you folks today,
because we're seeing in America,
we're seeing some of the data,
if the data can be believed, can be believed,
that unions are growing in popularity,
certainly among young people we sell this with Starbucks,
and again, God bless the young people.
They don't know what they don't know.
I was young once.
So I'm not banging on this young generation.
I'm not.
I know that sounds very boomery.
But when I was young,
I didn't know what I didn't know.
And it's a wonderful thing.
Okay.
But I'm just gonna tell you something.
You need to understand why unions are bad
for our economy and bad for you.
And so we're going to always say,
I work for union section 3719 down there,
and it ain't been good for me.
I listen.
I don't acknowledge all of it.
But I'm gonna give you a union 101
that anybody can understand,
because you the people need to know.
Why unions are bad
at how they affect all of us, okay?
All right.
But first, in the news here,
I'm holding a Fox business article.
The United Auto Workers is deciding to strike against
the big three, at least they plan to,
they want to, according to their president,
which I'll read from this genius here in a moment.
They want to strike against the big three Detroit automakers
when the current contract expires
next month.
Now, here's what the Anderson Economic Group,
a Michigan-based think tank specializes in this stuff
of labor strikes and what it could mean.
You ready for this?
Their conservative number is,
it could cost the economy 5.6 billion dollars
if the strike goes 10 days, 5.6 billion dollars.
Now, some of you're going,
well, Ken, the Hollywood writers
and all the Hollywood types have been on strike
for months and months and months.
But listen, if you ever wondered
how important Hollywood was to our country,
now you know, because nobody gives a crap.
And I'm not, I'm not in any way,
saying it's not a big deal for the writers and actors.
I'm just saying, you look at the news
and is it affecting our economy?
Not very much.
You want to know why the Oscar ratings
are so low over the last several years?
Nobody gives a crap.
So, some unions are far more important
on our economy than others.
And you start talking about UPS,
you start talking about packages being delivered,
you talk about cars being made,
whoa, massive deal, all right?
So, that's what it could do over 10 days.
Now, this figure is made up of two things.
I want you to make sure you get this.
Manufacturer losses, so those are the actual car makers.
They would lose about 989 million in that scenario.
And then direct wages to people who make money.
Hello folks, they're living off of the car industry,
900, excuse me, 859 million.
Now, this is not taken to consideration,
strike pay, which that comes out of the union's funds,
all those dues, unemployment benefits,
unemployment taxes, income taxes,
government spending, or settlement bonuses.
That's enough to make you want to puke.
$5.6 billion plus plus plus plus plus plus, all right.
So, let's get into the story.
The union's current contract expires September 14th,
UAW president Sean Fein.
This guy, he's the latest,
any line of mob bosses, I'm sorry, union bosses.
Did I, did that slip out?
Did I say mob boss?
Oh boy, I met union boss.
He's the latest in a long line for the very, you know,
historic auto workers union, United auto workers.
And he did a Facebook live.
And this is what this genius said.
If we want to make progress at the bargaining table,
we need to show the companies that it's not just talk.
He calls the demands, which I'm about ready to unveil to you.
His words, the most audacious and ambitious list of proposals
they've seen in decades.
He's banging his chest.
Oh, yeah, man, I'm in charge.
And I've got the most audacious demands ever.
The most ambitious, look at me.
The main point of contention is what it always is
higher pay for union members.
The union is seeking more than 40% general pay raises
for rank and file members over four years,
making all temporary workers at the automakers permanent,
cost of living adjustments, increases in pension benefits
for current retirees and restoring pensions for new hires.
Now all that sounds great to those of you who are uninformed.
And when I, they put this stuff out on YouTube and social media
and people come after me, the snowflakes they love to kill me.
Oh, you're sitting behind your fancy desk and you're blah, blah, blah,
this, you know, listen, the union is trying to mandate
that temporary workers become full time.
That's not the union's call.
That's the company's call.
Do you have to like it?
No, but here's what happens.
This ends up coming back to hurt you snowflakes
who attack me for talking about basic economics.
You don't get to reinvent economics.
You don't.
It's like me going, I don't like how hot the sun is.
I think we need to change it.
You don't get to say, that's up to God.
You morons.
Now you say, well, I don't like our system.
Great, go live in Venezuela.
Go live in Cuba.
Go live in Russia.
Go live in a socialist economy or even worse, a communist economy.
Fantastic.
Go to China.
They'd love to have you there.
Go seriously.
Go like I would like to pack your bags for you
because you don't understand what this kind of nonsense does.
Now, why are these audacious demands dangerous?
Because they endanger a company's ability
to make decisions for the future.
Auto workers, let me just tell you where the auto,
let me tell you some of you uninformed people.
I'm actually going to explain this to you.
Because all you see is the emotion around
everybody deserves this pay.
You don't think.
I'm going to teach you how to think.
Now, what would be the number one issue
facing auto companies right now?
Okay, some of you geniuses got it.
The rest of you didn't.
I'm going to tell you what it is.
It's electric cars.
So you think about the investment that car makers
are going to have to make to move everything to electric cars
because that's where this is headed,
right wrong, different, indifferent.
That's where it's going.
So when you start demanding that companies,
they take their strategic plans
and they've been doing it for decades.
You say you got to, you got to give us this, this,
this is going to increase all of your cost.
Two things happen.
The first thing that companies do,
whether you like it or not,
is they pass on the cost to you.
You know why cars cost so much now?
Because of this kind of union crap.
It's a fact.
And it gets to a point where a car company
or any company can't pass the cost onto the customer
because the customer goes, screw you guys.
I'm not paying that.
Then what happens?
Jobs get cut and eventually they shut down.
Again, folks, I know this hurts some of your tender feelings,
but that's economic 101 lesson for you today.
So why are unions so bad?
Their whole mix is we're going to offer
a better path to the future for the workers.
They're workers, but they end up cutting jobs
because only union workers keep the jobs.
They end up driving up the price for all of us,
which affects our household expenses and even our jobs.
They ought to abolish unions
and let capitalism run its course.
All right, let's go to Boise, Idaho, for a little coaching session with Kyle.
Kyle, you're on the Ken Coleman show.
Hi, Ken. How are you today?
I'm living the dream, Kyle.
What's going on with you?
Oh, well, I'm just trying not to work too hard,
but I'll do everything I can.
How's that working on?
That's working really.
But my problem is, I've been in the trades almost my entire life.
I've done plumbing, I've done carpentry,
I've done a little bit of electrical,
I've done fire sprinklers.
And I really like working in the trades.
I like working with my hands.
I like being around building new things.
Yeah.
But my problem is, is I can't find that niche.
I can't find what my passion is in the trades,
but I'm supposed to be working out.
Hmm.
Now, when you say that, when you tell me you like working with your hands,
and so you're saying when you've done plumbing, electrical work, carpentry,
you've liked it, but you knew there was something else.
You felt like there was something else that really gave you joy.
Is that what I'm hearing you say?
Exactly.
And I've worked in non-construction fields before.
And I really, I mean, I love working with people,
but I feel like construction is more something my speed,
but I still don't know what in construction I'm supposed to be doing.
Oh, what kind of, so when you did carpentry or construction work in the past,
what did you like most about it?
I liked being outside and not sitting down.
I've, like I said, I've worked jobs in the past where I've sat in a cubicle,
basically, and ran operations of a store,
but I liked being outside, getting work, actually working with my hands,
working with people and trades and my team.
What kind of, so there's a, so you love working with people,
but you also like working with your hands.
That's what I'm hearing you say.
So it feels like to me, if you're doing something with your hands,
that has a decent amount to good amount of people interaction,
you'd be a pretty happy camper, yeah?
Yeah.
So I think you know the answer to this.
I think you do.
So let's have some fun.
Now you've got to suspend all disbelief for a moment.
You just got to let your heart answer this question.
Do you understand what I'm saying when I say that?
Is that makes sense to you?
Yes, I think so.
I don't want you to think.
And by the way, I've done this,
I've done this over 7,000 times live on the air.
I can hear when someone's thinking.
So I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna cut you off
if I started to hear that brain go grinding.
You understand what I'm saying?
Yep.
All right.
Let's say that tomorrow, I give you 20 to 30% bump.
This is just to get your brain to shut off.
I give you plenty of money.
And I say I want you to describe the day.
I'll give you the money, but you want,
but I want you to tell me what you're doing tomorrow.
And you get to snap your fingers
and the opportunity is there and you're doing it.
You're working with your hands outside
and you got a pretty good quotient of people time.
What are you doing tomorrow, Kyle?
It's hard not to do the thinking part, but...
No, you already answered it.
Your brain already selected an idea too
while you said it's hard not to do the thinking part
that was you delaying.
Your brain automatically came up with an image.
What was it?
Something to do with plumbing or piping.
So that's what your brain came up with as soon as I asked you.
Yep.
Uh-huh.
But you've done plumbing work before and you said,
well, I just haven't found my passion yet.
So what about the plumbing work before
didn't give you what you call the passion you're looking for?
Um, what was missing?
I heard you read the people.
Uh-huh.
Maybe.
Yeah, tell me about that.
Um, sir, like the job I'm in now, it's not plumbing,
but I love the people.
But when I was doing plumbing or fire sprinklers before,
it was days there.
I worried that, you know, I would be even hurt at work
by the people because I wasn't keeping up with things
or certain things like that.
Okay.
So let me, let me stop you right here.
I'll make sure I'm hearing you.
When you were doing plumbing before,
which is exactly what you identified
would be the thing you do tomorrow.
Mm-hmm.
You enjoyed the plumbing part, the work part,
that you were fascinated by it,
enjoyed it, challenged by it.
But the people you did it with,
you didn't feel safe, wasn't a good situation.
Right.
But what about the customers themselves?
What was that interaction like?
I didn't deal with, I didn't more commercial,
so I didn't deal with the customers very much.
All right, let me paint a picture for you.
And I want you to edit this little story.
You're ready?
You edit it once I'm done.
So my wife, Stacy Coleman calls you.
She says, Kyle, the sink is clogged.
It's clogged up.
I can't do anything.
Ken's poured eight bottles of liquid drainage down.
It's not helping.
He's clueless.
He's one level above a moron.
He can't fix it.
It's wrecking our life.
Or the laundry room is leaking.
Ken can't fix it.
He's a total just doofus when it comes to this.
I need help.
And she goes, all right, Stacy, I'll be right there.
And you run over the house.
She greets you with a huge sigh of relief and a smile.
And thanks you profusely as you run into the room.
You get out your tools.
You start fixing everything.
You fix it.
And when she gets done, I mean, you get done.
She's like, oh my gosh, I just texted Ken.
I told him he's so grateful.
We're so grateful that you changed our life.
We would have never been able to figure this out.
You saved us thousands of dollars
because you were quick because you were thorough.
How does that make you feel?
Actually, sounds pretty good.
And like, I would be helping people,
but still using tools to work with my hands
and finishing a project.
Yeah, let's be honest.
My wife and I have been married 25 years.
She loves me.
I love her.
But who is she happier to see that day?
You or me?
To me.
Yeah, I mean, it's not even close.
Like, that's pretty valuable.
And so I would tell you, my friend,
that there's something about plumbing,
the intricacy, the challenge,
it challenges your brain.
You got to use your hands and your brain.
But it also allows you to serve people
and truly change their life in that moment.
Yes?
Yep.
So I think it's, I think it's getting back in the trades.
Let me tell you something, my friend.
You can make a truckload of money as a plumber
and eventually it go work for somebody else.
Let them pay you well to learn the craft.
Maybe one day you start your own company.
Your small business owner working for you.
But you've got a real heart for people.
And so, you know, when any tradesman comes into your home,
that's a very personal thing.
And especially in crisis and with plumbing,
there's a high rate of crisis involved with that, true?
Yes.
Oh, baby.
I mean, there's customer service
and then there's customer care.
And I would put plumbing up at a notch higher
than customer service.
And I would call that customer care
because people are freaked out, man.
Right?
Yeah, make sense.
So I don't want to oversimplify it,
but I think it's this simple.
You just were doing it with a bunch of bad actors before.
And I think it was more corporate.
Maybe you were in a shop or something.
You weren't out among people serving people.
And dude, there is such a need for plumbers right now.
This is a function of you just getting out there
and making sure you got all the certs
and everything you need
and make sure you're in the consumer serving side.
Okay.
That's your niche.
Whether it's plumbing or electrical work
or HVAC work, your niche is using your brain and your hands
to solve problems for people.
That was, that's what I would,
in a quick sentence, say, that's your purpose at work.
Would you agree with that?
Yeah.
How's that feel?
I think I heard it smile.
I think I heard it.
It sounds and it feels really good,
but I, it makes me nervous
that I am just jumping into another field.
You're not jumping into another field.
The last four or five minutes,
we just figured out this isn't you flighty dealing
with bad pizza and heartburn last night.
This is court of who you are.
Do you agree with that or not?
Yeah, you're right.
So let me just tell you something.
You're not, you're not nervous
because you're jumping back and forth.
You're nervous about committing.
You're nervous about the changes
you need to make in your life to get there.
And that's okay.
Is that fair?
Yeah.
You're gonna have to make some changes at some point.
Now, you have two options.
You either decide to make this change
and go do work that matters deeply to you
and it changes your entire life.
Your mental health, physical health,
emotional health, financial health,
or you can go, well, I'm nervous about changing.
I'm just gonna accept suck for a little longer.
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