KEY POINTS FROM ROB:

• I am grateful for my wife.  Family is near and dear to me, and I would not be where I am today without her.  You’re a team with your spouse/significant other.  Teamwork makes the dream work!
• I’m grateful for having a bed to sleep on every night.  Oftentimes we get so far beyond where we came from, that we tend to forget where we came from.
• Take a moment to reflect on where you’ve come from and how far you’ve been removed from that place that you were.
• A lot of people see the exterior that we have today; and they look at the cover of the book, but they don’t know the whole story.
• That’s why I fight so hard to give my daughter a better life than what I had.
• At 18 years old, I was sleeping on the floor on pillows off of a pull-out couch in a one-room studio apartment with my dad who was on drugs, and I felt like I had no purpose.
• Exposure and environment is so important.  Hang around people that are where you want to be.  Put yourself around people that will stretch you.
• “If you’re in the top of your class, you’re in the wrong class,” John Maxwell.
• The  turnaround for me was taking myself out of the equation and getting the focus off of me and putting my focus on God and serving other people.
• I began to take my focus off me and my situation and I began to serve others.
• As a result, God continued to elevate my life, and eventually I got to the place where I was able to forgive my father.
• I was able to get beyond my past circumstances and move into my future.
• When your life begins to weigh down on you and you begin to focus on your problems and that weight that you’re carrying in business, let’s re-shift, let’s re-focus on serving other people and the mission, vision, and our why.  This will get us back on course!
• No matter where you are, you’ve got to see beyond where you are today.
• I was only making $30K per year, but in my mind I saw myself as an entrepreneur and CEO before I ever was one.
• Your confession — what you say out of your mouth and how you see yourself is so important to your future and your life.
• Our company, @360YourBusiness, offers digital marketing services that help companies to evolve and innovate with their marketing and stay ahead of their competition and continue to grow.
• As a business you will either evolve or dissolve; you will continue to innovate or you will go away.
• Get started! Faith is taking the first step without seeing the whole staircase.
• Wondering which move to make next? Consider this:  What’s the next thing that you can do to move your dream or your business forward?
• Tell stories to make the most impact marketing with videos.
• Leading with a story gets people connected with who you are, and they’ll want to know more.
• Keep it short and sweet so it’s more digestible for people who are watching and listening.
• People buy you before they buy your product or your services.
• Continue to believe for the ridiculous.  If you believe for the ridiculous and expect the ridiculous, you’ll get the ridiculous in your life.
• Believe and expect stuff that most people are afraid to believe for.

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