#025 - Why Looking for Opportunity is the Best Perspective | David Nichols

David Nichols is a Christian, a husband, and the owner (with his wife) of CrossFit Flower Mound. He's ran the gym since 2008, and has learned what it takes to grow a business, teach people how to live healthier lives, and manage the difficulties of all types of relationships.

In this episode, you can expect to learn:

- Why David's life is like a roundabout

- Whether patience and passivity are similar

- The importance of the dinner table

and much, much, more!

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00:00 Opportunities are the backbone of a healthy perspective

02:29 What does opportunity mean?

03:52 Coaching youth baseball as a vehicle to inspire growth

05:28 Foolishness can become a life lesson with the right guidance

17:02 1X10 doesn't equal 10X1... 2+2=4 isn't always the right analogy

19:05 Patience vs Passivity

24:19 Don't chase an impossible goal, provide something life-giving

28:07 Misunderstandings because David owns a CrossFit gym

30:47 Joy and Health are not mutually exclusive

32:52 Why is our society so wrapped up in "speed"

34:06 Family Dinners create stability

37:13 The dinner table can be treated as a safe place for kids

39:32 Realizing your kids are growing up... reframing their age

45:08 Parenting is the most selfless relationship (outside of marriage)

47:57 The importance of self awareness

50:30 Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments (Neil Strauss quote!!)

53:11 Parallel between relationship dynamics and running a gym (serving)

55:17 Service vs Enslavement

57:09 Selfishness makes it hard to share the gospel

59:17 The story behind the moment the weight of ownership hit David and Lindsey

01:06:40 (the exact moment)

01:10:39 Reaping what you sow and creating opportunities to change people's minds about stereotypes

01:13:25 Managing a person who's transitioning interested in joining the gym

01:18:47 Exemplifying the love of Christ through the two examples

01:20:25 Shortest coaching tenure the gym has had (the importance of having a good process, the bus analogy)

01:24:33 Managing the "fallout" of letting someone go

01:25:50 What makes a community real

01:30:42 The depth of common vulnerability through the lens of our differences

01:32:48 What our cultures gets wrong about strength

01:37:27 The Screwdriver Analogy

01:40:08 If a young person was about to live a life similar to David's, what would he beg them to do differently?