When you become obsessed with this game, the impact, the influence, and the money will come. On today’s episode Russell talks about why being obsessed with the game is the key to success. Here are some of the amazing things Russell has to say in this episode: Why Russell is again competing in a wrestling tournament after a 16 year absence. Why the product launching phase of internet marketing was a lot harder, and Russell is relieved it changed. And find out why being obsessed with the game creates a skill set that means only the best survive. So listen here to find out how the marketplace changed from an old boys club to only the best succeed, and why Russell is happy about the change. ---Transcript--- What’s up everybody? This is Russell Brunson, welcome to Marketing Secrets podcast. I’m so excited to have you guys here today. With that said, let’s queue up the theme song and we’re going to get to some fun. Alright everybody, so I just dropped my kids off at school, I’m driving back and there’s always tons of traffic, so I was like, you know what, I want to hang out with you guys a little bit. This morning I woke up early and actually had wrestling practice. Not with my kids, I did wrestling practice with my kids last night, but today I did it for myself because I actually am going to go and compete in a tournament in like 6 weeks from now. And I am insanely out of shape. But I’m also so excited. So excited. It’s funny because I haven’t actually put on a wrestling singlet in I think 16 or 17 years, something like that. So I’m super nervous. But I don’t know, it’s weird, I never thought I’d be done wrestling. But when I got done, I was done. It was the weirdest thing. My whole life was focused on this thing. And my senior year I was working towards going to the NCAA tournament, and I wanted to be an All-American. And at the PAC 10 tournament before NCAA’s, I thought for sure I was going to, I think it was like the top first and second place they took to the NCAA tournament, something like that. And what’s crazy is I think my second match, I wrestled the returning PAC 10 champ, and I beat him, I beat him really good actually. So I was like, I should win PAC 10. I just destroyed the dude who won it last year. And then somehow I lost, like some dude I’d never heard of, never seen him or anything. And I lost to him and it didn’t make any sense, and I got knocked out of the tournament and I didn’t get to go. And it was the weirdest thing where like, you know when you think there’s going to be an ending, you can mentally prepare for that? So I was like, okay it’s my senior year, my last tournament’s going to be the NCAA tournament, I was really excited, looking forward to this thing. And then two weeks earlier at the PAC 10 I lost and it was done. And it was over and I wasn’t ready for it to be over, and it was. It was crazy. Anyway, I think I would have gone into severe depression because my whole life is focusing on this one thing and then you don’t even get to go to the thing. Horrible feeling. But luckily had this little fledgling business I had started up, so I shifted all my focus to that to get away from the pain. And for the next 16 years of my life that’s all I did, was this business thing. And luckily it turned out to be a good waste of my energy and time. It’s been fun. But I know that even 7 or 8 years ago I missed wrestling so much that, I think you guys have heard this story if you’ve been listening to the podcast. I built up a wrestling gym and I hired the Olympic Greco coach and flew him to Boise, and then I hired 8 or 9 guys who were training for the Olympics and flew them to Boise and I paid their salaries because I wanted to wrestle again, and I wanted to compete and train. So I started training, and I trained for probably 6 or so months getting ready for it, I got hurt once or twice, my body was weak. And I was planning on going to a tournament, I was so excited to go and actually put a singlet on again and wr