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[0:00] We'll move on to our last speech, which will be three to five minutes. So this one's a little shorter. And Ricky will be giving us a speech about the full circle. His story of the full circle. Not a half circle, but a full circle. Please have a whole thing. Please have a whole thing.
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[0:22] Before we begin a few requests, Timer, would you do me a favor? Um when i'm uh men and uh middle can you hold the things up because if you hold i i i totally, don't see things in here so if you don't go like this i won't see it um second there's um secondly for the um counter please uh count everything just don't click now let me go on the toast master mode here we go all right good afternoon everyone i am still ricky savage question have Have you ever let a bad day spill over onto somebody else? For example, might be rude to a lady and her dog. And if this has happened, have you ever been given the opportunity or gift to make amends of some sort and bring it full circle? This is exactly what happened to me on Monday. About a year and a half ago, I was lifting weights at a gym. This gym is a small, more athletic-based one, so there's a lot of the same people there. A lot of people bring their dogs. So when I was in there training one day, a lady or a dog walked in. The dog came over to me, kind of jumped up on me a little bit. Not aggressive, not at all. Very normal. I overreacted a little bit. And though I was able to calm myself down fairly quickly, the damage was done. After standing there for about four or five minutes, I decided to take my stuff and go home because I was embarrassed. And what else are you going to do?
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[1:44] As the months wore on, this bothered me because I didn't know who this person was. Plus, this is a sanctuary for athletes, so to speak. So I did two things. It was my fault, but also I let a situation affect somebody else that I didn't want to. And I violated this, the sanctuary of that athletic place, if you will.
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[2:03] And fortunately, about six weeks ago, the lady who I offended at that point came walking in with her dog. I thought it was her kind of evaluated for a little bit. I didn't want to make a mistake. Not, you know, I don't know who you are. This. So I finally decided to make the amends that I had been talking about doing. I walked up to her, asked her. I said, excuse me. I'm sorry to bother you. However, I was rude to you and your dog. And she said, yes, you were. Maybe not that aggressively, but it was direct. And I said, well, I apologize. Guys, I don't make excuses for bad behavior. I'm just not a great human sometimes. She was very gracious. She accepted my apology. In situations like that, though, I believe that not only should you make amends, but you should double down on it. Meaning, I wanted to make sure this person understood that I am not a moron and I do like dogs. Because I don't think that I am and I really do.
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[2:52] Monday, I was able to, I was in the same gym. She just trains at the same place. Started a conversation with her and we started talking about what i did for a living and then we went back to what she did for a living i asked her the conversation was something like this what do you do for a living i'm a retired professional ufc fighter i said really what's her name jessica jessica penny now if you're a ufc fan you know exactly who this is i know exactly who this is but unfortunately my facial recognition software is garbage so after i recognized her and stepped back. I remember my jaw dropping a little bit. I sat down at the bench next to her and said, you're a UFC fighter. And I was rude to you. And she said, yes, you were somewhat. Like she said before, she's a very funny person to talk to. So after a little bit of talking back and forth to me, realizing that not only was I rude, just the absolute wrong person you needed to, you should rarely ever be rude to. She handled it very well, but how interesting it is when somebody decides to forgive you and not hold things against you, because I have held things against people before. So I learned a lot of lessons just sitting there talking to her.
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[3:58] The moral of this entire story is this. If you're going to allow your emotions to get the best of you, maybe don't do it with a UFC fighter. And if you do, try to make amends as soon as you can. I purposefully talked to the gym owner about who this person was because I didn't know. Now, understand something. The entire time, I thought her name was Grace. I did not know this was Jessica Penny, UFC fighter. So I think I might I don't think I would have would have went about this any differently however after I found out who she was and what her capabilities were and how gracious she was there was a lot of lessons to be learning because I don't fight at her level but I do compete so when I see these other high high level world champions do things I try to emulate that thank you.
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