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I gave a talk at Toastmasters today about having done 1000 episodes across my various podcasts, and it got me thinking I should get back to this.
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This has been one heck of a week. Our nation suffered an unprecedented attack. Normally, I see things happening in the news, sigh, and say "okay, so that happened."
This hit me a bit harder. It was quite distracting. Add to that all the other stress of business, family life, and all the rest, and I found myself pretty well off balance yesterday.
When we go to Mystic Dojo - Yamashita International Karate, we bow upon passing through the door. This is to show respect for the dojo and the instructors, but it is also a signal to ourselves to leave everything outside.
The news, the bills, the family, what's for dinner, when will I find time to do the thing, all of that stays outside. No matter what is happening outside, when I go inside my mind should be 100% karate and nothing else.
It's not always easy to do so, but by the end of the class, my mind is clear, and I am refreshed to be able to return to the bustling outside world.
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I didn't buy it. I got it with a combination of good luck and hard work.
I got it the same way that most success comes.
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I had two conversations yesterday that really sum up the debate I had internally a few weeks ago.
The end of that debate was to be fully authentic.
I'm not going to present a cleaned up, idealized version of myself. That doesn't help you, and it's not honest with you.
Thanks Butch for confirming what my instincts told me.
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Running water. Indoor plumbing. Plentiful cheap food. Refridgeration. Safe streets. Free education. Electricity. Internet.
These are just a few reasons that now, even in 2020, is one of the best times in history to be alive.
Keep that in perspective.
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I have lived in and owned this house for a month and a half now, but I haven't truly felt like I owned it. It just felt like the place I was living now.
My wife has done a lot of work on the house, but I have mostly just worked in the house. My focus is my business and all the things I need to do to be able to pay for my share of the mortgage.
Last night, it started snowing, and I went out to do a bit of shoveling. In shoveling the snow at MY house, I started to feel like it was MY house.
As humans, we are hard wired that work should involve muscles. Things that we do only with our brains don't always feel like our work in the same way.
I think this is some of where the sense of satisfaction in good, hard, physical labor comes from. Your body feels like it did something triggering the brain to say "good work!"
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Christmas is supposed to be a joyous holiday, but for too many it is stressful and overwhelming.
The joy of giving has been replaced with the obligation of giving.
Let 2020 be the year that you shed these obligations. Give because you want to. Give because you will bring joy.
If there is someone you are giving to or doing something for because you are afraid they'll be upset, then stop! If someone expects gifts or create obligations upon you, that's not love. That's extortion.
Simplify your holidays, and bring the joy back to Christmas.
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I woke up tired and worn out this morning. Just feeling kind of blah.
Our instinct when this happens is to justify it. It's silly to feel down for no reason, so we make up reasons.
That's even sillier.
Sometimes you're just worn out. It's okay. It happens.
Sometimes you're just down. That's fine too.
No reason to ascribe reasons to it. Just wait it out and get back to it when you're ready.
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I don't think I'm going to set goals for 2021.
That's not entirely accurate. I'm setting goals, but I'm not setting specific ambitious goals. I'm not writing a big number on a piece of paper and tacking it on the wall. I'm not charting a specific course.
It doesn't make sense right now.
I'm setting two intentions:
1) Make enough money to be comfortable
2) Find my path and follow it forward
For some time, I have tried to pay the bills with grand plans and audacious goals, but grand plans take time. I didn't have that time so I had to rush and constantly readjust to get faster cash. It doesn't work.
Thus, the two parts. First, GET THE MONEY. Money doesn't have to come from my core business. It doesn't have to come from high prestige, exciting work. It could come from delivering boxes, copywriting, making web sites, delivering food, shoveling snow. Anything that pays a reasonable premium on my time is good.
This provides the stable platform and space to work on the second part. Understand what path God has intended for me and follow it.
Conference21 is shaping up to be one of my main projects. At the start of October, I hadn't even thought about running events, and it will take three months to come to fruition. It will be fantastic in many many ways, but I can only work on these long term projects if I'm taking care of the fundamentals.
Who knows what opporutunities 2021 will bring? I certainly don't. So my specific plan is to place myself in a position to take advantage of whatever amazing ways appear before me.
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Kyoshi was speaking to the kid's class at karate yesterday, and he said that if you're taking short cuts now, what will you do later.
The answer is that I know exactly where that road leads because I followed it. High school was easy. College was easy.
The world was hard.
When I got out of college into the real world, my shortcuts and coasting devistated my opportunities, and it would be a decade later that I finally developed the kind of worth ethic needed to achieve success.
If I had gone to a school like Mystic Dojo - Yamashita International Karate when I was a kid, I would have enjoyed much better outcomes.
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I'm going around delivering presents with a white beard and a jolly demeanor. I'm basically Santa Claus!
I've been listening to @Dan Carlin - Hardcore History as I drive and the current episodes are about Japan in WWII.
The Japanise were the epitome of positive, can-do attitude. They were so committed that they would rather die that lose, and would literally commit suicide rather than surrender even when they were clearly defeated.
This attitude did not win the war because they did not have the strategy or even honest self awareness of the situation that they needed to effectively deploy that incredible spirit.
I have learned a similar lesson in my own life about the need to have strategy and to be humble enough to realize that my own spirit alone is not sufficient to achieve success.
Strategy is vital.
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This kid is smarter than me (in some ways).
As we grow up, we learn things, and some of those things are wrong.
Rowan does not know what she can't do, so she does all kinds of things.
I, on the other hand, place all kinds of limits on myself. Not just those "self limiting" beliefs we hear about in goal setting.
More mundane things. I had written off a variety of enjoyable and profitable ventures.
I am a motivational speaker, coach, author. I can't take a gig hauling packages, can I? I can be an Uber driver can I?
Yeah, I can. That's what an entrepreneur is. It's someone who chases opportunities, whether they come dressed in suits or overalls.
Rowan would have known that already. It took me a while to catch on.
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I have not been completely honest.
Not to say I've been lying or even intentionally misleading. I just haven't been completely honest.
I got started coaching because I connected with coaches who talked about the importance of big ticket programs, high dollar courses, audacious financial goals.
So I tried to create those kinds of programs, but that's not me.
I'm not all about money. I'm about helping people. I'm about coaching people and the feeling I get when someone says "that really helped me."
The people I can help the most can't afford high ticket courses. And that's okay. I don't need to make $20,000 a month.
If I can pay my bills and spend my time making people's lives better, then I am living my calling and I am happy.
It took me a long time to come to this realization, but with it is the understanding that I need to be more authentic in the content I share. You don't need platitudes and theory. You want to see me live my truth so that you can learn from that how to live your own truth.
Authenticity is harder than it sounds like it should be.
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I wasn't sure if I wanted to share this one or not, but I decided that it is more valuable to you that I share my true and authentic story than for me to share some polished, improved, embelished version of my life.
I'm not rich. I'm not independently wealthy. Sometimes my financial fortunes are up and sometimes they are down.
I got this idea in my head that I need to make money in "professional" and "respectable" ways. But that's not right.
If you make an ethical living and you put food on the table and a roof over your head, then it's a good living.
If you can do some good for people at the same time, even better. And I think that my messages and my writing do that for people.
Sometimes I make money coaching. Sometimes I make money delivering packages. Sometimes I make money writing. Sometimes I make money running events.
That's what entrepreneurship is about. Seeing and seizing opportunities. That and never giving up, never stopping, never staying down.
And it really was fun running around in the snow yesterday.
Seriously. Two new episodes of Hardcore History in my queue! (Watch the video to understand)
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How do you see yourself?
Your self image affects your confidence and your outcomes.
A lot of people get down on the idea of positive thinking, but positive thinking is like nutritional supplements for exercise. Without doing the exercise, they do nothing, but they can be vital to make the exercise effective.
You need to do the work to be successful, but you are more likely to do the work if you have confidence and the work is more likely to acheive results.
So, how do you see yourself? Do you see yourself as someone with value? Do you see yourself as someone who can succeed?
Check out this article I wrote this week on the topic:
https://www.guywhoknowsaguy.com/2020/12/04/how-do-you-see-yourself/
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Work the problem.
What does that mean?
It means that you take the problem step by step, starting by clearly identifying the desired outcome. The outcome points to the solution. Then ask yourself what you need for that solution.
Work backwards from the end to where you are now.
What is the next thing you need to do?
Do that.
What's next?
Do that.
Repeat until success.
Work the problem. Don't panic.
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If you're like me, you go on YouTube searching for inspiration. You listen to motivational messages to get fired up and get your head right.
Often those messages aren't even meant for you. They're about sports or war or who knows what, but the energy is right, so you go with it.
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This episode is dedicated to my daughter Rowan who is a great kid.
Parents have unique challenges working from home, but my daughter understands that if I'm recording, then it's important she not interupt.
She needed to tell me something, but she waited so quietly for me to finish my video that I didn't even know she was there.
This kid is great.
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It's not just you.
The economy is way more difficult than it used to be.
The era of getting a degree, getting a job, and keeping it for your whole career passed almost half a century again. Even worse, it only lasted for less than three decades.
Our ideal of what work should be like it based on a period in time that passed in an historical blink of the eye.
The good news is that opportunity still exists, but it only exists if you are looking at the situation that we face in reality and not some fantasy of past economic greatness.
If you'd like to talk more about your own sitauation, visit https://www.guywhoknowsaguy.com, and click the button the schedule a call. I'd love to learn more about you and see how we can get you moving on the right track.
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Why do I use a smartphone but no longer use a Fitbit?
Why do I love my smart home device but hate my car's touchscreen display?
We live in a world of magic.
A device that I carry in my pocket connects me to the entire world, all it's knowledge, and all it's people. I use this device to record videos that I can share with you, on demand, at no cost.
Magic!
But all magic has a price.
Sometimes the magic is not worth the price, and sometimes the price itself makes the magic no longer worth it. Some technology by its nature makes itself ineffective for its intended purpose.
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