There is a lot in this life to be excited about. There is a lot that we think we are striving for. Often times we are searching for something "BIG" we are wanting a BIG change or a BIG growth/improvement. Yet those only come every so often.

Take Time to Celebrate the Small Wins! 

I created a Youtube training video on software I am passionate about. It got a WHOPPING 14 views 😅 Out over those 14 views (SO FAR!! I am shooting for the MOON DARN IT 🌜) I got an email. Someone wanting to tell me thank you and reaching out for a template I shared on the video.  🎉

Just Being Honest

It feels a little silly, but at the same time. Even if I got 1,000 views (which would also be a Win!) The fact that a single human benefited, reached out, and wanted to use the template/design that I worked on? Now that is a win!

It's a Win!

Celebrate your small Wins!  Its the small wins that bring us the big wins! It will build appreciation and a sense of accomplishment in your own goals!

So Remember

Take the time in your day and what you are building, to celebrate the little wins! Wishing everyone the best out there!

There is a lot in this life to be excited about. There is a lot that we think we are striving for. Often times we are searching for something "BIG" we are wanting a BIG change or a BIG growth/improvement. Yet those only come every so often. So spend the time rather than waiting, looking for the small wins to be grateful for. Look for the little things that have grown. For me recently it was a VERY small win 🤣 and of course, each win will look different for everyone that is involved. I created a

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So often we think that the success that surrounds us is because of who we are.  Yet, the position we hold in business or life, is often what affords us the luxuries.  It's not because WE ARE amazing. It is because the position we hold has "Power" or "Influence".

We Only Deserve a Styrofoam Cup

Simeon Sinek in his video, "We only deserve a styrofoam cup" talks about someone who was in a position of power.  They were driven to a venue. They were Given a cup of coffee in a ceramic mug.

Here is your coffee

Now the same person comes back without that position.  He takes a taxi to the venue. No one hands him coffee. He asks if there is coffee. They point and show him the coffee. He pours his drink into a styrofoam cup. No ceramic mug.

...the table turns

It was not meant for him...it was meant for the position / title that he held.

The Ceramic Mug was NEVER Meant for him

In Business sometimes we think we deserve the world. Remember, it's often the title. Stay humble.

So What? Humble yourself

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Life is hard and can be tough. So how do we work through our past mistakes? How do we let go so that these mistakes do not paralyze us for future, potential opportunities in our life. That is something I am still processing through to be honest. But let's start unpacking it in today's podcast and further unpack it with some resources I will share about how I am processing through these same questions floating around in my head.

Intro: Paralyzing Past Mistakes

If you don't learn from your mistakes, then why make them.

Mistakes are to be learned from. Sometimes big mistakes become a fixation in our heads. They grow into this ugly thing that rears its head every time something feels like it is going well in our lives. "Oh I am still an over promisor", "Oh that bill I did not pay is back to haunt me". etc. etc.

Let go of past failures

I let this happen, so I will change this and I give myself permission to move forward by _____

Let yourself let move forward

Our life is literally about making decisions. So let's learn to move past our past mistakes, and then move into learning to make better decisions moving forward.

More To Come

Write down a few of your mistakes and what you are going to do to get past the paralyzation that comes with past mistakes.

Lets GOOOOOOOO!!!!

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Understanding what the market looks like?  <ul><li>Is someone else already doing this? </li><li>What can you bring to the table?</li><li>How is it different?</li></ul>

One - Do Your Research

Understanding your "WHY" Is key to finding true success.  Simeon Sinek talks about this in his book "WHY". Having a well-established Why puts reason and sets the tone for how you will execute on your goals!

Two - Grasping Your Why

Habits are the key to staying on track with progress.  Having good habits will enable you to be successfull

Three - Establish Your Habits

What matters most? Having a greater yes allows you to be informed about what to say NO to.

Four - What is your greater Yes?

It will be hard. So what are you willing to give up? 📺 ? 🎮?

Five - What are you willing to sacrifice?

Seeing your goals each and every day is key. Put it in your bedroom Put it on your door Put it in your car

Six - Write it Down

What does your story look like this year? Write down your story, so that you can help realize your goals and dreams!

Seven - Write your Story

Starting is hard. Here are some things I learned along the way!

Limited resources + optimism = innovation

Creativity in my opinion is one of the first steps to innovation. Before we can roll out a new innovation, we have to get creative and design a solution to our business model. This creativity will lead to innovation, which will then generate a reduction in overhead and push our productivity ahead.

The Thought

How do we get creative might be a question floating in your head. Well, if you ask me, I would tell you, "Its not as easy as it sounds". I have found that I need to do several things.

The Question

<ol><li>Surround yourself with creative and innovative people (We at your company solves problems all day long and loves to do it)</li><li>Be willing to implement something that is "not perfect". Waiting for a perfect well-rounded solution is not a creative process. Be willing to update it and refine it over time. Version 1 is better than version none.</li><li>Look to the internet! There are so many solution floating on the web, research some of them and find out what others are doing to solve the same problems.</li><li>Give yourself grace! Be creative is a process, and it can take years to get good at it 😄</li></ol>

The Action

Boosting Productivity sometimes needs a look at creativity 

I recently read a post on LinkedIn by Simon Sinek that read... Limited resources + optimism = innovation I realized just how true this statement was as I thought about it. We are limited on what we can do in our day to day. Whether you are running a business or you are working for a business we are all limited on the time we have. So how do we overcome our limitations on time? How do we increase productivity? While the answer was given by Simon already 😉, innovation. To pursue innovation it req

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It seems that we are pulled from extreme to extreme in our culture. Should we not be striving for balance? I feel that we all know that balance is key, yet that new diet will be better for me to get there faster. If I work an extra 20 hours a week, then I will push ahead of my peers. These thoughts and actions can be dangerous

Keeping Balance

Organic is ALL THE RAGE 🥑! Yet I am talking about the fundamentals of what say, a vine would do. Sometimes the vine will grow straight up, if there is a blockade, it does not stop the growth of that vine, it just goes around, or finds another way. It adapts. In our life, sometimes being flexible and knowing when to push harder and when to back off because of a busy week is necessary. Finding the balance.

Be Organic (Not like fruit 😆)

<ul><li>Family Life Needs Balance</li><li>Career</li><li>Friendships</li><li>Physical Health</li><li>Mental Health</li><li>Personal Growth (Reading books, Education)</li></ul>

What areas of my life do I strive to keep in balance?

Finding balance is difficult, it is not an easy task to say the least. There is a reason we struggle with it from our day to day. There are seasons where there will be a greater need to spend more time doing one activity over another etc. Just make sure you are hitting that need and not pushing beyond what is required!

Remember...balance is hard

If you do your job right, EVERY time you go to the gym it is hard. EVERY run is difficult to go on. Yet when you look back after a few months, you realize you are lifting more. Running Farther. Improving.

You got this! 👏

Balance is not easy to find, but the pursuit is worth it!

It feels like everywhere I look there is an opinion, a podcast, a blog post. Coffee is good for you...no wait, coffee is bad for you! Exercise 4 hours a day, no you only need 20 minutes. It seems that we are pulled from extreme to extreme in our culture. Should we not be striving for balance? I feel that we all know that balance is key, yet that new diet will be better for me to get there faster. If I work an extra 20 hours a week, then I will push ahead of my peers. These thoughts and actions c

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Leadership is a lifelong pursuit. Listen in as I start to unpack some of the things that I have learned on my journey to leadership! Consistency, growth, humbleness... It's a challenging road. So listen at your own discretion 😉 Photo by Singkham from Pexels

Growing Into Leadership

Leadership is hard. I have so much to learn. 🌱

Last night was hard for me in a lot of ways. I came face to face with my pursuits and mostly my failures last night. I was sitting with my dad and we were going over photos from my Brothers project over the last 3 years...building a house. Building a house is a huge endeavor, takes a lot of planning, skill, coordination, money 💰.

Failed Pursuits

Building a house also takes sacrifice, time, energy, more time, discipline, hard work, literal blood, sweat, and tears. My brother put all of these things into his home for his family. Backstory: He bought a BIG TIME Fixer upper. He transformed this home from a trash heap into a beautiful, two-story casita of kinds.

Below The Surface

Coming face to face with this reality was and will be a hard pill to swallow. It's hard to realize that what you have been doing for the past 2-3 years is not what you really should have been doing. More importantly, I realized something...My brother built his house in 2-3 years. He did not build it overnight, and he did not have a background in construction or home building skills in general.

Facing Reality

<ul><li>Worked on it every weekend</li><li>Worked on it every night after work</li><li>He talked to experts to get advice</li><li>He taught himself </li><li>He fought for it</li></ul>

So How?

Hardwork + Dedication + Incremental Improvements) x Time = Outcome

The Formula

I personally know that everyone has different skills and talents, but if we want to elevate ourselves into something bigger than ourself we need to lean into this formula. Regardless of excuse. That is how it is done.

No Excuses

I am personally giving MYSELF the following homework of answering the questions: <ul><li>What is worth working on every night and every weekend?</li><li>Do you want to wait another 3 years to act?</li><li> </li><li>Is incremental change something I can commit to?</li></ul>

My Homework

Give yourself grace. We are all bound to fail. Let us get back up and keep going.Growth is never easy, but always rewarding.

Remember. You Got This!

Growth is hard and takes time. Let's talk about how I am processing my own failures in life.

Last night was hard for me in a lot of ways. I came face to face with my pursuits and mostly my failures last night. I was sitting with my dad and we were going over photos from my Brothers project over the last 3 years...building a house. Building a house is a huge endeavor, takes a lot of planning, skill, coordination, money 💰. Those are the things that we know about... Building a house also takes sacrifice, time, energy, more time, discipline, hard work, literal blood, sweat, and tears. My b

🌱 Growing into something BIGGER than yourself

The cycle of "One Day" is the reason I am not at my goal weight, not at the skill level, not at my fill-in-the-blank. One day I will go to the gym, one day I will get my degree, one day I will change to that career track. So start today, you might fail, give yourself grace, and get started that day again! How do we break it?

Breaking The Cycle Of One Day

I find that so much about understanding life is about knowing where you stand inside of it. Gaining a perspective will elevate you to a better place. The biggest perspective change I had was with death 💀. Let's think about time as money 💰The reality is, we are withdrawing from our bank account on day 1. Every single day we are just given an allowance. As the bank account gets smaller. When I finally realized this / accepted it. I gained a lot of perspective. I do not want to get to the end of my life to find out that I spent it on all of the wrong things.

Step One - Gaining Some Perspective

So often we make decisions in the MOMENT rather than making decisions ahead of time. I find that we make BETTER decisions ahead of time because we are not going to "cave" or "change our minds".

Step Two - Make the Decision BEFORE the moment

Having a person that knows your goals and will ask you about them spurs you to accomplish them.

Step Three - Get Accountable

Substituting our distractions with other things that improve our life I have found to aid me in motivating me to change what I spend my time on. The biggest change I made by far was switching all of my social media to LinkedIn. I find that there is a community of people building, inspiring, growing, and supporting others. Joining that during my "downtime" really helped me to start pushing myself.

Step Four - Replace Distractions

People make all of the difference in our life. From what we do or do not do. To what we believe we can or can not accomplish. Find a community of people that inspire you, challenge you, elevate you. Then make sure you be that to someone else one day 😊

Final Thought - Get a Community

The "One Day" cycle is a dangerous lie that we tell ourselves. It's a lie that we can wake up from 10 years later and realize we never really did anything that we really wanted to.

The "One Day" cycle is a dangerous lie that we tell ourselves. It's a lie that we can wake up from 10 years later and realize we never really did anything that we really wanted to. 

The cycle of "One Day" is the reason I am not at my goal weight, not at the skill level, not at my fill-in-the-blank. One day I will go to the gym, one day I will get my degree, one day I will change to that career track. How do we break this cycle of "One Day". Rather than focusing on the future efforts WE BELIEVE are going to happen, how do we shift into working at the moment to get our goals and our vision for our life accomplished? So let us break down a few elements that I think can go into

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