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The Doug Collins Podcast
Rumsfeld's Rules: Graze Where You Want, Just Give Your Own Milk
"Next one of the rumsfeld rules goes back to a little bit of what we discussed about borrowed wisdom. Now, in borrowed wisdom, you look around and you take tidbits and you learn from them. I had an old seminary professor who in seminary when I was there. That made this statement about preaching. And he said this. He said, grace where you want, just give your own milk. I laughed at that, still laugh at it today when I prepare speeches, prepare sermons, or I look at. And that is, what he's saying is it's okay to learn from other people. And it's okay to synthesize that down into new knowledge for you, but then at the end of the day, what does it mean to you? Give your own milk. In other words, don't just simply say in a degree with somebody else without your own critical thought going into it because what happens is if you take somebody else's knowledge, you assess to them and this happens so many times it motivational seminars, it happens at sales seminars and many of you who may be able to say, you know, I used to work for a company that made us have to read and do all the sales training books we could. We could list them all tight. They would pay for us to go here Zig Ziglar and Brian Tracy and all these folks as they came in to teach us how to be better salespeople. Well, that's all good if you have corporate into who you are. If you're trying to be a Zig Ziglar, you're trying to be a Brian Tracy, you're trying to be a grant cardano now or you're trying to be a GaryVee or you're trying to be any of these people these days. And who give out all this advice, you know, but it's not you. You're not incorporating it. You're not bringing in to who you are and changing and making and molding it into who, you know, what you can be. Then it's not gonna work, folks.
Entrepreneur on FIRE
"brian tracy" Discussed on Entrepreneur on FIRE
"Let's move on to the next step. The next step you have to do is you have to learn how to manage people. Now, Brian Tracy, the bestselling author, who I've never met. I never met Brian Tracy. I want it to his standards were too high. A lot of rejection there. I never met him. It's kind of a difficult subject to even talk about it. But I reached out to Brian, he never called me back, but I did read his book, and he said this. And I believe you said it to me via the form of his book. He says, no one lives long enough, clay, to learn everything they need to know to start starting from scratch. I always just picture him saying that. To be successful, clay, we absolutely positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals play. I'm going, okay, Brian, fine. One sided conversation. But the point is, you got to learn the proven systems. And how to manage people and managing people be difficult. Now you're here shadowing today, Ryan. Your shit, you flew in from Utah. To shadow? What time did you start shadowing today? I started shadowing you before 6 o'clock this morning. And what have I been doing all day? You've been on the phone talking with people 24/7. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. I'm not going to take this show to a political way. I'm not going political. I'm just going to share this today. I was on the phone with Eric Trump. I've been on the phone with Mike lyndell, a lot of entrepreneurs. I'm on the phone with these people. And I'm on the phone, and I'm on the phone with these people. I have to have a plan of what am I going to say? What am I going to do? You have to organize your day. And so you have to learn how to manage yourself and manage a team. Because nobody wants to work for somebody who doesn't have a plan. And so today, have you seen me spending any of my day gossiping or pontificating about random things that may occur? No. What have I been doing the whole day? You've been going through your printed out checklist of what you scheduled this morning and you've been calling people and multitasking. And this is one thing I love about jail D I heard about jail day because a guy named Dave who worked in my office is clay..
Optimal Living Daily
"brian tracy" Discussed on Optimal Living Daily
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Optimal Living Daily
"brian tracy" Discussed on Optimal Living Daily
"Of self esteem building by Brian Tracy of Brian Tracy dot com. To perform at your best and to feel terrific about yourself, you should be in a perpetual state of self esteem building and maintenance. Just as you take responsibility for your level of physical fitness, you need to take complete responsibility for the content and quality of your mind. I've developed a simple formula that contains all the critical elements of self esteem building and you can use it on a regular basis to assure maximum performance. This formula is comprised of 6 basic elements. They are goals, standards, success experiences, comparison with others, recognition, and rewards. Let's take them one at a time. Element one how much you like and respect yourself is directly affected by your goals. The very act of setting big, challenging goals for yourself and making written plans of action to achieve them actually raises your self esteem, which causes you to feel much better about yourself. Self esteem is a condition you experience when you are moving step by step toward the accomplishment of something that is important to you. For that reason, it's really important to have clear goals for each part of your life and to continually work toward achieving those goals. Each progressive step causes your self esteem to go up, it makes you feel more positive and effective in everything else you do. The second element in self esteem building is having clear standards and values to which you are committed. Men and women with high self esteem are very clear about what they believe in. The higher your values and ideals are and the more committed you are to living your life consistent with those values and ideals, the more you will like and respect yourself, and the higher your self esteem will be..
Entrepreneur on FIRE
"brian tracy" Discussed on Entrepreneur on FIRE
"Everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals. Brian Tracy. Take this step away clay. A quick Brian Tracy story for you. Early in my career, I was 20 years old. Stephanie how old are you right now? How old are you? I am 25. 25. I mentioned this because somebody's like, I'm too old to become successful. I'm too young and I think it's 25 is a great age to start at 35, 45, whatever. I just know when I was 20 ish. Brian Tracy came to Tulsa Oklahoma to deliver a speaking event to speak at a motivational seminar and I thought I love this guy. I've got his books, baby. And I bought everything he would sell me. I just wanted to touch his hand 'cause I knew JD if I touched his hand, I would have the moves. And I did want to wash my head. I want to touch his hand, not wash my hand. And this guy's a sales training wizard. Yeah. And what I discovered quickly after taking notes and listening to his audio CDs is that I did not know how to lead a team. And he said, well, how did you learn about hiring a team at a sales seminar? Well, it turns out I was very good at sales. But I wasn't good at teaching a sales team. And Brian Tracy kept talking about, you know, a team and building a team and leading a team and I'm going, I would love to lead a team, but I don't have a team..
Optimal Living Daily
"brian tracy" Discussed on Optimal Living Daily
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Optimal Living Daily
"brian tracy" Discussed on Optimal Living Daily
"This is optimal living daily episode 21 78, four step action plan to strengthen your personal skills by Brian Tracy of Brian Tracy dot com, and I'm just a molecule very own personal narrator, and I'm going to keep on narrating for you now as we optimize your life. Four step action plan to strengthen your personal skills by Brian Tracy of Brian Tracy dot com. Only by discovering your innate personal skills and developing and exploiting them to their highest degree, can you utilize yourself to get the greatest amount of satisfaction and enjoyment from everything you do? Creating an action plan through personal strategic planning can give you the highest rewards for your efforts and is the starting point in getting the best out of yourself. Corporate versus personal strategic planning. When we do strategic planning for corporations, we begin with the premise that the whole purpose of the exercise is to reorganize and reallocate people and resources to increase the rate of return on equity or capital invested in the business. Invariably this is done by emphasizing some areas and deemphasizing others by allocating more resources to areas with higher potential return, and by taking resources away from those areas that represent lower potential returns. By developing or promoting newer and better products and services and by discontinuing those products and services that are less profitable, the company and all the people in it can channel their resources to maximize their returns. In doing personal strategic planning, the first thing you want to think about is increasing your personal return on energy rather than return on equity. You need to realize that the most essential and valuable thing that you have to bring to your life and to your work is your ability to think to act and to get results. Your earning ability which is a function of your education, knowledge, experience, and talents is your human capital, or your equity. And the way you develop your personal skills and use your earning ability will largely determine the quality and quantity of your rewards both material and psychological, both tangible and intangible. Action plans step one clarify your values. This first part of personal strategic planning is called values clarification. You ask yourself, what values and virtues do I most admire and wish to practice in my life? If you wanted to discover your strengths and personal skills in the work world, first, you would define your values as they apply to employment. The values at companies settle upon would be similar to the values that you organize your work life around. Often both companies and individuals will choose values such as integrity, quality, respect for others, service, profitability, innovation, entrepreneurship, market leadership, and so on. In a similar vein, you could use those values to define your position with regard to your work. And your personal strategic planning, you could decide to plan your work life around the values of quality, excellence, service, profitability, and innovation. There are dozens of values that you can pick from, but whichever you choose, and the order of priority you place on your choices, will determine your approach to your work. Action plan step two, create your personal mission statement. Your next step is to create your personal mission statement. This is a clear, written description of the person you intend to be in your work life. I have often found that this is even more important than setting specific financial or business or sales goals. Once you've decided how much you want to earn, you need to write out a personal mission statement that describes the kind of person you intend to become in order to earn that amount of money. Remember, your goal is to identify your personal skills and strengths so that you can deploy yourself in such a way as to increase your personal return on energy. In personal strategic planning, one of the best mental techniques that you can use to develop your personal skills is to see yourself as a bundle of resources that can be applied in a variety of directions to achieve a variety of objectives. As a bundle of resources, the amount of time and energy that you have is limited. Therefore, your time and energy must be put to their highest and best use. Stand back and imagine that you're looking at yourself objectively as if through the eyes of another person and you're thinking about how you could apply yourself to bring about the best results. See yourself as your own employer or boss. What could you do to maximize the output of which you're capable, and where could you do it? Action plan step three, perform an audit to strengthen personal skills. Once you have to find your values and written out your mission statement, the next step of personal strategic planning is to do what is called a situational analysis. Sometimes we call it a performance audit. This is the process of analyzing yourself thoroughly before you begin setting specific goals and planning certain activities. You begin your performance audit by asking yourself some key questions. One of those questions should be what are my marketable skills? Think about it. What can you do for which someone else will pay you? What can you do particularly well? What can you do better than others? What have you done particularly well in the past? A wage or a salary is merely an amount of money that is paid to purchase a certain quality and quantity of labor or output. The results that you're able to get by applying your personal skills and strengths largely determine your rewards in life. If you wish to increase the quality and quantity of your rewards, you have to increase your ability to achieve more and better results. It's very simple. And action plan step four, determine your area of excellence. Finally, in personal strategic planning, the aim is always to achieve leadership in your chosen market and niche. Business leaders have the authority to determine the areas of excellence in their business. Analogously, on a personal level, you can choose the thing at which you're going to become absolutely excellent and achieve extraordinary results. So in what areas are you going to work to achieve results that are far beyond what the average person could be expected to accomplish? You were put on this earth with a special combination of talents, abilities, man personal skills that make you different from anyone who has ever lived. Whatever you're doing today is nowhere near what you're really capable of doing. The key to a happy and prosperous life is for you to regularly evaluate your strengths and weaknesses to become very good in the areas.
Optimal Living Daily
"brian tracy" Discussed on Optimal Living Daily
"By brian tracy of brian tracy dot com. We've all been there feeling like you aren't achieving success. The most common reason many people do not achieve success as that we have not defined what success looks like to us in order to get to where you want to be. You must determine your end point and work backward to outline the step from that point to where you are now. This is why goal setting is so important. Why goal setting is important. Setting goals gives you both long-term vision and short-term vision throughout my years. I've found a few common reasons why people do not achieve success and almost all of these struggles occur because they are not seeing goal setting as a solution or are you trying to reach something and not setting a goal. Keep listening for the reasons why you're likely not achieving success and how to overcome them five reasons. You're not achieving success. We've all been there feeling fired up to work toward our goals. But then failing along the way now achieving a goal can be discouraging. It might deter us from setting other meaningful goals. Is it a feeling discouraged. When i don't immediately reach a goal. However i take some time and reflect on. Why didn't meet that goal. So i can learn grow from the overall experience. smart goal. Setting is the best way to ensure we reach our goals and there are few easy steps we can take to set better goals and then meet them here. Five reasons he might not be achieving your goals and the best ways to fix those problems number one. Your goals are to vague. Many times people set goals. That are too vague. You might think might like to get in shape or it really be great to have more money in my savings account ensure it would be great br unless you outline your goals more specifically. You're probably not going to reach them. Specific goals are helpful. Because when you spell exactly what you want to do is easier to envision yourself doing it and then to actually go through the motions instead of saying. I want to get in shape. Try saying i'm going to work out three days a week and stop drinking soda just like that. Your goal has transformed from something. Vague that you'd like to do into something concrete and specific that you're going to do number two. You're not quantifying your goals a collar mistake when it comes to goal. Setting is at your goals aren't measurable key evaluate your goal and measure your progress if not is probably a good idea to revisit in tweak your original goal for example if you were to say my goal is to save more money that's difficult to measure what does more mean die goal could be interpreted in many different ways and i might pat myself on the back for saving ten dollars when really ten dollars can't buy very much at all but if i were to say that my goal is to save five dollars by this summer is easy to track that progress. I can regularly check my bank account to see how close i am to that. Five thousand dollar mark and along the way stay motivated. Because i see how close. I'm getting to that goal. Myers you to do the same number three. You're setting unattainable goals. Setting goals is exciting. You might have grand plans such as becoming a millionaire or building your dream house but if you set the bar too high you're not going to reach your goals and you'll feel disappointed in yourself and burned out an easy way to combat. This is by setting goals. That are achievable for instance. Let's say. I wanna build that dream house saying. I want to build a new house for my family in the next. Six months is most likely not in achievable goal building. A house takes time so more realistic goal might be. I'm gonna find a contractor and make a budget wants to achieve that goal. I can think about the rest of the process and decide what the next realistic goal might be. You see the difference number four. You're setting goals. That are irrelevant to your life. Sure he might like the idea of moving to new york city or the caribbean present goal. Actually relevant to your life. Achieving that goal may be fun. But if it doesn't move you further down the road on your overall plan for your life. It wasn't really worth it. That's why i always make sure my goals aren't a waste of my time. Each goal should have a purpose behind it. Tell make it relevant instead of moving to the caribbean just because the bluewater looks pretty a better goal may be. I wanna move to city because there are so many opportunities there for jobs in my industry when setting goals i always ensure it is relevant to my life number five. You're not adding a timeframe requirement adding a deadline to each goal. You said is essential when you add a deadline to your goals you'll be much more motivated to work towards them and insure you reach them before the time period is up. What does this look like. It's simple instead of saying. I wanna hire two more employees for my company. Say i want to hire two more employees for my company within three months. Then you'll be more motivated to pursue and reach that goal to ensure. I reach the goals. I give myself realistic timeframes. These helped me keep my goals aligned and within reach you. Just listen to the post. Titled five reasons why you're not achieving success and how to overcome them by brian tracy of brian tracy dot com. They get o'brien if you've been listening for awhile or not. New to personal development articles. Smart goals should sound familiar. S for specific than measurable achievable relevant and time bound a classic system for making sure. You're setting the right goals so check those goals today. Have a great day and nights and we'll be back tomorrow as usual. Where optimal life awaits..
THE BRENDON SHOW
"brian tracy" Discussed on THE BRENDON SHOW
"And then. Of course the middle that triangle. You always see me draw out. Growth is your friend should be lifting you up. Not pushing you down. Your friend should be inspiring you to get better. Your friends should have your back but also be willing to challenge your face. You know what i'm saying like your friends are and should be one of your primary growth drivers in life. Most people choose ambitious goals to be their growth driver. Or i'm going do something. That's hard or i'm going to try to achieve this amazing thing. I'm trying to become a millionaire or make this difference or build this company or you know have this type of family and it's this external climb this thing they're trying to achieve and too many people forget it's like actually one of the best drivers of growth isn't your job isn't your goals. It's your friendship circle and your circles. Make you a more alive deeper. Caring thoughtful authentic person in the world. I'm telling you what guess what at work you're better at home. You're better your art. Gets better your sense of life lifts and so in studying this work deeply over the years and recognizing how many people are entrepreneurs high achievers people who are trying to make great impact in the world. You're here today and sometimes that journey can't feel very lonely or when you get to the top it can feel lonely. They say. And i'm like i kind of believe what my friend brian tracy and mentor said to me. One time he said if it's lonely at the top you did it wrong other whoo. that's good. that's good because maybe sometimes we value today progress. We value today getting things done. We value that top mountain of achievement. And then we look around and go. Oh nobody really knows me. I don't feel a connection to others. Yeah got the thing. The house the car. The bank account the accolades the instagram page and of a sudden know. Something's missing and friendship is one of the greatest vehicles to the real psychology of wellbeing. That we talk about here today. Okay my friend. I hope you enjoyed this episode of the brennan show. Tell some people about this episode. It's on each of us to spread positivity and empowerment during these times of chaos and negativity. Right so i'm asking you to be the dealer of hope and personal growth and education in your tribe so take a screen shot right now and share the screen shot and this link to this episode with three of your friends today. Post it on social media. Use the hashtag growth day. That's hashtag growth day because that's the name of my company and we're always giving away prizes to our community. If you like to help me personally then please. Rate and review the podcast on apple podcasts. Give us some stars. Cheer us on. Leave a review because believe it or not that stuff actually really does help and i read all of them so my last thought for today please remember you are stronger than you think and the future holds good things for you. Tomorrow can be an inspired today. Every new morning is a second chance. Every day is a great day to grow. We're thankful to have you here. In the growth they community so be sure to go deeper with us at growth day dot com..
THE BRENDON SHOW
Why Your Friends Should Be One of Your Primary Growth Drivers
"Your friend should be lifting you up. Not pushing you down. Your friend should be inspiring you to get better. Your friends should have your back but also be willing to challenge your face. You know what i'm saying like your friends are and should be one of your primary growth drivers in life. Most people choose ambitious goals to be their growth driver. Or i'm going do something. That's hard or i'm going to try to achieve this amazing thing. I'm trying to become a millionaire or make this difference or build this company or you know have this type of family and it's this external climb this thing they're trying to achieve and too many people forget it's like actually one of the best drivers of growth isn't your job isn't your goals. It's your friendship circle and your circles. Make you a more alive deeper. Caring thoughtful authentic person in the world. I'm telling you what guess what at work you're better at home. You're better your art. Gets better your sense of life lifts and so in studying this work deeply over the years and recognizing how many people are entrepreneurs high achievers people who are trying to make great impact in the world. You're here today and sometimes that journey can't feel very lonely or when you get to the top it can feel lonely. They say. And i'm like i kind of believe what my friend brian tracy and mentor said to me. One time he said if it's lonely at the top you did it wrong
I Love Marketing with Joe Polish and Dean Jackson
"brian tracy" Discussed on I Love Marketing with Joe Polish and Dean Jackson
"One hundred thousand books here that are published and i said well how do i get them to vote. So you can't you have to write. Another books is read another book. Yeah write another book. And then you get into the cycle again. And i said okay. Alright another book. And i made a decision at that time. I'm going to write one book every three months and Then the always be a book in the end in the transit book in the production line and they would publish it. So i did. I started writing a book every three months. I wrote a book every three months for twenty six years and some years. I wrote Five books and six books seven books. And i just got pumping them out because one book is going to be successful but one book will support another which will help another and so on and the more you right by the way the better you get at it. It's very important that people understand. This is you don't. I spoke to a professor the university and he said he said how do you. How do you write a book. Just right is it just right. That's how he teaches people university. Just right sit down and get with it. I mean don't there's no big complicated just right and he said this. I never forgot this. He said you can't get worse at a by doing it. You can't get worse at it by doing at good to the the german philosopher said everything is hard before it's easy writing. Your first book is really hard. Most people actually don't sell books until the third or fourth. Sometimes they're they're six and if that will takes off then all the other structures cell and now the market for you and so today. I have seven major publishers in the united states english publishers. So i decided to write a book i think is subject and they will call one of them or more than they if i write a book on this subject. Will you publish. And somebody say well fits into our schedule this year or no but always find someone who say yes because when you write a book people by so. I don't have any remainders when his things. Publishers hate more than anything else is remainders is that they publish the book and they end up with the world's full of books and by the way some of our best friends There were sunk because they wrote the book and people didn't buy it so i began to write a book or books average every Every year for twenty six years. So i've written eighty six books and i have three books behind me..
Optimal Living Daily
"brian tracy" Discussed on Optimal Living Daily
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Optimal Living Daily
"brian tracy" Discussed on Optimal Living Daily
"Subconscious. Mind power explained by brian. Tracy of brian tracy dot com. The power of your subconscious mind goes further than you might think no pun intended. I'm sure you'll agree with me. When i say our brains are extremely complicated however you might be surprised by how much control we have over. Its programming before it gets that. Was i take a moment to consider the fact that you're subconscious mind. It's like a huge memory. Bank miss capacity virtually unlimited and permanently stores. Everything that ever happens to you. By the time you reached the age of twenty one you've already permanently stored more than one hundred times. The contents of the entire encyclopedia britannica under hypnosis. Older people can often remember with perfect clarity events from fifty years before your unconscious memory is virtually perfect. Is your conscious recall that a suspect. The function of your subconscious mind is to store and retrieve data. Its job is to ensure that you respond exactly the way you are programmed. His subconscious mind makes everything you say and do fit a pattern consistent with yourself concepts your master program. This is why repeating positive affirmations are so effective. You can actually reprogram your own thought patterns by slipping in positive and success oriented sound bites. This is why motivational activities. Such as reading inspirational quotes are so impactful for people committed to positive thinking by focusing your thoughts on uplifting ideas your subconscious will begin to implement a positive pattern in your way of thinking and your outlook on life. Your subconscious mind is subjective. It does not think or reason independently may merely obeys the commands it receives from your conscious mind just as your conscious mind can be thought of as the gardner planting seeds your subconscious mind can be thought of as the garden or fertile soil in which the seeds germinating grow is another reason. Why harnessing the power of positive thinking is important to the foundation of your entire thought. Process your conscious mind commands and your subconscious mind obeys
Optimal Living Daily
Subconscious Mind Power Explained
"Subconscious. Mind power explained by brian. Tracy of brian tracy dot com. The power of your subconscious mind goes further than you might think no pun intended. I'm sure you'll agree with me. When i say our brains are extremely complicated however you might be surprised by how much control we have over. Its programming before it gets that. Was i take a moment to consider the fact that you're subconscious mind. It's like a huge memory. Bank miss capacity virtually unlimited and permanently stores. Everything that ever happens to you. By the time you reached the age of twenty one you've already permanently stored more than one hundred times. The contents of the entire encyclopedia britannica under hypnosis. Older people can often remember with perfect clarity events from fifty years before your unconscious memory is virtually perfect. Is your conscious recall that a suspect. The function of your subconscious mind is to store and retrieve data. Its job is to ensure that you respond exactly the way you are programmed. His subconscious mind makes everything you say and do fit a pattern consistent with yourself concepts your master program. This is why repeating positive affirmations are so effective. You can actually reprogram your own thought patterns by slipping in positive and success oriented sound bites. This is why motivational activities. Such as reading inspirational quotes are so impactful for people committed to positive thinking by focusing your thoughts on uplifting ideas your subconscious will begin to implement a positive pattern in your way of thinking and your outlook on life. Your subconscious mind is subjective. It does not think or reason independently may merely obeys the commands it receives from your conscious mind just as your conscious mind can be thought of as the gardner planting seeds your subconscious mind can be thought of as the garden or fertile soil in which the seeds germinating grow is another reason. Why harnessing the power of positive thinking is important to the foundation of your entire thought. Process your conscious mind commands and your subconscious mind obeys
The Virtual Entrepreneur
"brian tracy" Discussed on The Virtual Entrepreneur
"Goal and then six is. Organize your list. Your priority and five is taking massive action every single day to bring you closer to your goal. I think if you're doing this on your list on your on your on your on your goal setting you're really gonna. There is nothing holding you back right. I don't think there's anything holding you back. But one thing i've noticed is that you know i was talking. They're less browns shirt. Something else they said you know in live things are gonna happen things going to happen to you that you didn't plan for so even though you've set your goal down things are gonna happen. You never planned for one of the powerful thing that he said was you need strategy for helping you handle whatever that comes in your way. Nothing does very very powerful for for us enterpreneurs because every day you're faced with objections and challenges and things that we didn't plan for in our in our day and In our goal setting when setting the goals whatever it is that the goal may have been but things happen stepping away and he shared a very powerful story. The story but one thing that i noticed that you know when something happens you need a strategy to handle Whatever that setback was so that you can overcome those so that is me and thank you so much for tuning in on this episode the notes for this episode can be found in herbert marketing dot com that is e r b e r t matting. Help dot come. So that thing is much for tuning in and i'll talk to you own our next episode of the virtual entrepreneur. I hope you enjoy. This live has a wonderful evening..
The Virtual Entrepreneur
"brian tracy" Discussed on The Virtual Entrepreneur
"So have you ever wondered how to set goals so that it can achieve them and you know setting goals so that you can reach objective whether it's success or writing as many books or just you know taking your business to the next level. Hello everyone and welcome to this episode of the virtual enterpreneur. I your hotel end if you and you to this podcast. A very welcome. And if you're new from facebook live than a very warm welcome there and first time trying this on. Facebook live but I've been essentially a set up podcast. I usually run a little podcast episode. But i thought to will try to live and what i wanted to share. Today was how to set up your gold. The bro the. Brian tracy method so that you can reach objectives. And that's aid so if you're in this podcast a very warm. Welcome and on this podcast. This is essentially the go-to podcasts. For enterpreneurs who see their business as a vehicle for change. And and what i do is i've chicken the unity to bring myself to the level of student who is learning. I was successful enterpreneurship. So that i can bring you the how. To's and the success stories and tips tricks in the big secret as well as the success knowledge from enterpreneurs around the globe and today essentially i was lucky enough to be in a room don clubhouse with all these great enterpreneurs and brian chase was on them as well as a few other really well known entrepreneurs and business owners like less brown End up journalists brown and a few a lot of other enterpreneurs room but one thing that was the topic was set your goal so you can achieve and the head of paternity to essentially get on the stage and ask the question. How do you set a goal so that you can achieve them in order to bring you what i learned. What what The answers were in terms. Of how do you go setting your go so that you can achieve them. And this is the brian tracy method of setting your goals. So this is how he described himself. As in how who'd gobble settings go so the first s so this is the strategy for sitting third against them in the first thing that he shared. Was you know you need to decide what you'll go is bright so number one decide what you go is one thing i wanted to pay attention to. This is use the word decide what your goal is right and that is not to say you know you should just know what you want to anything but you have to make a decision right so that is something you can actually do. Some make decision watching goal is and this is also linked back something that i learned in the past. Which is your niche. What is your outcome to of your goal. So if you. I didn't complete go. It's done dusted. What is the exact outcome. You're looking for because usually a lot of the times we create tasks and rethink our taxes. Our tasks are the goals that you're sitting for self but there are two different things right and so that's one thing that we have to be conscious of so decide what you want right to decide what you want to decide what your goal is and then the second step is you want to write it down right so you mentioned you always must write it down right and one of the things that i'm seeing all these great enterpreneurs talking about ease you need to write down your goals and one of the guys that i think heavily talks emphasizes on this point is grunt redonda. He says you know writes before going to bed and as soon as you wake up in the morning he no. He writes down his goal as well so i thought that was very very very cool to hear that. Is this consistency. If you enter go the first thing is to make a decision to write it down then the third step is you need to set a deadline right so you decide. When do you want that go to be done right so you wanna give yourself enough time so that you can get goals done but he also want to make sure that you know the the goal is embiid that you so these are some of the key things that i picked up when you know the the these legends. We're talking about setting up your goal. So you're not on your go right and then you want to write it down and then you set a deadline that you will use to complete your your your goal and then the next from that. Is you want to make sure that you go. It's you want to make your goal measurable. It may be a go that is unmeasurable but now you wanna make it measurable right and trying to break it down into the way i'll do it but one of the things that i've noticed. Is that for a lot of people. Usually they'll tie gold to something else as well so that they know that when they're choosing their goal is not just for personal gains only but also related to some other calls that really inspires them propels them and that keeps them going but one of the things that i've learned from brand traffic. Is you know you wanna make you go measurable and then step number five. What you wanna do ese a list of anything that you can do to help you achieve your goals anything you can do to achieve your goal right and what he says is unit right down. Everything really really quick. Just take writing down without any random order or anything of that nature. Just take your you know. Take the time just scribbling. Those things are done. And i think this would be the equivalent of a brain dump right. So you're gonna take everything that's coming all these ideas on your mind and you wanna keep adding onto that list. Every single thing that can do take you from where you are to where you want to be. Which is a place where you've accomplished the goal of in this particular outcome that you want to attain right. So that's step number five. This we want to essentially write down anything that we see can help us achieve that particular outcome then step number six becomes organiser list in the order of priority right so this is a step where we go about putting everything together in things that we can do. I think that's pretty expert explanatory. And i thought i thought that was very very cool that you know you gonna bring deputy or yoga nyse this but one thing that i forgot to mention about number five is i think it really allows you to see opportunities that are available in all the previous goal setting experiences. I had never really considered that ecclesia goal as in a place to find chinese areas that contribute. So i thought that was very very very cool. That was in the then step number. Six is organized by prioritizing. What you do first and then stop number seven is going to be you essentially taking an action every day. That will bring you closer to your goal now. This is very very similar to what. I'm seeing other grades. Talk about. For example i think twenty zero talks about you need to decide what you outcome eased outcome you want and then step number. Two easy need to essentially So you need to decide what he wanted to is unique to decide That you want it right so know what you want and then decide what you wanted and then step number three hundred. You should be referred to ease. You must then take a massive action right massive intelligent action and i think what you mean by that. Is you know if something doesn't work in an auction you're pivoting going forward keeping pivoting but going forward so it's nice to see that this this list here and comparing to our others who have achieved really good things are doing very very very similar and so that's number one is decide what you want and that is a decision they are. I decide what you want him but is what it down right. That's the first action writing down. Step number three is setting very concrete deadline right. Very specific deadline didn't step number. Four is make measurable number. Five is making a list of anything you can do. Essentially to help you achieve your goal step number five es sorry step number five is organizing the least of all the things that can help you. So that's the number. Six step number. Four is measurable september. Five is a gut brain dump putting everything down lists that can help you achieve your goal stephen brasseux's list september seven is take action every day. That brings you closer to your goal. So one decide on what you want to write it down three set a deadline for make a make your good. Make a made measurable Five is making anything that can help you achieve your.
Optimal Living Daily
"brian tracy" Discussed on Optimal Living Daily
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Optimal Living Daily
"brian tracy" Discussed on Optimal Living Daily
"You need to learn how to control your thinking in very specific ways so that you feel terrific about yourself and your situation no matter what happens. So here are a few tips to remain positive overcome and attract success in life five ways to be an optimist during number one control your reactions and responses. There are a few basic differences in the reactions of optimists and pessimists the first difference is at the optimist sees a setback as temporary while the pessimist sees it as permanent optimist season unfortunate event such as order that falls through or a sales call that fails as a temporary event. Something that is limited in time. The has no real impact on the future. The pessimists on the other hand sees negative events as permanent as part of life and destiny so when you find yourself in this situation take a moment to really reflect on the challenge before you react. Try to visualize the next step towards improvement rather than responding to the setbacks at you have no control over do not let one negative event impact the other aspects of your life and the challenges that you face number to isolate the incident another difference between the optimist and the pessimist is at the optimist sees difficulties as a singular event while the pessimists sees them as universal. Does it means that when things go wrong for the optimist here. She looks at the event as an isolated incident largely disconnected from other things that are going on in their life. A pessimist will take the incident and add it to a laundry list of other things going on in their life. Dave a largely negative outlook on everything intend to expand the stress field towards one issue onto other unrelated areas of their life so to remain positive. Try to remind yourself that just because you're facing a setback in one area. Whether that be a project at work falling behind or not hitting a milestone set does not mean that the entire goal is obsolete. You may simply need to modify your plan. A single setback may seem big at the moment but in reality you can quickly overcome most setbacks with the right outlook isolating. The incident allows you to take the setback in stride and then move on from it number. Three view setbacks as temporary events for example is something recounting on failed to materialize. You interpreted it to yourself as being an unfortunate event but something that happens in the course of life and business. You'd be acting like an optimist. The pessimists on the other hand seized his appointments as being pervasive that is to him there indications of a problem or shortcoming that pervades every area of life. If you find yourself in this situation to a moment to remind yourself you are always capable of making change and nothing set in stone. A glass half full mentality leads an optimistic. Believe that something better is coming giving them something to work for..
Optimal Finance Daily
"brian tracy" Discussed on Optimal Finance Daily
"You can create more time for yourself your family and your work if you aspired fifty thousand dollars per year which translates into about twenty five dollars per hour. You must never do work. That does not pay twenty five dollars per hour more. You should hire other people to do anything that they'll do for less than twenty five dollars per hour if you can hire someone for five or six dollars per hour to mow your lawn or clean your house. You should pay the money willingly to free up your time. For higher value activities know the importance of time management and apply these same time management skills to your spouse many of the successful executives and entrepreneurs with a strong grasp of this concept are able to go home and change their spouses lifestyle..
Inspire Nation Show with Michael Sandler
"brian tracy" Discussed on Inspire Nation Show with Michael Sandler
"Benjamin franklin and he said a person will take their person invested in their head. It's the investment of as the greatest dividend. Never take it from me. An investment in knowledge is the greatest investment. So the first thing i believe people need to do is invest in themselves. The great gene kuhlman exposed me to that that was a revolutionary thought for me by the way in order to invest in yourself. You have to value yourself. You just yeah right. You do some coaching. While a coach by its very definition was a device to take a person of value from where they are where they wanna be. That's the original definition. Have you think of those carriages that had four horses in front of them. I love it. A person must value themselves in order to invest in themselves. A person must believe. I've asked every audience i've ever spoken to. How many do you believe you have untapped. Potential and every hand was up in the air now on one hand. It's great that they do that but on the other hand. What an indictment like you. Don't you get to die with potential. It dies with you so you have to value yourself and then put the good stuck into your mind and heart if you're living on social media if you're listening right now to the news twenty four hour cycle where they make their living like cranking up hysteria all time it was. There's current events were speaking. That are very very dramatic. Whatever else and here's how i view there's three hundred and thirty million people in america and there's four thousand people involved in that and the airwaves are filled with branding the entire country that those four thousand people and i just chose not to participate him. And i'm putting the good stuff so the first thing is an investment in yourself. The second thing is invest in your vocation and then the third thing is investing in those things that you know some big disciple. Warren buffett and i believe in investing in what i know. And so you've got to be bold to invest so here it is. I'm thirty years in business. I'm in a spot for the last fifteen years where i haven't needed to work. I am on the cusp of making. Probably the largest in financial investments. I've ever made in my own company. Because i'm very excited about the future because of where i'm going and growing and so that's an attitude that many many successful immigrants have and that's why they've gone on from success to success so you have to. You have to be willing to invest. You gotta be willing to be bold. You gotta be willing to take on manage your risk not calculated risks not whims and flights of fancy. Brian tracy one of my friends said you have to have the ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term so that you can have the biggest rewards in the long term. You know if you remember the old Willy wonka chocolate factory around. Because i i don't care how i want it now. Well if you plant seeds in the ground you pull them up in three days don't expect a harvest and we all know that we live in this fast paced world so we think we can but the bottom line is that everything takes time. Everything is about the law the harvest and you have to delay gratification. And if you will do that and discipline yourself if you will live within your means economically for example and continue to invest over time you will win. It's not an if matter of if you will win if you will invest in your customers if you'll invest in your relationship.
WSJ What's News
House Panel Takes Aim at Big Tech
"House lawmakers have been looking into big technology companies for over a year. Now, a House panel is expected to propose major changes to curtail their dominance. We report that after a fifteen month investigation into Google Apple Amazon and facebook the House antitrust subcommittee is preparing to release a report on its findings and make recommendations. We turn now to our reporter Ryan Tracy for more details Hi Ryan thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. So Ryan start by taking us back about fifteen months when the house began investigating big tech companies what prompted this what was the impetus for this investigation? Well, this is coming at a time when these companies are extremely powerful there for the five most valuable companies in the country that the house is looking at and lawmakers also see them just as all the rest of us do. Impacting so many facets of our lives, apple Amazon, facebook and Google. It's hard to get through a day without interacting with one of them and probably more than one and so I don't know that it was one thing that led to this. But certainly you know this has been building for a while just scrutiny of these companies in Washington and you know feeling among policymakers that that they need to be looked at. So we are anticipating the release of a report from this House subcommittee that has been conducting the investigation over the past fifteen months. What do you think we can expect to see in that report? Sure. So this report is going to have first of all a lot of detail about the behavior of these companies. Lawmakers and their staff in particular have been gathering lots and lots of documents both from the companies themselves and from competitors of the company's sellers on Amazon, dot com or companies that try to get their customers through Google search or other sources like that, and so they've gathered a lot of information. Some of that has come out already, and certainly we probably would already know if there was some major smoking gun in this, but there's going to be a lot of detail in the report about these companies behavior the other. Thing we expect is that the lawmakers are GonNa make some policy recommendations here, and one of those at least that Democrats are considering could be some pretty radical changes to the way these companies are structured, but there'll be other policy options that are floated as well. So let's talk more about the potential implications for big tech companies, which in the past have opposed any platform separation proposals. This is something that we might see among the recommendations. How would it change like that impact, their business and why are they opposed to it? mean. So this idea which again we expect to be in the report at least at least as a suggestion for future consideration, you know it's basically a break-up, right? I would say if you own a large platform that customers or businesses us, you can't also own businesses that sort of compete with other users of the platform and so we don't have a lot. Of detail on what that means because the proposals not actually out yet but you know in general what it could mean is like Google couldn't own Google maps or Amazon might not be able to to sell Amazon, made products on its marketplace and so we'd have to we'd have to see what the details were but certainly the reason these companies opposed is because These kind of add on services are a big way that they make money off of their platforms and so you know they view it as a threat to their business. Now, politically, we've heard concerns from both Democrats and Republicans about the power and dominance of big tech, and of course, there are concerns about misinformation on some platforms. Especially in an election year Brian would you say the pressure on elected officials to do something has changed? Well. There's certainly a lot of concern out there and you do have to remember that this is an issue that plays very well politically. So if a member of Congress or a politician bashes big tech, you know a lot of constituents might like to hear that I think that's particularly true on the Republican side where conservatives are concerned about actions by social media companies to to take down content, and so you know some of that is going on here but there also are you know lasting concerns that go beyond politics with these companies and? The scrutiny is going to continue on them. No matter who wins the election. We've also been reporting that the trump administration is investigating tech companies as well for antitrust violations. What's the latest you can tell us about those efforts sure. So the Department of Justice is close to bringing a lawsuit against Google, sources have told us we expect that lawsuit to come before the election according to those sources although the exact timing is not clear yet, and with respect to facebook the federal trade, commission is taking the lead on an inquiry into facebook that investigation has advanced to the point where the FTC is now preparing a potential antitrust lawsuit against the company that could come by the end of this year although that timeline isn't certain either. Ryan what could potential changes like the is mean for consumers, users of these tech platforms? Well, it's hard to say without knowing the specifics of the proposal but in general, it really depends on who you ask if you're talking to someone who's who's really believes Amazon and Google, and these other platforms are harming competition in the way they act. Then if these proposals were implemented, you'd expect to see a lot more. Diversity in the search results that you would see on those sites. For example, you might see sort of. A different map provider pop up if you search for directions or something of that nature and on the other hand, there's an argument that the tech companies and their supporters make that you know these platforms could become worse if Google makes less money on google search than maybe Google will have less money to invest in making Google search better. So there's a lot of unknown here and that's why lawmakers are. Beginning this process of throwing out a proposal and then the real argument begins. Anything else we should keep in mind here as this continues to play out. One thing to keep in mind is that there are some partisan differences here. So by and large members of both parties are concerned about the power of big tech but they do differ on what they wanNA do about it. Democrats are much more inclined to propose some relatively intrusive regulatory restrictions on these companies to open up competition and achieve other goals Republicans. Are, more, skeptical of that they might be willing to go along with Democrats in kind of off cases, sort of targeting specific problems, but it's going to be harder to get their support for a really sweeping regulatory overhaul, and so the election is really gonNA matter a lot here and and whoever is in power and twenty twenty will have to decide this question. Wall Street Journal reporter Brian Tracy Ryan. Thank you so much for joining me today by slot.
Optimal Living Daily
7 Steps to Developing a New Habit by Brian Tracy
"Seven steps to developing a new habit by Brian. Tracy. Brian Tracy. Dot Com. How long does it take to develop a new habit? Does period can be any length from a single second to several years? The speed of new habit pattern development is largely determined by the intensity of the emotion that accompanies the decision to begin acting in a particular way. Many people think talk about and resolve to lose weight and become physically fit. This may go on for years. Then one day the doctor says that if you don't get your way down, improve your physical condition, you're in danger of dying at an early age. Suddenly. The thought of dying can be so intense or frightening that the individual immediately changes. His Diet begins exercising stop smoking and becomes a healthy and fit person psychologists refer to this as a significant emotional experience any experience of intense or pain combined with the behavior king create habitual behavior pattern. They may endure for the rest of a person's life, for example, putting your hand on a hot stove or touching a live electrical wire Mogi, van intense, and immediate pain or shock. The experience may only take split-second over the rest of your life. You will have developed the habit of not putting your hand on hot stove or touching live electrical wires. The habit live been formed instantly and endure permanently. How long does it take to form a habit? According to the experts, it takes about twenty one days to break or form a habit pattern of medium complexity habits which are more complex difficult to incorporate with your lifestyle may take longer. Twenty one days to break habit or make a habit. Three weeks may not sound like a very long time, but you can create powerful habits within twenty one days. By this, we mean simple habits such as getting up earlier to specific our exercising each morning before you start out listening to podcasts in your car going to bed at a certain hour being punctual for appointments planning every day in advance starting with your most important tasks, each day or completing tasks. Before you start something else these are habits of medium complexity that can be quite easily developed in fourteen twenty one days through practice and repetition. How to develop a habit Over the years a simple powerful proven methodology has been determined for new habit development is very much like a recipe for preparing addition the kitchen, you can use it to develop any habit that you desire over time you'll find it easier and easier to develop habits that you want to incorporate into your personality. Number one make a decision. I make a decision decide clearly that you are going to begin acting in a specific way one, hundred percent of the time whenever that behavior is required. For example, if you decide to rise early and exercise each morning, say your clock for a specific time and when the alarm goes off, immediately get up, put on your exercise clothes and begin your exercise session. Number to never allow an exception to your new habit. Second never allow an exception to your new habit pattern during the formative stages. Don't make excuses or rationalizations don't let yourself off the hook if resolved to get up at six, am each morning discipline yourself to get up at six. Am every single morning until just becomes automatic. Number three tell others your practicing a new behavior. Third, tell others that you're going to begin practicing a particular behavior. It is amazing how much more disciplined and determine you will become when you know that others are watching you to see if you have the willpower to follow through on your resolution. Number four visualize your new habit. Fourth, visualize yourself performing or behaving in a particular way in a particular situation the more often you visualize and imagine yourself acting as if you already had the new habit, the more rapidly this new behavior will be accepted by your subconscious mind and become automatic. Number five creed an affirmation. Fifth Creed and affirmation that you repeat over and over to yourself this repetition dramatically increases the speed at which you developed new habit. For example, you can say something like I get up and get going immediately at six. AM each morning repeat these words to lasting before you fall asleep. In most cases, you will automatically wake up minutes before the alarm clock goes off and soon you'll need no alarm clock at all. Number six resolved to persist. Sixth resolved to persist in new behavior until it is so automatic and easy. The actually feel uncomfortable when you do not do what you have decided to do. A number seven reward yourself. Seven than most important. Give yourself a reward of some kind for practicing in the new behavior each time you reward yourself, you reaffirm and reinforce the behavior. Soon, he began to associate at an unconscious level the pleasure of the reward with the behavior you set up your own force field of positive consequences that you unconsciously look forward to as a result of engaging the behavior or habit that you have decided upon.
Optimal Living Daily
7 Habits of Successful People That Will Make You Feel Unstoppable in 2020 by Brian Tracy
"Seven. Habits of successful people Dow Make You feel unstoppable and twenty twenty by Brian Tracy of Brian. Tracy DOT COM. Many. People wonder how they can become highly successful not realizing that they hold within them everything they need to achieve all of the success they desire. Successful. People are where they are today because of their habits habits determined ninety five percent over prisons behavior everything that you are today and everything that you will ever accomplish is determined by the quality of the habits that you form. By creating good habits and adopting positive behavior, you too can become successful and live a prosperous life. These seven success habits are good predictors of greatness. For thousands of years in human life has been studied by great thinkers and philosophers. I've personally studied the subject for more than thirty years would I found is that the very best people have developed good habits I've identified seven valuable habits you need to develop if you want to perform at your very maximum in everything you do. Number one their goal oriented. The. FIRST HABIT IS BECOME goal oriented. You need to be habitual goal setter and dedicate yourself to working from clear written goals. Every day of your life forming daily habits. All highly successful people are intensely goal oriented. They know exactly what they want to have it written down they have written plans to accomplish it and they both review and work on their plans. As a daily routine. I suggest you learn how to use the eighty twenty rule to officially work toward achieving your goals. Number two their results driven. The second habit of highly successful people is being results driven. This is made up of two practices. The first practice is the practice of continuously learning so that you become better at what you do. The second practice is that of time management, this means setting very clear priorities on what you do and then concentrating single-mindedly on the most valuable use of your time. All. Really successful people are intensely result oriented. Number three, they are action oriented. The third major habit you need to develop is that of continually taking action. This is really the most important habit for material. Success is the ability to get on with the job and get it done fast is your ability to develop and maintain a sense of urgency and a bias for Action Fast Tempo in whatever you do is essential to your success. He need to overcome procrastination push aside your fears and launch one hundred percent toward the achievement of your most important goals. The combination of goal orientation result orientation, and Oriental in. Themselves will virtually assure great success. I highly suggest you learn to use smart goals to list achievable targets that you can measure and track. Number Four. There people oriented. The fourth having you need is people. is where you put relationships in the center of your life. This is your decision to cultivate within yourself the habits of patience, kindness, compassion, and understanding virtually all of your happiness in life will come from your ability to get along well with other people. The good news is that you can become a wonderful human being in your relationships with others when you decide to as Aristotle said, the only way that you can learn any habit is by practicing it on a regular basis. The more you practice being a truly excellent person in your relationships with others the more you will internalize those qualities actually become that person. Focusing on being more pleasant with the people in your life is a great technique to promote a positive thinking lifestyle. Number five, they are health conscious. The Fifth Abbot highly successful people develop is health consciousness. This means that you must studiously watch your diet and always eat the right in the right portions you must exercise on a regular basis, continue using every muscle in joint of your body to keep it limber and fit. Finally only, you must have good habits of rest and recreation though unable you in combination with Diet and exercise to live out your years in a healthy state. Remember your health is the most important single thing you have, and it is completely subject to the habit you developed with regard to the way you live. Number. Six, they are honest. The. Six habit is out of honesty and integrity. In the final analysis that character develop as he goes through life is more important than virtually anything else honesty means that you practice the reality principle in everything you do your completely objective with yourself and with the world around you
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Biggest Takeaways From the Big-Tech Antitrust Hearing
"Gatekeepers the digital economy these platforms enjoy the power to pick winners and losers to shakedown small businesses and enrich themselves while choking off competitors their ability to dictate terms. Call the shots up. End Entire sectors and inspire fear represent the powers of a private government. Our founders would not bow before king nor should we bow before the emperor's of the online economy. That's the chairman of the House. Antitrust Subcommittee Congressman David Cellini kicking off yesterday's hearing with four of the world's most powerful tech. Ceos Amazon's Jeff Bezos Alphabet Center Pichai. Apple's Tim Cook. And facebook's Mark Zuckerberg all videoed into to address lawmakers concerns. Their companies are too big and that they're squashing the competition. Here's our reporter. Brian Tracy with some of the biggest takeaways. From yesterday the biggest takeaway was just how hostile the questions were virtually the entire hearing and how they came from both sides of the Aisle Democrat and Republican. There were not a lot of breaks for the CEO's in terms of a friendly moment where a lawmaker thank them for the warehouse in their district for example it was. It was virtually all adversarial. A for these guys. The questioning was definitely choppier than we would normally expect for a congressional hearing there. Were also some odd moments. When the chairman of the committee asked the witnesses to swear in he said UN. Mute your microphones and raise your right hand which is not typically what you hear in a Congressional hearing. When they're standing in front of the cameras so yesterday's hearing was a big spectacle but Ryan says it's not the end of antitrust concerns for these companies this subcommittee will be issuing a report about whether the US antitrust. Laws need to be changed. We could also see in that report new evidence that the committees gathered. That didn't come out. Potentially if the committee wants to do that it'll be interesting to see whether Republicans and Democrats can agree on that report since there was some tension over changes to antitrust law. And keep in mind. There are also ongoing antitrust investigations of these firms by the Justice Department the Federal Trade Commission State's attorneys-general and over the coming months. We'll have to see how those play out. Investors seemed to be hopeful shares of tech companies rose more than one percent on Wednesday and the companies are expected to report quarterly earnings. Later this afternoon
You Need a Budget
Atomic Budgeting Pt. 2: Systems, Not Goals
"May be my favorite takeaway from James Book again. I'm talking about atomic habits. I I just I liked the thought and he. He says it's about systems, not goals. Here's a quote. The most effective way to change your habits is to focus not on what you want to achieve, but on who you wish to become, so said he's framing it suddenly as more of an identity thing, and that is that we're actually going to dig into that next week, but that idea. Suddenly makes it to where it's not about reaching some milestone of this much debt paid off this achievement, and then once you're done. You're like well, Geez. What do I do and you start to fall back in your old ways. This is about becoming something new however. When we think about achievements, we use the word goals all the time. I Love Goals Love Goals. I Have Brian Tracy's classic book. It's called goals with an exclamation point is literally to my right. I'm looking at it right now. When I look at it though I don't talk to them, I can't keep looking at it. I love goals, but you think about this and James Use this in the book. Teams Compete against each other. Both of them have the same goal. What is it to win? Case same goal only one wins. So you can have a goal and two people can have the same goal, but it doesn't necessarily mean that that's going to be the outcome. What the team really focuses on because every. If you'RE GONNA, go head coach, what are you? Do you just need to win? Your goal is to win. That's not very helpful. A coach a trainer. Financial Adviser. They're going to talk to you more about your system. What will help you to achieve that goal than about your goal? itself and I if a financial adviser said Oh? Yeah, you'll need to have two point three seven five million dollars in order to retire every time you win, visit him. They're like it's two point three, seven, five, who now up around the down just two point three seven. Seven five million dollars. That's what we're talking about. That's the goal. Let's put it on a poster and have a really motivation with a cat involved and hang on your cell and I in you. Wake up and see two point three seven five million dollars now. The only way that would actually happen is if you started to change. The system started to build a system. That would get you exactly that. Edward Deming the big Management Guru. He said that assist or process always gives the output that it is designed to gift I, didn't quote him directly I was paraphrasing. It was far more eloquent I'm sure when he said it, but the idea. Is that exactly what you have? Is Because of the process that you have designed you maybe don't feel like you've intentionally designed it, but you've designed it. It's yours. That's how you're doing things that your system where you're at right now is exactly built, or the process. Was exactly bill to get you to where you are now, you could say well. No this extra analogy that extra naughty covert my word. Oh absolutely, but the system still was built to respond to that extra. In that way to get you to where you are. And if you think about that just for a little bit, it starts to not I hopefully. It doesn't make you say. Oh. I can't believe I'm. Me No no. What hopefully tells you is if I can focus on my process I? Don't have to worry so much about the goal. Your goal is financial independence or paying off debt or any number of valid things. But focus on the system. Is the system going to get you? There think about the system. We have a four rule decision framework. Essentially, that is built to help you achieve financial goals. They're not. It's not built to abused chief. Specific financial goes that Jesse's going to give you. It's built to help you achieve a financial goal that you desire. This framework is universal. Give her a job. Embrace you tr-. Expenses roll with the punches when things change right. We have a system that allows you to be adaptable to different extra nowadays that come at you. You and age your money. Give yourself a little bit of buffer. That's just a decision framework. It's a system, so if you focus on working wine APPs system of these four rules, and then you notice, there are a little kind of details how many categories you have. How many accounts you have when you choose to budget if you're doing it with a partner. Partner how you guys working that out there. Little details there that you can make your own, but we have the system for you, and if you focus on just executing every single time, you get that paycheck. What should this money do before I'm paid again? What larger less frequent expenses do I need to deal with now when I'm deciding whether or not I should? Should buy this tiny little thing that I think I can afford because of a large checking account balance I'm also considering Christmas the next eventual vacation once we're allowed to fly or any number of other things, and you're making a decision based on good information. That's a system that works, and that's why people reach their goals when they're using wind up the system. That's why we're. We're seeing. Success is because it's not just do this do that. Pay Off your debt boom done no just work this system. Goals you can talk to one of their goals acts and other one ever. Their goal is completely opposite why? And the system works for both so work. That
Curiosity Daily
Batch Tasks Instead of Multitasking, Mark Twains Procrastination Cure
"Today. You learn why classic diners are shaped like train cars. Why multitasking is impossible and what you should do to be productive. Instead and how you can use a simple tip for Mark Twain, stop procrastinating, unimportant tasks, let's stop putting it off. Instead of spy some curiosity on the award winning curiosity daily. Have you ever wondered why a lot of classic diners? Look like train cars diners are the best. They are do you. Always order breakfast. No matter. What time it is? I do. Yes. That's the right way to do it. We can go to diner together. Love it. The word diner covers a pretty broad spectrum of dining establishments. These days from your mom and pop joint around the corner to national chains like Denny's but diners have much more humble origins before diners were buildings. They were portable and before they were shaped like train cars they were shaped like horse carts in eighteen seventy two. An entrepreneur named Walter Scott from Providence Rhode Island got an idea he fitted a spare horse cart with the bare essentials. He needed to make food and he rolled it out at dusk. As a night lunch wagon for nightshift workers and theatergoers and anybody else out late at night. He served coffee, pies eggs and sandwiches. And he was so successful that he was able to quit his printing business, of course, other mobile lunch carts started to copy the idea and by the early twentieth century, the market was pretty much ruled by three manufacturers were Chester lunch. Car company tyranny and O'Mahony they kept growing and over time. The new dining cars weren't pulled by horses. They were hooked on the cargo trains when those dining cars arrived at their destination. They would lose their wheels. But keep the late night hours by the nineteen twenties dining car was shortened to diner. And by the thirties, the art deco style popular in train cars started to creep in diners to best when the diner really took off and became a piece of American identity. And here's a fun. Fact, do you know what? Diner capital of the world is New Jersey with more than six hundred diners, although my favorite diner is the double our diner from twin peaks, which by the way, it's called tweeds cafe in north bend Washington. And yes, I've been there. This must be where pies go when they die research says your brain is not wired for multitasking, but we all love saving time. So today, we'll tell you what to do instead of multitasking to spend your time more efficiently. I think I had multitasker as a bullet point on my resume for like ten years. Really? Yeah. Did you remove it after you got the job here? Believe it or not. I haven't updated my resume lately. But next time, I do I may remove it for this reason. Yeah. The thing about multitasking is that you're never actually doing tasks at the same time. You're just switching from one to the other and back again that's switching eats up more time than you probably realize in a two thousand seven study people who are interrupted by an Email or an instant message during a computer task were twenty to twenty five minutes behind by the time they resumed the first task even though the interruption only took ten minutes a third of those people took more than two hours to get back on task. So do the opposite of multitasking. And instead batch your tasks the idea is that you split up your tasks by category things like e mails writing and idea generation, then do all of each type in one chunk of time that chunk can be one four hour session on Mondays or a thirty minute session every morning and evening, whatever the tests calls for market in your calendar, and treat it like an. Appointment now, this works great for things like responding to emails or scheduling tweets, but it doesn't always work with creative tasks like writing and designing a twenty seventeen study out of Columbia business school found that when people regularly switched between tasks they performed better on a test of creative thinking than people who worked on one task the whole time. And even those who switched when they felt like it. So at the end of the day a little bit of both might be best batch those pesky tasks that eat up your time and save you're switching around for the creative stuff like how his reading emails the whole time. You read that I loved that. Very good, Cody. I was listening. I promise on topic. Today's episode is sponsored by purple metrics better sleep better. You remember multitasking is impossible. But try getting anything done when you haven't gotten a good night's sleep. That's really impossible. Yeah. Here curiosity. We are definitely no stranger so the benefits of sleep. And that's why you need to try purple mattress. The purple metrics will probably feel different than anything you've ever experienced because it uses this brand new material that was developed by an actual rocket scientist. It's not like the memory foam. You're probably used to the purple material feels unique because it's both firm and soft at the same time. So it keeps everything supported, but it still feels really comfortable. It's also breathable. So it sleeps cool. It ends up giving you this zero gravity like feel. So it works for any sleeping position with purple mattress. You can get one hundred night risk free trial. And if you're not fully satisfied, you can return your mattress for a full refund. You'll also get free shipping and returns free in-home setup. And. Mattress removal, and it's backed by a ten year warranty. You are gonna love purple and right now curiosity daily listeners will get a free purple pillow with the purchase of a mattress. That's an addition to the great free gifts. They're offering site-wide just text curious to forty seven forty seven forty seven. The only way to get this free pillow is to text curious to forty seven forty seven forty-seven that's C U R S two four seven four seven four seven. Message and data rates may apply. Ready to become more productive. We've got a tip today. The comes from Mark Twain, supposedly we made a video about this on Facebook earlier this year, but it's worth repeating on our podcast, and it's called the frog rule. Do you ever use this? Ashley, I always use this. Actually, I try to always use this when I fail it's obvious and succeed it's like the best day ever. If you don't know what this rule is. Supposedly, Mark Twain once said something along the lines of eat ally. Frog first thing in the morning, and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of. Of the day. There's actually no definitive evidence. That Mark Twain spoke or wrote the phrase, there's even an alternate version that goes a little like this and this might help make this tip. Make more sense, quote, if it's your job to eat, a frog it's best to do it. First thing in the morning. And if it's your job to eat two, frogs, it's best to eat. The biggest one I on, quote and more practical terms, the frog is your worst least enjoyable task of the day that thing you're dreading. But a lot of the time. It's also the most important thing for you to do that day. At least a couple authors have written about the benefits of doing this self-development, author and public speaker, Brian Tracy wrote that quote successful effective people are those who launched a wreck into their major tasks and then discipline themselves to work steadily and single-mindedly until those tasks are complete unquote and retired US navy Admiral William mcraven says that he makes his bed every morning. So that he has a sense of accomplishment, the sort of his day not to mention some pride in sticking to a good habit of self-discipline tried at work this week and see how it affects. The rest of your work day that is where I find it is really really helpful definitely sending those dreaded emails making that phone call. You just don't want to deal with get out of the way before noon and the rest of your day will just go so smoothly.
Curiosity Daily
Batch Tasks Instead of Multitasking, Mark Twains Procrastination Cure
"Today. You learn why classic diners are shaped like train cars. Why multitasking is impossible and what you should do to be productive. Instead and how you can use a simple tip for Mark Twain, stop procrastinating, unimportant tasks, let's stop putting it off. Instead of spy some curiosity on the award winning curiosity daily. Have you ever wondered why a lot of classic diners? Look like train cars diners are the best. They are do you. Always order breakfast. No matter. What time it is? I do. Yes. That's the right way to do it. We can go to diner together. Love it. The word diner covers a pretty broad spectrum of dining establishments. These days from your mom and pop joint around the corner to national chains like Denny's but diners have much more humble origins before diners were buildings. They were portable and before they were shaped like train cars they were shaped like horse carts in eighteen seventy two. An entrepreneur named Walter Scott from Providence Rhode Island got an idea he fitted a spare horse cart with the bare essentials. He needed to make food and he rolled it out at dusk. As a night lunch wagon for nightshift workers and theatergoers and anybody else out late at night. He served coffee, pies eggs and sandwiches. And he was so successful that he was able to quit his printing business, of course, other mobile lunch carts started to copy the idea and by the early twentieth century, the market was pretty much ruled by three manufacturers were Chester lunch. Car company tyranny and O'Mahony they kept growing and over time. The new dining cars weren't pulled by horses. They were hooked on the cargo trains when those dining cars arrived at their destination. They would lose their wheels. But keep the late night hours by the nineteen twenties dining car was shortened to diner. And by the thirties, the art deco style popular in train cars started to creep in diners to best when the diner really took off and became a piece of American identity. And here's a fun. Fact, do you know what? Diner capital of the world is New Jersey with more than six hundred diners, although my favorite diner is the double our diner from twin peaks, which by the way, it's called tweeds cafe in north bend Washington. And yes, I've been there. This must be where pies go when they die research says your brain is not wired for multitasking, but we all love saving time. So today, we'll tell you what to do instead of multitasking to spend your time more efficiently. I think I had multitasker as a bullet point on my resume for like ten years. Really? Yeah. Did you remove it after you got the job here? Believe it or not. I haven't updated my resume lately. But next time, I do I may remove it for this reason. Yeah. The thing about multitasking is that you're never actually doing tasks at the same time. You're just switching from one to the other and back again that's switching eats up more time than you probably realize in a two thousand seven study people who are interrupted by an Email or an instant message during a computer task were twenty to twenty five minutes behind by the time they resumed the first task even though the interruption only took ten minutes a third of those people took more than two hours to get back on task. So do the opposite of multitasking. And instead batch your tasks the idea is that you split up your tasks by category things like e mails writing and idea generation, then do all of each type in one chunk of time that chunk can be one four hour session on Mondays or a thirty minute session every morning and evening, whatever the tests calls for market in your calendar, and treat it like an. Appointment now, this works great for things like responding to emails or scheduling tweets, but it doesn't always work with creative tasks like writing and designing a twenty seventeen study out of Columbia business school found that when people regularly switched between tasks they performed better on a test of creative thinking than people who worked on one task the whole time. And even those who switched when they felt like it. So at the end of the day a little bit of both might be best batch those pesky tasks that eat up your time and save you're switching around for the creative stuff like how his reading emails the whole time. You read that I loved that. Very good, Cody. I was listening. I promise on topic. Today's episode is sponsored by purple metrics better sleep better. You remember multitasking is impossible. But try getting anything done when you haven't gotten a good night's sleep. That's really impossible. Yeah. Here curiosity. We are definitely no stranger so the benefits of sleep. And that's why you need to try purple mattress. The purple metrics will probably feel different than anything you've ever experienced because it uses this brand new material that was developed by an actual rocket scientist. It's not like the memory foam. You're probably used to the purple material feels unique because it's both firm and soft at the same time. So it keeps everything supported, but it still feels really comfortable. It's also breathable. So it sleeps cool. It ends up giving you this zero gravity like feel. So it works for any sleeping position with purple mattress. You can get one hundred night risk free trial. And if you're not fully satisfied, you can return your mattress for a full refund. You'll also get free shipping and returns free in-home setup. And. Mattress removal, and it's backed by a ten year warranty. You are gonna love purple and right now curiosity daily listeners will get a free purple pillow with the purchase of a mattress. That's an addition to the great free gifts. They're offering site-wide just text curious to forty seven forty seven forty seven. The only way to get this free pillow is to text curious to forty seven forty seven forty-seven that's C U R S two four seven four seven four seven. Message and data rates may apply. Ready to become more productive. We've got a tip today. The comes from Mark Twain, supposedly we made a video about this on Facebook earlier this year, but it's worth repeating on our podcast, and it's called the frog rule. Do you ever use this? Ashley, I always use this. Actually, I try to always use this when I fail it's obvious and succeed it's like the best day ever. If you don't know what this rule is. Supposedly, Mark Twain once said something along the lines of eat ally. Frog first thing in the morning, and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of. Of the day. There's actually no definitive evidence. That Mark Twain spoke or wrote the phrase, there's even an alternate version that goes a little like this and this might help make this tip. Make more sense, quote, if it's your job to eat, a frog it's best to do it. First thing in the morning. And if it's your job to eat two, frogs, it's best to eat. The biggest one I on, quote and more practical terms, the frog is your worst least enjoyable task of the day that thing you're dreading. But a lot of the time. It's also the most important thing for you to do that day. At least a couple authors have written about the benefits of doing this self-development, author and public speaker, Brian Tracy wrote that quote successful effective people are those who launched a wreck into their major tasks and then discipline themselves to work steadily and single-mindedly until those tasks are complete unquote and retired US navy Admiral William mcraven says that he makes his bed every morning. So that he has a sense of accomplishment, the sort of his day not to mention some pride in sticking to a good habit of self-discipline tried at work this week and see how it affects. The rest of your work day that is where I find it is really really helpful definitely sending those dreaded emails making that phone call. You just don't want to deal with get out of the way before noon and the rest of your day will just go so smoothly. Totally
Afternoon News with Tom Glasgow and Elisa Jaffe
Ride the Ducks Seattle owner defends company on witness stand
"Basically said the he took full responsibility. When he was asked actually by a question delivered by the judge from a juror wanted to know if he wanted to take full he would take personally full responsibility. And he said yes, and that the buck stops with him. But he also said when it came to this service bulletin, which is a very key part of the case that he had no knowledge that a service bulletin to fix that specific duck had been issued. He basically said that his operations manager is the man who would decide whether or not to go ahead and fuse that service bulletin and fix the ducking question. But he had not known about that. And he did not know until after the fact that the company had missed out basically ignored eighty percent of the service bulletins issued by rides rides the ducks international. We have various fixes on the duck eighty percent. Eighty percent. How many is that? I don't know. I don't know the actual toll. But that was a quote that was in that's been pushed around in the Terni got him on that. And basically, he said, I just didn't know there was a lot of I don't know at the time he said, but what he what he did say is that he does have a culture of safety there. And that is the way it works is that each person is supposed to overlook the other in terms of watching out whether or not they completed all their safety checks. So the culture of safety also changed once this accident happened because didn't they then start to have another person on board? So it wasn't just a driver and the person entertaining the crowd. Yeah. Post accident, but prior to that in terms of maintenance in what should be done about the ducks that there was this culture of safety. And he just basically discredits the fact that they should have made this check. Now, the service bulletin question was a fixed that was recommended recommended by writing ducks international too. Well, a certain. Portion of the axle front axle. Well, as we know that the NTSB basically determined that the front axle failed because of metal fatigue. But it also said that fix would have not prevented that accident. So there's that question. Mark right there. Let's get down to it. Then there's there's five people who died forty two. Plaintiffs in this thing, what are what are the chances? Brian Tracy's, not gonna lose everything. Yeah. He's had this company for twenty one years, and he has hundred twenty-five employees personally. I don't think because it's a corporation. He's not going to be held responsible financially responsible. But yes, he could lose everything. There's already been settlements out of court. He's already paid up to a quarter of a million dollars in fines safety violation fines because of this crash. What what the jury will end up doing? I don't know. But when the question, you, if you want to read the tea leaves, which he really kind of don't want to do, but the types of questions they're asking it was real specific about what he knew. And did the company know about this service bulletin, and whether or not it should have been fixed. And as we know that's what happened the the sheared off the front. Axle sheared off went into the bus. Unfortunately, killed five people on board that bus and now they're trying to decide who is financially response. Komo is Matt Markevic with the latest on the ride the ducks trial with certainly much more to come in that courtroom.