Discovering Your Passion and Making a Difference: A Mindful Approach to Success with Greg Evans

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Fitness Guys Healthy Living Podcast. I have my

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friend Greg Evans that I met on LinkedIn. He's

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going to talk about a little bit of goal settings

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today and some of his tips and tricks for goal

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settings, and we'll take it from there. Welcome

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aboard, Greg Evans. Well, thank you, Jimmy. I'm

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very honored to be here, so thank you for the

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invite. I look forward to talking about goal

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setting and actually looking at the whole goal

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process in general and in the light of that also

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kind of de -stressing because I think a lot of

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times with goal setting, There's a lot of undue

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stress that gets put onto it. So before we get

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started, what are your goals for 2021? My goals

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for 2021. Well, one of them, I have a side hustle

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where I do coach. I do still have a day job,

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but my coaching is a side hustle. So I want to

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kind of see if I can help out more people. So

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that is one of my goals to expand that a bit.

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I think beyond that. With this whole COVID thing,

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I want to, and it seems like things are getting

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better. I'm hoping to be a bit more social, a

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bit more outside. I think another goal, and as

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a fitness guy, you can probably appreciate this,

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is unfortunately during this last year, I let

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there be too much of me to love. And so I'm now

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kind of working on getting rid of some extra

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body weight. So I'm not... Planning on having,

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let's say, a beach body by summer, but I always

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like to have a body that I can look at the mirror

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and kind of go, that's not bad versus ooh. I've

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been there a long time ago where I didn't like

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myself looking in the mirror every single morning.

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And it's kind of a creepy feeling. And my goals

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for 2021 is I want to read 25 books this year,

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which is the most that I've ever tried to read

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so far. Last year, I got to, I think, 22 books

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read. So I'm hoping. So far, I've read one book

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so far. But I was almost close. I think I was

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almost halfway done my second book when the book

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was due. And then somebody else borrowed the

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book from the library. So I've been waiting for

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that. And it's like, really? Interrupt my book?

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Come on. And then. And then, and currently the

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book I'm reading right now, I'm almost pretty

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much almost, almost done with it. It's like this

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much left in the book, like really teensy tiny

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bit. It's like the last 50 pages. I get that.

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And I think one of my other goals, my other goals

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is just increase my podcast listenerships and

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subscribers and email subscribers. And probably

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be on at least 100 podcasts before the end of

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the year on, I guess, appearances. So I already

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got to 50, so I'm at the halfway mark. That goal

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just keeps climbing. Well, why not? Hey, if you

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know, that's one of the things I like to tell

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people with goals is, you know, I may be jumping

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ahead, but I like to kind of keep my eye on you.

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So I recommend people keep your goals on the

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low end because that way they're fairly easy

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to achieve. Then you can just bump it up because

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in my opinion, it's always easier to keep the

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goal low, achieve it, and then then increase

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it versus having it too high to begin with. And

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you start feeling like a failure because you're

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not achieving. So there you go. You're already

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halfway there. So now you can go, yeah, we'll

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get that hundred. And then once we get to a nine

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year, so you just kind of know, okay, I'll bump

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it up to whatever number you feel like is reasonable

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for you. Yeah. Like for me, I know if I, I knew

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like the last few years I've been like doing

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maybe 10, maybe 15 books. uh during the year

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and so and i've been doing like that for back

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-to -back years so i needed to bump up my goal

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a little bit more and just because like uh if

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i'm reading like 20 books so far in the last

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past three years of setting these reading goals

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How about I try it for 25? I still like reading,

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but I'm going to hold myself accountable to a

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goal because I enjoy reading. I also kind of

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enjoyed like, okay, well, look, I'm reading a

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lot of books in a year because I want to, not

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just because it's like someone's making me read

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there's that internal motivation which is a lot

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easier so um Do you ever find for yourself that

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you get bummed out when you don't reach a goal?

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Yes, I've had that a number of times where I

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give myself a goal and then I get disappointed

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because I didn't achieve it. That's one of the

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reasons why a few different things I've done.

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One of the things I've done is try and make the

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goal as small and as simple as possible. It's

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a lot more easier to achieve. Like one thing

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I like to do is more instead of focusing on the

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big goal, I like to focus on making it real small,

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make it real easy. If possible, even have the

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goal I achieved today, something I can achieve

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today. So that way, already by the end of the

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day, I can go, hey, I feel good about myself

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because I've already achieved it. So I'd say,

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example, you're trying to read books. I'm trying

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to read a bit more. I recently took a mini speed

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reading course. And I was impressed because during

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it, they gave you a little test to see how much

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you increased. And I went from roughly 230 words

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a minute to 330 words a minute. And with the

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same level of it, same level, if not more comprehension.

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And so to me, it's like, okay, well, here we

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go. Now that I've got a goal to that, I can say,

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okay, I couldn't make a full book in a day, but

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I can maybe say, okay, well, I will read a chapter

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a day. And now that I've taken a speed reading.

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I'm not necessarily a speed reader, but I can

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at least read faster now, and so now it's easier

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for me to achieve the goal. So my thing is keep

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it easy, keep it simple, keep it small, and keep

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it to a few. A lot of times we also have the

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problem of giving ourselves too many goals, and

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then you get overwhelmed. And so I recommend

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people finding their why, finding their passion,

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finding what's crucially important to them, and

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then keep your goals to that. I definitely attest

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to that. I definitely agree to that because there

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was about two years ago, like around 2019 -ish,

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I started a lot of projects and I started and

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stopped and started and stopped. It took me literally...

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Pretty much until now to catch, well, until pretty

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much at the ending of last year to catch up on

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all of them. And I'm like, I'm never doing that

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again. I don't quite understand. And it's easy

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to do. I've done it before too. I've had those

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where you just get all those goals and it just

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takes a lot longer than you expect it'll take

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or life gets in the way or, you know, you're

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dreaming a little, maybe a little too high. One

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thing I like to tell people is there's two levels

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of, you know, there's goals and dreams. And goals,

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I tell people, make it simple, make it easy,

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make it something you can quickly achieve. But

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okay keep that you know if you want to become

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like a major professional athlete or a rock musician

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or own this next car keep that as a poster on

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the wall every now and then you look at it but

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focus on the goal because if you keep looking

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at the dream and you don't make it then obviously

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you feel bad about yourself You may end up having

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shame that enters your life. Much better to keep

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the goal smaller, achieve it, and then get that

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confidence to keep moving. So what is your why

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when you set your goals? My why? Well, one of

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the big things that I, you know, I like science

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and I like to study science. One of the things

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that really interested me recently is that they

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discovered that if you want to be happy, Be charitable,

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be giving, give to people, serve people. And

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so that has become one of my big whys is it's

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both to make the world a better place. It's one

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of my big passions. I want to make the world

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a better place. But it also has a little bit

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of a self -seeking aspect. The more I make the

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world a better place, the happier I am because

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I am making the world a better place. And so

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that's been one of my big thoughts of one reason

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why I like coaching. I actually do a little bit

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of charity work with my coaching. charity organization,

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but this way I'm making the world a better place

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for people. I'm trying to see what I can do to

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help people along. So I'm hoping with this podcast

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that when people listen, they may walk away going,

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you know what? I feel a bit better about my life.

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I now know I can shave off maybe some of those

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goals that I shouldn't have had. I should maybe

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make some of those goals a little bit easier.

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I should definitely make sure I fit them into

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my lives. What would you say are some of your

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whys, Jimmy? I'm kind of curious, what are some

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of your whys? For me, I would say my whys would

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be, like you, I want to make the world a better

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place. I also, I know for myself, I want to feel

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accomplished. kind of going to the nine -to -five

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job, just doing a normal thing like everyone.

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I want something more in life. Not to be like

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a super famous celebrity. I want to just do something

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different. I want to be creative. I want to keep

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making podcasts. I want to keep making blog posts.

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Maybe write my own book one day. That would be

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nice. Just to say I did it, not become like a

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world, like an author for a living. I just want

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to, like, oh, yeah, I wrote my own book. That'd

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be nice to say. Okay. So you're saying that a

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lot of your whys are just that success, feeling

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like you've made it achievements, just proud

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of yourself and proud of your achievements. Am

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I understanding that correctly? Yep. Well, let

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me ask you this. At the end of the day, when

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you look back on your day, what are those things

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that for you make you feel like, hey, this is

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a success today? I feel like a success. What

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are those things that bring that out to you?

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I think one of those feelings would be it is

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everything that just goes smoothly. I'll give

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you an example. this podcast, uh, I was, uh,

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there was as a podcast directory that my, uh,

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like a podcast platform, uh, uh, for a crazy

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fitness guy that I haven't updated their profile,

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uh, cover photo for it. And, uh, and, and like

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one of my cover photos, I have a white background

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and, but then of course the company, uh, For

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the platform uses a white text. And so as I think

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it's like, well, how can like so instead of using.

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I didn't want to use their I didn't want to use

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their default look because it doesn't go with

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my branding. And so I was like, well, how can

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I get this How can I still use their way uh font

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and my white background and then i came up with

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a really great idea but just to put a dark overlay

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over it and it's like that's the quickest thing

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i've ever came up with in a very short amount

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of time i was like yay that's accomplishment

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for me because uh sometimes i might internet

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can be in a distraction place It's full of distractions

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And it's like, this is not working. And I kind

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of just shut down and everything. And I know

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some people might find that, like, really weird

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about me. kind of overwhelmed when something

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doesn't go the way I want it to go. And then

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instead of just taking a step back, I kind of

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just like shut down and I just kind of have my

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own little tantrum in my room. Well, that makes

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sense. I'm the same way. If things don't go my

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way, I'm not very skilled with technology. I

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know that a lot of people say, oh, you get a

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podcast, get a podcast right now. So I give you

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kudos for having one. I know technology is not

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one of my strong suits, so that's part of why

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I haven't pursued it myself. So I give you kudos

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there. But I think that's great that, you know,

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you can see that, you know, the daily achievement,

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you know, like you achieved that one thing by

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being creative. But I think there's also value

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in being able to forgive oneself and to being

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able to grace oneself and to be able to. That's

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one of the reasons I'm big into mindfulness of

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non -judgment. I think it's easy to start judging

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ourselves. I have a long history of being angry

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at myself. being very critical of myself and

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by utilizing mindfulness and being non -judgmental

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and just kind of looking at life and looking

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at facts like a scientist like looking at a situation

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as a scientist and pulling away the emotion pulling

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away the judgment and just letting it be what

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it is it's helped me a lot and not judging myself

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and just kind of going because like i said technology

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is a weak point for me so it's easy for me to

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quickly get frustrated and quickly get my emotion

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and my stress level high so it's easy so when

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i start getting to those areas i try and go okay

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let's relax let's be mindful and then just kind

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of be able to smile at myself okay i'm entering

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a weak point of mind so i'm probably not going

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to do as well as maybe someone's like you jimmy

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you've got a podcast so you've already further

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along than i am on this whole technology thing

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well i've been using technology for many many

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years my brother taught me my dad taught me But

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then after a while, I started tinkering around

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with a lot of it. And Hydro Flask is the best

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water bottle, in my opinion, because it keeps

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my water nice, cold, and refreshing throughout

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the day. And yes, I do drink a lot of water throughout

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the day. So even though it stays colder for longer,

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I still like having... a reusable water bottle

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like Hydroflex because it just sits on my desk

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and it just sits on my desk and reminds me, hey,

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you got to drink water. And Hydroflex, it keeps

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it cold longer, which makes me want to drink

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more water throughout the day because, you know,

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there's nothing worse than drinking warm water.

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Go to Hydroflex .com. And use the link in the

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show notes. And yes, I do get a small commission

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from Hydroflask, which also helps support the

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show. So tell them I sent you. Use the link below.

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And yeah, check out hydroflask .com for more

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information. And which kind of impressed me.

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Because I got more experience than my brother

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and my father. And so then now I'm teaching them

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stuff. And unfortunately, that has some repercussions

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because now they're always looking at me for

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tech advice and say, gee, when did I become a

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Geek Squad for you? Am I allowed to say that?

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Not understandable. My brother actually works

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for Geek Squad. I'm not saying anything wrong

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with that. I'm just saying, like, I'm just curious

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if they're, to use their name. Whoops. Yeah,

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it's interesting, the whole trademark laws and

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stuff. I think you're fine. It's not like I'm

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using it. Yeah. But yeah, my, yeah, but for me,

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it's just like, even though I know. quite a bit

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of technology. I always know that there's someone

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out there that knows a lot more than me. For

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instance, one of my friends that I play video

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games with him on the weekend, online video games.

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And he can literally turn like so many different

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computer stuff and TV stuff into tablets. He

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knows how to fix computers, et cetera. And he

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knows what goes on in the whole inside of it,

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which I kind of know exactly some things on the

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inside of the computer, but I'm more of a software

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kind of person. I can never touch the inside

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of a computer. I actually did look inside of

00:24:09.180 --> 00:24:12.079
one, and that was my very, very old computer.

00:24:12.650 --> 00:24:16.170
Actually, it wasn't very old. It was like a year

00:24:16.170 --> 00:24:21.309
-old Toshiba computer. Note to self, don't ever

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get another one of those. Long story. Don't even

00:24:25.769 --> 00:24:32.150
bother asking that story. No problem. Even something

00:24:32.150 --> 00:24:36.450
like me, it's just too much. I kind of like to

00:24:36.450 --> 00:24:38.910
think of it as information overload. It's just

00:24:38.910 --> 00:24:42.799
so much stuff going on in my head. Where do I

00:24:42.799 --> 00:24:46.279
listen to? I don't know. Too many thoughts. Oh,

00:24:46.279 --> 00:24:49.380
I get that. I've not been officially diagnosed

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with ADHD, but I've had people who are a lot

00:24:51.940 --> 00:24:54.319
more knowledgeable about it than I am tell me,

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you know, you probably really have that. And

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so I've kind of just come to the acceptance that

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that's probably what's going on. So I get the

00:25:01.140 --> 00:25:06.039
whole brain bouncing everywhere. And so it is

00:25:06.039 --> 00:25:08.769
tricky. That's one of the reasons I also like

00:25:08.769 --> 00:25:10.470
the whole mindfulness meditation thing because

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I need to learn how to get my brain focused.

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I need to get my brain focused. I do hear you

00:25:16.369 --> 00:25:18.529
there. I can't tell you how many times I've even

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left a meditation session going, well, that was

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a waste. My brain was about 20 places before

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I left. How do you get your brain to refocus

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on stuff that you're focusing on? Well, some

00:25:32.990 --> 00:25:35.569
of the tricks I use, one is what I call mini

00:25:35.569 --> 00:25:37.809
meditations, where while trying to just relax

00:25:37.809 --> 00:25:41.109
my mind, relax my body, just take a deep breath.

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I don't know if you ever heard of Dr. Andrew

00:25:43.450 --> 00:25:45.950
Huberman. I think I'm hopefully pronouncing his

00:25:45.950 --> 00:25:49.829
name right. He's got a podcast also. But I was

00:25:49.829 --> 00:25:51.730
listening to him on a different podcast, Lewis

00:25:51.730 --> 00:25:54.130
Howes, and he was talking about the importance

00:25:54.130 --> 00:25:56.470
of, well, not Lewis Howes, but Rick Roll, I think

00:25:56.470 --> 00:25:58.990
the guy's name. I may have it wrong. He was talking

00:25:58.990 --> 00:26:00.890
about taking two deep breaths in and then one

00:26:00.890 --> 00:26:03.450
out. And how that kind of helps reset you. So

00:26:03.450 --> 00:26:05.529
instead of just one slow, deep breath in, take

00:26:05.529 --> 00:26:08.829
one slightly, take another, and then exhale.

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And so I use that. And then just to try and mentally

00:26:12.309 --> 00:26:16.269
tell my body to relax. And then to help focus.

00:26:16.369 --> 00:26:18.190
One of the things that I've tried to also do

00:26:18.190 --> 00:26:20.130
is try and be curious about it. A lot of times

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we have to do things that are kind of boring.

00:26:23.909 --> 00:26:26.170
One of the things that was interesting is that

00:26:26.170 --> 00:26:28.509
I believe the human being can speak alertly around

00:26:28.509 --> 00:26:30.470
150 words a minute, probably a little bit more

00:26:30.470 --> 00:26:31.910
than that. I think it's around 200 now that I'm

00:26:31.910 --> 00:26:33.470
thinking about it. But we can understand around

00:26:33.470 --> 00:26:36.349
400 words a minute. So that means in a normal

00:26:36.349 --> 00:26:38.730
conversation, our brains are moving faster than

00:26:38.730 --> 00:26:41.250
the conversation is. So one of the things I've

00:26:41.250 --> 00:26:43.349
learned to do, or I'm learning to do, I'm not

00:26:43.349 --> 00:26:46.019
perfect yet to see it, is be curious. So while

00:26:46.019 --> 00:26:48.019
we're doing this, I like asking myself questions.

00:26:48.099 --> 00:26:49.680
It's like, okay, well, what's Jimmy thinking

00:26:49.680 --> 00:26:51.740
right now? Is there a deeper meaning to that?

00:26:52.140 --> 00:26:54.960
Is there a way I can launch off that? Should

00:26:54.960 --> 00:26:56.940
I maybe go back to something else we said that

00:26:56.940 --> 00:26:59.039
to me is a bit more interesting, that maybe be

00:26:59.039 --> 00:27:02.339
more beneficial to his audience? And so that's

00:27:02.339 --> 00:27:03.660
one of the things I would recommend you and Amy

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00:29:10.950 --> 00:29:12.730
It doesn't have to be anything big. It's like

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00:29:14.890 --> 00:29:17.750
know, I'll get a cup of coffee afterwards. Or

00:29:17.750 --> 00:29:20.190
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00:29:20.190 --> 00:29:22.490
this, I'll play some video games, you know, whatever

00:29:22.490 --> 00:29:25.549
it is. But those are a number of the tools that

00:29:25.549 --> 00:29:34.150
I use. Like for me, I try to, at the end of the

00:29:34.150 --> 00:29:39.049
day, before I go to bed or before going to karate

00:29:39.049 --> 00:29:44.170
on Zoom, I try to read my book because I want

00:29:44.170 --> 00:29:49.009
to. And for me, I know I can't play video games

00:29:49.009 --> 00:29:51.869
during the week or I'm never going to ever do

00:29:51.869 --> 00:29:54.809
any of my other stuff because I've seen that

00:29:54.809 --> 00:29:59.180
happen. You should have saw when I first tried,

00:29:59.259 --> 00:30:03.200
when I first started my website, I thought I

00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:06.640
could write and watch Netflix at the same time.

00:30:07.039 --> 00:30:08.900
You probably can figure out how well that went

00:30:08.900 --> 00:30:11.960
over. Yeah. Yeah. Doing things like that too.

00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:15.259
No, it doesn't work. I was like, here's how to

00:30:15.259 --> 00:30:19.680
be unproductive during the day. I was like, oh,

00:30:19.700 --> 00:30:22.480
let me just watch a few minutes of it. A few

00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:26.480
minutes turns into a few hours. You know a lot

00:30:26.480 --> 00:30:28.299
about the TV show, but little about what you're

00:30:28.299 --> 00:30:31.819
trying to accomplish. Yeah. I was like, Jimmy,

00:30:31.940 --> 00:30:36.160
what are you going to write? I'm just writing

00:30:36.160 --> 00:30:44.119
about something. I got the first 100 words. Well,

00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:45.880
that's good, though. But it sounds like you've

00:30:45.880 --> 00:30:47.720
been able to do during the week of like, you

00:30:47.720 --> 00:30:49.420
know, you like reading. So reading can be a bit

00:30:49.420 --> 00:30:51.220
of a reward. So that's why it's something to

00:30:51.220 --> 00:30:53.099
kind of put in the back of your brain. So you

00:30:53.099 --> 00:30:55.079
keep focused on things like, oh, later in the

00:30:55.079 --> 00:30:57.059
day, I get to read. So let's get this done so

00:30:57.059 --> 00:30:59.720
I can feel accomplished. And then I get to do

00:30:59.720 --> 00:31:02.059
that enjoyable thing later. I do hear you about

00:31:02.059 --> 00:31:04.579
video games. Back in the day, I could easily

00:31:04.579 --> 00:31:07.740
sit down for eight hours and not even eat. I

00:31:07.740 --> 00:31:10.559
wouldn't even eat. I'll know I'm hungry, but

00:31:10.559 --> 00:31:12.559
I'm like, I'm having too much fun. I'll eat later.

00:31:13.420 --> 00:31:16.680
Yeah, I know what you mean, because I think I

00:31:16.680 --> 00:31:20.779
spent around maybe probably eight hours a day

00:31:20.779 --> 00:31:23.500
literally on video games when I was growing up.

00:31:23.640 --> 00:31:28.500
And I'm not saying that I sound pathetic or anything,

00:31:28.640 --> 00:31:32.940
but I really hated school growing up, and so

00:31:32.940 --> 00:31:38.200
it was my escape. So, and I mean, I don't hate

00:31:38.200 --> 00:31:40.640
school now because I'm in college and I get to,

00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:43.720
I want to study what I want to study, but I don't

00:31:43.720 --> 00:31:49.339
want to. It's just my escape. Since I got to

00:31:49.339 --> 00:31:53.579
control a character's, I don't know, for an online

00:31:53.579 --> 00:31:56.119
game, let's just say I got to control a character's

00:31:56.119 --> 00:32:01.940
destiny or future or whatever I'm doing in the

00:32:01.940 --> 00:32:08.059
game. I can kind of control what I'm doing, like

00:32:08.059 --> 00:32:11.619
studying in college, but I only have so much

00:32:11.619 --> 00:32:15.480
control. have been studying, like, I might have

00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:19.880
to do some major requirements for my major. And

00:32:19.880 --> 00:32:24.259
it's like, can't wait for this class to be over.

00:32:27.539 --> 00:32:29.599
I understand. Well, if you don't mind me asking,

00:32:29.720 --> 00:32:34.400
what's your plans with college? I'm studying.

00:32:36.329 --> 00:32:40.450
media studies, which can help me get into either

00:32:40.450 --> 00:32:44.710
being a motivational speaker. They categorize

00:32:44.710 --> 00:32:48.849
it on public speaking, but I basically call it

00:32:48.849 --> 00:32:54.089
motivational speaking. And then it could also

00:32:54.089 --> 00:32:57.329
really mean to book publishing, copywriting.

00:32:58.829 --> 00:33:01.990
sports broadcaster. So I have many different

00:33:01.990 --> 00:33:07.990
fields I could travel down, fields I could travel

00:33:07.990 --> 00:33:12.750
down if one doesn't work out. And I'm currently

00:33:12.750 --> 00:33:15.509
still in my community college because I've been

00:33:15.509 --> 00:33:20.809
taking one to two classes a semester because

00:33:20.809 --> 00:33:23.390
my brain can only handle so much information.

00:33:26.939 --> 00:33:29.559
In this semester, I'm only taking one because

00:33:29.559 --> 00:33:36.579
there's a lot of limitations in some of the classes

00:33:36.579 --> 00:33:38.900
I have to take. And some of them are like hands

00:33:38.900 --> 00:33:41.259
-on. And it's like, well, how do you do that

00:33:41.259 --> 00:33:47.180
over Zoom? Right, you don't. Well, that's true,

00:33:47.259 --> 00:33:49.859
yeah. There's some lab classes. Okay, how do

00:33:49.859 --> 00:33:53.589
you do a lab class over Zoom? yeah and then so

00:33:53.589 --> 00:33:57.710
I'm kind of and so and this one teacher I'm taking

00:33:57.710 --> 00:34:01.750
he's like taking like 10 different classes he's

00:34:01.750 --> 00:34:04.109
teaching like 10 of the same classes and I'm

00:34:04.109 --> 00:34:06.769
like okay what happened to the other teachers

00:34:06.769 --> 00:34:14.269
and so I and the other times that other classes

00:34:14.269 --> 00:34:16.829
were meeting was that it's either I had karate

00:34:16.829 --> 00:34:22.800
at night karate during the day And then it just

00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:25.360
didn't match up with anything else on my schedule.

00:34:25.500 --> 00:34:29.119
So I'm like, okay, I'm taking one this semester.

00:34:29.340 --> 00:34:34.380
Fine. So it's not like I really had a choice.

00:34:34.420 --> 00:34:38.699
I was like, okay, I'm going to roll with it since

00:34:38.699 --> 00:34:44.239
it didn't meet up with my other times. So whatever.

00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:46.659
I don't want to hear you, but this is one of

00:34:46.659 --> 00:34:48.739
the things that, you know, I encourage you now,

00:34:48.760 --> 00:34:50.199
and I'm glad to hear that. One of the things

00:34:50.199 --> 00:34:52.480
when I talk to people about goals, kind of a

00:34:52.480 --> 00:34:56.679
Michael Goal thing, is a lot of times we get

00:34:56.679 --> 00:34:58.159
caught up in having too many goals, or we have

00:34:58.159 --> 00:35:00.619
goals because society expects it. Well, society

00:35:00.619 --> 00:35:03.719
says you have to do this. Society says, you know,

00:35:03.719 --> 00:35:06.139
this is how you go to college. Society says this

00:35:06.139 --> 00:35:08.500
is how you get into media. Society says this

00:35:08.500 --> 00:35:11.380
is how you do a podcast. Instead of going, okay,

00:35:11.440 --> 00:35:14.059
well, what is it to you? What matters to you?

00:35:14.409 --> 00:35:17.349
At the end of the day, who are you? And so I

00:35:17.349 --> 00:35:19.429
think a lot of times it's best to kind of question,

00:35:19.530 --> 00:35:21.690
why are we doing what we're doing? And, you know,

00:35:21.690 --> 00:35:24.030
you talk about karate and I take it that you

00:35:24.030 --> 00:35:26.610
probably are doing that. It's a source of peace

00:35:26.610 --> 00:35:28.570
for you, I would imagine. It's a source of accomplishment,

00:35:28.929 --> 00:35:37.489
source of exercise. That's for sure. Yeah, I

00:35:37.489 --> 00:35:41.889
would definitely agree with that. Like I've seen

00:35:43.309 --> 00:35:46.710
our colleges say like okay well part -time is

00:35:46.710 --> 00:35:50.090
i don't even know like part -time i think it's

00:35:50.090 --> 00:35:55.289
like maybe three or four classes at a time i

00:35:55.289 --> 00:35:57.730
think it's like three classes at a time or something

00:35:57.730 --> 00:36:02.050
like that uh i could be wrong i i don't remember

00:36:02.050 --> 00:36:06.630
off the top of my head uh nor did i really I

00:36:06.630 --> 00:36:09.010
looked at when I first started, I looked, but

00:36:09.010 --> 00:36:12.230
it's been a long semester. It's been a long,

00:36:12.329 --> 00:36:18.150
long time since I remember. But then it's always

00:36:18.150 --> 00:36:20.570
like this. I, oh, you have to do this. You have

00:36:20.570 --> 00:36:25.010
to do that. And for me, it's like, I graduate

00:36:25.010 --> 00:36:27.349
when I graduate. I started three years after

00:36:27.349 --> 00:36:32.949
high school because I, like I said, I didn't

00:36:32.949 --> 00:36:37.909
like school. So I took three years off of, of

00:36:37.909 --> 00:36:40.949
school to try something different. First year

00:36:40.949 --> 00:36:43.869
I took completely off because I just, I needed

00:36:43.869 --> 00:36:48.329
something different in my life. And then when

00:36:48.329 --> 00:36:52.210
I got to, and then when I finally enrolled in

00:36:52.210 --> 00:36:57.070
college, pretty much in the fall of 2015, and

00:36:57.070 --> 00:36:59.030
I've been there ever since. So I've been there

00:36:59.030 --> 00:37:05.889
six, almost six years. Yeah, I know that might

00:37:05.889 --> 00:37:09.250
be a long time, but for me, you know, I'll graduate

00:37:09.250 --> 00:37:14.210
when I graduate. It's my time. And who knows,

00:37:14.269 --> 00:37:18.210
maybe in that time I'll be a successful motivational

00:37:18.210 --> 00:37:22.670
speaker and I'll start making some money and

00:37:22.670 --> 00:37:26.570
touring around the world for all I know. Yeah.

00:37:26.730 --> 00:37:28.710
Well, I think the other thing is... I mean, to

00:37:28.710 --> 00:37:30.869
a degree, you already are being a motivational

00:37:30.869 --> 00:37:33.210
speaker. Here you are with your podcast. You're

00:37:33.210 --> 00:37:35.909
being a source of encouragement to people, letting

00:37:35.909 --> 00:37:37.909
them know, hey, you know, you can pursue your

00:37:37.909 --> 00:37:39.650
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00:37:39.650 --> 00:37:42.269
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00:37:42.269 --> 00:37:44.230
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no but i think it's on my reading list on goodreads

00:40:03.780 --> 00:40:08.079
so i'm hoping to get to it well i do recommend

00:40:08.079 --> 00:40:10.360
it one of the things that really jumped out to

00:40:10.360 --> 00:40:12.840
me There's some things that are like, there's

00:40:12.840 --> 00:40:14.480
some things that really jumped out to me. And

00:40:14.480 --> 00:40:17.139
one of them that he brings up is the four -hour

00:40:17.139 --> 00:40:18.579
work week. He said, you know, there's people

00:40:18.579 --> 00:40:21.300
who work 70 -hour weeks and make millions of

00:40:21.300 --> 00:40:23.599
dollars a year, but they don't really get to

00:40:23.599 --> 00:40:25.340
enjoy it until they're like 70 years old when

00:40:25.340 --> 00:40:27.139
they retire. And he's like, well, wouldn't you

00:40:27.139 --> 00:40:30.639
rather make a lot less money, but say, you know,

00:40:30.699 --> 00:40:33.219
make, I don't know, 50 ,000, but you can live

00:40:33.219 --> 00:40:35.320
off of it and you only work, say, 20 hours a

00:40:35.320 --> 00:40:37.699
week. But then you get to enjoy your life. And

00:40:37.699 --> 00:40:39.820
I'm like, you know, that really does make an

00:40:39.820 --> 00:40:42.400
important point. And so that's one of the things

00:40:42.400 --> 00:40:44.940
when I talk to people about goals is, okay, do

00:40:44.940 --> 00:40:47.239
you really want this goal? Why are you doing

00:40:47.239 --> 00:40:49.260
this goal? Are you doing it because society says

00:40:49.260 --> 00:40:52.599
you should do it? Because there's those infamous,

00:40:52.760 --> 00:40:54.940
they say this is what you should do, or this

00:40:54.940 --> 00:40:57.780
is what you're supposed to do. Or is this genuinely

00:40:57.780 --> 00:41:00.199
to who you are, to who your passion is, to who

00:41:00.199 --> 00:41:03.860
what your interest is? if you're more interested

00:41:03.860 --> 00:41:06.340
in, you know, model railroads and you can make,

00:41:06.340 --> 00:41:08.760
you know, a living doing it, but barely, you

00:41:08.760 --> 00:41:10.119
know, if you have to scrape by, but it makes

00:41:10.119 --> 00:41:13.320
you happy, then do that. You know, why necessarily

00:41:13.320 --> 00:41:15.500
do these other things just because society says

00:41:15.500 --> 00:41:17.800
so, or your parents say so, or your friends say

00:41:17.800 --> 00:41:23.559
so. So anyway. I also agree with that, too, because

00:41:23.559 --> 00:41:27.599
I used to work 90 -plus hours a week on my website

00:41:27.599 --> 00:41:32.699
when I was on WordPress. Again, for those who

00:41:32.699 --> 00:41:36.019
you probably have heard me say this on some of

00:41:36.019 --> 00:41:40.760
my guest -speaking podcasts, it's not a bash

00:41:40.760 --> 00:41:46.389
against WordPress. I'm not a web designer, so

00:41:46.389 --> 00:41:50.010
everything that was breaking was either my fault

00:41:50.010 --> 00:41:55.469
or a third -party developer's fault. And I mean

00:41:55.469 --> 00:41:58.610
that plural. There's many developers on that

00:41:58.610 --> 00:42:04.090
platform. So I'm not naming any names. But it

00:42:04.090 --> 00:42:08.050
just was not the right fit for me. I just want

00:42:08.050 --> 00:42:13.760
to clarify that so that no one sues me. And,

00:42:13.760 --> 00:42:17.519
but yeah, I don't, I think that there's too many,

00:42:17.659 --> 00:42:22.400
I feel like, I said to my parents, I bet you

00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:27.000
after this, this pandemic, a lot of companies

00:42:27.000 --> 00:42:30.440
are going to start realizing that maybe we don't

00:42:30.440 --> 00:42:36.940
need to be open 24 seven. Like, like for instance,

00:42:37.099 --> 00:42:43.909
there's a bowling alley that, I go to occasionally

00:42:43.909 --> 00:42:49.849
before the pandemic, and they're literally open

00:42:49.849 --> 00:42:52.969
24 -7. I was like, who's bowling at 4 o 'clock

00:42:52.969 --> 00:42:56.949
in the morning? I was like, I know I'm not. I

00:42:56.949 --> 00:43:00.489
was like, it might be cool to go out at 4 o 'clock

00:43:00.489 --> 00:43:05.150
in the morning if you're up that early, but no

00:43:05.150 --> 00:43:07.130
one should ever wake me up at 4 o 'clock in the

00:43:07.130 --> 00:43:12.929
morning, even for bowling. I don't think I could,

00:43:13.010 --> 00:43:17.030
but for me, it's just like, I think it would

00:43:17.030 --> 00:43:21.510
be, I think people will start, I think companies

00:43:21.510 --> 00:43:25.210
will start realizing, like, okay, who's going

00:43:25.210 --> 00:43:28.889
to a grocery store at 12 midnight? Maybe that

00:43:28.889 --> 00:43:34.150
makes sense for somebody in New York City. Okay,

00:43:34.809 --> 00:43:38.510
let's say they work all during the day, but that's...

00:43:38.710 --> 00:43:41.570
their time that they can have to go to the grocery

00:43:41.570 --> 00:43:46.690
store. But I don't think it makes sense for something

00:43:46.690 --> 00:43:50.489
around Pennsylvania because everything, all the

00:43:50.489 --> 00:43:53.969
restaurants close about pretty much like 9, 30,

00:43:54.110 --> 00:43:58.829
10 o 'clock. So we need to rethink some of these

00:43:58.829 --> 00:44:02.610
things. Well, I agree. And I think that as individuals,

00:44:02.730 --> 00:44:05.530
we need to rethink things. I think a lot of times

00:44:05.530 --> 00:44:07.769
we, you know, I think almost everyone at some

00:44:07.769 --> 00:44:10.409
point in their life, and I'm sure a lot of us

00:44:10.409 --> 00:44:13.409
here have said at points in our life, oh, I'm

00:44:13.409 --> 00:44:15.909
just so busy. And I can be very guilty of saying,

00:44:15.969 --> 00:44:17.730
oh, I'm just so busy. I've got so much to do.

00:44:17.889 --> 00:44:19.889
And one of the things I've realized is, you know

00:44:19.889 --> 00:44:22.150
what, if I shave off some of those goals, if

00:44:22.150 --> 00:44:27.050
I, you know. Delegate. I've got a couple of kids.

00:44:27.590 --> 00:44:29.309
Sometimes I'm like, okay, we need to learn how

00:44:29.309 --> 00:44:30.929
to do things anyway. So sometimes it's like,

00:44:31.030 --> 00:44:32.630
okay, I'm training you to do things, but some

00:44:32.630 --> 00:44:34.690
of it's just delegation. It's like, okay, you've

00:44:34.690 --> 00:44:36.349
been on your computer playing games for three

00:44:36.349 --> 00:44:38.469
hours. You can do part of this while I've been

00:44:38.469 --> 00:44:40.929
running around the house cleaning. And they need

00:44:40.929 --> 00:44:42.989
to learn how to do it anyway. But I think a lot

00:44:42.989 --> 00:44:46.389
of times we give ourselves too many goals. We

00:44:46.389 --> 00:44:49.570
give ourselves too much work. I'm not a minimalist,

00:44:49.809 --> 00:44:56.610
but I actually do see the value of it. And I've

00:44:56.610 --> 00:44:59.250
learned that if you have a smaller house, you

00:44:59.250 --> 00:45:01.130
have less rooms to clean, you have less things

00:45:01.130 --> 00:45:03.750
to take care of. So the less you own, the less

00:45:03.750 --> 00:45:06.550
you have to take care of. I was reading recently

00:45:06.550 --> 00:45:08.909
that, I don't know if this is true, but supposedly

00:45:08.909 --> 00:45:11.650
a lot of people at their places of work, if they

00:45:11.650 --> 00:45:16.530
were given a choice between less hours or more

00:45:16.530 --> 00:45:19.489
pay, they would actually choose less hours. I

00:45:19.489 --> 00:45:21.550
know in my day job, a lot of my coworkers, when

00:45:21.550 --> 00:45:24.099
overtime ever shows up, What they take is they

00:45:24.099 --> 00:45:25.860
don't take the pay. They take the extra time

00:45:25.860 --> 00:45:28.099
off. And so that's one of the things I recommend

00:45:28.099 --> 00:45:31.739
people to do is like, you know, maybe you should

00:45:31.739 --> 00:45:33.559
shave some of those goals off. Maybe you get

00:45:33.559 --> 00:45:36.260
rid of some things. Maybe you should find ways

00:45:36.260 --> 00:45:38.420
of delegating things. If you have spare money,

00:45:38.519 --> 00:45:42.480
why not hire someone to do something? The internet

00:45:42.480 --> 00:45:46.780
can be a distraction place. It's full of distractions

00:45:46.780 --> 00:45:50.619
like social media, shopping, and so many more

00:45:50.619 --> 00:45:54.699
websites that are very distracting, just like

00:45:54.699 --> 00:45:58.380
video games and whatnot. But it is all over the

00:45:58.380 --> 00:46:01.800
place. So much noise going on. Well, with a blocker

00:46:01.800 --> 00:46:05.659
tool like Freedom Blocker, it can block all those

00:46:05.659 --> 00:46:08.260
distraction websites that you find distracting.

00:46:08.579 --> 00:46:14.849
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00:46:14.849 --> 00:46:17.969
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end up hiring the local kid to mow my lawn instead

00:47:03.429 --> 00:47:06.769
of me doing it so i can free up some time like

00:47:06.769 --> 00:47:12.539
i know for myself we uh uh like I've been, my

00:47:12.539 --> 00:47:17.099
goal for, it's not even like a goal. It's just

00:47:17.099 --> 00:47:21.139
kind of a saying. I wouldn't say I created, but

00:47:21.139 --> 00:47:24.639
I've learned from somewhere. But don't, well,

00:47:24.679 --> 00:47:27.119
work smarter, not harder. So I've been trying

00:47:27.119 --> 00:47:33.719
to do that. So like, yeah, I admit a lot of some

00:47:33.719 --> 00:47:35.920
of the stuff that I do for Crazy Fitness Guy.

00:47:36.800 --> 00:47:39.159
Their social media accounts is pretty much automated.

00:47:39.960 --> 00:47:54.840
I still post on their accounts manually on Twitter

00:47:54.840 --> 00:48:00.659
sometimes and Facebook periodically. But other

00:48:00.659 --> 00:48:03.440
times I just let it run because I have a lot

00:48:03.440 --> 00:48:07.579
of stuff that I scheduled. in the queue and i

00:48:07.579 --> 00:48:11.840
just let it go out because uh one it's easy for

00:48:11.840 --> 00:48:16.880
me two i gotta have a presence uh it's i i wanted

00:48:16.880 --> 00:48:19.179
to build a brand i didn't want to build just

00:48:19.179 --> 00:48:21.760
hey i'm going to call it jimmy claire's website

00:48:21.760 --> 00:48:26.380
and jimmy claire's not that interesting i mean

00:48:26.380 --> 00:48:31.519
sometimes and sometimes not no but yeah i didn't

00:48:31.519 --> 00:48:34.880
want a website off of Just jimmyclair .com. Somebody

00:48:34.880 --> 00:48:40.300
probably already has that. And somebody should

00:48:40.300 --> 00:48:46.360
give that to me. Trademark my own name. I hear

00:48:46.360 --> 00:48:47.920
you. Well, I don't know if you can trademark

00:48:47.920 --> 00:48:49.460
your own name, but the nice thing with the crazy

00:48:49.460 --> 00:48:52.530
fitness guys. Let's say you do keep getting successful

00:48:52.530 --> 00:48:54.590
and you build that brand, build that brand, you

00:48:54.590 --> 00:48:55.929
get to a point where you need to start hiring

00:48:55.929 --> 00:48:58.309
people. The next thing is depending where the

00:48:58.309 --> 00:49:00.250
business goes. If you get to a point, say, you

00:49:00.250 --> 00:49:02.550
know, you get to near the end of your life and

00:49:02.550 --> 00:49:05.170
you have some employees and things are working

00:49:05.170 --> 00:49:07.309
well, you can sell the business. Because if you

00:49:07.309 --> 00:49:09.250
have the Jimmy Clear business, it's going to

00:49:09.250 --> 00:49:11.469
be a lot harder to sell it because Jimmy Clear

00:49:11.469 --> 00:49:15.050
is walking away. So it's like, OK, well, now

00:49:15.050 --> 00:49:17.710
who runs it? versus if it's crazy fitness guy,

00:49:17.769 --> 00:49:20.510
you can kind of go, Hey, you know, I hired a

00:49:20.510 --> 00:49:22.409
couple of people who are crazily into fitness

00:49:22.409 --> 00:49:24.510
too. And you know what, here you go. You can

00:49:24.510 --> 00:49:26.429
now buy the company off of me. You can retire

00:49:26.429 --> 00:49:29.590
off of it. So I have Greg Evans coaching. So

00:49:29.590 --> 00:49:31.309
to me, there's every now and then in the back

00:49:31.309 --> 00:49:33.530
of my head, I'm like, Oh, maybe I need to change

00:49:33.530 --> 00:49:35.969
my name because I know other coaches, they have

00:49:35.969 --> 00:49:38.730
like, you know, elite fitness, elite coaching

00:49:38.730 --> 00:49:41.090
or whatever. Well, if they hired another coach

00:49:41.090 --> 00:49:43.269
or expand, they can eventually sell the business.

00:49:43.329 --> 00:49:54.940
I'm kind of SOL. For me, one of my other goals

00:49:54.940 --> 00:50:04.639
this year is to finish stuff that I started.

00:50:05.579 --> 00:50:09.420
If I start something new, I'm going to finish

00:50:09.420 --> 00:50:12.380
it before I start anything else new. That way

00:50:12.380 --> 00:50:17.320
it doesn't just pile up. I did not like the feeling

00:50:17.320 --> 00:50:20.480
where I had to, there was literally at the end

00:50:20.480 --> 00:50:25.079
of 2019, I was, I was going to take a two week

00:50:25.079 --> 00:50:28.519
vacation. I pretty much worked the whole vacation.

00:50:28.940 --> 00:50:32.980
And I was like, I don't feel like coming back.

00:50:33.480 --> 00:50:37.880
But I did anyway, because I know I was just pretty

00:50:37.880 --> 00:50:41.860
much let myself down. And even though I probably

00:50:41.860 --> 00:50:46.739
have never really talked about, my brain with

00:50:46.739 --> 00:50:51.219
my sensei and karate much because of COVID and

00:50:51.219 --> 00:50:55.760
he's just super busy and everything. I might

00:50:55.760 --> 00:51:00.599
have mentioned a few times to him. I know he's

00:51:00.599 --> 00:51:06.079
basically literally like the real life Yoda from

00:51:06.079 --> 00:51:12.579
Star Wars. Even if I never told him that I gave

00:51:12.579 --> 00:51:16.360
up on it, He'll just know somewhere deep down

00:51:16.360 --> 00:51:19.300
and just looking at me, he's like, you gave up.

00:51:20.119 --> 00:51:24.099
And even if you might not say it that way, he'll

00:51:24.099 --> 00:51:28.239
just say, something's off with Jimmy. And he'll

00:51:28.239 --> 00:51:34.500
just know. And he always knows. It's wonderful

00:51:34.500 --> 00:51:36.340
having people like that in our lives. And that's

00:51:36.340 --> 00:51:37.980
one thing I definitely encourage everyone to

00:51:37.980 --> 00:51:40.969
do. is to find those people in your life who

00:51:40.969 --> 00:51:45.449
know you and can speak into your life and kind

00:51:45.449 --> 00:51:50.349
of go, something's up, you know. So I'm happy

00:51:50.349 --> 00:51:53.530
to hear that you have that. So what do you coach

00:51:53.530 --> 00:51:57.449
people about, if you don't mind me asking? Well,

00:51:57.570 --> 00:52:00.309
my main areas, I would say, are one are negative

00:52:00.309 --> 00:52:02.670
emotions. Negative emotions people feel, whether

00:52:02.670 --> 00:52:06.530
it's shame, guilt, frustration, anger, stress,

00:52:06.650 --> 00:52:10.019
what have you. So I deal a lot with that. I also

00:52:10.019 --> 00:52:13.380
deal with goals. And so a lot of it is, okay,

00:52:13.460 --> 00:52:15.659
let's go with goal achievement. But I also like

00:52:15.659 --> 00:52:18.500
to really do is, okay, let's reanalyze your goals

00:52:18.500 --> 00:52:20.280
to make sure these are goals you actually want

00:52:20.280 --> 00:52:22.820
to achieve. I think a lot of times we give ourselves

00:52:22.820 --> 00:52:25.659
goals that we like, oh, I really want this. And

00:52:25.659 --> 00:52:27.639
then we end up getting it and then discover,

00:52:27.780 --> 00:52:31.280
well, we didn't really want it. And I think the

00:52:31.280 --> 00:52:33.039
other thing is a lot of times we get so hung

00:52:33.039 --> 00:52:34.760
up on the goals that we forget to enjoy life

00:52:34.760 --> 00:52:38.179
now. I think a lot of times people get so hung

00:52:38.179 --> 00:52:41.519
up on that. I brought up earlier about the people

00:52:41.519 --> 00:52:43.559
who work 70 -hour weeks and they're making millions

00:52:43.559 --> 00:52:46.000
of dollars, but they don't get to enjoy it until

00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:48.900
they retire. Versus the guy who's making $50

00:52:48.900 --> 00:52:51.320
,000 a year, but he only works 20 hours a week

00:52:51.320 --> 00:52:55.519
and he's enjoying his life now. So to me, I like

00:52:55.519 --> 00:52:57.739
to challenge people. It's like, okay, is this

00:52:57.739 --> 00:53:00.699
really making you happy? Is this really satisfying

00:53:00.699 --> 00:53:03.300
your whys, your passions, your interests, your

00:53:03.300 --> 00:53:06.900
values? And so a lot of times I want people to

00:53:06.900 --> 00:53:09.920
really reconsider. Is that goal really right

00:53:09.920 --> 00:53:12.440
for you? Is that goal really realistic? Is that

00:53:12.440 --> 00:53:16.380
goal really the best? And it's okay to question

00:53:16.380 --> 00:53:18.460
our goals. And it's okay. You're not a failure

00:53:18.460 --> 00:53:20.380
to say, you know what, that goal maybe wasn't

00:53:20.380 --> 00:53:23.739
the right goal for me. So that's a lot of what

00:53:23.739 --> 00:53:27.099
I like to do. I am what you call an indie podcaster.

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and see which plan is right for you. People rethink

00:55:16.280 --> 00:55:18.860
things. So whether it be emotions or goals, but

00:55:18.860 --> 00:55:21.079
then to be that accountability source, to be

00:55:21.079 --> 00:55:24.039
the encouragement, to be that Yoda, Gandalf,

00:55:24.039 --> 00:55:26.179
who can be there and kind of go, okay, you know

00:55:26.179 --> 00:55:27.960
what? And that's where I kind of like Yoda and

00:55:27.960 --> 00:55:31.719
Gandalf. They push Luke, they push Frodo, they

00:55:31.719 --> 00:55:34.639
push the people. They say, no, you're the hero

00:55:34.639 --> 00:55:38.019
of the story. I'm only here to... be that source

00:55:38.019 --> 00:55:40.260
of encouragement, to be that guy, to kind of

00:55:40.260 --> 00:55:43.599
like your sensei, to go up, okay, something is

00:55:43.599 --> 00:55:46.800
wrong. We need to talk about this and square

00:55:46.800 --> 00:55:49.699
your wound back, get you back on the path. Okay,

00:55:49.820 --> 00:55:53.619
now you know you can do it. I'm here to be your

00:55:53.619 --> 00:55:56.599
cheerleader, to support you on and to help you

00:55:56.599 --> 00:55:59.099
know that you already have that ability, that

00:55:59.099 --> 00:56:01.380
skill, or at least you are on the path of getting

00:56:01.380 --> 00:56:05.619
it. Yeah, like, I know, like, even if it's, like,

00:56:05.659 --> 00:56:09.059
not even a one -on -one conversation with my

00:56:09.059 --> 00:56:12.320
sensei, like, sometimes at the end of classes,

00:56:12.340 --> 00:56:18.699
my joshus, which is one level, a sensei, they

00:56:18.699 --> 00:56:24.699
talk about, they leave you with some encouragement,

00:56:24.880 --> 00:56:29.329
and just to keep doing something. trying to improve

00:56:29.329 --> 00:56:32.449
a little bit better each time when you leave

00:56:32.449 --> 00:56:36.530
the mat. And so I always listen to every single

00:56:36.530 --> 00:56:40.349
word that they say because I know I could apply

00:56:40.349 --> 00:56:45.210
it to pretty much my whole life and how I can

00:56:45.210 --> 00:56:50.369
make it just a little bit better. And, you know,

00:56:50.429 --> 00:56:53.789
when you were just saying about some of these

00:56:53.789 --> 00:56:57.940
extra goals that we set on ourselves, Do you

00:56:57.940 --> 00:57:01.079
think it kind of has to do something along the

00:57:01.079 --> 00:57:04.179
lines of social media a little bit? Because you

00:57:04.179 --> 00:57:09.159
see, like, I don't know if this is how you feel,

00:57:09.219 --> 00:57:12.119
but you know how you might have that friend who

00:57:12.119 --> 00:57:15.239
shows up in the newsfeed and is like, hey, look,

00:57:15.360 --> 00:57:18.099
I'm doing this. And then you kind of like, I'm

00:57:18.099 --> 00:57:22.500
jealous and I don't get to do that. And I read

00:57:22.500 --> 00:57:28.289
somewhere, I think it was in, when I first started

00:57:28.289 --> 00:57:31.750
blogging and then showed up later again later

00:57:31.750 --> 00:57:36.309
on in my blogging career and they talked about

00:57:36.309 --> 00:57:39.650
don't compare yourself to others and it's like

00:57:39.650 --> 00:57:44.590
where your website is right now it's where it's

00:57:44.590 --> 00:57:48.329
supposed to be and for them they already passed

00:57:48.329 --> 00:57:51.369
that milestone but you're gonna pass that milestone

00:57:51.369 --> 00:57:54.900
you just can't compare yourself to others because,

00:57:54.960 --> 00:57:57.579
well, if you compare yourself to others, then

00:57:57.579 --> 00:58:00.539
you're saying, well, you're not being different.

00:58:00.860 --> 00:58:06.139
You're being the same old, same old. And I was

00:58:06.139 --> 00:58:09.199
like, I should stop comparing myself to others.

00:58:11.380 --> 00:58:14.019
That is a huge thing. And I think that is a notable

00:58:14.019 --> 00:58:17.159
problem with social media. I know I've pulled

00:58:17.159 --> 00:58:21.420
back on more of my... The social end of the social

00:58:21.420 --> 00:58:23.500
media where it's more about just me and my fun

00:58:23.500 --> 00:58:25.780
and my interest. The social media I now mainly

00:58:25.780 --> 00:58:28.500
do is LinkedIn and it's business related. But

00:58:28.500 --> 00:58:31.159
I do think that is a lot of it. We see people

00:58:31.159 --> 00:58:32.880
who are having more of an interesting lifestyle.

00:58:33.699 --> 00:58:36.179
I've moved into Instagram a bit. And even that

00:58:36.179 --> 00:58:40.219
sometimes I'm like, you know, I'm not a huge

00:58:40.219 --> 00:58:43.400
car enthusiast, but I enjoy cars. And so I watch,

00:58:43.420 --> 00:58:44.940
you know, I've got a few people I follow and

00:58:44.940 --> 00:58:47.039
they drive really nice cars. And it's like, okay,

00:58:47.079 --> 00:58:50.150
now I'm driving my beat up little Ford. You know,

00:58:50.150 --> 00:58:52.949
and I'm like, you know, so it's easy to do that.

00:58:53.090 --> 00:58:56.010
So one of the things that I also like to teach

00:58:56.010 --> 00:58:58.369
about is what I call the positivity of now. If

00:58:58.369 --> 00:59:00.210
people see any of my posts on LinkedIn or my

00:59:00.210 --> 00:59:02.150
comments, it's something I frequently go back

00:59:02.150 --> 00:59:05.210
to. And that is, you know, focus on gratitude,

00:59:05.329 --> 00:59:07.849
focus on the things you can enjoy in life now.

00:59:08.170 --> 00:59:09.769
And so that's one of the things I would challenge

00:59:09.769 --> 00:59:13.010
people to do is right now, right this second,

00:59:13.190 --> 00:59:16.150
what's something you can enjoy? Right now, I'm

00:59:16.150 --> 00:59:18.639
having a great conversation with Jimmy. I'm growing.

00:59:18.739 --> 00:59:20.800
I'm learning. Here's a guy who has experiences

00:59:20.800 --> 00:59:23.079
and knowledge that I don't have, and I'm going

00:59:23.079 --> 00:59:25.559
to walk away learning things. I'm going to walk

00:59:25.559 --> 00:59:28.139
away going, you know what? He's got that Yoda

00:59:28.139 --> 00:59:30.500
in his life. Do I have that Yoda in my life?

00:59:30.559 --> 00:59:32.260
Well, I kind of do, but he's pretty busy. Maybe

00:59:32.260 --> 00:59:34.360
I need to pursue that a bit more. Jimmy got me

00:59:34.360 --> 00:59:37.579
thinking, and I can enjoy that. I've got a nice

00:59:37.579 --> 00:59:40.039
cup of coffee that I'm enjoying. I'm sitting

00:59:40.039 --> 00:59:43.420
in a fairly warm room in a nice chair, focusing

00:59:43.420 --> 00:59:46.239
on the positivity of now, focusing on that gratitude.

00:59:46.900 --> 00:59:48.239
Doesn't mean you still can't have those goals.

00:59:48.320 --> 00:59:51.340
You should to help push you along, but focus

00:59:51.340 --> 00:59:53.280
on the gratitude. And now there's a lot of, there's

00:59:53.280 --> 00:59:57.739
a lot that we can be happy about. And I can attest

00:59:57.739 --> 01:00:02.159
to this, that I've, I have a lot of people I'm

01:00:02.159 --> 01:00:04.300
in a part, a lot of different Facebook groups

01:00:04.300 --> 01:00:07.639
on Facebook. I didn't know why I just said that.

01:00:09.599 --> 01:00:16.480
That was a really bad sentence. Anyway. But I'm

01:00:16.480 --> 01:00:21.099
in a lot of groups and I've seen a lot of people

01:00:21.099 --> 01:00:26.440
who are doing a lot of... I have some friends

01:00:26.440 --> 01:00:30.599
in the groups that have been pushing me and motivating

01:00:30.599 --> 01:00:33.800
me and keep going and everything, which is great

01:00:33.800 --> 01:00:37.940
to have the accountability. And I've had sometimes

01:00:37.940 --> 01:00:42.420
I felt like I'm not... where I'm supposed to

01:00:42.420 --> 01:00:46.280
be because they have success in A, B, C, and

01:00:46.280 --> 01:00:50.440
D. I kid you not, this one person, she has her

01:00:50.440 --> 01:00:53.739
own radio show. She has her own TV show. She

01:00:53.739 --> 01:00:59.940
has multiple books out there. And I'm like, does

01:00:59.940 --> 01:01:04.900
she ever sleep? Is she like a vampire? And it's

01:01:04.900 --> 01:01:08.179
like she's always doing something. But I know

01:01:08.179 --> 01:01:16.179
for myself that... that I had to dial back my

01:01:16.179 --> 01:01:19.519
train of thought a little bit because she's always

01:01:19.519 --> 01:01:27.159
been proud of me of how I've been doing. She's

01:01:27.159 --> 01:01:30.750
invited me back on. her podcast multiple times

01:01:30.750 --> 01:01:35.889
so far. Like I had, like she created a new podcast

01:01:35.889 --> 01:01:39.409
recently for just health and nutrition that she

01:01:39.409 --> 01:01:43.510
wants me on next week to record with her. And

01:01:43.510 --> 01:01:46.369
I was like, so I guess I'm doing something right

01:01:46.369 --> 01:01:51.750
if she wants me back. But I've been trying to

01:01:51.750 --> 01:01:55.489
kind of. Like I kid you not, I've taken pretty

01:01:55.489 --> 01:01:58.050
much every social media app off of my phone because

01:01:58.050 --> 01:02:00.889
I use all this social media management tools,

01:02:01.130 --> 01:02:06.489
a lot of them. I kept LinkedIn and I only kept

01:02:06.489 --> 01:02:13.829
Instagram, but only to, I posted the stories

01:02:13.829 --> 01:02:18.829
on there, but that's pretty much it. I took Facebook

01:02:18.829 --> 01:02:21.769
off because it just drained the crap out of my

01:02:21.769 --> 01:02:25.460
battery. And I was like, well, my phone usually

01:02:25.460 --> 01:02:29.400
lasts like a day and pretty much like, probably

01:02:29.400 --> 01:02:32.460
like pretty much sometimes two full days, sometimes

01:02:32.460 --> 01:02:36.340
even more. I mean, a little bit less depending

01:02:36.340 --> 01:02:40.420
on how much I use it. But when I saw the whole

01:02:40.420 --> 01:02:43.559
big battery drain on Facebook, I was like, yeah,

01:02:43.699 --> 01:02:48.860
no thanks. I like my phone battery. I need it

01:02:48.860 --> 01:02:51.360
when I, I mean, I know I'm not going anywhere

01:02:51.360 --> 01:02:54.820
because I'm, And because of this pandemic, but

01:02:54.820 --> 01:03:00.519
I need it for marketing purposes. I'm just bored.

01:03:00.659 --> 01:03:04.880
I'm just going to drain the battery. Well, going

01:03:04.880 --> 01:03:06.920
back to something you said earlier, you talked

01:03:06.920 --> 01:03:08.719
about, you know, being part of those Facebook

01:03:08.719 --> 01:03:10.199
groups and seeing that some people are further

01:03:10.199 --> 01:03:13.579
along. And, you know, I do coaching on the side

01:03:13.579 --> 01:03:16.119
and it's, you know, so it's pretty much a flooded

01:03:16.119 --> 01:03:19.320
market. But there's a lot of us. And so it's

01:03:19.320 --> 01:03:21.539
easy for me to see people that are further ahead

01:03:21.539 --> 01:03:23.559
or more successful or doing it better, doing

01:03:23.559 --> 01:03:25.980
it right. And one of the things I had to get

01:03:25.980 --> 01:03:28.400
to a point of looking at myself as going, OK,

01:03:28.519 --> 01:03:31.119
I need to look back. At the end of the day, each

01:03:31.119 --> 01:03:33.059
one of us, no matter who we are, ends up looking

01:03:33.059 --> 01:03:35.340
in the mirror alone. And we need to be able to

01:03:35.340 --> 01:03:37.280
look back and look at the person and look at

01:03:37.280 --> 01:03:39.599
the person's looking back at us. And so one of

01:03:39.599 --> 01:03:41.219
the things that I've learned to really do is

01:03:41.219 --> 01:03:42.780
I say, you know what, I can't compare myself

01:03:42.780 --> 01:03:45.500
to others. I need to look at me. I have my own

01:03:45.500 --> 01:03:47.500
skill set. I have some areas that have weaknesses.

01:03:47.920 --> 01:03:50.079
And I may have some areas that have more weaknesses

01:03:50.079 --> 01:03:52.139
than others. Life, unfortunately, isn't fair.

01:03:52.239 --> 01:03:54.099
Some of us have more weaknesses than others.

01:03:54.460 --> 01:03:57.159
But the point is just, okay, judgment of myself

01:03:57.159 --> 01:04:00.960
off. No judging myself. Can I like myself? Can

01:04:00.960 --> 01:04:03.860
I enjoy myself? Let's look at things about ourselves

01:04:03.860 --> 01:04:06.360
that we like. And then we can celebrate and we

01:04:06.360 --> 01:04:09.019
can enjoy. And it doesn't matter if anyone else

01:04:09.019 --> 01:04:10.980
celebrates their life so we can like it ourselves.

01:04:11.500 --> 01:04:15.059
You know, I can sit and listen to a podcast about

01:04:15.059 --> 01:04:18.380
Tolkien. They'll go into one page of Tolkien

01:04:18.380 --> 01:04:20.599
and talk for three hours and I can enjoy it.

01:04:20.619 --> 01:04:22.980
And I know other people, they'd rather get a

01:04:22.980 --> 01:04:26.500
root email. And I respect that. And so, but the

01:04:26.500 --> 01:04:28.280
thing is, at the end of the day, we have to look

01:04:28.280 --> 01:04:29.699
at ourselves in the mirror. And it's like, can

01:04:29.699 --> 01:04:32.139
you like that person? If you can't, then that's

01:04:32.139 --> 01:04:35.039
something we need to work on. So instead of looking

01:04:35.039 --> 01:04:37.099
at ourselves and comparing ourselves, well, their

01:04:37.099 --> 01:04:39.800
podcast is better, bigger, better, or their coaching

01:04:39.800 --> 01:04:41.860
is bigger, better. It's like, you know what?

01:04:41.920 --> 01:04:44.480
Can I enjoy where I'm at today? Can I be happy

01:04:44.480 --> 01:04:47.019
with what I've done? You know, one of the things

01:04:47.019 --> 01:04:49.639
I also try and remind people with goals is one

01:04:49.639 --> 01:04:52.760
of the big complications of goals is it's best,

01:04:52.840 --> 01:04:55.780
if at all possible, to not have a goal that has

01:04:55.780 --> 01:04:58.280
anyone else involved. You know, it's one thing

01:04:58.280 --> 01:05:00.960
I remember listening to Dr. Neil Anderson years

01:05:00.960 --> 01:05:03.119
ago. And one of the things that really stood

01:05:03.119 --> 01:05:06.099
out that he talked about is if you have a goal

01:05:06.099 --> 01:05:08.619
that involves anyone else, that other person

01:05:08.619 --> 01:05:11.059
can block your goal. Whether they're intending

01:05:11.059 --> 01:05:13.760
to do that or not, that's a side subject. Say,

01:05:13.900 --> 01:05:16.019
you know, you're a car salesman. Well, who can

01:05:16.019 --> 01:05:18.760
block your goal? The customer can. Any customer

01:05:18.760 --> 01:05:20.840
you have can block your goal. You could have

01:05:20.840 --> 01:05:23.280
done the best sales thing you have. You could

01:05:23.280 --> 01:05:26.619
have the best car in town. And you just have

01:05:26.619 --> 01:05:28.460
the wrong client, the wrong customer, or the

01:05:28.460 --> 01:05:30.639
person who's not interested, or they don't have

01:05:30.639 --> 01:05:32.630
the money. And I've had times where people are

01:05:32.630 --> 01:05:34.329
pitching to me and I'm like, I don't get the

01:05:34.329 --> 01:05:36.429
money for what your services are. So, you know,

01:05:36.429 --> 01:05:39.090
sorry, it doesn't matter how great sales you

01:05:39.090 --> 01:05:43.849
are. Sorry, I have my phone on loud. I apologize

01:05:43.849 --> 01:05:49.190
about that. So anyway, that's one of the things

01:05:49.190 --> 01:05:50.869
I want to encourage people is when you look at

01:05:50.869 --> 01:05:54.250
your goals, if your goal has someone else, you

01:05:54.250 --> 01:05:56.449
may want to reconsider that and see if you can

01:05:56.449 --> 01:05:58.730
restructure it so that it doesn't necessarily

01:05:58.730 --> 01:06:01.300
have someone else. It's like, say, you want to

01:06:01.300 --> 01:06:03.559
have a bigger podcast. Well, what do you need?

01:06:03.599 --> 01:06:06.039
You need a bigger audience. Well, you can't,

01:06:06.039 --> 01:06:07.500
you know, we can't force anyone to listen to

01:06:07.500 --> 01:06:10.579
us. You know, as a coach, I can't force anyone

01:06:10.579 --> 01:06:13.320
to become my client. So a lot of times at the

01:06:13.320 --> 01:06:15.039
end of the day, I have to kind of go, okay, well,

01:06:15.139 --> 01:06:18.659
did I get another client? No. Well, to the best

01:06:18.659 --> 01:06:20.280
of my ability and the best of my knowledge, did

01:06:20.280 --> 01:06:22.500
I do the best I could today with what I know?

01:06:23.139 --> 01:06:25.880
Yes. Okay. Well, then I did the best I could.

01:06:26.380 --> 01:06:32.139
Yeah, I totally 100 % agree with that. Like for

01:06:32.139 --> 01:06:37.860
me, back to the person real quick, she, like

01:06:37.860 --> 01:06:42.239
the person I've been telling you about, she told

01:06:42.239 --> 01:06:47.380
me when I saw that she was telling, she actually,

01:06:47.559 --> 01:06:55.639
she also, this person, She told me about this

01:06:55.639 --> 01:06:59.420
cool campaign that was going on, on social media,

01:06:59.780 --> 01:07:07.780
and how this company would put my name on Times

01:07:07.780 --> 01:07:15.000
Square in New York City. And I was kind of thinking

01:07:15.000 --> 01:07:19.300
to myself, and I was thinking, wow, this person

01:07:19.300 --> 01:07:27.519
who's a lot more successful than I am is telling

01:07:27.519 --> 01:07:35.739
me a very cool opportunity. So she even gave

01:07:35.739 --> 01:07:37.860
me the link and everything to this campaign.

01:07:38.300 --> 01:07:42.619
So I did it and my name was actually featured

01:07:42.619 --> 01:07:47.690
in Times Square in New York City. I even posted

01:07:47.690 --> 01:07:51.889
that in some of my groups on Facebook. And I

01:07:51.889 --> 01:07:53.750
said to them, I asked them, I was like, does

01:07:53.750 --> 01:07:57.429
that mean I'm famous yet? Or do I have to do

01:07:57.429 --> 01:08:02.210
something really, really dumb? Sometimes it is

01:08:02.210 --> 01:08:03.969
that we're doing something really dumb, you know.

01:08:04.110 --> 01:08:07.510
There's always a bad press, but I don't know

01:08:07.510 --> 01:08:12.969
if that's necessarily entirely true. I think

01:08:12.969 --> 01:08:16.289
I'll just stick with to be really famous for

01:08:16.289 --> 01:08:19.329
public speaking, not to be really, really dumb.

01:08:22.750 --> 01:08:28.710
You there. Yeah, exactly. So before we wrap up,

01:08:28.850 --> 01:08:32.390
where can people find you? Well, the best place

01:08:32.390 --> 01:08:34.109
to find me is LinkedIn. That's kind of where

01:08:34.109 --> 01:08:38.779
I hang out. I'm Greg Evans coaching. So if you

01:08:38.779 --> 01:08:40.859
just look up Greg Evans coaching or hashtag Greg

01:08:40.859 --> 01:08:43.479
Evans coaching, you'll find me there. I am kind

01:08:43.479 --> 01:08:45.520
of branching out a little bit into Instagram.

01:08:45.939 --> 01:08:47.960
So once again, Greg Evans coaching, you can find

01:08:47.960 --> 01:08:50.399
me there on Instagram, but LinkedIn is really

01:08:50.399 --> 01:08:53.279
my home. So I recommend people checking me out

01:08:53.279 --> 01:08:56.840
there. And do you have your own website too?

01:08:57.439 --> 01:08:59.720
That I have not branched into. It's been one

01:08:59.720 --> 01:09:01.319
of those things I've been kind of going back

01:09:01.319 --> 01:09:06.140
and forth. Every day I kind of look into my stuff

01:09:06.140 --> 01:09:07.920
and kind of go, okay, what's the wisest decision?

01:09:08.060 --> 01:09:10.460
What's the wisest path? So I've kind of been

01:09:10.460 --> 01:09:13.260
going back and forth. I was actually talking

01:09:13.260 --> 01:09:15.500
to a marketing professional even last night,

01:09:15.579 --> 01:09:18.020
and he was talking about some things that maybe

01:09:18.020 --> 01:09:21.500
you want to consider. But we'll see. It may end

01:09:21.500 --> 01:09:23.779
up happening, but at this point I don't. If you

01:09:23.779 --> 01:09:26.960
need any recommendations, I can pass you some

01:09:26.960 --> 01:09:31.819
along. I definitely appreciate that. That's what

01:09:31.819 --> 01:09:34.039
I like about this whole podcasting and LinkedIn

01:09:34.039 --> 01:09:36.000
and other worlds is we all get to start knowing

01:09:36.000 --> 01:09:38.180
each other and we're like, Hey, I can give you

01:09:38.180 --> 01:09:40.840
this and get you that network and whatnot. So

01:09:40.840 --> 01:09:42.939
definitely recommend people taking advantage

01:09:42.939 --> 01:09:44.979
of networks when you can. But if I definitely

01:09:44.979 --> 01:09:47.520
do, I will definitely think of you, Jimmy. So

01:09:47.520 --> 01:09:53.819
I appreciate it. Totally. So, guys, make sure

01:09:53.819 --> 01:09:57.439
you check out Greg Evans on LinkedIn. And I'll,

01:09:57.539 --> 01:10:01.140
of course, put in the show notes when this episode

01:10:01.140 --> 01:10:06.640
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with that piece of information. Oh, and one more

01:10:25.319 --> 01:10:31.319
thing I'd like to mention. I finally hit the

01:10:31.319 --> 01:10:35.779
1 ,500 total plays mark for this podcast. Thanks

01:10:35.779 --> 01:10:38.920
to everybody who listens and plays this podcast

01:10:38.920 --> 01:10:42.079
because I wouldn't be where I am today without

01:10:42.079 --> 01:10:46.380
all of you guys. So shout out to everyone who...

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who listens to this wonderful podcast. And thanks

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