Mark, Mr. Productivity tell me about your vision
well, my vision is
relatively brand new because I
Wasn't clear on what a vision was until I went to a boot camp with someone. So now I have it narrowed down to
I am doing what I love to do
When I want from where I want to be and with the people I most want to be with
Wow
That is a lot of
Precision tell me more about that
Well, like I said, I have to give credit to my coach
I went to his boot camp because we were talking about vision on the first day and I'm like
I don't know make a lot of money
it's no idea because no one actually explained to me what a vision was and
So we are working in our group about what our vision was and he shared his that's with his vision
I'm like, can I use yours? Cuz that's like I want it goes
Yeah, you can use it if you if it aligns with what you want you can use it and I absolutely love that
I write it my journal every day because we only get one shot at this thing called life and
If you're not doing what you love to do if you wake up every day and you're like, oh
I gotta go to work or I gotta you know
Get the kids up and you're just like this mister or missus negativity person. Well
You're not gonna be productive if you're you know, not doing what you love to do
And then it's not just what you do. But how about the when how about the where how about the people you're doing it with?
Because I think all four of those elements had to be tied together
so if you're doing what you'd love to do and you're doing it when you want, but
You're not in a place like physically like where you live that makes you happy or maybe
You're making a lot of money, but hate your clients
So I think all four of those have to tied through in order to make a proper vision at least that's the way I look at it
So what is your what why then and who?
My what is gonna sound
Weird so I hope you give me some grace here a few years ago
I heard Grant Cardone say that the whole point of being really rich is so you can help a lot of people
And up until that point I was raised my parents have passed away, but I was raised that
Rich people are bad and you don't need a lot of money
But I find that a lot of the most generous people are people who work real work really hard and have a lot of money
And so that's what feels me. So my what is to make a lot of money so I can help a lot of people now
I apologize, but I forgot the other two parts of the question
It's it's it's what your vision was doing what you want to do with who you want to do with oh, okay
so my niche my niche is
HR professionals more specifically people who are sherm certified sherm is
Society of Human Resources Management certified and
Here's the funny thing about niching. I
Did not understand niching. I've taken countless courses read books about niching and then my current coach told me this
The niche isn't important, but niching is important the whole point of niching and there's a lot more to this by
This whole niching thing
But the whole point of niching is you to be focused because a lot of people are just throwing spaghetti against the wall
And you got to have a niche of something you're going after now. It just can't be any niche
It's got to be nits. Obviously the people have to have a need
They've got to be find the ball, you know
The whole bunch of criteria for finding a niche you don't want to say my niche is like there's four people that fit my niche
The entire world that's probably not a good niche to go after it may be but probably not so that's why I'm going after HR professionals
Wow people don't happen to go in this field
How did you land in that field a?
Coach when my older coaches saw something in me because I was
uncharacteristically
down on this call so normally I am
I identify as Tigger from Winnie the Pooh and I was having an Eeyore moment and
My coach asked me what's going on?
I'm like, well, you know, I I can't figure out what I want to do because I was
Trying to figure out what my topic was gonna be and out of the blue. He said well, why don't you talk about productivity?
And I said to him all like well, that's weird. Why why would you say that? I don't understand
He goes I know a lot of people I coach a lot of people you are one of the most naturally gifted productive people
I've ever met you need to share that gift for the world and
It took a couple months for me to go really
but now I'm thankful I
Did listen to his advice because had I not I don't know where I'd be
That's very interesting I would love to know more about that what
The term mr. Productivity, it's it's very unique. I love it
How did that come to about and what's that about? I had made a post on LinkedIn
about three or four years ago and
Someone commented on my post and they did
Hashtag mr. Productivity at my s t er mr. Productivity and I'm like, oh
That's kind of cool
Can I use that because I don't know what the etiquette was like because I never I didn't know what that was
He goes sure and so ever since then I actually registered
First I trademarked and I registered it and then I my websites mr
Productivity calm my podcast is mr. Productivity podcast and I just love the whole brand of mr. Productivity
but just like
Getting into productivity was given to me as a gift from somebody else this person who I only knew on LinkedIn
I don't know him personally gave him the moniker of mr. Productivity and
That's why I tell people if you can't figure out what you want to do
With your life just keep living life at the right moment. You'll discover it. Yeah. Thank you for sharing that
Mark, what would you say then is your goal for being on the show?
My goal to be on the show is always twofold number one
I want to make the hosts look really good because there's a fellow podcaster. I know what it's like
to host the show
The question and you probably have people in the back that you know get all the stuff zipped together
But I want to make you look good. So I try not to
Go off on tangents. I try not to use a lot of filler words because I want to make your job easier
the second
Thing I want to get to the show is to help people
Now the third and it's a distant third if they go to my website, that's great
But I want to serve people I want if I can help one person as a result of being on the show and I do mean
One I believe in the power of one if I help one person by something. I said they go Wow
I'm gonna do that to me. It's a successful time on your show
Thank you for sharing that and what?
Would help our audience today? I
Want to give a shout out to my audience
I want to give your audience my number one productivity tip right now and
Believe it or not. It has nothing
It has nothing to do
with apps
calendars
planners
Journals to-do list what I want people to do
Whenever they begin to feel
overwhelmed
Frustrated angry whatever negative emotion you can come up with I want them to be
From their computer because we're spending entirely too much time behind our laptops
I want you to walk outside. Do not get on your little screen known as your phone screen
Put that in your pocket or better off leave it in your office and go outside. Don't talk to anyone
Don't think about anything. Just give your body the gift of a micro break
It's three to five minutes. So when you get up and walk outside, you're getting the blood flowing
And then you're not going to do anything when you get outside
Maybe take some deep breathing now if you really want to take it to the next level
I can do this because I work from home
Go outside take your shoes and socks off and stand barefoot on the ground and you'd be amazed how you feel the stress and the inflammation
Be sucked out of your body
That alone those micro breaks alone will give you so much natural energy
Which will improve your productivity
that people
Doubt me
That people doubt me. I will get five minutes to trust me if you do it
The only people tell me it doesn't work as if like were you on your phone?
Oh, yeah, no, no, don't be on your phone. Don't talk to anyone go outside
See, we're not quiet enough. That's the problem. We don't go outside. We're not quiet
We're always going from one screen to another or talking or thinking about stuff. Give your brain
The break of just doing nothing
What's the
I'm assuming are you talking about grounding when someone's going outside and standing?
you know, I I have a grounding mat right below my feet right now connected to my
um
The ground wire
It's crazy that you said that it's amazing
nice now
Now here's the thing a lot of people ask me. Well, I work spend a lot of time indoors
What's your opinion on grounding mats? I said first of all do your homework
Because I know people bought grounding mats on amazon and they didn't feel a difference
And then they opened it up and find out the wires were even attached if you can
Go outside
On the earth number two, you're going to get fresh air number three at the sun's out. You're going to get the sun
So if you can go outside it's best because you don't have to worry about is the earth working today
The earth is always going to be working
But I I don't have a grounding mat. I'm at my standing desk right now when i'm done here. I'll go back outside
Actually, no, I can't go back outside because of my bedtime
I'm not supposed to expose myself to bright sunlight if you expose yourself to bright sunlight too late in the day
It affects your sleep. So I guess i'm going to be inside the rest of the day. So that's okay
Okay
Yeah
Well, thank you for sharing those tips
um, yeah
So mark, um
It's hard to talk about great businesses great ideas without great leaders
To you what defines a great leader?
A great leader is one who
listens
In other words, they're not listening
So they know when you stop talking so they can talk they're actually listening to understand
That's really important
second
A leader a great leader is one who doesn't think they have all the answers actually
From my experience the greatest leaders i've ever had the privilege of working for are very humble
Are very humble. They're a student of life
And I think if you want to be a great leader, whether you have a three or four man operation or you're leading a ginormous company
Be humble
Always be a student of life and always be an active listener
Listen to whoever you're talking to or rather who's talking to you
With an open mind don't have your preconceived notions. Don't have your opinions. Just close your mouth
As judge judy says all the time you're born with two ears and one mouth for a reason
So you listen twice as much as you speak
Thank you for sharing that uh you mentioned
About the experiences you've had with with other leaders would you like to share some of those?
I have two experiences
One I work with a guy who was more interested
In starching his jeans and starching his t-shirts and he was leading
The division I was in with him. He was very narcissistic. It was all about him
He had stolen my ideas and he stole an idea some other people I work with
Another gentleman who I work with I used to work at a steel factory when I was going to college
And he was the type of person
That could read every person he would know if you were someone that required a lot of attention
or someone
Who didn't are you someone that need to be yelled at or someone he can talk civil to?
And I remember one time. I don't remember what the situation was, but he came down from his office
And something big happened. I don't know what it was, but I was at the bottom of the stairs getting something
And he came up to me says I'm going to yell at the guys, but i'll talk to you about it later because he knew me
That he could talk to me
professionally
The other guys not saying things wrong with him, but they were older gentlemen. They were diehard union workers and
They had to be talked to differently. So the thing he was more effective about is that he knew how to
Read people and he knew how to communicate people because to be honest with you
We all need to be communicated at a different level
I remember when I used to play little guy soccer when I was a kid if the coach yelled at me I shut down
But if he very very straightforwardly very low-key
Explain what I did wrong. I listened and I would put into action what he told me
So my reaction is don't yell at me because i'm going to shut down
So I think you really as a leader need to know your people really well
And you can't do that by staying up in your office
You have to get down and you have to actually talk to people not just about business
Go down and say hey, you know
You're you're a big european football fan, right? What you like the premier league? Oh, you're a man city guy, right?
You don't have to know anything about the sport. But now
Your workers are like, oh wow. He asked me about my team and maybe down the road
He he's I saw the game on tv last night
That's what you're doing. But a lot of people think they're dictators and this is not north korea
You're not king jong-un. You know, be nice to people and see how much better they are a productive worker for you
What?
What changes has?
that change
in your life
Well, I have my own company well
It's not a company my wife and I have our own small business
And what I found is whether i'm on a podcast talking to a client talking to a prospect
I always try to put my listening ears on
Because i've never had two exact clients. They all have different issues. They all have different personalities
One I have to be more direct with
John go and do this
Well, salie I can say salie. I recommend you do something like this and she'll do it
So I think it it's really important that we all slow down
Close our mouths and actually listen to people because if you listen to people
You will learn how to communicate with them and how to get your message across. Thank you for being here today
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