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So, you know, last Monday I did a random quick
episode that I recorded and posted that same
day because I just felt I wanted to try something.
Like I said in the episode, I wanted to try something
different. I wanted to... I had an idea, and
I wanted to immediately execute on that idea.
I probably have done that before, but not in
that context. I have never done that with a podcast
before. It's very rare for me. I'm not doing
the same thing today, but kind of the same format.
If you already noticed, there is some editing
on this episode. There's an intro. Last week,
I talked about some of the worries that I've
been experiencing recently around my coaching
practice and how I want to gain more clients.
Obviously, I'm running a business, and it's hard
to have a business if you don't have clients.
I get in my head a lot. I can think of many negative
reasons why I don't have clients right now. Some
of them are definitely things that I could be
doing better. And there are some things right
now that I am doing that I need to keep doing.
And that's what we're talking about today. As
I was sitting earlier this week, yesterday actually,
I was sitting yesterday with my peer coach, Paul
Emery, who I've talked about before on this podcast,
I believe. He asked me what I wanted to talk
about during our coaching session. I told him
that I wanted to focus on getting more clients,
just like I mentioned on Monday. He asked me
the question, like he asked me what I'm currently
doing and then what I could be doing differently.
Or even what I could be doing that I'm not doing
right now. You know, one of the things, interestingly
enough, is starting a small group mastermind.
or mastermind at my church. And this is just
an idea right now, but I would do it starting
with the 15 valuable laws of growth. And I want
to apologize because this might sound familiar
that I said I was going to do this a while ago
and nothing ever came of it because I was worried
about spreading myself too thin. However, I think
that right now what I want to do with this idea
Go through the content that I'm given, actually
finish reading the book, and then present the
idea to the people at my church who would make
the decision whether it could happen or not.
It would be more of a personal development small
group where I would try to structure them in
a mastermind format where maybe we wouldn't read
books all the time, but we'd start with books.
Like 15 valuable loss of growth or atomic habits,
things like that. The reason I bring this up,
it's not only because I have goals, but because
I know you do too. So just like Paul asked me,
I want you to ask yourself these questions. What
are the things that you're doing right now to
achieve your goals? And what else could you be
doing? Not in the sense of putting too much on
your plate or spreading yourself too thin. What
realistically could you be doing? Or even better
yet, we can say realistically, but we can just
say what could you be doing? And then you pick
the realistic things out of that. You start with
just brainstorming, whether they're realistic
or not. I could quit my job, and I could just
try to coach full -time. That's one thing I could
do. Is it realistic? No. But me, I would think
about that, write that down, and then probably
immediately cross it out because I know that's
not a realistic idea. And if there's things that
you are doing that you are doing right now, why
is it working? Or even why is it not working?
For something that wouldn't be working, for instance,
it doesn't necessarily have to be something that
you're doing to reach the goal. It could be doing
something that's getting in the way of reaching
the goal, like a bad habit. For me, as I was
preparing this episode and writing out my notes,
I immediately thought about my habit I've gained
back of watching too much TV. And I think I've
talked about this way back. where I actually
had stopped watching as much TV and watching
one episode a day, and I was able to consistently
do that so I could keep working on my goals that
I had. And recently, TV has been more of a distraction
for me. So that's one thing that I'm personally
holding myself accountable to. You know... I
think I have it in my notes here. I already said
it, but everything that you wrote down, everything
that you're writing down that you could be doing,
you don't have to do them all at once. You know,
like I said, with starting my small group, there
are multiple things to do to get that idea started.
And I'm not going to be able to do them all at
once. There's a level of priority and a level
of realism to every task. Like something might
not be realistic right now, but it could be realistic
down the road. There's also other things I want
to do for my business. I was thinking about it
on my walk today. I was thinking about, man,
I want to do merch. I want to do merch for The
Pursuit of Calling. I have ideas around the text
that would go in the front and maybe some...
some, uh, some phrase that would go in the back.
There may be some shirts would just say pursuer
or pursuit of calling with the, uh, kind of rolling
rock style text. Uh, and to me, that sounds really
cool. And I know I can make money doing that
because I've done it before. And that would be
able to, like, this isn't a bad idea. Like I
could use that idea to, uh, That idea and those
funds from that idea to then fuel other things
like maybe a rebrand or hiring somebody to do
my social media for me. That's something I should
be doing to get the word out about my podcast
and about my coaching so that other people can
hear more about what I'm doing. And hear the
love I have for this and the love I have for
the people that I do it for. The people I'm serving
through it. So guys, that's pretty much what
I got for you today. I want you to think about
those questions. What are you doing right now
to achieve the goals that you have set out for
yourself? What's working? What's not working?
And then what could you be doing? What else could
you be doing in order to achieve that goal? Not
to spread yourself too thin. But not to spread
yourself too thin, but to realistically think
about the things that you could be doing in order
to achieve the goal that you're looking to achieve,
to get you from where you are to where you want
to be. I'm going to leave you with that. Everyone,
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