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What has got 2 Per-Specht-ives Podcast host Joshua Specht “almost ready to swear”? It has to do with him and co-host David Specht talking about getting people to commit.

Have you committed to the goal you set last week? Why or why not? Let the father and son duo dive into how a commitment is merely a decision that above all else, you’re going to stay the course.

Your generational lesson: Commitment doesn’t mean having everything figured out, it’s knowing you can’t stay where you are now, so you decide to take the next step.

“Commitment” is a promise, a sequence of choices to act on something for yourself, or someone else, and not stray from it.

How do people hype up their promise one day and then lose motivation almost the next?

Failure happens because a new commitment seems easily attainable. The problem is when that commitment requires you to continue the process.

If you want to commit, you have to build yourself up, it doesn’t mean doing it right away.

Car salespeople are taught to not let the customer leave the lot, and seize upon their impulse to commit. But, if that car gets repossessed then it’s a failure of the salesperson because he/she shouldn’t have sold you the car knowing you don’t have the finances for it.

When helping someone commit, realize it’s about them. You have to meet them where they are and mitigate as many negatives as possible…but having the right mindset is essential.

Helping someone navigate commitment means letting them know that life change is not easy, you are going to be with that person every step of the way, but not letting them commit until he/she is ready.

Communicate your commitment and goal to the important people in your life so they can hold you accountable. And, you have to be okay with being called on your failings and failure to follow through. 

But know that when you take a stand based on a commitment, you will lose certain people in your life. And, that is okay, but if they can’t support you then they get limited access to you and your life.

Ring in the New Year with the 2 Per-Specht-ives Podcast! You father and son hosts, David and Joshua Specht, talk about how to show up differently in 2022 versus 2021.

The pair rip apart the notion of a New Year’s Resolution and discuss how to rebuild it in the form of a goal that can inspire you to better yourself and those depending on you.

Your generational lesson: A resolution is nothing more than a wish. Set a goal instead because it has a backbone with a deadline and necessary milestones.

Resolutions suck. That’s probably why we never achieve them.

But why? Because resolutions are vague.

So, change your New Year’s Resolutions into goals. A goal has effective steps on how to reach them.

Break it down into a deadline with benchmarks to hit along the way. Change your environment to hit the goal, not change yourself to achieve the resolution.

You can have the same goal as last year, but the vehicles to get there may have changed since last year.

For example: We cannot count on our society returning to the way things were prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Businesses change their goals and pivot to accomplish it. That means having to supplement your pay by developing new revenue streams.

Make sure your goals have an impact on your family. It applies good pressure by creating a sense of responsibility to not let them down.

If you show up for people or a cause bigger than yourself, you’ll succeed more often than not.

Here are some action steps to achieve that New Year’s Goal:

Have a goal that you physically write down. Set a deadline and put them on/in your calendar. Break your goal down into as many small tasks. Know that a goal takes time and is not a straight line. Recognize it’s all about progress.

This week’s 2 Per-Specht-ives Podcast hosts, David and Joshua Specht, ask, “What the Health?” and tackle the vaccine issue.

The father and son duo don’t answer whether you should or shouldn’t get the COVID-19 vaccination, but they look at it from the underlying health issue to see how the right health decisions can help you no matter where you stand on getting the shot.

Your generational lesson: If you couple a healthy lifestyle with the vaccine or not getting the vaccine, the outcomes will be better than if you don’t put the proper nutrition in your body.

 Your Gen. X Advice: There is no medical solution to a lack of health. You can’t medicate yourself to health.

 Your Gen. Z Advice: You need to make a decision about the future of your health, and/or remind yourself of your motivation to stay healthy.

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that health matters now more than it ever has. The lack of health is shutting down businesses and keep kids out of school. This entire pandemic can be overcome, but something else will come along if we don’t prioritize health as a society.

Underlying health issues are crucial when it comes to dealing with COVID, and there are issues you can control. For example, David started a program with his wife and the pair lost 180 lbs. combined. 

Whether you get the vaccine or not, overall healthiness sets you up to deal with and come back from diseases like COVID-19 more quickly. That is why we need to do everything possible so that our bodies can withstand this disease, to the best of its ability. 

People who take care of themselves, do things that boost their immune system. A lot of the adverse effects of COVID coincides with an unhealthy lifestyle. 

You can do that by finding a community that holds you accountable and offers support for you to make healthy decisions. Be open and honest about your choices.

And you need to have the strength to stay committed to your health — that means making the harder, more expensive choices that positively impact your health.

This week’s 2 Per-Specht-ives Podcast sees father and son hosts, David and Joshua Specht, coaching you on how not to be paralyzed by making a decision. 

Any big decision in your life will cause discomfort and tension as well as sacrifices, but growth and progress doesn’t happen without making a decision. David and Josh will share their stories about major decisions in their lives to help you take that leap.

Your generational lesson: Make a decision with what you want to be in mind, don’t go into a decision without a purpose. Then act on that decision.

 Your Gen. X Advice: You have to make the decision AND THEN take the action that leads you into your purpose. It takes a lot of intestinal fortitude to go against the grain.

 Your Gen. Z Advice: At the end of the day, decisions are on you. Whether you’re a young adult trying to figure things out or a grown adult changing your life, you have to make tough, unexpected decisions.  

Josh made major decisions in his early life — he decided not to attend college without a goal. He then decided to enter the workforce and head up a cell phone and electronics repair business, before deciding to learn how to manage a newspaper.

Although the further he gets along from graduating high school, he moves further away from actually going to college. But after running a business for four years, he learned more than he would have getting a business degree from a college.

In the end, he’s incredibly thankful he chose this path, because he saw so many people go into college because they felt forced to, without a purpose, and washed out. Now, they’re where he was after high school.

For David, his generation was expected to go to college. Most of his peers would get a degree, work decades for a large company, then retire. He learned early on in his college career that he wasn’t a fit for college and to avoid his father’s wrath, he then decided to join the Air Force. 

Those lessons taught him skills he would need in the workforce and gave him a platform to enter the workforce, where he would later decide to start and lead his own businesses.

His second decision came when his health suffered. He chose to eat food he couldn’t stand at first, but over time that food became more tolerable until he liked all those foods he hated. He then lost well over 100 lbs, got off medicine, and took control of his life. 

Learn more about their motivations and tips for deciding how to make your own Decision.

Do you have a friend who is constantly consumed with drama and wants your advice but ignores it? Do you have an employee who asks 1 million questions about their job, but never has a solution? 

Then you, my friend, have an Ask Hole. 

In this week’s 2 Per-Specht-ives Podcast, David and Joshua Specht apply their generational knowledge to help you deal with Ask Hole friends and coworkers.

Your generational lesson: It’s okay to ask questions, but Ask Holes who constantly ask and don’t heed advice require straight forwardness on your answer, limited access to you and your bandwidth, training and assessment, and possibly even termination.

Your Gen. X Advice: You can’t have Ask Holes that require micromanaging in your business because then you will never scale beyond your current situation.

Your Gen. Z Advice: To help the Ask Hole who constantly asks questions for every minor detail, you have to put it back on them and ask, “What would you do?” 

Trying to legitimately help an Ask Hole and having your advice ignored, or even seeing them do the exact opposite, is infuriating. Here are steps to avoid the frustration that comes with Ask Holes:

1. Shut it down — If the Ask Hole doesn't take your advice, you have to shut them down. You gave your best input and if they don’t acknowledge it, then you have to save your mental brain power.
2. Be straightforward without being rude — If the Ask Hole won’t heed your advice, you have to tell them not to waste your time by repeatedly asking the same question and not accepting your answer.
3. Are they really an Ask Hole? — Every business has some specific things to it that requires knowledge, so it takes seven interactions to assess whether they really don’t know or are an Ask Hole.
4. Train your people — Tell the Ask Hole you don’t need questions, you need solutions. You’re not asking them to have all the answers, but they need to exhaust all other options and be open to your solution before asking.
5. Are you an Ask Hole? — If you’re the Ask Hole, you need to step back, take the time to think things through, and trust yourself to have the confidence to solve problems. It’s okay to ask questions, but at some point you need to start building your own knowledge and creating your own solutions.

This episode of the 2 Per-Specht-ives Podcast has father and son hosts, David and Joshua Specht, crossing the generational divide to discuss the importance of creating a positive work environment.

The pair dive into how work environments affect morale and productivity, how to change your environment for the better, and even what that means in a post COVID-19 pandemic world.

Your generational lesson: You can change your environment by finding out what is important to you, creating daily routines, removing obstacles, and being consistent in effort. Your Gen. X Advice: Setting an environment isn’t a switch you flip, it’s a process. And, understand that process can change over time. Your Gen. Z Advice: Create a routine, because your routine is what creates your attitude. By creating a routine in your environment, it helps to make that environment more welcoming.

Your environment around you has an affect on not only your morale and productivity but the people around you or in your workplace.

That can mean what you have on your shelves in your office and seeing weeds growing around the building outside to atmosphere like sounds and smells permeating your business.

People get stuck in their own environment and that can limit your progress, and the more you’re in the same environment, the less you notice the flaws.

You should want to have an environment that creates a sense of momentum, that gives the impression that things are happening. Changing your workplace environment is about being strategic to give that sense of forward momentum.

The 2 Per-Specht-ives Podcast talks about crawling down from the pedestal in this week’s episode. Your father and son hosts, David and Joshua Specht, give you tips on how to take your blinders off when it comes to admiring others. 

Your generational lesson: Not putting people on a pedestal means you prioritize yourself, avoid feeling lied to if that person falters, and don’t develop resentment or negativity by comparing yourself to them.

Your Gen. X Advice: Because so much is expected of the person on a pedestal, it creates pressure to stay there. It causes leadership to keep secrets because they don’t want their image to suffer.

Your Gen. Z Advice: Putting people on a pedestal creates a conflict of self interest to where you’re setting the bar for other people and not setting it for yourself.

We have all found someone we admire so much that we start to feel he or she can do no wrong. Maybe it’s a person in a position of authority, someone we see who can help us, or just a person we enjoy being around.

But you need to keep that person off the pedestal. 

By recognizing the imperfections of a person you look up to, you can avoid feeling lied to when they make a mistake, the urge to ignore previously valuable advice from them, intimidated by their success, or resentful of their achievements.

In that spirit, here are some tips for taking off the blinders for Pedestal People:

1. Remind yourself that people are human and flawed. They’re not going to meet all of your expectations.
2. Don’t think someone has all the answers. Do your own research and figure things out for yourself.
3. Remember that the difference between the person at the bottom and the top of the pedestal is experience.
4. Recognize that people on a pedestal have an agenda...and you do too by engaging with them.
5. To the people on the pedestal — don’t be a jerk to those people who look up to you, don’t abuse your influence, and don’t believe you know more than someone not in your lane.

Why do bad things happen to good people? 

This week’s episode of the 2 Per-Specht-ives Podcast sees hosts David and Joshua Specht explore why tragedy strikes and how to cope afterwards.

The father and son duo don’t go as far as telling anyone how to feel when tragedy happens, but they ask you to take a second to look at the “how”. 

Your generational lesson: Bad things happen to both good and bad people, but there are a multitude of factors in both the faith and spiritual realms that affect why they happen.

Your Gen. X Advice: I believe in sowing and reaping but I don’t believe everything bad that happens is a result of sin and a result of God. We want to have free will but we want God to take it away from the people who could harm us. 

Your Gen. Z Advice: Life is a series of hills and valleys. When we’re in a valley, we feel like we need to get out right now, but maybe that’s not the plan. Growth happens in the valley, so working through it can be more beneficial in the long run. 

We live in a world where violence, disease, natural disasters and unexplained tragedy is part of the deal. Rain falls on the just and unjust.

Even the apostles who walked with Jesus all suffered and had painful deaths. 

Bad things don’t happen because God is an angry God, but if we are created in God’s image, there are other emotions to God than the popular image of a loving God. 

This is why God created ways for you to endure — the idea that peace goes beyond all understanding.

You may be suffering now, and you can feel however you need to feel in that moment. You can need time to work on pulling yourself out of that situation, but so many people go into a cocoon or check out because of bad things happening to them.

Don’t let tragedy derail you from your purpose in life.

The times, they are a-changin’ in this week’s 2 Per-Specht-ives Podcast. Father and son duo David and Joshua Specht share their thoughts on how technology has changed the business world. While it evolves almost daily, they dive into how the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the use of technology to conduct day-to-day business.

Your generational lesson: Technological advances have changed core elements of a business — marketing, customer service, and sales to name a few — but the main tenets of those elements remain the same. 

Your Gen. X Advice: Many people have avoided technological changes, so there's still a need for people to engage with customers and clients in a face-to-face way. It’s about doing it in an efficient, effective way. 

Your Gen. Z Advice: While technology makes doing business easier and quicker, there’s a drawback to using technology to conduct your business — it can make your people lazy, or give a way for the customer to avoid doing business with you. 

The COVID-19 pandemic opened up the business world to be able to engage with the public digitally. Video meetings are viable because it allows users to see each other. To market to your customer, then you need to think about Facebook Live video because it catches the eye and appeals to people by instant gratification to see reactions in real time. 

So, the point of marketing is to gain a spotlight on whatever you’re promoting...but technology has changed how you do it. 

Another area where technology has impacted businesses is customer service. The same rules apply when dealing with customers, but how you offer customer service is different. Chatting with a customer allows input, but the business keeps customers’ emotions at bay while forming a well-thought-out answer.

Technological advances have changed the method of how results are delivered in a business. For example, sales were done away from the office. But sales are based on relationships, and relationship-building has changed to where that can be built electronically.

 

It still takes multiple touches, 7-14 in fact, for the customer to buy. But technology has compressed a timeline into days that would normally take weeks.

What to do when you are frustrated by others' reactions

This week’s 2 Per-Specht-ives Podcast talks about frustration in growth and development.

Father and son hosts David and Joshua Specht bring a generational perspective on the friction caused by making changes to improve your business or personal life, which generates frustration for you and/or the people around you.

Your generational lesson: If you want to enact change on something you’re excited about or have strong opinions about, but it’s not being received, recognize it’s because the audience is wrong, you’re bad at explaining it to them, or you’re already trying to change too much.

Your Gen. X Advice: The older you get, the more you have to work at taking risks. When you’re 50-plus, opportunities are diminishing and the desire for security is important, so you need to deal with the frustration caused by your own internal conflict.

Your Gen. Z Advice: Sometimes, your same message needs to be relayed to employees from someone else. If you’re preaching the same idea or multiple changes, having a different voice offer the vision can cause your employees to not get frustrated.

If you’ve ever brought in an idea to improve your business or life, and that same enthusiasm is met with blank stares, it takes the wind out of you. Now, you’re frustrated that others don’t share your vision.

Realize that you are running a story in your head, and it doesn’t always gel with another person’s story. When your enthusiasm falls flat, it’s hurtful to you but others are oblivious to the effect because they don’t share your experience.

If you’re a leader and you’re exposed to something you know is beneficial for your company, then it’s your job to sell it to everyone but also hold them accountable until they truly “get it”.

Take as second to acknowledge there’s frustration on both sides: For you when your employees don’t see the big picture, and on your people’s side because they’re frustrated by having to change. 

To force it through, it means you have to be more frustrated than your employees because you have to be persistent in driving that change.

However, don’t always be changing. Whatever you’re inspired by at the moment can’t keep causing you to change because that makes you inconsistent.