Episode 55: BE progress for others and watch your life soar, with Dean Lindsay – [PODCAST]

Today’s guest, Dean Lindsay, knows that honest, proactive, ‘possibility focused’ communication is the difference between success and failure in any relationship. It doesn’t matter if those relationships are business or personal, it’s still the same. Dean’s a speaker, author, and motivator on the highest level. His teachings reveal a powerful and important connection between solid leadership, personal motivation, stress reduction, dealing with change, and building forward-focused teams. He believes that you are able to accomplish all those things in a healthy way when you focus on BEING progress for other people. In this conversation David T.S. Wood unpacks Dean’s tremendous knowledge about being progress for you, so you can apply the truths shared to your own situation. You should stick around and listen to this conversation.

The journey toward becoming a writer was a deeply personal one for Dean Lindsay.

He admits that the truths he shares in his writings are nothing new. They are as old as Jesus Christ and as new as Zig Ziglar, but he shares them in his own authentic way because they are realities that have changed his life. He spent many years looking in the mirror, applying the truth principles he’s discovered to his own life, and is still very much on that path today. He’s quick to point out that the things he teaches are very difficult to implement, but when you can, they will transform your life. Hear this humble, congenial man share some of those powerful concepts on this episode of Crank It Up.

People need to see you as progress.

Dean Lindsay’s newest book, “The Progress Challenge” outlines a very heart-felt project he wants everyone to consider. It’s the challenge to BE progress for someone else. That means that they need to see in you something that they know deep down will be instrumental in helping them make the progress they’re hoping to make. How can you BE that kind of progress for others? Dean outlines it in his “6 Ps of Progress” and in this episode of Crank It Up he’s going to unpack them so you know exactly what he’s talking about and how to apply those 6 Ps to your life and interactions. You’re going to enjoy this one!

Understanding the pain of others is perhaps the most important “P” of them all.

Dean Lindsay’s “6 Ps” are his way of coaching people in how to become progress for others and he says that it’s possibly the most important to learn how to understand and enter into the pain others feel. Whether it’s the pain of being a new person at a networking event or a deeper life pain that has to do with relational conflicts or unmet desires, the ability to meet them where they are goes a long way in being a relationship they can count on to help them make progress in life. You can learn a lot from Dean in this episode as he talks about the benefits that come from understanding the pain of others.

It’s one thing to believe in yourself and another to read your own press.

Dean Lindsay honestly admits that having best selling books and making the circuit as an event speaker can be a difficult thing to experience and still remain humble. It’s easy to let all those things go to your head, convincing you that you’re something more than you are. He fights to maintain perspective, to walk in gratitude for the success and blessings while continuing to walk through his own personal struggles and growth at the same time. It’s not an easy balance, so difficult in fact that he says at times, “Do what I’m telling you, but don’t watch me too closely because this stuff is hard.” You can hear more refreshing comments like that one on this episode.

Outline of this great episode

[0:48] David’s introduction of Dean Lindsay, author and entrepreneur.

[3:19] Dean’s personal process of becoming a writer.

[5:13] The two parts of a great book.

[7:30] The importance of hearing the same truths from different people.