Blue Collar Built

This week John and Jake talk about career changes. They share a conversation they had with a listener, how sometimes the first choice for a life long career isn't always the best choice, and how choosing a career for money or joy can be a little confusing.  

This week John and Jake take a look at Discipline. They talk about the different between outside discipline and self discipline, 3 different types of self discipline, why it is is important to be disciplined and the difference between macro and micro discipline. 

This week John and Jake talk about stresses. They dive into some of the stress they feel, the difference between good and bad stress, different ways to deal with stress in a healthy way, and how sometimes we deal with stress in an unhealthy way. Stress inevitable how we handle it is up to us. 

Today Jake and John discuss their take on different headlines. They cover March madness fun, companies making more automated technology, a controversial swimmer, how gas prices are affecting share ride apps, and a YouTube couple who quite drinking for 4 months as an experiment. 

Jake and John discuss why working hard is important. They talk about what hard work is to them, why they do it, and some areas where they are trying to better their own approach to hard work. 

This week John and Jake talk about how they see themselves. They discuss how difficult it can be to be honest with yourself, how they see themselves in their current life, how we tend to project what we think of ourselves on the other people, and how we hind behind facades when we know that's not who we really are. Self perception can be a difficult topic for most of us but if we can learn to be truly honest with ourselves we can be truly honest with the world.  

John and Jake take a look at the life question "WHY". They talk about different ways they find their own personal why, how they use these why questions to help maneuver life, and how "why" produces different meaning for everyone. This episode helps show the meaning of asking the question "why" and how important it is to go beyond the surface to a deeper level.  

This week Jake and John take a look at goals. They dive into sharing goals, what's important in creating goals, how dreams are different than goals but also related and much more. They also share some of their own personal goals and the road they took in knowing when it was time for something to move from idea to accomplishing it as a goal. 

This week John and Jake dive into the difference of being single and having a family life. They discuss the simplistic ways of a single person like Jake, how John knew he was ready for commitment, being a good spouse, the dating pool and much more.  

Every one needs to recalibrate their mind at some point. Today John and Jake talk about different signs that may point to a need to recalibrate as well as different ways they recalibrate themselves.