Life is short. Brian shares some thoughts, health and doing your best in the time you have, as he heads out to Bandon, Oregon with the family for Mothers Day weekend.

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Give it your best shot tomorrow.

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

You know, a lot of times people talk about, you know, just doing your best all the time, 100%, 110% and all that.

And really it comes. For me, it really comes down to doing your best one moment at a time. Sometimes you get down to the end of the day, and you say, I just, there's so much more I could have done worse, or I could have done so much better.

Then in that scenario, you really have to say, okay, well, tomorrow you got to, you just got to set it in line for tomorrow and get some good sleep and get up as early as you can and try at it again.

So today, I'll give you a little bit of background about how I how I came up with this topic. today. I'm out on the west coast of Oregon, a little town called Bandon, you can go look it up, Bandon, Oregon.

We like to come out in here, at least during the warm part of the year. This is probably a little early for that. Because it's still a little cool out here.

But we'll see how tomorrow goes.

We're right on the beach and nice little motel we've never been here before. And we are just hanging out for Mother's Day. So I hope you have a great Mother's Day if you're watching this on Mother's Day or beyond, and I have my birthday coming up.

So I also like coming around to this area of the world during my birthday if we ever if we have time we have. So I'm here with the family.

I'm out in the car recording because everyone inside is trying to sleep so difficult thing for when I'm out of town, you end up getting a dashboard recording here. But they tonight after having a pretty decent day we had a good trip, uneventful in terms of travel, and which is good when it comes to happen a big family and then I got some Oh, relatively bad news about a family member who's who has cancer and is having a large, essential piece of their body cut out because of it.

Now they think that they can take care of it and they think they'll be able to extend their life longer.

But it's nothing fun, It's nothing you like to see. But it really comes down to from my perspective, realizing that we got a teeny tiny, short life in the great perspective of things. It really doesn't last long.

You just got to do your best one day at a time. And it's nighttime here. So My day starts tomorrow, I'm going to be the best person I can before I fall asleep. But everything else needs to happen tomorrow, just going to get out there and do it.

Hopefully get up, beat the family up hopefully to get get a couple things done. Before we we head out on our day adventure, hanging out at the beach and doing other things exploring what we'd like to do.

I just suggest you do the same because you don't know how long your loved ones are going to be with you. You don't know how long you're going to be kicking it around. And so you just got to do your best one day at a time, always discover something new.

Be as courageous as possible.

Try new things, don't leave any regrets as little as possible. Nothing more than that.

That's all I got for you tonight. You have a great night we'll be back tomorrow.

Thoughts on using Notion.so, to help you with your organization skills.

Checkout Notion - Notion.so

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The Secret Hack, to Productivity Hacks.

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I want to talk about productivity hacks, but specifically, the secret hack behind all productivity hacks. And this came after I've come in contact just in the past week, with a whole lot of people giving advice on pieces of software and services you can get online that are productivity hacks. That are things that will help you be more productive as a business owner, as a person that's maybe entrepreneurial thinking or what have you.

And I and I will give you lists over time.

Here's one specific one that I just came in contact with. It's called notion. And I'll put the link in the description. notion is a productivity hack. In a sense, it's a website that allows you to organize your thoughts in a certain way.

I'm trying it out so far and as with most cases, I find that if they're somewhat helpful, I really enjoy them in the very beginning.

But the real test is over time is after the excitement has kind of died down. And I have to deal with it on a regular basis.

All the fun is taken out of it because I know all of its functionality.

What now, how useful is it?

But so far I've been I've been pretty happy with this one, I'll give you more info. As time goes on, we'll see how well it works in the long run.

Here's what I found.

Here's the big hack behind all productivity hacks.

And it's this one size does not fit all.

Just because it works for somebody does not mean it's going to work for you, it can be great and life changing for them. I mean, honestly, one little piece of software, one little website or service that you subscribe to, or even Oh, the Holy Grail, the free online service, that changes your life, right?

That can happen. It can happen it can, it does exist for some people.

But you got to remember, it has a lot to do with your co nation with your mentality with your personality with how you function, and everybody's different.

This is what's crazy, everybody's different.

Now, if you know more about co nation, like we've discussed before that Kathy Kolbe way of thinking, you can look up more at Kolbe.com, K O L B E dot com.

You can find out all about her companies, and the ideas that they're trying to spread in terms of figuring out people's co nation. So being able to quantify how you work best, and then showing you how to do that and how to work with others that work best in different ways.

That's been a huge eye opener, because it shown me that just because I can't figure out how to do something that seems to work for everybody else, doesn't mean there's something wrong with me.

It's just not the way I'm wired.

I'm wired a different way, and I've got to find other people that are wired in other ways to be able to fill in the gaps in my business, in my projects that I work on and everything else.

So what's that have to do with productivity?

Productivity is different for everybody. Everyone's going to be productive in different ways.

This is the kind of the issues with school right now is they tend to ha...

The 3rd and final installment of our personality profile series, Brian talks about what might be the best book ever put together on this topic by the late Chris Carey.

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Getting to Know You, by Chris Carey.

Hi, I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

Today I'm going to be reviewing, Getting to Know You, by Chris Carey. The late, great Chris Carey, he put out quite a few books, this was my favorite of his.

This one came out in 2002. This is still, I believe, my original copy.

I'm surprised it doesn't have more highlights and so forth. And I think I know why though, it's because I really do see a worn out it is, I enjoyed this book so much that I'd really didn't know where to start with the highlighting.

It was probably during a period of time where I wasn't doing that much in books when it came to that. But this book, just front to back, I thought was one of the best books I've read on the DISC personality model.

Now, we talked for the last two episodes. So if you're wanting to know more about the four part personality concept, the theory behind personality, you want to check out the other two videos that I put out, one on, Personality Plus, by Florence Littauer, and one positive personality profiles by Dr. Robert Rome, both really good books.

And I want to go back to Robert Rohm for a second because it will allow me to explain Chris's book a little better. This one is positive personality profiles that he goes through.

I think he has given the easiest way for me to ever describe personalities to people, the first step is to really take it and say, you know, are you outgoing or are you reserved?

That's the first step, are you more outgoing or more reserved?

Now, there's a lot of us that are kind of in between, depending on where we're around and everything else. But in your what you will consider your most natural state are in the part the when you're being the most you are you more outgoing?

Are you more reserved?

Okay, that's the first step.

Then you ask yourself, are you more task or are you more people oriented?

That's the other one.

And based on how you answer that, so for example, a, an outgoing, task oriented person, if that's your main trait, you would say that your a D on the which is Florence Littauer would refer to as a cleric.

If you're an outgoing people oriented person, you're an I. Okay, also known as sanguine, if you're a reserved task person, you're a C, or a melancholy. And if you're a reserved people person, you're an S, or a phlegmatic.

So that is how Robert Rome describes the DISC, it's actually my favorite way to describe it to people, if I'm talking personalities with somebody. That's the first thing I say, and we tend to be, we tend to at least have two strong ones on that you have a major one and a second, and a secondary one. And you can probably figure out what that is, with yourself.

For me, I'm a strange one, you don't see this very often, but I'm a DS.

So I mainly D, I'm task oriented and and outgoing. But secondarily, I'm the exact opposite, which is people oriented and reserved. So that's just an example.

Now what Chris does, he goes through a similar thing except instead of saying outgoing or reserved. He says fast or slow, which was a different way of looking at it what you'll find is that in ...

2nd night in a row talking about personality profiles of people from Robert Rohm's classic, Positive Personality Profiles.

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Positive Personality Profiles, by Robert Rohm.

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

This is the second video in a series that I'm doing on the top three books that I've come across dealing with the four personalities and the theory behind four personality types.

But basically a four personality quadrant, if you will.

The first one I talked about was Personality Plus, by Florence Littauer. And the only reason I mentioned that one is because it was the original book that I came in contact with, I knew a lot of people that they consider that their Bible when it came to understanding the four personalities.

This was another gentleman that that has added a whole level and is probably probably one of the leading experts out there relating to the DISC model of that referring to each personality trait as a D, I, S or C and go into the detail over what those are and what those are not.

And this is, this is one of those books that is it's almost like a textbook.

Now Robert Rohm's an interesting fellow, you can find out a whole lot about him just by doing a search.

He also comes at it from a from a Christian perspective, similar to Florence Littauer. So he uses a lot of analogies and references, back to the Bible, and so on, so forth.

So it is one of those things that you have to realize that going into it.

Robert Rohm is an amazing speaker, I think he is the best I've seen at giving live presentations, he has a basic presentation that I've seen him do both in person and on video a number of times, and it is one of the best.

It's one of those that I like to show people who are just learning about the personalities, I will either show them a video or I have an audio version of the of the speech also. And he is entertaining.

He covers the whole gambit, he talks about how he came across it. In book format, this is almost more like a textbook.

I mean, he takes you from beginning to end, he covers this side of it that side of it, it's not for me personally, it's not the easiest read. But it is the most informative across the board and one that I go back to over and over again, when I'm looking to find out something specific about you know what personality.

We may be more interested in this or that what which which one, you know, gives off this versus that and so on so forth.

Very interesting book. Any I recommend any of Robert Rohm's materials, he has a large, large assortment of materials, he does speech and he's done speeches for a million and has been a consultant for a million corporations.

Definitely somebody that's worth looking into and reading his material. And he had a way of simplifying it even more succinctly, the fourth let our dead.

So that's why this is definitely one of my top books, when it comes to personalities. Now, if you'd, if you'd like to get a copy of one of those videos, I actually have a link for a copy.

So if I still have it at the time, you're watching this and you're wanting or listening to this and you're wanting it, I'm going to flash my email address across the screen.

And if you're listening to this, you'll have to go to my Youtube or to one of the videos at BrianJPombo.com I should say,

Thoughts on personality profiles of people from Florence Littauer's classic, Personality Plus.

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Personality Plus, by Florence Littauer.

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I wanted to talk about this book today and how it would affect you in your business. But first I have to move by chair this is this is we record these live, we do not edit them. And my chair for the last handful of episodes keeps hitting the back.

But me with personality that does not. That gets distracted easily. I think about it every time we're doing these videos. And then as soon as I'm done with the video, I forget about it.

Night after night, I come back and if you watch the earlier videos, you might hear a little clunking in the background because I'm hitting the bookshelf that has a a metal lunch pail on the top of it.

It makes this clanking sound, it's a horrible thing anyway, so you didn't need to know that, but it does.

It does have something to do with our topic tonight is personality plus, this was the first book I read on the four personality theory, which is the idea that everyone has a certain amount of all of the four quadrants of personalities. And depending on the amount of each one that you have is how your personality exudes itself in public.

As I've studied this through the years, I've come to the conclusion that Kathy Colby, I believe is correct that this is from the affective of side of the brain.

So it has to do with the side of your animal side of who you are. That is deals in emotion, it deals in communication, and so on so forth.

It's a very specific area of the brain, that people are considered 1,2,3,4 of the four different quadrants.

These quadrants go by different names, you've probably heard of the colored ones where you have certain colors that represent I believe it's green, red, blue, and yellow, I believe. And then there's ones where they named after animals.

This particular one of the oldest one that I'm aware of, which was first developed by Hippocrates, of famous from the Hippocratic oath, one of the first major doctor minds back in ancient Greece, he noticed that people, certain people had a large amount of fluids in their system because he was one of the original ones to start documenting, taking apart cadavers.

He found that certain people had a large amount of bile or a large amount of phlegm in them, and he pointed it back to their personality, which is where you come up with these four names that Florence Littauer uses in her book.

Which are the four names of the personality extremes, which is called choleric, melancholy, sanguine, and why is my mind blanking…choleric, melancholy, sanguine, and phlegmatic.

Each one of those is based on the amount of fluids that was in a person's system.

Now through the years different people have come up with different versions of this different actually famous philosophers have an I can't remember them all off the top, I think Aristotle may have been one of them, that thought that there may be five personality extremes and so forth.

And so this is this has been bandied about throughout time, but it all plays to the same general concept that you probably have one major personality feature that shows up the most and probably a secondary one that is that's most visible.

In most cases in most people. That is the situation.

Brian shares his three ways to overcome overwhelm in your business.

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3 Tips for Overcoming Overwhelm.

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

That these kind of came to me as I was dealing with my own issues of overwhelm, which comes and goes, it's nothing major.

I'm usually able to….I kind of stepped back and took a look and said, Okay, what are the ways that I've been able to overcome it every time that I come across a situation of overwhelm, which is common in business, especially if you're still managing your business.

If you're still running things, then you're going to get to the point to where you're going to get overwhelmed, you're going to have too much going on. And so these are three ways that I have been able to get around it. And ironically….I don't know if it's ironic but it tends to be the three places I go to every time when it comes to fixing a problem.

And it tends to be where I take all my clients through, which is why I refer to them as my three pillars.

The first thing I look at is reality grounded, is being reality grounded, are you grounded reality, most of the time overwhelm is an emotional issue.

It's getting too caught up with situations that are out of your hands that you don't have any control over and getting all worked up and emotional and fussy or whiny, and depressed over things, you just don't it, they don't matter.

It's a temporary thing it comes and goes and you have to be able to step back, step out of all of that resentment and frustration. And just look at things the way they are reality as close to reality as you can get is where you want to focus on.

So that's number one. That's the first thing I tried to do is try to center myself as best as possible.

Second thing that I tried to do is find somebody to help, which I refer to as being relationship reliant. Find a who that can help you.

Oftentimes we get all bogged down with how to fix something. There's a great book out there, Who Not How. And it's a fabulous concept, because we all get caught up in, okay, how am I going to get around this?

How is this going to get fixed?

And we get into the specifics, the details, the tactics, when really we ought to be asking who can help me who can fix this, who can I hire to take this off my hands.

That switch is major, you got to be emotionally stable enough to handle it first. But if you can then go from there and find find a person that can do it perfect.

The third thing that I use to overcome overwhelm, is build a system around it, especially if I don't have a person to do it. But even if I do have a person to do it, I need to build a system that they can run it through so that even if that person goes away, or that person quits working for me or isn't available, I could plug someone else into that and be able to fix the problem again and again.

And again, regardless of what the issue is. You got to have a system that that handles it.

That's all about being system based.

So those are my three pillars of BrianJPombo.com is being reality grounded, relationship reliant and system based.

If you do them in that order, you're going to get a whole lot more success. Sometimes it helps having someone just to help you through that process. It's one of the things that I help my clients out with.

Thoughts on a new local paper to the Grants Pass, Oregon area named, the Josephine County Eagle!

For more JoCoEagle.com

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How to fight the big boys.

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

What does it mean how to fight the big boys?

Why would I even be talking about this?

Well, it really comes down to right now we're in a really crazy time of transition. And you can see it all around you. There are situations to where people are flexing their muscles, and they're doing it through their organizations, through their companies, through the government, everything else.

And there gets to be a point at which it feels as though there's monopolies in certain sectors. So social media, there are certain big people on the block with social media. And they kind of run the show.

It's really tough to work around them because they become big, because they were first because they were best, because they provided people what they wanted, and no one else was able to compete with them.

They were able to get a foothold on the regulations and so forth. That helped keep the small guys small, and everything else. This happens, no matter what industry you're in, it eventually happens everywhere.

Everyone always freaks out as if it's the first time in history this has ever happened. This happens. Every time in every industry that touches most people's lives.

It doesn't matter whether you're talking big oil, or big tech, or big media or big anything, there's always going to be a handful of those that rise to the top, they get better at it than everybody else.

That crush the competition every chance they get and make it extremely difficult for new people to enter the market. So want to pull this back to something very local going on hearing Grants Pass Oregon, which is where I'm filming this from. And we have a situation ever since I started visiting.

Grants Pass probably was close to 20 years ago when I first started visiting. And I had some friends in the area and everyone would be complain about the local newspaper.

There's one local newspaper that that covers Grants Pass specifically. And everyone would always complain about how they were this they were that. So well, why hasn't anyone else risen up and donate that?

Well, it's so difficult.

They have that they have the name and they've been around for so long. And it takes money to start a newspaper and you have to have influence and all the other things that go along with trying to beat out the big boy.

The one that's in charge the one that's that's been around the longest. And I have heard these complaints from right to left, center aisle, everybody.

It's not just a philosophical issue. It and because it actually the paper has gone through a number of different editors and so forth in these throughout these years.

No matter what there's always been heavy duty complaints about the fact that this newspaper is really has a monopoly on local news in terms of news, you know, typical that, you know, the average newspapers, they aren't lasting, they're all going online, and so on, so forth.

So the fact that this one's even lasted this long is amazing. But it also goes to the fact that we have a very mature population in terms of age, and so forth.

Thoughts on hiring a Filipino VA (Virtual Assistant) for work in your business.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g42sRQnLudM

John Jonas: OneVAAway.com

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Should you hire a Filipino VA?

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

We're talking about virtual assistants. And right now, especially in 2021, where this is May of 2021, that we're recording this. It's very difficult to find good help in the United States.

Basically because of a whole mess of a situation to where people were out of jobs before given money by the government. Everyone's been given money, everything's gone up in price and there's a relative feeling of temporary security for a lot of people who don't have jobs.

Everywhere you look, there's higher here, higher there, so on so forth.

Everyone's looking to hire, and very few are looking to work at this particular time. Now this is going to change, obviously. But in the short run, you may be looking at other options, one of the options you may look at is hiring people from out of the country, which I've done before.

I have experience with specifically I've worked with people in the Philippines, you can find out really more from an expert, one that I'd recommend is john Jonas, and I'll have a link below for his in the description for his website, you can go check him out, he goes into much more detail has a lot more back history on how to go about hiring a Filipino virtual assistant.

Now, if you're looking for somebody specific, I'm going to give you a great example.

So there was a lady named Kimberly, who reached out to me over my facebook profile and said she'd be interested in talking to me about being an assistant.

I told her right now I'm not looking to particularly hire one. But in the future, perhaps the near future, I may be looking at hiring one. And I'd love to talk with her if she'd be interested in talking with me.

So we set up a time we got on a zoom call. I was meeting with her pacific time, this would have been 3pm. For her time, it was 6am.

So you could hear roosters crowing in the background. And she said I'm sorry, it's 6am here. I said no problem, I appreciate you getting on with me. And we had a great conversation about what she was looking for, versus what I was looking for.

I just kind of picked her brain just with my experience dealing with workers out of the Philippines in the in previous times. And I knew kind of the type of questions that I was looking to ask

a few of the things you may want to keep in mind when hiring outside the country. And specifically in the Philippines. It's a very different culture.

There's a lot of English speaking there, but not necessarily American English speaking and so it's good.

If you can get a chance to be able to talk one on one with that person over zoom is a great option, they may have some other option where you can talk.

Another thing you want to keep in mind is their internet is not always the best depending on where they're at. If they're in one of the larger cities like Manila, in that surrounding area, they tend to have a little bit more reliable internet.

I had a talk with Kimberly and she gave me an idea of what she faces even though she's out in the country. She had a couple backups, which was really interesting.

Now, she was at one of the things I wanted to know was her experience.

Some thoughts on relationships and positive impacts that can happen in your business from content marketing.

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Content Marketing, beyond your own content.

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

But today we're going to talk more about content marketing. And specifically, I had a conversation with someone that's been putting out quite a bit of content marketing himself.

I'm going to show that interview as we go along here.

It's a, it's one of a growing series of interviews that I'm going to be putting out here, right here on Brian J. Pombo Live, so you'll be able to watch and listen to it depending on where you're getting this at.

So the cool thing is, is that he got a hold of me asking me if I'd like to have him as a guest, and he's a pretty high profile guests, especially in the field that he works in. So that was pretty interesting.

It was one of those, it was probably the second high profile person that got in touch with me, there's people who are authors and speakers, and very well known within their industries.

That's really cool and it's something you got to keep your eyes on. It's that one. Yeah, you can go out and make your own content and get out there and start promoting it, and start getting known within your circles and beyond.

But to is taking advantage of other people's platforms, okay. Other people are producing content, other people are producing content, looking for other people to join them in that content.

Because you end up sharing friends and followers, you end up sharing looks and likes. And you show up in searches that you wouldn't have shown up in before.

I mean, it's very much an I scratch your back, you scratch mind type of deal just by showing up on somebody's show, or by having somebody show up on your show.

So whatever type of content marketing you're doing, look at branching out beyond just your own platform. That's a major deal.

We've talked about this in the past, I'm going to talk more about how to go about doing that.

How to do things that make it more appealing to other people both as i can tell you specifically because I've had more guests on my podcast than I have been a guest on other podcasts so I can tell you what works for me as a host, and how you can become a guest on here or one of my other podcasts. So stay tuned for that.

In the meantime, go check out my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business. You can get a free copy at AmazonProofBook. com.

We're going to be back here tomorrow with more tips and tricks. We're talking about principles, strategies and tactics to help you explode your business. You have a great night. In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.

Thoughts on lessons learned in content and info marketing from the late Roy Masters.

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Content Marketing Mastery.

I am Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

This is a picture of a fellow who just passed away this last week, somebody who I got to know because I got to work with him a little bit early on. In the early days of BrianJPombo.com I got to meet this guy named Roy Masters.

And Roy Masters is a very controversial figure. Especially out here in Grants Pass Oregon.

So he was when he first came to town, he was running a very large church. It was a church made up of basically followers that had began listening to him over the radio.

He was somebody who I got to work with directly and see how content marketing works on a very large scale.

So I'm not going to talk about his views. I'm not going to talk about any of the controversial things about this guy, you can go and look that stuff up yourself. But his ability to create content was pretty amazing.

And I'm going to tell you about three different three different things that he was a master at when it came to content marketing.

Okay, first off, he began in radio back in the 60s, and start started very early did not really know what he was doing, and ended up getting into a situation where he was, in a sense, purchasing radio time.

And because of that, he could basically say whatever he wanted, and so he would have these, these he would do, basically whatever he wanted with his show, it ended up becoming an advice based show where people would call in with their issues, and he'd give them advice.

But it could go in any direction he can cover politics could cover anything he wanted, which oftentimes would get him into hot water.

This was very early on long before talk radio was considered a major deal. And, you know, the conservative talk radio and all that wasn't in existence when he first started out.

But he was very early on one of these people that was a pioneer he got out there and just just got in there and did it and was very early on even during a time period when infomercials, infomercials were illegal.

He was able to skirt around that being that his his dealt more with religious and, and more, one on one nonprofit help. So because he was able to do that he was able to purchase time on the radio and was able to basically give an infomercial and to be able to sell his books and so on so forth.

Which brings me that so the first one is really his ability to be able to go in early and take advantage of opportunities that other people weren't taken advantage of in media.

And you got to keep your eyes open, because things are always changing. Laws are always changing and new mediums are opening up all the time, new forms of social media.

I mean, if you just talk online, there's new formats always being opened up. Right now when we're recording this in 2021. There's a clubhouse is one that I've been hearing a whole lot about this is I believe it's only on the iPhone, the Apple iPhone, but it is an app where you can go on, nothing is recorded.

But there are there are verbal conversations going back and forth with everybody. And people host kind of little radio shows. It's something that did not exist much earlier. But now it is. And now it's a thing and it may morph into another thing.