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

Thoughts on W. Clement Stone's classic, The Success System That Never Fails.

Transcription

Success system that never fails.

A business book review.

Welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live, I'm Brian Pombo.

And today I'm going to be talking about this book, The Success System That Never Fails.

It says my first time reading this all the way through, I've caught sections of it throughout time, and I've heard a lot of people talk about it. It's one of those that is up there and held next to, Think and Grow Rich quite a bit.

Because W. Clement Stone is one of the ones that helped promote Napoleon Hill, more than anybody else. Since, I believe the 1950s is when he and Hill started teaming up, they wrote a book together, and he did a lot to make him basically the superstar that he is today, even though he had a lot of success with thinking Grow Rich years previous.

But he was able to really bring him into the final decades of his life. And W. Clement Stone then wrote this book on basically on his own, and kind of took some of Hill's ideas and simplified them.

But also added to them that concept of system, which we talk a lot about on here, about being system based, is one of the main three pillars of my company, BrianJPombo.com. System base is what it's all about and it's a huge piece of this book is about having something that functions while you're not there, even though he doesn't go far into depth as to the reasons why or all the benefits of it.

He does show in autobiographical form, how he has been able to build up a sale system over time. So this was built, this was a this book came out in the 60s.

I really like it, I like the style of it, because it's very simply written, it's in a very simple matter. It's not as flowery, or love, very poetic, like Napoleon Hill likes to go off, it's very straight to the point and gives really good quotes.

I wish I had a few of the quotes with me, I read this one on my phone. And I'm going to tell you how I read this because I think it might, it might help you. If you decide to go and read this book. And you don't want to purchase a physical book.

Actually, I'm going to get a physical version of it. That's how much I enjoyed it, it's is one I'd like to go back to over and over again, lots of great quotes. I went through and highlighted a whole bunch on my Kindle app on my phone.

And so

I read it in ebook form in Kindle form. At the same time, I purchased an audiobook version of it with someone else reading it. And it read through while I was reading it with my eyes, which I enjoy doing, especially if I could speed it up to the point to where I can get through a book a lot faster than I would on my own.

You're also kind of learning in in two different ways, both visually and audibly, which I enjoy. This is the first time I've done it with an entire book. And I really liked doing it that way. So that's that's a suggestion to you.

One of the one of the books that's out there on Kindle format, it is not a whole lot of attention was paid to it to make it match up completely with the audio book, even though they're tied together.

On the back end of Amazon, you could tell it was a slightly different version. Also, this was a scan scanned book that they didn't go through and correct all the letters in it. So some of the letters come out differently.

You end up with these odd words that show up on the written ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh-um1pdZOI

Power of not overreacting to other people and how it can help open the door to advancing towards your goals and dreams.

Transcription

Getting what you want without manipulation?

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

Tonight we are back in the secret headquarters of BrianJPombo.com, and I want to talk with you a little bit about a little secret that I learned years ago. This has made all the difference in my life, and that is how to get what you want, especially out of other people without manipulation.

Now, there's a caveat to this.

The caveat is, it all depends on your definition of manipulation.

Really, if you consider manipulation to be anything that causes a person to do something that they wouldn't have done without your interference, then this doesn't qualify this is manipulation, because it does require interference, but it requires the minimal amount of interference. And I'll show you exactly how that happens.

It goes back to a story I was talking with my eldest nephew and niece, who are both adult age now.

We were discussing, you know, the things that they're looking to do in life, specifically my niece, and we were talking about the things that are holding her back. How it specifically comes to certain people in her life, and how those people are the ones that are kind of holding the keys to what she needs to take the next step in her life, or at least that's how she sees it.

I said, well, really in the end, we got down to the guts of it. And it was a constant frustration that was creating even depression in her because she feels so out of control and out unable to be able to take the next step.

I walked her through it and I walked her through this very simple idea. If you can keep from getting frustrated with people who are angry, frustrated themselves, annoying, manipulative themselves. If you can keep from being annoyed by them, if you can keep if you could just have a little enough distance, mentally, in your own mind, from them and their reactions to you, if you can keep from reacting to them, you win.

And you end up getting everything you want in the long run. Now, in the meantime, what it will cause even decent people, it will cause them to get angrier, to get more upset, to fight you more and fight everything about what you're attempting to do.

But that's only in the short run in the long run, they end up doing what you want, or they become irrelevant in the process, you find a way around them.

This doesn't matter if it's someone that's super close to you. It doesn't matter if it's somebody that's just a one time you know, the person at the DMV, it does not matter.

The important thing is that you do not react to them. If you do not react to them and they react to you, you win. Guaranteed is that manipulation, it's only manipulation, the fact that you don't comply to them.

If you consider that manipulation, then yeah, it's manipulation.

But in my mind, that's not manipulation in my mind, that is me continuing to be me and not allowing you to manipulate me, you say and the same thing with you.

Same thing would be true, whoever it is, it doesn't matter. Your sex, it doesn't matter. Your religion, nothing.

If you can keep from being flipped by other people emotionally, then you got it made.

You can get whatever you want out of anyone or you can find a way around them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iOXnL0uAAo

Following your passion and not being obsessive about consequences.

Transcription

Business and Rebirth.

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

Today is off tonight, we're recording this is Easter Sunday, which has all of these religious overtones and so forth, I'm not gonna get deep into that, because you either are into that, or you're not into that. And if you're into it, you already get it. An if you're not into it, yet, I'm not going to try and convince you.

So that's not where I'm going with this at all. But I would like to take the concept of rebirth of having something new of having a second chance, and multiple endless, not endless, but nearly endless, until the end comes for you know, you've got a life right now in business is what I talk about.

Within business, that's kind of your piece of your calling, I would say there's something that you're meant to do in life. A big piece of that might be the business that you do.

If you're a business owner, if you're an executive, that's what it's all about.

If it's really what your feel like you're meant to do, or you're at least going in that direction, you're following your passion, as we talked about before, if you're going in in the direction you think you should be going, then you got it, you have to have a certain amount of fearlessness, you have to have the ability to risk to a point that you don't care about the consequences.

It's not that you shouldn't be careful, it's not that you should be reckless, but you should not care too much about the consequences, because none of us get out of alive completely, not in a bodily sense, you know, most of us are not, that don't, you know, assume fully in our human form into the heavens.

Most of us are, it's just, we got this little tiny piece of time here, right, we got a tiny piece of time to do what we need to do.

But you got to realize you got chance after chance after chance. If you're living in a semi free country, you have the ability to be able to go out and risk and risk and lose and risk.

You can even owe money to a ton of people and a lot of times bankruptcy is available, these all these things are there to allow you to risk and put yourself out there and try everything you can and just get out there and experience life and do what you think that that you're meant to do, or do what you think that that is possible.

You got to kind of move forward with that. I know I got to move forward with that. There's a lot of things I held back on within the last handful of years. And I'm gonna I'm gonna take more risks.

That's what rebirth is all about. It's all about understanding that no matter what, you got another chance to keep coming back and keep coming back. I won't get too deep into that. But hopefully that makes sense to you.

I've got a book out there it's called, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business. The whole idea is to give you a kind of a starting ground for how to grow things long term and your business to make it completely competition proof.

It's really about the mindset behind the whole thing and the strategies behind the whole thing. You get your own free copy at AmazonProofBook.com.

We're going to be back here tomorrow night with another idea. We're here in my this is this is my Toyota four runner, and I'm going to be coming back to you probably tomorrow from Grants Pass, Oregon hopefully.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YpPtsWYcz0

Some thoughts on following your passions.

Transcription

Do you choose your passions or do your passions choose you?

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

It's gonna be a quick one tonight. We're here on the eve of, well, tomorrow is Easter here while I'm recording this in California. And I was sitting and talking with my nephew about where he sees himself going and everything else.

I've really changed my view on things in terms of passions and where you should be leaving yourself. Jeff Bezos said one time, the Jeff Bezos, you know, the guy that started Amazon.

He said one time that, people try to force interests on themselves. And that really, you don't choose your passions, your passions choose you.

At one time, I may not have believed that. But as I've gone through life, I realize that that's absolutely true, that you kind of have to go with your gut, you got to go in the direction that you feel led to go even when it doesn't necessarily seem the smartest.

Not that you should always run by your passions, but in the same end you can't ignore them, because they are trying to tell you something.

So that's something always to keep in mind is that you've got an instinct, and your instinct is telling you where to go. And this is this is more common more for newer entrepreneurs or people that are looking to get into something, or looking to move on into something else. If you've closed the part of your life, maybe you've sold your business or something, you're looking to go into the next part, you really got to go where your passion leads you not that you need to do what you love to do, but that you don't ignore your passions. You don't ignore what your great interests are.

Because that plays into everything and they're, in my experience, your passions are trying to tell you something, either something you gotta you got to pay more attention to that you should stay away from.

But or it's telling you this is something you should you should head towards. And so I just, that's just a great quote by Jeff Bezos. I wasn't cooling it exactly.

You can go and look up the exact quote, but I just wanted to leave you that thought for tonight. And we'll be back tomorrow night.

In the meantime, go check out my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business. You get a free copy at AmazonProofBook.com. And we'll be back tomorrow night. You have a great night. In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2WA-v7U458

A show about forty niners and hanging out and finding fools gold with the kidos.

Transcription

Where does your wealth reside?

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

This here and I'm coming to you from the front seat of my car. This here is a little piece of fake gold that we picked up today going to Columbia, California, which is up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

It is one of the first major locations of the Gold Rush, huge Gold Rush town that was built up and it has been somewhat preserved or built back up in the image of the original town.

It's a state park, I believe, right now and so they have little kind of whole town set up in the old style. You could pan for gold, you know, so to speak, you could do all these different things and see all these displays, kind of like a large indoor outdoor museum, and took the kids there for the first time.

So that was a lot of fun.

When you grow up in California like I did, you're surrounded by this history of the Gold Rush, the forty niners you know, in 1849, all these people rushing to California to get their riches.

And in kind of going over this concept with my wife who didn't even grow up in the United States. She's from Ukraine, originally and going through some of the history of the gold rush and what it was all about.

How so many people got caught up in that idea of going after the gold of their there's this substance that's in the land is if I can just spend enough time and pull this substance out, then I will be I will have all my dreams come true, which is really this great promise of the gold rush.

It's the great promise of the lottery, it's the great promise of, hey, this is the shortcut.

This is the thing that's going to equalize everything, and make my life better. You know, and I think a lot of people go into business thinking that and thinking that they're just, they're digging in the wrong spot, when really what the Gold Rush was really, really showed, if you look into the history is the people that made their money are the people that built businesses.

A very, very, very small percentage of those that went out after the gold actually built systems and built businesses to be able to pull gold out of the ground at a large enough rate that they can make money off of it then and the majority great majority of all the wealth that was created, especially long term wealth, was in plain talk to everybody that was trying to get gold out of the ground.

Very few people gotten enough to make it worth their while or not enough consistently enough to really make it work for themselves.

It's not that there's they pulled so much gold in that short period of time, that there's not any gold left, there's still tons of gold, in California, Oregon, Nevada, all that surrounding area, there's gold, all over the problem is is is the why that the gold is the business, the gold isn't the business.

The gold is merely is merely a substance that can be resold.

But that's substance to find it, pull it out, refine it, do everything you need to do, that takes systems that takes money that takes business, it takes all the things that you need for any other type of business.

It's just a different type of business, then other types of businesses, but it's the same idea. It still takes effort. It takes systemization it takes working with other people, people hiring people with other skills other than yours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hj5ssxEsII

On the road, late at night and Brian still gets his daily video in.

Transcription

Commitment & Content Marketing.

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

Brought to you everyday by AmazonProofBook.com. So if you go to AmazonProofBook.com, you can get a free copy of my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business.

So go check that out, I wanted to talk about content marketing, and how you can go about committing to it now, right now this is a perfect situation, I am sitting in my car.

Alright, it's about 11 o'clock at night and this was a situation where we're going to town.

This is Tracy, California, that we're visiting family and if you've been following the videos for very long, you'll notice that I get out and about on occasions, especially during the holidays, I've got times of the year that I always go out and visit family.

So here I am in this situation, we're staying at my my dad's house tonight, and the house is full of people who are either sleeping or trying to sleep. And so here I am out in the car recording.

You've got to have that type of flexibility, you have to have that built in or you have to have replacements built in to fit around your lifestyle when it comes to content marketing. If you're doing content marketing on a regular basis.

If you have someone at your company doing content marketing, you have to make sure that they have these things built in.

That's how they're able to commit to it to make it stick to make it last long to make it enduring. That's how you go about doing it. Yeah, I'm sitting here with my phone. It's shaky. It's nothing special, okay, sitting in here with the t-shirt in the middle of the night, sending out this message.

The message is you have to have these things systemized.

You have to have it systemized for it to last and the only reason to ever move forward with ongoing content marketing is to make sure it lasts.

Now, that doesn't mean you've got to do it like me. And you've got to have these videos that go out on a daily basis. That's not what I'm saying. All I'm saying is, whatever you go with, you got to have a commitment behind it.

If you have that commitment behind it, then you're gonna make it work no matter what. And so here I am, making it work no matter what. And making a story about it. So hopefully that makes sense to you.

Stick with us, I've got more coming up as we move along. Throughout this week. I'll be I'll be half the week down here in California. visiting with family, maybe I'll find something interesting to look at and be able to film it for you.

Otherwise, I'll at least have some quick little lessons.

Go check out more by reading my book if you haven't gotten it yet. AmazonProofBook.com we'll be back here tomorrow. subscribe, follow wherever you're at and we'll be back. You have a great night. Get out there and let the magic happen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlnCxFIAD2c

Brian talks about his cool new purchase for recording live podcasts called the, Zoom H1n.

Transcription

Zoom H1n for podcasting.

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

Today we are reviewing the H1n, the Zoom H1n, and this is i don't know if you can tell it's a small little thing very simple digital recorder not simple it does a whole heck of a lot but it is deceptively simple in presentation.

There's not a whole lot to it it takes two double a batteries in the back it's got a little spot that you can screw in a tripod so you can have it i actually have a small small little tripod bought separately that i could just screw this right in is the first time i'm doing this so i'm assuming i could screw it right in, I can there it is.

So I could set it down I bought this for podcasting and it's one of those situations where it doesn't take a whole lot to do podcasts especially live podcasts.

If you're doing them at a distance zoom works perfectly well for an audio podcast or a video podcast but especially for audio. If you've got a strong enough connection it doesn't take much i have also done interviews over the phone where there's apps that allow you to record basically it's a third party that's recording the conversation that you you kind of have a three way call that's the best ones i've been able to use so far at least on an iphone.

But when it comes to live conversations i was looking for something that i can record a conversation with multiple people in the room. Because i have these little lav mics like the one I'm using right now and i'll have two of them on a splitter connected to my iphone.

And I've gotten really good at podcast quality off of those when you start splitting it more than two ways it can get a little iffy and it's one of those things where I just didn't want to go through the hassle of that in person.

I just wanted to be able to have something that I could sit down and record and this thing's got microphones going in two different directions you can see that there and so it really gets ambient sound. It also allows you to adjust between zero and 10, they missed 11 for some reason but zero and 10 you can adjust the sensitivity of the mics to where you can really pick up a lot.

I mean I've got it somewhere between five and six and it does perfectly well you do it any more than that and you can hear yourself breathing and everything else.

It's like I don't need it that direct but if I have a further away from me I'd probably turn it up a little bit if i had a couple people in the room I might turn up a little bit and just send it away from us and make sure that it's picking us up.

It's got a place that you can listen in on it's got a place that you can plug in another microphone and so you can get a whole lot out of this and just doing some minor recording off but i can't believe how wonderful it sounds really really good.

There's a whole lot of technical stuff about i don't even understand but if you're looking for something if you don't need something that's super techie but just has a very simple idea behind it.

You'll want to get an sd card i bought this in a pack somebody had a little kit that included a 32 g i believe is sd card and that's how you keep memory on it so you want an sd card. Was a bunch of memory on it so you can record as much as you want and stuff like 32 g's quite a bit when it comes to just recording mp3 which is what i'm doing with this so so far so good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvNsc3F4UYI

Will digital really take over live, in person entertainment in the long run?

Transcription

Why digital content will never monopolize.

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

I'm gonna talk about digital content versus physical content and live interaction.

A lot of people, especially with, so recording this, and in March, the end of March 2021, we've gone through an entire year plus of COVID-19 pandemic madness.

Whether you agree or disagree, you have to agree that it has been a wild ride, regardless of what has occurred. One of the things that's happened is everything has been forced into the digital realm, whether you wanted to or not, some meetings have only been available digitally, some conferences, some speeches.

I mean, there's a million different forms of content out there that we would normally have the ability to capture it in physical format, or in a digital format, or in a in person format, I should say.

It's only available digitally right now. Or up until now, and things are starting to open up right now. But up until now, a whole lot of digital was about all you can get, right. And most of that's through force of law. Okay.

That's really the only way, I mean, there's a whole nother topic talking about monopolies. The only true monopoly you can ever really have long term is via force of law.

Beyond that, when people talk about technologies coming up it doesn't mean that the old technology completely goes away in most cases, unless it makes it completely irrelevant.

But even that classic that everyone always brings up about the horse buggy whip people talking about how, you know, there will always be horses, and they'll always be a need for horse buggy whips. Well, it's true, there are still horses that are guiding carriages around Central Park and so forth.

But it's not as widespread as it was, as it once was, okay, cars took over completely. But it doesn't mean that people don't walk anymore. It doesn't mean that people don't ride their bike, it doesn't mean that people don't jog.

In fact, I would venture to say that we've increased the amount of other activities that people can do not that they do, but that people can do outside of the typical transportation of a car.

I mean, just since having cars, we've invented other ways of getting around. But that's neither here nor there that it's the idea of the digital monopoly, the idea that digital is going to destroy print, that digital is going to destroy what the the ability to be able to get digital in your home, is going to destroy the movie theaters.

And I'm sorry, unless the government forces movie theaters to shut down, people are going to want to get out and go watch a movie on a big screen, or some facts, some reasonable facts, only people are going to we're going to want to go watch plays, people are going to want to have that physical interaction. It's built into our substance as humans, I should say.

I want to show you where there's some cracks in this whole thing. And this, this is one of the things that I've seen a lot lately with digital entertainment.

So you can go and purchase a movie digitally on Amazon.com, you can purchase a book digitally on Amazon.com. If Amazon decides that there are parts of that book or movie that need to be edited, and the publisher does not edit them, they can delete it, it doesn't matter that you think you have ownership of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc8ugR0Kc9o

Thoughts on how to overcome negative emotions.

Transcription

How to overcome a bad mood.

Or as I call it, rain clouds.

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live. This is a show that we like to talk about

things that affect business people, and people that are looking to do something in the world. And that may be you that, and if it isn't, you'll probably still get something out of this particular one.

Because I'm not incredibly moody person. I'm a pretty even keel person. I take things as they come and I don't let many things shake me.

Every once a while I won't handle something right and I get immediate feedback, like contents bricks, me or what have you. And I know what I did wrong. But no matter what, I think it's just part of the human condition.

There are points in time, which I wouldn't necessarily consider mine a bad mood, but there's like, bad weather that just shows up in your brain, or in your psyche or whatever that it just feels like nothing feels right, you know what I mean?

It can come out of nowhere. Sometimes you wake up with it, and then it goes away later. And then other times like today, the reason why I'm talking about this is because today I got home, after having a pretty successful day, I gotten a lot done.

I was relatively content and all of a sudden out of nowhere, feel like garbage, no, like depressed. But just like Buddha is not feeling very well. So I figured I may need something to eat.

So I had a little bit of something to eat and I felt worse, I didn't feel good at all I got. I ended up with getting a headache, which is unusual, which I even have a video on how to get rid of headaches, or the four top four ways that I use for getting rid of headaches, and I kind of went through that process partially haven't taken a nap yet.

But I'll be getting to sleep early today. And it just but it's one of those things where it just happens sometimes.

Sometimes it's nothing that you did. I honestly believe that sometimes it's not your fault. It's just seasons, you know, the good weather comes in good weather goes, and bad weather comes and bad weather goes, it's not that big a deal.

You just have to kind of hang it out and not let it pull you down further. Just see it for what it is. Watch it and see if there's anything you did to affected or to make it happen. Because sometimes that'll happen, that it's your fault.

But you got to just pull back and just wait to see. That's the best advice I could give, because it's honestly, it's the only thing that I do.

When I get into one of these spaces, sometimes I can't get more done and instead of letting that bother me, I've just gotten good at just accepting that this is where I'm at who here's again tomorrow.

This is also a warning out to my producer who handles both this show and my other two podcasts. I had some stuff due to him tonight that I'd said I was going to get done. It's not going to get done.

You'll see half of what I said was going to get done is going to be sitting there waiting for you. But the rest of its going to have to wait till tomorrow, the commentaries, just so you know, Sean, just so you know.

It's one way or the other, I've committed to coming to you every night and bring you a little bit of a perspective. That's hopefully helpful. Hopefully, that helps out.

If not now, later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbi4qZHqPvE

The value of podcasting and Brian's journey that led him to hosting the 3 podcast he currently has today.

Transcription

My podcast update, March 2021.

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

Let's talk podcasts, shall we?

Currently, I have three different podcasts that I'm hosting. Probably some others that I'll be taking part in as time goes on. But right now I'm hosting three different ones.

I'll go through them and kind of how we came about developing each one, and where they're at now, where am I going next.

Now, why would you watch this?

You want to watch this because I want you to think about where you're at?

Do you have a podcast?

If not, should you have a podcast. And we've talked a lot on this show about podcasting about the abilities, developments in podcasting, how anybody can really start one, it takes very little.

You can watch some my other videos concerning that. But I'm going to tell you a little bit about the history.

Maybe you can see where this can fit in with your life, either. Even if you don't host one where you can get one to one. And now I'll show you some opportunities that I have that you may be able to come on one of my shows.

So originally, the whole podcast idea came out from a lack of public free content that I had available out there, I wanted to be able to set myself up properly in the eyes of prospective clients in the future.

What I was coming across over and over again, was a lack of initial trust, just because there was so little out there about me, purposefully, I was trying to keep it as closed in as possible to try and control the content.

In doing that, I unintentionally gave out the idea that I did not have anything going on. You see if you're not public, if it's not out there in the public eye, if somebody types your name into Google, and they're not able to find very much that that gives off the wrong the wrong perspective.

What both me and one of my main business associates, Sean Douglas, who helps produce all the podcasts and everything you see here, the descriptions, everything, so much of it is done by Sean. He has been kind of my right hand man behind the scenes making things happen.

And we came to the conclusion, also with help of my wife, Kate, she was kind of the one that urged it on early on, was the idea of having an ongoing podcast.

So we started The Off The Grid Biz Podcast, because at the time, one of the main focuses that I was going after were self reliance based businesses, I wanted to kind of jump in and dig in and find out more about them, and to see if there was any need for the services I provide and there has been quite a great response.

But the market has changed extremely through the last couple years.

So we started off this podcast and just started interviewing people. And as we got going, we thought we saw that there was a really have a am, I'm looking for the right word, there was a whole lot of gathering of self reliance based businesses with Mother Earth News. So they were advertising in Mother Earth News Magazines. And they were also going to these Mother Earth News Fairs, okay, which were spread out across the United States.

I wanted to dig into some of this stuff. So we found one that was happening very nearby up in Albany, North of here, about four and a half hours, something like that.