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Some words of wisdom from Napoleon Hill.

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Persistence, 4 simple steps.

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

Today I want to talk about what Napoleon Hill said about persistence. Okay, this is one of my favorite sections of the old book, Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill.

This is one of those books, it's not for everybody, in terms of it's not always th easiest read. It has a very different style of language and everything else in it but it has so much good stuff.

It's one of those that I have to have a physical copy of, there's a lot of books, I don't have physical copies of I'll read things online or I'll have an audiobook copy.

This is one that I'd like to go back to over and over again because I'm always catching new stuff. And usually, someone else tells me about it, which is a funny thing. My friend Joe had brought this up to me, Joe Melling out there.

He had brought up not to me specifically, but he was talking to a group of people about how to achieve consistency.

He didn't talk about that a second, I'm gonna I'm going to cover what he pointed out of this book. First, I wanted to first remind you about my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business, you can get a free copy at AmazonProofBook.com.

If you go check that out, it lets me know that you're watching and that you're interested in the things I'm talking about.

This is all about how to overcome any competitive forces regardless of what industry you're in. If you're involved in business, it's a great, great thing to check out I'd love to hear what your thoughts are on it.

As I said, you buy a copy or you can get a free copy at AmazonProofBook.com. Now let's talk about persistence. Sometimes the best way to understand a word is to look at its synonyms, you know the words that are like it.

So I love going to thesaurus.com and typing in words and just see it. So persistence, these are words that have a similar meaning. Endurance, grit, perseverance, stamina, tenacity, own good action words, you know, constancy doggedness, follow through into indefatigably indefatigability, I've never I never know quite how to say that word.

It's not used as often pluck in resolution. Those are the words for persistence. Get up and go get them to type of word, which is it's a fine word. But there are other ways I like thinking about this.

One of the words I tend to use more often is consistent, versus persistent. And so I was looking up, I would say, what was the what's the difference between these words?

This is pretty interesting. I found a little graphic that says, consistent versus persistent. Consistent. Well, let's talk about persistent first persistent means continuing to do something, despite difficulties and challenges, which is good as you know, can I kind of get you going implies challenges, opposition, and difficulties.

It the connotations, connotations, like unrelenting, determined and resolute, okay, that's what it's giving off. It's very much at persistence, very much an action word, you know, I, I picture up, you know, the guy with a sword going up against a, you know, Dragon or going up against the thorny bush or whatever, I think you know, that the prince in Sleeping Beauty that at the end was just going all again, is just as persistent.

Persistent, consistent has other connotations and I think it applies to most people most of the time if you can find a way to b...

It's the end of another year, what's next in your life and business?

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Question for the new year.

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

When to show off my new my new Christmas Story mug. For some reason people started buying me Christmas Story stuff, I think it has something to do with the leg lamp.

This is interesting mug, it takes up a huge amount of space for the little spinning leg but to get to love it.

I get wild stuff like this every year and tonight marks the last night that you're going to see the leg lamp until next year.

So we're gonna turn the light off for that if I can reach it. Why you should do everything on camera without any practice. So you go oh, no, the light still on?

Okay, got it. So we're off.

We're done with 2021. Moving forward to 2022.

And I'm happy to go along with you.

My question for you is, especially if you're a business owner or an executive, you got to be asking yourself, what's next?

What are you going to change this year?

What is going to change about you your business where you're going?

What's next?

That's the big question that you have to ask yourself. And as I put everything away and shut everything down and get ready for the new year, you know, realize it's pretend anyways, it's a made-up number.

It's not exactly all winter solstice, it's based in the concept of the winter solstice.

Meaning that for the northern hemisphere, we're moving ahead with longer days. So that means that's why we're doing the new year we got the longer days coming winter is slowly on its way out.

That's what the New Year means. It's just it's a way to just kind of put a line in the ground and say, We're doing something big next. Now we can leave the past behind and move ahead. Now we've got this every day anyways.

But you got to ask yourself, what changes are you going to make?

That's going to make this any different than last year. And sit down with friends, family, everybody else and see what you come up with?

All you need is one, one major thing and I don't mean New Year's resolution. I mean, just think about on the big scheme of things. What are you going to be doing differently this year?

It doesn't have to happen right away, but you really ought to consider this. You ought to consider it every day of your life.

Just New Year's gives us a chance to kind of mark that point at which we're going to start changing. Quick idea. Nothing major. Get out there.

Don't do anything too dumb and we'll see you next year.

See on the other end. Have a good one. Get out there and let the magic happened.

How the heck is the Matrix as business movie?

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Business movie, The Matrix.

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live. Where we discuss a lot of business ideas, we talk about principles, tactics and strategies to help you with your business.

I saw this movie years ago in the theate and today's talk is going to be about this movie, but also about what leads me to talk about this movie.

So this is an old DVD. This is one of the original DVDs that I owned, I got a DVD player, I believe in around 2000, 2001, probably, that I received my first DVD player and this was one of the first DVDs I got.

I was so excited about it. It looked so good if you went from back in those days, you went from VHS cassettes, to DVDs, that was a huge step forward, in the visuals and everything else.

It's just amazing what was available, both insight and sound that the DVDs brought to the world. This is my original copy.

This is my original copy of the case, the DVD disappeared years ago, I don't know where it went, I held on to the case forever because I was hoping that the DVD would show up.

Nowadays, you could watch it through different streaming services. I think HBO is showing it right now because they are also showing the newest Matrix movie Matrix.

I believe it's Matrix Revolutions, which I haven't seen yet but I wouldn't be rewatching all of these. Now, how does this apply to business?

I'm going to tell you that in a second. But first, I'm going to tell you how I came about this. It's stupid for me to hold on to this. This thing is called the trash all it is a cover.

It has no value whatsoever. It brings nothing to my life but it's part of an issue that I've had for a long time, which I refer to myself as a casual hoarder.

I don't really hold on to things because I need to hold on to them. I'm not I'm not an over the top hoarder.

But I do hang on to things a lot longer than I should. And one of the ideas I came up with years ago, I knew if I could tell the story about the thing that I have, then I can get rid of it. And I won't have to hold on to it anymore. It's kind of a strange deal.

I can ever go through the process of making videos or audios about each of these things because it just seemed like it didn't have anything to do with business or anything else.

So I'm going to try to find a way for some of these items that I get, tie it back into business and talk to you about it, and then I can toss it away. So this is going to be a sub-series.

One of the sub-series that I have is on like business movies, business books, and so forth. So while this is part of the business books sub series, this is also the first of a sub series on casual hoarding.

This is, The Matrix.

Let me talk about the movie to give you kind of a basis of this, if you haven't seen this movie, or haven't seen it recently, it's worth watching or rewatching.

For one of the things, there's a lot if you watch it with somebody younger, you'll notice that a lot of the technology that was pretty high end at the time, and kind of playing off of the growing concept of the internet is very antiquated nowadays.

So that's kind of a funny thing too but overall, this is a mythic journey.

The hero's journey, from beginning to end, you could tie directly to the story of Jesus Christ or any ...

Ever wonder what Brian does? Well, he chats about it in this video. :)

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What do you do?

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

Today I want to talk about what was a question that I got. And it's one I get often enough that I probably am not clear enough in my social media.

It's good to have at least one video that answers this question is within that's a question of basically, what is it that you do.

I had a question from Ethan over LinkedIn, as a new contact on LinkedIn, I connect with people, if you'd like to connect on LinkedIn just send me a message on there and let me know that you had seen or heard my podcasts or videos and just that you'd like to connect, and I'd be happy to connect with you.

As long as you don't have anything wacky or weird on your page that would that would throw me off or make me think that you're a spammer or anything of that sort.

I don't mind connecting with complete strangers. I do it all the time.

But Ethan was asking me to tell him a little bit more about my businesses, because I kind of have an eclectic, lineup they're on my LinkedIn profile.

I was thinking about this. Okay, how do you go about talking about this in person, I don't have as much of an issue with it because I can usually find out a little bit more about that person and where they're coming from.

I either go with a long answer or a short answer. Sometimes on social media, it's a little bit more difficult, especially if you don't know the person as to why they're asking. And so how, how do you go about answering that question.

I wanted to kind of come straight at it and kind of give you as broad a view as I can, I could always go into more detail if any of these things interest you. So you can always reach out to my social media, or at my website, BrianJPombo.com.

But let's talk a little bit about it.

So there are really two types of people that I work with right now, pretty exclusively now that there might be somebody that that fits outside those lines. I've worked with people in politics, I've worked with people in religion, I've worked with people in nonprofit areas but I tend to stick with two types of business owners.

The first type of business owners, the person that's an aspiring business owner, or new business owner, someone that's looking to get into business.

I can assist them with that I've been in business for over 20 years of in business and some sort I've been in business exclusively for the past. I don't know, what was it coming up on 15 years, I guess now.

I have a little bit of experience with it. And just enough to help a person kind of get going, I also know I have a pretty good network of other people that I connect people with.

And so what I do is I don't charge anybody, anything, when I work with a new person, I basically make a deal with them, too. If if it looks like I can help, I'll make a deal with them to take a percentage of the profits, once they arrive, if they arrive, and if they don't arrive, then I just waste my time and money with them.

But I'm willing to take that chance on most on many of the people I won't say most of the people if you qualify, basically, I'd be willing to spend time and money on you until we're able to get a business up and running.

If that never occurs, or if it fizzles out, which can happen quite often,

People do some crazy things.

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The first step to avoiding stupid mistakes in your business.

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

Today, I want to let you know first back in Grants Pass Oregon. Live tonight, and happy to be back at home.

Second thing is, is it's one of those things where I was just looking through the news that I came across this clip and just automatically hit me this idea of what this lady had gone through, she's running out on the tarmac of an airport to catch the plane that left without her okay, this is horribly stupid thing to do.

Don't do that. I don't know what the big story or bomb was behind this or what the background was?

Or what type of chemicals were running through her system at the time but we've all done stupid things.

It just reminded me of just some of these things you think back on in your business?

And you're like, what were we thinking when we did that?

You know, where were we going?

What did we think was going to happen?

I mean, that's the real question that always goes through my mind is, what did I think was gonna happen?

And the same question I have for partners, people I end up partnering with where we start looking back over what they've done.

So what were you hoping to accomplish with that move?

Where were you going with that?

Most of the time, most of us don't have a good answer for that. We realized that during that period of time, we weren't thinking of the outcome, we were just moving, we were excited about something, or moving in a particular direction, and not really thinking about the big picture.

This is very common, and I'll prove it to you the best, the best thing you can do is sit down with either your employees if you're on your own, anybody that you happen to work with.

If you're truly on your own, you need to sit down and just be real with yourself and say over this past year as we start. So this is 2021 December, we're looking at the new year coming up here.

We're also where you are in the year when you're listening or watching this. Ask yourself over the last 12 months.

What have I done that was truly stupid and what was I thinking about at the time when I did it, you have to acknowledge these things, you've got to put them up in your face so that you can learn from them as best you can.

That everyone else, especially if you're working in a team environment, everyone else needs to learn from it too. The best way to do this to bring up your issues.

Then from there, hopefully other people can bring up theirs in some way or see it secretly see what they've done wrong. So it's a great time for reflection.

Any time is a great time for reflection. But especially this time of year, it gives us a little bit of space, a little bit of leeway to do that sort of thing. But you want to step back on a regular basis and look at what you've done.

Whether it was a good call or not. How you can prevent bad things from happening in the future or just missteps. I wouldn't say bad things. I don't want to label anything. Because all the bad things all the mistakes lead to good things as we move along in our businesses. So hopefully that's helpful to you.

It's a simple, these are simple concepts.

Importance of keeping movement going.

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Don't stop the momentum.

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

Today, I'm still coming to you from California, this is our final night here in the Golden State, then heading back to two are the Beaver State of Oregon.

It'd be fun to get back home, had a great time visiting friends and family, you have all the stuff that goes along with that. But it's funny how you get out of the groove of things, so to speak and in things kind of that things kind of have a way of getting away from you without you even noticing.

I want to talk today because I had one of my first meetings following Christmas was today, the Monday following Christmas, Christmas was on a Saturday this year. And and it's it doesn't feel like Monday because I'm not in those surroundings that I usually am on a Monday.

I get on to this meeting and I'm wondering how many people are actually going to show up for it as a number of business owners that are working together, kind of a mastermind type situation.

We even had a special guest onboard to be able to talk with us and everything. And so it was, it was really a cool deal. But one of the things that I wasn't quite sure how it was going to end up.

In fact, I was still in the process of visiting somebody while I was on the meeting. So it was kind of an odd situation but after I was through it, I saw how many people got involved, which were a lot more than I figured on.

It was already after a long period of momentum or slowly building momentum. And it was one of those things where I wasn't sure I really didn't think that we should have held it.

I asked everybody whether they would were up for getting back together. And everyone said Yes, sir.

Okay, well, I went along with it, but I wasn't quite sure if it was the best thing to do. But now I see I was wrong, it was absolutely the best thing to do. And the worst thing you can do is artificially try to stop momentum, especially if you're dealing with groups of people. It's a, it's an easy thing to get stuck in is you think, well, we need a break. Or there's no reason to no reason to force this or anything of that sort.

It's really the wrong attitude to have, you really have to have the attitude of, hey, we're in momentum, we're going to keep going with momentum until momentum naturally Peters off, because it always does.

the nature of momentum, it will eventually slow down to artificially get in the way and try and slow it down as if that's going to help anything. I haven't seen it work up until now. I really haven't.

Which is weird why I keep trying to do it. You know, I see other people try to do it also. Sorry for the shaky camera work. I'm trying to hold this camera while at the same time I'm used to using a tripod not used to doing this just with my hands.

So I just wanted to bring that up and just let you know that the holidays is that it seems like it's such a natural time to slow things down.

But things are already moving fast and they're beyond your control anyways, don't artificially get in the way of them, allow them to have their own speed don't get in the way of progress. It's not worth it.

Allow things to keep moving and one thing I've done in years past is I have slowed things down and I didn't know I was doing it I didn't know that they could keep going. So I'm happy to be working with some solid people and you know ...

Merry Christmas to you and yours.

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Merry Christmas from Brian Pombo.

Welcome back to Brian J Pombo Live.

This is Brian Pombo, and today I just want to wish you Merry Christmas.

That's it for today. I'm not going to get into anything heavy or anything else. Come on back tomorrow or next week. We'll talk some more about how you can make difference in your business for now.

Have a good time with friends, family, and whoever.

Go check out my book. 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business get a free copy AmazonProofBook.com. Merry Christmas. Have a good one. Talk to you later. And get out there and let the magic happen.

China and a fake sun, what next?

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Fake artificial sun.

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

I saw this headline about China, creating something that is seven times hotter than the sun right here on earth so that we can have unlimited free energy.

Hey, that sounds exciting hum, but I can't see anything wrong going on there, right?

This doesn't sound like a science fiction film come to life?

No, not at all.

But it is funny how headlines can catch you off guard and can make you think make you look at things a little bit differently. And you could even tie it into something that you're trying to promote. something wacky like this may just be enough to get attention from people to pay attention to go what is he talking about?

Now people who are already subscribed or are already following you, it may be just a way to be able to rope them in to hear the next thing you have. I have nothing to talk about. Regarding the fake sun that China is supposedly creating. It's just an interesting grabber it's a way to pull people in.

The reason why I pulled it up is that I wanted to show you how you can take something relatively simple these types of things that just pop up in your feed or pop up out there. In fact, I this was just me looking through the news, this wasn't anything special.

I saw this I said that's just so quirky, and odd that and one of those things that you didn't necessarily hear about already that I might as well talk about and discuss how you could use it like I am right now, to talk about how you can use it in your videos in your audios in your blogs.

Sometimes all it takes is something like that as a grabber to catch attention and but you got to find a way to tie it into what you're talking about here.

I'm telling you I have nothing to tie it into, except for the fact that it's a grabber and it's something that you could use.

I just wanted to toss that out here today. It's a simple idea. Here on I'm recording this Christmas Eve Eve of 2021 meaning two days before Christmas.

I hope you're having a good one wherever you're at whenever you're at watching this or listening to this podcast. So tune back tomorrow, we got another quick tip idea that you could use. In the meantime, you're always welcome to go check out my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business.

Get your own free copy at AmazonProofBook.com. We'll be back tomorrow. Like I said, get out there and let the magic happen.

You don't want to know. :)

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dirty diapers are predictable.

Hi Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

Coming to you today from Northern California visiting is my father's home and visiting family for Christmas. And just want to give you a quick anecdote to kind of brighten your day if at all possible.

So I had a situation where we have a long trip from Southern Oregon to Northern California. It's about well, today it took about eight, nine hours.

It's only because we had kids major traffic, actually, the kids did really well. I've got three young kids and a wife. And we made it, we were really doing good. We stuck to the just quick breaks and tried to eat as much out of the car as possible. And then we finally got home that we got to Tracy got to our destination.

We kind of situation that were the youngest, is still has still doesn't make the toilet every time. You know, he's still in the training mode. And we notice he had not gone number two yet. He's pretty regular about hitting that a couple times a day.

It still hadn't happened and we're hitting later in the night. We know what's coming, we know that eventually, there's going to be some dirty business to deal with. And it's just a matter of when. Sure enough, after he'd already gone to bed. And we're all in the same room. We learned pretty quickly that happened and we had to go through the cleanup process. So what's this mean to business and everything else?

Well, what it what it means is bad news, whatever you consider bad news, whatever the bad situation. You've got certain things that you know are going to come up in life and in business, you know, it's going to pop up. Don't be surprised when it does. Be ready for it. Be ready for when it happens.

If it hasn't happened for a long time. Realize it might just be around the corner. Not that you should, you know, totally expected or try to bring it on. But don't be surprised when it does. That that bad news, whatever it is your life. It's dirty diapers, it's going to show up. It's going to happen. Be ready for it. Don't freak out.

So stupid analogy for the day. That's all I got for you. Go check out my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof your business get a free copy of AmazonProofBook.com I'll be back here tomorrow. In the meantime, you get out there and let the magic happen.

Brian and the family are off for one last trip to see family for Christmas.

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One last trip of 2021.

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

I'm a Business investor. I also work with businesses either as a partner, as an investor, or as a friend, to help them to use principles, strategies, and tactics that are already being used successfully out there and help integrate them into their business.

Now I tend to talk about ideas about how you can help make your business better make your life better. Therefore, as a result of that, tonight, though, we're packing everything up so that we can leave early in the morning to try and beat the snow system that is going to be entering Oregon, and possibly blocking our path to reach California.

Which we like to go down to a few times a year as long-term watchers and listeners of Brian J. Pombo Live. And so Christmas is one of those times.

So we're heading down a day earlier than we thought, we're going to try and get across Interstate five. Before they shut it down before the snow becomes so large that they can't keep it clear. So if we can do that, then we'll, by this time tomorrow, I'll be reaching you from Northern California.

That's all I have for tonight. I don't have a whole lot but just to kind of inform you what's going on in my world. Go check out my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business.

By this time next year, this will not be the same thing I'll be talking about where we've got quite a few things happening in 2022.

So it's pretty exciting. Stay tuned for that.

But while you still can you get a free copy at AmazonProofBook.com. If you go there, and you're watching this sometime in the future, and the copy is not free, I apologize. But hopefully we'll have something else there that will be interesting to you.

That's all I got for tonight. You have a good one. Get out there and let the magic happen.