Finding Bryan

I am smacking myself cause I was doing some clean up and noticed the episode 25 was not listed. And reloaded that I forgot about it. It it’s here though forgotten.

News and thoughts from Bryan

I have a Mastermind update! We are getting the main crew together We are growing and have had a couple preliminary meeting.

I am activating a few items that are on the back burner.

Plans for Hayseed report.

Some plans for Podcast Dojo.

Things are looking good

I find out I am fat and that realize I need to loose weight. So, I have a new goal  and I talk about podcast dojo

I’m finally getting back on to a schedule with the show and hopefully I will be able to keep it up

Well I haven’t sent a podcast episode in a while but I have been in Louisiana Yep about 10 miles from Avery Island.

Many times when you are close to just throwing your hands up and throwing the towel in. Providence will step in and slip a little gift into your hands. This happened last week for me and my struggle with raising a rebellious teen.

Getting close to the end of my rope I started reading The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Affiliate . My eyes were opened to to the Pygmalion effect and the self fulling prophecy I now believe I was the cause of my sons rebellion to a greater part. I was not listening. I was putting my biases on him and was not accepting him for the person he was. I was fighting his battle for self-identity, he is wanting to be accepted, by his mother and me, and I was telling him that my love was conditional. If he didn’t conform I was not going to love him. The absolute wrong message I was trying to convey.

So I am changing a goal I set because I have found something that will help me achieve that one goal but it is easier if I understand how to listen to people better. So the apply three lessons from “How to Win Friend and Influence People” is now going to be apply the first three principles of Highly effective people.

Podcast Dojo I going great as of now three episodes are out, and being received pretty well in my estimates.

 Podcast Dojo has been launched! Yeah!!!! You can listen to the first episode Big Intro

Talk about Business around town

Then we have another update from the Rebellious Teenager

Work has taken me away from my passion but not forever. I was down in Pecos, Texas for a little under 2 weeks and then find out that the cancer of business has struck my place of employment. Now it  didn’t kill the company, only had a small panic where we lost about 5 people in a three days that has a tendency to really cause a scare but the lack of information for the employees is the basis of the rumors. The lack of communication from the employees also doesn’t help the problem. Here is a place someone can step up and be a leader. With this particular test I failed miserably, I was partaking in the rumor mill instead of finding a solution and presenting it to the boss. This point I have taken to heart and will do better next time.

Now, I also found out that I probably shouldn’t of shared my thoughts with The youngest one in my views of her friend. I was not too impressed with the tales of woe and hardship she was presenting to my daughter and from the reactions I got I would have to say I over did it a bit. I am not sure if I got that lesson fully I will probably screw that up a few more times before I get it right.

We also have an update with Jaybird and his clueless rebellion. He is still trying to point out that Mom and Dad are total idiots and is hell bent on doing the exact opposite of he is told. I understand that yes he has to learn but at the same time if he screws up and get into trouble then it is not our fault. It is the person who breaks the rules fault. Again I understand that this is a learning curve and we are just hoping to keep him in school long enough to graduate.

update on Podcast Dojo and a new site that is coming about and the influence that attitude has on your goals