Day 3 of the 6 Week Start Up Challenge where we talk about not running a business but instead, viewing it as funding a lifestyle. It is the vision and life that you want that should take precedent. From this starting point you are able to put up with a lot and endure a lot. From the other side it could very well end up that instead of running a business, the business runs you.

Day 2 of the 6 Week Start Up Challenge talks about the fact that we are constantly taking on information from the outside. Most of the time we don’t even realise it but we spend so much of our precious time consuming things which don’t help us. This podcast talks about the importance or getting out of consumption mode and getting into creation and production mode. Stop consuming - create!

Day 1 of the 6 week Start Up Challenge. We discuss the concept of challenging the beliefs around you and how others are playing the game. We see just how important it is to have a vision and the steps you must go through to pursue that vision. This is the beginning of the journey but the end must be clear in sight. Challenge the Thinking - Change the Game

In the cultural wars of our time there is also the difference between those in the homeland and those in diaspora. One of the biggest differences is language and the use of language. Often it is viewed that those who cannot speak the language or cannot speak it well become second rate in their culture. Although on a biological level this is not exactly true. It does make sense on another level as language is the main lens which allows one to comprehend one’s culture. This is what we discuss in today’s podcast.

We are at the halfway mark for this national lockdown here in NZ. If you’ve been taking it easy up to this point then it’s time to get up and get in position so that when everything opens up again, you’re ready for action and ready to win. The money is still out there... it didn’t just disappear off the earth. You just have to go find it and it’s probably hiding a little better but it’s there if you know how to access it.

More than ever we are connected as a global community. This means working with and dealing with people who may or may not act and think the way we do. The fastest way to learn to understand and navigate a way forward in this world is to travel.

Use skills to leverage yourself into new experiences. Chase skills and acquire more of them to improve the quality of your experiences and in turn your life.

Right now you have the choice to be productive or to just consume. It is easy to tell ourselves that this is time to just chill and relax and take it easy, but the reality is that this is the time to work! This is the time to be productive! Some people will try to convince you that it’s okay to not work too hard. I even heard something as stupid as “we are experiencing collective trauma” but the fact is, you can’t afford to sit back. On the other side of this crisis is the real crisis and life will be faster than ever to try and catch up. You need to be able to land on your feet when everything opens up again or you will be run over and trampled on. Work now! Start now! Don’t be naive and lazy and believe that it’ll all be okay. Because it won’t for a lot of people and you owe it to yourself and to your family to not be one of them. Use the time now to make thing happen and to position yourself. Don’t wait til you’re out of time and desperate.

So many people don’t really like themselves as much as they let on. This is a perfect time to reintroduce yourself to you and to figure out what it is that you like about yourself. In this episode we talk about how to start to like yourself and how to solve some problems that keep you from being the person that you want to be and drag you down into being that person that you hate being.

So often there are slogans and little mottos about teamwork and the importance of working together as a team, yet we often find that we aren’t as good at working in a team as we think. This episode addresses two things we need to think about when picking our team or partners that we want to work with.