Future Squared with Steve Glaveski

In life, we will inevitably face setbacks - we will come face to face with adversity, be it in our professional lives, or in our personal lives, especially if we’re working towards big hairy audacious goals.

But how you choose to interpret and respond to those setbacks can make all the difference.

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Ryan Serhantis a costar on Bravo's hit show Million Dollar Listing New Yorkand the star of Sell It Like Serhant. Ryan fell into real estate by accident after giving up his acting career. He made just over $9,000 his first year in the business. Ten years later, Ryan leads a team of 60 brokers and averages a billion dollars in sales every year, making him one of the most successful real estate brokers in the world.

He is the author of Sell it like Serhant - How to Sell More, Earn More, and Become the Ultimate Sales Machine, which has gone on to become a Wall Street Journal bestseller.

This was a short but rewarding conversation with Ryan, and we unpacked his rise from having his debit card declined to leading a billion dollar brokerage, why having lean beginnings can be a blessing rather than a curse, and of course, we unpacked a number of techniques that Ryan uses to build longterm relationships and close deals.

With that, please enjoy my conversation with the one and only, Ryan Serhant.

Topics Discussed:

• Sell It Like Serhant
• Ryan’s lean beginnings
• Overcoming adversity
• Ryan’s relationship with money today
• Why fear can be your friend
• How to build confidence
• The power of persistence
• The four W’s
• How to prepare for a sales meeting with a new prospect
• The follow up, follow through and follow back
• How to get indecisive prospects over the line
• Overcoming social anxiety
• Ryan’s approach to time management

 Show Notes:

Twitter: @ryanserhant

Web: www.ryanserhant.com

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Sell-Like-Serhant-Ultimate-Machine/dp/0316449571

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Tom Ziglar is the proud son of Zig Ziglar and the CEO of Ziglar, Inc. He joined the Zig Ziglar Corporation in 1987 and climbed from working in the warehouse, to sales, to management, and then on to leadership. Today, he speaks around the world; hosts The Ziglar Show , one of the top-ranked business podcasts; and carries on the Ziglar philosophy:

"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."

He is the author of Choose To Win: Choose to Win: Transform Your Life, One Simple Choice at a Time, which shows you how to achieve massive change without massive upset. His revolutionary plan guides you through making one small choice at a time through a sequence of easy-to-follow steps in seven key areas: mental, spiritual, physical, family, finance, personal, and career. The result is a more productive, more fulfilling, and more meaningful life.

As a long-time fan and beneficiary of Zig Ziglar’s teachings, I really enjoyed my conversation with Tom. Expect to learn, among other things:

1. What the fastest way to success is
2. The power of asking questions
3. Why it’s not happiness that we should be pursuing but something else

With that, please enjoy my conversation with the son of the legendary Zig Ziglar, Tom Ziglar.

Topics Discussed:

• Zig Ziglar as a father
• Zig’s timeless quotes
• Why instant gratification sabotages our goals
• How knowing someone’s values helps us to win their support and agreement
• Why most success is cumulative
• The power of habits and how to form good habits
• Why happiness shouldn’t be pursued - and what to pursue instead
• The seven choices to a fulfilling life
• Why it all starts with attitude
• How to find your why
• The power of questions
• Goal-setting - flexible or specific?
• Why persistence and grit are omnipotent
• The peril of a false purpose

Show Notes:

Ziglar Inc: www.ziglar.com

Twitter: @tomziglar

Podcast: www.ziglarshow.com

Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400209544/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0

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Try one new thing a month.

This has been my mantra for several years now, and it has seen me try all manner of things, from rock-climbing and surfing to a barista course and learning the art of whisky making, to jumping out of planes and trying hip-hop yoga. I’ve found that trying new things to get out of your comfort zone helps keep your ego in check, strengthens your relationship with adversity, and above all, increases your appreciation of life.

In retrospect, it’s not the comfortable times that we remember, the times we find ourselves sitting on the couch watching Netflix. No, we remember doing things that were marred by friction; we remember the uncomfortable — the long, painful hike, getting wiped out by a huge wave, or giving a talk in front of 500 people for the first time. Greatness is reserved for people who are comfortable with adversity, so the more comfortable you can get being uncomfortable, the more likely you will be to take the steps required towards said greatness.

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How often have you caught yourself uttering these words? If you really enjoy what you do, and are aligned with its purpose, you actually look forward to getting stuck into things on a Monday morning and might lament that "there aren't enough hours in the day".

And while loving what you do and deriving positive energy from it is a great place to be, carving out ample time for rest and play is fundamental to your sustaining your efforts in the office or wherever you happen to get sh*t done. Not only that, but nobody said "I wish I worked longer hours" when their time on Earth was coming to an end.

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In the wake of the Christchurch shootings and the disturbing video that made the rounds on social media afterward, Australia’s Government expeditiously passed new legislation that puts the onus on tech companies to remove violent material from their platforms or face criminal charges. 

In this episode, I explore why this is wrong on so many levels. 

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Adam Fisher grew up in Silicon Valley playing Atari, programming computers, and reading science fiction. He still lives in the Bay Area but now spends his time thinking about the future, tracing it's origins, and writing about it – for Wired, MIT Technology Review, and The New York Times Sunday Magazine. Valley of Genius is his first book

A candid, colorful, and comprehensive oral history that reveals the secrets of Silicon Valley -- from the origins of Apple and Atari to the present day clashes of Google and Facebook, and all the start-ups and disruptions that happened along the way.

So how did this omnipotent and ever-morphing place come to be? It was not by planning. It was, like many an empire before it, part luck, part timing, and part ambition. And part pure, unbridled genius…

We explored a number of areas in this conversation, including:

• The origins of Silicon Valley and the influential role of Doug Englebart and the US Government
• Noel Bushnell and Atari
• The infamous XEROX PARC story
• What cities around the world can learn from SIlicon Valley in their own attempts to recreate the magic; and
• In an era where people are finally pushing back against big tech, and the economic tide is turning towards China and Asia, what lies in store for the Valley going forward

It took us a little while to warm up in this conversation, but once we did, around the 20 minute mark, we unpacked some awesome insights on not only Silicon Valley, but on what makes a thriving ecosystem, anywhere.

With that, I bring you my conversation with the one and only, Adam Fisher.

Topics Discussed:

• What it took to cobble together a fluid conversational narrative from over 200 interviews
• The origins of Silicon Valley
• Government and DARPA
• Doug Englebart
• Atari and Noel Bushnell
• Kevin Kelly and Wired Magazine
• Apple, Steve Jobs and XEROC PARC
• Netscape
• The Startup Culture of the Valley
• Changing Tides and China
• The decentralisation of Silicon Valley culture and activity
• The Future of Silicon Valley

 Show Notes:

Twiter: @adamcfisher

Get the book: www.valleyofgenius.com

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Since our prehistoric ancestors used stone tools to start fires and hunt for prey, technology has made us more efficient and effective at what we do. It has brought us convenience, improved communication, and — relatively speaking — long and comfortable lives.

However, any good thing taken to the extreme becomes bad. Aristotle knew this, proposing that to achieve happiness and success, people should cultivate virtues at intermediate levels between deficiencies and excesses. Sleep is good for you. Sleeping for 16 hours, not so much. The Buddha too was a proponent of “the middle path.” In the same way, technology usage left unchecked can also have a devastating effect on our productivity and well-being.

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HBR article: https://hbr.org/2019/03/stop-letting-push-notifications-ruin-your-productivity 

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Welcome back to Future Squared for yet another installment of Fast Fix Friday, although this one is another not so fast fix edition.

In this episode, I aim to shine a light on the deceptive practices being carried out by digital agencies across the globe, and whilst I will be speaking specifically about practices pertaining to serving corporate innovation clients, the same set of practices are affecting young startups and entrepreneurs everywhere.

I feel it my obligation, as somebody who works in the space of innovation and entrepreneurship, to ring the warning bell. If it means that one less person, or one less organisation, ends up not spending tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars on inferior applications that don’t serve to move the needle an inch forward, and in fact go on to compromise the individual or organization’s desire to bring something new into the world, then I will consider this a very worthy use of my time.

Of course, not all digital agencies are created equal, just like not all innovation consultants, are created equal. There is good and bad in every industry, but having seen first hand through my work on too many times to count, digital agencies over-charging and under-delivering, I couldn’t sit idly by any longer.

To make my point, I first need to take you back to the mid 19th Century to a rural town in the Australian State of Victoria by the name of Ballarat.

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Stephen Warley is the founder of Life Skills That Matter. After being laid off 18 years ago, Stephen has interviewed over 500 people in professions as diverse as defence, finance, health, marketing and entrepreneurship, read over 200 books about personal development and conducted countless lifestyle design experiments.

Then he began to wonder, how did they do it? So he started looking for common patterns in how these individuals transformed their lives. A core set of skills kept popping up time and time again - he calls these the life skills that matters - and he teaches people, through his podcast, his 30-day challenges and his accelerator programs, to leverage these skills to become actualised versions of themselves.

We discussed many topics, including:

1. Why ‘secure work’ is, paradoxically, not so secure anymore
2. Stephen’s battle with chronic anxiety and how he overcame it by focusing on doing work that aligned with his values and natural inclinations; and of course
3. The life skills that matter

With that, please enjoy my conversation with the one and only Stephen Warley.

Topics Discussed:

• Stephen’s battle with anxiety
• On becoming a reluctant entrepreneur
• The changing nature of work
• Why ‘secure work’ is no longer secure
• Motivation
• Habit formation
• Minimum viable product hangovers
• Purpose and false purpose

Show Notes:

Stephen’s website: Lifeskillsthatmatter.com

Podcast: Find Life Skills That Matter wherever you find your podcasts

Twitter: @stephenwarley

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