I severely underestimated the value in spending time with people who are where you want to be in a few years time. I don't know why I did but I did. Perhaps cause I figured that although they were more senior than I was in an organisation, they weren't that far ahead of me. However, I attended a dinner recently and it changed my views on it all. They talk differently, their discussions are about different things and they hold themselves in a different way. All these things then add up to why they are ahead in the pecking order and it is because they conceptualise things differently and I am pretty sure I knew this already but I just didn't put much emphasis on it. They discuss problems and who in their networks can solve these problems and share resources. This all to me is way more interesting then sitting around a table with friends and discussing what a dick Jonny was at school, which just so happens to be now 12 years ago. Those conversations no longer excite me but the conversation around the dinner table the other night definitely did because we talked about trends in business, resources, problems and solutions. Things that you then take into the office the following day, week or month and implement to help progress you in your career and help take you from where you are to where you want to be.

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I spent the last week in California which was awesome. We got to see a lot of the state and meet some truly remarkable people. One thing that keeps getting to me is the fact that there are so many people living with such immense passion and I am kind of drifting around and uncertain as to what it is that I want to do or how I will go about doing it. Met Bradley Martyn the YouTube sensation from Zoo Culture and you could just tell he lives for what it is that he does and he absolutely loves it. Although it was an awesome day, it left me feeling even more broken because I still haven't found what it is that I am truly passionate about. It wasn't till we had dinner with a woman who is very influential in the tech space and she started talking about her lack of passion, that I realised, perhaps it is okay to be uncertain as to what your passions are. If she can have a life that most would only dream of achieving without passion, maybe, just maybe there was hope for me yet. I then started to shift the "maybe" too a certainly and I shifted my mindset to that of, "well this is a good thing, if I did know what my passion was, I'd have to follow it, whereas, right now I am still figuring it out which gives me a unique perspective and I can dabble in and out of things until such time as I feel like I know what my passion is and what I truly want to do".

Hey, howzit going? Thanks for tuning in to the Keep It Simple Podcast with Byron Ovenstone - where my goal is to help you get from where you are, to where you want to be with each episode. Episodes are released Monday through Friday.

In general this podcast will be business focused and it will touch on life lessons I have had the privilege of learning. At times I may go off the beaten track so don’t be alarmed. Please note - I have been known to get pretty passionate and heated so expect to hear some bad language from time to time.

The music in the beginning and the end of each episodes is by JOMARS and the track is called Adventure (Original Mix) - it can be found on Soundcloud at the following link - https://goo.gl/zCTuUq

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It was an up and down day today, truth be told there were more ups than downs but I ran into a bit of a speed bump which got me thinking of that research experiment that some scientists did with a bunch of children. They gave a bunch of children an apple, the children were happy with that. They then gave them all two apples but took one away from some of them. This caused a scene. The kids that originally had two but then had one taken away were raging! They forgot about the fact that they still had one apple, they focused on the fact that they had lost one or had one taken away. I had a similar thing happen today and I started behaving like one of those children, I only identified it this evening when I had cooled off but I guess late is better than never! Lol

I also rant a little about how narrow minded people are when it comes to tier two licensed employees and how ignorant a lot of people tend to be because there is the potential for it to create them the most minute amount of additional work.

Hey, howzit going? Thanks for tuning in to the Keep It Simple Podcast with Byron Ovenstone - where my goal is to help you get from where you are, to where you want to be with each episode. Episodes are released Monday through Friday.

In general this podcast will be business focused and it will touch on life lessons I have had the privilege of learning. At times I may go off the beaten track so don’t be alarmed. Please note - I have been known to get pretty passionate and heated so expect to hear some bad language from time to time.

The music in the beginning and the end of each episodes is by JOMARS and the track is called Adventure (Original Mix) - it can be found on Soundcloud at the following link - https://goo.gl/zCTuUq

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"We've always done it this way, so this is how we will continue to do it." Or "I have always done it this way, so I will continue to do it this way". I call this the kiss of death. Did I hear you asking why? Because thinking that a process or a system or the way in which you do something is perfect and can never be improved is the fastest way to kill your ability to deliver or to kill you business. By constantly questioning the way in which you do things and the way in which things are measured, you're instilling a "culture" of progress or development. There is no such thing as the perfect way to do things. If I ask 100 people to come up with a way of getting to 100, you'll find that the possibility for them to reach the number 100 has quite possibly millions of variations and possibilities. So why then, in business do we constantly look for some kind of holy grail of the way things are done and then never veer from it?

Hey, howzit going? Thanks for tuning in to the Keep It Simple Podcast with Byron Ovenstone - where my goal is to help you get from where you are, to where you want to be with each episode. Episodes are released Monday through Friday.

In general this podcast will be business focused and it will touch on life lessons I have had the privilege of learning. At times I may go off the beaten track so don’t be alarmed. Please note - I have been known to get pretty passionate and heated so expect to hear some bad language from time to time.

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How many times do you think you have missed out on an opportunity because you decided it wasn't for you before you even heard the full story? A lot of the time, we decide something isn't for us long before we even know the fine print or the end to end story because we know someone who told us it was a bad idea or we heard at school, university or via a mentor that it was bad. In the episode, I use an example of 1 million dollars worth of debt, assuming you're someone who thinks that all debt is bad, this hypothetical example would be one you turned down before even asking the right questions around the opportunity. Ask questions, fully understand things before you make a decision on it. A lot of the time, the greatest opportunities we are offered are through things we don't truly understand or have heard are not good ideas. If I listened to everyone who told me that trading was too risky and was a waste of money, I wouldn't be over 60% up on my account this month alone. Yes trading is risky but then allow for that and only trade with that which you can afford to lose. Point is, I explored trading and didn't allow a handful of peoples opinions of trading stop me from getting back on the horse!

Hey, howzit going? Thanks for tuning in to the Keep It Simple Podcast with Byron Ovenstone - where my goal is to help you get from where you are, to where you want to be with each episode. Episodes are released Monday through Friday.

In general this podcast will be business focused and it will touch on life lessons I have had the privilege of learning. At times I may go off the beaten track so don’t be alarmed. Please note - I have been known to get pretty passionate and heated so expect to hear some bad language from time to time.

The music in the beginning and the end of each episodes is by JOMARS and the track is called Adventure (Original Mix) - it can be found on Soundcloud at the following link - https://goo.gl/zCTuUq

If you love the podcast and want to get your paws on some of that sweet, sweet KISP merchandise, it can be purchased at - https://t.co/VK3RIeM0nT

I hope you enjoyed today’s episode. Remember KISP is on iTunes, Stitcher, Anchor, YouTube, Instagram, Acast and Twitter, please subscribe, give us a rating, show some love and remember to KEEP IT SIMPLE because YOU COULD BE A DAY AWAY!