Quit believing the lies that you didn't accomplish your goals.

Adding "Yet" to the end of your "I didn't", "I'm not", or "I haven't" sentences will completely shift your mind.

Do Less To Achieve More.

More soccer for my daughter.

My son's first football game(s)

Give yourself a mini-vacation.

In today's episode, I recap this week's episodes that were based on why traditions can limit our growth. Keeping our minds closed and blocking us from thinking big.

I also share an alternative reason that I am recording this podcast.

Tradition can be a good thing, and usually is.

Your family probably has a few of their own traditions.

Hank Williams Jr. even wrote a song about traditions . Listen here: https://youtu.be/IHjaW9sXl7s

But just because we have them, doesn’t automatically make them right.

As we evolve, some traditions no longer apply yet we try to force them to work.

“That’s how we’ve always done it.”

The challenge with “Traditions” is that they can significantly hinder your growth.

For example, you might not try something different for fear of going against tradition.

And if it doesn’t work…

Forget about it. You’ll never hear the end of it.

“I told you it wouldn’t work.”

Now, I’m not a religious person but that doesn’t mean I can’t learn something from a religious book.

I just started reading The Purpose Driven Church by Pastor Rick Warren.

He had this to say about growing a new church.

“We’ve been able to experiment with far more ideas than the average church - mostly due to the fact that we didn’t have decades of tradition to deal with.”

To me, he is saying that there can be a big advantage of not having tradition in the way.

There is no, “this is how we have to do it.”

Think of Major League Baseball…

The stands are empty every night and the purists want to preserve the game and care too much about stats and records and the interest level continues to drop.

Opposite of that is the NFL. It is constantly changing and adapting, and has never been more popular.

When you are limited in the ways you can do something, the amount of possible growth shrinks significantly.

But when you aren’t bound by those limitations, you can experiment with infinite ways to grow.

Your potential is increased exponentially.

Don’t get me wrong, sometimes tradition can be good, especially when it comes to family.

But…

In business and personal development it can interfere with our goals.

We must keep experimenting, and not let ourselves be limited by the chains of…

"Tradition"

How many opportunities have passed you by because you were too busy to recognize them.

The appetite to be right has starved many people of opportunity.

I left my mind open today and an opportunity that wasn't there this morning appeared, and I was able to recognize it.

It led to collaboration and now we have a plan.

When you are thinking BIG, you are no longer view things as they ARE, you view things as they will BE.

When I ask my daughter what she want to be when she grows up, I tell her it doesn't have to exist yet and remind her that there were no "Youtubers" when I grew up.

The Attitude of Gratitude.

Grateful to be able to take my kids to and from school.

Grateful for the relationships my company allows me to have.

Grateful for what I'm building.

What are you G=grateful for? 

In this episode:

Why it's called Learn For 2.

1The message I received yesterday.

My take on meditation.

Pro Football.

Reading with purpose.

Think and Grow Rich.

Autosuggestion.

"Vinegar & Honey”

Each summer my daughter gets the opportunity to spend a week with her cousins up in WA during her vacation.

A couple years ago, I booked her flight and in the process I declined “Trip Protection”.

Who needs that?

I had everything under control, trip protection would be a waste of money.

…or so I thought.

About a week later I find out that her 6th grade orientation was scheduled during the last 2 days of her vacation. So now, I needed change her flight.

I call the airline and tell the agent that I need to switch her flight. The agent immediately tells me that it will be $75 to change it, plus the difference in flight which was about $50.

Flight protection for $20 didn’t seem so bad at this point.

“Are you kidding me?”

I yelled into the phone.

“It would be cheaper just to buy a new flight”

My immediate reaction was to be pissed off. I didn’t let up, I kept digging at her telling her what a joke it was.

I finally hung up, accomplishing nothing but an increase in my blood pressure.

And the worst part was that it wasn’t even the agents fault. I knew better.

I let myself cool down over the next couple days and gave the airline a call back.

Thankfully, I got a different agent. I was embarrassed that she’d remember me.

With the new agent I led in with a story about how my daughter gets to see her cousins every summer but unfortunately this trip needed to be cut short.

“We found out after we booked the flight that her 6th grade orientation was scheduled at the same time”

I then proceeded to tell her how important I thought it was for her to be there.

“It’s going to be her first year in middle school, I can imagine what a difficult time in a young girl’s life this can be and I just want to make sure that the transition is as smooth as possible”.

She agreed with me and responded,

“Sir, I am going to waive the $75 change fee, you’ll just need to pay the difference of the flight”

I didn’t even ask her to remove it.

This is the power of story.

The 1st agent, I just yelled at like a jerk. I didn’t inspire her or make her feel any emotion other than hating me.

The 2nd agent likely remembered a time when she was entering something new for the first time, maybe even middle school and knew the struggle.

She felt emotion and was inspired to help a little girl during a stressful time.

Plus, we’ve all heard the saying, “You catch more flies with honey than vinegar”.

Mix a little honey with a good story and you can inspire anyone.