Learn For 2.0 with Brandon DeVere

We all want to be a part of something...

Why is that?

Why are we so worried about being different.

Today was pajama day for my son's classroom.

In the car on the way to school, he said, "I'm scared".

I asked him why and he told me, "what if I'm the only one in pajamas?"

I told him, "then you're the only one in pajamas".

isn't it interesting that even at 6 years old we have a need to "fit in"

Many times, we don't want to share our ideas with others because we think they will steal them. But the reality is that collaboration can lead to the growth of our ideas.

Share your ideas with someone and you may be surprised at what they can teach you, as you are teaching them.

Today, I have a meeting with a real estate agent to do just that.

He is curious about starting a podcast and wants my help. 

He is in my market and he is not on my team. So, technically he is my competition, right?

Only if I chose to think of what I am building as a short term plan.

But I'm in it for the long game, so I don't see him as my competition.

I see him as a colleague and collaborator, someone that can benefit from what I have to share.

Someone that I can share my ideas with and learn from at the same time.

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?