My Idiot Mentality

Happy Friday! It's a great day and looking like a fun weekend ahead. Hope you have a wonderful day and weekend!

Topic covered
1) Compliment, appearances & balance - I got a compliment at the gym, and apparently I look more in shape than I feel and it brings up the awareness that because of my workout routine I'm in better balance with my nutrition and exercise. Are there other areas of my life where I'm living in excess that's not good for me long term?

Special guest appearance from my 9 month old at ~5 minute mark :)

Have Fun. Get Better. Love Life. 

Happy Thursday! It's a dreary and rainy day outside but all positive vibes on the inside. Let's have ourselves a day!

Topics Covered
1) The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. 
2) My Ideal Day - a vision exercise
3) Don't get caught up in appearances. Know that appearances are your assumptions. 

Have Fun. Get Better. Love Life. 

Good morning! Another beautiful sunrise in Iowa this morning. Bringing all the positive and happy vibes into work and life today!

Topics covered
1) The life of Matthew Manuel - a reminder to check yourself. Are you leading the life you want to live?
2) My son is like his dad. How can I help him be better and a reminder for me to be better
3) Warren Buffet quote - "Successful people say no to almost everything"

Have Fun. Get Better. Love Life. 

Hello!!! It's a beautiful Tuesday morning and I'm getting things kicked off with a couple topics on my mind.

1) Teaching cycle applied to business - teach, do, feedback, repeat - How can I apply this to the training I'm doing for my team?
2) Lowering expectations - can't lower expectations around quality, but absolutely should plan for lower expectations rather than planning for high expectations

Have Fun. Get Better. Love Life. 

I recorded using my laptop microphone so the audio quality is crap on this episode, but the topic is a good one for me to review on a semi-regular basis.

My mentality towards my work over the past several months hasn't been where it needs to be for me to be successful. It certainly wasn't where it could have been to drive the best results for my clients because I was focused too much on the behavior of others. I was letting the actions of my clients impact my attitude and effort towards their businesses. 

Starting today, I'm focusing on me. What can I do to help make my clients successful. I cannot control the behaviors of others, but I can bring good energy and effort to each of my clients. With that, I'll bring more success to my clients' businesses. 

Have Fun. Get Better. Love Life. 

Happy Friday! Bringing positivity and good energy into this beautiful day. 

Topics covered:
1) Having an inward mindset - forget everyone else, focus on my behavior and my actions. Bring the best to the table every day in every way possible.
2) Know thyself - be aware of who I am and what that means for my relationships so I CAN bring my best to the table every day in every way

Have Fun. Get Better. Love Life.

It's a beautiful day in Iowa. Bringing positive thoughts and energy into this Wednesday morning. 

Topics covered:
1) Appreciating the little things
2) Top 5 Life Goals - what are yours?

Have Fun. Get Better. Love Life. 

Wow! 30 Episodes in and it feels GREAT! Getting better every day by talking out my thoughts and doing a daily podcast journal session.

Topics covered:
1) How would you describe yourself non-relationally?
2) Self assessment vs public perception alignment
3) Avoiding negativity - when is it good and bad?

Have Fun! Get Better. Love Life. 

Happy Monday morning friends! Hope you had a great weekend. Korver has hand, foot & mouth - a virus that's not terribly fun for him, but he's getting better and happy in general so it's all good. 

Topics covered:
1) Leadership & Self-Deception - your self talk can mislead you to believing that other people are the problem. This self-deception is a big issue and I need to be better
2) Understanding discontent - what specifically is causing dissatisfaction or discontent and is that thing valid?
3) Perspective at different stages of life - Will I still have dissatisfaction/discontent in my life at 75? If so, then I just need to appreciate everything I have and not worry about what I don't. 

Have Fun. Get Better. Love Life. 

Happy Friday! I missed the podcast yesterday due to a sick kid. Feeling good to be back and recording this morning. Weather is cooling off in Eastern Iowa but it should be a beautiful weekend. 

Topics covered:

1. Out with a sick kid
   1. Very appreciative that my job is flexible enough to allow me to be home with kids when they're sick
   2. I would not have thought I'd have wanted to miss work to be home with a sick kid before I had kids. My values have changed and that should be expected
2. Mission, Vision & Values
   1. Vision = where you're going
   2. Mission = the plan to get there
   3. Values = how you behave on your way there
3. Business Books  - a few of my favorites (in no particular order)
   1. Power of Habit  - Charles Duhig
   2. Good to Great - Jim Collins
   3. Leadership & Self Deception - The Arbinger Institute
   4. 5 Dysfunctions of a Team - Patrick Lencioni
   5. Extreme Ownership - Jacko & Willinik
   6. Emyth - Michael Gerber
   7. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success - Carol Dweck
   8. Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki
   9. MONEY Master the Game - Tony Robbins

Have Fun. Get Better. Love Life.