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This week, Justin McGuire, Owner of California Pools and host of DIY Network's Pool Kings, joins Clint to discuss the challenges of managing people within a growing business.

Clint and Justin discuss the following key points on management:

(1) Encourage and help your employee, you are leading, to grow.
(2) Don't overmanage.
(3) Learn to manage your people at 'THEIR' level and not at you're level. You can not manage everyone the same way. It doesn't work. Manage each person based on their personality type and not based on you're personality type. Every personality has its own needs and nuances.
(4) Don't allow your business to become transactional or a commodity. Instead, focus on building relationships.
(5) Learn from your mistakes. Don't regret them, but allow them to help you grow as a person and a leader.
(6) Appreciating every person on your team and what they have to contribute.

"Being a good leader isn't always what is best for YOU, but what is best for THEM." - Justin McGuire.

Top 3 Books Recommended by Justin:
(1) Profit First - By Mike Michalowicz
(2) Turn The Ship Around! - By L. David Marguet

Top Podcasts Recommended by Justin:
(1) Founders Journal
(2) Business Wars

Until next week, keep climbing your next peak!

Connect with Justin McGuire on Instagram or his website. Watch Pool Kings on DIY Network.

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Perfectionists often postpone big things in an attempt to avoid mistakes or embarrassment, but this strategy can often be very detrimental.

Not everything in every area or every decision has to be an A+. In some areas of life, C's are okay. When we are struggling with perfectionism, we tend to let that infiltrate all areas of our life. We often think that everything we do has to be perfect. It creates pressure on our life that not only does our work have to be perfect, but our kids have to be perfect. Our marriage has to be perfect. Our yard has to be perfect. Our house has to be perfect and so on. It seeps into every area of life. However, in all honesty, no one can obtain that. It's not possible. None of us are perfect. We don't have enough resources or enough time. We are not God.

Done is better than perfect! Here are six steps to help you complete your tasks without being perfect:

(1) Just start. Build up the positive momentum.
(2) Your first version is never going to be your best work.
(3) Not everything in every area or every decision has to be an A-plus.
(4) Perfect doesn't even exist.
(5) Get feedback as early as possible.
(6) You gain confidence and self-respect when you finish things. Confidence and self-respect come from completing something.

The idea is that whatever your theory is, whatever your work is, it is imperfect. It may get expanded upon, but you're laying a foundation.

Finish something this week or month that you have been working on too long. Nothing takes up mental bandwidth and causes distress, like an unfinished project you keep working on. Give yourself the gift of completion! Dr. Parker Houston wrote a similar blog called "Perfectionism, The Secret Theif of Dreams."

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Until next week, keep climbing your next peak.

In this episode, Clint talks to nationally recognized high school Coach Desmond Dunham. Coach Dez just launched his book "Running Against The Odds" and shares how he overcame the odds on and off the track.

He reveals how running got him through the tough times at home, dyslexia in school, the lack of confidence, and the lack of clarity he had in life when his emotions were pulling him into a dark hole. Running taught him to persevere, through uncertainty, through depression, through relationship challenges.

Coach Dez says, "There are going to be some times where you trip and fall. You're going to fail and have some tough times. But that is a test of who you are. We are very resilient. We were made to be resilient. We were made to adapt. As Martin Luther King, Jr. says, 'The ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in times of comfort and convenience, but where they stand in times of challenge and controversy."

Connect with Coach Dez on Instagram or his website. Purchase "Running Against The Odds" on amazon.

If you got something out of today's episode, please subscribe, share it with a friend and leave us a review. You can find us on Next Peak Podcast. If you want to connect with Clint Herdon, you can visit his website at Next Peak CPA.

We've all heard the expression— "money can't buy happiness." That may not be entirely true. Psychological science suggests that how we spend can significantly impact how happy we are with our lives.

Research shows that spending your money in specific ways is much more likely to improve your level of happiness and life satisfaction. Today, we will learn what those things are.

1. Purchase experiences, not things. 
2. Spend your money on others. 
3. Align your spending with your values. 
4. Schedule things to look forward to. 
5. Live within your means. 
6. Buyback time with your money. 
7. Invest in yourself. 
8. Get rid of stuff and make more room for what truly matters.
9. Remember, oftentimes the best things in life are free.

Action Items:

• Take 15 minutes this week to identify one area you want to change above. Then experiment with a new way of spending right away. Write down what you experience.
• Use this list at your next family budget meeting to see how your spending habits line up!

Suggested Resources:

• The Hedonic Treadmill Blog Post 
• The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley
• The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor
• Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey

If you got something out of today's episode, please subscribe, share it with a friend and leave us a review. You can find us on www.nextpeakpodcast.com. If you want to connect with Dr. Parker Houston, you can find him at www.leadyoufirst.com. Sign up for his weekly blog to receive some research-based tools that will help you transform your work and your life.

Your future depends on the foundation that you are laying today. The higher you want to go, the more critical your foundation is. In this week's episode, Clint goes solo and shares why building a solid foundation is essential. 

You're either laying a good foundation, or you're laying a lousy foundation. If you have bad habits in your life, you're still laying a foundation, and it's going to fall apart at some point under stress.

The areas we are focusing on building a solid foundation for today are: 

• Career
• Finances.
• Relationships
• Spiritual Life 
• Parenting

If you got something out of today's episode, please subscribe, share it with a friend and leave us a review. You can find us on www.nextpeakpodcast.com. If you want to connect with Dr. Parker Houston, you can find him at www.leadyoufirst.com. Sign up for his weekly blog to receive some research-based tools that will help you transform your work and your life.