You only have so much time out of your working hours so how do you maximize that.

The power of intention is where a lot of this starts.

Whether you are in the place of using your job as a tool as a way to raise in the ranks or develop the skills you need to do your thing and start your own business or work close to home it all starts with Intention.

Being mindful of why you want something directly dictates how you show up and how others around take and feed off your energy.

Shawn and I give a few tools we use to be to use the power of intent in your daily lives to help make better decisions and take action when opportunities present themselves.

Use that precious time wisely and you have no idea what you can accomplish.

Sit back and relax and listen today's Tale From the Trench.

Shawn and I have had many years and many struggles working away as we have discussed on previous shows and today we wanted to talk about perseverance and how you keep showing up for you and your family when you have only so much time in a day and only so many things you want to accomplish.

We discuss some tools we use and especially when you are wanting to make a decision to either grow another business inside or outside of the oilfield and we always take into account that your family is your business.

When we get pushed off track and so many outside distractions pulling us one way or another and combine that with the emotions of working away, who do you turn to and how do you stay focused.

This is what we dive into today and please listen to Today's Tale From the Trench.

As always please share with someone you think can benefit from this and we are always here for a conversation.

At work there is only so many places to hide when things are piling up at home, work stress and in all honesty, just life in general these days.

Shawn and I discuss some the tools we use to help combat this as I was triggered this week by my ex wife and thought a good time to talk about these issues as we have something we are dealing with.

I talk about when I did not have the tools and shoved all this shit into my big toe, as I describe it, when my wife left me and how detrimental it was by pretending things were all fine.

You work away long enough it changes you and having people in your circle to call you on your stuff and help to talk about the struggles and the trickies that come up when you are hundreds if not thousands of miles away from home.

Sit back and listen to today's TALE FROM THE TRENCH.

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We all have things that come up on an a daily or minute by minute basis and it is up to us to determine what that cost is and if it is worth pursuing or not.

When we only have so much time, especially working on the road, there are is a decision that needs to be made.

When you make that decision to do something or not there is a cost to that, either by costing money or time or even costing you if you choose not to do something such as learning a skill.

Every time you choose not to invest in yourself it is costing you money by not learning and then implementing those skills or strategies.

That decision making process is something that a lot of people get stuck on and do not end up doing anything.

When you get to the end of your life and all of these little decisions that you did not take action stack up on and you look at the version of yourself that you could have been you will wish you took action on some of these things, invested in more things that serve you and said no to those that don't.

Shawn and I discuss how we both chose to take the leap into bettering ourselves and the tools we use to help make these decisions.

Sit back and relax and listen to today's Tale From the Trench.

We are really good as Blue Collar workers to hold ourselves accountable when it comes to other people and the company's we work for.

Where we are not really good is holding ourselves accountable for the things we want and giving ourselves the respect we deserve by doing the things we say we want for ourselves.

Shawn asks me today about the tools I learned coming out of rehab and tools I learned from men's coaching groups I have been in order to implement and consistently show up for myself.

The first thing that usually goes while working on the road is your Fitness then Fulfillment which then affects your Family and as a lot of us know in the Oilfield is then your Finances when your relationships finally fails.

This cycle happens over and over and over then we just give up.

Having accountability through the networks outside of our friends of family is needed in order to push ourselves as the people around you, for the most part, do not want you to grow as they know for the man you are today and if you change they lose that person that keeps them comfortable and usually has nothing to do with you.

Put yourself first to then be able to give to others.

Absolutely one of the reasons we do this podcast to share our experiences for you guys and also why I have launched the One More Boom Project to help guys be accountable and take their lives to the next level.

If you ever would like to see what working with me is like you can always book a call here but in the meantime please enjoy another Tale From the Trench!

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With Shawn getting back from the middle east away for work we thought it would be a great conversation for us to dive deep into the struggles a lot of face feeling like a stranger in our own homes when coming home after a long hitch.

The rest of the family goes on with building their lives while when we are home we tend to just get into the way and all of those external relationships we are not part of as well.

Nick talks about some examples as well of coming home unexpectedly only to sleep in and still wake up to an empty home when the family had previous commitments.

These struggles are not unique only to our industry but those that do this type of work in the Oilfield definitely need to be aware that not only do we not feel part of our homes, our families are dealing with the same thing on their side.

Learning to have some tools and open discussions with our partners and our kids is something most of us were never taught and Shawn and Nick go in depth on what has worked and what has not worked for us for you to learn from.

Listen to today's TALE FROM THE TRENCH.

Rehab was a wonderful tool but after rehab how does one input those tools into real life especially with divorce and inflation rates skyrocketing the past few years today's show is more relevant than ever.

Taking a long hard look at the actual results of Nick's life and taking accountability for being so disconnected from life is another level most do not want to look at and even harder to input new habits and behaviours in a world that has been created by the old habits and behaviours.

In today's episode we dive deeper into the habits and activities that have allowed Nick to move forward with divorce and other life changes caused by becoming disconnected from life while being on the road his entire life.

With Shawn back from his assignment from the desert in Saudi Arabia we dive into the habits and actions that Nick performs daily in....

Fitness

Fulfillment

Family

Finances

that have allowed him to remain consistent and gain traction amongst so much chaos once his wife left and has not made life easy in the least since that decision of her to leave over 5 years ago.

If being a one dimensional person is what you turned into as well or have been on the road and feel disconnected from life I encourage you to have a listen to today's TALES FROM THE TRENCH.

Life on the road had makes a lot of us numb and disconnected.

Through the decision of going to rehab and choices that Nick made after dealing with the fact he was was not in a good place after his wife left, it was taking a good look at the FACTS when things started to become clear that Nick was not in the place he wanted to be and was not even himself anymore.

Through this conversation with, Shawn, pulls some lessons and some tools that anyone can use and the biggest was having a vision on where you want to go and it is way easier to not being pulled off track when life throws us curveballs and it always does.

This is where the idea of Making your Pipe Dreams a Reality came to be.

We all have these thoughts of what we want our lives to be and why we want the money we want but most of do not ever take the plunge to make that happen.

Sit down and listen to Today's Tale From the Trench.

After a hiatus, we are ready to relaunch the Pipe Dream Podcast and with a brand new Co-host in Shawn Miller.

We are looking to expose the mental health and resilience tools that can be used when looking at the FACTS of our lives and a little glimpse into my time in Rehab in Thailand.

I have shared this before but now with Shawn at the helm, you may get a whole new perspective.

The oilfield brings so many benefits but when we ignore the FACTS and live one dimensional and chase the dollar all hell can break loose.

Hopefully you can take some of these tools and implement them into your own lives and reach out anytime to either of us to have a chat about our experiences and we will be more than happy to hear where you are at.

Listen to today's tale from the TRENCH.