Teen Catalyst

Today's key comes from Christina Fong:

1. What are my interests?

Think about the hobbies you have, how and where you enjoy spending your time. Do you like spending time with people, animals, computers, books? What activities would you miss the most if they were taken away from you?

2. What are my skills?

Think of the hard skills and soft skills you've acquired in life.

3. What are my strengths and talents?

Think of the things you're particularly good at, as well as things that people come to you for help with.

4. What is my personality?

Are you a leader or followers?

Do you prefer to work alone or in a group?

Do you prefer to cooperate or compete with others?

Do you enjoy helping others or prefer to empower them to do things themselves?

Are you a thinker who focuses on ideas or are you a doer who takes action?

Are you a creative and artistic person or do you thrive with structure and routine?

Also consider your values.

If you want to chat with a real live person and talk your way through these questions, just send an email to [email protected] and we'll set a time to connect.

I recently asked the question on social media, "Do you know where you're going?"

Several people answered yes, but sadly, several said no.

Steve Jobs said

Today I'm chatting with Nicky about how young people can build better habits to reach their goals. It's a HUGE boost when things feel out of control.

If you hang out with Nicki for too long, she’ll brainwash you into believing you can do anything. She is a life coach with a passion for helping individuals reach their goals through building habits of discipline, consistency, focus, and accountability. Her results-oriented coaching provides individuals the commitment to selfishly focus on themselves while they become the best version of themselves.

Follow Nicky:

• https://www.facebook.com/unleashedleadership
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickiconradt-eberlin/
• https://www.instagram.com/unleashedleadership/

Interested in working with Ken? Find out more here.

101 Keys to Winning at Life: #5

Todays key comes from Toolman Tim at ToolmanTim.co:

How The 1% Better Principle worked for me. Two years ago I started a YouTube channel. As a 38 year old, bearded, quiet spoken fella, talking to himself in his basement office, I knew literally zero about content creation. However c

My audio was barely audible. I tried a shotgun mic, a corded lapel mic, and a cordless mic. I set them up in multiple locations, watched every video I could on improving sound quality, I nearly tore my hair out. But the end result was great audio. I spent way too much time editing my content. So I forced myself to do single take videos. This allowed me to put out more content in the same amount of time. Not easy, not comfortable, but I improved.

I knew live-streaming was another key to success. I had unstable internet in my studio, so I moved to my office. I tweaked the lighting, adjusted the audio, got a new backdrop, but most importantly I kept live-streaming every single week. Each time I did something dumb I didn't do it again.

If you are a numbers person, 1% improvement daily leads to 3800% improvement annually. None of this would have happened if I didn't commit to being uncomfortable, trying new things and getting 1% better every day.

I've got two quotes to share with you on this movin', motivated, Monday:

The first comes from author and leadership coach Robin Sharma,

The second quote is from legendary NFL coach Tom Landry:

Find a coach or mentor who can get you to perform above and beyond what you believe is possible. Then you'll have no trouble hitting every goal and building every dream.

Check out the teen coaching programs we offer to help teen reach their full potential and create an IMPACTFUL life and career.

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- Plant propagation: trees, comfrey, garden plants, microgreens,

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Teaching new tech: phones, basic internet safety, blockchain, setting up home electronics, selling online ads, setting up GoogleMyBiz

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Tutoring: kids your age, kids younger, older kids who are struggling in a subject you're great at

Reach out to me at [email protected] to create a roadmap to success for your teen.

101 Keys to Winning at Life: #4

I am able to “win at life” by getting things done. When I have multiple tasks that need to be completed, trying to do them all at once makes me feel frantic and overwhelmed. I hinder myself from doing any of the jobs efficiently. I become impatient, irritable, and unpleasant to be around. I have learned that I need to stop, take a breath, make a list, and do one thing at a time. One by one tasks get done, and I can confidently move on to the next thing. I may get interrupted, but if I have a list to come back to, I know exactly where I need to start again. As the tasks on my list get crossed off, I have a definite feeling of success and winning!

If you want to create a roadmap to winning at life for your teen, just send an email to [email protected] with the subject line "Winning at Life", and a short paragraph about your situation.

Today's inspiration comes from Proverbs 20:18,

Find someone you can turn to that can draw out your strengths, and give you good advice as you press into the daily battle of creating the life you want to live.

Fill out this form to get on a call with me to create a clear path forward to an IMPACTFUL life and career for your teenage son.

Impact is what we're all about here at the team catalyst podcast, creating lives that impact the world because we're all creatives we were created to create.

We're made in the image of God, who is a creator and we're made to create, and we have the ability, the privilege of creating the life that we want to live the life that brings us fulfillment and joy in. So often comes through the greatest joy and fulfillment comes through impacting the lives of other people.

It comes through stepping in and filling a need for others through creating positive impact. I'll say that again, success is not measured in the amount of dollars you make, but in the amount of lives you impact.

So, what exactly does it take to create impact? You've probably often heard me say if you've been around for any amount of time that I've identified five keys to an impactful life and career, that's your mindset? It's your relationship? Your health, your wealth and your purpose. When you can identify those five things, when you can build those up to where you want them to be, to where you're happy and comfortable with, where each of those things are, you have the ingredients, you have the makings of a massively impactful life, a life that can change the world.

So many times people like to separate their life and their career. Like I've got my life over here. I've got my career over here and never the Twain shall meet. But when you take these ingredients, you take those keys to an impactful life and you use those to identify. You know, the things that you're good at, you, you identify your strengths, you identify the gifts and talents and abilities that you've got you build on your relationships.

Today's key come from Elise Hittinger.

I kept setting New Years resolutions and failing. The failures were hard on me, I don’t like to fail. The feelings that I wasn’t good enough would start to creep in. One New Year’s eve, 30 years ago or so, I made a life changing decision. I would no longer make resolutions. Instead, I set a daily goal of 400 laughs a day. It was a big enough number not to track and still give me the incentive to look for things all day long to laugh at. It didn’t happen over night but that striving to laugh brought things into my life to enjoy. I started seeing the funny side of the world, the funny things that happen all day long that I was too busy to laugh at. Laughter has great health benefits, people enjoy being around me, and I feel GREAT. It was a wise decision that I keep up every day.