The Causey Consulting Podcast

Concepts like freedom and independence are abstract. Bob Proctor taught that if you want to make money, you can't simply say, "Well, I want a lotta money." You need to set an amount. Saying "a lot" or "plenty" is too vague. The same is true for freedom - financial freedom, workplace freedom, etc. What does it truly mean to you?

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Limiting beliefs and gloom-and-doom predictions are more powerful than we care to admit. However: YOU CAN bust through these roadblocks. 


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Greg Behrendt has a program about refusing to take "stuff" from jerks. Right now it seems the job market is rife with weirdos, con artists, and general goofs. So what to do?

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The market is crazy. We don't know what will happen in the coming months, so the onus is on you to be careful with prospective jobs or freelancing gigs. If it seems too good to be true or if you're getting sketchy info, BE CAREFUL.

Links:

https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2024/08/28/more-intense/

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Are you in scurrying mouse mode, expecting everyone else or some guru to solve all of your problems? Or are you working for someone like that? "At 9am do this, at 2pm do this, at 4:55pm get on the phone with me and talk me off the ledge..." 😵‍💫

➡️ You don't have to allow someone else to disturb your peace.

➡️ If you think everyone else is responsible for solving YOUR problems, you're gonna have a bad time.

➡️ Be careful of energetic chokeholds. If you frame a situation as the last lifeboat off the Titanic, you're probably gonna sink.

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I talk often about nightmare freelancing clients. Sadly, there are a lot of them. However, as the job market worsens, more people are turning to gigging out of necessity and some of them have no clue what they are doing. They're happy to take your money and ghost you, which is something you don't need. How can we avoid this?

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Companies and industries that are typically insulated from recessions are laying people off. It's scary out there and I don't see it getting better in the near term. Please do not wait for a crisis to prepare yourself.

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Have you ever been in a meeting where the loudest, shoutiest extroverts won the day? Or ever been told you'd "fit in" a lot better if you socialized more and gave up your time on the weekends to hang out with coworkers? Stinks, doesn't it? In a world so very full of noise and bragging and posturing, how much would change if we used a sense of quiet diplomacy?

Links:

https://www.amazon.com/Quiet-Power-Introverts-World-Talking/dp/0307352153

https://themanhattanherald.com/finding-dag-hammarskjolds-quiet-in-noisy-political-times/

https://thejobmarketjournal.com/f/its-all-about-control-always

https://theintercept.com/2023/09/23/tim-gurner-speech-unemployment/

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Three meetings at once? Constant emails? Shuffling papers? Is this really what "knowledge work" has been reduced to?

Links:

https://medium.com/@amandaclaypool/are-knowledge-workers-producing-value-in-the-economy-err-not-really-53f53303ca47

https://causeyconsultingllc.com/2024/07/02/this-is-not-a-copilot-i-want/

https://www.amazon.com/Markings-Dag-Hammarskjold/dp/0571060153
(Every introvert should own a copy of Markings, IMO.)

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The economy is in the dumper. In spite of the MSM's efforts to gaslight us, we know things are bad. A Catch-22 emerges: clients have less money to spend yet it takes more money to live. Some folks are trying to overcome this by issuing a minimum charge. Is this a good idea? Or does it turn too many prospects off?

Links:

https://thejobmarketjournal.com/f/america-is-full-of-flakes

https://clairecoxtranslations.wordpress.com/2014/04/07/minimum-charges-should-you-shouldnt-you/

https://www.markupandprofit.com/articles/a-minimum-price/

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/business-services-charge-how-much-30158.html

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