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Happy 2023.
We are tripping into this year with a bit of anxiety: 2022 wasn’t great for most of us, we are still in year 4 of the pandemic, uncertainty on the horizon and ChatGPT ruining our memories of writing high school papers.
There are very few things that make me think that 2023 is going to be a “good year.” And that’s because most of the time I’m looking externally for things to be good. One of the biggest changes I foresee is that many of our expectations and assumptions, especially in the US, are going to be massively disrupted.
Yet fear not! There are ways to cope and attack. The world changing isn’t a problem – it’s a circumstance to respond to. Therefore, I’ve come up with the “Four I’s” of 2023 to help you manage along.
First, Identity. When we must make change – whether it’s a resolution or forced change, we must identify with it for us to manage it well. Our end game and result has to become core to who we are. If your resolution is to lose weight, we have to make “skinny people decisions.” If we want to get a promotion, the identity of that role has to be core to our personality.
The reason is must become core to our being is for when things get crazy and stressful, we default to our basic level. This is why resolutions fail. Our default choice must become the one that changes. And this default is going to be especially necessary as we anchor ourselves for the technological change being thrust upon us.
Second, Intentionality. Presence is a big word. And so is intentionality. Without it, we are aimless. With things like OpenAI arriving and finally, fundamentally, changing the way things get done, we need to be intentional about how we use this technology to better ourselves. We can’t shortcut things anymore – for AI to work, we have to think in new ways and get better results because of it. Ironically, this is different than how we operate today.
Finally, three and four: “Inquisitive Intellectuality.” We need a new way to learn through questions. Yes, we are capable of great things, but it’s going to require us to think in very new ways, with specificity and providing parameters to elevate our way of being. AI will help us in 2023 get there.
Looking ahead, there is a lot more on the horizon. The people who will do well will be those accountable to themselves; those who take ownership and responsibility for their actions and are willing to have the uncomfortable conversations with themselves. Lots of excitement is around the bend – so let’s embrace it and enjoy the ride!
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Welcome to Bellwether. Happy 2023 Whole new Year. Uh, same old podcast, but it’s still gonna be really good stuff. Today’s episode, we’re gonna talk about 2023, the big plans for the year, what I think is gonna be, uh, incredibly influential for 2023 and what to look out for in 2023. I’ll do a quick recap of 2022 because that, uh, informs much of what I think about 2023, because this is an ongoing cycle and, uh, it’s gonna be, it’s gonna be good.
0:34
Um, it’s gonna be hard, but it’s gonna be good. And this episode I think is really important and I’m really excited about it. Cause there’s really good things, uh, coming up for 2023. Um, let’s start with last year. Let’s start with 2022. It sucked. 2022 sucked. And when we look at 2020, 2021, 20 22, we’re three years of pandemic. We’re entering our fourth year of the pandemic, and it’s probably going to suck as well.
1:04
And you know, I remember back at the beginning of the pandemic, people were talking about how it’s gonna be a 10 year challenge, and people laughed, but that was kind of prescient because we’re now entering, you know, the fourth year of a pandemic, which is crazy. And so, um, coming out the other end, we’re coming into a completely different world, and the amount of change that’s happening is immense. Um, 2022, the third year of the pandemic was a bunch of garbage, uh, war going on.
1:34
Um, this big stupid debate on remote versus hybrid work versus back to the office. Um, this ongoing fear of a recession, the economic downturn that started last year, it’s gonna really kick up, I think in 2023, although some people now are saying it won’t. Um, stupid sayings last year, like quiet quitting and quiet firing and, and all that other stuff. And, um, if you were to package all that up, I would almost say it was just this year of trying to find a place, trying to find relevancy, um, trying to figure out where we fit and come up with something that that would, would resonate.
2:16
And when we do that, it’s just a year of just unknown stress. I call it the fear of the unknown. We know something is coming, we just don’t know when, and we know the facts. We know what’s gonna happen, they just haven’t been realized yet. So it’s always what’s around the corner, what’s around the corner, what’s around the corner? And that’s really been, um, troublesome for a lot of people in 2022.
2:38
It’s gonna continue into 2023. And the challenge with that we have is that we forget about what’s happening today. It’s always what’s around the corner, what’s around the corner? What’s around the corner. So, um, the challenge is, I think general agreement 2022 sucked. Not many people would say, yeah, 2022 was a great year. Um, but mindset has shifted and I think it’s probably laid the groundwork almost like a pain threshold, right?
3:05
The more pain you experience, the the tougher you get. I feel like we have shifted, behaviors have started to change. Uh, mindset has changed. We’re seeing many of the things that we took for granted aren’t actually there. Like everything we took for granted, all the assumptions we had are, were really kept together by like chicken bones and band-aids. And, um, a lot of our expectations and assumptions are going to be disrupted in 2023.
3:33
And it’s not new normal, it’s stupid. Um, but we’re, we’re a little slow to get these new realizations and, and confusion. You know, you go through the grocery store and, and shelves are empty. Um, and, and different things as well. You know, just the things that we would normally have and, and we’re gonna be pinching pennies and, and everything else. And so, you know, is the age of abundance in America over is, is a philosophical question to ponder that I’ve been thinking a lot.
4:03
And what’s the cost of abundance? What have we paid to have everything so readily available, and are we prepared to change for that? And I think that’s a lot of the consumer behavior, it’s big for the US is going to change. It has to change. Um, we are a consumer nation. Uh, even Mr. Rogers used to talk about that. And, and that was his big thing like 40 years ago, was, you know, we’re raising little consumers, but we have to change that.
4:26
We have to change that mentality. And, you know, it’s a personal help of mine that we can kind of change this consumer fashion. But, um, so that’s 2022 that I think that’s the beginning of 2022. And what that means for us for this year, let’s talk about it because in addition to what the ongoing pandemic is going to teach us, um, we have some cool stuff that just came out that’s going to blow our socks off.
4:50
This AI is here, open AI chat, G P t, um, and more. It’s creating the stir. And that’s, um, they’re creating a stir, not for what they can do. Everyone’s talking about, ooh, they can, um, they can write high school kids news, uh, uh, reports and essays, and they can do, you know, they can make our, our meal schedule for the week. It’s more about what’s possible and what they’re going to do.
5:14
And it’s giving us this little glimpse. Uh, we’ve been talking about AI for 20 years and it’s now here, here, like here, here in tangible and, and accessible. And, uh, it’s incredibly unsettling. Uh, but it’s awesome. And so, um, people are scared abou...
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Happy 2023.
We are tripping into this year with a bit of anxiety: 2022 wasn’t great for most of us, we are still in year 4 of the pandemic, uncertainty on the horizon and ChatGPT ruining our memories of writing high school papers.
There are very few things that make me think that 2023 is going to be a “good year.” And that’s because most of the time I’m looking externally for things to be good. One of the biggest changes I foresee is that many of our expectations and assumptions, especially in the US, are going to be massively disrupted.
Yet fear not! There are ways to cope and attack. The world changing isn’t a problem – it’s a circumstance to respond to. Therefore, I’ve come up with the “Four I’s” of 2023 to help you manage along.
First, Identity. When we must make change – whether it’s a resolution or forced change, we must identify with it for us to manage it well. Our end game and result has to become core to who we are. If your resolution is to lose weight, we have to make “skinny people decisions.” If we want to get a promotion, the identity of that role has to be core to our personality.
The reason is must become core to our being is for when things get crazy and stressful, we default to our basic level. This is why resolutions fail. Our default choice must become the one that changes. And this default is going to be especially necessary as we anchor ourselves for the technological change being thrust upon us.
Second, Intentionality. Presence is a big word. And so is intentionality. Without it, we are aimless. With things like OpenAI arriving and finally, fundamentally, changing the way things get done, we need to be intentional about how we use this technology to better ourselves. We can’t shortcut things anymore – for AI to work, we have to think in new ways and get better results because of it. Ironically, this is different than how we operate today.
Finally, three and four: “Inquisitive Intellectuality.” We need a new way to learn through questions. Yes, we are capable of great things, but it’s going to require us to think in very new ways, with specificity and providing parameters to elevate our way of being. AI will help us in 2023 get there.
Looking ahead, there is a lot more on the horizon. The people who will do well will be those accountable to themselves; those who take ownership and responsibility for their actions and are willing to have the uncomfortable conversations with themselves. Lots of excitement is around the bend – so let’s embrace it and enjoy the ride!
Your Title Goes Here
Your content goes here. Edit or remove this text inline or in the module Content settings. You can also style every aspect of this content in the module Design settings and even apply custom CSS to this text in the module Advanced settings.
Click Here for an Unedited Transcript of the Podcast
Welcome to Bellwether. Happy 2023 Whole new Year. Uh, same old podcast, but it’s still gonna be really good stuff. Today’s episode, we’re gonna talk about 2023, the big plans for the year, what I think is gonna be, uh, incredibly influential for 2023 and what to look out for in 2023. I’ll do a quick recap of 2022 because that, uh, informs much of what I think about 2023, because this is an ongoing cycle and, uh, it’s gonna be, it’s gonna be good.
0:34
Um, it’s gonna be hard, but it’s gonna be good. And this episode I think is really important and I’m really excited about it. Cause there’s really good things, uh, coming up for 2023. Um, let’s start with last year. Let’s start with 2022. It sucked. 2022 sucked. And when we look at 2020, 2021, 20 22, we’re three years of pandemic. We’re entering our fourth year of the pandemic, and it’s probably going to suck as well.
1:04
And you know, I remember back at the beginning of the pandemic, people were talking about how it’s gonna be a 10 year challenge, and people laughed, but that was kind of prescient because we’re now entering, you know, the fourth year of a pandemic, which is crazy. And so, um, coming out the other end, we’re coming into a completely different world, and the amount of change that’s happening is immense. Um, 2022, the third year of the pandemic was a bunch of garbage, uh, war going on.
1:34
Um, this big stupid debate on remote versus hybrid work versus back to the office. Um, this ongoing fear of a recession, the economic downturn that started last year, it’s gonna really kick up, I think in 2023, although some people now are saying it won’t. Um, stupid sayings last year, like quiet quitting and quiet firing and, and all that other stuff. And, um, if you were to package all that up, I would almost say it was just this year of trying to find a place, trying to find relevancy, um, trying to figure out where we fit and come up with something that that would, would resonate.
2:16
And when we do that, it’s just a year of just unknown stress. I call it the fear of the unknown. We know something is coming, we just don’t know when, and we know the facts. We know what’s gonna happen, they just haven’t been realized yet. So it’s always what’s around the corner, what’s around the corner, what’s around the corner? And that’s really been, um, troublesome for a lot of people in 2022.
2:38
It’s gonna continue into 2023. And the challenge with that we have is that we forget about what’s happening today. It’s always what’s around the corner, what’s around the corner? What’s around the corner. So, um, the challenge is, I think general agreement 2022 sucked. Not many people would say, yeah, 2022 was a great year. Um, but mindset has shifted and I think it’s probably laid the groundwork almost like a pain threshold, right?
3:05
The more pain you experience, the the tougher you get. I feel like we have shifted, behaviors have started to change. Uh, mindset has changed. We’re seeing many of the things that we took for granted aren’t actually there. Like everything we took for granted, all the assumptions we had are, were really kept together by like chicken bones and band-aids. And, um, a lot of our expectations and assumptions are going to be disrupted in 2023.
3:33
And it’s not new normal, it’s stupid. Um, but we’re, we’re a little slow to get these new realizations and, and confusion. You know, you go through the grocery store and, and shelves are empty. Um, and, and different things as well. You know, just the things that we would normally have and, and we’re gonna be pinching pennies and, and everything else. And so, you know, is the age of abundance in America over is, is a philosophical question to ponder that I’ve been thinking a lot.
4:03
And what’s the cost of abundance? What have we paid to have everything so readily available, and are we prepared to change for that? And I think that’s a lot of the consumer behavior, it’s big for the US is going to change. It has to change. Um, we are a consumer nation. Uh, even Mr. Rogers used to talk about that. And, and that was his big thing like 40 years ago, was, you know, we’re raising little consumers, but we have to change that.
4:26
We have to change that mentality. And, you know, it’s a personal help of mine that we can kind of change this consumer fashion. But, um, so that’s 2022 that I think that’s the beginning of 2022. And what that means for us for this year, let’s talk about it because in addition to what the ongoing pandemic is going to teach us, um, we have some cool stuff that just came out that’s going to blow our socks off.
4:50
This AI is here, open AI chat, G P t, um, and more. It’s creating the stir. And that’s, um, they’re creating a stir, not for what they can do. Everyone’s talking about, ooh, they can, um, they can write high school kids news, uh, uh, reports and essays, and they can do, you know, they can make our, our meal schedule for the week. It’s more about what’s possible and what they’re going to do.
5:14
And it’s giving us this little glimpse. Uh, we’ve been talking about AI for 20 years and it’s now here, here, like here, here in tangible and, and accessible. And, uh, it’s incredibly unsettling. Uh, but it’s awesome. And so, um, people are scared abou...