The Jerry Banfield Show

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Vocabulary has an amazing power to change moods, feelings, lifestyles, and destiny because of how we associate words with our life’s experience. When I was in fourth grade, I started using cuss words as often as I could get away with meaning that I consciously made a decision to start communicating with the four letter word method. At thirty years old, I became aware that I was still behaving this way and it was imitating my ability to effectively communicate with sensitive and healthy people. Today I am grateful that I only use curse words when it seems most appropriate to share with a specific person in a relevant situation. What amazes me is seeing how much better my life LOOKS and FEELS without calling everything a nasty word all day every day. Words and labels have an epic capacity to define an experience for us as I explain in the video with using words like overwhelmed, frustrated, and fear often in my life. One way to work on solving any problem in life is to stop saying the word behind it by replacing that word with a similar word that is felt more gently. For example, I am replacing the word overwhelmed with supermaned to demonstrate a similar reality and to modify it in a favorable way. With the word fear, I am changing to sucked into the void. The understanding of the experience is similar but being sucked into the void sounds almost funny whereas being afraid seems like no fun at all. For frustrated, I am switching to inconvenienced because it gives the same sense with a lighthearted response instead of a heavy emotion. As I craft my new book called Speaker Meeting 2017 tonight and talk about sex in it, my exercise is to emphasize strongly my vocabulary and to obtain victory over a superman subject with little dynamic wordsmithing. Thank you very much for joining me for this episode of Happier People podcast and vlog! I hope you have a magnificent day!

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Would you believe that every person has the potential to be a New York Times bestselling author, grammy winning musician, oscar winning actor, olympic gold medalist, prom queen, world’s best mom, employee of the year, or any other role we might think of as amazing, inspiring, and achieving? What seems to stop most of us is fear. Ironically it does not seem to be fear of failure but fear of being successful. I have had a book idea called Speaker Meeting 2017 for months that I have a huge passion for and as a reader would absolutely love to read another person’s speaker meeting book in the exact same format. Why then have I been dodging doing this book like it is my job? I have made everything but this book! Many of the videos I have made have been nothing more than lame attempts to get views with no passion. Hours and hours have passed where I could have wrote a book from my heart and soul while instead I settled for doing what was easy. This is the trap nearly every artist in any form whether it be amazing parent, helpful sibling, or a heartfelt teacher is likely to get into. What happens if I really do make a bestselling book? If I really share from the heart, then I will have no excuse and nowhere to hide when the critics shred the work to pieces. I am learning today as a video producer, musician, teacher, dad, husband, friend, and family member to share from the heart. In most of my personal life, I have had huge breakthroughs and improvements. Now I am grateful to see the same in my work with today finally starting my Speaker Meeting 2017 book. While I have made a lot of videos which involved hardly any fear, I was very nervous to record the first chapter today. Resistance to this book has come in many forms and today I am seeing that is my sign that there is my work to do. Even in doing this podcast episode, I realized I had not completed my exercise from yesterday which nearly blocked me from doing this podcast episode with you because I was afraid of showing up and telling you I forgot to do what I said I was going to do yesterday! Thankfully I realized fear was blocking me from doing the episode and after taking time to google my question from yesterday, I stopped short of signup and did the podcast. My exercise today is to now follow up with the one from yesterday because there must also be fear there of having my problem solved. What if I am able to cut the interest rates on my student loans in half and cut the payment down to 7 years instead of 30? Fear of success is an absurd and powerful fear today I am just learning about and am happy to share here with you today. Thank you for reading this and I hope you enjoy this episode of Happier People podcast!

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See my willingness today to ask bold questions to solve huge challenges in my life such as getting out of $270,000 in debt and gain inspiration to do the same in your life! Would you help me learn how to get a 3% loan for a total amount of $300,000 whether it be 300 $1,000 loans or one loan for the entire amount? In helping me learn how to do this, you will empower me to help others do the same. With so many debt crises nearly certain events in our future, I am seeking to help as many others get out of owing money on student loans, credit cards, and personal loans because I want the same results as well. People who are debt free have a much easier time being financially independent. Financially independent people then are in a great position to help others get out of debt and do what they love each day.

What I hope you enjoy listening to this is seeing the courage I have to ask a different question instead of being ashamed of my debt and never speaking it. The questions I used to ask were “How did I get in this much debt?" Who let me borrow this much money? Why was I led to believe getting a college degree would be worth going into debt over? Where am I ever going to find the money to pay this off? How can I ever save for retirement when I have so much debt? Who is to blame for letting me get in this position?

Asking these types of questions kept me frustrated and avoiding finding solutions. I hope today as you see my willingness to look into my family’s massive debt and ask for help that you are inspired to look into any situation in your own life and do the same. My exercise for today is to continue asking the question and seeking answers. Sharing it here with you gives me the courage to keep looking and I appreciate you reading this description of Happier People podcast here with me!

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Hear how asking better questions gives me better results each day by allowing me to continue to solve problems and enjoy what I do! I am learning the power of asking questions like "What Will I Do Today to Help You The Most" instead of "How do I make the most money today" or "What is wrong with my business" or "Why is this competitor doing so good" or "What can I do to be on top" or "Where do they think they get the right" or "What is wrong with my web hosting company?" Substituting better questions like "What do I love about my business" and "What will I learn from this competitor" and "What can I do to be most helpful" and "Where do I learn how to improve" and "What is the best managed WordPress web hosting company using Google Cloud Platform" allow me to make advances every day which add up to a lot of return over time! My exercise for today is to continue asking what I will do today to help you the most which I have been doing since I recorded this. Thank you for reading this and I hope you enjoy this episode of Happier People podcast!

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Would you believe how challenging it has been for me to find a website hosting provider that works within the limitations of my business online? When I started my business 5 years ago, cost was a huge factor and branding played a big part in my decision. I did my own research and chose some hosting provider I had never heard of before. There hosting was a nightmare for my WordPress website and I switched next to Google sites. While their hosting was outstanding, the content management system they use is in house and very limiting in features. From Google Sites I moved to a HostGator dedicated server which was fast with 100 visitors or so per day but cost over $4,000 a year. To save money and accept that my business did not merit a dedicated server, I switched to GoDaddy VPS which was horrible. When I tried to cancel, GoDaddy sold me on managed WordPress which is exactly what I needed. With a few hundred visitors a day and not taking orders on my website, my GoDaddy worked good. Once I hit 1,000+ visitors a day with many customers trying to place orders in my website, everything came tumbling down. Customers were being charged twice, order pages were not loading, and suddenly I found that GoDaddy had no option to even upgrade. I almost switched to BlueHost after they made me a custom affiliate offer of $80 per sign up but then in the processing of switching the entire experience was horrible. While GoDaddy had done a free migration live on the phone from HostGator, BlueHost charges $199 to migrate a website and the chat support did not even tell me I could order it with my plan. After making this episode in complete frustration, I was inspired to do more research. After hours more of Googling and reading post after post linking to affiliate program after affiliate program and remembering this podcast episode, I thought why not see if Google has a WordPress hosting solution? It turns out THEY DO using the Google Cloud Program or GCP. This service is similar to Amazon Web Services or AWS in that it is cloud based computing. My experience with Google sites taught me that Google is unmatched for fast hosting and a few times Googling Google WordPress Hosting led me to google "Managed WordPress Hosting with Google Cloud" which led me to Kinsta. Kinsta apparently hosts many huge websites like those by Intuit, creator of Turbotax and owner of Mint.com. While Kinsta does not have a plan for less than $100 a month, they offer top tier speed and scaling according to an independent and not affiliated review website. They offer a simple setup by hosting through Google Cloud Platform which removes the difficulties of setting my own WordPress installation up there. What I hope you get out of this episode is seeing the value of persistence and continuing to keep asking deeper questions. It is no coincidence that just an hour after doing this episode and crying in frustration, I found the hosting solution I needed. My exercise for this episode was to practice gratitude for having so many easy to choose from options which is exactly what I did which led me to signup with Kinsta right after messaging BlueHost to cancel and provide a full refund. I appreciate you reading this and hope this episode of Happier People podcast is helpful for you!

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After experiencing a 24 hour stomach virus between the last episode and this one, hear how I find the courage to show up here again today even when I can only do the episode laying in bed on my iPhone! What I hope to have explained in this episode is how I build courage on a daily basis to feel the pain that is here in exchange for making a life filled with more pleasure tomorrow. Today as I feel sick, I am amazed to see how insane I used to be to drink alcohol for short term pleasure at the expense of a miserable hangover many of the next days. Now I understand better that making short term pain and pleasure decisions like "what can I do to avoid the most pain and gain the most pleasure today" often as the probable cost of more pain and less pleasure the next day is what kept me stuck in an insane life for so long. What felt impossible to me was to break the cycle of buying a product today for a little pleasure that would bring me pain the next day in seeing how much it cost, taking a drink of alcohol while laughing at the idea of being sick the next day, and procrastination in becoming a better person. Thankfully my decisions became so painful that by grace I was released from the cycle and obtained a willingness to do anything to make a better life for myself and for everyone on earth even if it means a little bit of pain today in order to build a better tomorrow. Thank you very much for reading this and I hope you enjoy this episode of Happier People podcast!

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Hear what I would share with myself now to be heard 10 years ago in this open letter of advice to myself!

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Hear my first live episode of Happier People podcast here as I make what I think is a crazy and genuine offer to help with any problem in your life based on seeking your help with bettering my life and based on what works for me every day. In this episode I share the simple system that works for me every day to fix all of the problems in my life one at a time starting with the biggest problem and then expanding into anything. As you see me offer to work with you on a complete fix during a 30 minute call today starting at $299 on Patreon, I hope you will be inspired to share your outrageous offers with the world because you and I just might get a yes! Thank you for reading this and I hope you enjoy this episode of Happier People podcast recorded live on YouTube and Facebook!

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Experience the magic of hearing how helping my crying baby in the middle of the night is my greatest joy rather than a chore or life giving me a hard time. Last night my daughter was up for two hours in the middle of the night. What do you think of and feel when considering having two hours of sleep disrupted, facing fear of not getting enough sleep for the next day, anxiety about will sleep ever come, and more thoughts like this that might come when helping a child, baby, or family member get back to bed in the middle of the night. For most of my life, anything that disrupted my sleep bought out a lot of negative feels from me. With the system I describe in this episode of Happier People podcast, I am grateful now that what could be a hard time instead is a time of great joy as I get time to hug, love, and appreciate my baby girl. Instead of wishing she would go to sleep, I remember how much I wanted to have her in my life. While thoughts come of fear of not enough sleep, they are dismissed easily because I normally aim for ten hours of sleep every night. Who cares if I miss a couple hours even every night? As I consider when to get up and help her, I am grateful to have an understanding with my wife that she determines when to help our daughter and I make myself available to be asked to help when the time is right. After thirty minutes last night, my wife tapped me in and I enjoyed spending the next hour with my daughter followed by thirty more minutes as she went from very sleepy to sound asleep. The reason I share this is to show how anything in life is all about how I see it and to help me remember to make a decision to enjoy each challenge in my life. My exercise for this episode was to be on the lookout today for any task I was going to consider as a chore and rethink it. As my identify was not able to be verified just hours after making this for my new Health Savings Account, I saw that I would have to send the documents in via mail and immediately I switched to “what a chore this is BS” thinking mode. Thankfully remembering this podcast allowed me to snap out it in seconds instead of complaining years later about it as I have done with many things just like this in my life. Thank you for reading this and I hope you enjoy this episode of Happier People podcast!

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