The L.D. Sewell Podcast

It's great to be a great driver - but it's not enough to be able to become a successful owner operator. Many drivers find this lesson out the hard way too... If you haven't already taken the leap yet then pause for a moment - just long enough to do your homework and see what it is you are about to leap head first into! Then get the knowledge, skills and information you need to be able to do it and do it right when you do launch your new trucking business. There are really many opportunities available to you and there has never been a better time - despite what some nay sayers say - than right now to start your own trucking company. Whether that is as a single unit solo independent owner operator - or even if your ambitions include becoming a fleet owner and then growing that fleet to as large as you can imagine, and as far as your own determination and drive can take you! Want more information? We will have some new courses coming out very soon on Udemy and we have a coaching and consulting program through our membership available to fleet owners as well as numerous new courses coming out on all aspect of trucking for anyone wanting the information.Stay tuned... We will also be looking for a few Independent Membership Recruiters within the next few weeks - between now and the end of August ... so if you are thinking about that then NOW IS THE TIME to get on our email list before it's too late and you miss out on this opportunity! Visit www.ldsewell.com and then check out the Courses button for more info. Also be sure to sign up for email updates - and PLEASE - Hit the confirmation button when the system sends you the first email!

How Fast Does Your Clock Turn? The speed your day seems to go by to you is a good indicator of how you really feel about your current job, whatever that may be. Whether you are an entry level employee in a big or small company, a manager or supervisor or even the owner. If your day is dragging by then you probably don't much like what you are doing. On the other hand if your hours and the whole work day and even the week flies by - not just once in awhile, but day after day - then you have passion and drive and genuine interest in what it is you are doing. Most people aren't so fortunate... But here is the deal, you CAN be that fortunate too even if you don't have that right now. You can get it. You may even be able to get it right where you are right now by changing the perception of the work you are doing and looking at it in new ways. How can you learn from it, develop skills and talents and gain experience that can serve you well in the near future? Whether that means moving over or up into a more desirable position - or moving on, but taking that knowledge, skill, ability and experience with you and then putting it all to direct use on your own terms. Its all possible. If you believe in yourself and start doing the things you need to be doing then you can change your life. How can you tell when you are on the right track? A good indicator will be when your clock starts spinning and your time begins to fly by!

Truck Driving as a Career Can Be a Great Way to Build a Better Life - But Success Requires Knowledge and Hard Work... There are a lot of people who try to make it as truck drivers. Most quit very quickly too... Many other drivers who do make it a few years and some who make it in the industry for many years, manage to earn a living - but not much more. Yet there are the others, these drivers are a different breed entirely. They are not the ones you find making sad sack videos pontificating about all that is wrong with trucking today. They are not the ones you hear on the CB and in the truck stops bitching whining and complaining either. While others whine and complain these drivers are out there earning money and checking off blocks on their written goals. They are accomplishing more in a few months than the others will ever accomplish in decades. These drivers are top performing company drivers, future and current successful owner operators, and small fleet owners. They have learned how to become successful in trucking - and while others just talk - they are out there getting it done, making their lives into what they decided they wanted. So what about you? If you are currently a driver and are not getting the results you want yet then visit www.ldsewell.com and become a member. For those of you not yet drivers and who are just now looking at the possibility, same thing - visit the site and become a member - or take our course on Udemy. Information is key to being able to make better decisions and get better results faster. Sure you can learn from trial and error alone - or random information here and there. Sometimes it works and sometimes it ends badly. Even when you do learn good lessons through experience - it takes TIME. This is money, and your life. If there are ways you can get the equivalence of years of information in hours, weeks or months - instead of years and decades on your own... would you do it? If so then visit www.ldsewell.com and become one of our first members. You will have direct access to decades worth of information and as the membership grows you will have a whole community of other like minded people working to build their own careers too - and together everybody helps each other become more efficient, more profitable and do it all much sooner.

We Will Be Looking For Independent Membership Recruiters Soon! In this episode I will give you another brief membership update and discuss upcoming Independent Membership Recruiter positions available. In a couple of weeks or so I will begin actually looking for a few good highly motivated recruiters. This is a unique opportunity that will not last long, and that offers you a generous compensation plan. Listen to the podcast if you are interested and then send me an email to [email protected] and put "membership recruiter" in the subject if you want more details. Set your own goals, take a chance - try something different and get a different result - repeat what works, modify and make corrections when it doesn't until you find the right path and then repeat until you achieve your goals. Then set a new goal and repeat.

New Course Completed, Membership Site Now Available and Much More Coming Soon! Its all about working toward gaining more independence and self reliance and determining our own futures instead of following the normal course of indentured servitude and struggling just to get by year after year. There is a better way... Instead of living that way - adopt a new MINDSET - and start thinking differently. Gain some information and training and choose a different course. Do something different to get a different life - and do it now while you still can. Before it is too late. Time is your most valuable commodity and how you use it determines everything else you will ever have or not have in this world. Every single day that passes is either used to the fullest - or it is a lost opportunity that is gone forever. Each of us only has but so many days in this life. How will your spend yours? Its all about choice. Debt is one choice - though I don't recommend it. Being normal is a choice, just keep doing what everybody else tells you to do and remain assimilated. Don't recommend that either, but never the less it is your choice to make. Another choice is to become intentionally abnormal... maybe even a bit Extreme. Choose something much different and you can get much different results. If you have the guts. if you want it. If you want it bad enough to get up and go actually Do Something about getting it that is. Come join the membership at www.ldsewell.com and become part of something different, a community devoted to helping each other build better lives...

Dump Your Debt By ANY and ALL Means Necessary - Then Think About Starting a Micro Business... If you want a better life - something entirely different from what you have now - you can have it - IF you are willing to do whatever it takes to get it. But doing nothing but the same will get nothing more than the same. Think differently and try something else for a change. Consider becoming intentionally abnormal - be different for a change and change your life. Focus on getting out of debt first - then focus on some kind of entrepreneurial activity - a micro or small business, then investments of specific types. Especially real estate. Then you begin to line things up so you can live a long happy and independent life hopefully. Too many people realize too late that they don't have enough resources to live comfortable when they can no longer work - and often that day comes early and unexpected. We all think we have longer than we do... and sooner or later it happens. Age, or illness or an injury or any and all of these things in some combination or another and thats it. Don't wait until its too late - line things up in your favor now while you still can. Otherwise your only hope will be the mercy of others... On the other hand if you get out of debt and build up assets sufficiently while you still can - then you will be able to take care of yourself and those you care about. Then maybe you will even choose to help out someone else who didn't manage to get it together in time. What ever you do, do it intentionally - and start NOW!

Start Your Trucking Career With Eyes Wide Open - Get the Right Information, Have Realistic Expectations and Be Prepared! You can have a great career in trucking and make very good money while building a much better life for yourself and your family - but you cant do any of that if you quit within your first few weeks in trucking! So don't let that happen to you. Do your homework and research all the things you need to know first. Look at all the propaganda without the rose colored glasses and cut through the sales stuff and all the exaggerations and see the real truth. Get an accurate idea of what you are really going to be making. Figure out how much time you are most likely going to spend out on the road away from home and then when you do finally go home - know how much time you will be there before they require you to head back out on the road and do it all again. Get the information you need - then get prepared, set goals, have a plan and get to work on it. While you are at it - if you really want to get ahead and have a much better life - then GET OUT OF DEBT ! That starts the same way - with a decision and then, information combined with effort. Investing a little hard work and effort now will save you a ton of work and frustration and will help make sure you are successful at becoming a professional truck driver - and a top performing one too - instead of just another wannabe who quits...

Design and Build a Better Life of Your Own as an Entrepreneur You have the ability and the power to change your life right now if you want to and are willing to do it. But nobody is going to bring it to you on a silver platter either... If you want something different you have to try to do something different. One way to do that is by running your own business of some kind. But what? Well, for starters it has to be something that is marketable and that there are customers willing to pay for what you want to sell and are able to provide. Too many people choose something solely because they're into it - maybe even great at it - but it wont matter if there is no market for it - what ever it happens to be. Then even if there is a market and there is potential profit available - you must be able to produce and make things happen - not just creating the product - but making sales too. Either you do it or find someone who can who is willing and able to work with you to make it happen. Typically they are going to get paid based on the success they bring - maybe even half of everything that comes in. In some cases less and others more - it just depends - but they will not do it for free, and anyone worth having help you that can actually produce meaningful measurable results - consistently - is going to require that you pay them in direct proportion to the value they bring. So find help. Even if you want to keep working a job - maybe even the very job you now have if that is your choice - you can still better your life immeasurably by working there as an Independent employ vs a Dependent employee. Its a mindset different that changes how you see everything there and how you spend your time and energy. You benefit in numerous ways other than just the paycheck. The knowledge and skills you intentionally acquire can be used later to take you anywhere you can imagine in life if you are willing and able to do the work. The dependent employee doesn't get that - and never will. The dependent employee thinks the company will take care of them, and they wait... Usually they will be sadly and bitterly disappointed. Don't be a dependent employee and don't wait - go get it done yourself for yourself and those you care most about. Line up your finances and your life so you have a surplus of income that grows with each paycheck instead of just scraping by. That way - if you stay there - you do it truly because you CHOOSE to and know that anytime you decide and want to you can easily leave with relative security and confidence because you built your circumstances that way. There is a lot you can do to improve your life both now and for the future. You can also get help with learning how to do almost anything you need to figure out by taking courses online and going to seminars, attending webinars, listening to podcasts, reading books and getting access to other specialized information. There are coaches, consultants, mentors, mastermind groups and all kinds of people who can help you along your journey - but remember you have to do the work. If you cut your expenses and eliminate all big ticket debts asap you can reset your life. You can begin to rebuild it into a new life in all ways that matter. Your choice - make some hard but temporary and extreme changes now - or pay the price and suffer all that indentured servitude brings with it for life... You decide. You have my recommendation - Choose Your Own Course, Build a Better Life!

Trucking Now vs. The Good Old Days They Weren't That Good! Today is the Best Time Ever to Start Trucking... Its funny to listen to some people bitch whine and complain about trucking today and how much they miss the "good old days" . The hard cold truth is they were never that good to begin with. Trucks were nothing compared to what they are today in terms of driver comfort and amenities. Who can honestly tell me they would prefer to have an old cabover with a dog box and a single bunk - with suspension that would knock the filling out of your teeth every time you hit a pot hole, to a modern condo - with almost apartment like features? How about the dimly lit crater sized holes in the parking lots greasy spoon shit holes they used to call truck stops - compared to a modern travel center with all its bells and whistles? Stand in line for a pay phone - if you could even find one that worked and that you could hear good enough to hear the other person speak on or they could understand you either for that matter. Technology and the internet make this the best time in the history of trucking to become a truck driver so far - if you are motivated and willing to work hard and smart, you can build yourself an incredible life. While some are bitching moaning and complaining you can be raking in the cash and working toward building yourself a secure and prosperous future. But you have to do it. Not the trucking company. Not society. Not the government. Not the past either... your future is what ever you make it. It can be great or it can suck rocks. But you are the one in the drivers seat of your own life. Become a rolling recruiter. Run as a team with your significant other - if you have one. Educate your self - not for some BS degree that means not jack shit, but with real information that matters in the real world that you can actually use to do something. Don't get me wrong - a degree in and of itself is not a bad thing necessarily - but there are a hell of a lot of highly educated baristas and waiters out there... Just saying... Credential themselves don't mean much if there is no market for what you have credentials in - or if practical skills to keep the job and excel at it aren't really there even after you get the job. Getting through the door and being successful are two significantly different things. There are a lot of people who have the degrees and who have the credentials and who can't find any jobs at all in those fields! WTF So if that is you - you can whine - or you can choose a different path. Meanwhile at the same time you are working some shit job you hate for chump change - trucking is thousands of drivers short and just waiting for you! It offers you massive opportunity... and it doesn't hold over priced damn near worthless degrees against people who have them either. If you can handle being gone, and what trucking requires from you - it will give you much in return. It will give you opportunity - opportunity to take it to what ever level you are motivated and smart enough to achieve - if you do the work. But be fore warned lazy, whiny people expecting something for nothing need not apply - it spits such people out after chewing them to shreds before the ink even dries good. Consider yourself - can you handle it? If you can then what are you waiting for? Start doing your homework and get the information you need and then get started!

Is There a Problem With Normal Living? Normal living for most people means going off to work day in and day out week in and week out, year after year to earn a living. Taking almost all of what they make to make ends meet - and for some the ends don't meet and they fall further and further behind in spite of their efforts. Other people do a little better and are able to afford a few more luxuries in life - by financing them all of course. The ski boat, motorcycles, RV - maybe even a vacation home on the lake or in the mountains. The weekends are great ! But come Monday morning, back to the grind. The mortgages and the loans on all this stuff have to be paid. So many other people never have to worry about that second home or all the big shiny toys - they are far too busy trying to just keep the lights on and the roof over their heads and food on their tables and take care of their families. Its hard to do some times. For far too many its hard to do all the time. For them and many more like them - the only thing separating them from being out on the street literally is just a couple of paychecks. What about you - how are you doing? So long as nothing falls out of alignment too much - and if they can just hang on til the pay hits the bank account on the next payday - then all is OK and they live to do it all over again the following week. Of course there is a lot of stress at times. Maybe even some finger pointing and blame when something comes up unexpectedly and there is no money to take care of it. Maybe a car repair, or appliance that breaks down. It could be a medical bill not covered by insurance - if there is any insurance. Other times it might be an opportunity to go on a vacation or a trip - but one that has to be passed on because there is no money. Spending money on that would mean the rent or mortgage payment couldn't be paid, and or something else would have to give. Do that and its just a slippery slope to the homeless shelter or worse. Some people would like to go find a better job - but they cant. To do that would mean taking time off work to go look. Then the current employer may find out and the existing job goes away - that would give them plenty of time but no transition money. Not good. So what do they do? They stay that's what. They just keep plugging away getting a little more bitter year after year. Why do you think get rich quick programs and all manner of sleazy internet marketing programs do so well so often? They are not all sleazy or BS programs - some good ones exist, even a few really good ones that teach fair ways to make good money by providing products and or services that add value to their customers lives - more value ideally than they even pay for in some cases. But for every such product there are thousands of gimmicky crappy programs pushed hard too - because they still sell! Some sell very very well too. This is because so many people are desperately searching for a better way to make a living and have a life in the process. A way to earn good money without giving up everything else in exchange for it. Some way to do meaningful work that is somehow both satisfying and that truly benefits other people - to make a difference in the world. Some can't see that far. They are just sick and tired of working their asses off and having nothing to show for it - except debt and stress and a bunch of junk bought on credit. There is danger there too - even for those who don't yet personally have a problem with living a normal life at all - in fact they embrace it and cant seem to understand the fascination with entrepreneurship, minimalism, unconventional housing - and especially the tiny house thing... To them all such things are just silly - or maybe even stupid. Unrealistic childish ideas, nothing more - so far as they are concerned anyway. In their lives everything is more or less good. Sure they are busting their tails working insane hours. The work isn't their ideal - nor any kind of calling at all - other than for the paycheck. That part is good and that is what they are there for int the first place. So everything is more or less going along just fine. Big money - got it. Title - got it. Prestige - ability to impress friends, family, coworkers and damn near anyone else too - yep got all that. But what happens as soon as there is a little hiccup? Say the company shuts down? Or their position is eliminated after a merger. Maybe they get sick or injured and can't keep pace and or do the work at all anymore? Divorce? Stuff happens as they say. Sure - most people can get another job - eventually. Sure they can find a job doing something at least if they try hard enough. The problem is that takes some time - meanwhile all the bills still have to be paid - don't they? Even when the new job is found it may be at a lesser amount. Sometimes much less. Creditors and merchants don't care. Your debt remains the same - except for the addition of the fees and interest they keep jacking into it! Fail to replace that high paying income fast enough and start losing all that financed stuff. That will really get the ole stress pump going and make its meter go off the charts pretty fast too! Imagine instead of being trapped under a mountain of debt and expenses - having no debt at all. Now imagine having minimal monthly expenses that are half of what ever they are now - but still having the exact same income. Imagine that. If you could have that could you finally get some traction in your life and make some real and noticeable progress finally? How would your stress level be if you earned so much money and had so few expenses and no debts - so you could save half or more of your income each month? Would that be good? That might allow you to pursue other options easier. Or even if you stayed in your same line of work - even doing the same thing - you would have a whole new perspective, and look at everything completely different - because then you would be there only because you choose to be and want to be - knowing full well that you could easily leave anytime you like and would have plenty of time to find and start a new job making more than enough. So no stress. No feeling of being trapped. No more wage slavery. Then you work by choice - not compulsion. Then you get ahead instead of just getting by. Got it? That's the general idea as I see it anyway. You may see it how ever you like - how do you see it by the way? Are you really happy with your your job, income, finances overall - and your life just as everything is now? There are options available if you want to change your life. If you don't want to change then keep doing as you are and keep expecting the same old same old too. So long as that is what you want, more power to you and its all good. But the moment you decide you have had enough and you want something different - you want a better life. A life of your own design - what ever that may be, then you can start figuring out how to go out in the real world and go get it. All of life involves choices. You can go with the flow, be normal and keep on keeping on - or you can choose a new course and head off in a different direction entirely. That's another choice too. You have to figure out who you really are, what you really want - then get up off your ass and go get it if you want your life to ever change. Nobody is coming to serve you a new and better life on a platter. Serve yourself or go without. So in the end whether normal is good, bad or something else - it all depends on what it is to you. So what say you? Happy as is - or do you want to shoot for a better life of your own? 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