The Prodigy Kid Podcast

I can thank one of my coaches, JoshForti, for helping me figure out The Prodigy Kid Blueprint. If it wasn't for the training I took Nate to, and the subsequent coaching with him it would have never come about. The beauty of hiring coaches is that it puts you on the RIGHT PATH faster than if you tried to figure it out yourself. The Prodigy Kid Blueprint is the essence of what Prodigy Kid is all about and I look forward to sharing it with you!!!! Go to ProdigyKIdBlueprint.com to sign up to learn more about it!

When I wrote The Prodigy Kid book after my near death experience I committed to waking up every morning at 530am and starting writing ASAP thereafter. 40 days straight of doing that I had a really good rough draft.
One of the chapters in TPK book talks about the importance of your morning routine. In my case, I normally wake up at 830am every day. Starting tomorrow, I'm waking up at 530 every day to work on Prodigy Kid. If I work 3 hours every day by the time I normally wake up, that's an extra 21 hours per week! Not only that, but I will already have momentum for the day and will be NIGHT and day more productive.
New Years is in a couple of weeks, why not start IMMEDIATELY!?

If you ignore your health, IT WILL GO AWAY!
Hands down, the most important thing for entrepreneurs AND EVERYONE is your health, without it you have nothing.
I am a prime example of how your life can be disrupted because of chronic illness, and now Nate is an example with his broken leg and surgery of how quick an injury can change EVERYTHING!

This Thanksgiving episode has me thankful for a lot. Nate was cut off by a truck the other day and broke his leg pretty bad. The bottom part of his leg snapped in half. A ride in an ambulance, a few nights in the hospital and a major surgery and I can tell you I'm VERY thankful for all of those things IT WAS NOT! It could have been much worse. In this episode I talk about how I'm going to approach the next 6-8 weeks while he heals up. He's been a little down as you would expect, and I've been in overdrive helping him to see the positives in the situation and to have gratitude that it wasn't worse. There are some new habits WE are going to get into that I discuss in this episode.

I was sharing with Nate how Elon Musk is taking a lot of criticism right now about how he is reducing Twitter's workforce, but in reality it is brilliant because it brings the Principle of 80/20 into it. The rule which I personally think should be a "LAW" would show that 20% of Twitter's workforce before the takeover are probably responsible for 80% of the results. Removing the 80% of the workforce that is only getting 20% of the results is key to a healthy business.
I also related back to my own business and a recent decision to cull/sell some of my accounts using the same 80/20 Principle.
Whole point is not to talk about my business, or Elon's, but to look for stories every day and things that happen to relate back to a teaching lesson from Prodigy Kid or Life in general. That's what I do with Nate!

One of the most important books out there, "Think and Grow Rich", by Napoleon Hill, has been a VERY important part of my life and success! 
In this episode I share what I think is the most important gift given by Mr. Hill, "The Self Confidence Formula".  
If you don't know what "The Self Confidence Formula" is, YOU NEED TO!

As Nate is approaching his mid-teens I'm so thankful for the partnership we have with our business. My dad jokes that, "he's going away for 4 or 5 years and you'll get him back when he's 19 or 20." Meaning the teen years can be rough. We'll see, but I'm hoping that our business will keep our mutual respect and relationship strong. I had 2 calls from school this week, and I can see how my handling of the school situation could really negatively affect our relationship for better or worse.  There is nothing better to me to teach life lessons, skills and relationship building than to be in business. So far our mutual family business has been a beacon in the storm waters, and something tells me that this parenting approach is going to be an AWESOME asset. Time will tell. One  thing for sure is I'm documenting ALL of it good and bad!!!

One of the biggest misconceptions about success is to, "Never Give UP!" Sometimes you have to use your best judgement and know to give up. Not all goals are meant to be. "Unanswered prayers", can be HUGE blessings in disguise! The best thing to do is to create GIANT level 10 goals, like Elon Musk wanting to colonize Mars, and never give up on the BIG goals. You have to be ready to review, revise, and change course when needed.

I ran into my homeroom/anatomy + physiology teacher from high school today and we talked about Prodigy Kid. He definitely agreed that some of the kids that came through his class had no business being in there and should have been doing something different. As he went through The Prodigy Kid book he was making it clear that while entrepreneurship is not for everyone, the wisdom and success oriented knowledge in there can benefit all kids. He said, "In reality, EVERYONE!"

There was one day specifically that Nate said, "Why would anybody want a job?" In that moment it, "CLICKED", for him. He has front row seats to the trail I'm riding, and now it is going to become more apparent to him as I take the next 5 months off to try and heal my body while getting Prodigy Kid off the ground. A normal job doesn't just let you take off a few months to rest and launch your passion project. All my hard work the past 2 years and LITERAL, "blood, sweat and tears", is giving me this unique opportunity to RESET. The BIG learning lesson for him over the next few months will be that you can be in business and, "own", your job or you can, "own", a business. I am taking a leap of faith and stopping being a TECHNICIAN in my traditional lawn business and will OWN a business.