What would you do on your groundhog day? Sometimes it feels like the things in your life are just going round and round and you don’t know what direction you’re headed in. But you need to ask yourself if it was groundhog day what day would you be happy with? In life, you need to find your passion and do what you love. If you feel there is an emptiness inside and an in-balance in your life you need to make a change and empower yourself to do something that excites you.

Garth passionately believes in helping others and teaching our young people about the things they don’t learn in school, the things that will prepare them for life. He’s found his passion and you can too. Tune in =, to find out more.

“Be the change that you want to see”

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Sometimes your body and your system will tell you that what you’re doing is not what you want to. If you feel empty and lost you need to find what you love and follow your passion.

You need to find a sense of direction and ask yourself: what is it you really want to be doing while you’re on this planet?  If you have to live your life like a groundhog day, what type of day would you want to have?

Find something that empowers you, excites you or have benefits and gifts for other people. You can use your knowledge to help people and educate and inspire them

There is an innocence and a hunger in our young people and we must use this to their advantage. It’s important if you can guide, nurture, challenge and inspire your peers. All of the time.

 

BEST MOMENTS

“Young people are the most vulnerable and areseem  growing up in a world that they know nothing about”

VALUABLE RESOURCES

The Richest Man In Babylon

 

ABOUT THE HOST

Garth Clarke is the CEO of Version 1.1, a youth engagement company that offers education, training, support and opportunities to the young people. Garth has been passionately working with young people for many years now. Through the Truth 4 The Youth Podcast, he aims to reach each of the young people around the world to share his passion and change their lives.

CONTACT METHOD

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You are an undisputed original. You are authentic and there’s none like you. Today, Garth talks about being authentically you and what it really means to be original.

He breaks down what it means to be authentic and why it’s essential to recognise who you really are in life, so you can be successful, do the things you want to do and achieve your goals and dreams. Being authentic means to be of undisputed origin and not a copy. To be genuine.

“Be the change that you want to see”

KEY TAKEAWAYS

It doesn’t matter how old you are, there’s always going to be someone around telling you how to act, what to believe and how you should conduct yourself. There will always be someone around telling you what to do and how to do it. So be original, be you.

Being authentic means when all is said and done, you are undisputedly you. There’s no doubt of your originality. But sometimes we forget ourselves and we listen to others perceived intellect and we let it affect us and let it change us.

When we are beating ourselves up and wishing to be like someone else we are wasting our precious time. If you want to emulate someone's success, that’s great. But do it in your own way. Don’t be pushed or bullied or coerced into a decision, listen to yourself because you are an undisputed original.

BEST MOMENTS

“Move to the beat of your own drum.”

“Nobody knows you like you”

“Be wary of where you’re getting your advice from and filter it.”

ABOUT THE HOST

Garth Clarke is the CEO of Version 1.1, a youth engagement company that offers education, training, support and opportunities to the young people. Garth has been passionately working with young people for many years now. Through the Truth 4 The Youth Podcast, he aims to reach each of the young people around the world to share his passion and change their lives.

CONTACT METHOD

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If you’ve got big goals and dreams and ambitions for what you want to do. A big element of your success will come down to your environment. You have to ask yourself, does your environment support your goals? Does it push you towards them? Your environment is a very important thing, and in today’s episode, Garth shares with you why you don’t have to stay in lane, in the game of life. You can move and you can find an environment that can help you grow, reach a new level and push you to achieve the things you want to achieve.

“Be the change that you want to see”

KEY TAKEAWAYS

To be successful and to do the things you want to do, may result in a change of environment. This can be a range of changes, to your family, friends, relationships, location and more. Don’t limit yourself because of the environment you’re currently in.

Stop beating yourself and realise that the things you need to do to be successful need to be done in a certain environment, around certain people. Maybe that’s the reasons you’re not yet achieving what you want to achieve.

Your environment should reflect you and what you want to be. If you want to be a millionaire, you need to start hanging around with millionaires. No one said you can’t grow your network and find others that can teach you and help bring you up. If you aspire to be more, you need to be around the people that do that more.

BEST MOMENTS

“Where you start and where you’re at right now, doesn’t have to be where you finish.”

“No one says you have to stay in lane, in the game of life.”

:You can’t help everybody else on the way up”

ABOUT THE HOST

Garth Clarke is the CEO of Version 1.1, a youth engagement company that offers education, training, support and opportunities to the young people. Garth has been passionately working with young people for many years now. Through the Truth 4 The Youth Podcast, he aims to reach each of the young people around the world to share his passion and change their lives.

CONTACT METHOD

Garth’s LinkedIn

It’s important to know where you’re going, how you’re going to get there and to have a written plan of action. In today’s episode of Truth 4 The Youth, Garth talks about direction and momentum and how important it is to know where you’re going and what you want to achieve so that you can be successful.

“Be the change that you want to see”

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Don't keep it all in your head and get angry or frustrated. If you don’t want to take a step backwards in life you need to have a plan. Sometimes there’s order and then there’s not as much order, there are chaos and disorganisation. But if you want to succeed and progress you need to have a plan and a direction. You need to have steps you want to follow, things you want to act, results you want to achieve and timelines to follow.

You can think about what you want to do today but there’s a lot of stuff that will get in your way and you’ll forget what it is that you wanted to do. Successful people don’t try and remember they plan and they direct so that their life is like clockwork.

Are you doing what you need to do to access that money? Are you doing it every day? You need to get your goals and dreams out of your head so that you can get a plan, write it down and direct yourself towards them. Once you do this you’ll have clarity everyday, a direction to follow and an urgency to take action.

BEST MOMENTS

“Motivation follows direction”

ABOUT THE HOST

Garth Clarke is the CEO of Version 1.1, a youth engagement company that offers education, training, support and opportunities to the young people. Garth has been passionately working with young people for many years now. Through the Truth 4 The Youth Podcast, he aims to reach each of the young people around the world to share his passion and change their lives.

CONTACT METHOD

Garth’s LinkedIn

Why is it that some people pay to go to school, and other people don’t? Why in a world where we’re all the same would they design a system where there is a separate level of education for those that can afford to pay for it?

Some of us are being wired to fail. To be held back, to stay at a certain level and to only know and learn some things. In today’s episode of Truth 4 The Youth, Garth shares his views on why our youth are being wired to fail!

“Be the change that you want to see”

KEY TAKEAWAYS

We have been wired to fail. Whatever private school kids are being taught, definitely isn’t being taught in public schools.  

Those who are in the know realise that they need to get their kids through the private school system so that they can learn the things you pay to learn. That you don’t get taught in public school.

Did you know that less than 7% of children in this country go to private school? But 48% of conservative MP’s went to private school. Almost half of the party, that’s running our country went to private school.

Almost one-third of the MP’s (14% of Labour MP’s 17% of Liberal Democrats MP’s) in the house of Commons went to private school. And where do you think they’re sending their kids. To private school.

You need to want to rewire yourself and change how you think, change how you behave and you will change your outcomes. Don’t simply conform to what they sell you at school, find who you are, stay in touch with that and you will get what you want.

BEST MOMENTS

“Some of our children are being wired to fail.”

“You can’t be at the top if there isn’t a bottom”

 

ABOUT THE HOST

Garth Clarke is the CEO of Version 1.1, a youth engagement company that offers education, training, support and opportunities to the young people. Garth has been passionately working with young people for many years now. Through the Truth 4 The Youth Podcast, he aims to reach each of the young people around the world to share his passion and change their lives.

CONTACT METHOD

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In today’s episode of Truth 4 The Youth, your host Garth Clarke shows you why it’s important to Hold On To What You Got and change your mindset about money, spending and what you need to build your future. Whether you have money or not, this episode is for you.

“Be the change that you want to see”

KEY TAKEAWAYS

The simple solution to money is stop spending. What you’ve got will never be enough so you might as well put some aside to build for your future.

No matter how much money you have you need to save a portion of it.  Save 10% of what you’ve got. It doesn’t matter what the amount is, it’s the mindset behind it.

Your mindset about money is essential to success. Take your time to build your knowledge on what you want and what you need and use your mindset around money to facilitate it.

Put the money in the bank so that you can’t touch it. Use the banking system for your own purposes. This is the first stepping stone towards your financial freedom.

BEST MOMENTS

If what you’ve got isn’t enough then it makes no different putting some money away

You need to start saving now, to build for your future

Stop spending everything you get and start saving your money

ABOUT THE HOST

Garth Clarke is the CEO of Version 1.1, a youth engagement company that offers education, training, support and opportunities to the young people. Garth has been passionately working with young people for many years now. Through the Truth 4 The Youth Podcast, he aims to reach each of the young people around the world to share his passion and change their lives.

CONTACT METHOD

Garth’s LinkedIn

In today’s episode, Garth tells you to Mind Your Own Business and to focus on yourself and what YOU want to achieve. Even if the people you follow are your heroes or your idols. People will do more for their heroes and their idols that they will for themselves. Be careful of who you follow and who your heroes are. Be careful of how much time and effort you put into supporting others. Make sure that you’re spending more time and effort on yourself and on your life than on anyone else's.

“Be the change that you want to see”

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Are you that passionate and that involved in their own life?

Are you putting enough effort into your passion or the things that you want to do?

When are you going to achieve something that you can be proud of?

People who own their own business or are a success will focus solely on themselves, more so than the success of others, even if they are their heroes or idols.

By minding your own business and focusing on yourself you will get more done and you will become a success. It won’t happen if you are focused on what others are doing.

Don’t use the success of others to hide what you are yet to succeed at. Don’t use your support for others as an excuse why you can’t do what you want to do.

BEST MOMENTS

“Be the one that’s followed, not the one who’s following.”

“It’s those that mind their own business that will be successful and become business owners and CEO’s of companies.”

ABOUT THE HOST

Garth Clarke is the CEO of Version 1.1, a youth engagement company that offers education, training, support and opportunities to the young people. Garth has been passionately working with young people for many years now. Through the Truth 4 The Youth Podcast, he aims to reach each of the young people around the world to share his passion and change their lives.

CONTACT METHOD

Garth’s LinkedIn

In today’s episode, Garth talks about why it's difficult to do, what you know you have to do and the importance of behind the scenes preparation. Success doesn’t happen when everybody is watching, success happens in the process and in the preparation to be great.  

Garth explains how to get yourself educated and begin setting measured and planned goals. When you have a clear and a written plan and you'll soon realise that it doesn't take that much work to get to where you want to go and achieve what you want to achieve.

Don't just invest in your education. Invest in your education and then take action.

“Be the change that you want to see”

KEY TAKEAWAYS

It's the work you put in behind the scenes that is more important than what happens in front of other people. It's the moments when you're alone and you're talking to yourself, reasoning with yourself and making a decision. These are the moments that will define your life.

If we haven't got the things that we want to have in life, there must be a reason. It’s most likely that your initial reason or your why isn't big enough to achieve the goals.

Tie in and buy into the fact that you can help people whenever you can. If you're not developing yourself and your skill set all of the time you can't help others.

You need measured and planned goals that you can work towards. If you did one small thing per day, every day over a year you will see a difference. The things that you do will compound and have an impact on your life.

BEST MOMENTS

"Even after I learnt I didn't take action"

"Get that one thing done, every day"

"You are the only one present in your life, all of the time 24/7"

“The real magic happens behind the scenes, the real magic isn't seen”

“In every area of life, there's preparation that takes place, a process that has to happen”

ABOUT THE HOST

Garth Clarke is the CEO of Version 1.1, a youth engagement company that offers education, training, support and opportunities to the young people. Garth has been passionately working with young people for many years now. Through the Truth 4 The Youth Podcast, he aims to reach each of the young people around the world to share his passion and change their lives.

CONTACT METHOD

Garth’s LinkedIn

In today’s episode, Garth challenges peer pressure and how you too, can do the right thing and stand up for what’s right and what’s good. Sometimes it takes one person to stand up, to make two people leave the room. Discover what peer pressure really is, and why nobody really wants to do the wrong thing, make the wrong the decisions and lead others down the wrong path, there are just reasons and circumstances behind it.

Learn what’s right so you can know what’s wrong, and how to avoid it in today’s episode of ‘Truth 4 The Youth’

“Be the change that you want to see”

KEY TAKEAWAYS

What peer pressure really is? Something somebody is going to do or encourage you to be a part of when you know it’s wrong and you know deep down it’s not the right thing to do, but because of your situation and the group of peers around you, you're considering doing the thing young you know you shouldn’t.

You have an overriding feeling telling you it’s wrong, but also a powerful sense of pressure and want to give in to the peer pressure and impress and support your family, friends or partner encouraging you do to it.

We’ve all given in to peer pressure but do not get comfortable in doing the wrong thing, do not get complacent because it seemed okay the first time, because the effects of your pressured decisions seep out and impact on your life.

Guage yourself with the people you surround yourself with and if you find yourself with a group of people that constantly make you feel uncomfortable and play down the decisions that are wrong you’re being peer pressured.

What is weak? What is soft? It isn’t to stand up and walk away from something because you know it’s the right thing to do to. It isn’t to show courage and to stick to what you should do and what you realise is right.

Monitor your internal temperature gauge and don’t allow yourself to play down the natural inclination of making that next decision, do the things that you know are right and are inherently good. The more you do something you more you become it so don’t allow yourself to do it in the first place.

Not giving in to peer pressure is hard and it takes strength, to show what you're about and to stick to your morals and what you know is right. Regardless of the consequences and pressure to do so.

BEST MOMENTS

“Live on the side of the fence that’s free of guilt and worry”

“If you know what’s right then you know what’s wrong”

“Because the result of our actions do not show up immediately it’s hard for us to see the wrong in what we do and what we’re pressured into doing”

ABOUT THE HOST

Garth Clarke is the CEO of Version 1.1, a youth engagement company that offers education, training, support and opportunities to the young people. Garth has been passionately working with young people for many years now. Through the Truth 4 The Youth Podcast, he aims to reach each of the young people around the world to share his passion and change their lives.

CONTACT METHOD

Garth’s LinkedIn

“If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.” – Mark Twain

Don’t take the title of this episode literally! Rather make this metaphor as a foundation on how you face day-to-day challenges from your school works to your household chores. That and more are discussed today on Truth 4 The Youth Podcast so start tuning in.

Young people tend to categorize responsibilities by the complexity and then tackle it by ticking off tasks one by one from simple to difficult. This is wrong. Garth says you’re most likely to procrastinate if you do it that way. Start organizing your day better. Discover today how starting from the most difficult is more beneficial to you.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Sometimes, we’re held by our fears. If you ever try to organize all tasks and goals on a checklist, it’s instinctive to do simple stuff first. And, by the time you’re done with the simple tasks, we still don’t start doing the difficult ones since you’re scared. Garth says just do it. The truth is there’s always gonna be a difficulty, so there’s no other way to just do it.

Things might pile up. Once you’ve put off every task that needs to be done, you’ll be suffocated with responsibilities. Do one thing a day. Don’t slack and lay off important stuff.

Do the difficult stuff first so that you feel relief and less anxiousness as early as possible. Sometimes, we tend to overthink the big stuff while doing the small stuff.

BEST MOMENTS

"It's okay to be scared... Don't think that anybody else wasn't scared."

"The more stuff that you stop and don't do, the more frustrating and more difficult that thing will become."

"Do the hardest thing first. Everything else will be much easier."

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Eat That Frog!: Twenty-one Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy

ABOUT THE HOST

Garth Clarke is the CEO of Version 1.1, a youth engagement company that offers education, training, support and opportunities to the young people. Garth has been passionately working with young people for many years now. Through the Truth 4 The Youth Podcast, he aims to reach each of the young people around the world to share his passion and change their lives.

CONTACT METHOD

Garth’s LinkedIn