Show Notes

Fear Introduction

• With curiosity comes Fear
• Brendon Burchard - The Motivation Manifesto
• The Face of Fear
  • An unpleasant emotion is driven by the belief that something is dangerous, likely to cause pain or a threat.
• True Fear
  • Attacking dog
  • Pointed gun
  • Falling to your death
  • Turbulence
  • A child falling down the steps
  • Public Speaking / Podcasting
• Fear grips us and can torment us
• Fear takes us from our true internal freedom.  What we truly want to be, do, or become.
• The straight jacket of discovering life and joy.
• Types of Fear
  • Judgment / wondering what others will think or say to us.  We become socially oppressed. People negatively react to our actions.
  • Rejection / self-oppression is where we put the straight jacket on ourselves.  I tell myself no.
• "We fuel fear with small thoughts that betray our magnitude." - Burchard

I began Episode 9 intending to talk about Fear. While chugging along in my recording, I realized I didn't like my presentation and wanted to go back to the drawing board. So, without chalking it up as a total loss, I chose to keep the intro and share it with you as a promotion for my new book The Art of Coaching. 

Recording Podcasts can sometimes be challenging. It may require I start over several times before I find a flow I like. This is all part of the creative process. Episode 10 coming soon...

Keep moving forward!

Coach Colbert   

Every great coach has a specific set of skills.  In Episode 8 of the Youniversalife Podcast, I dive deep into how I created the content for my to-be-released book, The Art of Coaching.  I explain my reasoning behind many of the topics including:

Confidence
Ability under pressure
Self-awareness
Communication
The study of human behavior
Creativity
Organization skills
Public speaking
Collaboration
Establishing routines
Staff chemistry
Etc.

Don't forget to check in on youniversalife.com for additional content and purchase your copy of The Art of Coaching when it is released.

Enjoy and keep moving forward!

Episode #7 - Curiosity

Curiosity

• A strong desire to know or learn something.
• All about learning what we do not (yet) know
• Inquisitiveness
• Interest
• Spirit of Inquiry
• Nosiness

Rover Curiosity

• Car-sized rover designed to explore the Gale crater on Mars.
• Part of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Mission
• Curiosity launched from Cape Canaveral November 26, 2011, & landed August 6, 2012
•  American NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Sojourner = Temporary resident.  Lives for a prolonged period. 1997-97
• Opportunity = 2004-2018
• Spirit = 2004-2010
• Curiosity = 2012-Present
• Perseverance = 2021-Present

What are we routinely approaching?

Discovering Rabbit Holes

• The distracted teacher
• Conversation with friends
• Long-winded coaches
• Binge-worthy * streaming * youtube * podcasts * books

The Tree of Life (Understanding)

• Trunk
• Limbs
• Twigs
• Fruit
• Roots (In-depth)

What are you curious about?

• Go seek & find
• This is a starting point to finding life.  To spark the fire.
• Those who are curious live.

• The process is so important!
  • Building this!
• Embrace the “Long Game,” for there is greater satisfaction in long-term development than taking the shortcut.
• Examples of who do it:
  • Doctors
  • Musicians
  • Authors
  • Football Players & Coaches
  • Parents
  • Business Owners
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Professional Athletes
• Concentrate on yourself & your development
  • Relentlessly pursue who you want to be
  • Create!
• Failure
  • Be good at it
  • Be ok with it
  • Get up and do it again
  • Don’t make it part of your identity
• “Great teachers fail greatly.” - Ben Colbert
• All great stories have great failures
  • People who hit rock bottom
  • Experience difficulty
  • Then they rally
• Don’t make failure a category in your mind.  
  • This is a practice and must be trained
• Stick to the Journey with established systems
  • Helps to create habits
  • Helps to limit failures
  • Leads to goals
  • Reference:  Atomic Habits - James Clear
• For all other YOUNIVERSALIFE content, head over to youniversalife.com

Episode #5 - The Journey Show Notes

• Journey
  • It used to be that a "journey" was all in a day's work. Now it takes a lifetime. A new Hallmark line of cards called "Journeys" shows that the word "journey," originally a literal unit of time and travel, has become a metaphor for the experience of living life with all its ups and downs. - Google
• Life is a process
  • You are always experiencing a conversion
• Impatience is a dangerous thing when it comes to interior journeys, spiritual quests, pilgrimages of the soul. 
  • Pilgrimage
    • A pilgrimage is a journey, often into an unknown or foreign place, where a person searches for new or expanded meaning about themself, others, nature, or higher good, through the experience. It can lead to a personal transformation, after which the pilgrim returns to their daily life.
• For in these journeys, we must cover the miles step-by-step, feeling the terrain as we pass through it, responding to its challenges. 
• There is no rushing this; there are no shortcuts. 
• But that is what makes it so beautiful and dangerous and wonderful. We don’t snap a few photos and rush on; rather, we are changed by our travels. 
• I think C. H. Spurgeon had this in mind when he warned that a pilgrim would be better served “by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.” Or hasty travel, we might add.
  • (Morgan Snyder @ becomegoodsoil.com)

Episode #4 - Light Shiners Part 2 Show Notes

Mentors Continued:  ASK

• Push past the precluding talk of never asking in the 1st place.
• Don’t be afraid to ask for something for exploration purposes.
• This teaches us to desensitize ourselves from being told “NO.”
• Give other people a chance to tell you “NO.”
  • Don’t sabotage yourself.

Shout Outs:

Take a look / listen to...

• Aaron McHugh
  • Work Life Play Podcast
• Rob Bell
  • I heard Rob talk about how we're all one question away from an interesting conversation and learning extraordinary things about others and ourselves.  - Via the RobCast 

Visit the Youniversalife website and discover additional content.

I also want to give a shout-out to my Sound Engineer, Levi Howard.  Thanks for the insight and feedback.

A story about those who shine a light on the gray areas of our lives.

• With coaching comes great responsibility
  • The shepherd & guide
• They are relying on you
  • To show up
  • To be prepared
  • To have it all together & be confident
  • To be decisive
  • To teach
  • Etc.
• Constantly Evaluated
  • In every situation
  • How you speak to your mannerisms
• They take on your actions and words
• You’re either building culture or dismantling it
• Microscope
  • Everything you do matters.  Everything
• Butterfly Effect by Andy Andrews
• We are mentors
• Elders
  • “Their presence is their value” - Laird Hamilton
• Finding your story in other stories
  • “Sometimes the most helpful thing we can do is find a story that tells us about our story.” - John Eldredge
• John Eldredge and Morgan Snyder and Wild at Heart Ministries
• Movies
  • Good Will Hunting
    • Sean Mcguire & Will Hunting
  • Forrest Gump
  • Mighty Ducks
    • The story of Gordon Bombay
• What is a Mentor?
  • A guide who shines a light on the gray areas of our lives
  • Uses their experience and wisdom
  • Learn from their success and failures
  • Help to prepare others for the inevitable adversity
  • Someone to talk to and ask questions
  • Show you the ropes
•  Why do we need mentors?
  • Life is hard, and we need a support system
  • We need a teacher to show us the way
  • To show us the things we may not see
  • Network
• How do I identify a mentor?
  • Who do you respect in your space?
  • Who is currently doing it the right way?
  • Who could you see yourself modeling?
  • Who do you enjoy listening to?
  • Who is the expert in your field?
• How to make a mentor a mentor?
  • Approach them in their space
  • Set pride aside
  • Speak less and listen more
  • Open your eyes and watch
  • Go where they are
  • Help them
  • Apprentice mentality
  • Prepare and ask good questions
• Become More!

Visit the Youniversalife website and discover additional content

I also want to give a shout-out to my Sound Engineer, Levi Howard.  Thanks for the insight and feedback.

SHOW NOTES

Many have asked why I created such a website and what my plans are for the future. I answer these questions and more in the show.

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Below you will find the show notes that help to follow along:

Why I created YL

• To put value into the world

• To share my passion for growth

• To create

• To chase my curiosity

• Writing is therapeutic for me

• Storytelling

• To supplement addictions

• To keep a log of thoughts for my family/future generations

Why I created YL Podcast

• For the same reasons mentioned above

• Voice capturing is easier than writing

• Faster

• Desire to interview others

○ Learn

○ Develop mentors

○ Entertainment

○ Conversation

○ Teach

• To create a different mode so more can learn

Where will I go from here?

• I’ll continue to chase my curiosity

○ Write and speak on that

○ What patterns are emerging

○ Following internal compass

SHOWNOTES

One of the pillars of YL is Self-Care

• Building the best version of yourself
• What are you becoming?
• The most important thing in your life is not what you do it is who you become.

– Dallas Willard 

Self-Care Defined

• An act of purposely taking care of your mental, emotional, and physical health.
• Simple concept but often overlooked
  • Busyness of life
  • Seasons of life
  • Attention is elsewhere
• Self-care is life-giving
  • Refills us
• Not a selfless act
  • Knowing what we need so we can be our best for ourselves and others.
• Self-care cup
• You can’t pour from an empty cup
  • How can I add to my cup?
    • Exercise
    • Books/blog/articles/magazines
    • Audiobooks
    • Podcast
    • Meditation/prayer
    • Breathwork
    • Cold plunge
    • Cooking
    • Conversation with friends and family
    • Volunteering/community work
    • Journaling
    • Educating yourself
    • Music
    • Sleep
    • Laugh

Be patient 

• Add to the cup slowly 
• Try 1 thing on. Experiment 
• Be consistent 
• Find your rhythm and routine 

Plan into your schedule 

• Be intentional and place a priority on it 
• Don’t beat yourself up if you fail. Keep coming 

Be conscious about your planning and doing 

• Constant awareness of your development 
• Where is my energy going? 
• What is actually taking place here? 
  • Diet 
  • Consumption of info  
    • Media/news/entertainment 

Snowball 

• Start with 1 and let it develop 

From: 

Those Mesmerizing Flames 

Maintaining the fire takes much attention. It will not remain on its own and requires a caretaker — the constant watchful eye, analyzing the placement and extinguishment of each log. The nurturer must continually add logs. With each new log comes energy. You can read it in the mesmerizing flames.