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5 Minute Friday: Grandpa Would Approve Your Risk Taking

Jordan Edwards Season 5 Episode 273

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Feeling behind isn’t a signal to push harder; it’s a cue to change the frame. We dive into why comparing your level 3 to someone else’s level 20 poisons progress and how a few simple tools can restore momentum: small daily actions that compound, identity shifts that make habits stick, and language choices that keep your mind on movement rather than deficiency.

First, we tackle the compounding effect of consistency. Think of your skills like interest—tiny deposits, made daily, that add up to visible results. We share practical ways to design non-negotiables that are so small they’re fail-safe, yet powerful enough to bend your trajectory in 30 to 90 days. From sales and business growth to fitness and creative work, the same math applies when you track inputs and celebrate proof.

Then we explore identity as the engine behind lasting change. When you see yourself as the kind of person who shows up—athlete, builder, creator—you stop negotiating with yourself. We walk through cues that make identity real in the moment: a phrase you repeat, a habit you anchor, and a visible action that casts a vote for who you’re becoming. To ground those gains, we use a 90-day lookback to surface wins you’ve stopped noticing and a gratitude practice that reduces pressure while sharpening focus.

To make braver choices, we introduce the grandfather frame: consult your 80-year-old self before big decisions. That perspective strips away noise and highlights what you’ll remember—risks taken, people helped, growth earned. We close with a simple reframe that changes the tone of your inner voice: replace “I’m not there yet” with “I’m on my way.” If this resonated, follow the show, share it with a friend who needs a nudge, and leave a quick review to help others find these tools. What small action will you stack today?

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This is Jordan with Edwards Consulting, and we're here for a five-minute Friday. Whose worst enemy is themselves? Right? We all are. Because I want you to get out of this podcast. I'm gonna give you three tips to make you realize that you're further than you truly think. The reason I bring this up is because one of the biggest challenges that a lot of us are facing right now with social media is comparison. So we're constantly comparing our maybe level three to someone else's level 20, meaning that we are not realizing that things take a long time to develop. We're way too hard on ourselves and we expect so much of ourselves to build the results when in reality we should just be charging us against past us or future us. So one of the biggest things for us to realize is that small actions every day are going to build a compound effect. Because as you start to stack these results, you will get massive results. It's just like compound interest with finances. The same is true with our skill sets and our sales ability and our business growth. It all happens with small steps each and every day. So I'd like you guys to take a moment and kind of reflect. Think back, where were you 90 days ago? Where were you three months ago? What problems were you carrying? And now today, how do you feel? Because one of the tips, whenever you're feeling this, I'm not good enough, or I'm not further enough along. The thing is to look backwards 90 days and see where were we? What were we doing? How much better do we feel at this moment? So that's one tip is that you can look backwards. The second major tip is our identity growth because you're not just doing more, but you're becoming more. So as you go on these journeys, you start to become more of this person. So you might be a person who works out, or you might be a person who sells real estate, or you might be a person who, I don't know, can poo podcast. You start to build an identity for who you are becoming, or a person who's a father, or a child, or anything, but you start to become that person and you start to identify yourself with that. Because once you identify once your identity changes, you're gonna start to shift how you feel and carry yourself. We see that every single day with people going to the gym. If you think you're an athlete, you're gonna show up differently in the gym. It's just the truth. The major thing I want you guys to challenge on, challenge you all on this is to remember to have gratitude for what we have accomplished this past week and just in general. So I want you guys to take a moment and come up with gratitude for yourself, right? Because whenever we're going through this, I'm not good enough, I didn't do enough. We have to fall back on gratitude because gratitude is what's going to open the door for a lot of us. And then this is the game changer. This is the biggest insight for me at least. It's called the the grandfather frame. And essentially what it is is when we look back on our lives, pretend we're 20s and we look back on our life at 80 years old, or even 50 and we look back at 80, or even 70 and look back at 80, you or 90 years old, and you want to look back on your life and see what you've accomplished. Meaning that whenever you have a big decision to make or a big journey or a big choice, you ask your 80-year-old self because your 80-year-old self will help you make you realize how inconsequential those decisions are. Because you're only really going to remember the things, only going to remember the risk you take. And I'll give you guys one more bonus because we're running out of the five-minute Friday. The last bonus is instead of saying I'm not there yet, let's start to reframe that and say, I'm on my way. And think about how many words we use each and every day where we're way too challenging on ourselves, and we don't give ourselves enough of that credit. So happy Friday. Keep the credit rolling, and we will talk soon.