Mastering the Game of Life: Strategic Personal Planning

We unpack the power of having a Personal Game Plan. Discover the transformational impact of pinpointing your 'lead domino' goal to ignite momentum across all areas of your life. Let Eric's insights motivate you to streamline your focus, conquer distractions, and charge towards your breakthrough objectives with newfound resilience and confidence. Tune in for a game-changing conversation that could redefine your approach to goals and inspire your next big win!

Learn more about Eric at https://thegamechangersinc.com/
Learn more about Dale at https://www.daledixon.me/

Episode highlights:
00:00 Success through consistency and strategic personal planning.

04:29 Reflect on past year before planning ahead.

08:53 Focus on significant goals for greater impact.

09:51 Clear focus on goals eliminates resource conflicts.

15:04 Identify fear of failure, take actionable steps.

18:28 State goals as if they've already happened.

20:03 Refine goals by asking specific questions.

23:06 Affirming small actions lead to reaching goals.

26:33 Visualizing better behavior leads to increased sensitivity.

30:04 Personal gain plan ensures purpose and direction.

32:50 Explore book "Moving to Great" by Eric Bowles.

Transcript

Dale (00:03.534)
your personal game plan to unleash your best in life and work. Welcome to the game changers podcast. I'm your host Dale Dixon. I help leaders be their best on stage and in front of the camera. And I'm the chief innovation officer for a better business bureau. Eric balls coaches trains and inspires leaders to unleash their potential and the potential of those around them. Today, we're going to chapter 10 of Eric's book moving to great your personal game plan.

What's the, I guess let's start with the end in mind and tell me about a huge win you've seen out of this personal game plan.

eric boles (00:46.594)
Man, huge win. It's funny you ask it that way because I would say it's the huge win is the consistency of wins that I've had for myself personally and for so many of those I get a chance to coach by using the tool. Because this is something we do every year. Like I try to say that, you know, it's no different than strategic planning for an organization. It's no different than.

when we game plan with our teams. Personal game planning is doing the same thing. I guess doing the exact same thing, ensuring that you get a return on your energy. You're gonna spend the energy anyways, so we might forget some return on it, right? But part of the power of my big wins has been, I would say it this way, Dale.

I just haven't wasted as much time. And I wish I could attach it to something else. The goals that have been accomplished has been great, but I'm here to tell you, whatever goals you plug in, usually work when you no longer have broken focus. So people always ask me, what is the goals that I should go after that? I was like, really doesn't matter. The real question is, make sure it's a goal that you really desire, something that you really want.

Dale (01:59.01)
Hmm.

eric boles (02:10.938)
And then, you know, the assistance you need is the willingness to act. And we're usually, we're all pretty much willing to act. The problem isn't our ability to act. The problem is dealing with all the other distraction that gets in the way of the action we need to take. And so, you know, the personal plan of action, what it just helps do.

is create greater focus because focus is really what our greatest challenge is many times. It's not talent or competency or ability. It's not even information or knowledge. Almost any goal you want to accomplish, you just need to Google it. We have more information that I've disposed of than I have before. So the personal plan of action, the biggest wins is it's given me a process. My confidence level is just high that I'm clear about my goal. It can happen.

Dale (02:57.294)
Mm hmm. And that abundance of information at our disposal is probably what leads to a lot of distraction from the goals. So let's just start from the from the top and you start you've used this word already several times, the win what's important now? And is that where we start when we start thinking about how do we set out the course for this personal game plan?

eric boles (02:59.482)
and a blank incident from your disposals probably would lead to a lot of distractions from the goals. So let's just start from the top and you start the interview with this work already several times. The weird, what's important now? Is that where we start, when we start thinking about it?

eric boles (03:22.873)
How do we set up the course for this personal pain? Actually, it's even more important. I actually say it even starts sooner than that. In the book, it's one thing. You're writing it. You put it out there. But in conversation like we're having right now, we start even before then, which is before I go forward, I look backwards. Like I got to go, no matter how high I want to build a.

Well, I don't know how high I want to build a skyscraper. What dictates the height of my skyscraper is look how deep the hole is from a foundational standpoint. With everything that grows, it usually goes down first. And so what I always encourage people to do, I learned this years ago. They do in business every bucket. Personally, it was something Brian Tracy, I saw Brian Tracy write about years ago, and he was just saying how you make sure.

to reflect back before you go up. And right now, for those of us who are getting close to the end of 2023, and I just always encourage people, schedule a time where you're gonna look back on your 2023. Where were you at last year? What were the highlights of the year? What were your wins, losses? Reflect on your health, relationship, progress, all these different areas. Just to see where did you progress.

Where did I regress? Now, I bring all that up because if I just immediately start with just what do I want in 2023, that could have a lot to do with what mood I'm in right now, what I just saw last. Right, right? What's kinda, and so I need a little greater perspective so when I look back over the year, it gives me a chance to have a better assessment because I may look and see and go, you know what, what do I really want?

to see from this personal game plan. Because the ultimate goal of this game plan is to make sure you're using your heritage in the areas that will give you the greatest return. You know what I'm saying? So I don't want to go into the year just doing stuff when that might not be the thing or the area where I should be spending my time.

Dale (05:31.106)
developing a plan of action. So you actually have eight steps that we work through and it starts with identifying the breakthrough goal.

eric boles (05:40.618)
Yeah, yeah. So what I, what I encourage people to do when it comes to, so when I have you reflect back first, think about how the year was, you know, where did I progress? Where were some of the regresses? You know, like you go through all that. Then you sit back and think, you know, when before we even got to unit 10, we give people an opportunity to just, you know, do some goal setting. Like, what do I want to see take place in 2024?

What do I want to do? Who do I want to be? What do I want to have? Some of these goals are tangible goals. Some of these other goals are intangible goals. Some of the intangible goals may be a relationship, you know, more loving relationship with my spouse. It could be a relationship with a loved one or a friend. Those things are...

are not as concrete. So, you know, obviously we want to think of times and deadlines and all that stuff. But it's hard to say, you know, I want to be more loving and more loving and respectful spouse by, you know, February 17th. I mean, that's kind of odd. But once you start identifying what all those goals are that you would like to see in 2024,

what comes down to your breakthrough goal or your game-changing goal is, if I look at my list of 10 goals, what's the one goal that would have the most significant impact on my life and then the most insignificant impact on those around me? And so sometimes that goal that's accomplished, it doesn't mean the goal changes other people's life, but because it changes mine, my impact on everybody else could be significant. So that's the breakthrough. So the breakthrough goal is...

Dale (07:22.838)
And that's the breakthrough.

eric boles (07:26.798)
the one goal that when accomplished would have the most significant impact on your life. And it also can be the goal that might be worth the other eight combined if you really look at it, right? Or eight or nine combined. So this thinking process of deciding what that game changing goal is, is a big deal because it might not even be an external one that anyone can see. It might be a mindset shift or some kind of change that happens on the inside

addresses it but it still needs to be a game-changing goal. What's the one goal that would have the most significant impact on your life and life of others?

Dale (08:06.294)
I hear you referring to this like a domino. It's the one thing that if you get this right, everything else starts to fall in line behind it.

eric boles (08:09.475)
Yes.

eric boles (08:14.814)
It does. It does. Another reason why I like it to be the game-changing goal is accomplishing the goal or reaching the goal is a secondary benefit. The primary benefit is what happens to us on that journey. Like, I am not the same. I will be better. I will be stronger, more resilient. However you want to define it, when not just when this goal is accomplished, but in my pursuit, my focus of that goal.

And again, all these things come together. I have a limited amount of attention currency. I only have so much. And so to come up with this laundry list of goals and then think I'm gonna go after all of them, no, there's a lead domino that creates momentum on everything else, right? And so if I'm going to spend a significant amount of my time pursuing a goal, let it be the most significant goal.

that can have the greatest impact, then you'll be amazed on how much simpler and easier these other goals start taking the place because now I've created such a momentum and I approach those when I'm in my flow. I've approached those with momentum already on my side. And the other thing that's important, now this is important for an organization or a team or a leader and so those in small business, I really need you to hear me when I say this. I am talking about

personal game plan. But don't lose sight that this has huge implications to business. I always like to say the person of being it has vast app. It has vast application but has epic implication because it can be used in so many areas. And when you get clear about what's our game-changing goal and you in if you're leading a team and you have that conversation, what it helps to do is eliminate what I like to call or

or diminish goal clutter. We don't even realize how much clutter is taking place. We go through our goals and all these different areas of the business and whatever, but we don't really have a sense of how this all wraps up to something or how does it all. And so what we end up doing with goal clutter, it's not just that our goals are, but it's the resource to accomplish the goal that we end up fighting against each other.

eric boles (10:39.446)
So we end up paying tug of war with our attention, with our resources, with our time. We're using all kinds of resources, but we're pulling against each other. So only thing we get is just two teams or a team of folks that are just tired, not necessarily accomplishing anything. So sitting back and really clarifying what's our game changing goal. And when you're a leader of a team and you're doing this personally, you will recognize where there's just, hey, no, I like the fact, but we're pulling against each other here. We're not...

And many times it's not for a lack of goals. Sometimes it's just we have too many of them, right? Like we haven't really sat down and seen how the complimentary they can.

Dale (11:20.214)
So we've talked about, this is, I said, this is an eight step process, identifying the breakthrough, clarifying the benefits of that breakthrough. That's where you really get some clarity about around that. And then next is identifying the obstacles you can control. And I've got a feeling that you can control is key to that statement.

eric boles (11:29.827)
Mm-hmm.

eric boles (11:37.83)
everything. You just hit it. You just hit it. It's everything that I can control. Right? Like, and now it's interesting because there's a number of obstacles we can come up with, but as Covey called it, we want to stay in a circle of influence, not the circle of concern. And you have to really ask yourselves those questions because we sometimes overestimate what we think we can actually influence. Right? Okay. And so...

We want to make sure we're solving the problem that is not just the problem that isn't. And so in order to do that, we have to ask, I mean, we have to, it has to be a truth bearing exercise. Is this something that we can actually influence or does it require three or four other meetings or classes or whatever before or, or meetings with others to get there individually? This is really big. So individually, when I asked this question on myself, you know, what are the areas that, what are the obstacles that are in my control that get in the way? Many times you hear.

discipline it and control it. Now, those are great answers, but they're very vague. And so we need not just, we don't just need obstacles that are like, one of the obstacles is because, you know, my fear failure. Okay, that's true, but the obstacle I want you to identify is because of fear failure, what is the behavior that shows up, I guess?

Oh, I don't take chances when I should. I don't follow through on this. I agree. Okay, now that's being far more concrete. So we want to get down to the, you know, what are the actual obstacles, behaviors, things that get in the way of this happening. Because if I can be more clear, less vague, but more specific on what the obstacles are, I can be even more clear and specific and concrete on what the solutions for those obstacles are.

So when anytime we go here, I want people to realize that we can start off with the big, man, I have this fear of failure, it's emotional and it comes from my past. All that is true and go through that whole process. It creates weight, but don't let it in there because you will stay at a very level where there's, what do I do with that though? So the question is, like for a team, I work with teams who will say, you know, our biggest obstacle we have control over, we have trust issues, okay, with our team.

eric boles (13:59.81)
So we got to fix the trust issues. Then I asked one additional question, how those trust issues expressed daily? Like what does it in a very tangible way, what does the lack of trust, how does that show up in the way you are working together or what isn't able to get done? And when we do that, now we get down to, well, when we disagree with each other, we don't finish the conversation. Boom, okay, now we're getting to some things that allow us to fight through.

with that obstacle we have control over on and get to the other side.

Dale (14:33.01)
Makes me think of the innovation process where you have to fight to find the real problem you're trying to solve. And it requires asking why typically at least seven times. You've got to really get to the heart of what's going on. And so that's what you're talking about here is identifying those obstacles you can control, basically asking why to get to the real behavior. And then that helps you define the solutions.

eric boles (14:45.006)
Come on, wow. Yep.

Dale (15:02.85)
to overcome the obstacle.

eric boles (15:04.739)
That's exactly right, which is the next step, because you want the solution to be concrete, but you also want this solution to be actionable and where I can take action. And so going through the, asking yourself, like, here's my fear of failure, why does fear of failure get in the way, prevents me doing it, and how does that impact me? It does this and how does that, what you'll end up doing is get down to an action that you can actually take.

which is great. Now there's a much bigger benefit of breaking this down this way. And you brought up innovation, but for many engineers, this is how they think. They always keep breaking things down to the simplest functional form. Like, can we decrease it down to the lowest common denominator possible? And the reason is once we start taking action on that, and I see that I can act on it,

automatically my confidence level starts going up. And because you brought it up earlier, but this is how this permeates through the whole thing. Once I have a clear, specific action that I can take, and it doesn't even have to be big, these are just small actions that lead me to what I just said was my game-changing goal, but I'm spending my time, I'm taking action on what I've identified as the obstacles in my control, which is powerful, right?

But it also leads into the metaphor or that's the definition of winning, right? That's saying win, like I'm doing what's important now. And so I can win this, right? Like somebody say, I wanna be in tremendous health and I wanna get this and I was like, that is awesome. What's the obstacle? Not having a workout now, great. Come up with a workout, but all that's great. But there's something more powerful that says,

As soon as I wake up in the morning, first thing I do is drink a glass of water. Then, you know, I set my shoes right by my bed and my other, it's hard to walk by that knot and ignore it when it's there right in front of me. So I put it on. Now these are, it seems like, you know, now the goal is still big, like great shape, healthy, wherever, but look at the specific action. Like I can drink a bottle of water and I can set it on next to my bed already.

eric boles (17:24.562)
I can put my shoes and stuff here and it's right there. And once I do, I put it on. I can make sure the leash is sitting there where my dog sees it and so do I. Guess what? Next you know I'm outside walking for 45 minutes. I mean, it's helping people realize, not only do we overcomplicate sometimes our personal plan of action, we overcomplicate it because we think it needs to be complicated, right? And it can be really, really simple.

Dale (17:54.834)
The fifth step, rewrite the goal as an affirmative reminder.

eric boles (17:59.722)
Yeah, and that's another way of saying rewrite the goal as if it's already taking place. We want to work from the goal, not just towards the goal. I want to think as if I'm not, that goal is already true. So I don't write my goal like, oh, I one day want to be in great shape. No, I write the goal. I am fit, flexible, and healthy. It feels fantastic. Why do I affirm that over and over again? Because I impact my thinking, my subconscious mind, I've impacted my

my belief system, my self-image, I've been back in my self-esteem, significantly more when I state my goals, my desires where I wanna be, as if it's already taken place, right? And we all know that, we see the advertising list for that. If you go to a car dealership, the first thing you got, you're riding a car, and a real good salesperson says, so how do you like your sound system? Listen to the language.

How do you like your sound system? You ain't about the car yet, right? But the more they can help you already see yourself as if you're in that role, you start attaching a sense of ownership. We want you to own your goals the same way. Go ahead, what are you saying?

Dale (18:58.318)
Thanks for watching!

Dale (19:06.658)
The Assumptive Close.

Dale (19:10.905)
The asemptive close in the sale and you got to sell yourself.

eric boles (19:12.142)
That's it. That's it. We talked about themselves. Yeah, but you're selling yourself. This is why I tell people, do as many assumptions closes with yourself as possible. Man, now we're not saying you tell this to everybody else. So as every year I get bills down in my relationship, I was like, you know, I love serving Sydney. I love, and this is how I use, I said, I love to serve my wife. I love serving Sydney. I love to be present in the red.

I love to listen, I love to be present, and I love to be kind. You know, and I say it that like, this is who I am. Now, does my behavior is always aligned with that? Absolutely not. No, but I rather work from my goal instead of trying to get there because the word trying presupposes failure. I need to see myself performing there already. Now, one of the things I didn't bring up that I don't want missed in, and it's...

If you're doing this, you can be doing it by yourself, which is good, but if, I say this to leaders many times when they're working with their teams and they're identifying their breakthrough goal and they're going, as I said, many times, one of the quickest ways to come up with good actions to take, and solutions to take to come up with your goal is after you wrote your goal down and you talk about it as if it's the truth.

start asking the goals, structure your goal in the form of a question. So, if we wanted to do, based on the size of your organization, how do we increase this particular business by get $10 million in this area? It's a $10 million our goal. So great, but then structure it that way. How do we reach this goal in the next 12 months? Like how do we reach $12 million in the next month? For me, how can I weigh 230 pounds?

you know, and be flexible. I've already affirmed it, that's where I'm gonna be. But now when I get down to the how can I, it'll start giving me even greater ideas and thoughts in terms of how to make it happen. I don't ask that question right away. And people are like, why don't you ask that first? Because how is rarely the problem in terms of reaching our goal. The problem is I haven't grown.

eric boles (21:25.642)
I haven't got clear of what the goal is. I haven't got clear the benefits of the goal, why I want the goal. I haven't got clear about what it looks like when I finally get there. So when I do, I've now built up what I like to say, a fire of desire. I need to grow my belief, my desire for the goal. So then when the howls start showing up, the howls usually require a little work, right? But if I don't have my fire desire hot enough, when I have to confront the realities of making it happen,

All of a sudden, I start going, I don't know how bad I really want that goal. And the reason I don't want the goal enough is I haven't made it crystal clear enough for me in the first.

Dale (22:06.082)
The other piece that I love about the affirmative reminder is it serves as a fantastic decision making metric. And I say that in that if my goal is to be a very be an attentive, kind servant to my wife, then I can just ask the question. If I'm faced with an with a choice, what would an attentive kind servant

eric boles (22:35.035)
Oh, love it. Yeah.

Dale (22:35.126)
to his wife do in this situation? If I want to be fit, flexible, and athletic, what would a fit flexible athlete do when faced with this decision? What whatever the decision is. And so that's it's a huge help on the decision making front.

eric boles (22:47.087)
So good, man. Yeah.

eric boles (22:53.782)
Yeah, big time, big time. Go ahead.

Dale (22:57.238)
The sixth step in the process of developing a plan of action is to rewrite the solution as an affirmative reminder.

eric boles (23:05.962)
Yes, yes. So the same thing that we did with the goal and we think from the goal, we also realized that the only thing between me and the goal now are these small actions that create the momentum when this goal takes place. And so I want to look at, not only do I look at the goal and go, you know, that's who I am, but I'm also the kind of person who takes those actions. So the actions that lead to the goal, I want to be able to affirm as well.

So it's like me to get up early in the morning and work out and have my, and spend 30 minutes planning my day in my affirmative reminders and what I like to call my golden hour where I get my workout in and I get my mental fitness in. It's like me to, when I'm sitting down with leaders and going on a listening tour, here's the three questions I ask every time I'm in a coaching session to ensure I'm.

my answers are hitting the X that marks the spot. It's like me to wait, which is an acronym for why am I talking? You know what I'm saying, right? Right? Now, but I find all these little things and now my solutions to reaching the goal or the actions that I take, those are throughout the...

Dale (24:16.206)
Hehehehe

eric boles (24:28.31)
time, those always change. The goal may not change because I may not have reached it right away, the express again change, but the actions leading to the goal will continue to change as I keep reevaluating it because there's things you discover and things that you do that help you, that lead you closer and closer to the goal. But it's supposed to like when we talked about clarity back in the day, they how we're always flexible on that, you know, we get new information, but the key is everything should be moving us.

momentum wise in that direction. Yeah, and it's very practical, but this is the fact. The facts are we grow belief by what we see and hear the most. That's what it is. What I see and what I hear the most, I will grow to believe.

Dale (25:01.238)
Seventh step is to transfer your plan of action to something you can see every day. So it's either a three by five card, something on your smartphone, but there needs to be something that you're looking at on a daily basis.

eric boles (25:27.746)
So my goal can't be something that gets, that occasionally interrupts everything else. It has to be the opposite. I think it was Earl Nightingale who said it so good, it was so good, he says, instead of living a life of doubt that's occasionally interrupted by faith, it should be living a life of faith that's occasionally interrupted by doubt. The only way to live a life.

and to live this way is I got to keep what I'm believing in and what I'm seeing in front of me. I need to see it, I need to hear it. And when we say see it, we need to see it in different forms. I need to see it in my mind's eye. Or also it's nice to see it in the form of other examples. So as long as my goals and my aspirations stay in front of me, I'm gonna see things that I would not have seen before in real time, like, you know, people who are behaving or modeling it.

I'm also going to see times for me, my awareness will go up in terms of when I'm living in alignment with my highest ideals and goals and when I'm not. So it does both sides. So that's the beautiful thing. Like, and the more I look at it, like Covey said, it's not just beginning with the end of mind, but what it does is it gives you a picture of what better looks like. And so when you got a good picture of what better looks like, it gives you also a clear picture.

of what better does it look like, right? And so, all of a sudden, something on the inside of me, when I'm constantly affirming about what kind of husband and how I want to be with my wife and how I want to treat Cindy, the clearer that is on the inside of me, the more I am sensitive to the fact when I'm not behaving that way, when I'm not, you know, it just won't be her feedback telling me I'm not. Like, I am more sensitive to it. And that's the beauty of making

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eric boles (27:21.682)
of using the personal plan of action. And then the eighth point is breakthrough goal. Yes. Is that you're writing that's the accomplishment. That's the accomplishment. That's the breakthrough. And when the breakthrough goal happens, and I will tell you for everyone listening to me right now, we've all had them. We've had a number of breakthrough goals. The beautiful thing about a breakthrough goal and is the goal is obviously when it breaks it, but

Dale (27:25.85)
And then the eighth point is breakthrough goal. Is that you're writing that that's the accomplishment.

eric boles (27:50.75)
with all goal setting, I tell people this is a concern, a real thing you gotta be aware of is, the gap between where you are right now and the goal you're going after, that gap is usually filled, the gap really represents usually is time, and the way you close the gap is with focus and discipline. We get that, right? But...

what you receive when there's a gap between where you are and where you really desire to go and you commit it to it. You are fueled with some energy. It is real. Like you feel the energy. Even when it's hard, there's still a, you're alive. And so you have to understand that when you reach your breakthrough goal, this whole process of goal setting, who am I on? How did I get here? Where do I want to go? And how do I get there? It's a cycle.

And you have to recognize the cycle because as soon as you reach your breakthrough goal, it is natural that energy dissipates because the energy needed to reach the goal, you've now reached the goal. So this is why it's important. When I said this is your breakthrough goal, but I didn't say it's your only goal. This is the breakthrough goal that moves you to the others. You're going to notice the other goals taking place. But keep in mind, energy dissipates. I'm dealing with a dear friend of mine right now, who just retired. And

And I've been trying to prepare him, you know, and we talk about it, but I'm so proud of him. But he acknowledges the fact that, wow, the what it felt like to pursue purpose and what it felt like to have purpose and do challenging things. Then you retire. And it's like, whoa, like, he's like, what am I feeling? I was like, what you're feeling is when there's no longer a gap between.

where you are and what you want to go after. So you have to have things that you are moving towards. We're teleological creatures by nature. That means we're goal oriented. In the absence of goals, you atrophy. It doesn't mean you're not moving. You're just not moving towards something. You're just moving in circles. And there's the most dangerous thing for any human being is to be bored. The most dangerous thing is to not have purpose. And that's what the personal game plan does.

Dale (30:00.67)
Hmm.

Dale (30:06.089)
No.

eric boles (30:10.718)
It just ensures that not only will you not be bored out, a lot of people are like, hey, I don't have any goals, but I ain't bored. I get it. Because you're probably spinning all over the place. But the primary purpose is you direct all that energy to what it is you want. But understand, we goal set through our, we don't just goal set to our goals, we goal set through them. So once you start getting goals, the breakthrough goals, there's gonna be another one that you can then pull up again and work through that problem.

Dale (30:39.222)
a higher mountain. So I'll wrap up with two points that you write in this chapter moving in moving to great. First is every great accomplishment was once an impossibility. And what you do when no one is looking dictates what you do when everyone is looking.

eric boles (30:51.703)
Yeah.

eric boles (30:59.294)
Oh, the game changers, man. Those are great wrap-ups. The beautiful thing again, I would say, the greatest part of a breakthrough goal in reaching a breakthrough goal, the breakthrough goal itself is the secondary benefit. The greatest benefit is what happens to you on the way there. And that's the great gift that we can give ourselves, but also that's the exciting thing for every leader out there.

watching your people reach their breakthrough goals, watching your children lock onto a breakthrough goal, watching your loved ones lock, is you get a chance to just celebrate with them and cheer them on. You know the personal benefit of it, but to watch what happens to them, watch their confidence level, watch their, and it isn't even about the goal. It's like you start seeing their resiliency and their ability to take feedback and their ability to course correct. Also,

The last point I'd like to say, one person said, what if you reach this goal and you break the goal and it doesn't happen? I was like, well, welcome to the crowd, right? Like that happens. But there's nothing greater than being able to experience, like I said, the worldwide, you remember the worldwide sport, world, yeah, yeah. ABC's worldwide, yeah, ABC's worldwide sports.

Dale (32:15.892)
Yep. ABC's worldwide world of sports. Yep.

eric boles (32:22.102)
But it's the greatest point, to be able to experience in this lifetime the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, right? Like they're both necessary. Like that's what makes us come alive is you need both. And all we're doing is raising the probability significantly for the thrill of victory. But we know the agony of defeat isn't the end of the story. Like that's just part of what makes all these living what it is.

Dale (32:50.87)
That's the growth opportunity. Okay. Well, folks wanna dive deeper into this and really work on your personal game plan. The book is Moving to Great by Eric Bowles, Unleashing Your Best in Life and Work. We'd love to hear from you. You can connect with us online. We each have websites, daledickstemedia.com and thegamechangersinc.com to find us. Also, we're active on LinkedIn. We'd love to hear from you.

eric boles (32:51.022)
That's the growth opportunity. Hey, awesome. Well, folks, I want to dive deeper into this and really work on your personal complaints. The book is moving to great by Eric Walton.

Dale (33:19.978)
While you're in this podcast app, would you do us a huge favor? Number one, if you haven't done so already, subscribe to the podcast so you are alerted each and every time a new podcast episode drops. Second, if you would rate and review. So hopefully we have earned a five star rating from you and a review would just be a quick sentence on what you think of this content and how it's helped you. We would be most grateful for that. So, Eric, you have a fantastic week. You're taking off on the road, so.

We're probably going to take a week off on the podcast as you're traveling globally, just to let folks know.

eric boles (33:55.274)
Yeah, awesome. Awesome, I look forward to plenty of things to talk about when I get back.

Dale (34:02.156)
Awesome.