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EP. 211 - How to THINK BIGGER and fuel long term success! | Further Your Lifestyle Podcast
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| Further Your Lifestyle Podcast | EP 211
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In episode 211 of the Further Your Lifestyle Podcast, host Chris discusses the importance of recognizing hidden progress to maintain motivation and achieve long-term success. Drawing from personal reflections and experiences, Chris outlines seven key strategies to refocus perception, celebrate small wins, manage ambition, strategically use chaos, balance speed with patience, delegate tasks effectively, and align daily actions with future goals. Tune in to gain insights on achieving consistent growth and making meaningful progress towards your lifestyle, passions, and hustles.
00:00 Welcome and Introduction
00:34 The Importance of Recognizing Progress
02:37 Celebrating Small Wins
04:59 The Trap of Constantly Raising the Bar
07:10 Creating Chaos to Force Growth
09:41 Balancing Speed with Patience
11:54 The Art of Letting Go and Delegating
13:41 Dealing with Uncertain Progress
15:20 The Bigger Picture and Future Planning
17:35 Final Thoughts and Call to Action
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Yo yo yo. Welcome back to the Further your Lifestyle podcast conversations on lifestyle passions and hustles. My name's Chris, I am your host and I'm super excited to be back here having the conversation with you, episode 211 today. We're starting to move up into those double digits of the 200s, which gets me excited, and it's been a very exciting journey to be able to have these conversations with you, and I'm very, very grateful for each and every single one of you, whether it's your first time here, whether you've been here from day one. Let me know down in the comments, if you, how long you've been listening to this podcast. That would be absolutely amazing for me to know.
Speaker 1:But today we've got an interesting topic. We're talking about seven ways that we can think bigger. But really the topic that we're diving down into is how to actually see the progress you're making and it's actually already happening, and this actually comes from my own reflection of this current week. By the time you listen to this, it's probably 10 weeks later. But for me, I really want to dive into how, when we refocus our perception, we can actually start to see the progress we're truly making, when sometimes we feel like maybe the growth isn't happening. But you've got to realize, growth takes time, it takes consistency and it takes a whole lot of grit as well. But I want to break it down with you today. We're going to go through seven different ways that we can look at this, or seven different areas of conversation that you probably need to be looking at and thinking about and really diving down into. I'll keep it short and sharp so it's a bit more tactical and that you can take away and use these points to your advantage. But a lot of the time, the reason why people quit so early is because they're not seeing the results that they want, when this is a really great way to see those hidden results or invisible results or secret results, and this way you might be able to tap into them a little bit earlier than later down the line when you realize you should have just stuck it out. But if you can actually understand how things are going now, when you are feeling down and you realize maybe it ain't all that bad, this is actually going to really help you continue to push through and go for those big long-term goals and dreams and ambitions that you have.
Speaker 1:So this is another episode of the Failure your Lifestyle podcast. If you enjoy this kind of stuff, make sure you like, subscribe so you don't miss out. And, of course, if you want to continue the conversation, you can jump down into the comments below, drop a question, drop a comment or just say hi. I'm happy with that as well and appreciate each and every one of you that do that already. So we're going to dive into it. Let's roll the intro and, yeah, sit back and relax.
Speaker 1:So point one is we've got to, we've got to learn to celebrate progress, even when it feels slow. Now, this is a little bit of a cliche because you know we talk about, you know, celebrating the small wins and things like that. But what if the reason you're not seeing the progress is because you're? It isn't because you're failing, right but it's because you're not actually recognizing the work that you do? Let me say that again what if the reason you're not seeing the progress and it's not because you're failing or you're not getting the results, but it's actually because you're not stopping and recognizing what's working or what you have achieved or the small wins? There's this frustration that we have Progress feels slow and it feels unrecognized. I feel this all the time. If that's you, let me know. Right, do you feel frustrated? But the reality check here is just because results aren't instant or maybe super tangible, doesn't mean the progress isn't happening, and this is a trap that we need to tend to avoid. Sorry, there's a trap here that we need to avoid because, as we continue to make progress and push forward, we continue to raise the bar constantly, constantly I'm talking to myself here without actually taking just a five minute break, just taking a minute to actually identify and celebrate and just reflect on the progress to date and the wins that you've made. When we have this mindset shift, when we acknowledge the small wins and actually take some time to soak it all in, this will be essential, absolutely essential, for you to move towards that next bigger goal or that next step or whatever it may be.
Speaker 1:So I do have a challenge for you for point number one. Point number one challenge is this Are you ignoring your progress because it doesn't look impressive? And what if you celebrated the small wins as much as the big ones? And I want to challenge you on this because I feel like if you actually do this well, you actually may just feel a little bit more gratification and satisfaction from all the grindy work that you're doing. Now. For me, running a small business, there is a lot of things that I do that takes a lot of. It just takes a lot of grind, and sometimes you have the days where you just don't feel it, especially the days when you're not having the big sales, you're not getting a lot of revenue. You're not, you know, selling the big bolos, but you just it feels like it's a grind. You know, if you zoom out, you might actually realize that maybe it ain't too bad, and we're going to get to that shortly.
Speaker 1:Point number two this is talking about the trap of constantly raising the bar. I kind of mentioned this already, but the question you need to be thinking about, or what you need to be thinking about, is are you moving the goalposts so often that you never actually feel successful? You're always playing catch up. This is me. I do this so often, and it's a good and bad thing, because it forces me to grow, but it really can get yourself in a bit of a messy situation headspace wise because you don't feel like you're doing good enough.
Speaker 1:When you have high ambition, you're always chasing the next big goal as soon as you hit the last one. But the danger of this is you're turning a healthy ambition into this perfectionism, I guess, which keeps you stuck Now. Not stuck in sense of not moving, you just get stuck of oh, it's not good enough. Now you've got to be careful with this, because this is really important. When you never feel satisfied, you're going to rub yourself with the joy you're working for. I've always spoken about. When you know what you want and it brings you joy and you have a purpose in that and you're getting fulfillment from it, you get motivated to do it. But if you're not feeling satisfied by it, you're going to start to conflict and contradict everything you're working for. So you do need to manage this with a fine balance.
Speaker 1:So the challenge for you here is are you guilty of actually moving the goalpost every time you seem to hit a milestone? And what would happen if you let yourself feel good about your achievements just for a moment? Just for a moment? And how that may look may be different to you. Maybe it's a night off, maybe it's going to movies, maybe it's celebrating. Maybe you put some money aside every quarter or every month or whatever it may be, and you go celebrate. You might buy yourself something, you might go out with your partner. You might go on a small trip or something I don't know, but you need to find a way to reward yourself. I'm talking to myself here. I need to do this more, but I tend to like, as soon as we start to make some great progress, I just take all the money again and move on to the next big, big challenge and forces us to grow, which is good, but it's really, really, really bad.
Speaker 1:And that leads to point number three, which is creating chaos to force growth. Now, the problem with this is a lot of us do it right. Let me know, if this is you, are you addicted to chaos because it feels like progress? You create all these things to happen because it's forcing you to make things happen. It's intentional chaos. We create high pressure situations to force ourself to grow. I do this all the time. A lot of this is from my own lessons that I've been reflecting on for the last 90 days and I wanted to play it back to you. So, for me, I do this all the time and I talk about it in my weekly vlogs as well. The upside of this it can push us and it forces us to think outside of the box and perform at new levels, like with adrenaline when we're under pressure. However, the downside of this is we're operating in constant crisis mode and it can lead to a burnout or sometimes poor decision-making as well. So there is this level of balance that is needed. We have to use chaos to strategically push us into the right direction, but don't rely on it for progress. It can get a little bit messy. It's like trying to juggle and you don't know how to juggle. So the question I'll leave you for this one is do you create challenges to force your growth, and is this approach helping you or hurting you? I think for me, I think it's worked so far Now that we're in a warehouse.
Speaker 1:By the time this episode comes out, we've probably been in the warehouse for about two, three months and at the time of me filming this, I've only been in it for five weeks. So for me, my headspace is just all over the place, thinking this is wild and this is going to be some really good, interesting playback, because, if you're listening to this, I'm recording this on the 23rd of March. So, like I said, playback, because if you're listening to this, I'm recording this on the 23rd of March. So, like I said, we've been in the warehouse for about five weeks now. By the time this comes out it's probably been a couple of months, which means you're going to have a really good indication of how things are going from me being bullish, from me making these really intense, I guess, decisions in creating chaos, like taking on a new managed service, getting a new big deal, making changes in the warehouse, all these different things and it'll be interesting to see if it's played out really well for me or not. But my purpose here is to try and help you get a better understanding of the way I'm thinking, but also give you a perspective to help prompt you to challenge yourself of is this a good thing for you, is this a bad thing for you and how can you be doing better for yourself? So lots of very interesting things there to consider.
Speaker 1:So the question again was do you create challenges to force your growth and does that approach work for you? Is it helping you or is it hurting you? Point number four of this is how do we balance speed with patience? So here's an interesting one what if moving fast isn't the same as moving forward? The problem here is we try to speed through the process to get faster results. But the reality is growth doesn't actually match effort in real time. Sometimes it needs space to breathe.
Speaker 1:It's a bit of a catch-up game. If you start listing 100 listings on eBay, there is going to be a little bit of a catch-up. If you start doing it daily, there is going to be a little bit of a catch-up for eBay to realize okay, there's a lot more stock, we need to get more people over here. It's probably going to be two to four weeks delay in my books. That's the way I see it. So I guess a great way to look at this is you can't force a plant to grow by yelling at it, and consistency and patience are the key thing.
Speaker 1:The other thing is you know if someone's pregnant, right, you can't give. You can't have nine women to make the baby be born in one month. It's still going to take nine months for the baby to be born. You know you can, you know, have more people to it, but it does not speed it up. So there's this reality of around. We have to weigh up around speed, around patience and what we're putting effort into, and does it actually force results? Because you can have all the people in the world. It's not going to speed up how quickly that baby is going to grow when it's in the womb. So the challenge I give to you, or the prompt I give to you, is this Are you trying to force results by speeding through the process, and how can you let the process breathe without losing your drive? Now that is a challenge right For me. I hate slowing down. I hate twiddling thumbs. I like to see things moving and grooving and seeing that progress and ticking over, and obviously the way I validate that is through sales and revenue generation and things like that. So it can be hard when you do all this work and you don't see any change. But the change comes. I know because I have grown 18% every 90 days since starting this business for the last five years. But in the moment it doesn't feel like it, but when you zoom out it does and we'll talk about that. I think I talk about it a little bit later.
Speaker 1:Point number five this one's interesting the art of letting go and delegating. This has been hard for me and it still is, but I'm going to have to do it again. If you're holding onto everything, you're holding yourself back. When we let go, not everything you do is going to be worth your time to keep. Therefore, you're going to gain more energy and more, I guess, speed, and you're going to gain more ability to think and you're going to be able to thrive better.
Speaker 1:It's the 80-20 rule Focus on the tasks that bring the biggest results and delegate the rest. I know this is easier said than done. I totally get it, but we need to come at this with a growth mindset. We need to look at it from understanding that letting go isn't a weakness. It's actually a strength, because it builds resilience, it builds community, it builds trust and it builds leadership. Right. So the prompt I have for you, the challenge I have for you here, is what tasks are you holding onto that you should be letting go of? What can you get rid of? If you focus only on the most important things, how much faster would you see the results? It's a good challenge, and I'm not talking necessarily about business. I'm talking about anything in life.
Speaker 1:One of the things that Carla and I have spoken about is when we do finally move into our own place together. There's a whole bunch of things that we're not going to want to do. We don't want to have to do the cleaning. We don't have to do all these things and they're things that we're going to be willing to pay for to have someone else do for us, because we want to spend our time doing things that we enjoy doing and we don't have to worry about it. As much as some people don't like that, for us it's like it's a non-negotiable so letting go of those things and delegating. But there is a time that will come that it makes more sense for someone else to do it, because they can do it faster, effective and more quicker and efficient and it's going to save you a bit more money and time.
Speaker 1:So number six of this is the anxiety of uncertain progress. Now, again, I struggle with this one. The problem here is or maybe the question I should ask is what, if the problem here isn't that you're not making progress, it's more so the point that you're not seeing that progress, and for me this is I'm very visual, I love to see the results. I've got my dashboards, everything that I track for my business and that helps me visualize and see things moving, just while we're here as well. I'm getting sales on my phone, it's going off on my watch and it's making me excited because I'm getting sales. So the truth is, just because you don't see these tangible results happening doesn't mean that you're not actually making progress.
Speaker 1:Right Seeds and growth. We've got to look at it like sometimes the stuff you're doing today isn't going to bloom for another little bit of time. It might not be 20 years, but I'm talking about it could be two weeks, three weeks, four weeks. You know, one thing that I always have to remind myself is the stuff that I do today on average, when I list items I'm talking about eBay again, just because it's an analogy that I have is 20% of those items will sell within seven days. So I already know that I've got to really give it seven days to really start to gauge what's going on.
Speaker 1:So my challenge to you on this is what are you doing now that you know is setting you up for future success, even if it doesn't feel like it or look like it right now? How do you stay motivated when that progress feels slow? That is a challenge For me. I tend to just make sure I'm making the most of all the time I've got to continue to grow, and all I know is that if I'm doing things today, that's going to get me closer to where I want to be in my future plans, then that's ticking a box. And that leads me on point number seven, which is the final section of this episode the bigger picture and the future planning.
Speaker 1:You know, we've got to look at it from. Are we making decisions today for the short-term relief or for the long-term wins? And we've got to learn to zoom out. This is what I've been leading up to. When you zoom out, it's not about the long game being, about patience, it's about being consistent. You can wait around for something great to happen, but if you're not doing something consistently to make the greatness occur, then how can it happen? So it's a double down. I mean, it's a double whammy, right? What you have to do is you have to be patient while being consistent. If you're consistently, patiently putting in the results, then you will get that payoff that will come.
Speaker 1:The key insight here is that most people quit before the magic starts, right, and you've got to learn to stick around long enough and then you will win by default. How long that is, it's going to be different for everyone, depending what you do, your industry, what even we're talking about, whether it's business or sports or whatever, but the key thing here is you want to also. The other key thing here is you also want to align, that your daily actions are aligning with your future, where you're trying to be right. So, is this going to get me closer to where I want to be? Yes, does this make me get closer to somewhere where I want to be? Does this enable me to get closer to where I want to be? And sometimes that's the way that it makes more sense to be able to validate that this is actually what I should be spending my time on.
Speaker 1:Is it a short-term thing or a long-term thing? So the question I have for you is are you making decisions based on short-term discomfort or long-term vision, and what systems can you put in place today to make sure that the efforts today pay off in the future? Now for me setting up my warehouse. You know we've been setting it up over the last five weeks. A lot of my time has been spent doing things that I wouldn't normally be doing Setting up processes, setting up systems, building out, shelving, all these different things. But I know that it equips me with the ability to say yes and to give myself the ability to take on new opportunities that might be here in six months, in six months time. If I haven't got those things in place, it's very hard to say yes, because I don't know how I'm going to deal with it. Now I know how I'm going to deal with it.
Speaker 1:So the conclusion of all of this, the final thoughts, is this One growth is about patience. It's also about consistency, and it's about learning to love the process and not just the outcome, although the outcome is very rewarding. The challenge I have for you is you've got to stop letting the results dictate your motivation. You need to let the process be the reward, because if you can get the process to work like magic, then you'll start to see that, hey, this is working really well and all of a sudden, the things that took me so long to do now is taking me a lot less time to do. Therefore, I should start to get to my results a lot quicker.
Speaker 1:So my challenge and final call to action to you is this One what is your biggest takeaway? I want you to drop it in the comments and I want you to let me know, or you can send me a message on Instagram and let me know for you. What are you going to take action on? What's your biggest takeaway from this? What do you need to stop doing, what do you need to start doing, or what do you need to keep doing? Let me know in the comments down below. You've got are doing, or what do you need to keep doing? Let me know in the comments down below. You got to look at this from the long-term, right, you got to look at it from the long-term. That's the only way to do it. If you want to continue this conversation, as I said, jump down below into the comments.
Speaker 1:Otherwise, if you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share. That would mean the absolute world to me. If you can share this to someone else that you think needs to hear this, we can help other people further their lifestyles. That's my goal. I want to help other people. You know. I want to inspire others to aspire further in their own lives, and the best way to do that is to share these kinds of things. Hearing it from a different perspective, hearing it from someone else, maybe is all they need to hear to help them get over that line of where they want to be. That's it for me. Today, folks Really do appreciate you being here and we'll be back here next week doing it all again. You have a wonderful day, cheers.
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