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EP. 241 - You're Already Further Than You Think... | Further Your Lifestyle Podcast
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Further Your Lifestyle Podcast | EP 241
Welcome to Episode 241 of the Further Your Lifestyle Podcast! Host Chris dives into understanding that you are already further along than you may think. This episode is perfect for those feeling flat at the end of the year. Chris explores prompts like: What did you normalize this year that used to be a goal? Where have you been too focused on what's missing instead of what's here? And how can you appreciate the messy progress you've made? Tune in for insights on resetting your perspective, the importance of getting out of your comfort zone, and tracking your progress for personal and business growth. Make sure to like, subscribe, and share this episode if you find it valuable!
00:00 Welcome to Episode 241
00:33 Reflecting on Your Achievements
03:55 Normalizing the Uncomfortable
07:03 Focusing on What's Present
10:09 Appreciating Messy Progress
12:13 Wrapping Up and Looking Ahead
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Yo yo yo, welcome back to the Feather Your Lifestyle Podcast Conversations on Lifestyle Passions and Hustles. My name's Chris. I'm your host, and I'm super excited to be back here having the conversation with you. Episode 241 today, and we're talking about a really, really great topic, something that's going to give you some perspective and something as we've been talking about for the last couple of weeks, continuing on that theme of really just giving you some short, sharp, and quick episodes for the next couple of weeks, really to make sure you're equipped, that you're going into the new year thinking about how do you make that your best year yet. And today we're talking about you're already further than you think. And this is a really important one because it's something that we've we've ta we've touched on so many different times in the in the podcast journey. But you know, a really do a deep zoom out episode to refresh your perspective that you're not really behind. And at the end of the year, I always find myself in two positions. Either like what have I conquered and achieved and you're feeling flat, versus you feel super motivated, you you know you've kicked butt and you're ready to do it all again. And obviously, you want the you know, the ladder. You want to be sitting there thinking, yeah, I've kicked butt. I want to go do the same thing into the new year. But sometimes it's not that way. And this episode is really for those that have probably landed at the end of the year and you've you just feel flat. You feel like, what have I actually achieved this year? What has happened? Now, for me, it's been a huge year, and we'll talk about that later. But the prompts we're going to be exploring today is what did you normalize this year that used to be a goal? This is a really important conversation. Where have you been too focused on missing? Sorry, where have you been too focused on what's missing instead of what's here? And how can you appreciate the messy progress? And we've done an episode on that too. Now, if you do enjoy these episodes, I do ask a couple of things. If you can share these, share it to someone else, a family member, a friend, someone that needs to hear this. Uh, and if you do enjoy these episodes, make sure you are liking and hit the subscribe button so you don't miss out. And if you want to continue the conversation, you can jump down in the comments down below here on the YouTube, and we can continue the conversation. Be it a question, be it sharing your thoughts, the things that you're working on, whatever fancy about, hey? And we're gonna roll the intro and we're gonna get straight into it. Let's do it. So, you are already further than you think. Something that I've always done in my entirety of since, especially since working, but probably even before that, was I've tracked a lot of things on my own progress. I've always been ambitious in making each year better and better and better. I don't know where that self-drive has come from. It's probably come also from a heavy influence from listening to other people when I was younger, because I've always wanted to have my own business, and obviously now I have that, but I've always been motivated because I wanted to be an entrepreneur, I wanted to make a big difference, I wanted to create something, and I wanted to build something. And sometimes you have so many things going on that it can be very hard to really just, you know, get a tangible idea of like, oh, I did this, I did that, and you get overwhelmed, and then you think, I haven't achieved anything. And that's what really what I want to make sure we spend some time looking at, looking at this year. And for me, it's very easy to do because I said I I track the data so I can like zoom out and have a look where I was a year ago, two years ago, three years ago, especially with the business, and understand well, what's been working, what hasn't been working. And when I zoom out, I'm just looking at my graphs right now, I can see that you know I'm down at the moment compared to maybe the start of the year, but I'm literally still I'm still up. I'm still up compared to last year. I'm still up before the year before that. I'm above averages from my total operation time of doing business. So when you look at it from that perspective, things ain't all that bad. But you use that as a baseline to keep yourself accountable and keep yourself growing and keep yourself going to where you want to be. So, what did you normalize this year that used to be a God? And this is a really important question simply because what I've always explained here on the podcast is why it's so important to get out of your comfort zone. Getting outside of your comfort zone, firstly, you get scared, you're uncomfortable, you don't want to do it, it's hard, it's difficult. You do the first time and you might stuff up and you feel like a failure. Then you go do it a little bit more, it gets a little bit easier, a little bit easier. You do those reps enough, all of a sudden, what used to be hard, what used to be your stressor, what used to be your problem, is now just the new normal. And this happens with everything. Before I was a clothing seller, which was two and a half years ago, we weren't we we weren't selling clothing. I was selling books and media and collectibles and video games, and I didn't like doing the clothing because I didn't know how to do it. But then when I realized that this ain't gonna cut it, selling the stuff I was selling, I need a necessity. I need to be able to make a phone call, I need to be able to call up and get 500 kilos of clothing so that we can just get to work. But the only way to do that was to figure out how to do it. Like, how do I sell clothing? So I spent 1500 bucks, I went and purchased, you know, about 45, 90 kilos of Levi's, and I figured it out, right? And what became what was hard became easy, and now you know we turn over well this this year we're probably gonna be closer turning over$440,000. And of that will probably be about$380,000 of clothing, pre-owned clothing, right? And the only way I was able to do that was because what was hard became normal, so therefore it was no longer a problem. And when you normalize the uncomfortable, the uncomfortable just becomes your new baseline and you just go like this. You just level up, right? Becomes tiers. You know, at the bottom, it's like a pyramid. You have no idea what you're doing, you figure out how to do it. It's all the same things that everyone else is doing. But if you can do a little bit more than someone else and learn how to, you know, maybe you can learn a new skill, right? All of a sudden you're in that next tier. You're like, sweet, but then there's lots of other people in that tier. And if you want to get to that next level, you have to do a little bit more than them, right? It's based on a performance review. Like this is talking from a corporate structure, and then you'd get promoted, then you'd move up a little bit more. Right. If you want to if you want to go start a lawn mowing business, but you don't know how to do it, right? But you're really excited about it, you go learn learn to mow the lawns. The first time you do it, you're probably gonna stuff up. That's why a lot of people would offer, hey, I'll do this for free. Right? I'll just do it. They got nothing to lose. Maybe if you do a real bad job, they got something to lose, but they think, oh, this is great. They're gonna recommend it to someone else. Now you've got two clients, right? And then you can start to charge a certain amount, and what used to be hard, what used to be tricky, what used to be difficult becomes like this is easy. I like the reps, I've got my routine, I know the schedule, I know, I know the tools, I know how to operate, I know how to manage things, I know how to communicate to customers, I know how to set expectations, I know how to, you know, get new leads, I know how to ask for referrals. All those things start to compound and build you something really, really beautiful and becomes normal. So that's the question I have for you. What did you normalize this year that used to be a goal? You answer that. Where have you been too focused on what's missing instead of what's here? This one struck me pretty pretty hard just recently. Now I'm filming this back in in October, and it's obviously this episode's coming out in December, and I'm about to actually just I'm about to head off to the Philippines. But the point is, is like I was thinking about this just the other day, and I was talking about I did an episode on my Get Wide podcast talking about taking back control, and I was so quick to be blaming the problems in terms of we weren't getting the volume, we weren't getting the sales, and I was very easy to blame it on external factors. And look, there is a lot to blame on external factors, but I'm thinking, well, what are the things that I can be looking at? What am I too focused on what's missing versus instead of what's here? Now, this I'm looking at it from a business perspective, but I realized that I had things there that I could do to take back control, and I wasn't missing anything. I really just had to do some more work. But the other point is, is we we we do this in our life already, right? We we complain, oh no, this isn't good, I'm not seeing the sales, or I'm not not seeing the progress, or you know, I'm not being able to save, or I'm not saving as much. You zoom out and you've realized you've saved, you know,$15,000 this year. Maybe last week you weren't able to save, maybe the month before you weren't able to save, but maybe every other month you were saving perfectly. And I think sometimes we get so focused or so sanitized to a normal, right? Because we've we're no longer uncomfortable, so it becomes a normal, so therefore we become sanitized to it, and it's not an issue to us, but then we forget and we start to take it for granted, right? Like I said, this year alone, if I look at it, you know, last year, the first year we did business, we did 51,000, the second year was 80,000, the third year was 155, year four was 287, year five, we're probably gonna land on$440,000. And here I am, I've spoken about it in some of my videos. It's like sales are down, it's frustrating, sales are down. We're up, well, at the moment, we're up$100,000 from last year. Like, but when you bring in the whole perspective, there's some challenges, and obviously, I've got new overheads, I've got different staff, I've got all these different things. So there is a different perspective of why I feel that way. But when you zoom out and start to think, well, like, okay, sales aren't actually down. We're up more than ever. But in order to hit the goals that I want to achieve, the problems that I'm solving at the moment, the things that is not the new normal, I need more results. And then when you start to look at it from that perspective, you can see the beautiful stuff that you've created. And you can then start to say, well, yeah, okay, we've got this, we've got this, we're doing this, we've achieved that. Okay, this is all good. So then how do we then take this to that next level? It's very easy to put, oh, if only I had this, talking about all the things that we're missing. It's very easy to objectify or put the blames on other things when really there's probably things that we can do for ourselves, for our businesses, for our relationships, or whatever to get us to that next level. The last point for today's episode is this. And trying to keep these short and sharp for you, just so it's a busy time of the year. I want you to take this and run with it. How can you appreciate the messy progress? The messy progress is basically, if you haven't listened for the last couple of weeks, is when you feel like you've just been doing so much, but you don't have a tangible result. And that's a lot of the time, I believe, is because the stuff you do today isn't necessarily going to get you the results tomorrow. It's going to get you the results in 30, 40, 60, 100 days or further. It's like the gym. You go to the gym for one day, do you get progress? Do you do you see progress? You might feel good that you went out and did it, but then you come home and you're like, oh, I still look fat. You go for the five days, nothing's changed. You go there for 20 days, maybe nothing's changed. Go for 30 days, you'll start seeing some changes, you'll start feeling things. People will start noticing it. And that is messy progress because it's going to be messy for probably the first 30 days. It's going to be uncomfortable. It's going to be crap for the first 30 days. But how do we learn to appreciate it? And that is delayed gratification, right? Is you need to understand why you're doing it in the first place. You're doing it for a better version of yourself, not today, but for the future. If you wanted to be better today, you would have had to start 30 days ago. So you're doing stuff for a further version of yourself ahead. And it's it's a bit ironic because you are already further than you think, but you also need to zoom out and then look back and think, well, what was I do- what was I doing 30 days, or what wasn't I doing 30 days ago? And you start to realize there's some different things, good and bad, that you've picked up and that you're doing that you didn't even oh, I didn't even think I was doing that. I didn't realize I was doing that. And then all of a sudden you also realize, oh, there's a bad habit that I'm doing too. So progress is messy. It's important to somehow track it. I would encourage you, if you can track, like track it, just do a daily little tracker. Put in some data points, whether it's weight loss, whether it's riding, whether it's exercising, whether it's, you know, the you know, how much time you spent with your partner, all these different things, right? Just get a spreadsheet, fill it out, day one, and just do it. And then you can plot out this amazing graph. It will change your life. It will change your life. Alright, so that that's it for me, folks. Look, it's it's been a great episode. I think there's a lot of deepness here. You might have to go back and listen again. But if you want to continue the conversation, if you have a question about this, if you're want some clarifications, if you're curious about even like how do you how do you track data, how do you track these things, reach out. More than happy to help. Jump down in the comments down below. If you did enjoy this and you think someone else needs to hear it, send it to them. Share it with them, please. Get them over here. And if you're a new person here, jump down in the comments and say, hey, how you doing? Let me know that you're new. Anyway, really appreciate you being here and we'll be back here again. I think next week is actually our last episode. Yeah, it is. It's our last episode for the year. I'll be wrapping up, taking some time off, and then we'll be back in January. But we've got one more episode for the rest of the year. So come back next week, and it's gonna be a really great one. The topic of next week's episode is let this year end on your terms. So we're gonna do that one very soon. I'll be seeing you next week and take it easy, be kind, and yeah, you have a wonderful day. Cheers.
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