966. Success Starts With Curiosity

You have everything you need to become successful. There's no $9.95 app you have to buy. You don't have to buy a book or attend another webinar. Just start with ONE Thing. Curiosity. 

Listen in and I'll show you how. Let's get it!

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All right. 3, 2, 1. Let's get it. Welcome to another episode of What's Your Problem, the podcast, episode 9, 6, 6, and today, man, I want to talk about success starts with curiosity. Think about this with me. If you stay curious, you will be and remain. Successful. It's when you have the lack of curiosity. Just think about this in your own life, when you have the lack of curiosity, this leads to a contraction. See, with curiosity is expansion without curiosity is contraction. And you may feel right now, like your world is super, super small. How curious are you? Like things have just, the tide is turned on you. Things aren't really working or happening for you like they once did. It's like your situation's a little bit worse than it once was, and the number one question I would ask you is, how curious are you? You have to think of curiosity as a muscle. It genuinely is. So if it's a muscle, then that means that you have to work it every single day. This is how you stay curious. It's, it's an active participating sport. Curiosity is, so, the more curious you are, the more creative you'll be, and the more creative you are, the more successful that you're gonna be. I mean, think about that. Let's just unpack that real quick. Just stay curious. Instead of making assumptions, making a statement, just simply catch yourself and turn it into a question. So you see something, you're about to just make an assumption. You're about to sit here and say, it won't work. It's not gonna happen. Oh, well, we're effed, whatever. So before you make a statement, turn it into the form of a question. And then when you ask a question, see, asking the question, it's what's going to create? Opportunities for you. See where most people think about this. When you're not curious and you're not asking questions, when you hit a roadblock, when you see an obstacle, you see an obstacle for what it is. But when you genuinely ask a question, when you're creative, you in your mind, you are already have an assumption. I get it. You can think it all day long, just don't speak it. If you will turn it into a a question. A genuine question, not an accusatory kind of question. That's not a real question. That's a statement masked as a question. That's the, I've already got a statement, so I'm gonna ask it in this way because I already know the answer. No, that's not what I'm talking about. Like when you genuinely ask a question, where everybody else sees obstacles, you create opportunities. Why? Because with that curiosity, genuine curiosity, you're looking for options. You're looking for opportunities. And so then when you start asking questions out of genuine curiosity, this triggers creativity. the creativity, instead of shrugging your shoulders with an Oh, well, because you're looking for opportunities because you're, you're genuinely curious that creativity, when you lack resources, you get resourceful. You're like, Hmm, what do I have right now? What not, what I wish I had. Like what do I have? What can I use to at least get started? You may not have everything that you need, but you got enough to get started. See, that's where these, when you pair curiosity and creativity together, you're genuinely curious. You have that wonder. You're creative, you're like, Hmm. You get scrappy, you like figure things out. The whole world is just seeing an obstacle saying, oh, it can't be done. I don't, I don't have the resources won't happen. This is, this is how you maneuver through. This is how you create opportunities for yourself. you gotta kind of look at it like curiosity and creativity paired together, become like your breakthrough bands for you. They do. They create breakthroughs for you because when you incessantly spin these things, curiosity and creativity together, this is what's going to cause eventual favors. You want favoritism in your life, you gotta create it. You can have it with curiosity and creativity. So this is what creates favors, favorable op opportunities, favorable happenstance, connections, just in time opportunities like you were like dead in, in 30, say like your dream was dead in 30 seconds and all of a sudden something sparks through. Favorable coincidences. I mean the, the, you just, when you start doing this and you exercise these things and that is key. And when you do this, this is what's going to create ultimate success. when you create the habit, this is what you gotta look at. Curiosity and creativity have to become a habit. And so when you make this a habit every day, you confront where everybody else like goes back the other way, this. You confront. Why? Because you're not scared of anything. You may not have the answers, but you have curiosity and you, you, you, you pair it with creativity and you're like, Hmm. And this is how you just wiggle through and you continuously climb. Because everybody else is looking for certainty. Everybody else doesn't handle the adversity. And you confront these things, you're like, Hmm, alright, let's figure it out. I don't know, but I'm damn sure not going back. Let's play with it. And this, this creates the curiosity and creativity, man creates kind of a playful mindset. You don't get all rigid and hard. And this is something, again, I can't stress enough. It's gotta be a, a skill, a muscle that you work every single day. It's never you. You don't get a creativity badge. You don't get a curiosity Master's degree. No. You just master it every day. You just work within it. This curiosity and creativity every single day because you confront things. This is what creates expansion, and expansion is what creates ultimate success and sustained success. Okay? It's not enough to be just successful. Can I sustain success? The way you sustain that is curiosity and creativity, and that's, that's what's so trippy about this man. When I was reflecting on this this morning, I'm like, bro, how liberating it is that everything that you need to become successful is already within. There are five life skills that you need to be successful. Communication, curiosity, creativity, continuous learning and action, and productive confrontation. This is what I coach my clients with. That's, that's the five skills you need and what a blessing it is that it's not something you have to go out there and go buy or qualify for you. You already have 'em. They're within you. Just, I bring you these episodes so that way you can now start using them, ignite them in the right way, and it takes some intention and some focus, but the first focus is already have it. Success begins with curiosity. And with the curiosity. I ask questions. That's, that's all I want you to do today. Like instead, right before you make a statement, turn it into the form of a question with expansion, with just, just be loose minded in the sense that don't, don't think you already know the answer. Okay? So that curiosity, genuine curiosity, childlike curiosity. That now sparks creativity, and you start looking around like, what can I use? And that creativity and that curiosity banded together, it's what's going to create success for you. It's already right there. You already have it within. Now. Work every single day, so you never be without again. All right. Be sure and share this episode with someone else. I'll be back for another one soon. Remember, keep it simple, keep it moving. Never settle. Stay tough. Peace.