Episode 80: The Gap and the Gain Concept

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Welcome to CEO Meets Homeschool. My name is Tamiya Parker and I am both a CEO and homeschool mom to my four boys. Welcome to episode 80. Again, I mentioned in the last podcast, I'm going to skip 10x jumps today and just kind of go in more with a theme of the new year. The book, Gap in the Gain by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Ben Hardy, you guys probably heard me say their author's names way too many times, but the concept of Gap in the Gain has been on my mind and I just wanted to, that would be a great book to read at the beginning of the year, if I had time, I would have mentioned that in December as well, just because I think a lot of us can get frustrated that We may not be where we want to be at this stage of life and I think it's very common to get frustrated. The concept of this book, Gap and the Gain, it teaches you to actually measure Where you've come from. So it's from behind you, instead of looking ahead and feeling like I should be further ahead. It kind of challenges you to look at, Oh, wow, I've accomplished this much. And it does something to your brain and creates this real positive mindset instead of feeling discouraged or frustrated. It's a really great book and I recommend it if it's something interesting. It's not just a business book, it's more of a mindset. So it's called The Gap and the Gain. And I. Was thinking the other day the saying also what got you here won't get you there sort of similar to the gap in the game Like you have to take a risk to always move forward, but you can make measurements on how far you've come from behind So I was thinking of a story when we were getting ready to head to Montana My four boys have been part of this orchestra for quite a few years now. And it was one of those things where it was the only orchestra of its kind in the country. It's a tuition free. And I know some of the larger cities, you know, putting your kids in a youth orchestra can range from, I don't know, four to 600. It was just not realistic with four children. And I love that my kids got tapped into it. They were plugged in. And it was hard for me to. Uh, and that in order to, for us to come to Montana. So it's like, you have to always give something up sometime. Well, most of the time in order to grow. And a lot of times we don't want to do that. We, we see something that we like, and even though we want to grow, we can't give up that one thing. And a lot of times you have to give up something to move forward. So in this story, We really did have to step away from this fantastic program to be able to make the move because obviously that orchestra is in Texas and we just had my one kiddo might get involved with the church we attend here to play his violin but we've been in contact with a I think it's a master violinist who runs a music program, and he's here in Montana, and we're probably going to get connected in January. We've just been moving slow, to be honest. And this person would be an instructor for some of my kids, and we can tie into some orchestras here, but he has played, I believe he's played for the former Queen of England and some presidents, like he is phenomenal. And I was thinking of, we had to step away from where we were. And it was scary because I didn't want the kids to stop their music in order to come here. But once we finally got here, you know, we haven't really tapped into this resource yet, but it has the opportunity for the kids to have a exceptional music teacher or conductor. If we do move ahead with this and what got you here won't get you there. You got to take the risk, but it's, it's worth going for it. So I just want to share that story as we make measurements and goals. Heading into the new year. Have a great day.