The "I'm Ready Now!" Podcast
Ideas to help you when you're ready for change.
The "I'm Ready Now!" Podcast
EP 29: Why Playing It Safe Might Be Holding You Back
Are you living life on autopilot, or are you ready to break free and create something extraordinary? In this engaging episode, we dive into historical anecdotes such as Ernest Shackleton's famous expedition, prompting listeners to reflect on their relationship with security versus adventure. The importance of feedback and nurturing authentic connections serves as a central theme, demonstrating how organic dialogues enrich our experiences and foster deep understanding. The episode is packed with powerful insights about the courage it takes to venture off the proven path and the support of mentors who encourage us to pursue our passions.
Listeners are encouraged to embrace the discomfort that often accompanies growth and ask themselves critical questions about their current journey. Will you take the leap into the unknown? The episode concludes with actionable tips to help you harness your strengths and seize opportunities, ensuring you remain set on a path that resonates with your true self.
Join us in this exploration of finding your voice, learning from feedback, and taking steps toward the extraordinary. Together, let's celebrate the journey of personal evolution and move forward with intention.
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Welcome to the I'm Ready Now podcast ideas to help you when you're ready for change. I'm your host, isaac Sanchez, here. I share my musings on whatever it is I am reading at the moment, as well as any other ideas that I believe will help you break free from a standstill in your thinking in order to get you dreaming again. Thank you for joining me today. Well, I'm ready now. How about you? Excellent, so let's get started. Welcome back everyone. Isaac here, I skipped a week. I know I did. There's reason for that and I'll get into that a little bit, but I'm so glad to have your company. Thank you so much for returning.
Speaker 1:Listen, it's only a podcast if there are listeners. And you know my initial thought. If you go back to initial episode, I just said listen, no listeners, no podcast. And I would know in 90 episodes because that's what I have to work with with Dan Miller's book that we're starting with to go through and work through together there's 90 little segments there in his book and that if after 90 or 91, I think I'd know if there were downloads and listeners and it was growing that I had a podcast. As they say, if no one's following you, you're just taking a walk, and as much as I love my walks I like to walk alone mostly, love to have my wife with me. But if I'm doing a podcast, sitting here recording and hoping just to share ideas that have helped me through his book and other books, then that'd be wonderful. But if not, then we don't have a podcast. So I'm saying all that because I do appreciate you stepping in and giving me some of your time to listen and hopefully learn from what I've learned. That's all this is. I'm just lighting up this microphone and going, starting with a book that helped me through change, and I hope the same will happen for you. So it's had an immense impact on me and with that in mind, I'll talk a little bit later. But there are some changes that are going on here that were cause for me to delay me recording this last video or, excuse me, recording this last podcast. So I'll talk more about that.
Speaker 1:But anyways, my whole point in this introduction on my notes is just to welcome you, and here I am starting to throw a bunch of other extra information at you. That will make a little bit more sense, I hope, in a moment when we continue, but in the meantime let's go through what we normally do and that's the housekeeping. Just remember, I have the chapter markers on the podcast. I've been doing that. I hope they've been helpful to you where I just kind of let you know where the different segments are. A lot of them are the same and it's kind of in the content that if there's some changes in the content little segments in the content I'll lead you through those with chapter markers. So just jump to them if you need to. Also, there's that tap to text me option here. So if you tap that, you can leave me some feedback, whether it's on the topics we're addressing, some comment you have about what we're addressing here, or if you have some suggestions. I'm really open to that as well. So that's the tap to text. You can also just, you know, leave feedback by emailing me. My email is my name, isaacsanchez, at MacMACcom and you can leave me some comments there. So I'd love to hear from you. So make use of that.
Speaker 1:What's up in your world? Well, here's what it is you asked, so I'm going to comment. This has to do with why I'm delayed this week and I just in making notes and getting ready to get this podcast going for this week. There's some changes that are going on based on interaction with someone, but I didn't get ahold of this someone to give permission to out them. It's good, but I just didn't. So I'm not going to at this point because I'm recording now and I'm not going to pause to go do that, but my guess is you will meet this person at some point on the podcast. So, anyways, let me explain the what's up in your world is. Well, you asked and here's what it is. So I want to take a moment to share some important feedback, and this feedback was immensely helpful to me. Now, it came through a text exchange to my personal number and not the one that comes to the platform here, but it was directly to me. So it's someone that has my number. It's a close family member this is like a game of you know, some kind of game of mystery here and close family member and what it was is.
Speaker 1:This person just complimented me, particularly on the episodes that I did with Lydia, my wife, now that's episodes 23 through 26, where we were talking about our goals. Hey, you know you guys sound great. You're just talking from, organically, from. You know who you guys are and what. You know what you're doing and just the camaraderie. The interaction is wonderful Now, which was good news because we're married and hopefully it sounds like we get along on the microphone as well, and we were getting along splendidly. It was wonderful. So that was great. I really appreciated getting that, and he said I'm halfway through those episodes, so hopefully there'll be more to come.
Speaker 1:Now, the issue in getting that exchange was that there was some deeper analysis. One of the things that he said is that just, these are my words now I'm not going to bother to go back to the text, but these are my words that it was just, it was more organic in its essence. I guess you know how we sounded. The interaction just sounded really fluid, and so that was really really great, and the more I thought about it, there was something came up. This was key.
Speaker 1:Now, lydia and I were on bullet points, and let me elaborate our process. We were on bullet points, in other words, we had planned this. This goes way back on a break when the winter break in December, where we were coming back from Yosemite and I knew that, ok, I want to talk about goal setting, and what's a better way to do that than to? Well, there's no better way to do that than to talk about our goal setting. We're not trying to put ourselves or myself in this case on a platform at all, and so in this case I thought, well, I've got my own goals, but you know what? Lydia and I have goals too in terms of our marriage. So let me just make use of that opportunity to highlight what we're doing and see if it resonates with anybody. And that was the whole point.
Speaker 1:So on our six to seven hour drive back, we were just she had her notes app open on her phone and we were going through the different categories. What would the categories be? So there's the marital ones, you know, in other words, the ones we share as a married couple, and there's categories under that. And then there are individual ones. I have my own particular ones, and Lydia has hers, and so that's how we did that Our marital goals, which are under marriage, but they can be a variety of them and there are, if you go back and listen. And then there are mine, and there's a variety of them category-wise, and there's hers that have several categories also. So two individual ones, one family one, and so we just started brainstorming, brainstorming, and so that's. We just started brainstorming, brainstorming, and when we got back I dropped those into my computer on some a Google document and started organizing those. But they were all in bullet form and so that's how she and I were recording.
Speaker 1:That I record off of a written script and I do my very, very best that when I'm typing that up I read it. I try to make it very comfortable for me first of all and there is, as an English teacher, I do my best to make sure that, even though it's written text, that it's informal enough that it sounds like I'm just kind of speaking and it doesn't sound too square. There's an art to that. So that's what I do and I try to script it as natural as possible. So that will help me, you know, in the text to say what I want to say, but it'll help me for delivery. Now this person knows me well. Back to the person who sent the note and he just texted me to say, hey, you guys sound great together, good job, props, and so I love that. That's very helpful.
Speaker 1:But it became more than that as I started to think about it. And his ear so this person knows me well, his ears noted a difference. He doesn't know how I put the podcast together. So he heard that difference and so the key is with Lydia I was interacting now, I've not interacted with people, so in this case with her, I was interacting with a known co-host, okay, my guest who again was fair for me to say I loved her and so we know each other well. And so there was that right there, that interaction with a known co-host, my guest. The other key is what I just said it was unscripted. We were going by our bullets and then running off of that and we'd stop and correct something and then keep going, but we were not reading a script. So again, this person noticed that difference.
Speaker 1:Now, do you notice it? Today? I, on purpose, have said not too much about this, although at the introduction I started to strain off a bit, but I wanted to save it for this section here. Have you noticed anything today? So today, on this episode, which is part of the delay for the last week, is, I'm using bullet points, I've not read a complete sentence yet and, although I would take time, and it would take time for me to script, the reason for me scripting and my previous uh, 28 episodes, maybe 24, not counting the four with Lydia.
Speaker 1:Although there were scripted points in there the introduction, the what's up now and other points at the end there's no bullets here now, and yet I have no one to interact with either. So there's that mix there, no bullets. That worked with Lydia, but I don't have someone to interact with, and so that means one of the safeties of the script is I just wanted to be sure that I didn't miss things that I wanted to say then hit record again, absolutely Rerecord some sections. Yes, I could rerecord sections, a sentence, a phrase, and restate it a different way, but I'm choosing not to right now. Now I'm just getting started, so let's see how this goes.
Speaker 1:I'll know whether I go back to edit. I'm trying not to. I've been listening to several podcasts that I know for a fact are not edited, and so I'm going to go edited, and so I'm going to go just give it raw. This is the way it is If I mispronounce something or if I go off a little bit, even though I have my bullets right in front of me. That's going to be learning, and I appreciate your patience with that. So see, it's happening already right now, these little verbal ticks and mistakes, but here we go, all right. So, man, I'm going to try this out. Actually, I'm trying it out and I've wanted to, I've thought about it, but I just kept being lured to the script. That way, if I made a mistake, I knew exactly where to go back and jump in and make the correction and start reading again, saying exactly what I wanted to say.
Speaker 1:So the issue is, you know, there's more time to read, research, internalize. It's going to require more time to do that and that's part of the delay that was happening on this last one and why this is delayed here. But I'll work on that. I love being stretched and I feel better about that. And what's interesting is this is not new to me.
Speaker 1:In my classroom, I have slides on the screen that are bulleted and I just riff off of that. I can go off on one slide with three bullet points. I can go on, for, you know, with three bullet points. I go on for five, six, seven, eight, 10 minutes on that, and because the content is internalized and my life is internalized in this case in terms of this podcast. But there are still things that I just don't want to miss. So I'm learning now to put those on the bullets and I'll phrase them the way I phrase them when I see them. But the key is, during the week, internalizing what I might want to say, make some tweaks in the bullets and then go from there. So, thanks a lot to this family member and I will get permission to use his name later if it's given to me, and if not, he will forever be the person that helped me make a change here. So we'll see how it goes. I feel great about it.
Speaker 1:But anyways, learning I love to learn, I love to be stretched, as uncomfortable as it is, and again, this is not new to me riffing off some bullet points, because I know what I want to say. There's things that I researched to learn about this and that stuff I have to internalize. That way it comes across. I've learned it and so I can share it with you, in addition to what I've learned. So again, I don't want to just say stuff to you that helped me three, four, five years ago, which is legit and relevant a hundred percent. It still helps me. That's why I'm sharing it. I do want to see if there's something new that I can bring to the table that adds to it, all right. So anyways, let's go ahead and kind of just see where this goes, and hopefully, so far, so good, I hope. Well, let's get into what we're learning today. Let's move on to the learning time Now.
Speaker 1:Last week's setup, if you recall, was this Men wanted for hazardous journey, low wages, long hours. All right, what would you do? Take it or leave it? Well, let's find out how many people took it and why they would go take that and decide that. You know what. Yeah, I want something hazardous, this journey, I want low wages, I want the long hours. Let's see what that is. So today we're going to find out why we do what we do. It's slightly related to last week. Let's find out, let's dig in.
Speaker 1:Well, let's get this ad cleared up. Here's what it was. This ad was put out by Ernest Shackleton in the 1900s. So let me just read here a little bit that I found on a website called the Beckert Three Group. Sir Ernest Shackleton, british Antarctic explorer, died 100 years ago today. Okay, so sorry about that. I'll have to look that up later or you can look it up yourself.
Speaker 1:Ernest Shackleton, you can see when he died. He famously led a 28-man expedition in 1914 to be the first to cross Antarctica. He did not achieve that objective, but made history by heroically saving his entire crew despite incredible hardships over the course of nearly two years. Okay, so now there were a crew of 28,. According to what I researched on him, there were a crew of 28 men. According to what I researched on him, there were a crew of 28 men that he eventually hired. Guess how many respondents there were? This is what Dan Miller has in his book. Dan says there were 5,000 respondents to that ad and he can only take 28 with them.
Speaker 1:So Dan sets up this learning for us today by just talking about the idea of safety and stability. You know he just shares that. You know I'm paraphrasing for Dan here you might be missing opportunities by favoring security and safety. So instead of kind of the unknown and the learning that goes with that and the discovery that goes with that, you kind of just put yourself on that train track and you know exactly where it's going, where it's going to stop, where it's going to go, to quote Dan Miller.
Speaker 1:Here in his book he says I truly believe that if defeat or failure is not possible, then winning will not be very sweet. Winning will not be very sweet. I love that a lot. I agree with that a lot. I also know that there's a lot of discomfort in that, because you're into the unknown and you're uncertain. And, man, if there's something that most of us like to have as humans, it's certainty, and there's nothing wrong with that, because in that certainty we like to say that's that calculated risk and that's not a down thing, that's smart, that's exactly smart, even if you're the person that's just kind of stretching out into the unknown. These are calculated risks. But again, that quote that Dan says I truly believe that if defeat or failure is not possible, then winning will not be very sweet. Dan mentions the idea of you know, you got college grads that come out ready to hit the world and they're looking for signing, bonuses, security, pension guarantees, salaries, etc. All wonderful things that you look for. But that's that idea of finding the tracks that you can jump on and knowing where that starts, where that stops, how that's going to end those things and you know.
Speaker 1:Another quote that Dan has in the section which I absolutely love is this knowing what you do well is your only security. Think about that just for a moment. Knowing what you do well is your only security, which means you and I have to learn to do something well, otherwise we don't stand out above anyone else, although remember this you can have several people that are amazing at what they do, but someone likes your amazing, they like the way you do that. I remember hearing about people starting YouTube accounts and podcasts and everything else, including my own podcast here. One of the things that was just kind of ricocheting in my mind was like but there's other people that talk about this. Now no one's talked about Dan Miller's book and other books that I'll be choosing. These are books that meant something to me. Other of the books that I'll refer to I've referenced and I will eventually get to. Hundreds of other people have talked about them and done podcasts, but I remember the advice that no one has done it in your voice, with your experience, and that is critical. So this quote again by Dan Miller knowing what you do well is your only security. So we have to do, know and learn how to do something well, and then it's going to be in our voice and nobody can do it that way. At that point. Now we've just secured our own spot and that's a wonderful, wonderful thing.
Speaker 1:Let's go ahead and move into our wrap up and application. Now, herein lies some of the change I was talking with you about earlier, and that is this idea of going from bullet points to you know, or unscripted to bullet points, I should say. The feedback I got earlier made a few changes here, and this is one was the idea of the person that contacted me about these changes we talked about earlier is that we were talking more from our own life experience. Now, that's what I've intended to do with this. This book changed my life experience and that's why I'm sharing it with others. It's my version of hey guys, look at this. This really helped me out. Let me show it to you. It's my version of hey guys, look at this. This really helped me out. Let me show it to you and see what it does for you.
Speaker 1:But I would not say too much about what I was making note of in my application part in the book, where Dan gives us an opportunity to write stuff down. That's why I have you write stuff down, because he has some questions there, and that's the application. The application matters, but I've not gone into as much detail of how that's worked out for me. So that's what's going to happen here from now on. I'm going to try that at least. So still get your journal and your writing device and digital or analog, and let's get to our own possibilities and let's get those recorded. So I'm going to share in more detail my responses, my experiences. So let's just get into this.
Speaker 1:Dan has two questions for us today, and one of them is are you forging into new territory or staying on the quote proven road? That's one question. Let me read it again Are you forging into new territory or staying on the proven road? The second one is where could you strike out for a new adventure? Where could you strike out for a new adventure? So let me share with you. I made notes on what I wrote down in the term of giving some of my history, and so again, are you forging new territories or staying on the proven road? And where can you strike out on new adventures? So let me just give you some history for me. I read Dan's book Rudder of the Day two times in 2020, of course, 2020, of course. That was COVID.
Speaker 1:And I'm stuck at home from work as an educator and kids are stuck at home and all that stuff that went on with that nightmare. And I had known about Dan Miller for about eight to 10 years. At that point I come across his material through Dave Ramsey or I believe that's Ramsey Solutions now and so Dave Ramsey and Dan Miller had an initial beginning together. It was at a church they both attended. They both had gone through very, very, very difficult life moments of losing everything and it's a wonderful story to see how they dug themselves out of that and built these wonderful businesses for themselves. So at one point Dave Ramsey had mentioned about his buddy, dan Miller, and the work that he was doing through 48 Days to the Work you Love. It was a book, podcast, website, other resources, and I had bought his book 48 Days to the Work you Love. And I had bought his book 48 Days to the Work you Love and when I got that there was an extra as a kind of promo or something, an extra book that came with the book and it was, as I recall, this book we're going through now and that's why I was out in Santa Ana and it was a 27-year marriage.
Speaker 1:I'd sold the house, moved into this apartment in a nearby town that was a city that was close to my daughter's school just trying to make things work as convenient as possible for the whole situation myself, the kids, everything. And my son was living with me also. He's 20 years old. He had just gotten back from boot camp with the Army National Guard I'm so proud of his work and he was beginning back to college, something he said he would never do. He just was done with it after high school. He was going through high school just saying I'm going to stay out of trouble, I'm going to show up, I'm going to get the grades I need, just so there's nothing that blocks me from joining the army. And so he was with me. He was just back and he was back at school. So that was wonderful. My daughter was attending a magnet school for the arts. She's an amazing writer they both are and so I kind of positioned where we are, our residence near there, and she was with me every other week. She's about 15. And so it was great Proud of them both. Oh, and then there was Luna, my dog. Luna was staying with us also Great dog, and so we love Luna.
Speaker 1:Still, of course, covid hits Stuck at home here in this apartment, the fourth floor. Step outside into a hallway. Look outside, there's just a balcony. I just going from a home, a single family home, to, with you know, backyard, my studio back there, the front yard, all this stuff, and now we're in this apartment was different. So you know there were. So what happened was there were changes now because of COVID and how we were educating students, the software and other digital tools. Some teachers just suffered because of that, of course, the kids suffered because of that. It was just a wild ride.
Speaker 1:But with all of this going on, this bit of an upheaval, I was ripe for change. I had been that way man. I had been that way for about maybe 10, 15 years already, quite frustrated with the routine of my life, career. Should I do a career change? Should it be a minor pivot? What should it be? There's some people that were close enough to me that heard this frustration loud and clear of where I was, and so there was this bit of a breakthrough In all of that.
Speaker 1:I'm there in the city Santa Ana, nearby city, here in Orange County, and I get a text from a buddy of mine, justin, and he says hey, mind if I meet up with you, let's just have some coffee down there. A good friend, fellow musician there at the church that I'd been attending and so he comes down, he sees me, I meet him downtown, just a few blocks away from the apartment. We have coffee and in our conversation, me sharing with him, I have shared with him for several years about business, my business ideas, what I'm wanting to do. I admire the work that he does. He's a web designer, has his own successful business. He just built a little space in his backyard in downtown Fullerton where he does his work. His wife works from home too, and so I've just always admired Justin's work ethic, his musicianship and everything that he would do, and so I've always been willing, and he's been willing, to listen to me. So we've had lunches before coffees before hung out, you know, in green rooms before playing at church, all these different things. I've been in bands with him before that he's cover bands that he's set up Just one, he and his wife just wonderful people and they're two young boys.
Speaker 1:And so Justin comes out and in our discussion and in my again telling him I've got to do something. I just itch to do something because I know I'm supposed to be doing something, he makes a recommendation a lady named Kathleen that attends our church that we went to together but also attended business meetings that he would attend BNI. He says you should meet Kathleen, and you know she's written a book. I first met her when she was kind of starting what she was building, and then he ran into her again at these meetings and now she had her book, she had her business, and he says you should really, you know, meet her and talk to her. So I said, okay, let me, let me do that. So she was out of the school of Brendan Burchard.
Speaker 1:She's certified as a high performance coach and I hired her as a high performance coach after meeting with her over the phone, some email exchanges, but there was this one key thing that I remember learning from Dan Miller, and that was, if you're going to be coached by someone, they should ask them are you being coached? No one's arrived and how are you being coached? It doesn't have to be that they have a full-time coach, but how are you still learning? Is the essence of what Dan Miller was saying, and I got this. I asked her that question. That was the last question I had before I was going to hire her, and she responds with this email that's just chock full of her background, what she's doing and, yes, how she continues to be coached, and it was just amazing. I just knew I need to hire her now. And so I work with her for three months.
Speaker 1:Detailed questions she would ask me why do I do certain things? What do you want your legacy to be? What are some hard things that you've done before? Just really having me dig through things and, in all of it, setting me up for how to get me to think differently about going forward. She had a wonderful book of her own that I went through. I'll have to bring up that book. I don't have it right in front of me right now, but that's another book that I went through either one time or two times, but it is marked up everywhere.
Speaker 1:She just had me thinking, so I appreciate that so much. So she was quite helpful to me in a variety of ways crafting new routines for me that stay with me today, a high performance attitude, messaging, branding, building a business, but just amazing work that he does. I might have mentioned this before. She gifted me a year subscription to his website and there was just tons of learning that I did there. Jeez, thank you, kathleen. And of course, there was moments where I was looking into coaching and she took my call, recommended a book or two that I bought, and she's just a wonderful person to come into my life and start helping me to rethink through some things. So I'm just incredibly grateful to Justin and Kathleen.
Speaker 1:Both have changed the trajectory of where I thought I was headed in terms of business and whatnot, and Justin had made such an incredible impact and it's just such an amazing buddy outside of the work we've done together that I asked him to be my best man at my wedding and he was, and I appreciated that so much. As a matter of fact, we just got a group of friends from the gym and others to go see him and his band I think it's called 80s Generation at a couple of clubs he'd done before We've seen him perform his band I think it's called 80s Generation at a couple of clubs he'd done before We've seen him perform at before, but we just were downtown here in town nearby and they just our friends that went with it just loved him. We loved him too. They just do a great, great, great job. So he's a neat guy, smart guy, family man, loves God all the things you want and a good friend. So, yeah, he was my best man at my wedding, and so his call to meet with me was the thing that moved me in a whole new direction in my thinking, by pivoting my thinking to someone Kathleen who then pivoted my thinking, to someone, kathleen, who then pivoted my thinking to something totally different, including to other people like Don Miller, and so that was my journey around. So if you look at this now again, the questions are you forging into new territories or staying on the proven road?
Speaker 1:I've made some changes. I didn't think I'd be married at this point. I was supposed to be heading out in different places just waiting for my daughter to graduate, and then I was going to move on to Nashville, tennessee, and just start again and see what was happening over there. That's what I thought was going to happen. I've been wanting to do a podcast for years and just let that roll. A few more years after meeting with her, just uncertain of what should I podcast about, had all the gear, all the know-how, but I just hadn't. And so you see, you know this idea of you, know I'd worked on my health and then started a coaching business, that kind of you know. All the change from getting married and moving kind of went down to zero again, and now I of went down to zero again and now I'm building that back up again, but these were things I was not doing, was not thinking of doing, but through these wonderful people that encouraged me and had me think a different way. Yes, it had me heading out to a different road. It had me trying things that I wasn't quite sure I was going to do or was ready to do, and so that's, in essence, how I answered those questions, and it's a story that continues on.
Speaker 1:There's other ideas that I have now that I'm wanting to work through, and so it's important to be thinking are you on the proven road? Are you looking for safety and security? I understand that there are things that we need to be responsible for. We've got bills. We have to pay all those things. There are stories out there of some people who dramatically and it worked for them, but dramatically stopped what they were doing and said you know what? I'm going to cut down, how much it costs for me to live at the way I'm living right now, and I'm just going to cut down how much it costs for me to live at the way I'm living right now, and I'm just going to shrink everything down so that I can quit this job and not need that money and just take something else in the interim that will help me start to build back up in this new area.
Speaker 1:There's a variety of ways that you can do this, folks. This depends on where you're at in life, who you're responsible for health, all these different things. Okay, so please answer these questions in the way that works for you, without hesitation, without comparison. That's crucial. Well, let me finish by just asking this so are you making this happen for yourself on any level? So find someone to speak to if necessary. If you need that encouragement, if you need someone to push you along, just do that. Okay, there's no one right way to do this.
Speaker 1:The other thing is be open to opportunities that will, you know, end up aligning themselves with your values, your skills. You know, even though these things were not your original, they weren't originally maybe on your vision board or your battle board, but you have a set of skills. You can learn a set of skills. You have your values, who you are temperament, personality, all these things and you have an idea of what you could do with them. And then some opportunity. Someone comes and says, hey, look over here, those things that you have an idea of what you could do with them. And then, some opportunity, someone comes and says, hey, look over here, those things that you have in your little toolkit and experience they work for this. Over here too.
Speaker 1:Like, be open to these things and not just tunnel visioned into what you believe is how, what you're supposed to do, and cause that's all that. You see, listen, when you're in one thing for so many years, like for me in education, in those moments where I was thinking, okay, I need to get out, I need to do something, let me just say this there were times where I just thought, what else do I do with this English degree? Like, what do I even do with this? All I've done is just been in a classroom with freshmen students for the most part English learners and like, how do I pivot? And of course you know you can get stuck on that, but there are people that help you to see outside of that and say are you joking? There's a ton of things that you can do. You just have to be willing to listen and try things out. And that's my advice to you Listen with big ears and try out different things and see what might work for you. It's a wonderful journey if you're willing to get off the beaten path and be a little bit insecure because you don't exactly know what's ahead, but forge forward.
Speaker 1:Well, it's time to strip. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hank, wait a minute, let me get my glasses right here. Just to be sure, hang on here. Let me read this. Ah, let's try again. Well, it's time to strip the boat. I almost thought I'd have to put a rating on that episode coming up. Okay, well, we're safe. Nevertheless, what does stripping a boat have to do at all with us getting our thinking straight, which is the whole point of using Dan's book here. So Dan Miller is going to let us know next week.
Speaker 1:Okay, let me send you away with a quote. Here it is If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary, and that comes to us from Jim Rohn. That's it. That's the quote. Think about it, act on it. Hey folks, thank you again for your company.
Speaker 1:So what do you think I should have a vote thing on here saying should I go back to bullets, like Isaac, get the bullets out? What the heck were you even thinking? Or are you saying, yeah, just keep working on it, isaac, but you know what? Just bullets, and just kind of follow your bullets and just talk, talk, talk. Don't read, read, read. That's going to be best. So, regardless, thank you for your company and I'm going to keep working, without bullets or without a script and with bullets. See what happens when you don't have a script, without a script but with bullets. That's how we're going to go and see how this rolls for a little bit. Right, take care, folks.
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