Separation Saturdays on Elevate Springfield: Elevating Through the Power of Persistence, Purpose, and Goals

Summary

In this episode of Elevate Springfield, Robert Ferriell emphasizes the importance of persistence and purpose, connecting daily activities to one's higher purpose. The discussion includes the ethical duty of success, the significance of surrounding oneself with great partners, and the creation of daily rituals for control. Ferriell also highlights the importance of setting goals tied to one's purpose, especially at the beginning of the year, and critiques the ineffectiveness of New Year's resolutions.

Takeaways

• Persistence towards your purpose is key.
• Success is your duty, not just a wish.
• Never settle for good when you can be great.
• Collaboration is the new currency.
• Create daily rituals that give you control.
• Keep asking why to find your higher purpose.
• Resolutions don't work; goals tied to purpose do.
• Surround yourself with positive people.
• Trim negativity and ignore the naysayers.
• Success is an ethical issue.

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Transcript

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Welcome to Elevate Springfield, where we will dive into strategies and stories that help you rise to your full potential. Each episode, we'll talk about how you can take intentional steps to elevate your life and your business while making a meaningful impact on those around you. Along the way, we're gonna bring in the change makers from our community that are already elevating. We'll bring the actionable strategies, you bring the discipline and follow through, and together, we can elevate Springfield. Alright, let's go, Springfield. Time to 10X your day, 10X your life, and all of us. 10X Springfield, hey, you are listening to the Elevate Springfield podcast. Robert Farrell here, certified 10x coach, speaker, and mentor. Here to bring you actionable strategies. You bring the discipline and follow through. And together, we're gonna Elevate Springfield. We are coming to you from the big dog construction studio in beautiful downtown Springfield. You are listening to Separation Saturdays on Elevate Springfield where you can separate yourself from the competition every Saturday morning now. We are every day with Elevate Springfield now, so you can start your morning every morning with a new drop from Elevate Springfield. And we are looking forward to having you, and we are thankful that you chose to listen to us. We're gonna get started after the break. Hey, Springfield, when it comes to reliable, high-quality roofing, you don't want to leave things to chance. That's why you should reach out to Acosta Angeli Roofing, your local roofing expert serving Springfield and surrounding communities, from quick, dependable repairs to full replacement, from residential to commercial. They are your trusted pros. Call them today at 217-993-2748 or visit their website to book your free quote and inspection. Don't wait. A little leak now could lead to major damage later. Trust the local experts, protect your home, and get peace of mind with Acosta Angeli Roofing. And we are back. Thanks for joining us on Separation Saturdays. It's been a great week on Elevate Springfield, but hey, it's always a great week on Elevate Springfield. Quick recap. On Sunday, we started our week like we always do with your weekly battle plan. Then on Monday, we had Dr. Sam Ertle in, Chiropractor here in town from Living Well Chiropractic. Great conversation on natural healing, purpose-driven profession, and some of the marketing he did early on as a business owner. Great conversation. Then on Tuesday, we had NextGen with Ellie. She was back in. We talked a lot about jobs while you're in high school. We talked a little bit about some of my early jobs and some of the jobs that she's had over the past year and how important it is or not important to have a job as a high school student. Then on Wednesday on our Communities Grow Together segment, we had Anna Brandon and Sarah Neal in from the Springfield Figure Skating Club. They have a great show coming up, Spotlight on Ice. Check out the show notes from earlier in the week or any of the reels or any of my social channels to find out about that show March 28th and 29th. Go check it out at the Nelson Center. Then on Thursday, we had Brandon Wellman in from Navigator Wealth Strategies. Talked about his journey from originally wanting to be an English teacher to becoming a financial advisor and all the great things he is doing out in the community and how he's taking care of his clients right now. Then on Friday, we had our wellness upgrade segment. Familiar face, Kylie Melvin was in. We talked about adrenal dysregulation. Hey, you know what that is? I hadn't heard the term either. Turns out I knew a little bit about it. But hey, if you didn't check that one out, make sure you go back and listen to that one. Always great stuff from Kylie Melvin from the primitive prairie. So if you're listening to this on drop day, hey, you might be getting ready to go to the parade, the St. Patti's Day Parade in downtown Springfield. Going to be a great time. Go down there, support all the local businesses that'll be in the parade. And while you're down there, go to some of those local businesses that are in downtown Springfield and have a great, safe day out there. Tomorrow on your weekly battle plan, we're going to be talking about another event coming up from Local First Springfield and SILSA, but I'll give you a quick preview on March 19th. Yeah, that's this coming week. We're having a March Madness event with these two groups teaming up to benefit the Elks Children's Care Corporation. So hey, check out the SILSA.org website or any of the local First Springfield or SILSA social channels for more information on that. And listen to the segment tomorrow where Michael Thomas and I will be talking all about the event. And then we've got a special guest from Motorheads popping in to talk about the place too. So going to be a great episode for you tomorrow. But today, for our Separation Saturdays training, a lot of folks I talked to this week, we talked about purpose and persistence. And some of the episodes coming in the next week, we talk a lot about persistence. So I wanted to touch again today on what we talk about in 10x when it comes to purpose and persistence. So the power of persistence cannot be understated. That's not to say that we just continue to bang our heads against the wall if something's not working, but persistence towards your purpose is really where it's at. Persistence towards your goals and towards your targets. Now the plans may change, the tactics may change, the strategies may change, but persisting toward that purpose is what's ultimately what is going to get you to where you want to be. So let's take a moment and talk about purpose through a 10x lens. So in 10x, one of the areas that we discuss a lot is purpose. You see, often people disconnect their purpose from their job or from their career, but knowing your purpose and connecting it with your daily activities is critical to becoming a 10x professional or curating that 10x mindset. There's a number of things you can do to drive you toward your purpose when it comes to uh 10x thinking. If you've listened to me for a while, you've heard me say this first one approach success as your duty. You have a duty to create next level success, not only so you can have the things you want, but so other people will see you as a role model. You may recall when Chris Hartsuck was on the show, he talked about success is his duty, not just his success, but success of all those around him. And we're not talking about necessarily success just as money or as recognition or some kind of trophy or a pat on the back. It's really about a duty to take care of your family and those that are close to you, right? So if you really have a 10x mindset, success is no longer optional. Success is no longer something that you're wishing for or praying for. Instead, it's your duty and your obligation. And when you do that you start to approach success as an ethical issue, not as just you know, reading reaching some financial target, right? So now that the idea of success is your duty and obligation when it's an ethical issue, you know, it means you have the money to take care of your family, grow your business, make yourself known. You see, you know what you're capable of, you know what your mission is on this planet. Make it an ethical mission to fulfill yourself as well as your contribution to your community or your industry. And as a result, you're gonna be more motivated. Now you've heard me talk a lot about motivation versus discipline. Motivation is fleeting, whereas discipline will get you through everything. But when you treat success as an ethical issue, it will give you that drive, it will give you some of that added motivation that you might need in certain times. We also talk about when it comes to purpose, being the most ethical person you know. And we're not talking about just, you know, not stealing money or not, you know, lying and things like that. We're talking about being an example. Real ethics means you must get the job done, that people can depend on you to provide for yourself, your family, your business. So you're a role model for your community. Again, that's going to give you motivation to drive toward your purpose. So when we're talking about be the most ethical person you know, it's about knowing that when you're driving towards your purpose, you're driving toward that success, and it is your ethical obligation, it is your duty to get that done. Because you really need to have a higher purpose than just financial success, than just money. We all need money. Money makes the world go around, it doesn't buy happiness, but it can certainly buy a lot of fun and it can certainly make things easier. So we all need to have that as a driver for us, but not your higher purpose. You know, what do you want money for? What would that be? Is it for a house? Is it for security for your family? Is it to be able to go on a bunch of vacations and spend time with your family more? The greats in anything know that they must be driven by something other than just money awards and rewards. They have some kind of inspiration, something driving them from the inside that keeps them showing up long after others have quit. You know, they know and they need to know what they're doing is making a difference for their clients and their community. Again, coming at it from a place of an ethical duty for that. When you have that strong purpose and you've made it your ethical duty for success and to get to that purpose, the next step is to never settle for good when you can be great. If you think good's your target, you might quite frankly, you might up end up end up with less than good. If you think great is the target, you're at least gonna get good because you know you're gonna take the amount of action necessary to do that. So why settle for good when we all have the ability to be great? We all know that we can't do it by ourselves, so get some great partners. Partners could be your spouse, your friends, the people you do business with, folks you are in associations with. Make sure they're great, not average, not mediocre. They need to bring great ideas, they need to bring great customers with them. So get yourself some great partners. Think great things, do great things, create great with these folks. Even if you come up short, great partners are always gonna achieve more together than they would by themselves. We talk a lot about collaboration is the new currency, and communities grow together. That's one of the main themes on the show. We talk about this a ton because it is so important. So get yourself some great partners, surround yourself with the right people. Robbie uh Matthews talked about this a lot in terms of getting around the right people. If you're just sitting around drinking beer, making fun of everybody, he said you've scripted your life right there. But if you get yourself around positive people, the referrals come, the greatness comes, the growth comes. So get yourself some great partners and surround yourself with the right people. And now as you're doing that, you've got to trim some of the negativity as well, and you have to ignore anyone who says you can't. You have to simply tune out anyone who says you can't or tries to impose limits on you. Could be a family member, could be an employee, could be a manager. If somebody says it can't be done and you know it can be, ignore them. Great people, great inventors, great politicians, great salespeople, great business people, great athletes have all done things other people have just refused to do, or things people were convinced were impossible. So tune them out and let's push toward the impossible. Great things will happen. Now, when you're pushing toward that impossible, you've got that purpose set, you're disciplined, you're motivated, the whole nine, some things you can do to put you in charge. Create daily rituals. Daily rituals give you a sense of control. We talk a lot about control in the 10x world because when you have control, you can make a difference, you can make an impact, you can control results. If you don't control the inputs, you're not going to be controlling the outputs, right? So you want as much control as possible. And daily rituals can give you at least a sense of control. Maybe it's prayer, maybe it's thought, maybe it's reading, maybe it's working out, maybe it's quiet time, whatever. Create some daily rituals that make you feel good about yourself, your day, your start that motivate you and control what you can control. I've talked many times about my morning routine. I would encourage everyone to have a morning routine that includes personal and professional development, working out. All of it. It gets your day out on the right track. It puts you in a solid frame of mind moving forward and it puts you in control. So, what's your purpose? Maybe you don't know it yet. Spend some time and think about that. You know, what are your goals and why do you want to achieve those goals? Are they tied to a purpose? Are they tied to a higher purpose? Why do you really want them? Push yourself to get to the higher reason. And the way you can do that is by continuing to ask why. All right. What does this mean for you and what does this mean for your family? So maybe your goal is, hey, I want to make a hundred thousand dollars this year as an employee for X company, right? Why? And then when you answer that, why? And then when you answer that, why? Eventually you're gonna get to that higher purpose. Because maybe that hundred K means, hey, you can take an extra vacation this year with the family. Maybe that means you can buy a house, right? So but keep asking yourself why. Business owners, you could do the same thing. Hey, maybe I want to hit the one million dollar mark this year, whatever the case you may be for your goal. Maybe you want to hit a million, maybe you want to hit ten million, or maybe you are already way past that and you're trying to hit a hundred million. Why? Keep asking yourself why to drive toward that higher purpose. Again, that purpose is what's going to give you drive, motivation, and the discipline to continue going when everything gets hard. So there's really seven areas that we talk about in 10x for your goals. And I would recommend that you have goals in all seven of these areas. Income, wealth, and those are different. Think about that. Income, what's your income goal for this year, but also what's your wealth goal, your wealth creation goal, physical goals. Maybe you want to work out some more this year, maybe you want to lose 20 pounds, maybe you want to gain 15 pounds of muscle, right? What's your physical goals? Spiritual goals, familial goals, recreational goals, and professional goals. Now, a lot of these will tie together because your income and professional goal, they might tie into, hey, I want to make$250,000 this year so I can have a familial and recreational goal of going to Hawaii or going to Europe or wherever, right? Having multiple vacations this year to be able to spend more time with the family. So they can overlap to a degree, but have goals in all seven of these areas: income, wealth, physical, spiritual, familial, recreational, and professional. We've got a cool 10X everything exercise that we can take you through. Just give us a shout. Look for me on any of my social channels or Chris Hartsook, my business partner in Big Dog Business Coaching. We would love to take you through this exercise. Be right back after the break. Looking for expert tree care with hometown integrity, look no further than Sangamon Tree Service. They're your trusted local pros, delivering quality workmanship, exceptional customer service, and fair, honest pricing. 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