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In a continued conversation from yesterday, Brian delves deeper into the subject of outsourcing your weaknesses in business.
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Self Discipline is Fake
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So Discipline is Fake.
Hi folks, this is Brian J. Pombo. Welcome to Brian J. Pombo Live.
We’re here in Grants Pass Oregon, but we’re not in the Orange Office. As you can see by the color back here, this is going to be the new office, which is yet to be named.
You can possibly hear the echo, a little bit of reverb from the fact that it’s extremely empty, nothing on the walls, nothing on the floors. Still a lot that needs to be filled in. It’s just me in a chair in an empty room.
Today we’re going to be talking a little bit about self-discipline and another little excerpt from this book, the one thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan.
Awesome book. Go and get it today. Just going to read a quick quote out of it, and this has to do with self-discipline and kind of the myth behind self-discipline, and this is something I definitely seen about myself.
I’m wondering if you see the same thing, you don’t need to be a disciplined person to be successful. In fact, you can become successful with less discipline than you think.
For one simple reason, success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.
Success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right and I love this.
Next that this next excerpt says, the trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it. That is it.
That’s all the discipline you need. As this habit becomes part of your life, you’ll start looking like a disciplined person, but you won’t be one.
What you will be is someone who has something regularly working for you because you regularly worked on it. You’ll be a person who use selected discipline to become, to build a powerful habit.
This is all about habit building and if you understand that it’s not about being perfect in everything that you do, but finding the right thing to do and then building a habit out of it, have it repetitive enough on a daily basis if at all possible, like we talk about over and over again with daily content like this, which I’m just barely squeaking in just before the midnight hour so that we can make it for this day of our daily videos, which were in the hundreds right now of consecutive daily videos.
Thank you for so much for joining me. Go back and watch some of the others. Listen to some of the others.
Tell me what you think. I’d love to get some more comments and more feedback. I always love feedback, positive or negative.
If you are a business owner or an executive of a self-reliance based business, maybe you have services or products that help people to become more self-reliant. You’re someone I’d like to talk to. Go to DreamBizChat.com the link is in the description, DreamBizChat.com. If you go there, you’ll see a quick video, eight and a half minutes of me discussing the dream business transformation.
If you think you qualify for it, make sure and fill out the application on that page. It’s a very simple, straight-forward page. Once again, let me know what you think. Tomorrow, we are going to be in an entirely different state.
Right now I’m sitting in Southern Oregon, but we’re going to be in one of the others. It is neither Hawaii or Alaska. It’s in the 48 one of the 48 consecutive states. I’m giving more clues every video and it is in, well, let’s just say it’s two hours difference from here. We’ll see it tomorrow. Get out there and let the magic happen.
How Do You Focus?
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One thing. Just one thing.
How do you focus?
Hi, I’m Brian Pombo welcome back to the Orange Office in Grants Pass Oregon. It’s a lovely day today. I spent most of the day outside working on a new new adventure for me actually. You’ll be learning more about it next month at the beginning of October.
Here we are at the beginning of September. By the time the beginning of October comes around, we’re going to have a new office. We’re going to have a new adventure to talk about. So stay tuned for that.
Later on this week, I am going to be coming to you live from a whole nother state and none of the states that are near Oregon. It’s beyond that as for a little bit of a clue. And I’ll tell you more about that when we get there. So see if you can guess which state it is.
Today we’re talking about the second lesson that I learned from this book. The One Thing, the subtitle of this is the surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results by Gary Keller.
Also with Jay Papasan. Jay, thank you very much. I saw that you saw one in the videos and I forgot to mention your name. I always remember to say Gary Keller’s name because it’s on the front, but Jay I’m sure was a huge, huge benefit to this, with his background and I have a feeling that his organization of this material made this book extremely enjoyable and very readable.
One that you could go back to over and over and over again because it focuses on principles that never go away. This is one of those books that I recommend any business owner read because it’s such hardcore principles and this is one of the main ones that the whole book comes to and it regards the focusing question.
This is in chapter 10, The Focusing Question. So much of the book is wrapped around this concept.
And if you can get just a piece of this, this is one thing I’ve gone back to over and over again ever since coming across it a year or two ago when I came across this question and it’s dynamically changed my business in my life and how I’m able to help other business owners at the same time. So listen to this, I’m gonna read this straight out of the book.
Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers there’s no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.
That’s a deep issue unto itself. If you haven’t realized that yet, if to get something uncommon, you’ve got to live in an uncommon way. If you haven’t gotten that yet, you’re either in the right place or you’re in the wrong place because you need to get that point.
The focusing question is that uncommon approach. In a world of no instructions, it becomes a simple formula for finding exceptional answers that lead to extraordinary results. Now here’s the question itself. I’ll see if you can wrap your mind around this. What’s the one thing I can do such that by doing it, everything else will be easier or unnecessary? I’m going to say that again.
What’s the one thing I can do such that by doing it, everything else will be easier or unnecessary and the concept behind this is is is there one thing that you can do that will make everything else you do either in that day or in your year or what have you, either easier or unnecessary.
Is there one answer? The idea of having a bunch of dominoes lined up in a row, you know how you align them all up and you push one, the others hit the other ones.
But what if each domino was a little bit bigger and you pushed over a big domino that hit a slightly smaller one in a slightly smaller walk slightly as well. It’s much more likely that all of them will be hit right, and that’s the visualization that they produce in this book. What’s the one thing you could be doing right now?
This is how you bring everything back into focus. This is how you determine what you should be doing every day. This is how you determine what you should bet, what your focus should be during the whole week or the whole month.
See it doesn’t matter whether it’s on the macro, the microcosm or the macrocosm, you know, it doesn’t matter whether you’re dealing with something very specific of what I should be doing right now or what, where my focus should be beyond, you know, in the next five, 10 years, like we were talking about yesterday.
If you don’t have a very clear idea about where you’re looking to go in the next five to 10 years, you’re going to have a tough time really seriously determining what you should be doing right now and that all these things, it’s not, it’s not rocket science.
Sometimes what you should be doing right now, it pops up out of nowhere. You get a phone call, something else, and all of a sudden your priorities change. But this is all about prioritizing. This is all about having a priority to begin with. It doesn’t mean that these things should take over your life.
You should still live in the moment, but you should always ask yourself, what’s the one thing that I could be doing right now such by doing it will make everything else either unnecessary or easier. That’s the focusing question that could possibly change your entire business life.
If you can wrap your mind around that and to find out more, go and get this book. I don’t get any, any, any kickback for this. Go and get the one thing. The audio version is really great.
The physical version is great to have on hand. If you’re going back and look and looking back at specific sections, there’s so many, so many great nuggets in there that I could take and ponder on or pass along to somebody like you today that is just priceless.
Hopefully that’s helpful to you. Tomorrow we’re gonna go over a third idea. Like I said, I don’t only have three ideas out of this that have made a big change for me, but I’m going to talk about a third one just within this series of videos. You go back and watch yesterday’s video come back tomorrow.
If this was interesting to you, I suggest going back and watching some of my other videos, listening to some of my other audios, if you’re hearing this on the podcast and see if you think that we get along.
See if you think that, “Hey this guy might actually know what he’s talking about and he’d be able to help me focus and get me going in the right direction.” Maybe take my business from where it’s at to really the ideal of where I know it can be.
If that sounds like you and you’re in the self reliance field, meaning you have, you have products or services that help people to become more self reliant and you’re a decision maker in your business, meaning you’re the business owner or you’re an executive in that, in that business, go to DreamBizChat.com you can click on the link in the description or you go straight there, DreamBizChat.com.
Just type it in and there’s a video, eight and a half minutes long. Watch it. It sounds like something that you would qualify for. Go and fill out the application and we’ll see if we can talk tomorrow.
Like I said, we’re going to deal with the third out of the three top ideas that I got out of the one thing and so we’ll see you then. In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.
How/What Should I Track?
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How should I track? What should I track? Is tracking right for me? These are the questions you might have if you’re watching today. Welcome, I’m Brian Pombo. this is the Orange Office, We’re in Grants Pass, Oregon. And this is Brian J. Pombo Live.
Today we’re talking about tracking and how tracking can completely change your life, if you do it right.
We’re going to talk about how to apply it to your business. And this is in reference to yesterday’s video that we did where we discussed whether you, whether you’re faking yourself out or not because the 11th commandment is thy shall not fake thyself out.
So we’re talking today about one of the main lessons that I got out of this book, of the one thing that this book has a million lessons in it, but I’m just gonna cover some of the basics today.
We’re covering the concept really of goal setting, but I don’t like seeing it as that because that’s more of the means as far as it. And not as much the end. What we’re going to do is focus on the end and we’re going to talk about tracking a little bit here.
How do you go about tracking? How do you know what you should be tracking so that you know you’re not faking yourself out? Okay, so there’s a, there’s a reference. This comes to a page one 50 this figure 24 in the hardback book of the one thing by Gary Keller and it’s goal setting to the now. This is your first step. If you really have no idea what you should be focusing on. If you don’t know what the one thing is that you should be focusing on, we’re going to be talking about that more about tomorrow.
This is a good exercise on how to get there and you’ll want to start out with a great big someday goal, meaning eventually, this is where I’d like to be in my own personal life.
This is how much money I’d like to make. This is the type of place I’d like to live in and just design the perfect, the ideal lifestyle as far as you can see it.
This is way far in the future. This could be beyond 10 years.
Some day, this is where I like to be and this is BHAG. That stands for big hairy audacious goal that comes from Jim Collins who wrote a good to great, I believe that was from his book, Built to Last where he talks about BHAG’s and having a big hairy audacious goal.
You may also hear it referred to as as the dream is the big dream that you have. What is that Someday goal for you? Outline that as best you can, and what it’s going to take in your current position with your current business. What is it going to take to get there?
This should be something very personal and then you take it from there and you start breaking it down into an amount of years. So let’s say we have you go from there to attend year goal.
And you outlined that. What is your 10 year goal in the next 10 years? 10 years from today or 10 years from the beginning of next month or what have you, where do you see yourself at? How much money are you going to be making, how big is your business?
Try and define it as best as possible. And then from there, and this once again, deceptively simple, but the fact that you haven’t done it yet is telling you why you don’t know what you should be tracking or not.
We’re going to get more into how to go about tracking, but we’re just talking about what you should be tracking.
So from a 10 year goal, you want to go to a five year goal and from a five year goal you go to a two year goal and then a one year goal and we’ll just bring it up here so you can see a little better all the way to like a six month goal. Where are you going to be in six months? What’s Your Business gonna look like?
How many new customers are you going to have or whatever your metric is that you use to measure success in your business, where are you going to be in six months?
Then from there, break that down into where are you going to be in three months.
And then you break that down into one month and then this is, this is where it gets tricky. It gets tricky here. I’m got to break the month down into weeks. Where are you going to be in the next week?
And there’s no hard set way of how to do this.
You could break it into from six months to five months to four months. It’s all in how you decided to do it, but break it into weeks. So by the end of next week or whenever you’re designed to start tracking, where are you? Where do you need to be?
Where do you need to be to be in line with your someday goal or your 10 year goal? It doesn’t matter where this big goal is, but you have the concept of a big goal in a certain period of time and then you start breaking it down. This is just simple division math.
You start dividing it down all the way down to the week and then you come down to from the week, what is each day? What does each day, what does that call for you? Does it mean new customers?
Does it need me new clients? Does it need new accounts open does that, it all depends on your specific business, but what does that mean for you on a daily basis? Maybe it means maybe you just need a new customer every month. Maybe that’s your style of business. All you need is a new customer once a month and that will set you on track for your 10 year goal.
If that’s the case, then then your goal per day isn’t going to be get a new customer. Your goal per day is okay, how many phone calls, how many whatever connection point is, where does it start? You’ve got to break it all the way back down. So maybe out of a hundred phone calls you get one customer.
If you know it’s gonna take a month, you’ve got to divide up a hundred phone calls over 30 days and then you’ll know every day how many phone calls you have to make, that type of thing.
You break it down to the most basic action and then you start tracking how many, let’s say it’s phone calls that you have to do, let’s say, or letters that you have to send out or emails, whatever. Let’s say phone calls. Just for the sake of simplicity.
How many phone calls do I have to do today? And Are you, are you watching? I bet you haven’t been watching it up til now. That’s, I bet you didn’t know how many it was going to take to get to your big hairy audacious goal to get to the big thing or at least something measurable like a 10 year goal.
You didn’t know how much it was up till now so you weren’t tracking it. And if you aren’t tracking and it’s never going to get there, you say these things can happen by accident. They can happen if you hire somebody else, but someone along the way is going to have to be tracking progress.
What you, what you measure. Oftentimes they’ll say what you measure is what grows. Honestly, what you measure goes in the direction you want it to go. So if you’re measuring your weight and you want your weight to go down, it’s gonna start naturally going down.
If you’re just measuring it, if you’re weighing yourself daily, you will lose weight guaranteed. It’s not going to happen every day, but you will start losing weight without any other changes. If you just start tracking it, it’ll happen.
It’s all about just paying attention. It’s all about awareness. It’s all about just watching it over and over again. Your way to do it will become more and more clear just because you’re paying attention to that metric is boring stuff, but you do it once and then you build the habit of tracking on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, on a monthly basis.
Everything will improve. For you guaranteed. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this. Leave a comment wherever you’re watching this.
Also, if you happen to be a business owner in the self-reliance field or an executive, if you happen to be one of the big people in charge at your company and you sell products or services to people to help them become more self reliant, you’re somebody I’d like to talk to.
Go to DreamBizChat.com you’ll see a video. They’re very similar to this one where I’m standing in front of a whiteboard. It is eight and a half minutes long. Go and watch it if you find it interesting, go and fill out the application now. All it is is it’s for a dream business transformation where you and I will get a chance to talk. Hi Joe.
Will we have some people, people watching and be sure and show up. Tomorrow we’re going to talk about another concept out of this book. The one thing. Actually tomorrow we’re going to be talking about the main concept. A very simple sentence out of this book that could quite possibly change your life. We’ll see you tomorrow. You have a great night.