Life Unsettled
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Comfort Zone – A guide to Personal Development
May 24, 2019 07:36 - 11 minutes - 27.2 MBThe comfort zone sounds so obvious, but personal development is much more involved. If you want to grow, succeed or do anything new, you need to go outside it. The comfort zone is in a situation where a person is familiar, at ease and in control. Outside of the comfort zone there is increased anxiety and stress. So, the further out a person gets the greater the level of stress. The easiest definition I have found is from Wikipedia . The most comfortable place in usually not the best for ...
Career Change – Plan it or Take the Default
May 15, 2019 19:17 - 7 minutes - 17.7 MBWhy you should be looking at your future career as an ongoing process. You will have change, probably many times, a career is either planned or decided by others for you. Career Change and paths to new jobs or professions are confusing and don't always go where expected. Why now is one of the best times ever for career change and career development. It may last 2-4 years, but you’ll need every one of those years to make the most progress. Largely I am setting a framework for thinking a...
Goal Setting for Personal Growth and Development
May 15, 2019 17:32 - 10 minutes - 24.3 MBGoal setting for your personal growth is one of the most rewarding tasks people can do. Do you know what you want to be in five years? Do you know where you want to be in 3 - 5 years? Your goals should be distant at the start of your journey. You want to develop your own big picture of your future life. Success is personal. Are you on the correct path to reach your goal? Do you know what you want to accomplish this year, within 6 months and today? While some might feel they don’t like to ...
106 – Everybody makes mistakes Learn from mistakes
September 13, 2017 14:55 - 8 minutes - 20.5 MBWelcome to another episode of Life Unsettled New Path, Better Future. You've all heard things like, "Everybody makes mistakes. Learning from mistakes. Don't worry about your mistakes. It's just part of the process of growing and learning." I'm going to as usual disagree with many of the gurus out there that tell you to just continue to make mistakes as you progress. This episode is extremely important but maybe a little bit more complex. As I understand the general logic that people have, yo...
105 – Sales Process Changing at Hyper Speed
August 26, 2017 14:36 - 10 minutes - 25.2 MBToday I'm talking about sales, sales process and the sales environment and the business environment. Do we all think of it in certain ways as we've always experienced walking into stores, online even, walking into a car dealership? Things are changing very rapidly now and in the near future. I want to go over a couple of the things that are changing, and have changed, recently. Really to my entire surprise is how fast those changes are about to take place. Now, it's important, of course, tha...
104 – Future Marketing – Customer Sourced
August 17, 2017 13:44 - 12 minutes - 28.9 MBThe future marketing like everything else today is impacted by technology. Most people today have no idea how much information on them is changing marketing to them. In the future marketing, companies will use AI. VR and augmented reality to build marketing for them specifically based on what they do and did. Today, we’re going to continue from a previous episode where we talk more about what was going on with sales and the sales process. Let's talk a little bit more now about the technology...
103 – Marketing Today; Social Media and Customer Focus
August 10, 2017 21:54 - 9 minutes - 21.9 MBToday is the episode on marketing today. Marketing, I'm gonna break it all down into two parts. Originally I thought this was going be one piece, but it turns out that it's just too big. And one of the things, and reason that I want to separate it is, there's not just what's going on today. As I've mentioned many times, technology is moving just so fast that we really have to plan, or at least be aware, of what's happening towards the future. So, we will be taking a look at a second part next...
102 – Target Marketing & Build Customer Loyalty
August 02, 2017 20:40 - 9 minutes - 22.2 MBThe second episode of eight in comprehensive business strategy, target marketing, in the overview of building or expanding a strong business. This episode addresses the following topics and questions. Who are your customers and targeting your prospects? Use the attributes of your product or service and describe well what it will do for them They only care about the benefit to them Watch and survey with customer satisfaction to either learn possible expansions or to at least find who they ...
101 – Product Line Strategy, Service Strategy
July 26, 2017 00:09 - 9 minutes - 22.9 MBSo now is the first step in looking at business strategy, your product line strategy. What is your product line strategy or business line strategy? How are you going to expand your product line over time? Now this doesn't matter whether you're just starting out, whether you're about to start, or you've been going for a little while. Even at the very beginning as you're planning your business, you say you only have one product or one service. It doesn't matter. You have to think of expansion i...
100 – Business Strategy Comprehensive View
July 18, 2017 13:26 - 10 minutes - 25.9 MBBusiness strategy is often overlooked in small businesses. Too often a small business while a way to pick up some extra money or to gain financial freedom, neglects a comprehensive business strategy. There are over 40 million people in the United States with side gigs. Now, these don’t even include people that have separated from there job and set up their own business. I wonder how many of those 40 million would be able to have a complete business if they looked a more closely at strategy. ...
99 – Startups Unlimited Opportunities with New Technology
July 04, 2017 16:28 - 10 minutes - 25.1 MBStartups, whether you’re expanding a business, starting a new business, there’s so many opportunities out there, probably more than there ever. I keep on hearing people saying that they’re looking or they’re trying to think of something to do as a startup. Don’t think necessarily of just what you’re doing. Instead, think of problems that you, your neighbors, or other people that you see have. Solving a problem is what makes a business. I want to give you a ton of examples here just really to...
98 – Branding, Position your Business and Self
June 18, 2017 12:51 - 8 minutes - 20.7 MBLet’s talk about branding and positioning your strategy. I truly mean your strategy. This can be your business or yourself. If you’re dating, you must have a brand to position yourself. You must be appealing to someone else. It doesn’t matter what you’re talking about. This is crucial. I’m going to get to products very quickly and very soon, but first I want to talk a little bit about the positioning, and the scope and breadth of a brand or a strategy. If you have it too narrow a scope, you ...
97 – Hiring Employees, Contractors, Advisors
May 31, 2017 12:29 - 7 minutes - 19.2 MBBest to listen to the 8 minute episode. In the meantime though, how is hiring of employees as well as contractors and advisors influencing customer satisfaction. Why do some companies have great customer satisfaction and others seem to be never able to attain it? I go through some of the thoughts and observations from wondering about this topic. Comparison of Companies I first noticed some of the great attitudes between companies and others where the customer experience is not so good. It ...
96 – Short Term Goals vs Long Term Goals
May 22, 2017 12:55 - 9 minutes - 23.2 MBLet’s talk about short term goals versus long-term goals and the accompanied planning. I know that sounds dry, but: What do you think about it? You see people changing their minds all the time and doing things. It is imperative that you have those long term goals and dreams. Imagine that you have your life’s goal or your business goals for the longer term, and by the longer term then you’re able to turn around and see what you can do in the short term. That is whatever you’re doing, as long ...
95 – Statistics Bias, Fake News, Question Authority
May 02, 2017 15:39 - 13 minutes - 31.2 MB“Statistics and Bias - Which one of these are better for you, nutrition?” This may start out sounding a little bland, but I want to blow your socks off. It is also not about politics except as an example. You need to be aware because biased statistics has you following bad medicine; eating the wrong things and making bad decisions for your business or life. I may be talking about biased statistics, statistical bias, etc., but what are we really talking about? We’re talking about the informa...
94 – Startup Entrepreneurs – Older than Thought
April 17, 2017 12:12 - 8 minutes - 19.6 MBAge for an entrepreneur, how old are startup entrepreneurs? Are you too old or too young? A constant question always seems to be: “How old should I be? Am I too old?” I have a few surprises for you, both with examples, and some survey material. Many Famous Startup Entrepreneurs began Later in Life First, let me give you a few examples. Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonald’s franchise, you may have heard, he didn’t start. Actually, he met the McDonald’s brothers when he was 52 years of age and that’s...
93 – Overcoming Adversity; Aaron Curry’s Plateau & Breakthrough
March 31, 2017 14:34 - 8 minutes - 19.3 MBWe’ve discussed many different topics. Here is a great real life example of overcoming adversity, which bring many topics together. This particular episode and its example brings in many different pieces that we’ve had in the past and shows a great example of goals, ensuring the drive to succeed; hitting a plateau, striving and obtaining super success – all of the things that most of us want to do. This also is why and where we stop. Aaron Curry, one of the top linebackers entering NFL ever. ...
92 – Leadership and Leadership Styles – Become one in Your Niche
March 20, 2017 12:54 - 8 minutes - 20.4 MBLeadership comes in styles for varied groups and purposes! I want to talk about leadership. Often you hear and you see a lot of things for leadership training or how to be a leader, etc. Just like everything else, just like in business you have many alternatives. There are many different types of leaders that have been incredibly successful in life. What I want to do is go over some of the differences. I’m going to point you in the direction of a particular blog post that was done that reall...
91 – Get Business Advice – Easiest Way for Business Information
March 02, 2017 13:31 - 8 minutes - 19.3 MBI want to talk about getting business advice. Actually it could even be considered getting advice for life, life advice. Before I get into the episode I want to remind everybody that I’ve always said over and over again how you can learn from anybody and everything. Be ready for Business Advice that questions and challenges! I’ve given examples of how birds and other animals sometimes know how to raise their young better than we do. Why? Because they raise them to survive. Taken that littl...
90 – Feel the Customer – Be the Customer
February 08, 2017 15:15 - 9 minutes - 22.1 MBThis episode is about feeling as the customer or to 'be the customer'. This is apparently very difficult for people, but we all know and have wonderful experiences as a customer. How come we can’t reverse it and feel so well by being the customer that’s in front of us or around us to have them have the feeling that they want to do business with us? At the end, I’m going to give a few examples of some good companies and one person as well. You can't understand customer perception without actua...
89 – Business Opportunities Growing
November 22, 2016 14:02 - 8 minutes - 19.6 MBToday business opportunities are growing, and they will explode over the next year. Let me explain this a little bit. First, I did postpone, I apologize for that. I postponed a few days for this episode to come out because I wanted to wait until the dust settled after the election. At the end of this episode I want to wrap everything up together so you understand why this opportunity is so big, literally for everybody who wants to start and build a business. It doesn’t mean business is easy, ...
88 – Work-Life Balance or Hustle – Life Unsettled
November 07, 2016 13:39 - 10 minutes - 25.7 MBWe’ve all heard people talking about work-life balance, and: How are you supposed to have it? It’s a choice. Let’s talk a little bit about work-life balance versus the hustle, that is you hear people saying: “Work smart, hustle, keep going,” etc. and then you have these other people trying to tell you about work-life balance. Let’s take a look at the two, because there’s really a lot to each story. Some gurus preach Work-Life Balance while others lecture the importance to hustle. Balancing w...
87 – Hustle versus the 4 Hour Work Week
October 31, 2016 13:27 - 7 minutes - 18.2 MBHustle versus the Four Hour Work Week shows two competing paths to your success. This episode was motivated by a conference I went to where Ryan Deiss, one of the Co-Founders of Digital Marketer, and Gary Vaynerchuk both spoke. It was the Digital Marketer Conference. Don't believe the myth of the 4 hour work week. Hustle to the extent you want, not someone else's opinion What happened and the idea is: Hustle versus the four-hour workweek. We hear, and so many people are following the four-hou...
86 – Acquire Skills, Master a Skill
October 30, 2016 23:06 - 10 minutes - 25 MBTo stand out in the world, master a skill. Yes, become the master in a niche! In this episode I want to talk and follow up from last time. Last time I talked about becoming an authority. I mentioned that to become an authority you’re going to have to have some special skill, trade, whatever it is. Not only a niche, but you’re going to have to become a master. That is, you’re going to have to be that person that somebody admires and other people want to gain your information. That also puts yo...
85 – Establish Authority, Business Expert
October 20, 2016 15:16 - 9 minutes - 21.8 MBHow do you establish authority in your field? I don’t care whether that’s internet authority, or workplace authority, or as a business expert. Learn to become a recognized authority One quick note just before I get into the episode. As soon as I finished the episode, within two hours I ran into two different situations, two different people (not related) both claiming authority, talking about it as if they have it, and I know they don’t. They couldn’t answer some of the very basic questions...
84 – Women Employees, Are they Worth It?
September 17, 2016 15:29 - 9 minutes - 21.9 MBThis topic is about women in the workplace. When I say women employees, there are all kinds of things that pop into people’s minds, and probably everybody’s thinking something different. What I’m going to get into is (and there’ll be a bunch of recommendations at the bottom, both for women and for men) are women cheap and inexpensive employees? Are they worth the risk? Are they an opportunity? What happened was I was talking about something with a woman, I’m talking about the topic in planni...
83 – Attitude – The Game of Life
September 11, 2016 17:06 - 9 minutes - 23.7 MBThe Game of Life, a real challenge for everybody, the idea of the topic is game. What is a game? We often hear and think in terms of a game. I looked up all kinds of definitions of it. I want to refer to and bring in the idea of The Game of Life. Make projects a game yields a positive Attitude A game, something that is structured, has rules or whatever, you use it for play or enjoyment, but it can also be educational. Gee, if a game can be educational, that brings up other topics and other id...
82 – Dress for Success – Your Presentation
September 03, 2016 15:25 - 9 minutes - 23.6 MBDress for Success, that is, appearance and perception is extremely important. This is a time for taking a look at what we’re doing in public or online, which is basically public. You’ve all probably heard about a book a long time ago called Dress for Success. If you haven’t, you’ve heard references to it or something. What it’s about is what kind of impression you make or have to the general public, to other people. They’re really talking about job interviews and while you’re at work, trying ...
81 – Sales and Marketing – Customer Perception
September 03, 2016 14:52 - 7 minutes - 18.6 MBHow often do you get sales calls or marketing calls, and how do they go? Damn. Some of these salespeople, actually an awful lot of them are lazy sacks of excrement. It’s often somebody calls me, partially from personal connection, and they basically know a bit about me. We had a lot of conversations, we’ve been on things together, etc. and all of a sudden they call and it sounds like they think I’m from outer space and have just landed. It’s like they don’t remember or don’t know anything. Ho...
80 – Olympics Teaches Dedication toward Success
August 17, 2016 16:05 - 5 minutes - 14.6 MBWhat happens at the Olympics and what we get out of it(what do we learn for our own success)? You may or may not get the same things I get out of it, but I really was taken by some comments during interviews by a couple of the gymnasts that really sung home. It’s frequently thought that a person who has done as well as Simone Biles or Aly Raisman are somehow destined, that they’re just built that way and it works. They may have some special abilities beyond somebody else, but you have to kno...
79 – Cognitive Dissonance and Business
August 17, 2016 15:59 - 5 MBCognitive dissonance and how it affects business. In this episode, the psycho-babble is reduced to much of the root cause and why there is an easy fix, although most will not ever do it. A definition is that cognitive dissonance is the mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time. It occurs when someone is confronted by new information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas, or values. Isn't that ...
78 – Competitive Advantage – Honesty
July 27, 2016 00:16 - 5 MBEverybody is always wondering how to get a competitive advantage. In this episode, I discuss how to use honesty and integrity as a competitive edge. An interesting dilemma it’s actually pointed out that almost everyone thinks of themselves as honest. But when I ask how many people do you know that are honest, I usually get an answer like very few. So while everybody thinks of themselves as honest, they generally don’t think other people are. This means that people have differing opinions of ...
77 – Teamwork Team Building & Ego
July 12, 2016 14:26 - 5 MBTeamwork, team building and how ego can adversely affect your efforts. The biggest mistake I see consistently across companies is that every individual wants to own everything, that is, every idea. Every person wants to take each idea and show that it’s at least in part theirs or it is theirs. What is more important success or your ego? Unfortunately, most can’t seem to determine or differentiate between the two. Now, teamwork or Team building is all about buy-in. The idea of course, is ...
76 – Success in Business – Increased Probability
July 11, 2016 13:31 - 5 MBSuccess in business requires a true comprehensive look at the business both internally and externally. Most businesses fail. The numbers most commonly stated are 80 to 90 percent of businesses fail. So, in this episode, the topic is how to reduce the probability that yours is one of those failures. By understanding and knowing what might cause failure, you are also aiding both the success and the growth of your company. When starting a business, you should always have at least the basics of...
75 – Achieve Success repeated Breakthroughs
June 26, 2016 17:34 - 11 minutes - 27.9 MBHow do you achieve success and how do you or can you know your limits? This episode was the result of not being able to answer easily a question on a radio interview. That question was,” what was the key trigger or breakthrough in your life?” My problem with the question really goes back to the title of my book,” The Mechanics for Breakthrough Success.” Let me explain why this question is absolutely so important. If you have a goal in life, when you are successful you can look back and see ...
74 – Decision Making Process Too Early
June 26, 2016 17:23 - 5 MBThe decision making process and having a basic understanding is useful for understanding customers and employees but probably most important ourselves. In order to influence customers to buy our product or services, it's useful to better understand why sometimes it is so difficult to get people to change their mind. Given that it is difficult to change someone's mind, customer retention is that much more crucial to business success. The easiest way to understand some of this is to look at po...
73 – Have No Time, You’re Kidding
May 27, 2016 18:20 - 5 MBJust about everybody will say: “I have no time.” I’m sure you’ve heard that. Just about everybody utters it at some point. What in the world does it mean? First of all, very successful people look at you kind of funny or at least in their minds think of you kind of funny when you keep on saying you don’t have any time. Everybody has the same amount of time. Time is the great equalizer. So much is wasted, that wise use can increase your relative success First of all, you need to find time if...
72 – The Women I Like, Motivation Hustle
May 20, 2016 21:15 - 5 MBI’m going to talk about the kind of women I like and motivation hustle. No, no, no – this is not an eHarmony or Match.com episode, not at all. By the way, kudos and thank you very much to Trishia and Julie for urging me to do this episode. I had these discussions, saying this was going to be a future episode, and they said they were really anxious to hear it, so here goes. The business women that is has motivation hustle develops drive like an immigrant. What I’m talking about is women, as w...
71 – Sustained Hustle, Motivation
May 16, 2016 20:07 - 11 minutes - 27.4 MBI want to talk about one of the problems that I see in the area of self-motivation or hustle. In the first part, I just want to talk little bit about the quandary of motivation; the difficulties people have who have much more opportunity than what you might have. If it is difficult for them, how much more difficult it might be for you. In the end, I am going to give you four points tell keep yourself relatively motivated. To be successful you must hustle. For long term business success, ...
70 – Causality For Business or Personal Success
May 03, 2016 14:38 - 8 minutes - 20.9 MBThis topic is probably my favorite on many, many dimensions, and that is causality. Causality, what do I mean? Causality means something that causes something else, or is a partial cause for something else. The study, the watching, the asking of questions to delve into the depths of causality are critical for everything, from anything you’re going to do in business because it’s going to have an effect on the customer, or: What do you do that has an effect that’s negative or positive for the c...
69 – Business Evaluation via MLM Example
April 25, 2016 19:23 - 5 MBMany of you out there want to be an entrepreneur, or you want to earn extra money, or find an easy path to the money that you need for new things, new stuff, and your future. One question. Many people right now and are also tempted or drawn into the idea of an MLM or network marketing. Is an MLM the answer, or your answer? I’m not going to give you an answer or the answer, because I want you to think about whether that particular opportunity or situation is good for you. But wait a minute, t...
68 – Customer Perspective, Not Yours
April 15, 2016 20:21 - 5 MBToday I want to get a little further into some of the ideas of the customer perspective. I talked earlier (last episode) about finding a problem, and that solving it could be your next new business. Another area is: Take a look that problems that are sort of solved. I say, “sort of solved,” in the sense of something else has had an unintended purpose. Whenever that happens, that was a market opportunity that was missed. Do notice over and over again that I say, “customer perspective,” that’...
67 – Developing Business Ideas
April 10, 2016 01:02 - 5 MBToday I want to talk about your business, the business you may have, may want to start, and what opportunities are out there today. Really, more the purpose of how exploding the capabilities and the opportunities are. Really, how to find your business success or your next business idea. Can you find a problem and turn it into a business? That’s really what it’s all about. Success in business starts with the idea. While you have much to do, it must be something that is solid. Think of nothin...
66 – Listening to the Customer
April 01, 2016 12:29 - 5 MBI’ve got a really interesting topic that so many people make mistakes. It’s absolutely crucial if you’re in a business, in a company, starting your business, building your business. I’ll refer to it as listening to the customer. Everybody talks about listening to the customer, but why do so many companies and people get it wrong? Many companies, even very large ones, have no idea where their markets are, or who is in the market, or who might be leaving the market; who might be entering the m...
65 – Entrepreneur and Risk
March 26, 2016 00:37 - 9 minutes - 21.5 MBToday I want to discuss the idea of being an entrepreneur or entrepreneurial and entrepreneur risk. Part of the reason for this is as we’re talking throughout all of these episodes, we’re hinting or talking about the idea of having additional income, extra income, starting your own business, etc., and there are several different avenues for that, and I want to get clear on some of them and some of the methodologies of getting there, and what you really need to have inside of you. But first, ...
64 – College – Is It Worth It?
March 14, 2016 17:56 - 12 minutes - 29.9 MBToday I’m going to talk about one of the biggest expenses a family ever has, and that is college, and the money it costs to send somebody to college. One of the big questions is, first of all: Is it worth it? Should it be done? Should somebody go? I want to discuss all of these. Colleges are forcing graduates into major debt. Is is worthwhile or are there better paths in life? Just an aside, colleges and universities are really in trouble right now. They’re bloated, and they’ve had rising t...
63 – The Rich – Use them for Personal, Economic and Business Success
March 07, 2016 16:35 - 12 minutes - 29.6 MBI want to talk about the rich. Not in the way you usually hear it, particularly during this politically hot climate. What I’m talking about is we should be, instead of condemning them or worrying about them, encouraging them and using them. That’s right, use them for our benefit. Why do we need to use and have the rich there? I want to explain that a little bit, but let me first tell you a little analogy. Think in terms of the lottery now. Separately from everything else. We have the lottery...
62 – Peer Pressure – Fighting with Status and Success
February 25, 2016 18:36 - 11 minutes - 27.9 MBToday I want to talk about peer pressure. Peer pressure – yes, it can be positive, but most of the time it is not. Most of the time it stands in the way of success and wealth. First I want to discuss a little bit about kids, because it’s really kids as an analogous discussion will lead into parents. First of all, what happens with kids? You’ll see peer pressure causing them to take on risky behavior, but it also affects everything from the fashion that they wear, to alcohol and drug abuse. Fr...
61 – What happens if your paycheck stops?
February 15, 2016 21:35 - 10 minutes - 25.5 MBThis episode is actually out of the request from a couple of people, having to do with debt and finances. It turns out that in the United States, very few people really are prepared for retirement or getting themselves prepared for retirement. How important is that? Let me go backwards a little bit, because most people are well before the age of retirement, and they live paycheck to paycheck. Actually, 61% of the American public live paycheck to paycheck. 63% don’t have $500 for an emergency...
60 – First Impressions for Success
February 08, 2016 13:47 - 7 minutes - 18.1 MBAs we’re talking in a lot of these episodes about things that you might plan on doing, whether it be for business or changing your career, starting a business, etc. Most of that will depend a great deal on how you are greeted, or how you impress or not, other people. That is, first impressions, and that’s what I want to talk a little bit about. This came up because in a couple of recent events I’ve been to, the speakers were telling people and urging people more to take action, and you bette...