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I just got back from the gym and if you’re watching this on video you can see that I literally just got back and rolled right into my office to record this because while I was there I heard two women talking about how they could never run a 5K. They were talking about it as if it the most impossible thing in the world to them. The truth is…it probably was in their version of reality.
When I say ‘slay a sacred cow’, of course, I’m not talking about a sacred cow in Hinduism, what I’m talking about are those things that are policies, procedures, or systems that have worked for you in the past, have helped you get success, but are now holding you back.
Earlier today, I asked my right-hand woman, the woman who helps me run all of my businesses, I said, “What are my three biggest complaints? What are the three things you hear me complain about the most?” Now, I had an idea of what she would answer, and two of the three were spot-on. The third one actually surprised me a little bit, and when I actually looked at it, I started writing it down, and I looked at these three complaints as I journaled, and I thought, “Wow, where am I living within these three complaints? Am I actually living my life like these things?”
What is it that you stand against? Now yeah, it’s easy to talk about what we stand for, especially in the realm of personal and business development. That’s the warm and fuzzies but what is it you stand against because often times, I find for most of my clients, that is a better driving force. It’s the things that we actually stand against that separate us.
So, do you invest in your identity? Do you invest money or time into who you are? Maybe that’s changing who you are, but maybe it’s actually showcasing what you are. So oftentimes whether it was in my career or my early 20s as a personal trainer, or as a coach, or as somebody running digital marketing agencies, or just as anybody, how often do I actually invest in myself at creating my identity and showcasing who that is?
We started this quest for Author of Your Own Story. I actually sat down with my team and asked them, “What is the biggest thing that we can do? Do you think we can impact a hundred, a thousand, 10,000, 100,000, a million people?” We all agreed that our quest was to touch and positively impact over 1 million people.
We’ve talked about this before on the Daily Growth Hacks, but it bears repeating because it comes up time and time again in conversation. What would you do if you were coaching yourself?
I sent an email to my team. I said, “Hey, make sure you watch those videos and take copious notes because I want to make sure you apply them to our project.” Now the next day, I came back expecting to see copious notes from my team about exactly what we should be doing with one of our projects only to see jokes coming through. Now I have a great relationship with all of my team. And they said, “Doug, first of all what videos and which projects? We’re running six different companies as a whole team here, and each of those companies has multiple projects going on at any given time.” It was actually really funny. Now what I didn’t do was really be specific about which videos I wanted them to watch and which projects to apply them to. We all got a chuckle out of it, luckily, but what we really lost was a day’s worth of work. I expected to come into the office, when I came in, and have a list of actionable items that I could task out and delegate to my team.
Today I had to make a trek to one of those dreaded places, the DMV. You see, I had just recently sold an old car that we had sitting in our garage for over a year. Finally, gave it to a family that really needed it and that was great, but of course you have paperwork that accompanies that.
Oftentimes, I’m talking about in these daily growth hacks, if you go back through previous episodes, about diversifying your mind, the category of mind, right? How do you get on to new topics, new ways of thinking? Now, one way, of course, is by surrounding yourself with a diverse group of people that are growing. That’s why at the end of these daily growth hacks, I ask you to share this with at least three people, so you can build your personal tribe and have conversations that matter.
