Who Are The Five People You Spend Most of Your Time With?
How Do You Improve Them?
Goal: To discuss how audio can be used to provide mentorship
In my 9/26/20 article I discussed how finding a mentor is very difficult BUT one can use books to replace a physical mentor. A natural extension of this idea is audio.
I often go for a walk once and sometimes twice per day with my 17 month old daughter. She gets antsy if we don’t go out for our walks. Maybe it is me?
During our walk or run we often listen to podcasts. Typical shows we listen to are: Entrepreneur on Fire, The Knowledge Project, Lewis Howes show, Tim Ferriss’ show, etc.
Why waste my time listening to these shows? Walking and running is enjoyable BUT when I learn something while doing those then the activity becomes powerful.
Why?
Many years ago I heard that we are the average of the 5 people we spend the most time with. So who are the people I spend most of my time with? It is these creators that are attracting large audiences and serving them with great content. They are serving people and earning an income that allows them to do their passion, live anywhere and have financial freedom. That is what my future self is driving towards.
BUT listening is not learning because learning is when one achieves a transformational change that becomes a part of their life. This is why while I go for these walk or runs if I hear a worthwhile message I will literally stop. I will open the voice recorder app and add a voice memo with the idea, timestamp of the message and program. This serves as a reminder of the idea.
At that moment I am doing the collect portion of the CODE process(see the 9/25/20 article titled What Are You Doing With Raw Data You are Collecting?). When I get back home I go back through the show and capture the ideas in written format so that I can use it later.
By taking the time to stop and capture I am pausing to give myself an opportunity to learn. If I learn from the best AND apply the knowledge in my work I will reach their level.
Unlike the mentoring from books to fill in a gap in my technical or personal gap, the greatest benefit from podcasts is the exposure to many great ideas. It is providing great inputs to my mind. These folks are feeding me strategies and tactics that they are using successfully.
Think of yourself as a box with inputs coming into that box. You produce outputs. Those are lines leaving the box.
Podcasts give you better inputs to the box. Books teach you how to improve your box. All that is left is for you to pause, connect pieces, and execute. It is a lot harder than that sentence lets on BUT you are in control and can always improve that part the easiest.
Once you go through this process of improving your tactics and strategies, and self-mentoring, you will be able to self teach yourself anything. YOU WILL BE UNSTOPPABLE!!!!!
I got to go…my future self alarm went off
Robert Trajkovski is professional with experience in leading people and projects in Steel/ Power, Refining, Chemicals, Industrial Gasses, Software, Consulting and Academia. He has worked for both owners and engineering companies. In addition, he has instructed 73+ courses at several institutions and often offers his courses for free on LinkedIn.
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