In this episode, we discuss how we need to do more experiments with our lives.
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Hi Everyone, welcome to the You’re Daily Cup of Joe Podcast, with your host Joe Bautista. In this podcast, my goal is to give you quick lessons that you can reflect on in your journal so you can grow yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually and have a better career, better relationships, and better personal finances while you enjoy your morning cup of coffee.
I’m also the author of the book “More You Know, More You Grow: How to Get Better Every Day”. In this book, I wrote down over 30 tips to help you grow in those four cornerstones. I’m also the founder of Grow With Joe, where I combine self-development coaching and financial planning for Latino Professionals.
At the end of today’s podcast episode, I’m going to give you a prompt question to reflect on in your journal. The idea is to take one to five minutes to reflect on today’s lesson and write a minimum of one paragraph on how you can apply the lesson in your life. You can use an actual journal, a word document like on Google Drive, or your note-taking app like Evernote. The idea is that you’re actually thinking about how to process the information to help you improve your life.
In today’s episode, we’re are going to talk about the Ralph Waldo Emerson quote, “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” I’ve said this before, and I will continue to say it, the more experiments you can make in your life, the better you’re life can get. This depends on what type of life you want, but you should also add some variety to your life. It’s like those parents who said you couldn’t have a dog growing up, but when you’re an adult and have your own dog, they treat your dog like they are the best thing.
That parent could have had a great time in the past but they didn’t experiment with their life. When my life, I’m always trying to experiment. With my reading, I try to make every fifth or sixth book something that I’m not that interested in but would be helpful to do know. This year I read a book about female orgasms to try to understand the female body. I heard about the book on a podcast and I told myself, that if I’m going to be in a relationship with another female, I should at least know somethings on how the female body works.
There is another book about birth control and how it affects the female body that I’m interested in reading and it’s in my to-read list. I already downloaded the sample on Kindle.
If I just kept reading the same business books and self-help books, then there comes a point where I’m not learning that much. Instead of getting something from the entire book, now I’m only getting something from 5% of the book. That 5% might be very valuable but there are diminishing returns on doing the same thing over and over again.
By adding something new, then you might be able to create this new breakthrough. I want to start reading thriller books for my next fiction book because I feel like I can learn a lot from writers who know how to keep the attention of the reader and I can apply that style to my Grow With Joe Business. I’m just going to keep experimenting with the book I read because I know something good will eventually happen.
Since I started my own business, I’ve bought three different marketing courses and I learned a ton from all those courses on how to set up Facebook ads, creating a landing page, setting up my email automation sequence, and how to write copy for those ads. Now I’m experimenting with different ads to see how I can generate more leads for my company.
Right now I’m running a federal student loan analysis report that is targeting Latino doctors, lawyers, and federal employees. From my experience, these are folks that have a lot of student loans and need help with them. I created three different ads so that I’m targeting each group specifically and I wouldn’t have known to do this if I didn’t take those courses. Now it’s just requiring me to experiment to see how to improve my ads, which would increase my conversion rate.
I’m in the business of selling financial planning and coaching to Latino clients, and I need to experiment with my marketing to see how I can reach more of these folks. I already did all the financial planning stuff for the most part and the developing coaching, now it time to experiment with marketing.
I see that there can be a lot more opportunities for myself if I can make this thing work. I know I would be stuck as a business owner if I didn’t take these courses in the past. Right now, I’m in Mexico City trying to learn Spanish and I can’t just have coffees with folks and go to networking events in order to generate business. I have to get good at digital marketing.
So when you experiment, you’re also opening up new opportunities for yourself and this important in the new economy because things are constantly changing. This means that old opportunities that used to work, don’t work anymore. And if you don’t add different tools to your toolbox, then you’re not going to be able to keep up with those changes. I feel like this was fine in the old days, but now it’s different. The new economy requires us to constantly improve ourselves and normal doesn’t cut it anymore. So experiment with your life so that you can live a great life and don’t become stuck in life. And you don’t want to become stuck in life because that’s where misery is and you don’t want to be neighbors with misery.
That’s it for today’s episode, to summarize it, all life is an experiment. The more experiment you make the better. So make sure that you’re trying new things in your life. This will ensure that you increase the likelihood that you’re doing what actually makes you happy. How are you supposed to know the things you don’t know yet? You find out by trying a lot of different things. Plus when you experiment, you’re setting yourself up for more opportunities in this world because now you have more tools to draw from in a situation. If you’re the only one with an ax and everyone has a screwdriver, you’ll be able to cut down a tree a lot faster than someone with a screwdriver. I’ve been experimenting with my life a lot since I left high school and I love the life I have right now and it wouldn’t be possible if I didn’t experiment. So start trying new things and keep an open mind. It just might be the thing to transform your life.
So in your journal, ask yourself, what is an experiment that you need to implement in your life? Do you need to ask your boss to work on a different project? Do you need to take a course that will improve your skills? Not all experiments will work out but if you keep trying something will eventually workout. If you’re afraid of the experiment, what is it about that experiment that scares you? Then ask yourself what are you giving up by not doing that experiment? Hopefully, you discover something new for yourself, and if you don’t, then just keep trying.
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