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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.
In today’s episode, we are going to talk about how when we get knocked down, we just need to get back up and try again. Every 90 days on average, something is going to set us back in terms of our progress. That setback might be a little shove backward, or it can be something that knocks you on your butt.
The key thing when this happens is just to try again and again. Hopefully learning how to do better the next time around. One way that helps me get back up is listening to the stories of successful comedians. I was just listening to the Joe Rogan Podcast with Ron Funches, and they were talking about how it takes 10 years of doing the work just to get noticed, not even famous yet.
And the journey to the top is a tough one, but just need to keep going out there and trying and improving. I’ve been in front of crowds where I bombed doing public speaking, but I feel that comedy is different. People are expecting something and you have to please the audience. I’ve been to comedy shows and saw people just die inside because the show was not going well.
In life when we go after successes, we’re going to fail and get knocked down, but the key thing is if we want to stay miserable, then we should just stay down. If we have to have the freedom and control back over our lives, then we get up and try again. The goal is to make the comeback stronger than the setback.
And this should be easier because we tested something to see if it would work, and now we can test something else to see if it works. If you watch the documentary, the comedian with Jerry Seinfield, it shows him trying to do stand-up with some new materials, and it doesn’t go well. When we see comedy specials, the combination of all the work done at those tiny comedy stores that leads to the big special.
So it makes sense to bomb in front of small crowds when no one knows who you are, instead of a large audience where people know who you are. Plus there is so much content out there, that people will forget in a matter of days. Things will continue to be bad if we don’t try to improve our craft and hone our skills. Doing this is not making the comeback stronger than the setback. We can always improve, but it requires planning, reflection, and seeking guidance. Do this and the comeback will be stronger, eventually, but let’s hope sooner than ten years. If it’s ten years, so be it.
And that’s it for today’s episode, to summarize it, make the comeback stronger than the setback. America loves a good comeback story and we can have many attempts at doing it. All we have to do is constantly get up and try again. And when we try again, hopefully, we learned somethings from the last setback. Experience is the best teacher and the ones you get the most reps in, are probably going to be the most successful. I’ve noticed that my video recordings are getting better, and I used to suck at doing them. The key thing is that I’m going to keep trying every day until I reach my goal and when I reach my goal, I know it was because my comeback was stronger than my setback.
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