In this episode, we discuss one way to become better in life is just to get a little bit wiser every day.
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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 on how to grow yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually so you can have better careers, better relationships, and better personal finances.
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’re are going to talk about the need to go to bed a little bit wiser than how you woke up. If you just do this, then you’re going to be an amazing person in no time. When you get wiser as a person, you’re going to be able to make better decisions.
With better decisions, you’ll make fewer mistakes and you spend less time on things that don’t matter or really give you value for the time spent on the thing. I feel a big reason why people are miserable or not doing as well is that they don’t know how to make good decisions.
They stick in relationships and jobs longer than they want to because they are afraid of the uncertainty. But learning the right things will help you with that uncertainty. I feel our education system is really failing us when it comes to becoming wiser and that’s the problem is that we are not becoming wiser.
In middle school and high school, you learn facts but you don’t know how to apply those facts to the real world. I remember taking a history class and I learned a lot but I don’t really recall being able to use that information for the real world. A great person who takes lessons from the past and teaches folks how to apply those lessons to today’s problems is Robert Greene. If you read 48 laws of power, mastery, 33 strategies of war, the art of seduction, and laws of human nature, you’ll learn strategies and tactics to help you make better decisions and end up being a wiser person.
Just read one chapter a day from any one of his books and you’ll definitely become a better person. When start watching videos or reading books from here on out, trying to extract a lesson or strategy on what went right or went wrong. This is exactly what I’m doing with Grow With Joe. I’m taking lessons from books, podcasts, and youtube videos and I’m explaining the lesson in my own way.
I got this lesson from Charlie Munger who said just go to bed a little bit wiser and you’ll do fine in life. Education will compound on top of education and compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. Plus when I teach these lessons through my writing and podcast, I’m really ensuring that I understand the lesson and that I remember it.
Now when I go into situations, I’m better able to make better decisions. I calculate that I should do this or say this, and I should have a more successful outcome. I feel so good about the decision I’m heading with my life and it’s because I’m wise enough to know where I should be focusing my attention and how I should be living my life.
I’m not where I want to be in life right now, but I know in a couple of years, I’ll get what I want in life. If you’re not happy with where you are in life right now, just start learning about different things. Plus getting a little bit wiser than how you started out the day will ensure that you’re keeping up with the times.
I learned so much about my field and financial planning because I read articles about financial planning, not just how to do financial planning better but how to run a financial planning firm. Now I’m so much happier doing my own thing in financial planning than following the steps of my previous firm.
Plus I feel like I’ve had stronger relationships with my family and friends because I’m wiser now. It’s not enough just to take in the information, you have to store it and be able to recall it as well when it is needed. That’s why I’m giving all these lessons so that it makes it a little bit easier for you to do as well.
Right now I’m working on a book called “Your Daily Cup of Joe: 366 Joeisms to enjoy with your cup of coffee” that you can read with your morning cup of coffee in the morning. Just to make it a little bit easier to read the lessons you need to become successful in life. I would also recommend that you check out the Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday, who gives tips on how to use the stoic philosophy in your daily life. It’s important to reread stuff because with enough time, you forget those valuable lessons and having a refresher is important. I basically created this podcast because of that book and my writing style is based on Robert Greene and Ryan Holiday.
If I didn’t seek out wisdom and got a little bit better every single day, then would the world be worst off or better off? I would like to say worst off, but the difference would be too small to notice. The people that I’m touching with my podcast though and work with clients, is helping them and they are getting a little bit wiser and I know they would be worst off if I didn’t do anything. This is my gift and my purpose in life is to share my talents as much as I can to the people that need it. This will ensure that I save my slice of the world and if we all save our slice of the world, then the world will be a better place.
I think it is very selfish as a person not to get wiser because then as world citizens we are not doing everything within our power to make the world a better place. We are just takers and not being a giver. The world gives us so much and the least that we can do is give back to the system in some capacity and that’s going to come from getting a little bit wiser every day.
That’s it for today’s episode, to summarize it, you should ask yourself every night, “Am I going to bed a little bit wiser than how I woke up?” If the answer is no, then don’t make the same mistake twice in a row. It doesn’t take that much to get a little bit wiser. I would say you just need to read for a least five to ten minutes and then write down in a paragraph what you learned. If you get a little bit wiser every day for a year, then you’re going to be so much better as a person and you’ll just going to start living a more fulfilling life. I know the more I learn, the more I know what to do with my life and gets me closer to being the person I was meant to be. So ask yourself, what can you start doing now, today, or tomorrow to help you start making better decisions and do it.
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