In this episode, we discuss how you need to know how to pivot in life, so you don’t become stuck in life.
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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 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 book by Jenny Blake called “Pivot: The only move that matters is your next one.” One of the best things you can know about how to do in life is to pivot. You don’t know how long your current career is going to be around. So it’s important that you work on your career but you also take time to explore different options in your life.
Your jab foot is looking for the next best move for you and when the opportunity appears, then you can lift your planted foot and take off. To take off, you need to have resources that are human capital, financial capital, and social capital.
This might mean that you cut back on spending so you can save up to six months’ expenses. It might also require you to downgrade your lifestyle so you don’t have to worry about paying your bills. This is if you want to start a business.
If you don’t want to be your own boss, then you need to work on your social capital and human capital. Be great at your job and know people who can give you opportunities. I think it is about 70% of jobs are filled before they ever get posted online. Companies resort to that when they can’t find anyone initially.
You also don’t know when you might get a bad boss and want to find something else. You could have the best 20 years of your life at your current job but then there might be some shakeup in management, and now you can’t stand your job. Most people don’t quit their job because of the work, they quit because leadership and management are not meeting their needs.
You can either try to change things or you can find something else. I remember for most of my jobs, it was the job that made me want to quit, is the people in charge that made me want to quit. I didn’t like working as a federal employee in the Pentagon and I was able to quit and go back to school using my GI bill. I was getting about $2100 tax-free and I didn’t have to accumulate student loan debt. To get the GI Bill, I had to dedicate seven years of my life to the Marines. It was a sacrifice but I’m glad I did it.
At first, I was grateful for getting the job in the Federal Government, but I was tired of working there after a couple of months and knew I needed to do something else. When you can pivot successfully, it can be one of the best feelings in the world. I was so happy when I left to do something that I wanted to do.
Change is going to be the one constant in everyone’s life. As you get different information, the decision that you make will also change and it might mean you have to pivot sooner than you thought. Remember, the only move that matters is your next one. You could be resisting that change, but if you don’t change, you might be living in the past and be in even more trouble, then going after that next opportunity.
I’m constantly listening to podcasts and reading books so I can see into the future and try to be ahead of trends. I don’t stick to something longer than I should if I know for certain I should make a change. I was recently listening to one of my financial planning business development podcasts and I heard that one of the advisors records their meetings without the client being there that they can watch at any moment. Some people are very busy and need this type of accommodation. Good thing I’ve practiced with recording myself on zoom and will start to implement this new technique in my business. I have a husband and wife client combo and they are both busy folks. They were talking about buying a home and wanted to know their options were. The husband was busy and I only talked to the wife. So then I offered to record a video explaining the strategy. So sometimes, you have to pivot on your operations. A good way to know if you need to look into changing your business operations is if you start to hear, “This is how we’ve always done things.” There is probably a better way to do things.
The idea of the pivot is not becoming stuck and taking advantage of opportunities. The better you can become at pivots and remove the negative things from your life, the better you will be off. People don’t really like to change and we become creatures of habit, but we have to know how to break these habits so that we don’t fall prey to outside forces. It’s not the strongest the survive, it’s the ones that adapt to their environment the best as Charles Darwin wrote. Pivoting is going to help you adapt to your new environment and help you live a good life.
That’s it for today’s episode, and to summarize it, the only move that matters is your next one and knowing how to pivot into that next move is going to be crucial. So work on your human capital, your financial capital, and your social capital. Having capital in all three of these areas will help you pivot into that next great role. Pivoting is a skill that needs to be built up. Once you get used to changing, then you’ll be less likely to be stuck in a crappy situation. The world is constantly changing and we want to make sure that we’re ready for that change and can take advantage of it.
So in your journal, ask yourself, what are two to three areas that you could pivot into for a better life. It doesn’t have to be a whole new job or career, you can pivot into a new activity like reading a different book or listening to a different podcast. If you want to pivot into a new career or job, ask yourself what is it going to require you to do so. Just write down your answer and reflect on what you should do next. Should you stay or should you go? Knowing your next move is crucial and we should spending time every month to decide which path we should take.
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