In this episode, we discuss how you need to keep an eye on the stuff that you have in your life or it can slip from your hands.
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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 how gear adrift is a gift. This is a term I got from my Marine Corps days and it just means that when you don’t watch your stuff, it can be grabbed by someone else and then it’s a gift for themselves.
There have been times when I was in the Marines and I didn’t keep an eye on something and then it was lost. Then I have to struggle to try to pay for that item or by finding a replacement. It sucks that your stuff gets stolen but you just need to make sure your stuff is either secure or it’s something that you really don’t care about losing.
It would be nice to live in a world where we don’t have to worry about our stuff, but that’s not the world we live in. This lesson doesn’t just apply to your stuff, but with your relationships and career.
When it comes to your career, you can easily just get in a flow where you do the same thing every single day without changing much. Then might come a day where a competitor steps in and changes your job. For too long, that person kept their eye on other things than their career, and now their career drifted towards somewhere else.
Right now, automation is happening and it’s going to get rid of a lot of jobs. One of the most popular jobs in America is a truck driver but it’s also a hard job to do and there is a huge shortage of drivers. Who really wants to spend 16 hours on the road and away from family for long periods of time? I know I don’t want to and a majority of folks don’t want to either. This is a reason the trucking industry is trying to automate truck driving. Plus who really competes with a truck that can drive 24 hours with no break? I can’t so I need to make sure I’m keeping an eye on my career to make sure that I don’t lose it and will be struggling.
With your relationships, if you don’t put energy and time into maintaining a relationship, then it’s going to drift away. Then that relationship can be of value to someone else. Relationships don’t last forever if you don’t keep an eye on them. Some relationships can handle one or years of no contact but there comes a point where that relationship isn’t the same anymore. You might be sad that something happened to that person, but it won’t feel the same as if you maintained more contact over the years.
If this is your partner, then they’re probably is going to come a day where you separate because the same energy isn’t there. As a person, you need to decide where you put your energy with your relationship but keeping a relationship secure isn’t the same as keeping a physical object secure. Same with your career. They both need to be secured in different ways.
If you want to keep the physical objects, career, and relationships in your life, then make sure they don’t drift off. Then it’s just more work to get them back or a new one.
That’s it for today’s episode, to summarize it, gear adrift is a gift. So make sure that you’re keeping an eye on your stuff. This means your physical items, your career, and your relationships. You don’t just want to give someone else a gift for free when you didn’t mean to. This just causes us to pay extra attention to stuff, career, and relationships. To maintain something, it requires energy and time. Somethings require a little bit and some things require a lot. You have to decide where you put your time and energy at and what you’re willing to pay to keep that thing. There are some relationships that require too much time and energy and I’m not willing to put in the work to keep that thing. It is just better for me to let it drift away and be grabbed by someone else. When it comes to my career, I know that I can’t take it easy for you long, and need to input a lot of time and energy into my development so I don’t get surprise by what is going on.
Just know this lesson and you won’t get surprise by lost gear.
So in your journal, ask yourself, are you keeping an eye on your gear, your career, and your relationships? What can you do to secure those things? Do you need to secure those things or get something new in your life? Not everything you have in your life is meant to stay in your life forever so make sure you’re letting go of some of the things in your life because they will be enjoyed by others more. If you don’t know how to secure those items in your life, make sure you reach out to an expert and they can show you the way.
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