In this episode, we discuss how we should not focus on the noise that will get us nowhere, need to focus our energies on the tasks that matter, and then do the work.
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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 we need to careless and do more. In life, there are going to be people who don’t work as hard as you, who will be jealous of what you’re doing or have, and won’t understand you. With a population of over 7 billion people, you can’t have everyone on your side.
And every second you spend caring on something that truly doesn’t matter to you is a second that you’re never going to get back and it’s just going to make you more miserable.
I remember telling some folks that I was starting my own financial planning company, and some people seemed to question my motives. Some of them maybe were feelings of worry, because they are expressing their own limitation on to myself or they might be jealous. I don’t know, and I don’t care because I’m going to keep taking action every single day.
And that’s what we can do as people. Just do more. If I want to become a successful financial planner than I need to do more stuff where I’m getting more clients, and the more clients I get, the more money I can make to live.
I’m trying to build my practice where I have three cornerstones of providing good to this world, a service where people can get better and solve their problems, providing opportunities to those that are less fortunate through an endowment fund and work options, and raise awareness of issues through various media channels.
To do all three of these takes work. And I was on Instagram the other day, and I commented on a random post on how I was taking action on trying to get more Latino financial advisors into the profession, and this one person commented that I should focus on other minorities. That is too much work. I can’t go to every Asian, Black, and Native American conference and build up relationships. Maybe down the road, but if you spread yourself too thin, then you’re really not going to accomplish much.
This comment bugged me for a while, but then I thought, she doesn’t know what I know and when I asked her what is she doing to make a difference and she said absolutely nothing at all. So after reading that, I just started caring less. I know who I am and what I need to do to make a difference in this world and commenting on social media is not going to change anything. You need to have all three cornerstones if you want to make a difference.
And that’s what I’m doing, and every day I can make this thing better by taking action and doing more. The more skills and experience that I can have, the better off my business is going to be. I used to take a lot of what other people thought, and I would restrict my actions based on what I thought other people thought. I still do this at times but I’m a lot better and happier as a person because I’m doing what I think is the truth.
The world is a complex place and not everyone has the same information on how to live life. But when you have the right information and start implementing the lessons, then you can make your life better and the world better.
That’s it for today’s episode, to summarize it, careless, and do more. Don’t waste your time caring about what other people think. If you truly believe what you’re doing is the right thing, then after a while your thing is going to change their mind and you end up doing what you ultimately want to do in life. Life is too short to waste time. If I think about it, as a 34-year-old, I only have 26 more summers until I’m 60 years old. So I better make sure I’m getting to work and worrying what people say on social media. I’m just going to focus on my family and do my work. I’ve been doing this for the past 2 years and I’ve never been happier as a person.
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