Full Transcript
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 to grow yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually and have a better career, better relationships, and better personal finances. At the same time, 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 Grow With Joe founder, where I combine self-development coaching and financial planning for Latino Professionals.
In today’s episode, we will talk about how bitter events can lead us towards our greatest blessings. This has been true for me over and over again in my life.
On the second day of football practice during my senior year in high school, I tore my ACL and was done for the year. And I was devastated by this news because my goal was to join the military to pay for my college. Then nine months later, I tore my meniscus in the same news, and I thought my military career was over. But this was a blessing in disguise because I went to boot camp in December instead of January, and my first duty station was Hawaii.
This duty station happens as an accident because, in boot camp, I hurt my shoulder and had to be held back a couple of weeks in training. Instead of going to Okinawa, Japan, I landed in Hawaii, and I loved living in Hawaii. Plan to go back there to live there for a year one day.
So what seemed like bitter trials at the moment turned out to be big blessings in disguise. When the great recession happened in 2008, it causes my ex-wife to find a job in Washington, DC, and we move there from Oregon. I don’t know if we would have made the trip if jobs were plentiful in Oregon during that time. If I would never have moved to DC, I probably wouldn’t have gotten into financial planning.
When covid-19, my business was on a roll, but then things slowed down. I was able to take that time in March, April, and May to take some extra courses on business development since I was stuck in the house. Now I feel like I know my business’s operations better and what I need to do to go from good to great.
One of my favorite sayings is, you got to know how to turn shit into sugar. And the way you do this is by learning new things and continuing to experiment with life. And when you get knocked down, you keep getting up, start studying how to make sure that event doesn’t happen again and continue to have the same integrity of moving forward.
Bitter trials can definitely stay as bitter trials if we let them resent and hold on to them. It’s like burning your hand over and over again, and this is the definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Our old selves got us into that bitter trial, and we need to change ourselves if we want to have a blessing in disguise.
To make this happen, continue to learn from these podcasts and learn how to do better the next time around. And if the next attempt doesn’t work out, keep trying something until you get the outcome you want. This is the best way to turn bitter trials into blessings.
And that’s it for today’s episode. To summarize it, what seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. You also have to remember that your mess is your message. You can share these stories of bitter trials with others so you can build a connection with them. I always tell folks that I got into financial planning because my parents went bankrupt in high school, which caused me to look at money differently. So it was a blessing that this happened in my life, or I would not be talking to you right now. Can’t say this for sure, but I’m pretty certain that my life would be totally different than it is today. So please don’t be ashamed of the past, take ownership of it, and show the world how you became better from it.
Suppose you would like to get the journal questions for today’s episode. In that case, you can sign-up for my monthly journaling subscription newsletter, where you get daily journal questions Monday through Friday. As a bonus, you will also get my time management course and my personal development cheat sheet. You can get all this for $13/mo, which is less than the cost of an audible subscription, and it’s less work to gain more wisdom. You can get this offer at growwithjoe.me/journal
Thanks for listening today! To get a free copy of my Audiobook “More You Know, More You Grow: How to get better every day,” go to my website growwithjoe.me/book, and you can download it right there.
I have a quiz on my website that grades your inner circle, so if you want to find out if your inner circle is an A, B, C, D, or F, you can take that quiz at growwithjoe.me/quiz
I’m also on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Just look up Grow With Joe.
If you’re on iTunes, don’t forget to give me a five-star rating if you liked this episode and hit the subscribe button as well.
The greatest way to support this show is to share it with someone else.
Thanks for joining me today, and remember if you go with Joe, you can grow with Joe, cause Joe knows Dough.
Additional Resources
Get my personal development book for free
