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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 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 today is a new day and how we shouldn’t let yesterday hold us back. This also applies to the past. If you look at my history, what would you assume where this kid would go to.
I was born to two blue-collar workers. I grew up in a mobile home. Was overweight as a kid. Now I weight 195 at 6’3, but in the sixth grade, I was 5’5′ and weighed 190 pounds. I was timid as a kid and was picked on by other folks.
I feel like the thing that helped me out was my ambition. I like to contribute this to my dad. My dad worked in the fields and still does. He came to the United States in the 70s as an undocumented worker and was deported six times but luckily for me, he came back seven and met my mom.
My ambition caused me to work hard on my school work and take it seriously. It also caused me to make moves that other people wouldn’t do. I joined the Marines in 2004 when the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were still going on. I remember getting pneumonia in boot camp and losing 30 lbs in two weeks. That was awful, and I almost quit, but thankfully my drill instructors pushed me to keep going.
My ambition is also the reason why I did night school while I was in the Marines. I would work a full day, and then go to class and do homework most nights of the week. I wanted to get my education so that I could be more successful.
Then when the great recession happened, I decided to move across the country to Washington, DC, from Oregon to find a good-paying job. I wasn’t going to let a recession hold me down forever.
I also decided to start my own financial planning firm because I wanted to help out more minorities with financial planning and get more minority financial advisors. The history of minorities in the financial services is not very great.
I don’t allow things that happened in the past for most of my life to keep me in the past. Sometimes they did for a while, but since I’m a voracious learner, I see what someone else created, and I tell myself that I’m going to do something similar. The key thing is taking control of the situation and seeing what needs to be done to get what I want. I don’t say things are not fair. I see that they can change if I change as a person.
This is how we fulfill our destiny. To be that person in the future with a good life, we have to change ourselves as a person by taking control of the situation. We can’t control what happens outside of our minds, but we control how we respond to those external events. And when we respond in the right way, then we will fulfill our destiny, and why should we aim for anything less.
And that’s it for today’s episode. To summarize it, don’t let history interfere with your destiny. Our future is not set in stone, and it can change based on the actions that we do today, and this is all we can control. What happened in the past is the past, and there are things we can do today to make a new future that is better for us than what we’re experiencing today. If I were to tell my 10-year-old self that he would be a Marine, live in Hawaii, live in DC, work in the Pentagon, working in the White House, and live in Colombia, he probably wouldn’t believe me. Still, his history didn’t interfere with his destiny because he changed himself for the better. The same thing can happen to you.
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