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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 asking for things to be easier is not a good strategy to live life. The better strategy is to wish you were better. I have a hairstylist sister, and she is perfect, but she is so good that she goes to classes to learn to become a better hairstylist. She could wish all she wants about things being easier, but things will never get easier through a wish. Things will get easier for her by being a better person.
This is the strategy I follow. I don’t wish things to be easier. I wish I were better. And I know that wishes are not going to cut it. I know I have to do things to get better as a person. This is why I follow my self-development routine every day where I work out, read, meditate, write in my journal, and I read things to help me out in business and as a financial advisor. Doing these things will make the hard stuff that I’m going through easier because I’m a better person when I go to bed than how I woke up.
Like in the previous podcast, the easy day was yesterday. The future will have different challenges that we will face that will feel like a huge wave. And if you get better every day, then you can be able to surf that wave and enjoy it. Life is not easy, but it is manageable if we do the right things to become better.
To help me become better mentally every day, I read the Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday. In September, it’s all about mental resiliency and fortitude. With a year like 2020, we need to know how to be resilient, have the fortitude to focus on what we can control in the situation, and know what our expectations should be in a situation.
Plus, when we level up as people, we can enjoy more of the amazing things that earth offers. Life is long as long as we know how to use it and the best way to use it is to learn to get better as a person.
And that’s it for today’s episode. To summarize it, don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better. If you only have five minutes to get better for the day, then do the five minutes until things become easier. Five minutes a day can be two and a half hours a month, or if you do ten minutes a day, then it’s five hours. And if the baseline is zero, then things will eventually get better. Things rarely happen overnight, so we have to be patient with our progress. We might even have setbacks, but the key thing about life is to focus on being a better person today than the previous day. And if we don’t, then that’s okay for one day but let’s try not to make the same mistake twice in a row.
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