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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 discuss how we should look for ways to provide service to others. I feel really blessed to be born on earth and have an opportunity to live life. It hasn’t always been easy, but I’m seen a lot of amazing things and done some pretty cool stuff.
Since I received so many great things from this planet, then I feel like I should give back. Now when it comes to giving back, it can be towards other people, your community, your nation, the environment, animals, plants, society, just about anything on this planet.
Now when it comes to service, you don’t have to do it all for free. I’m a big believer that when you pay, you pay attention. I’ve tried doing free financial planning in the past, and it doesn’t work. The person doesn’t have skin in the game and then they don’t implement the recommendations. This is why I charge a sliding scale fee.
Plus I think running a business is a service to the world. I don’t have to work the way I work to provide these lessons to others but I do it because I think it is important. And once I start growing, then I want to set up an endowment fund to provide opportunities for others and to help support the environment. I feel that helping to provide a service of helping people with personal development and their finances can create a lot of good on this planet.
And this is the point of today’s episode, provide more good in the world than you take. And you don’t need to save everyone. Just help out the ones that need your services. An A player is like 36 times more productive than a B player. And if we had more A players, then the world would be better off with less suffering.
There are a ton of problems on this planet and we need a lot of folks to partake in service to change things around. This also doesn’t mean that we can’t rest and need to be working 16 hour days. You can work for one hour and provide enough value to this world that will surpass the effort of 100 people.
I look at my actions and I ask myself, what is the best thing I can do for myself and provide the greatest good for my environment. The world is also complex and we’re not going to please everyone. To those people I just say, what are you doing to save your slice of the world? Most of the time they aren’t doing much.
Life is about taking action and challenging yourself to become a better person, while also making the world a better place than how we left it in our own way. We spend a lot of time on this planet, and we should pay for our rent.
That’s it for today’s episode, to summarize it, service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. There are many ways we can partake in service and we don’t need to focus on helping everyone. If everyone did their part, then the sum of the parts will be greater than the whole. I was just listening to a podcast about the extinction of Buffalo and Bison in America and apparently, there were Bison that roamed Lousiana back in the day. The hunters back in the day just tried to take as much as possible and then just waited for the Bison to come back but they never did. They didn’t know better but we have more information now. I want to make sure that future generations have the ability to live great lives too and we can make this happen if we provide the right service to this world and actually do it.
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