In this episode, we discuss how you shouldn’t let your environment determine the type of person you become.
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Hi Everyone, welcome to the You’re Daily Cup of Joe Podcast, with your host Joe Bautista, where my goal is to give you quick lessons on how to grow yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually so you can have better careers, better relationships, and better personal finances.
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.
In today’s episode, we’re going to talk about how not to let your environment determine who you are going to be today or in the future. If I was to tell that there was a kid that grew up in a mobile home, mom was cashier, dad worked in a field digging up trees, was extremely shy as a kid and was overweight too, what kind of future would you expect that kid to have. Probably not a very good one. But that kid became a Marine, Worked at the Pentagon, worked at the White House, and wrote three books. Would you expect that?
I wouldn’t, even though that is my story. As a kid, if I looked at my environment and said to myself, this is all that I can aspire to, then that is all that I’m going to aspire to. My dad told me a story of how when I was in elementary or middle school, that his bosses said that I could work at the same place he did and my dad told them that is probably not going to happen. My dad saw that I was ambitious and that I could accomplish great things. I hate doing yard work now and don’t ever want to mow another lawn in my life, I rather figure out a way to use my mind to help me stay busy, plus I have a bad back and I can’t be lifting things like 100 lbs trees all day. My body will just break down.
So don’t let your actions be driven by your eyesight, let your actions be driven by your mindset. What do you see your future self doing? I’m starting over from scratch for the fourth time in my life. I’ve had many different careers in my life. I was in the Marines for seven years and then I got out and went to school for a year to finish my degree. Then I couldn’t find a job for a couple of months and landed a job at the Pentagon. Hated that job and I quit after 8 months to go back to school to study economics. Then I became a personal trainer while I was in school, thinking I can make that successful but I could see myself scaling it up to the level I wanted to be at so I quit that and became a financial advisor.
I didn’t like how my last firm had these restrictions on what could be said or how I could run my practice, so I decided to quit and start my own thing and that’s where I am today. I’m trying to start my own financial planning firm and I haven’t got started yet because I’m waiting on my permits to be approved and I’ve been waiting for four months now. It’s frustrating but I’m going to continue with my plan until I get to where I need to go in the future. I have a grand vision for Grow With Joe and how it can help people live regret-free lives. I just need to continue to follow the process.
If I was to go by eyesight, I would have quit a long time ago because I would be seeing other folks being successful and I’m still struggling but I know Grow With Joe is the path that I want to take.
When it comes to writing and creating content for Grow With Joe, I look at a blank screen or canvas and now I have to create something. If I was just to go by eyesight, all I would see is a white screen and I would throw my hands in the air and say that I can’t think of anything to write. But to start writing, I need to go by mindsight. I need to say this is the topic I want to cover which will give me this outcome and then I just start writing and adding different ideas to make the piece go even farther. I don’t everything planned out when I write, I just go from idea to idea. I’ve been doing this for 42 episodes so far and I’ve been writing a lot for the past year and I’m just getting better and better at it.
At first, writing took me forever to do but now it’s easier because I do it so much but it was my mindsight that kept me going no eyesight. If I was to grab a stack of 80 blank pages and tell myself that I needed to put 60,000 words into those blank pieces of paper, my eyesight would have told me to just to not do it because it would be too hard but I had the mindsight to stay I want my book to be on this topic and these are the chapters that are going to be in the book to help people solve their problems. I believe it could be done and I just started getting to work.
I have a goal of moving to Latin America for two years so I can learn Spanish. I want to learn Spanish because I want to be able to translate all this content in Spanish and help even more people. I’m Latino myself and I don’t see a lot of content out there that targets Latinos so I’m going to fill that void. That’s why I work so hard because I have in my mind that I do this, then it will help me reach my goal of moving to Latin America and learning Spanish. Then from there, I can do this and this.
It’s really easy to look at your environment and say this is all that is possible for me. I could have easily worked at the same grocery store from when I was a kid and not really apply myself to anything because my environment was telling me this is all you can obtain. Nobody was pushing me to do more and nobody was telling me that I should quit my job as a grocery bagger, I just quit and went into the Marines because I knew I needed to go through that experience to help me get the future I wanted and it helped out a lot.
So look at the future you want to have and ask yourself, are your current actions going to take you there. If not, then start making some changes. You can change first before the world changes for you.
That’s is it for today’s episode. To summarize today’s episode, don’t make decisions based on your current circumstances or environment, makes decisions based on where you want to go in the future and when you have setback and you will have a setback, just go back to why you’re doing this and just get back up, dust yourself off and get back to work.
Thanks for listening to today’s episode.
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