Tom is about to lose his shit, and John talks him off the ledge!!
Yep, even respected coaches have moments when they've reached their limit.
If you've ever felt the pressure of deadlines and been the victim of your own poor planning, drop everything and listen to this. NOW!
John and Tom were in a Miracle Morning group about two years ago, when Tom committed to write a book.
He had no idea what he was in for!
Writing is a different process for different writers, but for Tom, he knew he was going to write a book of stories, but he had no idea what the theme would be.
In the beginning, he looked back on some of the blogs and magazine articles he'd written, just looking for a hook, to get started.
It wasn't until he was about a third of the way through the book, before he had an idea of the direction he had in mind.
When he thought it was finished, he consulted with a writing coach, who challenged him to dig deeper, be move vulnerable, and find the best book he had inside him.
The journey from idea to book, is very similar to the entrepreneurial journey.
To get his book from idea to reality, Tom had to assemble a team. Just like we all have to do as entrepreneurs.
AJ Harper helped him refine the words. Amber Vilhauer helped him launch the marketing campaign.
Do you have your team in place? Who is helping you on your Hero's Journey? Have you assembled your Voltron?
Prepare to tell the story of your journey. Your story has value for those who aspire to reaching the success you have achieved.
Every journey has its challenges. Joseph Campbell wrote extensively about The Hero's Journey.
Guess what? Your journey, our journey, everyone's journey is a heroic journey.
Drop Tom a line at tom@tomrubens.com to get the heads up on all the free stuff you'll get when you order his new book, <em>Lifeness</em> on April 4th.
Key Teachers we mentioned today:
AJ Harper, book shepherd/author's mentor extraordinaire www.ajharper.com
Amber Vilhauer book launch guru www.insightfuldevelopment.com
Books mentioned today:
Joseph Campbell, <em>The Hero's Journey</em>
Hal Elrod, <em>Miracle Morning</em>
Tom Rubens, <em>Lifeness</em>
This is a show filled with questions. Here are a few of them.
What do we mean by the "science" of success...
...and the "art" of fulfillment?
Can you have one without the other?
What does the process look like?
Which comes first for you, success or fulfillment?
Who sets the standard for your success? For your fulfillment? Are you sure?
We are on our journey to the top of the mountain, and we'd love to have you join us.
Why?
Because no one gets there alone. We need to build each other up to get to the top.
Consider the gap between where you are, and where you'd like to be.
Your definition of success and fulfillment offers the GPS for your journey.
Books and references this week:
Tony Robbins
This episode is a breakdown of one of John's favorite childhood cartoons: Voltron.
Tom had never heard of Voltron, but John and Tom take this mythical robot creature and turn it into an important business lesson!
We talk about how to leverage your time and farm out activities that aren't "dollar productive," while you focus on the tasks where your best skills have the highest return on time invested.
John makes it clear that he values his time, and isn't likely to take your calls...unless you're his wife!
John and Tom discuss the cost/benefit analysis of time spent on various activities during the business day.
Bottom line: No surprise here. John is pretty cut and dried. If you can't dance to his music, he'll cut you off pretty quickly.
Tom's more the touchy feely type. Guess what? Both styles work, but John is currently the more productive of this duo.
Looks like Tom's going to need to do some self assessment, and he'd better tweak his style a bit if he wants to ramp up his productivity!
What do you need to do to create your Voltron?
Are you prepared to cut and move on from people, habits, beliefs that aren't serving to help you grow?
John circled back to a conversation we had in episode 15, when he and Tom disagreed on the purpose and value of a coach. The cool thing here is that he showed how you can be open enough to actually listen without an agenda. In today's crazy political landscape, wouldn't it be refreshing to seek harmony within a disagreement rather than focus on proving each other wrong? Winning in life doesn't mean someone else must lose.
How about developing your listening skills? The better we become at listening, the easier it will be to reach the state of True Wealth, True Health, and True Life.
Do you approach life from an abundance perspective, or a scarcity perspective?
Do you allow resistance to disable you, or do you use it to propel yourself to even greater heights?
Does your competition slow you down or inspire you?
Resistance comes in many forms, and is frequently self-inflicted.
As entrepreneurs, we are creative individuals, and that creativity can be challenged by what we perceive as roadblocks.
The trick is to learn to use that resistance, those perceived roadblocks, as fuel for our journey.
In the same way that a plane uses the power of the headwind to achieve "wheels up" faster than it would with a tailwind, we can use our
competition to elevate us and accelerate our growth.
Used constructively, even anger can be a tool for growth.
This week we talk about how you can avoid letting the haters, the naysayers, the competition get the best of you.
You can welcome that energy and use it to power yourself and your business to the top.
As usual, our references are all over the place.
When was the last time you heard a podcast that managed to seamlessly go from Andy Warhol to Henry Ford, to the unfortunate reality of life for a
zebra in the jungle? Thats's right. John and Tom 360! Well, maybe not the seamless part.
Hey, if you haven't read it yet, check out The War of Art by Steven Pressfield.
We're gonna keep on talking about it, so you might as well break down and buy it now.