I'm a Failure! (and why that's a lie)

Your greatest career success is going to come through relationships.

Your overall life satisfaction is going to be greatly effected through relationships.

So how do we do a better job building new relationships and strengthening current relationships? 

How do we shift from "networking" to this much more meaningful way in building strategic relationships.

Listen as author and speaker Paul Angone shares the 7 strategies to building better relationships.

If you want to read more about how to build better relationships, check out more about this in 101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties (and Thirties) 

You are more than the visible outcome of your work.

And the outcome of your work might be more than what is currently visible.

We have failure all wrong.

If we thought about failure like THIS, it will change everything.

Listen to today's episode to hear more.

You can read more about this as well in my new book 25 Lies Twentysomethings Need to Stop Believing.

"Sometimes the events in our life that are not necessarily easy are the most necessary." - 25 Lies Twentysomethings Need to Stop Believing

Does it feel like nothing has gone as planned in your life? I know the feeling. 

Yet, maybe our plans, our dreams aren't going to their grave right now. Maybe they're being planted.

Maybe the pain and problems we're going through right now aren't a distraction away from our purpose, but are the direct path right to it.

Hear one of the most incredible stories in history of the Ten Boom sisters who changed their lives, and everyone around them, as they fought to be thankful in one of those most thankless places in human history. They found purpose in the pain.

Listen to this amazing story of hope, resilience, and forgiveness, and be encouraged. 

Also you can read more about this lie in my book 25 Lies Twentysomethings Need to Stop Believing. Plus, read more about this incredible true story in The Hiding Place. 

"Marriage doesn’t just define you, you also define it." - 101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties

What are the myths about marriage that are holding you back from having a healthier, thriving relationship?

Whether you're a month into dating, or years into marriage, here are the seven biggest myths about marriage that we need to identify and overcome so that we can build our dating relationships and marriage on a strong foundation. Listen here. 

You can also read more about the myths of marriage that I discuss in this episode in my books 101 Secrets For Your Twenties and 101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties

"You might be going through a quarter-life crisis if you glare at your cat in the morning as you get ready for work and say, “Gosh, I wish I had your life.” - 101 Secrets For Your Twenties

A quarter life crisis can happen at any age. What are some signs you might be going through a quarter life crisis or that you've gone through a quarter life crisis?

Then more importantly, are there actual benefits of going through a quarter-life crisis? And what are some ways to cure this crisis?

Find insight and hope for your quarter life crisis in today's episode.

Also, you're not alone in these feelings of going through a quarter-life crisis. Millions of people have Googled and read my original article at AllGroanUp.com - 25 Signs You're Going Through a Quarter-Life Crisis

Have a friend going through an intense, crisis season of their life? Send them this episode for encouragement.

Also you can read more in full about the benefits and cures of going through a quarter life crisis in my book 101 Secrets For Your Twenties

If you don't figure this ONE THING out, pursuing your dream is going to be a real struggle.

Pursuing your dream will be riddled with much more sacrifice than sexiness. That's okay. That's how it's supposed to be.

Yet, when you're sacrificing for a "must", for a "have-to", for something you can not, NOT do, the sacrifice doesn't feel sacrificial at all. Actually the sacrifice is a little sexy because the sacrifice is freeing you up. The sacrifice is purposeful. 

So what are your "have-to's?" What is something you can not, not do? This is the necessary "why" you need to find when pursuing your dream.

Listen more in today's episode. Also hear more about the purposeful sacrifices my wife and I made in our lives because we had a vision for something greater. One of those sacrifices? Sleeping in a closet. 

Also you can read more about all of this is my new book 25 Lies Twentysomething Need to Stop Believing.

What if our pursuit of happiness is all wrong?

What if our pursuit of happiness is the exact thing that's keeping us most unhappy?

Here’s what I think is the truth: The more we pursue happiness, the less happy we’re going to be.

Is happiness a product we should pursue?

Or is happiness a product of something else? Can we seek happiness unto itself? Or is happiness a natural byproduct when we’re pursuing something else meaningful?

When we pursue happiness unto itself we end up merely pursuing a distraction from our unhappiness.

When we pursue being happy we usually come back feeling more miserable than before. Like going on that epic road trip to find happiness, only to return, and having more problems there waiting for you than when you started. 

I do want you to be happy. So stop pursuing it. Instead, pursue these things instead. 

 Find a consistent spring of life rather than trying to drink from the dried-up creek of happiness.

Read more about this in my new book 25 Lies Twentysomethings Need to Stop Believing. 

"Success in your twenties and thirties is more about what you're planting in the ground then it is about what you're harvesting." -  via 25 Lies Twentysomethings Need to Stop Believing


How do you consistently keep planting seeds even when you don't feel like it?

When you haven't seen much progress in awhile? When nothing seems to be growing as fast as you hoped it would?

Do you wait for inspiration and motivation, then do the work?

Or is there a better, more effective way to doing great, inspired work?
 
Listen here as I share the secrets I've learned about getting motivated and doing good work even when you don't feel like it.

"Pursuing a dream is like planting an avocado seed. It could take about ten years before you see any fruit."  --  Read more about staying motivated and doing good work in my book 101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties

No one can do what you do or be who you are.

Own it. Leverage it. And watch the returns pour in for years to come.

Keep changing by becoming more of who you were meant to be.

Listen to this fun episode as I tell the story of a WILD horseback ride and what it taught me about the importance of us getting off the trail ride and running the race we were made to run.

You can read more about this story in my book 101 Questions You Need to Ask in Your Twenties (and Let's Be Honest, Your Thirties Too)

What do you say to someone standing on a ledge? 

In this unique, straight-to-the-point episode I re-tell the story of the night my neighbor threatened to jump down to his death, and the lies that led him there. 

Hear what I told him that night and the power of those four simple words that we all need to hear.