Special Guest: Colby Dirickson from The Success Shift

Let's talk transparent. Are you projecting something to those who don't know you very well differently than you do to those who do? Is it different than the truth you are actually protecting within yourself? Discovering that truth, the real root of an issue, can only help to expedite the process of you being able to fix it that much faster. Why play the guessing game with your own progress forward?

If you know where it hurts, tell somebody your exact problem. Choose someone who can give you constructive criticism and offer a true solution to your situation. Surround yourself with people you can trust to be free of judgment and burden when you ask them for help or guidance. Pursue the people you trust the words of and the comfort or expertise they can provide to you personally. Present solutions and connections to others in reciprocation as they need them and you know how to provide it to them.

As you head into 2024, you should already be working towards your goals and ahead of everybody else. A year does not start on January 1st for everyone, so you shouldn't be holding out on your goals just because of a time marker others have set in order to procrastinate starting their goals TODAY. If you want to truly succeed at your goals, you have to start them TODAY. Not tomorrow, not Monday, TODAY! If you wish to see the ripple effects of your actions, you must do them NOW!

It is not your responsibility to bear the weight of other people's problems just because they bring them to you. Loyalty does not mean that you have to carry their burdens with you throughout the day. If anything, it would be love for them to keep their shit to themselves in the first place, or at least take it with them when they leave rather than expect you to take it on instead. The trick is, you have to be able to analyze a situation, process it rapidly, discard what is not useful to us, and maintain that which is important.

Our disagreements with others are usually rooted as problems deep within ourselves that we have not figured out how to work through yet. Criticisms made by others that we tend to take too personally shouldn't stop us from growing and succeeding. Letting other people walk away with their problems will allow us to let go of the tight grip of control we think we have over our situations that probably won't even matter in 5 minutes.

If we truly feel the need to help others, it isn't by allowing ourselves to also become burdened by their problems, but rather by helping them discover the true root of their problem so that it can be dealt with in the most effective manner and return them to the fast track to supreme growth. Are there tools we can use to assist in identifying the problem and overcoming it by becoming more efficient at mentally processing? Many times we have the things we need already, we just tend to overlook them or forget we have them in our back pockets ready to use. It all starts with genuinely listening and actively responding appropriately by asking thought-provoking questions to be able to offer more sound advice and solutions.

Interview other people every change you can get to better understand their mindset and grow your own mental capacities through empathy and experiences. Read (or listen!) to that book that makes you feel compelled and self-challenged to make yourself into a better version. Share your own experiences with others and help them learn from your lessons and successes in life. Learn for yourself from other people's perspectives and interpretations who sat through the exact same situation yet had very different experiences. Books are an excellent way to take another person's experience, simplify it down to suit your personal needs, and grow exponentially faster through the power of compounding ideas and joining together with like minded elite entrepreneurs.

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Christmas: a time of giving to those who matter most to you and reflection of your efforts over the past year. Just as the symbolic nature of winter, it is a time to recognize what is essentially dead to you and work on pruning that dead weight away in order to make room for new growth in your next upcoming season of life. You are probably your biggest hindrance to some of the goals that you haven't accomplished due to the things that you are willing to do or not willing to do based on the things that you want to do in order to accomplish the things that you tell people you do.

You should be setting goals to remind yourself through trackable metrics what it is you are setting out to accomplish and when you actually accomplish them. Establishing a range of accomplishment within each of your goals allows you to have a baseline and a potential highline to typically fall somewhere between the two goal metrics. Knowing methods that you will adhere to for tracking your metrics are vital to the success of your goals.

SMART: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time.
SMART is a format widely used to flesh out your goals in ways that will help you to visualize how you wish to achieve your goals and live in the future you desire. Every one of your goals that you truly wish to accomplish should be answered within each of those perimeters per the goal. Your goals should be set for you alone, not for others. Commit to your goals over your excuses by knowing your true priorities realistically. As long as you take action to become 1% better every day, you cannot let the days that may fall short to overcome your daily progress and drive. 

Have brutal honesty with yourself so you can no longer lie to yourself why you haven't accomplished a goal you've already set. Realize what it is that is holding you back from your dreams and cut off anything that is no longer serving you with purpose. 2024 isn't a time for a new version of you, but rather a raw version of you that focuses on what it is at your core that truly drives you to obtain your successes. Remember what it is you do everything for.

Give a warm welcome to this week's special guest speaker, Colby Dirickson: US Army veteran, owner and CEO of a financial brokerage, fellow podcaster of The Success Shift, mindset coach, and certified NLP practitioner. Knowing how you want to provide value to others in order for yourself to feel fulfilled by your own actions that become your experiences is a big key in keeping your mindset positive and ever-growing. 

Since studying NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), Colby is able to now offer elite coaching to his professional team as well as train them in successful communication with others when they go out and conduct business for themselves. When dealing with consumers, masterful conversations are imperative to whether a relationship is made or broken in an instant. Through careful attention to someone's unspoken words, you can discover their needs as well as any pain points they have to overcome. 

Once you realize you're in control of your choices, you can take full ownership of your life and design it how you want to see it. You have to be able to visualize what you want to accomplish by breaking down your limiting beliefs and doubts about what is actually possible for you. Overcoming your go-to excuses born within your childhood is necessary in order for you to outgrow your fears and failures.

With purposeful structure, you can shift to the mindset of a successful entrepreneur. You have to believe that you are special enough to make it true. You can rebuild your entire mind and processing in as little as 12 weeks with the proper discipline and consistent regimen. With the right passion identified, it can drive you to the changes you need to make so that you can experience the future you once were only able to dream of.

Coaching is the means to elevate yourself to your next level. It's the accountability that you're held to by your mentors and coaches that will drive you to want to do better and be more every day. Surrounding yourself with others you look up to is how you will learn to grow taller than you were yesterday. You have to form the right amount of confidence so that you can achieve your dreams in the ways that you desire. You must continue to learn from your mistakes and know that your failures are necessary to endure in order to strengthen you for the challenges ahead that you must overcome.

Time doesn't wait. You have to grow at least 1% every day in some way. This is the easiest way to make success manageable and attainable for yourself. You don't obtain everything overnight, but rather by one action at a time and shifting accordingly with each move. You need to know how to educate yourself best so that you can discover new ways to outgrow the person you were just moments ago. Through experiences and knowledge learned from the time you've spent, do the things that get you closer to who you continue to strive to be as you evolve.

When you live your life on your terms, you need to be able to just jump straight into the deep end. You can't allow your fears to make your decisions for you and hold you back from your successes. You have to stay systematically consistent to acquire your desires and stay committed to your own future. You don't have to make the biggest moves to make change happen. One incremental change a day is all you need to find yourself on the trajectory of a new life you didn't think was even once possible. 

More importantly, you have to know how you define and envision success for yourself. Learn to say NO now in order to be able to say YES later when it truly matters to the people you want to say YES to the most. Move on from the people who don't serve you right now and consume too much of your time or energy. Your path doesn't dictate your future, as long as you are willing to make the changes necessary. Your story is what makes you great. We're all unique and can learn new from each other. Always give more than you get.

In a few generations, we may be lucky if people even remember us. Whatever we do right now in this time, is only important right now in this time. Are the actions you are taking today changing your life forever? Do they have true purpose that satisfies your soul? Is it worth it to you to do now for the sake of an unforgettable memory later with the people you love the most?

We take our daily privileges and blessings for granted all too often. They seem so overwhelming in the moment sometimes. But some day, life will seem as if there is no direction without those things happening. You'll look back and miss these days, whether you live in the present or not is up to you. The days are long, but the years so short. There are inconveniences in your life happening right now that one day you will wish you could have back.

As you head into a new year, make sure you take the opportunity to spend the time with those people that matter most building the memories you want to remember later on. Tomorrow is never promised, so spend your days doing the things you want to do today. Live life without regrets and give all that you can give. Find ways to be rich in life that don't revolve around money so that you can feel genuinely fulfilled with how you live your life. 

Do you leave an impression on everybody you come in contact with? 
Are you being your very best YOU whenever you can? 
Do you enjoy every day you have with purpose?

As we approach the end of the year, we begin to make the excuse that we need to wait until the first of the new year to begin setting goals and taking actions that will accomplish those goals. But wouldn't it be more fruitful or you to start initiating movements NOW so that we can already be on track for success by January? Why do we need to wait until the first to say "new year, new me" when we can start by saying something more proactive like, "new me NOW".

Set the metrics you wish to use to measure your efforts and track your successes. Obtain and gather the steps necessary TODAY to take to meet and exceed your goals TOMORROW. Commit to improving 1% every day by doing the things you thought you would never do because you were too afraid that the result would be failure. 

Recognize where you are and where you've been so that you can find ways to give back to those who matter most. Surround yourself with successful people who remain humble through their changing seasons of life. These are the people to learn new things from in order to grow yourself into your ideal success. If you allow yourself to be afraid of others taking your success from you, you will never be able to outgrow the version of you that you are right now--afraid. Don't find yourself making excuses of how afraid you are to ask the truly successful. They want to share their "secrets" to success with you--all you have to do is ask!

Ask for help with integrity, not negativity, and you will receive the support you need. The way you talk has an impact on the people around you, and especially yourself. Don't wait until January to start evaluating your needs, setting your goals, and establishing your boundaries you wish to see met in 2024. Work harder NOW so that you can enjoy the fruits of your labors TOMORROW. Your days are LIMITED! Time will pass no matter what you end up doing, so just commit to doing the things you need to do NOW.

Be grateful for what you do have today as a show of appreciation for what you did do yesterday and all the means of progress you already have for tomorrow. Remember to do the things that bring you genuine feelings of joy and fulfillment. Work not for the money, but for the means to have the time free to spend with your loved ones doing the things you want to be doing. 

Don't allow the holidays to fog up what it is we should actually be doing to enjoy the time we do have. No need to wait for the new year to begin your goals. Start meeting your resolutions NOW. You have the opportunity to grow TODAY. Nobody is guaranteed tomorrow, or any moment in the future past this very second for that matter.

Would you rather have things or experiences in your life? Would you rather build memories or collect items that will collect dust with time? Write down your goals so you can have a way to measure your efforts. What happens if you accomplish it? What happens if you don't? Ask yourself each when you face life's challenges. Remind yourself to give thanks to all you have now that will help you bring about the changes you need to make in order to make your dreams your future realities. But above all, live your life for today, for there are no promises for tomorrow.

Remaining grateful through all seasons of life is key to remaining happy with what you do have, as well as motivated to obtain more joy through change. If you take what you have for granted, you will soon realize how many things in life have no guarantee. The sooner you can relinquish your expectations, the quicker you can focus on your reality and see how much it grows as you decide to make changes. The luxuries you have access to now were once only dreams to you. Remember to appreciate all that you have now and all that you came from with everything in between.

The opportunities we have today were not always possible, nor will they always remain to be in the future. We cannot dwell in the past with our what ifs, allowing us to stay stuck in the present. We have to look to the future for guidance in our actions today so that we may know what it is we want to achieve. We must set goals in the present based off our desires in the future. The past is a way to serve us lessons we can learn from to do success better for ourselves in the future.

When you give, you get back. What you give, you get back. Whatever it is you do, if you pull from your community, it's your responsibility to feed back into it. Whether that be your money or your time, let it be satisfying for you to contribute your involvement. The season of giving and gratitude should extend beyond the holiday season each year. Thanksgiving is simply a time to reflect on how thankful you already are in your ability to give back to those you love most. Enjoy your freedom to spend your time however you please with whomever you choose.

Are you currently playing a part in masterminds that discuss topics you find genuinely interesting and connecting with new people? Have you been consistently consistent, even as your current circumstances change with the ways in which the market continues to sway? Do you ask other successful entrepreneurs to share what it is that has worked for them in obtaining their goals? Will you apply what it is they provide to you, or lazily skip over one of the last yet most important steps of the process, implementation?

It is imperative to know yourself and your business so that you can also know when to contact your target audience based on their demographics and habits. It is crucial to act with consistent discipline to do the things others won't in order to bring about your success. You have to look past all the negativity they are so willing to focus on and continue to strive towards your success. If it's not important in 5 years, it's probably not important now. You have to become more efficient in how you plan to achieve your success and track your efforts to know which actions provide you the best results. Do your goals align with your actions that you need to take in order to succeed?

Pay attention to your relevancy rather than any numerical scales. You have to look at your life through your lenses, and not allow others to make decisions for you when it truly matters. Is monetary gain really all you are trying to cherish later on in your life looking back? Can you exchange ideas with others who encourage growth within your life and business? Trust but verify who it is you wish to seek advice from and never allow yourself to be the smartest person in the room.

Setting boundaries by saying "NO" allows you to have structure within your schedule others have to appreciate and uphold respect for your own time. You have to prioritize the things the you actually want to do with the people you want to do them with. It's not so much about focusing on who you need to say "NO" to so much as it is rather about who you like to say "YES" to. It's being able to see the privileges you may take for granted daily and realizing they are blessings you might not have if your circumstances were different.

The material objects aren't as important as much as it is the steps leading up to obtaining them. Learn the boundaries to allow yourself to focus on the things that are important to you to arrive to the areas in life you desire to be in. Lose the anxiety and any of the people who cause those feelings so you can replace them with feelings of fulfillment and worth by exchanging value in your relationships. Operate on such a high level you maintain your morals, ethics, and values regardless of any changing variables.

Give back to the world what you take from it. Tithe to your communities and partners by reciprocating efforts and resources they find just as valuable as you found them to be for you. Set up a Calendly to create structure within your priorities and take control of your time through management of your schedule. Create a sense of predictable respect within your business' standard operating procedures by having respect for your own time. Do what you have to do in order to set the boundaries in place that will allow your business to still function when you switch your focus back to what truly matters: time doing the things you love with the people you love most.