First, yall kind of glossed over it, but I initially found it VERY difficult when my family and closest friends weren’t all that interested in my pursuit of starting a business. I made some initial starts about 4 years ago. And no one but my mom and wife gave 2 cents about it. Even when I was really pushing to get some feed back from them. Nothing. That HURT. Now I look at it differently. We all have different interests and goals. I was trying to force mine into their lives and they didn’t care. That’s not a them issue, it’s a me issue. I need feed back and people close to me looking at what I’m doing. Thank God (literally) for Free Agent Academy. It falls nicely into this void.

Second, one of you had this quote, “As a company it does you no good to keep someone in a position that is not a good fit for them.” HOW TRUE! And yet most companies, and dare I say employees, think nothing of it. I need this done, Joe go do it. Joe needs a job, any job, so Joe takes a job. It’s taken me a while, but I’ve learned this doesn’t work.

Chris said: “Failing is not pursuing my passion.” I instantly stopped the recording and emailed Joshua Gordon to listen b/c he said the same thing to me Friday.

Justin said: 2 important traits to be successful in business: 1) Implementation and 2) Consistency. Can’t say it much better.

Chris said: “There’s a difference between short term failure and long term failure.” Yeah, there is. Short term failure can be corrected or adjusted for an you keep moving forward. Long term failure means you gave up or never started.

Chris said: “Often, your passion is the thing you struggled with the most. Or the thing that hurt you the most.” Sounds very similar to John G Miller’s quote of you often bring to the world what YOU most need. I agree.

Here is one of my favorite points from Chris. “When you come across somebody and you get the feeling you HAVE to be around that individual and you can’t quite figure it out, but you know they’ve kind of got it made. And you know there’s something for you to learn. Just do it. Do what it takes [to be around that person]!” I’m coming to learn that myself. (Hence I’m devouring coachradio.tv to get info from Justin)

Last point from Chris, and again this is a MAJOR recurring theme in almost EVERY Your Story, “If you’re trying to figure out what to do, pick a direction and start walking in it. Even if it seems scary. Even if you are not quite sure. And then do this. Give yourself permission to change when you realize it is not working.” This is how I’m getting abetterwayofbusiness going. I’m walking (finally) and will adjust as needed.

Wow. Simply WOW! GREAT SHOW! 

Some of the best friendships I have now are ones that started out with me disliking the person. Funny how that works!

Thanks again for showing him off to a larger audience!