All Good Years

This is part two of an episode on how to have more energy. We'd encourage you to check out the first episode for some setup and the first three energy activities. Here's the main idea: A good life means having the energy to do the things you want to do. There are ways to maximize your limited energy. Three energy generators:1. Diet - Your body needs fuel. What types of fuel are you giving your body?2. Take Action - To generate energy sometimes you just need to get moving. 3. Eliminate & Optimize Energy Drainers - We all have things in our lives that take more from us. How do you eliminate or improve them? Question to consider - What practice above do you need to work on? Mailbag - Want Derek & Gage to read a note from you on the podcast during the mailbag? Message us on Instagram @AllGoodYears_ or email Hello@allgoodyears.com. Share what's working, stories, and anything else on your mind.

Hi friends! We are sorry for our delay in posting. That delay helped prompt today's topic. We are making a couple of changes to All Good Years. The main change is that we will be posting twice a month instead of every week. This will allow us to be more consistent & to share better content. We are excited to be back. Mailbag - Want Derek & Gage to read a note from you on the podcast during the mailbag? Message us on Instagram @AllGoodYears_ or email Hello@allgoodyears.com. Share what's working, stories, and anything else on your mind. Episode Notes: Here's the main idea: Overcommitting drains us from the moment and leaves us feeling exhausted. By doing less, we live better lives. Three reasons we overcommit: 1. Obligation - I should. 2. Opportunity - I must. 3. Unaware - I didn't know   Two questions to ask if you are overcommitted: 1. What does a consistent life of commitment look like for you? 2. What do you need to stop doing?  

Has this podcast helped you? You can help other people by sharing, rating, and reviewing this podcast. What has been helpful for you? Share it with a friend! Mailbag - Want Derek & Gage to read a note from you on the podcast during the mailbag? Message us on Instagram @AllGoodYears_ or Email Hello@allgoodyears.com! Share what's working, stories, and anything else on your mind. Episode Notes: Here's the main idea: A good life means having the energy to do the things you want to do. There are ways to maximize your limited energy. Three ways to increase your energy: 1. Move More 2. Get Your Sleep Right 3. Practice a Sabbath   Resources & Quotes: HBR - movement effect on mental health https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/how-simply-moving-benefits-your-mental-health-201603289350 Movement works for everyone https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20061103/exercise-fights-fatigue-boosts-energy Sleep recommendations - https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/about_sleep/how_much_sleep.html  

Has this podcast helped you? You can help other people by sharing, rating, and reviewing this podcast. What has been helpful for you? Share it with a friend! Mailbag - Want Derek & Gage to read a note from you on the podcast during the mailbag? Message us on Instagram @AllGoodYears_ or Email Hello@allgoodyears.com! Share what's working, stories, and anything else on your mind. Episode Notes: Here’s the main idea: Being part of meetings does not need to be miserable, but leading a meeting is a skill. The flow covered in today’s show: Prepare before the meetings. This includes an agenda, start times, and goal of the meeting. Facilitate the meeting. This includes setting clear ground rules, keeping the meeting on track, and ensuring healthy conversation. Ensure the meeting ends well. This includes checking in on todos, recapping the meeting, and scheduling the next one if needed. Bonus thoughts! Don’t have a meeting if you don’t have to. A meeting is a tool not a mandate. Not all meetings need to be an hour! If a meeting can be thirty minutes, do it. If your meeting is longer than one hour, create a half time for people to stretch, move, and use the bathroom. Analog is best for engagement. Only invite the people that need to be there Resources & Quotes: Traction by Gino Wickman - https://amzn.to/3oKWRFn  

Has this podcast helped you? You can help other people by sharing, rating, and reviewing this podcast. What has been helpful for you? Share it with a friend! Mailbag - Want Derek & Gage to read a note from you on the podcast during the mailbag? Message us on Instagram @AllGoodYears_ or Email Hello@allgoodyears.com! Share what's working, stories, and anything else on your mind. Episode Notes: Having a great summer is possible as an adult, but it won’t happen on accident. Thing to Consider to Have a Great Summer: 1. Be Realistic With Your Time 2. Do New Things 3. Create Yearly Routines & Traditions 4. Plan it Now, or it Won't Happen Resources & Quotes: Life Speeding Up: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/i-hear-you/202012/why-does-life-speed-you-get-older https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/how-to-make-your-days-feel-longer.html?nav=featured https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/04/25/the-possibilian This week's question: What are your plans for summer? We'd love for you to share with us.

Has this podcast helped you? You can help other people by sharing, rating, and reviewing this podcast. What has been helpful for you? Share it with a friend! Mailbag - Want Derek & Gage to read a note from you on the podcast during the mailbag? Message us on Instagram @AllGoodYears_ or Email Hello@allgoodyears.com! Share what's working, stories, and anything else on your mind. Episode Notes: Here’s the main idea: Slow down, think clearly, and you will live better. How to improve at being calm, cool, and collected: Plan it out. Find what unsettles you and make a plan to improve. Do one thing at a time. We either freeze, or try to do everything. The best strategy is tackling one thing at a time. Be Like a Duck. You'll just have to listen for this explanation. Reflect & repeat. Think over what unsettles you and why. Ask yourself hard questions and then go back to step one. Bonus thoughts! Get a good nights sleep. You need more sleep than you get! Have a morning & evening routine! Be kind to yourself. It's a process. Resources & Quotes: "Get action. Do things; be sane; don’t fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody." - Teddy Roosevelt 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey - https://amzn.to/3ycmtzo This week's challenge: What gets you frantic, hurried, or unsettled? What do you need to change?

Has this podcast helped you? You can help other people by sharing, rating, and reviewing this podcast. Mailbag - Want Derek & Gage to read a note from you on the podcast during the mailbag? Email Hello@allgoodyears.com or message @AllGoodYears_ on Instagram - Share what's working, stories, and anything else on your mind. Episode Notes: Here’s the main idea: Seeking & Receiving Feedback Helps You Grow Faster How to Get Better at Getting Feedback: 1. Go & Get It. Practice asking others for feedback. 2. Ask Questions, Don't Make Excuses. Do not try to justify something you can work. Ask questions and attempt to understand the feedback. 3. Test the Feedback. Not all feedback is true. Test the feedback with people you trust. 4. Implement. If you choose to, you can work on the feedback. Check out our episode on getting 1% better for strategies to implement feedback. This week's challenge: Go and get feedback from someone. Share the results with us by messaging us on Instagram @AllGoodYears_ or emailing Hello@allgoodyears.com.

Has this podcast helped you? You can help other people by sharing, rating, and reviewing this podcast. What has been helpful for you? Share it with a friend! Mailbag - Want Derek & Gage to read a note from you on the podcast during the mailbag? Email Hello@allgoodyears.com! Share what's working, stories, and anything else on your mind. Episode Notes: Here’s the main idea: We will encounter difficult people in our work environment. People living a great life learn how to work with them. Three Ways to Work With Difficult People: 1. Start With Yourself. Remember, you can only control your actions. 2. Be Their Friend. When we empathize with people, we humanize them. 3. Talk About it with The Person. Get their permission, make them aware, have a conversation. Resources & Quotes: Inc Article on Workplace Conflict: https://www.inc.com/brian-de-haaff/the-359-billion-problem-driving-your-project-under-the-radar.html 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson: https://amzn.to/2PfzzKi 21 Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell: https://amzn.to/32FTrJV This week's challenge: Who is one person you need to start this process with?

Has this podcast helped you? You can help other people by sharing, rating, and reviewing this podcast. What has been helpful for you? Share it with a friend! Mailbag - Want Derek & Gage to read a note from you on the podcast during the mailbag? Email Hello@allgoodyears.com! Share what's working, stories, and anything else on your mind. Episode Notes: Here’s the main idea: We find our calling by actually living our life. There are three challenges that stand in our way: 1. A lot of us feel like our life won’t begin until we live out our calling. 2. We get paralysis by analysis. 3. Our culture has made us feel like we need to “arrive” right now. There are two things we encourage you to do: 1. Go & take action right now. 2. Enjoy & make the most out of your life. Resources & Quotes: Ship before you're ready, because you will never be ready. Ready implies you know it's going to work, and you can't know that. You should ship when you're prepared, when it's time to show your work, but not a minute later. - Seth Godin (https://seths.blog/2016/03/show-your-work/) This week's challenge: Share your calling or purpose with someone. Hello@allgoodyears.com or message us on social media.

Has this podcast helped you? You can help other people by sharing, rating, and reviewing this podcast. What has been helpful for you? Share it with a friend! Mailbag - Want Derek & Gage to read a note from you on the podcast during the mailbag? Email Hello@allgoodyears.com! Share what's working, stories, and anything else on your mind. There's a chance Derek & Gage will share it on the podcast! This is the second part of a 2 part series. Check out Do Hard Things Part 1 for the philosophy behind doing hard things. Episode Notes: Here’s the main idea: When we do hard things, we live life more fully. Here are the five strategies & tools that were shared on today's episode. 1. Shift Your Mindset 2. Commit to Something You Cannot Get Out Of 3. Just Do It 4. Look for Reasonable Challenges 5. Challenge Yourself With Things You Are Good at or Interested In Resources & Quotes: 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey Drive by Daniel Pink Teddy Roosevelt Quote: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." This week's challenge: Commit to one thing you cannot get out of. Let us know what it is. Hello@allgoodyears.com or message us on social media.

Has this podcast helped you? You can help other people by sharing, rating, and reviewing this podcast. What has been helpful for you? Share it with a friend! Mailbag - Want Derek & Gage to read a note from you on the podcast during the mailbag? Email Hello@allgoodyears.com! Share what's working, stories, and else on your mind. There's a chance Derek & Gage will share it on the podcast! Episode Notes: Here’s the main idea: When we do hard things, we live life more fully. Why don't we live a life with meaning & difficulty? 1. Humans are wired for comfort. 2. Our culture caters to an easy life. Why should we do hard things? 1. We do hard things to experience greater joy. 2. We do hard things to find & live our purpose. Resources & Quotes: “Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.” ― Benjamin Franklin To avoid criticism do nothing, be nothing, and say nothing. (Aristotle or Elbert Hubbard) Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport This week's challenge: What is one difficult thing you know you need to do this week? Do it. Email us, or message us what it is. We'd love to hear!

Has this podcast helped you? You can help other people by sharing, rating, and reviewing this podcast. What has been helpful for you? Share it with a friend!   Mailbag - Want Derek & Gage to read a note from you on the podcast during the mailbag? Email Hello@allgoodyears.com! Share what's working, stories, and else on your mind. There's a chance Derek & Gage will share it on the podcast!   Episode Notes: Resources to improve your social skills consider these all time great reads recommended by Derek!   How to Win Friends & Influence People Emotional Intelligence 2.0 Need a coach? Need some guidance? Consider reaching out to Brooke!   Below are the points Derek & Gage discussed on this episode. When we interact better with others everyone's life is better.   1. Listen More, Talk Less Practice speaking less in conversations. Ask good questions. Show an interest in listening to the other person talk.   2. Watch Your Face (improve your body language) Think about your eye contact, posture, if your phone is out, and more. We all know that non-verbal communication is huge!   3. Don't Be a Jerk We think this one is pretty self-explanatory. But, be kind. By loving others & treating them well, we make the world a better place.   This week's challenge: pick one of the three above to work on actively. Share your results with us by emailing Hello@allgoodyears.com.  

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Can slowing down & doing less actually lead to a better life? We think so! Three ways to slowdown & live better: 1. Choose Not to be a Busy Person 2. Create Habits, Routines, and Rituals of Slowing 3. Practice a Sabbath Want Derek & Gage to read a note from you on the podcast during the mailbag? Email Hello@allgoodyears.com. Share what's working, stories, and anything else on your mind for Derek & Gage to share.

This episode is loaded with stories and practical advice to instantly improve your interactions with others. We cover three simple actions you can take right away to improve your people skills. If I told you one of them was, “Watch Your Face”, would you believe me? This weeks challenge: Of the three, which do you need to improve on? Focus on that one this week. Want to connect, or have a topic to discuss? Email me at Derek@AllGoodYears.com. If this podcast has been helpful for you please consider subscribing, sharing, and rating. Thanks for listening!

Do you know someone who is critical about everything? If not, it is probably you. How's that feel? In this episode, we talk about why people are critical. Have you ever heard of the word, neuroplasticity? We discuss how being critical turns you into a soul-sucking vampire. Finally, we share how life can be better with a positive outlook. Challenge: This coming week, identify positive things around you & share them with people. Focus on the good! Have a comment or an idea for a show? Email me at Derek@allgoodyears.com. Thanks for listening!

In this episode I’ll tell a story about throwing up during a fitness video + we talk about why insane diets never work! Well, not just that - but I do make fun of vegans. Most importantly, we go over some practical ways to make life better each day. Our challenge this week is to identify & work on our 1% better. It’s 3 steps: 1)Pick one area to improve. 2)Decide what 1% better looks like in that area. 3)Schedule a weekly meeting to review how you’re doing. If you’d like to share how it is going for you, email Derek@AllGoodYears.com for a chance to be featured on the show. Thanks for listening!

In this episode we talk about the best life lesson I accidentally discovered. This lesson, "not easy, but good", has led to some of the best moments in my life. We will talk honestly about how I found it, what it means, and how to apply it to your life. If you'd like to share a difficult thing you are going to attempt, email me at Derek@allgoodyears.com. Thanks for listening!