Pants Around Ankles Prevention

In this episode, we explore how the choices we make today shape our future, sometimes years down the line. Through insightful quotes and reflections, we discuss the importance of saying no to lesser goals so we can focus on what truly matters, building a life we actually want. Don't miss this thought-provoking conversation!

In today's epsidoe, I'll share some thoughts on the topic change.It's a word most people fear and resist. I'll also discuss whether habits are good or bad. Let's dive into the topic now!

Where do you need to stop doing something that's good, so you can say yes to the best?

Do you have any skin in the game? Season 3 of Pants Around Ankles Prevention Podcast wraps with this important message from Greg.

If you really want to grow, you need to get a guide. And I've got a few characteristics of what a guide can help you with for the process of growing.

As promised in this episode, we will talk about how you can better understand and manage the pain and discomfort you will no doubt experience when growing.  

Do you know what FLOW is and how to achieve it? Find out in this episode. 

Growth requires expansion. If we're going to create a compelling future, we need to know WHY.

In the last episode, I gave you assignment. If you didn't do it, go back and listen to the episode so you can get the full value from this episode. Now, if you're ready for Part 2, listen in.

How do you create a compelling future? Here's step 1...

This is how I know I'm growing... listen to part 2 of What's Your UGI.

When is the last time someone said to you, “woah you've really changed.” If it's been a while, then you might need to take a minute to measure your your UGI.

What happens when you take your foot off the gas? Find out in this week's podcast.

Do you need a coach or a therapist? What's the difference between the two? Find out in today's episode!

Do you have a compelling future? Do you know how to create one? I give you some tips on this week's episode.

I'm going to assume you're a little more fixed than you think you are when it comes to your mindset. So, today, I have some suggestions that will help direct you toward a more growth mindset.

In today's episode, I want to share a new way of thinking about mindset that I recently discovered. Get ready to learn about the GAP and the GAIN.

Journaling? (gag!) You have to be kidding me. You can't really be expecting me to sit down and write about my feelings every day, can you? You do not understand! Listen and learn.

Are You Settling or Settling In? L find out!

We have an UNBELIEVABLY TALENTED, WORLD-CLASS EXPERT to introduce you to in this episode. They are going to help you extend what you learned in the last episode.

I've got a tool that will help you as you begin to make progress on the challenges that come with transitions. P.S. You'll need a pen and paper!

In episode 2, we talked about the secret weapon that you have that can help you move through life's transitions, and it's right brain thinking. In this episode, I am going to give you some suggestions as to HOW you access that side of your brain and WHY it's so important.

It's not a magic wand, but you and I do have a secret weapon that I want to share with you.

This is the first episode in season 2 and I will be focusing on Transitions. Transitions such as retirement, loss of a passion for work, getting a job or losing a job you loved. Whatever your transition is, this season of Pants Around Ankles Prevention Podcast is aimed at helping you transition successfully. And I think the first thing you have to understand to navigate any transition is what the right mindset looks like. I'll share with you what that looks like in this podcast episode.

Yes, plans are worthless. So that's not the whole quote. The full quote by Dwight Eisenhower is, plans are worthless, but planning is everything. Now, I don't think he's suggesting that we don't plan. However, one of the ways that I see people ending up with their pants around their ankles when it comes to planning is when they plan and they plan and they plan… That's a problem.

If you're stuck in business and most of the people that I know that are viewing these podcasts or listening to them are business people, they tend to read business books. I get the fact that there can be merit that comes to you by reading business books if you're working on business problems but we've established that you've been doing that and you already have your pants around your ankles. So let me tell you why you're reading the wrong stuff!

Recently, I participated as a presenter at an event that was in my area of expertise and it was interesting to me because there were many people at this event that were already paying ME to help them get better. So why were they there? Here's why!

When you're standing there with your pants around your ankles and you're thinking to yourself, “how did I get here?” The answer is you weren't paying attention. So how do you pay attention? How do you find problems when they're big enough to see, but small enough to easily solve? Fair enough questions. Today, I want to introduce you to a very, very effective tool that will help you PAY ATTENTION.

In the industry in which I spent most of my life the last 20 years, commercial roofing, many of the contractors are starting to discover that it's no longer enough to take a price they've put together and put it into an email and ship it off to somebody and expect to get the work. They're discovering that they actually need to sell it. This is something that makes most of these contractors very uncomfortable and many of them aren't very good at it! Here's an idea to help.

Most of my work has traditionally been done with commercial roofing contractors. I was recently asked a question from a commercial roofing contractor in regard to his service department. And the question that came in was this. Who's the ideal person to run our service department? Find out my answer in this episode.

In this episode of pants around ankles prevention, we've got a different approach because we had a question come in from someone who already has their pants around their ankles! The questions is: "It seems like we either have too much selling going on and can't get it all done or we have excess operational capacity and need more sales. How do you balance this?"

I'm pretty sure that you can relate to the experience that I've had when I have been driving a car down the road and I take my foot off the gas because when I take my foot off the gas, my experience has been that the car starts to slow down. So there's this expression that many of you have heard that if you're not growing, you're dying. I'm 70 years old, my body doesn't work the way it used to, so I'll go out and ride my bicycle. And what I've discovered, it takes a lot longer for me to build fitness than it used to. And if I take a week off because I have to travel someplace the other thing I discover is I lose that fitness a lot faster. This principle is applicable not only to your personal physical fitness, but also to how your brain works and how your business runs.

If you're like me, there have probably been times in your life, maybe in your business life, no, not maybe in your business life and in your personal life where you've wanted to make some changes. You've got some goals that you wanted to set. You've got some things that you were striving for, and so you, you really didn't know how to get there, which is probably a sign that's a worthwhile endeavor. And, and so you, you read about it and maybe you hire a consultant or you watch some videos online, again, read books or articles, and then you get the ideas about how to go about it and you go apply these ideas. Then it doesn't work ever happen. And, you know, often this takes some time. You know, in my first business endeavor as a a commercial roofing contractor, I did it for 14 years or 12 years or whatever before I decided it didn't work.

There is a mistake that I see many people make in the industry in terms of how they run their business, and they end up with their pants around their ankles. The mistake they make is that although they build a big business plan for how to go into business and how to build their business, they have no plan for how to build succession and exit plans, and it's a tragedy.

Today's episode is on a very important topic, and that topic is your life! So many people I work with have goals for their businesses, but very few have goals for their life. Listen to this podcast and find out why it is more important to have the latter.

A couple years ago, I had a meeting where a contractor came in and he came in with his pants around his ankles because of a series of events that he really had no control over and could not reasonably have been expected to fully anticipate. He was in a cashflow crisis and he didn't know what to do... Find out how we were able to help him get his pants buckled firmly back on his waist!