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A Sermon for Septuagesima 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 & St. Matthew 20:1-16 by William Klock   Over and over Jesus would say to the people, “The kingdom of heaven is like…this.  And then he'd go on to tell them a story.  In today's Gospel he says, “It's like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire labourer for his vineyard.”  Jesus draws this imagery straight from the Prophets, so he doesn't have to explain very much.  In the Prophets the vineyard owner is always the Lord.  The vineyard or the people working in it were always Israel.  So as Jesus tells his story, Matthew and John and Peter and the rest can easily imagine themselves getting up that morning, leaving their wives and children, and going to the town square in the hopes someone will have work for them.  Day labourers were pretty much at the bottom of society.  In some ways slaves were better off.  At least a slave's owner was obligated to clothe and feed him and his family.  A day labourer lived a meagre hand to mouth existence.  If there was no work, he didn't eat.  If there was work, he did it, earned just enough to buy food for his family, and got up the next morning already tired, but ready to do it all over again.  If there wasn't work, he either begged or he and his family went hungry.  So Jesus' hearers imagine themselves arriving at the town square just before sunrise with their tools in hand and are glad to see this man who offers them a denarius and sends them down the road to harvest his grapes.  A denarius was the going rate for a day's common labour.  Again, it wasn't much, but their families would eat tonight and then tomorrow it'd start all over again. The labourers had been labouring hard for a good three hours by mid-morning.  The wind changed.  Rain was coming.  Maybe tonight; definitely tomorrow.  The harvest had to come in before the rain, so the vineyard owner went back to town.  There were still plenty of men waiting to be hired for the day, so he tapped as many as he thought he needed, promised, “I'll pay you what's right,” and sent them to harvest his grapes. By noon the clouds started rolling in over the mountains.  Rain was coming sooner than expected so off he went to town again.  The sun was hot now.  Everyone could imagine themselves labouring away in the vineyard.  Maybe the day Jesus told them the story was a hot one and they could feel the heat pressing in on them.  Thank goodness they were sitting in the shade of a tree, not carrying heavy baskets of grapes out under the hot sun, kicking up dust as they shuffled under heavy loads.  But they could imagine.  They were in the story on that sweltering day.  They were certainly earning their denarius!  Even those men who started at noon would be exhausted when the day was done.  And in the backs of their minds they were thinking, “Okay…the men working so hard, they're Israel, they're us. Where is this going?” By mid-afternoon the dark rainclouds were almost on them, but there was still too much work to be done.  The man hurried back to town.  Still there were men waiting for work.  They were probably expecting to go home empty-handed, going to bed hungry.  Their children would cry.  But if they left the town square they'd miss out on even that small chance that someone might come late in the day with a job.  “Get to my vineyard and pick like the wind,” the man said, “and I'll pay you what's right.”  So off they ran, not wasting a moment.  And the work wasn't so bad now that the sky was dark and the wind was blowing. But still, an hour til quitting time, there was work to do and then the first raindrops began to fall.  The man ran back to town and rounded up the last few men left…the ones just about ready to go home empty-handed or maybe ready to beg some bread from someone.  An hour's pay was better than no pay at all, so off they went to help the others finish. And finish they did.  And here's where Jesus gets to the heart of that bit about “The kingdom of God is like…”  As the thunder began and the rain started pouring, the foreman gathered the men in the barn and pulling the foreman aside, the man said to him, “Pay them their wages, but start with those men who came last and end with the guys who have been here all day.”  Imagine being one of those men who worked only an hour, who, even if they could buy a little food, would still go to bed hungry.  Imagine their reaction as the foreman put a whole denarius in each of their hands.  Again, it wasn't much, but it was a whole day's wage.  And imagine the men who had been working since sun-up and mid-morning.  Maybe they'd heard wrong.  They looked at each other.  Some of them said, “No.  A denarius for the day.  That was the deal.  That's always the deal.”  But if he was paying these guys who'd only worked an hour a whole denarius, maybe they'd get twelve!  Or at least more than one.  But their excitement faded as the foremen went down the line and gave a denarius to everyone: to the men who had worked since mid-afternoon, to the men who'd worked since noon, to the men who'd worked since mid-morning, and even to the men who had been there all day. They grumbled.  I can just hear impetuous Peter interrupting Jesus: “What a jerk!  That's not fair!  Jesus, I think you meant to say, ‘The kingdom is not like…'”  So first the men grumbled to each other and finally one of them got worked up enough to grumble directly to the vineyard owner.  “What gives, Boss?  Those guys over there only worked an hour and you've paid them exactly the same thing that you paid us.  We've worn ourselves out working all day…and, man, it was a scorcher.  You've done us wrong!” The men were angry, but the vineyard owner responded gently.  “Friend, I've done you no wrong.  I offered to pay you a denarius for a day's work and you agreed.  That's the going rate after all.  I've given you exactly what we agreed on.  Take your pay and go home to your family.  Be happy that you can feed them tonight.  And be happy for these other men.  They can go home and feed their families tonight too.  You know what it's like to go home empty-handed.  How can you be angry that their children will eat tonight?  Don't be angry at my generosity.”  And then, no longer telling a parable, Jesus says to his disciples, “So the last will be first, and the first last.” And with that Matthew and John and Peter and all the rest of the twelve and all the people gathered scratched their heads and looked at Jesus, more than a little confused.  “The last will be first and the first will be last?”  Just four verses later we read that James and John got their mother to put in a good word for them with Jesus.  “Declare that these two sons of mine will sit, one at your right hand one at your left, in your kingdom.”  I have to wonder if this was in response to the whole thing about the last being first and the first being last.  James and John (and their mother) were worried about their place in the kingdom.  And, of course, when the others heard about this they were angry with James and John, because…of course…they all wanted to sit in those places of honour.  But that was most decidedly not what the kingdom of God is like.  Hardly anyone understood and that's because almost everyone had forgotten about grace.  James and John were afraid that one of the other disciples might do something extra special and earn greater favour from Jesus.  Imagine the jealousy they had when Peter confessed to Jesus, “You are the Messiah, the son of the living God” and Jesus said, “Blessed are you, Simon bar Jonah…on this rock I will build my church.”  Uh oh.  Just when John, who could smugly tell people that he was Jesus' best friend, just when he thought that Jesus was going to make him Pope!  They're all vying for a special place in the kingdom.  They're all worried that Jesus is going to give something special to one of the other disciples and not to them. No one…or almost no one…understood, because almost everyone had forgotten about grace.  The Jewish people, of all people, should have understood the grace of God.  They lived it every day and they had for more than a thousand years.  God's grace was exemplified by the manna in the wilderness.  It was new every morning.  There was always just enough for the day.  God even miraculously provided a little extra for those days—the sabbaths—when you couldn't go out and gather it.  But otherwise, if you tried to store it up, if you tried to take more than you needed, if you tried to outdo your neighbours, do you remember what happened to the manna?  It rotted and stank and grew worms.  Brothers and Sisters, God's grace is always just enough to meet our needs and to see us through today.  I think that's why Jesus chose to tell his parable about those poor day-labourers.  A denarius was just enough for the day.  After you fed your family there was nothing left to save.  You went back to the town square in the morning and hoped someone would hire you for another day and another denarius.  The only difference being that God's grace is not a wage that we earn.  It's not a reward for good service.  It's not a sign of special status.  It's simply life in his presence, sustained by his goodness.  And it comes not by negotiating with him.  It comes as we enter into his covenant.  You don't get more because Jesus called you early nor do you get less because he called you late.  You get enough, just because he called you.  He promises his all for us and in return we promise our all to him.  In his gracious love he has given his Son for us and made us his covenant people.  In loving gratitude we give our all to him and to his kingdom.  We believed in the first place because we saw his goodness and his faithfulness manifest in Jesus and in his death and resurrection, and we continue to believe because, every day we put out our hands and he pours his grace into them, always just what we need for today.  Always what we need to accomplish the work he has set before us. I think that, too, is a key to the parable.  The men were summoned to work in the vineyard.  So was Israel and so are we.  Think way back to the beginning.  The Lord called Abraham for a reason.  He and his children were to be light in the darkness, they were to make the Lord known to a world that had forgotten him.  Israel was to be the people who lived with the living God in her midst so that the nations would see and know him.  When she failed in that mission, the Lord gave his Son to die on the cross and to rise from the grave in order to set his people to rights and to establish a new covenant and a new people.  And so we carry on the mission.  We proclaim the good news that Jesus is Lord and we live the life of the Spirit before the eyes of the watching world and they see the faithfulness of God on full display—a faithfulness that none of the gods or kings of this age can compare with—and they come, and they believe, and the Lord pours his grace into their hands just as he has ours and the mission goes on until the earth is filled with the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.  This is what Jesus meant when he said, “Seek first the kingdom of God and all these things will be given to you.”  That wasn't a promise of wealth or of power or of a position of privilege at his right hand over and above everyone else.  Brothers and Sisters, it was a promise of his grace—like the manna in the wilderness.  Always enough for today, for life and for work and for ministry and for whatever struggles we face and always enough to share with the people around us.  Always enough to do the kingdom work he has given us to do today. And that's where our Epistle today dovetails into the Gospel.  The Gospel speaks of grace, but because we are so prone to forgetting that grace requires discipline, the lectionary today give us this passage from Paul's first letter to the church in Corinth.  Let's look at those four verses again.  1 Corinthians 9:24-27. Don't you know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize?  So run in such a way that you'll win it.  Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to gain a crown that perishes; we do it for an imperishable one.  So then, I don't run aimlessly; I don't box like someone punching the air.  No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, lest after preaching to others, I myself should end up being disqualified. If you haven't read 1 Corinthians in a while, it's helpful to recall the context.  Paul knew the people there were believers.  They'd stretched out their hands and God had poured his grace into them.  But they weren't putting that grace to work for the sake of the kingdom.  They were using their Spirit-given gifts to build themselves up rather than each other and they were abusing God's grace to justify sins that, Paul writes, even made the pagans blush.  They were not seeking first the kingdom. Brothers and Sisters, the Christian life isn't aimless.  In calling us to himself, the Lord has given us a mission and a future hope.  St. Paul likens the Christian life to running a race and boxing in a match.  Serious athletes train.  Serious athletes discipline themselves.  They get up early, they eat healthy, and they work hard.  Paul first uses the illustration of a runner in a footrace.  If he's willing to discipline himself and put in that effort for a laurel crown, how much more ought we to discipline ourselves to run this race that ends with the resurrection of the dead and new creation and life in the presence of God?  But how often do we dink around instead?  How much do we invest in things that don't ultimately matter instead of pursuing Jesus and his kingdom with everything we've got?  Paul compares this to a poorly trained boxer throwing punches at the air instead of his opponent.  Aimlessly throwing punches won't win the prize.  Instead, it'll probably end with your opponent landing a knockout punch on you.  So Paul stresses the need to discipline ourselves—especially reigning in our sinful appetites.  He even talks about being disqualified in the end because of failure.  What's that about?  If we're saved by grace, how can we fail? Think of the grand biblical narrative of God and his people.  Too often we reduce things like God's salvation and his grace to abstract theological terms, but it's important we remember their place in the big story of God and his people.  Think again of Israel, delivered from Egypt by the Lord.  I mentioned this before, but let's expand on it. The people of Israel were slaves to Pharaoh.  They cried out to the Lord and he rescued them.  And yet he didn't just strike down Pharaoh and his army and set the Israelites free to go do whatever they wanted.  “Love you guys.  I'll see you in heaven someday.  Now go have fun.”  No, Israel was his people.  He'd called and claimed this people for himself in Abraham.  In delivering Israel from Pharaoh the Lord was claiming back what was rightly his.  And so he declared to Israel: You are my firstborn son.  I will be your God and you will be my people.  He led Israel through the Red Sea and through the wilderness, met them at Mt. Sinai, and there he entered into a covenant with them.  He gave them the law.  For his part, he would be their God with all that entailed.  Their part of the covenant—their obligation—was to fulfil the calling he gave them, to be the people who lived with him in their midst and, in doing that, to be a light in the midst of the nations.  The Lord had work to do.  He's going to set his fallen creation to rights and his plan all along has been to do that work through his people.  Adam was created to be the high priest and steward of his temple, his Creation.  And when the Lord called Abraham in his grace, when he saved Abraham's children from Egypt in his grace, it was to create a holy nation, a nation of priests, a people of grace to once again be his stewards on earth—as Adam once had been.  So the law was the means by which they maintained the holiness necessary to live in the Lord's presence and to be his witnesses.  So notice that the Lord's calling of Israel and his deliverance of her from Egypt were all of grace, and yet to live as his people meant devotion and discipline.  Because they had a job to do.  God made them stewards of his grace. And as we read through the Old Testament, Israel repeatedly failed in her disciplined devotion to the Lord and to the covenant he had established with them.  As the Prophets said, it was a heart problem.  And to fix that heart problem, Jesus brought forgiveness to his people—to those who put their faith in him and became part of the renewed people of God, and he gave them God's own Spirit to fix that heart problem, to turn their hearts towards the Lord.  Brothers and Sisters, you and I are part of that new covenant community, the people who belong to God through Jesus, the people whom he has redeemed from sin's bondage that we might be bound to him and to the service of his kingdom.  Jesus does not set us free so that we can go do whatever we want, so that we can serve the Lord half-heartedly, so that we can live with divided loyalties any more than the Lord delivered Israel from Egypt so that they could worship other gods or serve foreign kings.  Through Jesus, we have been redeemed so that we can be faithful stewards of the Lord in this world, to do what we were created to do in the first place, to be the people who live with the Lord himself in our midst and in that, to be light in the darkness, to be witnesses of God's grace and goodness and love and to declare the royal summons: Jesus is Lord.  To lift the veil on God's future, on his new creation so that the people around us can have a taste of what's to come. And it's hard work.  Hard enough that Jesus has given us his own Spirit, knowing that only by his Spirit can we ever labour through the heat of the day and accomplish our task.  The world, the flesh, and the devil compete for our loyalties.  The gods and kings of the present age fight back and oppose us.  Too often we try to live with one foot in the age to come and one still in the present age.  Our loyalties are still often divided between Jesus and the gods of the present age.  And even in the Church, we often put too much of our energy into things that don't ultimately matter.  Some of us might as well be sitting on the sidelines of the race.  Others of us are like the boxer wildly throwing punches, working up a sweat, but none of them ever landing where they'll do any good.  Brothers and Sisters, we owe the Lord our all in return for the grace he has poured out on us. The season of Lent is a time for us to focus on the grace that the Lord has poured out on us in Jesus.  But these three Sunday with the funny Latin names: Septuagesima, Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima…that means seventieth, sixtieth, and fiftieth as we count down to Easter…these three Sundays of preparation remind us that grace in action must be coupled with discipline, with humility, and with love.  If we are to be faithful stewards of the Lord's grace, we first need to dedicate ourselves to the Lord's grace.  We have to know it ourselves, before we can share it with others.  Brothers and Sisters, commit yourself to the Lord.  Give him your full allegiance as King.  Get up each morning and renounce the world, the flesh, and the devil, then go out to collect the manna for today.  Steep yourselves in the means of grace that he has given.  Be disciplined in immersing yourself in his word and in prayer and do not neglect to meet together, but exhort one another to love and to good works.  And receive the Lord's invitation to his Supper.  Here at his Table he reminds us of the sacrifice he made at the cross, giving his all…even his life…for our sake, to forgive our sins and to defeat even death itself, to make his enemies his friends.  Don't decline his invitation.  Put out your hands and take the bread, open your mouth and drink the wine, God's grace poured out for you in Jesus.  Be strengthened to work in the Lord's vineyard and remember that no matter how hard the work, his grace is always enough.   Let us pray: Father, in today's Collect we acknowledge that we who ought to be justly punished for offences have been mercifully delivered by your goodness and for the glory of your name.  We pray that we never forget the reason that you have delivered us and that our priority in all things will be the glory of your name as we share your grace with others and proclaim the good news about your kingdom and about the Lord Jesus.  Teach us to be faithful steward of your grace, O Lord.  Amen.  

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1 Corinthians 9:26 Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air.

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Aimlessly walking through life only focused on what's in front of you. Spacial awareness If things are too easy to get, then why put in the effort? Spacial awareness 

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Raise your hand if you've ever said these words, “I'm broke?” We throw the word broke around almost as much as we do with my least favorite words, “I'm fine.” What does it actually mean to be broke - my guess is a little something different for us all. As our guest, Dr. Melody Wright, founder of Broke on Purpose and Kinly's Director of Financial Education says, “there's a difference between being aimlessly broke and broke on purpose.” Broke on purpose is a choice you make proactively to help you pay off debt, buy that house you've been saving for, or any other money goal that means something to you. Melody has helped thousands of people stop being Aimlessly Broke, and transform their mindset, behaviors, and practices related to money, and she's here to help you do that same thing in this thought-provoking episode. I'll let Melody show you the way. Let's start talkin'. LINKSMelody's website livebrokeonpurpose.comKinly https://bekinly.com/Melody on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/brokeonpurpose/ SPONSORSThanks to ShipStation for sponsoring the show. Go to ShipStation.com today and sign up with promo code MYMONEY for a FREE 60-day trial.Thanks to Ka'Chava for sponsoring the show. Ka'Chava is offering 10% OFF for a limited time at Kachava.com/mymoney.Thanks to Chime for sponsoring the show. Get started with Chime today. Applying for a free account takes less than 2 minutes. Get started at chime.com/mymoney.Thanks to BetterHelp for sponsoring the show. I want you to start living a happier life today. As a listener, you'll get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp by visiting our sponsor at http://www.betterhelp.com/mymoney. Thanks to Shopify for sponsoring the show. Shopify is more than a store. Connect with your customers. Drive sales. Manage your day-to-day. Go to http://www.shopify.com/mymoney for a FREE fourteen-day trial and get full access to Shopify's entire suite of features.LEAVE US A REVIEWLeave us an honest rating and review, pretty please. Head to the podcast player you're listening to this episode in to leave us a review or you can click here to leave a review for Everyone's Talkin' Money podcast on Apple Podcasts. Love this episode. Share it with a few friends so they can learn these valuable money concepts as well. Be sure to FOLLOW and SUBSCRIBE to never miss an episode!GOT A QUESTION?Have a Shannah Shares question? Submit your question here https://bit.ly/shannahsharesMORE MONEY TIPSFollow Me on Instagram for more money tips and behind-the-scenes information https://www.instagram.com/shannahgameFREE GUIDES + RESOURCESDownload our FREE Top 25 Episode GuideDownload a FREE BONUS podcast episode 5 Minutes to Unlock a New Money MindsetWant to be featured on a Budget Rescue monthly podcast episode? Just head over to this short form and leave me a message. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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When it comes to our secular lives, it is pretty easy to say what the goal is and how we are achieving it. But when it comes to living out the Faith, we are often times running aimlessly. We chase other trophies. What are we doing and where are we going? In this episode you will hear John and Victor say : - If you have enough discipline & desire to buy a boat… are you also orienting that discipline & desire to prayer? - There is a veil over our eyes, thinking “I'll deal with things later”. Sometimes there is no later. - We waste so much time being unintentional. - Conversion is constant. If we think we made it, we are in a dangerous place. #CatholicPodcast #JustaGuyinthePew #Repentance #RalphMartin DOWNLOADS Get a copy of my new eBook, “12 Ways Guys Can Get Closer to Jesus”! HTTPS://JUSTAGUYINTHEPEW.COM/EBOOK NEW: Shop the store! We have a new Just a Guy in the Pew store where you can stock up on great merch HERE: HTTPS://STORE.JUSTAGUYINTHEPEW.COM/

Hello All, One thing I know for sure, repetition, repetition, repetition! Don't forget how long you have been in the mind. Aimlessly floundering in life just due to the fact that you were in your unobserved mind. Yearsssssssss Again, at this point you can see when the mind wants to take you out simply by says "AGAIN!" Use the one liner "Am I going to Master it, or is it going to Master me?" Your choice. As far as this practice is concerned, Just keep noticing that you are prap-ticing! Then relax and gently and incrementally introduce this evening and morning prap-tice. Sending you all good juju. Nikki Podcasts to listen to: How to Listen Yuck and Yum - Week 1 No Make Wrong - Week 2 Don't Give Up Till The Miracle Happens The Willingness To Be Willing Audible books to listen to: Practicing The Power of Now (start with this book. Listen 1 hour a day until you've finished the book) The Power of Now (Listen 1 hour a day until finished) Transcending The Ego (Listen 1 hour a day until finished) Signs (Listen 1 hour a day until finished)

OMFG EPISODE 100? GOOD BYE. I didn't even know until I was uploading this episode on my publisher ... UGHHH LETS GOOO! Here's to episode 100 my love!! Stop scrolling your phone. You know ... one second you're laughing at a funny tiktok, then crying, and then you see someone with your dream home and they lowkey are roughly the same if not THE SAME age as you and now you're feeling ... bamboozled. The constant comparison game is NO JOKE when you have no boundaries around how you choose to scroll on your phone. And i'm here to grab you by the shoulders and SHAKE YOU and remind you that life is beyond the screen of your phone. Hit play and hear what the tea is all about. Lets get it :P Instagram!

Join us as Pastor Tommy continues our study on 1 Corinthians and who we are as a church and who & what the Vineyard is. Find us on Facebook and Instagram at Seacoast Vineyard. Visit our website seacoastvineyard.com And download the ChurchCenter app to stay connected with the goings on of the church.

Aimlessly marketing your coaching business without the intention of standing out can you cost you… And I don't know about you, but who has time for unnecessary frustrations?!? Your ideal clients are waiting for you to wow them with authentic, empathetic, and compelling brand messaging. That's just one reason why I'm chatting all about this in the latest episode of The Storytelling Meets Branding Podcast. So, grab a notebook, coffee (or tea), and soak up some gems to amplify your brand. By the way, let's connect! Connect with me on Instagram: @chayilmediapublishing Click here to connect with me on LinkedIn. You can also visit Chayil Media Publishing's website at chayilmediapublishing.com. Do you have a topic request for a podcast episode? Email info@chayilmediapublishing.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chayilmediapublishing/message

Today on The Egg Whisperer Show podcast I'm excited to have Jon Waldman as my guest. He is a Winnipeg-based writer talking to us about his recent book, Swimming Aimlessly: One Man's Journey through Infertility and What We Can All Learn from It. In 2009, Jon and his wife embarked on a six-year journey through infertility, which concluded in 2015 with the birth of their daughter. Jon is joining me to talk about his journey, and how infertility impacts men. I'm deeply grateful that he is sharing his story with the world, because we don't always hear about the impact that infertility has on men from an emotional and psychological standpoint. Infertility is so difficult for everyone involved, and Jon shares his story with authenticity, humor, and love. Read the full show notes on Dr. Aimee's website Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips! Join Egg Whisperer School Checkout the podcast Subscribe to the newsletter to get updates Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is one of America's most well known fertility doctors. Her success rate at baby-making is what gives future parents hope when all hope is lost. She pioneered the TUSHY Method and BALLS Method to decrease your time to pregnancy. Learn more about the TUSHY Method and find a wealth of fertility resources at www.draimee.org.

Start overcoming overwhelm TODAY and join the waitlist for the Leadership On The Rocks: The Survival Guide Course, CONTACT US: Visit our website at https://www.leadershipontherocks.com/ Follow us online at: Facebook: Leadership on the Rocks Instagram: @leadership_onthe_rocks Linked In: Bethany Rees Twitter: @Leadontherocks Email us at contact@bressentialservices.com Summary: People are born with an innate desire to be on a mission and to fulfill a purpose that is bigger than themselves. Organizations were started to solve a problem, champion a cause, and serve their stakeholders. But the problem is that people and organizations alike have forgotten the reason they exist…they have forgotten their purpose, their reason to face the day. And because they have lost their purpose, they have also lost their vision for where their life and business is going. Purpose becomes our mission and vision for our lives and businesses. It is our compass and without it people and organizations wander aimlessly. Application: Go back to Essential Rock #1- Identity - Without knowing who you are, what you believe, and what you value…you have no foundation on which to build your purpose. Know what your gifts are and what you bring to the table. Everyone individual has different gifts just like every organization provides goods and services in different ways. Define what you value and what you are good at. Dream again! What vision do you have for the future and how can your gift help that vision come to fruition? In your personal life, keep talking about the person you want to be and keep taking steps of progress towards that person. In business, you are out to change the world by offering products or services that are going to solve your customers problems and make their lives better Protect and defend! Whether it's your time, your attention, your heart, or your wallet…something or someone is always out to rob you of it. Be intentional in turning away from things that will rob you of the direction you want to go. Don't fail. Be intentional today in building your life and leadership on the essential rock of purpose and go from Go from wandering aimlessly to taking steps intentionally From looking for greener pastures to growing where planted From feeling useless to knowing we are making a difference in the lives of others. From falling apart at challenges, obstacles, or change of plans to overcoming them no matter the external pressures upon us. References: "Quote by John C. Maxwell: Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan." DiscoverQuotes.com, 2021. June 2022. https://discoverquotes.com/john-c-maxwell/quote192512/ Follow Me: Timeless Leadership Lessons. YouVersion Bible Study from www.walkthisway.world The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

The scene at the White House on Tuesday pretty much summed up the state of Joe Biden's presidency. I chat with Brian Kilmeade in episode #227 of The ANEZ SEZ podcast...

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This part two of our conversation with Jenna Daykin (Owner of In the Details Darling) In this episode we talk about self care for busy business owners and hear Jenna's personal story with finding balance in her business and personal life.

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Special guest Adam Fortais (@AdamFortais) joins Andrew and I to discuss the overwhelming freedom to explore in No Man's Sky. We chat about similar open-galaxy games, and what we liked and disliked about them. We also meander into the topic of why we're hesitant to play online multiplayer games, and what people get out of playing simulator-type games. Fun fact, Adam says it's possible to launch your spaceship into space using a large enough rubber band! Music by Bret Eagleston (@breadeagles, breteagleston.bandcamp.com), Podcast art by Lara LeBlanc. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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In the intro of each episode, Courtney Hopper and Dana Kadwell say they "wake up and hustle every day."  That's the life of the entrepreneur - hustling to make that sale, hustling to hire that next employee, hustling to be respected in your industry...But do we know why we're hustling so hard?  Do we even have a why, or are we shooting aimlessly and hoping to hit something?If you haven't listened to the conversation with Substantial Magazine's Greg Hedgepeth, it's the episode before this one, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast app.Hustle and Gather is hosted by Courtney Hopper and Dana Kadwell, and is produced by Earfluence.  Courtney and Dana's hustles include C&D Events, Hustle and Gather, and The Bradford Wedding Venue.

Aimlessly drifting through life was the pattern until I discovered someone who made my decisions matter.

UC Berkeley Biochemistry major Laurent Hsia shares his struggles with feeling 瞎忙 while taking on many interests, finding meaning within the individual steps of a larger process, and his views on education. Time Stamps 1:23 Deciding to Come Back to Taiwan 4:25 Pros and Cons of Being in Taiwan 7:30 Motivation: Internal and External Pressure 9:51 瞎忙 12:00 Genetic Engineering Lab Internship 14:15 Feeling Lost in the Process 16:45 Finding Meaning in Your Passion & Appreciating the Details 19:01 Being a Biochemistry Major at Zoom University 25:01 Laurent's “Radical” View on Education 29:55 Advice for Coping with the New Normal 34:30 The Importance of Depth in Learning and in Life

George McGehrin is the President of the McGehrin Group, one of the U.S. top executive placement and recruitment firms of C-Suite executives and he's also a professional executive branding coach. In this episode you can learn from George: Why you need a broad number of clients to survive a crisis Top exec's need support just like everyone else Use your brand to find more opportunities How your Network leads to your Net Worth   Follow us and explore our social media tribe from our Website: https://leadership-hacker.com   Music: " Upbeat Party " by Scott Holmes courtesy of the Free Music Archive FMA   Full Transcript Below: Thanks to Jermaine Pinto at JRP Transcribing for being our Partner. Contact Jermaine via LinkedIn or via his site JRP Transcribing Services   Learn more from George on Follow George on LinkedIn Follow George on Twitter Website: https://www.mcgehringroup.com   ----more----   Episode Transcript. Steve Rush: Some call me Steve, dad, husband or friend. Others might call me boss, coach or mentor. Today you can call me The Leadership Hacker.   Thanks for listening in. I really appreciate it. My job as the leadership hacker is to hack into the minds, experiences, habits and learning of great leaders, C-Suite executives, authors and development experts so that I can assist you developing your understanding and awareness of leadership. I am Steve Rush and I am your host today. I am the author of Leadership Cake. I am a transformation consultant and leadership coach. I cannot wait to start sharing all things leadership with you.   Our special guest on today's show is George McGehrin. He is the founder of the McGehrin Group. He is an executive talent acquisition specialist and brand ambassador and ranked amongst top 30 most connected recruiters in the United States. Before we get a chance to speak with George, it is The Leadership Hacker News.   The Leadership Hacker News   Steve Rush: As various parts of the planet return to work and start moving towards getting back into a rhythm of productivity. Organizations still suggest that their productivity levels are down roughly 30% year on year, because of the way that we are adjusting and getting used to new things. So I'm going to share with you some top hacks around productivity to help you and your teams start moving your productivity forward.   Number one. Arrange your day in boxes of activity, so you can focus only on that box that you are in, being out of control and being far forward thinking sometimes creates anxiety, but being in control would mean you stay calm, stay focused.   Number two. Take regular productivity breaks. Our brains can really only work for about 90 minutes full on where we'll need to take some time out to recover. Make sure we get those recovery breaks on regular occasions throughout the day so that we can keep our brain focused.   Number three. If you have a to do list, don't put more than five things on it. Just focus on five things at a time. You will force to figure out what is really important to you, what the priorities are and therefore discount some of the things that really are wasting space and taking up time.   Number four. When you get to read emails, just read one email at once. When you open an email, decide what you want to do with it. To reply, delete, forward or archive it. What you can't do though, is go back to it later. It just creates anxiety and of course, it impacts on our productivity because we know that there's something haunting us for the rest of the day. Get to the habit of doing this is not easy. It takes a bit of discipline. It takes a bit of time.   Number five. Scheduling distraction time. What do I mean by that? We all know that there are going to be things that we want to look out through the day. Maybe Facebook, LinkedIn, things that are going to just curiously drive us to do stuff could even be research, right? Aimlessly browsing through Facebook and social media in and out through the date will do nothing but distract us. So plan some time in, but use that time to get really focused, so that is it for The Leadership Hacker News on this episode. If you have any insights, information or just some funny stories and you want us to listen to them, please get in touch.   Start of Podcast   Steve Rush: I am joined on today show by George McGehrin. George is the President of the McGehrin Group, which is one of the U.S. top executive placement and recruitment firms of C-Suite executives. He is also a professional and executive branding ambassador, George, welcome to The Leadership Hacker Podcast. George McGehrin: Yeah, I appreciate you having me. Thanks for having me on today. Steve Rush: Before we got into the world of executive search and C-Suite placement, how did your career take off? George McGehrin: Right, so it is a very open-ended question. Back in the day, I mean, I had sort of a normal, you know, I guess you would say you know, you go to decent schools, go to decent universities, land a job, and then do that for the next 50 years. That was what I was taught when I was younger. I worked for a bit for the BitForest, for Pricewaterhouse, as well as Elmstead Young and found myself with an opportunity in Miami. I am from originally from the New York area, New York City area. Found an opportunity in Miami, and next thing I know I was hanging out in Miami for a Consulting Company and three months into it, I literally walked into the office. It was it was a German Consulting Company and they said, hey guys. We are closing down the office, so all of you are kind of out of work. Right? And so I found myself unemployed, right? Other people have called it sort of pedigree background, but I don't, I never saw it that way, but you know, I had this very sort of strong career going and then I was unemployed and I found myself literally in the unemployment line. And I don't know if you've ever had that aha moment, right? Where you say, where you start to evaluate and just say, listen, I don't think I want to do this again. I literally in the unemployment line, I decided to start a business. I did not know what business that would be. And the game plan was, you know, and I do executive recruiting, but the game plan was just to go to a bunch of these recruiter guys, get a job, let them finance me for a little bit, and then I can start a company. And I walked into a recruiting company, I just thought I could do this easily and that was sort of it, I worked with the recruiting firm for a couple months, and then I decided to do my own thing. And next thing I know I had a recruiting firm by myself. Right, I used to say we but it was me. Steve Rush: Right. George McGehrin: So that is how I got into it. At the time, it was not executive recruiting. It was just very, there is the sort of lower level roles. I did that, built it up to about 50 people, the company and all my clients by the way, were banks and financial institutions. And, you know, and so this is from 2000-2009 and one day I got a call from literally all of my clients saying, Hey, George, you know, the world has gone.   Steve Rush: Absolutely right, yeah. George McGehrin: You know, thanks for playing, but you are not welcome anymore. And I went from 50 people back to zero. It was sort of a zero to hero back to zero story. You know, for me, I learned a lot of lessons on the way. Steve Rush: Yeah. George McGehrin: Mean, now I've got a 30 person team and, you know, I made a lot of changes in 2008-2009 that had impact us today, which has helped us quite frankly, with this whole Coronavirus thing. But that was the, you know, it's kind of a zero to hero back to zero back to hero story. If you want to call it that. If you were to paraphrase it, Steve Rush: And the work you do now is about placing top executives. Typical salaries kind of $300 or $400,000 dollars up to 5 million plus. Right? George McGehrin: Exactly. Steve Rush: Tell us a little bit, about what you are doing at the moment? George McGehrin: Exactly and a lot of these executives. I mean, they run global brands, they run global companies, and they have lots and lots of responsibility. We do retained search, which means that a lot of times a company will say, you know. We need to replace somebody confidentially and put somebody else in there. And usually it's, you know, it's sort of a, I guess in a very cliché way, they call it needle in the haystack recruiting, but that's kind of what we're doing, right? We are finding sort of that impossible person and we are getting retained by these large corporations to find talent for them. Usually they either can't find the talent themselves, or secondly, it might be too risky, right. From an internal sort of political landscape arena. So they hire firms like myself and we compete with, you know, Korn Ferry and Spencer Stuart, and that's who we compete with on a global level. So we have clients that are literally in every industry, geography, revenue stream you could think of, but we're working with people that are making from $300,000 a year to 4-5 million. It is a super interesting group. I mean, I can tell you, there is a lot of commonalities between. There is very few differences between somebody who makes half a million dollars a year and somebody who makes 6 million, which I found. Steve Rush: Yeah sure. George McGehrin: Just a very interesting group from a leadership standpoint. Steve Rush: And having had all of that experience where you pick out some of the key attributes that you observe in some of those that you placed too, but also as part of your work, George, you have become a renowned on helping people with their branding and placement of their own brand within these organizations. And you have that claim to fame that out of all of the fortune 500 companies, at least one of those executives you've really helped with their personal branding too. Right?   George McGehrin: Exactly and that was a mistake turned into a business model. And I don't know if that as ever happened to you and your side. But, you know, just from dealing with recruiting and, you know, folks at that level. They would always come to me and say, hey, George, you know, there is a board role available, or I might be open for another opportunity. Do you know somebody? That can either take care of my CV or, you know, LinkedIn or biography? And they would ask me sort of, you know, just these questions, you know. I took on one client and it snowballed into, you know, just a different beast, right? So that is more of, I guess, a B2C play if you call it that. But the interesting thing about that is some of the B2C business that we get on that. It turns into B2B, right. Because they are running. Steve Rush: Sure. George McGehrin: You know, if I'm introduced to a CEO of a large corporation, because of the relationship is formed. They then, you know, sometimes become a recruiting client for us. Which is the other part of it. A lot of these folks, I mean they feel very, you know, kind of lonely at the top. Right and they are extremely talented. But they also see the value in coaches and they see the value of getting help, you know, with outside sources. And they understand a lot of these and this is how I see this as well. They understand that maybe a coach cost, I don't know, 30, 40, $50,000 a year, you could say, right. But they understand that they have a $5 million problem, you know, or let's say they run a $90 billion dollar company in revenue, but they understand they have a bigger problem than just whatever fee they're going to pay to a coach, you know, for some advice. That's one of the common denominators I would say about some of these guys and girls on the show, yeah. Steve Rush: Got it, yeah. So with all of the leaders that you have worked with over your career, which is extensive across lots of different sectors. What are the key attributes that you observe that your clients are looking for when they are hired? George McGehrin: Number one, I guess the best word is that they are engaged. You know, and engaged is, even when they interview, or if it is a phone call or even if it is a private or just a personal conversation about. How the family is? or how the kids are. They are extremely engaged with whatever and focused on the opportunity and opportunity does not mean just job opportunity, but they are just focused on what they are doing. And I think that the reason they're able to be engaged is because they show up very well prepared. I've had situations where, you know, we're candidate walked into the organization with, you know, like a 28 page business plan of here is exactly what we'll do the first, you know, they just show up engaged. I think that is probably the number one attribute.   Number two. They treat everything as if it is their own business, even if it is not. They have so much skin in the game. It is just not a 9 to 5 gig for them. Steve Rush: Right. George McGehrin: I always ask the question. Sometimes I will say to them, you know, just in passing, you know, have you ever thought about just running your own show? Like why do this for, why not just do your own thing, you know. There is a lot of similar things going on and some of the response will be, yeah, that's my next play. Or some of the response will be, I really love running a global team and I love the fact that, you know, what I'm doing. I can make it or I can break it. You know, this 150 year old company, you know, it's like, I can either destroy them or I can make them something that they never even imagined. You know and they'd like that sort of risk. Steve Rush: There is a bit of myth, isn't there? That if you are working for an organization, you can't be entrepreneurial, but of course you can. It is just different bets, right? George McGehrin: Of course. Yeah, I would say everyone at that level is entrepreneurial and there is not really one person that isn't. They are all entrepreneurial, right. And you are dealing with very similar people. Steve Rush: Right. George McGehrin: Right, in terms of some of the clients you are dealing with, I mean, would you agree. I mean, do you think there is a better word than the word engaged? I mean, has that been your experience with some of these folks as well? Steve Rush: Yeah, absolutely. If lack of engagement from the very get go, means that you are never going to find that if you haven't got it to start with. Right? George McGehrin: Exactly. Well, the other thing too is, and I don't know if you've, what I've noticed is the higher you go up in the chain, the more detailed questions you can ask and they really know their business. Steve Rush: Yeah. George McGehrin: And I think the ones that are sort of, you know, working on it, and there is a book on this, right? The E-Myth Revisited, but the ones that are really working on the business and not in the business, you know, they have a great hold of how to run a strong operation, right. They also understand the value of people. Steve Rush: Yeah. George McGehrin: They talk about people, processes. There people, skills are amazing and I was speaking to somebody last week. This individual, he runs a company, they do about $50 billion in revenue, right. Obviously super busy and I was on the phone with them for about 25 minutes, even on the phone, you know, he made me feel like I was the only person in the world, right. When obviously he has other, things going on and I think they have that special leadership glow. Right. Steve Rush: That connection isn't it? George McGehrin: Totally, totally. And I've met some, you know, I've seen some of these world leaders speak, you know, live in person and they had that spark to them. And I think that's one of the things that a lot of the leaders that I deal with, they have this amazing innate spark and an energy that they make you feel like you're the only person really that matters in the world, at least for that 25 minutes and I think it's a special skill. Steve Rush: It is for sure it is and brand is also a skill, and often people don't perceive that actually building your brand comes with a set of skills. What would be your experience as to what brand means for you and for your clients? George McGehrin: Brands can be use in different ways. Right? So as a leader, you can use brand from a personal standpoint to find more opportunities for yourself. You can use it and this is a way that a lot of leaders use it. Brand also is a great talent acquisition tool, right? Where people want to work for interesting people, right. I mean, it's very rudimentary basic sort of way to say it, but by having a strong brand presence. You are also able to attract way better talent than somebody that just has a very, you know, just a kind of, I don't know if the word boring is correct. Steve Rush: Yeah George McGehrin: But the ones that do a better story and sort of that frame their story better and market, their own personal story, as well as the company story in a better light. They just in general. They just attract better talent, so that is another piece of it as well, that some folks don't think about it. They think about brand just in terms of how they can, you know, more job opportunities, but partners and vendors and new deals, and there is all these other facets of why brand matters. At the executive level, you know, they are constantly selling the vision of their company. The culture of their company, sometimes the, you know, the good and the bad of their company. So the brand piece is extremely, extremely important. And this is a change that I have seen in the last 10 years. I would say, thanks to like LinkedIn, but you know, 15-20 years ago. I would never have a conversation with an executive about, hey, George, let's talk about brand or let's talk about my image, or let's talk about, let's talk about some of the bad news, right? There is, you know, the reputation piece of it. And now it's a common conversation I have with people about just the storyline and how they'd like to be perceived. You know, when you and I are talking from different parts of the world. Steve Rush: Yeah.   George McGehrin: And the market is just a global market, you have to be aware and have to control some of that elevator pitch. And I'm not talking about embellishing the story, but you need to be able to be aware that somebody from, you know, I don't know. If you are in the state, somebody from England might be checking out your LinkedIn profile, right. You might be doing business in Africa through a client that you met in Australia, right. It is just much smaller market globally. Steve Rush: I like the principle of the story being the brand, because actually that is how it arrived in the first place. If we go back to when we lived in cave 50,000 years ago. The brand then was just about the emotional connection and the ability for me to tell stories and to hold court and to create that persona. And I guess that's just morphed to the world that we're in now, the corporate world that we're in now, right? George McGehrin: A hundred percent. I mean, I was on a webinar yesterday. It was not a webinar. It was one of these, I guess, these Facebook live events. And they were interviewing me and I didn't say this, but the host did. I just thought it was an interesting, but they said, you know, perception is reality, right. And to some extent, that is correct. I think at the executive level, though, you have to obviously back it up with proof, you know, the proof is in the pudding, but people will only know about you, what you tell them. Right. Especially with all the access to information and all of the noise that goes on and all the, you know, I mean, it is unbelievable in terms of news stories, right? Like if something happens in Indonesia, you and I will find out about it within about two minutes of it happening, right? Now you know 60 years ago would have been, let's say 30 years ago, it would have been in the next day, right. 30-40 years ago in the paper, maybe, but people have so much more access to information and there is this sense of being an obscurity. Being able to build your brand, takes you out of obscurity in some sense or another. Steve Rush: It does, doesn't it? And also I think perception is reality to a point and because we are connected across the world and we've got lots of different mediums. We can validate that much quicker too, can't we? So if I think I'm right about this individual, I might double check that and I might look at LinkedIn, I might look at their social media profile. I might read some articles to get verify and validate whether or not the emotional connection I am feeling is the right one. George McGehrin: Exactly, they call that I think social proof, right? and I have, you know, on the branding side, sometimes I'll get referred to people and they, you know, when we start talking about pricing and everything else, you know, obviously they'd like, sometimes they'd like to do their due diligence, right? You know, what do they do? They go on and I think you have had the same experience, right? They will go online and they will just Google me, right? To see what I am about. You know, some people don't pass the Google test, right? And some people do. So you have to be conscious of that now, as well. I mean even this podcast, for example, that you know, that you and I are on later on, if we Googled each other's names, I mean, we'll show up on Google, right? as part of a, you know, it will show up as a link. Steve Rush: That is right. George McGehrin: So you have to be conscious of that. You know, I guess, I don't know if it's a play, but I think you have to be conscious of the things that you do. And also the things that you don't do. I mean, you have to be careful of what you say, and don't say sometimes it will get out very, very quickly. And sometimes in the wrong way, by the way as a service and we were thinking about this, just because people are asking for it. They are asking now, executives are saying, hey, George, you know, how do I repair some of my reputation, right? Because sometimes, I mean, you know, but like a 25-30 year career, somethings, you have employees that were not happy. Things happen, maybe negative news, right. With the company, as and ask, you know, we are thinking about offering as a service rep. It is almost like a reputation prepare, you know, for executives. Because it is like I said before, a lot of these folks have a half a million of, you know, $4 to $5 million dollar problem, you know, one ding and when you're looking people up is a problem, right? I think you and I are sort of old enough. To realize you also have to deal with the person and see what your take is. Steve Rush: Sure, yeah. George McGehrin: You know, because sometimes people get, you know, what is out there. It is not always true. Right? Steve Rush: Yeah, absolutely right. That is very true, and also people do screw up with good intention too, don't they? And as long as we've used that as a learn in our life, and that's been a positive experience for us, then we shouldn't necessarily come with that worldview that because something's gone wrong in the past, it means it'll go wrong in the future either. George McGehrin: Well, I think that is the only way to learn, right? and you know, just to give you my story. So we've got 30 people, the recruiting is an eight figure business. The branding piece is a seven-figure business. That is right, on those fronts, but you know, I think everybody has those. When I had to let go of the 50 people in 2009 you know, I also lost three houses as well, right. Everybody that has done, you know, if you have done it even remotely well, I am sure you have. I used to feel like it was a skeleton in the closet, but I feel like it was a learning, you know, you learn how to deal with things. And everybody has that story, that is what I've noticed, right? The ones that take risk.   Steve Rush: Demonstration an element of resilience that bounce back ability or whatever it was called. George McGehrin: Yeah, you also learned to suck up your ego, right. Your ego is you have to learn how to, but everybody has that in their background. I think the ones that have taken risk and you could see it as two ways. Right. You could see it as, okay, the guy failed, or you could see it, the guy failed, but he got up and he did it again. Yeah, but it is just social media and the brand, and all of this comes into play. Also for candidates and this is just, you know, for people that have kids out there who are in university. You have to be careful of your kid's brands, your children and sort of their brand as well on Facebook and Instagram and everything else. Because employers, you know, look at this and they look to see, you know kind of what they are up to before they hire somebody. It is also important for somebody who is younger. Maybe this show, it does not matter to them but if you are in your fifties and let's say, and you've got some kids that are finishing University. Their next employer, 110%, I know for a fact. They will be looking them up in Facebook and Instagram and see what they are up to, right. Before they even make a decision. Before they even interviewed them by the way. Not even just to see if they. They will look at the CV. Look at the LinkedIn profile. Steve Rush: Of course, yeah. George McGehrin: But then they'll look at the other social media, you know, obviously Tik Tok and other things that are showing up now, you know, you have to be very careful as a younger person as well. And I see this as a mistake, a lot of the younger people are not being careful because I just think there's a sense of immaturity. They don't realize that in 30 years from now, you know, they're going to, all these things will pop up and their kids will probably ask them certain questions about them. Steve Rush: And I wonder if you notice whether or not employers are looking at parents, siblings, the social connectivity, does that feature now, as part of, you know, who you connected with, does that play out at all? George McGehrin: I would say directly, no. I would say indirectly you see kind of who is in someone's circle. We were referred to hire somebody on our team for an inside sales role. And it was a referral and, you know, from a Facebook group, that's one of my team members was on. So then you can see who, you know, you can see the profile, you could see who they are connected to and some of the comments and to be fair, I think it gave the wrong impression of the person, right? Because you can kind of see the circle of people that they hang in, right? I don't think it's a tool that people directly look for yet, but indirectly, you know, I'm sure it plays a little bit, I mean, it did for us, at least, even for a basic inside sales role,   Steve Rush: It's part of that social proofing, isn't it? It is part of that validation. George McGehrin: And maybe that goes back to a larger theme about sort of classism and right, and judgments of people before you even know them. Steve Rush: Sure. George McGehrin: And where people come from. I have a friend of mine; by the way, this is interesting. He is a multimillionaire, right. He grew up literally with nothing and he literally, you know, he moved out of the, he grew up in this very poor area. He literally, you know, he has business relationships. He does very well, but all of his friends, like his inner circle. They are all his buddies from where he grew up and he refuses, refuses. I was invited to a baptism from a friend of a friend and he just refuses to even justify, you know, like he hasn't changed. His inner circle is the same as when he grew up. I tell him sometimes, you know, I don't know who is right or wrong, right? Like maybe, he's got it right. But he's able to be himself sometimes, but I'm sure, you know, I'm sure. He has probably lost business opportunities because of sometime the people he is hanging out with. Steve Rush: Yeah George McGehrin: And they are nice people, just people make these judgements about others without knowing much about them. He is like the typical rags to riches story, just happen to keep the friends, you know, he didn't get rid of their friends. Steve Rush: I was out in San Francisco doing some business a few years back and bumped into a venture capitalist and we are having a coffee. And the one thing that resonated with me that kind of stuck with me from that point on was your Networth is equal to your Net work. George McGehrin: Right. Steve Rush: So if you've got a broader Network, it's diverse and it can help support your growth of your business, that's more like to help you succeed and conversely, of course, if it's very narrow and very short. George McGehrin: Well, it is also the mind-set, right. It is the mind-set of who you hang out with sometimes and sometimes the mind-set. I mean, I find that as well. I mean every client that we have now in recruiting, it's based on relationship, it wasn't because I, or somebody on my team sent the best, you know, sort of best email ever, you know, or it was the best, you know, it was the best call. It is mostly because of relationships, right. By the way, for some of your listeners that have, you know, businesses, there is a model. I mean, I call it the pay to play model. Where you can join some of these, some of these exclusive clubs or you can go to some exclusive restaurants or you can, you know, even politically, there is that pay to play model. And that's what people are doing, right? They are paying for access to make sure that their Networth is connected to their Net Work, right. I think that is what people do. I have a coach that I work with, and that was one of the recommendations, he had made. Is like, listen, you got to a certain level, maybe you now move to the pay to play model. Steve Rush: Really interesting. George McGehrin: Instead of, you know, you can get pretty much your whole core audience, right. In one room, you know, through a $3,000 dollar dinner, you know, maybe like in, you know, for some sort of appreciation, right. You have everybody there rather than spending 15 years to try to make that network up, right. Steve Rush: It then can seem quite cost effective marketing in many respects, cant it. George McGehrin: Of course, you are totally right. I see that a lot, right? Your Network is your, is your Net Worth. It is fairly true, I think to digress on that though, a little bit is. You have to give to people, and this is a networking tip, but you have to give to people, you know, give, give, give before you take. And I think the ones that play that, you know, the me, me, me, me game, it doesn't really work out well for them later on. Steve Rush: No, trust either. Right? No trust. George McGehrin: I mean you have had that call, right? Steve Rush: Sure. George McGehrin: Where it is just, you know, you go at a dinner party and it's, you know, it's, but the ones that give. There is a book written, I think, in the twenties, 1920, so it is called Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. This gentleman, for 25 years of his life, literally all he did was interview extremely famous people, wealthy people, successful people, and he created this book for sort of common denominators and that's all he did. His life passion, his life mission was to interview these people. He talked about all those secrets to some of these folks success and one of the pieces was the law of, I think I might be paraphrasing it wrong, but it is Reciprocity, right? Steve Rush: The Law of Reciprocity, yeah for sure. George McGehrin: Where I give you five or six people, right. Eventually, you know, things come full circle. You start throwing things my way and being genuine about it. You can brand yourself as well as you want, but you also need to be, in terms of networking. You need to be conscious of that rule. It is a great book, by the way. He also talks about; you have seen all these masterminds pop up in the last 5-10 years. I mean, you have seen that everywhere. Right? Steve Rush: Yeah. George McGehrin: So the original idea for, I guess, concept actually comes from that book. I think it is the number one, the most sold book ever, you know, business, self-help book ever. I don't know if there's another book that's sold more copies than that book. So it's a terrific book, so Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill written in like 1920s, but there's so many things that are relevant to today. Steve Rush: Still holds true! George McGehrin: Oh yeah. It is a terrific book Steve Rush: Thinking about then having created my brand, I have been really thoughtful about the stories I'm going to tell. And I'm now to take me to market, how do I do that without appearing needy, without appearing I'm selling or overselling myself? George McGehrin: Well, I think the first thing, and this sounds pretty basic, right, but I think you need to think about what is your end game and what kind of client is your end game and who you're selling to. I think that is the first piece, right? I mean, in our case we target executives. So our messaging is a little different than if I were to targeting, I don't know, 18 year old kids, right. Or 17 year old kids, so I think the first piece is you need to figure out who your audience is right before you even start. The second thing is. I see this problem a lot, right. So somebody will start, you know, they will start a YouTube channel and a LinkedIn page and this page and that page, and then they don't do anything. You know, they work it hard for about three weeks and then they leave it alone. I think the second piece is consistency in terms of the brand. So I think you need to constantly, you need to be out there and active and that is a way not to screw it up. The third thing is I highly recommend this. I mean, you need to fish where the fish are. You might be able to sell your brand better in a Facebook group. Right. You might be able to sell it better in a LinkedIn group. You need to fish where the fish are and where the correct fish are. So make sure you do, you know, do your research to figure out where your audience is hanging out. I would probably dig in with one platform and just be the subject matter expert without taking, just give advice, advice, advice, advice. I mean there is technique where they will go in and they will answer a question, right. About something, and then they will say. How do I know the answer to this? I know this answer because I run a successful executive branding company. That is why I am able to give you some great advice. There is no sales thing. You know, like if you need advice, call me. You are just a very subtle PS. I am giving you this advice because this is what I do for a living, and that is a great way. Steve Rush: I call it brand gifts. In other words, I am going to give you a gift of information and I am expecting nothing back in return. So I saw this, it is yours. Here is my gift of information of insight and it strikes them as thought leadership, doesn't it?   George McGehrin: A hundred percent, but you need to make sure that you are giving the advice to the right people, right? Like you're not, if you're a vegetarian, you know, giving, you know, you're not, if you're, you know, if you're, let's say you're a meat eater, you are going to make sure that you're in the right group, right? And maybe the advice is spot on, right? What you and I are talking about right now for a 17 year old is probably, they are 17 going on 34, right? You have to make sure the audience is correct as well with your brand. That is the one thing. I think one of the big mistakes is people. They sell this brand. Like they are going to conquer the 7 billion people in the world. And I don't know if you need to conquer 7 billion. Conquer the 300 people that might buy your product later on. Steve Rush: So, this part of the show George. I am going to ask you to turn the lens a little inward now and learn from your leadership because whilst you have been an ambassador and advisor and a coach to some of the top U.S. execs. What would be your top leadership hacks that you would share with our listeners? George McGehrin: And this is what I do and this is what other folks sort of very well paid executives do. I would say they are experts at delegation. I mean, just without facts, just they are just experts at delegation, right? So I think the first thing is, you know, figure out what you make hourly. If you really, if you want to think about it, you can divide it by 2080 hours of work hours in a year. Let's say like to make a million dollars a year, that's $500 an hour, roughly. Be conscious of that task. You know, of even basic thing like email, right. You know, one hour of email for you would cost about $500. You could probably find somebody cheaper for 20 or $30 an hour, right. They delegate, but with a purpose, they know exactly what their hourly rate. They know what their costs are, right. They know what their hourly rate is. The second thing I would say is. I am a big fan of the 80/20 rule. I mean, focus on two or three things that you are great at, and then the rest, let somebody else do it. That is the second thing, you know, and if you get caught in doing things that you're not great at, then don't do it. That drives revenue unbelievably well. And the third thing is, I think you just need to let go, like you need to not micromanage your team. Like your team develop their own skillset, let your team develop their own habits. You will find eventually that they can do the task much better than you can. I was joking. I was on a call a couple days ago and I had to log into a website. I did not know the password to my own Gmail account. Right. You know, we use we used Google Business Apps for the business. But this is account, I didn't know my own Gmail password because my team manages my email, right? So I don't do email, but you need to let go and let other people do some of these administrative tasks. I think that is the number one thing I see for entrepreneurs and leaders. The ones that are like in the weeds, it just does not farewell for them later on.   Steve Rush: Super great advice. Thanks, George. This part of the show we affectionately call it Hack to Attack. And it's where we are able to explore with our guests on the show. Times where they may have screwed up, things have not gone well, but they have used that as a learning experience. Now you have intimated a couple of those already on the show today, but what will be your Hack to Attack? George McGehrin: Right, things I messed up on, I mean, number one, and I learned this the hard way, you know, 2000-2009 cash flow king, right? If you have none, you have to make sure they have some sort of reserves. You know, so cash flow is king. The other mistake that I have made constantly, you heard this before. Be very slow to hire people, but you know, fast to fire. I think, you know, the hiring process, you need to take your time and do your due diligence and make sure you get the right person because it is a disaster when they don't work out well. Right. My team retention rate, I mean, I have not had somebody leaving and literally, it must be like six years now. And we haven't had anyone to go. It just because we took our time to hire people, right. That was the number two mistake that I made over and over. I mean, I must have made that mistake a hundred times, right. Hiring the wrong people very quickly because I like the guy or the girl, or I just thought they were cool and they were energetic and they just didn't have the skillset. And the third thing is to have diversity in your clientele, right. So just don't get sucked into like I did, with the Banks, or don't get sucked into one type of, you know, you needed to have a different type of portfolio so that. Steve Rush: Yeah. George McGehrin: If one industry, you know, sort of hits the fan, you've got another industry to fall upon from a revenue stream standpoint. Those are the three things, so the cash flow, be careful to hire too quickly and then number three is diversity in your portfolio and your client portfolio, right? So just, don't have one type of industry. All of these three things literally cost me two years of my life. Right, because it took me two years to rebuild, right? Just disasters, problems I don't have now, but problems I had because I didn't have that advice. Steve Rush: Big lessons. Well learn as well. George McGehrin: Oh yeah. Steve Rush: Final thing we want to do with you George is just explore a little bit of time travel. And I'm going to ask you to pump into Georgia 21. What would be the advice that you would give him?   George McGehrin: I mean, at 21, my stupidity was greater than my intelligence. I would say, you know, maybe be wiser to the people that were giving you great advice and listen to them a little more and understand that they have been around for, you know, 40, 50, 60, 70 years. So I would say, listen to some of the older advice. Number two, especially as a businessperson and even if your work for a company. Focus on process improvement and focus on to some extent automation, right. Where everything today is really a big math problem and most of it comes down to process improvement, right. And continuous improvement and if you can slowly improve something, you know, 1%, 1%, 1% then later on you. The third thing I would say would be to make sure that you take. I probably take more risk. You know, I mean, I think I was a little too safe with some of the things I had done. I would have thought a lot bigger, you know, like, you know, for me thinking big was I'm going to make 200 grand next year, right. And then I made 200 grand. I was like, okay, I am going to make 300 grand and I am going to make 500 grand. You know, I never thought of; let me make a hundred million dollars. You know. I mean, let me make 300 million. And I think if you're an entrepreneur, you need to think bigger and I would do that all over again and you know, if I could, I think bigger, Steve Rush: That is great advice, and I am sure those people listening can resonate with that too. Final thing I want to spin through with you is that firstly, it has been super chatting with you, George. It has been really fascinating. You have a super handle on branding and placement and it goes without saying that, you know, in order to get into the space of competing at the top U.S. executive search firms, you get a lot of this right. If people want it to connect with you from today, whether they be future clients or indeed people just interested in the work that you do, how can they best do that? George McGehrin: Right. So they can, so there is two ways. So first way is just to send a basic email, right? They can email us. It is George, G-E-O-R-G-E at, and then my surname, right. McGehrin, M-C-G-E-H-R-I-N, group.com. That is the first way. The second way is my LinkedIn is literally as 30,000 connections on it. It is maxed on LinkedIn, so now we are moving things to Instagram. Instagram it's just exec_headhunter, right? So it's e-x-e-c_headhunter. And those are the two ways and they can just google me. If they could just Google me, if they spell it 75% correctly, then they will find me. Steve Rush: George, we will make sure that we put all of your contact details in our show notes, along with your email address, as long with your Instagram handle too, so that when folks are finished listening to us, they can click on them straight away and bump into you much quicker than having to search through Google. And from my perspective, I'm just delighted that we had the opportunity to meet George and thanks ever so much for appearing on our show today. I wish you every success with McGehrin Group and what, happens next.   George McGehrin: Steve I appreciate it and thanks for having me on, and then you are doing great stuff and I appreciate all that you are doing for everyone else as well, so thank you for that. Steve Rush: Thank you, George.   Closing   Steve Rush: I genuinely want to say heartfelt thanks for taking time out of your day to listen in too. We do this in the service of helping others, and spreading the word of leadership. 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Episode 012 - Don't Run Aimlessly. (Prepare for Where You Want to Go) The new year is underway. 2019 is going to happen to us. Will our experience be good? Will it be bad? It's hard to say because, honestly, most of this new year is going to be outside of your control. But I can tell you one thing with certainty. Whatever your life will look like a year from now, it will look that way because of the time you've invested in preparation. Show Notes Show notes will not be a transcript. At least not now. You'll find a few key bullet points, any scriptures references, as well as any other books or resources referenced. The new year is upon us. Whatever your life is going to look like a year from now, it will largely be that shape because of preparation you put in.Every great experience you had over the holidays, all those moments you loved best, relied on preparation from you or someone.Preparation is a spiritual practice. Not only are we setting up for what is to come, but we ourselves are changed in the process.Isaiah 40, the famous passage often taken as a messianic prophecy is really an instruction to prepare (Isaiah 40:1-5). Valleys need to be lifted up. That's filling in the low places.Mountains and hills need to be leveled. That's getting obstacles out of the way.This prepares the way for the "glory of the Lord" to be revealed.In your life, what valleys need to be lifted up? What hills need to be leveled? What obstacles are keeping you from experiencing God's presence and glory in your life? John the Baptist preached to prepare people to experience Jesus. His message came with three ways people could prepare: Repent - Simply put, this means take responsibility for your choices and actions. Admit when you've blown it. Acknowledge the dark stuff in your heart.Be Baptized - Baptism, both in the Jewish and Christian tradition, is a marker of inclusion in the community. In the Jewish tradition, it was about turning away from those things that make you impure and would keep you out of the community. In the Christian tradition, it was about dying to the old life, and being raised to the new life which takes place in a new community. Life change happens best in a community committed to growth.Bear Fruit in Keeping with Repentance - Our lives bear fruit automatically. Fruit is the natural result of our intention, motivation and choices. Warning: the life you have now is the fruit of your intentions, motivations and choices from the past. Good new: your life in the future is the fruit of the choices you are making now. You can prepare for growth by applying these three instructions to your own life:Take responsibility for your choices and actions. Don't blame others. Don't play the victim card.Become a committed member of a positive community that is focused on life change.Practice making choices in keeping with the new life you are moving towards. This will bear fruit. Don't Run Aimlessly. Paul compares our spiritual life to running a race. (Ist Cor. 9)His best advice for us: "I do not run like one who runs aimlessly."Know where you want to head, and then begin practicing life in that direction. A Contest? A Give-Away?To celebrate our first 3500 downloads of the podcast, I'm giving away books to the first ten people who share this podcast on Social Media. Here's how it works:Share on FACEBOOK or TWITTER.Share a link to any episode (Like this one), or to the main Podcast page index.In your post, briefly explain WHY you think this podcast is worth listening to.Tag me so I can see your post. On Twitter, I'm @Schelske. On Facebook, you can find me as MarcAlanSchelske or Schelske.The first 10 shares that I see, I'll reach out to. I'll need your physical address and I'll send you sighed copies of my two books, Discovering Your Authentic Core Values, and The Wisdom of Your Heart.If you're international and postage would make it silly to send you physical books, I'll work something else out with you!