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Steve & Mark answer listener questions on this Monday Minute show. Questions on topics covered include a new Nalgene lid option that allows you to run a drinking tube from the bottle, how to be a useful member of a new hunting camp, using a spreadsheet template to manage your gear list, when to upgrade your bow or other gear, and if flagging tape is worth packing. Resources mentioned in this episode... - Nalgene Lid: https://www.hardsidehydration.com/ - Lighter Pack: https://lighterpack.com/ - Exo Insider Newsletter: https://exomtngear.com/newsletter Share your question for the show: podcast@exomtngear.com View & Search the Podcast Archive: https://exomtngear.com/podcast

On this Monday Minute episode, Mark & Steve answer listener questions that include... - How far away can elk "wind" you? - How to find and hire a packer to get your meat out of the backcountry? - What is a good pulley system to use for processing and hanging meat on solo hunts? - Should you use a rifle sling, and if so, how do you select the best one? - Do we have any experience with Intermittent Fasting, and do we feel it is a benefit to hunting? Resources mentioned in this show... - Exo Insider: https://exomtngear.com/newsletter - The First Shot Counts (Bowhunting Practice Done Right): https://exomtngear.com/blogs/article/the-first-shot-counts - Pack-a-Pull Backcountry Pulley System: https://packapull.com/ - DIY Block and Tackle Setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSCNfts3wkE - Figure 9 Carabiners: https://amzn.to/3d7ecUj - Rifle Sling: https://amzn.to/3zDGqjj - Podcast with Nick Sabo: https://exomtngear.com/blogs/podcast/282 - Rifle Elk Hunt Recap Podcast: https://exomtngear.com/blogs/podcast/256 - Zero App for Fasting: https://www.zerofasting.com/ - Free Backcountry Nutrition Guide: https://exomtngear.com/nutrition Share your question for the show: podcast@exomtngear.com View & Search the Podcast Archive: https://exomtngear.com/podcast

Love coffee as much as I do? Find out if it's actually beneficial for you in this weeks Monday Minute 

Steve and Mark talk about events happening this summer that you don't want to miss. Why you may miss the bullseye when shooting your bow with a pack on. How to properly load your pack for pre-season summer training. The pros and cons of using the pack's meat shelf for extra gear and food storage on backpack hunts. And a potential cure for sweaty feet and blisters. Resources shared in this show: - NW Mtn Challenge: https://nwmountainchallenge.com/ - Full Draw Film Tour: https://www.fulldrawfilmtour.com/ - Foot Antiperspirant: https://amzn.to/3pSvOXx Share your question for a future Monday Minute show: podcast@exomtngear.com Search or browse all podcast episodes: https://exomtngear.com/podcast

Steve & Mark answer listener-submitted questions about the role of softshell jackets (the "minivan of hunting apparel"), how to find primers and other reloading components or ammunition in the current market, and also discuss a few follow-up questions about bow sights after last week's Monday Minute episode on the topic. The Reloading Discord: https://discord.com/invite/reloading (More info/instructions: https://www.rokslide.com/forums/threads/natchez-huge-primer-dump.200208/page-2) MAY 2021 GIVEAWAY... Enter by leaving a podcast review, sharing the show on Instagram and tagging @HuntBackcountry, or emailing us with your hunting question or topic suggestion to podcast@exomtngear.com. Any and all of those actions will earn you a chance to win a $250 gift card from Exo Mtn Gear... exomtngear.com/

We're back with a Monday Minute episode, including a bonus behind-the-scenes segment with Jake. We then dive into listener questions about tent stoves, shelter choices, bow sight setup, and more. Share your question: podcast@exomtngear.com Heather Kelly's Founder Speaker Series: https://founderspeakerseries.mykajabi.com/sales-page https://exomtngear.com/

 I'll tell you this. And the truth, probably all bullshit. Probably all bullshit because here's the truth. I've been crying all morning. I have anger in my body. And so this is for me and I'm going to bring you along on the journey. And so before I do mindful Monday there's a couple things that I want to talk about. Number one, I'm going to come clean to all of you right now. So I post on Instagram. I talk about stories.And I tend to share the pretty version because when I share with you the full version it holds me accountable. It holds me accountable and I'm afraid to be seen. I'm afraid to post pictures of me working out without a hoodie on, because I'm not where I want to be. I'm afraid to show the aftermath of the breathwork because my soul felt like it was ripped open.The truth is as I've been afraid to be an influencer again, cause I had so many bad emotions and experiences back in the day. And so parts of me feel in congruent. And so I'm cleaning that up right now. And the other part of me that keeps coming up is this perfection mindset that I have that I can't show the world unless it's perfect.I can't give you the present unless every corner is taped, the bow is on and everything's there. And what I prevent myself from doing is growing. I prevent you from being on the journey and growing and seeing the process. And I keep holding myself stuck. And so I haven't been sharing about my breath work or my journaling or my stillness practices, because I keep saying I can't share them with you yet because who am I to teach them?I can't share them because I still have so much more ground to cover. Why would I share them when I still can't figure it out? And here's what I got to those thoughts and believing those thoughts are what make those thoughts. True. George. And so here I am today. Starting every Monday, going live with you for five to 10 to 15 minutes to talk about my mindfulness practices that we can do, because here's the thing.I don't care. If you're a coach, a consultant, a service provider, you work in a company, you own your own company, or you're an employee of somebody else's company. All of our success will come down to the internal game. And when I look at a scale. Zero to a hundred and a hundred percent. I'm meditating on top of a mountain with Beck, Tibet, and monks doing fire, breathing in the cold for 12 hours.I met like 1.1%, but I actually love my 1.1% and I'm going to be sharing more of all of the practices that. I'm pursuing to be on this journey with you, because here's the thing. I don't have all the fucking answers. I don't have your answers in any coach consultant program that says they have your answers is a red flag, like candy man in a van trying to kidnap you like run as far away as possible.Nobody has your answers. All of your answers are here, who you surround yourself with are people that hold space and see you or potential. And love you in your process for you to discover what it is that you want. And then when asked or prompted, give you tools or direction to help you run your best race.That's why I have coaches and teachers. Alex Charfen is one of my best friends, Stefano Stefanos, one of my best friends. Those are two human beings that I lean on immensely to help me navigate and vice versa. And so here I am coming clean. Today has been dog poop and I love it. I was sick last week.I had what would strep working out as my physical outlet to deal with stress. We're moving again today. I think for the seventh time in a couple of months, cause we're still trying to find permanent residents in Montana. We got business. I haven't two events next week back to back my mastermind for.Three days, a one day break, then a public event, the lighthouse business accelerated for three days. So I get anxiety flows, ticket sales expectation hangover for where I set myself up to fail. It's all coming up. And the biggest practice that I have right now. And the biggest thing I'm working on that I do not have figured out, but every one of us can benefit from is learning how to look at my emotions, to look at my current state.Like it's a movie and to witness it and not be it to watch it, but not experience it. And so literally I have been practicing, I have been practicing stillness coming and sitting right here. Look. Right here and staring at it and watching, and I'll cry. I'll laugh. I'll be angry. I'll have 10 ideas that I think are the best ideas ever that I have to write down and I don't do anything.I sit with it, I sit with it and I just watch and I watch, and I practice watching because the truth is we live in a world that practices distraction. We live in a world that rewards us with distraction. You don't feel good. Social media, you don't feel good. YouTube video. You don't feel good.Dopamine. You don't feel good music, but if you actually look and listen at what you're consuming, it's you don't feel good. You don't feel good. So let's give comparison syndrome. You don't feel good. Let's listen to toxic music. You don't feel good. Let's go get invalidated in the world. Us our relationship with ourself is the one that we're stuck with.The one that we're guaranteed to have until we are no longer in this existential meat suit. And it's the one that is not practiced. So today I'm practicing it right now. And so here's my mindful Monday tip for you. Now I haven't favored ask before I do this, and I am horrible at asking about this stuff.If this resonates with you, could you please share this, send it to a friend, share it, put on your timeline, do whatever it is you gotta do. I don't even know how this shit works anymore. Just share it. I'm going to consistently show up including next Monday before my mastermind event or during, I will be showing up here because that is my commitment.So the things I need from you, I need the hearts. I need you to share it. And I need you to comment below that this is something that you want to hear. I'm reading all of your comments. Awesome view. Can't wait to see you. Me too. I resonate with this. Tell me if this is what you want and then ask me in the comments.Cause I will go read every comment. Yes. Teach me. Yes. I want to learn about that. Yes. I want to do that. Yes, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Give it to me. I fuel off your engagement. And you know what? I'm not horrible. Marshall, call me out on speaking at Marshall's event, by the way, here. That was a really shitty program for me to say it was really horrible and Opie about myself.I'm amazing at asking for help. I am amazing at asking, so here's my ask. Share this video, please. And please leave a comment, letting me know what you want to see more of. So the two things I'm going to give you today, too. I'm going to give you two things right now, and I'm going to challenge you by next Monday to practice this.Now I'm going to give you the varsity version. I'm going to give you the professional version. The one that I give my mastermind students, the one that I give my private clients. Okay. Sometime some time in the next seven days, you need to make a date with yourself. You need to go out in nature and you need to sit and you must sit for one hour, one hour, no phone, no music, no journal, no, no pad, nothing to write with.You need to sit for one hour and practice. Boredom go watch a river. Watch these mountains. You can hear the trucks. You can hear the wind. You can hear the birds. You're going to have thoughts. If I did this, I could do this. And your job is to practice watching the movie of your life. See notice when you go to the movie theater, you don't remember the entire movie, like every detail CCL for scene for scene, you watch the movie for the experience.So I'm challenging you in the next seven days to go sit for one hour. One hour and watch your movie. And when you are done watching your movie, you don't get to journal about it. You don't get to write it down, you don't get to record it. You have to leave that moment as sacred. That is a present moment that you experienced and what you need, what it programmed will be remembered when it's needed, but there's nothing you can take from that moment.You need to leave it. All in that moment for one hour, one hour, and I want you to practice it. It is a muscle that must be worked out. Every single day, it's atrophied based on the world that we live in and the things that we're surrounded with. And so you must practice it.So your challenge in the next seven days is to go sit. You can be in your house, looking out the window. You can be sitting at a fire and just staring at the fire, but you must practice one hour of boredom and watching and you can explore whatever comes up, but you have to leave it in that moment. You find yourself in a rabbit hole up here.Get back out here. Oh, I didn't do this. Nope. What's in front of you. Oh, I didn't do this. Nope. Look at the mountain. Oh, I didn't look at the water and I want you to practice it today. I'm going to practice it and I'm gonna get off this call. In one minute and I'm going to do a couple rounds of box breathing.I'm going to stare at these mountains and I'm going to breathe. I'm gonna breathe. I'm gonna breathe. I'm going to breathe. I'm going to breathe in life. I'm gonna breathe in nature. I'm going to fill my soul. I'm going to breathe out anger and sadness and depression and imposter syndrome and anxiety and not knowing and frustration.And then I'm going to take that and I'm going to go into my day. Because what's underneath all of this is that your business and your life will never succeed. When the race car driving the race car racing is poisoned. If it's not got the right fuel, if it hasn't been tuned up, if the check engine light is being ignored, it does not matter what you touch.It will not perform at its potential. You go into the office with anxiety, going to create anxious results. You go in sad. You're going to create sad results, going exhausted, not sleeping, going to create lack of sleep results. You got to take care of the race car because you will always be the common denominator to your success.Every single thing that you touch you are the common denominator. And so ask yourself, was that my best performance? Was it heart aligned, belly aligned and had aligned the answer's? Yes. Do it again. The answer's no, get that shit in alignment. Get in nature, get a breath. And so my challenge for you this week mindful Monday and the next seven days go practice boredomSit for an hour and just be a witness and send me a DM with your results. I want you to DME be like, wow, I did it. I feel amazing. Wow. This came up. Wow. I cried the whole time. Wow. I never thought about that. Amazing. And then I want you to make it a part of your practice every day. So please share this video so more people can see it.If this is helpful for you, please come back next Monday. Number two, leave me a comment and let me know what you want to see more of. I'm going to be teaching the breath work that I'm not a master. And I just use it every day. I'm gonna be teaching the journaling practices that I use. I'm going to be teaching the journey that I'm taking with you because it holds me accountable to my biggest self.

In the final Monday Minute before the 2021 Death Hike, Steve and Mark cover some final preparation for the hike, as well as answer listener questions on hunting 2-on-1 with a guide, and using spring bear hunts to scout for elk. Connect with us: podcast@exomtngear.com https://exomtngear.com/

Ms. Jade got that special Monday Minute brewing up. Jade motivation of the week is you that you don’t fail, we only learn. So, you either win or you learn.   Jade Robinson’s Challenge: Write down some things you considered failures and what did you learn from them   Connect with Jade Robinson on social media: Instagram| https://www.instagram.com/selfmadejadeb/ Twitter| https://twitter.com/selfmadejadeb Facebook| https://www.facebook.com/selfmadejadeb         Watch More → https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOewm7ai0antCcAlrxaf9pg   Sponsored By: Elevate by SJC - Elevate by SJC podcast for black men and women who strive to create change. Whether it is being an entrepreneur or advocate within their community. This platform will allow people to share their journey with the world. Now is the time to rise to next level and open your mind to new ways of thinking. Join me on the true meaning of elevation requires separation. Visit all new www.elevatebysjc.com   Listen to Elevate by SJC   Apple Podcast|https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/elevate-by-sjc/id1531060013 Spotify| https://open.spotify.com/show/2ngr9sLlfovCu6tMv6rrqT  

I have a rule and it's called the one breath rule. And I have this theory that if I can't ask you a question, explain my feelings or share my takeaways in one breath, then I don't have enough clarity yet to share them. So when you think about this through the lens of a question, if we don't have enough clarity on our question, to be able to ask it in one breathe, we get to explore deeper. If we get asked for an answer and we don't have the ability to share it in one breath, then we can spend a little bit more time getting deeper into the clarity of that answer. Now you might be thinking you're crazy. This is absolutely nuts potentially, but the secret to success is an internal game. The secret to success is an internal game, and I can only share my story. And I know for years that I avoided the internal game by always having an external answer. I would need something. And instead of thinking about it, I would go do something instead. I'd go on social media, go watch a video, go listen to a podcast. I'd go read a book all because I never spent enough time deeply exploring what it was that I was looking for to then realize a month later that I had the answer and I could have saved all that time by just exploring it and getting clear. And clarity is the secret. This is a game that's been played many times before us and will be played many times after us.So our intention and energy get directed in the wrong places for the wrong reasons and creates the wrong results. The only two inputs that you control every single day in your life is your intention. And your energy, everything happens at the, the precipice or the cost best, whatever word I'm supposed to use at the result of those two things. But for years, and I mean, six or seven years, I always had the best intention, but I was putting my energy in the wrong place because I lacked clarity.And so I instituted this rule for myself. It was called the one breath rule. If I was going to ask my team for support or hire out a consultant or solve a problem or ask for coaching, I needed to be able to clearly articulate in one breath. What it was that I was looking for. Or I had to be able to articulate that I needed coaching on getting clarity, but either way, it was still one breath, it went something like, Hey, I've been thinking I'm struggling with what to put in this five-part email fulfillment sequence to close these customers one breath. The inverse of that is I don't know what to put in these emails. So that clarifying question would be I'm looking for support and what to put in these emails and how long the sequence should be to escalate these customers into my mastermind. Either way, it's still one breath. And I have found that with myself, with my team, with my students, with my clients, and people that I utilize this with, we all have tremendous growth and tremendous breakthroughs because it forces us to look in the mirror and dive deep into the clarity required for us to be successful.My challenge for you is to implement the one-breath rule. Implement it everywhere that you can. If somebody asked you for a question, try to give them a one-breath answer, which means you're going to have restraint and you're going to pause and you're going to have clarity. You're going to be powerful, articulate, and then deliver a response. If you need help with something, you need to explore that fogginess or that ambiguity until you find the clarity to be able to articulate what it is that you're looking for in one breath. I'm going to challenge you because this will change your game. The only thing you need to succeed is clarity. And once you have clarity, you give it all your intention in all of your energy until it becomes true. And the one breath challenge is my easiest way of holding myself accountable. That I'm always working from a place of clarity or exploring it to find it before I put my intention and energy into anything.

YouTube extraordinaire Mrs. Sharatia Banks gives us this week’s Monday Minute. Procrastination, most of us are victims of this. It can come from mental illness, addiction, and a habit. If you do not be careful it can kill your dreams.   Sharatia Banks Challenge: Minimize distractions and commit to the task at hand   Connect with Sharatia Banks on social media: Instagram| https://www.instagram.com/sharatiabanks/ YouTube| https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCipeScABgqZk2Y26fk_PRsw TikTok| https://www.tiktok.com/@sharatiabanks?lang=en       Watch More → https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOewm7ai0antCcAlrxaf9pg   Sponsored By: Elevate by SJC - Elevate by SJC podcast for black men and women who strive to create change. Whether it is being an entrepreneur or advocate within their community. This platform will allow people to share their journey with the world. Now is the time to rise to next level and open your mind to new ways of thinking. Join me on the true meaning of elevation requires separation. Visit all new www.elevatebysjc.com     Listen to Elevate by SJC   Apple Podcast|https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/elevate-by-sjc/id1531060013 Spotify| https://open.spotify.com/show/2ngr9sLlfovCu6tMv6rrqT

Ms. Alyb speaks that motivation on Monday Minute…if you are struggling with family issues, father, or mother wounds, being a people pleasure and struggling with perfectionism. Heal anyway, give yourself permission to own your story   Alyb’s Challenge: Check in and give yourself permission to heal.   Connect with Alyb on social media: Instagram| https://www.instagram.com/everythingalyb/ Facebook| https://www.facebook.com/everythingalyb       Watch More → https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOewm7ai0antCcAlrxaf9pg   Sponsored By: Elevate by SJC - Elevate by SJC podcast for black men and women who strive to create change. Whether it is being an entrepreneur or advocate within their community. This platform will allow people to share their journey with the world. Now is the time to rise to next level and open your mind to new ways of thinking. Join me on the true meaning of elevation requires separation. Visit all new www.elevatebysjc.com   Want to help SJC Elevate? Donate to the Cause Cash App: $ElevateBySJC   Listen to Elevate by SJC   Apple Podcast|https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/elevate-by-sjc/id1531060013 Spotify| https://open.spotify.com/show/2ngr9sLlfovCu6tMv6rrqT      

Chatman Hill, Monday Minute consist of, when stuff is hard and you think not able to do it, just stay at it, because what you will gain is a great reward from the grind that you have put in   Chatman’s Challenge: Read 10 minutes per day – lets make it happen   Connect with Chatman Hill on social media: Instagram| https://www.instagram.com/chatmanhill_realtor/ Facebook| https://www.facebook.com/JiZzLe09     Watch More → https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOewm7ai0antCcAlrxaf9pg   Sponsored By: Elevate by SJC - Elevate by SJC podcast for black men and women who strive to create change. Whether it is being an entrepreneur or advocate within their community. This platform will allow people to share their journey with the world. Now is the time to rise to next level and open your mind to new ways of thinking. Join me on the true meaning of elevation requires separation. Visit all new www.elevatebysjc.com   Want to help SJC Elevate? Donate to the Cause Cash App: $ElevateBySJC   Listen to Elevate by SJC   Apple Podcast|https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/elevate-by-sjc/id1531060013 Spotify| https://open.spotify.com/show/2ngr9sLlfovCu6tMv6rrqT  

Anxiety is unused energy. And it's unused because you lack clarity on where to put it. I thought about it and I started to pay attention to all these times. I would have anxiety, I'd be working in my day and I would get this anxiety. And I was like, Oh, and that anxiety was energy that wanted to come out and then it would get worse and worse because I'm like, what do I do? And I would freeze and I would sit with it and I would be frozen because I didn't know what to do with it. And so I was like, where do I use it? And I was like personally, do I use to work out or in business? Where do I put it? And I started to really unpack it, sit with it and explore it from a place of noticing, like, Where it may be coming from, like, why is this coming up and where can I use it? And then finding clarity and direction to then apply that energy to, and I've started to realize in the last couple of years, that almost all of my anxiety has come from the unknown. Like I can't figure it out, but the unknown of me lacking direction and tight containers on where I put my energy every day. So I have an expectation and a feedback loop that I'm heading in the right direction. Imagine what it would feel like for somebody to be like, Hey. You're going to go be an Olympic athlete, go train. And you be like, okay, cool. But what sport? And they're like, we're not going to tell you until that day. You wouldn't know what to train for. You would have all this energy and you'd probably have anxiety because you wouldn't know where to put it. And so as an entrepreneur, as a CEO, as an owner, no matter what your position is, or even as an employee, What I have found is that once I can find a target, not a permanent target, not like where I want to be in five years, but where I want to be tomorrow, then I can take that feeling and I can get crystal clear on what it is I'm supposed to be doing, or I need to be doing. And the moment I have that clarity, I turn that anxiety and I turn it towards that target. And I utilize that energy to accomplish something.Like our job is to go to work. If we're an entrepreneur, it's to go be that entrepreneur.If we're a father, it's to go be that father, if it's a husband and to go be that husband, if it's whatever it is, it's our job to be a professional. But in that, what comes up for me is in order for me to be a professional, I have to know What my profession is, I have to know what my strengths are, and I have to know what I'm training for every single day.And in entrepreneurship, there's a lot on our plates. It could be social media, email, customer service ads, video, scripting, vision, mission planning, fulfillment, coaching. There's thousands of things that can be on our plate. But at the end of the day, we can still only do one of them at a time effectively. And so it's our job to realize when anxiety comes up or feelings of discomfort, come up. Number one is to explore it. Ask where it's coming from, ask why it might be coming up. Now, look at what surrounded the situation and the circumstance to bring it forth, and then figure out where we have a target where we need clarity, where we can find clarity, where we can refocus on what our goals are and find that, and then utilize that energy in that direction to create momentum.And no matter what you follow. What camp you're in, whether you're thinking about fitness or entrepreneurship or growth or personal development or marriage, interpersonal relationships working out or anything, the secret is movement. The secret is progress and the enemy of our growth is stagnation. And so when these moments come up, what I do for myself now, as I explore it, I gotta ask why it's coming up, where it might be coming from. And I might never find an answer I ask where I need to go in that day. What's the next hurdle that I can jump or what's the next rock that I can move. I get clear on what that is. And then I direct my energy towards that. And nine out of 10 times, my anxiety goes away. What I have really found is that to be true, that anxiety is unused energy. And so once I have clarity, I can direct that energy towards something positive, create momentum through my action, and then the results follow.

Jake takes over as host of the podcast and interviews Steve & Mark with your questions about Exo Mtn Gear. Aside from talking about the company, they also answer some fun questions that were submitted, such as their worse backcountry poop experience, who is "the big spoon" when they share a tent, and more. They ran out of time, so Jake will be back on a future Monday Minute to ask more of the fun questions you guys submitted. PS — There is a BIG surprise at the end! https://exomtngear.com/

If there's something that I could set your direction on, if there's something that I could remind you of every single day, it would be that success is how you practice. Success is how you play successes, how you give your all in any single moment. And there is no finish line. And I remember I fell in the finish line trap for so many years, and then I would hit these imaginary finish lines that got put into place. And that would have this real depression and real anxiety because my imaginary finish line didn't feel like I thought it should feel. So then I would set another imaginary finish line. And then I would start again and start again.There was this cyclical process where I never felt enough that I always had to work more. I couldn't take a day off because there was no measure. I was lacking clarity as our good dear friend, Jeff Spencer talks about who will be on the podcast soon. When we spin our wheels as champions it's normally because we're lacking clarity. And so I think one of the most important things to understand in this conversation about success is that all we need to know is where we want to go. We can't. Live on hopes and dreams and prayers and put intention on good faith and get there because there's no direction to it. There's no measure. There's no way to know if we're even heading in the right direction. And so success being a process still requires us to have clarity of where we want to go. So we want to do is we want to have clarity on where you want to go.Having clarity on what it's going to take for us to give input to allow us to create that win down the road whatever that clear goal is that we have. Success is what happens when you strive to be better every single day that's really what it looks down to. There’s three traits that I've researched. That really help keep that in focus. And they're really simple. Its humility, effort and opportunity. I learn every day that I have so much room for improvement and I'm actually falling in love with that. Then I know that every day there's always room for me to give more, to grow more, to push harder. Never forget that luck happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Focus on one of the biggest that moves the needle. When we go into businesses and we look at customer journeys is not conditioning our customers to quit, but conditioning them to complete and then escalate up a value ladder or towards something.Let’s use lead magnet as example. And so we know that there looking for something and then we get their email. And then instead of having the patience or the intention to design that customer journey to complete that what normally happens is we end up distracting them again. We want them to finish a list of tasks, , but then instead of them watching it, we immediately go sell them. And then they buy our course and then we get upset that they're not completing our course or that they're having issues with the course.But when you think about it before they even paid, they never completed what it was that was promised. They were all put in, they weren't held accountable or customer journey wasn't created. So they have a conditioned behavior that when it comes to your stuff, that they don't have to complete it. They might buy it and buy it, and then it becomes shelf help. And it has an experience on you versus if somebody comes into accomplish something in seven days and you help them accomplish it and then make them an offer at the seven day mark, they're more likely to complete. The next thing or what they buy or to implement what it is that you're teaching them or what it is that you're selling them. Because that's been the paradigm the entire time. When we relate to our customers, we are setting the context of the relationship from the moment they meet us all the way until they are gone. And if we're conditioning them over and over Hey. Leave me a comment. I'll send you this thing. And then we never follow up that they implement it, that they listened to it, that they use it even with an automated customer journey. Then the moment we have the next thing they'll get it, the next thing. But then the moment we buy something or sell something, we can't get upset that they don't buy because they're used to getting free things or that they buy. And then they come to you and say, Hey, it didn't work. Hey, it didn't work. I bought it. It didn't work. It didn't work when the entire context of the relationship was. We're not going to hold you accountable. We're not going to create this journey for you. And I've said it before, and I'll say it again. People don't buy the best product. They buy the best relationship. And when somebody pays for something, they are looking for access and accountability.But when somebody chooses to buy, when somebody chooses to use their email or their credit card to get into a relationship with you, they are also expecting you to help them implement, not do it for them, but help them implement. And so if somebody buys your product and three days before, or three days after they buy your product, like a physical product, you sell them another one and they haven't even received the first one in the mail. You're conditioning of behavior. That's going to have long tail consequences, two months, three months, four months when they have too much product to use, they never used it in the first place. And so when I say don't condition your customers to quit. You have to think about the journey that you're designing for your customers. And I think in my opinion, the worst thing that can happen in a customer journey is that we give somebody a backdoor and we know if you give somebody three options, they choose none. We know that if somebody is in the middle of an experience, if you interrupt them, they're never coming back.When somebody is in the middle of a fulfillment sequence because they bought your product or in the middle of an indoctrination sequence, you're fulfilling on your lead magnet. If you interrupt that journey and give them a back door, they're never coming back and that behavior will be repeated and repeated. So do not condition your customers to quit. Create customer journeys at every ounce of the way, and then condition your customers to complete so they can keep winning, keep progressing and keep growing with you instead of away from you. 

Another week has passed, do not let another minute pass you by without planning for your future. Tomorrow never comes because we put of the things we do not want to face. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail (I had a little hiccup when I used it during the Monday Minute). Let us have a great week and start right now do not let tomorrow past you by.   Make sure you subscribe to the link below and catch up on the latest Elevate by SJC episodes     Visit the brand new https://www.elevatebysjc.com/ for all your elevate clothing needs   #ElevationRequiresseparation #SJC #Elevate #MondayMinute   Sponsored By: Hawt Wicks and Scents. “Looking for a way to add a touch of luxury to your day? Shop Hawt Wicks and Scents for uplifting, nostalgic fragrances that are sure to please your senses! We encourage you to try and buy our scents and remember to Stay HAWT!!!   Weekly Challenge: Jot down three things that you can do, to work towards your goal. Share these challenges on Elevate by SJC Facebook and Instagram page with the hashtag #Elevate   Subscribe to the link below: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOewm7ai0antCcAlrxaf9pg     Listen to Elevate by SJC anyplace you listen to podcast:   Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/elevate-by-sjc/id1531060013   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ngr9sLlfovCu6tMv6rrqT  

Feel the rhythm feel the rhyme. I don't remember the next slide, but it's Monday minute time. I'm really, I'm really struggling with the cheese today. What are we gonna talk about today? Quick focus, quick hit Monday minute, an easy reminder that a guarantee you guarantee you is the best marketing secret that you'll ever have, that will carry you through your business for as long as you run your business and as a guaranteed way to always have your business work.And it's about talking to your customers, like you're talking to your best friend or talking to your customers, like you're texting your best friend. And I get asked all the time, like, I don't know what to say to them. What do I post? How do I respond? I'm like, how would you respond to somebody that you're in a relationship with?Because you are in a relationship with them because they've either given you their attention, their email, or their credit card in exchange for that relationship. And they want to be in a relationship with you, which means they want you to be authentic. They want you to be human. They want you to treat them like, you know them, like they are an acquaintance or they are a friend or they're somebody that isn't in a relationship with you because they are in a relationship with the Oh, but I watch people all the time not email their list. Literally not emailing their most engaged, loving customers because they say they don't know what to say. So they said nothing. And I can guarantee you in this instance, in your business, no matter what your business is, that it is always better to say somethin authentically than it is to say nothing and pretend it's going to get better.Like when was the last time your plant thrives when you didn't water it? When was the last time your relationship with your best friend blossomed when you didn't speak? When was the last time your relationship romantically worked? When you didn't engage? It doesn't, there's no point in which the relationship with your customers gets better by being neglected.And so what's the easiest path through is to treat your customers, to talk to your customers. Like they're your best friend, like your authentic, real, best friend, not the best friend that you pretend is your best friend, because you're still committed from high school and you want to save had the best friend, but you never really talked, but like the real best friend, like the real one, like talk to him like that.Like, Hey man, what's up. I've sent emails before, like, Hey, I just want to check in and say, Hey, hope you're having a good day. And we get an 80% response rate. I've sent emails before, like, listen, read this dope article. I want you to read it. I can't do a justice click here and go read it. And that's exactly what I would text my best friend.But we don't have to overcomplicate this. We don't have to overthink this. Everybody we're communicating with as a human being, unless somehow you have dogs reading your emails or, you know, your social posts. I don't know we're out here now. It's 2021. So that may be a possibility, but they're humans be in a relationship with them.How would you want to be talked to, how would you want to be engaged with right. Be transparent, be authentic. Don't have a problem taking it on the chin. I've literally forgotten to send a daily email and be like, guys, sorry. I literally completely forgot to send that email yesterday or. Forgot to put it in my calendar, or I chose not to do it, but either way I own it and move forward, but it's authentic. It's really creates trust and it's easy. And I like, I watch people with their fingers frozen on the keyboard. Like, what do I say on the social post? I'm like, well, maybe that's your body and brain telling you, you don't have to say anything or maybe trying to say something is what's keeping us stuck.Instead of saying how we feel instead of sharing authentic perspective, instead of being aligned incongurent and so we have to make this simple. Talk to your customers, talk to your potential customers, talk to your fans, your followers, just like they're your friends be in a mass relationship with them because that is what garners the best results. The best relationships always fuel the best companies. Over and over and over again.And so my focus for you, it's like if you ever stuck on what to say in an email, what would you say to your best friend, if he ever stuck on what to post? Like what would you say telling your mother, your father, your kids, like there are always solutions.And sometimes the best thing to say is, I don't know what to say. So just look at the image or. Maybe ask a question when you don't know what to say, but just do the same thing that you would. And I look at it and like, if I get to talk to my best friend every day, why wouldn't I, life is short, very, very short.I want to talk to my best friend every day and I do text my best friend every day. I want to talk to my family every day. I do talk to my family every day. I want to talk to my customers every single day, because life and business is short and every one of those touch points in every one of those talks has a positive impact on both of us.And so I treat all my customers, whether they buy from me or not just like they're my best friend and marketing, all of a sudden gets really, really easy. So that's what I wanted to cover today. And today's Monday minute. And so I want you to remember that relationships always beat algorithms

Welcome to the all-new Monday Minute by SJC. Monday Minute was something that came to mind a couple of weeks ago. How do I get my brand out there more, and have a call to action? How about every Monday, I put out a one-minute message with a weekly challenge and get more people involved in the movement. Hope you guys enjoy and this is just the beginning. Make sure you subscribe to the link below and catch up on the latest Elevate by SJC episodes   Visit the brand new https://www.elevatebysjc.com/ for all your elevate clothing needs   #ElevationRequiresseparation #SJC #Elevate #MondayMinute   Sponsored By: Hawt Wicks and Scents. “Looking for a way to add a touch of luxury to your day? Shop Hawt Wicks and Scents for uplifting, nostalgic fragrances that are sure to please your senses! We encourage you to try and buy our scents and remember to Stay HAWT!!! Weekly Challenge: Write down your destination and then write down the process it takes to get there. Share these challenges on Elevate by SJC Facebook and Instagram page with the hashtag #Elevate     Subscribe to the link below: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOewm7ai0antCcAlrxaf9pg     Listen to Elevate by SJC anyplace you listen to podcast:   Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/elevate-by-sjc/id1531060013   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ngr9sLlfovCu6tMv6rrqT  

 I always forget when I record these that I have like sound effects and sounds like this one that is like this really soothing tone, because today we're going to be talking about how impact has to come before profit, not the other way around, get you all hyped up and everything here.But I literally. Have to hit this. There's this amazing book that I think every entrepreneur, every business owner and every human should read, it's called the little book of clarity by Jamie smart. And we have to remember that profit is the result of impact and not vice versa. And so if we focus on making greater impacts and our most ideal customers' lives before and after they pay us, then the profits will follow. And I want you to think about this because I see a lot of people like I'm going to make a profit, I'm going to make a profit. That's awesome. But your profit. Should come as a by-product of helping somebody change their life for the positive, but I've watched people sacrifice their client's results in exchange for a profit.When was the last time you as a customer paid for something and didn't achieve the result or didn't have an ideal experience and then gave that company more money or positively marketed that company. Chances are zero, but then if you inverse that question, you ask, when was the last time a company charged me money over-delivered helped me achieve the result. Then I paid them more money. And then I told all my friends about them. The answer to that is probably a lot more frequent than the latter. And so we have to remember that profit is a byproduct of impact. And unless you are a scammer, you're like a black hat kind of, I don't believe in this. I want to steal from people.There's no way that you can make  profit at the sacrifice of impact and make a difference and build something that's sustainable. You can just steal from people or trick people, manipulate people. And that's not what any of us want to do. We give loyalty to brands and to companies and to foods and to products and to things that make us feel good and help us achieve what we set out to achieve. And so you have to remember that the profit of your business is directly correlated to the impact you have on helping your ideal customers achieve thereafter state. And these are where value ladders were created. This is where Ascension models were created. Somebody comes in and they've spent a hundred dollars with you and you actually help them achieve what it was that was promised. And they've made it to the place where they're ready to spend a thousand. Or they bought one of your products and they got into a habit and momentum and utilizing it. And then they were willing and ready to buy four more. Their lifetime value goes from $50 to 500. They come into one of your courses.Like my email course, they build a business on the back end of it. Then they end up in the mastermind and they end up paying for consulting. But your business and the success of your business will always be built. On the backend of the business on fulfilling what we promised and helping people achieve results and deepening those relationships so that they can be our marketers for us so that they can do our diligence for us so that they can do the deed of telling other people. And they are walking billboards and walking testimonials of the team that you have built. But there is zero company and zero company that's built on morals and principles where people have not achieved what was done and that ignores the people that pay their bills. And so you have to remember that your impact make in every level is directly correlated to the profit that you make. And you have to focus on impact. You have to focus on the transformation. You have to focus on getting your customer into their after state, and then the profit will come as this. And I think it's such an important thing to remember because there is zero way to lose the game of business.When you focus on impact creating profit, not I'm going to make a profit. And then have an impact because that is not the way to do it, which is what this book talks about. And it's called toxic thinking. I'll do this when I'll be this, when I'll have this, when no, you only have right now and the decisions and the choices that you make today. And every single thing that you do are either moving your business. One step closer to the success, or one step closer to failure. And everything you do today is either moving a customer one step closer to becoming a customer or spending more as a customer or achieving their goals, a customer, or moving them one step further away from beer customer, spending more money as a customer or achieving the result.And so you need to stay focused. And I do too. And I say this to myself and my team every day. On impact. We focus on impact. We serve, we show up and we win and we're guaranteed to win a game because there are zero ways to lose a game where all you do is help people and positively change their life. And yes, you might help a customer that would have paid you, but realize they didn't need to achieve the result. And then they'll send 10 of their friends in. And that's what this game is played by. And just as a by-product, if you want a statistic, 93% of marketing is word of mouth. And what goes into that marketing is the experiences that people have with, or without our brand, our products and our marketing. So make sure you focus on impact to have a bigger impact on your profits and your doing it for the right reason.

We are so excited to announce that in 2021 (April) we will be launching a new program called the Mayfield Collective. This will be a one stop place for all of the content that Mayfield Counseling Centers has produced over the past two years, as well as a place for mental health resources, trainings, and even group curriculums that you can access for any donation amount. That's right, from now until April 2021, any amount donated to this project will give you three free months of membership to the Mayfield Collective. Just email us, Candid@mayfieldcounseling.com for more information! Also, please know that we will continue to offer free resources like the Monday Minute and The Therapist's Invitiation, the Mayfield Collective will simply have more resources available.

Top of the morning, afternoon, or evening to you in another episode of the Monday minutes. And you know what today is, today is all about how to have less and create more. I will tell you a quick story. So the time of recording this, we are moving to Montana. We are moving to Montana and I made a decision that all of 2021, my focus was going to be having less, to create more, create more space, create more connection, and create more ability for me to be.So I've been filling dumpsters and donating stuff and packing and getting things down to a couple suitcases. And I've actually had the best ever month of my life, the best relationship, the best business, the best financial, the best clarity, the best team management. And it's been true my entire life and I've avoided it, but by having less, I can create more and I'm getting back to the roots of what matters and what matters is those critical tasks that I have that I get to do every day to serve the world, recording podcasts, spending time with my kids, connecting with my team, connecting with my customers, that having an impact.And for years I have hoarded. I've hoarded to prevent myself from being present. I've hoarded physical clutter. I've ordered digital clutter and I've hoarded mental clutter for a long time. I have physical clutter in my house. So when I'm done working, there's always something to do or something to clean or something to detract me from being present. I have digital clutter, right? Emails and Dropbox folders in Google drive folders and Slack channels and documents that I never opened, but I convinced myself that I need. So I always have something to organize or something to prevent me from being. And I've had mental clutter for a lot of my life, these stories, and these programs that run thinking about the past, what's coming in the future while robbing me of the present.And the biggest gift that I've been given this year has been the ability to declutter in those three areas of my life, to declutter my physical space, to allow me more time to be, to declutter my digital space, to outsource things, to clean up my desktop, to delete files that I no longer need. And then to declutter my mental space, having a daily practice, doing breath, work journaling, getting connected to my team and my mastermind every single day.See, all of us, all of us are bright, bright, bright, bright lights. Were all lighthouses. We all have a mission. We all have a vision and it's our job to shine that light. And most of my light was getting stopped at five feet because there was so much dirt on the lens. You see shining the light. Isn't always just about turning the light on. It's also about recharging the batteries. It's also about keeping it maintained. It's also about doing everything in our power to have  be the brightest light ever, which means we have to tend to it. We have to water it. Sometimes we even have to trim it. We have to clean it. We have to replace the lens and that comes from decluttering.And I've been watching movies for years, Marie Kondo and minimalism. And I've always. Strive to be that way, but I've never really taken the action to do it. And so what I made a commitment to is that every day until our move or pick a month, pick a timeframe, I was going to remove two pieces of physical clutter and two pieces of digital clutter until I was clean.And then I was going to ask myself if I brought something new in, does this bring joy to my life? Do I need this? Is this something that I have to have? And it's been an absolute, beautiful gift, a beautiful gift. And it's somehow, and I know how has magically created more results everywhere in my life. I am happier because everything feels easy. I have things. I don't have things anymore to detract my attention. Like when I'm done, I'm done. When I sit on the couch, I'm bored. When I'm playing with my kids, there's nothing pulling my attention. When I'm in meetings with my team, I'm in the meetings when I'm creating content, it's for the content. When I'm recording a podcast, I'm all into the podcast.I keep my space clean. I keep my physical space clean. I keep my digital space clean and I keep my mental space clean through my daily practice. And so I think every human beings in the world can benefit by having less, we can create more because here's my secret to you. Nobody can create your magic, but you and the world needs your magic. I need your magic. I need your light. And so I need you to have as much space in your life as possible to create and shine that light. Instead of not being able to turn it on because there's so much clutter around, have a beautiful day, I'll see you or hear you or be in those ear balls in the next episode.

As the off-season arrives and hunters turn to shoppers, we answer your latest gear questions on this Monday Minute. Share your question for a future episode by sending us an email to podcast@exomtngear.com

When I look at my life, things that feel hard things where I'm reactive, where I'm inundated, I feel pressure. I'm emotional. I feel like the world is ending all comes from this feeling of this lack of control and the feeling of the lack of control is not actually something I'm feeling. It's something I'm thinking. And what I'm thinking is all these scenarios over and over again that are playing worst case scenarios. Is this going to happen? Is this not going to happen? And it's I'm watching my brain and these thoughts dictate how I feel. And so when I say easy as a state of mind, it's bringing awareness to that thinking and becoming present in the current moment.And so when I say easy as a state of mind, I mean that it can be an ease as a state of mind that comes from awareness and clarity. Clarity of what's really happening of where we are of what's around us, what we smell, what we see, what we feel. And it starts by just getting back into our bodies. And that might be a breath. It might be looking at your hand, it might be tapping your face. It might be hugging yourself. It could be anything that just gets you out of the reality, the programming, the virtual reality, that's happening inside of our ears. Convincing us that the world is ending and some saber tooth tiger is coming to eat us to pieces to hit that pause button.Scott Carney wrote this amazing book called the wedge, and you guys know I'm a big fan of cold therapy and breath work. And the wedge does exactly that. The wedge helps us insert a pause button when everything feels out of control to become aware. And in order to have an ease to state of mind, awareness is the secret.And so what we get to practice every day is we get to practice becoming aware. Now, once we become aware, Of where we are, what we're experiencing, what's actually in front of us. We have all the it's like we have an overview of the field or at least a field that we need to see. And then in order to recreate that situation in a positive manner, or to make momentum forward, we need to find a focus. We need to take a consistent action towards that focus. And then we need to celebrate every single win along the way. And I had this conversation the other day with one of my mastermind members about cashflow and it's like cashflow gotta work on cashflow, gotta work on cashflow. Like of course, but cashflow is an outcome. It's an output of inputs and a process. So if you look at cashflow by itself, you're not going to be able to solve anything, but it feels real and it feels overwhelming sometimes. But if you take a step back and be like, okay, what goes into the cash flow? Is it sales? Is it production? Is it shipping costs as an employee overhead? And what process does it go into? You see the ingredients and then you can pick the ones that we need to focus on, consistently while celebrating the wins to then change the output, which has cashflow. And there's this amazing blog called Farnam street, but they talk about the four States of mind. And we are always in the four States of mind. So we are either, having an internal or an external dialogue. And internal is we're talking to ourselves, we have the voice in that head. We're having that conversation with whoever it is that we're speaking to. And then external is we're focusing on what's happening around us. We're noticing, the sights, the sounds, the colors, the people. And in those stages of thinking there's eyes or helpful thinking, or there's harmful thinking. And so if you think about it, helpful internal thinking is thinking, We're just thinking we're pondering, we're noticing. The internal helpful state of mind is thinking. The external, helpful state of mind is being engaged, doing things, aware of what we're doing, actively participating with our kids, having an active meeting, being, present and engaged, right? And then the state of mind that is internal and harmful is that inner critic. That inner critic where we're wrapped up in this whole motion of I'm not good enough. I'm not there. And then the external harmful state of mind is the autopilot. Now autopilot's not always bad. But it's always awareness that what state of mind we're in will give us a result. And so when I say States of mind are easier, having an easy state of mind, the first step is always coming from awareness. And when we think about it, we're always in one of those States of mind, we're always thinking, or we're engaged or we're being critical, or we're running on autopilot. And for me, one of the biggest secrets that I've had in my life is at every moment's notice, being able to recognize where I am, bring awareness to it, pause, and then choose where I go. And most things I study in the things that I read the most, the best place to be as modulating between a thinking state of mind and an engaged state of mind. So modulating between internal and external, but always in that helpful REM. And then when we're down in the harmful area and the critical, we need to identify it so we can pause it. And then when we're on autopilot, we need to be aware that we're on autopilot and we might be like, I want to continue to be on autopilot while I, think about nothing and I just mow the lawn and that's okay. But awareness is the key. And so today, as I want you to go through your day and throughout your week, I just want you to bring awareness to where you are. I want you to bring awareness to what you're doing. What state of mind you are in? Are you thinking, are you engaged? Are you critical? Are you an autopilot? And awareness is going to be the key. And at every moment that you bring awareness, you then get to ask yourself, is this where I want to be? And if not, what am I focused on? What is the consistent thing that I can do to go somewhere else? And then how can I celebrate every win to get there? And I have a recommended book for you, whether you listen to it or whether you read it, I highly recommend it. And however you bring awareness to yourself, whether it's cold therapy, whether it's a run, whether it's a stretch, whether it's breath, whether it's music, anything that brings awareness to, I want you to practice it. But I want you to go read or listen to the book, the wedge by Scott Carney. Listen to it, read it, put it into practice, because I want you to know that you are always able to shift, to bring awareness and to go, and the programming that's happening in the brain, the horror movie, sometimes all the worst case scenarios is just preventing you from being present in a state of mind that you choose to be in. And I'm not perfect. I practice this hundreds of times a day. I'll go critical. I'll go autopilot. I'll go crazy critical. I'll take a breath. I have a pattern interrupt. I have a practice that puts me back in and the key to winning this game is practicing as much as possible to keep moving forward.

All buying decisions are emotional and most of them are predicated on somebody feeling safe enough to make that decision, having enough confidence in the relationship with whoever it is that they're about to transact with, to come in. Whether it's a relationship with the brand, whether it's relationship with the product, a relationship with the community, there is a relationship at the key. And most of the time when people don't buy it's because they do not feel safe and they can't trust you enough to use their credit card. This could be a matter of consistency. This could be having touch points. This could be helping them feel safe, but people have to trust us very oftenWe have to remember that our job is create a tight container in which people feel safe in which people trust us. And what are some of the ways that we can do that? Do we email our people consistently when we tell them that we do, do we tell them to comment on our social media, but we never respond back to, they send us DMS and we never write back? Do we actually get on calls with them? Do we interact with them? Have we actually helped them accomplish their goals? Or relieve their pains, regardless of that credit card.        Have we actually done something with our content, with our customer service, with our interactions that have actually moved them one step closer to their goal instead of being like everybody else and berating them with everything that's not working, which makes them stuck. Have we done the things that would create that container that allows somebody to feel safe?That would know that when they are with us, with our content, with our emails, with our team, with our products, with our services, that they feel safe and they're moving one step closer to those goals. And at the answer for any of those is a no, well, what a gift that it is. But we have to remember that no journey, no buying decision happens in a split second. It's a series of touch points over time, which is why use the lighthouse analogy. We have to remember that we have to consistently shine our light, guiding people in and guiding people in and guiding people in. And if we do this with our customers, if we do this with our potential customers, if we do this with our content in all the places that we meet, these people, there's only one guarantee. And it's that you succeed. Our job is to show up daily. Our job is to guide people's to help people. There's not this promoted once disappear for 30 days and expect people to buy. Our job is to create these containers where they feel safe. We have to show up daily, our customers and potential customers want us to be there. That's why they engage on our social and the first place. They don't want to go consume distraction. They want to consume a community or a brand or content that helps them achieve their goal. And most of the time they're consuming other stuff because they're missing that connection that helps move them forward.But we have to care. We have to show up, we have to keep our word. We have to help them. We have to be their teammate. Not their abusive coach that berates them with toxic masculinity or toxic comments or putting people down. We have to be there consistently and constantly trying to help them to get them to move forward. Not to try to extract something from them, not to squeeze the last dollar out, not to convince them that this is the only way. How about it's to show them it's the path and get them excited. So they stay forever. So you actually have to give a shit. If you want this to work, you actually have to care. You actually have to show up and help people.You actually have to make a difference. Nobody continues to buy a product that is dog poop. Nobody continues to use a product that doesn't work. Nobody talks about a product or a company or a service in a good way that they had a negative experience with. And so if you want somebody to give you their credit card, if you want somebody to give you their trust, you have to create a container. Where you've shown up consistently and they feel safe. They feel confident. They feel like they have a team. And I don't care if you sell batteries, supplements, or services. There is not one business or one company in the world that will succeed in the long game. By trying to extract people, squeeze them dry, make them feel bad and wrong and leave them abandoned in what they're pursuing.

Good morning. Good evening. Good afternoon. You beautiful people, whatever time you're listening to this, it is a another Monday minute. And today it's probably one of the biggest lessons that I've ever learned in business and in life in general. But before we get started, I have some bad news. I have a pimple and I can feel it underneath my cheek.And it feels like there's a golf ball underneath my cheek, but my wife said I can't do anything about it until it exposes itself. So I mightlook like I have a golf ball in my cheek soon, but that's all that was meet. So now that leads me into this perfect point that if I probably consistently washed my face, like two times a day, or even maybe more than like three times a week might be TMI for you that I wouldn't have this issue, but apparently little dirt got in there a little stress, something along those lines.And so consistency would probably be the solution which leads us into today's podcast on this Monday minute that the only path to success for any of your goals is consistency. I have so many teachers and so many leaders and so many people that I learned from that always preach the same thing.Consistency over intensity learned temperance, Jeff Spencer, you know, train to 70% every day. So you can train every single day. You know, doing something consistently is better than doing nothing or trying to do it all at once and not hitting it. And this has something that's come up for me over and over and over and over again. But consistency will always win.This is the long game. It is a very long game as it should be. And all the great things are built with momentum and patience and consistency. And so our job is to be consistent. It's to show up daily. It's to reflect on what we did daily it's to deepen our relationships daily it's to be committed to our daily practice.Consistency is the only path to success, no matter what you want to do. And we need to make sure that we are consistently moving the needle. We need to make sure that we are consistently focused on the things that create momentum. We're consistently sleeping correctly. We're consistently moving. We're consistently drinking enough water. We're consistently performing those duties or those practices or those actions that have a tangible and measurable result that build up over time and create unstoppable momentum like our dear friend, Alex Charfen would say. It's consistency.And so a lot of the times I say this to people and I say success is boring. And I mean that in the best way I love what I do. I love what we all do. I love that we get to make a difference, but it's not always a rollercoaster ride every day. It's always a new hit of dopamine. You have to earn the right to be distracted. You have to earn the right to go chase those things and ride the rollercoaster. And it's like, so if the rollercoaster is the analogy, make sure you get a good night's sleep. Make sure you eat correctly. Make sure you drink water and feed your body so you can enjoy the ride of the rollercoaster. Not get nauseous or pee too tired too enjoy it. And that's what our businesses, that's what our life is.We need to sleep good. We need to hydrate. We need to eat clean. We need to do the things in our business consistently every day that will create results. And then when those highs come, when those extreme moments come, when those roller coasters come, we can actually enjoy the process. And that helps us catapult it forward, but it's not the addiction that we're chasing over and over and over again. And all too often in my life and in my career, I've sat back and I've procrastinated consistently to wait for the pressure to then burn myself out, overcompensate, get a tangible hit that only lasted for a minute and then it all dissipates away. And so consistency's the key I would rather consistently work out for 10 minutes a day. Then try to work out for like three hours in one day. I know that if I consistently walk for 15 minutes a day, it's better than the one day I walk for an hour at the end of the week. I know that if I consistently drink, you know a gallon of water a day or work towards it, it's going to be better than being dehydrated all week. And these are really tangible and simple examples. But these are the things that I learned when I was in the military. When I was in the Marine Corps. This was hammered into us every single day. And when I look back at all my success, all the big wins when I tied a world record, when I was able to outperform these and do these things, it wasn't because one day I woke up and I was like, I'm going to jump this high, or I'm going to go run that I consistently ran every single day for like nine years before I ever ran my fastest time. And I forgot for a long time that consistency is going to be the secret to everything.And so today I want you to ask yourself, where can I be consistent? Where are those three things? Every single day that if I consistently do they guarantee my success could be interpersonal, could be with fitness, could be with, you know, your health goals could be with your family. Could be, your relationship could be with your business, could be with your team, could be with our culture, could be with your email, could be anything, but I want you to identify what those three things are that if you consistently did every single day for the next year, five years or 10 years would guarantee skyrocketed results. I want you to identify them and make time for them and go put them into practice. And so I'm going to go wash my face again so I can consistently get into a better self-care routine. So this pimple on my face disappears. I love you have an absolutely beautiful day. Remember to come back to this when you need it.

 Had to take a deep breath for this one. Let's start this off, right? No one gets left behind. Yes. I was a Marine for 12 years, but screw the military analogy. Screw all of it. Let's just talk about humanity. No one gets left behind. We don't leave people in need. We don't leave people feeling like they need.We serve and support. I have a marketing law that says no one gets left behind, but in our worlds in leadership, which has everything that we do, we lead ourselves. We lead our families. We lead our kids. We lead our peers. We lead our friends. We lead our team. We lead our customers. Our job is to ensure.That the team wins by ensuring each individual succeeds in marketing. Our job is to ensure that everybody gets served, not just the people who pay right now. I think about that. When was the last time you felt abandoned or disconnected or wrong or cold or unfulfilled with the company and then went and gave it raving reviews was last time you walked into a store, asked a question, got ignored, and then turned around and bought the product.When was the last time you bought a product, reach out to them and they didn't respond. They didn't hear you. They didn't support you. And then you were lovingly excited to do business again. Never never, never, never, never see, in my opinion, one of them, the challenges that I see in digital marketing is that people forget that on the other side of every single thing that we do on every single thing that we create is a human being, making a decision, not a robot, not an algorithm, a human being, an emoting human being one whose decision is predicated on the depth. Or value of the relationship sitting right in front of them. And so, in my opinion, we have an ability to serve humanity deeper than credit cards, deeper than business, deeper than results. Cause I'm going to tell you something right now. If I bring anything from the military into business, it's that when things get hard, when things get difficult, when we get afraid, the only thing that we have to lean on is humanity.Not politics, not money, not socioeconomics, not religion, not race, not any of it. Stuff really matters. All we have left is the person who's willing to stand there with us as a person. And in my opinion, the best way to do business is to believe the same thing. Most of your competitors will cater all of their marketing towards convincing people to buy, or just capturing the 2% of people who are ready to buy and they leave the other 98% out to sea with no life preserver just simply because they haven't been intentional about making sure that nobody gets left behind.Our job is to ensure no one gets left behind. We can't leave ourselves behind. We have to fill our tank. We have to check in, we have to do self-love. We have to have people around us that hold us to our highest potential so we can lead ourselves. Then we have to lead those closest to us. Those people in our circle, our team members, our families, our children, and then we have to lead our customers.And those people that are spreading our message or awareness or achieving the results and actually changing the world. But none of those say, I will only lead you. If you give me your credit card, I will only support you. If you give me your credit card, you can only talk to me. If you give me your credit card, you will only feel important or seen or valued or respected.If you give me your credit card, it's bullshit. And so what you must do is you must adopt this. No one gets left behind philosophy in your marketing and in your business and in your leadership. And you'll never have to beg for sales or referrals or leads again, because you will building the OB building.The one thing that transcends. All of it, which is relationships. Now that does not mean you cater to people and you give things away. It means that you understand that humans are on the other side of everything that we do. Every one of those meetings, every one of those, the emails, every single thing that we do is with a human. And at the end of the day, our headstone is not going to have our business accounts, our numbers, how many sales, we made our conversion rate. It's just going to talk about how we made people feel and the stand we took in this world and what we believed in. And so my belief is that if we take this into everything we do in business, it is a win, win game.So today and whenever needed. I want you to remember that. No one, absolutely no one gets left behind.

Happy Monday, you beautiful person. Or you can be listening to this on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or Monday, but happy Monday, you beautiful person. And today I want to talk about something and it starts with one simple phrase "this too shall pass". This too shall pass. And 12 years of being an entrepreneur coaching, literally thousands of people through this, the worst thing that can happen is when something bad happens to think that we're alone. To think that there's no support for us to think that we have to go with this alone, that we have to suffer in silence that nobody else has figured this out before. But let me tell you something right now. This storm, every storm passes and the easiest way through the storm isn't to try to avoid it. Isn't try to run around it. It's to run through it, but run through it with the herd, run through it with your support, see Buffalo, get this and I sound cheesy saying this, but when a storm is approaching, the entire herd of Buffalo walked directly into the storm because they realized that it is the fastest path through.They don't do it alone. They do it in a herd entrepreneurship doesn't have to be a lonely game. We are here. We all experienced these. We are humans. We are not raw robots. There are going to be things that happen. Our ad accounts are going to get shut down our offers. Aren't going to convert. We're not sure where this month's revenue is going to come from. All of those things are guaranteed to happen. And they're this old adage that you can't read the label from inside the jar. And so your job is to give yourself a moment to have space, not to sit there and suffer in silence, to be aware of what's going up. And then to get support, to reach out, to head into the storm, but with people on your side or in your corner to help you navigate that storm.We've all been through storms. Some of you have been through storms I've never been through before. And I will ask you for help. I have navigated storms that some of you have never been through. And I know those storms. I felt them when I was a week away from bankruptcy. When I lost a hundred thousand dollars a month in monthly recurring revenue. When that big idea and strategy that had worked on for three months, flopped and a company paid me six figures for it to work. Like I remember. What it felt like in my gut, I remember it felt paralyzed. I felt like I couldn't move. I felt like the entire world was ending and somehow looking back now, I always found a way to put one foot forward to take one more step. And my secret was heading into the storm with people that support me.This will pass. Part of the year human experience is modulation it's range. It's part of your gift, being an entrepreneur, it's a gift that you experience range. It's a gift that you have lows to then have the highs. It's a gift that you can go between them, both that you can understand them, both with your team, with your customers, with yourself, it's a gift.And so the worst thing that you can do is be in an echo chamber when it happens. And sometimes it's the hardest thing to do to ask for help. Sometimes we want to wear that badge of honor so much like everything so put together everything is easier. Have all the answers, my biggest breakthroughs in life of business have come from surrender.In the current state right now that we are in, we are rebuilding a business because of COVID and things that happened. And the results that are being created right now are monumental compared to what they were two months ago or two years ago. And the only differences is I went to nine different people in my life and I said, Hey, I need help. Hey, I need support. I don't know the answer. I don't have it all together. I'm struggling, but I'm willing to walk forward, can you guide me? And so I want you to know the reason we have this podcast. The reason we built this community, the reason that we do what we do is so that all of us are here together. So that you are never alone. You are never isolated. You are never in an echo chamber where you think that you have to go at this alone, no matter the storm, it will pass. You are the one that has to walk into the storm. You are the one that has to stand in the storm. You are the one that has to keep that light shining bright in the middle of the storm. But we are here to support you. We can't stand in the storm for you, but we can help you. We can tell you what the storm is going to look like, how to mitigate the storm, how to better prepare for the storm, how to make it, how to make it through faster. We can do all of those things, but it all starts with community and connection.And so I want you to know that if you're ever in those times, you're having a bad day, a bad week, a bad month, a bad year. Don't go at it alone. Your secret to success is going to be support and leaning in when everything feels like you should lean out. But I promise you that this too shall pass. I promise you that somebody else has been through this and solved this or experienced this. And I guarantee you that as you navigate this storm, it will be a lot easier with people that support you. So make sure you lean in when needed and ask for help when needed, because this too shall pass.

Happy Monday, if you're listening to this on Monday, or it could be Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, but no matter what, happy day, whatever it is. I have a guarantee for you. I have a guarantee for you, but before I give you the guarantee, I want you to do me a favor. I'm going to have you take a big deep breath, because I want you to feel this.I don't just want you to hear this. I don't want you to listen to this. I want you to feel this, and I want you to feel what I'm about to say in whatever part of you resonates the most makes you the happiest and makes you feel the safest. So. The perfect breath is a five and a half second inhale and a five and a half second out exhale. And you should be taking five and a half breasts permitted to be ideal. So what I want you to do right now is whether you're driving, walking, running, no matter what, just take a very intentional five and a half second inhale through your nose and then same five and a half second intentional exhale through your nose.And begin here is your gift. Your win is guaranteed. Your success is guaranteed. But you have to be committed, not interested and not wavered by the resistance that will come. So what is the best way to guarantee your success? It's commitment. It's keeping your eye on the target and understanding the path that you are about to take commitment.Is being committed is taking action is moving forward regardless of how we feel. We could be sad. We could be happy. We could be angry. We could be jovial. We could be scared. We could be confident. We could be an entire rainbow of emotions. And in the midst of those emotions, Commitment is choosing to lace our shoes up and take one step forward. Even if we don't know the race, we don't know the conditions, but we know it's in the direction of our target when you are committed, there are no failures. Just lessons. When you are committed, there are no excuses, just steps forward. There will be tears. There will be frustrations. There will be resistance and they will also be joy and clarity and plenty of accomplishments to collect as evidence.Our job is to acknowledge them both while continuing moving forward. Only focused on your vision. I can almost guarantee you that your success will not look like you have it looking in your head because you've never watched that movie before. So it's destined to look different and I am not standing on a soap box telling you I am doing this daily. Taking a step, lacing up those shoes. One more. Step, one more pound, one more customer. One more impact. One more team member. One more. Non-profit one more of everything to move closer to the vision that I am carving out. As I write the manuscript that will eventually be directed as the movie of my life.But your success is guaranteed. As long as you committed, you have the right people around you and you're willing to take one more step and one more step for all the right reasons, moving you one step closer towards your target. And they say that because the biggest thing that moves the needle for me is accountability. It's a touch point. It's just a reminder. It's a plugin. It's an, Oh, that's right. Oh, yep. Up that. Thought's not rail move forward up, do this move forward. It's important. And it's also one of the reasons why I write a daily newsletter on the weekdays for you and the up team other entrepreneurs on there that literally, and just for you to understand at the point of recording this I'm 93 emails in. And the average open rate is 83% across all 93 emails. They work, they make a difference and they will help you stay on the path to guarantee your success. I call them my light keeper lessons, you know, that whole nautical theme.And I forget to tell you about it. All the time. So I'm going to tell you right now, but if you want these daily doses of accountability and momentum and insight and happiness and love and family and connection in your inbox, and under a minute a day, make sure you go to www.lightkeeper.club, and you can fill out the survey we'll conditionally approve you.And then I will bring you in my only ask is that you only go sign up. If you're committed to reading them and putting them into practice, knowing that we will be in your corner, we will be your coach. We will be your teammate. We will be whatever we need to do, except you running your own race. As long as you come join our family on the guaranteed path to your success, with that commitment that you feel in your body right now.So go take another breath. Feel every ounce of that have a beautiful day, and I'll see you guys in the next episode. Bye

You want to know day it is? It's Monday and you know what we're gonna talk about today? Not moving the starting line. No matter when you're listening to this, I'm going to give you some energy through osmosis, energy to begin energy to start, energy,to play the game. You cannot. I repeat, you cannot win a game that you never start playing. You cannot win a race before you start running it. You need to be able to start the race, to win it or play the game to have a chance to win. And all too often, it's easy to get sucked up into the distraction of perfection. I have to do it this way, but what about this? And what about this? And I didn't think about this. And I do that and Instagram said this and Facebook said this and this book said this and all this bullshit.There will forever be an unlimited amount of excuses reasons or distractions to not start. It's the enemy of progress. There's a reason that we iterate. There is a reason that products are updated. There's a reason that we make adjustments. There's a reason that we change things. It's we put something into motion. We start and then we adjust as needed to make it successful. The example I always give, if I said, Hey, you're listening to this right now, or you're watching this right now. I'm going to give you a brand new iPhone. I'm gonna give you a brand new iPhone. And you're like, yeah, cool. I'm like, cool, you got two choices. You get the new iPhone 12 or you get iPhone 1, which one do you want? And if you're like most people, cause the one smart ass would take the iPhone 1 but the other 99 would take the iPhone 12. You take the iPhone 12, but the iPhone 12 would not exist if iPhone one was never created, it was created. It was large, low battery life, janky software, no tech compared to what it is now. And then it improved and it improved and it improved and it improved. And then the company hits a trillion dollars of cash or something stupid like that because they started the race.And so today, as you think about it, think about your life. Think about your business. Think about your fitness. Think about your health. Think about your sleep. Think about anything. And what does that one thing. What's that one starting line that you've moved. What is that one starting line that no matter how many times you say it, declare it or talk about it only ever gets talked about and never actually crossed.So you can't get to a destination unless you start. And you have to start. So today is about starting. I want you to start. I want you to pick something. You want to lose weight, you haven't worked out in six months today. Go on a five minute walk. You want to wake up tomorrow morning. You want to get up early at 5:00 AM. The alarm goes off, sit up, get up because you're going to put your alarm on the other side of the room. And I don't even care if you go back to bed, but make sure you're up for at least 10 minutes and you make progress. You have to start somewhere and you have to play the game. You can only win the race. If you actually start. Running it.And so I have a couple of tips for you. I found this awesome article on this website called productive club. Number one is, do not emphasize on future specific dates. I'll start this Monday. I'll start this Saturday. I'll do this next month. No, do it now. Or don't do it. Do it now. Or don't do it. Don't fool yourself or trick yourself or let your brain trick you out of doing it by making it into the future. You only have right now, do it right now.Number two, use David Goggins cookie jar method. Goggins says you make a mental note of all your triumphs and victories in advance. Literally things you haven't accomplished. I'm going to run a hundred mile race. Great. Put it in a cookie jar, like a sticky note in a jar. And when you're getting down or you don't have that fleeting thought that everyone says you should have motivation because motivation doesn't exist commitment does. You grab it out of the cookie jar and you read it and you remind yourself, you get to dopamine hit. That's what I want to do. That's what I want to do. I'm going to push, I'm going to push. So you put all your triumphs and victories in a jar and advance, no matter how big or how small, and whenever you need one, you open it and you read it. You can put them in your phone, put them in your notes, but remind yourself of what you want that will pull you out of the slump. And it will pull you forward.Number three use Mel Robbins, five second rule. And her rule is really, really simple. When you say you want to do something and then you're procrastinating, you count down in your head five, four, three, two, one, and then you'd do it. So if you're like, I'm going to go to the bathroom cause I have to pee right now, TMI, but it keeps the podcast short. As soon as I'm done recording, I might play, Oh, I want to watch this video or send the email. Nope. Five, four, three, two, one, go. I need water. I need to go for a walk. I need to make that phone call. I need to respond to that email. I need to go cook dinner. I need to rotate my laundry. I need to write that email. I need to get on that sales call. Anything that's being procrastinated. Five, four, three, two, one go. Alarm goes off. I need to set up five, four, three, two, one set up that's number three.Number four, make daily progress on long-term goals. This is thing you can't build a house overnight. You can't build a business overnight, but you can lay a brick. We're start the race to get there. And so keep asking yourself is what I'm doing, helping me create my vision in the future and take a step forward.And the number five. And I think this is the most important tip. Be intentional about your day. Have a plan the night before, review the plan in the morning and execute the plan. Don't leave yourself openings, put it in your calendar, put it on a piece of paper. Tell somebody you're doing it because if you don't, you'll leave yourself backdoors. And if there's a back door, the reason that the truth is we'll take it and it's comfortable and it's okay. It happens to all of us, myself included. I have to tell my wife when I'm doing my team, but I'm doing, I have to put it in my calendar or else I won't do it. I had this podcast in my calendar all day and I was like, Oh, I'm so tired. I don't want to do it. I went for a walk or get engine like, Oh, let's go do it. But if it wasn't in my calendar, it wouldn't have gotten done. So go about your day with a plan.So here's the takeaway for today. Take this energy right now. Feel it through osmosis, feel it generate and reverb through your entire body and use it and stop moving the starting line. Pick something, put your shoes on, lace them up and go walk the first mile or run the first mile or take your first step, but do something today that plants your starting line and get you running the race. I'll see you guys next time. And remember relationships, always beat algorithms.

Warehouse Safety Tip Wednesday On today's Podcast, we'll be covering creating a regular safety day, and kicking things off with Warehouse Safety Tip Wednesday - so stay tuned. Welcome to Warehouse Safety Tips! You can find the show notes to each episode, links to the information mentioned on the podcast, the social media platforms we're on, and anything else related to the podcast at WarehouseSafetyTips.com (https://www.warehousesafetytips.com/) . If you're a seasoned Podcast Listener - this podcast is going to be different from most you listen to.  It's based around exactly what the name implies - Warehouse Safety Tips.  And since the people in that industry are busy - we know time is money, so each episode will be as short and to the point as possible. And now that all that is out of the way - let's get to the Podcast! For the last 42 weeks in a row, we've been bringing you Warehouse Safety Tips every Monday. We recently instituted a Monday Minute segment at our facility and thought maybe Warehouse Safety Tips Wednesdays had a good ring to it!  So going forward - we're going to bring you this Podcast on Wednesdays. Do you have a day at YOUR facility dedicated to safety? Keep in mind - the day doesn't have to be as regular as a Podcast.  Nor does it have to be A day.  It could be something as simple as a one minute tip during pre-shift announcements.  The point is, you do it.  "Out of sight, out of mind.", should NEVER be the case when it comes to safety. Whether it's addressing new Safety Signs and/or Floor Markings, discussing new or changing Safety Standards / Practices, or going over Accident Reports (Of which we hope are NONE) - having times dedicated to safety, is a great idea! We'll see you next week for another Warehouse Safety Tip Wednesday.  Until then - have a SAFE day! Before moving on - here's a word from one of our sponsors. If you've ever been to or worked in a warehouse - you know just how important safety is to both management and staff.  It's almost impossible to go 10 steps without seeing Safety Tape, Angles, Signs, and/or products.   It's these items that show us how to be safe and avoid danger in the workplace.  And if you're looking for the best products to make this happen - look no further than Mighty Line!  Mighty Line Floor Signs / Floor Markings offer the best industrial products out there! Go to MightyLineTape.com/SafetyTips (https://mightylinetape.com/safetytips) to request a Sample Pack of their incredible Safety Signs and Floor Markings. What makes Mighty Line the superior choice in keeping your facility safe and productive?  Mighty Line Tape is the strongest floor tape on the market and has a beveled edge that increases durability for industrial brush scrubbers, forklifts, and heavy industrial wheel traffic.  Easy installation and removal thanks to Mighty Line's peel and stick backing.  You can apply and reapply it during installation - and it leaves no sticky residue should you need to remove it.  This allows the ability to change workflow areas quickly and easily - and not have the downtime associated with painting or using floor markings that leave behind a mess when you remove them. Mighty Line Tape is 7 times thicker than the average Safety Floor Tape. Mighty Line's Signs and Marking come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.  And if they don't have what you're looking for in stock - their Customize It Program allows you to create exactly what you're looking for.  Mighty Line offers a Limited 3-Year Warranty on their Floor Signs and Markings. And last but certainly not least - Mighty Line Products are Patented and PROUDLY Made in the USA! We're proud to have Mighty Line as THE Official Floor Sign / Floor Marking Company for the Warehouse Safety Tips Podcast and Site.  Again - Go to MightyLineTape.com/SafetyTips (https://mightylinetape.com/safetytips) to request a Sample Pack of their incredible Safety Signs and Floor Markings. If you visit WarehouseSafetyTips.com (https://www.warehousesafetytips.com/) - you'll find the Show Notes for this episode.   Thank you for listening to Warehouse Safety Tips - and have a SAFE day!

Welcome to another episode of Monday minutes, where every Monday we kick start your Monday and under five minutes. And normally I threatened to kick you in the shins, but today I want to kick you in the heart. I want to kick you in the heart. And what I want to talk about today is grace. And so grace and everything that we do.Whatever day, you're listening to this. It's never a bad time to go back to grace, to feel it, to get grounded in it and then to utilize it moving forward. Grace, with yourself, grace, with those around you. And I've been having one of those days, I spent seven hours in silence today. I've cried. I have purged from exercising demons is what it feels like inside of me, sadness and fear and fear of the unknown and my purpose and my past and bringing my past forward.I've been reminded by those that I love and those in my life that we always have a choice and I've struggled with for years,like, Oh, there's gotta be a switch. I'm going to get that point. I'm gonna learn that there was that thing in me that got fixed or that switch that I had to do or this big event that I'm going to discover that's going to change it all. But the truth is it's all the small events that we do every day that changed the circumstances of our lives.And so if I'm experiencing pain in my life, It's because I'm making decisions in my day that create a container of pain. And what I've found out about myself isthat is a form of me being disconnected and what's missing for me, it's always been grace.And grace, meaning a lot of things. Grace, meaning love grace, meaning acceptance, grace meaning gentleness. And that was just reflecting a lot today. And I feel absolutely amazing right now. And this is the only work I'm doing today. And I just felt like hitting record and talking about grace and it being a Monday or a minute Monday, where I just wanted to kickstart your heart because I've been kick-starting mine all day and grace, and I've had a lot of thoughts come to me today. One of them being. You know, none of us have lived this life before. We're all figuring it out. And why do I say that? I say that because there's times I think I know the answers there's times they think, you know, somebody else has it all figured out. There's times I think that somebody has come before me and, you know, believe whatever you believe. But all of us in this present moment is the first time that we've ever been in this moment.And yes, I trust my intuition. I trust my wisdom, but there's times that it gets clouded because I'm lacking grace of lacking self love. I'm lacking space, you know, the space to feel, to fully feel, to dive into those feelings, to not make those feelings wrong, to own them, and then to see them to become aware of them and then to take a step forward.And it doesn't always mean that my step forward is going to be beautiful or rainbows and unicorns, you know, as much as I would love to envision a unicorn with me on the back of it, riding over a rainbow, into the beautiful, pristine mountain Lake at 11,000 feet. Sometimes it's going to feel like my foot stuck in quick stand. It takes every ounce of me to pull it out, but I know, like I know I can pull it out. And it's not about thinking about the destination. It's just thinking about the next step and stepping forward day by day, moment by moment with absolute grace. Grace for ourselves. So we can give grace to those around us and grace to those around us so that they can give grace to their selves and then give grace to those around them.And that is how this game works. And so no matter where you are on your journey, you had a comment come into me today that I saw this morning and it was along the lines of like, I saw you as this, and now I'm experiencing you as this. And I was like, yes and tomorrow you're going to experience me as something else and the day after something else, because I'm not trying to put on a lens, I'm trying to document my journey and document my growth.And all of us are doing that. And any expectation we have of others, isn't real, it's ours. And I found that grace is the secret. Grace for other grace, for others, comments, grace, for others, email's grace for others comments. I say comments twice a words, feelings, you know, viewpoints. And I've just learned that all of that grace can only come when I've grace for myself.And so I feel like this was just straight jibberish, but I don't remember anything that I've said for the past five minutes. So it was either an amazing, amazing moment of clarity and wisdom and intuition or I sound drunk. I might just be drunk on forgiveness, self love and grace right now, because I feel amazing doing this.But this was another Monday minute. Where I just wanted to kickstart your heart today. And so wherever you are, whenever you're listening to this, whoever you are know that you are loved and know that you can love yourself with grace. Give yourself the grace today, whatever that looks like, whatever you have to do, just give yourself that grace.And then go give it away to the world because the world needs you and I need you and we need each other. So remember that relationships always beat algorithms. I'll see you guys in the next episode

Welcome back to another episode of Monday minutes. And this one's interesting. I'm recording this on Monday. I'm about to post it because somehow we lost an episode or I didn't record one. And that's what happens. But you know what the beautiful thing about Mondays are is that we get to Kickstarter a day, however we want, and we find something, we focus on it and we put it into action.And if you lose focus, she come get grounded. You reset and you go again today. I'm not going to be threatening to kick you in the shins because today is one of those days of loving. And so I'm probably going to break into tears as we speak right now. So today's focus is a quote that I was journaling about yesterday because I needed to focus on it.So the premise of this quote is really, really, really simple, what we do see like what we do see, like when we look at something, what we see depends on what we look for. So John Lubbock said this and he said, what we do see depends on what we're looking for. To think about that for a minute. It's Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.And I've been struggling this morning. I've had a lot of tears feeling the weight of the world, the pressure, lots of internal dialogue that I get to work through today. I get to breathe through. And I remember that I was meditating on this code. I was writing about this quote for an email yesterday and the quote was what we see depends mainly on what we're looking for.And so this morning I had to take a moment and reflect, and I'd asked myself, what was I looking for? And in the exploration of that, I found what I was looking for. I was looking for sadness. I was looking for a reason to not succeed. I was looking for a moment of frustration. I was looking for evidence to believe the crappy subconscious programming that's running in the supercomputer of my brain is Jim Kwik Gosset.I was not feeling good. And so I went and looked for evidence that what I was feeling was right, and that there was enough around me to justify that I looked at the last couple of days, my actions, after I finished the challenge and I started finding every single hole that I could find to stack up as evidence against myself.Until I caught it. And when I caught it, I realized that's what I was looking for. And I mean, I went through the gamut like you did 75 hard, you completed it. You've been drinking a gallon of water. You've been doing your workouts, you added strength and your body's changing. You're doing it. And how dare you eat that bagel yesterday.And you know that cheesecake last night that you shared with your family, well, you were being grumpy and mean to all of them because you were beating yourself up. Like there was a lot that happened. And it all simply happened because of what I was choosing to see. And so today's, Monday's episode is about forgiveness around this quote.So first off in front of you right now, recording this live, cause this episode goes up in an hour. I am forgiving myself. For beating myself up and then projecting that on others, around me and then gaslighting and blaming them for my down for my sad for my places. And what I'm choosing to do is to refocus and to see the things that I choose to see you're going to help me move forward.So let me read this full quote to you. John Lubbock said what we do see depends mainly on what we look for in the same field. The farmer will notice the crops. The geologists will notice the fossils, the botanists will notice the flowers, the artists will notice the colors and the sport men, the cover for the game though, we may all look at the same things.It does not all follow that we should see them. And so what really is the difference between failure and success? It's perspective. It's what we choose to see. And one of the things I've learned as a human and not even necessarily just an entrepreneur, is that whatever it is that we choose to see, we'll find it because we create things.If we choose to see six ass, we'll find it. And if we choose to see failure, we'll find it. We can look at things as rejection or realignment. We can look at things as speed bumps or brick walls. We can look at things at successes or failures and how we see those things is wholeheartedly defined by what we choose to look at and look for to support that thought.And so today, I'm going to choose to find all my wins, all the colors, all the beautiful things, all the love, the compassion, the joy, and I'm going to ground myself in those things that I find. And then if I happen to come across a thought, if I happen to find something that is an ideal, I'll acknowledge its existence, and then I'll look elsewhere.There's a famous quote that said in the personal development world a lot, and it says what you resist persists. And what that basically means is what you focus on. You will get more of. And so if I spent the rest of my day focusing on sadness and depression and anger and shortcomings and fault and blame and guilt and shame, I'm just going to get more of it times 10.But in this moment, I've acknowledged and recognized that that's where I was this morning. And that's where I've been for a couple of days. So, you know, I'm going to choose to focus on movement, progress, focus, joy, love, connection, and I'm going to find him cause that's what I'm looking for. So that's what I wanted to share with you on today's Monday minute.I hope this was helpful for you.  thank you for listening to myself therapy session. , I am a special level of crazy. And I do love that crazy. And I love that you listened to that crazy that you're on this journey with me and that you're a part of my family. And so this was a full Monday minute for you.Any moment you need to just come back, breathe into this and listen that quote, and just remember this one thing just for a member, what you see. Depends mainly on what you're looking for. So have a beautiful Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or whatever day you're listening to this, even though I'm releasing it on Monday.Remember that relationships will always beat algorithms. And remember that I love you to absolute pieces, have a beautiful Monday, and I'll see you guys in the next episode or hear you in the next episode. 

Today staff writer, Muriel Gregory joins us to share the significance of meeting together especially during challenging times like we are currently facing as a community and nation.   You will want to grab your Bible to dig into the Word with Muriel. Muriel is also over on our blog this week for Monday Minute with God.  

Welcome to another episode of Monday minutes where we kick start your week and less than five minutes, sometimes five and a half for six. Cause you know, I love to talk, but the only rule is you better put it into practice, listen, align and launch, go put it in. If you get it and you lose it this week, come back and listen to it again, set your focus, set your direction, and keep going.And so today we're going to talk about the entrepreneurial trap. The entrepreneurial trap is moving the finish line. You see when it comes to being a successful human it's about knowing where we were. Where we want to go. And then periodically checking in along that journey to make sure that we're on the right path and also to see what distance we covered.Think about when you go for a run. Think about the longest distance you've ever run before at the beginning, you're like, okay, I'm going to run 10 miles and you might be excited, but there's a part of that. Run that in the beginning. You're like, okay, I can't believe I have nine more.  Or if you're like me on the treadmill, you have to cover it with a towel because you look.Down the entire time. And you're like, is it over? Is it over? Is it over? And then you get to a point where you pick up the towel and you've hit that tipping point where you're like, Oh my God, I can keep going. I can keep going. You hit that point because you look back and you see what you've already accomplished. And then you have the finish line in sight. So, no matter what you do, you can measure your progress, getting there, but entrepreneurs, especially entrepreneurs that are addicted to dopamine, myself included love to move the finish line. We'll say we're going to write an email sequence and then we'll start writing it. And before we complete it, we will add five to 10 things to it. Oh, it's not good enough. We need to change this. I need to do it differently. IE we moved the finish line and then we'll add those new parts and then we'll add a week or two to it. We'll stress ourselves out. We'll burn the candle at both ends.And then we'll look at it critically and be like, Nope, it's still not good enough. And then we do it again. And all we're really doing is denying our greatness and accepting our mediocrity. We continually move the finish line. So in order to be successful in order to progress, We have to be able to publish and then iterate.We have to be able to put things into practice and then make adjustments. We need to be able to chart our course, keep this nautical. And then as we notice where we're going or not going make micro-adjustments to make it to our destination. But if you never start sailing, or if you never start running, or if you never put anything into practice, you can't make the adjustments and you can't progress forward.So you have to stop moving the starting line and the finish line. And I think this is about the finish line. I lost my brain for a minute. It's about the finished line I was on a roll too. Like it all tied. So whether so well, but it's the same thing. It stopped moving the finish line. And so we can do that in many different areas.Think about it with fitness. Think about it with food. Think about it with mindset. Think about it with sleep. This is my favorite one. We know we need to sleep well to be able to go the next day. And then the moment, the time comes. When it's bedtime, we'll come up with 10 excuses as to why we shouldn't do it. I'll stay on my phone. I'm just going to do this one email. I'm just going to edit this one video. I'm just going to respond to this one thing. I'm just going to send this one message. And then before we know it, we're 45 minutes an hour later, and now we're sacrificing our next day because we didn't keep that finish line. We moved it and we moved it.  And so as an entrepreneur, as a human being. Our job is to have tight containers and non-negotiables that us up to win. And here's a secret being a successful business owner, a successful human and a successful entrepreneur should feel boring. And it should feel boring because you're not getting a dopamine hit. You're not getting the distraction. You're not getting the roller coaster of emotion that comes with. Oh, I moved it. I'll do it again. Let me compensate. And then you get to look at, wow. I keep moving the finish line. Because I don't know how to stay focused or I don't know what it is that I love about the pressure I love about the chase.And when you become aware of that, when you understand that that's your flavor or that's, what gets you going, it actually shifts it to where you can be intentional and methodical about what you do. And so make sure that everything that you do today, tomorrow this week, next month, next year is you put hard finish lines in place and you hold them.You can't move the finish line of a racer. You can't go to the Olympics and let somebody run a marathon. And right when they're about to finish, make them double the marathon. You can't do that. You can't do that to them and you can't do it to yourself. You can't do it to your team and you can't do it to your customers. And so it's imperative that you keep that finish line solid and you hold that finish line, set yourself up to win. And if you get to a point where like, oh, I want to move it, don't complete it. And then start another race, hit your destination then chartered another course, hit the journey, complete the journey, look at what worked and didn't work, and then chart a new one to make it happen. But no matter what you do, do not move the finish line.  That's been another episode of Monday minutes. I absolutely love you. Remember the point of today is to set your focus, set your direction, and to kickstart your week, whatever day the week you listen to this on. If you find yourself moving the finish line, if you find yourself distracted, come back and listen to this episode.Again, it will be about six and a half minutes cause I went over today. But listen to it, set the direction, and get yourself in movement. And hold yourself accountable. My recommendation set a finish line, share it with a friend, and then send them this episode so they can do it as well. I love you all.Remember that relationships always beat algorithms and I'll see you guys in the next episode.

And today's Monday minute question. I was on a hike today. I was doing a two hour hike. Out in nature, connecting. And this is a question that I answer for myself every single day.And so in the morning, what I ask myself is, am I an asset or my liability? Am I an asset or liability to myself? Am I an asset or a liability to my family? Am I an asset or liability to my team? And them, am I an asset or a liability to my customers? And it's a really, really important question to ask. Now I'm going to talk about me personally, because that's the best thing I can do. I don't talk about other people because I'm just working on my own stuff every day. You guys are taking this journey with me and so.  It's really easy for me to tell when I'm being a liability to those around me, I'll hear things say to me, like I'm uncertain of the future, or I feel like you're repeating a pattern or I don't feel safe right now, or everything feels frantic. And I get that feedback. I've gotten that feedback many times and it's something I think about. And it's really easy when I get that feedback to plug in and be like, wow, I'm being a liability. I'm a little ungrounded. I'm unclear. I'm distracted.  But what I try to spend my time doing is preventing that feedback from coming. And so I set my thinking time is Keith Cunningham calls that every day, my morning, writing time, whatever that question is, whatever that time is that you call it to check in with myself every morning before I do anything. And I ask myself, am I being an asset or am I being a liability? If those around me feel unsafe from being a liability, if those around me feel uncertain, I'm being a liability.If those around me feel safe, secure, clear, driven supported, motivated than I'm being an asset. And these are feelings that will come and go just like the weather. And there are times where I will be like the Terminator in my practices as an entrepreneur, a business owner, a husband, a father. And then there'll be times that I will be like a lost puppy. But the key here is awareness and the fastest path to success, the fastest path to shifting is awareness.And so when I ask myself every day, is, am I being an asset or liability? I want you to ask yourself that during this week, I want you to write it down. I want you to take a peak and be like, Oh, I'm being alive. How? Oh, reactive. I'm having knee jerk reactions. I'm unclear in my communication. Pause. What can I do to rectify that? Let me take some me time. Let me plan better. Let me get up 20 minutes earlier to set my mind.  Let me go for a walk. Let me go take a breath and let me come back and be an asset.  The most important thing that we can do as entrepreneurs as humans is, and you pick your role, husband, father, CEO, CMO employee, employer pick whatever role it is that you want in your life.The only role that we really have is to be a hundred percent responsible to ourselves and ensure that everything that we're doing, we are moving ourselves forward and leading and being the example. And it's a really easy game to play when we can look at ourselves objectively and be like, Oh yeah, Yeah, that's probably not ideal. I should do it different. Oh yeah. I'm being a liability right now.  Like the other day I was looking at my wife and I could see her energy was a little off and I looked on like, Hey baby, just ignore what I am saying, I'm just being a whiny little baby right now. And. I had to like really check in. I went for a walk, I got clear, I did some breath work. And I realized that like, I was really disconnected. I was ungrounded. I was afraid of the world and some other things. So I plugged back in for a minute, got crystal clear, got to work and everything shifted.  But as entrepreneurs, as business owners, our job as humans, our job is to be a mountain, to be a rock or in this case to be a lighthouse that stands strong and solid and shining that light out.So you have to take some time and you have to ask yourself over and over and over. Am I being an asset or my being a liability? And some of the things I like to ask myself, I'll take out a pen, I'll take out a piece of paper and I'll just reflect and I'll be like, okay, what are some questions I can ask?Number one, what's working. Number two, what's not working. Number three. What would I like to change? Number four? What are some of the things that I've achieved this week or today? Five? What lessons have I learned? Six are my goals or is my direction still the right goal or the right direction? Seven. What do I still need to learn or to know? Eigh. How might I be sabotaging my own success? Nine. What do I need to start doing, keep doing and then what do I need to stop doing? And then 10 what's next. And so what I'll do is I'll grab one of those questions or 10 of those questions and I'll sit there and reflect as soon as I'm done, the goal is pen, down paper there and put it into action to create something different.So today's Monday minute, that's it. It's just about checking in awareness is the name of the game. We need to know how we're playing the game so we can adjust it to win the game. And so the question I have for you. Is, are you being an asset or you being a liability? Either way it's really easy to reflect, to check in, to pick a path forward and to make an adjustment because all of us, our assets, every single one of us. And as long as we see that and keep putting in the work, it's always going to work. And that sounded really funny, but that's this entire episode of Monday Minute on being an asset versus a liability. So please do me a favor. Make sure you subscribe to the show. There will be a new episode dropping every Wednesday, Friday and Monday. Please subscribe to the show.If you haven't left a review, please go leave a review for the show. It would mean the world to me, to help other people find our crazy side of the internet. And as always a stark reminder that relationships will always beat algorithms. Have a beautiful day. And I will see you guys in the next episode.

In this episode we rant about our favorite teams in our Monday Minute segment (4:50); dive into the Zach Plesac story (16:07); give you our picks for Who's Hot and Who's Not of the past week (20:14); discuss Ramón Laureano and Alex Cintrón starting a brawl in Oakland (27:57); go over our Shoutouts of the Week (33:22); talk about T.J. Warren being the best player in the NBA and other notes from inside the bubble (37:18); break down the Washington Football Team releasing Derrius Guice and some other NFL news (45:47); and go over our Top 5 desserts (51:08). Enjoy!

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“We know this too shall pass, and once it does, we have to come out of it prepared to conduct business in a good fiscal manner.” As COVID-19 affects public transit dramatically, we’re proud to present a special edition of Transit Unplugged led by transit evangelist and Trapeze VP Paul Comfort. In today's episode, we discuss how agencies are using technology to manage their transit systems during COVID-19. We then hear from Mike Bismeyer for “Mike’s Monday Minute,” where he encourages us to stay safe and pay it forward to those in need. Paul then talks with Gary Thomas, President of Dallas Area Rapid Transit, about what he believes the lasting financial implications of COVID-19 will be on transit. Plus, listen to Brett Koenig’s chapter from the bestselling new book, “The Future of Public Transportation.” To keep informed on COVID-19, please visit the World Health Organization, Government of Canada, or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Remember to check out transitunplugged.com to learn from top transit professionals and stay up to date to catch all the latest episodes.

In this episode of the Decoding Excellence Show, we're returning to our Monday Minute and Vehicle Version (explains the audio difference) and are discussing some of my thoughts surrounding continuing education, the many online Zoom & Google Hangout conferences and clinics, and things you can do to continue along your own personal development initiatives. As a reminder, our Monday Minutes shows are a quick 10-15 minute episode where I discuss current industry trends, research reads, current events, and occasionally offer my insights into the training process that we're undertaking each week. I believe with conviction, you'll take away something interesting from this show and I hope it delivers you a little bit of value in your day. As always, thank you for supporting The Decoding Excellence Show! In addition to those social mediums, you can head over to AdamRingler.com/Newsletter and sign-up for my weekly newsletter. This is a newsletter for the curious. It's chalked full of interesting articles I've read through the week, things I'm exploring and finding fascinating through my week, and a collections of thought experiences and resources I've cultivated. It's essentially a Birchbox for performance-related articles and musings. If you are looking to help grow and support the Decoding Excellence show, navigate over to Buy Me a Coffee. Buy Me A Coffee is a an easy & fun way to support the show. For the price of a Grande Latte ☕ you can support the show and help us maintain the quality of the content. One hundred percent of the contributions go directly to supporting the hosting fees associated with operating this podcast. If any of the material resonates with you, I'd love for you engage with me at @AdamRingler Thanks again for listening to the Decoding Excellence Show! I appreciate all the support growing this Sport Science, Strength & Conditioning, and High-Performance Coaching resource. If you have taken anything away from the show, please login to iTunes and navigate to Decoding Excellence page and leave us a review. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/decoding-excellence/support

“This pandemic is like the entire nation is having a hurricane that just won’t go away.” As COVID-19 affects public transit dramatically, we’re proud to present a special edition of Transit Unplugged led by transit evangelist and Trapeze VP Paul Comfort. In today's episode, we discuss some of the unintended consequences agencies are dealing with after removing fares. We then hear from Mike Bismeyer for “Mike’s Monday Minute,” where he encourages us to stay safe and pay it forward to those in need. Paul then talks with Jeff Arndt, President and CEO of VIA Metropolitan Transit, about what changes his agency is making and their plans for the FTA funding they received. Plus, listen to a reading from the bestselling new book, “The Future of Public Transportation.” To keep informed on COVID-19, please visit the World Health Organization, Government of Canada, or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Remember to check out transitunplugged.com to learn from top transit professionals and stay up to date to catch all the latest episodes.

In this episode of the Decoding Excellence Show, we're returning to our Monday Minute and Vehicle Version (explains the audio difference) and are discussing some of the strategies behind agile startups, tools we utilize to enhance our departmental communication, and what we need to do as an industry to be prepare for the next pandemic. As a reminder, our Monday Minutes shows are a quick 10-15 minute episode where I discuss current industry trends, research reads, current events, and occasionally offer my insights into the training process that we're undertaking each week. I believe with conviction, you'll take away something interesting from this show and I hope it delivers you a little bit of value in your day. As always, thank you for supporting The Decoding Excellence Show! In addition to those social mediums, you can head over to AdamRingler.com/Newsletter and sign-up for my weekly newsletter. This is a newsletter for the curious. It's chalked full of interesting articles I've read through the week, things I'm exploring and finding fascinating through my week, and a collections of thought experiences and resources I've cultivated. It's essentially a Birchbox for performance-related articles and musings. If you are looking to help grow and support the Decoding Excellence show, navigate over to Buy Me a Coffee. Buy Me A Coffee is a an easy & fun way to support the show. For the price of a Grande Latte ☕ you can support the show and help us maintain the quality of the content. One hundred percent of the contributions go directly to supporting the hosting fees associated with operating this podcast. If any of the material resonates with you, I'd love for you engage with me at @AdamRingler Thanks again for listening to the Decoding Excellence Show! I appreciate all the support growing this Sport Science, Strength & Conditioning, and High-Performance Coaching resource. If you have taken anything away from the show, please login to iTunes and navigate to Decoding Excellence page and leave us a review. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/decoding-excellence/support

“Over the years, we have seen a lot of change in the paratransit industry, but certainly nothing quite like what we’re going through now.” As COVID-19 affects public transit dramatically, we’re proud to present a special edition of Transit Unplugged led by transit evangelist and Trapeze VP Paul Comfort. In today's episode, we discuss some of the ways transit agencies are adapting due to COVID-19, including partnering with food banks and delivering groceries. We then hear from Mike Bismeyer for “Mike’s Monday Minute,” where he encourages us to stay safe and pay it forward to those in need. Paul then talks with Jeff Zarr, Senior Demand Response Consultant at Trapeze Group, about what he’s hearing from paratransit agencies across the country and some of the changes they are implementing. Plus, guest author David Pickeral shares his Q&A chapter from the bestselling new book, “The Future of Public Transportation.” To keep informed on COVID-19, please visit the World Health Organization, Government of Canada, or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Remember to check out transitunplugged.com to learn from top transit professionals and stay up to date to catch all the latest episodes.

On today’s episode we bring you the latest headlines from Washington DC and around the nation and the world for transit and Covid 19. We also include an interview with Dennis Solensky, head of public transit in the state of Connecticut. Plus a new feature call Mike’s Monday Minute and a reading from our book The Future of Public Transportation. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/paul-comfort/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/paul-comfort/support

Do you want to be on a Pro Staff for a hunting company? What does that even mean? Well, we can't speak for everyone, but since we get this question a lot, we thought we'd discuss how we, at Exo Mtn Gear, handle our "pro staff". We also have some listener thoughts and questions from the Meat vs Antlers pack-out topic we discussed on Monday Minute #50. https://exomtngear.com/podcast

In this episode of the Decoding Excellence Show, we're returning to our Monday Minute theme and discussing some of the strategies I'm returning to in the New 2020 Year. I talk about meditation, bullet journaling, creating new things, and finding a "third place". As a reminder, our Monday Minutes shows are a quick 10-15 minute episode where I discuss current industry trends, research reads, current events, and occasionally offer my insights into the training process that we're undertaking each week. I believe with conviction, you'll take away something interesting from this show and I hope it delivers you a little bit of value in your day. As always, thank you for supporting The Decoding Excellence Show! In addition to those social mediums, you can head over to AdamRingler.com/Newsletter and sign-up for my weekly newsletter. This is a newsletter for the curious. It's chalked full of interesting articles I've read through the week, things I'm exploring and finding fascinating through my week, and a collections of thought experiences and resources I've cultivated. It's essentially a Birchbox for performance-related articles and musings. If you are looking to help grow and support the Decoding Excellence show, navigate over to Buy Me a Coffee. Buy Me A Coffee is a an easy & fun way to support the show. For the price of a Grande Latte ☕ you can support the show and help us maintain the quality of the content. One hundred percent of the contributions go directly to supporting the hosting fees associated with operating this podcast. If any of the material resonates with you, I'd love for you engage with me at @AdamRingler Thanks again for listening to the Decoding Excellence Show! I appreciate all the support growing this Sport Science, Strength & Conditioning, and High-Performance Coaching resource. If you have taken anything away from the show, please login to iTunes and navigate to Decoding Excellence page and leave us a review. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/decoding-excellence/support

In this episode of the Decoding Excellence Show, we're returning to our Monday Minute theme and discussing a concerning trend that I've noticed over the last several months on social media. Much of this show revolves around ethics surrounding biometric data and student-athlete information contained in dashboards and visuals that is widely distributed on social media. As a reminder, our Monday Minutes shows are a quick 10-15 minute episode where I discuss current industry trends, research reads, current events, and occasionally offer my insights into the training process that we're undertaking each week. I believe with conviction, you'll take away something interesting from this show and I hope it delivers you a little bit of value in your day. As always, thank you for supporting The Decoding Excellence Show! In addition to those social mediums, you can head over to AdamRingler.com/Newsletter and sign-up for my weekly newsletter. This is a newsletter for the curious. It's chalked full of interesting articles I've read through the week, things I'm exploring and finding fascinating through my week, and a collections of thought experiences and resources I've cultivated. It's essentially a Birchbox for performance-related articles and musings. If you are looking to help grow and support the Decoding Excellence show, navigate over to Buy Me a Coffee. Buy Me A Coffee is a an easy & fun way to support the show. For the price of a Grande Latte ☕ you can support the show and help us maintain the quality of the content. One hundred percent of the contributions go directly to supporting the hosting fees associated with operating this podcast. If any of the material resonates with you, I'd love for you engage with me at @AdamRingler Thanks again for listening to the Decoding Excellence Show! I appreciate all the support growing this Sport Science, Strength & Conditioning, and High-Performance Coaching resource. If you have taken anything away from the show, please login to iTunes and navigate to Decoding Excellence page and leave us a review. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/decoding-excellence/support

In this episode of the Decoding Excellence Show, we're returning to our Monday Minute theme and answering an audience submitted question regarding what are the best subjective measures we use in order to measure an athlete's state of readiness. I discuss not only several subjective questionnaires but a few of the objective instrumentation we utilize here at Colorado. I reached out to my good friend, Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Newman University, Stryder Blackburn, to help me set the tone for the episode. You can find Coach Blackburn on Twitter at @Stryder9090 As a reminder, our Monday Minutes shows are a quick 10-15 minute episode where I discuss current industry trends, research reads, current events, and occasionally offer my insights into the training process that we're undertaking each week. I believe with conviction, you'll take away something interesting from this show and I hope it delivers you a little bit of value in your day. As always, thank you for supporting The Decoding Excellence Show! In addition to those social mediums, you can head over to AdamRingler.com/Newsletter and sign-up for my weekly newsletter. This is a newsletter for the curious. It's chalked full of interesting articles I've read through the week, things I'm exploring and finding fascinating through my week, and a collections of thought experiences and resources I've cultivated. It's essentially a Birchbox for performance-related articles and musings. If you are looking to help grow and support the Decoding Excellence show, navigate over to Buy Me a Coffee. Buy Me A Coffee is a an easy & fun way to support the show. For the price of a Grande Latte ☕ you can support the show and help us maintain the quality of the content. One hundred percent of the contributions go directly to supporting the hosting fees associated with operating this podcast. If any of the material resonates with you, I'd love for you engage with me at @AdamRingler Thanks again for listening to the Decoding Excellence Show! I appreciate all the support growing this Sport Science, Strength & Conditioning, and High-Performance Coaching resource. If you have taken anything away from the show, please login to iTunes and navigate to Decoding Excellence page and leave us a review. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/decoding-excellence/support

Hopefully, at this point, you have put in the work to be ready for opening day. The decisions you make now, on your way to a hunt, during a hunt, and even between hunts can still have a massive impact on how "ready" you'll continue to be. If you want to be able to hunt as hard on the last day as you can on the first, you need to think about your nutrition, hydration, and even your in-season training. In this Monday Minute with Kevin Guillen from Wilderness Athlete, we get some pointers on those topics — to help us hunt strong all season. https://ExoMtnGear.com/podcast https://WildernessAthlete.com

In this episode of the Decoding Excellence Show, we're returning to our Monday Minute theme and answering an audience submitted question regarding the most over-rated metric or KPI collected in the sport science and performance field. I reached out to my good friend, Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Newman University, Stryder Blackburn, to help me set the tone for the episode. You can find Coach Blackburn on Twitter at @Stryder9090 As a reminder, our Monday Minutes shows are a quick 10-15 minute episode where I discuss current industry trends, research reads, current events, and occasionally offer my insights into the training process that we're undertaking each week. I believe with conviction, you'll take away something interesting from this show and I hope it delivers you a little bit of value in your day. As always, thank you for supporting The Decoding Excellence Show! In addition to those social mediums, you can head over to AdamRingler.com/Newsletter and sign-up for my weekly newsletter. This is a newsletter for the curious. It's chalked full of interesting articles I've read through the week, things I'm exploring and finding fascinating through my week, and a collections of thought experiences and resources I've cultivated. It's essentially a Birchbox for performance-related articles and musings. If you are looking to help grow and support the Decoding Excellence show, navigate over to Buy Me a Coffee. Buy Me A Coffee is a an easy & fun way to support the show. For the price of a Grande Latte ☕ you can support the show and help us maintain the quality of the content. One hundred percent of the contributions go directly to supporting the hosting fees associated with operating this podcast. If any of the material resonates with you, I'd love for you engage with me at @AdamRingler Thanks again for listening to the Decoding Excellence Show! I appreciate all the support growing this Sport Science, Strength & Conditioning, and High-Performance Coaching resource. If you have taken anything away from the show, please login to iTunes and navigate to Decoding Excellence page and leave us a review. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/decoding-excellence/support

In this episode of the Decoding Excellence Show, we're returning to our Monday Minute theme and answering an audience submitted question regarding how to best communicate your latest round of performance testing to your direct reports. I reached out to my good friend, Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Newman University, Stryder Blackburn, to help me set the tone for the episode. You can find Coach Blackburn on Twitter at @Stryder9090 As a reminder, our Monday Minutes shows are a quick 10-15 minute episode where I discuss current industry trends, research reads, current events, and occasionally offer my insights into the training process that we're undertaking each week. I believe with conviction, you'll take away something interesting from this show and I hope it delivers you a little bit of value in your day. As always, thank you for supporting The Decoding Excellence Show! In addition to those social mediums, you can head over to AdamRingler.com/Newsletter and sign-up for my weekly newsletter. This is a newsletter for the curious. It's chalked full of interesting articles I've read through the week, things I'm exploring and finding fascinating through my week, and a collections of thought experiences and resources I've cultivated. It's essentially a Birchbox for performance-related articles and musings. If you are looking to help grow and support the Decoding Excellence show, navigate over to Buy Me a Coffee. Buy Me A Coffee is a an easy & fun way to support the show. For the price of a Grande Latte ☕ you can support the show and help us maintain the quality of the content. One hundred percent of the contributions go directly to supporting the hosting fees associated with operating this podcast. If any of the material resonates with you, I'd love for you engage with me at @AdamRingler Thanks again for listening to the Decoding Excellence Show! I appreciate all the support growing this Sport Science, Strength & Conditioning, and High-Performance Coaching resource. If you have taken anything away from the show, please login to iTunes and navigate to Decoding Excellence page and leave us a review. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/decoding-excellence/support

In this episode of the Decoding Excellence Show, we're returning to our Monday Minute theme and answering an audience submitted question regarding force plates. I reached out to my good friend, Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Newman University, Stryder Blackburn, to help me set the tone for the episode. You can find Coach Blackburn on Twitter at @Stryder9090 As a reminder, our Monday Minutes shows are a quick 10-15 minute episode where I discuss current industry trends, research reads, current events, and occasionally offer my insights into the training process that we're undertaking each week. I believe with conviction, you'll take away something interesting from this show and I hope it delivers you a little bit of value in your day. As always, thank you for supporting The Decoding Excellence Show! In addition to those social mediums, you can head over to AdamRingler.com/Newsletter and sign-up for my weekly newsletter. This is a newsletter for the curious. It's chalked full of interesting articles I've read through the week, things I'm exploring and finding fascinating through my week, and a collections of thought experiences and resources I've cultivated. It's essentially a Birchbox for performance-related articles and musings. If you are looking to help grow and support the Decoding Excellence show, navigate over to Buy Me a Coffee. Buy Me A Coffee is a an easy & fun way to support the show. For the price of a Grande Latte ☕ you can support the show and help us maintain the quality of the content. One hundred percent of the contributions go directly to supporting the hosting fees associated with operating this podcast. If any of the material resonates with you, I'd love for you engage with me at @AdamRingler Thanks again for listening to the Decoding Excellence Show! I appreciate all the support growing this Sport Science, Strength & Conditioning, and High-Performance Coaching resource. If you have taken anything away from the show, please login to iTunes and navigate to Decoding Excellence page and leave us a review. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/decoding-excellence/support

In this episode of the Decoding Excellence Show, we're returning to our Monday Minute theme and discussing the biggest challenges and hurdles with performance technologies. If you are thinking about purchasing a new piece of technology for your performance training facility, you do not want to miss these insights. As a reminder, our Monday Minutes shows are a quick 10-15 minute episode where I discuss current industry trends, research reads, current events, and occasionally offer my insights into the training process that we're undertaking each week. I believe with conviction, you'll take away something interesting from this show and I hope it delivers you a little bit of value in your day. As always, thank you for supporting The Decoding Excellence Show! In addition to those social mediums, you can head over to AdamRingler.com/Newsletter and sign-up for my weekly newsletter. This is a newsletter for the curious. It's chalked full of interesting articles I've read through the week, things I'm exploring and finding fascinating through my week, and a collections of thought experiences and resources I've cultivated. It's essentially a Birchbox for performance-related articles and musings. If you are looking to help grow and support the Decoding Excellence show, navigate over to Buy Me a Coffee. Buy Me A Coffee is a an easy & fun way to support the show. For the price of a Grande Latte ☕ you can support the show and help us maintain the quality of the content. One hundred percent of the contributions go directly to supporting the hosting fees associated with operating this podcast. If any of the material resonates with you, I'd love for you engage with me at @AdamRingler Thanks again for listening to the Decoding Excellence Show! I appreciate all the support growing this Sport Science, Strength & Conditioning, and High-Performance Coaching resource. If you have taken anything away from the show, please login to iTunes and navigate to Decoding Excellence page and leave us a review. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/decoding-excellence/support

It's Monday... which means our second installment of "ask Matt Monday" and this week we are joined by Matt's almost infant 17 year old son to help answer the questions on a Monday Minute episode of Total Engagement!

It's Monday... which means our second installment of "ask Matt Monday" and this week we are joined by Matt's almost infant 17 year old son to help answer the questions on a Monday Minute episode of Total Engagement!

In this episode of the Decoding Excellence Show, we're returning to our Monday Minute theme and discussing force plate utilization for readiness testing and auditing the training process. As a reminder, our Monday Minutes shows are a quick 10-15 minute episode where I discuss current industry trends, research reads, current events, and occasionally offer my insights into the training process that we're undertaking each week. I believe with conviction, you'll take away something interesting from this show and I hope it delivers you a little bit of value in your day. As always, thank you for supporting The Decoding Excellence Show! In addition to those social mediums, you can head over to AdamRingler.com/Newsletter and sign-up for my weekly newsletter. This is a newsletter for the curious. It's chalked full of interesting articles I've read through the week, things I'm exploring and finding fascinating through my week, and a collections of thought experiences and resources I've cultivated. It's essentially a Birchbox for performance-related articles and musings. If you are looking to help grow and support the Decoding Excellence show, navigate over to Buy Me a Coffee. Buy Me A Coffee is a an easy & fun way to support the show. For the price of a Grande Latte ☕ you can support the show and help us maintain the quality of the content. One hundred percent of the contributions go directly to supporting the hosting fees associated with operating this podcast. If any of the material resonates with you, I'd love for you engage with me at @AdamRingler Thanks again for listening to the Decoding Excellence Show! I appreciate all the support growing this Sport Science, Strength & Conditioning, and High-Performance Coaching resource. If you have taken anything away from the show, please login to iTunes and navigate to Decoding Excellence page and leave us a review. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/decoding-excellence/support

How did Steve recover from a battle with target panic? How should new hunters make the most of an opportunity to hunt with someone that is far more experienced and knowledgeable? What is the latest on Exo's new K3 packs. We answer these questions in today's Monday Minute episode. Have a question you want to hear answered on a Monday Minute episode? Send it to podcast@exomtngear.com Resources mentioned in this episode... - New K3 Pack Waitlist: https://ExoMtnGear.com/2019 - The Cure for Target Panic, Episode #87 with Joel Turner https://soundcloud.com/huntbackcountry/087-the-cure-for-target-panic-with-joel-turner

Welcome to the Monday Minute! Today we are answering a listener question... How can Steve pack 130lb loads when he isn't a big guy? How does he train and prepare his body to make this possible? (We also include some training tips specifically for flat-landers.) GIVEAWAY: https://exomtngear.com/podcast K3 Updates: https://exomtngear.com/2019 K2 Photos: https://exomtngear.com/group VIDEO of Steve Hauling Heavy: https://bit.ly/ExoMeatPack

While the Hunt Backcountry Podcast is published by Exo Mtn Gear, it isn't about Exo Mtn Gear. However, given the number of questions we have been getting about new products in the works from Exo Mtn Gear, we thought it would be worthwhile to take some time on a few Monday Minute episodes to address the questions that we have been receiving. To understand where Exo Mtn Gear is going, it is helpful to understand where we have come from. This episode will provide some context on the history and future of Exo Mtn Gear. https://ExoMtnGear.com/podcast

St. Charles has been a leader in transformational development over the past decade as evident in transformational projects like, New Town, Streets of St. Charles, University Commons, Historic Main St., and many more. In this #Monday Minute, learn about our newest project, the Bangert Island Riverfront Transformation. This project will restore and preserve Bangert Island as a natural site for hiking and biking, while also providing mixed-use development along the embankment. Learn more about this project: www.bangertisland.com Partner with the City: www.stcharlescitymo.gov/bids.aspx Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/STCHMO Follow Us: Grow St. Charles Facebook: http://bit.ly/2Hnv47F Grow St. Charles Twitter: http://bit.ly/2C4mWKb The City of St. Charles Facebook: http://bit.ly/2obOxQd The City of St. Charles Twitter: http://bit.ly/1ERNLN7 For more information visit: http://growstcharles.com

2019 State of the City Recap | Grow St. Charles "Monday Minute" Ep. 61 Did you attend our 2019 State of the City? In January we held our first ever State of the City event at Bogey Hills Country Club and outlined all the great things that has taken place over the last several years, and what is in store for years to come. Find out more in this week’s #MondayMinute Watch the full State of the City Address: https://youtu.be/x2dEKlb7WIA Listen on Soundcloud: http://bit.ly/RIB2018 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: http://bit.ly/STCHMO Follow Us: Grow St. Charles Facebook: http://bit.ly/2Hnv47F Grow St. Charles Twitter: http://bit.ly/2C4mWKb The City of St. Charles Facebook: http://bit.ly/2obOxQd The City of St. Charles Twitter: http://bit.ly/1ERNLN7 For more information visit: http://growstcharles.com

You guys gave us some great feedback on Episode 164, where our guest told the story of hitting the SOS button on his Garmin InReach and how the response went. We heard from listeners with similar stories, SAR personnel, SWAT EMTs, and more. In this Monday Minute episode, we recap some of the information that you guys provided us about hitting the SOS button in a backcountry emergency. http://ExoMtnGear.com/podcast

Mark & Steve are back from show season and record a Monday Minute answering the question, "If you could only have one more hunt, what would it be?" Don't forget to enter the February podcast giveaway to have a chance at winning a custom Black Gold Bow Sight of your choice! Enter now at: http://ExoMtnGear.com/podcast

The gang is back for a Monday Minute…Why is Tatsu always a bridesmaid, never a bride? And just how squished is The Shredder? TMNT Minute is a Dueling Genre Production Join our Facebook Group! – TMNT Minute Listener Group Follow … Continue reading →

Online resources are great, but nothing can come close to in-person training and real-time feedback. That's why Dan Staton of ElkShape.com is launching a new way for elk hunters to learn about elk hunting at weekend-long Elk Camps. These camps will cover physical fitness, shooting, backcountry gear and pack systems, live Q&A with experienced elk hunters and more. In this Monday Minute we talk about the first ever Elk Camp that is taking place in March, and learn more about Dan's vision for expanding these weekend events in the future. Want one to come to your part of the country? Let Dan know!

This week, in lieu of the Monday Minute, we have a full-length episode with Dan Staton of ElkShape.com. Mark and Dan discuss the topic of balancing family and hunting, and also cover some great elk hunting advice. Be sure to share your stories and strategies for balancing family and hunting with us by emailing podcast@exomountaingear.com

In this Monday Minute we discuss a listener question on the topic of taking time away from the family to go hunt the backcountry, and how to keep a happy wife and a happy life. The struggle is real. What are your tips and experiences managing hunting and family? Let us know at podcast@exomountaingear.com ALSO... Land of the Free 2.0 launches this week! Check it out at BornAndRaisedOutdoors.com

In this Monday Minute we hear about listener feedback for running stoves in your shelter, talk about ways to pass the time on late-season hunts when darkness falls early, and preview the next episode on custom vs factory rifles.

Help us design the Exo Mtn Gear 2019 packs. Sign-up before this Wednesday (10/24) to receive an invitation for the product design survey at ExoMountainGear.com/newsletter. If you do not sign-up before then, email podcast@exomountaingear.com to request access to the survey. In this Monday Minute episode, Mark and Steve talk about a once-in-a-lifetime Mountain Goat hunt that Steve was a part of last week. As pretty much all Mountain Goat hunts are, it was an adventure!

Now that September is over, we are back to podcasting weekly. In this Monday Minute episode we quickly recap what we were up to in September, talk about some of the good and bad from gear we tested in the backcountry over the past month, and explain what is coming for the podcast. Don't forget to share your stories and photos from September with us!... podcast@exomountaingear.com

In this Monday Minute we tackle your meat care questions, including what's in our kill kit, advice for meat care on solo hunts, quartering vs deboning, and more. AND we have a bonus replay of a previous episode with David Draper that will educate you on how to care for meat in the field when heat is a concern, further discussion on the pros/cons of quartering, tips for at-home meat care and preparation, and even some grilling and cooking tips.

In this Monday Minute, Mark and Steve talk about stabilizer choices for backcountry hunting, the upcoming Northwest Mountain Challenge shoot at Steven's Pass, and pick this week's podcast topic on the fly... http://ExoMountainGear.com/podcast

In this BONUS EPISODE we takeover the typically short Monday Minute format to bring you a longer-form question and answer show all about hunting packs. Whether you are interested in Exo Mtn Gear packs specifically, or just want to learn more about hunting packs in general, this discussion will help you out. http://ExoMountainGear.com/podcast

In this week's Monday Minute we tackle some of your listener questions. Have a question that you want answered on the show? Email it to us... podcast@exomountaingear.com Can someone with zero hunting experience start with archery and bowhunt, or should they hunt with a rifle first and then transition into bowhunting? What are the best times of day to hunt, and what do you do in the other hours?

In this Monday Minute, Mark and Steve recap the Northwest Mountain Challenge at Hoodoo, discuss Mark's 26+ mile hike in preparation for the Exo Death Hike, share good news about Exo inventory, and more. Have a questions you'd like answered on the show? Submit it via email to podcast@exomountaingear.com or http://exomountaingear.com/podcast

Introducing the Monday Minute. This is a new unscripted, unedited, "show within the show" that will cover timely topics, listener Q&A, give you a preview of this week's main podcast show, and also feature, uhhh... whatever else we decide to throw in there. Share your questions or feedback by email: podcast@exomountaingear.com

Join the Monday Night Request Team as the play a game of The Monday Minute.