Earlier in the week, I had a conversation with somebody and I recorded my side of it because it felt like the conversation was going in a direction where I thought you could benefit. I edited it into some material that I hope encourages and inspires you. Enjoy this special Friday episode of the podcast.

Some points of this conversation:

• Podcasting’s role in my work

• Comparisonitis – it kills many people’s pursuits

• Success and Failure aren’t as binary as most of us think (we think we’re either one or the other)

• The pinnacle of success isn’t the only definition of success

• The positive power of doing what we enjoy

• “Get out of your comfort zone” is horrible advice

• Find your “element” (as defined by Sir Ken Robinson, it’s where your natural aptitude intersects with your passion)

• Podcasting is my element

• For selling, podcasting is a slow burn (it takes time)

• Facing what you’re not good at can help you face what you are good at

• It’s about what you love versus what you hate

• Solving the problem and devising the strategy doesn’t mean we can execute it

• Dallas Cowboy’s new coach Mike McCarthy isn’t in NFL shape, but he can coach. The players need to execute it.

• In our careers, businesses and lives – we have to find solutions that WE can execute

• Fixing other people’s car while our own car sits in disrepair

• Being hypocritical by trying to be something we’re not

• Spend time with yourself coming to terms with what really matters to you

• My personal (and easy) objective (and work/process) is to make a meaningful difference in the lives of others

• Figuring out who and what you are so you can decide the business you need to be in

• Wasting time trying to be things we’re not

• The Universe is quick and effective to convince us of UNTRUTHS

• There are way more ways to be successful than most of us think

• Idealism fools us into thinking there’s a limited number of ways to do it

• Spend more time with yourself figuring out how YOU need to do it

• Outliers aren’t a good measuring stick for our success

• Success is personal to you and what you think it is

• My income goals would be considered an abject failure for wealthy folks

• Failure and success are relative to what we want (and what we think)

• Failure isn’t final, but neither is your current success (we aspire to grow and improve)

• The barrier to success is the brick wall that Randy Pausch talked about in The Last Lecture

• Doing what you love is a big part of the equation

• Get in touch with your comfort zone (where your natural aptitude intersects with what you love)

• Stop pushing water up the hill (doing what you hate)

I hope you find this conversation profitable.

Be well. Do good. Grow great!

Randy