I was watching a video on TED.com today where Tim Farris talks about smashing fear and ‘how to feel like the incredible hulk’.
See this video below:
His talk started to get me thinking about how, so many times in my life I end up over-complicating things (as many of us do). And It is really interesting to me that we believe ‘what we have always done, has to be the right way’, just because we don’t know another way. Like…Who says having a cell phone with the ability to check/respond to my emails actually makes me more productive? Maybe I’m just wasting more time than anything. If I set up a one hour segment to read and respond my email a day (and that’s it), maybe I would get a lot more done because I would be focused to accomplish the task at hand.
I just love that Tim’s thoughts and ideas have helped me see that not everyone is supposed to follow the status quo, and not everyone has to fit into a mold. Identify your loves to live them, identify your fears and conquer them. I think we all could get a little inspiration from Tim.
Befriending an individual that people seem to avoid, just to get their side of life.
Dedicate an entire week to donating our free time to help others and/or organizations out.
Take a summer job in another state (or country) just because it’s something you want to do.
We only have one life, so why don’t we do what we want to with it? We have to decide what type of person we want to be (and hopefully we won’t look back on our life and say “What did I do with my life?”). Live with inspiration!
I love to talk to my Friend Zach Liibbe about what he is doing in his life. He inspires me by never letting fear get the best of him and actually doing the things he wants to do. When someone like Zach talks about spending his summer taking a tracking course just for fun, and spending a month assisting at a wilderness treatment camp , he is showing us the types of things that we can & should do with our own lives to make the most of it.
Another person that inspires me to live with excitement is Mike Nyffeler. By surrounding ourselves with these types of people in our life, we can see how goals can become reality. Because of this, my wife & I have decided to move to Key West, Florida for a month and work remotely, because we can! Our businesses our being built to be operated anywhere, so why not ‘operate them from anywhere’ (especially a place as gorgeous as Key West)?
If we don’t spend our lives enjoying our talents, living for our dreams, or working for more, where does that leave us? I always challenge myself to be the best that I can be, and I want to challenge you! Make your own list of things you might be able to do or change for this summer and make it a reality. Who says you can’t work in Hawaii for the summer, at a job you might love? Just because you live in Kearney, NE (or whatever that place is that seems boring to you right now), doesn’t mean you have to work their for the next 4 months. Call around and make your own life happen, don’t expect something to just ‘fall in your lap’.
We’ll be pushing ourselves, we hope you do the same!
Have an Awesome Day!
~Chais & Shawna Meyer
I’m working on my blog today and I created a fun download image that I am going to use with WP-Download-Monitor. This specific download monitor is designed for WordPress (if you have your own blog or site with WordPress, it works amazing). If you don’t have or use WordPress, You can still use this image on any other website or blog (as long as you know basic HTML code & if it fits the style that you’re looking for that is.
I hope you enjoy it and if you have any questions about how to make wp-dowload-monitor work with your version of WordPress, let me know. I will send you some screen shots of my settings.
Have an Awesome Day!
~Chais Meyer
Oh ya…Here is the download link for this graphic (almost forgot).
I was talking with my business partner today David Lano about how we have been putting 10 – 15 hours a week into one of our businesses (Control Yours), and how that would be considered part time or less than part time. Normally when you invest only a small percentage of time into something (a hobby, business, relationship, etc.) you can’t put 100% of your focus on it. And not putting 100% in immediately sounded like a negative thing with us, like we weren’t trying hard enough or something, but was it really like that?
As we dug deeper into this topic we realized that if we would have put 100% of our focus on this one business (going after sales everyday, Building a lot of websites right away, etc.) we could have very well damaged ourselves more than we were helping ourselves.
With our business Control Yours, the online technology business that it is, there are a lot of little things that need to be just right before we jump the gun on other things. An example would be that we just found and are working out some kinks with managing our customer’s monthly subscription payments (being able to downgrade or upgrade our customer’s subscription services fluidly and easily for the our customers and us). If we would have sold 100 websites in the first month we were in business, it would have been a nightmare to transfer all the subscriptions to our new customer management system (mainly for our customers). Looking at this example, we see that we couldn’t have noticed this problem immediately and it had to be noticed by time and testing. Working part time on this business is allowing us to build a very secure and steady foundation (all marketing, financial, investment, and management aspects), and being that a lot of businesses fail because they don’t have a solid foundation…this seems pretty important!
Working for our businesses part time has actually allowed us to grow in business maturity and not be rushed into making rash decisions that might have haunted us for a long time. In that way, I am so glad that we have done things the way we have.
Don’t be afraid to start up slow…As long as you are progressively becoming with your life and your business, you’re always moving forward!
Have an Awesome Day!
~Chais Meyer
