How to Scale Influence with Carl Richards | Episode #79

Rob Bell says in his new book, How to Be Here, "We all have a blinking line, a cursor. Your blinking line is whatever sits in front of you waiting to be brought into existence".

The narrative I tell myself everyday frames my Work Life Play. Every morning the tapes in my head begin to play. I used to think somebody else was responsible for those audio files. My High School principal told me once, "You'll never amount to anything". To be fair, I had just dumped dish soap in the biology lab fish tanks and suds overflowed to the top with dead fish. It was TV camera worthy.

Podcast bullet:

• If you don’t like the work you’re doing everyday. We can still choose to do it well.
• It is honorable just doing the hard work of staying alive.
• There is a lot of pressure in our modern world for our lives to be epic and big. Big and epic aren’t helpful when you find yourself in a season of work you don’t love.
• We see with our eyes what we believe we will see. Seeing is believing.
• How we operate in difficult seasons, says a lot about our core beliefs.

1. You are more powerful than you believe.
2. You are more influential than you think.
3. Invest a dollar, an hour, an ounce of emotional energy in yourself.
4. You will never loose.
5. Markets are volatile.  You are steady.
6. Money is fleeting.  You are constant.
7. Risk equals reward and sometimes just a good story.