Chasing Better - Corey Baker Corey Baker

Whether you're in the health and wellness space or coaching or any of those kind of things where you are trying to find high caliber, high successful, highly competent, big influencer silver ducks, I can promise you that whether it's a real estate deal or a coaching client or anything else that you're trying to find, that there's going to be way less silver ducks in that tank that you're fishing for than there are yellow ones. There's a lot of these, right? There's a lot of the yellow ones. There's a couple of the silver. And what I know is, there's so much talk and I get this and I I've been a part of this talk where you look at like the pond that you're fishing in, you know, whether it's social media or just the world and you start to question: "are there even any silver ducks left swimming around? Like are they even there? Are they still out there? Are they still in existence? Are they still swimming? Are they still there?" And the the answer is yes, they're still there. It very well could be that they're harder to find. It very well may be that there are some yellow ducks and purple ducks and blue ducks and red ducks that are buried on top of those silver ones. And the only way that you will ever know if you can get one of these silver ducks is if you pick up a lot of blue ones and yellow ones and purple ones in the process.

Today is opening day in baseball. As you probably know, I'm a huge Cubs fan. Today I wanted to share a story of something I experienced as a kid and a lesson to take from it about how much ability we all have to completely change someone else's day.



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One of my best friends in the whole planet, Drew Epperson talks about the fact that healthy things grow and growing things change. And it’s, I think, flawed to assume that just because someone changes the way that they think, that someone changes what they believe in or what they no longer believe in, is all of a sudden some assumption that something terrible and catastrophic must have happened. That there must be a lot of built up pain and hurt and anger and all of these things. And sometimes that is the case and sometimes it’s not. And I think I’ve been on both ends of that spectrum.

If you let yourself, you can get incredibly overwhelmed with all of the things that are happening in our life surrounding us that are not in our control. Like, I could be the best driver, the best certified driver on the planet with a Tesla that drives itself and is a rated for safety. And a semi-truck could still blow a red light and plow into me. Like there's a lot of things that I can do that are in my control. And even in those situations, there are a lot of things outside of my control that I have nothing to do with in terms of like what, what the stock market did yesterday or who we're gonna be at war with next, or who the next president's gonna be, right?
There are so many things and it would be very, very easy to get lost in our head space of negativity focusing so much on all the craziness that is going on in the world that just makes it seem like the things that we do every day don't matter. But they do. There are very, very few things in life that we are in control of.

The reason why people feel stuck is because of overthinking. Picture yourself in the middle of a forest and there's no sun out. You can't tell which way east is, which way west is. There's no north star. You don't have a clue where you are. You don't know anything. This is woods you've never been in before. You are deep in the heart of it. You are in the heart of the woods and you don't know where you're going and you find yourself stuck. And the problem that I think a lot of people have is we sit there and we overanalyze and make ourselves incredibly freaked out about the fact that we are stuck. And the more we think about it, the more stuck we feel and the more overwhelmed we feel. And pretty soon we are setting up camp right there in that place and trying to analyze what the best solution is. When honestly, sometimes you just gotta make a decision and go for it fully, knowing that it may lead to a roadblock, it may lead to a detour. That is what life is. Life is a series of detours like growth and never happens in your life. Growth never happens in your business and your relationships up until the right. It just doesn't. There are dips and there are turns and there are detours and there are mistakes and there are things that you navigate. And there's just a lot of that we gotta deal with in our life in order to reach the ultimate goal that we have.  Thanks for listening to Chasing Better!

The reason why people feel stuck is because of overthinking. Picture yourself in the middle of a forest and there's no sun out. You can't tell which way east is, which way west is. There's no north star. You don't have a clue where you are. You don't know anything. This is woods you've never been in before. You are deep in the heart of it. You are in the heart of the woods and you don't know where you're going and you find yourself stuck. And the problem that I think a lot of people have is we sit there and we overanalyze and make ourselves incredibly freaked out about the fact that we are stuck. And the more we think about it, the more stuck we feel and the more overwhelmed we feel. And pretty soon we are setting up camp right there in that place and trying to analyze what the best solution is. When honestly, sometimes you just gotta make a decision and go for it fully, knowing that it may lead to a roadblock, it may lead to a detour. That is what life is. Life is a series of detours like growth and never happens in your life. Growth never happens in your business and your relationships up until the right. It just doesn't. There are dips and there are turns and there are detours and there are mistakes and there are things that you navigate. And there's just a lot of that we gotta deal with in our life in order to reach the ultimate goal that we have.