Let Yourself Be Great‪!‬ Jacob Espinoza

“Our contract with life is a contract that is brokered with fragility, and with sadness, and with anxiety. And if we’re going to authentically and meaningfully be in this world, we cannot focus on one dimension of life and expect that focusing on that dimension is going to then give us a well-rounded life.”

Susan David's book Emotional Agility breaks down the importance of accepting the wide range of emotions we feel as part of the human experience, and the importance of understanding how to engage with them correctly instead of attempting to control them.

We need to move away from emotional rigidity and towards emotional agility.

She breaks Emotional Agility into four steps,

1. Showing Up (Taking a moment to feel our emotions and look at them with curiosity)
2. Stepping Out (Step away from our emotions and label them as something we are feeling instead of using them as a definition)
3. Walking Your Why (Take a moment to define your values)
4. Moving On (Making changes in your habits that align your time and actions with your values)

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“A great leader takes leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” - Rosalynn Carter

Todd Henry’s Herding Tigers connects the dots between concepts and practical application for leaders of creative teams. (Fact: If you are leading problem solvers, you are leading a creative team.)

A major problem new leaders face is that they are often hired for their skills as doers and not for their skills as leaders. This means there is an additional skill set necessary for them to be successful.

Keys to success:

> Give your team stability and challenge them
> Make sure your actions demonstrate to your team that you have their back
> Stop doing the work, shift from creator to leader
> Focus your team’s attention, give them the resources they need and keep them motivated (Focus, Function, Fire)
> Accept short-term failure as part of the learning curve when striving for long-term success
> Teach principles to gain influence
> Never excuse failure, use it as an opportunity to learn

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“Success demands singleness of purpose.”

Being great requires us to find The One Thing that gets us the most results and going ALL IN.

Keys to success taken from the book The ONE Thing:
> Identify and value what is most important
> Stop multitasking
> Focus on creating habits
> Use your willpower wisely
> Attend to only the things that are most important
> Think Big. Act Big. Win Big.

Perception. Action. Will.

The three disciplines of the Stoic philosophy are brought to live in Ryan Holidays book The Obstacle is the way.

This moment is powerful. How do we deal with the challenges that are thrown at us throughout each day?

Remeber: What gets in the way, becomes the way.

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Our second episode discussing the power of beginning with the end. Before we make a plan, we need to know where we are going. The concept is based off Stephen Covey's book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

Cheers,

Jacob Espinoza

The Second Habit of Stephen Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People, Begin With the End in Mind.

We need an end goal if we are going to give our lives meaning and direction.

The discussion revolves around the importance of goals, mission statements and taking time to define our values.

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