Welcome to this week's episode of Constructive Liberty, where we explore ways to live a more fulfilling and meaningful life. Today, we'll be discussing the five keys to an impactful life: purpose, mindset, relationships, health, and wealth. These are the five core areas that can help you live a life filled with impact, joy, and happiness.

1 Purpose:

In this segment, we'll talk about the importance of having a clear purpose in life and how it can shape your decisions and direction. Understanding your purpose can help you find meaning in what you do and give you a sense of direction. We'll discuss practical ways to uncover your purpose and how to align your daily actions with it.

2 Mindset:

A growth mindset can have a significant impact on your life, and in this segment, we'll talk about how to cultivate it. We'll discuss the difference between a fixed and growth mindset, and why having a growth mindset can lead to more success, happiness, and impact. We'll also talk about practical ways to shift your mindset and make it a habit.

3 Relationships:

The relationships we have with others can have a profound impact on our lives. In this segment, we'll talk about the importance of nurturing healthy relationships and how they can contribute to our overall happiness and well-being. We'll also discuss how to build strong relationships, maintain healthy boundaries, and communicate effectively with others.

4 Health:

Our physical and mental health plays a critical role in our overall well-being and can impact every aspect of our lives. In this segment, we'll talk about the importance of taking care of your health, both physically and mentally. We'll discuss practical tips for maintaining a healthy lifestyle, managing stress, and prioritizing self-care.

5 Wealth:

Having a solid financial foundation can provide stability and security, and can also contribute to a sense of independence and freedom. In this segment, we'll talk about the importance of financial literacy and smart money management. We'll discuss practical ways to build wealth, manage debt, and plan for the future.

In conclusion, the five keys to an impactful life – purpose, mindset, relationships, health, and wealth – are interrelated and can have a profound impact on your overall well-being and happiness. By prioritizing these areas, you can live a life filled with purpose, joy, and impact.

Hey guys and gals, welcome back to another Monday evening live stream. As always, bringing you the best strategies, tech tools and mindset to create a life and career you love.

Tonight we're talking about something that I often talk about in bits and pieces. I actually did a live stream about three weeks ago, I believe on the first of the keys that I think are key,

to living a life of impact.

To having the impact that we wanna have in life.

And I think that we all do want to have an impact in life because what else are we living for except to impact other people?

So we're talking tonight about five keys to an impactful life.

But before we get into that, I want to remind you guys, I started an online community for guys to come together to find purpose and fulfillment and create success.

Reaching the next level of growth and impact in your personal, professional and spiritual lives.

I created that community because, well, I mean, I was seeking to be around other people that also one of those things. So I couldn't find that kind of a community, so I created it on my own.

So if you're interested in joining that, you can reach out to me, coach, at kennethash.com or find me on any of the social medias and just express your interest in joining that community for guys, love to invite you in.

We're talking about five keys to an impactful life. So what I'm gonna do is give you each of the five keys And then I'm going to talk about each one individually.

And at the end, I'll go through and kind of bullet point what we talked about. So let's just jump right into it.

The first of the five keys to a life of impact is purpose. Now I talked a couple of weeks ago, I think it was three weeks ago about purpose. I went.

Into that pretty deep. I don't know that I came up with a lot of answers, but I asked a lot of questions that could help you find your purpose. I know they've they've gone a long way in helping me find my purpose. Now life purpose refers,

to with the reasons or goals that drive a person's existence, that give meaning to.

A person's life. It's often combined, there is a combination of a person's talents, their values, passions, personality, and it gives a person, you know, a sense of

direction and fulfillment.

A lot of people come up with a purpose statement for their life. I don't necessarily have a purpose statement.

I do have a mission statement on a sticky note up there behind my computer screen, behind my little camera there, and my mission statement goes like this, to be free, to live with purpose

on purpose, and to embody all that Yahweh or God has created me to be.

My purpose in life goes right along with that. That is to help others become everything that they were created to be, to help other people fulfill their unlimited potential.

I believe that we as humans have unlimited potential to do great things, to do awesome things. Not all of us want to do big, huge works or big, huge things.

Not all of us want to have a massive impact on millions of people.

But I believe that we can if we tap into our unlimited potential.

I think that so often we only utilize a tiny portion portion of the potential we've been given. And I want to use everything that I've been given, that's my mission in life, and my purpose is to also help other,

people unlock their full potential as well. So for so many people, purpose is like some far-out, woo-woo, difficult to achieve thing. It's challenging. It's,

It's often a lifelong journey that people take.

It's an epic journey like Lord of the Rings. Their purpose is so hard to find. I don't think it's that super difficult. I've kind of distilled it down into something pretty easy.

Your gifts, your talents, your abilities, your skills, your passion, your values, and your personality in creating a difference in the lives of other people. That is our purpose in a nutshell.

It's.

And so often we have such a hard time finding our purpose, or we make it a lot more of a difficult thing than it really needs to be. So one way that you can start finding your purpose or exploring what your life purpose is or if you even need one is to figure out what brings you joy, what,

brings fulfillment, like what do you love doing, what are you good at? Think about the things that,

you're passionate about, the things you're interested in, your values, your strengths, and how can you combine those things to reach out to other people? What is the impact that you want to have in the world? How can you help others? Maybe it's something like making music.

Are you an artist? I guess both of those are art. But are you a good painter? Or are you a good carpenter and you can build great houses? What is the thing that you can make a difference in the,

world with. A positive difference. So life purpose isn't always for everybody a one-time discovery.

I mean I say, let me change that a little bit. It's not always, purpose is a little bit different.

Here's what I have written down. Life purpose is not always a one-time discovery, but it's an ongoing process of self-discovery and growth.

So as we go through life, sometimes how we express or how we live out our purpose can change.

So 10 years ago, my purpose was working with youth. It was helping kids, 10 year old, 12, 13, 15, 18 year old kids figure out who they were.

Figure out that they weren't messed up. They weren't broken like the school system would have them believe or they actually mattered in the world.

It was giving them a sense of, I'm actually important. I matter. I can go do something. I don't have to be stuck in this place where I'm at right now.

That was my purpose or how I lived it out 10, 12 years ago.

That's changing how I express that these days.

It's not always a straightforward thing. Your purpose is not always like, you don't always know how to express it. Sometimes it's a, I don't really know what my purpose is, but I kind of know how I'm living it out.

Like I mentioned earlier, I don't have a purpose statement, but my mission statement kind of ties right into it. So some of us have a lot of different passions and interests.

Other people, they're like, I don't even know what I'm interested in. I don't even know. Like I'm stuck on that.

So sometimes we just need to reach out to a friend and be like, hey, look, can you help me out here? What are some things that I'm good at? What are some things that you see me light up when I'm doing those things?

Some people need to reach out to a therapist or a counselor or a purpose coach like me We also have to remember that Your life purpose is.

I think that our work ties directly into life purpose. Work is a huge part of life. Like for most people, work is probably 75% at least of their waking hours.

And that's a huge portion of your life to not be living doing something that you love, to not be expressing your purpose, what you were created to do.

It's a huge portion of life and if you can tie work into your purpose, then great. And that's so much better. If not, it's not the end of the world. It also,

you know, your purpose can encompass your relationships, your personal growth, and how you impact your community. Your purpose includes your whole life. Nothing

should be left out. So when you live in alignment with your purpose, sometimes you have to take risks. Sometimes you have to step outside of your comfort zone and be open to change. But life is so much more enjoyable when you are living.

There. It brings you meaning and direction to your life. Okay? All right, we're gonna move on from that one. I'll bullet point the things at the end. The The second key to an impactful life is mindset.

If you're struggling with your mindset, you need to go listen to the Mindset Mentor podcast. He has, I don't know, if you don't like hearing the F word a lot, don't listen to the podcast.

He talks a lot about mindset and he's got some really good stuff to say on improving your mindset.

Your mindset is one of those things that is crucial for your personal growth and your overall well-being. It helps you to tackle challenges, helps you to live a fulfilling life. Okay, we talked about fulfilling life with purpose as well. So a negative mindset holds you back and it can contribute to the stress and anxiety,

that you see on a day-to-day basis.

And it's really a... It perpetuates itself.

Negative mindset. It brings you stress and anxiety which further degrades your mindset. So it's kind of a snowball rolling down a hill growing larger and.

Larger and picking up speed and pretty soon nothing can stand in its path and it takes a massive mountain to break up the snowball. You know what started out

as a little snowball. I've never seen that in real life but I've always heard that analogy. So it's what came to me here. So here's a few tips for

improving your mindset and developing a more positive outlook on life. And I don't do all of these. I'm working hard at implementing more and more of them,

but these are things that I'm working towards including in my day-to-day life,

in my everyday life. It's a struggle building positive habits and breaking bad ones. Anyway, let's jump into I think 10 things that you do to improve your

mindset and develop a more positive outlook on life. The first one is to practice gratitude every single day. It's so easy to see the negative side of life.

It's so easy to see how dumpy things are to see The direction that the world is gone be like ah world's going to hell in a handbasket like yeah Well, it kind of is but how good is your life? How much better is your life?

Than the next person or then somebody over in another country how?

How Find 10 things you can easily find 10 things about your life that are fan freaking tastic For one do you have air conditioning in your house?

Right now you might need heat, but do you have heat in your house? You know, that's a pretty big plus. helps you sleep at night when

when it's not 30 degrees in your house. You know, that's kind of nice. That's a pretty big thing. How about this? Do you have a job?

Are you able to work a job?

You know, if you are capable of working a job and there's jobs available, like what's holding you back?

A podcast that I listened to, Dan Miller 48 Days podcast, He said in one of his most recent episodes that somebody asked him a question about money.

Like, how can I do something, something, something if I don't have the money for it?

And he said there's a lot of things that we need in life. I think there's, I can't remember how many keys he listed in life.

He said money is the easiest one to overcome or lack of money is the easiest one to overcome. So think of all the things that you have to be grateful for and start practicing

gratitude every day just as you sit down to your daily devotions or meditation time or whatever your ritual is in the morning. Think of the things that you have to be grateful for. As you brew your pot of coffee be grateful that you are able to drink a good cup of coffee. Hopefully you're drinking good coffee,

right? Holla roast? If you're not you should be. The second thing you can do to improve your mindset is to set realistic and achievable goals. Having goals to

work for gives you a sense of purpose and direction. No going back to that purpose thing. But having goals gives you something to work for and when you're stuck in a negative mindset it's often because you feel like you have nothing,

to work towards. You have no purpose. You have nothing great in life.

But when you see.

It gives you something to work towards. It keeps you looking forward, focused outside of yourself on other things.

So set realistic achievable goals. Third thing is to surround yourself with positive people. They say that you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

I even posted that on my Twitter account today. You should go follow me, Ken underscore E-A-S-H, Ken Esch. Go follow me, connect with me on Twitter.

You can like and share my stuff if nothing else or comment on it.

But you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

If the people that you surround yourself with are not lifting you up, if they do not have a more positive attitude than you have, then you need to be around different people.

The fourth thing is to practice self-care, taking care of your physical health and your mental health, it adds to the positive mindset that we have.

You know, you need to exercise, proper nutrition, getting enough sleep. Those are things that build up your mindset.

Those are things that boost your mood and reduce stress. Remember, we talked about the negativity compounds itself and just keeps you know running your mind set down. Number five, limit,

exposure to news and social media. I say you could probably eliminate news altogether and definitely limit the social media. Kind of interesting, I was

talking with my wife today and she has been on an Instagram fast and she said today she went to check something out that I had shared with her and told her about and 30 minutes later she realized she was scrolling reels. That is a,

destructive habit and it's I do the same thing like all of a sudden I realize,

because what am I doing?

So limit the news and social media. Number six is to challenge negative thoughts. Get a drink here.

It is natural for us to have negative thoughts from time to time. But what we need to do is to recognize when we have a negative thought, like, oh, I just hate myself for doing that.

Like that is not a constructive thought. And we are the constructive Liberty podcast. So everything needs to build towards the life we want to live.

So as you have a negative thought, capture that thought, like grab it right out of your brain, pull it out and hold it in your hand out here.

Make sure you keep a tight grasp on it so it can't get away and look at it like study it. OK, where is this coming from?

Study that thought until you can figure out where the thought came from.

What's causing that thought?

What's bringing that into your mind? You don't need that negative thought. Change it.

If your thought is, I'm so stupid, I can't do anything. I'm a failure.

Change the thought to, You know what? I don't know how to do that, but I'm capable of learning.

I failed when I tried the first time, but I'm capable of learning, so therefore I will learn how to do it better until I succeed.

That will give you the growth mindset. Number seven is to engage in mindfulness activities. Things like prayer, meditation, deep breathing exercises.

When you get stressed, go into those areas to help calm yourself down. Kind of funny.

When I was a kid, I used to annoy the daylights out of my older sister.

And she I don't know where she heard it, but she heard that you should count to ten slowly.

To ten slowly when you're angry so you don't lash out and break something. She wanted to break me.

So she would count one, two, three and so I would count along with her and she would then she wouldn't make it to ten before she would blow up. So those some of those things you can do but you You have to be around the right people to make sure that they don't sabotage those,

the calming activities, you know, to get your mindset in the right place.

The eighth thing is to keep a growth mindset. That means embracing challenges, viewing failures that we talked about earlier as opportunities for growth and learning instead of seeing it as simply a setback.

Just focus on what you can learn from the experience and use that knowledge to grow in the future. The ninth thing is to practice forgiveness.

When you hold on to those things, like every grudge that you hold on to is like another big rock in your backpack.

You're carrying around all the weight of those things that you should be letting go of. So if you can forgive and let go of those things.

Too many people think forgive and forget. I don't believe that forgiveness means that that person is not accountable for what they've done.

Forgiveness is you letting go of the responsibility to hold them accountable for it.

It doesn't mean letting them back in to hurt you. It means letting go of the responsibility to make them pay for what they've done.

And then the 10th thing is seeking help if needed. Don't be afraid to go to a friend, to go to a therapist, a counselor, a coach,

somebody that can help you change the negative mindset to think more positively and to move forward in life.

So improving your mindset does take time and effort, but it is worth it. Again, if you don't mind some F-bombs, go check out the Mindset Mentor Podcast. He's got a lot on mindset.

He is the Mindset Mentor Podcast. So go check him out. The third key to an impactful life is the relationships that you have.

I mentioned a few minutes ago, you're the average or the sum of the five people you spend the most time with. So the better relationships you have, the better people that you're around.

Is going to raise the impact that you're capable of giving in life. The impact that you're capable of having on other people.

Relationships, even for us introverts, are a vital part of human life.

I believe, and I'm somebody who doesn't need to be around people a lot.

I'm not saying I don't like people. I do like people.

But I don't need to be around people a lot. I like to some of the time.

But I believe relationships are one of the most important things in life.

Relationships being people reaching other people.

Everything in life that we do has to do with the relationships that we have. in life. If you don't have any relationships, most people that don't have any relationships

do not like their life. So a strong healthy relationship can bring you happiness, security,

it adds to the fulfillment that we feel in life. But maintaining those relationships is not easy. It takes a lot of effort. It takes compromise for both parties. The first,

step to having those strong relationships is clear and open communication. So especially in a marriage relationship. But any kind of relationship requires clear, open, honest communication, whether that is between two partners in business, or between a boss and an

employee or friend to friend. Like my best friend is not going to like it if I lie to him all the time. If I'm hiding.

My true thoughts and feelings and I don't ever share. He's not going to like it if he asked me a question and I give him a veiled answer and I just beat around the bush. Communication has to be open, has to be respectful, and you have to listen.

That is one of the biggest parts of communication is actually listening. Like, it's kind of interesting.

I was reading a book a while back and this guy was a really good listener and he would have people tell him that he was such an interesting person.

But 90% of the time all he did was listen and ask the other person about themselves. So listening is a huge part of relationships. Another part of relationships is trust. You know, I talked about being veiled or being honest.

If somebody does not share, if they're not open, you can't trust them. And a strong relationship can't be built without trust.

The other side of that is compromise. You know, when two people are in a relationship, any kind of relationship, business, a romantic relationship or anything, there's got to be compromise.

I don't care. It doesn't matter. There's always compromise in a relationship. Two peep-

Going to have the exact same opinion and want the exact same thing So something's got to give or the relationship will fall apart.

Every good strong relationship or friendship is built on common goals and interests So with my best friend, we both love wakeboarding. We both love snowboarding. We both love watching Georgia Bulldogs football,

We both really like fishing. I like fishing. He loves fishing So those are common interests and goals and when when a relationship has those things to build around,

It's so much easier to maintain it. It goes so much farther. It's so much more impactful It's so much it contributes so much more to a life of fulfillment.

So moving on to the fourth key to a life of impact and that is your health So many people, if you go out in public and look around, by far the vast majority of the people are overweight, out of shape, wheezing, can't breathe right, just...

In a word, I mean, honestly, often when I go out in public, I look around and I'm disgusted.

Take care of yourselves. Come on. What are you thinking? Like how can you live life.

At 350 pounds and you waddle around, you know, your arms are hanging out on your side. Now I know some people have issues that they haven't been able to get a hold of. Some people

say they have issues they can't help but it's because they haven't taken care of themselves to begin with. Okay, off my soapbox. There's a lot of different elements of health. There's your physical health, your mental health, your social health, your spiritual health,

your emotional health. All of those things, your mental health even, maybe I said that, I did. All of those things contribute to your overall health. They contribute to the quality,

of your life. If you don't have your physical health, like if you're eating junk food, you're.

Drinking all the time, you're smoking cigarettes, you're eating another Big Mac or a Twinkie or another ice cream, seriously, I'm like, come on. Your quality of life goes downhill.

If I do all of those things, then half of the things that my buddy and I enjoy doing together are out the window. I can't wakeboard anymore, I can't snowboard anymore, I won't fit in the boat to go fishing. All of those things. Your mental,

health is another one. You know we talked about your mindset. Exercise helps out with your mental health. You know the social connections that you have.

There's so many different things that contribute to your mental health. Your social health, which has to do with all your relationships that we just talked.

About. All of those things contribute to the quality of your life. You need to Find what works for you and maintain.

It takes to maintain a level of health that contributes positively to your life. Sleep is something that most of us don't get enough of. I don't get enough sleep.

You know, I typically wake up at 4 30 or 5 o'clock and if I get to bed after 9, you know, 9 o'clock is what 7 hours of sleep? 7 and a half, no it would be 7 and a half to 8 hours of sleep.

And that's assuming I sleep every minute of that. I don't usually. The dog wants to go out, I toss and turn, the rain is loud. So many different things take away from the sleep. So that's,

another aspect of health. If you want to talk about diet, there's so many different opinions out there, I'm of the belief that you have to find what works for you. You need to find

what healthy eating is, and it ain't ice cream and Twinkies, I promise. Find out what your body,

responds best to, and then get on that and stay on it. Stick with it long enough to be a transformed person. I'm going to move on from from all of that. I'm looking through some of my notes here.

The last key, since we're getting on about 30 minutes and I usually like to end it around 30 minutes, the last key is one that I am working on building for myself. I don't have all the answers,

here. I've observed a lot of people and I know what works the best for most people. And there's a.

Lot of different avenues or railways or paths to get to achieve it.

Still working on finding Mon. But the last key, key number five, is wealth.

That's not required to impact other people. It's not. I laid out these five keys in order of not necessarily importance, but in order of I think effectiveness or in order of maybe,

be kind of importance because I mean if you don't have purpose in life it's.

Hard to impact other people. You know it doesn't matter how wealthy you are you have no purpose so how are you positively impacting other people? You,

can have all the relationships in the world but if you don't have a purpose yeah I mean you might have impact on some people but if you have your purpose And you have a positive mindset and you have strong relationships and you're in good health,

You know you can have a lot of impact with those four things the wealth,

magnifies that like exponentially They say I forget who it was. I heard say this said that wealth,

Doesn't make the person It simply magnifies who you are It expands on who you already are as a person.

So if you're a rotten person, if you are somebody who is very negative and is, yeah, just a Debbie Downer all the time and you come into wealth, if you're a spender, if you blow every

dollar that you get and you come into great wealth, you're just going to become more of,

that kind of person.

If you are somebody who has a.

It has great relationships, it has good health. Your wealth is going to.

Exponentially magnify the potential for impact that you have in the world.

So the thing that I've found that works best for the most people and the path that I am trying to follow until I find another one, I'm exploring different paths, but the one that I try to stick to the best is this.

Creating a budget and tracking expenses and then saving as much as possible. So, you know, right now, my wife and I are at a time of our life when money's tight.

You know, we've got a whole farm that we're trying to take care of. We're trying to build a house. We're restructuring our businesses to try to save more money.

But in the process of trying to save on taxes, we're having to restructure our pay schedules and all of those things.

And it's creating a crunch in life.

So we don't have a ton of money. A budget helps with that. It doesn't limit what we're allowed to do.

It does. I mean, a budget limits what you're allowed to do, but a budget is not something that says, no, you're not allowed to do anything.

But a budget is simply you saying, this is what I want to spend my money on and making sure it goes to those things. So if you can create a budget, track your expenses and find every area possible to save.

Like don't spend a month trying to knock $10 off your phone bill, okay?

Spend an hour trying to knock $10 off your phone bill. Because if you do that over a year, $10 a month off your phone bill is 120 bucks. That hour was probably worth it.

But spending a month knocking a few cents off of it, that's not worth it. So find what makes sense.

And put your time and effort into those places where you can save money.

Another thing that you can do, which I'm trying to do as well, is identifying things that you have around the house or around the farm, around the shop, or wherever, things that you don't use a lot, and then selling them.

Take pictures, list them on Craigslist or Facebook Market, or I don't know, there's 10,000 places

you can sell it. But do those things. The next thing is to save regularly, like setting up automatic transfers to a savings account that you don't touch. That's super hard to do because when you need money, it's like, hey, there's that savings account that I've been putting money in for the last three months. I need that money. It's hard to leave that alone. Trust me, I know. The third thing is to pay off high interest debt, all debt really. But starting with the high interest ones, the bigger,

Dave Ramsey has the snowball method, you know, starting with the bigger debts and then you You put all that money towards the next step.

Debt. Some people like to calculate the interest, like where will they save the most money if they will let go? Is it the highest debt or is it the highest interest debt? So you're going to have to

figure out what works for you, but paying that off so that you can then put that money into savings and investments. And then if you're an employee, take advantage of your employee-sponsored retirement

packages and all the tax benefits and pre-tax investments and all of those things. I have only been an employee for like two years of my life so I'm not

sure what all goes into that. I'm trying to figure that out as I restructure my business and I don't love all of the things that go along with it, all the tax implications, all the just want to pull my hair out but we're having a positive mindset here. You need to also continuously educate yourself about,

about personal finance and investing.

And then the last thing is patience. You have to be patient because building wealth for most people takes time and it typically grows slowly.

Dave Ramsey, I follow him on Instagram. So I think he just posted something that said.

Two out of three, or is it one out of three millionaires, people that retire, millionaires did not have a six figure income.

So that is slow, consistent growth over time, investing everything you can, putting aside, being smart with your money. It doesn't take a massive income to grow your wealth.

It does if you wanna do it fast, but slow, consistent growth. Remember the story about the tortoise and the hare? The turtle won the race.

I'd rather be faster and,

discipline and patience of the turtle but it's an ASAP fable. So again, create a budget, save regularly, pay off all your debts, invest wisely, take advantage of

the benefits if you have those, and continuously educate yourself. Read books,

attend workshops, all of the things that you can do to knowledge about how to to become better with money. You have to be learning always. And then patience. So again,

the five keys to a life of maximum impact is purpose, mindset, relationships, health, and wealth.

That's all I've got for tonight. We're at almost 40 minutes. I hope you enjoyed it. In the future, I'm going to probably expand a lot more on these go a lot deeper into them. I love having,

guests on to talk about these things and If you're watching this live.

Tomorrow which is Tuesday at 4 30 p.m. Central time I'm actually chatting with John Moody the founder of rogue food conference and we're talking about,

building a profitable family business, this is a man who has has built a profitable family farm with a lot of different ventures.

So it's going to be a really fun conversation. Again, that's at 430 Central Time on Tuesday, January the 31st.