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Welcome to Destin for success. I'm your

host, Jennifer Takagi, and this week I want to expand a little

bit on Chad Austin's conversation last week around

focus, like that was part of his talk, and focus always jumps out

to me, because focus is such an important thing. If we're not

focused on what we're doing, we make mistakes. We don't get the

best out of it, of whatever we're doing. So focus and

focusing your mindset on where you want the conversation to go,

how you want the meeting to turn out, whatever work product

you're working on. If you're focused on it, and you step in

to that activity, your mindset impacts it greatly. So are you

walking in with a negative mindset? Is it something you

don't want to do? Are you walking in just like, I'm just

going to do this because I have to get it done, chances are the

product that outcome will really reflect that so your intention,

your mindset, whether you're positive or negative, is going

to impact that outcome. I love that book that talks about and I

don't, I don't have the information in front of me.

Maybe I'll add it to the show notes. But this, I believe he

was a scientist. Took jars of water. All the jars were clean,

cleaned all the same way, filled with water from the same source,

and he talked very negatively to some of these jars of water, and

over time, those jars of water developed all kinds of fungus

and bacteria they they were not even potable, which I was pretty

impressed when I learned the word potable. That's where you

can't drink it. It's not fit for consumption. But the jar that he

talked to, lovingly and kindly remained clean and pure. So our

thoughts, our intentions, the words we use, really impact the

internet interaction, the activity that we're going to

have. So if you're going to speak to an employee, let's say,

and you walk in with a laundry list of mistakes they've made,

things they've done wrong, that conversation is going to go

downhill quickly, and there may not be room for recovery. It may

not be able to heal, but if you find the things that they do

well the skills that they bring to the table, then you can have

a conversation around how to improve those areas that aren't

up to par. But if you walk in with an attitude of, gotcha, I'm

going to get you, I'm going to destroy you, you probably are

and it's not going to be a good thing. But if you walk in with

the attitude of, I want to give you this tools, you need to do

your job better to have a better outcome, it's going to be a

whole different ball game. And if you've already focused on

what they do well and what they bring to the party, it's going

to be a much easier conversation than walking in focused and your

intent being on everything they did wrong. Any type of

disciplinary conversation is really supposed to change the

behavior. It is not a preamble to firing. I'm going to say that

again, any disciplinary conversation should be to change

behavior, not a preamble to fire someone. I'm an entrepreneur. I

have to do things. I may not love doing, but I love what they

bring me. I love that outcome. Sometimes, coming up with a

social media post can be difficult. I don't know why, but

I'm like, What am I going to talk about? Not that I don't

have 40,000 topics, but sometimes it's a little bit

harder. But I have to have a little chit chat with myself and

be like, oh, I want to do this social media post. Because why

do I want to do this? How is it going to impact me and whomever

happens to see it like, how is that going to work out?

Sometimes distractions are the killer of our focus. Talk about

car wrecks with people texting and driving, right? You're not

paying attention to what you're doing and what's going on around

you. The same thing happens in any other area of your life,

whether it is a home project, a work project. If you don't

eliminate the distractions holding you back, the outcome

and the product are not going to be what you wanted. They're not

going to be at the best. There are people who are very specific

that their work area has to be. Clean, neat and tidy, or they

cannot concentrate, they cannot do the work for me. That's not

really case. That's really not the problem. I just need a deaf

space around me that I could do the work. I have not really

completely embraced the whole paperless society yet, and in my

last job, I really hadn't either. I had papers everywhere.

However, I pretty much knew where the stuff was. Could I

have done things quicker if things had been all filed and

put away, maybe, but when I knew what stack they were in, and

then I had to dig through drawers to find it once I filed

everything, um, that, in the end, made it a little bit harder

for me. So all kinds of questions and possibilities on

the outcome of that, like, what is your environment? If you know

there's something broken in your house and you work from home,

your mind might just continually go back to that, like, Gosh, I

really need to call somebody. I really need to get that fixed.

Is it distracting you and holding you back from doing what

you really want to do and or need to do it? Really can those

things, kind of things can really drive you insane. I have

a friend who really has to have everything perfect before any

work gets done, and a lot of times that that outer world, the

world around us, if it's not in order, our inner world, can be

in turmoil and not quite right. Not everybody has the ability to

cut out those distractions. I recently had a conversation with

somebody in a a workman was at their house repairing an

appliance, and as I'm hearing all the drama unfold with the

appliance, I thought, just buy a new one. Like, it's not that

expensive to have just replaced this small appliance. And I

learned that firsthand. We bought a refrigerator with a

freezer, and it had an ice maker in it, and the ice maker kept

going out, like, I don't know how many times it went out, and

at one point they sent somebody from a different company,

because this was through the warranty. And the guy said,

Ma'am, like, for $50 I can just put a new ice maker in, and the

labor will be about 20 because it's not going to take me any

time at all. And I was like, do that. I had taken off work

literally four times to come home to get this ice maker

fixed. I had to take leave 30 minutes before I needed to be

home. And then all the time I was home. And then, you know,

you get a window of when they come that was the biggest

distraction all the way around. And the first time the person

came out, they could have just put in a whole new ice maker. It

cost them more money to buy the part to put in there and fix it

than a brand new ice maker would have been. That seems simple,

but that was distracting me from getting my work done, because

now I had fewer hours in the day multiple times. I'm telling you,

multiple times it was at least four till we got it fixed, and I

couldn't get my work done, or I had a much shorter period of

time to get it done. This is in the times when when you had to

physically go into the office all the time. You weren't given

the opportunity to work from home at all. You were either at

work or on leave. So what distractions are out there? Are

you fighting with your computer? Is it not working correctly?

That is a distraction from your focus. If your things aren't

working right, you can't get the job done. Jack Canfield, in his

book The success principles, really talks about things that

he calls incomplete. What is incomplete or undone in your

life that is distracting you from doing the work you're

really meant to be doing. And one of the exercises is to make

a list. And there was someone. It might have been him, I can't

remember now, but someone's garage door didn't open, and

whenever he came home, he had to park the car, get out of the

car, open the garage door, get in the car, pull the car in,

turn it off, get out and physically pull the garage door

down. And he had picked up someone that was coming to stay

at their house from the airport. And he pulls up, and he stops

and gets out and goes through his whole production of the

garage door up and car moved, and all that, and the visitors

said, So, how long have you been tolerating that? How long have

you been tolerating that? So, what is it that you are

tolerating in your life that is causing the distraction from

having the focus? Need to have to show up the way you want to

show up.

We always take out our frustrations on the ones we

love. We shouldn't, but that's what we do. That's what we do.

That's how this runs. So eliminate as many distractions

as possible. Get the things that are broken fixed, get them

thrown away if they just need to be thrown away, but make your

environment physically, emotionally and spiritually.

Make those environments as tidy as you need them to be, so that

you can be as productive as possible. You can have that

focus, and it's in the right area. Another piece, the last

piece I want to talk about on this today is alignment creates

momentum. Alignment creates momentum. I have spent so many

hours, I don't even want to say how many hours that probably led

to weeks, that probably led to months, working on things that

really weren't in alignment with me, what I wanted to do, how I

wanted to show up in the world. And it's time that's lost time

is that one commodity that we can't replace in any way, shape

or form. So are you aligned with what you want to be doing? I

know there are people probably listening who are like, I have

this job. I have to keep this job. So, I mean, I'm just going

through the motions. I have to have this job. Well, if you're

new to me, you may not have heard this. If you've heard it

before, maybe it will land differently for you. You made a

choice to take that job. Nobody forced you to take that job.

Nobody forced you to take that job. If you said yes to that

position, then you're saying yes to showing up as your full best

self and do that job to the best of your ability. Brendon

Burchard often calls it summoning your best. He's he

uses that in a lot of his books and podcasts. Summon your best

to do your job the best you can and identify the ways that job

is fulfilling you is the pay good so you're able to have the

lifestyle that you want. Do you enjoy the clientele that you

serve? Do you feel good having the answers? I heard somebody

say the other day, man, I feel really great when I'm able to

answer somebody's question and it's the right answer and it

helps them move further along. What is it about that job, that

career, that field you've chosen that brings purpose? I didn't

always do tasks that I loved in my career in housing as an

entrepreneur, there are tasks I do that, I don't love either,

but they're part of the bigger picture. So is there alignment

with what you're doing, the task you're doing that fulfills a

bigger purpose? Because finding that alignment, which is not

always hard to do, sometimes it is, but mostly people can find

that alignment pretty quickly, you find that alignment and your

momentum is just it's going to be off the charts. When I made

this shift from doing strictly black and white, very strategic

leadership development training, and got more into the woo space

and the energy healing and clearing the blocks that are

holding people back. It's so much easier to show up and do

what I want to do, because I love it. I enjoy it. I was in an

event recently in Miami, and because people are amazing and

they make wonderful referral recommendations, I was referred

to several people that they needed to work with me, and at

the end of those few days of Miami, it was like, I can't quit

doing what I'm doing, even if I want to, because I love this. I

love doing what I do. I love impacting people's lives in a

positive way, and I love being able to sit back and watch them

flourish, doing what they want to do. So when it comes to your

focus, check your thoughts and your mindset before you start

the project. Eliminate those internal and external

distractions that are going to keep you from really giving it

your all and then align what you're doing with your calling,

having that clarity that this is what you want to be doing, or

it's a piece of a bigger picture. Even if you don't love

this little piece, it feeds a bigger piece. And the momentum

comes and the shifts come and things happen most. Faster. I'm

Jennifer Takagi with destin for success, I would love to have a

chat with you. Click the link, book a call, and let's see

what's going on in your world. And if there's any way that I

can possibly make it better, I look forward to connecting with

you soon.

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