EP161 Cut Yourself Some Slack; You Aren’t Supposed to Be Good at First

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Transcript

Episode 161

[INTRODUCTION]

KC: 

OK. Welcome to the Business of Life Podcast. My name is Keith Callahan, your host. And this morning, well, I’m recording this morning, you might not be listening in the morning though. Today, I want to talk to you about, really about that when you first start something, you are not supposed to be good at it.

So, a lot of people think that, “Oh man! I want to get this right. I really want to get it right” out of the gates. And I personally believe that that’s the wrong philosophy. It’s the wrong philosophy because until you start doing something, you’re not going to know what you need to do to make it right.

So for example, I just recently started a new venture. Each month, I am – so I’m working with this company called Podcast Connections. And what they are doing is they are scheduling me each month on four different podcast episodes. So I’m really excited about it, excited to be connecting with new people. Yeah, I’m just – I’m pumped up about it.

And I had my first interview yesterday. I had an interview on the show, Stick Like Glue. So Stick Like Glue with Jim Palmer. And I kind of thought it’s stunk. Like I thought that when I did it, my message wasn’t clear. I didn’t have a clear direction on where I was telling people to go, what I was telling people to do. I felt that my stories were kind of all over the place. They weren’t like really to the point.

And yeah, honestly, I felt like and I know that I can do a lot better. And I get off the recording and I was like, “Man, that wasn’t good.” Like it really wasn’t good and I was kind of bummed out about it.

All these things ran through my head. What if – maybe the host is going to call the company that I’m booking with and he’s going to tell the company like, “I don’t know if you should continue booking this guy. He’s not that good.” And maybe like other people are going to start – this whole entire thing.

And I was like, “You know what? Anything I’ve started, I’m bad at.” Like if there’s anything that I’m good at, it’s just persistence and really working through. Like I don’t have that natural ability.

I remember when I was in the seventh grade, our seventh grade basketball coach announced the – we went through, we did all of our practices and our seventh grade basketball coach announced the starters for the first game. And he announced me as a starter. And literally, other people on the team started snickering because they thought that was a joke because I was that bad like I stunk. But the coach had said that the reason he was announcing me as a starter is because I had a deeper work ethic than anyone else on the team and I was willing to go above and beyond and a 110%.

So it’s something – like I’m proud of that. Like I’m proud of the ability to work through things and I’m also proud that I’m very comfortable not being good in the beginning. And if you’re looking to go places in your life, if you’re looking to make changes, if you’re looking to get out of where you’re at, like sometimes we just get so stuck of where at, if you’re looking to do that, you have to be comfortable with being uncomfortable. You have to be comfortable with not being the best right away, like you’re not going to be good right away.

And here’s the important piece. Like you can prepare for the beginning but what you’re really going to learn and the changes you’re going to make and how you’re going to get better is just through doing.

So whatever it is that you’re thinking about doing, that you’re wanting to take the next step and if you’re worried that you’re not going to be good, it’s OK. It’s OK to not be good. It’s OK to make mistakes. It’s OK to fall on your face.

And when we do that, when we make those mistakes, we fall on our face and we get up and we keep going and we realized that, “Oh, that wasn’t so bad. I didn’t die.” So yeah, allow yourself to stink in the beginning.

Have a beautiful day. We’ll catch you on the next episode.

[FINAL MESSAGE]

KC:  Hey, Keith here, and today I have a free gift for you. Listen this free gift is a list of the 12 most influential books that I’ve ever read. These are the books that have helped me to create the mindset, learn the philosophies, learn the skills to really create this big, beautiful, life that we’re living now.

I read a crazy amount of books, I really do. I’ve probably read thousands of books and these are the top 12 books that – they’re the ones that I go to, they’re the ones that I work with over, and over, and over again. They are highlighted, outlined, dog-eared. And I put this list together for you because I want it to be a shortcut.

I don’t want you to have to – you don’t have to go out and read the thousands and thousands of books. These are the 12 that I highly recommend. I have a detailed review for each book, explaining why I recommend them, why I like them, when I worked with them in my life, what part of my life they helped me to improve.

So I put this together for you, and made it super each for you to get this list. All you have to do is send a text to the number 33444 and then in the body of that text, type in “12books” with no space. So that’s the number “12books”. Again, send the text message to the number, address it to 33444 and then type in “12books” as the message and just send that. And that’ll get you setup to receive those top 12 most influential books that have had the biggest impact on my life.

[SPONSOR MESSAGE]

KC: Today’s episode is brought to you by our sister podcast, All About Beachbody Coaching. So All About Beachbody Coaching really allows us to do this podcast without having all those annoying commercials in the beginning for you. So All About Beachbody Coaching, the Beachbody business that Amy and I run, actually funds this podcast.

So yes, it does cost money to run this podcast, we do not charge you anything, we don’t throw in commercials or anything like that, it really is, it’s funded by our business and by our other podcast, All About Beachbody Coaching. And for me, I’m just eternally grateful for this opportunity because it’s allowed me to really create the life that I love to live.

It’s given me the opportunity to do what I want, when I want, with who I want, and even deeper than that, it’s allowed me to help others to create the same for themselves. It’s allowed me to help hundreds of other people become part time or full time Beachbody coaches, to leave that corporate 9 to 5 job and create passive income in their lives.

And really there’s nothing like that. It’s cool when you have success, it’s so much more rewarding when you help others. So I mention this or a few reasons, the first reason is, that’s actually the way that I work with people and mentor people. I don’t do anything outside of Beachbody coaching because I know that it’s such a powerful life changing tool.

So if you’re curious about working with me, interested in working one-on-one, interested in creating the type of life that you wanna live, I suggest swinging over there. The other reason is, even if somebody’s just curious, like you’ve heard about Beachbody, you know there’s a lot of Beachbody coaches out there. Maybe some of them you get a little annoyed with.

It really dives into what this business is really about, which is life transformation. So if you’re just curious, swing over there. And then the other piece is, if you’re really considering becoming a Beachbody coach, I highly, highly recommend you listen to that first.

Alright, much love guys. Again, that is the All About Beachbody Coaching Podcast, our sister podcast.

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