The Skater, The Entrepreneur and The Author of Your Own Story
Hi I'm Doug Holt with Author of Your Own Story and this is your daily growth hack
where each day we bring a tip trick or insight to help you up level what we
call the five - thrive that is your mind your body your soul your relationships
and your business last night someone asked me I said Doug what how do I know
when I see somebody that's actually living the author of your own story
lifestyle give me two examples just something that I can that I can look at
in other areas of life that I can really see I said easy that's really easy for
me to do and they looked at me in astonishment well why was it easy well
one the skater the skater is the perfect analogy right you see a skateboarder and
what are they doing they're trying tricks and they're eating it hard if you
watch there's tons of YouTube videos as well as Instagram channels dedicated to
this phenomenon so a skateboarder might be skating and trying a really
complicated trick and they might cut their head they might cut their hand
they might cut their leg but they try and try and try again
and maybe after the tenth attempt you know not only are they in pain but they
are just determined to get that trick accomplished and get it on film their
tenth attempt they try the trick and boom they land it and you could just see
the affor eeeh everybody goes nuts everybody goes crazy but the point is is
despite the pain despite the setbacks despite the failures they are trying and
trying again they are determined they are passionate and they are dedicated to
what they're trying to accomplish the same could be said for the entrepreneur
right I've never met an entrepreneur where every day or everything they've
done has just been easy it's not at all it's the day-to-day grind and I say
grind lightly right because grind can still be flow and I I use that term very
loosely but it's the day to day in the business the focused attempts at making
things work because they're feeling more often than not right failing all the
time but failing forward consciously failing forward and making sure that
they're following a path that works for them an entrepreneur somebody who you
know gets up me an analogy I love to use is an entrepreneur somebody's willing to
work 15 hours a day so they don't have to work for somebody else for eight
hours a day to get it I also caveat don't think
everybody should be an entrepreneur but they are by definition somebody who is
going to keep going over and over again despite failure they're gonna make
calculated risks but their passion is gonna take them forward the passion for
what they really want to do so same thing with the skater temps attempts
attempts are gonna get hurt they're gonna lose money lose employees all
kinds of things happen in business on a regular basis and if you're not too
preneur you I'm just talking to the choir here but if you're not you don't
see what's behind the scenes of these business owners and so it can be very
stressful and often times they're falling they're failing at falling
forward their funk flat in their face and they're dusting themselves off but
this is all behind the scenes right what you see on camera it aren't these
aspects just like a skater typically you see the great landing skating tricks
although there are again a few dedicated channels that show you those fails but
both of these categories both of these types of people I would say are really
dedicated to their craft and despite being hurt despite all these things
going against him they get up dust themselves off and keep trying and I
would say the same thing is to do with you someone who's out there trying to
live the author of your own story lifestyle somebody who is writing life
on their own terms who's living life they've kind of unplugged from the
matrix so to speak and you are actually your eyes are open and you're going
after your goals now it might not be easy at first especially if you haven't
built your tribe right especially if you haven't built those people around you
people having conversations like this one like the one you and I are having
right now if you haven't built that it makes it tougher because the people
around you just naturally want to pull you down a little bit and it's not their
fault it's just natural human instincts right you'd be like people don't like
change but as the author of your own story right as the author of your own
story individual person living that lifestyle it's up to you is every time
you fall is to dust yourself off and carry on not only for yourself although
that should be your main focus because this is your own story but also the
people around you you're gonna have so many silent observers of the way that
you're living your life the things that you're doing the things that are coming
out they're gonna be watching from the stands and some are gonna be naysayers
they're gonna be hoping that you fall so it makes excuses for themselves to not
be the authors of their own story but most people are gonna be watching to see
how it's done to see if it's really possible can
really live this lifestyle can you really live life on your own terms like
Doug keeps talking about the answer is absolutely yes and if you're listening
to this or have you've been listening to us and actually putting these work
practices in on a day to day basis you've experienced this as well and I'm
stumbling here a little bit because I do these off-the-cuff right I do these
without any plan but that's okay I fail but I don't let the fact that I don't
have a teleprompter and if the Lighting's not good I don't let any of
that stop me from just going out and doing it going out and try and go in
experimenting because the truth is as soon as I hit stop on this I'm going out
with my family we're going down to the river when it's been a beautiful day by
the river all day today and it's gonna be amazing
so I'm okay with failing forward and failing forward right here in this
particular instance so here's what I'm gonna ask you to do where in your life
are you not failing forward where you know you should be where are you not
being the skater that gets hurt and then dusts himself off and tries the trick
again despite then knowing that they're probably gonna get hurt or the
entrepreneur who's going out there risking it all putting it their self on
the line right for humiliation their money everything the family the work
everything on the line to be successful where are you not doing that in your
life and your five to thrive your mind your body your soul your relationships
in your business all five categories where are you playing small and then I
want you to rip that off I want you to tear that layer off of yourself and go
out there take the risk get injured but dust yourself off because just like the
skater you're gonna nail that trick in your life and that is what's gonna push
you forward that's it for me today as always remember go out and be the author
of your own story
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