I got the privilege to be a guest in Learning From Others Podcast. It was a blast taking to Damon Burton. What a swell guy!
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In today’s show Danny Sunshine Bauer and Aaron Walker discuss how to take your business to the next level of success and build one on the foundation of significance. This is a long game. There are no shortcuts, but you can do it. Danny and Aaron are here to tell you how.
“According to Seth Godin in This is Marketing business owners can’t be seen until they learn how to see.” - Danny Sunshine Bauer
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See What….See Who?
According to Danny, many business owners have it all wrong. They take a one size fits all approach to marketing. They first get excited about an idea. Next they create what they think is the next big product or service that everyone will be crazy for. Now that their widget is made, they reach out to the masses of people and use shortcuts, ads, and spam to interrupt people’s attention and hopefully make a sale or two.
“But this approach does not work. In our Iron Sharpens Iron masterminds, we talk each week how to live a life of success and significance.” - Danny Sunshine Bauer
Cheap and Spammy Marketing
Several business owners resort to cheap and spammy marketing when they start their business. Danny and Aaron say they are guilty of this but credit Seth Godin with how they view the people they are trying to serve.
“I think that they were just unaware. They were just trying to make a dollar. They were trying to create a product that they can mass market. They tried to interrupt the market and just get people to buy. And I think it's a really bad way and Seth has really brought great clarity to my mind in how to build the tribes and how to make things that matter for people who care and really go after that tribe, that community.” - Aaron Walker
So be bold. Introduce yourself. Tell them you appreciate their work. Give them a specific example. Keep it short. Say goodbye.
MVA
The minimal viable audience really resonated with Danny and was a game changer for him. In discussing this with Aaron, he shares that he didn’t agree. Aaron had to read it 3 times and reflect before he shifted his mindset.
“I want to have the atmosphere that we really reach out to people that want to be a great dad, a great husband, have a life of success and significance. People that really want to rally around how to build a life of success simultaneously with significance. And I thought, you know what-there's this many people that need to probably be involved at this time. Maybe that will change over time. Maybe it will grow. But for right now, this minimum viable audience is this group of people that we have now. We have 14 groups. We're in nine different countries around the world and I'm feeling really good about this minimum viable audience.” - Danny Sunshine Bauer
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In today’s show Aaron Walker is going to talk about the book The Talent Code. One of the big ideas we will discuss is targeted practice. Using the example of basketball and shooting the ball is an easy way to look at targeted practice, but what does it look like in business?
“This book has got to be in the top 10 of the books that I've read over the past 20 years without a question, because it talks about how greatness isn't born. It's grown.” - Aaron Walker
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Doing Deep Work
Aaron talks about the great talents out there that are naturals but they put in daily work. Michael Phelps, Drew Brees, Phil Mickelson are among some of the best. They put in regimented daily practice to be the best. They do the deep work required to get better each and every day.
“And I think about us here at View From The Top and the things that are really important to us. And I think about, you know, we've got to do these Facebook lives. We blog, you know, we do these podcast interviews is a regimented routine and there's so many times that I do not want to go to the green way and do a video, but I'm like, you know what I said I was going to do them. They're affective. I don't feel like it necessarily, but it works. That's deep practice.” - Aaron Walker
Targeted Practice
Danny discusses three things when it comes to targeted practice.
- Be Committed-Commit to the process
- Find your niche
- Know your rituals and routines
“I want you to get focused. I want you to be committed. I want you to be consistent it everything that you set out to do. I want you to have a plan. Once you implement the deep practice, you too can be hugely successful” - Aaron Walker
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Resources
Talent Code by Daniel Coyle
Deep Work by Cal Newport
Big Leap by Gay Hendricks
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In today’s show Aaron Walker is going to talk about ambition. Ambition is defined as an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction as power, honor, fame, or wealth in the willingness to strive for it's attainment. How do you measure your ambition? Are you motivated or complacent?
“I have huge ambitions, maybe too big at times. I struggle with turning it off and also managing my emotions if I don't achieve everything I set out to do.” - Danny Sunshine Bauer
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Embrace Tension
Aaron says if you're holding on to the tension or if there's no tension in your life, there's probably something going awry. Something is not going right because you are not paying attention. Aaron points out that the good news is that it is probably helping you. But the bad news is that the tension never leaves you.
“I want to encourage you today to embrace the tension. The tension is what keeps us safe. The tension is something in our lives that creates a thought within us. Are we doing the right thing ” - Aaron Walker
Keep It In Check
Sometimes we need to keep our ambition in check and some of us need to find ambition. Aaron will continue to confront you on all fronts while keeping himself in check with his own ambition.
“So we'll go on this journey together. Right Today. I don't have all the answers for you. I wished I did. I wished I had figured them out long time ago, but I'm studying. I'm praying. I give it to God each and every day to learn, to continue to be ambitious, but at the same time, I want to learn to be content.” - Aaron Walker
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What a show! It was a great show and it is a humbling episode at the same time.
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I was humbled (and enjoyed this episode) to be interviewed recently by Jim Beach on the School For Startup Radio. Here is the link to my interview. Give it a listen. You can also listen to this episode on iTunes.
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In today’s show Aaron Walker discusses how to get out of your comfort zone. He had an interesting experience at a conference where someone was literally shaking. She wanted to meet Big A, but at the same time was quite intimidated.
“But here’s the secret. Aaron.…He’s just like you and me. He also puts his shoes on one at a time. I’ve seen him do it!” - Danny Sunshine Bauer
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What The Worst That Can Happen?
Aaron encourages you to get outside of your comfort zone. His tip-those people want you to approach them.
“Who would those people be without you? They would be nothing without you, your fanfare, without you buying their products, your dollars, those people would be absolutely nothing.” - Aaron Walker
What is the worst thing that can happen? Probably nothing. We really blow things out of proportion in our heads. And that fear holds us back from experiencing greatness.
What The Best That Can Happen?
We also have to think what is the best thing that can happen? That is really what should frighten you because it’s about opportunity lost.
“I forget at this point if it was MJ, Kobe or Lebron who said it, but it doesn’t matter. You miss 100% of the shots you never take. People that are our heroes are just like us.” - Danny Sunshine Bauer
So be bold. Introduce yourself. Tell them you appreciate their work. Give them a specific example. Keep it short. Say goodbye.
Google Get Out of My Comfort Zone
If it seems too risky to be bold then Google how to get out of my comfort zone and try one of the recommended activities:
3 things you can do that are low risk and quite fun:
- Strike up a conversation with a stranger
- Ask the next cashier at a retail store for a discount
- Lie down in a public place …
“Those may seem a little crazy, but I guarantee nothing bad will happen and you just might gain a little more courage.” - Danny Sunshine Bauer
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In today’s show Aaron Walker throws a curve to Danny “Sunshine” Bauer by improvising without Danny knowing. Aaron wants to talk to his listeners from the heart and this was recorded on Valentine’s Day thus the importance of his message.
“Robin and I are celebrating our 41st Valentine together and I’m only 58. We have had our ups and downs over the course of our marriage and it will be 39 years.” - Aaron Walker
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What is Love
Aaron says that through his marriage with Robin, they have grown the most over the last 39 years when going through difficult times. They peel back the onion and figure out what is left. What really matters. Aaron shares a story about a friend that struggles in his marriage from an event that happened many years ago with his wife. The friend has sort of forgiven his wife but it continues to come up and it’s all about him. Aaron told him to apologize to his wife and tell her that he was setting her free so they could move forward in their lives. He demonstrated love to his wife during this time.
“Dude, you are a jerk! Do you realize you have your wife in prison? She has said she is sorry, she has repented, GOD has forgiven her. ” - Aaron Walker
Unpacking-This is Love
How do you have a significant life and live through these types of events in your life? Danny challenges listeners by asking if they have are surrounded by a group of men that they can confide in to garner authentic advice.
“He shared his heart to you, he poured it out for an hour right? And in that very vulnerable authentic moment because you all have such relational capital built up you're able to not necessarily give him what he wants to hear but what he needs to hear ” - Danny “Sunshine” Bauer
“You know that is what we all need in our lives. I’m so glad Sunshine you pointed that out because when we’re alone, I always talk about isolation is the enemy to excellence, it’s so true in every area of our life personally and professionally, we’ve got to have guys around us that when we drop that veil that we have the facade eliminated in our lives and go I’m hurting.” Aaron Walker
Danny shares with the listeners and with Aaron that something that resonated with him in the story is how this man is going to turn the corner. The advice Big A gave is not natural and the advice given was on point. How do you help someone open up his hand and let it go.
“I even wrote about that in my book View From The Top and I wrote in their that bitterness is it’s own prison. I mean really you are holding yourself captive, you are not letting yourself be free.” Aaron Walker
Listen to this episode to help unpack what it takes to love. Danny and Aaron take you on a journey to help you lead a life of significance and success.
Live a Life of Success
Aaron encourages you to not lie to yourself and to get people around you to help unpack it. Be honest and vulnerable and open up. Life is fragile, we are not guaranteed today of tomorrow. Have not regrets!
“I just want to encourage you guys today, if there is something that you are dealing with, whatever it is whether it be financial, relational, whether it is somebody you need to forgive or somebody you need to let go, whatever that thing is, it is going to cloud your vision. Everything that you do is going to be ran through that filter if you don’t relinquish it.” Aaron Walker
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Episode 235-Living a Life of Significance: Interview with Aaron Walker from View From the Top
It was a great honor to be a guest on The Radical Personal Finance Podcast with Joshua Sheats.
You can check out what Joshua has going on over at Radical Personal Finance. We had a great discussion about living a life of success and significance.
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In today’s show Aaron Walker’s expert interview is with Rory Vaden. Rory is the co-founder of Southwestern Consulting, a self-disciplined strategist and internationally renowned speaker. Rory Vaden is the New York Times bestselling author of Take the Stairs. His insights on taking action and overcoming procrastination have been featured in the Wall St. Journal, Forbes, CNN, Entrepreneur, Inc, and several other major media outlets. As a world-renowned speaker, His Tedx talk on "How to Multiply Time" has been viewed nearly 2 million times and he was recently named as one of the top 100 leadership speakers in the world by Inc Magazine.
“His new book Procrastinate on Purpose is the first book ever to focus on emotional side of productivity and it provides five methods to literally multiply your time.” - Aaron Walker
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Evolution of Procrastinate on Purpose
Rory’s new book evolved as a result of his last book Take the Stairs. In that book Rory writes about two types of procrastination. 1.) Classic procrastination which is consciously delaying what you know you should be doing. 2.) Creative avoidance which is creating stuff for ourselves to do as a way of doing those things and feeling productive. His new book Procrastinate on Purpose focuses on a third type of procrastination called priority dilution.
“Priority dilution is when the movers and shakers, the do-gooder, the check lister, the leader, the entrepreneur, the person who is making stuff happen; it’s people you wouldn’t think normally struggle with procrastination and yet the have the very same net result which is they leave the officer at the end of the day with their most significant priorities left unchecked, not because they are lazy but because we have allowed our attention to shift less important but perhaps more urgent tasks. ” - Rory Vaden
Game Changer
Time management appears to be logical given all the tools we have to work with but in today’s world time management is emotional. There are so many things in our emotions that dictate our time. Additionally, everything changes when you add the component of significance. Rory shared that importance means how much will this matter, urgency is how soon will this matter and significance is how long will this matter.
“Everything you know about time management is wrong. ” - Rory Vaden
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Resources
Procrastinate on Purpose by Rory Vaden
Live a Life of Success
Aaron encourages you to live a life of success and not worry about what others think. Pay attention to the warning signs and act on them. Be proactive in your approach.
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