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#278: Down Dating – Part 2 – Doubling Down and Getting Focused

#278: Down Dating – Part 2 – Doubling Down and Getting Focused

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Colin understood that being an entrepreneur meant developing muscles you don’t have as an “employee”. Focus, commitment, resilience… Dave Young: Welcome to The Empire Builders Podcast, teaching business owners the not so secret techniques that took famous businesses from mom and pop to major brands. Stephen Semple is a marketing consultant, story collector, and storyteller. I’m Stephen’s sidekick and business partner, Dave Young. Before we get into today’s episode, word from our sponsor, which is, well, it’s us, but we’re highlighting ads we’ve written and produced for our clients. So, here’s one of those. [Kooler Garage Doors Ad] Gary: Told you, Brian. Brian: Told me what? Gary: This is part two of last week’s episode. Brian: Oh yeah, and it was getting good. Gary: If you missed it, go back and listen to part one first. Take it away, fellas. Stephen Semple: Journaling is something that I will self-confess here. It’s something I’m trying to become better at. And often, I struggle with what should you do in the journaling. So I really like the tip that you gave there about, literally, writing down how are you feeling, why do you feel this way. And again, journaling, I do recognize as pen to paper, not typing. There’s something about writing things down in your own handwriting. And the fact is there’s a value to that slowing things down. It’s that forced slowdown, because we can only write so fast. But the other part I though that was really interesting was this whole idea of in that storm talking to people, and purposely talking to people who are not business people or who are not in your industry. I don’t know about you, but this is what I found, is when I talk to people who have that little bit of distance, sometimes that whole forcing me to explain it to them actually helps me build clarity. And I’ve even found sometimes, “Okay. Yeah, I am thinking about this all wrong,” because now that I’m trying to explain it and I’ve seen the glassy eyes, I realize, “Yeah, I’m being a little nuts here.” Colin Hodge: Yeah, exactly. That’s a great addition, because so many times it’s in our head and it’s swirling around, and we think we have complete clarity about it. We understand this problem. And you try to explain it to somebody who has much less context on it, it absolutely uncovers that logical error you’re making or the emotional side that you’re not really acknowledging. It helps so much. So, I love that as well of just even if the person knows about it, explain it to them again. Explain it like they’re five years old even, and break it down on that simple level. Stephen Semple: And if you can’t explain it, you haven’t got it clear in your own mind. Colin Hodge: Yes, exactly. Stephen Semple: But what I love is the journaling and whatnot, think our challenge is in those moments of the world is crumbling around us, there’s all these challenges happening, the whole idea of giving ourselves permission to step away, stop. As you said, it goes, “I’m a firm believer that really great thinking comes from changing your environment.” Going to a different environment and actually taking time with all this stuff, I think, is hard for a lot of people to do because I think our natural thing is, “Oh no, there’s all these things happening. I’ve got to double down on effort.” I think that’s our natural tendency is to do that. Colin Hodge: It is. And I think part of that is building this as a muscle, just like you need to build your faith and your own resilience. As an entrepreneur, you also need to build your faith in this process, in giving your brain the right environment and the right space to work through the problem. And so, a simple way to look at it is if you’ve ever had a big decision, felt overwhelming, and then you slept on it and the next day it was so simple, much easier to just make that call, that’s what you’re doing, but on a bit of a longer scale. You’re giving your brain time to process it, and new inputs and things to shake it out of whatever the rut that it’s in. Stephen Semple: It’s really interesting about that time thing. And then we’re going to come back and talk a little bit more about down. But it’s funny, we ...
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