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Brandon has built and sold successful companies. He’s also helped many other people build their own. He is an investor, entrepreneur, author, and teacher. He is known for his ability to keep things simple, while being very thorough at the same time when creating a business. Know Your Priority Brandon is a really skilled business builder. Put simply he’s good at building a business the right way. W...

Do You Have A Clear Dream? There is an incredible clarity test in the John Maxwell book, “Put Your Dream To The Test” and the questions are:  Can you explain the dream in one sentence? Can you answer any question about “what” the dream is? Have you spent many hours defining this dream in detail? Have you written a clear description of the dream that includes its main features or objectives? Does t...

A Definition Of Start With Why Growing up creates our “why”. Our family, teachers, hobbies, jobs, and experiences all contribute to the total of our abilities, values, and personality patterns. When we look back at our development and the people, places and things that created our most aligned sense of self, we find a recipe for success. These clues lead to our why. A why” does not change. It is t...

We need to make sure that we have a solid understanding of why it’s so important that we never settle for what we can do, or what we could do, but instead, we decide, for ourselves, what we were made to do. Personal Life Design Our past and future can be major distractions. Worrying about things that happened, or could happen is a major source of shame, guilt, and stress. But, learning about ourse...

We can all find success by using what we have at our disposal at any given time. To be honest that’s the only way. But Myke gives a great example of this sharing how he got started with no cell phone, worked his way up to a little cheap one and eventually on to better creator tools.  But a lack of resources never held him back from becoming a great content creator and eventually business owner. We...

Once we learn to choose ambitions that pass the dream filter (like we did in the previous episode) we naturally begin to question the size of our dreams.  Am I thinking too small, or is my idea too grand? We can remove these types of questions by dreaming in a few different levels, or sizes, while still keeping our eye on the wild prize.  So in this episode, we look at 4 different dream levels. Yo...

We all aspire to be a certain person, or do certain things, but often we leave the details as vague “maybe’s” or hope that fate will guide us somewhere. We all have beautiful talents and wild ambitions that have been covered up by dream blockers like fear and doubt.  Most times we don’t even know that we are blocking our dreams because it happens in our subconscious.  The good news is, we can lear...

Today I wanted to do something quick and simple that explains the overall process of reverse engineering. In the coming episodes I’ll share more detailed insights from Tim Ferris, Alex Hormozi, and my own experience, but for the purpose of sharing the overall concept and because I want to practice with AI, I asked ChatGPT to write the episode. The prompt I shared was: Write me a script for a 5 min...

Showing Up Kristin has built a really supportive community based on her value of simply showing up.  She has become known for her stance on lifelong learning, and having incredible live conversations with people to learn more about what makes each of us tick.  The idea of pursuing self-awareness as a lifelong goal is something that Kristin really understands. We talked about pursuing a career in a...

I just finished reading (well listening to) but audiobooks count as reading, right? Either way, I just finished Matt Higgins, Burn The Boats. I knew about the book well ahead of time because I’ve always been connected to his work through Gary Vee’s content. I was looking forward to it for a while, kind of like when a new record drops, for a couple of reasons. One, I personally have gone back and f...

I love creating content about goal setting and clarity for our big dreams. But even with a lot of tips and tricks, people still get stuck. I find when we have trouble brainstorming an idea to focus on, then there is something getting in the way. When something is getting in the way from letting us dream big, it’s often the case that we need to reset our personal operating system. You know how we r...

Alright, I think at this point it goes without saying, but it is almost impossible to focus on only one thing. In many ways, the idea of “balance” is a myth.  We have many things in life that we need to focus on; family, friends, self-care, work, and unfortunately health at times. This is where counterbalance is the true reality. At times we will be so focused on parenting for example because our...

Growing Up Joe Shared the challenge of growing up in a primarily white neighborhood. We talked about the importance of finding your tribe and being a part of a community that you feel you belong to. In this case, similar to how we feel about JKL, Joe talks about the “Live Joe Dreamz” community as a place where he finally feels he belongs.  For that reason, he’s doubling and tripling down on buildi...

The term “Dream Big” appears on T shirts, water bottles, posters and many other things we see in our day to day life. And I love seeing it! Another thing that is pretty popular is the idea of focusing on your one big dream to be able to make it come true. Books like “The One Thing” make this concept popular. But, what if you don’t know what your one thing is? Or, what if you don’t know how to drea...

I am a huge believer in pursuing dreams for two big reasons. One, it prevents regret, which is such a powerful state of sadness. And, two it helps us live each day with a little more vitality. A little more pep in our step. It doesn’t matter if it’s for work, for play, or anywhere in between. At any given moment in time, we can establish a big dream. And whenever I feel like giving up on mine, I r...

Find Energy Motivation & Flow From Your Day To Day One method to gather more evidence of what brings us vitality is to measure the activities that we do in our day-to-day lives. Every experience we have will either increase or decrease our energy. And some activities give us intrinsic motivation, whereas others kind of feel like we could take them or leave them. Ultimately the goal should be to fi...

Finding YOUR Alignment Achieving our greatest ambitions will not come easy. We will experience ups and downs. And heck, we might not even survive. But the pursuit is worth it if we are living in alignment.  Like a car without alignment, we can veer off course. The more aligned our wheels are the better we can keep our trip between the lines. In order to know if we are living in alignment we benefi...

Be Efficient With Your Goals Luke shared one of his hacks for building skills more efficiently. Find ways to get paid for improving skills that help you with your bigger vision. They don’t have to be directly tied to the long term goal. For example, he is an actor because it helps with confidence on camera and networking. Every goal is built on transferable skills. How can you leverage your curren...

5 Key Points To Live In The Moment The book is long and goes in great depth, but here are five of the key points from The Power Of Now: Be aware of your thoughts: Notice when your mind is wandering to the past or future, and gently bring your attention back to the precise, specific moment. Focus on your breath: Do some quick breathwork and focus on the sensation of air moving in and out of your bo...

I am often asked, what if I have too many ideas? Or what if I have no ideas at all?  Now, it would be unfair, but it’s tempting in both cases to say, “Just Try” things and call it a day.  I will elaborate, but that is the main point. If you can strengthen your dreamer muscle, there will be plenty of ideas, too many to even try them all.  So the simple answer is just pick something and try it.  Wel...

Here’s the bottom line friends in this JKL community, I want you to be excited about your life. No matter how young, or old you are, I want you to be excited about the life that you are creating.  The Meaning Of Life And to me, the meaning of life question is “meaning.” And I actually got this from Viktor Frankl, not just a Holocaust survivor, but as crazy as it sounds, thriver.  Frankl believed t...

Terrance almost died at his rock bottom. He shares this experience and how he bounced back in his incredible TED Talk “From Broken To Beautiful”. Now he helps not only himself, but others live a healthier, wealthier and purposeful life. Terrance shared the main points from his TED Talk “From Broken To Beautiful”. There were so many special moments in his life that were filled with adversity which...

The Importance Of Owning Your Life Alex shares how she was always a bit of a troublemaker. She was never rude, or ignorant, but found herself pushing back against authority in day to day life. Whether it was toward a teacher as a child, or a boss, she always wanted to do things her own way.  For this reason she didn’t really excel in school, or as an employee. But for all of the challenges she fac...

If you have a big dream already, great, all you need to do is continue to take action, pivot, and keep going.  And, if you don’t have a big dream yet, that’s ok too. It will take us a while to figure it out, but it’s so much fun and there is no rush.  I know many of us feel “stuck”.  People often use this term, “stuck” to describe how they feel. They feel they’re too comfortable or playing it safe...

Stephen is nicknamed “America’s Life Coach”. His own discovery and building of self-awareness led him to the field of coaching others. Now he is one of the most powerful coaches in the world.  Beyond working with clients he creates incredible content and shares free information that can help anyone reinvent their life. We talked for a while about growing up in a cult, breaking free to build his ow...