Just Keep Learning

I love sharing ideas about big dreams. And a lot of these ideas come to me when commuting somewhere. Well, today I thought of something that gets in the way of a lot of our big dreams.  While driving to meet a client it popped into my head: "Slowing down enough to gain clarity is the challenging part. Pursuing the dream, even achieving the goal, that's the easy part." It’s true.  Most people don’t...

Marley uses the hashtag "Get Jaxxed " when it comes to challenging her audience to build a bigger brand. It’s a brilliant catchphrase, that shows her powerful skillset in language and marketing. It’s definitely a great summary of her own brand too. Her current business is a joint venture with her husband, Steve, called "Youtube Lead Machine". They specialize in helping clients create organic youtu...

Think of something you want to do. Now, ask why haven’t you started yet? If you were able to take ownership of your decisions, you would be.  So what’s getting in the way? Many clients I work with, especially teens, feel overwhelmed by the pressure put on them to have a goal in life. The last word they want to hear is “goal-setting”. But, why is this? Simply put, many of us aren’t ready to take ow...

I love this quote from writer, T.S. Eliot: “Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.” It's simple to go through life doing things that other people want us to do. It’s simple, but not easy. Many of us make decisions, whether we realize it or not, based on the thinking of other people. This...

Mariam grew millions of followers on social media by creating hilarious, fun-loving content that puts a smile on your face. She paints characters on her face. Using the characters she makes them dance, sing and tell stories across social media. We talked about painting, monetizing artwork, and life lessons learned along the way.  Mariam was a great painter, but to take on this venture she had to l...

For the longest time, I pursued goals because I thought they were the right things to chase, not really knowing if I personally, truly believed in them.  I quit working in the fitness industry to pursue a career as a teacher. I did my Masters in Educational Leadership & Learning. I climbed the ladder of formal rewards to become a Principal in schools. While I’m grateful for many of these accomplis...

To be clear on our big dreams, we need to know where we are in four main areas. These are like gas tanks for our goals. We want to keep them as full as possible. Once we’re all fueled up we can decide where we want to go. **For the full written version of episode see the transcript.  FOLLOW Justin Instagram - @JustTries YouTube - Just Tries Twitter - @JustTries_ Tiktok -  @justtries Pinterest - Ju...

Do you know your big dream?  If you know your big dream then you’re getting somewhere.  But are you certain? If you don’t know your big dream, then the first step before goal setting, planning, and productivity, should be to figure it out.  The first step to figure it out is to understand what might be getting in the way. Once we are aware of our dreamblockers and make progress towards eliminating...

Benjamin Allen only started sharing his music since COVID. In the last few years he’s grown a pretty large audience of loyal fans who love his music. In this episode, we talk about how to be effective creating music, the mindset, and the lifestyle that must exist around it when it’s not your full-time gig (yet). We hear how Ben got into music in the first place as a youngster. He is one of those m...

To summarize, it’s important to pursue our passion. It may be for money, it may be for fun, or an ever changing combination of the two, it might be for 5 minutes a day, or ten hours, but make sure you are pursuing it. Make your career decisions based on what you feel gives you the greatest advantage in a literal sense as well, at least, just find a way to pay the bills so to speak. Now, way, way,...

Brianna Ansaldo is an audio, music and podcasting genius. Shes share her experience through this life journey. Brianna went from learning guitar as a little kid, creating music, becoming a singer, editing audio, and eventually podcasting. Even though podcasting came later, she was always into the audio world, right from when she was a little kid. She now owns a podcast production and marketing com...

In today’s episode, inspired by music lyrics, I’ll tell you about the importance of mazes in our life, a funny story of taking a kiddo in a wheelchair through an outdoor maze, how it taught me a lot about goals and how we can learn to be even better at getting out of mazes. There are many tools that help us learn to live a good life. Some are more obvious, but others are a bit hidden. I find song...

In this episode, we will hear some amazing poetry from one of my favorite poets (sidenote: please be sure to go support his work) and we will learn why both apologizing and forgiving should happen quickly if we want to achieve our goals. One of my favorite poems, called “how to be a person” by Shane Koyczan states this beautifully. We'll hear a little piece of this poem and I'll share my own learn...

Daniel believes strongly that we are all naturally creative, compassionate, committed, and highly capable creators.  He does many things, and at the heart of his goals and passion is musical theatre. He gave us a mini masterclass about storytelling through music. He didn’t find it cool as a kid, but perhaps because he didn’t “get it” at that point. It would be cool to see kids appreciate theatre f...

If we are to achieve our goals we will be able to live in a state of abundance much of the time. Even the greatest of thinking minds can find themselves in a pity party. But most of them are pretty good at getting out of it. One way I find helpful is to appreciate how miniscule I am in the grand scheme of things. Appreciating that if we attend a football game we are just one of 100,000 people in t...

Huw Davies tried many different traditional  jobs and while he gained experience with each one he never found the work he wanted to do for life. This was especially clear when the manager he aspired to be like told him that he will end up stuck doing work he would rather not do if he kept on that path.  Huw literally searched ‘how to make money online’ and came across a ton of different side hustl...

You can design your life, or at least parts of your life based on design thinking. The idea is simple, rather than going through life like a tumbleweed being blown around by the wind, going wherever life takes you, you design aspects of your life. In this episode we’ll look at two things, what is design thinking? And how can we apply it to design our life? Check out this episode, or the episode tr...

Are you a dreamer, or an overthinker? Then understanding the "Philosophy Of The Negative And Positive P’s" will really help you build momentum. It will help you make progress toward things that actually matter to you, instead of all the fluff we could get focused on. It often seems that there just isn’t enough time to accomplish what we want in life. That’s because it’s true. The reality is, if we...

Laughter is a good medicine, but learning is even better. Learning isn’t just fun. It can serve a powerful purpose. Today we’ll appreciate a bit more how learning can have an impact on both physical and mental health.  To oversimplify, learning in the macro of our lives is good for us. It is healthy.  We'll talk about the fact that learning can actually help us be physically healthier and share a...

Cara grew up in the GTA of Canada, with a mother who really looked out for her well being. She was almost “overprotective”, but a game changer in her life when it came to helping her believe in her dreams and goals. Speaking of those goals, she is a successful actor and this started when another role model became a big influence in her life. She had a teacher see something special in her ability t...

Vitality is needed to dream big. In the last episode, we defined mindfulness and shared 21 quick mindfulness activities you could implement right away to help you live with more vitality.  I wanted to start with that because it was actionable from day one. But understanding more about your mindset shift is really helpful to make large, lasting changes.  So today we will dive a bit deeper into the...

From today’s episode, you’ll learn why mindfulness is valuable, what it is and 21 simple mindful activities you could start right away. It’s important to point out that one should learn the science behind shifting your mindset, as well as more advanced meditation techniques, but I wanted to start with the most actionable stuff first.  We can take a look at those elements in future episodes. Aright...

Ryan Aka Sully Bop is a business owner, audio engineer, producer, rapper, DJ and podcast expert. While he is really multi-passionate, his monetized activities all revolve around sound, audio and voice.  We get to hear all about the journey and thought process behind getting into things like rap and podcasting. Both mediums were new to him, but he connected with them immediately. From there he foun...

Brendan brought some tremendous wisdom to this conversation. Many articles refer to him as worlds best “growth hacker”. But in this interview, we hear why that often has a negative connotation and the way he really views his work. Essentially, he builds systems that help people achieve their business growth and marketing objectives in the shortest amount of time possible. When asked what his thoug...

Kelsye has a wealth of knowledge to help the creative entrepreneur. We talked a lot about the importance of connecting and pursuing your passion, regardless of monetization. The first step is to discover the interests and at least do them. Whether it is full time, part time, hobby, or any where in between, the most important thing is that you pursue it. There were some very powerful moments in thi...