Searching for Mana with Lloyd Wahed

The Important and the Urgent When conceptualizing and prioritizing tasks, use the Eisenhower Matrix. This is a quad chart President Eisenhower created that organizes tasks into not urgent and not important – reduce or eliminate urgent but not important – delegate or automate urgent and important – schedule & pomodoro or delegate to those who can do them better not urgent but important – schedu...

Online Coaching vs Online Programming – the Difference Most "online coaching" is online programming. Regardless of the level of personalization – whether it be selling templates or making an individual program for a client – this is online programming. We don't program online, we coach online. You should too. Online coaching includes technique coaching. Consistency and form matter far more than pr...

Lean Theory Lean manufacturing theory and seeking to improve efficiency comes with misunderstandings and misconceptions. Often, ideas of decrease customers service and employee satisfaction arise. These things may have occurred in the name of lean theory, but do not follow the true spirit of its origins. Lean Theory originates from Toyota's manufacturing processes and how Toyota strove to constant...

Pricing - it's a too often undiscussed, underexamined aspect of running a successful business and becoming a successful coach. Matt discusses how to set prices intelligently and intentionally. Andrew Jackson gave a talk on the business value equation, which you can watch here and learn more about here. This podcast is brought to you by TurnKey Coach. Enhance your coaching effectiveness and efficie...

Matt describes how to build trust in your business value equation. This is a crucial aspect of running a successful business with clients who actually enjoy your product or service. Andrew Jackson gave a talk on this, which you can watch here and learn more about here. This podcast is brought to you by TurnKey Coach. Enhance your coaching effectiveness and efficiency with TurnKey Coach. You can le...

Matt describes your business value equation, its components, and how you can improve your business value equation. This is an important concept for understanding your business conceptually and keeping the big picture in mind. This podcast is brought to you by TurnKey Coach. Enhance your coaching effectiveness and efficiency with TurnKey Coach. You can learn more by going HERE. Check out the Barbel...

Matt explains, in detail, how to start your own business. Seriously, you can be a business owner today following these steps. This podcast is brought to you by TurnKey Coach. Enhance your coaching effectiveness and efficiency with TurnKey Coach. You can learn more by going HERE. Here is Matt's presentation on how to officially start a business. Check out the Barbell Logic podcast landing page. How...

Be a person of action. Act now, begin that idea today, so that your big idea doesn't stay stuck in your head - this is the key to success. Matt Reynolds kicks off the first Coaching Success podcast. This podcast will primarily address topics relating to things that lead to you being a successful coach, businessperson, and person. This podcast is brought to you by TurnKey Coach. Enhance your coachi...

What is marketing and why does it matter? If you feel you can provide a valuable service or product to others, how do you not only get that message out but demonstrate to your potential audience & customers that what you are selling is right for them? Josh Veach, CIO at Barbell Logic, joins Niki & Matt, to discuss marketing. Josh also runs a non-profit--Go Shout Love--that designs and sell...

Scott & Matt share some of their productivity tips: what to do, what to not do, and what equipment or apps help them. When it comes to equipment and apps, both of them find having one huge monitor, 2 monitors, or 3 monitors helps, as one monitor simply adds time to tasks on the computer. Scott has also found value in having a scanner to digitize documents. He puts these on Evernote and finds t...

Time is your most valuable resource, and you don't know how much of it you have on this earth. Because of this, protecting time, being efficient, and knowing when to trade money for time is important. Its importance heightens if you find yourself in a situation where you make enough money that you can make more money on your work than completing a menial task, such as mowing the lawn or cleaning t...

Setting goals, meeting & surpassing goals, assessing progress: these are clearly important to all organizations and people. But, let's be honest, some of these terms-OKRs, KPIs, etc.--are a bit corporatey. There's a bit of a jargony, gobbly gook element that turns people off to what is essentially goal-setting, breaking up the goal to specific actions, and measuring progress. Enter the GAMepla...

How do we set goals? How do we break those goals up to SPECIFIC, MEASURABLE, TIMEBOUND, smaller actions? How do we assess whether we've met our goals and, if we fail to meet them, if we moved in the right direction and made progress? Enter the OKR.  Objectives & Key Results (OKR) is a process for setting goals & breaking those goals up. An objective is just another word for a goal. Key Res...

Chris & Matt Reynolds like to wake up early and GET AFTER IT. If you don't, that's okay, but you might try before you write this off and it's super important to have a consistent sleep schedule regardless of when you go to bed and wake up. You can't make up for lack of sleep on the weekend, and your body will learn and adjust to a regular sleep schedule and be better off for it, as opposed to...

Now, more than ever, the ability to deescalate tense situations and bring reconciliation and understanding to hostile parties is a valuable skill. Some people are natural peacemakers, having learned from a young age how to maneuver volatile interactions between family members, while others of a more disagreeable nature struggle in conflict. Matt and Chris discuss how they have each occupied these...

Matt and Chris discuss the value of hard work, specifically hard physical labor. For the technology-addled knowledge worker of the 21st century, there is something particularly rewarding about taxing physical labor, beyond the result of the labor. As Matt says, there is value in the work itself. PS -  Coach Smarter, Earn More: https://bit.ly/3X4ixOX Matt's Links Website: https://ryanmattreynolds.c...

In honor of Father's Day, Matt and Chris reminisce about childhood memories with their Dad and the important lessons he taught them along the way. To all the dads in the Barbell Logic family, Happy Father's Day!  Discounts Save 50% off any coaching package at Barbell Logic with the discount code "strongdad." AND get a $50 gift card to your retailer of choice! Offer lasts through Father's Day. Want...

Matt and Chris have talked at length about good habits and how to acquire them, but what about bad habits? Today they discuss some bad habits they have struggled with over the years, and how they have successfully broken them. Books mentioned in the show: The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0055PGUYU/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Atomic Habits by Jame...

Niki, Andrew, and Matt return to the podcast roundtable to talk about their shared passion, coaching, and the important lessons they've learned about setting boundaries, both to preserve their sanity and to keep the fire lit for their passion and profession. PS -  Coach Smarter, Earn More: https://bit.ly/3X4ixOX Matt's Links Website: https://ryanmattreynolds.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.c...

Chris discusses how we might begin to acquire wisdom by asking questions of ourselves and of the world around us, reading books to acquire more understanding, and regularly applying what we learn to the problems we confront. As great thinkers like Charlie Munger and others have observed, the accumulation of wisdom comes slowly and patently, by refusing to accept the first conclusion you draw, and...

Matt and Chris discuss the reasons for living a life driven by a set of values which you can clearly identify and define. They discuss their own value systems, how they developed them, and how their life has been shaped by them. As always, Matt urges listeners to write down a list of their own life values, and identify the things that bring your value and the things that rob you of value. PS -  Co...

Matt and Chris discuss the value of making mistakes, owning up to them, and learning from them. Many people grow up afraid of making mistakes, and reluctant to own up to them when they do make them. Chris argues that this stunts our growth and creativity as humans, because mistakes are essential to the process of discovering new things. PS -  Coach Smarter, Earn More: https://bit.ly/3X4ixOX Matt's...

After taking the "Understand Myself" personality test based on the Big Five aspects, Matt and Chris take the Myers-Briggs and Enneagram to get a more comprehensive look at their personality types. As Matt says, the results of the personality test shouldn't be too much of a surprise, but if they are, perhaps that points to some areas you can work on in your relationships and daily interactions. Chr...

Following up from Episode #8, the Principle of "Self-Honesty", Matt and Chris discuss the results of their personality test from "Understand Myself," an online test based on the Big Five Aspects of personality and developed by Dr. Colin DeYoung, Dr. Lena Quilty, and Dr. Jordan B Peterson in Dr. Peterson's lab. Understand Myself Personality Test https://www.understandmyself.com PS -  Coach Smarter,...

Matt takes a moment to reflect on the things that are most important to him, and encourages you to do the same. For many life is moving at a slower pace right now (involuntary or not), and that means it's a good time to take inventory of the things that bring value and joy to your life, and the things that rob from your life. PS -  Coach Smarter, Earn More: https://bit.ly/3X4ixOX Matt's Links Webs...