Second Mix: Reflect, Revise, and Remix your life

The Ideas and Concepts Mastermind (Facebook Group) SecondMix.net matt@secondmix.net You will notice great strides in your progress if you invest your ethos, your intentions, and your efficacy into action – into agency.  When you invest these, there is powerful, clear, and skillful action and real work will start getting done. Not tasks or busy work. But the real work you need towards actual progre...

Talking with Kyle Damman of GrowthFactorNetwork.com The graphic we discuss can be found at SecondMix.net/kyle We cover health, starting a business, and the cycles of complexity.  Support the Show: Buy Me A Coffee! Website: SecondMix.net Email Me: matt@secondmix.net REFLECT, REVISE, and REMIX your life and business with the MONTHLY Second Mix Newsletter covering GOAL MASTERY for Real Estate Profess...

The Ideas and Concepts Mastermind (Facebook Group) SecondMix.net matt@secondmix.net   In a world where businesses are paying money to buy your attention, the ability to focus is going to be the new superpower. I’m sure you realized before I did that the people around you, are less focused. And maybe it’s even affecting you.  Because of all this attention-grabbing and productivity-destroying media,...

Unedited, uncut riffs on life. My wife and I visit a B&B in Mid Ohio and end up in a funny sort of trouble.  Support the Show: Buy Me A Coffee! Website: SecondMix.net Email Me: matt@secondmix.net REFLECT, REVISE, and REMIX your life and business with the MONTHLY Second Mix Newsletter covering GOAL MASTERY for Real Estate Professionals. Your business gets better as YOU get better! Sign Up Now

The Ideas and Concepts Mastermind (Facebook Group) SecondMix.net matt@secondmix.net You will not grow in your comfort zone. We need the challenge of life in order to get stronger. I spent years doing only what was comfortable to me, and as soon as things became uncomfortable, I would bow out and say, “that’s not for me.” All the while, I wasn’t growing. I was staying the same in money, in value, i...

The Ideas and Concepts Mastermind (Facebook Group) SecondMix.net matt@secondmix.net Resources: Zone Of Genius Worksheet One of the major questions to ask yourself is, is this something I should be doing? So although you can do anything and learn anything, there is a way to speed up the process by being in your Zone of Genius.  I just finished the book The Common Path to Uncommon Results, where Joh...

Second Mix Riffs - Unedited, Uncut Two books by Donald Miller. Building A Story Brand and Marketing Made Simple. Level up your marketing skills without paying thousands of dollars to a consultant.  Support the Show: Buy Me A Coffee! Website: SecondMix.net Email Me: matt@secondmix.net REFLECT, REVISE, and REMIX your life and business with the MONTHLY Second Mix Newsletter covering GOAL MASTERY for...

The Ideas and Concepts Mastermind (Facebook Group) SecondMix.net matt@secondmix.net Featured: The Good All Around Us Podcast I wasted a lot of time in my life – truly 30 years – because I didn’t understand that I had the capacity to learn all that I needed to learn. I would decide that I wanted to be a graphic artist, for example, and I would begin to design things, and as soon as I ran up against...

This week features Kyle Dammann, the owner and entrepreneur at Growth Factor Network. Kyle and Matt talk about health, education, business, and the mental game of starting and running a business. The Cycles of Complexity graphic (referred to in the episode) can be found at secondmix.net/kyle . And Kyle can be found at GrowthFactorNetwork.com . Continue the conversation in the Second Mix Ideas and...

email matt@secondmix.net Website/Blog SecondMix.net The first word is HOW. The most important question you can ask yourself when you run up against a stone wall.  How do I get this done? How do I get through this? How do I learn this skill?  How can I run this business successfully? How do I meet the right people? How do I talk to those people? The other word is UNTIL.  As Jim Rohn always asked, h...

In the Ideas and Concepts Facebook Group , let me know one of your goals and why you want it! I'll go first - join the conversation.  (Also, I meant I'd be back on Thursday!) Here’s why most people don’t set goals: It’s hard. It takes a long time. It really could take ten or twenty hours over a week of your life, and a couple hours a week spending time looking over  and revising them. It...

Today, hiking in the woods and riffing on the book The Go-Giver by Bob Burg and John David Mann. SecondMix.net Talk about in Second Mix's Ideas and Concepts Mastermind on Facebook Support the Show: Buy Me A Coffee! Website: SecondMix.net Email Me: matt@secondmix.net REFLECT, REVISE, and REMIX your life and business with the MONTHLY Second Mix Newsletter covering GOAL MASTERY for Real Estate P...

In this episode, I cover the multiple uses and benefits of visualization, and how you can overcome things that are driving you crazy. Join the Facebook group HERE, and let me know how you are going to use these techniques in the coming days or weeks. https://www.facebook.com/groups/secondmix Read all of this on the blog at SecondMix.net . Support the Show: Buy Me A Coffee! Website: SecondMix.net E...

In 5 years, if you are in exactly the same place as you are today, will you be okay with that? If you look around at your life in 5 years and you have all the same stuff, and all the same joys, and all the same problems, will that satisfy you? For some people, that might be okay, that might actually sound like a good proposition, and if that is you, then it’s all going to be a game of maintaining...

I call on James Clear, Jim Rohn, Victor Frankl, and Oliver Wendell Holmes to find out what my purpose is in this life.  Purpose and meaning are the most difficult parts for me. Everything is so arbitrary – nobody is there to tell you if you are right or wrong. There’s no single path laid out for you except the one you’re going for, right now. So where are you headed right now? Where are your curre...

Do positive affirmations work, or are they a waste of time? I’ve tried them, and I’ve given up, and I’ve tried them again.  There is research out there that says they work, and research that says they don’t work. The statistics are unclear, so everything I say here is my speculation, and how it has worked for me, how I’ve used them, and how I feel about positive affirmations.  Doctor Joyce Brother...

Important ideas that fall under the category of Ethos before we move on.   1.    Simplicity. Einstein said (in effect), “Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.” If you focus on the important things, then the important things will get done. Sometimes, you have to procrastinate on purpose. Brian Tracy speaks on this often – there are ALWAYS going to be things that you have t...

You might remember hearing phrases like these from time to time: You can eat an elephant one bite at a time.  Do it step by step.  If you’re like me you’ve heard these hundreds of times, they are in popular culture and we’re acclimated to them, and they can even get a little annoying. But the reason these phrases have stood the test of time is because they are true – that’s how it works.  One of t...

If you only change this one part of your life, it will change everything else. Zig Ziglar said, "Your input determines your outlook, your outlook determines your output, and your output determines your future."  My life is proof that this is true. The people and media you are around are absolutely influencing your life. Here's how to filter this information in a way that builds your...

Our minds are always deceptive and leaning towards the negative. It's supposed to be this way. Here's how I learned to combat this enemy and rise up from the dirt.  This is part of a series on getting through the cycles of complexity. If you want more information you can start at episode 10, but each episode will stand on its own two feet, and you’ll get a lot out of each one independent...

Ethos, Intention, Efficacy, Agency, Adversity, Elevation   As it turned out, these six categories defined a way to get through all of the cycles of complexity you go through in life – in business, in relationships, in health issues. If there’s something going wrong in your life, all you have to do is look at this list, because if there’s a problem, it’s one of these six things.    Ethos is like mi...

I want to talk about what I call “A permission deficit” – I wasted a lot of time in my life waiting for permission to get going. Permission to start my own business, permission to live the life I wanted to be living. I call this the curse of permission-orientation.  I think that most people have a deep-down feeling that they need permission from some outside authority before they do the things the...

How do you find your Success Network.   I’m not necessarily talking about your audience, or your tribe. Just a group of people who feel the same way you do and those who are attracted by what you say. What you do with this group is up to you – if you’re going to make them your audience, sell to them, or simply build your network. There are a lot of possibilities.  What you have to avoid is this: Y...

I was writing in my journal on Friday, reflecting on how I can become better. Specifically I noticed that I wasn’t being very patient, gentle, or kind with my family. (I wasn’t being unkind, I just wasn’t actively being kind.)  My first thought was that I needed to step these things up a notch, and in a flash of thought I wrote down the words “SUPERIOR EXPERIENCE” – I don’t want my family to have...

CS Lewis was a genius when it came to delving into human nature and calling out the rough spots in humans. Believing his “why” is up to you, but it's hard to deny his knowledge of emotion and motivation. It's impossible to deny that we all go through ups and downs.  The interesting thing here is that whatever state we're in, we naturally think that we're going to stay in that s...