The Soul of Innovation podcast

When you walk down the street do you make eye contact with the people who are trying to make sys contact with you? COVID has made us all feel lonely. Distant from other people. We all miss being social and most of all, we missed being missed. Pick your head up! Look your eyes and gaze into the eyes of people that you walk by when you are outside. Just say "hi". Nothing more. Make eye contact to st...

You spend so much time thinking about things and blowing them up. Everything is so important and if you don|t fix it, everything will go to hell. You|re constantly chasing something. Stop! Life is simpler than what you have made it into. Life is about his moment right now and enjoying it. Enjoying that you are alive and able to spend it with yourself and other people. This moment is your moment. T...

Sometimes when arguing with someone, it becomes really important that the person hears what you are trying to say. It becomes so important that you don't think about what they are saying but only waiting for the moment for you to talk. Though it feels good, you will never be heard. Patience is the key to a conversation. As you wait for a moment to speak, you have time to listen to what they are sa...

What if Christmas 2021 is as bad and depressing as Christmas 2020? If you accept that this is going to happen, then what are you going to do now that you know this. Now that you have this mental advantage over everyone else? What new ideas will you implement in 2021? What risks will you take now in 2021? If you are right, you are ahead of everyone else because you were ready. If you are wrong, the...

AS we all leave our home offices and begin to return back to society, the adjustment period will be strange. Your world will no longer be based on the four walls of your room or apartment. Meeting with people will feel different. You will wonder why people are even bringing up subjects that you have not even thought of. Be patient. As we all come out of our self-induced home cells, our minds and h...

When you dream, you are experiencing your life's toughest situations so when you awake, you can be prepared and handle them better than before. Do you use your dreams to perfect yourself? Do you manipulate your dreams so that you are a better version of yourself upon awakening? Your dreams are your testbed to be, act, and talk the way you imagine yourself when you dream! Use your dreams to fulfill...

Stress is something that builds up and we don't feel it. It accumulates in our body to the point in which we react and behave differently than we would have because we are so full of stress. Don't let stress consume you. Recognize that you are full of stress and then start to unravel it. Start to take care of yourself and your emotions. Stress is born out of thoughts, events, people, conversations...

Negative thoughts, thoughts of failure, thoughts of doubt all come from your own mind. It's not other people who make your life hell. It is your mind that makes your life hell. Stop listening to your mind and all its negative thoughts. It's your mind that should be your biggest enemy. It is you who has been holding you back, not other people or your situation. It has been and always will be your m...

As I walk down the street, I see everyone so afraid of each other. Afraid of making eye contact. Afraid of catching Covid from someone. Afraid to admit to themselves that they have lost themselves and are crying inside. Your happiness is a thought away. Your peace of mind is a thought away. Go for that same walk but breathe, forgive yourself for all the negative thinking that you are doing. Let th...

With everyone locked down at home due to Covid, people are watching other people more than ever. We have forgotten that our lives mean our lives. Young people under 30-years are obsessed with SoMe and watching other people becomes famous while they use their time always watching other people. You must "do what you have to do" for you and stop watching other people. Stop always wanting to be with y...

Just came home from a short walk and I ran into so many people living I fear. Fear of who can this tall dark man be. Fear of what will happen when we share the same sidewalk. Fear that we will share the same park or walkway. Do you live in fear? Do you ever see someone and immediately think the worse without ever having seen that person before? Could that person be the love of your life? Could tha...

I was at Ikea last night and I heard so many people talk about their lives and what they are going through. Each person made it sound like they are the only person going through that pain or trouble, yet we all have experienced the same thing. Think about it. If we are all so different, why are we all at Ikea at the same time? Why are we all buying the same thing? Why have we all concluded that th...

Many people say they have friends and that they talk to many people but if you ask them if they have a true connection with these people they say "no". Having a truly deep connection with at least one person is the foundation for understanding what your purpose in life is. Your purpose comes from the connection you have with others, not from what you "think" your purpose is. Connecting with others...

Do you ever regret not doing something because it went really well and you missed out? Do you ever wish you bought a stock before it went through the roof? This is not the right way to see your world. There will be more opportunities in for you. There will be endless opportunities for you as long as you believe that opportunities are not finite and that you deserve more opportunities. This is the...

Do you have something that you have always wanted to accomplish? Learn? Or maybe someone important that you're afraid of calling? These big things are actually little things once we accomplish them. I have spent years wondering how to fix a bicycle. Yesterday, I sat down, learned, and did it. It was so easy, I'm embarrassed that I waited decades to do it! What are you waiting for? What do you want...

What are you focusing on in your life? What is your end game? What do you lay down thinking about and say "someday I am going to have xxx? What is it? Whatever is the answer, it is your meaning of life. Think about it, is that all that there is? Are you killing yourself just so you can have a bunch of cars, or homes, or women or men or both? Life is bigger than that and you have to realize that no...

When you close your eyes and think about yourself in the future, what do you see? What you see is what you are going to get. Visualize your future, your life, the way you always wanted your life to be. You have a chance to get rid of the things and people that make you unhappy. What do you see when you visualize your future? Visualization is everything because it is a form of self-confidence. You...

When you meet people for the first time, do you immediately formulate a picture of this person and judge them before they have even spoken? It's normal but it's not fair. You're not always at your best, are you? Other people have full lives and things going on so be careful of judging others. When you do judge others, you show your mental maturity. Want to increase your mental maturity? Don't judg...

Do you feel that you always have to change and make other people happy so that your life is better? You always are compromising yourself and your beliefs so that someday, your life will be better? To find joy, you should be fighting the fights, growing up with every fight, every comment, every moment of deafening silence. Joy is found on the other side of all the battles and struggles that you are...

Does it seem like no matter what you do, you feel like your fighting against something that is stopping? Do you ever feel like no matter how hard you try, you can't get things done? Go with the flow. Stop resisting the forces of nature, the path that you are currently on, and go with the flow. Where you are now and where you are supposed to be is sometimes not to far from each other, if you go wit...

Do you envy celebrities, CEOs, heads of state, SoMe influencers, famous people in general? Do you wish you could be one of them? Why not you? There is no difference between them and you. They have flaws, insecurities, bad relationships, bad habits, everything you have and they are that famous person. There is no secret sauce or formula, why not you. The people surrounding you are not supposed to p...

How many times after being rejected, receiving a "no" do you decide to quit? One of the keys to success and happiness is learning to take a punch and learn from why got punched. Life is not about being punched, it is about maturing from all the punches so you never get punched again. You never get rejected again. It's about continuous learning, continuous growth in all aspects of your life so that...

Getting caught up in the now, the problems and challenges of today make you lose sight of what is possible and where you are going. Telling stories of the past allows you to time travel back to when things were better when you were better when life was more of what you wanted. Don't spend time in the "now" complaining. You will lose sight of all the years of happiness you once had. Spend the time...

Are you always honest with yourself and other people? Do stress in a moment of uncertainty and answer people with an answer that will impress them but no reveal who you truly are? Why? Run into the Fire! In those moments when you feel most insecure, most alone, most afraid, then you must run-into-the-fire and find yourself. Grab that moment by telling the truth, revealing yourself to others, to yo...

How many times have you received advice and did nothing with it? How many times you could have avoided a bad relationship, a loss of money, a loss of a job if you would have acted on someone's advice? Many times I am sure. Advice is nothing if you don't use it. Aren't you tired of feeling sorry for yourself and blaming other people? The problem is not them, it's you. You get all the advice you nee...