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Your Next BreakthroughThis email is brought to you by Your Next Breakthrough, the community that is changing the definition of personal growth in 5 minutes per week. Mark Manson writes one idea, one question, and one exercise each week that could spark your next breakthrough. No fluff, no filler, no BS. Just five minutes each week that might change everything. Sign up here to change your life! Make the InvestmentLast week we talked about the Financial Independence Formula:
And, we shared that the easiest way to improve the formula was to focus on your earnings, because: There’s unlimited upside to how much you can increase your earnings. But there’s a floor on how low you can cut your spending. To increase your learnings, we’re focused on increasing your position at your 9 to 5 as a leader and the number one way we’re going to do that is by Making the Investment. Invest in YourselfTo be a leader, you need to be qualified to lead. It means you need to continuously invest in yourself. Wealthy people never stop learning:
They’re focused on developing Rare Skills. It means they’re willing to spend money to make money. While the average person focuses on the $10,000 cost, the wealthy person focuses on the $100,000 they’ll make from it. People focus on in-demand skills, instead, focus on Rare Skills. Rare skills are a combo of multiple skill-sets that mix into a super-power, such as an accountant who:
It’s relatively easy with consistency and hard work to get to the top 10% in any of these areas, while it’s challenging to get to the 1%. But when you’re the top 10% in multiple of these areas, you begin to move to the 1% or the 0.01% and that’s when you’re worth more money. Invest in Your PeopleIf you’ve never been able to retain key colleagues, here’s the greatest lesson you need to learn: Invest in Your People If people on your team are growing personally, professionally and financially then they won’t leave you. The key is, you need to focus on each category:
It’s not enough to help your people grow in one area while neglecting the others. Your people need to know you care about them as people and you’re invested in their career and finances. I suggest you have conversations with them to seek to understand what matters to them in each of these categories. Once you understand what matters to them, you can create a plan with them to achieve their goals. Even having this conversation and creating the plan is a sign to your colleagues that you care and you’re invested in them.
TGG PodcastThis week on the Podcast, we talked to Gary John Bishop, co-author of Grow Up: Becoming the Parents Your Kids Deserve. Being a parent is the single most challenging job you’ll ever take on in your life. Whatever toolbox you think you’ve managed to piece together, for many people, there’s just not enough in there to see them through it with some relative peace of mind. As adults, what you believe about your childhood is your biggest problem. You must learn that whatever happened just happened. That’s the facts. What you believe about what happened is where you begin to disconnect and need to course correct. It reminds me of the Carl Jung quote:
Until you make the subconscious conscious, you will forever be led by it and call it fate.
One of the areas to focus on is blame. We consciously and subconsciously blame our parents for many of our childhood and adult lives. We forget they tried their best. They were younger than we are now and didn’t know any better. I was hit by a car when I was 5 years old. My dad had just turned 32 years old, which is young. For too much of my life, I held that against them. I didn’t see their humanity until I was in their shoes. Now, at 45 and after doing years of men’s work, I realize it doesn’t matter what you do, you’re going to f*ck up your kids. A big part of your journey in healing yourself is recognizing that your parents were, to a large extent, still children when they had you. If you were born before 1990, odds are your parents were under 25 when they had you, which is effectively kids, and your ability to see them through that lens, as adults now, is something you need to work on. Learn to see your parent’s humanity. I see you, Mom, I Love You, and let Dad know the same. Whether you’re a parent, want to be a parent, or have parents, Grow Up provides lessons to help you fully take charge of the direction of your life and show your kids how to follow theirs.
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