by Amy | Feb 18, 2017 | business
In the post before this one, I shared with you how listening to podcasts and audiobooks literally TRANSFORMED MY LIFE!! I am THE evangelist for podcasts who will tell you that podcasts are THE BOMB! If you aren’t already listening AVIDLY to podcasts, NOW is the time to get started!
While I was sitting there at my desk job at Apple and listening to podcasts like a fiend, I had an epiphany, and it went something like this:
These people are NO different than me. They just got started and are doing it. I have every. bit. of ability. stamina. motivation. talent that THESE PEOPLE I’m listening to have. THAT’S IT!!! THIS IS WHAT I’M SUPPOSED TO BE DOING!!
And that was it. There was no more turning back. There was no more thinking, “Gee…I really wish I had the drive to do something amazing.” All there really was at that point was POWER. I now felt completely empowered and equipped to get this all figured out and just DO it! Like the Nike ad, “JUST DO IT!” It made so much sense to me. I had spent years turning my wheels and wondering what I was supposed to do. And then I just realized that the people who are successful are only successful because they have just done it. They have done it. Failed. Done it again. Tried. Failed. Gotten back up. Done it again. And eventually…if they kept with it, they were successful at it.
So what had tripped me up all those years? The answer is simple and oh so common: FEAR OF FAILURE. It had plagued me like nothing else could. Fear of failure had left me paralyzed and useless.
But no more. I was determined to make something happen. And I want to share that determination with you. YOU can make something happen too. We are in this together.
So…JUST DO IT!
by Amy | Feb 2, 2017 | business
While working at Apple on the Maps Team, I quickly discovered that I was allowed to listen to things on my headphones while working. BONUS!! I love love love music, but since I’m a singer, I had a hard time listening to the music on my headphones without blurting out what I was hearing. I’m also a life-long learner and wanted the time there to be worthwhile for me, as sometimes the job itself was admittedly a little boring. OK…a lot boring.
I remember the first day of training when I discovered podcasts. I had heard people mention that they listened to podcasts, but I had never really explored what they were and what interest I would have in listening to them. After all, I had 3 kids. Who needed more voices to hear and things to do??? Not moi. But this…this job…allowed me to sit and listen to whatever I wanted to hear, so it seemed only logical to figure out what that would be. I started with podcasts of preachers. I’ve always loved hearing passionate, articulate preachers deliver a good message. I thought, “Oh…this will be great!!! I’ll be in a position to be uplifted WHILE I work!!!” And one day, while listening to a preacher I loved to hear, I started noticing there were literally podcasts with all different kinds of topics and subject matter. I bounced around a little here and there and started becoming familiar with the navigation around podcasts and key words to enter in the search bar, and discovered an entire world of valuable information delivered RIGHT INTO MY HEADPHONES!
One of the first small business podcasts I listened to was Chalene Johnson’s “Build Your Tribe”. On this podcast, Chalene interviews leaders in the online business industry and talks about her own personal journey while sharing amazing tips and tricks for getting your online business off the ground. Once I ran out of podcast episodes from Chalene, I started researching some of the people she had been interviewing and discovered Pat Flynn, Michael Stelzner, Michael Hyatt and Lewis Howes. Pat Flynn was a huge resource for me at the beginning. I even downloaded and listened to his audiobook entitled “Will It Fly?” and was super intrigued by the amazing insight and educational content value his business Smart Passive Income provides. Then…somewhere in there, I discovered Amy Porterfield, and let me just tell you, my whole perspective on what I was supposed me doing changed in a heartbeat! If I weren’t clear on what I was supposed to be doing BEFORE listening to Amy Porterfield, I was CERTAINLY clear now. She has podcasts on everything from facebook tips to creating content for your online business. Her tagline is “Online Marketing Made Easy” and she certainly makes it sound like it is!
So now, I will just tell you that I am an evangelist for good podcasts that share AMAZING information and help people like me get their game on and figure out what it is we’re supposed to be doing!
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