Solutions Sans Suffering: Joyful Self-Improvement - Beast Over Burden - #523

02/06/24 • 22 min

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What does joyful self-improvement look like (and is it possible)? Today, we explore solutions sans suffering. Joyful Self-Improvement: Struggling & Floundering

People really struggle to make important changes in their lives (that they at least ostensibly want) such as to lose weight or gain more muscle.

Reasons abound for the difficulty.

People hear and see conflicting, extreme solutions or short-term, impossible solutions (e.g. 6 weeks to six-pack).

Furthermore, every person is different. People have different goals, preferences, body types, and reactions to training stimulus (e.g. you cannot become faster than Usain Bolt simply by trying really hard, though you will certainly fail if you do not try).

Joyful self-improvement also confronts the reality that change takes a long time. It took you a long time to reach the point where you have decided it's time to make a difference. The positive changes you desire will also take a long time.

Joyful Self-Improvement: Solutions Sans Suffering

Whatever solutions you (or a coach) decides on, they have to be sustainable. Can you really go the rest of your life only eating meat (or some other extreme diet).

Note that many of the people who follow a strict diet have quick feedback regarding when they eat a certain food (such as celiac disease).

Niki and Andrew recommend getting to a baseline before making changes. When you make changes, don't through the kitchen sink at your problems, but try one (or a couple) small changes. Consistently eating a couple hundred calories less than you have can make a BIG impact.

For joyful self-improvement, lean into what you like and embrace the long path to change.

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What does joyful self-improvement look like (and is it possible)? Today, we explore solutions sans suffering. Joyful Self-Improvement: Struggling & Floundering

People really struggle to make important changes in their lives (that they at least ostensibly want) such as to lose weight or gain more muscle.

Reasons abound for the difficulty.

People hear and see conflicting, extreme solutions or short-term, impossible solutions (e.g. 6 weeks to six-pack).

Joyful Self-Improvement: Solutions Sans Suffering

Whatever solutions you (or a coach) decides on, they have to be sustainable. Can you really go the rest of your life only eating meat (or some other extreme diet).

Note that many of the people who follow a strict diet have quick feedback regarding when they eat a certain food (such as celiac disease).

For joyful self-improvement, lean into what you like and embrace the long path to change.

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How to Find the Perfect Accountant with Mitchell Baldridge - Coaching Success - #522

Mitchell Baldridge, CPA, CFP, talks to Matt about how to find the perfect accountant, something a growing business will have to do at some point.

He owns Baldridge Financial and Better Book Keeping.

Check out the Stupid Tax podcast, with Scott Hambrick and Mitchell Baldridge.

How to Find the Perfect Account - First, Don't

If you're starting a business, you first need to find clients and jobs. Start making money.

When it comes to tracking and handling money, start a business bank account or use a different bank account than your personal. Simply, you need to clearly separate business expenses from personal expenses so at the point when you or someone else needs to prepare taxes, things are easy to delineate.

Early in the year (when this podcast airs) is a great time to start a business, because you have the rest of the year (and really until taxes are due) to get your money in order.

Right now, though, it's just about not screwing up.

Another recommendation, which is unrelated to accounting but for business owners is to not expand your expenses to your new income.

If you make $80,000 at your full-time job and begin to make money from your company, at some point you'll have to quit the full-time job and take a paycheck. Save that other money, pay off debt - but don't increase your monthly expenses.

How to Find the Perfect Account - Use Your Network

The best way to find a accountant is similar to how you might find an electrician. Ask people you trust about who they use.

For example, Matt asked his trusted HVAC technician if he can recommend an electrician. He did, and the electrician provided great service.

Try to find business owners you can talk to and pick their brains with. It might be a group of people who are in the same industry, or not, who are all small business owners.

Similarly, you might reach out to someone who has done this before.

Mitchell, for example, reached out to Scott after hearing him talk about his experience with Diamond David Keesling on the Barbell Logic podcast.

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Chase Value not Status - Coaching Success - #524

Matt discusses that, whether in life or business, you should chase value not status. This leads to a successful business and happier life.

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Chase Value not Status

In a social media world, it can be easy to pursue status. In the world we inhabit, it can always be easy to chase money.

Pursue something else. Chase value.

Deliver value to your customers. When entrepreneurs talk about opportunities, unless they are discussing some loophole or morally questionable pursuits, they're talking about a clear area where a problem exists where business can provide value.

You provide a customer a new roof, they give you money. The value you provide should be more than the price point.

Chase Value not Status - Appearance Versus Reality

You don't have to have thought too much about social media to know that people don't typically put mundane tasks, boring events, or things they're not proud of.

People select, for their own purposes, what they present to the world via the social media site.

This is illusory (and might be fake).

Chase value and deliver it to others.

Yes, business have to make money, but the singular pursuit of value does not lead to long-term success or happiness.

Chase value not status.

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