S2E27 - What's Your Future Worth?
10/24/22 • 28 min
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Have you ever thought about the person you will be in the future or what your future will look like? Your future is worth your attention. Because the future you picture or imagine influences your actions today.
In this week’s episode, McKay has an important question for you: What is your future worth? To help you envision your future self, he shares an incredibly touching story about a group of mountain climbers and the hard-learned lessons that turned their lives upside down. And we can all learn so much about climbs and attempts in life from their powerful story. As McKay says, it’s not about the climb, it’s about the climber. You are in the driver’s seat of your life, so take the wheel and change direction if you want to! For more insightful tips, join McKay here today as he illuminates the power of a perspective shift and the key principles for climbing your way to the top.
The Finer Details of This Episode:
- The incredible story of mountain climbers
- Climbing back after you fall
- Working hard today for a successful tomorrow
- Principles for achieving your future worth
- Envisioning your future self
- The power of perspective
Quotes:
“In the end, Clinton is grateful for a few things - for the years he had with his wife, for his kids, and for the fact that a split second before the lightning struck, he had reclipped the belay device into an anchor in the rock and that belay kept the three climbers below him from falling off the mountain.”
“I've come to learn this very important lesson about climbs and about attempts in life. It's not about the mountain. It's not about the lightning. It's not about the decisions or miscalculations or choices or circumstances. And it's not about who to blame. It's not, despite what Miley Cyrus thinks, about the climb. It is about the climber.”
“Is the person you're hoping to become worth the effort you are making today?”
“Here's the truth. The value of a future goal is the present change that it makes in you today.”
“He said that when you live in poverty and squalor, you picture your future and put on that image. So you see yourself as the person you will become, not the person you are today, because the person you are today is too poor and too pitiful to identify with. It is the future that you become. It's imagining that future that is yet to come that gives you hope.”
“The climb gives you perspective.”
“My experience had been that when you move deliberately in the direction, you feel inspired to act. The confirmation of your decision will come, or you'll be inspired to know that you're on the wrong path. But sometimes you have to be on the path and walk forward a bit before you get that perspective and understanding.”
“What's your future worth? It's worth the hard things you have to do today. It's worth the sacrifices you are making. It's worth the work to overcome your habits, and it's worth the climb.”
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Have you ever thought about the person you will be in the future or what your future will look like? Your future is worth your attention. Because the future you picture or imagine influences your actions today.
In this week’s episode, McKay has an important question for you: What is your future worth? To help you envision your future self, he shares an incredibly touching story about a group of mountain climbers and the hard-learned lessons that turned their lives upside down. And we can all learn so much about climbs and attempts in life from their powerful story. As McKay says, it’s not about the climb, it’s about the climber. You are in the driver’s seat of your life, so take the wheel and change direction if you want to! For more insightful tips, join McKay here today as he illuminates the power of a perspective shift and the key principles for climbing your way to the top.
The Finer Details of This Episode:
- The incredible story of mountain climbers
- Climbing back after you fall
- Working hard today for a successful tomorrow
- Principles for achieving your future worth
- Envisioning your future self
- The power of perspective
Quotes:
“In the end, Clinton is grateful for a few things - for the years he had with his wife, for his kids, and for the fact that a split second before the lightning struck, he had reclipped the belay device into an anchor in the rock and that belay kept the three climbers below him from falling off the mountain.”
“I've come to learn this very important lesson about climbs and about attempts in life. It's not about the mountain. It's not about the lightning. It's not about the decisions or miscalculations or choices or circumstances. And it's not about who to blame. It's not, despite what Miley Cyrus thinks, about the climb. It is about the climber.”
“Is the person you're hoping to become worth the effort you are making today?”
“Here's the truth. The value of a future goal is the present change that it makes in you today.”
“He said that when you live in poverty and squalor, you picture your future and put on that image. So you see yourself as the person you will become, not the person you are today, because the person you are today is too poor and too pitiful to identify with. It is the future that you become. It's imagining that future that is yet to come that gives you hope.”
“The climb gives you perspective.”
“My experience had been that when you move deliberately in the direction, you feel inspired to act. The confirmation of your decision will come, or you'll be inspired to know that you're on the wrong path. But sometimes you have to be on the path and walk forward a bit before you get that perspective and understanding.”
“What's your future worth? It's worth the hard things you have to do today. It's worth the sacrifices you are making. It's worth the work to overcome your habits, and it's worth the climb.”
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Previous Episode
S2E26 - The Best In You
Too often in life, we get to thinking that we are less than capable of doing what we set out to do. But the truth is: we are better than we think. So, how do you find the best within you?
In this week’s episode, McKay shares some valuable tips for finding the best within you and discovering your own potential. He talks about the dangers of making excuses, why it’s important to take calculated risks in life, and how to rise to your true self. As he nicely puts it, you are way better than you think, even though you might not see it at the moment. However, you’re not alone in this; most people get so caught up in the chaos of everyday life that they miss the beauty of it all. That’s precisely why it is so important for you to tune in today, and learn how you, too, can turn things around and find the best within you.
The Finer Details of This Episode:
- Enjoying the beauty of the moment
- Recognizing your own potential
- Dangers of making excuses
- Taking calculated risks
- Fulfilling your dreams
- Risk-taking for a better life
- Believing in your true value
Quotes:
“Because people are so busy and focused on their day, they miss the beauty and rarity of the moment.”
“In life, there are so many things around us that are, in fact, better than we think. People are better than we think. Circumstances, our life, kids, job, our own potential, often are much better than we think. ”
“You are better than you think.”
“Over time, it becomes more of a habit to talk than to walk.”
“Most of us have ideas or dreams of what we'd love to do. And we make an assessment and the impossibility of the thing takes over. And soon we place the idea on the shelf hoping that someday we can dust it off, open it up and dream a bit more.”
“To find the best in us, we must risk a bit of ourselves - our pride, our time, our effort. It's the risk that teaches us to value the outcome.”
“It's in the risk of it that we learn to bring out the best in us.”
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S2E28 - As You Wish
Do wishes come true? In many ways our wishes dictate the direction we travel in life. In this week’s episode, McKay discusses the principle that dreams we grant to others and seek for ourselves have the power to change lives. It often takes a leader and first class noticer to make someone’s wish come true in the first place. From Jason McElwain to Cary Elwes, McKay goes on to recount stories about wish makers, what they wish for, and how they turn wishes into reality.
Above all else, McKay finds it important to note that we can realize our own wishes too, and that’s just what this episode is all about: making the right wishes and letting them serve as a guide. Among the stories he shares today is that of Shawn Bradley, NBA veteran and now quadriplegic, who, after getting hit by a car and losing movement in his body from the neck down, could’ve easily wished that everything was different or at least that he stayed in bed that fateful day. Instead, he saw no value in wishing for a new life, and opted to become someone new; someone who embraces the circumstances he’s given. Be sure to listen in to today’s moving and inspirational episode to discover how you, too, can make others’ dreams come true, and lead life as you wish.
The Finer Details of This Episode:
- The Make-A-Wish Foundation
- J Mac’s dream come true
- Making others’ dreams come true
- Cary Elwes’ casting in The Princess Bride
- Letting wishes be your guide
- Shawn Bradley’s new purpose in life
Quotes:
“Wishes, the kind we grant for and give to others, and the kind we seek to be granted for ourselves, both have the power to change your life.”
“And Jason had a wish. After becoming manager, Jason had a wish, and it was to sit on the sideline in a uniform as a real player for one game.”
“At Boston, he ran a very impressive two hour and 57 minute marathon, proving to the world that he was indeed an elite athlete, and that wishes - the best wishes - do come true.”
“It's one thing to use the word wish or to send someone a wish, but an entirely different thing to see a wish come about in someone's life by what you do. This takes a leader who is a first class noticer: someone who sees what other people are hoping for and then goes about helping to make that happen.”
“Cary said from the first shot in which cantankerous Max appears poking his head through a wooden peep hole in the door, Billy Crystal began ad libbing for three days straight, 10 hours a day. He improvised, never saying the same thing or the same line twice.”
“Life tends to steer the same way. And if we wish we were more educated, the pull of such wishes tends to keep us interested in looking for a way to get that degree or become more educated.”
“Shawn realizes that there's no value in wishing things were different, but there's tremendous value in wishing you can become something new.”
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