a2b4me...The Podcast! Keeping YOU Moving in the Direction of Your Dreams!

About a2b4me...The Podcast! Keeping YOU Moving in the Direction of Your Dreams!

Here's the buzz...after years of multi-industry entrepreneurship, I decided to alter direction. Now, I share my passion and experience by helping others to consistently move from where they are today to where they want to be utilizing my goal attainment a2b4me Strata-G. Stayed tuned right here for some awesome weekly content!

Publisher

Don Hastings

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Feb 2021

Latest episode

25 May 2023

Latest episodes

202 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   25 May 2023

   Making Your Habits Fun, How to Host a Good Party, and Tips for Prioritizing!

   Happy Thrive Thursday! This week we discuss...Making Your Habits Fun, How to Host a Good Party, and Tips for Prioritizing! Here are 3 ideas, 2 quotes, and 1 question to consider this week... Idea #1 "Sometimes all you need for exceptional results is average effort repeated for an above-average amount of time." Idea #2 "Make your habits fun. This doesn't mean each habit will be the most fun thing in your life, but nearly any habit can be made more fun than it is currently. Ask yourself..."What would it look like if this was fun? What would it look like if meditation or exercise or writing, or whatever, was fun? Find the most enjoyable version of each habit you do." Idea #3 "10 years or 1 hour. Those are the two time frames worth prioritizing. 10 years is shorthand for thinking longer-term than nearly everyone else and doing things that are really ambitious or meaningful. Most of the deeply meaningful things in life require long time horizons: building a business, cultivating a happy marriage, growing a family, getting in the best shape of your life, etc. How do you work toward the 10-year things? In 1 hour increments. 1 hour is shorthand for doing things that can be accomplished from start to finish in a single session like a good workout, a good writing session, reading a chapter of a book, going on a fun date, etc. The key is that you finish with something accomplished, not with half-work still waiting to be completed. If you spend 1 hour working toward a 10-year project, and you repeat this day after day...you're going to end up living a lovely life." Quote #1 Physician and YouTuber Ali Abdaal shares a useful bit of advice he received from one of his medical school professors: "An hour before 9 is worth 2 after 5." Source: Twitter Quote #2 Actress and dancer Joan Crawford on how to host a good party: “The best parties are a wild mixture. Take some corporation presidents, add a bearded painter, a professional jockey, your visiting friends from Brussels, a politician, a hairdresser, and a professor of physics, toss them all together, and try to get them to stop talking long enough to eat! It's especially important to have all age groups. I've never noticed any generation gap. All the younger people I know are bright and attractive and have something to say and they dress like human beings. They love to listen, too. They make wonderful guests." Source: My Way of Life (hat tip to Nick Gray) Question of the Week... What's the one action that moves the needle more than 100 other actions? What's the one choice that renders 1000 other choices irrelevant? Most things are not worth optimizing. Master the big moves and move quickly and peacefully through the other stuff. For more on this topic, I highly encourage you to reach out to me at a2b4me.com... Have an awesome week and Keep Moving in the Direction of Your Dreams!

2. 

   22 May 2023

   Plan Your Week

   The Week's Challenge: Plan Your Week Effective people plan every week, taking time alone before the week begins. Your goals, roles, and Q2 activities are your "Big Rocks"...schedule them first and the "gravel" of less-important tasks will fit around them. - Find a quiet place to plan for 20-30 minutes - Connect with your mission, roles, and goals. - Choose one or two "Big Rocks" for each role and schedule them. - Organize the rest of your tasks, appointments, and activities around your Big Rocks. Ask Yourself: What are the one or two most important things I can do in each role this week? "If you were to ask me what single practice would do more than any other to balance your life and increase your productivity, it would be this: Plan your week...before the week begins." - Stephen Covey For more on this topic, I highly encourage you to to reach out to me at a2b4me.com... Have an awesome week and Keep Moving in the Direction of Your Dreams!

3. 

   18 May 2023

   The Value of Leaving Things Alone, Nonmaterial Needs, and Broadening Your Interests!

   Happy Thrive Thursday! This week we discuss...The Value of Leaving Things Alone, Nonmaterial Needs, and Broadening Your Interests! Here are 3 ideas, 2 quotes, and 1 question to consider this week... Idea #1 Something I heard recently and I've tried to adopt whenever possible: "It's hard to grow beyond something if you won't let go of it." Idea #2 "Broaden your interests. It's nice to have at least one surprising hobby or passion. People find it interesting. In many ways, the part of you that is least expected is more respected." Idea #3 "Talent is rarely enough to assure victory and bad luck is rarely enough to guarantee defeat. Do they influence the outcome? Of course. But your response will always sway the final tally." Quote #1 Jesuit priest and writer Baltasar Gracian on the value of leaving things alone: "Know how to leave things alone, for if knowing how to refuse is one of life's great lessons, an even greater one is knowing how to say no to yourself, to important people, and in business. There are non-essential activities, moths of precious time, and it's worse to take an interest in irrelevant things than to do nothing at all." Source: The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence Quote #2 Systems engineer and environmental scientist Donella Meadows on nonmaterial needs: "People don't need enormous cars; they need admiration and respect. They don't need a constant stream of new clothes; they need to feel that others consider them to be attractive, and they need excitement and variety and beauty. People don't need electronic entertainment; they need something interesting to occupy their minds and emotions. And so forth. Trying to fill real but nonmaterial needs for identity, community, self-esteem, challenge, love, joy, with material things is to set up an unquenchable appetite for false solutions to never-satisfied longings. A society that allows itself to admit and articulate its nonmaterial human needs, and to find nonmaterial ways to satisfy them, world require much lower material and energy throughputs and would provide much higher levels of human fulfillment." Source: The Limits to Growth Question of the Week... When you're living a good day, what is one habit that tends to be part of that day? Can you find time for that habit today? For more on this topic, I highly encourage you to reach out to me at a2b4me.com... Have an awesome week and Keep Moving in the Direction of Your Dreams!

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