Indecisiveness Ep. 9

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Hello, the world I'm back. James 'Fantastik' Hepler. It's been a while. We'll talk about that here in a moment, but first of all, as we do here at the monetize your book. Podcast [e-mail] we put on are fantastic where I like to be fantastic. And most of the time I live pretty fantastically. So now I have my wonderful brand new white fedora and a red, white, and blue check shirt.

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I asked myself that question when I was writing this and the answer is I have been growing immensely and I like to Bring it back to the aspect that I become much more moldable, much pliable, but be another great word. Okay. And a couple of weeks ago, I was doing a three-day intense seminar with Alison Maslin.

And her company is scale. It, the name of her program is scaling. It's a, I can't remember the name of her company, but anyhow, she's been around forever. Not that long, but she's been doing it a long time and it was great. It was three days. I learned a bunch and it tied into my indecision now.

Which is what the subject is for today's recording indecisive. And during that time she had many wonderful speakers and if you have a company that's six mid-six figures to seven figures or higher, and you want to scale checkup, Alison Maslin, the scale it system. One of her speakers was a renowned author and a motivational speaker.

He is an ordained minister and he has this new book called the magical mindset. And how do we get from mundane and messy and that kind of stuff? And one particular aspect of the book though is ruining that rock. My world old is he's had, I am a Christian. He was, I said he was in a dream minister, but I had no idea what his theology is.

So anyhow, in, in him saying I am a Christian, he said, so my greater power is called God. And. It was liberating for me because I am also a Christian. I've been a Christian my whole life. And I refer to my source of inspiration of guidance to God. I refer to it as the holy spirit, my heavenly father Jesus is called the Christ teaching.

And what I would encourage you is to find a word or words or a system that works for you. The great thing about the Christ teaching is Jesus said, here's the Bible you can use as much of it or as little of it, or none of it is here for your attune. There are no rules and regulations. I got to read three chapters a day or whatever.

This is it's a book about life principles and guidance. So anyhow,

I want you to know that I am going to refer to my higher power as God or my creator or whatever. You refer to your higher power with what, any kind of words you wish to choose. And I hope that's well with you as well. So the other things I've been doing in the last 18 buds while I've done some trials I either was even able to do some traveling during the pandemic.

, I've had my seventh back operation. This one was, my first massive invasive, system where now has rods and screws and all that kinda good stuff. But, It's been, an interesting and challenging recovery and two hours after the surgery. When I was coming on anesthesia very shortly after being awake, I flat-lined, which is a medical term for having a massive heart attack.

And I was dead for 20 minutes. And that has spawned a book that's called the heaven and back that they see you for me to have more time to serve here on earth. And then I have a second book that I'm also writing, which is called well, fed chickens, lay golden eggs, how to get the most out of life.

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As I said earlier I think the main setup here is that I've been becoming a more pliable person or as it says, somewhere in the scripture he is the Potter and I am the clay. And I'm doing my best to follow the suggestions of my source of inspiration. So let's get right into indecisions indecisiveness.

Precisely is what we're talking about in today's monetize your voice podcast. And I go to, when I do this, I like to go to the source, which is a Webster's dictionary. And I believe that all of us have indecisiveness to one degree, we are another, so Webster says this. The definition of decisiveness is not settling an issue, letting it drag on and on a person not having or showing the ability to make decisions quickly and effectively is a little bit like beating around the Bush.

Let's get to the subject. We all have the backstory deal, but what's the forefront. What is the subject of what we're talking about today? Of course, it's indecisiveness. I was giving you some backstory because I haven't been around for 18 months. Anywho indecisiveness? One of the terms I liked to use is comparison display.

And my Goddaughter Melia educated me on this and comparison, despair can go in many directions from my point of view. And it has to do with judgment as a do with envy. It has to do with jealousy, but it also has to new with comparison, despair ourselves one of the things is what if and we're going to do a whole pat podcast on the water theory by the comparison, despair to my self as been well, will I ever be as good as Hey friends are James fantastic.

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now I have been blessed over the last four years to study as some of the major players in life coaching. Public speaking arena. I first started with Mary Morrissey. It was divinity. I never heard of Mary Morrissey and she's been, this is her life work and we're very close in age. She's younger than I am.

And you can tell that when you look at her also I studied with Brendan Bouchard, who is a world-known and With Roger Love one of the best voice teachers in the world. I've also studied with Zig Ziglar and numerous other Gurus of course Zig has passed. Man, I don't know. It's probably 12, 15 years ago and his son is running the company and a lot of great material from Zig when he was out at his whole life and just a great guy.

So the other aspect that I think on indecisiveness has to do with our lack of focus. And I've got a perfect example to share with you. When I was writing this podcast in between I was texting my youngest nephew. He and his brother have had co quarries in Northern Northeastern, Pennsylvania, and they're in the bluestone business, which is gorgeous.

And I have a project going here. I'm building a fire pit and some other things in the backyard. And of course, they're supplying their gorgeous stone, so we're back and forth and that in between the other things. And so it's just another form of lack of focus. It takes our energy. And of course, it just does.

It's taken me a long time to get to this point right now recording this podcast. So think about that. How focused are you? I got it straight out by fedora here for the folks that are on the video side of things. The other part of indecisive. Is what I used to call the Y in the road. Okay. Now I call it the four-prong fork in the road, because up until now, when I only had the Y, when I got there, I said is it yes or no?

Or do I go right or left? But through my studying, I realized that there it's a minimum of four-prong, a fork in the road. Okay, so we can go, we can go left. We can stay right where we're at, or we can do a 180-degree turn or U-turn. Okay. Then, indecisiveness, w what we need to do is do the best we can with what we have and where we are.

And that's just where it is, do what we can with what we have from where we are and move forward. [e-mail]. We call it taking the next step. Then, there is nothing worse than being frozen within decisiveness. Decide with the information you have as best as you can, and it can be altered.

Now I'll give you a perfect aspect of growth in this aspect. So yesterday I had a massage and I have been I don't want to use the word suffering, but I have been somewhat agitated with a thing called trigger finger. And what this does is your fingers lock now. I've had the opportunity to grow with this.

Cause I have a trigger finger on both hands and they are both on my ring fingers and this is very painful, especially when they lock. And it's gotten to a point now that I have to use the other hand to unlock any figure finger that freezes. So we've been working on this and identifying this and I've been doing all sorts of exercises, but yesterday the massage therapist talked to a colleague who gave her some other ideas and suggestions, and they were amazing.

My trigger fingers feel at least 50% better today. So you see, she was doing the best she could do. But she knew where we were. We needed to have other information to move to a different setup. So that's the why, or as it's now the four-prong fork in the road I've had my indecisiveness.

Yeah. Yeah. Here I am. In my eighth decade. Most of my decisiveness does come with this particular project. So I'm saying. How many people do I want to hire? How much growth do I want to have? That's why I did those three days of scaling it. I've been in business my whole life I've run mid-level six-figure companies for decades, and I know the involvement of management, so I'm saying to myself, okay where do I want to go?

What is my level of commitment? And of course, on top of all this indecisiveness are the old paradigms. And up until now, one of the major old paradigms I'd have been as been kicking my butt. Is this Mr. Fantastic. You don't have to do this. My goodness, Mr. Fantastic. You're in your eighth decade.

Look at the success you've had in life by the age of 27. Mr. Fantastic. You put your first radio station on the air and a mere eight and a half years before that, the only thing you knew about radio was turning it on and changing the dial, which is all fantastic. It was all factual. Okay. With my willingness to be pliable for my willingness to allow, my creator, to mold me.

All right. We are in this situation where, Hey you know, Mr. Fantastic. You do need to do this. If you are intending. To serve in the best possible way, your creator. And so I now realize this and I am now having a greater amount of joy because I have asked that paradigm to retire have retired.

Thank the paradigm for its services, but services are no longer needed. The number one thing within decisiveness is to make the decision, make that decision. Okay. Take the next step. Take the next step. If all of us are going to come to the four fork prong, the four-pronged fork in the road, say that fast about 18 times the four-pronged fork in the road.

Yeah. It applies to all of us. How well do we manage and adapt? That's where we're at managing and adapting. Zig Ziglar has this great quote. I love that dude. He says you don't have to be great to start, but yeah, God starts to be great. [e-mail]. We just paraphrase that, take the next step, take the next step.

So I think another aspect hereof indecisiveness is something that I was given about a week ago, and that is now newness is priceless. Now newness is pricing. And I want to back that up with a scripture that addresses this it's from Matthew 6 34. Okay. And it says, therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow for tomorrow will be anxious for itself.

Sufficient. For the day is his trouble. And that's why in, in the Christ teaching, he always talked about being here, being in the moment don't be anxious about tomorrow. Then, what-ifs of tomorrow, they may never happen. I just ran into a neighbor that is in his mid-eighties and has just had a when he called them things Pacemaker.

I was going to call it a heart monitor. What is a pacemaker? He's riding around on a battery-operated scooter right now for his recovery. And he was saying to me the cardiologist doesn't know if he's going to be able to drive again. And so he was focusing on not being able to drive on a sit-down.

No, wait, no, wait, Ron, you don't know that. That a Dr. May just as easily say to you. Yeah, baby, you are in great shape. Hit the road, Jack, get back out there. And he looked at me, you say, because he didn't look from my perspective at the full picture, only looked at part of it. He was only looking at one side of the coin and all coins have two sides.

Last time I checked any out. So there you have. The backup about now, newness is priceless. It goes back to focus and all those great things. So let's work on that. I want to say thank you very much for being with us here at the monetize, your voice podcast. Lots of more great things coming up. Please check the show notes, please log on to the James pack.

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