Midyear Check-In

Hello, my friends. I'm Brendon Burchard, host of the Brendon show and founder of growthday.com and I'm honored to be your high performance coach today. I believe that every day we can be inspired. We can live with intention and purpose. We can bring the joy and honor the struggles of each day to push ourselves to grow, to serve, to be a role model, to lead extraordinary lives. I believe that every day is a great day to grow. That's why I started my company, growthday.com it's an online personal growth platform where you can get me and the world's best personal development teachers live coaching you every week, sharing our wisdom, keeping you motivated and accountable, encouraging you to find the aliveness and the connection and meaning of life that we're all after. If you're not a member yet, please go sign up@growthday.com and join our huge worldwide community of achievers. For less than a dollar a day, you get the world's best teachers live every week. And look, you've probably known for a long time that you needed some expert guidance, an inspired community and life changing tools. So please, your breakthrough awaits you@growthday.com now let's get to today's episode. My friends, please listen closely. Maybe you take some notes so you remember these insights of personal growth and share this episode with three of your friends because we all have to share more positive messages in the world today. So share this with three friends just like you who are committed to their personal growth. And also be sure to tag me or DM me on Instagram. Rendon Burchard, Join our million plus community there on Instagram so I can say hi. Thanks again for listening.

Now let's begin. Action.

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A lot of people have incredible intention in life, but they lack initiative. A lot of people have a lot of hopes, but they don't do the hard work.

A lot of people make a lot.

Of promises but they don't have the persistent action that changes things. So what I'd love for you to do is immediately right now, what are five new things that you did or five things you moved towards that you're proud of? You know, take a few moments. I really, this is not conceptual. I actually want you to write these things down. So if you don't have a journal, please do. Maybe one was you repaired a relationship with one of your kids. Maybe two if you're like me and Kevin and a couple of the Puerto Rico team down here. We moved to Puerto Rico, people. That was some scary Stuff that was hard. I'm proud of that. We worked through that. I'm really proud that my wife and I, Denise, figured out how do we work together best. I'm really proud that we've hired probably across our companies, over 50 new people this year across our companies. I'm really proud of those things. Doesn't mean I got everything dialed in as we'll talk about, but it means, you know what, there's been a forward lean in our life this year. Like, we took on some hard things this year. You endured and went through way more things this year than you thought you did. But I want to know today, before we start with the magic and the fire and I get in your head and I mess you up a little bit, what did you take action towards this year? It could be as simple as Brenda. I put up my first website, Brendan. I made my first money online, Brendan. I hired that person. I mentored that person. I moved this city. I bought that thing. What five critical actions that you're proud of. Now, if you're hearing me and you have not yet written this down, you're a punk. But I want you to write this down because, trust me, you don't want to finish this year without reviewing what you're going to write down today. Let's just start there. Five critical things you took action towards that you're proud of. Okay, so mine were some of the moving, the rebranding, figuring out things with the niece. We tried hard things. We hired people. Like, I'm excited about those things. Those things let me integrate those actions into myself. So I'm now a more confident human. Because what happens with people is they do take action, but because their measuring stick is so high, they want to achieve this dream. They want to make this happen. They want to make their million dollars or whatever. The measuring stick's so high, they never integrate the wins. You must integrate your wins. You must celebrate them and not just go out and have a bottle of wine on them. You must ruminate on them and think about them and pull them in. Like, take the actions and let that pride and that strength and that recognition come into your heart and soul. That's how you get more confident every year. Because if you spent the last five years and you're not any more confident than you were five years ago, it's not because you haven't moved or learned or done anything. It's because you did not integrate those actions into your identity. I have integrated the actions. I'm a man that can move to another frigging country, another island, another place and make it happen. I'm a man that can restart a brand new brand from scratch and build it. Holy cow. I'm a person who can hire 50 some people across our companies but I'm still learning. You know, you gotta take on and you gotta like assume and integrate the wins that you've had. Integrate them. So don't just write them down, feel them, be proud of them.

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The question of accountability. I love this question for several reasons. Now first it says accountability. I love this one is because do you actually have the ability to account for how far you came this year? Now let me explain what that means. Personal accountability means you stated some promises to yourself. You took the actions and and you fulfilled them. You were accountable for how you showed up and how you performed each day. Accountability also means you would be able to measure that. You'd be able to take into account that. So what does accountability really mean? Accountability really means you set up some systems of measurement for your success. Now, I know this is where I was like, jesus, Brandon, could you put some balloons up dancing bears? Can we have some positivity here? Oh, I started with positivity. Now I'm going to go right to your face. What did you fail to take accountability for? Did you fail to take accountability for the fact that you promised to get your health in order? Did you fail to take accountability for your actions? So you're still blaming your spouse for your results? Did you fail to take accountability for the fact that you got to pay some taxes? You're still late on them. Did you fail to take accountability for your credit card debt this year? Like, I just want you to think broadly. I told you at the beginning, this is a conversation. This is like a good old conversation with Uncle Coach Brendan. And so where did you fail? And the accountability piece. I know that's hard, but high performers are not uncomfortable with this conversation. We got to be very comfortable with our measuring sticks and have this conversation. I can tell you where mine were. Accountability. I missed a ton of team calls this year. I failed to take accountability for me to make sure that every single week I got on my team calls. I own that. I'm aware of it. I'll do better next year. It's important for us to be able to look at ourselves and say, you know what?

That piece.

I wasn't as accountable towards my wife at the first five months of this year as I had promised her when we moved to Puerto Rico. I should have been more available to her. I should have doted on her more. I should have made sure she was set up as much as I was trying to set up the business and the studio and the things. And, you know, I should have had more wine nights with my wife this year. Like, I'm accountable for that. Because you know what? I want to be a good husband. And it doesn't make me feel sad. I'm not getting mad at myself. I'm being realistic and I'm observing my own behavior. Gosh, I could have done more team calls. Could have been more awesome to my wife. I'm not mad at myself. There's no emotional dread about it. I'm like, dang, it could have done better versus, oh, I'm a pile of crap. There's no dread. There's no self hate allowed. Okay? You're not 18 years old anymore. What you need is the ability to step out of your life and observe it from that observer, mindful, accountable way. It means you go, I observe that I didn't do a good job in this area of my life. Now, what I like to do, and most of you guys have this, so this is not a sale, but check this out. I got my high performance planner. This is how I do this activity. For those who might have yours handy today, I would just grab your high performance planner and I would go to the section that has your whole life assessment and I say, okay, health. Was I accountable for my health this year? Was I really the one who was in charge? Was I measuring it? Was I staying disciplined towards it? Let me ask those questions again. Was I in charge? Was I measuring it? Was I staying disciplined to make it happen? In charge, measuring, staying disciplined? Okay, in my health? Was I? Was I not? Scale of 1 to 10, mental life, like, did I? Was I accountable for protecting my mental sanity and freedom? Did you give your mental sanity and freedom away to Instagram today? Did you give it away to that mean neighbor, to that mother in law? Or were you accountable for your own mental health? Or are you blaming the media? Or are you blaming that spouse? Or are you blaming somebody? What about your relationships? Were you accountable for your behavior in your relationships? Or are you still blaming her for your anger? Are you still blaming them for your stress? What about your family? Like, were you accountable for making your family come together tighter this year? Let me ask that again. Were you accountable for making your family come together tighter? Because, you know, each family member tends to go, oh, that's mom's job. Oh, that's dad's job. That's my strong brother's job. No, each person in a family is accountable for bringing the family closer together, tighter together. At least making the attempt. That's the job of being in a family. What about your friends? Were you accountable for being a great friend this year? Who did you just totally not show up and serve for as a friend this year? Who went through something, a friend, and you didn't do it. You didn't show up for them and you know that. You probably could have. You missed their birthday or they went through a tough time and you didn't call them enough. What about your mission? Were you on point with your mission? What about your spirit? Did you protect your spirit? If you have spirituality or religion or connection with God or universe, did you connect enough? Did you talk enough? Did you feel yourself guided enough? Or were you going through the motions this year and you kind of feel blah and disconnected. What about your finances? Oh, God, don't talk about the money. Did you be accountable for your checkbook this year?

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