Course Correct

Hi, guys. My name is Donnie Rouse, and you are listening to the podcast One Life Course, Correct? What if you couldn't fail? Failure is one of those taboo words where everyone's afraid of doing it. But what if failure was the only way forward? What if said differently, what if failing smart was the only way forward? Because the only way you can possibly fail is to fail going towards a goal that you don't find fulfilling, a failure of going towards a goal that your heart is not in. And the intention of this podcast here is to get you to see your failures as a progression, but also to get you to fail more often. And you might say, what do you mean, fail more often? Stick with me, I promise it will make sense. So something happens when you have a destination in mind and you start to move towards that destination. I give the analogy of a plane, actually. I was flying back from Palm Beach, Florida, and while I was on the plane, I had the 3D flight map up on my screen in front of me on the sea. So as I was looking at this, I saw the projected. The projected flight path of the plane. And then what I noticed next was that the plane. So say there was a linear line, right? Imagine like a line going straight through. If you're watching this on Facebook, a line going straight through my screen. But rather than the plane following that path, it followed a few degrees lower, so it was no longer on that linear line. And now as the plane was kind of going in slightly off course, that line going to the end destination would readjust. It would readjust, so the. The angle would kind of move more towards a, like a 90 degree angle versus a 70, which it was on. If you could kind of picture that in your mind, I was like, well, isn't that true of life? When I started out in the coffee company, with my coffee company, my intention. When I started out, I had had some roasting experience, and then I had bought my first roaster. And with that roaster, I thought it was going to be super easy to just start turning out awesome coffee. Boy, was I ready. I was joking myself. So as I roasted the coffee, I noticed that it was not desirable. I didn't yet know the machine that I had. So I started roasting more and more and more. And I kept doing it because my intention was to get a great cup of coffee. My intention was to understand all the variables and how they impacted the flavor of the cup. So what do you think I did? I started roasting, changing every variable you could imagine, from air flow to temperature curves, from rise to falls, you name it, I was manipulating it. And sometimes I would totally get frustrated, like, what the hell's going on with this coffee? This sucks. And then I would change my approach and I keep changing my approach and changing my approach until finally I arrived at the spot where I don't even really like other people's coffees. There are a few out there that I like, but for the most part, I love my coffees and I think my coffees are some of the best in the world, although there is a little bias there. So what happened? So what happened was I knew what my end goal was and when you know what your end goal was. Now these little failures that you, that you encounter along the way, they're no longer failures, but they keep realigning you. That is like the planes that, as I gave in my example, that flight map that keeps adjusting to show the plane where that end destination is, that is what each failure is. Each failure. Just saying, oh, no, this does not work. Adjust this. Oh, that doesn't work. Adjust this. And you keep making those minor adjustments. So as long as you don't give up, you do not fail. Wrap your mind around that. So let's bring in. Hopefully that makes a lot of sense to you because it makes perfect sense to me. Let's bring it back to your life. What is it that you're going after, you're striving after, and you are afraid of that failure more than anything. People are not so much afraid of failing. They're worried about what other people are going to think. But the courageous person is the one doing it. And if you are going to do it, then you're always going to get criticism. People are always going to comment, say something, but guess what? They are the ones sitting on the sidelines while you're making movement. So look at that. What is that thing that you're going towards that you've been avoiding failure? And what is the next steps that you have to take? Maybe you've been avoiding because you just don't know how to do it or you're afraid of doing it wrong. And we're going to play a little bit with the future now. So take one of those steps, write a few on a piece of paper. I'll give you three seconds. Write a few of those steps, those next steps on a piece of paper, draw a line down the center of the page. And then assuming that it went wrong, assuming you failed, what would be that lesson that you learned that would move you forward? So when you start to break these apart and you look at them and say, all right, well, yeah, of course, if I do this, I might. If I do a Facebook Live, right, you may say, well, I'm afraid of doing a Facebook Live, and I'm afraid of just failing horribly and, like, looking like a fool in there. If you do the Facebook Live, what can you learn from it? Well, you could learn, you may notice that you have these, like, weird tics and mannerisms. And as a result of that awareness, when you go on to do the next live, you're not going to do them anymore. So it's. That is the course correction. So hopefully the reason why I tell you this, because I want you guys to fail more often, because that is the only way that you're ever going to succeed, because it's always bringing you closer to your end goal. I hope this makes sense. If you have any questions, feel free to email me or you can send me a message via Instagram. Onnydon Y R A U Again D O N N Y R A U S and of course, I would be doing a giant disservice to you if I didn't mention my coffee company, Roust are a US coffee. You can order some coffee@roustcoffee.com using the discount code onelife to get a discount on your first order. All my coffees are awesome. Promise. As you just learned, I spent a lot of years developing them and acquiring that knowledge. So this way you could have the most pleasurable experience in your cup. That is all I got for you guys today. Hope you enjoyed this podcast. God bless and I will see you again soon.