Ep 224: Stay On Track

Welcome to the Michael Wall Show today. I want to talk to you about the idea of staying on track in life. Listen, life is too short To get off track. There's a lot of things that distract us. How do we stay focused on point and live your purpose? Gonna talk about it today on the Michael Wall Show So live in your purpose staying on track being intentional all words you've heard all things you've heard over times and seasons of life and Yes, I know you're probably wondering Mike you're repping the wall private well shirt Yeah, cuz our disponsors of the show so you got questions about investments head over to lean on the wall calm That's my shameless plug get yourself in a better situation But when it comes to getting on track in life and staying on track Listen, it's all about doing several things and I'm gonna talk about three things That really are keys to stay on track. Why are keys important? Well keys give you access If you go and you stay at a hotel, right? Maybe you have a key now on your app you get it on your phone and it's you click the door Maybe it sounds like that maybe it doesn't I don't know But you're in a place where it allows you access. Maybe they just give you a physical key Maybe you're in a car and it's it's an old-school metal key that you put in the door That's not seen too often now you got a little key fob that you got to click to unlock it if you don't have the right key You can't get in the right door Now think about this for a minute. Let's just say that you know, you were in a place where you had a key and You saw one car in the parking lot and you said well listen, I got a car key I'm gonna go up to that car. I need to take a car home and you go to click the unlock button and that car doesn't unlock Why because that key does not go maybe to that car? So a lot of times you might be walking around in life with certain keys But they don't apply To the situation that you needed applied to Or maybe you're you're chasing something down maybe maybe you're maybe you're chasing after we're talking about cars So maybe you're chasing after this car, but the key that you have to this car when you finally get there doesn't work Have you ever been in a place where you've gone to a hotel? I know this happened to me and This is back before a lot of the hotel keys Did not de magnetize right so I'd have my cell phone in my pocket and I'd get a I'd get a a key to a hotel room from From where I was wherever I was at at the front desk and I'd put that key into my pocket next to my cell phone And I get up to the room and I take my my room key out and I put it next to the to the key or put it in a slot and it doesn't work Like oh gosh What the heck just happened what de magnetized because it was against the phone Well now we don't have to face that so much today because they've made keys so they do not De magnetize so if you're older than I don't know whatever age it is you've experienced that at some times in the past, right? Well, what happens sometimes is we're in a place where we spend a lot of time a lot of effort to go down the road and The key that we have doesn't work to unlock the door that we have why is that? Well, I think it's because we've gotten off track in life We've spent time researching we've spent energy going after we've spent money on things that were like I need to have this I want to go down that lane. I want to do this I want to do that and we find ourselves getting off track. We get distracted by things That are taking away from our purpose Now if you've lived life long enough you know that's probably happened to you In fact, I'll just ask for a show of hands right out there Honestly, maybe if you're driving with two hands on the wheel don't do it if you got a Tesla put your hands in the air right like you just don't care But at the end of the day the question is have you ever done something in life? Whereas you've spent some time doing it You realize this is not really fulfilling me. This is not really what I thought it would be this is not really where I intended to end up And then maybe you keep doing it just because you're so far in you're like why quit now I'm this far in Have you ever been in a place in life where you said you know, I'm here and I just how did I end up here? How did that happen I? Think it's happened to a lot of us And the reason is is because we allow things to distract us and as we're distracted we get off track And as we get off track, we lose our purpose. We lose our fire. We lose the fuel. We lose the excitement about the day our passion depletes And the job that we do quite honestly is just not the best that we could do So I want to give you a few keys here to really stay on track in life and I wrote them down even though they were in my mind I wrote them down because I didn't want to get off track in this show You know sometimes when I'm doing a doing the show I can catch myself chasing rabbits here there or wherever I'm like wait a minute I'm getting off track to the point that I want to try and make so people can walk away and actually apply it to their lives And that's why I wrote them down you got to be intentional so step number one in the keys to staying on track is evaluate Where you are now and say no to the bad it's a long step, but it's important to evaluate where you are now And say no to the bad Now when you evaluate where you are now you have to be honest in this evaluation You can't look at this through rose colored glasses and say everything's good Everything's fine. Everything's okay when maybe it's not or maybe there are things that you are allowing into your life that are the bad that are taking from you Maybe you're in a place where you're drinking too much and It's causing you to be in a spot where you are waking up groggy in the morning or you're just not fresh mentally I've been there I've been in a situation get in a season you get lazy in life go home drink a little bit too much wine or go out and have Cocktails in my business in the financial space that's kind of what you do you meet people have cocktails play golf do whatever And you can find yourself getting a little bit lazy in life and not really being as intentional as you should be and you know It's just a little slip a little slip a little slip and all of a sudden you're way off track So evaluate where you are right now Are you Excited about your day when you wake up are you excited about where you're going? Have you taken the time to evaluate is What I'm doing now moving me closer to this is a great question by the way is what I'm doing right now What you're doing right now Is it moving you closer to or taking you further from Your goals in life Now you may say Mike. I don't have any goals. I haven't really thought about goals. I'm not sure what my goals are I got to tell you that that's step one how in the world can you hit a target that doesn't exist? You can't you must ask yourself what are you shooting towards? What are you going after what are your goals? What are your desires? Where do you want to be in life? What do you want to do when you look back at your life and say? Man, we were able to change this or improve that or you know as Dennis Wightley says which I love plant shade trees under which he'll never sit so Important you've got to have kind of evaluate and think about what are your goals and then Evaluate where you are and are what you doing what you're doing now is it moving your towards or away? The goals you have The other thing you want to think about is what is in your life right now that is bad and In other words things that you are allowing in your life that may not necessarily on the surface seem like oh I'm out there, you know until three in the morning every night and I'm literally waking up at 10 11 12 a.m Every day, and I'm I'm living kind of a pointless life. I'm not talking about maybe even that extreme I'm literally even talking about the idea of are you finding yourself when you go home at night Just mentally shutting off and binge watching let's say Netflix or Binging gaming or Binging you know other series or other things are you finding yourself in that lane? Where in other words, you're spending time doing something that when you're done with it Not only have you not grown But it's actually stolen from your life. I Remember what Zig Ziglar used to say which I love he said television and of course back in the day television was it right now Our phones are the new TV in a lot of ways But he said televisions television video media things in general gaming what you mean put it all in the basket It's all right there. Those types of entertainment vehicles It's not necessarily that they're so bad and there is some bad things about them don't get me wrong There's some content out there that's horrible that you shouldn't be putting into your mind But he said it's not necessarily that it's so bad. It's about What it keeps you from doing so it's not exactly about what you are doing in the moment But it's about what it's actually keeping you from doing it's keeping you from growing it's keeping you from developing It's keeping you from thinking outside the box from dreaming from creating ideas from putting things down on the tablet on a Piece of paper that says this is where I want to go in life. This is what I want to do This is what God's called me to do. This is what I'm designed to do and instead we've allowed the world We've allowed entertainment. We've allowed society to pacify our minds in the process and say, yeah, but I deserve I need this I need a little me time Now I'm not saying that you should never shut off and just enjoy the moment. That's not what I'm saying You do need to mentally unplug from time to time, but you have to evaluate the bad in your life And the bad may not seem or it caused you to think what is actually bad you may say, well, yeah Well, what they do Mike is bad If you knew my friends and you knew what they did, I'm not talking about your friends I'm talking about you I love Zig Ziglar used to always share this and I want to share this again because I think it's so appropriate He said let me ask you a question. If you had a racehorse And I'm going to ask you this question. If you had a racehorse, that was worth a million dollars and You were going to take that racehorse to the Kentucky turbby. Maybe the racehorse was $10 million or $100 million or $500 million depending on how valuable the horse is. I don't know how what the cost of horses really are I don't own any race horses, but if you owned a racehorse, that was worth even $20 million and You were taking that horse to the Kentucky Derby Would you let that horse stay up half the night eatin junk food and drinkin booze and smoking cigarettes? Would you let him do it? And if you did how effective do you think that horse would be in the race the next day? I think you say well, that's that's dominology Mike. I mean it's a horror. Of course you won't do that. My question is Why are you doing that potentially to you? You say, "Hey, that's me my body my choice." Yeah, I can do it to me. I listen. It's I need some unplug time Well think about this for a minute. We're not talking about a racehorse. We're talking about a multi-billion trillion can't put a price tag on it body God's created you in unique one-of-one and Yet you're allowing yourself to get off track because you're allowing things into your life That are pulling you away mindless activity things you're putting into your system so you're not acting and as fresh as you could be All of these things matter Number two, so evaluate where you are. This is number one evaluate where you are now and what you need to say no to the Bad that you need to say no to number two get help from a trusted source Maybe this is step one. Maybe this podcast is a trusted source for you You've been listening to for some time and you're learning from other people by the way need to hear this message Don't keep it to yourself Share it to them. You're like man. I know my friends so-and-so are my son or my nephew or my niece or someone else or Folks that I follow on social media. They need to hear this message. We'll share it to them Don't just say man. That was good Mike. I really encourage me it challenged me and it encouraged me But get it to them so they can have that trusted source as well But maybe it's even more than that. Maybe it's another step. Maybe it's a friend a close friend By the way Good friends will allow you call them out I mean, we just had a conversation with our crew our producers video crew whatever before the show talking about some different things And I said guys we need to work on this and that and this and that and we are all in agreements that we needed to It's not a negative. It's calling each other out and saying how can we get better so we can provide a better product to you As you're listening to this as you're watching to this as you're watching this Who is in your life that you trust? That you know will call you out and say stop it Stop doing some of the stuff that you're doing because it's keeping you from your goal Don't make that trusted source someone that you know you can run to and just dump on And you know, they're not gonna say anything. You just go. Oh, yeah They had life is tough, you know Boy, yeah, oh my that happened to oh my goodness. No wonder If that's a kind of friends you got I'm gonna tell you right now first thing you need to do is change your friends Life is not easy Life is tough But when you're tough on yourself life gets easier period You will never be in a place in life where it's easy Listen, I'm in a situation where I've had to work through my shoulder What did I do? I was I was up on a ladder being stupid on the top step yellow by the way It's yellow for a reason don't stand on there and I was up there by myself Maddie's looking at me like okay Don't do it Mike Don't you shouldn't have done that in the first place should have been smart, right? Are you smarter than a fifth grader kind of thing? So here I am standing on the top of the ladder and I got a chainsaw Cutting off some limbs and guess what happened? Would you know and guess the ladder just kicked off here? I am falling down the chainsaw came down praise god. I didn't cut my leg off Maybe you can identify with this. I don't know and I'm literally on the ground my ankles buckling Thankfully, I didn't bust my ankle and I ended up ripping My rotator cuff and my right shoulder So here we are and you know what I had to do I had to go through rehab and rehab and rehab and it's still not a hundred percent But you know what I'm saying? I'm I'm gonna go and I'm gonna work out and I'm gonna work through this and there's pain Literally, when I sleep I wake up in the morning. There's pain every morning and Then what that did is that pulled over on my neck and now I got a little bit of a bulge disc I got to work through that all I'm saying is Life isn't easy and sometimes you get kicked into teeth sometimes you get smacked into face Sometimes it happens because you put yourself in that environment You weren't expecting these things to occur, but you made kind of a not real wise decision and it was kind of sort of self-induced Well, guess what one great way to keep yourself from going down that path is to have someone in your life that you trust That will be real to you And if you're in a place right now, you're like Mike. I really don't have that Why don't you seek out someone that you know and say listen? I am tired of just doing the same thing and getting the same results. I want to do something better I want to grow in life. You know the old definition of insanity is keep doing the same thing and expecting different results If you want to change your life, you got to change your life You can't just expect it to change You got to make the change If you don't have someone that's going to be intentional and call you out get a friend and say listen. Here's what I'm looking for I want somebody that's going to be hard on me not easy. I want someone that's going to call me out I want somebody that's going to tell me when I've messed up. I want it. I want somebody that's going to say hey How are you doing based on the goals that you have and then when I give them an excuse like well? You know you'll never guess but I was going to do this but this happened and and that happened and and I really was trying my best and they say stop I don't want to hear the pity party If you're looking for an excuse anyone will do That's what you need. That's a trusted friend Champions are not made on feather beds. Don't confuse yourself Those people that have created significant wealth most of them are self-made and it did not come easy It did not come easy So find a trusted friend and number three What's number three? Well number three is evaluate what you'd learned in number one Understand the bad in number one find a trusted friend that's going to help you kind of know what you need to do and number three is a vet is implement Implement what they've told you and what you found don't just say, you know, yeah, you're right. That's You're right. You got me. I was being I was having a party a pity party. You know, they call it the plum disease poor little old me Or maybe you were listening to the radio station. We've all heard before potentially WIIFM. What's in it for me? Well, guess what the world's not about you. So forget about you start looking to add value to other people Start thinking about what can I do to add value to this world? What can I do to create a better place a better world around us? I can guarantee you with 100% certainty that if you do that You will find yourself in a place where you are fulfilled In a way that you've never found yourself fulfilled in the past has nothing to do with money sure money's nice to have But I'm telling you when you are changing and improving the lives of other people you will find yourself Fulfilled in ways that you have never found yourself fulfilled ever in the past But number three is you got to implement the stuff that you know You need to get rid of and the great advice or the challenges that your good friends are Testing and challenging on you must implement it The biggest difference between success and failure by the way This is probably a good show that I should do sometime, but the biggest difference Between success and failure is not it's not mental capacity It's consistency It's work ethic It's positive attitude It's continuing to do what you know you need to do and being open to grow I remember when I interviewed Vince skill on this show years ago So if you want to interview check that out go check it out it's way back in the archives Maybe our team will bring out a short piece of it I don't know if they can find that but he talked about the idea when I interviewed him at his home in Nashville He said Mike sometimes you just need to know when to get out of your own way Or maybe they'll put a little clip on this on YouTube so you can go listen to that and find it But he said sometimes you just need to know when to get out of your own way Like wow that is really powerful Now here's a guy that's got 22 Grammys. He's got he's been he's been in over a thousand CDs It was back in the day when we had a compact disc right now. We don't have that anymore We have mp3s and all kinds of stuff right streamed music and things But he's been around the block. That's a powerful quote You need to know when to get out of your own way. That's why we need help in life Everybody needs a coach Nobody's exempt So if you have questions about what to do next here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna give you a challenge two things First thing is Send us an email if you want to if your own client connect at Michael D wall calm Connect at Michael D wall calm. The second thing is head over to Michael D wall calm There's gonna be a place there where you can reach out to our team stay connected There's a lot of other courses that we have coming out to help you improve your finances and life and Sales training other things like that and we're gonna roll out because we know that these are things necessary to help you Really live your purpose and stay on track Very important reach out to the show and the in the manners that I mentioned you there and as always take a minute and share The show is something that needs to hear it as always ending with this my desire in life is really Truly to help you live on purpose So you can live with purpose Be blessed talk to you next show