Episode 48: Does Focus and Intentionality Make A Difference When Creating Success?

In this episode of The Jerry & Jacobe Podcast, the hot topic is around intentionality and focus. Jacobe came back from a Mastermind class, brainstorming with a small group of other people on how to build your business and become better. Jerry and Jacobe discuss the inspirational content as well as practical solutions in moving yourself forward. 

 

Episode Highlights: 

• The mastermind course was about investing in multifamily properties. They had a session on taxes, and everybody talked about taxes, but one guy Dan was very intentional about taxes. Jacobe shares the details.
• One of the questions Jacobe asked Dan was, ‘how do you find a good bookkeeper?’ He knows everything about taxes because he went out and took two continuing education courses that CPAs have to take for their continuing education.
• On asking about taking courses, Dan told Jacobe if you have not YouTubed your problem multiple times and watched the video, you need to do that first before you do anything else. 
• The shower is the place where you can think and move things forward, but unfortunately, you can’t have a notebook in the shower. Have something, and once you step out, you can write down your thoughts.
• Being focused on the problem makes sense, and that is where your energy goes because Tony Robbins says focus goes, energy flows. 
• Dan, a man from whom Jacobe drew a lot of inspiration, is not a spectator, he is a player in his space, and that is why he is successful. He is looking at figuring out ways to help people and do his job, and that is where his focus and intention are.
• Jerry has seen people with wealth or extreme wealth that had to get there by really stepping on people and knocking people down. 
• Four or five years ago, Jacobe was trying to surround himself with people geographically not close to him, and he felt alone in business because his mindset was different from many realtors he was around.
• When Jerry started heating and cooling, he bought into this idea that if you worked hard, you would succeed, and so he was putting in 120-hour weeks. He came to understand  hard work is not the only ingredient for the soup.
• Jerry started to get some knowledge about himself because he thought this would be good knowledge to push himself to the next level and break some wrong patterns.
• What is the mindset that sets you up for intentionality and focus?
• Whenever you are trying to do something, there is always going to be resistance. And Jacobe always thought of resistance as being negative. But one thing that was brought to his attention recently is that resistance can also be disguised as good things because he likes to be comfortable.
• There should always be resistance because if there is no resistance, you are probably not heading in the right direction.
• If you look at all the time that you went through the most significant growth in your life, it was out of friction, out of tension, out of pain, and feeling like things were out of order.
• When you start to produce at a higher level, some of the things you are doing aren’t necessarily considered a waste of time, but they aren’t the best use of time because we have a lot of important things in our lives, but you can’t do them all.
• Know what your values are and what you are focused on and that way you can integrate everything because it’s not about work-life balance, but it’s all about work-life integration.
• It is always good to get to mastermind events and hang out with some people that are kind of trying to do life the same way you and the way that allows you to unplug from your day to day and spend time focusing on the things that you know are the areas you need some improvement.

3 Key Points:

1. Jacobe gauges everything by how much money we make but focusing on the goal is the easiest way to quantify it. It makes you more excited to know how to make money. 
2. If COVID had never happened, we would have never stopped or slowed down and figured out the most important things that we need to be doing because, in some senses, that is what COVID did for a lot of us, says Jacobe.
3. Jerry is done with letting life come to him, and he is trying to slip back into the patterns of being intentional and staying focused on what is in front, not what just comes to him. 

 

Resources Mentioned:

• • Jacobe Kendrick  Facebook| LinkedIn | Instagram |YouTube|
  • Jerry Weaver   Facebook | LinkedIn | Instagram|
  • Success Without Sacrifice Facebook page
  • BJJ Realtor YouTube 

• Book: https://www.amazon.com/Turning-Pro-Steven-Pressfield-audiobook/