September 28, 2023 • 32 mins
What if you could shatter mental barriers and supercharge your personal growth? Renowned mindset coach, Munsur Pudic, brings his wisdom to the table as we delve into the power of the mind and how it shapes our path to success. We unpack the significance of self-understanding, accountability, and emotional investment in our goals. Take a peek into the intriguing world of energy manipulation and its role in focusing our desires and ambitions.
Listen as we venture into the realm of teamwork, mentorship, and fear management. Learn how to build a strong, collaborative team, and why surrounding yourself with like-minded individuals can significantly impact your journey. We discuss the role of mentors and coaches in developing mental awareness and confidence, and how confronting and overcoming your fears can lead to unprecedented personal growth. Don't miss out on this enlightening episode where we discover that both positive and negative experiences can foster significant personal growth.
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Jacob K. Mead (00:02):
Hey everybody, this is Jacob K Mead and this is
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buy back their time.
Enjoy today's episode.
Welcome back to another episodeof the Buy Time podcast.
I'm your host, jacob K Mead,and I'm excited that you're here
today because we actually havea really special guest.
(00:22):
Some of that I've known for awhile and they've been able to
help me in my personal life andreally my business growth, and I
wouldn't be where I am todaywithout this person in my life.
So this is such an importantepisode for everyone to listen
to.
I have Minster Pudich here andhe is a mindset coach, a speaker
, and overall he has helped metremendously in my business and
(00:44):
my personal growth.
So why don't you go ahead andstart by telling us a little bit
about yourself?
You know?
Mensur Pudic (00:49):
Jacob, thank you for having me on.
First of all, you know I'vejust been on this journey and
you know you've seen me on thepodcast and you know I'm a
motivational speaker, mindsetcoach and mentor as you
mentioned Just in golf, tosucceed and have these big goals
.
And you know, living in theUnited States, you know
everything's possible.
Jacob K. Mead (01:06):
It's awesome.
You know there's so muchopportunity here in the United
States.
So what brought you here?
How did you first get into theUnited States?
Mensur Pudic (01:13):
So you know a little bit about it.
But you know, in the early 90swe experienced, you know, war,
which we referred to as theBosnian genocide.
You know, and a lot of peopleasked me, you know what's my why
and when I started thisdevelopment roller coaster that
I engulfed.
It's like people died so Icould live.
So there's nothing that's goingto stop me from fulfilling, you
(01:35):
know, the life and the dreamsthat I have to build, not just
for me but for my country andfor my people, and you know even
the ones that didn't make it,that gave me an opportunity to
be here.
Jacob K. Mead (01:44):
Oh man, yeah, it's, and it's powerful.
When you see that you can makeanything happen, especially here
, you realize that you canreally do it.
As long as you put your mind toit, you can do it.
So you really teach a lot onmindset.
So what are some things thatyou can share with our audience
that you've learned?
That kind of helps you stayfocused.
Mensur Pudic (02:03):
Sure, absolutely.
One of the things that you knowwhen you talk about mindset is
you have to, you have tounderstand how we are.
We're like a sponge, you know,and everything we basically
learn from up to seven years ofour life.
Right, we have the consciousmind, you know, and then we have
the subconscious mind thatactually has our programming and
our conditioning and over theyears it's so reinforced that
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most people don't grow out ofthat.
You know they always act thesame, they talk the same.
You know they want to stay inthat comfort zone because it's
something that we know.
And when I, when I, teachmindset, it's all about growth,
because if you want to change,if you want to develop or become
a new version of you, you haveto change the way you think.
And everything starts with,with a thought.
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It leads to you know whathabits you have, what do you
want to execute, what do youwant to have for a goal, and
stuff like that.
So it's very, it's veryimportant to have that mindset
under wraps for yourself, thatyou haven't understand them, who
you really are, before you gochase whatever it is in the
world that you want to create orbecome.
Jacob K. Mead (03:06):
That's awesome.
I think that's so important toknow, because we've seen so many
kids that are graduating highschool and as soon as they get
out of high school, like I haveto know what I want to do in my
life and it's like no, you don't.
You don't actually know it knowwhat you want to do.
There's actually a podcast outthere called the decision day
podcast and I love listening toit, you know, because it really
talks about that.
You don't have to know what youwant to do right outside of
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high school because you're justgraduating.
The world's yet to figure out.
You know, you can take time tofigure out what you want to do,
and it's important.
I think it's awesome that it'simportant to figure out what you
are yourself before you want tofigure out what you want to be,
Absolutely.
Mensur Pudic (03:41):
And it's one of the things that nothing changes
unless you change right, and allthe growth that we go undergo,
it's within us.
But that growth, in thosemental barriers we have such as
you know we have limitingbeliefs where do they come?
Most of it come from theenvironment and the people that
you're around.
You know.
Some of it's biological whereit comes from your parents,
right, but it's if you questionyourself, where do you get some
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of those thoughts?
That's when you're reallydigging down into your psyche of
how is it that you'reprogrammed, how do you have to
look things?
You know, and it's easier whenwe talk about mindset and going
through the growth.
It's so easy when somebody elsemesses up that we never take
accountability.
For you know, how could Iapproach this situation?
What did I learn from thissituation?
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What would I have donedifferent?
And all of those leave clues onhow you can develop yourself.
You know, moving forward, longas you have awareness to catch
it.
Now you can kind of reprogramyourself and still get to your
destination.
You know you can change theplan, but the goal must not
change.
Jacob K. Mead (04:42):
The goal can never change, never change.
You gotta stay focused on thatgoal.
That's gonna be hard, though,because I know in my life, and
especially my personal journeyand my business journey, that
I've gone on you almost hitthese obstacles, and sometimes
you have that feeling of I can'tdo this, you know, and you have
that feeling of I want to giveup.
Now, with me, I've been able toovercome that and say, no, I'm
(05:02):
not going to let it stop me, Iwill do whatever it takes to get
through that obstacle.
There could be a giant boulderin my path and the only way was
through it.
Now I'd figure out a way to goget a jackhammer and chisel
through it, and that's the kindof mindset I have now, but it
wasn't always like that.
I can remember back in myyounger days and my early days
of starting my business, where Iwould hit these obstacles and I
feel so defeated.
I would feel like there was noway around it, and I would get
(05:25):
stuck in this almost depressedstate of that.
I don't know what I'm gonna do,and it was so hard to overcome
that.
So I love that you talk aboutsaying focus on your goal and
making sure that you're able toovercome those obstacles.
So what are some?
When we're talking aboutobstacles you know there's
always obstacles in life yeah,everywhere we look we have a
goal and we think it's going tobe a straight path to that goal.
It never is, never is it neveris a straight path to the goal.
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So what are some?
Is there any tips or advicethat you can give our audience
to kind of overcome that?
Mensur Pudic (05:54):
Absolutely.
You know, when you're workingat a goal, before you set that
goal you have to be willing totell yourself what am I willing
to sacrifice for this goal?
A lot of people set these goalsbut they're not willing to
sacrifice.
So that means from thebeginning they're not willing to
be open and honest withthemselves.
You know.
But when you, when you set downyour goal, you want to make
sure that you have your energythere.
And the reason I talk aboutenergy is every decision that we
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make is based on a feeling andemotion.
So you want to make sure thatyou're very emotionally involved
to the goal or whatever it isthat you want out of life that
has that emotion, because whenyou come to those we call them
mental barriers, your emotion isgoing to take you over those
because you're going to be ableto overcome it.
And that's kind of a forcefield and a energy protection
(06:38):
that you put around yourselfthat can kind of consume all the
negative, negatives, thatyou're willing to take them and
you keep moving forward.
And some things that I recommendpeople do and even when I coach
is I make sure that they writeout their goal and they put it
in their pocket and they carryit with them.
And the reason for that is,subconsciously, our mind
remembers everything, and if youread that two, three times a
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day, every day morning, you know, midday and night you're going
to start believing what it isthat you're reading, and we
often believe even the thingsthat aren't true.
But if you believe that we'reyour programming yourself for
success, that's exactly whatyou're going to deliver, because
that's what you're going tolook for.
You see, our mind only workstowards a target that we have,
and most people don't have atarget until somebody brings it
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to their attention.
And then you know, everywherethey look, they see it.
You know and Tony Robbins talksabout that.
Jacob K. Mead (07:28):
You know, somebody sees a car and the next
thing, you know, they see allof them you know, and we have
something called a reticularactivating system.
Mensur Pudic (07:35):
That's exactly what the mind does and then it
starts looking for that same way.
As you have a goal, you'regoing to start attracting people
that you need.
You're going to attract thatenergy that you need and that
support group and everything,and before you know it, they're
going to help you with thosemental barriers where you can
overcome that.
Jacob K. Mead (07:51):
So, oh, I love it .
I love the car analogy becauseit's so true.
You buy a new car and it's like, yeah, you feel awesome, but
then you look around like wait aminute, everyone else has this
exact same car.
I've never seen it before.
It's because your mind'sconstantly thinking about it and
it sees it now, and so I thinkit's so important just to have
that mindset and to know that,hey, it's going to work out, and
have a little faith in theprocess too.
Absolutely, have a little bitof faith.
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You're going to need it.
You're going to put your mindto an extra make it happen.
And one of the things I do is Iyou know, you mentioned
carrying around that note inyour pocket, so I keep a note on
my iPhone and the first thing Ido in the morning is I look at
it and it's the person that Iwant to be, it's the person that
I am trying to become.
Mensur Pudic (08:28):
And.
Jacob K. Mead (08:28):
I read it to myself and I am that person.
When I read it to myself, I amthat person.
It just helps me through theday and then before I go to bed
at night, it's the same thing.
This is where I want to go,this is where I want to be in
life, and I've set goals outsideof my complete limitations.
And actually that was thanks toyou, because you had a phone
call with me one day and Iremember I was telling you some
ideas and you're like thinkbigger.
And I was like I can't thinkany bigger than this.
This is already bigger.
(08:48):
You're like think bigger.
And so I thought bigger.
And then things started tohappen.
Six months later I was.
I was making changes.
Yeah, absolutely, it's allthanks to having those mentors.
And you know, for myself, Ispend a lot of money not only on
mentors but business coaches,and I'd be a hypocrite if I
didn't, because you know I coachand I have workshops and I do
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all of that.
But I'd be a hypocrite if Ididn't attend those and become a
better person myself.
And so have you gone to anyevents or anything that that
you've done to kind of helpbetter yourself as a person?
Mensur Pudic (09:19):
Absolutely, and one of the things I've always
been.
You know I've always beenchasing growth.
You know I have my associate,bachelor's, master's degree.
That was more of the system, soto say doing things that you
know mom and dad wanted me to goto school because they didn't
have that opportunity and thatwas something that you know.
I took the heart, but I also,you know, wanted to focus on me
(09:39):
and all of our growth isinternal and it's like, you know
, how do I see the world, why doI see it this way?
You know what can I do todevelop and you know I had a lot
of mentors myself.
You know I had an opportunityto talk to Les Brown, who
happens to be the highest payingmotivational speaker for the
past 30 years, and, you know,connected with the top 10% sales
consultant in the world, johnTolerico, and you know with
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their experience.
For you know, people talk aboutmoney and, yes, it gets costly,
but when you look at it, for howmuch time you're actually
saving, you can make up themoney.
You know you can learnstrategies, you can learn
processes where the money comesback, and that's where most
people stop.
This is too expensive, whichyou know they haven't sold
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anything to move towards it.
They just kind of give up.
It's the first thing that comesonto their mind.
And you know, if you stay withinthat mentality, you'll never
change and most people will gothrough their life skipping and
then have, you know, have arecollection of what is it that
I could have done, you know, andhave these regrets later on,
and you know we don't have time.
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Skills can be learned,processes can be learned.
You know products can be bought, it's just do you have the
willingness to study?
Do you have the willingness toactually chase what it is that
you want?
Learn your skills, learn yourcraft, you know, and think big,
because it takes the same amountof energy to think small as it
does big.
So you might as well, you know,shoot for the sky 100%.
Jacob K. Mead (11:04):
I love that you talk about time in there.
You know, it's so true, you'vegot to focus your energy where
you want to go, and I I think Ihear that excuse a lot is a lot
of people say I didn't have timeor I don't have time to do this
, and I often will tell themwell, I mean, what are you doing
?
Do you watch three hours ofNetflix each night?
Are you doing a you know moviemarathon?
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What are you doing?
Were you were you putting allof your time and energy.
Because in order to make yourgoal a reality, you're going to
have to make sacrifices, andthat's one of the hardest things
to do is.
I think there's so many peopleout there that don't want to
make these sacrifices.
I know there's people out therethat probably look at my
direction and go well, how didhe get what he, what he has?
And a lot of that is because Isacrifice.
(11:45):
I sacrificed those parties, Isacrificed being able to go out
and I stayed home and I studied,I learned, I build new it,
basically new skills, and I wasable to utilize that.
So it's awesome that you reallydive in.
You talk about that becauseit's so true.
It's amazing what you can dowith time.
Mensur Pudic (12:01):
And you know it's.
It's when you talk about time.
You know how people make theexcuses.
Believe them, even when it'snot true, because what they're
telling you is they're tellingyou their level of awareness
that they have, and it's it'swithin their programming that
they don't have time.
And one of the exercises that Ido was when people tell me
because I hear it hey, I don'thave time.
(12:22):
And I tell them I'm like that'sinteresting.
Billionaires that run, you know, world leading companies have
time and you don't have time.
Yet we all have the same, samepunk right, and it's ticking.
So write down the things thatare taking your time.
And I think once people expressthat because we're very
expressive once they write it ona piece of paper and they
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actually look at it and they seewhat it's costing them, you
know they start to thinkdifferently because now they
have something that they'revisually looking at.
You know we think in picturesthat it's kind of, hey, what can
I adjust?
Can I make some time?
And I just tell them focus onone habit, one thing that you
can do.
An example people want to loseweight.
Okay, every day, walk for halfan hour every single day and
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then do it for a month.
I tell them a month takes abouttwo weeks to develop a habit,
you know.
But they get conditioned andthen after that month what
happens is they raise theirvibration, you know.
They lowered their weight.
Typically, most people, if theywalk and keep the same
nutrition, they're gonna loseweight.
They start feeling good andthen they're like Wow, but now
they understand that they'recapable of doing so much more
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and they just needed to hop overthat one hurdle for their kind
of self esteem and confidence togo up and that's all people
need.
Jacob K. Mead (13:35):
I mean, it's so true I can think back if you
know something similar and whenI was first getting in the sales
it was such a big challenge forme.
I hated sales at first, so Italk about it now in my podcast
and I have, you know, episodesof that talk about how to really
dive into sales.
But at first I hated it, andthe reason why I hated it was a
couple things.
One I hated that here in theword no, and I felt like that
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was a direct reflection upon me.
So we'll dive into that.
But then, second, I think Ihated it because I just didn't
know, let's say, how to connector engage with my, with my
customer.
And once I was able to learnthat and once I got that first
sale, oh my gosh, it motivationright there it just skyrocketed.
I was like I can actually dothis.
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And everything you know ishistory now.
But I can still remember myfirst sale and how hard it took
me to get that.
And then now I look back on itlike it just comes naturally.
I think anything you dodifferently in life you want to
lose weight, you want to start anew business there's a sense of
fear there that you can't do it.
And it's a sense of fear, maybe, or like, what if I fail?
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And that's hard, it's very hard, it's so hard.
It's the what if I fail?
Man, I tell you, what if youfail?
And some people is like, well,what if you succeed?
It's like, yeah, what onlything you're thinking about
right now is fail here.
Yes, so what?
Like how do you overcome that?
Like what, what do you do thatthat can change your mindset.
You're thinking, hey, what if Ifail?
But you know in reality thatyou can do this or you want to
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try this.
What's something that someonecan do?
Mensur Pudic (15:01):
So I mean you talk about mentors.
Right, that's why you getmentors, because you have to get
out of your head.
That's when you collaboratewith people.
You know, when you start offyour business on your own, it's
stressful, it's painful.
You're going through this, butyou're growing from within and
you're expressing everything inthe outside world.
You know you're kind ofstarting to put the pieces
together of the business, butwhat you're really doing is
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you're putting pieces ofyourself together within.
You know.
So you're learning.
You know you know how to docontracts, how to network with
people, how to sell.
But when you, when you havementors and you have these
coaches, consultants, the timethat they spent, you not only
have your experience, experienceyou would have taken from books
, podcasts you have real lifeexperience that these people can
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teach you.
You know in minutes and hoursand they can say, hey, try this.
And that way, you know, youstart learning and I always call
it.
You know.
You're developing your mentalawareness, people that are very
confident, that know.
You know how to set goals, whatgoals are, what it takes, what
it takes not to get there.
You know they have anunderstanding of every avenue
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somebody, somebody's mind cantake.
You know, but when you thinkabout.
You know, wanting to achievesomething.
You always have to have thatvision that it's already yours,
that you're already there,because that's the momentum
that's going to help you develophabits, that's actually going
to get you there.
But if you think from thebeginning that you know you
can't do this or it's too hardor you're not going to be able
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to learn it, well you're already.
You're already creatingyourself a trap and you know we
call that a negative vibration.
So really give yourself anopportunity to open your
thoughts.
You know you got to loveyourself.
You'll make mistakes 100%.
Jacob K. Mead (16:37):
You know that's so hard to do, but I love that
you talk about having thatmentor there, having someone
there, because I even need that.
I get to a point where in mybusiness or I'm like I can't do
this anymore.
I feel like I'm ready to giveup, and so then I can message my
coach and be like hey, so thisis how I'm feeling, and they're
like you got this.
Like, let's look at differently, what are you struggling on?
It's amazing, and now I lovebeing able to help people with
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that.
I've always been that personout there that's wanting to help
people, and people like you'dgive your shirt off, you're back
to someone and it's true, Iwould.
And the biggest thing I love todo is just help people and
helping them through.
You know that, that coaching ofhow to start their business or
their struggles that they'regoing to have or their obstacles
that they have in front of them, because sometimes it takes
that outside source to actuallysee how to overcome that
(17:20):
Absolutely.
And I've noticed is it's like Ican't see it, I'm blinded.
Mensur Pudic (17:23):
And then my coach comes in and says it's as simple
as this and I'm like, oh man, Ididn't see that, sure, and one
of the things I think what makesyou great in that field is
you've been on the other side.
So when you have customers,when you have clients and
they're in that situation, youknow exactly where they're at.
You used to be in that state ofmind, right, but now you're
also getting you know.
If you're talking to mentorsand other coaches, it's like,
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hey, you can really get unstuck,hang on, let's, let's have a
conversation.
You know, and when you talk tosomebody, we think we have a lot
of problems because we amplifyfear and we amplify problems.
But it's funny.
When you talk to somebody, youask people, you know well, how
do you feel?
And they're like well, I feel alittle better.
Why?
Well, because you didn't holdit bottled in.
You see, and that's one ofthose things you want to belong
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to a community.
You want to, you want to beinvolved, right, where you have
the people that have that samemindset that you know want to
push, you want to help you grow,want to help you succeed, and
you know it's it's it's whatmakes a difference in the long
run.
Really, the group of people andeverybody in the motivational
speaking realm and all thecoaches they talk to.
(18:27):
You know your five friends orthe closest people by you, you
know, and it's crazy how westart thinking and believing the
same as they do.
If because if you don't takecontrol of your mind and really
question yourself, you know youstart acting that way and start
developing these mental habitsthat you know you didn't even
think about or know where theycame from.
Jacob K. Mead (18:47):
Average of the five people hang around.
I will never get that out of myhead.
You know I never.
When I first started especiallyI graduated high school I never
really thought that was true.
I was like what do you mean?
You're average five people tohang around there?
There's, there's not any proofto this.
And then I start really payingattention to the five people
that hang around, like, oh mygosh, it's so true.
You hang around five peoplethat that that's dope, you're
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going to smoke.
You hang around five peoplethat are non smoking.
Chances are you're going tostop smoking.
Yeah, yeah, you know it's it's.
I always am so cautious now ofwho I'm hanging around, who I'm
spending my time with, what I'mlistening to, what I'm consuming
, cause I think it goes moreinto.
You know digital media andstuff like that nowadays too,
and so that's also part of thepeople that you're around.
You know it may not be face toface, but online content, and
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that's awesome.
I really dive into that.
So I really like to tellbusiness owners that time is so
precious.
It's one of the biggest assetsout there that we have, and it's
important that you understandthat at such an early age,
because it's one of the thingswhere you can't get back.
Once time is spent, there'sabsolutely no way to get it back
versus money.
Once that's spent, you can getmoney back at that time.
(19:56):
And so I do a lot of coachingon how to buy back your time,
how to, how to get to a point inyour business where, if you're
run without you, so that way youcan focus on what you want to,
whether that be you know family,whether that be other business
adventures.
So what are some ideas or whatare some tricks and tips that
you might have with timemanagement?
Mensur Pudic (20:12):
You know we can't manage time, but we can manage
tasks right.
And that's one of those thingswhen I started thinking and
looking at my schedule at work.
You know, and you know that Iwork for a world leading company
in agriculture.
When it comes to that time,it's like, hey, you've got to
have a list of your priorities,right?
What do you want to accomplishthat day?
Have a list of maybe fivethings Don't do it too many,
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because you're going to getoverwhelmed and stressed.
And then you want to put themost priority ones on top
because you want to get thosedone first.
You know, and sometimes it'sokay to do something small, you
know clean your desk, forexample, and people say that
makes a big difference.
And they ask why do you do that?
Because we can only focus andgive our attention span to one
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thing at a time and if you havea lot of things, they're taking
your energy without evenrealizing it.
But when you do somethingthat's so small, we feel, you
know, like we've accomplishedsomething.
That's just a little energyboost that you need and that
will set the tone for your day.
You know where you're upliftedalready.
You know that's one of thosethings you want to have when you
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talk about time and you talkabout you know how much is it
really costing people by notdoing what it is that they want
to do, or not doing what theyshould be doing within their
business.
And that might be a message ina consultant that can say, hey,
you're spending way more thanyou would is, if you hired me on
and actually develop thestrategy, that's gonna actually
put money back into your pocket.
(21:36):
You know.
And one of those things thatpeople always say you know, well
, I don't want to go into debt.
Well, your objective is not togo into that.
You know it's does everybodyfall into at one point or
another?
Absolutely, you know.
But the thing is it's you candevelop all the skills, all the
strategies as I mentioned beforeTo get out of that and pave
your way.
You know I ain't had a lot ofdebt when I got out of, when I
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got out of college, you know,but I didn't go to college to
stay in debt.
You know it's like, hey, youcan't just do what school's
teaching you.
That's half the battle.
The other half the battle is,you know, you got to put
yourself out there and Make surethat you back for yourself.
You know, because, as you know,there's not Gonna be handed to
you.
Jacob K. Mead (22:17):
Out there and do it, make the difference.
Here looks so much now aseveryone's oh, the economy is
different and things aren't theway it used to be.
No, it's not.
Yeah, but you don't have to bethe way you used to be either.
Get out there and make adifference.
Yeah, change your mind setabsolutely in time.
Mensur Pudic (22:31):
You know, I always tell people you want to write
things down.
Write things down, because whathappens is when you start
writing, you start imprinting.
But that gives you a sense ofaccountability, a sense of
control, and we, as humans, welike that.
You know, nobody likes somebodyto say, hey, you have a meeting
and you only have five minutes.
You're gonna scramble you.
They already put you in astressful state.
But if you write things downand you stay committed, what,
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what's gonna happen with that?
You're also gonna builddiscipline.
Right, you're gonna builddiscipline and if you build
discipline in time, you're gonnalearn how to utilize that time.
You know It'd be effective withit.
Jacob K. Mead (23:04):
Oh my gosh, I you know.
It's so true that you thinkabout back in the time when they
make you write up on thechalkboard I will not throw
spitballs ever again and theymake you write it 50 times.
Yeah, I did, stuck with you.
You never did it again.
That's right.
It's like I never do it againbecause I don't want to do the
writing.
Or did I never do it again Cuzit got it grained in me?
Either way, it works.
So I think writing down and Ithink physically writing it down
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, and not just necessarily usingyour phone, but actually
basically writing it down, andso something I do is more like a
journal, and so I am notperfect at it.
So I don't journal every singleday, but I try to, especially
on the tough days.
It's important to journal ontough days and good sure.
But I'm tough days.
I'll write down kind ofobstacles, how I'm feeling, and
then at the end of the day kindof what I did to Kind of
overcome that and it's awesometo be able to look back on it.
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And just a couple weeks agoactually, my daughter found my
journal, so I was reading herkind of through my journal some
ways overcome things and justawesome to see, especially when
there's little kids, becausethey kind of you're their mentor
.
Absolutely.
It's crazy that you're theirmentor and it's just I love
having children because theykind of show you where you need
improvements in your life.
Mensur Pudic (24:09):
Yeah, and the thing is is about kids.
They don't.
They don't think of fear, theydon't think how it's not gonna
work.
Jacob K. Mead (24:13):
You know, they don't.
They put their mind somethinglike I'm gonna do this.
Mensur Pudic (24:17):
Yes, you see your, you see your kid.
They don't.
They don't think about talkingthemselves out of anything, you
know.
And when they look at theirparents they think their parents
know everything and haveeverything figured out, you know
.
But it's why kids are sofascinated and the biggest
difference between kids andadults is they're fascinated and
we're gold organ goal seekingorganisms.
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Right, kids want to go outthere, they want to try new
things, they want to explore.
And you know we're alwaystelling them Don't touch that,
don't do that, you know.
But they're exploring, you know, as we get older we stop
exploring because that comfortthose mental paradigms, those,
you know, habits, the negativefeedback We've gotten in our
life kind of been so ingrainedin us.
You know, it's like a computer.
(24:57):
Yeah, it's very tough to getout.
Jacob K. Mead (25:01):
Of it's like we almost have this sense of
Comfort.
Which comfort is just, I feel,like a disguise, like there's
really no such thing as comfort.
I'm starting to live in thefear.
I'm not in fear, but I'mstarting to live in more of the
idea of get comfortable beinguncomfortable.
Yep, absolutely.
I love that.
I can't remember who I heardfirst say that, but it's.
It's basically resonated withme the entire time.
(25:23):
Now as I was thinking Okay, Iwant to get comfortable being
uncomfortable.
So if something starts to makeme uncomfortable, like, okay,
what is what is it?
What's in it for me?
Like, I'm gonna go for it.
I've always gravitated towardssomething that's like makes me
scared.
So if there's like a newbusiness idea or if there's
something personal in my lifelike that's that might be
fearful, I'm like I'm gonna godo it.
Yeah, and which is wrong reasonwhy I do skydiving I got my
accelerator free fall and it'sit's I just I go for it because
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it's Something that most peoplefind fearful and it is don't go
wrong.
When you're looking outside of aplane, you're looking down or
like, oh man, I don't know if Ican do this, but then there's so
much just a feeling of likeaccomplishment.
Well, how do you get the ball?
You're like I got this, I didit, so you know that's awesome,
I love that you.
You talk about that time is soI mean, it really is so precious
(26:06):
and you know, finding that likesweet spot of okay, I need to
put someone in place to do thisfor me.
That can be challengingsometimes it can, especially if
the person has like a differentmindset than you.
Sure, so as far as likefiguring out that team or
putting that team in place, howdo you go about doing that?
What's like the best way tomake sure you have a team that
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has a strong mindset?
Mensur Pudic (26:30):
You know, the best way is trial and error.
You know, sometimes you'regonna have people that might not
see the mindset that you see inthe process of building your
business, but they mightactually give you something to
think about, that you can createout of your business Things
that you don't want.
(26:51):
You know, and that's one ofthose things I always tell
people always look at thepositive, even if it's a
negative situation.
Look at the positive becauseyou'll grow from it.
And when we make mistakes, youknow sometimes it's you know
people.
You know they take it to heart.
They feel bad and I tell themwell, do you know everything?
Are you supposed to knoweverything?
And they say no, and I tellthem relax.
You know, but when you'rebuilding a team, you wanna make
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sure that you start off withyour objective.
What is the end result that youwant?
That way, you have people thatyou know you can collaborate
with.
Do they bring ideas to thetable?
If they don't bring up ideas,you know everything starts from
an idea.
So if they don't bring ideas,that team's not gonna go
anywhere.
And definitely you want peopleyou know that have different
(27:35):
skills, because what's gonnahappen is when you have
different people and you havedifferent skills, you can
incorporate them together.
You know where they work like ateam because somebody's gonna
be better at maybe that, thetechnology aspect of it, where
somebody's better withstrategies.
But when you put those twopeople together now you have
some collaboration.
And what happens is when youlet people collaborate, that's
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when they start using theirhigher mental faculties and
ideas come in and processes comein that they could develop for
that business and company.
And just going back on what yousaid, you made me think a little
bit on.
You know what scares people ormakes people uncomfortable.
You know I tell people to writea list and they don't know why
and I do it from the get gobecause it's a little experiment
(28:17):
but I tell them to write 10, 20things that they fear or that
they're uncomfortable with, andthen every week I give them an
assignment to conquer that fear.
It's like I want you to dosomething that involves this
fear, because what happens isthey start distorting their
perception of why it is thatthey have that fear and they
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start overcoming those.
And you know, that's wheretheir beliefs start coming in,
where they start understandingokay, where did I get this
belief?
Is it really what I'm seeing,what I'm feeling, what I was
exposed to, and that's how theykind of overcome it.
And when you have a team andyou start putting people
together, it's fascinating howpeople grow and they want to
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share ideas, because we all wantto be heard, we all want to be
liked, we all want to be valued.
But that's what brings thatwhole foundation is when you
have that interaction betweeneverybody.
Jacob K. Mead (29:12):
I love that.
I think you made me do asimilar practice and I went out
and I did it and it's weird howyou almost feel afterwards and
it's you feel great, and thenit's a whole different mindset
shift.
But it's sometimes just thoselittle things that make the
biggest difference.
Sure, I just love that, becausesometimes people get stuck in
(29:36):
this mindset of, hey, I can'tchange, or that no one knows how
to do it better than me, andit's like that's not necessarily
true.
Yeah, you can change.
There's someone out there thatprobably has been through the
same thing you have, if notworse.
Yeah, it can give you adifferent perspective,
absolutely, absolutely.
It's.
What I do in some of my coachingis I will tell a business owner
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like hey, listen, I've beenthere and I'm unique in that
aspect because I've actuallybeen in the trenches, I've been
there, I've done it.
I can tell them listen, it getsbetter.
Yeah, or sometimes, like, forinstance, my sister, she's
starting her own cleaningbusiness and I've given her
ideas and she was on the phoneand she goes this is tough, this
is challenging.
I'm like it's not easy.
(30:18):
Yeah, there's a lot to it.
So you're really growing,especially in your mindset.
And then she's telling me hey,I don't have enough time.
I'm like, hey, you came to theTimeExpo.
Yeah, that's right.
Hey, mentor, it's been apleasure having you on the
podcast.
You brought so much value.
So if somebody listening wantedto find more information about
you, how can they do that?
Mensur Pudic (30:37):
We're sure you know all of social media.
They can go on my website,simply-motivatedcom.
You know Ment's with Pooja onFacebook and I have an Instagram
and stuff, so they can find meon all the social media
platforms.
You know, like I said, thewebsite YouTube will be rolling
out soon, so they're gonna havea lot of episodes.
Listen, they're gonna have a lotof episodes and it's gonna be
structured on.
(30:58):
You know how do people grow,how do people develop, and when
people ask me, how is it thatyou know this client will be
right for you?
I always ask clients, theclients that I take on are you
willing to grow?
You know, because you will grow.
I mean, that's part of theprogram.
It's gonna make youuncomfortable, but that's part
of it.
But those are the types ofpeople that I wanna work with.
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Right, we talk about time.
You know you can invest yourtime and work with people that
don't wanna grow and develop, oryou can invest time to help
people get towards their goalsand dreams and what they wanna
achieve.
Jacob K. Mead (31:30):
I love that.
You know it's so important andI'm excited for that YouTube
channel.
As soon as it comes out, I'mdefinitely gonna be subscribing,
so we'll try and have a link inthe comment too, and then we'll
link you as well below.
So, everybody, hey, this isJacob K Mead on the Buy Time
podcast.
Thank you so much for tuning intoday and an episode that means
a whole lot to me.
Made from Mensur, he's beenable to help guide me and be
(31:53):
able to get me on the path thathad better success.
So, jacob K Mead, and untilnext time.
Thanks for listening to today'sepisode.
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Be sure to like and follow andshare with somebody who needs to
buy back their time.
Enjoy today's episode.
Welcome back to another episodeof the Buy Time podcast.
I'm your host, jacob K Mead,and I'm excited that you're here
today because we actually havea really special guest.
(00:22):
Some of that I've known for awhile and they've been able to
help me in my personal life andreally my business growth, and I
wouldn't be where I am todaywithout this person in my life.
So this is such an importantepisode for everyone to listen
to.
I have Minster Pudich here andhe is a mindset coach, a speaker
, and overall he has helped metremendously in my business and
(00:44):
my personal growth.
So why don't you go ahead andstart by telling us a little bit
about yourself?
You know?
Mensur Pudic (00:49):
Jacob, thank you for having me on.
First of all, you know I'vejust been on this journey and
you know you've seen me on thepodcast and you know I'm a
motivational speaker, mindsetcoach and mentor as you
mentioned Just in golf, tosucceed and have these big goals
.
And you know, living in theUnited States, you know
everything's possible.
Jacob K. Mead (01:06):
It's awesome.
You know there's so muchopportunity here in the United
States.
So what brought you here?
How did you first get into theUnited States?
Mensur Pudic (01:13):
So you know a little bit about it.
But you know, in the early 90swe experienced, you know, war,
which we referred to as theBosnian genocide.
You know, and a lot of peopleasked me, you know what's my why
and when I started thisdevelopment roller coaster that
I engulfed.
It's like people died so Icould live.
So there's nothing that's goingto stop me from fulfilling, you
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know, the life and the dreamsthat I have to build, not just
for me but for my country andfor my people, and you know even
the ones that didn't make it,that gave me an opportunity to
be here.
Jacob K. Mead (01:44):
Oh man, yeah, it's, and it's powerful.
When you see that you can makeanything happen, especially here
, you realize that you canreally do it.
As long as you put your mind toit, you can do it.
So you really teach a lot onmindset.
So what are some things thatyou can share with our audience
that you've learned?
That kind of helps you stayfocused.
Mensur Pudic (02:03):
Sure, absolutely.
One of the things that you knowwhen you talk about mindset is
you have to, you have tounderstand how we are.
We're like a sponge, you know,and everything we basically
learn from up to seven years ofour life.
Right, we have the consciousmind, you know, and then we have
the subconscious mind thatactually has our programming and
our conditioning and over theyears it's so reinforced that
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most people don't grow out ofthat.
You know they always act thesame, they talk the same.
You know they want to stay inthat comfort zone because it's
something that we know.
And when I, when I, teachmindset, it's all about growth,
because if you want to change,if you want to develop or become
a new version of you, you haveto change the way you think.
And everything starts with,with a thought.
(02:45):
It leads to you know whathabits you have, what do you
want to execute, what do youwant to have for a goal, and
stuff like that.
So it's very, it's veryimportant to have that mindset
under wraps for yourself, thatyou haven't understand them, who
you really are, before you gochase whatever it is in the
world that you want to create orbecome.
Jacob K. Mead (03:06):
That's awesome.
I think that's so important toknow, because we've seen so many
kids that are graduating highschool and as soon as they get
out of high school, like I haveto know what I want to do in my
life and it's like no, you don't.
You don't actually know it knowwhat you want to do.
There's actually a podcast outthere called the decision day
podcast and I love listening toit, you know, because it really
talks about that.
You don't have to know what youwant to do right outside of
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high school because you're justgraduating.
The world's yet to figure out.
You know, you can take time tofigure out what you want to do,
and it's important.
I think it's awesome that it'simportant to figure out what you
are yourself before you want tofigure out what you want to be,
Absolutely.
Mensur Pudic (03:41):
And it's one of the things that nothing changes
unless you change right, and allthe growth that we go undergo,
it's within us.
But that growth, in thosemental barriers we have such as
you know we have limitingbeliefs where do they come?
Most of it come from theenvironment and the people that
you're around.
You know.
Some of it's biological whereit comes from your parents,
right, but it's if you questionyourself, where do you get some
(04:05):
of those thoughts?
That's when you're reallydigging down into your psyche of
how is it that you'reprogrammed, how do you have to
look things?
You know, and it's easier whenwe talk about mindset and going
through the growth.
It's so easy when somebody elsemesses up that we never take
accountability.
For you know, how could Iapproach this situation?
What did I learn from thissituation?
(04:26):
What would I have donedifferent?
And all of those leave clues onhow you can develop yourself.
You know, moving forward, longas you have awareness to catch
it.
Now you can kind of reprogramyourself and still get to your
destination.
You know you can change theplan, but the goal must not
change.
Jacob K. Mead (04:42):
The goal can never change, never change.
You gotta stay focused on thatgoal.
That's gonna be hard, though,because I know in my life, and
especially my personal journeyand my business journey, that
I've gone on you almost hitthese obstacles, and sometimes
you have that feeling of I can'tdo this, you know, and you have
that feeling of I want to giveup.
Now, with me, I've been able toovercome that and say, no, I'm
(05:02):
not going to let it stop me, Iwill do whatever it takes to get
through that obstacle.
There could be a giant boulderin my path and the only way was
through it.
Now I'd figure out a way to goget a jackhammer and chisel
through it, and that's the kindof mindset I have now, but it
wasn't always like that.
I can remember back in myyounger days and my early days
of starting my business, where Iwould hit these obstacles and I
feel so defeated.
I would feel like there was noway around it, and I would get
(05:25):
stuck in this almost depressedstate of that.
I don't know what I'm gonna do,and it was so hard to overcome
that.
So I love that you talk aboutsaying focus on your goal and
making sure that you're able toovercome those obstacles.
So what are some?
When we're talking aboutobstacles you know there's
always obstacles in life yeah,everywhere we look we have a
goal and we think it's going tobe a straight path to that goal.
It never is, never is it neveris a straight path to the goal.
(05:48):
So what are some?
Is there any tips or advicethat you can give our audience
to kind of overcome that?
Mensur Pudic (05:54):
Absolutely.
You know, when you're workingat a goal, before you set that
goal you have to be willing totell yourself what am I willing
to sacrifice for this goal?
A lot of people set these goalsbut they're not willing to
sacrifice.
So that means from thebeginning they're not willing to
be open and honest withthemselves.
You know.
But when you, when you set downyour goal, you want to make
sure that you have your energythere.
And the reason I talk aboutenergy is every decision that we
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make is based on a feeling andemotion.
So you want to make sure thatyou're very emotionally involved
to the goal or whatever it isthat you want out of life that
has that emotion, because whenyou come to those we call them
mental barriers, your emotion isgoing to take you over those
because you're going to be ableto overcome it.
And that's kind of a forcefield and a energy protection
(06:38):
that you put around yourselfthat can kind of consume all the
negative, negatives, thatyou're willing to take them and
you keep moving forward.
And some things that I recommendpeople do and even when I coach
is I make sure that they writeout their goal and they put it
in their pocket and they carryit with them.
And the reason for that is,subconsciously, our mind
remembers everything, and if youread that two, three times a
(07:00):
day, every day morning, you know, midday and night you're going
to start believing what it isthat you're reading, and we
often believe even the thingsthat aren't true.
But if you believe that we'reyour programming yourself for
success, that's exactly whatyou're going to deliver, because
that's what you're going tolook for.
You see, our mind only workstowards a target that we have,
and most people don't have atarget until somebody brings it
(07:22):
to their attention.
And then you know, everywherethey look, they see it.
You know and Tony Robbins talksabout that.
Jacob K. Mead (07:28):
You know, somebody sees a car and the next
thing, you know, they see allof them you know, and we have
something called a reticularactivating system.
Mensur Pudic (07:35):
That's exactly what the mind does and then it
starts looking for that same way.
As you have a goal, you'regoing to start attracting people
that you need.
You're going to attract thatenergy that you need and that
support group and everything,and before you know it, they're
going to help you with thosemental barriers where you can
overcome that.
Jacob K. Mead (07:51):
So, oh, I love it .
I love the car analogy becauseit's so true.
You buy a new car and it's like, yeah, you feel awesome, but
then you look around like wait aminute, everyone else has this
exact same car.
I've never seen it before.
It's because your mind'sconstantly thinking about it and
it sees it now, and so I thinkit's so important just to have
that mindset and to know that,hey, it's going to work out, and
have a little faith in theprocess too.
Absolutely, have a little bitof faith.
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You're going to need it.
You're going to put your mindto an extra make it happen.
And one of the things I do is Iyou know, you mentioned
carrying around that note inyour pocket, so I keep a note on
my iPhone and the first thing Ido in the morning is I look at
it and it's the person that Iwant to be, it's the person that
I am trying to become.
Mensur Pudic (08:28):
And.
Jacob K. Mead (08:28):
I read it to myself and I am that person.
When I read it to myself, I amthat person.
It just helps me through theday and then before I go to bed
at night, it's the same thing.
This is where I want to go,this is where I want to be in
life, and I've set goals outsideof my complete limitations.
And actually that was thanks toyou, because you had a phone
call with me one day and Iremember I was telling you some
ideas and you're like thinkbigger.
And I was like I can't thinkany bigger than this.
This is already bigger.
(08:48):
You're like think bigger.
And so I thought bigger.
And then things started tohappen.
Six months later I was.
I was making changes.
Yeah, absolutely, it's allthanks to having those mentors.
And you know, for myself, Ispend a lot of money not only on
mentors but business coaches,and I'd be a hypocrite if I
didn't, because you know I coachand I have workshops and I do
(09:09):
all of that.
But I'd be a hypocrite if Ididn't attend those and become a
better person myself.
And so have you gone to anyevents or anything that that
you've done to kind of helpbetter yourself as a person?
Mensur Pudic (09:19):
Absolutely, and one of the things I've always
been.
You know I've always beenchasing growth.
You know I have my associate,bachelor's, master's degree.
That was more of the system, soto say doing things that you
know mom and dad wanted me to goto school because they didn't
have that opportunity and thatwas something that you know.
I took the heart, but I also,you know, wanted to focus on me
(09:39):
and all of our growth isinternal and it's like, you know
, how do I see the world, why doI see it this way?
You know what can I do todevelop and you know I had a lot
of mentors myself.
You know I had an opportunityto talk to Les Brown, who
happens to be the highest payingmotivational speaker for the
past 30 years, and, you know,connected with the top 10% sales
consultant in the world, johnTolerico, and you know with
(10:00):
their experience.
For you know, people talk aboutmoney and, yes, it gets costly,
but when you look at it, for howmuch time you're actually
saving, you can make up themoney.
You know you can learnstrategies, you can learn
processes where the money comesback, and that's where most
people stop.
This is too expensive, whichyou know they haven't sold
(10:23):
anything to move towards it.
They just kind of give up.
It's the first thing that comesonto their mind.
And you know, if you stay withinthat mentality, you'll never
change and most people will gothrough their life skipping and
then have, you know, have arecollection of what is it that
I could have done, you know, andhave these regrets later on,
and you know we don't have time.
(10:43):
Skills can be learned,processes can be learned.
You know products can be bought, it's just do you have the
willingness to study?
Do you have the willingness toactually chase what it is that
you want?
Learn your skills, learn yourcraft, you know, and think big,
because it takes the same amountof energy to think small as it
does big.
So you might as well, you know,shoot for the sky 100%.
Jacob K. Mead (11:04):
I love that you talk about time in there.
You know, it's so true, you'vegot to focus your energy where
you want to go, and I I think Ihear that excuse a lot is a lot
of people say I didn't have timeor I don't have time to do this
, and I often will tell themwell, I mean, what are you doing
?
Do you watch three hours ofNetflix each night?
Are you doing a you know moviemarathon?
(11:24):
What are you doing?
Were you were you putting allof your time and energy.
Because in order to make yourgoal a reality, you're going to
have to make sacrifices, andthat's one of the hardest things
to do is.
I think there's so many peopleout there that don't want to
make these sacrifices.
I know there's people out therethat probably look at my
direction and go well, how didhe get what he, what he has?
And a lot of that is because Isacrifice.
(11:45):
I sacrificed those parties, Isacrificed being able to go out
and I stayed home and I studied,I learned, I build new it,
basically new skills, and I wasable to utilize that.
So it's awesome that you reallydive in.
You talk about that becauseit's so true.
It's amazing what you can dowith time.
Mensur Pudic (12:01):
And you know it's.
It's when you talk about time.
You know how people make theexcuses.
Believe them, even when it'snot true, because what they're
telling you is they're tellingyou their level of awareness
that they have, and it's it'swithin their programming that
they don't have time.
And one of the exercises that Ido was when people tell me
because I hear it hey, I don'thave time.
(12:22):
And I tell them I'm like that'sinteresting.
Billionaires that run, you know, world leading companies have
time and you don't have time.
Yet we all have the same, samepunk right, and it's ticking.
So write down the things thatare taking your time.
And I think once people expressthat because we're very
expressive once they write it ona piece of paper and they
(12:44):
actually look at it and they seewhat it's costing them, you
know they start to thinkdifferently because now they
have something that they'revisually looking at.
You know we think in picturesthat it's kind of, hey, what can
I adjust?
Can I make some time?
And I just tell them focus onone habit, one thing that you
can do.
An example people want to loseweight.
Okay, every day, walk for halfan hour every single day and
(13:06):
then do it for a month.
I tell them a month takes abouttwo weeks to develop a habit,
you know.
But they get conditioned andthen after that month what
happens is they raise theirvibration, you know.
They lowered their weight.
Typically, most people, if theywalk and keep the same
nutrition, they're gonna loseweight.
They start feeling good andthen they're like Wow, but now
they understand that they'recapable of doing so much more
(13:28):
and they just needed to hop overthat one hurdle for their kind
of self esteem and confidence togo up and that's all people
need.
Jacob K. Mead (13:35):
I mean, it's so true I can think back if you
know something similar and whenI was first getting in the sales
it was such a big challenge forme.
I hated sales at first, so Italk about it now in my podcast
and I have, you know, episodesof that talk about how to really
dive into sales.
But at first I hated it, andthe reason why I hated it was a
couple things.
One I hated that here in theword no, and I felt like that
(13:55):
was a direct reflection upon me.
So we'll dive into that.
But then, second, I think Ihated it because I just didn't
know, let's say, how to connector engage with my, with my
customer.
And once I was able to learnthat and once I got that first
sale, oh my gosh, it motivationright there it just skyrocketed.
I was like I can actually dothis.
(14:16):
And everything you know ishistory now.
But I can still remember myfirst sale and how hard it took
me to get that.
And then now I look back on itlike it just comes naturally.
I think anything you dodifferently in life you want to
lose weight, you want to start anew business there's a sense of
fear there that you can't do it.
And it's a sense of fear, maybe, or like, what if I fail?
(14:37):
And that's hard, it's very hard, it's so hard.
It's the what if I fail?
Man, I tell you, what if youfail?
And some people is like, well,what if you succeed?
It's like, yeah, what onlything you're thinking about
right now is fail here.
Yes, so what?
Like how do you overcome that?
Like what, what do you do thatthat can change your mindset.
You're thinking, hey, what if Ifail?
But you know in reality thatyou can do this or you want to
(14:59):
try this.
What's something that someonecan do?
Mensur Pudic (15:01):
So I mean you talk about mentors.
Right, that's why you getmentors, because you have to get
out of your head.
That's when you collaboratewith people.
You know, when you start offyour business on your own, it's
stressful, it's painful.
You're going through this, butyou're growing from within and
you're expressing everything inthe outside world.
You know you're kind ofstarting to put the pieces
together of the business, butwhat you're really doing is
(15:22):
you're putting pieces ofyourself together within.
You know.
So you're learning.
You know you know how to docontracts, how to network with
people, how to sell.
But when you, when you havementors and you have these
coaches, consultants, the timethat they spent, you not only
have your experience, experienceyou would have taken from books
, podcasts you have real lifeexperience that these people can
(15:43):
teach you.
You know in minutes and hoursand they can say, hey, try this.
And that way, you know, youstart learning and I always call
it.
You know.
You're developing your mentalawareness, people that are very
confident, that know.
You know how to set goals, whatgoals are, what it takes, what
it takes not to get there.
You know they have anunderstanding of every avenue
(16:04):
somebody, somebody's mind cantake.
You know, but when you thinkabout.
You know, wanting to achievesomething.
You always have to have thatvision that it's already yours,
that you're already there,because that's the momentum
that's going to help you develophabits, that's actually going
to get you there.
But if you think from thebeginning that you know you
can't do this or it's too hardor you're not going to be able
(16:25):
to learn it, well you're already.
You're already creatingyourself a trap and you know we
call that a negative vibration.
So really give yourself anopportunity to open your
thoughts.
You know you got to loveyourself.
You'll make mistakes 100%.
Jacob K. Mead (16:37):
You know that's so hard to do, but I love that
you talk about having thatmentor there, having someone
there, because I even need that.
I get to a point where in mybusiness or I'm like I can't do
this anymore.
I feel like I'm ready to giveup, and so then I can message my
coach and be like hey, so thisis how I'm feeling, and they're
like you got this.
Like, let's look at differently, what are you struggling on?
It's amazing, and now I lovebeing able to help people with
(16:58):
that.
I've always been that personout there that's wanting to help
people, and people like you'dgive your shirt off, you're back
to someone and it's true, Iwould.
And the biggest thing I love todo is just help people and
helping them through.
You know that, that coaching ofhow to start their business or
their struggles that they'regoing to have or their obstacles
that they have in front of them, because sometimes it takes
that outside source to actuallysee how to overcome that
(17:20):
Absolutely.
And I've noticed is it's like Ican't see it, I'm blinded.
Mensur Pudic (17:23):
And then my coach comes in and says it's as simple
as this and I'm like, oh man, Ididn't see that, sure, and one
of the things I think what makesyou great in that field is
you've been on the other side.
So when you have customers,when you have clients and
they're in that situation, youknow exactly where they're at.
You used to be in that state ofmind, right, but now you're
also getting you know.
If you're talking to mentorsand other coaches, it's like,
(17:44):
hey, you can really get unstuck,hang on, let's, let's have a
conversation.
You know, and when you talk tosomebody, we think we have a lot
of problems because we amplifyfear and we amplify problems.
But it's funny.
When you talk to somebody, youask people, you know well, how
do you feel?
And they're like well, I feel alittle better.
Why?
Well, because you didn't holdit bottled in.
You see, and that's one ofthose things you want to belong
(18:06):
to a community.
You want to, you want to beinvolved, right, where you have
the people that have that samemindset that you know want to
push, you want to help you grow,want to help you succeed, and
you know it's it's it's whatmakes a difference in the long
run.
Really, the group of people andeverybody in the motivational
speaking realm and all thecoaches they talk to.
(18:27):
You know your five friends orthe closest people by you, you
know, and it's crazy how westart thinking and believing the
same as they do.
If because if you don't takecontrol of your mind and really
question yourself, you know youstart acting that way and start
developing these mental habitsthat you know you didn't even
think about or know where theycame from.
Jacob K. Mead (18:47):
Average of the five people hang around.
I will never get that out of myhead.
You know I never.
When I first started especiallyI graduated high school I never
really thought that was true.
I was like what do you mean?
You're average five people tohang around there?
There's, there's not any proofto this.
And then I start really payingattention to the five people
that hang around, like, oh mygosh, it's so true.
You hang around five peoplethat that that's dope, you're
(19:10):
going to smoke.
You hang around five peoplethat are non smoking.
Chances are you're going tostop smoking.
Yeah, yeah, you know it's it's.
I always am so cautious now ofwho I'm hanging around, who I'm
spending my time with, what I'mlistening to, what I'm consuming
, cause I think it goes moreinto.
You know digital media andstuff like that nowadays too,
and so that's also part of thepeople that you're around.
You know it may not be face toface, but online content, and
(19:34):
that's awesome.
I really dive into that.
So I really like to tellbusiness owners that time is so
precious.
It's one of the biggest assetsout there that we have, and it's
important that you understandthat at such an early age,
because it's one of the thingswhere you can't get back.
Once time is spent, there'sabsolutely no way to get it back
versus money.
Once that's spent, you can getmoney back at that time.
(19:56):
And so I do a lot of coachingon how to buy back your time,
how to, how to get to a point inyour business where, if you're
run without you, so that way youcan focus on what you want to,
whether that be you know family,whether that be other business
adventures.
So what are some ideas or whatare some tricks and tips that
you might have with timemanagement?
Mensur Pudic (20:12):
You know we can't manage time, but we can manage
tasks right.
And that's one of those thingswhen I started thinking and
looking at my schedule at work.
You know, and you know that Iwork for a world leading company
in agriculture.
When it comes to that time,it's like, hey, you've got to
have a list of your priorities,right?
What do you want to accomplishthat day?
Have a list of maybe fivethings Don't do it too many,
(20:34):
because you're going to getoverwhelmed and stressed.
And then you want to put themost priority ones on top
because you want to get thosedone first.
You know, and sometimes it'sokay to do something small, you
know clean your desk, forexample, and people say that
makes a big difference.
And they ask why do you do that?
Because we can only focus andgive our attention span to one
(20:54):
thing at a time and if you havea lot of things, they're taking
your energy without evenrealizing it.
But when you do somethingthat's so small, we feel, you
know, like we've accomplishedsomething.
That's just a little energyboost that you need and that
will set the tone for your day.
You know where you're upliftedalready.
You know that's one of thosethings you want to have when you
(21:16):
talk about time and you talkabout you know how much is it
really costing people by notdoing what it is that they want
to do, or not doing what theyshould be doing within their
business.
And that might be a message ina consultant that can say, hey,
you're spending way more thanyou would is, if you hired me on
and actually develop thestrategy, that's gonna actually
put money back into your pocket.
(21:36):
You know.
And one of those things thatpeople always say you know, well
, I don't want to go into debt.
Well, your objective is not togo into that.
You know it's does everybodyfall into at one point or
another?
Absolutely, you know.
But the thing is it's you candevelop all the skills, all the
strategies as I mentioned beforeTo get out of that and pave
your way.
You know I ain't had a lot ofdebt when I got out of, when I
(21:58):
got out of college, you know,but I didn't go to college to
stay in debt.
You know it's like, hey, youcan't just do what school's
teaching you.
That's half the battle.
The other half the battle is,you know, you got to put
yourself out there and Make surethat you back for yourself.
You know, because, as you know,there's not Gonna be handed to
you.
Jacob K. Mead (22:17):
Out there and do it, make the difference.
Here looks so much now aseveryone's oh, the economy is
different and things aren't theway it used to be.
No, it's not.
Yeah, but you don't have to bethe way you used to be either.
Get out there and make adifference.
Yeah, change your mind setabsolutely in time.
Mensur Pudic (22:31):
You know, I always tell people you want to write
things down.
Write things down, because whathappens is when you start
writing, you start imprinting.
But that gives you a sense ofaccountability, a sense of
control, and we, as humans, welike that.
You know, nobody likes somebodyto say, hey, you have a meeting
and you only have five minutes.
You're gonna scramble you.
They already put you in astressful state.
But if you write things downand you stay committed, what,
(22:53):
what's gonna happen with that?
You're also gonna builddiscipline.
Right, you're gonna builddiscipline and if you build
discipline in time, you're gonnalearn how to utilize that time.
You know It'd be effective withit.
Jacob K. Mead (23:04):
Oh my gosh, I you know.
It's so true that you thinkabout back in the time when they
make you write up on thechalkboard I will not throw
spitballs ever again and theymake you write it 50 times.
Yeah, I did, stuck with you.
You never did it again.
That's right.
It's like I never do it againbecause I don't want to do the
writing.
Or did I never do it again Cuzit got it grained in me?
Either way, it works.
So I think writing down and Ithink physically writing it down
(23:27):
, and not just necessarily usingyour phone, but actually
basically writing it down, andso something I do is more like a
journal, and so I am notperfect at it.
So I don't journal every singleday, but I try to, especially
on the tough days.
It's important to journal ontough days and good sure.
But I'm tough days.
I'll write down kind ofobstacles, how I'm feeling, and
then at the end of the day kindof what I did to Kind of
overcome that and it's awesometo be able to look back on it.
(23:48):
And just a couple weeks agoactually, my daughter found my
journal, so I was reading herkind of through my journal some
ways overcome things and justawesome to see, especially when
there's little kids, becausethey kind of you're their mentor
.
Absolutely.
It's crazy that you're theirmentor and it's just I love
having children because theykind of show you where you need
improvements in your life.
Mensur Pudic (24:09):
Yeah, and the thing is is about kids.
They don't.
They don't think of fear, theydon't think how it's not gonna
work.
Jacob K. Mead (24:13):
You know, they don't.
They put their mind somethinglike I'm gonna do this.
Mensur Pudic (24:17):
Yes, you see your, you see your kid.
They don't.
They don't think about talkingthemselves out of anything, you
know.
And when they look at theirparents they think their parents
know everything and haveeverything figured out, you know
.
But it's why kids are sofascinated and the biggest
difference between kids andadults is they're fascinated and
we're gold organ goal seekingorganisms.
(24:37):
Right, kids want to go outthere, they want to try new
things, they want to explore.
And you know we're alwaystelling them Don't touch that,
don't do that, you know.
But they're exploring, you know, as we get older we stop
exploring because that comfortthose mental paradigms, those,
you know, habits, the negativefeedback We've gotten in our
life kind of been so ingrainedin us.
You know, it's like a computer.
(24:57):
Yeah, it's very tough to getout.
Jacob K. Mead (25:01):
Of it's like we almost have this sense of
Comfort.
Which comfort is just, I feel,like a disguise, like there's
really no such thing as comfort.
I'm starting to live in thefear.
I'm not in fear, but I'mstarting to live in more of the
idea of get comfortable beinguncomfortable.
Yep, absolutely.
I love that.
I can't remember who I heardfirst say that, but it's.
It's basically resonated withme the entire time.
(25:23):
Now as I was thinking Okay, Iwant to get comfortable being
uncomfortable.
So if something starts to makeme uncomfortable, like, okay,
what is what is it?
What's in it for me?
Like, I'm gonna go for it.
I've always gravitated towardssomething that's like makes me
scared.
So if there's like a newbusiness idea or if there's
something personal in my lifelike that's that might be
fearful, I'm like I'm gonna godo it.
Yeah, and which is wrong reasonwhy I do skydiving I got my
accelerator free fall and it'sit's I just I go for it because
(25:46):
it's Something that most peoplefind fearful and it is don't go
wrong.
When you're looking outside of aplane, you're looking down or
like, oh man, I don't know if Ican do this, but then there's so
much just a feeling of likeaccomplishment.
Well, how do you get the ball?
You're like I got this, I didit, so you know that's awesome,
I love that you.
You talk about that time is soI mean, it really is so precious
(26:06):
and you know, finding that likesweet spot of okay, I need to
put someone in place to do thisfor me.
That can be challengingsometimes it can, especially if
the person has like a differentmindset than you.
Sure, so as far as likefiguring out that team or
putting that team in place, howdo you go about doing that?
What's like the best way tomake sure you have a team that
(26:29):
has a strong mindset?
Mensur Pudic (26:30):
You know, the best way is trial and error.
You know, sometimes you'regonna have people that might not
see the mindset that you see inthe process of building your
business, but they mightactually give you something to
think about, that you can createout of your business Things
that you don't want.
(26:51):
You know, and that's one ofthose things I always tell
people always look at thepositive, even if it's a
negative situation.
Look at the positive becauseyou'll grow from it.
And when we make mistakes, youknow sometimes it's you know
people.
You know they take it to heart.
They feel bad and I tell themwell, do you know everything?
Are you supposed to knoweverything?
And they say no, and I tellthem relax.
You know, but when you'rebuilding a team, you wanna make
(27:13):
sure that you start off withyour objective.
What is the end result that youwant?
That way, you have people thatyou know you can collaborate
with.
Do they bring ideas to thetable?
If they don't bring up ideas,you know everything starts from
an idea.
So if they don't bring ideas,that team's not gonna go
anywhere.
And definitely you want peopleyou know that have different
(27:35):
skills, because what's gonnahappen is when you have
different people and you havedifferent skills, you can
incorporate them together.
You know where they work like ateam because somebody's gonna
be better at maybe that, thetechnology aspect of it, where
somebody's better withstrategies.
But when you put those twopeople together now you have
some collaboration.
And what happens is when youlet people collaborate, that's
(27:56):
when they start using theirhigher mental faculties and
ideas come in and processes comein that they could develop for
that business and company.
And just going back on what yousaid, you made me think a little
bit on.
You know what scares people ormakes people uncomfortable.
You know I tell people to writea list and they don't know why
and I do it from the get gobecause it's a little experiment
(28:17):
but I tell them to write 10, 20things that they fear or that
they're uncomfortable with, andthen every week I give them an
assignment to conquer that fear.
It's like I want you to dosomething that involves this
fear, because what happens isthey start distorting their
perception of why it is thatthey have that fear and they
(28:38):
start overcoming those.
And you know, that's wheretheir beliefs start coming in,
where they start understandingokay, where did I get this
belief?
Is it really what I'm seeing,what I'm feeling, what I was
exposed to, and that's how theykind of overcome it.
And when you have a team andyou start putting people
together, it's fascinating howpeople grow and they want to
(29:00):
share ideas, because we all wantto be heard, we all want to be
liked, we all want to be valued.
But that's what brings thatwhole foundation is when you
have that interaction betweeneverybody.
Jacob K. Mead (29:12):
I love that.
I think you made me do asimilar practice and I went out
and I did it and it's weird howyou almost feel afterwards and
it's you feel great, and thenit's a whole different mindset
shift.
But it's sometimes just thoselittle things that make the
biggest difference.
Sure, I just love that, becausesometimes people get stuck in
(29:36):
this mindset of, hey, I can'tchange, or that no one knows how
to do it better than me, andit's like that's not necessarily
true.
Yeah, you can change.
There's someone out there thatprobably has been through the
same thing you have, if notworse.
Yeah, it can give you adifferent perspective,
absolutely, absolutely.
It's.
What I do in some of my coachingis I will tell a business owner
(29:56):
like hey, listen, I've beenthere and I'm unique in that
aspect because I've actuallybeen in the trenches, I've been
there, I've done it.
I can tell them listen, it getsbetter.
Yeah, or sometimes, like, forinstance, my sister, she's
starting her own cleaningbusiness and I've given her
ideas and she was on the phoneand she goes this is tough, this
is challenging.
I'm like it's not easy.
(30:18):
Yeah, there's a lot to it.
So you're really growing,especially in your mindset.
And then she's telling me hey,I don't have enough time.
I'm like, hey, you came to theTimeExpo.
Yeah, that's right.
Hey, mentor, it's been apleasure having you on the
podcast.
You brought so much value.
So if somebody listening wantedto find more information about
you, how can they do that?
Mensur Pudic (30:37):
We're sure you know all of social media.
They can go on my website,simply-motivatedcom.
You know Ment's with Pooja onFacebook and I have an Instagram
and stuff, so they can find meon all the social media
platforms.
You know, like I said, thewebsite YouTube will be rolling
out soon, so they're gonna havea lot of episodes.
Listen, they're gonna have a lotof episodes and it's gonna be
structured on.
(30:58):
You know how do people grow,how do people develop, and when
people ask me, how is it thatyou know this client will be
right for you?
I always ask clients, theclients that I take on are you
willing to grow?
You know, because you will grow.
I mean, that's part of theprogram.
It's gonna make youuncomfortable, but that's part
of it.
But those are the types ofpeople that I wanna work with.
(31:20):
Right, we talk about time.
You know you can invest yourtime and work with people that
don't wanna grow and develop, oryou can invest time to help
people get towards their goalsand dreams and what they wanna
achieve.
Jacob K. Mead (31:30):
I love that.
You know it's so important andI'm excited for that YouTube
channel.
As soon as it comes out, I'mdefinitely gonna be subscribing,
so we'll try and have a link inthe comment too, and then we'll
link you as well below.
So, everybody, hey, this isJacob K Mead on the Buy Time
podcast.
Thank you so much for tuning intoday and an episode that means
a whole lot to me.
Made from Mensur, he's beenable to help guide me and be
(31:53):
able to get me on the path thathad better success.
So, jacob K Mead, and untilnext time.
Thanks for listening to today'sepisode.
My name is Jacob K Mead, anduntil next time.
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