March 26, 2024 • 25 mins
Have you ever stared down a mountain of goals, unsure of where to start? Join me, Dr. Jason Wiggins, as I guide you through the maze of unfinished business, sharing the celebration of my podcast's recognition as the 12th best Millennial podcast by Feedspot and teasing my guest spot on the Above the Bar podcast. This episode is a treasure trove of wisdom for young go-getters looking to nibble away at the elephant-sized tasks in their lives. Drawing on my own epic academic quest, I illuminate the path to victory, armed with a shield of positive thinking and a sword of steadfast habits. Whether it's a lingering side project or a dream gathering dust, prepare to march towards resolution and success with my battle-tested strategies.
Strap in for a journey through the tempest of managing time with an ever-growing list of commitments and personal endeavors. It's a balancing act I know all too well, juggling a full-time job, academic ambitions, and an active family life. But fear not, for I come bearing the blueprints to navigate this labyrinth. We'll explore how to prioritize effectively, ensuring your daily hustle aligns with your deepest desires while keeping Maslow's hierarchy in check. From modest beginnings to the proud pinnacle of a PhD, I stand testament to the fact that every misstep is a dance move towards success. This episode isn't just about reaching the finish line; it's about enjoying the race, every step of the way.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, hello friends, welcome to your Motivational Gen
Z and Millennial Expert Podcast.
My name is Dr Jason Wiggins andwelcome, welcome, welcome.
I hope everybody's having agreat day, wherever you may be,
or night.
Well, let's get our heads rightand get started.
(00:22):
First and foremost, I'd like tothank all my valued listeners.
I appreciate you listening andI think we have a great topic
today that I think will reallyreally resonate with myself as
well as most of the listeningaudience.
I just want to make mentionthat I will be a guest on an
(00:45):
upcoming podcast called theAbove the Bar podcast, and I
think you'll truly find thatpodcast very good as well, and I
look forward to speaking on it.
And also some great newsFeedspot has named your
motivational Gen Z andMillennial Expert podcast the
(01:08):
number 12 best viewed Millennialpodcast in the world.
So again, that's number 12 byFeedspot for best Millennial
podcast in the world, and we donot take that lightly.
We are Millenn, millennials andGen Z focused.
(01:28):
However, this can be applied toanyone who desires to have a
little bit of motivation and alittle bit of just knowing hey,
times can be tough, but we haveto prevail.
How do we prevail?
It's by taking one day at atime.
(01:50):
And do you know how you eat anelephant?
One bite at a time.
And that's the same way that wehave to look at life.
Today's podcast is going to bebased on reaching the finish
line unfinished business.
(02:11):
So what is it when you think ofunfinished business?
Well, it's things we have notstarted yet, or things that we
have started and we have notfinished the project.
We have not finished theschooling, we've not completed
(02:33):
the project at work, whatever itmay be.
But I want to really talk aboutwhat's important to Gen Z and
what's important to millennials,because that's what this
podcast is about.
It's about how is this relativeto Gen Z and millennials,
professional and or personallife?
(02:57):
And that's what we are talkingabout today is how are you going
to reach the finish line onunfinished business?
And, first and foremost, let'sbreak it down.
I think that's really the bestway to do.
It is break it down.
Breaking it down.
It looks like this you have atask or you have a goal, or you
(03:23):
have something, or you have agoal or you have something that
resonates with you that it seemslike you have to complete.
Life will not be completeunless you complete this goal or
this task, and so that's what Ireally want to talk about today
.
I really want to talk abouttoday.
(03:53):
For example, for me, my goal wasto reach the end goal of
obtaining and earning mydoctorate in management, my PhD,
and it seemed like a monumentaltask.
I remember looking at it rightat the beginning, going look at
all the requirements, look atall the things that are required
to get all of the courseworkdone, then start the
(04:16):
dissertation, go through thewhole prospectus stage, then the
research and then all of theliterary review and literature
review and all of that, and thenyou have to start getting parts
approved by your dissertationcommittee, your chair, and then
(04:39):
all of the issues that canhappen within that.
You lump all that together andyou go, wow, this is huge.
So that's where you start withunfinished business is.
You don't look at it as amonumentous task.
You look at it as, as wementioned earlier, how do you
(05:00):
eat an elephant?
That is one bite at a time Withmy seven-year-old.
Is he going to be the nextMickey Mantle, ted Williams,
whoever it may be?
Well, it can be a goal as ayoung baseball player, but you
(05:22):
have to go one step at a time,you to learn how to hit, you
have to learn how to field,throw the ball and then learn
all the different aspects ofbaseball to get really good.
And then maybe you are, you goto college and maybe you get
drafted or maybe you become aminor league player and if
(05:43):
you're that one percent of the1%, then you make the major
leagues.
And then to make be asuccessful in the major leagues,
then you're that other 1%.
Does it seem like it's amonumentous task?
Yes, it does, but unfinishedbusiness is about achieving a
(06:03):
goal, achieving a task, andthat's what we're going to look
at today.
And how do you start?
By creating a path that isgoing to lead you to the
successful completion ofwhatever you want to do.
Well, it starts with the mindframe, and the mind is a very
(06:27):
tricky thing because we are notall wired the same.
Some people are procrastinators, some people need to be
motivated in different ways,some people can't finish, some
people have roadblocks, mentalroadblocks, people have personal
lives that get in the way.
All of these different types ofscenarios it's really important
(06:51):
to realize it is called life.
Life throws everything at youand it's how you navigate, it's
how you react to each turn andrealize that it's not impossible
to reach your goals.
But sometimes it does take alot of work, a lot of sacrifices
(07:15):
, and you have to be willing toremove those barriers and make
those sacrifices to get to theend project, to reach the end
goal.
So that's what I want to ask youwhat is that?
One or two unfinished businessthings that you would like to
(07:39):
have completed in your lifetimeor within this year, or whatever
it may be?
Do you want to start a business?
Do you want to finish school?
Do you want to be anentrepreneur?
Do you want to be the CEO ofyour organization?
Do you want to be the bestparent?
You can be the best grandparent?
Whatever it may be, it's thenumber one aspect is you have to
(08:06):
have the right mental mindframe.
And how do you do that?
Well, it's part of the steppingprocess.
You have to eat well, you haveto get a good night's sleep, you
have to be able to focus, youhave to be able to
compartmentalize certain aspectsof your life.
Sometimes it means getting ridof bad habits and then
(08:31):
determining how can I removethese bad habits in order to
preserve the right mentalattitude, the right mental
makeup, and it first starts withjust getting out of bed.
Getting out of bed is the veryfirst thing that you have to do
(08:52):
to be successful.
When that alarm goes off ding,ding, and it's really annoying
and piercing the first thing youdo is you hit it.
Don't snooze, get up right away, because imagine, for every
time you snooze that's five or10 minutes or 15 minutes every
(09:13):
single day Over the course of aweek.
That adds up to an hour and ahalf to two hours of progressive
action that could be takenthroughout the week in order to
get things done.
I would like to take a moment torealize that time is precious,
(09:35):
so let's view that Time isprecious.
Time is something that, nomatter how much money you have,
we cannot buy more of it.
So therefore we have tomaximize the amount of time.
So if you have a goal and youhave minimal time, then look at
(09:56):
where your time is going.
That means time management.
So the first step you talkedabout was getting your mental
mind frame right, getting thesleep, eating nutritious foods,
and then the next thing ismaking sure you have good time
management.
I know it's easier said thandone.
(10:20):
Time is something that everybodyseems to not have enough time
to get what we want to get done.
We have families, we havegrowing kids, we have growing
careers, we have spouses All ofthese things, along with, maybe,
extracurricular activities,take part in most of our time
(10:42):
during the day.
And not forgetting that most ofus work 40, 50 plus hours a day
, and if you're like a lot ofAmericans, you don't work just
one job.
You also have side hustles.
I reside in California and hereit is very normal to work a
full-time job and have certainother things you do Besides
(11:06):
being a regional manager andbeing a speaker and doing all
these other things.
I'm also a professor at twouniversities.
I have a young son, I have awife, I go to all his games, I'm
part of, I'm an active part ofhis life.
And how do I do that?
Very simple Time management.
(11:28):
Yes, you cannot do everything,everything cannot be done, but
prioritizing what's important,so what is important?
So we talked about timemanagement.
Is it family?
Is it religion?
Is it extracurricularactivities?
Is it your family, friends,career, growth, all of these
(11:52):
different things?
They have one thing in common.
Do you know what that is?
They're fighting for your time.
They're fighting for youreverything, all those spaces
that in your life that are thatare void.
They're fighting to fill allthose voids.
(12:15):
That's what happens when youget so busy and, yes, most of us
are very busy and some of usstrive on being busy and if
that's you, then more power toyou.
Fortunately, I'm just like that.
I love being busy.
When I'm busy, when I have amillion things going on at one
(12:37):
time, then I am more productive.
If I don't have anything goingon and I'm sitting around doing
nothing, I'm less productive.
Therefore, we talked aboutmaking sure that you have a good
mental attitude, you have Goodtime management.
(12:57):
And then what does it take?
It takes planning, planning.
You can't just go from zero to100 overnight.
You can't run a successfulbusiness overnight.
You can't be the CEO of a largeorganization overnight.
You can't graduate with an MBAbefore you obtain a bachelor's
(13:20):
degree.
You can't do it overnight.
You can't graduate with an MBAbefore you obtain a bachelor's
degree.
You can't do it overnight.
Therefore, you have to takesteps.
If you're in your 20s, your 30s,your 40s, your 50s, whatever it
may be, it's not too late toreact, to be proactive, to
(13:41):
getting what you want out ofyour unfinished business.
Let's say right now, forexample, you want to start a new
career.
You're in your 30s, you're inyour 40s Guess what?
Then it's time to put the hardwork into it.
What Then?
It's time to put the hard workinto it.
If it was easy, everybody wouldbe doing it.
(14:05):
For any of you Rocky fans outthere, I know this was probably
going prior to Millennials andGen Z's, but Rocky is a
motivating movie about theability to be a boxer and be a
world champion, and it showed alot of the rigorous, physical,
(14:27):
pounding beating that Rocky inthis movie, this character,
played.
And that's the same thing.
You can feel like you're apunching bag sometimes when it
comes to trying to get thingsdone, trying to get those
proactive steps One step, two,step, three, step four and to
(14:50):
get complete each of those stepsto get where you want.
This goes back to Maslow'shierarchy of needs.
Maslow's hierarchy of needsstates first thing you need, you
need safety, you need tounderstand that.
You need to be safe, you needto be able to eat.
So therefore, if you're lookingto be CEO before you have the
(15:13):
basic necessities of life, thenmaybe your priorities are not
correct.
So if you're struggling rightnow and you don't even have the
basic necessities to live.
I feel it, I get it, Iunderstand.
First and foremost, get thosethings right.
If you have an addiction that'spreventing you from reaching
(15:37):
your goals, then attack thataddiction, attack it hard.
Realize that it's okay to beweak but it's okay to ask for
help, but it's not okay to notask for help when you need it.
So that is part of that mentalmakeup that we talked about.
If you're not in a situation tobe successful, again,
(16:04):
unfinished business is aboutcreating a path of being
successful from zero to 100.
For example, I struggled earlyin life trying, trying to find
where I stood in the world.
(16:24):
I did a lot of different jobs.
Starting out, I did things thatyou would be shocked to hear
now that I have a PhD, now thatI'm a doctor in management.
I started out by doing somecrazy, crazy sort of jobs and
then I did pretty mucheverything, from being a busboy
(16:47):
I started out with a newspaperroute.
I was a cook.
I did all sorts of differentjobs delivery jobs, logistics,
transportation, logistics,transportation all of that was
now I'm in management, and everysingle thing, every single job.
I learned from it.
I took away something.
(17:08):
I made a lot of mistakes.
I really shot myself in thefoot sometimes, but guess what?
It's okay if you learn from itand you suffer the consequences
of it.
It ultimately makes you abetter person, a better and more
productive employee, and ithelps you get to the point where
(17:31):
you can be successful inreaching your goals.
As we talked about, you've gotto have the basic necessity of
life, you have to have shelter,you have to have love, you have
to have the basic necessity oflife, you have to have shelter,
you have to have love, you haveto have the feeling of
belongingness.
These are part of the importantaspects of reaching to the
level of where you finally madeit, where you finally got over
(17:54):
the top and you feel like I'vereached the goal, I've reached
my successful nature that Iwanted and that, right there,
part of Maslow's hierarchy ofneeds, is known as
self-actualization.
Self-actualization is where,all of a sudden, you go, wow, I
(18:15):
did it.
And for me, it took me 42 yearsto reach that aspect.
And I did it where a time whereeverything was it happened at
the same time in my life.
That year was 2016.
My degree, my doctorate degree,was conferred about one and a
(18:40):
half months after my son wasborn.
So the two out of the threemost happiest things in my life
happened within two months.
And then the other happy momentwas when I was married and
those things right there waspart of what helped me realize
(19:00):
that there's not a lot of greatthings after that that I'm going
to look forward to, that aregoing to top that.
But here's the important part aswe talk about reaching our
goals, when you do reach thatunfinished goal that you want so
bad and you take that deepbreath and go I did it.
(19:25):
I made it.
I couldn't be happier.
Don't let yourself getcomplacent.
There's other unfinishedbusiness that needs to be done.
You just may not know what itis yet.
That needs to be done.
You just may not know what itis yet.
And one of the things they sayto living a long, prosperous,
healthy life those that havereached 100 years of age,
(19:50):
besides having great genes.
One of the things they say isdon't stop working, don't let
your mind stop wanting toimprove and you think about that
.
You might hear a lot of storieswhere people have retired and
(20:10):
they didn't live much longer andit's really sad, but part of
that can be due to not gettingto where they continue to work,
they retired, they didn't doanything and guess what?
Just like physical exercise isimportant, so is mental exercise
(20:35):
is part of the process ofgetting to the part where we can
finish the goals that we setout for ourselves.
And that leads to the otherpart.
We've already talked aboutmaking sure you have the mental
(20:57):
makeup having the right sleep,having the right food, having
the ability to be in a safeplace, addiction free and
ability to move forward in yourlife.
If the timing is not right,that's okay.
Take care of those other thingsthat are holding you back, but
when the time does get right,make sure you keep set on the
(21:19):
goals that you want.
And we talked about unfinishedbusiness today.
I want everybody to think aboutthat for a second.
You mentioned earlier whatmaybe one or two of the
unfinished goals that you wouldlike to meet, either this year,
next year or within yourlifetime.
Think about those.
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We have one life to live.
When our day of calling comes,are you going to have one regret
in your life that you didn't dosomething?
My one regret for sure wouldhave been not finishing my PhD
(22:01):
and not having a family.
Those are the two things that Iwould have really kicked myself
not having, before my day comes, to answer the bell, whatever
yours may be.
Some you have control of, someyou don't, as I always like to
say, control the controllables.
(22:24):
If there is something that youcannot do as a Gen Z and
millennials, don't focus on it.
We do have limitations in life.
So don't get me wrong, we dohave limitations.
We all cannot be rocketscientists.
Why?
Because our minds don't worklike that.
(22:44):
We have to take the skill setsthat each and every single one
of us has and maximize that toolset with the ability that we
have to match the skill set, thedesire, the focus, the
motivation.
(23:04):
The skill set, the desire, thefocus, the motivation.
If you need a motivating type ofindividual to motivate you, I
want to be that person.
If it's music that motivatesyou, then listen to some music
that really gets you going.
Maybe it's the Rocky type oftheme music Eye of the Tiger.
Where is the Eye of the Tigerin you that wants you to get to
(23:28):
the finish line?
Well, listen to that calling,listen to that motivation.
And we've talked before.
The one thing I want you tofocus on is removing the
barriers.
If there are people in yourlife that say you can't do it,
you're not good enough.
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I need you to look long andhard at those people in your
life and either have a talk withthem and say this is what I
want, are you going to supportme?
Because, if you're not tosupport me, because if you're
not, then I'm going to findpeople and surround myself with
those people that have similargoals to help me reach my
(24:13):
unfinished business goal.
Again, this motivational podcastis for Gen Z and Millennial
expert.
Excuse me, gen Z andMillennials podcast is for Gen Z
and millennial expert.
Excuse me, gen Z andmillennials.
I am Dr Jason Wiggins.
I am your Gen Z and millennialexpert and I am here to help you
any way I can.
(24:35):
So I want to thank everybodyagain.
If you haven't had a chance,please look up and look out for
the next podcast, and I willalso be a guest on the Above the
Bar podcast, along with.
I'd like to thank Feedspot formaking us the number 12 most
(24:57):
listened to millennial podcastin the world.
So I want to thank everybodyand I appreciate your continued
listenership.
Please continue to promote theworld.
So I want to thank everybodyand I appreciate your continued
listenership.
Please continue to promote thepodcast so we can continue to
spread the word about theimportance of Gen Z and
Millennials and how we can helpyou in your personal and
(25:21):
professional life.
So, thank you, take care andcan't wait to talk to you later.
Bye, bye.
Well, hello friends, welcome to your Motivational Gen
Z and Millennial Expert Podcast.
My name is Dr Jason Wiggins andwelcome, welcome, welcome.
I hope everybody's having agreat day, wherever you may be,
or night.
Well, let's get our heads rightand get started.
(00:22):
First and foremost, I'd like tothank all my valued listeners.
I appreciate you listening andI think we have a great topic
today that I think will reallyreally resonate with myself as
well as most of the listeningaudience.
I just want to make mentionthat I will be a guest on an
(00:45):
upcoming podcast called theAbove the Bar podcast, and I
think you'll truly find thatpodcast very good as well, and I
look forward to speaking on it.
And also some great newsFeedspot has named your
motivational Gen Z andMillennial Expert podcast the
(01:08):
number 12 best viewed Millennialpodcast in the world.
So again, that's number 12 byFeedspot for best Millennial
podcast in the world, and we donot take that lightly.
We are Millenn, millennials andGen Z focused.
(01:28):
However, this can be applied toanyone who desires to have a
little bit of motivation and alittle bit of just knowing hey,
times can be tough, but we haveto prevail.
How do we prevail?
It's by taking one day at atime.
(01:50):
And do you know how you eat anelephant?
One bite at a time.
And that's the same way that wehave to look at life.
Today's podcast is going to bebased on reaching the finish
line unfinished business.
(02:11):
So what is it when you think ofunfinished business?
Well, it's things we have notstarted yet, or things that we
have started and we have notfinished the project.
We have not finished theschooling, we've not completed
(02:33):
the project at work, whatever itmay be.
But I want to really talk aboutwhat's important to Gen Z and
what's important to millennials,because that's what this
podcast is about.
It's about how is this relativeto Gen Z and millennials,
professional and or personallife?
(02:57):
And that's what we are talkingabout today is how are you going
to reach the finish line onunfinished business?
And, first and foremost, let'sbreak it down.
I think that's really the bestway to do.
It is break it down.
Breaking it down.
It looks like this you have atask or you have a goal, or you
(03:23):
have something, or you have agoal or you have something that
resonates with you that it seemslike you have to complete.
Life will not be completeunless you complete this goal or
this task, and so that's what Ireally want to talk about today
.
I really want to talk abouttoday.
(03:53):
For example, for me, my goal wasto reach the end goal of
obtaining and earning mydoctorate in management, my PhD,
and it seemed like a monumentaltask.
I remember looking at it rightat the beginning, going look at
all the requirements, look atall the things that are required
to get all of the courseworkdone, then start the
(04:16):
dissertation, go through thewhole prospectus stage, then the
research and then all of theliterary review and literature
review and all of that, and thenyou have to start getting parts
approved by your dissertationcommittee, your chair, and then
(04:39):
all of the issues that canhappen within that.
You lump all that together andyou go, wow, this is huge.
So that's where you start withunfinished business is.
You don't look at it as amonumentous task.
You look at it as, as wementioned earlier, how do you
(05:00):
eat an elephant?
That is one bite at a time Withmy seven-year-old.
Is he going to be the nextMickey Mantle, ted Williams,
whoever it may be?
Well, it can be a goal as ayoung baseball player, but you
(05:22):
have to go one step at a time,you to learn how to hit, you
have to learn how to field,throw the ball and then learn
all the different aspects ofbaseball to get really good.
And then maybe you are, you goto college and maybe you get
drafted or maybe you become aminor league player and if
(05:43):
you're that one percent of the1%, then you make the major
leagues.
And then to make be asuccessful in the major leagues,
then you're that other 1%.
Does it seem like it's amonumentous task?
Yes, it does, but unfinishedbusiness is about achieving a
(06:03):
goal, achieving a task, andthat's what we're going to look
at today.
And how do you start?
By creating a path that isgoing to lead you to the
successful completion ofwhatever you want to do.
Well, it starts with the mindframe, and the mind is a very
(06:27):
tricky thing because we are notall wired the same.
Some people are procrastinators, some people need to be
motivated in different ways,some people can't finish, some
people have roadblocks, mentalroadblocks, people have personal
lives that get in the way.
All of these different types ofscenarios it's really important
(06:51):
to realize it is called life.
Life throws everything at youand it's how you navigate, it's
how you react to each turn andrealize that it's not impossible
to reach your goals.
But sometimes it does take alot of work, a lot of sacrifices
(07:15):
, and you have to be willing toremove those barriers and make
those sacrifices to get to theend project, to reach the end
goal.
So that's what I want to ask youwhat is that?
One or two unfinished businessthings that you would like to
(07:39):
have completed in your lifetimeor within this year, or whatever
it may be?
Do you want to start a business?
Do you want to finish school?
Do you want to be anentrepreneur?
Do you want to be the CEO ofyour organization?
Do you want to be the bestparent?
You can be the best grandparent?
Whatever it may be, it's thenumber one aspect is you have to
(08:06):
have the right mental mindframe.
And how do you do that?
Well, it's part of the steppingprocess.
You have to eat well, you haveto get a good night's sleep, you
have to be able to focus, youhave to be able to
compartmentalize certain aspectsof your life.
Sometimes it means getting ridof bad habits and then
(08:31):
determining how can I removethese bad habits in order to
preserve the right mentalattitude, the right mental
makeup, and it first starts withjust getting out of bed.
Getting out of bed is the veryfirst thing that you have to do
(08:52):
to be successful.
When that alarm goes off ding,ding, and it's really annoying
and piercing the first thing youdo is you hit it.
Don't snooze, get up right away, because imagine, for every
time you snooze that's five or10 minutes or 15 minutes every
(09:13):
single day Over the course of aweek.
That adds up to an hour and ahalf to two hours of progressive
action that could be takenthroughout the week in order to
get things done.
I would like to take a moment torealize that time is precious,
(09:35):
so let's view that Time isprecious.
Time is something that, nomatter how much money you have,
we cannot buy more of it.
So therefore we have tomaximize the amount of time.
So if you have a goal and youhave minimal time, then look at
(09:56):
where your time is going.
That means time management.
So the first step you talkedabout was getting your mental
mind frame right, getting thesleep, eating nutritious foods,
and then the next thing ismaking sure you have good time
management.
I know it's easier said thandone.
(10:20):
Time is something that everybodyseems to not have enough time
to get what we want to get done.
We have families, we havegrowing kids, we have growing
careers, we have spouses All ofthese things, along with, maybe,
extracurricular activities,take part in most of our time
(10:42):
during the day.
And not forgetting that most ofus work 40, 50 plus hours a day
, and if you're like a lot ofAmericans, you don't work just
one job.
You also have side hustles.
I reside in California and hereit is very normal to work a
full-time job and have certainother things you do Besides
(11:06):
being a regional manager andbeing a speaker and doing all
these other things.
I'm also a professor at twouniversities.
I have a young son, I have awife, I go to all his games, I'm
part of, I'm an active part ofhis life.
And how do I do that?
Very simple Time management.
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Yes, you cannot do everything,everything cannot be done, but
prioritizing what's important,so what is important?
So we talked about timemanagement.
Is it family?
Is it religion?
Is it extracurricularactivities?
Is it your family, friends,career, growth, all of these
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different things?
They have one thing in common.
Do you know what that is?
They're fighting for your time.
They're fighting for youreverything, all those spaces
that in your life that are thatare void.
They're fighting to fill allthose voids.
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That's what happens when youget so busy and, yes, most of us
are very busy and some of usstrive on being busy and if
that's you, then more power toyou.
Fortunately, I'm just like that.
I love being busy.
When I'm busy, when I have amillion things going on at one
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time, then I am more productive.
If I don't have anything goingon and I'm sitting around doing
nothing, I'm less productive.
Therefore, we talked aboutmaking sure that you have a good
mental attitude, you have Goodtime management.
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And then what does it take?
It takes planning, planning.
You can't just go from zero to100 overnight.
You can't run a successfulbusiness overnight.
You can't be the CEO of a largeorganization overnight.
You can't graduate with an MBAbefore you obtain a bachelor's
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degree.
You can't do it overnight.
You can't graduate with an MBAbefore you obtain a bachelor's
degree.
You can't do it overnight.
Therefore, you have to takesteps.
If you're in your 20s, your 30s,your 40s, your 50s, whatever it
may be, it's not too late toreact, to be proactive, to
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getting what you want out ofyour unfinished business.
Let's say right now, forexample, you want to start a new
career.
You're in your 30s, you're inyour 40s Guess what?
Then it's time to put the hardwork into it.
What Then?
It's time to put the hard workinto it.
If it was easy, everybody wouldbe doing it.
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For any of you Rocky fans outthere, I know this was probably
going prior to Millennials andGen Z's, but Rocky is a
motivating movie about theability to be a boxer and be a
world champion, and it showed alot of the rigorous, physical,
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pounding beating that Rocky inthis movie, this character,
played.
And that's the same thing.
You can feel like you're apunching bag sometimes when it
comes to trying to get thingsdone, trying to get those
proactive steps One step, two,step, three, step four and to
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get complete each of those stepsto get where you want.
This goes back to Maslow'shierarchy of needs.
Maslow's hierarchy of needsstates first thing you need, you
need safety, you need tounderstand that.
You need to be safe, you needto be able to eat.
So therefore, if you're lookingto be CEO before you have the
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basic necessities of life, thenmaybe your priorities are not
correct.
So if you're struggling rightnow and you don't even have the
basic necessities to live.
I feel it, I get it, Iunderstand.
First and foremost, get thosethings right.
If you have an addiction that'spreventing you from reaching
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your goals, then attack thataddiction, attack it hard.
Realize that it's okay to beweak but it's okay to ask for
help, but it's not okay to notask for help when you need it.
So that is part of that mentalmakeup that we talked about.
If you're not in a situation tobe successful, again,
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unfinished business is aboutcreating a path of being
successful from zero to 100.
For example, I struggled earlyin life trying, trying to find
where I stood in the world.
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I did a lot of different jobs.
Starting out, I did things thatyou would be shocked to hear
now that I have a PhD, now thatI'm a doctor in management.
I started out by doing somecrazy, crazy sort of jobs and
then I did pretty mucheverything, from being a busboy
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I started out with a newspaperroute.
I was a cook.
I did all sorts of differentjobs delivery jobs, logistics,
transportation, logistics,transportation all of that was
now I'm in management, and everysingle thing, every single job.
I learned from it.
I took away something.
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I made a lot of mistakes.
I really shot myself in thefoot sometimes, but guess what?
It's okay if you learn from itand you suffer the consequences
of it.
It ultimately makes you abetter person, a better and more
productive employee, and ithelps you get to the point where
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you can be successful inreaching your goals.
As we talked about, you've gotto have the basic necessity of
life, you have to have shelter,you have to have love, you have
to have the basic necessity oflife, you have to have shelter,
you have to have love, you haveto have the feeling of
belongingness.
These are part of the importantaspects of reaching to the
level of where you finally madeit, where you finally got over
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the top and you feel like I'vereached the goal, I've reached
my successful nature that Iwanted and that, right there,
part of Maslow's hierarchy ofneeds, is known as
self-actualization.
Self-actualization is where,all of a sudden, you go, wow, I
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did it.
And for me, it took me 42 yearsto reach that aspect.
And I did it where a time whereeverything was it happened at
the same time in my life.
That year was 2016.
My degree, my doctorate degree,was conferred about one and a
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half months after my son wasborn.
So the two out of the threemost happiest things in my life
happened within two months.
And then the other happy momentwas when I was married and
those things right there waspart of what helped me realize
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that there's not a lot of greatthings after that that I'm going
to look forward to, that aregoing to top that.
But here's the important part aswe talk about reaching our
goals, when you do reach thatunfinished goal that you want so
bad and you take that deepbreath and go I did it.
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I made it.
I couldn't be happier.
Don't let yourself getcomplacent.
There's other unfinishedbusiness that needs to be done.
You just may not know what itis yet.
That needs to be done.
You just may not know what itis yet.
And one of the things they sayto living a long, prosperous,
healthy life those that havereached 100 years of age,
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besides having great genes.
One of the things they say isdon't stop working, don't let
your mind stop wanting toimprove and you think about that
.
You might hear a lot of storieswhere people have retired and
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they didn't live much longer andit's really sad, but part of
that can be due to not gettingto where they continue to work,
they retired, they didn't doanything and guess what?
Just like physical exercise isimportant, so is mental exercise
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is part of the process ofgetting to the part where we can
finish the goals that we setout for ourselves.
And that leads to the otherpart.
We've already talked aboutmaking sure you have the mental
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makeup having the right sleep,having the right food, having
the ability to be in a safeplace, addiction free and
ability to move forward in yourlife.
If the timing is not right,that's okay.
Take care of those other thingsthat are holding you back, but
when the time does get right,make sure you keep set on the
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goals that you want.
And we talked about unfinishedbusiness today.
I want everybody to think aboutthat for a second.
You mentioned earlier whatmaybe one or two of the
unfinished goals that you wouldlike to meet, either this year,
next year or within yourlifetime.
Think about those.
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We have one life to live.
When our day of calling comes,are you going to have one regret
in your life that you didn't dosomething?
My one regret for sure wouldhave been not finishing my PhD
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and not having a family.
Those are the two things that Iwould have really kicked myself
not having, before my day comes, to answer the bell, whatever
yours may be.
Some you have control of, someyou don't, as I always like to
say, control the controllables.
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If there is something that youcannot do as a Gen Z and
millennials, don't focus on it.
We do have limitations in life.
So don't get me wrong, we dohave limitations.
We all cannot be rocketscientists.
Why?
Because our minds don't worklike that.
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We have to take the skill setsthat each and every single one
of us has and maximize that toolset with the ability that we
have to match the skill set, thedesire, the focus, the
motivation.
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The skill set, the desire, thefocus, the motivation.
If you need a motivating type ofindividual to motivate you, I
want to be that person.
If it's music that motivatesyou, then listen to some music
that really gets you going.
Maybe it's the Rocky type oftheme music Eye of the Tiger.
Where is the Eye of the Tigerin you that wants you to get to
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the finish line?
Well, listen to that calling,listen to that motivation.
And we've talked before.
The one thing I want you tofocus on is removing the
barriers.
If there are people in yourlife that say you can't do it,
you're not good enough.
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I need you to look long andhard at those people in your
life and either have a talk withthem and say this is what I
want, are you going to supportme?
Because, if you're not tosupport me, because if you're
not, then I'm going to findpeople and surround myself with
those people that have similargoals to help me reach my
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unfinished business goal.
Again, this motivational podcastis for Gen Z and Millennial
expert.
Excuse me, gen Z andMillennials podcast is for Gen Z
and millennial expert.
Excuse me, gen Z andmillennials.
I am Dr Jason Wiggins.
I am your Gen Z and millennialexpert and I am here to help you
any way I can.
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So I want to thank everybodyagain.
If you haven't had a chance,please look up and look out for
the next podcast, and I willalso be a guest on the Above the
Bar podcast, along with.
I'd like to thank Feedspot formaking us the number 12 most
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listened to millennial podcastin the world.
So I want to thank everybodyand I appreciate your continued
listenership.
Please continue to promote theworld.
So I want to thank everybodyand I appreciate your continued
listenership.
Please continue to promote thepodcast so we can continue to
spread the word about theimportance of Gen Z and
Millennials and how we can helpyou in your personal and
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professional life.
So, thank you, take care andcan't wait to talk to you later.
Bye, bye.
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