Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life – In Just 7 Minutes with Laura Gassner Otting
Marketing The Invisible - A podcast by Tom Poland
Learn how to ditch other people’s comments and prioritize what’s good for YOU Understand why it is important to be confident and its relation to being competent Discover what are the four important things you need to think about and prioritize first Resources/Links: Wanting to Find Out How to Break the Boundaries and Become Limitless? Learn more about how you can live the life that YOU want instead of what others want: www.myfourquestions.com Summary Have you always been listening to what other people want for you instead of listening to your inner voice and heart? Are you constantly tired of trying to live up to other people’s expectations of you? Do you want to know the four powerful things you need to think about and prioritize to unlock the door to living freely? Laura Gassner Otting speaks with change agents, entrepreneurs, investors, leaders, and donors to get them past the doubt and indecision that consign their great ideas to limbo. She delivers strategic thinking and well-honed wisdom informed by decades of navigating change across the star-up, nonprofit, political, and philanthropic landscapes. In this episode, Laura talks about the key to unlocking the life of your dreams without other people’s comments, negativity, and dictation. She also shares her key tips on how you can carve your own path to build the life, self, and business you’ve always wanted. Check out these episode highlights: 01:22 - Laura’s ideal client: “My ideal clients are people who are entrepreneurs. They're either working for themselves or intrapreneurs, inside of organizations helping other people claim their dreams.” 01:35 - Problem Laura helps solve: “The problem I solve is helping people get unstuck. So we are all pursuing this idea of success that has been written for us by somebody else. This whole long list was handed to us by a guidance counselor or a career counselor at some point, telling us what success.” 02:08 - Typical symptoms that clients do before reaching out to Laura: “The people who experience this problem are the ones that got a checklist when they were 16, 17, 18 years old that said, "A good job". What makes a good job good?” 03:03 - Common mistakes that people make before they find Laura’s solution: “I think some of the common mistakes they make is being all things to all people all the time. They say yes to everything. They try to solve all the problems, then all they end up doing is solving their own ego's need to help.” 05:11 - Laura’s Valuable Free Action (VFA): “My top tip is to stop defining success, as it has been handed to us externally, but to start thinking about it in terms of four different things: calling, connection, contribution, and control.” 07:04 - Laura’s Valuable Free Resource (VFR): Check out Laura’s Website: www.myfourquestions.com 07:36 - Q: Does everybody need all four of these things? A: The answer is no. The answer is you only need as much of each of them as you need. And at different ages, in different life stages, it's going to be different. Tweetable Takeaways from this Episode: “Failure is not the finale. It's a fulcrum. It's where we learn and we grow. We innovate and we change.” -Laura Gassner OttingClick To Tweet Transcript (Note, this was transcribed using a transcription software and may not reflect the exact words used in the podcast) Tom Poland 00:10 Greetings, everyone,