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Speaker: The Voice of Growth, mastering the mind and market. Timeless wisdom, proven strategies, and the deep work that creates lasting success. Like and subscribe to stay aligned with what truly drives results.
Speaker: Welcome to the Voice of Growth podcast, mastering the mind and market. My name is Manny Turan and I'm your host. Are you feeling stuck in this world?
Speaker: This world of chaos, this world of war, this world of political strife and corruption, this world where there's poison in the air, poison in the water, we have AI coming to get us.
Speaker: We are connected in ways we've never been connected, but at the same time, we're facing a loneliness epidemic. This is the modern condition where we are over-informed, we are under-directed, we are constantly connected, but rarely focused.
Speaker: When everything feels important, nothing seems actionable. We feel stuck. We feel we don't know what to do. I've got four things to share with you today that that are going to help you break through this and give you peace, give you a sense of purpose, and mute all the madness that surrounds you.
Speaker: Imagine if Marcus Aurelius was brought back to life and sat in this chair as a podcast host. What would he say about wars, political corruption, famine, disease, economic strife, all these impending issues?
Speaker: He would say, welcome to Rome on a Tuesday morning. The thing is, is that as emperor of the Roman empire, he dealt with so many issues.
Speaker: And the crazy thing is the world has always been unstable. The world has always been faced with massive, massive issues. We living in the 21st century have this amazing opportunity to not have to live in with people dying around us because they can't eat or that people are dying everywhere because of disease.
Speaker: We have running water. We have hot water. We live better than many of the monarchs did for the entirety of the human existence. In any small town in America, any small town in Italy, people live better than the elites did back in the day.
Speaker: Because we have penicillin, we have science, we have medicine, we have information. But all these things, as amazing as they are, can also consume us, can also provide and give this giant heavy blanket that we feel sometimes suffocated by.
Speaker: The thing is, there was never a perfect time. We have this fallacy that, well, back in the day, back in the 50s, back in the whatever it is, that it was better than it is today. The thing is, is Rome, the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution today, it's all the same.
Speaker: Every generation believes that it's witnessing The end. Here it comes, World War I. Here it comes, World War Here it comes, the computer, the internet, whatever it is, there's always some impending madness. And we've talked about AI in the past. We brought in experts. And we understand that now this is a different thing, but it's kind of the same.
Speaker: So the great mistake that we deal with is that awareness does not mean action. We read things online, in the news, social media. There's thousands upon thousands of influencers telling us this is good, this is good.
Speaker: Carnivore diet is the way to go. oh no, you gotta to go vegan. Oh, no, we've got this. Oh, we've got GMO stuff. We have all these things. And frankly, it becomes so much garbage that you don't know what to latch onto.
Speaker: So we have all this idea of awareness. We're aware of the way things operate. And on this side, we have action. What do you do?
Speaker: Because now you know these things. And there is a disconnect. So are we building? Are we creating? Are we serving? we creating? Or are we stuck because of information? Are we stuck because that information is coming to our minds, through our ears, through our eyes, through some means, and it's being processed, and then it stops.
Speaker: It doesn't go past that. We feel stuck in our indecision. Information has become a substitute for action. We consume stuff online and we feel that we know things, but it doesn't result in anything in our lives except for stress.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: I'm bringing this to the table because people that I know around me have been stifled and have been frozen because of this.
Speaker: They are sitting on a gold mine of opportunities, of so many crazy things, and there's a stagnation that came into being that when that coupled with their own mind caused them to freeze.
Speaker: This has happened to me too. When I've got had all these opportunities in front of me, I don't know what to do. but I have done a few things in my life in the past five years, eight years, that have helped me through this.
Speaker: So I coalesce this into four actionable things that you can do that will give you a sense of peace, turn down the volume of the noise all around you, make blurry that vivid chaos that we live in so that you can focus on joy, focus on your task at hand and live a life that is filled with a little bit more peace so that you're not in a frenzy all the time.
Speaker: The first thing to do is to shrink your world. Shrink it. Here's the problem. Human beings with our 350,000-year-old operating system have a hard time with big villages.
Speaker: We were designed, we have this mind that is cool with maybe a couple hundred people in your village. Maybe 300, 800, tops.
Speaker: problem is now that we're surrounded by thousands upon tens upon millions of people that we get isolated by the population.
Speaker: We see things online. These so-called experts are telling us things. Me right now telling you things. And I'm asking you to think, let it come in, let it settle, let it bounce around.
Speaker: And as I mentioned earlier, by shrinking your world, what you're doing is you're focusing on what you can control. First thing you can control, the most of, by the way, is your mindset right here.
Speaker: The second thing you can control is what comes out of your mouth. By the way, this is also has to do with self-talk. Anytime you sit you say, damn, I'm stupid, damn this and that, you're actually beating yourself down.
Speaker: A third thing you can control is your health. What are you putting in your body? What are you eating? What are you consuming? Fourth thing is discipline. What are you doing with your body? Are you moving it? Are you walking? Are you exercising? Are you lifting weights? What's happening there?
Speaker: And all that also is sleep. How are you sleeping? Are you scrolling until two minutes before you go to bed? I am actually struggling with that today to be vulnerable.
Speaker: I have tried putting it in another room, doesn't work. I have tried to separate and give more time before I go to bed, I'm working on it. But the number one thing is make your world smaller.
Speaker: Focus less on consuming what's coming from your your social media feed and focus more on what you're consuming with your eyes the beauty outside.
Speaker: We've talked about stillness and being able to just sit down and absorb and enjoy a meal. This morning, i had a wonderful breakfast at this restaurant and I fought the urge to take in my laptop.
Speaker: And, you know, I just said, I'm just going to leave it in there, in the car. I'm not going to take it down because I was going to some work in XYZ. Nope. And then when I sat down, I fought the urge to jump on my phone.
Speaker: said, you know what? I'm going to leave my phone right here and I'm just going to sit and enjoy and really be present. And I did. And it was amazing. It was amazing just to sit and do some people watching. When i ate my food, i enjoyed it, the presentation, the textures, and i was 100% present for that meal.
Speaker: And i try to do that more and more often. I ask you to do the same. And when you do that, you shrink your world. You make it right in front of you.
Speaker: That meal is your whole world. That car ride with the music off is your whole world. That sitting down and enjoying um just sitting, being for five minutes, that's it.
Speaker: When you read a book, yeah, you're giving some of your attention to that book. When you're watching a movie, same thing. That's all that's all good too. but I'm saying make your world smaller so that you can then take a little bit of that stress off of your shoulders.
Speaker: Action number two, build instead of consume. As human beings, we have a disproportionate amount of what what is in here is pre-wired to build, to create.
Speaker: If you don't think you're creative, bull, you are. Because creative, create is part of that word. You create. You create your own reality through your mindset. Everything that comes in through your eyes, through your senses, and is processed has a piece of what you create in it.
Speaker: And that creation could be, i think for me, it's this podcast. For me, it's my wonderful garden outside, my beautiful landscaping, or it's the RV ah podcast studio, or it is content I create for you, for me.
Speaker: The thing is that when we create for ourselves, when we create the whatever that is for you, the project, the the hobby, then that gives peace to you and gives you the ability to then create for others.
Speaker: If you're able to create a business to hone your skills, to create a healthy body, to create a happy family, focus on creation rather than consuming.
Speaker: When you consume information, when you take stuff from people, you are basically making you the center stage. When you create from you, you're you're giving that to that small world I just talked about earlier, when you shrink your world.
Speaker: When you have time with your family, when you enjoy time in your community, when you go to a party, when you go and sit at a restaurant, all these things have ah an element of creation.
Speaker: I love to cook. I love to cook. We were watching the the World Cup the other day. on a random Tuesday night and I whipped up this massive meal for my friends and they were like, what, what is all this? And I said, this is just a Tuesday afternoon for me. I just, i love doing it.
Speaker: And now I've got leftovers and all that. It's great. So I, by doing so, it gives me pleasure. It's a lot of work, but in that work, I find satisfaction and creation is the antidote to despair.
Speaker: goes back to my grandmother, what she said in the past. When you are depressed, when you feel um anxiety, when you have feel despair, you go out and move.
Speaker: Well, what she's really saying is you go out and you create. Well, how is raking or how is sweeping or how is cleaning creation? Well, it's creating a more beautiful, more more clean environment.
Speaker: It's creating peace in your life because I guarantee you walk into a clean house You crawl into some clean sheets, you put on some clean, fresh, nice looking clothes, it changes your mindset.
Speaker: There's no doubt. There is scores of data to support this. Try it out. Go out there, buy yourself a new wardrobe, have your car cleaned, groom in some different or special way,
Speaker: get some jewelry, whatever fills you that part of you, when you walk out of that salon, when you walk out of that store, you're standing a little straighter. When you get in that car after it's been freshly detailed, man, you are the top of the world.
Speaker: It makes all sense. Create is a superpower. Number three, train for the future you.
Speaker: Now that future you is tied to fear. a lot of times we're afraid of what's coming in the future. AI is coming for my job. My boss is out to is out to get me.
Speaker: I might lose my job. I might get sick. I might this, I might that. Well, all these mights might happen. We're all gonna die. We've talked about that, memento mori.
Speaker: So then instead focus on training the future you. If you're coming from a long line of heart disease in your family, you better train for the future you of eating the right food that suits your your condition ah by training your body so that you're you're supple and you have a strong cardiovascular system.
Speaker: If you're afraid of AI taking your job, Double down, triple down on AI and become an expert at AI so that, like I've said many times before, AI will not take your job.
Speaker: But somebody that knows AI will. Be that person instead. Be the person that's gonna take jobs because you know AI. It sounds very self-centered, but it's about preservation.
Speaker: It's about giving that attention back to your world rather than focus on the outside world.
Speaker: Learn, adapt, prepare. Magic words. It's really important you focus on training for the future you. Fourth thing is become locally significant.
Speaker: What I mean to say by this is you are the lead actor of your own beautiful movie, your own story.
Speaker: Make that even stronger. Become so relevant in your circle, so significant, that it pushes and it calms the noise down of all the talking heads on social media.
Speaker: It makes you feel and it actually gives you power by becoming significant in your own circles. Start with your family.
Speaker: Have conversations with your family that are maybe different than they have been in the past. We have a tendency to fall into that rut of doing things sort of by pattern.
Speaker: Break the pattern. Ask your kids about something that is random. What do you think about this politician? What do you think about this car? What do you think about this country? What do you think about the World Cup?
Speaker: Break break the the stereotypes, whatever you have already in a groove, get out of it. And by doing so, you become more interesting to them and they become more interesting to you because they're sharing something new that you may not have known about.
Speaker: So that significance begins to strengthen. From your family, expand outwards to your friends. Same thing. Friends that you normally do one thing with, say, hey, why don't we try something else?
Speaker: Hey, I know that we're all so always going to this a beer thing. Why don't we go for a hike instead? Or if you have business associates that you're constantly talking about a certain thing, break it up, break the mold.
Speaker: You're becoming more significant with these people, which I guarantee will quiet the noise of the chaos because your attention is going to be focused on your small world, on your small village,
Speaker: And it's not, small does not mean insignificant. It just means proximity. So that meaning is found in proximity. And the more attention you can give and provide for those around you, the more significant you can be among those, the less the world of chaos will affect you.
Speaker: Very powerful tool. To summarize, As humans, we adapt. We must adapt. We have survived wars, plagues, depressions, technological revolutions, and we're here today.
Speaker: You're here today consuming this podcast, and I'm so happy that you are. You are gaining some level of insight from this podcast. And that gives me so much joy because I know that I have been touched by social media people, by people on the street, by people I was sat next to on an airplane, by random insights popping in my head when I'm taking um a bike ride or a hike.
Speaker: All these things are part of this beautiful human condition. The question is not whether the world changes. The question is whether you change.
Speaker: And that change is about adaptation. That change is about peace. That change is about significance and power and above all, living in a stoic lifestyle so that you as a business leader can contribute more to your community.
Speaker: The real fear isn't AI. It's not politics. It's not war. It's not disease. The real fear is irrelevance. I've mentioned in the past of my 94-year-old grandmother was talking to me about a lot of her friends dying around her and about her my grandfather passing a number of years ago and all these things.
Speaker: And she mentioned her fear was to become irrelevant. And that she was becoming slowly irrelevant year by year. And her wisdom was to keep on creating, to keep on doing.
Speaker: She's 94 and she still makes food for all kinds of people all the time. That's her way working. mindfulness. That's a way of creation.
Speaker: So build anyway, lead anyway, grow anywhere, anyway, you can control what you do in your day and whether not significance or relevance is at the forefront.
Speaker: If you create, you're giving back to the world. You're providing your beautiful gift to the world. And that needs to be part of what you do.
Speaker: The world is full of chaos. Create order by creating peace in your own circle, with your own tribe.
Speaker: Thanks for listening. Cheers.
