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Simple Step: Just A Little
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When you're uncommon in the little things, you'll often find that it spreads easily, impacting not only you but those around you.
In this simple step episode, we're talking about encouraging others, relieving yourself of being the person that has to teach the world a lesson, and having some patience and grace for folks (even if they stink at the first two things in this list).
What are some uncommon ways you can impact the world around you just a little bit today?
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Introduction to Uncommon Wealth Podcast
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Everyone dreams of living an uncommon life and the best asset you have to achieve your dreams is you. Welcome to the Uncommon Wealth Podcast. We're going to introduce you to people who are living uncommonly. We're also going to give you some tools and strategies for building wealth and for pursuing an uncommon path that is uniquely right for you.
Encouraging Others with Uncommon Qualities
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Hello, everybody. You were listening to Uncomma Wealth Podcast. I'm your host, Phillip Ramsey. And I'm Aaron Kramer. Coming at you with a simple step. Today, we're going to be talking about something that I'm kind of hyped up on right now. And it's the simple things that you can do to share your uncommon with other people. Let's replace uncommon. Simple ways that you can encourage other people. At the end of the day, I feel like there's a lot of people
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that are hurting and struggling and small gestures go a long ways. So this is why I'm hyped
Learning from Missed Opportunities to Encourage
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up on it. So my son, love the guy. Uh, he's my oldest son, but my middle child, he's doing this football thing. And in that he had to go door to door and give them these like little coupons or try to sell these coupons. Okay. One door to door sucks.
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But he was kind of hyped up on it because you can get a backpack, you know? Okay, I'm going to get a backpack. So he was like, I'm going out. I'm going to knock on doors. Okay. The first one that he went to is my neighbor. My neighbor said, interrupted him, not interested and slammed the door in his face. Oh, snap. Right. He was devastated. Like he came back, he's like, I can't do that. I haven't talked to my neighbor, but you better believe I'm going to. Yeah. Here's my, I haven't figured out maybe if we have bonus time, I'll tell you how I think I'm going to address it.
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My neighbor missed an opportunity. He missed an opportunity to encourage my son. And I don't think that he needed to buy anything, but he could have done it in an encouraging way. And this is what
Impact of Small Gestures
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I'm saying. I think I missed many opportunities to just try to impact somebody in a very unique way that's lasting and that's encouraging.
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And so my strong advice is to use these small opportunities, keep your eyes open, keep your head on a swivel, because people are hurting and it doesn't take much. It might just be a smile and like, hey, how's your day going? If you don't know them or hey, it looks like you're busy when you're at the fast food joint and there's people over and you can tell she's stressed, you're doing a great job. You know, like small things like that. But
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I somehow wanna implore our listeners to use these things as opportunities to make a big impact by doing something very small. That's my small step.
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It's encouragement for me. And I know like lately I've been beating myself up cause we always walk away from a situation or somebody just served you at your table or did something for you. He said, thanks, but I actually meant a lot more than just the thanks, you know? And then stop and be like, Hey, no, I truly appreciated everything you did for me today. Truly. Like I've done this before and I've even put in our newsletter as a challenge, but when you get your,
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or check or whatever, you know, you pay and then you get to the receipt. I'll 80% of the time flip it over and write a quick note. Like, hey, great service. Thanks for, you know, I'll give him a nice tip, but I'll also leave a note. And that note, I remember getting that note when I was a server and it was like, huh? Like there was, they just went a little step further and made my day. Like it always made my day. So let's go. I think that's great. Or like, you know,
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You're at the, you're checking out at the grocery store and they all have their name tags on. Yup. Say their name. It's great in their name. Bob. Yes. Have an amazing day, Bob. You like my day better. You know what you'll notice. And I'm telling you, you're going to like, they're going to be taken back. Like, how do they know my name? Oh, it's on my name back. You know, like, cause not anybody does. It's like your means to an end. Let's move on. And I'm not even telling you to do anything like outrageous of like, Hey, I'm going to pay for that guy's
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coffee. You don't even do that. Small things of like, oh,
Handling Situations with Grace
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are you ready for this? This is hilarious. I was driving away from Main Street Cafe, which is a stoplight. I get bumped in the back, like bunk, like, oh, somebody just hit me. She totally had her cell phone out, whatever. She was like, oh, I'm sorry. I was trying to drink coffee. She was mortified. So she follows me and I pull over to a parking lot.
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And she's like, I am so sorry. And I'm like, listen, my car has already got a whole bunch of scrapes. It's fine. Have a great day. She's like, I'm giving you my phone number. And if you find any scratches or anything, I don't see any, but text me or reach out, which I thought was really nice. 30 minutes later, I get home and I text her. I was like, hey, have a great day.
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I'm throwing your contact information away. Like, you know, like, I'm not going to be reaching out to you. Like, it was just something of like, there was an opportunity to like make somebody's day. Now, if there was a scratch, I don't even know what I would do because it's not a big deal. But so like things like that, why don't we try to make our natural bend to do something uncommon and like encouraging?
Addressing Discouraging Behavior
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So going back to my neighbor.
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I think the way that I'm going to bring it up is like, so hey, like didn't want the, didn't want the old $20 coupon, huh? And I'm, I'm excited for him and see what he says, because I'm going to say, Hey, from my son's perspective, you interrupted him and shut the, his shut the door in your face. And I have a feeling, I know the guy a little bit. He might be like, well, he needs to get used to it because that's what life is. And he does, but you don't have to be the one to inflict it.
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Does that make sense? So like, you need to challenge yourself in order to be encouraging, even if you're not encouraging. And what I am asking my neighbor to do and myself is the person that probably benefits the most will be him or will be me, the person that just extends grace or extends this like intentionality to be encouraging to somebody. It's encouraging to me.
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So that's my simple step. Yeah. Cause that's my thing. Like get like, I think it's with your neighbor hearing about that. It's like, it's like, get out of your own way. Yes. Right. Like make sure you like to be a simple step of like being uncommon, stop to think, don't the first person you think about, should it be yourself? Like, Oh my gosh, you're interrupting 30 seconds out of my day. Like, Oh my gosh, I had to walk to my front door. It's like,
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Like, shut up. Yes. Like, take 30 seconds. I do this because, like, you know, it's been like I had to go ask and we get told no a lot, you know, especially in the beginning of a career. Anytime they answer like someone knocks at my door, guarantee you I'm not buying nothing. Right. No, but but I'll talk to you. But yeah, I'll talk to you and what you'll hear is I do.
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Good job on knocking on doors. Yes. Yes. And you're getting those and you're getting a note from me and I'm really sorry, but like, keep it up. You were going to kill it at something in life. Right. Okay. So now I'm like replaying this. I think if I would, if I do talk to my neighbor, I'm just going to be like, Hey man, like it just kind of was disheartening to Beckham, but I'm sure you're having a rough day. Like I get it. But anyway, so that's like, I need to extend grace to him too.
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I mean, to me, I don't have a little backhand. They're like, I am so sorry. You're having such a bad day. That's 60 seconds out of your day. It was you over the edge, you know, like, let me know if you're having another day like that so I can help. Yeah, that's good. That's not like I ruined a little kid's day. It wasn't ideal. You know, like it's I mean, that's going to be lasting for Beckham forever. Like I don't want to do that again. Like I don't and I get it. OK, so this is way more than five minutes. Sorry.
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But I feel like this is a simple step that I get high up on because it's so, it doesn't take that much effort to really impact somebody's day. And you never know what their day's like. Like they could just be in a bad place.
Call to Action: Share Encouragement
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So anyway, I want our listeners to not only be uncommon, but I want them to share that uncommon and I want them to start encouraging other people because there's opportunities upon opportunities for you to do.
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You've been listening to the Uncommon Wealth Podcast. I've been your host, Philip Ramsey. And I'm Aaron Kramer. Until next time, go be uncommon and share your uncommon. Share some love. Love it. That's all for this episode brought to you by Uncommon Wealth Partners. Be sure to visit uncommonwealth.com to learn more about our services. Don't miss an episode as we introduce you to inspiring people who are actively pursuing an uncommon life.