The Prepare For Awesome Podcast

Season 2 Episode 1

Nelson Mandela Said, 'There is no passion to be found in playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.'  And that is what Prepare for Awesome is all about.  Helping you to live the life you are capable of living.   In this episode of Prepare For Awesome, I share some ideas about imagination.  The fact is, you don't need more knowledge, wisdom or money.  You need more imagination.  Imagination can build a picture in your mind of a future that is much better than the present.  It can transport you further down the road to success than knowledge or wisdom ever can.   So don't ask for more knowledge, wisdom or money.  Ask of more imagination. COME SAY HI!  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/professional-speaker-vic-williams-changeleadership [https://www.linkedin.com/in/professional-speaker-vic-williams-changeleadership] Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/prepareforawesome/ [https://www.instagram.com/prepareforawesome/] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vicwilliams11 [https://www.facebook.com/vicwilliams11]

Prepare for Awesome 031 - #8 in the most common rules to be awesome is to live your dream and follow your passion

Does living your dream really mean you need to drop everything and run off to a Caribbean island and sail wealthy pensioners around for the rest of your days while sipping cocktails every evening and being free from modern life? Does not knowing what your passion is specifically mean that you have some kind of deficiency in your life? Or is it just all a load of rubbish at worst and hype at best? On today's show, I want to talk with you about rule number 8 in being awesome everyday and that is to 'Live your Dream and Follow your Passion. In other words, to live a life worth living. Let me begin by dispelling a few myths.   Most motivational speakers, coaches, guru's of one sort or another, will encourage you to find and follow your passion, which in and of it's self is a good thing.  But its easy, they will say to you.  It's natural.  You will know in your heart what you are passionate about.   And if you don't know what that thing which is supposedly in your heart, your mind, your souls or some other part of your body, is you feel like a failure. The fact is that finding and knowing your passion is not necessarily easy to do nor is it the only thing you will ever do in your life.  Following it, is even more difficult. Episode 31 Show Notes:

PFA 030: #7 in the most common rules to be awesome is to be self-aware

What is self awareness and why is it important?  From the ancient Greeks to western psychology, the topic of self awareness has been a subject of intrigue and inquiry, particularly in the last century or so. But what is it and why is it important to you? Over the past few week, we have been speaking about  the 11 Most Common Rules to be Awesome Everyday and on today's show, I want to chat with you about number 7 and that is self-awareness. Now as I said at the top of the show, it is a topic which has been researched, inquired about and studied by philosophers, psychologists and other scientists for hundreds of years, but it's study has grown particularly in the past 100 years or so. Way back in the day, some of the Ancient Greeks followed the philosophy of know thyself.  Socrates and Plato, in particular, used the maxim extensively with Socrates teaching that 'the unexamined life is not worth living.' Benjamim Franklin wrote how difficult a task it is when he wrote in his 'Poor Richards Almanack', 'There are 3 things extremely hard, steel, a diamond and to know one's self.' And Stephen Covey wrote, 'Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions and our habits and tendencies.' So as far back as I can find, people have been trying to understand themselves and that essentially is what self-awareness is. Episode 30 Show Notes:

PFA 029: #6 in the most common rules to be awesome is to work hard and work smart

On today's show, we will be talking about the 6th rule in the most common rules to be awesome everyday and that is to work hard and smart. So over the past few weeks, I have covered 5 of these rules and I have had some great feed back from listeners, so please send me your comments on email.   So the 5 rules we have spoken about so far are: Firstly mindset.  There we chatted about changing from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset.  That was back in episode 19.  The second of these rules we spoke about was that you should set the standard you will live by.  It is not other peoples right or responsibility to set your standards.  If you want to be the best you possibly can be, you must set your own standards. In episode 23, we chatted about ignoring the little men and women who try to hold you back from becoming all you can become and in the next session we spoke about rule number 4 and that is respecting the efforts of other people. And then in episodes 26 and 27 we spoke about failure.  What is its and how you can overcome it. So today I want to chat with you about the next of these rules and as I said earlier, that is working both hard and smart. Episode 29 Show notes: http://vicwilliams.net/6-in-the-most-common-rules-to-be-awesome-is-to-work-hard-and-work-smart/ #PrepareForAwesome #Rules #WorkHard #WorkSmart

PFA 028: Nothing lives forever except death

On today's show, I'm not getting into that discussion, but rather we will be talking about the idea that nothing is permanent.  Not Y2K, not 1999 or 2000.  Not fear, failure, success.  Nothing lasts forever, except the is death. Now I know that are some people who will think I am being callous, but I'm not.  Let make it a bit clearer.  No words, attitudes, circumstances are permanent or last for ever. A Greek philosopher once said 'No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he is not the same man.' You see everything in life, from attitudes and actions, to the weather and circumstances are in constant motion.  People change their minds.  Governments change laws.  The wind changes direction.  Companies changes managers. All day every day, everything is changing. Now some people will say that it is scary to think like that, but for me it is empowering, because nothing is permanent.   You see if you think of it as scary, you may think there is nothing to live for, but if you think it is empowering, you know life is for living and that becomes exciting. What do I mean? Episode 28 Show Notes:   http://vicwilliams.net/nothing-lasts-for-ever-except-death/