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Hey guys, welcome back to the show. This is Ted your host speaking. And today we have a very interesting topic, which is about overcoming mental blocks. As an entrepreneur. You know, everyone knows how hard it is to be an entrepreneur. It’s lonely is difficult, and it’s unpredictable. So for today’s episode, I’ve invited my friend Edward from dozo to share some of the tips on how we can overcome mental blocks as an entrepreneur, when as a serial entrepreneur award winning podcaster, and is the co founder and CEO of slingshot, VoIP. Edwin shares honestly, the challenges in mental space as an entrepreneur and the techniques that he has developed to help overcome them. In today’s episode, with actionable takeaways include why it’s important to consider time and costs when we’re setting our goals, the benefits of daily video journaling and his 100 day challenges. So my friends, if you’re facing a mental block, on your end, I just want you to know that you’re not alone in this, and it can happen to the best of us. But what is important is that we take control of these mental blocks, and we try our best to overcome them, and we don’t let them define us. So if you enjoyed today’s show, and you found the tips useful, why not share it with someone who may find it beneficial as well. Now, all updates, tools and resources are available on tattooer.com. That’s to.com. So feel free to log in for all the help that you need. And if you have the time, leaving a review on iTunes, Google podcasts, or Spotify in general would be a great help as well. Now as a way to say thank you and to show my appreciation to you guys, if you actually do subscribe and leave a review on Apple iTunes by the end of September, then you stand a chance to win $50 worth of gift vouchers from Amazon. Now let’s dive right in. I win. Thank you so much for joining us today. Ted. It’s such a pleasure. I’m excited to be here. Okay, well, I’m gonna start with a very simple icebreaker. Who is at when front doors Oh, when he is not working? Well,

 

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that’s a loaded question to that. And I like I like how you said when he is not working the best way I could describe myself and it’s sort of integrated. I would start by saying I am a five year old father. I am a seven year old husband, 16 year old entrepreneur, and 45 year old man.

 

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Now it will be I know you’re here today to share with us some techniques that you have developed that helped you overcome some mental blocks as an entrepreneur. But before we dive in, could you share with us what projects you’ve been working on over the years?

 

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Just to give you insight, I’ve done many, many things, many projects and i and i just i just love doing many things. Over the years. I’ve done many different projects, everything from doing startups like what what I’m in right now, doing marketing, consulting, doing professional services, everything from like, even doing installations, IT support, launched my own podcast, did some media work now and says, taught me something?

 

02:44

Yes, exactly. Now, I know you are running your own startup right now and is called slingshot VoIP. Could you share a little bit more about it and some of the challenges that you’re facing right now,

 

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slingshot is a traditional telecommunications service provider, we provide telecom services to businesses were a b2b. You know, with a lack of better term people understand SAS were a SaaS platform, but we provide traditional phone services over the internet. Biggest challenge there is resources. And, and time, right, because we are up against multinational incumbents that are in some countries, and I’m not sure in Singapore are sometimes government owned, here. So in Canada, you have little competition, you have these huge giants that are either from the incumbents or the government, or a big private company that is a media conglomerate, and in the States, it’s similar, right? So the biggest challenge is, is trying to decipher or distinguish yourself as a value it which value proposition we have. Maybe not in a feature per feature. But it’s like, you know, we are a small company that understands small business, and we work with you hand in hand where when you’re dealing with a multinational company, you’re just a number, you’re just a customer, you call a call, you know, a contact center, a call center, and you’re not doing that. But the challenge is, is getting you’re getting in front of the customers, right? So one of the reasons why I did the podcast was when I looked at my portfolio of customers at the time, I realized that my biggest customers that were paying me 1000 bucks a month at a time a month, were came to me by word of mouth.

 

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Wow, amazing. This is the best kind of marketing.

 

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Yeah, word of mouth marketing. People know me. They trust me.

 

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Yeah, it’s no surprise that word of mouth is do a very important way we can do in a business today. You know, I win. Thank you so much for sharing those stories, as with anything in life, especially in entrepreneurship, they are the highs and lows. Could you share with us maybe what happened on your end that you develop the techniques that you are going to share today?

 

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Yeah, for sure. I mean, it’s, you know, talking about COVID everyone in the world could relate and share Some type of anxiety, or something that they were challenged with, and whether they looked at as an opportunity to reset, pivot or to wait back. But for me going into COVID, some of the dark times was already happening. Like I said, one of the challenges of being a bootstrap business was time and resources, it was tough. And then I launched a podcast was giving me a lot of energy and a lot of satisfaction, that I was creating impact. So I was already in this dark space in the sense that I was questioning. If I was doing the right thing, I was questioning leaving, slingshot exiting and maybe become a business coach and consultant, because at the time, three to three years, two years ago, I started surrounding myself with a lot of, you know, high performance consultants, and coaches, consultants, and I was really looking to them, I’m like, Man, these people are, you know, very idealistic. They are here to make impact and help people move. So I was thinking, Man, this is this is aspirational. Maybe I want to do this. And maybe I want to exit my business. So I was, before exiting, I was thinking, you know, I did myself a favor, to just, you know, talk to people in my network. And I ended up getting networked and people from competitors to see if they wanted to acquire me or talking to people who, you know, did billion dollar exits. And eventually, I got connected to someone in my industry, in my province, who came from a competitor, who built the sales organization within my competitor until they got acquired. So it was pretty amazing. What happened, but it took us a couple of months for us to like, finally say, yeah, Come in and join the company. And then COVID hit, so there was this excitement. And then COVID hit, so any plans and expectations that we thought was gonna happen, just kind of went down the drain. And then you add in COVID, were all of us had most of us in this world, if you’re younger than 50, probably never had any type of, depending on where you grew up, didn’t have any crises to deal with. And this was a global crisis, right? This is like a World War, right? So we’re all confused. And one, one, if you’re in the entrepreneurship space, and you’re listening to Ted, there, you know, one of the big buzzwords Ted, and I’m sure you could relate in entrepreneurship was, everyone was pivoting. If you’re an entrepreneur last year, you’re like, I got to, I got to stay positive, I got to see how I could turn this negative around and inspire people to keep moving and keep doing so I did the same thing. My business was like going down in the sense that we didn’t know what to do because no one was buying. So I started like doing national, I did a National Partnership with an organization to do a podcast mini series to talk talk to leaders how they are transitioning through this digital shift. I started joining a global startup to to help flatten the curve, if you remember that was a buzzword back last year to flatten the curve. And that was exciting. But all these projects were falling down by the wayside to at that in the sense that they ended or they ended badly or never moved forward. So I kept going to like this negative or like, oh, what am I doing? What

 

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am I searching for? I’m still looking or when you sounded like you were really lost during that period of time. How do you pull yourself out of it?

 

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So luckily enough, I was working with a coach at the time and I was doing the personal work personal development that to find out what really moved me and I was happy to find out when I did the work that I really liked doing many things I’m a multi passionate I’m I’m polymath I’m, I’m a renaissance man at the sense that I strive Ted on doing many things. So when I was in high school in grade school, my teachers always said Edwin’s board, he needs to be challenged. But then I went to Computer Engineering. And I was doing like six courses at a time all difficult from calculus to you know, chemistry. And when I figured out how to study and time manage, ay ay ay ay ay, ay ay ay ay plus my whole university degree. And then I came back to the workforce. And then it was just like doing one thing and I was bored until I became an entrepreneur. But yeah, last year, it was just, I was it seemingly, I was always searching for something that was completing me. And it was it was tough. I you know, I lost a lot of sleep. There’s a lot of anxiety until some of my you know some of my friends and my masterminds are like no Edwin, you got to stop looking. Everyone wants to work with you. You have it wrong. And when people want to work with you, you’re the person it’s not you looking for someone to complete. And that sort of brought me towards this this audacious goal, this realization to this mental block that it was holding me back. Whether I was worth That are not

 

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my friends. Now, this is one of the truths of entrepreneurship is not always the glamour that the media likes to portray. There are a lot of challenges. And there will be times when you doubt yourself. So when what do you do to help pull yourself out of this dark hole,

 

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there was a lot of practices that I had in place, Ted, that allowed me to navigate out of it. I mean, I was meditating a lot, I journal pretty religiously, in the sense that I do my morning pages, I run I’m an avid runner. So I had these practices in place that allowed me to stay in the positive, you know, in the positive sense, like in the positive scale. But having a support group and people that I could talk to all the time was really helpful to get me out of it. But getting to I guess, this, this where I am today. As I mentioned, I was last summer, I was really like looking for pivots, you know, slingshot was still there. And we were still trying to navigate what to do. But I was like, literally no, bad space, like the year before, like, what am I doing? This is not right. I don’t know what’s gonna happen. You know, but people, but I’m also realizing what my strengths are and who I am and what I love to do. So that was really enlightening. But I was still in this bad space. And then I, I was talking to a friend of mine, and he’s like, Edwin, you know, and I know we’re going to probably talk about this, but, you know, what do you need? What, what do you need to live this vision, you know, your dream life or your vision board? And it got me thinking, right. And that conversation was pivotal in the sense that in all the work I’ve been doing up until that point was was was exceptional, because he asked me a tough question. On one side, I had this realization that I love doing multiple things. And this person said to me, Edwin, What’s your dream life? And what would happen if you just focus on slingshot? And now I was even more confused, because I’m like, but I want to do many things. And he’s like, this guy’s known me three years. Now. He’s a high performance coach. And he’s like, Well, you know, think about it, right? And so I was confused. So I was just like, Okay, I got to think about it. And we were thinking about, we were talking about vision boards and dream lives, right. And he asked me, the question is like, well, this is an exercise, Ted that that I totally recommend people to do. He asked me, What is the cost of your dream life? You know, we all have vision boards, we all have a life that we aspire to. And if you do have the practice of a vision board, and we could get into, into into the purpose of the vision board, but if you do the practice of the vision board, where it’s to visualize something that you could move into, so it becomes real. That’s an exercise on its own. But the second, the secondary exercises was to put the cost on that exercise. What is the cost of the vision board to live the life that you that you really want? Right, but that in a spreadsheet?

 

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Dear listeners, I think there’s a very good point. Because a lot of times when we’re doing vision boards or setting goals, we don’t actually think about the cost that these goals may have, we start thinking of the cost behind the goals, it actually gives you a more honest and complete picture as to what you really are pursuing. So when What did your vision board look like? What would the cause behind these goals?

 

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When I did that vision boards, the original time when I did that exercise, I was actually surprised, and maybe underwhelmed that my vision was not as big as I thought it was. So it’s actually interesting, because you’re going to draw like, Oh, I want to do this, I want to have these, you know, things in life. And you’re like, Oh, that’s actually doable. You know, you might put up Oh, that’s, I need to make 20,000 a month, and that’s my dream life, like income. And I’m like, Oh, I’m not dreaming big enough for stuff. Like that’s, that’s not to say it’s easy to make $20,000 a month. But it’s, it’s, you know, as in I’m sure Ted like within your network and people you talk with people are making that already, right? It’s so it’s, it’s like it’s not like it’s unreachable, people are doing it all around us. And it’s may be first degree, it’s the people who are making like the 1 million a month or 10 million a month. That’s that’s, that’s that’s also doable. So when I did the vision board, and with the context of focusing on slingshot, I ended up getting ended up calculating to be like, I needed 98 i got i need to grow my business 98 times for my business to support my vision, in the sense that it’s going to Pay me. So I’m like 98, I’m going to, I’m going to see 100 exit, I’m going 100x my business. And September 22 was actually 100 days till the end of the year, I was so intrigued to declare to the world that I was going to 100x my business. But going into the weekend, I was scared, I was probably in the one of the darkest place anxious place I ever went into Ted. Because now I had this thought of, I’m going to 100x my business, or my goal is, is not even I’m going to my goal, or my target is 200x my business and I going into the weekend, Ted, I was like, it was scary. It was a dark, dark place. Like all these questions of like self worth, like who Edwin, who the heck do you think you are? to even think that you could 100x your business? So all these things like self worth? confidence? misbelief like, it was tough. But the difference this time, I think there’s two things that you know, I stuck with the feeling of this darkness through that weekend. Right. And, and I and I really prayed and and journaled and meditate, but I didn’t steer away from it. I lost a lot of sleep that weekend. But going into the week, as the weekend was ending my misbelief. And my doubts turned to belief. And I started to believe like, you know, and when the conversation started to change, I started like, Yeah, why not me? Why can’t that be me? Right. And one of the conversations that I had with my friend was that success is not linear. You know, we’ve all seen the means where it’s like, oh, this is your path to success. And really, the image I have is if you watch pro sports, I watch NBA basketball a lot. The conversation when success is actually linear in the sense that you’re going like this, you’re making you’re at a plateau. So if you’re an NBA, before, you’re the NBA player, you’re your amateur player and NCAA, you’re making zero, and then you get drafted and all of a sudden, you’re up, boom, $3 million. And if you’re good, and you’re an All Star, you 10x again, and you go to 30 million. So these are the steps, and it happens instantaneously. It doesn’t happen like this, you don’t go from zero to 3 million to 30 million. There’s actually a mindset shift that happens that you’re like, yeah, I’m gonna make that $3 million. It’s gonna happen, for sure. And then it happens, right, but that decision that it’s gonna happen happened way before they got the contract.

 

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So when it sounds like you took control of your mindset, so what happened at the end of the weekend,

 

17:46

I did a video to save my goals. And posted on YouTube, I’d never done anything like this before. I mean, I think I’ve done like small challenges, like I’m gonna run a marathon. I mean, don’t get me wrong, running a marathon is tough to, but I don’t think I’ve ever even declared it before running it. Yeah, so I put it out there Ted. And almost instantly when I released it to the world, something changed, something switched differently. And I it’s very hard to explain. But things started manifesting quickly. In my world. There were different conversations. There were different evidence that were pushing me towards this 100x life, people were showing up out of nowhere, and we’re talking about different things collaboration are happening. I was moving at a speed. I wouldn’t say speed. But I was moving with a different energy flow. Because I always hustled I’ve always been a hustler. I’ve always been good time management. But now it’s like I’m honed in now. And and it was it was pretty crazy that and I was so inspired, in the work that I was doing myself that I started doing a daily digital diary like a daily vlog. Because I want to capture myself doing this and sharing it because this is a audacious goal. And I wanted to like write about it one day or shared with my daughter, right, like, so I started doing these daily diaries. And you know, we talked about self worth and confidence. And one of the exercises that we’ve all heard about is, you know, affirmations and self talk. So what I didn’t realize and when I reflected back doing these daily digital diaries, Ted was actually a form of affirmations. It was a form of self talk because I was talking to no one at that time. I was recording it on my DSLR and then I had to actually edit it and then upload it was very tedious, but I did it because that was what I that was my intention, right. But, but I think two thirds of the way through Ted the my belief turned into conviction like I switched over to like, like, there was no one could question that I’m not gonna 100x said, like, I knew for sure, for certain I was gonna 100x my business, like day one, I had the confidence to say it and do it in the belief that I could do it. But of course, he’s still like, I’m just, I’m just nuts. But there’s, there’s this subtle change in conviction, where it’s like, No, I’m not going to do it, I am doing it. I am 100x and I became 100x. And I believe, you know, there was a point Ted, where I was questioning, like, Who the heck does these daily diaries saying they’re gonna 100x their business. And I think I caught myself journaling about this. And I’m like, the only person who’s gonna do the daily digital diary that they’re gonna 100x their business is actually the person who’s gonna 100x the business. No one else is gonna say this, there’s no one, no one’s gonna say this. So it’s, um, like, I am actually doing what someone who’s just gonna do it does

 

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is true when I actually watched the first video you posted on YouTube last September. And there’s a huge difference between that guy and the guy who’s speaking with me today, there is a really tangible difference between the energy and competence that you’re showing right now.

 

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I appreciate it. I mean, it’s, it’s funny that you say that, because sometimes, I haven’t done it in a month or so. But I would choose that with that, within that first 100 days, I would choose a random day, and I will look at it, I’ll watch myself. And it’s like time travel. Ted, a mean of photos could do that for us, too. But because I was in this certain journey, specific journey, I would transport myself back there and remember exactly what I was feeling, because I’m sharing it authentically, just to the camera, and no one’s watching. You know, I didn’t, you know, at the end of the day, I was sharing it for people. But it was more for me, it was a selfish thing. But I put it out there. And, and I look back and I’m and I say to myself, like I’m proud of you, Edwin for doing what you’re doing. Like, that’s not easy. putting yourself out there. That’s it scary.

 

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your listeners, I’m sure this is not the first time you’re hearing about the benefits of self affirmation is like when you’re struggling and you’re facing a mental block. If you’re having self doubt, or you’re questioning your self worth, for example, why not try what the wind is doing, give yourself some daily affirmation and see what happens. So what happened towards the end of the 100 days, not to go anti

 

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climatic around the 90th day or the 90%, I was almost done. I started to understand and realize that I’m not going to 100x my business, but I am in the business is moving in a way that it’s never moved before. And I realized that it was an audacious goal. But that audacious goal. What it accomplished was that I 100x my mindset, like there’s no way and something that you shared, what you see today, is without declaring this audacious goal with a certain time limit. I don’t think I mean, you, i, you and i would be talking right now. Like, it’s it’s a special, it’s a special thing. But, you know, I ended the 100 Day Happy. It’s not like I was sad that I didn’t hit this goal, you know, goals get you moving in the right direction. And then you’re allowed to pivot and change and do things. So, you know, the new year came Ted, and I had this time to reflect, because the 100 days is over. But before the 100 days is over, I had decided that I was going to do this 100 day thing, because there’s I felt that there’s something about this time limit this 100 day time limit. So I started, you know, strategizing how I would do it when I would do it again, how I would break up the year into three instead of quarters. And it turned out that the next 100 day that I decided that I would do would be January 23. So I had 22 days for reflection, for conversation for pivots, to see what aligns to see where I want to go and what makes sense.

 

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So after the first 100 Day Challenge, you give yourself 22 days to reflect. And then you pursued another 100 Day Challenge. What were your goals for the second 100 days? And how did they turn out

 

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what I declared there is that time I declared Okay, I’m not going to say I’m going 100 exit but I’m going to say I’m going to double our revenue. And we’re going to double our team size. I’m going to pitch a show to NPR and I’m going to start a daily video show because I was doing these daily video stuff. So these were like more. Actually there are a lot of goals. But they were not. I wouldn’t say they’re not audacious because some of them are still a reach but when I went into this 100 days with this with this process I was I was, you know, formulating and testing this this 100 day thing. And when the 100 days ended on April 30, when I looked back to the goals that I put out, I hit them all. It was it was maybe not exactly how I thought it would play out. But because I did it, and I had this timeframe, I was so surprised that I had everything I had intended to do. I mean, I we doubled our revenue, I didn’t double my team. But we brought on a full time person, which we haven’t done in a while, you know, our sales teams is growing, you know, we we’ve contracted different things out. I pitch I didn’t pitch NPR but I pitch clubhouse because they had an accelerator. So I did this whole pitch deck for a media a daily media show, which I ended up calling Flashpoint today. So I that was I was super proud of that work. And then I launched, I launched my twitch channel, which which I ended up moving my daily digital diaries to my twitch channel, and I launched a virtual cafe and Twitch. It was amazing. So things are moving. And I’m realizing that there’s something around the 100 days and goal setting

 

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your listeners as everyone should is the power to go setting. Yes, of course, you may not actually achieve every single goal that you set out to do. But the idea of setting a goal itself and committing to it sets you on the right path to achieve what you’re looking for. Anyway, let’s talk a little bit about accountability. How did you stay accountable to yourself and your goals? Did you find that the daily publication of your goals on social media help with the accountability aspect?

 

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Yeah, I mean, I, there’s something around it, there’s something around doing, you know, there’s an accountability part of it by me, posting it to the world, whether they do it, you know, whether someone would want to do it publicly or not, or within a closed group of people doing it. But I believe there’s something about having that accountability and maybe not thinking about the how the problem with a lot of people is we won’t we don’t start because we don’t know how things are going to happen. But you got to know your why and your what,

 

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when I fully agree, it’s kind of like riding a bicycle. No matter how much you read about, you can actually learn how to do it without actually getting your hands dirty. But if you have a strong one, and why as to why you want to do it, and you get down to actually trying and learning how to ride a bicycle, you will get it eventually. And that’s really how you can overcome a mental block, right? But if your mindset is that you are going to do it only when you know how to do it, then you’re never going to learn that skill.

 

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I love that because my daughter, we just take the training wheels off.

 

27:30

And it’s so true. Oh, congratulations. Now I when apart from posting your goals on social media, do you have any other tips on staying accountable?

 

27:38

Yeah, one of the main things that I have, and I’m blessed to have our mastermind groups, so a very safe space where I have friends and entrepreneurs who we meet either weekly or bi weekly, and we share our challenges, the goals, the things that we’re doing. I encourage it took me a long time. So I like I said, I’ve been an entrepreneur 16 years I knew of mastermind groups, maybe I would say almost even like eight years ago, but it took me about three to only about three or four years ago when I started getting invited to mastermind groups. But it was a game changer. It took me a while to understand how they work, and how to share. You know, the challenge you have authentically and and and but knowing it’s a safe space, but that that’s a game changer for me in the sense that I had a group that I could share challenges with because sometimes my partner may not know what you know, they support me she supports me, but she doesn’t know exactly the game because she’s you know, she’s, you know, she’s just she she just loves me and she’ll just support me but it’s hard to explain things. But that’s, that’s one thing. The second thing is, you know, having having a routine is huge for me like you know, my morning routine comes with prayer journaling, I went for a run today, that helps as well

 

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your listeners as Evan shared, joining a mastermind is a great way to stay accountable to yourself and your goals. Joining a mastermind is also a great way to get in contact with people who are on the same path and goals as you and you can provide each other with mutual support. Establishing a routine that works for you to pray to journal to meditate do exercise is also a great way to keep you mentally and emotionally on the right track. Now back to you at when after going through a few 100 day challenges. Do you feel better equipped mentally and emotionally to deal with the self doubt and the fears that you were facing before?

 

29:37

Yeah, what’s very interesting and that’s a great, that’s a great question. What’s interesting is the self doubt the anxiety. The bad times the bad thoughts, they always come you know that that that devil on your shoulder never disappears. But what I’ve noticed Ted is the strength And the conviction that I had is so much stronger now that I’m evil, I’m able to overcome them in, you know, in minutes or hours now like, I’m like, Oh my god, I feel bad bla bla bla, and then I just, and I just bounced back where, you know, yeah, like, whereas a year before or even longer, I may be in that bad mood or that bad state of mind much longer, you know, days, weeks, months, I’m sure there’s some people who might be related, right. But now I have this muscle and this purpose that I’m in this journey, this, this shared goal that I put out to the world. That gets me up and gets gets me up and excited and just just pumped, right. And I understand that, you know, the first audacious 100 days was tough and unrealistic. But I do believe the 100x is still gonna happen. I don’t know when anymore. Do I want to predict when I made though I don’t want to yet but I mean, I could predict in 100 day sprint, then, or maybe, well, we’re gonna double double our revenue this year, I’m gonna do this. And, you know, when I do the math, you know, 100 axing is doubling your business two times two times, it’s, I think it’s seven times. So it could happen in seven cycles. Or we know, let’s

 

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take some time to explore this a little bit. When you started the 100 Day Challenge. Did you see a difference in your company and your colleagues?

 

31:22

Yeah, I mean, I noticed. I mean, it’s interesting, because I’ve done almost 250 interviews for my podcast. And the company will always steer with the end inspired but by by the leaders, right. So the energy definitely shifted internally to what’s interesting is when I made the declaration to double x, within my 100 days, I didn’t even share that internally. I just, they saw it publicly. So I think ultimately, me being out there and drumming, the bead and putting this stuff is is is moving and inspiring people inside. And like I said, Our company is moving faster than I’ve ever seen it move in. And we’re still a small team.

 

32:08

That’s amazing. No, and when do you have any parting words before we go?

 

32:11

I mean, one thing I tell friends in entrepreneurs in my network when they’re really, you know, feeling lost or feeling stuck is something that I learned about two years ago is think about your 3030 year ago. So that’s audacious. You know, most most of us plan one year, maybe five year 10 years is even a stretch. But think about 30 years, where will you be in 30 years 30 year Edwin will be 75. When I’m 75 years old? What am I going to be super proud of about when I look back at the last 30 years? And that’s actually a scary question. Yeah, it really is to think about that, because that’s so far. It’s so you know, in this world of the internet and technology, we’re always thinking about, you know, the next thing, but 30 years, once you start framing that, visualizing that verbalizing what, Oh, you know what I want to have a foundation I want to have whatever it might take you out of that dark place that you’re struggling in and realize I have time. First off you have time, you know, and what you’re doing today, may or may not be the thing that needs to you to get to that 30 year goal. But it will put you out of that mindset, or that that frame frame frame of mind that you’re in, they’re like, Oh my gosh, why am I freaking out about this small thing that I won’t care about next year? Or I won’t care? I wouldn’t even remember about it in five years. Right? Like what’s bothering you, and what’s keeping you up at night. And, you know, if you’re if you’re really struggling, just just really think about the big picture. The really, really big picture and ask yourself, if I’m struggling on this is if I overcome this problem, this challenge, does it get me closer to that 30 year goal? And if it’s taking you off that 30 year goal, then you probably have to move off what you’re working on.

 

34:16

Thanks, Edwin. So how can someone get in touch review if you want to learn more about the 100 Day Challenge?

 

34:21

I mean, if you want to reach out to me I’m on Instagram Facebook everywhere at Edwin 100x you go to cafe 100 x.com there’s a link to my discord and I just I’m building I’m building out this 100x community within my Discord. Join me there I mean, if you want to send an email old school, Edwin at slingshot voice calm, but let’s chat Let’s hang out let’s 100 ex together.

 

34:42

And we thank you so much for joining us today. Such a pleasure to have you here sharing your insights and your Techniques To Overcome mental blocks. Guys, thank you so much for joining us today. You just heard from my friend Edwin for dozo on some of the tips that he has developed to overcome his own mental blocks as an entrepreneur. Now if you found it tips useful And you’re enjoying the show. It would be great if you could show your support by sharing the show with another entrepreneur who may find these tips useful as well. And don’t forget about the Amazon gift voucher giveaway. If you actually do subscribe and leave a review on Apple iTunes by the end of September, then you stand a chance to win $50 worth of gift vouchers from Amazon. That’s all for me today. I will see you next time. 

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Hey guys, welcome back to the show. This is Ted your host speaking. And today we have a very interesting topic, which is about overcoming mental blocks. As an entrepreneur. You know, everyone knows how hard it is to be an entrepreneur. It’s lonely is difficult, and it’s unpredictable. So for today’s episode, I’ve invited my friend Edward from dozo to share some of the tips on how we can overcome mental blocks as an entrepreneur, when as a serial entrepreneur award winning podcaster, and is the co founder and CEO of slingshot, VoIP. Edwin shares honestly, the challenges in mental space as an entrepreneur and the techniques that he has developed to help overcome them. In today’s episode, with actionable takeaways include why it’s important to consider time and costs when we’re setting our goals, the benefits of daily video journaling and his 100 day challenges. So my friends, if you’re facing a mental block, on your end, I just want you to know that you’re not alone in this, and it can happen to the best of us. But what is important is that we take control of these mental blocks, and we try our best to overcome them, and we don’t let them define us. So if you enjoyed today’s show, and you found the tips useful, why not share it with someone who may find it beneficial as well. Now, all updates, tools and resources are available on tattooer.com. That’s to.com. So feel free to log in for all the help that you need. And if you have the time, leaving a review on iTunes, Google podcasts, or Spotify in general would be a great help as well. Now as a way to say thank you and to show my appreciation to you guys, if you actually do subscribe and leave a review on Apple iTunes by the end of September, then you stand a chance to win $50 worth of gift vouchers from Amazon. Now let’s dive right in. I win. Thank you so much for joining us today. Ted. It’s such a pleasure. I’m excited to be here. Okay, well, I’m gonna start with a very simple icebreaker. Who is at when front doors Oh, when he is not working? Well,

 

01:46

that’s a loaded question to that. And I like I like how you said when he is not working the best way I could describe myself and it’s sort of integrated. I would start by saying I am a five year old father. I am a seven year old husband, 16 year old entrepreneur, and 45 year old man.

 

02:02

Now it will be I know you’re here today to share with us some techniques that you have developed that helped you overcome some mental blocks as an entrepreneur. But before we dive in, could you share with us what projects you’ve been working on over the years?

 

02:13

Just to give you insight, I’ve done many, many things, many projects and i and i just i just love doing many things. Over the years. I’ve done many different projects, everything from doing startups like what what I’m in right now, doing marketing, consulting, doing professional services, everything from like, even doing installations, IT support, launched my own podcast, did some media work now and says, taught me something?

 

02:44

Yes, exactly. Now, I know you are running your own startup right now and is called slingshot VoIP. Could you share a little bit more about it and some of the challenges that you’re facing right now,

 

02:53

slingshot is a traditional telecommunications service provider, we provide telecom services to businesses were a b2b. You know, with a lack of better term people understand SAS were a SaaS platform, but we provide traditional phone services over the internet. Biggest challenge there is resources. And, and time, right, because we are up against multinational incumbents that are in some countries, and I’m not sure in Singapore are sometimes government owned, here. So in Canada, you have little competition, you have these huge giants that are either from the incumbents or the government, or a big private company that is a media conglomerate, and in the States, it’s similar, right? So the biggest challenge is, is trying to decipher or distinguish yourself as a value it which value proposition we have. Maybe not in a feature per feature. But it’s like, you know, we are a small company that understands small business, and we work with you hand in hand where when you’re dealing with a multinational company, you’re just a number, you’re just a customer, you call a call, you know, a contact center, a call center, and you’re not doing that. But the challenge is, is getting you’re getting in front of the customers, right? So one of the reasons why I did the podcast was when I looked at my portfolio of customers at the time, I realized that my biggest customers that were paying me 1000 bucks a month at a time a month, were came to me by word of mouth.

 

04:26

Wow, amazing. This is the best kind of marketing.

 

04:29

Yeah, word of mouth marketing. People know me. They trust me.

 

04:32

Yeah, it’s no surprise that word of mouth is do a very important way we can do in a business today. You know, I win. Thank you so much for sharing those stories, as with anything in life, especially in entrepreneurship, they are the highs and lows. Could you share with us maybe what happened on your end that you develop the techniques that you are going to share today?

 

04:51

Yeah, for sure. I mean, it’s, you know, talking about COVID everyone in the world could relate and share Some type of anxiety, or something that they were challenged with, and whether they looked at as an opportunity to reset, pivot or to wait back. But for me going into COVID, some of the dark times was already happening. Like I said, one of the challenges of being a bootstrap business was time and resources, it was tough. And then I launched a podcast was giving me a lot of energy and a lot of satisfaction, that I was creating impact. So I was already in this dark space in the sense that I was questioning. If I was doing the right thing, I was questioning leaving, slingshot exiting and maybe become a business coach and consultant, because at the time, three to three years, two years ago, I started surrounding myself with a lot of, you know, high performance consultants, and coaches, consultants, and I was really looking to them, I’m like, Man, these people are, you know, very idealistic. They are here to make impact and help people move. So I was thinking, Man, this is this is aspirational. Maybe I want to do this. And maybe I want to exit my business. So I was, before exiting, I was thinking, you know, I did myself a favor, to just, you know, talk to people in my network. And I ended up getting networked and people from competitors to see if they wanted to acquire me or talking to people who, you know, did billion dollar exits. And eventually, I got connected to someone in my industry, in my province, who came from a competitor, who built the sales organization within my competitor until they got acquired. So it was pretty amazing. What happened, but it took us a couple of months for us to like, finally say, yeah, Come in and join the company. And then COVID hit, so there was this excitement. And then COVID hit, so any plans and expectations that we thought was gonna happen, just kind of went down the drain. And then you add in COVID, were all of us had most of us in this world, if you’re younger than 50, probably never had any type of, depending on where you grew up, didn’t have any crises to deal with. And this was a global crisis, right? This is like a World War, right? So we’re all confused. And one, one, if you’re in the entrepreneurship space, and you’re listening to Ted, there, you know, one of the big buzzwords Ted, and I’m sure you could relate in entrepreneurship was, everyone was pivoting. If you’re an entrepreneur last year, you’re like, I got to, I got to stay positive, I got to see how I could turn this negative around and inspire people to keep moving and keep doing so I did the same thing. My business was like going down in the sense that we didn’t know what to do because no one was buying. So I started like doing national, I did a National Partnership with an organization to do a podcast mini series to talk talk to leaders how they are transitioning through this digital shift. I started joining a global startup to to help flatten the curve, if you remember that was a buzzword back last year to flatten the curve. And that was exciting. But all these projects were falling down by the wayside to at that in the sense that they ended or they ended badly or never moved forward. So I kept going to like this negative or like, oh, what am I doing? What

 

08:25

am I searching for? I’m still looking or when you sounded like you were really lost during that period of time. How do you pull yourself out of it?

 

08:34

So luckily enough, I was working with a coach at the time and I was doing the personal work personal development that to find out what really moved me and I was happy to find out when I did the work that I really liked doing many things I’m a multi passionate I’m I’m polymath I’m, I’m a renaissance man at the sense that I strive Ted on doing many things. So when I was in high school in grade school, my teachers always said Edwin’s board, he needs to be challenged. But then I went to Computer Engineering. And I was doing like six courses at a time all difficult from calculus to you know, chemistry. And when I figured out how to study and time manage, ay ay ay ay ay, ay ay ay ay plus my whole university degree. And then I came back to the workforce. And then it was just like doing one thing and I was bored until I became an entrepreneur. But yeah, last year, it was just, I was it seemingly, I was always searching for something that was completing me. And it was it was tough. I you know, I lost a lot of sleep. There’s a lot of anxiety until some of my you know some of my friends and my masterminds are like no Edwin, you got to stop looking. Everyone wants to work with you. You have it wrong. And when people want to work with you, you’re the person it’s not you looking for someone to complete. And that sort of brought me towards this this audacious goal, this realization to this mental block that it was holding me back. Whether I was worth That are not

 

10:00

my friends. Now, this is one of the truths of entrepreneurship is not always the glamour that the media likes to portray. There are a lot of challenges. And there will be times when you doubt yourself. So when what do you do to help pull yourself out of this dark hole,

 

10:13

there was a lot of practices that I had in place, Ted, that allowed me to navigate out of it. I mean, I was meditating a lot, I journal pretty religiously, in the sense that I do my morning pages, I run I’m an avid runner. So I had these practices in place that allowed me to stay in the positive, you know, in the positive sense, like in the positive scale. But having a support group and people that I could talk to all the time was really helpful to get me out of it. But getting to I guess, this, this where I am today. As I mentioned, I was last summer, I was really like looking for pivots, you know, slingshot was still there. And we were still trying to navigate what to do. But I was like, literally no, bad space, like the year before, like, what am I doing? This is not right. I don’t know what’s gonna happen. You know, but people, but I’m also realizing what my strengths are and who I am and what I love to do. So that was really enlightening. But I was still in this bad space. And then I, I was talking to a friend of mine, and he’s like, Edwin, you know, and I know we’re going to probably talk about this, but, you know, what do you need? What, what do you need to live this vision, you know, your dream life or your vision board? And it got me thinking, right. And that conversation was pivotal in the sense that in all the work I’ve been doing up until that point was was was exceptional, because he asked me a tough question. On one side, I had this realization that I love doing multiple things. And this person said to me, Edwin, What’s your dream life? And what would happen if you just focus on slingshot? And now I was even more confused, because I’m like, but I want to do many things. And he’s like, this guy’s known me three years. Now. He’s a high performance coach. And he’s like, Well, you know, think about it, right? And so I was confused. So I was just like, Okay, I got to think about it. And we were thinking about, we were talking about vision boards and dream lives, right. And he asked me, the question is like, well, this is an exercise, Ted that that I totally recommend people to do. He asked me, What is the cost of your dream life? You know, we all have vision boards, we all have a life that we aspire to. And if you do have the practice of a vision board, and we could get into, into into the purpose of the vision board, but if you do the practice of the vision board, where it’s to visualize something that you could move into, so it becomes real. That’s an exercise on its own. But the second, the secondary exercises was to put the cost on that exercise. What is the cost of the vision board to live the life that you that you really want? Right, but that in a spreadsheet?

 

13:21

Dear listeners, I think there’s a very good point. Because a lot of times when we’re doing vision boards or setting goals, we don’t actually think about the cost that these goals may have, we start thinking of the cost behind the goals, it actually gives you a more honest and complete picture as to what you really are pursuing. So when What did your vision board look like? What would the cause behind these goals?

 

13:41

When I did that vision boards, the original time when I did that exercise, I was actually surprised, and maybe underwhelmed that my vision was not as big as I thought it was. So it’s actually interesting, because you’re going to draw like, Oh, I want to do this, I want to have these, you know, things in life. And you’re like, Oh, that’s actually doable. You know, you might put up Oh, that’s, I need to make 20,000 a month, and that’s my dream life, like income. And I’m like, Oh, I’m not dreaming big enough for stuff. Like that’s, that’s not to say it’s easy to make $20,000 a month. But it’s, it’s, you know, as in I’m sure Ted like within your network and people you talk with people are making that already, right? It’s so it’s, it’s like it’s not like it’s unreachable, people are doing it all around us. And it’s may be first degree, it’s the people who are making like the 1 million a month or 10 million a month. That’s that’s, that’s that’s also doable. So when I did the vision board, and with the context of focusing on slingshot, I ended up getting ended up calculating to be like, I needed 98 i got i need to grow my business 98 times for my business to support my vision, in the sense that it’s going to Pay me. So I’m like 98, I’m going to, I’m going to see 100 exit, I’m going 100x my business. And September 22 was actually 100 days till the end of the year, I was so intrigued to declare to the world that I was going to 100x my business. But going into the weekend, I was scared, I was probably in the one of the darkest place anxious place I ever went into Ted. Because now I had this thought of, I’m going to 100x my business, or my goal is, is not even I’m going to my goal, or my target is 200x my business and I going into the weekend, Ted, I was like, it was scary. It was a dark, dark place. Like all these questions of like self worth, like who Edwin, who the heck do you think you are? to even think that you could 100x your business? So all these things like self worth? confidence? misbelief like, it was tough. But the difference this time, I think there’s two things that you know, I stuck with the feeling of this darkness through that weekend. Right. And, and I and I really prayed and and journaled and meditate, but I didn’t steer away from it. I lost a lot of sleep that weekend. But going into the week, as the weekend was ending my misbelief. And my doubts turned to belief. And I started to believe like, you know, and when the conversation started to change, I started like, Yeah, why not me? Why can’t that be me? Right. And one of the conversations that I had with my friend was that success is not linear. You know, we’ve all seen the means where it’s like, oh, this is your path to success. And really, the image I have is if you watch pro sports, I watch NBA basketball a lot. The conversation when success is actually linear in the sense that you’re going like this, you’re making you’re at a plateau. So if you’re an NBA, before, you’re the NBA player, you’re your amateur player and NCAA, you’re making zero, and then you get drafted and all of a sudden, you’re up, boom, $3 million. And if you’re good, and you’re an All Star, you 10x again, and you go to 30 million. So these are the steps, and it happens instantaneously. It doesn’t happen like this, you don’t go from zero to 3 million to 30 million. There’s actually a mindset shift that happens that you’re like, yeah, I’m gonna make that $3 million. It’s gonna happen, for sure. And then it happens, right, but that decision that it’s gonna happen happened way before they got the contract.

 

17:42

So when it sounds like you took control of your mindset, so what happened at the end of the weekend,

 

17:46

I did a video to save my goals. And posted on YouTube, I’d never done anything like this before. I mean, I think I’ve done like small challenges, like I’m gonna run a marathon. I mean, don’t get me wrong, running a marathon is tough to, but I don’t think I’ve ever even declared it before running it. Yeah, so I put it out there Ted. And almost instantly when I released it to the world, something changed, something switched differently. And I it’s very hard to explain. But things started manifesting quickly. In my world. There were different conversations. There were different evidence that were pushing me towards this 100x life, people were showing up out of nowhere, and we’re talking about different things collaboration are happening. I was moving at a speed. I wouldn’t say speed. But I was moving with a different energy flow. Because I always hustled I’ve always been a hustler. I’ve always been good time management. But now it’s like I’m honed in now. And and it was it was pretty crazy that and I was so inspired, in the work that I was doing myself that I started doing a daily digital diary like a daily vlog. Because I want to capture myself doing this and sharing it because this is a audacious goal. And I wanted to like write about it one day or shared with my daughter, right, like, so I started doing these daily diaries. And you know, we talked about self worth and confidence. And one of the exercises that we’ve all heard about is, you know, affirmations and self talk. So what I didn’t realize and when I reflected back doing these daily digital diaries, Ted was actually a form of affirmations. It was a form of self talk because I was talking to no one at that time. I was recording it on my DSLR and then I had to actually edit it and then upload it was very tedious, but I did it because that was what I that was my intention, right. But, but I think two thirds of the way through Ted the my belief turned into conviction like I switched over to like, like, there was no one could question that I’m not gonna 100x said, like, I knew for sure, for certain I was gonna 100x my business, like day one, I had the confidence to say it and do it in the belief that I could do it. But of course, he’s still like, I’m just, I’m just nuts. But there’s, there’s this subtle change in conviction, where it’s like, No, I’m not going to do it, I am doing it. I am 100x and I became 100x. And I believe, you know, there was a point Ted, where I was questioning, like, Who the heck does these daily diaries saying they’re gonna 100x their business. And I think I caught myself journaling about this. And I’m like, the only person who’s gonna do the daily digital diary that they’re gonna 100x their business is actually the person who’s gonna 100x the business. No one else is gonna say this, there’s no one, no one’s gonna say this. So it’s, um, like, I am actually doing what someone who’s just gonna do it does

 

21:07

is true when I actually watched the first video you posted on YouTube last September. And there’s a huge difference between that guy and the guy who’s speaking with me today, there is a really tangible difference between the energy and competence that you’re showing right now.

 

21:19

I appreciate it. I mean, it’s, it’s funny that you say that, because sometimes, I haven’t done it in a month or so. But I would choose that with that, within that first 100 days, I would choose a random day, and I will look at it, I’ll watch myself. And it’s like time travel. Ted, a mean of photos could do that for us, too. But because I was in this certain journey, specific journey, I would transport myself back there and remember exactly what I was feeling, because I’m sharing it authentically, just to the camera, and no one’s watching. You know, I didn’t, you know, at the end of the day, I was sharing it for people. But it was more for me, it was a selfish thing. But I put it out there. And, and I look back and I’m and I say to myself, like I’m proud of you, Edwin for doing what you’re doing. Like, that’s not easy. putting yourself out there. That’s it scary.

 

22:13

your listeners, I’m sure this is not the first time you’re hearing about the benefits of self affirmation is like when you’re struggling and you’re facing a mental block. If you’re having self doubt, or you’re questioning your self worth, for example, why not try what the wind is doing, give yourself some daily affirmation and see what happens. So what happened towards the end of the 100 days, not to go anti

 

22:35

climatic around the 90th day or the 90%, I was almost done. I started to understand and realize that I’m not going to 100x my business, but I am in the business is moving in a way that it’s never moved before. And I realized that it was an audacious goal. But that audacious goal. What it accomplished was that I 100x my mindset, like there’s no way and something that you shared, what you see today, is without declaring this audacious goal with a certain time limit. I don’t think I mean, you, i, you and i would be talking right now. Like, it’s it’s a special, it’s a special thing. But, you know, I ended the 100 Day Happy. It’s not like I was sad that I didn’t hit this goal, you know, goals get you moving in the right direction. And then you’re allowed to pivot and change and do things. So, you know, the new year came Ted, and I had this time to reflect, because the 100 days is over. But before the 100 days is over, I had decided that I was going to do this 100 day thing, because there’s I felt that there’s something about this time limit this 100 day time limit. So I started, you know, strategizing how I would do it when I would do it again, how I would break up the year into three instead of quarters. And it turned out that the next 100 day that I decided that I would do would be January 23. So I had 22 days for reflection, for conversation for pivots, to see what aligns to see where I want to go and what makes sense.

 

24:18

So after the first 100 Day Challenge, you give yourself 22 days to reflect. And then you pursued another 100 Day Challenge. What were your goals for the second 100 days? And how did they turn out

 

24:27

what I declared there is that time I declared Okay, I’m not going to say I’m going 100 exit but I’m going to say I’m going to double our revenue. And we’re going to double our team size. I’m going to pitch a show to NPR and I’m going to start a daily video show because I was doing these daily video stuff. So these were like more. Actually there are a lot of goals. But they were not. I wouldn’t say they’re not audacious because some of them are still a reach but when I went into this 100 days with this with this process I was I was, you know, formulating and testing this this 100 day thing. And when the 100 days ended on April 30, when I looked back to the goals that I put out, I hit them all. It was it was maybe not exactly how I thought it would play out. But because I did it, and I had this timeframe, I was so surprised that I had everything I had intended to do. I mean, I we doubled our revenue, I didn’t double my team. But we brought on a full time person, which we haven’t done in a while, you know, our sales teams is growing, you know, we we’ve contracted different things out. I pitch I didn’t pitch NPR but I pitch clubhouse because they had an accelerator. So I did this whole pitch deck for a media a daily media show, which I ended up calling Flashpoint today. So I that was I was super proud of that work. And then I launched, I launched my twitch channel, which which I ended up moving my daily digital diaries to my twitch channel, and I launched a virtual cafe and Twitch. It was amazing. So things are moving. And I’m realizing that there’s something around the 100 days and goal setting

 

26:10

your listeners as everyone should is the power to go setting. Yes, of course, you may not actually achieve every single goal that you set out to do. But the idea of setting a goal itself and committing to it sets you on the right path to achieve what you’re looking for. Anyway, let’s talk a little bit about accountability. How did you stay accountable to yourself and your goals? Did you find that the daily publication of your goals on social media help with the accountability aspect?

 

26:34

Yeah, I mean, I, there’s something around it, there’s something around doing, you know, there’s an accountability part of it by me, posting it to the world, whether they do it, you know, whether someone would want to do it publicly or not, or within a closed group of people doing it. But I believe there’s something about having that accountability and maybe not thinking about the how the problem with a lot of people is we won’t we don’t start because we don’t know how things are going to happen. But you got to know your why and your what,

 

27:04

when I fully agree, it’s kind of like riding a bicycle. No matter how much you read about, you can actually learn how to do it without actually getting your hands dirty. But if you have a strong one, and why as to why you want to do it, and you get down to actually trying and learning how to ride a bicycle, you will get it eventually. And that’s really how you can overcome a mental block, right? But if your mindset is that you are going to do it only when you know how to do it, then you’re never going to learn that skill.

 

27:27

I love that because my daughter, we just take the training wheels off.

 

27:30

And it’s so true. Oh, congratulations. Now I when apart from posting your goals on social media, do you have any other tips on staying accountable?

 

27:38

Yeah, one of the main things that I have, and I’m blessed to have our mastermind groups, so a very safe space where I have friends and entrepreneurs who we meet either weekly or bi weekly, and we share our challenges, the goals, the things that we’re doing. I encourage it took me a long time. So I like I said, I’ve been an entrepreneur 16 years I knew of mastermind groups, maybe I would say almost even like eight years ago, but it took me about three to only about three or four years ago when I started getting invited to mastermind groups. But it was a game changer. It took me a while to understand how they work, and how to share. You know, the challenge you have authentically and and and but knowing it’s a safe space, but that that’s a game changer for me in the sense that I had a group that I could share challenges with because sometimes my partner may not know what you know, they support me she supports me, but she doesn’t know exactly the game because she’s you know, she’s, you know, she’s just she she just loves me and she’ll just support me but it’s hard to explain things. But that’s, that’s one thing. The second thing is, you know, having having a routine is huge for me like you know, my morning routine comes with prayer journaling, I went for a run today, that helps as well

 

29:07

your listeners as Evan shared, joining a mastermind is a great way to stay accountable to yourself and your goals. Joining a mastermind is also a great way to get in contact with people who are on the same path and goals as you and you can provide each other with mutual support. Establishing a routine that works for you to pray to journal to meditate do exercise is also a great way to keep you mentally and emotionally on the right track. Now back to you at when after going through a few 100 day challenges. Do you feel better equipped mentally and emotionally to deal with the self doubt and the fears that you were facing before?

 

29:37

Yeah, what’s very interesting and that’s a great, that’s a great question. What’s interesting is the self doubt the anxiety. The bad times the bad thoughts, they always come you know that that that devil on your shoulder never disappears. But what I’ve noticed Ted is the strength And the conviction that I had is so much stronger now that I’m evil, I’m able to overcome them in, you know, in minutes or hours now like, I’m like, Oh my god, I feel bad bla bla bla, and then I just, and I just bounced back where, you know, yeah, like, whereas a year before or even longer, I may be in that bad mood or that bad state of mind much longer, you know, days, weeks, months, I’m sure there’s some people who might be related, right. But now I have this muscle and this purpose that I’m in this journey, this, this shared goal that I put out to the world. That gets me up and gets gets me up and excited and just just pumped, right. And I understand that, you know, the first audacious 100 days was tough and unrealistic. But I do believe the 100x is still gonna happen. I don’t know when anymore. Do I want to predict when I made though I don’t want to yet but I mean, I could predict in 100 day sprint, then, or maybe, well, we’re gonna double double our revenue this year, I’m gonna do this. And, you know, when I do the math, you know, 100 axing is doubling your business two times two times, it’s, I think it’s seven times. So it could happen in seven cycles. Or we know, let’s

 

31:15

take some time to explore this a little bit. When you started the 100 Day Challenge. Did you see a difference in your company and your colleagues?

 

31:22

Yeah, I mean, I noticed. I mean, it’s interesting, because I’ve done almost 250 interviews for my podcast. And the company will always steer with the end inspired but by by the leaders, right. So the energy definitely shifted internally to what’s interesting is when I made the declaration to double x, within my 100 days, I didn’t even share that internally. I just, they saw it publicly. So I think ultimately, me being out there and drumming, the bead and putting this stuff is is is moving and inspiring people inside. And like I said, Our company is moving faster than I’ve ever seen it move in. And we’re still a small team.

 

32:08

That’s amazing. No, and when do you have any parting words before we go?

 

32:11

I mean, one thing I tell friends in entrepreneurs in my network when they’re really, you know, feeling lost or feeling stuck is something that I learned about two years ago is think about your 3030 year ago. So that’s audacious. You know, most most of us plan one year, maybe five year 10 years is even a stretch. But think about 30 years, where will you be in 30 years 30 year Edwin will be 75. When I’m 75 years old? What am I going to be super proud of about when I look back at the last 30 years? And that’s actually a scary question. Yeah, it really is to think about that, because that’s so far. It’s so you know, in this world of the internet and technology, we’re always thinking about, you know, the next thing, but 30 years, once you start framing that, visualizing that verbalizing what, Oh, you know what I want to have a foundation I want to have whatever it might take you out of that dark place that you’re struggling in and realize I have time. First off you have time, you know, and what you’re doing today, may or may not be the thing that needs to you to get to that 30 year goal. But it will put you out of that mindset, or that that frame frame frame of mind that you’re in, they’re like, Oh my gosh, why am I freaking out about this small thing that I won’t care about next year? Or I won’t care? I wouldn’t even remember about it in five years. Right? Like what’s bothering you, and what’s keeping you up at night. And, you know, if you’re if you’re really struggling, just just really think about the big picture. The really, really big picture and ask yourself, if I’m struggling on this is if I overcome this problem, this challenge, does it get me closer to that 30 year goal? And if it’s taking you off that 30 year goal, then you probably have to move off what you’re working on.

 

34:16

Thanks, Edwin. So how can someone get in touch review if you want to learn more about the 100 Day Challenge?

 

34:21

I mean, if you want to reach out to me I’m on Instagram Facebook everywhere at Edwin 100x you go to cafe 100 x.com there’s a link to my discord and I just I’m building I’m building out this 100x community within my Discord. Join me there I mean, if you want to send an email old school, Edwin at slingshot voice calm, but let’s chat Let’s hang out let’s 100 ex together.

 

34:42

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