✅ 6 Ideas to take your life and business to the next level.

(3.5 min read) 3 Concepts, 2 Frameworks, 1 Proverb Pic

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Erick Vargas
April 02, 2023

Happy Sunday! This is the Christian Entrepreneur, the weekly newsletter that helps Christian entrepreneurs be a boss like Michael Scott.

Let's dive into this week's email and take a break from being the kind of boss that’s always trying to teach people things. Sometimes you just have to be the boss of dancing.” – Michael Scott.

What we got for you in this week's email:

  • You don’t need productivity hacks

  • How to have less stress

  • Finding your niche

  • Much more!

3 Growth concepts

Concept #1

Learning to say no > productivity hacks

Alex Hormozi

My Takeaway: We agree to many requests not because we want to do them, but because we don't want to be seen as rude, arrogant, or unhelpful. Often, you have to consider saying no to someone you will interact with again in the future—your co-worker, your spouse, your family and friends. So we say yes to many things that are not our responsibility nor help us progress toward our goals. We waste more time doing things that don't matter than buying back time with productivity hacks. Saying no fixes that.

Concept #2

Stress is simply an unmade decision

Nick Huber

My Takeaway: Stress primarily comes from not taking action over something that you can have some control over. You can have more control in your life than you think. By confronting these situations and making decisions, you can alleviate some stress. We add to our stress with the unknowns of not making a decision. Not making a decision keeps too many open options for our minds to think about. Even if you make the wrong decision, you alleviate some stress because the path forward is clear. And still, even if you make the wrong decision, you can course correct it. But you can never know if you made the wrong decision until one is made. So, make that decision, and you will be able to see past that decision. This helps me take action when I am feeling stressed. It’s better than carrying it around with you.

Concept #3

Ikigai is a Japanese concept referring to something that gives a person a sense of purpose, a reason for living.

Unknown

My Takeaway: This is all about finding what you love, what you're good at, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for. By exploring your passions and interests, identifying your skills, understanding the needs of the world, finding your niche, and taking action towards achieving your goals, you can live a purposeful life. I believe most people don’t niche down enough in their life. It can be applied in many areas by continuing to layer on specifics until you identify what it is you actually want. Think of a vendiagram and continuing to add overlapping circles until you find something that is truly yours. This is how this newsletter was born. Let me show you how I used the concept of ikigai for me

  • Problem: Not connecting with like-minded people

    • Loves: Entrepreneurship, Ideas, Faith,

    • Good at: Starting new things, Gathering people together

    • World needs: Help getting ideas off the ground

    • Paid for: Newsletter, Coaching

      • Solution: This newsletter! But as you can see there are many more configurations I could have chosen!

2 Personal frameworks

1. Better Execution > Better Ideas

“BUT ERICK…. YOU SHOULDN’T WASTE YOUR TIME ON A BAD IDEA.” - said someone on Twitter. Yea… we all know that…..To me, this response proved my point. This is exactly what “idea chasers” think. Whenever a new and better idea comes, they chase it. Remember NFTs? Like 6 months ago? Yea….Many people have fine or even good ideas, but not everyone has the discipline, persistence, and skills to execute them. It's often the quality of execution that sets successful projects apart from the rest. Coldplay famously is said to write 500 songs for one album, discarding most of them. Sometimes you have to do the ½ baked idea to get to the good one.

2. Most people think too big and get no results. What I try to do is think about how to get 1 result, then 2, then 3, and build momentum from there.

I’m average. But we all can make small things happen. Most people think big, and make no progress, then give up. If you make small things happen every day, you will look back and be amazed at what you built. Average progress every day is extraordinary. Yes, making one result isn’t exciting. But actually, it is. Go make $100 right now, and you will see.

1 Proverb Pic

Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Proverbs 31:30

My takeaway: Many think Proverbs 31 is for women alone. It’s helpful to remember Proverbs was probably originally a manual for the instruction of young men. The readers are always addressed as “sons.” For males, however, chapter 31 also gives insights into the kind of men and husbands they should be. In chapter 31 the original readers got a picture of the kind of wife they should be seeking. He should trust and have confidence in their wives rather than trying to control them (v. 11). They should consider their wives to be true partners in enterprises rather than disempowered assistants (vv. 13–18). They should praise their wives and build them up publicly and privately (vv. 28–29). They shouldn’t be afraid of strong women since the word “noble” used of this wife (v. 10) means to be bold and valiant, a term ordinarily used of warriors

For both men and women, It means only through faith in Christ do we get the true “fear of the Lord” that is the beginning of wisdom (Prov. 1:7). “Fear” is not fright, but awe and wonder, “fear and trembling”—the combination of humility and joy that keeps us from the foolishness of either being wise in our own eyes or of being unrealistically self-loathing. The gospel is the greatest source of the “humble boldness” that creates wisdom.

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