You're listening to The Game Changer Life with Dave Anderson, the show about how to thrive, take charge of your mindset, and be unstoppable in business and all

aspects of your life. This is the Game Change Your Life podcast with Dave Anderson.

Welcome to the Game Change Your Life. I'm Dave Anderson in our Agora Hills, California studio.

And the topic I want to talk about today is elevate excellence in your interests, your interest,

the things you're interested in away from your vocational arena, your hobbies, your passions,

elevate your excellence in those things and it carries over into your arena.

Again, for those of you that are tune in regularly, we are going through each of the chapters in my latest book, Elevate Your Excellence, The Power of Doing Ordinary Things Extraordinarily Well. And I'm giving you a summary, a synopsis, if you will, some key takeaways. So if you've read the book, you're getting a reminder, maybe a little bit of a nudge, and if you're not going to read it, you don't like to read, you intend to read it, but you never get around to it. This will still give you some value

from a book you haven't had a chance or have decided not to go through yet. But what I talk about

in this chapter is all learning is beneficial. It crosses over into different arenas in your life.

That's something that you learn, maybe you're a manager,

and you start to learn about gardening, or you start to enjoy art or sculpting, or yoga,

or you just love sports, that the things you learn in those various arenas, by elevating

your excellence, by pursuing it and studying those

things and reading about them, maybe taking online courses that lend themselves to that,

it's going to help you in your arena. It all works your mind. It all forces you to be more

productive with your time. It's certainly a lot better than so many things you can do.

That totally unredeemable use

of time that brings you a negative value on your time. And so I want you to think about growth

objectives because I talk about them a lot, but I usually talk about them in the context of your

vocation. So if you're a salesperson, for instance, your growth objectives, I like

quarterly, growth objectives personally. They don't have to be quarterly, but I find you can get a lot done,

put in some really good reps, and get a good handle on some skills and knowledge if you stick with it

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