Do You Know Your True North? SPARTAN WAY ep 001
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2018
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Joe and Zach get together to record the first ever Spartan Way episode while discussing a favorite topic at Spartan, Finding Your True North. Your True North is all about discovering your WHY? Why were you put on this earth? What is the 1 thing you are so passionate and excited about that you can keep doing for the next 25 years?
If you're unsure what your True North is, don't worry! Zach & Joe discuss the different ways you can discover your True North. Sometimes you find your True North and other times, it finds you. Enjoy the show!
LESSONS:
- What are The Questions & Lessons to ask yourself to help find your True North?
- What is Joe's "shotgun approach" to finding your True North?
- Finding your True North requires getting out there and doing work, making mistakes and experimenting.
- What is the The BIG lesson Zach learned from Dan Sullivan of Strategic Coach?
- Ask yourself the question, What will keep you excited for the next 5, 10 or 25 years?
LINKS:
Dan Sullivan Strategic Coach https://www.strategiccoach.com/
More about Zach https://zacheven-esh.com
Read "The Spartan Way" https://www.spartan.com/en/race/learn-more/race-types-overview?article=the-spartan-way-book
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Host & Show Notes: Zach Even - Esh
© 2018 Spartan
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We're here at the first ever episode of The Spartan Way. This is another podcast under the Spartan Way this is another podcast umbrella we told them it's coming it's coming it's coming it's here word word is bond yes if you're new here |
| 0:21.2 | This is your first time here. We're part of the Spartan Up Umbrella of Podcast. |
| 0:25.4 | We're going to be bringing you bite-sized pieces of awesome success-driven information every week |
| 0:31.0 | with one thing to do and action to do. |
| 0:34.0 | We're super excited. |
| 0:35.4 | Today what we're going to be talking about is finding your true north. |
| 0:37.9 | That's a topic that you talk a lot about. |
| 0:39.9 | So you say finding your true north, what I say is your true north finds you. |
| 0:46.2 | It is hard for a lot of people out there. |
| 0:47.3 | They're laying in bed, they're home, they're trying to figure out what they're good at |
| 0:50.5 | or whatever, and somebody taught me this this I don't know if you use it |
| 0:53.4 | somebody said ask yourself what would you do anyway even if you knew you would fail |
| 0:58.8 | right I've also heard what would you do if you won the lottery money wasn't an issue what would you do if you want the lottery money wasn't an issue? What would you do? What would you do for free and I look back to these two lessons? I was in college and I had a bad internship teaching and I left this is before cell |
| 1:16.5 | phone so I got home picked up that picked up the phone and I called said I'm |
| 1:21.5 | done with this teaching thing I don't want to teach I never |
| 1:24.1 | wanted to do this switch me to a different major I want to go into the fitness track |
| 1:29.2 | there's an envelope with my name zak exclamation point I open it up there's a letter in there and she says |
| 1:35.2 | zak ten years from now you pull into a parking lot what building are you walking |
| 1:39.7 | into she was kind of asking me like what's your true north? What were you put on this earth to do? |
| 1:45.2 | How did you find that you know how did you come across what your true north is? How did it find you? |
| 1:50.1 | I'm a shotgun right I shoot in a hundred directions true and you know that very true and then |
| 1:57.8 | one of them I noticed felt good one of those directions right health wellness torturing people |
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