Finding Strength During a Low | Episode 283

Real Business Owners

Trevor Cowley

Business

5 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Real Business Owners Podcast, Trevor Cowley and Corey McNeil dig into the lows and the often-overlooked struggles of growth. They open up about the challenges of maintaining consistency when motivation dips, and how personal and professional hardships often drive real growth. From embracing setbacks to staying resilient under pressure, they are no strangers to struggling with the lows. But they do have ways to keep moving forward even when it feels tough. For business owners who face unique stresses, Trevor and Corey offer encouragement and actionable advice to push through the end-of-year grind.

Key Takeaways:

Accepting Lows: Why feeling “off” sometimes is normal and how self-compassion plays a role in dealing with it.
Reflection as Growth Fuel: How hardships lead to the most significant personal development.
Discipline as the Foundation: Keeping promises to yourself, even when motivation wanes.
Tackling Setbacks: From business struggles to personal habits, setbacks happen—consistency helps overcome them.
Finding Resilience: Staying resilient and keeping perspective during difficult times is essential.
Self-Care as a Tool: How simple actions like exercise, rest, and helping others can create clarity and relieve stress.
Unique Business Owner Challenges: Navigating added pressure when managing both personal and business demands.

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0:00.0	Being an entrepreneur sounds cool, but the reality of building a business is very, very difficult.
0:07.0	Every level that you hit, there's a lot of things that suck that you just won't want to do.
0:11.7	What you're capable of is on the other side I don't feel like it.
0:15.5	And if you're committed to what it is that you're trying to do, nothing is going to stop you from getting there.
0:24.2	Welcome back to another episode of real business owners with myself, Trevor Cowley. I'm joined by
0:29.1	Corey McNeil on this episode. I wanted to go through just the realities of entrepreneurship,
0:34.8	the realities of life and the lows that will all inevitably experience.
0:39.7	And so I know for a fact that you're going to get value out of this one, if you're ready to level
0:44.0	up personally or professionally, go to join RBO.com. Other than that, enjoy. We want to talk about
0:49.3	something that nobody's immune to. Part of the human experience, you know, everybody's going to
0:55.6	experience highs, everybody's going to experience lows. Out on one of my runs one time, I thought
0:59.6	about at one point somebody's going to have the best day of their life, but on the flip side of that,
1:05.5	they're going to have to have the worst day of their life too. That's crazy. I thought that exact
1:10.5	same thought just recently.
1:12.3	You know, and so it's like when you're out doing these things, it's like it helps you
1:15.9	change your perspective or see things from a greater perspective outside of just the one
1:22.3	that you've always had.
1:23.4	If you're always doing what you've always done, you're always going to keep the exact
1:26.5	same perspective, right? And so it's one thing I like about, you know, moving my body and creating
1:31.0	space for myself. But, you know, I was just sharing with Corey that I'm like, I'm just, I feel like
1:36.7	I'm in a little bit of a lull or a little bit of a funk. Like the normal shit that I do on a day-to-day basis seems more difficult.
1:48.8	You know, as I was alluding to prior to hopping on the podcast, I'm like, not even wanting to get out of bed to brush your teeth or, you know, putting your shoes on or
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