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In the Loop with Andy Andrews

ITL200: FREEZE! What Do You Have Within Arm's Reach Right This Moment?

In the Loop with Andy Andrews

Matt Lempert

Business

4.9 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

This week, we’re celebrating our 200th episode with a deeper look at the items in my office, and more specifically, what I keep within arm’s reach at my desk.

 

You might look at my desk and not know why some of these things are here—and you might also not know what these things are!

 

Tune in to this week’s full episode to hear which of these objects remind me of:

  • The fact I can choose my thinking, and if I’m scared, that isn’t from God.
  • Ingenuity.
  • The history of our country and that there are things that seem impossible, but with the right thought process, impossible things can be made simple.
  • Things last even if they’re covered up or buried. We need to make sure that the things we create are of great value.
  • While things are permanent, they can still be shaped.
  • There is always a way to figure something out.


Questions for Listeners

Do you have a question? Call in and your question might be featured on the show!

  • Phone: 1-800-726-ANDY
  • E-Mail: InTheLoop@AndyAndrews.com
  • Facebook.com/AndyAndrews
  • Twitter.com/AndyAndrews

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews.

0:10.3

Now here's your host, David Loy.

0:13.1

Hi, and welcome to In The Loop with Andy Andrews.

0:15.8

I'm your host, David Loy.

0:17.0

And once again, we are back here, Andy in your office.

0:20.6

And I'm excited about today.

0:38.0

There was a bug. You just killed a bug. Yeah, sorry. That's fine. That actually proves to people that were... You're not like anti-hunting or anything, are you? Anti-hunting. Not that I really hunted him. I just kind of saw him and... I'm pro-hunting bugs. Yes. I'm pro-h hunting. Whatever. It doesn't matter. Okay.

0:38.5

So we've been talking in previous episodes about the intentional design of your office and why you have created this environment.

0:46.1

No bugs.

0:46.6

That's one of my big things.

0:48.6

And you are continuing to implement that strategy as we speak.

0:53.8

But we've talked about all the different things you've chosen to surround yourself with, the ways that you choose to be influenced by your surroundings.

1:03.5

Right. I'm choosing my thinking.

1:04.8

Absolutely. And one of the most unique parts, we're sitting here, I'm sitting right next to your desk.

1:10.1

We are sitting at a smaller desk, but we sitting right next to your desk. We are sitting at

1:11.2

a smaller desk, but we're right next to the desk that you work at, that you write at, and you

1:16.2

have it covered with different things. So I would love to get the stories behind why these

1:24.5

items are on your desk. And, well, first of all, why don't you go around and talk about it and you tell me what you see? Okay. Because I'll bet you don't, I bet you don't know what some of this stuff is. Absolutely. I have no clue. But we'll start with the things that I do know. You've got two monitors here that I don't know why do you have two monitors.

1:46.4

I have two because that way I can keep like I can you write on one and do email on the other or what?

1:53.4

Well I do keep email on on one of the monitors up but a lot of times I'll be writing on one and have research on the other. Okay, gotcha. And that way you do things simultaneously. I'm not having to go back and forth. And a lot of times I'll have my laptop up too. So I'll really have three. You've got the options. Okay. All right. I also see at the bottom of your primary monitor, you've got a picture of the family, of you and Polly and the boys.

2:20.4

Right.

2:20.5

Is that just another constant reminder?

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