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In the Loop with Andy Andrews

ITL221: How to Use Your Strengths to Design a Life You Love

In the Loop with Andy Andrews

Matt Lempert

Business

4.9 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode, I answer a listener question on how to create a life by design based on the talents and gifts you’re given.

 

This question has an obvious answer that I overlooked for a number of years.

  • Talents and skills are two different things. Josh Groban’s vocal gifts are a God-given talent. My ability to juggle is a skill I developed.
  • It’s important to know the difference. And before you polish your talents or hone your skills…

 

FIRST look at where you want to go, THEN work with the talents and skills that will get you there.

  • There’s not a single pathway you can take that will work like you want it to if you don’t know where you want to go in the first place!
  • Even when you know where you want to go, the pathway will never take you to that destination in a straight line.
  • We’re most effective when we’re flexible. Life’s pathways shift; you need to build muscle in different areas to prepare for those shifts.
  • Then work with some faith and your end result in mind; once you know where you’re going, get on it—time’s a-wastin’!

 

 Tune in to learn the insider details on how Andy’s longtime friend Dave Ramsey prepared his pathway to becoming the most trusted—and successful—voice on money in America.


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  • Email: InTheLoop@AndyAndrews.com
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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

0:06.5

with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. Now here's your host, David Loy.

0:13.6

Hi and welcome to In the Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Loy. Andy, thanks for joining us today.

0:19.7

I am glad to be here. How are you, David?

0:21.6

I am fantastic. We are, you know, well into the first month of the new year. 2016 is off to a

0:28.0

great start. What's been happening down your way for these first few weeks? Oh, listen, it's

0:33.8

finally gotten cold here. So, you know, we're just really glad.

0:38.4

And cold for us is like, you know, 50 during the days.

0:42.4

And, you know, I think the other night it went, it went down to, you know, maybe 41 or 42.

0:49.3

And so it was, it's cold for us.

0:52.3

And when the wind comes off the Gulf, you know, in Arizona they say, but it's a dry heat. Well, for us, it's a wet cold. And so it feels colder than it normally would be. But man, you know, Christmas Day, we were all walking around in shorts and t-shirts and barefoot and playing football on the front lawn and and so it was it's just

1:13.3

been so hot i mean all my buddies who have been hunting have said that the mosquitoes are worse

1:21.4

during hunting season than they were during the summer oh wow golly by Golly. By the way, I have an observation for you.

1:29.2

Yes.

1:30.4

About mosquitoes.

1:32.9

And it's not the normal observation about, why did God make these things?

1:37.4

But here's my observation about mosquitoes that I think is very funny.

1:42.9

Is, you know, people will say, because I'm hearing

1:46.3

them say this this year, they'll say, yeah, you know, we're not having much cold weather, so the

1:52.1

mosquitoes will be horrible in the summertime, because, you know, we're not getting the cold weather

1:58.2

that we should have. And, you know, if you don't have that cold weather, those mosquitoes are just...

2:03.3

And I'm like, no, wait a minute.

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