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The Matt & Adam Show is a #podcast talking about #grit , doing the #work and why it matters. Hosts Matt Lostaglia and Adam Messer talk about life, and tackle resilience, persistence, and dedication to doing the work.
This is truly a first for us on the Matt and Adam Show. We typically take evergreen topics and make them applicable to everyday life, and this week we still do that but with the acknowledgement of Memorial Day. Here we discuss what Memorial Day is and what it is not. Also what it means to embrace the day in the spirit of what it was meant to commemorate versus trying to own people who thank a vet this time of the year.
Adam and I seek to understand how comfort can and SHOULD be something that we both ought to seek AND be extremely wary of. Just as with all great aspects of life - this is yet another tight rope act. Lean too heavily on comfort and you lose resilience, drive, passion, and yourself, lean too heavily on struggle and you overstress your systems, become irritable and not fun to be around.
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The world WILL inevitably throw curveballs at you, at your plans, at your dream. How can you prepare for that? What do you do with your preparations? How do you put them into action? What if it isn't the world throwing the wrench in your gears, but your own mind? What do you do then?
This is what Adam and I discuss in today's episode on "Strategic Pivoting"
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While it's never a full show without both Adam and myself, this week I take my best shot at providing some value solo! Life gets crazy and turbulent, this week is an excellent example of how Adam and I stay resilient and agile ensuring we keep coming back to you all with new content!
I felt a theme calling to my consciousness from the world around me that was saying "Confidence". So, I listened! Come join the conversation where I take on what confidence is, and is not, along with simple formula for rapidly building confidence in yourself!
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“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems."
James Clear Author of Atomic Habits
We dive into the idea of systems and how they are important to not just our goals and aspirations, but to our daily living as well. Come Join the Conversation!
Sometimes your reputation precedes you. Sometimes that's great and sometimes you find that by the time you arrived you are on an island burned bridges. So what do you do about it? Tune in to join the conversation!
Do you focus on perfecting each move and ensuring that not just your best foot is placed forward but the best foot that has ever been stepped forward is now being stepped forward because of your unique and individual efforts? Are you focusing on maximizing every part of every action? Or are you hitting the a level of satisfaction that grants your a more rapid access to the next level, to the next arena of things to be done and targets to be knocked down?
Adam and I delve into the world of communication. Why is it so important and where do we fall short? How do we overcome the obstacles and where do we even begin? We discuss all of that in this week's episode on the Matt & Adam Show in King of Communication.
You are a leader. No matter what your official title says or what limiting beliefs you may have. At the bare minimum you have the responsibility to lead yourself. The very baseline realization of this is embracing the mentality of being a life long learner. Adam and I share our beliefs on the importance of this topic and why it is relevant to each and every one of us.
What is the purpose of having leaders in your organization, or attempting to lead yourself other than to inspire those you are tasked with leading?
Leading is simply INSPIRING others to take action so that the organization improves. You as the leader can set the actions if you see that as necessary. You can define what it means to "Improve" the organization.
All of these are great, but none of them matter if you can not INSPIRE those around you. So let us explain what that means and how you can accomplish that feat as a leader.
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This is Matt and Adam's 3rd Installment on the "Leadership" Mini-Series. Resisting Toxicity, navigating toxic environments, managing relationships with toxic people and leaders and knowing when to walk away, and when to fight. These are all the tenants of our conversation today! While these conversations can be difficult Adam and Matt keep it light hearted and enjoy a good back and forth discussing pros and cons to different strategies.
For the Webinar - Opportunities and Threats: https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=YWVwYjVram5yaWtyOThhbzE4aXVlbGFmcXMgbWpsb3N0YWdsaWFAbQ&tmsrc=mjlostaglia%40gmail.com
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Matt and Adam tackle some of the most difficult positions for humans. Transitions. Any transition is difficult because there is inherent change, potential growth, guaranteed discomfort and likely some pain. This is all amplified when viewed through the lens of leadership.
People who make the transition from the worker class into the famed and legendary halls of leadership can have a tough go of it in the beginning, especially if they find themselves leading the same people who were their coworkers the day before.
Check out Matt and Adam's perspective on 'Making the Transition' and hopefully the next one you make can be a little be smoother!
Adam and I kick off a brand new series all on LEADERSHIP.
With our debut episode we discuss 'Servant' - Leadership. This is a person focused approach to leading that is always value added to any organization, group, family, or relationship that chooses to use its principles.
and I are embarking upon! Follow this link and then like and subscribe if by the end you feel that you got a little something from it!We are all leaders in some way in our lives, so for those who choose to actively take up this mantle in their own lives this is a great start to an incredible journey
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Adam and I dive into our Big Three! What are the things about SWOT(T) that really had an impact on us as we broke this system down step by step and reconfigured it in a way that takes it out of the business of helping business and applied it to the business of helping you! (P.S. - Bonus behind the scenes footage at the end!)
Today Adam and I decided to bring a special bonus episode out to y'all!
We have discussed strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. All of these have clear and meaningful impacts on you the things that matter the most to you whether it be relationships, business, family or any other endeavor. So why not stop here like everyone else?
An important, but all too often forgotten, component to planning is the trends. If you look at all of the typical SWOT attributes - they allow you to get to know yourself (or your business) really well and even provide a bit of external perspective as it comes to being aware of opportunities and threats.
Part of the context for both threats and opportunities is TRENDS. Trends helps to provide a timing aspect to the traditional SWOT analysis.
2020 has been a hell of a ride - one that the world has taken together in a way that we have never really seen before! Now that we have been operating in this environment for close to a year the question is...what will you do moving forward? Adam and I take stock of the last year and discuss leaning forward into the New Year with a special thanks to everyone who has been a part of our journey so far, and we look forward to all the new adventures out there waiting for us!
We wrap up the traditional SWOT analysis this week with a focus on threats. What are those obvious obstacles that stand in your way? What are some ways that you can figure out additional ones? And even more importantly how do you prepare for those unforeseen storms that you know are brewing about in the abyss? Come check out our latest episode where we tackle "Threats"!
What is an opportunity and what does it mean to take advantage of them? How do we know when to jump on ship or when we should pull the reigns back and focus on what’s in already in front of us? Good Opportunities, Bad Opportunities, Good timing bad timing. They all get crammed into another Matt and Adam Special for the third week of SWOT analysis turned internal reflection is here! Today Adam and I discuss opportunities.
This week Adam and I bring on a tough topic. In chapter 2 of our SWOTT analysis we are broaching the tough conversation of weaknesses. We know nobody likes to talk about these sneaky little devils, but Adam and I discuss the importance of weaknesses, the importance of focus, and mental frame works. This week was a ton of fun and I hope you guys enjoy!
Adam and I are about to embark upon a 6 week journey of internal analysis flexing a tool I had never used before, at least not by this name! And that is SWOTT!. This is identifying and leveraging strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, Threats, and trends to your advantage in a way that enables you to accomplish your goals. Ever consider that you could leverage a weakness to accomplish something? How about threats? Well we dive into just that!
This weak we jump into Strengths. This seems obvious but many people tend to take their strengths for granted, or assume they don’t have many, or the ones that they do have are not enough. Well starting with the concept that you absolutely have at least ONE strength is something! It means you’re not totally useless and that you have some sort of power to strive forward in the world and to take action to make yourself a better person!
YOU'RE FIRED! Sorry - couldn't help myself! This week we talk about what it means to be rejected. We don't tell you to avoid your human nature and to turn into an analytical robot who is never phased by negative events in your life. On the contrary, we encourage that you embrace your humanity and the emotional reaction you feel in the face of rejection. To do anything else is to deny our humanity! This is where we start from and we build from there, so join us for our new episode - Rejection
What better time than right now to discuss one of the most impactful and foundational aspects of resilience and personal development! Adam and I frequently bring up gratitude and it's importance on the show, but we thought it was perfectly on the nose to give it it's own time in the spot light today as we enter into Thanksgiving.
Hey everyone - Big News! Adam is Back!! And while we aren't kicking this week off with the beginning of our series into SWOTT (technical errors soon to be rectified!) We DO have a very special episode for you today. We discuss what it means to be conditioned - and how our condition to be consumers - of material goods, of drugs, pharmaceuticals, and the like - how this conditioning builds up barriers and obstacles to you #doingthework and the #grit that is required to get it done, and we would never leave you without our signature ending of #whyitmatters. So join us for a reunited week of GLORY!! Thanks y'all, we truly appreciate you out there who support us, the show and continue to follow along to the improvement of yourself and inevitably those around you.
Sad news....The Matt and Adam show are down one huge role member this week. But fear not! We agreed not to let you down, and we still made something a little special for you. Today Matt scratches the surface of what it takes to start to make huge changes in your life by focusing on not the actions themselves, but everything that leads to that action. Join us for another week and a fun exploration into your mind!
This week Adam and I dig into the details! We discuss the importance of stepping away from the gray and generalized and why you should place the clarifying of your purpose as your priority. Right now.
Opportunities - they surround us all of the time. Our awareness of them is shaped by the manner in which we interpret the world. Do we see all of the opportunities? No, we can't. Even if we could - we wouldn't want to because we would become paralyzed by too many options!
Last week we touched on the importance of saying no to certain opportunities when they arise, so in due course and to bring a proper balance into our lives this week Adam and I discuss saying YES to Opportunities!
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015 Mapping Out Your Day!
This is exactly what it sounds like. We talk about the grit required to do the boring or at the least not very exciting work required each day, doing the actual work, and why it matters to actually make a road map and follow that through.
Come join us for another week on the Matt and Adam Show!
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Adam and Matt take on what it means to actually prioritize actions in your life, and what this means, that which is commonly forgot or never thought about - Deprioritization. How do you say no, or yes? When is an opportunity good for you or should you hold off? Join us as we explore PRIORITIES on this weeks episode.
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This is the conclusion of a 3 part mini series held within the Matt and Adam Show. We discuss... well exactly what you think! This ties directly into Trust and Conflict Resolution. It is extremely difficult to resolve conflict without follow through and impossible to establish and maintain trust without consistency.
It can take a lifetime to build and is destroyed in a matter of moments with a single decision. We all know it, we all interact with it intimately each and every day. Whether it is trusting people to obey laws, trusting your employees to show up ready to work, trusting that while your company pursues growth and expansion that they continue to value you and your colleagues as humans, or those closest to you to keep their word and honor commitments. If trust is such an integral part of our daily lives...shouldn't we all have a pretty concrete idea of what it means in our head? And since this is a social concept wouldn't we expect all of our definitions of trust to mirror each other? Well, I would venture to guess that if I asked you all to write down your definition of trust right now, you may have a relatively difficult time coming up with the right words, and once you have found the ones you'd like, that they would not likely match up to the definitions of those around you perfectly. So how do we operate in life with this incongruity of such an important ideal - the social glue that holds societies together? Join us on the show today as Adam and I discuss what trust is, it's impact on our lives, how it is built naturally and how to nurture its growth rapidly in situations where we cannot wait for its natural development.
This is, unquestionably, the most important episode you could choose to listen to as it is perfectly timed and place in today’s world.
If we look out across the city, state, national and global landscape we are seeing conflict of different shapes, sizes, and intensity.
Adam puts Matt through the ringer as we draw out what conflict actually looks like, and what are real and tangible tools and techniques in which you can utilize to optimize your… relationships, performance, outcomes, future, and success!
This week Matt and Adam delve deep into the idea of influence. How is it compares with manipulation and the unconscious impact you can have on the world around you.
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Matt and Adam discuss pushing through the pain to get to where you need to go to. But first we must understand what "pain" is, as it is not necessarily physical pain.
Then we figure out how to actually look forward to that pain, in a way that promotes your personal growth and improvement.
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Adam and Matt take on what it means to provide value to others. In a world where Matt contends that the best socio-economic system ever devised by man is Capitalism we must figure out what it means to both pay and be paid for services provided to and from others. If we don't understand what value is, if we do not understand the importance of resolving other's pain and turning it into a gain then we are doomed to never make a difference and quite likely to miss our higher calling and purpose.
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What happens when you use Bad fuel to light your fire? What is Bad Fuel anyway? What does it matter what type of motivation or mental trick I use if I am getting the results I want and accomplishing my goals?
Let's find out!
This week Matt and Adam have an incredible conversation that centers around the type of fuel you are using to motivate you or light that internal fire. You need to fuel your motivation, as this will help to keep you actively engaged in the process even when you are not "Feeling It" or when it seems as if there is so much going on and you need to choose to actively prioritize or de-prioritize aspects of your life. Having a tap of fuel for your fire ready to be opened up is crucial to ensure the long term success of any goal.
We talk a lot about the #grind . Doing the #work . Now it’s time for fun and #games! How does playing games lend itself to your personal development, self discovery/growth and overall improvement as a human being? Come hang out with us for 15 minutes and find out!
New @mattadamshow episode comes out today! @mlostaglia
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“Your legacy will exist no matter what, what is says and how it feels is up to you.”
This week Adam and Matt talk about success. We hurdle the seemingly daunting obstacle of defining what success can be, as well as address the elephant in the room of people’s fear of success. Does your road to success look like a train track making stops, a river flowing around bends to it’s natural resting point, or like something else?
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Part III of our three part mini series on flawlessness and perfection.
Adam and I wrap up our thought and really thread the needle here. We find that balance between not doing the work because of perfectionism and putting out a product, service, good or action into the world that really should have had more time, effort and love put into it.
Thanks for checking out our miniseries and check us out at https://www.facebook.com/themattandadampodcast and https://bit.ly/MattandAdamYouTube
Part II of our three part mini series on flawlessness and perfection.
Adam and I dive deeper into this topic and discuss your role in overcoming imperfections to make your life, your spouse's life, your family's life better.
Stay tuned for Part III
New episode release! and it is a Three Part Mini-Series! Adam and I discuss what it means to be flawless and perfect.
"Wow - that performance was flawless!"
"Oh my goodness look at her skin, it is just flawless!"
"What is your greatest weakness?" - "Oh, I am a perfectionist."
These are things that we hear, that are modeled, and even taught to us as what we should be striving towards or relaying to the world. Amazing performances should be sought after.
Excellence in your work, your relationships, and your life are best to be prioritized and place high upon our personal beliefs or our value hierarchy.
So what is the problem? Getting things done, or not getting them done in the name of perfectionism.
Adam and Matt dig into the concept of Fear, why is it present still in today's world the way that it was thousands of years ago. We answer questions like - How does can it impact your life in both negative AND Positive ways? What is courage WITHOUT fear? Is that even a thing? And we discuss real life tangible approaches to not just managing fear in your life, but to embracing it and using it to your advantage.
Welcome back to our second episode for the Matt and Adam show! This week Adam picks Matt's brain as a Master Resilience Trainer about resilience. This is where we take the HUGE and incredibly vital skill set of resilience and we give you our 15 minute take on what it is, how it is achieved and why it matters!
It's the debut show! We're really testing our limits by stepping away from our standard long form conversations to get more laser focused on singular topics.
This show is where Adam and I discuss Grit, Getting It Done, and Why it Matters.
Here we discuss the 90 day sprint. We didn't discover this idea but through our individual and shared expertise we walk you through how this can change your life starting this very moment today.