Will Bowen Audio

JumpStart - Pertinacity

The other day I was listening to an interview with Herb Kelleher the founder of Southwest Airlines.

Southwest is the only airline to have posted a profit every single year in its history.

In fact, for decades, Southwest was the most profitable company in the United States.

When the journalist asked Kelleher the secret to his success he used a word I had never heard before– – “PERTINACITY.”

Basically, pertinacity means persistence.

BUT, pertinacity implies more than being persistent.

 

It implies having persistence as part of your very nature.

In other words, you don’t strive to be persistent, persistence is simply who you are.

The good news is that pertinacity is a learnable skill -- get ready to unleash your persistence.

 

Jumpstart - Staying Successful

The #1 cause of failure for successful people is to stop doing what made them successful in the first place.

And yet, it's surprisingly easy to give up on what’s working -- simply because it IS working.

No problem means no motivation; which means no constructive action.

Our minds are scattered and forgetful tending to focus only on what’s urgent instead of what’s important.

The hard part isn’t figuring out what creates success.

And, it’s not doing the actual work.

No, the hard part to being successful is doing what’s important every day — even when it’s not urgent.

Focus on what’s important and you’ll have far fewer urgent problems.

It’s as simple as that.

Jumpstart - Sleep

Scientists are only just beginning to understand the healing power of sleep.

Sleep is to your brain what being put into a dishwasher is to a dirty dish — it sends cleansing waves across your brain removing what’s unnecessary while arranging and archiving what is.

A person who gets GOOD QUALITY sleep is happier, less stressed, more competent, more creative, more confident, and the list goes on and on.

Feeling angry?  Get better sleep.
Having trouble losing weight? Get better sleep.
Need to be more creative?  Get better sleep.

I’ve been seriously monitoring my sleep quality for the past 6 months and tweaking things to where I now regularly achieve a full 100% sleep quality many nights.

Let me teach you how to sleep better so you can live better.

Jumpstart - Progress

Did you know that when the telephone was introduced, angry protesters actually pulled down phone poles around the country?

And, when cars became common on rural roads people sat on their porches and fired shots at them as they passed.

Today, people throw Lime and Bird scooters into dumpsters and even off of buildings.

Whenever society progresses, there is ALWAYS a faction of people fighting—and I do mean FIGHTING, to hold things back.

We can scoff at such people and feel superior.

Or, we can look within ourselves to discover where we are resisting progress in our own lives.

The resistance to progress we see in society is a mirror of the resistance within ourselves.

As we grow, so grows everyone and everything around us.

So, it’s important to grow as much as we can not just for ourselves but for everyone who lives now and will live after us.

“To You; Love God" Tuesday - Awaken Part 3

Did you ever seen the Disney movie short “Lambert?”

Lambert is a lion cub raised by sheep.

He eats grass and hops along the meadow with the other lambs until one day a wild lion shows up to attack the herd.

Lambert starts to bleat in fear along with his brothers and sisters but, instead, out comes from his body comes a deafening ROAR.

Lambert thought he was a sheep and, under pressure, he discovered he was so much more.

How much more can you become as a spouse, a parent, a boss, a coworker, friend, or whatever role in which you find yourself?

Don’t wait for something traumatic to summon forth your potential.  Instead, cultivate your potential so you’ll be ready when life’s traumas present themselves.

Jumpstart - Repurposing

Let’s say you own a company that bakes pies and you’re selling thousands of pies every week.

Then, you're shocked to discover that your customers are gobbling down your pies (or even throwing them away) so they can play with the packaging the pie comes in!

What would you do?

Or, let’s say you create the perfect wipe for removing women’s makeup and you find out to your horror that your customers are blowing their noses on them.

What now?

You either freak out or you take create Frisbee toys from pie plates and rebrand Kleenex face wipes as tissues.

Some of the greatest business and personal successes come from the painful process of figuring out better uses for existing ideas.

Discover how to repurpose YOUR life to make things better for you and everyone else.

Jumpstart - Your Potential

My wife and I  love our home.

It sits on a quiet, neighborhood lake just 12 minutes from downtown KC and only 7 minutes from the airport.

Our home is unique, stylish and has sweeping views of the lake.

BUT… there’s a problem!

For several years now, our hot water heater has barely produced enough hot water to fill our bathtub.

I googled possible solutions and some of them ranged in price into thousands of dollars.

Then, a friend suggested something that cost me nothing and immediately solved our hot water problem.

More importantly, his suggestion taught me a great metaphor for improving every area of our lives.

That’s a BIG claim I know.

But check it out for yourself.

See if what I discuss in this message doesn’t have an immediate positive impact on your life.

JumpStart - Struggling with depression (AKA: You don’t think I do all of this exercise for my health do you?)

It’s kind of trendy today for celebs to talk about their struggle with depression.

I’ve talked about my own issues with depression some but in this message, I lay it out and hopefully provide you with some advice for staving off the monster that threatens to eat many of us alive if we're not vigilant.

Here’s some hope and a reason to believe in a happier life fo you and those you care about.

JumpStart - Overcoming Limitations

I recently finished a 21-part JumpStart series titled “Masters of Life” in which I celebrated great teachers whose impact had created a lasting, positive impact on my life.

If you missed it, go back and check it out.

One of the Masters to whom I paid homage was Richard Bach, author of Illusions, Jonathan Livingston Seagull and many others and, to be honest, I could do an entire series on just him.

Today I’d like to focus on a quote from Bach’s book Illusions, The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah,

"Argue for your limitations and they’re yours."

Every day now for several years, I’ve been posting 3 little positive sayings on Facebook.

Nothing too profound — just something pithy to inspire, encourage, and motivate my fans.

And, it’s AMAZING how many comments I get that start with, “UNLESS,” “BUT,” “IF ONLY,” “YOU DON’T GET IT,”  and “THAT’S EASY FOR YOU TO SAY!”

The person then launches into why he or she can’t do something because of some physical or emotional issue.

Look, I get that EACH of us has limitations in some areas but for the most part, you need to get over your self-destructive excuse-making.

You’re FAR more capable than you give yourself PERMISSION to be!

“To You; Love God” Tuesday - Awaken Part 2

Today is our second “To You; Love, God” Tuesday based on my daily devotional by the same name.

Which came first?  

The smile or happiness?

The answer might surprise you.

There is a dance between our emotions and our bodies where it’s often hard to tell who’s leading and who’s following.

If you feel happy, smile and you’ll feel happier longer.

If you feel unhappy, SMILE, it will fire off the feeling of happiness in your body.

By the way, in case you’re wondering who IS leading the dance?

It’s you.