Pat Flynn

storytelling is going to be the most powerful number one skill in the world that you can learn right now learning how to tell a story make a connection and emotionally have somebody hang on to your words and listen to you that's how you make movements that's how you make change pat flynn the founder of spi he helps people build passive income driven online businesses has created this empire that makes over seven figures a year how

storytelling is going to be the most powerful number one skill in the world that you can learn right now learning how to tell a story make a connection and emotionally have somebody hang on to your words and listen to you that's how you make movements that's how you make change pat flynn the founder of spi he helps people build passive income driven online businesses has created this empire that makes over seven figures a year how

Matt Flynn is back onto the show here. So I've developed a framework called the 20% Itch Rule, where 80% of your time is dedicated to the things that you are committed to, but you reserve and even protect 20% of your time for experimentation, for fun, for something new. If that were to fail, that's okay because you still have the 80% that you're taking care of.

Matt Flynn is back onto the show here. So I've developed a framework called the 20% Itch Rule, where 80% of your time is dedicated to the things that you are committed to, but you reserve and even protect 20% of your time for experimentation, for fun, for something new. If that were to fail, that's okay because you still have the 80% that you're taking care of.

You're still taking care of business. Tim Ferriss taught me a question. That is, if this were easy, what would it look like? Because I, and I know many of us, tend to overcomplicate or believe things are more complicated than they actually are.

You're still taking care of business. Tim Ferriss taught me a question. That is, if this were easy, what would it look like? Because I, and I know many of us, tend to overcomplicate or believe things are more complicated than they actually are.

In business, it's often the best practice to optimize, to automate, right? The problem is when you automate too much of what you have going on, you start to remove maybe some of the parts that were actually fun for you. in the beginning. And we hear it all the time, you gotta automate, you gotta, you know, get rid of yourself, take yourself out of it.

In business, it's often the best practice to optimize, to automate, right? The problem is when you automate too much of what you have going on, you start to remove maybe some of the parts that were actually fun for you. in the beginning. And we hear it all the time, you gotta automate, you gotta, you know, get rid of yourself, take yourself out of it.

But if you totally take yourself out of this thing, it's a soulless thing now. And for a while I was starting to feel like it was just, I was just going through the motions. It was publishing a podcast episode and immediately dreading the next week that I had to then create another podcast episode, the content hamster wheel. as they call it.

But if you totally take yourself out of this thing, it's a soulless thing now. And for a while I was starting to feel like it was just, I was just going through the motions. It was publishing a podcast episode and immediately dreading the next week that I had to then create another podcast episode, the content hamster wheel. as they call it.

And that's a hard trap to be in because you have these handcuffs. And if you slow down, then you start losing followers or starting to lose momentum. And it just felt like a job. And I was like, I'm in this space, so I don't have to do the job, but now I'm just my own boss of my own job. And I feel like even less fulfilled as a result of that.

And that's a hard trap to be in because you have these handcuffs. And if you slow down, then you start losing followers or starting to lose momentum. And it just felt like a job. And I was like, I'm in this space, so I don't have to do the job, but now I'm just my own boss of my own job. And I feel like even less fulfilled as a result of that.

So I've always found, and thankfully I wasn't in that position for a long time, but I did discover it and it felt, and it led to procrastination. It led to just not great content. It was just, I had to get the schedule out. So I put something out. And I found that what really helped me was just finding the fun again. Finding the fun again.

So I've always found, and thankfully I wasn't in that position for a long time, but I did discover it and it felt, and it led to procrastination. It led to just not great content. It was just, I had to get the schedule out. So I put something out. And I found that what really helped me was just finding the fun again. Finding the fun again.

And now I'm a 42 year old man playing with cardboard with cartoons on it. And I'm having the time of my life. And as a content creator, especially when you are having fun with whatever it is that you're doing, your passion comes through that screen, comes through that audio file, comes through in those words and those emails, your audience can feel that too.

And now I'm a 42 year old man playing with cardboard with cartoons on it. And I'm having the time of my life. And as a content creator, especially when you are having fun with whatever it is that you're doing, your passion comes through that screen, comes through that audio file, comes through in those words and those emails, your audience can feel that too.

And today, more important than ever, it's not just about the information you're sharing. I mean, how many of us are overwhelmed from all the information that's available to us today, right? So overwhelmed. I mean, back in the day when we started, information was valuable. It was scarce. It was scarce.

And today, more important than ever, it's not just about the information you're sharing. I mean, how many of us are overwhelmed from all the information that's available to us today, right? So overwhelmed. I mean, back in the day when we started, information was valuable. It was scarce. It was scarce.

If you had an Encyclopedia Britannica, you were upper class because you could afford that information and others couldn't. Now, we all have the same information and same resources on our phone. So, if information were the key, then we'd all be successful. So it's not the information. As a creator, it's about packaging that information.

If you had an Encyclopedia Britannica, you were upper class because you could afford that information and others couldn't. Now, we all have the same information and same resources on our phone. So, if information were the key, then we'd all be successful. So it's not the information. As a creator, it's about packaging that information.