A Positive Mindset Leads to Better Results with Christopher Wirth of Positivity Tribe

The title says it all; "a Positive Mindset Leads to Better Results" Christopher Wirth host of the Top 50 Podcast "No Quit Living" brings his message of perseverance, self-improvement, and positive change along with a discussion of his new book  " The Positivity Tribe" to this episode.

His new book focuses on "the power of positivity one person at a time" and the impact it has on the individual and the world as a whole. The book is available for pre-order at thepositivitytribe.com and also can be found at  Amazon, Barners, and Noble. and a variety of other book retailers.

Want to learn more about Chris visit him at
https://thepositivitytribe.com
https://noquitliving.com

For show notes and highlights visit TimKubiak.com

Transcript

Hi, thanks for listening. I'm Tim Kubiak the host of Bowtiers and Business. You can find us on our socials at Bowtiesandbusiness on Instagram and Facebook and bowtiesandbiz on Twitter. You can find me at Tim Kubiak on Twitter LinkedIn and at timkubiak.com today's an exciting day with Christopher work with us. We're going to be talking about his new book. But before that little bit of background Christopher is the founder and president of Quit living as a professional speaker coach and trainer Christopher works with individuals sports teams and corporations to help improve accountability Effectiveness and efficiency through his process a positive mental Advantage Christopher's the host of the no quit living podcast definitely worth the listen, which has been rated as a top 50 iTunes podcast in three different categories Business Health and self-help Christopher's also the founder of the positivity tribe. That's the book. We're going to be talking about today a coaching speaking and training company to that focuses on working with schools sports teams and organizations looking to adopt a positive mindset and positive Advantage Christopher is coach basketball at the high school and Collegiate levels in addition. He coaching AAU team the succeeded at the national level that's impressive by the way and graduated from Washington College with a ba in business management and drama Christopher was a member of both the men's basketball and tennis team. He has three children Zachary Emily and Mason. For welcome to the show. I appreciate the opportunity. I appreciate you being here. It's really exciting to have you on let's start with how did you end up with drama and management 

they kind of go together and we're just people maybe don't see they business management and drama definitely go together and in many ways, but actually I fell into the drama perspective. I was always been an entrepreneur at heart enjoyed. Business and and things different 
things I studied in school and my sweet maid right across the hall was a drama major and he was doing directing classes and you need people to audition and needed people to ultimately act that were not actors. So it was a volunteer position and there was probably the most attractive girl in our school that was in the scene and 
I had an opportunity to do that. So I actually fell into it and then I just really enjoyed it and the A drama Department said that he thought I would be pretty good at it. And lo and behold I went down both roads. 
And do you have a favorite production you were in I do not have a favorite production, but I was in a men's improv group, which was really interesting and I've done a very very small smidgen of stand-up comedy during my career and it's the only thing that is similar, but it's harder in some ways because with stand-up comedy you can have a couple of obviously different go twos and things but when it comes to improv and if you really do it the right way. Which is obviously audience participation. Sometimes you're just like holy cow where we going. 
And live without a net right and there's no pause. There's no do-over. It's just, you know, there's a lot of times with improv with crickets and you're just like on to the next one. 

In some ways. It's no different than business and changes in business though. Right? 
I mean things come out of nowhere and you just have to adapt. Yeah. 
No, I know. That's why I said I think the drum the business world. I think there's there's a lot of similarities. 

So let's talk about the book real quick. It's an interesting time to put out a book on positivity. So 
yeah, it's how long was it in the works? And who are you really trying to reach with it? So it's a awesome awesome question. I appreciate the opportunity. So 
I was actually writing a different book in February and March of this year and during this pandemic. To your point of an interesting title. There was just so much negativity whether it was political whether we're the race issues going on whether it was people blaming other people and a bunch of friends and I were having different conversations and I came up with the idea for the positivity tribe and it's a fable similar to John Gordon's types of books that have a underlying tone to them. But as far as the audience, it's really from from kids up through adults, and I know that's a wide range, but the Reason is it's based on an actual true story of positivity notes that my company and I have been placing all throughout the country were in over 35 States in five countries, and we've put out 10,000 positivity notes and that's the premise behind the book and what I realize and why we went ahead and did it and launched it now was 
you know, they were still during we're still in some very difficult times and I don't think there's any set point whether it's a month. Six weeks where things are going to go back to quote-unquote normal or The New Normal and I think there's never been a time and there's never been a time within our country where we need more positivity and I think sometimes there are times that are really good for things and sometimes you know things just become a long but this was an opportunity that I had some really good people that helped with the project together wrote it with a friend of mine. Chris will be doing and we're just really excited about it, and I can't wait for Ford to be out. 
So you can pre-order now right in is that on positivity tribe.com? Yep, it can pre-order on the positively tribe.com and it will be available on Amazon Barnes & Noble or wherever else you get your books within the next couple weeks. So by the time this comes out it should be available on all those Outlets as well. 
And for anyone listening it's in the show notes will link you directly to the site so you can go pick it up and as it gets on those other sites will get it there too. So you talk about positivity notes. I've seen what they are. They're pretty cool. Do you mind sharing with the audience how it started and what you're accomplishing with them? 
Yeah. 
It's so in May and June and July of 2019 couple friends and I just took some of our we have these very small thin pads that are white paper and what we didn't realize at the time is that They look identical to parking tickets. So we put these positive quotes on them and we were leaving them under the windshield wipers on cars in Connecticut and New York, which is where I am and then fast forward we started putting the notes on Instagram. We started putting some tags and some things out there and then people reached out to us via DM or on the comments of our post and said hey, where do I get these? I'd love to put some out so we did we went went ahead and we print it out quite a few of them and we've mailed them out to people and the best part about it is it's just a way to share and spread positivity and it's not just during these crazy times. We're going to continue this after and it started before but what I found is that people gravitated to this and a good friend of mine a gentleman by the name of Fred quarter bomb who's one of the assistant coaches at the University of Kansas for the men's basketball team. He's been a huge advocate of this and what he did was he took those notes and he Rated his positivity pole and what he does is he lays them out on this positively Paul that's on the corner 
to different corners on the street and people walk by it and people have been asking. 
Hey, when when's the next Note coming up on the positivity pole and the the new station last night just did a special on it was really cool. And there have been a couple of newspapers that have done it as well locally and in Kansas and what I'm realizing what I'm seeing is that people gravitate towards positivity just as much as they gravitate towards negative. activity and we try to do and what we read in the intro is that the PMA we call our positive mental advantage that we coach with our clients is he's approaching things with that positive mindset and it doesn't mean that you're going to accomplish everything in your be undefeated but statistics have shown science has proven that if you approach certain things with the positive mental attitude positive mindset, you have a higher chance to testicle e of a better outcome than you do if you approach something with a negative outcome, and it's so Simple but when you break it down people don't realize the value of what it is to be positive not only individually but with sports teams companies and especially in business. 

So right now business everybody's figuring out right do I go back to an office? Do I do my employees stay from home? Stay home to stay home forever. What's that look like what's a way that people would benefit from your type of coaching and your new book as they go through these times and navigate these Waters. I appreciate that that question I think for for people that are going through these very difficult and I think unchartered Territories uncharted waters, especially in this country and throughout the world and I have a lot of clients that are downsizing obviously. Everybody is working remotely some businesses are obviously getting back to quote-unquote normal and will actually go back to normalcy in the sense of having their office space and employees. 
Maybe they'll be distance, but they're going to be there and other employees are are downsizing and I have a couple clients that have completely gone away from an actual office of client of mine in the Midwest actually just It did not release renew. Excuse me his lease. He's going to work and have his employees work remotely. And I think the reason why this type of coaching works is these are Uncharted territories and having that positive mental event and having the positive mindset is going to help you get through this it's going to help you stay focused. So whether you're a team that has a sales component to it. How do you stay focused on sales and the bottom line while you're dealing with these unchartered territories going? To the office some of those uncertainty and the thing with the book is anybody that is looking to have that little pick-me-up anybody that's looking to spread some positivity and understanding the thing that we talked about in the book is spreading positivity one person at a time and it's a little bit cliche, but the reality is if if I share something with you that's positive the likelihood is you're going to share it with somebody else whether that's a spouse a child a parent or co-worker and what happens is people compound that by then sir. Sharing it with somebody else and then all of a sudden that person shares with somebody else. So that's the whole beauty of what we do with not only the company but also with the book is the importance of valuing positively but more importantly not just positivity for you but doing something for somebody else bringing something to somebody else's life. Whether it's a positive quote a positive message, whether it's a positive phone call and all of a sudden when you compound that it just has a hugely positive impact moving forward. 
Where did this start for you in life? Did it start in athletics? Did it start? Was there a trigger point that you really said, you know what mental attitude and aptitude is everything to the outcome. I'd like to say that I listen to my parents always growing up. But unfortunately as I have three kids and I see that the Apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. It definitely started with sports, but I have two amazing parents and my father for example. Always 
ask me challenge me to read a little more to try to expand my mind and 
it wasn't until you know, probably my junior year in high school. When I realized I wanted to play college sports that I understood having that mental perspective of goals and and 
then the day-to-day things you need to do, but I think so many people don't understand the value of that mental perspective in the mental advantage and look at and sports. I think probably the best example I know of in the last Decade or two is Tom Brady. Tom Brady was somebody that physically 
he could throw a football that's that's a fact when he was at University of Michigan. 
He did have a good arm, but from physical attributes, he was not six foot six and 210 pounds. If you look at his draft pictures, he's like one-third the size. He is now but what he had was he had the belief within himself, he had the mental perspective of what he needed to do at Michigan and then when he got drafted when most people don't know is he told A craft that that was going to be the best decision he ever made for the New England Patriots and probably mr. Kraft didn't think much of it because they had another quarterback in front of him, but it was during that time and even to this day in his early 40s. Tom Brady is still playing obviously. Yes. 
He's physically gifted he's physically still in phenomenal shape, but I think if you took one attribute, and you said to me I have to make a quarterback. I'm picking Tom Brady because of his mental perspective what he was able to accomplish because not only did he have goals, but then he reversed. Verse engineered and broke them down into bite-size pieces, either. He did each and every day. Yeah, his work. Ethic is not only legendary. It's unbelievable. Right 
and it works perfectly and Belichick system not to go down the sports road too far. 
So, I'm really hoping to see what he does this year in Tampa because I think it's going to be fascinating. Yeah. 
I hope we hope we have a season because to your point. I'm really excited because there are the naysayers who say you know, Tom's nothing without bail check and Bell checks nothing about without Tom and I want to I want to see you know, who's right who's wrong, but more importantly 
I'm curious to see what he can do in a in a warm environment. 
Yeah that and to your point about that though and your whole message of you know, no quit living on your podcast and we'll come back that in a way. He's going to raise the level of the water right by being more positive by having that work ethic. It's going to impact everything. So is that really you know, the same kind of approach you took with your podcast? 
Yeah. 
I think I think there's a lot of similarity and I've been incredibly fortunate to have some amazing Sports guests as as assuming supports. People both players as well as coaches as guests on my show and it's the same thing and I think Tom epitomizes kind of that that mental perspective that no quit mentality. And if you look at Tom Brady you look at the Rings. He has not been undefeated. He's not had multiple 16 and oh seasons and then they go undefeated in the Super Bowl and they just blow people out. He's lost James. He's had tough Seasons. He's lost almost an entire season to injury but it's not quitting. It's and when you get knocked down and The thing that everybody always says when I asked for their no good stories. Well, which one do you want to hear Chris everybody that we look up to whether it's business personal professional. They've all been knocked down. That's not a question if somebody gets knocked down, but the question is do you get a better stronger? Do you get up a better version of yourself? Do you get up a more educated version of yourself? And you take those those bumps in those bruises and you turn them into your next victories and that's that's why I think we've had success with with our podcast as well as the company because That story is something that that everybody understands everybody understands getting knocked down. Everybody understands missing that sale. Everybody understands. You don't get you know every single job opportunity you want. It's what do you learn from? How do you become a better version of yourself? And I think moving forward during these challenging times. I'm hoping as a country that we have a little bit more empathy towards each other and understand standing that this has been an extremely challenging time. And how do we move forward together? 
That's that's a big goal, right? You're going to have to send out a lot of notes to get there. I think I think millions of notes, but but I'm extremely hopeful because I think during these challenging times. I've just seen some amazing things amazing people and some amazing companies that are just stepping up left and right and doing things for other people with zero expectations in return. 
Yeah, 
you seen that so on that, you know, I've seen a lot of writing Harvard Business review and other places as talked about the impact that Executives and their communication and Senior leaders and companies and their Communications. Their team has had in this time. Is there anything you can share from your clients that are like a best practice takeaway for how they've helped navigate the waters. Yeah. 
I think the best practicing that I've seen not only with some of our clients but also with just on on social media and some people that I know is is having that expressing empathy towards others not fully understanding what this person might be going through. So for example, if I lead a sales team and you're on my sales team and you come in that day or that week and maybe your numbers are not what they've been or they're not as as typical as they should be it's having that conversation. And the reason I say empathy because the second piece I have underneath that is communication. I think in today's day and age communication now today is so More important than it was three months ago six months ago because you don't know what somebody's going through. You don't know what they're dealing with at home. Did they have a parent or grandparent that just got diagnosed with the coronavirus and maybe they're in the hospital has their husband or wife lost their job or there's all those things that that people don't know and some of the companies that we work with both individuals as well as as teams and corporations. The ones that are communicating now are the ones that are going to be more successful when we get through this and I think think if your listeners take anything is from this interview is I think hopefully it's the positive perspective number one, but two is is the importance of communication and it's not just in business world. It's also with family friends and people that you socialize with is it's important to communicate now more so than ever in the one thing that I've seen is there are some people that are just very extremely uncomfortable with wearing masks and having to social distance and having to sanitize and do all those things and some people are taking it lightly and some Taking it. The flip side is over the top and you know spreading, you know, 50 feet away from everybody. But what you what you need to do is be more empathetic and say is this person being quote unquote over the top just because that's the way they are. Maybe they had, you know, really unfortunate. Maybe they lost a family member that died from this and maybe they're saying, you know what I maybe look silly driving in my car with my mask on by myself, but you know what I'm going to be overly cautious but being empathetic and communicating is super important during these comment 
It is and it's funny. So I live in the midwest right? I'm originally a Pennsylvanian though and seeing some of that mask thing especially out in the suburbs has been really fascinating to watch it. But also in a way to watch it evolve in the last two weeks businesses here started to require it and it took the personal individual element out of it. So if you want to come in and do business with us happy to have you got to wear masks right and not just National chains, but some of the local chains and so now Now you're seeing masks in the parking lot as people are walking up and things. So I've seen a huge change in talk about taking a leadership position right because they could very easily just let the Nationals take it on the chin on that one. So it's been that's been an interesting Evolution. Yeah. 
It's definitely has and I'm curious to see as as one schools open up whether that's for for children or colleges and universities. I'm curious to see how how that comes because there are some challenges of What state versus Federal versus local and there are people that are I've seen people argue with people in stores and say, you know, you don't you don't have to wear it and say well, you know, it's our it's our philosophy or it's all rules and and I'm hoping that as we get through this because I hundred percent believe we will get through this and the only way we're going to get through this is together. I'm hoping that people will again communicate more communicate less aggressively less anti against somebody and it's okay to have a difference of opinion I want Be very clear at that. It's 100% That's what our country is based upon. That's why we have a Democratic and Republican parties is it's okay to have different ideas of what I feel is not. Okay is we have this combative fighting against each other it you might still believe something and I might still believe something else but at the end of that conversation, I should 100% know where you're coming from. You should 100% know where I'm coming from. It doesn't mean that either of us have to bend and say you know, what because you're stronger or Older more wiser, you're going to win and know it could say, you know what I'm going to respectfully you'll still believe what I believe now. I understand your perspective a lot more. So I appreciate you you sharing that with me, but I still feel this way and I think if we did that as a country a lot of our issues we have now I think would would subside again. It wouldn't go away forever. It wouldn't be completely eliminated. But I think if we could learn to communicate better, I think it would just have a hugely positive impact on our country moving forward. 
Yeah, and frankly, I think if you did it on a global basis, it would be a much better world would be such a better world and just looking where we are in this country now is in an election year. It's it's anti this one person and instead of me quote unquote running against this person. 
Now, it seems like both people are fighting against each other and it's not this is what I believe. This is what I'd like to do. It's almost like you're a bad person and I'm a better person and again having Three young kids. That's not the way I was raised and it's not the way I want to raise my kids. It's not about knocking somebody down. We've been using the hashtag for the last probably seven eight months. Now as we Rise by lifting others up and I think that's something that we need to do a lot more of and more importantly. We need to see a lot more of in our country and to your point about global is let's start a global movement and let's start here at home first and then let's expand it. 

So with that your podcast hugely successful you're at So 280 something 87 88 at the time we're recording this 
what are some things that people could go find, you know best back episodes best messages to keep themselves moving to really dial in to you and your message but also, you know things that they can use in their own life. I appreciate that. Thank you again for forgive me opportunity. Yes for so by the time this recording it will be to 87 88 to 89 somewhere around there and for Me I think what I love about podcasts and what I share with people is if you turn on your radio in your car if your if you hear a song you don't like you have to change the station, you know, you can't pick an actual song and artist yet. I'm sure in the next couple couple months or years, you know, you'll be able to you know, press your car and have it do exactly what you want. But 
what you have to do is you have to change the station and say okay, you know what I want to listen to rock or rap or hip-hop and you hope that if there's a different song. If not, then you change the station when it comes to podcast you can go on. Any any area however, you listen to podcast and you can look at the back episodes and what I would say to anybody that wants to listen to any episodes is there there are some amazing amazing shows. But what I always recommend people do is just click on somebody's podcast yours included mine included and just scroll down, you know on my show we have athletes. We have entertainers. We have speakers. We have best-selling authors and take a listen or to have somebody that you maybe know and you'll get you'll get the flow of the show, but the thing we talked about on On almost every episode is each guests. No quit story a time in their life where they could or could have given up or given in but they didn't and then we talked about a lot of personal development a lot of self development type things of the books. You read the things you do and then we always give each guest an opportunity to share something that's going on in their lives. So I like to make the episodes fun. We also have an something we call the hot seat questions where it's kind of fun with movies Sports entertainment get to know the guess a little bit more and it's and it's there's some similar stuff. Out there, but I know that a lot of shows really don't focus on you know, the person in general those focus on either the book or a podcast or 
being an athlete in their professional career. So we try to make it fun and we try to keep each show around 25 minutes just because that's kind of the distance furry coronavirus traveling to and from now, obviously, there's no distance. So but we try to make them fun. And like I said, I think the best thing is go back and listen to an episode or two because you might really like one more than the other but you know find somebody that maybe you don't know or maybe find somebody that you know, you do know and you'd love to hear them have a 20-minute 25-minute conversation. 
So talking about, you know finding things to college sports. How do you balance that? What does that how do you play to Tool up to sports at that level? I guess is really the question you have a left hand and a right hand know he was oh you're ambidextrous it you can go to the hoop from either side now. 
It's a great question and I think for me playing a bunch of sports growing up is I just Love playing a lot of different things. I think now you hear kids in the at the age of seven or eight. Someone says all your son likes soccer at the age of 7, will you he should specialize in that? He should play soccer, you know 23 hours a day and sleep for one hour. It was tough. It was difficult physically demanding but it was interesting. My grades were higher during the season and during the high points of the seasons because my time was so limited. So if I wanted to have time, A friend with a girlfriend or time relaxing. I knew that I had to spend an hour here or on the way back from a from an away game. I had to grab some books and do some work, but it was definitely difficult. But 
I think the best thing for me which I didn't realize obviously at the time is it set me up perfectly for life because life is crazy life comes at you 24 hours a day, you know a hundred miles an hour and I think the one thing that I really took from it is that we all have the same 24 hours every single day whether you're a college freshman. Or your 55 year-old parent. We all have the same 24 hours in the question is do you maximize them? Do you spend them how you want to and for me? I definitely fell through figuring out what worked for me, you know, when you run into practice running to a class running to try to get something to eat before you have to run and then have a lift session it was it was a lot but but it taught me a lot of and I don't like the word time management because I don't think you really can manage time in some ways. I we speak. Our time maximization and maximizing your minutes each day, and it definitely taught me how to do that. 

So as we look at that, right Athletics laid the foundation for you to now do two three four things professionally yesterday. 
It was definitely a it was a preview of what's to come. It's a preview of what's to come and 
a a you gotta ask what age what age group did you coach I coached actually Rising seventh graders through Rising senior. So I took a team and we had a good core not every single person obviously lasted but Had a really good Core group and 9th and 10th grade years. We competed at an incredibly high level nationally and we had players that went on to play at Duke Georgetown quite a few D3 programs. And we actually had a couple guys that went on to play Division 1 football which is which is really interesting because my whole thing I said before is a lot of great athletes in middle school and high school play a couple different sports and ultimately it's not usually sometimes it's early on but sometimes it's not No, freshman sophomore junior year in high school and they really say you know what? This is the one sport. I want to play in college. 

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's funny. St. 
Louis is a baseball town so I watch kids to soccer and baseball and they get you know roped in and you're right. It's H7 age 8 up. Nope can't play basketball. I can't play tennis camp play golf. Do you just do this? You know, and that Beyond The Social Circles it creates or doesn't create frankly. You have the repetitive stress injuries by the time their 12th because they are playing, you know way too many hours a day, so 
You know, it's interesting. You said that not to not to cut you off but I think that's something that we're all seeing a lot more now is for example, if you have a son or daughter that plays basketball during the winter, whether it's in school and or in a town there your travel League, you know, there's there's the specific wear and tear but there's also the specific wear and tear on those specific joints and tendons and muscles and bones that are specific towards movement and basketball and then typically in March April when spring Sports come up whether it's baseball or softball for girls lacrosse for both and now all of a sudden that male or female is then going to play an additional 40 50 60 70 basketball games, whether they're the best player as a sophomore, you know, the 11th person on a ninth grade team their muscles tendons joints are now playing, you know, double triple what they used to and I think that's something that doctors and And people are understanding more. So now than ever is because you used to have a break from those. Let's call it but basketball muscles and now your son or daughter is playing, you know LaCrosse or there maybe they're swimming and it's I definitely believe it allows the body to recharge. But when all of a sudden you're playing a sport almost 365 days a year and when a sport like basketball which is which is games are all indoors. It doesn't matter whether you're in the dead of winter or you're in the heat of the summer. You can typically play that sport all the time. So I'm Bring that that people get a little bit smarter and understanding the recovery and the rest perspective because I think it's okay to want to be a professional athlete. You know, Michael Phelps is probably the best example of somebody who committed to Excellence in his sport, but he also took some time off over the last 10 years he did and if you look at some of the greatest athletes ever, right they were multi-sport athletes, right you pick a profession and pick a even a lot of major league baseball players. Could have played pro football or vice versa, you know, and I think that's but frankly I saw that lost in my daughter's era right? I watched everybody become specialized and it was interesting the other thing I saw and I don't know the ages of your children, but mine I saw you lost the neighborhood pick up Sports, which I thought was tragic everything had to be organized it became a business that the kids were involved in funding basically and nobody went and played with the subdivision or the Next town over in played pickup basketball or baseball or anything. Have you seen same thing? Yeah, it's minor 11 9 & 7 so they're playing more competitively in certain certain levels. But yeah, it's interesting. You say then during this this pandemic my kids obviously, everybody was was being educated from home, but a couple of the kids within the neighborhood would get on their bikes more would go down to the park and play and I was actually really I really positively surprised because to your point I drive by those Parks six months ago a year ago two years ago and unless it was an organized baseball team practicing or game there was little to nobody there ever and I think that's something that I'm hoping during this craziness of people needing and wanting to be outdoors more and maybe we could get back to some of that. Let's call it normalcy of hey, let's grab four five six friends and let's go play Touch football or hey, let's go grab a bunch of us. And shoot some hoops. Play some some other sport, you know play soccer for a little bit and I think in some ways we get back to that but to your point everything is not only super 
planned and focus but it's super competitive where it's like, you know, you need the best of the best and it's got to be this travel team and I'm hoping that we can get back to a little bit more of a relaxed enjoyment for some of the kids. Yeah. 
Let them be kids. Thank y'all. Amen. 
Amen. 
Yeah, so A lot of my demographic young women professionals growing in their careers, you know, what are things that they can do specifically because there's some challenges their right to have that positive influence in their organizations and in their own career Direction. Yeah. 
I think that's a fantastic question. And one of the things I talked about quite often is and it's something that's free. It's the value of an accountability partner and I've had many accountability Partners in my life and the very significant difference. tween an accountability partner in a coach or a mentor is you're not paying for an accountability partner and for a woman even a man that's trying to grow their business grow their profession personally professionally Advanced we have those same challenges whether it's kids whether it's obstacles, whether it's certain education, but what an accountability partner will do in can do for you is you set a specific schedule typically on a weekly or bi-weekly basis and you tell him or her these goals of these Ages that I'm having and he or she will hold you accountable every single week. You have those check-ins. And what happens is you get those small wins along the way so if any of your listeners have not looked into accountability Partners, I think it's something that that I definitely recommend and the other thing is old school, but it's the value of writing things down. And and what I talk about is is goals. It's journaling and it's affirmations and people have that funny comment or that funny smart. When they hear affirmations because they picture Stewart Smiley back in the day from from sin alive. When you look in the mirror and say I am wonderful. I am amazing and people like me that's not an affirmation. That's that's a humorous perspective. What I'm talking about is is writing something down whether it's a goal whether it's a sales goal, whether it's a raise in the business, whether it's a different, you know, genre you're leading into for your business whether it's a different perspective you're taking but the value of writing things down goals affirmations and Then just doing journaling of where you are struggles you're having it's been proven that when you write things down your statistically so much higher 
going to have a higher chance, excuse me of accomplishing that goal or that objective. And if you add an accountability partner to it, I think all of a sudden now you have this this formula now you have this base for for learning growing and improving and I think for me, I don't like the term self-help and the reason because I think people look at help. As a weakness, I like the term self-improvement. We've actually coined at the self-improvement movement So for anybody that's looking to make those self improvements holding yourself accountable, but also having somebody to hold you accountable and then also somebody that you hold accountable as well. It allows you to take that person development step one step higher and that once you get there then it's you raised as a step higher and I've seen and heard some amazing people sharing incredible stories of how accountability Partners have really helped take their personal professional. Our journey to just a higher level that's great advice and not advise. You hear very often on the accountability partner. I have a question on journaling. Yes, sir. Do you have an opinion is digital versus old school pen and paper make a difference. Does it depend on the individual any research you seen on that? Yes, and I love how you preface that as opinion because it is this isn't a opinion of mine. It's not a fact-based. But as I said before statistically Your likelihood of following through on things are so much higher when you take a pen or a pencil to a piece of paper. So in that regard, there's science proven that when you actually do it, it has a different mental perspective of seeing it writing it down from your mind actually to the paper. But my opinion is for me I go back and I have journals dating back to 2003 2004 and I go back once a quarter once every two quarters and I'll just grab one or two and go. Through them and I see names of vents things that I've have forgotten. So for me, I always preach at my clients and whenever I get a new client whether it's an in-person client or a or a virtual client is I either give them or send them a journal blank Journal because I truly believe in the value of it, but I also have clients that have very specific electronic systems that work for them. So my opinion and again, I'm glad you preface it that way is that there's nothing that beats Pain in the paper, but I also know people that are unbelievably successful both personally and financially have a digital system that works for them. 
Yeah. 
And the reason I ask is I get in an argument with a couple of my friends and other entrepreneurs all the time and I am old-school. I have my journal as a purple journal and if they ever stop making that color I'm lost right? 
I'll tell you you can see these are our leather-bound are no quit living journals, and I literally I swear by these. And if they stopped making these I'll be lessons in trouble. I think as you with the purple, but and you know, it's did you bring up a point though is the one thing I always tell people to is is it's about walking before you go ahead and full-on Sprint or running a hundred hundred yard dash at the Olympic level is you people think. Oh, I got to get a journal. So now I got to go online and I got to get fancy. I have a client of mine unbelievably successful. You know seven figures plus and he gets his journals from from Barnes and Noble and their $6.95. They're 
they're bound but they work for him and 
there's not a single person on this Earth that could say he would be more successful or less successful if he had either a $200 leather-bound one or if he had an electric electronic system that had every bells and whistles this works for him. But the thing that that I love about it is it's all about consistency. So for your listeners that have not thought about out or maybe were interested in during these challenging times where things are slow down. We all have a little bit more time. So maybe think about picking up journaling and go to Staples and grab a $5 notebook notepad and just just figure out what works for you because there's not one thing that works for everybody. 
So you talked about clients if someone listening is an individual or runs a team what's best way to get in touch with you start the conversation about what you can offer them. I appreciate that. So I love connecting with new people. I've 
So fortunate to have people that have mentored me over the years and I give my personal email address to everybody which is Chris at no quit living.com. Like I said, I love connecting with people the website. No quit living.com is got a bunch of our stuff on there and we're pretty active on social media. The biggest platform or on is Instagram, but we're also on on Facebook and I think the one thing I talk about a lot is Six Degrees of Separation in today's day and age. We're really 1° separated from people, especially with social media and G so if there's anybody that's thinking about maybe hiring a coach thing about bringing a coach or speaker. We always have free consultations. We'd love to have a conversation. We want to make sure first and foremost that not only are we a right fit for our clients. But if we are not I have a very large network of speakers coaches and trainers that are friends of mine. That would be happy to recommend but I love connecting with new people and I love love having conversations with people from all walks of life. How have you seen the In business shift to the virtual events in the last four or five months. 
It's been it's been interesting and challenging and I laugh because in May June and July of this year. I had quite a few large speaking events and I'm not talking from a monetary perspective. I'm talking from a audience perspective a lot of keynote opportunities that obviously got shut down. Some of them will be returning in a virtual fashion. But the one thing I say it's been interesting is 
Personally, I love to go to live events in person. That's the way I learn best, but there are other people that like to learn via technology and virtually more. So so for example, they could be sitting at home when they're bathrobe in the morning or they could be sitting at home at night after they worked out in their workout clothes and you can turn on a video you can turn on a coaching program. So what I've seen is I've seen just a lot of different things coming up whether it's webinars, whether it's Zoom conferences whether it's different. A meet-up type things and I think what we're going to continue to see is there are companies and events and fellow speakers. I've seen a bunch of them posting things that they are having events and things now very different-looking space spatially, you know, you're very distant, but I think the thing that I share with people is it's an opportunity to be creative and I think the speakers and coaches and trainers that are going to be able to adapt to these new virtual times. I think are going to be very successful and I think the ones that You know don't we'll have to figure out a way to do it. But if you can I think figure out kind of that Medium that middle point. I think you have an opportunity to be successful, but it's definitely changing and as you know, it looks different it feels different but at the end of the day, it's the exact same message. So whether John C-Max Willis speaking virtually in front of 5,000 people or if he's speaking at a small dinner event for 50 people. It's the same message. He's saying the same thing. It's just being delivered and being received in a different way. Yeah, it's funny. So this week traditionally, I'd be in Las Vegas at an IT security event, right and crawl around playing nerd and it's really weird not to be doing that and I was on with you know, one of my business partners this morning and it was like, oh man, we'd be in Vegas right now, you know, we'd be trying not to have our cell phones hacked at the moment because it's a hacker event, but right we 
but you know, it was so weird that dawned on us that all of that's gone. 
And we have friends that are speakers and we knew they were supposed to be in Europe speaking and events and just realizing that impact but to your point I've seen some amazing virtual pivots, right? I've seen some of events where they delivered the same content and half the amount of time the same quality. Yeah, you missed the coffee breaks you missing that working you miss the people but the main message is were still there. Yeah, you know, that's that's a really good point and I would I would say for 
for any listeners or viewers that are Better listening or watching. This is those events and those things those speakers those programs. They're still there. You just have to look a little bit differently but to your point, it's the same thing. You're just missing some of that one-on-one networking. But you know one one interesting story is a good friend of mine. He started creating these five five PM virtual happy hours. He's been doing them now for the last two or three months. He runs a very successful video company. He actually does all of my videos stuff so might be a little bit biased but he made a decision that he was not able to network. So he was he was the type of person that loves meeting new people. He's always going to different happy hours and type of events just to put a name with the face and to get his business out there and he does it because that's what works for him. But he came up with this idea to have these virtual happy hours and and he said there are times where we'll have two or three or four people. He said they're times we'll have 12 15 20 people. He said some of the same some are brand new some come back. Don't but it's a way to be creative and I think what I've seen and I know you've seen as well as they're just some really cool companies and people that are doing some really neat things not only virtually but creatively that you couldn't have done five six years, assuming five six months ago, you know zoom zoom has been around for a long time, you know webinars have been around for a long time, but five six 10 months ago people pervert in person. I'll share a statistic with with with your listeners that might shock them and if you know this then it won't shock you but as of a couple of weeks ago Zoom was worth more money than the seven largest United States Airlines combined think about that for a second combined. So it's not we're not we're not talking about the middle of the pack or the smallest we're talking about the seven largest Airlines combined 
are now worth less than Zoom is and and that's exciting in some way scary and others but what it means is that this company 
took a 
Opportunity and they said you know what not only can we capitalize financially, but we can also bring people together. I believe that Airlines and things are going to go back to normal. I know around here on the East Coast travel is picking up and vacationing and things people are going to obviously be more careful with masks and things like that. But I believe we're going back to normalcy soon, but they're just huge opportunity for people to be creative and I think with 
with obstacles and challenging times come opportunities where companies individuals can create things and I as you I said before to I've just seen some really cool things with companies. Yeah for anyone who's listening and wants to see that I'm guessing you saw it on the visual capitalist that where you saw that chart. No, actually I saw it on somebody posted it on Instagram a couple weeks ago Okay cool. So it's on Instagram, but it's there's also a version from June right before zooms lost earnings on the visual capitalist. It's a really great breakout. So if you just had visual capitalist.com And look it up you'll see it and yeah, it was fascinating. I it's funny use that stat. I actually used it in a presentation. I did for a security company for the channel partner Network and that was you know part of my my telling the story of how your business better change because look at what's changed. That's a good that's a good point and again goes back to something I said earlier to is the opportunity perspective of opportunities to be creative, you know a year ago, I if you and I had a conversation Ation, I never would have brought up a virtual keynote speech or a virtual seminar or webinar as opposed to an in-person. Yes, it would have been recorded would have been broadcasted later on YouTube and or available on YouTube later, but now it's your first it's your first objective and new NT, you know to your point. It's those amazing Stories and things are out there. So for those people that are looking to be more creative, but also looking for ideas and suggestions. It's in front of you just have to be willing to to search a little bit for it. 
So 
your business you've changed the book has up have there been other positive changes that have accelerated your business through all of this? 

If I Define them as accelerated business, I think it would it would I Define it as just being more willing to jump on zooms with clients more. So now I think the interesting perspective is if you and I connected via an introduction six months ago. I would have said hey, let's just, you know, give me a call now I'm saying hey, I'll send you a I'll send you a zoom link. Let's jump on a video and I think that's something that that has helped the Business perspective, but personally, I don't think there's anything better than seeing somebody eye-to-eye their expressions their mannerisms and a 15-minute Zoom call is almost in some ways. I think better than a 45 minute phone call because you can see things differently. I can pick up my phone and say hey, did you see this or I can like I did before I know I like I grabbed my journal and I showed it to you can't do that on the phone. You can describe it. So I think that's been the biggest thing is just embracing technology so early on in the the middle of March we bought the highest level of zoom and all those capabilities because we saw the writing on the wall, and we're far from perfect. But I think the technology that's out there today. It's forever changing and it's much cheaper to do certain things and it was two three four years ago Surfer any of your listeners are looking to maybe start a business grow business or maybe even bring on new employees. There are ways to do it way more cost-effective today than it was a year. Two or three years ago. Yeah. 
It's interesting. Barrier of Entry to your point is consistently coming down and if you do your homework and your creative and you want to start your own thing, I agree Define your market and go at it. Yeah. 
I love that you love that. You said that the barrier of Entry is it's much cheaper, but it's also quicker to you know, a year to three years ago, you know, if someone's on your website and do all you know, now you go on GoDaddy or what Those other sites you buy domain. You can also have a LinkedIn live within minutes. And I think that's the one thing that I would I would challenge people on is just be creative and think a little bit outside the box. 
Yeah, I so speaking of real estate person yesterday and it was not a podcast interview. It was just simply a discovery call and it was fascinating to hear how technology has shifted residential real estate in the last five six months virtual House tours virtual viewings everything right? So she's literally running around with cameras now live streaming stuff, you know, so totally different world. It's interesting. You said I have a lot of friends that are in the real estate world. And you know, I constantly hear them. I'm never been I've never been busier. I'm non-stop and to your point. It's the same house. It's the same street. It's the same cost. It's just being delivered and received differently and again going back to the years Discovery call. You mentioned is having that video camera having that cell phone going to say. Hey, I know you can't get out until Friday, but you know what? I'm at the house now, let me grab my phone. And I'll walk you through the kitchen. You had a question about the pantry or the you know, the guest bedroom Bowman and again, it doesn't take away the fact that still people want to physically see that house. They want to walk the property but now you can virtually see it almost to the point of being in person and I think that helps a lot of things but it's fascinating seeing some of the amazing things people are doing 
So talking about that is we bring back the books coming out right positivity tribe. Give us two or three reasons why if I'm thinking about getting it I really should grab it. Right? 
First of all, it's a quick read so I know people like to have that check mark next to it next to a book in that regard, but it's if you're looking for an uplifting story if you're looking for some positivity, but if you're looking for something that 
it's really fun to read so whether you have a It's grade son or you have a 17 year old daughter or whether you're a 40 year old business person. It's in that it's easy to read. It's fun and I believe it's a book that you're going to read and you're going to pass it along to somebody because it had a positive impact on you. And that's that's our number one objective with this book is to have each reader finished reading the book and say, you know what? I feel better that I finished this book, but I also feel more optimistic and I'd like to pass it on or gift it to to somebody else and then that goes to your point earlier right that actually Li 
you can read it from you know senior business person down the kick so this could be something that you start in your business life and then frankly take in your personal life or vice versa exactly that and that's that's a really good point and that's something that we thought about a lot is if you're on a on a team that's called a sales team and you read this book or it gets brought to you or where I come speak to you you're going to read it. And then you're also going to be able to bring it home to to your kid or your spouse and then the flip side is if you're a You know seventh grade son x to the 7th grader male or female and you read this you can then go ahead and bring it to Mom or Dad or to your brother and sister. So, I think that was one of the things we really focused on is having that wide range of potential readers. That's really nice. So Chris, thank you for being here again. You can find it at positivity tribe.com. Right 
and it will also be available on Amazon Barnes & Noble host of other places and the no quit living podcast and I believe the No, quit living.com. Is that right? Yes, sir. So anything you want any parting comments? Yeah my Maya part and come very simple is just again going back to the hashtag As We rise by lifting others up. And 
as I said earlier if anybody would love to connect my personal email, it's Chris at no quit living.com and I hope you have a fantastic day morning or evening depending on when you're listening to this and I truly appreciate the opportunity to be here. I'm honored every time I get to share Are our positive message? It's been a real pleasure. So I look forward to catching up with you. Thank you. 

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