The Synergy of Resilience, Initiative, and Productivity - Celebrating 100 Episodes

Episode 100 Top Three Episode Topics
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Cristina: [00:00:00] Welcome to Morning Coffee and Mimosas. I'm Christina. 

Joe: And I'm Joe. 

Cristina: We are a father daughter duo. We come here Sunday mornings, but you can come here any time you please. We banter about life, about business, and we do it over coffee and mimosas. 

Joe: Good morning, beautiful. 

Cristina: Good morning, Faj. 

Joe: How are you? 

Cristina: I'm doing well.

How are you? Good. 

Joe: I'm wonderful. 

Cristina: Yeah? 

Joe: Yeah. Yeah. 

Cristina: I thought maybe you hadn't been wonderful because we've missed a little time on our podcast here. 

Joe: No, I've been wonderful. What? Yes. 

Cristina: Well, that's offensive. 

Joe: Schedule. It's not wonderful that we missed any episodes. It was just one. I've just been doing good. I thought that 

Cristina: you were only wonderful when we've been recording together routinely.

Joe: Okay. That's true. I've been depressed. Very sad. 

Cristina: Yeah. I thought that you were in like a dark sullen hole that we were going to have to really pull you out of. 

Joe: [00:01:00] No. However, you could pull me out easier because since January 8th, I have lost 41 pounds. On purpose, by the way, nothing wrong with me. 

Cristina: I feel like that deserves a very weak probably but round of applause 

Joe: All right, very good.

Thank you 

Cristina: with me for for mr. Joe Graziano. 

Joe: That's right I have lost 41 pounds half the man he used to be 

Cristina: physically but But mentally, doing super well, right? You look great. 

Joe: Yeah, everything's great. Thank you. Yeah, I'm very proud of it. And, uh, just had new blood work and all my numbers are perfect.

Everything is just perfect. 

Cristina: That's so great. So I can keep you for a long time. Yeah, 

Joe: I should be around for a while. I'm 

Cristina: really happy to hear that. 

Joe: Very happy to go unless I insult you and you hit me and I fall over and bang my head Well 

Cristina: now I may be big enough to beat you up 

Joe: so probably Not that I was a tough guy before that But uh, this is a very [00:02:00] exciting episode because this is our 100th Episode, can 

Cristina: you believe that we've sat down to record at this very table?

Joe: 100 

Cristina: times 

Joe: Yeah Imagine that I mean, 

Cristina: I guess we've been at different tables, but a hundred times 

Joe: Yeah, I guess we sat down so much that I gained 60 pounds and had to lose 40. I'm still up 20 

Cristina: Well, the real the real thing just going back to your weight for a second I think the real like thing to marvel here is that you managed to take off 41 pounds in all The way that I think only you could do without ever lifting a finger or doing one ounce of exercise.

Joe: That's correct, and no drugs, no drugs. 

Cristina: Yeah, no, he is not part of, a lot of people actually have been asking me, like, if he's on the ozempic train and he has not, he has not gotten into ozempic. But you would look at him and say, that's, you know. That's an ozempic weight loss story because it happened so fast.

Joe: It's called discipline. And, and, you know, this is a business podcast, but if you [00:03:00] want to lose weight, I fasted 18 hours a day, you know, finished dinner at six o'clock, don't have any food till afternoon and then, um, cut my calories down. And that's how I did it. 

Cristina: I recently saw him say no to ice 

Joe: cream. And I've had no dessert.

Well, barely. I actually, 

Cristina: it was a health hazard for me, because I almost had a heart attack, that he said no to ice cream. It's the first time in all my 36 years on this earth that I've seen such a thing. I don't think I remember the first year or so, so there's probably more than I can reflect on. That's 

Joe: amazing.

Yeah. 

Cristina: It was wild. I'm very proud of you, though. 

Joe: Thank you. Thank you. 

Cristina: Yeah, maybe I'll, I'll follow suit and drop some weight in the next. Month or two. 

Joe: There you go. Now that summer is here. Yeah Yeah So anyway, 100 

Cristina: freaking episodes. Can you believe that? 

Joe: Yeah So what why don't you tell the listeners what we did for this episode to make this relevant for all of you listening?

Cristina: well, we're really we're doing this for us because it's 100 episodes [00:04:00] and you know what we are We are living we are back in the swing of life traveling going crazy and we thought So A hundred episodes, let's take a little time and let's reflect on what we've done for the last. So just to take a step back, we started this, our official first episode dropped in February, actually, February 21st, 2021.

So we have been at this thing for almost three and a half years. and just thinking back to what life looked like when we first started, it was very different, right? Everybody knows kind of what life looked like in February of 2021. So very different. We've experienced a ton. I think both of us personally and professionally in the last three and a half years, um, have, Gotten into new things, have, you know, continued to do a lot of the things that we were doing, but with a lot more pace.

and [00:05:00] as we reflect and we said, let's look at what we've done. Let's look at the episodes that we dropped our last hundred or 99 episodes. This will be episode 100. So we were like, let's look at our last 99 episodes and we went back and looked at what were our fan favorites. So, what did we find? We found we had our top three episodes were actually our episode number 39 was our number one episode.

Big shout out to Sam Moravati here, who was our guest for that. That was part of our resilience series back in November of 2021. And we talked about it was about determined to rise. Sam had a pretty horrific accident getting hit by a car at a racetrack, and talked about his journey back. And I'm super excited to share that he's doing amazing now and is back on my husband's volleyball team.

They're playing together. So incredible. Yeah, so super, super incredible, like where he's come from, even when that episode dropped in 2021. But [00:06:00] that episode was about resilience. Then we had Number two in line was a message to Garcia, which was episode number 22. And I'm sharing these episode numbers for you listeners.

In case you decide you want to go back and listen to any of this, because there's some really good content, even though we've been a little bit slower to drop some more recently, there's some really great content back from when we were just a tad bit less busy. And that was really a message about. it was about some general that my dad shared.

You want to tell us a little bit about that? 

Joe: Yeah, that, that's a, uh, an article that was written in, um, the late 1800s, but it had to do with a, uh, guy during the Spanish American war. And, the, general wanted somebody to go send a message to this Garcia, uh, a general to, you know, I think it was the American to send someone to the Spanish.

general and he 

Cristina: We had a better grasp on the story at the [00:07:00] time. Well, 

Joe: no, no, but he called on a guy this guy I don't remember his name who went and there were no instructions just get the message to him and the guy said yes sir and disappeared and went off and delivered the message and the story is about how very often if you say hey can you you know get me something or do this for me today people say oh i don't know i never did that before i don't know how to do it can you tell me how would you like to do it and this was going back over a hundred years People had the same problem and it was the idea of, Hey, Figure it out.

Take initiative and make it happen. 

Speaker 4: Right. 

Joe: Figure it out. Use your resources and figure it out. And that's why our second point that was on that message to Garcia was about initiative. 

Cristina: Yeah. And 

Joe: taking initiative. 

Cristina: Taking initiative. Yep. And then finally, uh, number three was about boosting your personal productivity.

And we had an awesome [00:08:00] influencer, Peter Akis, join us for that one. Uh, that was episode number 34. And Peter specifically at the time was focusing on a tool technology called 

Joe: Things3, 

Cristina: um, that I had since used for quite some time. I 

Joe: still use it every single day. That's my, that's my, my, uh, that's my go to.

I'm still using it as well. Um, 

Cristina: But I've found a couple of other things that I think are just a little bit more my jam. But, um, that was episode number, actually that was, I'm sorry, I gave you the wrong episode. That was episode number 80, um, with Peter Ackies, and that was from December of 22. So another good one to go back and listen to.

But, We figured we'd do a little mashup today, and you know, considering those were our fan favorites, and I would say a few of our favorites as well, We thought that we would do a little bit of a mashup on the topics because I think these are topics that certainly resonate with you, our listeners, um, ones that we seem to be drawn to.

So [00:09:00] we're going to talk a little bit about the importance of resilience as a way to really keep you going, , despite anything that may come at you, then, you know, initiative, how you can really take action to get started And productivity then, to use that as a way to kind of catapult you to get closer to your goals.

Joe: Yeah. So we'll start with, you know, resilience and in our resilience series, and that's what we're -recapping here is that we interviewed a number of people who had very You know severe things happened to them, you know, Sam was the the one we interviewed there, but we had other people we had a person who was on a vacation and 

Speaker 3: oh my gosh, yes, 

Joe: and it was horribly tragic there was a shooting shooting that was not aimed at them But it's a car and their son like six years old was killed and we had other stories, but the point is that everything doesn't have to be a tragedy or whatever, but we are all, [00:10:00] all of us, we make goals, we make plans, we make appointments, we're gonna do certain things, and things come up.

And knock us off our plans, you know, the best laid plans, as they say, it could be a tragedy, but it could just be a setback, it could be an illness, it could be anything. And the whole idea is, resilience is that part of you that says, okay, I'm knocked down. I'm on the ground. what am I going to do now?

I'm going to, I'm going to get up. You know, I'm going to rise from this. It may be in a different direction. It may be in a different viewpoint. It may be something, but we have the resilience to continue moving. 

Cristina: Yeah. And I, I mean, so much of the resilience, it's like you, you talked about it, right? We, we interviewed people that suffered tragedies in many cases, but day to day, there's micro setbacks that happen, right?

Like I mean, sometimes you just have a really, you might have a really crappy [00:11:00] day or you might have, taken a misstep, you know, with a career move that you need to bounce back from. And maybe it's You know, knocked your confidence out a little bit. And so much of it is just, you know, really like, I think some of the lessons that, that we've.

explored over the last 99 episodes, you know, within these top three episodes and others have really been about, you know, how you can change your mindset to, develop more of a, positive mindset to see. step into being more resilient, how self care comes into some of those things and how you can focus on things that, help to build you back up so that you have a little bit more, ability to, to be resilient, and, and really the way that we learn from some of those experiences and, you know, as, as much as you may look back and there may be things that challenged you or that you're not super proud of, how can you take that, learn from them and, and.

Be better and kind of, you know, really look towards what you want to be in the future. 

Joe: Right, right. And I will say [00:12:00] one thing, too, that came from that. sometimes, and actually very often, a setback is a setback from your plan. It's a setback from what you wanted to do. But it doesn't mean that it was bad.

You, you are disappointed. You are upset. You are, you know, I'm saying you, but you know, we are upset and disappointed, but resilience has to do with adaptability and no matter what it is, whether it's, something, you know, really bad or something that just messed you up in your plans. It's about being adaptable and then changing direction.

And moving forward. 

Cristina: 100%. 

Joe: Right. and that, that's where, now, initiative comes in. 

Cristina: You know, I went to see the Rolling Stones last night and I mean talking about resilience. I yeah, it was amazing. And this is like a quest of mine [00:13:00] to See every iconic artist that I possibly can that that May not be here next year And this began for me, uh when I didn't get tickets to tom petty one year and then he died and I was like Destroyed because i'm like I can never see him now but on the topic of resilience, I look at these guys and just the things that they've seen over the years the the drugs, the like, and the way that they just perform and move forward and like, and move at 81 plus years old.

But, the song, right? You can't always get what you want. You get what you need. 

Joe: Exactly. I 

Cristina: mean, that's sometimes is the lesson that you learn, right? Sometimes the things that we are so, I thought, I think that that's such like a brilliant lyric. Yeah. because sometimes the setbacks are just the universe telling us that something's not.

Right, and you don't always get what you want or what you think you want in the moment But sometimes a situation is just what we need to either learn [00:14:00] from or to put us on a different path That's you know, we're 

Joe: right 

Cristina: gonna be better in the long run. 

Joe: Absolutely And with that resilience and the adaptability that comes with that is you have to take initiative because now Okay, your mindset is good.

Okay, um that didn't go the way I wanted and You Okay, I'm going to adapt, and so on, and then it's, now what do I do? And that's initiative, you know? And so really, initiative is seeing that opportunity now, this new opportunity, or the new change, or the new viewpoint, whatever it is, and saying, I'm going to now go in that direction, and get off your you know what and move.

And do it 

Cristina: one like we talk about this all the time, but just taking action. 

Joe: Mm hmm 

Cristina: Taking a first step is so it like that that's the hardest part 

Speaker 3: it is 

Cristina: and once you start moving Forward it gets a lot easier and you have to just kind [00:15:00] of be willing to fail and embarrass yourself a little bit, right?

Sometimes to take that first step and not worry about doing things perfectly. 

Joe: Right. And I love your point about taking action because you know, this, this called planning paralysis, you know, um, you can plan and you should plan. I mean, don't get me wrong. You should say, okay, now what am I going to do?

I'm going to go this way. I'm going to do whatever I'm, as you're taking initiative. But. You must move in the direction. You must take the action because you can't anticipate every obstacle or every challenge that's going to come about. so you need to move. And that's what the initiative is, is, you know, you were resilient, you adapted, you're moving again.

Not everything's going to go according to plan. And 

Speaker 4: yeah, you adapt and 

Joe: adjust to, you have to adapt and adjust and continue to move forward. Take that initiative, but that means move. That's it. [00:16:00] Still, 

Cristina: I mean, 99 episodes ago we didn't know what the heck we were doing. That's right. We, you know, bought microphones, like found a, you know, did 

Speaker 3: research, did some 

Cristina: research, and made up a podcast.

Title recorded a, a song and an intro and we were like, let's just frickin do this. 

Speaker 3: Exactly. 

Cristina: You know, yeah. Have there been, there's probably episodes if we listen back that we probably embarrassed ourselves. We probably are embarrassing ourselves right now, you know, somebody's probably laughing at us and that's fine.

We're laughing at us a lot of the time. But like, what if we didn't do this, 

Speaker 3: right? We've got, 

Cristina: this has been such a cool experience and something that, you know, we'll always have to look back on together. 

Joe: And, and about criticism, I want to bring that up because it's really funny. it's not funny, but it stops a lot of people.

a lot of people are, don't do things because they're afraid of criticism, right? But I have found. And, and I can confidently say this [00:17:00] because I'm not a kid anymore and I have, you know, done a lot of things. 

Cristina: You look much more like a kid at this new weight though. 

Joe: That's great. Um, I think she needs glasses, but, uh, anyway, uh, is the fact that those who criticize are not doing 

Cristina: right.

Joe: It is really easy to criticize and say, well, you've You know, you should have done this you should have done that and I take that from, you know, leading Organizations that I've been a leader in The people who are not leading are very often, you know, very easy to criticize I play the guitar So I play the guitar, but I'm not the best guitar player But yet I played in a band and when you play in a band, what are you doing?

You're stepping up you're in front of people and you're playing You And guess what? You make mistakes sometimes and everybody hears it and all that. Or somebody says, I didn't really like the way that song went to this is that [00:18:00] well, well, guess what? We played like 35 songs, you know, 400 million notes, all this other kind of stuff.

And you picked two songs. He didn't really like, you know, should I be upset? Like, should I be crying? Yes. Now I take that and say, okay, I can improve that. I can improve this, but you cannot let that deter you. Because there will always be critics and most of the critics Are the ones sitting down with a drink and not doing a damn thing You are when you see 

Cristina: you see this on social media so much now Because there's so many people that are putting themselves out there in a pretty bold way and if you look at you know, I look at just how some of like, you know people that have a a social presence, engage with their followers.

And so many of them share so much of their personal lives. And with that, you know, you have people that, you know, are like the armchair quarterbacks that sit there and behind their computer decide that they're going to like, tell somebody that [00:19:00] they don't like how they look or that they, you know, think their ideas are stupid.

And every once in a while, you see some You know, you see, I think people's vulnerabilities come into play and they start, you know, reading those things and sharing those things and reacting to those things. And you know, I don't know about you, but sometimes I look and I, I say, okay, well, but how many positive things did people say?

Because I like to think that people are more good than they are bad. 

Speaker 4: They are. And they really 

Cristina: are. Right. But sometimes when you see that, it's easy to, to kind of, um, feed into that negativity of like, wow, people suck. Can you believe that? So I always try and like, look at, okay, well, they're reacting to this, but like, how many messages of, uh, are, you know, is everybody coming at them in a negative way?

And usually you look and most people are super positive and they're supporting and, and they're, or, or, and they're kind of coming to their Defense when somebody is, you know, naysaying or being nasty, um, but sometimes it's our, it's our like nature to cling to the thing that somebody [00:20:00] says that feeds an insecurity.

Speaker 3: Right. 

Cristina: Rather than cling to the thing that somebody might say that, you know, feeds the narrative that we're great. 

Speaker 4: Yes. And 

Cristina: I think that's like a real lesson that I've learned. Is that like, why not? Why not assume the best, right? And that's always going to put you in a better spot. Like, why not assume the best intent?

And for the people that do have something negative to say. It's sad for them right that like that that's where they're spending their time 

Joe: for them Yeah, 

Cristina: but I think like that's where you have to ignore, you know certainly like you have the people that you trust and if somebody that you trust and Respect and value is telling you that like something that you've done.

Maybe 

Joe: obviously that's good isn't 

Cristina: on brand, right? 

Joe: Right 

Cristina: Then that's good. 

Joe: That's good. But why 

Cristina: would you listen to a bunch of strangers that, you know, what have they accomplished? 

Joe: And you know what, just staying with music, you know, to your point, there'll always be somebody that says something. But then I [00:21:00] look at the packed house in front of me, and people are putting money in the tip jar.

And the applause after every song, that means Ninety nine, forty four, one hundred percent of the people really enjoyed what you just gave them. 

Speaker 4: Right. 

Joe: You know, so if somebody else says, you know, I really like the color of your guitar, you know, that, that's great. You know, sorry, buy me, buy me the color guitar that you like and move on.

Yeah. So you're never 

Cristina: going to please everybody, but you have to just take action and you have to take the initiative. And I think I loved like the message to Garcia episode, , the, the magic in that is just like, we all have so many resources at our disposal and, and now more than ever.

I mean, think about like with, AI and like what chat GPT and Bing and, you know, Copilot. There's so many things now that like, there's really no reason that we shouldn't be able to figure something out. 

Joe: Correct. That's correct and and start doing something. Yeah move get going, right? So, I 

Cristina: mean, I think like that's the biggest thing to me is like we have an [00:22:00] opportunity to take action take initiative And we've just got so many resources at our disposal But I think that the biggest thing that holds people back sometimes is just the opinions of other people So we've got to start kind of hitting you on right 

Joe: so now, you know moving forward to the last You know our number three top thing was productivity and And, you know, Peter Ackie spoke about things three, but he also spoke about, being productive and how to be productive and how to arrange your, your to do list or however you want to do it in that way.

But productivity in a large sense, you know, productivity, that is the actual, mechanical, part Of saying, okay, I'm going to take action. What do I do first? What do I do second? What do I do third? Categorizing the areas that you're going to have to do, you know, to work on. And then when you take action, you're not just checking things off.

But changing your plans, adjusting them, uh, moving deadlines, [00:23:00] bringing up deadlines. And that's why productivity is so important to be organized, whether it doesn't matter the software or how you do it. pencil and paper works fine, a computer system, you know, works fine, whatever it is. But being productive, knowing, knowing what, You want to accomplish in the day or week or whatever the period is ahead then Starting to accomplish adjusting those plans, but if you have you leave everything in your head, I Don't care if you're my age or if you're 12 years old your head will not And cannot Keep everything organized.

Cristina: No, and it's a really good way to burn out because you you've got and I think like It happens quickly that your brain you get to the point where your head can't contain these things anymore Like you don't it's it's slow and it's silent, right? Like all of a sudden one day, you know, like I used to have an absolute silence Steel trap between my ears [00:24:00] where if, like, I knew I had to do something, it was always there.

Now, if I don't write something down and if it's not in a place that I know to refer to it, like, it's not going to happen. 

Joe: Well, you're right. And it's overwhelming. It is. But it's so even nuanced, we all hear something or think of something and say, in the moment. I'll remember that. And you know what you don't 

Cristina: know 

Joe: and if you do remember it 

Cristina: It's at 3 in the morning when you wake up in a pool of sweat and you're like shit 

Joe: But even if you do remember it you don't remember it how you wanted to remember it and it's almost like I Think that was it.

That doesn't make sense. I wouldn't want to do it. Why 

Cristina: was I doing that again? 

Joe: Right, and so it is so important that Um, and I find this discipline, it's a discipline, where I say, okay, someone says to do something, someone says, [00:25:00] you know, whatever. I make it a point, and I'm not perfect, I don't, sometimes I screw up, but I make it a point to stop and record it.

You know, write it down somewhere, and things like that. Uh, I know at work, there'll be meetings, or, or my boss will call me, or, or a co worker or something, and say, you know what, this just happened, we really have to, you know, we really should take care of this, this, or this, or, you know, something.

nine times out of ten, I think, yeah, that, you're right, I'll, uh, call so and so tomorrow. If I don't write that darn stupid thing down two days later, it's like, did you ever, what did so and so say when you called him? 

Speaker 5: Shit! 

Joe: I left a message. But, you know what I mean. You have to write things down. That's part of the productivity is to have something, some system that it goes into.

Cristina: But I think like the real, the real magic of productivity though is not just taking things off of a to do list. It's Making sure that you're working on the right things. 

Speaker 4: Yes [00:26:00] I think 

Cristina: that's part of like yeah, there's getting it out of your brain and onto paper and to me That's like the first step But a big thing is like really you mentioned goals before like really making sure that the things that you're working on are important 

Speaker 4: Well, because like 

Cristina: we could spend like you could be super Quote unquote, I'm making air quotes here, productive, right?

Just like knocking things off your list that don't mean anything and they don't actually get you to where you need to be. 

Speaker 3: That's correct. 

Cristina: Um, you're busy, ? So I think like that's the big thing of discerning busy versus productive, 

Joe: but that's why tasks have to be written down. You dump, you dump them out of your head and into something.

And then now, if you're planning, as I said, you're planning your week, planning your, you know, days ahead, then you move them into the categories and the timeframes that they belong. 

. 

You know, just because someone said, call that person, you know, and I said, okay, I will. Well, maybe I don't need to do it [00:27:00] tomorrow.

I can do it on, 

Cristina: Right. Because that doesn't mean that calling that person is something that's aligned with what is most important to what you need to accomplish, right? 

Joe: And again, having some productivity system. We are all guilty of, well, okay, there's 14 things on my to do list and we do the easiest things first.

So I could not go off six of them, right? Well, that may not be the best thing in the world because those six may not need to be done. Today, but there's three things on there. They are gonna take you about four five hours 

Cristina: Well, 

Joe: but they have to be done. 

Cristina: I have spent the last year really trying to fine tune my own Systems right and productivity and I've worked with a an awesome coach because I think you know Bringing coaches and and different mentors and stuff into your life that have figured these things out Is oftentimes like the best way to get there faster But I will say that We talked about like the tool that we covered with peter, [00:28:00] which is the things 3 tool and I use that But I really needed to figure out because sometimes you can over You You can over engineer things to 

Speaker 3: the 

Cristina: point where I found I was starting to implement so many different systems and tools that it got Overwhelming to the point where you can't keep up with any of it Right where I had things three and then I started bullet journaling and then like the you know, it's 

Joe: no sound 

Cristina: Well, but I found like 

Joe: I don't I just use one tool Well, but I found 

Cristina: the things that were most effective for me, right?

And like what? That helped me to drive productivity and for me it was like using my bullet journal, for brain dumps. So like when I get to a point of like, kind of like, okay, I'm overwhelmed and I need to reprioritize, that's when I do my like brain dump and I just get everything down in paper and the bullet journal and that's when I start to break those things down into what's actually important.

And that is what goes into my like things three, [00:29:00] right? So that I have something. What's a bullet 

Joe: journal by the way? It's just. 

Cristina: Basically, I mean, people use them in all different ways. It's a very expensive journal that's nicely bound. and you know, it's an 

Joe: actual, it's like 

Cristina: an actual book. Yeah. 

Joe: Oh, I don't buy them anymore.

No, 

Cristina: I know because I'm the dinosaur of the two of us. We've already, we've already established that you're, you know, you operate more like a, Elder millennial and I operate more like a baby boomer But I love my bullet journal It's where I like I do my brain dump and then that's where I kind of break things down into what are the things that?

Are gonna take high energy or I'm gonna need like good brain power for what are the things that are gonna be those easy things? That you can kind of take Check off when you have our brain dead at the end of a day and what are the things that are time sensitive and then that's how I build it into like Ultimately goes to things.

Well, 

Joe: see that's what you just gave a great example and our little joking around is at least you're doing something Well, right, right But but that's where 

Cristina: like, you know I [00:30:00] started and then I would implement and then i'm like i'm i'm bringing way too much into this Right, and I just needed to kind of find the system that worked for me.

So as you You take the action, And the initiative and then start to fine tune with productivity. I think, don't feel like what works for somebody else is necessarily going to work for you. And sometimes you just, you need to try things and see, and don't be afraid to, , take bits and pieces of what you learn and then build a system that, kind of fits.

Exactly. 

Joe: So this is great. And I'd like to, say this as we wrap up, although there's three different resilience initiative and productivity, They're intertwined, because as you start taking initiative, you might get knocked on your feet again from something else, and you gotta be resilient and adaptable.

As you, as you did, you got very productive, and it knocked you on your feet because you were almost, You were putting too much into something. No, 

Cristina: it made me completely, it went from productivity to like paralysis because I was like, Whoa, there's too much. 

Joe: Correct. And so [00:31:00] what I love about these three and I'm just so happy that we looked up what were the three main, the top three things, listeners, you're brilliant because you've been, that's where you gravitated to.

So it makes sense. And They're literally intertwined, not three separate topics, because you will continually be, challenged in the direction that you're taking. You will continually become tired or want to just, bug out and need to get up and take initiative again.

You will find different ways to become productive. What worked, what didn't work. Today may not work for you in nine months or you know, so don't be afraid to Dump the productivity app you're using and do something else. Don't be afraid to say, you know, don't just stay with something because Oh joe and christina said they use that or so and so or peter aki said he uses that no Try different things.

Cristina: Yeah, [00:32:00] find what works for you. Yeah, 

Joe: and that Just stay. Oh, you'll always be resilient. You'll always take initiative and stay productive, however that defines itself. And that is your ticket to the success that you have never thought you could achieve. And it works professionally and it works personally.

It works even, even on a hobby you may have and just having fun. All of this works. So this was great. 

Cristina: Yeah, it was. Yeah. So listeners as we, Close out our hundredth episode here. We are beaming with pride, but we would love to hear from you. So. So, as we think about what the next 100 episodes are going to look like, and, you know, how often and all of that, we want to hear from you, what are topics that you, you want to hear more about?

we're going to assume based on what history has told us that more on the topics of resilience and resilience. [00:33:00] initiative and productivity may be of interest, but please let us know if there's, episodes, ideas, different things that you want us to spend some time on. And as always, if you like what you hear, please follow the podcast, like subscribe, share with your friends.

Yeah. Tell other people about it. And, um, we are not going anywhere. So expect to hear more from us. 

Joe: Love it. 

Cristina: Yeah, and in the meantime stay resilient take initiative and be productive. 

Joe: Oh, I love it Wherever you are, whatever your story. Thanks for spending time with us this morning now Go and make a difference in your world.

You know, we've, we've packed a lot into this. 

Cristina: You still found a dad joke to grace. Do you know why so many 

Joe: people are tired on April 1st? 

Cristina: That's old news. 

Joe: They just finished a 31 day March.[00:34:00] 

Cristina: Why why is my Siri go away? Thank you all have a great week everybody