Successfully reinventing your career (or life) isn’t challenging because you lack talent. It’s challenging because you try and do it alone.
Inspired by the Winter Olympics, Todd and Chris break down the two traits elite performers build their lives around: clarity and accountability. You can have a powerful vision for your next chapter, but without a real accountability system, it stays a dream.
In this episode, we dig into the #1 ReInvention killer: isolation – the echo chamber of your own thinking – and how to replace it with a structure that creates momentum, confidence, and follow-through.
You’ll learn:
- Why “being busy” isn’t the same as progress (and how corporate structure hides that)
- The two types of accountability every Reinventor needs: self-tracking + external support
- How to build a simple weekly + monthly self-assessment system that changes behavior fast
- How to choose the right accountability partners (and why your spouse can’t be your whole team)
- How community, coaching, and peer support turn reinvention from lonely to inevitable
Bookmark this if you’re building your next chapter and you can feel yourself drifting into solo mode. This is your reminder to stop white-knuckling it and start building your team.
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Episode Transcript
Todd Jason: I got this from Tim Ferriss, who wrote in The Four Hour Body, the fastest way to change any behavior is to track it.
That line always stuck with me because he made the argument that when you track yourself, you raise your awareness, you see yourself, you’re shining a light on your patterns. All right, Todd, what are we talking about today?
Well Chris, I’m gonna go a little off script today because I woke up and realized that it’s the first day of the Winter Olympics and man, ever since I was a kid, I’ve been enthralled with the Olympics and just the notion of people training for years on end to compete in one singular event with the hope of standing on a podium for one shining moment as the world sings their national anthem and celebration of their golden victory.
Man, I gotta be honest, it always gets me teared up. And I don’t know if you know this about me, but I had the chance to coach a few Olympic athletes years back, and I was so moved by their dedication and commitment to what they were doing. And the two things that always stood out to me about them was first clarity.
Yes, Chris. These people all have pinpoint clarity with what they are trying to accomplish in life, and it gives them purpose and meaning and drive on a day-to-day basis. And the second is accountability. They are surrounded by people who are helping them. Motivating them and coaching them, and also supporting them in a variety of ways.
And you may think that this has nothing to do with us, right? Like midlife professionals who are reinventing their careers, but it has everything to do with us. Because our goal here and my personal mission in life is to help people realize that. Look, man, this life is short. It’s a damn blip in the matrix.
So the best approach is to take it on and to go forward fully without reservation, just like these Olympians do. And this is why we spend a lot of time talking about clarity and the value of getting that clear vision for you future. But Chris, what we haven’t talked about that much yet is accountability.
And the one thing that kills successful reinvention more than anything else is isolation. And it’s a cultural disease of isolating oneself and solely living in the echo chamber of one’s own head that thwarts creativity and smart decision making more than anything else. So listeners, please get out a pen and paper, take notes and bookmark this episode because we’re gonna share how you can create a system of accountability that will lead to your success and fulfillment fast. Just like the Olympians use.
And recovering two primary strategies, one is self-assessment and how to think about building a personal tracking system. And the second is external accountability and how to find peer groups and communities and even friends who can structurally help you move forward with confidence.
So Chris, before we jump into the strategies, I see that you’re chomping at the bit to share more about this. What’s up?
Chris Thide: Well, dude, I love you sharing the frame of the Olympics. I mean, I’m really excited about the Olympics. My daughters love watching the Olympics, and it’s kind of like a thing that we always just try to find the time, you know, be on at weird times or you watch it at night.
And my younger daughter is, she’s a gymnast and she loves watching and this is the Winter Olympics, but she loves watching the gymnastics in the summer Olympics and being so focused on the beauty of it. She’s like, I wanna be in the Olympics. Right. And we won’t talk about the percentage likelihood of that, but one of the things that you brought up that really resonates with me as I think about her is like, there’s the dream, but then there’s the doing and all the doing. Like as a parent, I think about, hey, if you really wanted to go pursue high level gymnastics or the Olympics. That’s getting up at six in the morning, or that’s going and working out 15 times a week. That’s all this effort and all this commitment. And when I think about the people who are in reinvention and career reinvention, we help people get clear on the dream.
We help them get that clarity. But if you don’t have accountability and hold yourself accountable and get support from the people around you, it’s just the dream. It doesn’t become a reality. And so I think this topic is all about making the dream a reality with accountability.
Todd Jason: Yeah, I mean, I think you’re right on, and, I’ve shared this with you personally. It actually gets me angry. It really does get me angry how much we are all living in isolation. Especially just getting down to brass tacks, right? Like we’re talking about reinventing your career For a lot of people structurally what this means is that we’re sitting at home, we get up in the morning, we have our routines, we do what we do, and then we kind of go on our computer. And we’re trying to figure things out and we’re launching our new consulting business, so we’re reaching out to people and we’re, on LinkedIn, we’re doing all these various things right. And we’re trying really hard to figure out how to set the foundation for our next 10, 15, 20 years or more.
Right? And it is a very isolating thing to be doing this, and it enrages me because most of us are not looking at our networks and our friends and communities out there as real resources that can help us move forward faster. Okay. And that’s why I wanna really dive today and not only motivate you as our listeners to start to think about how you can get accountability as a major part of your life, but also give you the structure for how to do it. Okay. And so getting clarity piece and having a vision is so important. ’cause you gotta have that excitement, right? And so for the Olympic athletes that I was training, they did have that vision of them standing on that podium, you know, with the gold medal around their neck. And that drove them. That drove them. Most of us don’t have that vision. We don’t know what our gold medal moment is. We just don’t. Right. And even to think about it seems so weird, or pie in the sky, or like, wow, I’m really far away from that level of pinpoint clarity to be able to do that. That’s why we talk a lot about clarity here, because you gotta have that because it does motivate you.
It creates something intrinsic. But then this other piece of understanding how to have a system of tracking yourself. Okay, which needs to be self-motivated. You need to be able to do that yourself with the understanding that that’s gonna help you raise your awareness levels around the things that you’re not seeing and the things that you need to do.
And then secondly, finding groups of people that can shine a direct light on what your thoughts are, your activities are, your behaviors are, so that way you can start to redirect them towards being in alignment with the things that you really wanna have happen. To me it’s like a perfect system of success and transformation getting clear and using accountability. So we’re gonna get into strategies today, right? But I just wanna frame this out, that we’re really trying to help people move the needle here in their lives, right? And these things that sound tactical are also deeply embedded in how success works.
Chris Thide: There are the two flavors of accountability, right? Like you said, holding yourself accountable and being accountable to others and having people that you work with. I mean, what resonates for me, like I have a whole team of people. Obviously I’m, you’re my business partner, we work together on things, but there are fellow coaches who I talk shop with and there are really close friends who know the ins and outs of what I’m going through.
Obviously there’s our community, our reinvention community. Those people, it’s very mutual. Like there’s accountability going both directions. What’s important for me is it’s people who I can really share the ins and outs and the details of, and they know it fairly intimately so they can contextualize it because it’s right in the word, they can hold me accountable. Because it’s not just about rah rah, Chris, pick your chin up. You can do it buddy. It’s when I’m being a little shady or shirkey about it where I’m like, well, I couldn’t get that thing done or whatever. It’s having people who are close enough and like I know they’re in my corner, that they can say, hold on a second.
You said you were gonna do that. Actually. You committed that you were gonna do that thing and you were gonna make that effort, or whatever it is. You need that tough love dynamic in there too, and that comes from a place of deep connection and trust.
So I think it’s important to think about when you’re talking about the community aspect of this, who can you enlist? Really, I think it’s always best when you establish a mutual accountability where you are both able to, from love, hold each other’s feet to the fire of what you’ve committed to do because you’re helping someone realize their dream. So you sometimes have to say the thing that’s a little uncomfortable to push them to do it, and that’s a really important element to this.
Todd Jason: Yeah, man. You’re hitting on some gold there. You know, I’m gonna maybe use our Olympic colors, you know, throughout our conversation
Chris Thide: That’s gold, Jerry.
Todd Jason: That’s gold, Okay, so Seinfeld, Olympics, we’re just, we’re bouncing around here. but let’s talk about external accountability ’cause that’s where you went with this.
Okay. ’cause I do wanna get to self-tracking as well as part of the structure of this call. ’cause that’s also another important piece. But the thing that I’ve learned about this, okay, and this is in 20 years of trial and error about how do I surround myself with a team of people that can work for me? Not work for me, but like it works for me to have people, you know, and what I learned the hard way was that certain people are not the right accountability partners in certain areas.
I’ll give you a very clear example. When I first started realizing the value of having accountability, I was like, oh, my wife, she’s gotta be my number one accountability partner. And so I was just throwing everything at her, like everything, everything I was going through, and that was not the right call.
In my opinion, you know, marriage can be a wonderful thing, but it’s not that that person solves every problem for you can handle everything. Like she has her own stuff she’s dealing with, and so I started to realize that having boundaries or having clarity about what she is made of to hold me accountable and then what do I need outside of that? So it was very clear that being an entrepreneur and the ups and downs of that emotional rollercoaster ride wasn’t something that was healthy for our marriage. It wasn’t a good accountability partner to have her do that.
So I was like, oh, I need to have other people outside of that that can hold me accountable on the emotional level, the things that I go through. At times it’s been a therapist at times it’s been coaching, right? The other day you got off a call and you’re like, oh, I’m talking to my coach like you’re a coach, but you have coaches.
This is what we’re talking about. Okay? Do not do it alone. So what you want to do as you’re getting good at this, is start to write out like assignment from this episode. Write out on a piece of paper who could be your accountability partners, right? Like, could you hire somebody, do you need a therapist?
Do you need to understand very clearly what you can talk about with your business partner and what you can talk about with your wife, because it’s not a one person solves the whole problem. It may be that you need a team, and that’s exactly what the Olympians had. You know, they all have teams of people that are holding them accountable in certain areas.
They have nutritionists, they have physical trainers, they have mental people. That’s what I was hired to do so that’s how you wanna start thinking about this, right? Is in general, what’s the landscape and how can you start being smart about who you have in your corner as your team?
And this is what people aren’t doing. Chris, this is why I get enraged. ’cause everyone’s alone and they’re by themselves. And now they’re talking to chat GPT. Chat CPT is not gonna hold you accountable, okay? It is not, you can’t train it yet to really hold you accountable. I You need a human, you need humans here,
Chris Thide: It’s a little tangent, but I gotta go there. ’cause I had a conversation actually with a one-on-one client recently around this. I’m like, yeah. You can train your AI chat bots a little bit to be their default setting is, that’s a great idea, Chris. Oh, you’re so smart, Chris. Oh my God, what a great idea. It’s like that’s their default setting and you can be like, Hey, hold me accountable. Like, don’t be so positive on everything I do. Challenge me, whatever.
But still, I was talking to this client the other day and they were like, oh, they said that this is a great idea and I sort of don’t need to workshop it anymore, and like, I’ll just be able to walk out into the world and sell this no problem. And I was like, what? That’s not, you can’t sell a new idea no problem. It could be the greatest idea in the world. You still have to have a sales process and a plan around that. I just use that as a tangential example ’cause I hear a lot about people tapping into AI from a coaching or even scarily therapy perspective, or having that be their main interaction.
And I’m not saying that there’s not gonna be benefits of it and that even we can’t develop tools that are going to provide support in those ways. But if you’re using off the shelf chat, GPT or Claude or something as your main accountability buddy. You’re gonna have a lot of problems. It, it just cannot deliver it. Going back to what I said a few minutes ago, it’s not gonna understand your specific blockers. The things that you run into that are kind of unique to you. And that’s where these deep relationships with other human beings really come into play because we pattern recognize and we can see, oh. She’s doing that thing again that I’ve seen before, and so we can reflect it back to you, right?
That’s why it’s so important that the people you’re assembling this team it’s really people who, on a core level, love you and you deeply trust. It’s very important.
Todd Jason: It’s this feeling of being on a team. For those of us that played sports or, you know, had those experiences when we were younger, they tend to diminish for most people as time goes on, and we feel very isolated and alone, which is why I said in the intro that isolation is the thing that we’re really battling against. And the, point of this episode is to reestablish our need for team, for our need for teamwork. I want you who’s listening to this right now to think I need a team assembled around me. And I am going to fearlessly go ahead and create different groups, different coaches, different people that are in my corner.
Okay. And you did touch on something before that I think is also so valuable here, which it’s not just about me getting the value and the self-reflection from this. The real benefit of this, if you can also find a situation where you are then giving back your reflection and your wisdom. Okay? This is so huge when you are helping someone else see their faux pas or like things that they can’t see, and you’re gently pointing it out in a safe environment.
This is such a beautiful part about being a human right. You and I are doing this all the time, and it’s also one of the reasons why when we talk about reinvention and how we’re helping people, this podcast is the main thing. But we have a community that will never go off and it’s not a six week course about how to reinvent your career.
I’m not knocking six week courses to do X, Y, Z, but , that was a business choice because. I want to have this thing on for years because I know that those relationships, as they get deeper, you really find that family feeling we’re already seeing it in our community where people are really supporting each other.
We’re creating that feeling of family and friendship and like we’re all in this together. Like, yeah, we’re all reinventing. It’s a little bit unknown and we all have fears, but like we’re showing up on calls and we’re showing up with our ideas and we’re sharing vulnerably. As much as we all can. Whether it could be in a breakout session or in a main session that, hey, we got stuff going on. And this is part of the healing, but it’s also part of the amplification of success. If you want success in this life and you want fulfillment, don’t isolate. You know, that’s the message here. And do whatever you need to do and we’re gonna give some more specifics about what to look for to get yourself that team.
That’s what you need, okay? And this will help you tactically get to that success of fulfillment faster.
Chris Thide: the beauty of giving support to someone and giving accountability to someone is a great element here, and I appreciate that you mentioned that. I also wanna mention, just like there’s a practical, tactical element of it, which we all experience with our people in the reinvention community.
Twice a week we experience this. When you are holding someone else accountable you’re giving to them that support, you’re also hearing yourself say that. What that triggers a lot of times is to say, oh, am I doing my version of that? Am I actually living up to the support I’m giving that person?
Because we’ve said this before and it’s very true. It’s easier for us a lot of times to say to someone else, to hold someone else almost in a more caring way than we hold ourselves and to say, Hey, you really should like, take that chance or push that thing or say that. You know give your elevator pitch to those people because your business deserves to grow. It’s such a great idea.
We hear ourselves saying that and we have to reflect. So I think there’s a practical element of, of the bi-directional accountability process too. And you made a great analogy to team sports. It really is that team thing where it’s who cares who gets the assist, who cares who gets the points?
We created this thing together. It does allow us to tap into that feeling that, you know, I haven’t had that feeling really in 30 years, from a sport itself or a team, but this is a real living version of that.
Todd Jason: Yeah. And we need it, you know? And for me, it’s such a big part of what I look for in my own success on my own fulfillment. And I’m not scared to spend money on it. I have two coaches right now that I spend money on. I think a lot of people kind of, oh, well, yeah, I’ll just talk to Chat, or I’ll find a couple friends.
Like, that’s fine. This can also work. It’s also okay to find a community, to find a coach, surround yourself, put your energy into your own growth, right? Invest in yourself, invest in other people. Like this is part of. The transformation that people, I think, are waking up to that. You know, we don’t wanna like look at this as something that is just like a nice thing to have.
It’s actually a foundational human need to be connected and just the way that the world has evolved we’re isolated. Like you and I have only met one time, but we built this business together, what can we do to really deepen those connections and understand with clarity, what this relationship or what this group of people can give me and what can I give it?
And so the way that I look at it is how much time a week am I spending in an accountability setting, right? Meaning that how much time am I spending with you? How much time am I spending with my coaches? How much time am I spending with my community? It’s not all you’re doing, but it’s a significant portion of my time is spent in the system of who I am, and the system of how I wanna run my life, then the operations and just doing stuff and having fun. It actually frees me up. ’cause I feel like I have like a whole team of people that are supporting me behind me that I didn’t have before I looked at this as a very, very real thing. Okay? And so that’s the thing that athletes get it and people that are living in certain types of companies get it.
But when you leave corporate, you feel alone and you feel isolated. And so we gotta be able to recreate that. And there just are ways to do that. I think I also wanna switch it over to the self-accountability piece. The self-assessment, which is part of the same family, but this is keeping yourself on track.
Okay. And that’s why we have this as part of the same episode. And to me it’s like part of the same philosophy, but it’s a different thing. And when we talk about this, it’s kind of having some level of tracking system where you track yourself once a week or once a month or whatever. And we can get into details and our recommendations on this. But what are your thoughts on this? as you were going through your reinvention, were you tracking yourself or were you just out there willy-nilly our favorite word? Cause I think most people are just kind of out there with having no awareness of what they’re actually doing.
I’m curious about your thoughts on this and where you’re at with it right now.
Chris Thide: Yeah. Todd, I feel like you’re leading the witness here. Cause I think you know the answer to this question a little bit, like, you know, objection. Yeah, I mean, in the beginning it’s not that I wasn’t holding myself accountable to get the things done, but I didn’t have a strategy for it, and I didn’t have a procedure and a system for it that was effective.
And so with the absence of that, it was easy in a sense to say, you know, on any given Tuesday, what really had to get done, a bunch of incremental things that added up to bigger things down the road. If those things didn’t get done, the impact of that wasn’t really felt right. It wasn’t really clear. You know, meanwhile, if I go back to corporate, of course, if the PowerPoint presentation had to be with the CEO by Wednesday, it was either with the CEO by Wednesday or not. So you either got a scathing email or you got the document to the CEO. And so accountability is built in, in a very granular way into the infrastructure of a corporate life.
But for me, on my own, through my reinvention, when I was really out there in the beginning hanging my own shingle, I didn’t really have a system for it. And yeah, I used my calendar to track the work I’m doing and my to-do list and things like that, but it wasn’t really structured and regular right? It was, we’ll put the things on where we think we’re gonna do the work and we’ll kind of get to it and maybe we’ll move it around a little bit.
It’s also just about micro level clarity of not waking up every morning and being like, well, what do I pull from the to-do list?
Todd Jason: Yep. Exactly.
Chris Thide: I’ll give it back to you in a minute, but we mentioned how recently I had had a coach that I worked with that really made a positive difference in some of the work that we are doing together. And what came out in that session with her, is my choice to have my planning meeting with myself. That was at 2:30 PM. And realizing that that was like a subconscious, maybe deprioritization choice around planning, because when I hit 2:30 PM like that is the dead zone for me, right? And shifting that to earlier in the day, like I put it at like 8:30 in the morning now as soon as I get my kid out the door, and committing to the value of that and making that part of the every day and therefore having clarity of what all the work is gonna be done each day.
That was an absolute sea change in the way that I approached my day. And so that’s one of those things where, maybe we’ll call it faux accountability was there where I had this thing on my calendar of like, yes, I will plan each workday, but I wasn’t really honoring it and realizing, oh, pulling this to a time when I’m gonna be focused on it and it’s gonna set me up for the work, I will then immediately, subsequently do. You know, that’s pretty tactical, I guess as an example how do you hold this accountability?
Todd Jason: Here’s the thing our recommendation is for people listening. Have some form of tracking mechanism where you’re tracking yourself in general. Okay? And I want to share upfront that just the act of doing this does not mean that you’re just going to today create a tracking system that’s gonna be the thing that you use for the next four years.
No, it’s going to change, it’s going to evolve. It’s going to morph into if you’re doing it right, the thing that can actually be used by yourself over the long term. ’cause it always changes. Okay. It’s more of a mindset that I’m tracking myself. If I look at the evolution of my own personal tracking over the years, you have no idea, Chris, I mean, it has gone through so many different iterations, but I’m always doing it. I’m always thinking about it. I’m tracking, stuff weekly. I’m tracking stuff monthly. I give myself numbers, I’ve tracked things like the basics, you know, like how much do I work out, the things that I eat, and I got this from Tim Ferriss, you know, who wrote in The Four Hour Body, the fastest way to change any behavior is to track it.
I mean, that line always stuck with me because he made the argument that when you track yourself, you raise your awareness, you see yourself, you’re shining a light on your patterns. Just by tracking, just by what are you doing? Oh, you’re looking at it. You’re looking at it. You’re looking at it.
One of my favorite business books of all time is something called the Diamond Cutter. Okay. Well, we’ve never talked about this. Between you and I, the Diamond Cutter is like. unbelievable business book it’s a business book, but it’s also a Buddhist business book, believe it or not. And he talks a lot about it, we could talk about this in another episode, but he talks a lot about some of these Buddhist principles of tracking that he used to build, you know, a 20, 30, $40 million company. This guy was a monk, in India for like 20 years. Then he came back and used these principles to like build a big business and tracking is a part of it.
So for me, i’ve played with tracking like the mundane, like what am I doing? I’ve also tracked qualities, right? So if I think about a quality, like, you know, being creative or generosity like that, have value in, alignment, I should say, with the kind of person that I see myself, you know, being my very best.
You can even track qualities, you know, ways of being in the world. I mean, this is like one of those things that easy to get, yeah, I need to track myself and I get that it will change my behavior, but there’s a rabbit hole here that’s really beautiful once you go down it and you start to understand from a lot of years of doing this, that tracking myself and self-assessing where I’m at all the time gives me such empowerment to see my patterns that I wouldn’t be able to see because yes, you get the same thing from having external partners like, all right, somebody’s shining a light, somebody’s giving me some gentle feedback in these various ways. It could be a business partner, it could be your wife, it could be a group like ours, it could be friends, but you also have the ability to do that yourself.
You can implement sheets right now that will give you the ability to see where you’re off and how easily you go off. And I’ve seen so much value, Chris, in people doing this. It’s been unbelievable and transformative for people to start tracking themselves. ’cause they’re like, oh my God, I was wasting so much time. I hear that all the time. Or I was stuck in the same cyclical pattern for like years and now I broke through it in weeks because I simply started to write down every week what I was doing. I mean, I hear this again and again. So that’s why I wanted to do an episode on it, because I was like, this is a very important thing for Reinventors.
Let’s get serious here. Let’s go for it. Let’s see who we are. Let’s see what we’re doing. Let’s track it so we can kind of raise our awareness. What comes up from you? I know you’re
Chris Thide: I wanna emphasize that I think you made it, that’s a beautiful point. And bringing in values and the ways of being and incorporating that. ’cause I can imagine someone listening is gonna say, how am I gonna rate my generosity on a scale of one to 10?
How do I quantify this abstract concept? And I wanna emphasize, and this goes for the abstract concepts, and it goes for the concrete concepts too, for the most part. It’s not about the perfection of it was a 7.38 versus an 8.10 or whatever it is. Yeah. Some things like we have KPIs in our business that are metrics that are discreet, that the numbers are the numbers, but there’s also the more abstract, harder to quantify things.
It sort of doesn’t matter. What matters in this exercise is the self-reflection, the view of it with intentionality and presence and awareness to look at it, to take the time, to take a step back and look at it with some metacognition, with awareness of, as you said, Todd patterns and the gap between what you want to do on a macro dream level and what actually happens on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. That is really the important part of this. Yeah, the numbers do matter. But if your generosity is a seven versus a 7.5, like I don’t know how to make that distinction, but it’s the focus and thinking and caring about it. And I think on a bigger level, it’s also just having built into your behavior planning to step back and look at it from above and not just be in it all the time.
It’s a concept we’ve talked about a lot of times. I mean, I think it is a bit of a Buddhist concept to step out of the river for a moment and to reflect and to look at it and to say, I’m governing my life. I’m not just sort of ping ponging my way through my life and having things happen to me.
And this is a really critical part of that. This is really that abstraction and slight distance to step out and say, oh, if I don’t like the way it’s going, that’s not happening to me. I’m allowing that to happen, so what am I gonna do differently to make the life I want
Todd Jason: Yeah, man. I mean, look, we’re going back to the core premise that we got together on, which is that for people that are in this kind of reinvention mode, right, where it can create some fear, concern, I gotta nail my finances, I gotta get, and then, you know, you kind of meet us and we take you down the rabbit hole with some pretty deep stuff around mindset, like deep patterning. But this is really the difference between somebody that’s looking to maybe pivot careers. Like, oh, I want, I need to pivot my career. I got laid off, or the writing is on the wall and I’m burned out. And reinvention. Reinvention is an opportunity. To look at yourself, just for a moment, it’s an opportunity to be like, okay, what am I really made of?
What do I really want? And to start to figure that out so you can align your future decision making and your present moment decision making with that version of yourself that you’re striving to become and not the one that’s based on your old trajectory and your old patterns. That’s the opportunity, which is why we’re doing this.
You know, it’s very different than, so I need to make a career pivot. If that’s what you wanna do, that’s great. You could still benefit from listening to Chris and I, but like, we’re here for the human part of this. We’re here for the part where it’s like, who do you really wanna be and can your work now morph into something that is aligned with that version of yourself? That’s reinvention, right. And I think that’s what you’re talking to. So when we tie this back to tracking yourself and finding accountability partners, we’re giving you like a really big key to the kingdom of that, you know, in a sense which is, these are tools that you can use to raise your self-awareness, so that way you can start to really see how you’re operating. And it’s humbling because when you start doing it, tell you the truth, like you’re gonna start to see, wow, like I’m not as effective and productive and the way that I actually operate in a day-to-day is not always in alignment with that.
That’s okay. It’s totally okay. It’s normal. We’re all human, but we can get better. We can all be doing better. For me it’s not about perfection, but it is about striving to be attuned with that version of me that I know I feel is the best of me. When I look at you as my business partner, I’m like, what can I do to help this brother become the best version of him?
You’ve said that a lot to me, by the way. You’ve always given me that reflection and in our community. Who are these humans that we’re talking to on these Zoom calls, what can we do to help them become the best versions of them? Let’s get down to that place and then guess what happens? Our work and our money making and our abundance, it tends to come out in the wash in a really good way.
So I just want to reiterate what you just said, man. This is deep stuff because it is deep stuff, you know, like I said in the very beginning, we’re here for a short time. Let’s make the most of it.
Chris Thide: You know, you’ve ever heard the phrase like, it’s like someone has to be held accountable. Who’s gonna be held accountable for this? It can have almost like a negative connotation. We’re saying the exact opposite in in this moment. Accountability is a beautiful thing. It is an act of love.
It is an act of self-love. It is an act of love for the people you are holding accountable. The people who are holding you accountable are loving you. Because you will not make your dream a reality if you don’t hold yourself accountable in the little times and that’s what the tracking approach, you know, we talked about this in our community recently about weekly tracking and monthly tracking, and we gave some specific numerical tracking to apply it. It really is the little decisions you’re making every day and during the week. That can add up to really little acts of love that create the dream you’re working towards. There’s no other way to do it.
Todd Jason: Well, you cannot do it. And then just be a victim to circumstance. Or you can be empowered and implement a tracking tool and just shine more light on what’s happening here. That’s the pull man. That’s the pull. And that’s why I love what we’re doing here, you know, and that we’re sharing this because it represents everything that I’ve learned in all these years of coaching people, like, of things that work. If you got to this point in this episode.
There’s something that you want about your future that isn’t in existence right now. And all we’re saying is that assessment and tracking are tools that are universally accepted as working when it comes to doing that. And so start playing with them. And so, you know, as we kind of close this one out, Chris, the assignment is for you to really think about this from the standpoint of how can I start to self-assess myself? What type of tracking can I implement? I would recommend some form of weekly check-ins checklist like we have in our community. And if you wanna message us, you know, message us and we’ll share with you the documents that we have. We are happy to share that with you because we want you to start playing with this and start using this notion of checking in weekly and then even checking in monthly. Monthly is different than weekly. Weekly is more of kind of a punch list. Monthly is a little bit more of kind of reflection on how did I do this last month? These tools don’t take that long to use. Okay? But they’re are consistent beacons that shine a light on your patterns. ’cause what you said was so wise, Chris, you said, life happens, like it happens in moments.
It’s the moments, the Tuesday at 11:15, like what are you doing in that moment? that’s the kind of thing that we need to transform and get better at. As opposed to what, just when you’re listening to this and you’re really deeply inspired, it’s the mundane moments that our life is being made.
And that’s what tracking and assessment does. It helps you to shine a deeper light on those areas. And I’m glad that we did this conversation, man. And I love talking about it with you. ’cause there’s so much resonance. We didn’t even prepare for this. We just got on this and said, let’s just jam on it and see what happens. And I think it was really good, man.
Chris Thide: Yeah, I mean, listen, I say this to you all the time just as my partner in this stuff, and it’s so life changing for me in terms of just clarity that I am moving towards the things I want for myself and for you and for our community, and it really is very, very powerful and like you said, it’s not like you have to invest hours and hours and hours and hours on it.
It’s small commitments and then it’s playing out those small commitments on a daily basis and tracking them. it’s really been life changing. Yeah, man, I really appreciate you and this is a great conversation
Todd Jason: Yeah, man,
Let’s go. Yeah, as part of your ritual, subscribe to our podcast. ’cause Chris and I we’re just really committed to this conversation over the long haul. Right? And so you can use these episodes is kind of a linchpin to what you’re doing.
If you’re interested in checking out our website at reinvention.biz, you know, you can check out what we’re doing. We always mention our community, but we invite you to check out that page and look at it. And also we have the workbook that is really powerful that you can use as a self study that could really help in your reinvention.
So look at some of the tools we have on our website. Follow along our podcast. We love doing this we know it’s being helpful for some out there, and we would love to continue to serve you in any way that makes sense. And yeah, we’ll see you next time. And Chris, as always, it’s so much fun being here with you and until next time, my friends.
