Summary

“It took me ten years to become an overnight success.”

Tony Stubblebine is the co-founder and CEO of Coach.me, which is a coaching platform designed to reach a greater audience, providing online coaching at affordable prices. You no longer need to be rich to afford a coach, actually for a couple of cups of coffee a week, you can coached in just about anything.

In this episode we discuss how you can find your passion and avoid the anxiety in doing so. When your fundamental human needs are taken care of, than you should be able to confidently search for commit to what you want to do.

The issue for many of us is that we expect we will find it straight away and this is not always the case. The message is clear, do not give up, don’t loose confidence and don’t stop asking that questions.

Find you passion and make a trade off, because your life’s purpose is important. What is the legacy your want to leave behind? What do you want to be remembered for?

Enjoy! Peace, passion and purpose…

“Its better to work on your passion than not, that is your life.”

Key Take Outs

·      Life’s work. What is your life’s work? What will provide the most meaning to your life? Find this and you will find your purpose.

·      10 Years to success. The journey on your path to success is not overnight it is a matter of time. Take positive action towards the direction you want to go and you will make it there. Importantly try finding your passion at the start.

·      Ask questions. Keep asking question in life. What is it that you want? Is what your doing now the right thing, will it lead you in the direction you desire to travel? By asking questions about everything you will find the answers in life.

·      Side project. Often we have to work on our passions to begin with as side projects while we still hold our job to provide life’s most essential securities. At some point however we will need to take a leap of faith.

·      Get a coach. Now with Tony’s platform it is more affordable than ever. By adopting coaches you can fast track your success. Why struggle with something that a coach can help you through easier and quicker.

·      Limit choices. Steve Jobs wore a Turtleneck sweater everyday, why? Because it limited another choice in his day that was meaningless so that he could focus more energy on his passion.

·      Compound effect. By doing something everyday and making constant improvements you will over a period of time compound your effectiveness in that area. Like money in a bank with compounding interest wealth grows to phenomenal levels. Life will be phenomenal also with the compounding effect.

·      Enjoy life’s pleasures. Its great to be disciplined in life but sometimes you have to take it easy and be kind to yourself. Don’t go neglecting those simple pleasures for the sacrifice of life. If it doesn’t hurt or kill you its ok to enjoy these things from time to time.

What advice would you give to your 20-year-old self?

He wishes that he could have leap frogged to finding his purpose.

His interpretation of success

Success to Tony is 100% around impact. How much impact can we have on peoples lives. It doesn’t matter where he ends up financially but rather the feeling that he has helped thousand of others.

Quick round questions

Favourite Food

A really good burger!

Favourite Leisure Activitiy

He likes to travel and actually likes some T.V.

Favourite book(s)

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder

Quote

“It took me ten years to become an overnight success.” Christopher Isaac aka Biz Stone.

What does living life with passion and purpose mean?

It is all around how you structure your own life. If you don’t structure your life in the right way you don’t have the opportunity to live with passion and purpose.

How to find Tony and other links.

Jump online and sign up to coach.me you will find some cool areas that you can be coached in. You can also find Tony on twitter @tonystubblebine.

Here is a link to his earlier creation CrowdVine.

Who is Biz Stone- read more here if you like.