Like a Good Neighbor.. When Losing is WINNING!

Like a Good Neighbor.. When Losing is WINNING! We spend a lot of our lives trying to gain something. More knowledge. More experience. More success. More confidence. More influence. But what if becoming your best self isn't always about what you add? What if it's about what you're finally willing to lose? In today’s episode of The Agile Daily Standup, we're talking about a very different kind of winning—the kind that happens when you identify the parts of yourself that are no longer contributing to the person you want to become. Maybe it's an old grudge. Maybe it's the need to always be right. Maybe it's fear, resentment, comparison, negativity, ego, or the habit of carrying yesterday's mistakes into today. Some things aren't helping us grow. They're just heavy. 🔥 Lose the need for everyone's approval. 🔥 Lose the belief that you have to be perfect. 🔥 Lose the grudges that consume energy but change nothing. 🔥 Lose the habits that keep producing the same unwanted results. 🔥 Lose the version of yourself you've already outgrown. This isn't about changing who you are to please somebody else. It's about becoming more intentional about who you choose to be. And here's the beautiful part: Sometimes when you lose something that has been weighing you down, you discover there was something much better underneath it all along. You. The stronger you. The kinder you. The more confident you. The more authentic you. The person you've been working toward becoming. So here's today's challenge: What is one thing you need to lose in order to become more of the person you want to be? 🎧 Episode 1655 — Like a Good Neighbor… When Losing Is WINNING! Sometimes growth isn't about adding another thing to your life. 👉 Sometimes the biggest WIN is finally letting something go. How to connect with AgileDad: - [website] ⁠https://www.agiledad.com/⁠ https://www.agiledad.com/ - [instagram] ⁠https://www.instagram.com/agile_coach/⁠ https://www.instagram.com/agile_coach/ - [facebook] ⁠https://www.facebook.com/RealAgileDad/⁠ https://www.facebook.com/RealAgileDad/ - [Linkedin] ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/leehenson/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/leehenson/

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  It's Friday, so it's time for our Agile, not so Agile, episode of the Daily Stand Up Podcast. And I have a question. When is losing actually winning? And it sounds like a crazy question. But of course, the answer is when it comes to weight loss. There are so many people out there who are on yo-yo diets, trying to figure out what to do. Or, you know, many people who are trying different, you know, keto, or one meal a day, or intermittent fasting, and there's so many different techniques and things that you can try. Lots of people are using a GLP-1 route. There's just, there's so many things you can do. But how does losing weight impact your overall health?

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  Obviously, it's going to make you feel better. It's going to make it easier for you to move around. It's going to make it easier for you to do things. And in case you haven't noticed, I've been blessed. I've been a recipient of some really nice weight loss, especially here in the last little bit. So in the last 30 days, I have lost almost eight pounds. 7.8 to be exact. I've lost 17.6 in the last 90 days and 32 and a half pounds overall. Why do I share this with you? Because I believe one of the most important things that you can do is have accountability when you're going on a journey like this. Because you want to make sure that you are dotting the i's, crossing the t's, and doing the things that you need to do in order to continue on that path.

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  But one of the things I've learned is without a support system in place, if you don't have family and friends to support you, it makes it a lot harder. So where am I trying to go with this? I wanted to keep this Friday episode kind of short and to the point, because I wanted to make sure that I was expressing the true meaning of where we're going with this. One of the things that I always used to tell my teams when I was doing coaching is that in order for you to feel better, you need to be comfortable in your own skin. And part of that is looking and feeling your very best. Now, I can tell you, for me, it hasn't always been that way. For me, this has been a difficult journey. It's been hard. Well, there's been heart issues and health issues and other things that have contributed to that.

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  But overall, I feel so much better now than I ever have before. So the question is not whether or not you're on a weight loss journey, but what other types of things can we lose from our life to help make our journey better? When is losing winning? And what can we set aside? And what I can tell you is, if you just make a short inventory to things that you could do without, you'd be surprised how effective and how much information will fill that list. So my challenge for you today is going to be to make an inventory to things that you have. And when I say things that you have, what are some of the things that you could lose? What are some of the things that you could do away with? What are some of the things that you could set aside to have better personal happiness, physical happiness, emotional happiness?

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  What are some of the things that you can shed, quote unquote, in order to feel better? What are some of the things that you need more of? What are some of the things that you can increase in your life to have better happiness? And I'll close with a quick story, because I thought it was funny. I went to the state fair here in Utah recently, and they had a booth for State Farm. And they were selling insurance, obviously. But the way they were doing it was quite cute. They said, hey, do you want to build a hat? If you want to build a hat, you need to answer a three-question survey. And of course, I wanted to build a hat, so I answered their three-question survey. And the survey was quite simple. You know, who do you use for your insurance now? Have you considered State Farm? Would you like for nature to contact you? Those types of things.

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  But what surprised me is as you were designing the hat, you had several little little patches that you could choose from. And the first patch that I chose, just because it's iconic, is hello, my name is Jake, with State Farm underneath it, because I thought that was funny. The second one that I chose was a patch that said aura. And aura is, you know, a hip term, or a current term, that people are using to describe situationally how you feel about, you know, something, a positive way of feeling about something. You know, oh, that gives aura, right? That kind of thing. But then the last one was my favorite. So I'm going to put on my hat for a minute. The last one says, be nice.

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  And I think that sometimes we forget that one. And it's probably the most important one. Because without kindness, none of the others matter. So what I'm telling you to do is take a couple of minutes to do a personal inventory. Do an introspect. Do a little bit of meditation. Figure out where you can improve. Figure out what things you can be without. And figure out what things you need more of. Increase the positivity in your life. Be nice, show true aura, and behave like Jake from State Farm. Because like a good neighbor, he's always there. That's going to do it for this episode. I hope you enjoyed it. If you have a topic you want us to discuss, learn more at agiledad.com. We'd love to hear from you. And as always, we encourage you to stay healthy, stay well, and stay agile, my friends. Until next week, do take care.

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  Bye now.