This Is My Mama

She will act like there is nothing (business wise) profound about her. ⁠

If you were to ask her what marketable skills she has, she would probably make a joke and blow it off. She wouldn’t even think to mention her awesome cooking skills that she gets praised for almost daily. And she definitely wouldn’t tell you about:⁠

-How she managed us kids while our dad was grinding and traveling 50 weeks of the year for years⁠

-How she managed our household budget, and kept us all on it (much to my brother’s dismay when it came to fast-food drive-thrus…)⁠

-How she’s perfected the chocolate chip cookie or any other of our household favorites

-How she always remembers everyone’s favorite snacks and keeps them in the house at all times⁠ just in case

-Or how my dad has dubbed her CDO (Chief Domestic Officer) of their multiple properties because she manages all communications, bills, logistics, paperwork, etc.⁠

⁠But she won’t tell you any of that. What she’ll tell you is,

“I just always wanted to be a wife to Daniel and a mom.”

Those were her aspirations. She never talked about, or talks about, wanting more.

But I chuckle to myself for my past thinking how being a stay at home mom would have been so boring I would die. HA! Now being a wife, mom and business owner has changed my thinking a bit. Managing multiple budgets, making sure the house doesn’t burn down, trying to be innovative in my business, strengthening my marital relationship… I get a lot of that inspiration from her! Someone who is just about the polar opposite of me and my way of thinking has influenced my home, my business, my thinking.

There is ALWAYS something to be learned from everyone, especially my “stay at home mom.”

⁠Who have you learned from? What’s the best advice, skill, lesson, emotion, etc. you have learned from them? Was it someone who was uber wealthy and at the peak of their game? Or was is someone who had hit rock bottom?

A wise person knows that there is something to be learned from everyone

⁠For those of you who don’t think you have any marketable skills, think again.⁠ For those of you who don’t necessarily believe this statement to be true, think again. ⁠

I’ll use Tony Robbins as an example:

The man is brilliant and created his empire on taking massive action. He worked as a janitor to pay the bills so that he could start investing in himself all while feeding his mind to learn more. Now, do you think that Tony could give you the similar information when it came to taking massive action during his janitorial days as he could now as a mogul? YES. Granted, the scale would be a bit different but the execution was the same.

There is JUST as much to be learned from ⁠the bottom of the barrel or ⁠rock bottom ⁠as there is to be learned from the peak or ⁠the top of the mountain.⁠

⁠The same goes for every person. You may not feel like you have any marketable skills, you might not feel like you can contribute anything that hasn’t already been contributed but, those are just (fear)lings. You need to remember that each individual is as unique as their fingerprints.⁠

You may be bringing something similar to the table but it will not be the same.

Picture this: You’re at a dinner party and a couple people brought some wine for the table. There are 2 bottles on the table, 2 Buck Chuck and Opus One. While they are similar, they are NOT the same.

⁠So next time you’re thinking “it’s already been done” or “the market is too saturated,” I want you to remember to be Opus One.