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The Empty Days Still Count (Podcast) · The Providers Playbook Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: We can do everything right, and at the end of the day, we may not see any results.
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  SPEAKER_00: That does not mean our time was wasted.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hello, my beautiful providers.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's Sunday, podcast time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Turn me up or turn me off.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's go.
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  SPEAKER_00: This week I touched upon fishing, and it's a quick read, you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: if you want to go check it out,
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  SPEAKER_00: but there's a part of my article I wanted to Which was the fish examples
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  SPEAKER_00: with my kids.
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  SPEAKER_00: The first one I used was a walleye relates to my oldest.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a walleye, you know, you usually fish at night, use live bait.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a funny thing is my oldest, you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: we're not getting in a lot of deep discussions in the mornings.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those usually happen at night and live bait is to Examples resonate a lot,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I thought that fit very well with my oldest.
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  SPEAKER_00: The middle child, the second oldest, the bass.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can fish morning, night, maybe not night, but evening,
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  SPEAKER_00: and lots of various different baits and lures.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're a tough fish.
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  SPEAKER_00: They put up a good struggle with And that I thought that resonated is
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  SPEAKER_00: because it took me a lot of different baits and lures to make a connection.
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  SPEAKER_00: And sometimes the struggle is, hey, this connection didn't work,
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  SPEAKER_00: so I got to try a different one.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I thought that that fit perfectly as his unique personality as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then my youngest, the bluegill that they sit in the cover,
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  SPEAKER_00: I caught a lot of these in Wisconsin and Michigan and Up in Minnesota as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: They hang around in lily pads and cover.
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  SPEAKER_00: Colorful things will bring them out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Same thing with my youngest.
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  SPEAKER_00: Try a different expression, a different way of saying things.
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  SPEAKER_00: Usually, I can make a better connection.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that's always such a great example because there's no such thing
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  SPEAKER_00: as a one -size -fits -all approach, especially when you're dealing with people.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, in this case it was my family members, my children,
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  SPEAKER_00: but just people in general, they're complex.
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  SPEAKER_00: They require different baits and different lures if you truly want to make a connection.
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  SPEAKER_00: The final point that I want to take today,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I'll start with the fishing example is Because when I went fishing,
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  SPEAKER_00: and A couple of times, my brothers and I and a bunch of friends went fishing
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  SPEAKER_00: in actually way northern Michigan.
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  SPEAKER_00: So much fun all the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the little things really enhanced the experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: We had the right snacks, the right beers, the right sodas.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you had music and you put your lucky hat on, the little tiny things, the bug spray stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: It always made it that much better because, you know, like I said earlier,
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  SPEAKER_00: you can have a, you come back empty, you get no bites, you get nothing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the other thing that happens through that is you get, you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: conversations and meandering and discussions.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think that fits really well in a parenting format
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  SPEAKER_00: or not necessarily parenting,
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  SPEAKER_00: you could expand it farther as you want the little things add up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Especially when you're fishing, making connections.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll go back to my children.
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  SPEAKER_00: If I remember their friends' names when they tell me the first time.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't do it all the time, but I'm trying to get better.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or I remember their favorite subject they talk about.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those tiny little things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And same thing when you're trying to make a connection with a customer
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  SPEAKER_00: or a new friend, just remembering their wife's name or husband's name
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  SPEAKER_00: or anything like that or some important sport.
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  SPEAKER_00: The little things matter a lot.
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  SPEAKER_00: And maybe it's an obvious example there, but that's
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  SPEAKER_00: the final point I'll add today is you take those quote-unquote empty days,
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  SPEAKER_00: the preparation, the planning, the You still may not get any results,
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  SPEAKER_00: but those little things do enhance the overall experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the update for the week.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now your homework assignment.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you're fishing with your families, and if you don't have a family,
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  SPEAKER_00: then a friend, I want you to be conscious of the bait that you're using.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's effectiveness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you attracting the right behaviors?
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  SPEAKER_00: Just like, you know, bait attracts fish.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you're not, try a new bait.
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  SPEAKER_00: So be conscious of the bait you're using in your interactions this week.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I'm going to close this thing and sign off the best way I know how.
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  SPEAKER_00: Get your vitamin D. Get your exercise.
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  SPEAKER_00: Move.
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  SPEAKER_00: Spend time with those you love, laugh, and we'll get after it next week.