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Welcome to destined for success. I'm your
host Jennifer Takagi and today I want to switch directions a
little bit based on the conversation we had last week
with Jim, I'm not gonna say right hones check, and he
developed an app called Ultimate business growth. And you can get
the app in the Google Store, the whatever the iPhone store is
called App Store. And I've kind of struggled with business
growth over the years, because I was offering what somebody else
suggested that I do or sell or how I be how I show up in the
world. So I want to talk first about, as I fall out of my chair
here, I want to talk about the bell curve of tech adaptation.
Now, to be clear, and to throw in a little caveat, in full
transparency, I didn't research this, like, where did this first
come from? Where did these terms first come from? But when I
Googled it, the first thing that came up was this bell curve. And
this terminology is tied to the technology adaptation. So when
does someone adopt a certain technology? And the cont the
terms, that's what I want to use the labels the terms. You start
out with tech enthusiast, and those are the innovators. And
they're like, first there, they're like, We need this, I'm
going to help create it. Then you have the visionaries that
are the early adopters. And that's like 13.5% of the
population. These early adopters are the ones when they hear a
new piece of technology comes out. They are up all night
standing in line waving. Back when we had to go someplace to
get things we couldn't just order them online. They were
just waiting to click the button. Then you have the
pragmatists are like, ooh, do I want it? Do I not they are the
early majority, again, about 34% of the population. And they're
like, Yeah, I want it but I want to wait just a tiny bit and see,
like who else gets it, what happens? Then you have the
conservatives, and they're also called Late Majority. 34% of the
population is equal with the pragmatist is like, well, I want
to see even more people get it before I do. And then you've got
the skeptics. And I love this term, the skeptics are the
laggards. And that's like 16%. So we've got the, the latest of
the late showing up to the party, and sometimes they show
up to the party, when there is no option. So where do you fall
on this bell curve? So the question that comes to mind for
me is when did you buy an iPhone? Or did you ever? So I
decided when I got my Well, first I got a phone in the very
first place. They were flip phones back in the day. And the
reason I got one is my cousin was in the hospital. And it was
life threatening. And I needed to be able to get ahold of
people and have people be able to get hold of me. So I called
my husband, and I was at work and I said, Hey, I need you to
go get me a phone, and then meet me at the hospital. And what I
wanted and did not communicate was I wanted him to go to the
phone store and grab me a phone, buy me a phone, give me a number
and bring it to me. And he met me outside the hospital and
handed me his phone. And I said, Well, what do I want to do with
this? And he goes, Well, you said you needed a phone? And I
said yeah, but I wanted to. I wanted you to go get me a phone
and he goes, Well, here's a phone. So yes, now I have a
phone, but now I can't get ahold of my husband. I have his phone.
So the next day, I went into the phone store and I got a phone.
And it was fine. It was a flip phone. It did what I needed to
do. But I couldn't text. I could not I could not text it was
basically I didn't want to text just call me. I just call me if
you want to tell me something, don't text me. And I remember,
fast forward a little bit. My dad was in the hospital and my
girlfriend texted me. And it took me like 10 minutes to text
her back. Just call me when you can talk because I wasn't gonna
text with her. And then my husband was nice enough to go
get me a film that was a slide. It was a slide phone and you
slit it up and then you had a keyboard and you can actually
type on the keyboard and then we moved into it. needing wanting
or desiring whatever, a touchscreen smartphone. So when
I went in to get my smartphone, I was adamant I did not want an
iPhone. And you might be saying, why would you want an iPhone?
Jennifer? Well, that's just a really great question. And I
didn't want to iPhone, because by that time the iPhones got to
have different cords than everybody else. And I thought
that was stupid. Like they should have the same cord as
everybody else, the same plug. But that's not how it worked.
That was not how it worked at all. So I didn't want one. And I
didn't get one. And I went through multiple phones. And my
last phone, I won't slam a brand. I'm sure they've made it
better. But I went to Paris, I was fortunate enough to go to
Paris with several of my girlfriends. And it was one of
my girlfriend's birthday, we literally were at the top of the
Eiffel Tower drinking champagne on her birthday, and it was so
much fun. And side story, they said they had a champagne bar.
He was the champagne window. It was a window and you went up and
you paid this guy and he handed you a plastic glasses of
champagne. I thought it was gonna be a bar. Like we could
sit in a bar and order glasses of champagne overlooking Paris.
But that's not how it works. It was still amazing, though, by
the way. So we're in Paris. I've been having trouble with my
phone. My girlfriend only has a work phone that has minimal
things on it like Uber is not on her work phone. So we're using
my phone but it won't hold a charge. It's our last day in
Paris. We are taking a train out to a hotel way far away, so that
we can be closer to the airport and have a shuttle to the
airport the next morning because our flights are very early. So
we're on the train. We're almost to the station literally in the
middle of nowhere, tiny little village and I go on Uber and I
asked for a car. And I immediately put my phone on
airplane mode after I asked for the car because I didn't want
the battery to die like it is die. It won't last all day. It's
been on airplane mode all day. So we step out of the train
station. Everybody scatters because they know where they're
going. They know where where they're going. And about the
time I hit the button to turn it off airplane mode it comes back
on. And I opened the car door that drives up and he says Ginny
fail and I was like we said wha and we jump in the car and he
takes us to the hotel. I have my phone plugged in all night. The
next morning, I get on the shuttle bus to go to the
airport. I get to the airport. I fly to the US I don't have my
phone on the whole time. Right it's on airplane mode the whole
way because an airplane. I land in Detroit I get through
customs. Another side note Detroit customs rocks. That is
the fastest bestest customs place I've ever been flying
internationally to are from. So I fly into Detroit. I get
through customs easily. They have a Chili's. I love Chili's.
And I love their chips and salsa. I haven't had chips and
salsa and weeks order a beer and chips and salsa. I'm all happy I
call my husband. I said I'm back in the US my flights in two
hours is a two hour flight home. I'll call you when I get to
Columbus city. Okay. I hang up. I eat my chips and salsa. I go
to the gate. And they have a charging stand. I grab it. I
plug my Android film in. And I'm reading a book I'm a big Kindle
fan, avid reader. I'm reading I'm happy. And my phone will
kind of like Blink beeps a little bit every now and then.
And when I look at it, it says something like, system can't
optimize or whatever it was that it said. And I was like, Man,
that's really weird. Okay. So I get off the plane in Oklahoma
City. My girlfriend I'm supposed to drive her home. Because she
doesn't have her personal phone. She only has her work phone and
she's not blah, blah blah, whatever. But I'm going to take
her home we've already decided this in Paris. I'll drive her
home and our plan our flights, different airlines flying into
different cities we land 10 minutes apart or something. So
I'm at baggage claim and she comes up and she goes I'm in
texting you Why are you replying? And I said my phone is
dead, like D AD dead. And I take her home and I pass See a phone
store on the way to her house. I dropped her off.
I circle back I walk in. It's about 10 till seven. Well, I
want to research this. Now granted, I don't know really
much of anything about phones other than what other people
tell me. But I wanted to make a few calls. I wanted to find out
what phone to get. So I walk up, and I hold my phone up. And as a
young man and a young woman, I'm just gonna guess they're both
under 30. And I said, Hey, can you fix my phone? So that it
works for a couple days? So I can decide what kind of phone to
get. And they looked at each other. And then they looked at
me. And at the same time, they both said, No, that phone is
dead. And I went, What do you mean, the phone's dead? You can
get it back. And they're like, No, we can't. That's a system
failure error. And I went, Oh, and they said, If you want a
phone, you need to pick one like right now. Well, I wasn't ready
to pick one right now. But okay, I'll pick one right now. And I
was like, Okay, great. I don't want an iPhone, but you've got
30 seconds to tell me why I want an iPhone. And the young man
looks at me and he points his finger at his my phone. And he
doesn't in a circle, his finger kind of like you know, the
buffering buffering symbol. He does his finger like that. And
he said, an iPhone will never do that. Well, that was like the
clearest, most concise explanation I had ever had on
why I would want an iPhone and I said, I'm not paying 1000 bucks.
And they said, Great, we have one for 800. And I said fine.
And they said what color and they had University of Oklahoma
red. Not really, I just call it that. But it was a red phone and
I went great. And I want to clear case and they went great.
And at 704 I walk out of the store with a new iPhone with all
my stuff, imported all my my numbers, my contacts, my
everything, and it works and it had 50% Charge already. So I'm
gonna say I was a laggard getting in the iPhone world. I
didn't want one because I didn't like to plug in. Well, now that
I've got seven Kindles don't judge me. I have them in
different places and use them for different things have
different books on them to travel with to in case one goes
dead. Those plugs those little basic USB, mini USB, whatever
it's called, they can easily get squished and then your stuff
won't charge. So now I do have an iPhone and I do have an iPad.
Why do I have an iPad, I didn't want an iPad, I got an iPad
because I decorate cookies. And sometimes you have the image
projected onto the cookie so you can make it look beautiful. And
for whatever reason. Most of the cameras you get for that have to
have an Apple product. They wouldn't work with my Kindle,
they wouldn't work with my laptop, they wouldn't work with
anything else. I had to get an iPad. But guess what? The
Chargers always work. The Chargers always work. It is now
2024 And I've had this iPhone since 2019. And the only problem
I've ever had is sometimes I have too many apps and I need to
delete the crap I don't use but that's it. I would not listen. I
could not hear the people that were telling me when I first got
a smartphone. Why I would want an iPhone. I couldn't hear it. I
wasn't ready. I probably heard somebody bashing iPhone. And I
was like yeah, me too. I'm on that bandwagon. I didn't know
why am I telling you to get an iPhone? No, you need to get what
works for you. And that brings me like to the whole point of
this conversation, which is what do you really want? What do you
really want what do you really need when I went to get my first
smartphone? The young man in the store took one look at me and
Karina I don't look my age at all. I look way younger than my
actual age. But I looked older than him because he was like 22
and I did look older than that because I looked 30 at 22 So
there you go. He said something about well for people like you
it's us get the iPhone it's easier to use. People like me,
like am I like I didn't get it. If he had had a little better
sales tactic, I probably would have not gone through four,
maybe five different Android phones that all failed me
miserably before I went to the iPhone. I didn't have all the
data, I didn't have all the information. I went with what
somebody suggested. I said, I don't want to iPhone, he goes
great here, get this. And I did. And that was a disaster. That
phone didn't even last a year, it was so bad. You have to
listen to your gut. What you really want, you need to get
some information. Why is this better than this? What does it
have to offer? me on my business? What am I going to
offer? What do I want you to buy? How do I want you to work
with me? Do I want you to work with me in a group setting? Do I
want you to work with me one on one? Guess what? We can work
that out. But you have to listen to your gut on what feels good
and right to you. Are you a speaker? What do you want to
talk about? What is something that if somebody handed you a
mic every single day for the rest of your life? You could
talk about easily, effortlessly, and get this with a lot of
passion? What could it be? What could you talk about? Like go on
and on and on talking about 40,000 things about it. Listen
to your gut. How do you do that? Sometimes the answer just come
so quickly and easily. You're like, oh, yeah, I'm in and
that's great. If you're not in a car, if you're in a car and
you're at a stoplight, okay, fine. But if you're driving,
don't do this set up kind of straight, not stiff, just a
little bit straight. Relax your shoulders bounce on a timer to
bounce my mind. Can you hear that? My voice amounts for
shoulders. My name is Jennifer. So I'm going to ask the question
Is my name Jennifer and my body sways forward just a tiny bit is
my name Bill and I go back just a little bit bills my husband's
name, but it's not my name. And you can start practicing to
learn the yeses. And the knows your body will tell you. Your
body will tell you what's a yes. What's a No. Should I invest in
this? Yeah, yeah, that feels really good. I was at a event a
year or so ago. And an NLP practitioner led us through a
visualization exercise. And we were all standing up. And she
was like, imagine you're five years from now. And I mean, oh,
was so positive and optimistic. And then she was like, now
consider you didn't make any change at all? What would that
be like? And ooh, your body just felt very differently when you
were like, ooh, like, if everything stays the same. I'm
not happy with that. I don't want that I want something
different. And I was talking to a gal that was also at the
conference and a little breakout thing. And she said, our I asked
her, Hey, did you feel your body move during that? It's yours?
Yeah, I did. I thought just because our eyes were closed,
and we were standing that I was moving. And I said no. When she
talked about the future, and what the future could look like,
Did you lean forward? Or did you lean back? And she said, I let I
leaned forward to the point that I stumbled a little bit. And I
was like, Yeah, and when she said, What if things never
change? She said, I leaned back until I stumbled just a little
bit. And I said, that was your intuition telling you, you want
to lean into the future. You want to lean into the future
business future live, future success. And staying the same
feels terrible and you're backing away. It's like backing
away from a hot stove or you go to a bonfire and you have to
backup because that heats too much, right? It's not for me,
it's backed up a little bit. When you ask yourself what you
really want, give yourselves a few minutes to be quiet. To be
still, I don't mean 1020 3040 minutes you can if you want but
you don't have to take a few minutes to close your eyes. Take
a few deep breaths, relax, tell your body to relax. And then ask
yourself, Do I really want this and you will lean into it when
it's a yes and you'll pull back when it's if you want more
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