Marian Edelman Wright once said,
you can't be what you can't see.
Think about that just for a
moment and think about all
of those big goals and
dreams and aspirations that
you have and imagine them
with purpose and clarity.
And if you imagine them with
purpose and clarity,
how much easier it is to
actually achieve.
So today I have the absolute
pleasure of interviewing my friend,
Steve Gamlin.
Now,
Steve is known as the motivational
firewood guy and the vision board guy.
He helps people understand
their vision with that
purpose and clarity that
I'm talking about so that
you can gain confidence and
impact that you are looking
for this year and beyond.
Steve, welcome to the show, my friend.
Thank you very much, Tara.
Happy to be here and looking
forward to our conversation.
So vision, it's so important.
You know,
I'm just looking back at my own journey,
Steve,
and the first vision board I ever
created was only just three years ago.
It was January of, uh, gosh,
what year was that?
So, yeah, and you you'll laugh.
I actually had to Google how
to do a vision board.
I didn't know.
Right.
But I heard the term before
and there were no,
it's not like there was
instructions readily available.
I couldn't like figure it out.
I wasn't quite sure what to do.
Do you run into that a lot?
Yeah.
See,
a lot of people will reach out to me
because I've been doing
this for twenty years now.
And they'll say, Steve,
I made a vision board.
So great.
Send me a picture.
And I get it.
and they did exactly what
most people do because if
you ever saw the secret or
you see any of these
motivational gurus out
there all of a sudden you
get in my inbox a picture
of a board with photos of a
lamborghini a yacht a
private jet a mansion a big
honking gold watch and a
bank vault full of gold
bars and piles of cash it's
what I call the vision
board starter kit and so
many people think it's all
about the material things
And that's part of life.
There's nothing wrong with
any of those pictures, by the way.
But here's my biggest thing
when it comes to vision boards.
It's not just what you get,
it's who you want to become.
And it takes on such a heavier,
more in-depth journey than
just saying you want a
bunch of stuff because
you're not necessarily
going to be acclimated to
believe you actually deserve it.
And in the event that you do,
and you don't feel you deserve it,
and you haven't built up
the best version of you along the way,
You're probably going to
sabotage it and lose it in some way.
It's all about aligning with your values,
what your version of success is.
I completely agree.
We don't talk about that
enough when we go on
Instagram or YouTube or any
of these places or LinkedIn,
for that matter.
We see a version of success that, you know,
society doesn't.
Maybe our parents,
maybe it was the way we
were brought up tells us that, you know,
that's everybody's goal, right?
It's called the American dream.
So if you know, that's,
we're just in the United States.
So I'm mentioning that, you know,
it's pretty common that we
all seem to have the same
version of success.
Oh,
you have to have this super lucrative
corporate job.
You need to be a doctor or a lawyer.
You need to have a Lamborghini,
a big house or whatever it is.
But nobody stops to think
what they actually want.
And that's part of the
problem of why we're having
this lack of fulfillment, I feel like,
on a big level,
like on a collective scale,
don't you think?
Yeah.
And a lot of people,
they get to that thing and
they drive and they grind.
And that's why I say the
hustle and grind mindset is
actually causing a lot of damage.
There's nothing wrong with working hard.
There's nothing wrong with hustling.
But you've got to know why you want it.
And who you're going to be
when you get to the end of it.
And I've had people in their twenties say,
Steve,
I'm going to make a million dollars
this year.
I'm going to work like eighty,
a hundred hours a week and
I'm going to get it.
I'm going to grind and grind and grind.
And I say, you married?
They go, yeah.
I go, you won't be by the end of the year.
That's right.
And I know because I did
that to my first marriage.
Workaholic.
I worked fifty,
sixty hours a week at a
radio station and DJed
weddings pretty much every
weekend year round.
And destroyed my myself, my health,
my relationship.
And, you know,
for my share of the issues that caused it,
it led to a divorce.
So it's really important.
You know,
working hard is great and I love it.
But you've got to know who you want to be.
And you also mentioned core
values in there, too.
And the way that I teach vision boards,
this is the program I
created and the way I do it
at live events with all my
corporate clients as well.
You got to think in eight
major categories.
And it's a pretty standard
personal development tool.
You've probably seen it out there.
They're all a little bit different.
I've kind of tweaked mine.
And if you're going to have a vision,
you need to think of these eight areas.
Your physical health,
your emotional well-being.
Imagine that.
What emotions do you want to
feel while you're achieving your goals?
Your closest relationships,
your core values and ethics
that guide every thought, word,
and action that you commit.
Your faith and spirituality,
if that's an important part of your life.
Your connection to the world in real ways,
which took a beating during
the pandemic years.
And then your career and your money.
Now,
it may seem overwhelming to a lot of
people.
They say,
should I make a separate vision
board for each?
No, you're one person, make one board.
All eight of these things are happening.
Whether or not you're paying attention.
So wouldn't it be a good
idea to set goals in
alignment with exactly who
you are and who you want to become?
Keeping all eight of those in mind.
Wow.
I wish I would have
mentioned a couple of years ago.
We're here now.
We're three years too late.
Um, so it's interesting.
So, you know,
when I first made this vision board again,
I had to literally Google it.
That's not an exaggeration.
I went to Walmart,
I got my supplies and it
was a poster board.
Like you would have when
you're in the eighth grade.
Right.
And I put it down and I started thinking,
you know, what do I want?
Who do I want to become?
Very interesting.
And.
At the time,
I was really struggling with depression,
anxiety, and lack of confidence.
And I just wanted out.
Whatever change had to be,
I wanted like the complete opposite.
And I said, okay, what's my biggest fear?
I said, okay, it's public speaking.
I hated it.
Right?
So ironic.
I hated it.
I said you know what there's
something like compelling
towards us and I knew it
was an area of growth and
something like I was like I
just want to try it and I I
found the lady and she was
in you know on stage and
big audience and I thought
I just want to teach to
people and like really
really help them but I
didn't know how I didn't
know what I was doing so
I clicked out this picture
and that became the center.
Steve, can I tell you six months later,
I met my first speaking
mentor and he helped me, you know,
through this process,
navigate the industry and such.
And then it was only a few
weeks or so after that I
got my first speaking opportunity.
It went from vision to
reality in less than eight months,
I think.
It was crazy.
Have you ever experienced that?
Oh, many times.
Many times.
And here's the thing about it.
So many people think, oh,
that's lucky you manifested it.
Meaning,
and what they mean by manifest is
you wished for it and it happened.
And I blame the DVD version
of The Secret for this.
Now, I love The Secret.
And it did a great broad
brush of the law of
attraction and manifesting and all that.
but they included I'm not
sure if you've seen the
video version of it they
included the genie in a
magic lamp and his only
line throughout the whole
movie was your wish is my
command and it gave people
the illusion and some
people may look at your
success now and say oh Tara
you wished for that and it
happened no you envisioned
it and you declared that's
what you wanted then all of
a sudden your senses became
available of opportunities
to meet that person or at
least connect with that
person it's almost like
instead of staring at your
shoes or your phone wishing
for stuff you know texting
the universe I want this
you actually had your head
on a swivel in your eyes
and your ears and your mind
didn't doubt you because
even when you first set the
vision your confidence
level is already at work
it's already climbing the
mountain without you know
even if you think it's
without you that when you
had the opportunity to meet
that person you were at
least barely confident
enough to reach out and make a connection
With that person.
And then they saw an
opportunity to help you.
Now,
that person is being a teacher as well.
Teaching you to be able to
get to a place where you
can turn around and teach others.
It's like climbing a mountain.
And you found this guy
sitting on a rock in the
sun eating a sandwich.
And you said, hey, I want to do this.
And he said, well, come climb with me.
We're heading on up together.
That's how this works.
And people say it sounds all
mystical and all that.
And it's all woo-woo.
And one of my taglines is, dude,
I'm blue collar woo.
I come from carpenters and building stuff.
And instead of just spouting woo woo stuff,
I sit here and I roll up my
sleeves next to you and I
hand you the tools and show
you how to use them.
And that's how this works.
It's very scientific.
I just don't explain it in a
scientific way.
I just trust that it works.
It does.
And it's repeatable.
So this same exact, you know,
scenario I was just talking about there,
there, you know, I went from, okay,
public speaking, right?
Let's, let's conquer that goal.
So that was the vision board
of that year was primarily
that the next year it was
about authorship.
And I kept talking about
authorship and I kept
thinking of myself as an author.
Then once I started,
so it started with a vision
on my vision board,
then it began me talking
about myself as such.
and then connecting with authors.
So I started connecting with
New York Times bestselling
authors on LinkedIn.
And again,
this wasn't that far removed
from that first vision board.
Less than a year.
It was literally after that,
I got an opportunity to
speak with NASDAQ again,
in twenty twenty two.
I had only been an
entrepreneur for six months.
Then after that,
so that combines the
speaking and the other things.
And then after that,
It was, you know what?
I think I can write,
I'm just going to go ahead
and try to write a book.
Boom.
You just have to,
it starts with that clarity
of that vision though, Steve,
and not enough people
really talk about this.
They talk about clarity,
but they don't talk to you
about how to gain that clarity.
And that's a big pet peeve
of mine because you're
actually talking about how
to gain the clarity.
And it's something very
tangible that anybody can do,
which is why I love what you do.
So, you know,
you talked about this vision starter kit,
which is really funny, right?
Because I think you're right.
I think a lot of people have
that same vision starter kit, right?
It's like a Lamborghini and
a big house and a big stack of money.
And there's nothing wrong
with those things,
but they should not be your
whole life's work.
I like how you also talk
about having faith in there.
That's something that's
really important to me.
It's so interesting though,
because you're talking
about not one part of the person,
but the whole person.
Exactly.
Wow.
What have been some
interesting transformations
that you've seen on
people's vision that you've
worked with that went from
that vision board starter kit
So actually something more
meaningful and purposeful for them.
Yeah.
One of my favorites happened about,
I want to say about six years ago.
There's a company that I've
worked with now.
This past December was my
seventeenth annual event with them.
And I teach vision boards to
their entire company and
visualization and do some
coaching for them as well.
And one of the attendees
reached out to me and said, Hey, Steve,
I got this goal,
something I've wanted to do
for most of my life.
And at the time she was
around twenty eight,
twenty nine years old.
And she said,
I want to go on a safari to Africa.
Giraffes are my favorite
creature on the planet.
I think they're so majestic and gorgeous.
And I would love for, at the time,
her fiance and her, now married,
to go on a safari.
But I don't know how to
create it as a vision.
And I said, okay,
we got on a coaching call.
I said, well, where do you want to go?
And she said, the plains of the Serengeti,
because that's where
there's a lot of giraffes
and other animals.
It's great.
How much is it going to cost?
I have no idea.
I said, good.
This week, here's your first step.
Reach out to a travel agent
and figure out how much
it's going to cost.
So she did that.
She determined it was going
to be about ten thousand dollars.
And I said, now,
in addition to paying your bills,
because remember,
you got all these other
eight areas of your life,
all eight you're working on.
This is kind of an add on
for something cool.
How long do you think it
would take you to save that
in addition to paying all your bills?
And she goes, ooh, probably two years.
I said, okay, perfect.
So now we're talking about a
two-year project.
Who could you share this with?
Who do you trust?
She goes, oh my gosh,
my whole tribe of people on
her team and all of her clients as well.
So she went into her Facebook Live,
her weekly Friday morning live.
And said,
I want to go on a safari to
Africa because I want to see giraffes.
And all of a sudden,
people started sending her
little giraffe pendants,
a pen set that had four jungle creatures.
One was a giraffe.
I went on Amazon.com and I
found her two shower
stickers of a mama and a baby giraffe.
They are still to this day in her shower.
And she sees them every day
and she touches them and says,
I'm going to come see you.
In order to track her progress,
because again,
we're talking two years here.
I found a children's
coloring book with a
giraffe picture in it,
and it had twelve spots on it.
So I wrote her name and her
fiance's name on two of them,
and I wrote five hundred, five hundred,
five hundred, five hundred,
five on the other ten,
five thousand dollars for each year.
Every time she banked five hundred dollars,
she would do a Facebook
Live and color in a spot on that giraffe.
So it kept going every
Friday morning on a radio
station that's up here in the Northeast,
and she could hear it in
Maine and I could hear it
in New Hampshire.
Every Friday morning,
they would do a name that tune.
And at the end of it, for some reason,
they would play Africa by Toto.
It was called Africa Friday.
So every Friday morning,
she made sure she listened
to that and she heard Africa.
Now, I created a hashtag for her,
Giraffe Africa, put them together.
She became known as hashtag
Giraffrica Jen.
still is all these years
later now covet got in the
way a lot of things and
travel and some things
going on over there she's
actually going this summer
finally for all the work we
did for those two years
together and she nailed it
by the way she I think she
was six or eight weeks into
beyond the second year is
when she finally saved the
ten thousand dollars
incredible what everyone
everyone piled on and sent
her all these giraffe
things and she would send
me pictures every time she
goes oh my gosh this thing
has taken on a life of its
own and so that's what
happens when you share your
vision very clearly and
passionately other people
want to be a part of it and
she is still getting gifts
and anytime my wife and I
would be traveling if we
saw a giant stuffed animal
giraffe I would go hug it
and she would take my
picture and we would send it to jen
Such next level, you know,
in a couple of different ways, right?
No, I love that.
I love a story where you
really honor people.
I'm pretty passionate about that.
It's one of the tenets of my
business is to give first, give often,
and do it with love.
Everything we should do, you know,
in a business sense or just
in life is to love another person.
You know what?
It starts with self.
It starts with self and
honoring yourself too.
And if you have these big
goals and big dreams, you know,
we can be our own worst critics.
We can be the first people to say,
you know what?
That's not possible.
You know what?
That's too far out of the way,
too far reaching.
That's, that's not doable.
I can't do.
And you start to talk
yourself out of it really quick.
Oh yeah.
I used to speak that one fluently.
I was a very self deprecating,
and had no confidence for
years which is pronounced
decades of my life this
confidence to me is only
well put it this way I said
this to somebody recently
when she blew me off for a
zoom call the next day I
asked her why and she said
it's kind of embarrassing
but I'm I'm intimidated by
your conference and I
busted out laughing I said
here's the link let's get
on a zoom call now and I
said look my confidence can
barely drive a car and it
sure as hell can't buy a beer yet
I said,
I'm fifty six and my confidence is
maybe about nineteen or twenty years old.
So there's hope.
But it all and you nailed it.
It starts with you.
It starts with the person in your mirror.
Every morning when I get up
at five oh five to do my
morning workout and
inspired by Mel Robbins,
as soon as I hit that bathroom mirror,
I give myself a huge high
five and I point at myself and say, you,
my friend, are a good dude.
You're going to go work out
and you are going to have a great day.
And here's the cool part.
You're going to make this
day better for at least one other person.
But it starts with you and
we're going to have a good day.
Rock on.
That's how I start my mornings.
I love that.
Total opposite from twenty
years ago when I was looking to go.
You dumbass.
Look what you did yesterday.
You screwed it up, which is like.
Just throwing a turd bomb at
yourself first thing in the
morning and it's going to wreck your day.
And I've learned self-talk super critical.
Now, you don't have to be like.
Stuart Smalley, you know,
you're good enough, you're smart enough,
and gosh darn it, people love you.
You don't have to be all that way.
But cut yourself some slack.
Think of your favorite
moment from the day before,
something you did.
Maybe you held the door for
somebody or somebody said, thank you.
Or somebody told you, hey,
you did a great job on this.
Or somebody paid you a compliment,
told you to have a nice hat,
whatever it was.
Think of the best moment
from the previous day and
use that to start your new day.
I love that.
Yes, because, you know, a lot of people,
myself included,
have suffered from ruminating thoughts.
Yeah.
You used to stay all day.
Yes, yes.
And they really can not just
destroy your confidence.
They can destroy every aspect of your life,
Steve.
And one of the powerful things about,
again, that clarity of vision,
it's an anchor.
in a lot of ways.
So even if negative thoughts
come to mind or even worse,
the record player of negative thoughts,
that ruminating thought
that I'm talking about,
the vision will help guide
you through that process
because it's almost like
the compass that really
takes you through the storm, you know?
And we all go through those
times in our lives when we're, again,
doubting ourselves,
doubting our abilities.
And we're questioning our
just worth and confidence.
But when you have a really clear vision,
it is like a compass and it
helps you kind of get back
on track and get back in on
the path as a word.
Don't you agree with that?
yeah um and one of the
things too is if you're in
a weaker place right now or
a place that's compromised
by your own self-talk or
your self-beliefs and your
thoughts here's the thing I
tell people I said look you
set this vision you created
this you told me this story
and which I'm a storyteller
by nature so I'll say you
know tell me a little story
about this and like oh this
this this and this I said
okay how are you going to
get there I have no idea okay
is there anybody out there
on planet earth right now
who is enjoying the life
that you want to create
they go well yeah it's kind
of part of what inspired me
I said good start shadowing
or observing these people
just watch from a distance
I mean if you can meet them
and greet them great but
watch from a distance see
how they carry themselves
see what they post on
social media see what they
never do on social media
and don't do that
But emulate these people who
are higher up the mountain than you are.
Step in their steps.
Watch what they do and how they do it.
Success leaves clues.
Everybody in the world has said that.
I think Tony Robbins gets credit for it.
But success does leave clues.
And if you see people out
there living the type of
life you wish to live,
just observe those people.
Read their books.
Read their articles.
Watch their videos.
Listen to their podcasts.
Again, follow them on social media.
See what they say and how they say it.
See how they treat other
people and start to emulate that.
Jack Canfield calls it acting as if.
Act as if you're already at
that level and you will get there.
It'll pull you uphill when
you start to do that
because you're going to
start to realize the people,
some of them who are in
your life right now,
who are trying to drag you
down a different path.
You have got to set some
boundaries and you have got
to make yourself less
available to those people.
Start looking up the
mountain toward cliffs in
the peak and not sitting at
the bottom of the mountain
on a rotten picnic table,
giving your splinters in
your butt downwind of the
porta potties in the parking lot.
Start climbing with the right people.
Yes, climb with the right people.
So you're mentioning something that is,
again, very passionate to me.
I have three foundational
layers of gratitude that I talk about.
gratitude for the person
that you were gratitude for
the person that you are and
gratitude for the person
you are becoming.
And again, yes, that's, you know,
that was the premise of my TEDx talk.
We don't talk about that enough,
that gratitude for the
person that we are becoming
the person that we want to
become the person that we
want to align ourselves with.
Right.
Some people call it your highest self.
I just say,
you know,
making the most out of your life
and aligning with your purpose, right?
But whether you believe it's
your highest self or not,
or just the best version of
yourself really is how I look at it.
Just, you know, aligning with that person.
Again,
it goes and coincides with this
vision that we're talking about.
You can't have gratitude for
something until you truly
believe it's already happened, right?
So,
but imagine you have that gratitude
already and you're really
grasping that person and
that you want to become,
it again makes it so much
easier to become that person.
That's actually the, out of my book,
that was the most asked
question was how can I have
gratitude for the future
version of myself that I
have yet to become?
The thing of it is you
become that future version
of yourself so much quicker
when you realize that and
make that understanding
really tangible for yourself.
I already have gratitude for
every single goal that I've ever had.
Why?
Because I believe it's going to happen.
I have faith that it will happen.
It's already happened.
So powerful, Steve.
Yeah.
And I've been keeping a
gratitude journal now for
over thirteen years.
And my typical practice
starts after my workout
when I get back up to my
office and I flip open the
laptop as it's powering up.
My gratitude journal
actually sits underneath it
to keep it at a little
slant so I can type somewhat legibly.
And I'll take it out and
I'll write the date and I
write the words great stuff.
And I write one, two, three.
And in less than a line each,
I write my three favorite
moments from the previous
day as descriptively as I
can in less than a line each.
And even on the worst, absolute worst,
toughest days of my life,
when the storm is raging,
when there's thunder, lightning,
wind and rain and just jet
black clouds across the sky,
I can find that little tiny
crack in the clouds where
that one ray of light comes through.
that's what I try to focus
on every day as far as the
gratitude going on and if
you can do that three two
and go so the most
important thing is to
remember no matter what is
happening out there there is something
to be grateful for.
And my family and I have a
small nonprofit.
It's a five one C three
called Beach Bum Philanthropy.
And we try to do our best to
help out local homeless shelters.
And even yesterday, here in New Hampshire,
it was minus eight degrees.
And I went to the shelter,
and I had a couple of cans of coffee,
and brought them and these people,
many of whom live out on
the street or just crashing
somewhere on a friend's couch.
We're so grateful just to
have a hot cup of coffee
yesterday to come in out of the cold.
And I said, you know,
do you have anybody that
doesn't drink coffee that
likes hot chocolate?
They said, oh,
we go through hot chocolate like crazy,
but we're out.
Give me about fifteen minutes.
Came back with ninety
packets of hot chocolate
and they were so grateful.
So even people who are
dealing with day to day
life or death challenges,
we're grateful that they
could have a mug of hot
Cocoa with marshmallows.
I made sure I got the one
with marshmallows because
that's my favorite.
But even, you know,
and we can all be anywhere
in our life and forget to
be grateful for those little things.
And that's something I take
with me every day whenever
we go to the shelter to understand.
I want to give these people
something to be grateful for today.
If you can find the gratitude.
your life becomes so much better.
And I really encourage
everybody listening to this
to really grab hold of this concept.
There's a reason why
gratitude is my first step
in my method to build confidence.
It's not just about building confidence.
It's about living a more fulfilled life.
It's about connecting with other people,
starting with yourself.
It's about appreciating the
life that you've lived, your past,
the life that you're living,
your present.
And again,
that life that you want to live
for your future.
If you can find the
gratitude in any situation,
it's not only going to lead
to a level of fulfillment
that I feel like a lot of
people haven't even experienced yet.
But for me,
it was a really deep connection
to my faith.
It deepened my faith in a
way that I was not expecting.
And not only faith in myself, like, yes,
I can do this,
but it was a faith and a
higher power that said, you know what?
I was made for more.
I was born for more.
I wasn't born to suffer.
I wasn't born to be miserable.
I wasn't born to have lack.
And I know that anybody
that's listening to this right now,
maybe we, again, we felt that way before,
but I'm telling you right now,
your life is made for more.
You're made for more.
You can absolutely do
anything you want in life.
It starts with you.
Yeah.
And something I share with a lot of people,
especially if they might be
going through some
struggles in life right now,
I just tell them,
be very careful with the
universe and the law of
attraction because it has a
sense of humor.
If you're going through some
stuff right now, and I get it, trust me,
in my life right now,
privately going through
some very serious things at the moment.
But what I caution people on
is don't ever look up at the sky and say,
what else could possibly go wrong?
Because the universe will
actually pause for a second, giggle,
and send you some more crap.
Because that's, in a way,
almost what you're asking for.
Like what else can go wrong
to pile on and actually make this worse?
A better thing to do,
and I know it's so easy to fall into that,
is just to say, okay, this is going on,
this is going on, this is going on.
What can I do about it today
to bring a plus sign at the
end of the day and not
another minus sign?
How can I focus on that
little tiny crack in the
clouds where the sun is
coming through versus
staring at the clouds and
waiting for the lightning to hit me?
we've got to be very careful
with our choice of words
it's like what I caution
people on when they talk
about themselves being
self-deprecating is that
your inner self is just
going to respond to the
words and the tone so be
very careful the words that
you choose to use whether
it's inside yourself or to
the world around you I just
keep looking for signs that
better days are coming and
good things are going to
happen and I actually
believe that I'm going to
be part of the process
So it keeps me from just
being down or focusing on
the really bad stuff and saying, okay,
we're going to find some hope here.
I'm going to find the next
best version of me today.
One of my former mentors,
the late great Lonnie
Robinson used to say that.
He goes, brother,
all you got to do is create
the next best version of you.
He goes,
you don't have to do the ultimate
version.
Just how are you going to be
better today in one way than yesterday?
Go do that.
And you string enough of
those days together and all
of a sudden you realize
you're climbing, you're rising up,
and you look and speak
about yourself differently in the mirror,
and you also build your
confidence that way because
you're rising up.
And one of my stage stories is called,
Some Days Your Phoenix
Rides a Pogo Stick.
Because, you know,
my life has fallen into the
fire a couple times,
burnt off the tail feathers,
but here's the thing, they grow back.
If you don't just stare at
the little nubs of feathers
you had all the time,
they grow back.
And when they grow back,
the colors are more vivid
and you can fly higher.
But you got to have the
confidence and you have to
have the appreciation for
the time that it takes for
them to grow back so you can fly again.
That's right.
I love that, Steve.
Well,
I would love to end on a note of what
is one tip, just one, one takeaway,
one tip that somebody can
take with them right now to
get started on this process,
or if they've already kind
of started this process,
what can they do to enhance
it and make it better for them?
Yep.
Understand that life is like
an old wooden roller coaster.
Wherever you are right now,
you are at parking lot level,
you just handed your ticket,
you're getting on the ride.
Any one of your goals is at
the top of that first hill.
And it's not like the
jet-powered coasters.
You are not going to launch
right up there.
You're going to do what a
lot of people think is very boring work.
You're going to go click, click, click,
click.
But if you start taking
those steps and you do
enough of them consistently,
look over your shoulder
every once in a while and
realize how much higher you
are now than when you
started at the parking lot.
And after a while,
you're going to realize
that's getting closer and
closer and closer because
you are becoming the person
who's going to not only achieve it,
but appreciate it and have
it be a part of who you are.
So understand it can be a long journey.
But after each thing you do
or accomplish or achieve,
just think in your head, click, click.
I've got a hashtag, click, baby, click.
And that's what all of my coaching clients,
when they have a little breakthrough,
I get tagged on social media.
Hey, Steve Gamlin.
Ooh, hashtag, click, baby, click.
And I reach out to them and go, all right,
lay it on me.
What'd you do?
Because then I get to share
their story with other people.
So we all get to get up there together.
Because when you get over the top,
you do that last thing.
Hang on for a ride you
couldn't stop if you tried
because you did all the work.
And at the end of it,
screaming your brains out,
If you really enjoyed it,
what do you want to do?
You want to get back and do
it again and go next level
because there's always a next level.
So if you're frustrated or
feeling stuck or like
you're on a merry-go-round,
get off and hop on the
wooden roller coaster and
just start doing your little clicks.
I love that.
Yes, I appreciate the steps along the way.
Well, Steve,
what are the best places to
get a hold of you?
You can find me on social media.
I spend most of my time on
Facebook and LinkedIn,
or you can go to my website
at visionboardspecial.com.
I love that.
Wonderful.
Well, Steve, it was an absolute pleasure.
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a guest on the show and
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