Richie Norton: Hacks to Living a Meaningful Life
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Richie Norton’s life hasn’t been easy, but he has figured out how to ask the right questions and find he values most and live life to achieve what matters most. (And you can too!)
Episode Discussion Points
- The interesting thing his dad told him when he wanted to get a job as a teenager
- You can be creative and earn money as an entrepreneur
- Don’t lose meaning in your life. Spend time doing the things that matter most
- The passing of his brother-in-law Gavin & what he learned about not putting off your dreams
- The passing of their little son Gavin and wondering how they would ever handle that
- Gavin’s Law: Live to Start, Start to Live—meaning start living the ideas that are pressing on your mind.
- Don’t let fear hold you back from living life to its fullest in the present, without regret
- It is important in hard times to make like “airy & available” so you can navigate hard times.
- With grief—a little bit of pain can fill your whole body
- "Grief is a tunnel, not a cave.”
- Goals are usually means to an end—so you need to ask yourself what your end goal? So, start with the end goal in mind.
- Anti-time management means you control your time and live according to your values. Don’t work on your values last!
- Time-management was made to control people
- Example of rapper ________ (Sirah?)
- When we decide “I am….” therefore, I will do and act like that right now.
- Get over the self-imposed hurdles and be who you know you can be
- How people aren’t afraid of failure, they’re afraid of slow growth or looking bad.
- When he wondered, “Does God hate me?” And what he decided to do.
- Don’t tie your faith to an outcome.
- “And the greatest miracle of faith is having faith when there is no miracle.”
- Do what you can with what you’ve got, where you are.
- Assign positive meaning to even hard things and choose how you will look at it.
- If you want a better outcome you should ask a better question.
- What, “Begin with the end in mind,” means to him.
- Ask yourself where you want to be in 2 years and bake in the real outcome from the start.
- Live from your values and you’ll live without regret
Connect with Richie
- Website: RichieNorton.com
- Buy his new book Anti-Time Management on Amazon here
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Transcription
You can find the transcription of today's episode here: https://www.tamarakanderson.com/podcasts/richie-norton-life-hacks-to-living-a-meaningful-life
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