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The Bubble Life 👀

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Brian talks about mask life in California.

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The bubble life.

Hi, I’m Brian Pombo. Welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

Coming to you today from this is actually my father’s office on Father’s Day and we’re going to talk a little bit about this concept of being kind of in a bubble.

We’re all are in some form of a bubble of one, one way or another, you know, we have certain things that we do places we hang out, places we hang out online. We all create a bit of this bubble atmosphere that we live in. That keeps us from seeing everything, especially if you don’t travel much.

Here’s a great example.

So this is I’m recording this in June of 2022. Yet, there has been talk a lot of talk about COVID-19, having another strain. There’s been discussions about certain places masking up and so forth.

Well, in Southern Oregon, you don’t see much of it, I knew of one particular grocery store chain, that was going to be the people working there, we’re going to be wearing masks again.

But other than that, you don’t see much of it in Southern Oregon, at least the areas that I’m around and hanging out, not taking a position one way or another here, I’m just making a point about what I see on a regular basis. So I’m out in California.

This was a couple of days ago, I was in Alameda County and they happen to have a mass mandate, which I wasn’t aware that they did they have a pub in public mass mandate. Went into a very popular grocery store and everyone had masks on again, it was just unlike where I was from.

You get a very different vibe, a very different feel. When in Rome, you do as the Romans do, but at the same time, it was a very interesting, and everyone’s got their own political beliefs and everything about this.

I’m not going to get into that. What I am going to say is though, we all have our biases that come from the places we live, the people we hang out with the situations that we go through on a daily basis, our jobs, our positions, our status, in life, our economic status, all these things come with certain biases and there’s really no way around that.

The important thing is to understand that you have them. The important thing is to understand that if you’re working with the public in any way, if you’re especially if you’re a business owner, or if you’re running a business, you need to keep in mind that these things are always in place.

That when you’re talking to people, you can’t assume that they see everything exactly the way you see it all. And you have to acknowledge when things might possibly be different somewhere else, or people may view things differently.

Now you can completely dismiss certain point of views and say that those people are stupid and this and that, that’s all I’m not saying you shouldn’t take a position, you really should. It’s helpful in marketing, to take positions.

But at the same time know what you’re doing know that you may be turning off a certain segment of public, maybe even entire states, entire countries, that you’ll be turning off to your products and services, just because of you saying something in a certain way.

So there’s all things just to keep in mind as we’re going through this journey. As a business owner, understand the bubble that you’re in, and traveling helps a lot. meeting lots of people in all different places really helps a lot. Getting to know people who may also be traveling gives you a viewpoint of where they’ve been. And so just keeping yourself in constant flux and constant.

A conversation with people is very, very helpful in this least it has been for me and hopefully, hopefully you get that feeling too. I hope you hope you’ve had a wonderful Father’s Day.

This is all I have for tonight. Go check out my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Poof Your Business. You can you can go and purchase a copy. Or you can go get a free copy at my website. AmazonProofBook.com That’s all I have for tonight. You have a good one. We’ll be back tomorrow night. We’ll be back in Oregon.

Hopefully by the time we were we finished it either that or we’ll be on the road somewhere. You have a good one. We’ll see you then.

In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.

Brutally Enforce Minimums 🙄

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Brian comes to you during his flight back home, while wearing his favorite mask. 😒

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Brutally enforce minimums.

Hi I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

You know, most of the time, if I’m in an airport, I will normally find a quiet space to have a conversation with you.

But I have a really good spot here when my planes gonna take off. Now I’m not going to have time to talk with you today. So I gotta sit here with my mask, my federally enforced mask on to just give you a quick tip. And, this video is an example of a minimum that I have to enforce myself.

Of course, now I have this new phone and every once in a while, I will hold it the wrong way and put my thumb right in the camera. So I apologize for that.

I know I have a problem. Oh, hey, I got an idea. See if I drink, I can take this off. Here we go.

See if I can move this without messing up the microphone look like a goofball. So let me take a sip.

I have a million things right through my mind.

Let me just talk about this idea of enforcing the minimum. So if you have minimums, daily minimums, things that you need to do, you just need to have them first, and then enforce them, make sure they’re something that you’re going to enforce that you’re that you can easily build a habit out of that daily minimum, and I just have a handful of things.

None of them are too difficult, that I’m going to dread doing them. One of them includes doing these videos, I’ve made it to where it’s an easy thing to be able to do in most cases.

But I don’t dread doing it, I enjoy doing it. I have just a couple of other minimums doesn’t mean that’s the only thing I’m going to do in that space for that day.

But it does mean that I do have to do it at least this much, at least one, a handful of these different things. So you got to have that for yourself.

Doesn’t have to be major things just enough to keep your head in the game. And then if you have employees, if you have partners, if you have other people, you’ve got to have minimums for them all.

So maybe it’s not a daily minimum, maybe it’s a weekly minimum or a monthly minimum.

But you’d have to have minimums and you have to enforce them. Keep on it. It’s not going to happen unless things move forward. It has to move forward at least a little bit. Every day, every week, every month. Hopefully, that makes sense.

Hey, check out my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business will get a free copy on AmazonProofBook.com. We’ll be back tomorrow.

Tomorrow I will be probably in a different airport. This is that right? Yeah. I’ll be in Phoenix. Right now. I’m in Charlotte. So we’ll see you in Phoenix. You have a good one. Get out there. Let the magic happen.