How to Integrate the Small Wins

SUMMARY

Angelica finished college with cum laude honor, and landed in the top 3 of the chemical engineer licensure examination. When I asked her for her one message to the world with her achievements, she said “everything adds up.” Even if she was not able to join the live stream due to internet problems, I gave 4 tips as inspired by a video entitled “Integrating the Wins” by Brendon Burchard. These tips include:

1. Find meaning in your daily tasks. Live the day with gratitude.
2. Keep a journal. Write down the things that have impacted you.
3. Take time out to appreciate the big and small wins.
4. Take it in. Step back and view your experiences in perspective.

Watch the actual interview with of Angelica Jao in this link.

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TRANSCRIPT

 This brief live stream happened when our guest Angelica Jao was not able to join due to internet disconnection. Watch the actual interview here.

Hi everyone, good evening. Thank you very much for coming to the live stream. I'm gonna check if our guest is able to come in. She is Angelica Jao who graduated cum laude from the University of the Philippines in Diliman. She landed in the top three in the chemical engineer licensure examination. Let us pray for better internet for her. We were able to practice earlier all the layouts, in a sense where she's going to be placed in the video, but she lost connection. Andof course, the show must go on.

I have chosen this topic which is how to integrate the small wins basically because of an initial discussion with Angelica. I asked for her one message to the world with what she has achieved. She said "everything adds up." That sounds like a math expert that she is. Everything adds up means that the little tasks really can give us the big win.

I remember Brendon Burchard's video on how to integrate the wins. One thing I got from the video is that sometimes we're doing many things but we don't step back and we don't appreciate that everything is really adding up as what Angelica said. We don't realize that what we have been doing so far is helping us to get to our goal.

I have heard some people say you start with the most difficult task. I used to do that before also when I was studying for the board exam. But I would start with the most difficult subjects. And then it facilitated going for the easier accounting topics.

This can work for some because the most difficult thing can facilitate being able to do the easiest thing later on. But for Angelica, she said it did not work so what she did was to start with a small tasks. And somehow checking off these things has helped her to really be more motivated to continue because she's able to finish the small, easier ones tasks. And she can go to the bigger and more difficult ones. I thought that those are two styles when it comes to organizing your tasks.

While we are waiting for Angelica, I'm also going to to go to my coach for similar lessons. I attended several of his courses of Brendon Burchard and he was talking about integrating the wins.

okay so while we are waiting for her I hope she can still get into into our um live stream let us pray that she gets the internet router because with the data it's much more difficult to get inside the the inside this   live stream okay

Let's try to focus on some tips that we get from Brendon Burchard.

1. He started with the first tip that is make the day meaningful. So there are some things that during the day we are tackling and sometimes we don't appreciate some things like we have the lights, or we have the internet and that is the difficulty of Angelica right now. Start the day being thankful that yes we can go on with our work because there is internet .Be thankful that things are coming into place. So it's really trying to put meaning into our tasks, being grateful, having that gratitude that things are working out all right and that can actually help us go on. When bad things like I heard that we might be losing electricity in some days and I think it will be affecting future live stream, we will get to that. At the moment we just have to be thankful.

2. And then another suggestion fro Brendon is to write down the awesome things. You know I think it must be two weeks ago that we listened to Justine Serdoncillo and I I was following his suggestion to be using the forest app. I was able to come up with a forest meaning I was able to plant some trees (i.e. finish some tasks or projects). I was able to do many things so I thought it's really very good to get ideas from people. We just have to listen. I heard from the late Larry King that when he talks and he just talks alone he doesn't  learn anything but when he interviews people and he interviewed around 6000 times, he was learning a lot from these people. So it is very important to write these things - what did I get from this, from this lecture or from this course.

I realized this as I'm attending an online course on neuro-linguistic programming. I did that course before but I hardly captured anything. So this time around I'm doing that again and I'm sitting down, I'm not just multi-tasking like I'm not using the internet while using the treadmill. I'm just focusing and I think I'm getting a lot more. So I think journaling things, writing things down, writing down the things that have impacted you which can be a little win that can, at the end of the course, be a big win. That may mean you were able to finish the course and you were able to get a lot of learnings.

3. Then the third thing that Brendon said about integrating the wins is to take time out to appreciate. For example just now okay we do not have our guest right now but it doesn't matter because in the end we're trying, people are praying and she's trying her best to come in.   Let's continue praying that she is able to come in but the the thing is can still add on to this broadcast. Perhaps if she's not able to come in, then we can reschedule it for another time that she has a better internet. So I appreciate the fact that we're all here- you're listening and you're able to still get something from me and I'm not talking about just basically my own experience. I'm getting it first of all from a mentor which is Brendon Burchard. And the third tip that he I mentioned he said is to take time out to appreciate, Reflect well to be grateful. For example today Sunday, what were you able to do today on father's day? Were you able to write a social media post, appreciating the things that your father has done to you,  with his life, with his example, with his behavior, with his conduct. Appreciate as you know some people didn't have the luck to be able to live with their father and if you were able,  appreciate that. You still have some time during the night to be able to do that. Take some time to appreciate what a good life you had with your father.  To be able to to integrate means that you appreciate the life that was has started with having my father, the luck for spending a life with  both your parents. 

Probably many restaurants were open today for families to be able to celebrate father's day. It's very good to be able to celebrate and I think that's also a way to integrate those small wins because sometimes we can go through each day and our parents are just there and we don't take the time to to celebrate with them, to be with them. So this is an occasion. Sometimes father's day is mentioned like simply a marketing thing because before there was no father's day. But in any case, at least it is in the calendar of many people.

I remember a friend of mine saying that you know I don't think Jesus Christ was born in December. I said it's possible he was not born in December, it could be November, any day. But the fact that it is in the calendar, it helps for people to schedule that they can take time out and really be with their family on December 25, whether or not is the exact date that Jesus Christ was born. At least it's in the calendar so it's something to be grateful for - whether it's a marketing thing to have a father's day or not. It's good that we're able to celebrate it, okay?

4. And then the last tip that I get from Brendon Burchard is to take it in. Sometimes we are all celebrating, we're all eating and it's a matter of taking a step back, probably in terms of perspective and see the people. No one knows that probably same time next year not all of us will be around to celebrate again. Where will we be? So sometimes in the middle of the celebration or at the ending of it, it's very important to take things in to appreciate that we are able to have this day, that we are able to be with our parents, with our father. Also integrate the entirety of what's happening and again be very grateful for that .

In terms of the experiences of Angelica, I think it will take another day to be able to interview her. I'm sure what we can do later on is simply to record if there will be intermittent problems with the internet.

Okay she's not able to come in. I will end this live stream. Hopefully you were able to get some of these tips not exactly from me but from Brendon and I was just able to add a few things from my perspective. I apologize if you are really expecting Angelica to come.

Goodnight everyone, and happy father's day.