The Daily Wake Up Micro Podcast

The Daily Wake Up Micro Podcast

Living a successful life starts by making a choice of what time you wake up, and the attitude you have when you wake up. Let The Daily Wake Up Micro Podcast be your morning coach to attacking the day and living a fulfilled life through daily wins. You GOT IT! Now GO GET IT! I expect it!

Episodes

November 7, 2022 13 mins

The Daily Wake Up Micro-Podcast Episode 1000 of the Final Season: What If You Were . . .  #knowTroy #DWUpodcast #mindset

This is the final episode of the final season of The Daily Wake Up Micro-Podcast.  In this final episode, I'd like for you to consider these questions: 

What if you were attractive? 

What if you were funny?

What if you were rich? 

What if you were physically fit/healthy?

What if you were positive? 

How would your...

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The Daily Wake Up Micro-Podcast Episode 999 of the Final Season: The Most Common Career Mistakes #knowTroy #DWUpodcast #career

Yesterday we talked about the benefits of fear from the book, No Fear, No Excuses by Larry Smith.  Today, I would like to share more from this book, the last book referenced in the Daily Wake Up Micro-Podcast, with The Most Common Career Mistakes.

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November 3, 2022 3 mins

The Daily Wake Up Micro-Podcast Episode 998 of the Final Season: The Benefits of Fear #knowTroy #DWUpodcast #fear

We know and often hear about the disadvantages of fear.  What about the benefits of fear?  In the book, No Fear, No Excuses, author Larry Smith included why fear is good and why it needs to be treated with respect.

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November 2, 2022 2 mins

The Daily Wake Up Micro-Podcast Episode 997 of the Final Season: What Seeds Are You Planting? #knowTroy #DWUpodcast #plantingseeds #karma

Sometimes people can be upset the later they are in life.  My Christian friends sometimes don’t understand why God isn’t answering their prayers.  What I’ve found in the first fifty-one years of my life is that you reap the benefits of the seeds you plant.

There are those who have hijacked that c...

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November 1, 2022 4 mins

The Daily Wake Up Micro-Podcast Episode 996 of the Final Season: TST – Live Like You’re In Love #knowTroy #DWUpodcast #basketball

When I was a senior in high school, I finally earned the respect of my fellow basketball teammates as I was voted team captain.  I had only been playing basketball for two years and I considered working on my game after my senior year to try and play college ball for a small college. 

I was committed to ...

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October 31, 2022 3 mins

The Daily Wake Up Micro-Podcast Episode 995 of the Final Season: A Humble Ego #knowTroy #DWUpodcast #words #mindset

Hear how living a life with a humble ego can benefit you and those around you.

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October 28, 2022 3 mins

The Daily Wake Up Micro-Podcast Episode 994 of the Final Season: SPARK Series – Four Ways to Build Confidence #knowTroy #DWUpodcast #leadership

What I loved reading in this book was what the authors wrote about the value of confidence.  They wrote that confidence is greater than experience, education, talent, and skills.  Let me repeat that:  Confidence is greater than experience, education, talent, and skills. 

As a leader, how co...

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The Daily Wake Up Micro-Podcast Episode 993 of the Final Season: SPARK Series – Things that Prevent Service-Based Leadership #knowTroy #DWUpodcast #leadership

 

Here are three things that prevent service-based leadership: 

  1.  Lack of Awareness
  2.  
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October 26, 2022 2 mins

The Daily Wake Up Micro-Podcast Episode 992 of the Final Season: SPARK Series – Four Keys to Being a Credible Leader #knowTroy #DWUpodcast #leadership

Credibility grows as a leader by the manner in which you achieve results. 

The four keys to credibility result in a high level of performance:

  1. Where you understand and meet the standard of others
  2.  

 

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October 25, 2022 3 mins

The Daily Wake Up Micro-Podcast Episode 991 of the Final Season: SPARK Series – The ROI of an Effective Leader #knowTroy #DWUpodcast #leadership

How badly do you want to be a better leader? ROI means “Return On Investment.” Notice it’s a return on INVESTMENT. How are you investing in yourself to become a better leader because if you do, as we read about in the book, SPARK, you’ll have this type of ROI:

 

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October 24, 2022 3 mins

The Daily Wake Up Micro-Podcast Episode 990 of the Final Season: SPARK Series – Stop, Drop, and Roll    #knowTroy #DWUpodcast  #leadership

All week in the final season of the DWU Micro-Podcast we are discussing leadership qualities from the book, SPARK, by Angie Morgan, and Courtney and Sean Lynch.

A SPARK is a moment of change.

It’s when you recognize you don’t have to accept what’s going on.

It’s a realization that you can be a p...

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October 21, 2022 2 mins

The Daily Wake Up Micro-Podcast Episode 989 of the Final Season: Those Who Play Workplace Politics  

Just finished a book titled, The Art of Being Indispensable, by Bruce Tulgan. In it, he shared the roles of those who play workplace politics. 

Find out more about the Blamer, Lobbyist, Mr/Ms Personality, and The Best Friend. 

 

#knowTroy #DWUpodcast #team #leadership 

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October 20, 2022 2 mins

The Daily Wake Up Micro-Podcast Episode 988 of the Final Season: Roles Within Disagreement  

In the book, Great Teams, by Don Yaegar, we learn the roles within a disagreement. 

They are victims, persecutors, and rescuers. 

 

#knowTroy #DWUpodcast  #team #leadership

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October 19, 2022 3 mins

The Daily Wake Up Micro-Podcast Episode 987 of the Final Season: Even If You’re Not Religious  

Even if you're not religious, there is a lot you can learn from the teaching and examples of Jesus Christ.  His examples include: 

1) Being people-focused and God-centered

2) Allow for in-process conversations

3) Obsess over giving keys

 

#knowTroy #DWUpodcast  #serve #leadership

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October 18, 2022 4 mins

The Daily Wake Up Micro-Podcast Episode 986 of the Final Season: TST - Before Zoom Was a Verb #knowTroy #DWUpodcast #sales #truestorytuesday

Have you ever found out that if you did something uncomfortable, you would improve your chance of success?  Would you do it? 

Hear my True Story Tuesday about not wanting to do something because it made me uncomfortable. 

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October 17, 2022 3 mins

The Daily Wake Up Micro-Podcast Episode 985 of the Final Season: Personal Problems #knowTroy #DWUpodcast #problems #leadership

How often do you find yourself in the midst of personal problems that impact the work you were hired to do? Or the work you want to get done? 

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October 14, 2022 3 mins

The Daily Wake Up Micro-Podcast  Episode 984 of the Final Season: How to Proactively Change Your Identity    #knowTroy #DWUpodcast #personalitytest 

From the book, Personality isn’t Permanent by Benjamin Hardy.  Your personality is not the most fundamental aspect of who you are. Your personality is surface-level transitory and a by-product of something much deeper.  

You CAN proactively change your identity to match your decision: ...

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October 13, 2022 2 mins

The Daily Wake Up Micro-Podcast  Episode 983 of the Final Season: Focus on Gains, not Gaps    #knowTroy #DWUpodcast #focus #growth 

 From the book, Personality isn’t Permanent by Benjamin Hardy.  Your personality is not the most fundamental aspect of who you are. Your personality is surface-level transitory and a by-product of something much deeper.  

Positive and negative aren’t “facts,” they are meanings.  

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October 12, 2022 2 mins

The Daily Wake Up Micro-Podcast  Episode 982 of the Final Season: The Biggest Shift in Life    #knowTroy #DWUpodcast #personaldevelopment #selfefficacy  

Reading notes from the book, Clarity, and Connection by Yung Pueblo.  

The biggest shift in your life happens when you go inward.  You step in and observe all that you find with acceptance. The love you bring lights up your self-awareness; you start seeing how the past is packed i...

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October 11, 2022 4 mins

The Daily Wake Up Micro-Podcast  Episode 981 of the Final Season: The Law of Payment & Conscious Suffering  #knowTroy #DWUpodcast #mindfulness  

I read a book the other day that completely changed my life. The book, titled Don’t Just Sit There, by Bier Simkin, was suggested to me by a coworker.  

Here are two laws out of the forty-four revealed by author Bier Simkin that impacted me the most: 

The Law of Payment & The Law of Consci...

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