Daily Grow with TODD Social

Welcome to Daily Grow, where each and every day, we take incremental steps to grow in a macro way. Today's topic and subject is discussing to AI or not to AI the raging question that's burning in people's minds and in their prompts, through their chat GPT, as well as in different aspects of the Internet. What is the dangers, the opportunity, and the ways that AI is changing our everyday society? Now, on the surface, we can look at some of the outliers or what may be preferred to discuss as issues. Obviously, data scientists, for anyone that's been paying attention, have been doing and creating AI artificial intelligence for decades, a very long time. So it's not like it hasn't been relevant in our lives. But we will discuss it.

Leadership Lessons I’ve Learned

As CEO and founder of Grow Ventures, I am both an entrepreneur and a leader. Every day I am focused on helping business leaders solve critical problems as well as running my own company. Through management consulting, I have been exposed to a diverse range of organizations,  functional groups, and cultures. Collectively, these experiences and  people have contributed to the person and business leader I am today.  Occasionally, peers and up-and-comers alike will ask me for my  perspective on leadership. Today, I want to share a few of the greatest  leadership lessons I have learned throughout my career.

Quick Tips: 

Everyone can help you learn something

Managers and leaders are different

Leadership is hard.

Self-awareness is essential.

Get feedback from your network.

Communicate.

Be present.

For more tips and advice find me on Patreon.

How to launch a startup in turbulent times using new opportunities

Though it may seem that this time can not be beneficial for anything, every crisis clears up the slate for new achievements.

Turmoils create new challenges, which leaves people craving new solutions. Old-school brands like Jeep and Fanta emerged amidst war in reply to unexpected needs and limitations. Uber, Airbnb and WhatsApp are all babies of the recent economic recession and its challenges.

How can you look for the new opportunities these tough times bring?  The answer lies in your system

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This is the age of the creator and you may  or may not find that you have enough time or money and it is possibly the most frustrating thing ever but this is where embracing business automation  can be a superpower if you embrace the opportunity to use it towards your growth. 

The distinguishing factor between effective and dysfunctional leaders is the mindsets the leaders possess.

Mindsets are the mental lenses that shape how people see and interpret the world around them. Dysfunctional leaders’ mindsets attune them to mishandling situations and making subpar decisions, while simultaneously leading them to believe they’ve taken the best course of action.

This may happen in every aspect of life but ultimately you have to break down the walls of dysfunction...Let's grow!!

Growing businesses are interesting and really there are two main frameworks and I think most people are stuck in one without necessarily thinking about the other.

So most people are doing what I call incremental growth. This is where people are looking at it from the perspective of how do I get slightly more traffic this month? how do I get slightly more leads? slightly more customers? can I get more traffic from Facebook? can I get a lower cost from Facebook? So here it’s really about growing incrementally.

But if you use vision, mission, and purpose in your passion to grow through fueling yourself, you could over transform your growth because you had more of an impact over temporary influence. This is how you maximize your growth potential.

Does IQ correlate with intelligence?

Validity as a measure of intelligence

While IQ tests are generally considered to measure some forms of intelligence, they may fail to serve as an accurate measure of broader definitions of human intelligence inclusive of creativity and social intelligence.

How do you measure your Intelligence vs Your IQ

Lately, most of the articles that I read theorize how innovation methodologies and especially design thinking are either the absolute way to go or don’t work at all. Authors use pathos as the primary persuasion technique for the audience and end up with a simple conclusion — design thinking is either panacea or syphilis.

I started by asking myself a simple question — What value did we create and did we “produce innovation” at the end? To answer the question I reviewed my work as a facilitator from the last four years and I mapped out the types of companies and projects I have worked with and the results achieved. In reviewing the documentation I identified five things that were repeatedly identified as a benefit by the teams I worked with and their management.

I have mostly worked with organizations that do not have a track record in creating breakthrough innovations.

Because we were thinking the wrong way. We were thinking things are too impossible instead of making everything possible.

Connect with me online to have an open design discussion on what is possible: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddnathanieldavis/

In the famous words of Ferris Bueller, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

It can be easy to get swept away in the fast lane and forget to stop and show your appreciation for what you do have. A life well-lived is one of gratitude and thankfulness.

To help you with your gratitude journey here are 8 ways to have more gratitude in your daily life.

Don’t be picky: appreciate everything

Find gratitude in your challenges

Practice mindfulness

Keep a gratitude journal

Volunteer

Express yourself

Spend time with loved ones

Improve your happiness in other areas of your life

The Journey to gratitude is the lasting impression being thankful for everything has on you and how you ignite the light in you

Had you ever had a drama-free life?

That may be something we all want and also something hard to strive for.

But it is also something that could make a significant difference in the results of our day or week.

Some situations are avoidable, like war, but others are one that comes instigated with costs.

No matter the case don't lose sight of the purpose you were put in and how to strive for better drama-free culture.

Make Sure you like, share, and subscribe and tell a neighbor that we're here to help people grow in the right way.

Without your old or new customers, you wouldn’t have a business.

Let that sink in for a moment...I'll wait.

The relationships you build in today's marketplace of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are essential to you moving the needle.

Some have value beyond what you see or intend so it might be time to reevaluate those, reignite your vision, and recalibrate how you want to execute on them

Look out for the Revive Retail podcast and All Things Social podcast. for more details. 

Support this podcast by like, sharing, and subscribing  and that will unlock you to receive more information on the Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/ToddSocial

When you Rise Up, it activates men, women, boys, and girls to transform their lives, families, and communities for a more just and equitable world through investment in local solutions, strengthening leadership, and building movements. It's doing the hard work to turn around the community as a whole and humbleness to navigate through all the entities to arrive at making a difference in a long term positive way in your community.

But your personal life and professional pursuits have a similar goal if you realize it and go after it. Be aware of the opportunity and don't lose sight of the goal because the mission is more than worth it.

For more details on the other podcast trailers mentioned.... search for Revive Retail or All Things Social with Todd Social in Itunes. 

Be on the lookout for the Dail Grow Live Stream coming this week live ...

I had often thought about what I would spend my time on if I stopped living up to expectations I had set for myself in the workplace and among my friends. I wanted to be at everything, be the best at everything and not let anyone down. But I had forgotten if I even enjoyed it anymore as it was so routine it wasn’t truly a choice in my mind but rather what I was supposed to do.

For the first time since I can remember I have days, weeks, months with no deadlines, no competing meetings or dinner plans, absolutely nothing that I HAVE to do.

I am rediscovering my creative side - it's time that you do also with a New focus on what's important. impactful and influential.

Join the journey, support the cause so I can help you grow and you plant seeds in others to help them grow as well!!!

Leadership is a lifelong learning process. Every great leader always looks for ways to improve. No one ever wakes up and says, “I know everything there is to know about leadership. I’m a perfect leader.”

Leadership can be especially challenging for entrepreneurs. Balancing the need to run a business (i.e., products, investors, customers, etc.) and the need to lead company personnel is quite a task.

But overall, having a leadership philosophy will take you above and beyond just your business or brand but have an impact in your life

Join the journey to help you grow...daily.

Why should you want to know some great what you would do if...?

…Because what if you had a list of questions to ask that could spark fascinating discussions virtually anytime, anywhere, and with anyone? Now you do. Or you should. These are the hard questions you should ask yourself.

What if questions are incredibly versatile. They give your conversational companion a specific subject to marinate on, from light and silly to deep and sometimes even disturbing. Now that’s a tasty banquet of food for thought.

But the value of answering them in your life can bring continuous fruit to your life and impact others.

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If you’re stuck in a rut and your life is not going how you want it too then you need a personal breakthrough. A breakthrough is something that changes the course of your life going forward and ensures that things will never be the same for you again.

Most of what a breakthrough requires is for you to have the courage and the bravery to stops settling for second best.

Have you ever heard someone or even heard yourself saying something like…? “I am just waiting for the perfect moment to do this….”? Yes, know I am guilty too. We have been trained by society and cultural limitations that have to wait to get that job, buy that house, call that person that you want to date, wait for next year to start your diet, wait until 65 to retire…. Wait, wait, and wait more. No one with this mentality will ever accomplish much because THE PERFECT MOMENT DOES NOT EXIST.

Many people have talked about 2020 being a year of new beginnings. Not only are we into the Gregorian calendar, but we are also in the Hebrew year 5780. The number 8 symbolizes new beginnings. We are in for many new things in 2020. Even by no choice of our own. For some of you that may be a new career, family, or ministry direction. Whatever it is, some of you may be setting sail in uncharted waters.

But what does that mean for where you decide to set sail? Let's discuss

Mission drift is an irresistible force. You need to build in measures to help you avoid suffering from this crisis of identity. If you don't, you might end up living a life that is very different than the one you intended to build.

Entrepreneurship and business are about survival but in this current time, we should be about the revival of Mission, Recalculate your Vision, and Engage your Purpose.

RBG taught many like me in many ways to stay true to your vision which means you have to stay on the mission even when you don't see the end. 

The journey is the joy, the joy in the process and the process is the mission.

Being bold means asking yourself, “what do you have to lose?” or, “what’s the worst thing that could happen?” before making a decision. Then you realize you don’t have that much to lose. If the worst happened, you’d live to tell the tale.

Being bold supports the development of an abundance mentality. If one opportunity slips through your fingers, having an abundance mentality will help you recover quickly. You know there’s more to come.

This week, I challenge you to do one thing that’s out of your comfort zone just to see what happens. What do you have to lose?

9/11 defines my life in a nutshell.

"On a sunny, cloudless Tuesday morning nineteen years ago, New York, the nation and the world were changed forever. We will never forget the nearly three thousand lives lost during the September 11th terrorist attacks."  Gov. Andrew Cuomo spoke this morning at the 9/11 ceremony,

Sept. 11, 2001

8:46 a.m. Hijackers crash American Airlines Flight 11 into the north tower. The 76 passengers and 11 crew members and hundreds inside the building are instantly killed.

9:03 a.m. Hijackers crash United Airlines Flight 175 into the south tower, killing 51 passengers, 9 crew members and an unknown number of people inside the building.

9:59 a.m. The south tower collapses in 10 seconds after burning for almost an hour. More than 800 civilians and first responders are killed.

10:28 a.m. The north tower collapses after burning for 102 minutes and more than 1,600 people are killed.

During this time, I would have been between the two towers. But that day I didn't make my usual trip.

the irony lives in my heartbeat every day.

I never forget. Not the day. not the time. Not the loss and certainly not how we all came together.

Where are all the heroes?

One of my readers recently asked me a pointed question: Why are there so few heroes? It’s a good question that deserves some thought, especially given how much our world is rife with poverty, famine, violence, natural disasters, and tragic accidents.

We need heroes more than ever. So where are they? Why do they seem to be in such short supply?

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There are problems in your life that you have been conscious of for a very long time, but haven’t yet found the capacity to fix. You reflect on these old ways and old patterns, and you can clearly see the unnecessary pain and suffering they have caused you.

Yet you remain stuck in them.

Even while knowing they are wrong and ineffective, you keep doing them. Repeating them. Again and again. And each time the pain and suffering comes back. And you say to yourself, “Okay, that’s the last time. Fuck that. Never again. I’ve learned my lesson now.”

But, for some odd reason, you do it again. And again. you act as if you enjoy the pain, even though you know you really don’t. You act impulsively. Automatically. Like a programmed robot with no sense of choice.

These patterns in your life seem to be really sticky. They are deeply rooted. You’ve thought of countless ways you can try to correct them, but your efforts have so far remained fruitless. It is almost as if there is another part of you that you can’t change. And perhaps there is.

But you can change that today and start to live a limitless life by searching for your identity...Today

What political voice is and why and how it matters – and for whom – has emerged as a central area of interest and engagement in international development.

Understanding people and what they are looking at in anew normal and an emerging pandemic,  It's high time they look in the mirror about their views and look beyond themselves to embrace their community.

Progress is both a necessary and a dangerous idea. It is necessary if one tries to improve the way things are, and it is dangerous because the pursuit of progress has often given rise to experiences of paternalism, colonial domination, and narratives of civilizational superiority. In my research, I try to defend a critical account of progress by distinguishing between moral and political progress, and by exploring the relationship between political progress and justice. I believe that we make progress not when we approximate an idea of justice that is always known to us, but when the political institutions we construct reflect what we learn from the trials and failures of the past.

It's time to learn more about people, politics, and progress.

Only two letters separate the words victor and victim, yet vastly different outcomes result from living through one or the other. The language itself is intriguing. The basis of the word vict is Latin and means to conquer. The ending of the word…you get to choose. Victor or victim? One word ending means that you are the one doing the conquering. The other means you are the one who is conquered. How can two words so similar in origin, be so diametrically opposed in meaning?

How does it happen that we know which side of the conquering we want to be on, yet we are living completely opposite?

What is the difference between actual and factual?

"Actual" is usually used in contradiction with what is believed. "He said he went to the store but he actually went to the party."

Factual is often used to refer to the facts behind the actual truth. "The case was supported with factual evidence and assumptions."

Right now we are struggling between the actual experiences of people in the versus the factual or perceived to be factual evidence of what's happening right now to many people all over the US. It's time to wake up!!!

Admit it. You have no clue whatsoever about the coronavirus. It’s the only logical conclusion I can come to after six-plus months of information, misinformation, intentional lies, and politics about this latest corona-type virus foisted upon the world by — yet AGAIN — China.

As a matter of fact, the last part of my opening statement is the only thing I’m 100 percent sure about. The rest of my thoughts are simply conjecture, looking back at history at other “outbreaks” and understanding the players in this muddled mess and how they choose to play it.
I don’t pretend to be some infectious disease expert — as are few, if any, of the folks who might comment on this column. But I’ve got almost 50 years on this orb, and this is as bad as I’ve ever seen things.

There will always be times in your life when you may need to learn how to reinvent yourself. This could come when you experience a big change, such as leaving your job, moving on from a relationship, transferring to a new home, or losing a loved one. If you are going through a major shift in your life, you may have to find new ways of thinking or doing things or risk failing to reach your full potential.

Many people who dared to leave their old unhappy lives enabled themselves to pursue their passions and find a renewed zest for living. You can also achieve the same if you take a leap of faith and make things happen for yourself.

Time to reinvent @toddsocial

According to the SBA, some manufacturing companies can have up to 1,500 employees and still be determined to be small businesses. In mining, large businesses are those that have 500 or more employees. ... The highest annual receipt size allowed for some small businesses in the service industry is $35.5 million.

But is this really Small Business? It seems like Big Business is yet again getting in the way of innovation and creation which is what small business does well.

If you want to change the way you do business or your outlook, connect with me anywhere @toddsocial

We all have doubts and many times we tend to look at everything in life with a negative attitude. I love when motivational speakers say “get the negative people away from you and you will succeed”. That statement is such nonsense, yes you want positive people and supportive people to help you use positive momentum to help you succeed, but you cannot avoid negativity. It's all around you all the time, just when you are feeling good someone has to try and knock you down. It can be your parents, your friends, a colleague, a co-worker, a sibling, an internet troll, or whoever.

But Negativity is nonsense.  Find out why.  limitless life @toddsocial

Throughout human history, our population has included a mix of different genetic skillsets for the overall survival of the tribe. In the modern era, these skills manifest from the COMT gene, with those who perform at their highest level with pressure, deadlines, and thrills, and those who thrive in low-pressure, quiet environments to work longer on complex issues.

For warriors, having deadlines and steady pressure may prove to be advantageous for their genotype to continually produce and perform at a high level. Monotonous tasks and low-pressure environments could even prove detrimental to warriors, preventing the individual’s gifts to shine.

This hypothesis was tested with pilots put through intense flight simulations. As expected, the warriors outperformed the worriers in each test. However, with more experience, the worriers started outperforming the warriors as the worrier’s stress response went down and their cognitive advantages began to show.

For worriers,  your thought process is useful in complex environments that require maximal performance in terms of memory and attention for survival. Monotonous tasks and low-pressure environments could even prove successful to worriers, elevating the individual’s gifts to shine.

The question is, which one are you?

When I look at the word “success,” it becomes incredibly problematic. For some, the notion of success is a Trumpian world where the gleaming opulent lifestyle should somehow bleed inward, resulting in a magnificent internal world gilded by good looks.

For me, success doesn’t flow from outside to inside; it moves from inside to out. It transcends money, celebrity, height, weight, race, sexual orientation. This success has a man glow with purpose and integrity.

My motto is to" leave this world better than how you found it and make an impact on someone who can impact others."

If you're designing your day for the balance of work, love, peace, hope inspire and change, you will get closer to impact and influence.

There are many things that you can do to make noise but the value of that noise versus the quiet impact you can make where you actually make a difference is what is important to know and remember.

Did you know that much of your character, behavior, and relationship to other people has to do with being more introvert or extrovert?

Most literature on business, communication, and success is focused on extroverts, who feel comfortable networking, talking, and being the center of attention. But at least 30% of the population are introverts, and they are now finding their voice.

Dr. Loehken, who wrote the book Quiet Impact,  identifies 10 strengths specific strengths that introverts often have (such as independence, perseverance, and writing), and also identifies ten specific hurdles they often have to overcome (such as hyperstimulation, intellectualism, and fear of conflict).

Don't worry if you're making a quiet impact. Smile and keep on keeping on...

Changing your mindset is no easy task, but having an open and positive mindset is a game-changer. Your personal growth is what propels the choices you make for your physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Just something as simple as changing your thinking can change your life.

Mindset work is something that we will talk on the Pod, The Minority Report or The Independent on Be.TV

Today, July 20th, is my birthday. I normally don’t make a big fuss over it and I rarely go out of my way to let people know when my birthday comes around. I have nothing against celebrating birthdays and I actually tend to make quite a fuss over the birthdays of those who are close to me but I usually prefer to celebrate mine with just family or very close friends. However, I’m making an exception for today. No, I haven’t really changed my position or altered my preferences. However, today I did some thinking about birthdays and the many gifts I’ve been given on this day and how so many others can’t or won’t be able to enjoy a similar celebration.

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A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships. There is a difference between solitude and isolation. Gig workers know this well. the late nights grinding and the early mornings with family. It all seems like it never ends. The challenges are endless but so are the opportunities. Let yourself step into your energy base and find your pathway to be inspired even in isolation.