Dan Kirk’s Post

Happy New Year’s Eve! I know many of us are looking forward to 2024 and a new start. I am going to take 1 last moment to reflect on all the good in 2023 and then I am going to pray for all the better that is on the way for all of us just around the corner. There were definitely some very sad times for me in 2023 but by far there were many more blessings that gave me hope and reminded me that our God always sees us, He always hears us and He never stops loving us for a single moment. The greatest thing He gave us was a reminder of who our family is and just how many people love and care about us. Here is what I absolutely believe! In the first two weeks many of us will land where God always intended because His plans never change. This was an opportunity to reflect on what really matters and remember that our careers are about far more than a paycheck. After the first two weeks, any of your family who have landed will still be there for you. If I am among those to land before you, please do not hesitate to reach out to me if I can do anything for you because that is what family does. If you are still in the search phase, I want to encourage you to not just focus on what you did yesterday. Look back at your foundation of what you built on to get where you are. Many of us got where we are by various stepping stones and going back to even the first step may actually be the next step up. Let me give you an example of a career path. Let’s imagine you graduate from college and someone offers you a job in collections. Nothing you would ever go looking for but it’s the first step in your career where God took you. Turns out you love it and you get pretty darn good at making a difference and make a lot of friends who you teach and learn from and grow together. Through multiple layoffs that same someone who has now become your family hires you into lead collector opportunities in 2 more industries. Little did you know the final industry would be the one to win your heart and where you are determined to finish strong to bring all the better you can. After a few years in the latest industry you transition to project coordinator and then project manager. After a long time growing at the same great company, you are encouraged by a friend and former boss to apply for account manager. You get laid off and naturally you are looking at other account manager roles and anything else you are experienced to do without going backwards. Maybe there is a way to go back to your foundation and continue doing what you love and making a difference without truly stepping backwards. This is very unlikely your exact career path but I pray this encourages you and it gives you options. God’s plans never change. I don’t expect this post to change His plans because it cannot and will not. However, it may just be part of His plan that helps you see the opportunity that is right in front of your face. I love that God’s ways are so much better than ours! Happy New Year my family!

✨14 years✨ 14 years ago I started my part time gig with Rodan + Fields. I knew nothing & everything that day and I’m so damn thankful I took a chance on me. If you’ve watched my journey you probably already know it was the best business decision I’ve made for our family. I’ll share my TOP 14 takeaways incase you care to read 🤪 1. If you’re going to allow others to dictate your future with their opinions or doubts, you’ll fail. Go all in on YOU & trust your gut. 2. Find a product you truly believe in. A consumable product that’s backed by a guarantee and tell everyone about it. Tell them 20 times if you have to. Just keep sharing. 3. Be coachable. Make mistakes. Just keep talking and be consistent daily. I’ve made more mistakes than anyone I know! 4. Partner with an established, credible brand. Do your research. 5. Direct sales works. Really fu#*ing well, if you work harder than the rest. Don’t listen to the naysayers. They weren’t willing to do what it took to get to where they “wanted to be”. 6. Residual income is powerful. I’ve earned 168 commission checks, not including bonuses, etc. many of those months I was able to focus on things outside of RF because I could count on my paycheck coming in. 7. Build a team of people smarter, better, etc than you. Surround yourself with greatnesses and never ask them to do anything you aren’t willing to do yourself. My team truly is the BEST of the best. I’m so grateful for everyone of them. 8. Your best asset is your network. Keep building it, daily. Who you know matters, who they know matters even more. 9. People will sit back and watch. They won’t buy or join you. They’ll watch. Don’t take it personally, just keep going. The right ones will catch on. Be thankful for EVERYONE. 10. You can’t do this alone. Your significant other plays a major role in your success. Be supportive! 11. I haven’t had a car payment in 13 years. This is a sweet perk that really adds up over time. 12. I have held true to my why since day one. Know why you are building something bigger than yourself. Always do the right thing! 13. Your kids are watching. My girls know nothing but mom building businesses from home. Time freedom & flexibility is the very BEST part of this gig. 14. The people. You’ll meet the most incredible people on this journey. They are irreplaceable and you’ll be so damn thankful for all of them! Thank you Katie & Kathy. Thank you to my team and thank you to my family. Here’s to 14 more…👏🏻🩷😘

March 31st, 2022 was the day when I left Zones IT Solutions and joined Motive as an Account Manager and no doubt, I spent the most memorable and enjoyable quarters there. Then 2023 comes along. Here is what 2023 brought to me.  1: Received acknowledgment as one of the top performers of 2022 at Motive. (Happy vibes) 2: Got laid off. (Sad) 3: Got Married. (Happy again) 4: Stayed without a job for 4 months. (Frustrated) 5: Joined Zones again(Oct 2023). (Rejoining can be tough if you left an org just after 3 months.) 6: And now just a couple of days away from clearing my probation. (IF everything goes smoothly.) (Satisfied) Read within the brackets, 2023 was a roller-coaster for me. 1 minute down, next minute up. I felt lost and to be honest I'm still figuring it out. And if you feel like you are lost, then embrace it. As Gary Vee said: You are not lost, you are just early in the process. Give yourself time. Good luck everyone.

🙏 Feeling thankful for having a stable job but still wanting more? 🚀 That’s perfectly fine! Many people have recently lost their jobs due to layoffs. It's a tough time, but in a way, it's also a strange time for those still employed. Maybe you think it's not the right time to try something new. Maybe you're even hesitant to admit you want more. But here's the thing: being grateful for what you have and dreaming bigger can coexist. It doesn’t make you greedy – we always need to have goals to give our lives a direction. Is changing jobs in a shaky economy a risk? Maybe, but what if there are bigger risks than trying something new? I actually think those are the real risks: ⛔ Staying in a job just because it’s safe, even though it’s not what you really want. ⛔ Doing only the bare minimum because you've lost interest. ⛔ Being stuck in a dead-end company where you don’t get to grow your skills. ⛔ Wasting time and energy on something that doesn’t matter to you. ⛔ Ignoring changes and trends in your field because you simply don't have the energy to care. You can rethink what's risky and what's safe. You can appreciate the good things you have and keep moving forward.  There’s no perfect time for a big move, so why wait?

After exactly 101 days of being unemployed (this number bothers me because I'm a type A-red and prefer an even 100, but its fine, I'm fine) following a sudden layoff at a company I had been with for only a year and half, I survived my first day at my new firm this week. And looking back, I could not be more grateful to the universe for the experience it served me. My experience is not unique, but for me, it was a new and uncomfortable place to sit for three months. As sitting in the uncomfortable usually does, it led me to growth. To clarity. To treating myself gently. To permission to let go of the unknown and the things I cannot control. And, as the universe also seems to do, it led me to something better. If you're currently sitting in the same uncomfortable-ness, or if you find yourself there at some point in your career, here are four glaring things that I learned and embraced (or perhaps I learned to embrace them) somewhere along the way -- and they have nothing to do with finding a job: 1. REST | Make the most of your time off from work. For me, it fell right smack on top of summer. I can't remember the last time I took a family vacation without thoughts of work lingering somewhere in the back of my mind. Along with my dedication to the necessary job searching, I also exercised, worked in my yard, caught up on long-abandoned home projects, took my son and his friends swimming in the river, fell in love with thermal-cycling, had coffee with friends, and even occasionally slept in or took a nap when my body asked me for it. I realized there would be plenty of time to be tethered to my computer again very soon, so I did the work that needed to be done and then was honest with myself when it was time to walk away and do something that brought me joy. 2. HUMILITY | Asking people to introduce you to colleagues and contacts can feel demoralizing, but what I uncovered was that 1) many people had been in my shoes before, and 2) most people have pure hearts and truly wanted to see me win. Even strangers generously gave me time out of their day for a phone call or an email introduction. And also, accepting unemployment doesn't make you weak any more than allowing your car insurance company to replace your vehicle after an accident. It's a form of assurance that you've tucked away for times just like these. Use it to mitigate stress and support yourself, both financially and mentally, during this temporary setback. 3. SIMPLICITY | As it turns out, we can be happy with a lot less. Shocking, I know. Living more frugally for a few months and not knowing when my regular income would return forced my husband and I to think twice about how we were spending. I made intentional choices about quality time with my family and friends doing things that didn't always cost a lot, and guess what? The memories we made this summer were as awesome as ever! 4. KINDNESS | Never underestimate the power of a sweet fall bouquet to welcome a new employee home.

What getting laid off taught me... 1) You are not your money. I was pretty much set up to be able to make the down-payment to buy a house in a year or two from the stock grants I was receiving. Once I got laid off, I had to sell all the stock and use that to live off of. Financially, back to square zero, but no need to get depressed about it. I'm not my money and I can always make that back. God has a plan for me ultimately that may require me to be more flexible and not worried about a mortgage. 2) You are not your job. You might really identify with your company and love the people there and even feel like you are a family, but the reality is you are one underperforming earning statement away from the company canning you. Go to work, make friends, do your job, but realize that you may not be at that company forever, so if you have to part ways, don't get too sad. 3) You are not too good enough to work 'every day' jobs to make ends meet. Yeah, you might think that after slamming massive tech checks into your bank account that you'll never have to work certain jobs never again, but never say never. I did Uber Eats for a good bit until I was able to find my next role. Uber Eats was actually incredibly fun. You won't know how long you will be unemployed, especially in this market, so the sooner you can get income coming in, the better. 4) Stop trying to do it all alone I tried to hold off as much as possible on my own, but I ultimately had my family help me out. There's nothing wrong with receiving help if you are down, just as long as you are willing to return the favor. 5) It's a mental game and a spiritual. My faith in Jesus and that ultimately things will be alright helped me from becoming depressed and withering away. Some might call faith foolish, but I call it essential.

What to focus on when you're not sure you're going "the right way". (St Olav's Way, Alsen, Sweden. Day: 14. Kilometer: 265.) In the last week, I ended up on the wrong path... twice. Luckily, I made it back to St Olav's Way twice — once by forging ahead and finding a connecting path, once by turning back. But for a minute, I was standing in the rain, disoriented, and unsure of myself... The experiences got me thinking about our paths in life. How we chose them. How we know we are on the right one. Whether a ‘right one’ even exists. Mike and I were solid path followers. Get MBAs. Meet Mr/Ms Right. Get married. Have kids. Advance at work. Bury our scarcity mentalities so deep under achievements and promotions and bonuses that they never resurface. The thing was, we were following SOCIETY'S prescribed path. It wasn’t specific to us. But it felt tried and true. We both believed that if we followed the steps laid out, didn’t stray far from the recommended route, and pushed through the hard times, we’d live happily ever after. Cause and effect. Effort and reward. But then Mike died… And I became terrifyingly aware that no path can guarantee the end we think we are supposed to have. Even in less dramatic circumstances, rarely does one make it through a career unscathed. Sitting here in 2024, layoffs are rife. So that society-mandated path is a ruse. You can follow all the ‘signs’ — climb the career ladder, save every penny, eat almost exclusively salmon & spinach (all of which Mike did) — and end up with nothing. These days, I believe a lot less in society-approved paths. They betrayed me. That’s scary. But freeing. It allowed me to start to wonder about my OWN path. The path that would bring me satisfaction and fulfillment today, instead of off in some distant future. So how do we find our individual paths? How do we look inside ourselves for signs pointing the way? How do we notice when we’ve gone the wrong direction, and how do we get back on track? I’m still figuring it out. But in the meantime, I'm focusing on embracing movement. If I had become paralyzed by uncertainty on St Olav's Way — trying to decide if I should forge ahead or go backwards — I would have just sat in the rain, freezing, muscles stiffening. So I keep moving. If I have to turn around and retrace my steps — on this pilgrimage, in my career, about something dumb I said to the kids — so be it. But with every step, I gain new information, see things from a different perspective, and get to know myself and the world a little better. Plus, I keep my momentum. We don’t have to know where we are going to not stop. We don’t need a promise of good things coming tomorrow to stay moving today. It doesn’t have to always be about the future. Staying out of paralysis is its own reward. I could quote Newton’s famous first law — “objects in the motion stay in motion” — but after being soaking wet and out of sorts, I am more drawn to Dori’s mantra. “Just keep swimming.”

18 yrs old: Dropped out to work full-time. 20 yrs old: Moved to a new city, faced 13 job rejections to get a call-center job. 21 yrs old: Discovered my passion for IT, faced rejections, but persisted. 22 yrs old: Entered the SaaS world. 28 yrs old: Left my full-time job and started Supergrow & got our first customer 29 yrs old: Hustled & grew it to $120K ARR in 15 months. To all the hustlers out there, every step, every failure, and every success shapes you. Keep pushing forward. Stay resilient. Stay hungry. Keep growing. 💪 🚀

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Everyone 🇮🇳🤷♂️ Employees are simply a servant 👔🐁⏰⚠️ Some people show off that are rich wealthy, but real wealth is about being humble & always be kind. Some people who have ego issues, end up paying a lot in later part of their life. Moreover what is usually observed, especially in 🤷♂️🇮🇳 Egoistic 👔 Proud 🤔 Indian, who are salaried & they earn a lot , cannot realize they are servants 😳 of someone. They are not owner of company, institution or have any similar earnings business, so that they can leave their services & work in their own business instead of working as a servant to other. Most employees are working as a maid servant for the boss, management, owner , & the institution of the company, whether it's a public, private, corporate, mnc, private mnc organisation or whatsoever. ☝️☝️☝️ Sometimes, when people get , earn a little Extra money, they start acting like they're king 👑, & better than others, showing off & all & showing ego attitude to others - That's a risky and strong no no ..Never ever Show off - You are not God 😱 - God who has given this to you, can take everything back from you. . But here's the thing: real wealth isn't about that. It's not about bragging or acting big. It's about being humble, kind, and caring about people. Having a good heart is what makes wealth stick around, not being all showy. If you're selfish, greedy, or mean, your wealth loses its shine. Message us, Let's start this journey together, & we'll guide you along the way to build parallel sources of income. Choice is always yours & be wise to choose whatever best is for you, your family, & well-wishers.🤗 Ignoring our advice can be the costliest mistake of your life - Choose wisely. With Best wishes, Team Money Coach #choiceisyours #choicesmatter #employee #mncjobs #bemindful #mindfulnessmatters #choices #indianeconomy #mindsetmatters #india #insurance #wealthmanagement #wealthcreation #warrenbuffett #moneymindset #reference #layoffs2023 #layoffs #godblessusall #godblessyou #officework #dangerous #office #employeerecognition #risk #corporatelife #culturematters #abuseawareness #humanbehavior #abuse #bullyingawareness #torture #abuseofpower #abuseprevention #crimeprevention #crime #legalissues #lifestyle #habits #comfortzone #mylife #choiceisyours #legacyprotection #choices #choicesmatter #beware #management #choiceisyours #job #people #finance #financegoals #wealth #assets #deathpenalty #wealthmanagement #avoid #wealthcreation #wealthbuilding #reality #wealthplanning #assets #criminal #investingstrategy #middleclass #wealthcreators #bemindful #mindfulnessmatters #choices #choice #humanbehavior #godblessyou #bemindful #mindfulnessmatters #toxic #usa #world #indian #indianculture #jobchange #thoughtprovoking #jobhiring #jobavailable #shameful #shameonyou #planningahead #planahead #mindset #perspective #thoughtprocess #thoughtfortheday