Live Your List with Ryan Eller

Ryan EllerIn this episode, Starve the Doubts host Jared Easley, and co-hosts Kimanzi Constable from KimanziConstable.com and Larissa Galenes from VegetarianZen.com, spoke with the awesome Ryan Eller. Ryan is a keynote speaker and international leadership consultant with Paradigm Shift, a company that provides leadership training and team building for groups. Ryan has facilitated 19 US states as well as hosted leadership conferences in Cuba and Brazil. Additionally, Ryan recently gave a presentation at TEDx Tulsa. He’s also the co-host of the fantastic podcast The Live Your List Show, a weekly fun, engaging, and inspiring podcast that talks about intentional leadership, personal development, and living with purpose.In this episode, you will learn about:The #1 item on Ryan’s bucket listThe top leadership virtue or characteristic a leader must haveThe power of having self-disciplineWhy leaders need to create a bucket listThe idea-dream-goal processPurpose as a verbThe difference between purpose, career, and passion - Ryan’s beautiful road of life analogy!Filling up your Passion BucketThe importance of personal leadershipLiving a life of intentionsItems mentioned:What’s first in Ryan’s bucket list? - Setting foot on all SEVEN continentsTop Leadership Virtues/Characteristics a Leader Must HaveSelf-disciplineCourageHonestyThe power of self-discipline: The opportunity to do more, be more, experience more.Why do leaders need to create a bucket list?Turning a bucket list into a goalTurning idea into a dream Breaking down your dream into a goalDo goals and dreams have to do with your purpose?Your purpose should be a verb.Mixing up goals and dreams and purpose.Figuring out what your verb is and be intentional about itThe difference between purpose and career and passionIf you’re traveling down the road of life...Your purpose is the road or the highway.Getting on the right road to get to the right destination.Your career is the vehicle in which you travel down that road.You can have more than one vehicle.Passion is your fuel. A mix of inspiration, motivation, rest, travel, whatever refuels you.The larger the vehicle, the more fuel you will need.The passion bucket - surrounding yourself with people and things that refuel youWhy personal leadership matters:Goes back to self-disciplineBeing intentionalLiving a life of intention so you can do more than status quoMaximizing your potential not for yourself but to help other peopleTo want more in order to give moreBeing the best possible version of you so you can help other people become the best versions of themselves.Connect with Ryan on Twitter @ryan_ellerwww.ryaneller.com/theliveyourlistshowwww.ryaneller.comRyan’s final thoughts for the listeners:“Get a pen and paper. Write down 15 items - things that you have always wanted to do in your life… don’t ‘how’ it all and figure out how it’s going to happen… if life was unlimited, what would I do?”