Summary: Ryan Eller In 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 list The top leadership virtue or characteristic a leader must have The power of having self-discipline Why leaders need to create a bucket list The idea-dream-goal process Purpose as a verb The difference between purpose, career, and passion - Ryan’s beautiful road of life analogy! Filling up your Passion Bucket The importance of personal leadership Living a life of intentions Items mentioned: What’s first in Ryan’s bucket list? - Setting foot on all SEVEN continents Top Leadership Virtues/Characteristics a Leader Must Have Self-discipline Courage Honesty The 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 goal Turning idea into a dream Breaking down your dream into a goal Do 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 it The difference between purpose and career and passion If 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 you Why personal leadership matters: Goes back to self-discipline Being intentional Living a life of intention so you can do more than status quo Maximizing your potential not for yourself but to help other people To want more in order to give more Being the best possible version of you so you can help other people become the best versions of themselves. Connect with Ryan on Twitter @ryan_eller www.ryaneller.com/theliveyourlistshow www.ryaneller.com Ryan’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?”
