156 – One Year Anniversary Celebration!! - a podcast by Alf Herigstad

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Today is very special indeed, because it was one year ago that I began this podcast.  52 weeks, three episodes a week, and now here we are at episode 156. I have been thinking about this episode, trying to figure out what I should talk about here.  Of course I’m grateful, very grateful to everyone who has taken the time to listen over the course of the last year because without you guys…I would just be a guy in a man cave talking to myself.  It is totally you, the listeners who have made this possible.
The other day my daughter in law Lyndsay, my son Clintons wife, sent me a message on Facebook, she had an idea.  She wrote: Hi Alf! It would be great for the listeners to have an episode to hear what you’ve changed about yourself since you’ve started your Podcast. Anything in particular….just so we know if talking about your thoughts has changed you and in what way. Just a thought!I read her message and the more I thought about it, the more I thought it was a great idea, so I’m going to give that a whirl.
As many of you know, I began this podcast because it was a journey I was already on.  A journey that I wanted to bring other men on with me.  I had no idea how profoundly I would be affected by doing this.What you may not realize is that every single episode I created caused me to do some of the same things that I encourage other men to do.  It caused me to look inward, to evaluate and scrutinize my thoughts and positions.  To make a determination about where I stood and what I believed. 
When I’m talking to you guys in a podcast, I’m not just talking to you, or at you…I’m talking to myself as well and I can say that is has had a huge effect on me this past year.Making this podcast I was forced to realize that some things I thought I believed were still just ideas.  It wasn’t until I gathered these thoughts up together into a podcast that I came to understand where my own focus was lacking…and then I was able to make corrections where needed.Like I said, I have been on this path of self improvement for awhile, but there is something about sharing the journey and the philosophy that takes it to a whole other level.  It becomes magnified, it becomes enhanced.
Throughout this past year, because of sharing this podcast with you, I have improved my focus.  My relationships have improved.  I have gained confidence in areas where I previously had none.  My vision of what it means to be a man in the world has been sharpened and refined.  In short, creating this podcast has made me a better man.There is a saying that says;  You don’t know what you don’t know.  It’s very true, and sharing this content with you every week has revealed to me some of the things I didn’t know that I didn’t know…but now I do.
I am far from a finished product.  I’m sure there are still many things that I don’t know that I don’t know, but through effort and focus and daily commitment I expect many of those things will be revealed as time goes on, and I’m excited about that.When I started this podcast I was in totally unknown territory.  I had no idea what to expect.  I did make some goals though.  One of those goals was that I wanted to have a total of 200,000 downloads in the first year.  We come in a little short of that at around 189,000.  I don’t feel bad about that at all though, because it was just a guess in the first place, and we came close, and 189,000 is quite a lot!  We have listeners in 115 different countries, wow!  I don’t know how many countries there are…but that has to be most of them.
Another goal I had was that I wanted the podcast to begin paying for itself, to generate some revenue.  Not just so I would get money, but also as a means of validating it’s value.  When people put something of value into the world, the world will respond by giving value back. I didn’t want to produce something of no value…what would be the point in

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