13243: Trevor Says There’s Nothing Quite As Satisfying As This
Hey there, hero!
Sometimes, the most casual comments can be the most powerful.
The moments of conversation that are the least charged can sometimes be monumental.
I had one of those moments in a recent co-working session with Coach Trevor Algatt (long time collab and member of the VOHeroes and Narrate Your Own Book coaching squad).
And I have a sneaking suspicion that what he had to say (about a…bag) might just land with a bang for you as well.
What’s been the most casual takeaway from a conversation you can remember? Something that was tossed toward you quietly, but was something life-changing? Let me know in the comments below.
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Raw transcript:
Raw transcript:
well Coach Trevor just casually dropped
a bombshell on me that wasn’t even a
bombshell to him it was just like you
know little thing he was tossing my way
we were doing a uh a co-working session
where you concentrate on something that
you’re trying to get done along with a
bunch of other people and you stay on
task it’s got accountability in it
anyway we’re wrapping things up and I
mentioned what I had accomplished and he
said something that I want to share with
you and I will do that in this episode
of the VO Heroes
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podcast so Coach Trevor is just an
amazing person trevor Algot I’ve known
him for a long time he was my very first
coach he’s on our coaching staff for Vio
Heroes and for Narrate Your Own Book and
he was running these sessions where a
group of close friends would get
together and set out to spend 90 minutes
doing something that maybe they were
avoiding or something that was a little
bit detailed or I don’t know they wanted
to do but they couldn’t quite find the
time to do it and um it was uh it was
great you get you get together you kind
of talk about it and then you actually
do the work and so I was doing the work
and it was very
very droney very mundane very
detailoriented and when it was over I
was really happy because I got it done
and we were all kind of like doing a
post-mortem and he said you know anybody
have anything they want to share did you
get the work done i said I did but I
don’t want to be I don’t want to bore
everybody with how how just you know
mindnumbing it was but I feel great
having done it and he just dropped this
bomb on me he said “Yeah there’s nothing
quite as satisfying as a well-packed
bag.” And I went “Wait what what?” Yes I
love a well-packed bag i I am very
satisfied by a well-packed bag when I
travel and my bag is like organized and
not stuff just isn’t thrown in there and
it kind of was the label for how I’ve
been feeling about a lot of what I do in
my life i get a great deal of
satisfaction in
getting really boring stuff done and
doing it repetitively so that I’m
organized so that I can find stuff when
I need it i feel like it helps me with
the velocity of identifying what needs
to get done and when he said it it just
so summed it up that I just want to say
it one more time because it feels so
good there’s nothing quite as
satisfying as a well-packed bag and it
just prompts you to go “Yeah at least it
prompts me.” I tell me how did that land
with you are you like “Uh okay David
well you you do you boo that’s I didn’t
or was it was there some some subtext to
that was there some meaning to that?”
I’d love to know i’d love to know i’m
curious let me know in the comments
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little bit disorganized and might get
some joy out of a well-packed bag i
don’t know i’m David H lawrence the 17th
i thank you so much for watching and for
listening and I’ll see you in the next
episode of the Video Heroes podcast
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(from YouTube)
Interesting. I often avoid the organizational, boring things, rationalizing that the more fun audition things are what I need to do. Which, to be honest, has led to some disorganization in my space and mind that I hate.
Great reminder, David and Trevor!
Thank you again for the nudge!
😃🙏🏻🛍️
I listen to every VO Heroes Podcast that comes my way, and always walk away with something of value…in my well packed bag.
That phrase totally resonates with me! I have been doing stupid tasks all day today, things that are critical to my ultimate organization. I turned in my materials for a class last night and am spending the day doing “stuff” that needs to be done, “stuff” that I might be tempted to do as procrastination instead of “real work.” “Stuff” that also helps me keep going when I feel terrible sadness.
A phrase someone said to me recently is, “What you allow, you endorse.” This had meaning for me since I had just had a family tragedy that happened partly because I failed to enforce saying, “No” to my (adult) daughter. Five weeks ago she insisted that we foster/adopt a dog that was on the kill list at a shelter. I caved, we brought him home and introduced him to our pack. A week later we took him to the vet to find out he had heartworm which would require thousands of dollars to treat. Later that day he killed my beloved little Boston Terrier. I witnessed him shaking her and breaking her neck. It took several days to get him returned to the place where we got him. During that time I had to keep caring for him, as well as taking great precautions that he didn’t hurt any other of our dogs. It has been a stressful 6 weeks. I am, sadly, wiser.
Trevor’s metaphor may seem striking because it is not only apt but simple—particularly in the context you were all working at the time. Not only is it a useful descriptor of the minute and mundane drudgeries of life but the important and consequential as well.
Brilliant in its simplicity and scope.
Bravo
My OCD agrees with you 🙂