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Unlock Your Greatest Potential with Peter Rios
This is Season 5, Episode 17 of FocusED, and it features our guest, Peter Rios; in this episode, we're focused on what it takes to unlock your greatest potential as a leader…and so much more.
Peter Rios Brings a Tons of Experience to FocusED Listeners Peter has consulted at institutions such as Harvard University, the Lilly Endowment, and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
He has been a lecturer at Penn State, Colorado State, and the Pacific School of Religion at Berkeley. His passion for leadership and personal development, and organizational change stems from his own transformational experience after overcoming trauma at an early age and embarking on an unprecedented journey of healing, self-discovery, and professional development.
Peter is on a mission along with his spouse, Dr. Ruby Gonzalez-Rios, to build and develop people so they can maximize their potential and live healthy, fulfilled lives.
FocusED Show Notes with Guest Peter Rios
Peter talks about how his book, Maximize, was written based on his past, growing up in the projects and ending up with two PhDs.
For aspiring writers, don’t miss what he says about “writing everywhere.”
Nothing grows in a comfort zone. ~ Dr. Peter Rios
The book helps people to take intention steps in a way that helps with personal and professional growth.
Joe asks about specific steps that leaders can make to get from where they are to where they want to go. How do we move forward when we’re overwhelmed with fear?
Dr. Rios encourages leaders to take the first step of a self-assessment.
He talks about the difference between dreams and goals. Dreams don’t come with benchmarks; goals require targets.
Don’t miss what he says about accountability partners.
Peter unpacks the sacrifice of a goal, breaking down your dreams into building blocks.
Peter talks about using data from 360 reviews and other tools to draw an honest picture of your strengths and weaknesses.
Peter mentions the use of a life wheel. Here’s a free example.
Something important for all leaders to take away is that maximizing your potential is simple work, but that doesn’t mean that it’s easy.
Peter tells us that his own story of failure is what separates his books from others.
The book has a chapter on the power of creativity and curiosity. He reminds us of some of our own work around having a beginner’s mind.
Peter follows Ed Mullet on YouTube.
Peter is intentional about exposing himself to people who are not like him.
Peter reads and writes every single day. He also prays and meditates each day.
Dr. Rios spends some time at the end of the show talking about learning to lead in the context of your situation. There are certainly aspects of leadership that everyone can adopt, but there’s also an aspect of leadership that requires adaptation.
Plausible preferred future. Find out what that means.
Peter ends with the need for everyone to be kind to themselves and each other.
Go to PeterRiosConsulting.com for free chapters.
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(upbeat music) - Hello and welcome back, I'm Joe. - And I'm TJ. - And you're listening to season five of Focus Ed podcast where we cover all things education to help you lead better and grow faster by staying focused. - Focus Ed is a collaborative program of work with our partners from the Delaware Department of Education and Wilmington University. - We record each episode with a live audience and then blast them out to you from our website, theschoolhouse302.com, iTunes, SoundCloud, and more. - Don't forget to follow us at theschoolhouse302.com to learn more about when episodes are recorded and for more school leadership resources. - As always, we hope you enjoyed this episode of Focus Ed and we can't wait to hear from you. - Hello everyone and welcome to Focus Ed where we invite expert guests to join us and we are totally excited to have Dr. Peter Rios with us today. Welcome to the show, Peter. - Thank you, Joe. Excited to be here and to be, you know, part of this opportunity with your listeners. So thank you. - Absolutely. We thought Dr. Rios' work was perfect to bring to our audience, mainly because it's about being your very best self and we know to lead our organizations most effectively. Our students, our staff, we have to be our best self. So with that, TJ, why don't you tell our audience a bit more about Peter? - Sure thing, Joe. I do want to say that Dr. Rios' full bio is in the show notes but a couple of highlights here before we get started. Dr. Peter Rios is a renowned bilingual speaker, organizational consultant and leadership coach with over 20 years of leadership development experience across multiple industries. And he is the author of Maximize, 12 Keys to Unlocking Your Greatest Potential, something that we're going to talk about today. He has even consulted with institutions such as Harvard University, the Lilly Endowment and the Department of Veteran Affairs. And again, you can find more of his bio in the show notes. Okay, Peter, we want to start with your book Maximize, 12 Keys to Unlocking Your Greatest Potential. What inspired you to write that book and what's a couple of things that you hope that your readers will take from it? - Thank you, TJ. Maximize was inspired initially through my own life. So I was August of 2021. I'm sitting at a gas station next to a coffee shop and my spouse is getting, she's at an appointment and we're about to move to Barbados. So my wife Ruby was about to endeavor in a second career. She's a cancer researcher and now she's a medical school student. And I was about to go do some consulting at Harvard and I'm like, how does this happen? We're going to Barbados. I failed miserably community college three times. Now I hold two PhDs. I'm going to consult at one of the most prestigious institutions. I grew up in the projects. Many people they would consider that more of the obviously low socioeconomic status, even poverty. And now I'm doing, I feel these amazing things and I just start to take notes in my phone. And I put the notes away. I forgot about it because of the transition. Long story short, a year later, I remember about that note and I'm like, oh, this is a book. So I just start writing everywhere, writing in the car, writing at appointments, writing in airplanes and traveling back and forth and maximize came out. It's really about how to live intentionally. We have too many people who are living, just going through the motions, so to say, maybe even stuck in comfort zones, as we know nothing grows in a comfort zone. And so with my own failures and setbacks and then even successes, I'm trying to help people to see where they can be, where they can go if they take some intentional steps about how they're living and where they would like to be, you know, in a year from now, three years from now, you know, five years from now. And so it takes intentionality, that's one. I think the other thing is being obviously comfortable with being uncomfortable. That might sound a little bit taboo-ish, but the whole notion of getting exposure, right? We can't grow unless we get involved or connected with other people, other countries. Sometimes we're so fixated on our own limited, you know, daily routine or, and especially if you're in education, right? You're a school teacher, administrator, higher ed. You mean, you're busy. So the book is encouraging and motivating and even empowering to step out of that, to be exposed to other people, places, things, so that you can also add value to them. So, you know, in a nutshell, a little bit about what it's about, but hoping just to encourage people to maximize their lives. - Dr. Rios, we appreciate that. I mean, obviously as educators, that's one thing we're always focused on, especially with students, but it's just as true for any human being, regardless of their age. What are some things, whether through your own life, but also within the book, to get people from where they are to where they wanna be? - Yeah, I truly appreciate the intentionality, but sometimes it's hard as, you know, it just made me think of David Goggins and that accountability mirror he talks about sometimes. It's hard to get a true sense of where we are. And then sometimes, you know, people just get overwhelmed with fear, it's very difficult to see where you would even be able to go. How do we start taking those steps to go from where we are to where we know we need to be? - That's a great question. And I think you're correct about steps. It is baby steps, you know, but those small pivot modifications adjustments are what maximizes all about. I think the first step for all of us, and I think, you know, we should do this periodically, is a self-assessment. And that's one of the keys in the book, you know, knowing where you're at, knowing who you are and where you're at in life and who you are becoming, 'cause we're all becoming something, something else, you know, we're all getting a little older every day. And if we're not intentional, we'll be leaning one way or another. It doesn't matter. You know, five years from now, it will come. But what does that look like? That's up to you and me, right? So I think that the first thing is, you know, a self-assessment, you can do that, you know, with simple life wheel, a coach, having accountability partners, as you said, you know, what David Goggins talks about and having a partner where you folks are leveraging each other's, you know, honesty, you know, transparency, authenticity. I think the other thing is really taking those steps, having goals, and that also is like taboo, but it works. You know, those of you who are listening, setting goals works. What happens though, is that we kind of differentiate between dreams or dreaming and what are real tangible goals and what are the steps that I'm gonna implement to actually achieve those? And what are the benchmarks? How am I gonna measure where I'm at, right? And three months, six months, a year. And you could be thinking about that for your school, for your district, for yourself, for your family. You have to have, you know, in business, we talk a lot about target market, right? Like, who are you trying to target for your products or services? I think that's the same thing I'd like to end, you know, this common with, what are you targeting? What am I targeting for my life in this next year? Right now, at the sound of this recording, it's July. It just started, we just started July. I'm not sure when this podcast will drop. But, you know, the second half of 2024, it's a perfect time to make a self-assessment, to make an organizational assessment and see where you're at and make those pivots. Lastly, you mentioned someone else, David, about accountability, David Goggins. I think that you need other people involved. So it's cool, I have goals, it's great. I do the self-assessment. Okay, who am I going to involve? Whether in my organization, my family, a friend, a colleague, who will help me, keep me accountable, but also encourage me, empower me, right? And the book maximize after every key, which is a chapter, we have these self-guided questions that are actually stirring people up to make a personal strategic plan. And so, you know, I think those are some steps that we can take. Peter, there's tons of insight there and a lot to unpack. Love what you say about accountability partners. I wrote down that there's a big difference between dreams and goals. Dreams don't come with benchmarks, goals required targets. That's a huge takeaway for our listeners. We want you to dream, and we want you to dream big, but we want you to set targets that you can reach. Many steps, I'm thinking about atomic habits, James Clear, and some others, we'll link to that in the show notes. I'd like to unmute the heads. - I'm starting to interrupt you, Idea Kane. Let me give a very concrete example of dream versus goal. 'Cause you said it better than me, (laughs) and I'm like, that's amazing. You know, I had a dream, maximize is my second book. I have a dream of writing many books. I have many book ideas in me, people who are listening, you have a book idea in you, I believe you. Come on, let's go and do it. That's a dream, I had a dream. I want to write the second book, maximize, but to make it come to fruition, I had to actually set goals. So what is my writing schedule weekly, daily, right? You know, what is non-negotiable? Saying no to certain events or things that would distract me from my writing time. And so it's a sacrifice, you know, and it's a commitment. And so I don't want to, you know, lose that piece. So it is a dream, but like you said TJ, it's breaking it down into these nugget bite-sized goals where you have these, you know, I would say building blocks, right? Or to achieve your goal to then in order to achieve your dream. I hope that helps, but that's how I felt that I could do it. And so if I didn't, so can you. - That's great, it's inspiring. I actually did write some show notes for aspiring writers because you hit it right off the back with writing everywhere, having a writing schedule, just writing period. Joe and I started our blog on runs. We would literally be on a run together and having some ideas about work and solutions and solving some of today's problems in education. And those became blogs and those became models and the models became books. So we're right there with you and it is really inspirational for those out there who are listening. We want you to write that book and reach out 'cause any one of us would be glad to help you with that. I want to unpack though a little bit about the self-assessment. 'Cause you mentioned coach and you mentioned the wheel, but can you give us a little bit more? I want to just double click on the idea of using a tool for self-assessment. Not just looking yourself in the mirror and saying, "How am I doing today?" But really trying to get to the core of what your next steps for growth are, where your strengths are, where your weaknesses are, and the things that you need to work on to get better as a leader. Our listeners, they listen to this show because they want to get better as a leader and I think that's going to help them. - Right. There's a few, I think, ways that we could address that. Obviously, everything is contextual to the person, to you who are listening. For example, if I'm superintendent principal administrator, I'm leading an organization, one way to assess is to have a 360 review, right? And maybe your own organization can fund that, can finance it, can swing it for you, or you can get outside consultants to come alongside you and help. Something like that would give you an overview of where you're at, how you're doing, people who you work with, you can involve family, and just give you an honest picture of where you're at and what are your strengths and weaknesses. It's like doing a swap, but on yourself, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. I mentioned the life wheel, 'cause I think that's the lowest hanging through, especially maybe someone who's not leading an organization. I'm a teacher, single parent. I'm in the grassroots of, you know, so I'm really just concerned about my own life, not necessarily my life and an organization. And there's reassessments online for that, that you can do on your own really quickly. I mean, on life wheel, if you don't know what it is, and I think most people do, but it's given you a picture of different areas of your life, and you could put in whatever areas you'd like to know more about. So for example, finances, love, relationships, spirituality, friendships, professional, and it kind of looks like a pizza pie. And then depending on how you answer each question of how you're doing in those areas, it would fill in that area, that pizza of the pie, right? And it would show you where you're at. So for example, if I, one out of 10, if I put in relationships, I stink, I'm a two. Well, the color, the pizza's only gonna be like the front piece of a pizza. But if I'm doing well financially, and I put in 10, it'll be like the whole pizza, it's on a whole pie, right? All that to say this, it gives you a picture, a snapshot of how you are doing, where your life is at. And you can take that document, that PDF, that screenshot, and partner with somebody else and say, hey, for the next three months, I'd like to work on, and let's say one of your low areas was relationships. I like to work on my relationships. Maybe I need to forgive people. Maybe I need to grow in some other area. And you work with another person and agree to what you would like to improve. And that other person can keep you accountable and help you take those baby steps, help you check in, whether it's weekly or every other week or once a month. And I think those are small, practical steps. It sounds easy, but with the business of life, with people working with all the stuff that's going on in the world, it takes a lot. It takes a lot, but, and then lastly, I would say, you can find accountability groups. You can find support groups. You can find community groups or in a faith community or other organizations, non-profits that actually hold these types of groups once a month. And most of them are free. So, whether it's free or paid, there's different ways to explore this. And I would say, if you really want to get better, if you want to assess where you're at, but also live intentionally about growing and maximizing your life, the self-assessment piece isn't imperative. - Yeah, I love it, Peter. And I do appreciate the fact that you say it seems simple, but it's not. You know, I love, I love the quote, the most complicated skill is to be simple. You know, we often think it has to be this big thing, but I've also noticed too, I like that you put a time like three months because we also think that, you know, we have all this time in the world to accomplish things. So, we often underestimate what we can do in a day and overestimate what we can do in five years. And so, it's nice to think like that. Something I want to ask, because there's a lot of things out there and we mentioned the tools and resources and books. And TJ and I, you know, between the two of us has devoured certain things. Where do you think your book separates itself to help individuals? I love some of the things said already about the small steps, the pivots, the self-assessments, the accountability. Where do you think it separates? Because as you know, this is a category that a lot of people are interested in. There's a lot of resources out there already. But I also know that there's great minds that contribute to the field. What would you say separates your work? Well, I think that, you know, behind every book, there's a unique story or it goes back to the author, who's the author? Obviously I'm biased as my book. I think it's a great read, right? But I think, you know, I've mentioned a little bit about my own story in the beginning or even before we started failing, you know? And I'm very transparent about that. I'm very transparent about addictions, about having to get healing through traumas, through feeling abandonment and neglect. My grandmother raised me, and so my mom and dad were not around. So those of you who come from that type of background or even are dealing with young youth or children or students from that background, this book would help because it's given you an inside look at someone who was raising that particular context. But then I talk about my successes. I talk about the growth. I talk about the grind. I talk about, there's a chapter on creativity, curiosity and discovery, you know? And like when we're kids, man, you know, kids repurpose things, right? We used to take my grandmother's high heels and use them as a hammer, you know? You know, we repurpose things in the house, you know, and tools and all these things. And sometimes we lose that when we're adulting, right? When we become adults and we're working and you lose that creativity, that innovation, that fun of life. And so I'm really trying to help motivate and inspire people to tap back into their youth, but also living again, maximize life as being intentional about where I wanna go, who do I wanna become? And really helping people to see the benefits of lifelong learning, a personal, professional, spiritual development, a holistic view of who you are as a human. I think that's one of the best ways that we could grow. And I think that my book contributes to that. It's not the end all be all. You know, we have other books being written. I have a few more in me that I like to get out. You know, hey, you gotta end the book at a certain time because you can't just keep writing and writing. So I think that it's a step in the right direction, especially for those who've been struggling, who have been asking themselves, is there more to life than this? And how can I improve? How can I add more value to myself so that I'm more valuable to my school, my organization, to the world, to my community? And I think that step by step, as John Maxwell says, you can transform your world, maybe not the whole world. That's a little too big for all of us, but transform your world. - Well, thanks for mentioning John Maxwell there. Again, we're gonna link to that in the show notes. A lot of what actually you were talking about reminded me, Joe, of our work around the beginner's mind and some chapters and some books that we've written and some blogs about using a beginner's mind as a tool and remembering what it's like to be not the expert in the room because as we grow up and grow up and grow up, we tend to think that we know everything and then we bring that brain to a problem versus the curiosity, creativity of not knowing anything and what that means for being able to solve problems. Peter, the segue, and I think Joe wants to jump in here too, the segue about John Maxwell has to be for me. What are the books you're reading to be able to be inspired to grow and who are the people you're following and where can we find them? - That's a great question. Before we go there, you're saying these great nuggets. I'm over here taking notes. You talked about the beginner's mind and I thought that's brilliant that you guys created or wrote about that and speak about it. I think every time there's growth, right? And every time I go to another level, whether that's personally or professionally, et cetera, I'm a beginner again at that new level. And so I need to get oriented with other people and experts who have been on that level. For example, I've done speaking and we were connected through Les Brown's Chief Marketing Officer. I have been speaking, but now it's at another level and so I'm getting further training, further equipped tools, resources, because it's a different context, a different type of audience, many larger audiences or particular, right? There's different particulars. Also like consulting at a nonprofit and then going to Harvard, it was different. And so I needed teammates, people who had done that before. And so I just want to encourage people like don't be afraid, Joe talked about that earlier about overcoming the fear. It is scary. It is, you can be afraid when you're growing because it's uncharted territory. But the best and amazing thing about being a human is that most likely there are others who have done what you're trying to do, at least some components of it. And I talk about the also maximized, join somebody on their mission and learn and help them adding value to what they're doing with their mission and vision and soon it would be reciprocal. I'm following obviously Les Brown, people like Eric Thomas, John Maxwell, for sure, think and grow rich. Have you read that? Have it's a successful people, blue ocean strategy. I read all kinds of stuff. I read sacred texts. I read popular press and people I follow Ed Mullett, also another person on YouTube. I think their channel is worth going, subscribing. A new friend I just met through actually a podcast. She's out of Australia, Nailini Curulum, I think is her name, just different people. I try to be intentional about following and listening and reading other people that are outside of my immediate community. So and I'll be open about that. I'm Latino, I'm Puerto Rican, right? I'm Puerto Rican, you know, I'm bicultural bilingual. I do also follow other Latinos and read their stuff, but I'm also intentional about reading other people's. I try to practice what I teach. And that's right. And that's something about exposure, you know, about getting outside your comfort zone. Other people have insight that you and I need. And the only way to do that is to go out and get it. So it's a great question. - Just to follow up on that, Peter, we often ask about, is there a habit that you do on a daily basis to really maximize your life. We love to hear about that. Also though, if you wouldn't mind, I would love to hear how you dove that dovetail that into your reading and how do you, how do you find time to read? Because I think so many times, you know, we take these practices that are best practices and we overlook their value. But we've said, TJ and I have multiple times. Like if you haven't read Thinking Go Rich, you're making a mistake. I had a gentleman one time tell me you should read Thinking Go Rich once a year or you're making a mistake. And so, you know, and you rattled off just a ton, but can you dive into that a little bit? Like a habit that just you do that makes a big difference in your life. And then if you have a moment, yeah, tie that into like your reading habit. - Yeah, so I've recently heard Jim Rome say that Jim Rome, if you haven't, you know, he's no longer with us, but he was an amazing motivator of the late 1900s, I think, right? And he said that he read, he had read Thinking Go Rich like several dozen times. I was like, wow, that's a lot. So I guess I'm behind the curve. I've read it once this year. But, you know, there's several things I do daily, but before I go there, I would like to backtrack to a few years ago, you know, being an entrepreneur, having my own schedule, having flexibility. I was just going to bed at any time, whenever I, you know, got to go into doing my work or doing my stuff, I would do it. And I was getting some stuff done, but it wasn't intentional, it wasn't, there wasn't order to it. And I felt like, man, you know, I think I could probably do this better. And actually Eric Thomas, one of his videos, the hip hop preacher, really encouraged me. He was talking about how he gets up at three o'clock in the morning. And like, well, there's no way I'm ever gonna get up at three in the morning, you know, but what can I do? And the first thing was, well, first of all, I have to go to bed at a decent time. So about three years ago, I started to go to bed at nine o'clock, nine p.m., that's my golden time. Now, does that happen every day? Not always, and especially if I'm traveling, I'm on, you know, at the mercy of other people, sometimes the hosts, but I really try to get to bed at nine, the latest 10. I get up at five, you know, that's my equilibrium or five-ish, I go to bed nine-ish, get up at five-ish, you know, a little bit before or after. And there's a few things that I do, I do read every day, I do write every day, even if it's in my journal. That's another thing I've practiced the last like five, six years is journaling. You know, I read a sacred text every day. I pray and meditate, I pray every day and I try to meditate a couple times a week. And then I just, in that time, that first hour or two hours, and that we're going to the gym to my wife and I, just walking half hour, you know, these are little things that we've done. But those are the, there's like two or three that I would say I always do. I go to bed early so I can get up early and I pray and I read every day. That's what I do, you know, and when I, I can tell you something, when I don't do that, my spouse, my wife Ruby knows the hulk comes out. She's like, you need to go somewhere and pray or you need to go somewhere and meditate or go read something 'cause you're not acting, you know, right. And I'm like, yeah, you know, I better go take a break, you know. So I'll take a 15, 20-minute break and get, you know, as the GPS tells you, you know, when you've gone off track it says recalculating. I gotta recalculate myself and come back to, you know, a centered Peter. - That's so funny that you said that Peter because my wife will often notice when I'm off one of my routines, which one of them is meditating and she will say to me, have you been using your meditation routine lately? And I will clearly, she's noticed and I will say no. And her answer to that is, everybody knows. - Oh, Jesus. (laughing) - Everybody knows. So there's the hulk in all of us. Peter, I wonder if you said you had some more books to write and I, Joe and I often argue about the number of books that we're gonna continue writing as well. We can dive into that after the show. But I wondered if you could talk to us about that in terms of something that's not out there that you see the need for there either to be or more of for people to consume as a leader, as someone who's trying to grow and learn each day. - Yeah, right now I have a book idea in the incubation stages, like in the oven. And it's, you know, I'm writing notes here and there. I'm trying to write an outline. And it's a leadership development book. And in part, so it is for, you know, we're in a changing world and I believe that we really could benefit from contextual leadership. There's different theories about that. But in from my seat, I'm talking about how does a person who's a leader, how can they influence or at least have a certain level of success no matter what context they're in. That sounds difficult and it is. But there are some things that we can adopt. And the reason, like back to Joe's question of earlier, why is maximize different, what's the contribution? - I believe the reason that this book makes sense for me to write and especially at this time is that I've had experience across multiple sectors. I've been in the military, I've done not-profit work, I've done corporate work, I've consulted at healthcare. You know, I've worked in higher ed, I was a vice president of a couple of universities. I've done all these different things. Usually people don't do that. Like they've usually been had one career or one industry or maybe two. And so as I was talking to people, they're like, you were commenting, wow, that's really unique. And I didn't realize that until having conversations with people from these different spaces. And I'm like, you know, in higher ed, they do it like this. (laughs) And in the corporate world they're doing, maybe in the local church they do it. And people are like, that's amazing. And I'm like, wow, I gotta get these communities and these different sectors talking. And so I think that's what the contextual leadership piece is about. Also, you know, as we are a global society and you know, there are demographic shifts and there's, you know, economic and technological advancement. All of these things put together what futureists call like the steep analysis, right? Of creating a plausible preferred future. So I believe that as a person, as a leader, we can hone these skill sets and learn and adopt some of these tools and resources so that we can be better for our, again, our world and the society in which we are at. So that together we can make this world truly a better place and think about the next generations to come. So yeah, I don't have the title yet. It's in the incubator, but it's baking. That's what's most important. - Yeah, we want to do a round two when that thing comes out of the oven. - Awesome. - And I know that there's a key takeaway there for our listeners. What you were saying is brilliant about the fact that there's key aspects of leadership that everybody can adopt, but then we need to learn to adapt within the context of where we are as people and in the context of our situation. I also want to say that we have to do a round two 'cause we're going to close out here on the concept of a plausible, preferred future. That's got to be in your next book and something that we could probably unpack for an hour. Peter, this has been exciting, fun, packed with insight. As we close out, is there anything else that you would like to add for the listeners, a request that you have for them, a call to action, anything? - You know, I would just encourage everyone who's listening to us today, you know, life is hard. Being human is hard, it's difficult. Be kind to yourself, love yourself, take breaks, take a Sabbath if you can, you know, either a day off or a half a day or my wife Ruby and I recently, we took a mini vacation, like a staycation, you know, we went to a local hotel, we're in St. Martin's so the beach is beautiful, so, you know, but wherever you can or whatever you can on your level, be kind to yourself, love yourself, love those around you and take your breaks 'cause there's a lot to do and it could be overwhelming. But that's where, you know, the whole team concept comes into place and no one is, you know, depending on you to transform the whole world. Remember, it's about changing your world. So I would say that if you want to visit my website at peterealsconsulting.com, there are a couple of three chapters download, so on the top of the website, there's a link Maximize or in Spanish, Maximusa. The book is published in English and Spanish. There you can download two chapters for free. Also, we're building a course Maximize your life that will follow the book, so stay tuned to that. And there's also free resources on our resource page, like free books and other interviews and stuff we've done that might add value to you. And if you want to follow us on social media @DR for Dr. D.R. Peter Rios and we'd love to connect with you and continue to add value to you. Thank you so much for your time today. Bless you and thank you TJ and Joe for having me. 100% great way to end. Be kind to yourself and others. Visit Peter's sites, we're gonna link to all that. In the show notes, another awesome episode of Focused Ed. Don't forget to follow the schoolhouse302.com for podcasts, blog posts, books to read and more. We'll be back soon with another episode of Focused Ed. Until then, stay focused. Hey leaders, before you go, one more announcement. We now have available for you our candid and compassionate feedback master class. Really because of high demand, we are thrilled to offer this. This is a course that we run live and in person all the time and leaders love it. They learn to get feedback with skills that they can use right away, including better praise to live and celebrate your team. It's now available in a virtual online format that you can take on your own self-paced from the comfort of your office or home. Here's what you'll get. There are 11 lessons with a focus on nine candor cancellations that we wrote in our candidate and compassionate feedback book. These are mistakes that leaders make that we don't want you to make anymore. We'll teach you models so that your feedback is meaningful and we'll give you tools necessary to build the culture that you always wanted. Trust us, without these critical skills, you're not capitalizing on your own capacity to lead better and grow faster. 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