Do you have time to do what you love? with Danny Mishek - Episode 31 of Better Business, Better Life!

Danny Mishek is President and Visionary of VistaTek, a family owned full-service manufacturing company in the US. One of his proudest achievements is recently publishing a children's Christmas book that gets everyone talking about their fondest, warmest memories. 

In business, he puts innovation at the heart of VistaTek. They strive to be world-class innovators, not just competing in the Midwest, or the US. 

He shares how EOS has helped him delegate and elevate, freeing him up to do what he's best at & loves doing - connecting with people and discovering growth opportunities. 

In life, he consistently pushes himself outside his comfort zone, like riding a real bull or writing and self-publishing a book. He discusses the importance of sharing your personality and true character, which in turn opens you up to interesting conversations and deeper relationships.

Find out why he wrote a Christmas book seemingly out of the blue, his experience in a family business that went through a merger & EOS implementation and what it actually felt like to ride a bull! 

Danny's Top 3 Tips

1. Try to look through other people's lenses

I think that helped me a lot in writing the book. I used an illustrator who did an amazing job. Her name is Megan Shumway. She put a person in a wheelchair, people with different skin colour tones so no matter who looks at this book, it's through their lens and they can see what they want to see. So when you make decisions for your person, for your employees, for your vendors, what are they looking at, through their eyes? Some people get excited about the holidays, because they get to travel. Other people, it's heartbreaking because the bills go up, so what's it like through their lens?

2. Get out of your comfort zone then share it!

I've had more success being uncomfortable, and getting out of my comfort zone widens it too. So when somebody thinks they're going to bring in an uncomfortable situation, to you that's not very uncomfortable. You can deal with it easier. And when you get out of your comfort zone, share that with people. Share your personality and your character, because it's been so fun to talk to people about my book, but it's grown into other relationships. People want to know, how is it to have a beehive and to write a book, to be self-published; they want to talk about manufacturing and manufacturers. There’s not that many of us in the US, people say, ‘Oh, you make something? How? How does that work? What kind of schooling do you need? Do you have internships?'

3. Be yourself

Being different, being out there and sharing that you're different. We’re trying to be the same. Don't be the same. Be who you are, but then share it loud and proud. Have your core values, you should have the business ones and your personal ones. But just be true to yourself. If you know what your intentions are and they’re pure, we're all going to make mistakes, but if you have good intentions, people are going to understand when you have to apologise. They'll say, ‘Yeah, I get it. You screwed up, but you owned it.’ I'd say as long as you're transparent and with good intentions, you're going to go far in life.

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