Ron Carson, CEO and Founder of Carson Wealth, sits down with Cheddar's Hena Doba to share how he keeps a strong connection to nature and prioritizes mental health in his formula for success.

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How Carson Wealth's CEO Maximizes Success By Prioritizing Mental Health

come back to closing bell on Cheddar news. Everyone. This next segment is brought to you by Carson wealth, your trusted financial advisor at Carson wealth will help you find your freedom by meeting you where you are and aligning your financial picture with your life's vision. Well, Carson wealth is the presenting sponsor of this segment. The opinions and statements expressed in the following, our Cheddars. Cheddar news is hen Adobo recently flew out to Arizona to get an inside look at Carson. Well, founder and Ceo Ron Carson's formula for success. That took him from dorm room entrepreneur to billionaire. And today we're gonna cover one critical aspect of that formula, how to maximize your success by deepening your connection to nature. Take a look Hi Ron, we've talked about physical fitness, we have to talk about mental fitness. Why is it so important for your professional and personal success? Yeah, I mean, I think, I think it's a key, you know, having having our minds feel good and right is is if that's not right, I don't think we can even get become physically fit and we can't come close to living, you know, our most fulfilled life, really, our freedom, you know, finding our freedom, matter of fact, I've written Five books and I think about my next one is going to be 10 times more impactful than the last five combined because I want to help people find their freedom and freedom is to fully express yourself to live an untethered life that you're able to do the things that you want to do based on what your heart tells you you want and it and it all starts with with having the mind be good. My mom suffered from you know, she she was a manic depressive, we just had a lot of mental illness in our family. So I've seen how debilitating it can be and and I think that you know society today makes it makes it all still taboo even though insurance companies will recognize it. We're talking about it more. It needs to be talked about a lot more because people suffer in silence. So I think getting it out there talking about it being okay to have a therapist and admit that you need help you start your day with meditation every single day. How do you think it increases your potential every single day for success and happiness? I don't know the answer to that. I just know how I feel. I was a terrible meditator. Everybody said oh you should do it and you'll feel better. And I would sit there and try and I had 1000 things going through my mind to literally go in and retrain the brain waves. We have five, I believe it's five different brain waves and all of them react differently. But once you can train them to actually get in a more deep meditative state, it is really powerful And now it's it's only been about four years but I am dropping in doing my meditation and time flies by and occasionally I miss I wake up, I overslept. I had my grandson spend the night I didn't sleep and then I got to get him to daycare because if I don't get it done right away, I tend to not do it because I find I can't get into that state, but I can tell you my days are a lot less productive and I just feel just not quite is is on as the days I commit to the meditation, talk to me, we have the idea of your baseline. How do you set a high bar for yourself every single day? Well you can set a bar every single day. You're not gonna achieve it every single day. You know, one of my favorite sayings is every day we get up, we compete against our own potential and most days would come up short, we're human, right? But the idea around baseline improvement and here's what my definition of baseline is, it's monday morning and you're showing up to work. How do you feel? It's like you just had the weekend, you had nothing to look forward to. Now. You're doing your vocation. Now, if you don't think his work is work, then your baseline is pretty doggone high because monday feels about like a saturday or a friday or any other day. But if on the other hand, you have this huge downer on a monday because now you're doing something you don't love to do. That's not the way we want, we want to live our life, we want to live it to where we're loving every moment and how what are the little things I can do one is loving the work that we do to helping others, right? We'll give you gratitude or improve your baseline and then make a conscious effort to improve the baseline around people you care about. For me, it's my internal stakeholders at Carson, it's my partners, my external stakeholders that I have, it's family, not necessarily in that order, I mean, but they're all there and more that I feel I'm elevating others. It elevates my own baseline. We're out here in beautiful Arizona. It seems right to discuss connecting with nature. We're on your property. It's absolutely gorgeous. How can deepening your connection with nature, allow you to expand and grow further? I think nature allows us to remove ourselves from the vortex of the stuff of the noise every day, truly, I will sit with myself and it's so quiet, it's deafening. You know exactly what I'm talking about. There's actually not not anything, and I feel so good. It's like we came from nature, you know, whether what whatever your your beliefs are, we, this is, we're all part of this living thing here on earth, and I think the more time we can spend with it around it, connect to it, feel it honor it, nurture it. Um it just is a it's an amazing feeling and I feel most at home when I'm, when I'm in nature and you've traveled around the world, but you feel most at home in nature, I feel most at home in nature, our favorite Jeannie and I were talking about this this morning, We think it was close to 20 years ago, it was, I was able to um, we we sat down one day and we were drinking wine and we said if there were no limits, what would our perfect year look like, where, where would we live? And we said, well we love Nebraska um and we love being around our family. So let's start with there. And then we built this retreat just north and love to have you guys come and see the retreat sometimes horses and hiking and just all kinds of really nature kind of things to do. And then here Arizona then we, we love being in aspen colorado and like the Ozarks like those are our places, but all of them revolve around being around water, being in nature, being in the wind and the sun and and not being consumed by the daily rat race of stuff that just shows up. And I do want to read another quote to you because it's also very just resonated. We don't ever change. We find our true self our true meanings with what gives us the most fulfillment. Can you talk to me about that because a lot of people think I need to change, I need to do this, but according to you, that's not necessarily the key, right? And I think our true essence is in our heart and our soul, I want to talk about ego and soul just a little bit because ego and you know, we as humans, we all have a certain level of ego and ego is what protects us while we're here. Ego. Um a big ego gets us in a lot of trouble. And a lot of the biggest egos that you'll meet, they're not coming from a from a position of really they're not secure. People write the reason we have a lot of that bravado and ego and I was one of those people is because I was so insecure that, you know, I I wasn't sure about me and I wasn't sure about, you know, the way I lived my life, I wanted to live my life and I just there wasn't there wasn't the genuineness that that was there because I didn't know how to find it and really how to express it. So, working with other people and go back called a life coach, call it therapist, whatever you want. A really good one. And there's very few out there, but a really good one can strip all that stuff away and say what's truly important to you and we said we were going to talk about blue printing in this process, but I think it's you have to because blue printing is around where there's a whole exercise within the blue printing process, it says, what do I love and value most in life and then what percentage of my time am I spend doing it? And most people are upside down the things that they love, they don't afford themselves almost any time. And the rat race stuff is what consumes your life because it automatically shows up. If you're not intentional about putting stuff on your calendar and we do need to sacrifice at times. But if you, if you do the blue printing, you find what you value and then you want to flip that to where most, all of your time and spent on things that you truly love to do all of a sudden, you will find that your true self will emerge. It's always been in there, You'll probably learn some things, you'll mind those ingredients because I wouldn't be the person that I am today without those life ingredients. Okay, well, if you want more clarity about how to align your time, energy and money to live the most impactful life possible, download your copy of Ron's blue printing guide now at Carson wealth dot com slash blue printing