How High Performers Break Through with Joshua Kalinowski

Are your dreams just ideas floating in your mind or are you ready to turn them into action? Most of us have big goals, but the real challenge is execution. How do you stay focused, avoid burnout, and actually get things done, especially when life gets messy or plans fall apart? In this episode of Actions Antidotes, we’re joined by Joshua Kalinowski, former professional athlete, business leader, and the founder of Kalinowski Enterprises. Joshua shares what it really takes to “dream big and execute bigger”, his personal mantra that goes beyond motivation and into sustainable strategy. From building systems that support success to understanding your own rhythms and energy, Joshua talks about making smart, intentional moves even when life doesn’t go as planned. He opens up about losing his identity after baseball and how that led him to build not just businesses, but people from within. You’ll also hear how his “PILL” framework (Painful, Intentional, Lazy, and Loving) can transform your daily habits into lasting personal wins. Whether you're chasing growth in business, relationships, health, or simply looking to reclaim your time and energy, this conversation is a must-listen.Tune in now to learn how to build a life where your actions match your ambitions. --- Listen to the podcast here: How High Performers Break Through with Joshua Kalinowski Welcome to Action’s Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. This year, on this podcast, we’ve been covering a lot about practical tools in which to help you get going. There’s always a period of time to dream, to plan, to figure out what you want is, but, at some point, you have to actually, as my last episode we discussed, take action, and taking action requires some practical tools. So, to talk a little bit more about some of these practical tools that you can use in order to dream big but execute bigger, I would like to invite onto the show Joshua Kalinowski, the president and visionary for Kalinowski Enterprises, which involves a lot of things so we’re going to cover that all in the episode. --- Joshua, welcome to the program. My man, appreciate it. Man, it is so good to be here. Thanks for the intro. Oh, yeah, wonderful. And let’s start right with this whole dream big, execute bigger. That’s kind of your motto. It is, yes. Well, it really came, it’s just kind of, for me, it’s more of like just reminding me constantly that as much as I dream, I’ve got to take action on it so I’ve got to take action and execute on things at an even larger scale because, as we know, it takes so much more to actually get fulfillment out of that. It takes so much more to actually have these things that accomplishes so much harder so it’s just another like a mantra for me to remind myself that if I’m going to dream big, I’ve got to execute at an even bigger stage. So, yeah, so that execute bigger part of it, and I think this is something that, obviously, we talk a lot about people who just talk up a storm and talk is cheap, anyone can say, “One day, I’m gonna write a book,” “One day, I’m gonna do the Grand Canyon rim to rim to rim,” as we kind of discussed before –– Good example, I love it. Yeah, so one day we’re going to do that, but most people acknowledge that you have to do something, but this whole execute bigger, do you encounter a lot of people who dream big but then execute, but their execution is not as big as it needs to be in order to make that dream a reality? Yeah, without a doubt. I mean, you mentioned earlier, I’m the CEO and president of Kalinowski Enterprises and so I get to see a lot of entrepreneurs, and we hire a lot of people within our company so we go anywhere from real estate all the way to roofing and everything in between there. And so, yeah, you see so many people that say, “Hey, listen, I wanna be successful in this industry. I think I’m gonna be really good in this industry,” and you start to ask them, “Why do you think you’re gonna be good? Why is this industry something that’s attractive to you?” and they try to tell you a lot of like the reasons why in their mind that they’re going to be successful at it, but we see, oftentimes, those aren’t going to be the motivating factors. There’s going to be things, like it’s going to be eventually hard. You’re going to have to figure out, not everything about this industry is glamorous, and, in order to be successful, what are you willing to do in order to succeed? And like you were talking about, usually, what ends up happening is people are dreaming so large that they don’t even know how to start. So, how does someone dream big and execute bigger without burning themselves out? Well, you’re the expert in that, right? We should probably be talking more to you about this stuff. What I would say just complimentary to, you and I have a lot in common on literally how do we make sure that we’re performing and executing at a high level but also not burning ourselves out? How are we making sure that we are staying healthy? Both not only mentally but also physically. And so it is the staple in our company to make sure that our people are doing well emotionally as much as they are doing well in the business structure that they’re under. And so, so much of it is making sure that you’re surrounding yourself with good people, surrounding yourself with people that are positive and we have standards that we have at our company to make sure that we are all on the same page and if you don’t live by those standards, then you don’t really fit in our culture and so we really make sure and protect our culture so much. And because of our culture, because of the way that we actually are building our companies, we are attracting the right people and the people that are not that type of a person, that don’t want to actually improve, that don’t want to take action. They don’t really last too well in our environment because they don’t really enjoy the people they’re around so we kind of self-eliminate people for their sake and for our sake. So, it sounds like what you’re saying is that being around the wrong people can be one of these kind of energy drains and these energy drains are these unnecessary contributors to burnout, like you can burn yourself out just by doing too much, doing too much all the time, but you can probably do a lot more if you eliminate some of these energy drains, such as a person that you’re perpetually in conflict with. Yeah. They just did a recent study out there. You know in the classroom setting, you typically have the high achievers are usually gravitating closer towards the front of the room, so they did this test on that and what they found is that those that were sitting in the front of the room compared to those that were sitting in the back of the room, one where they were so much more focused and they understood the content and they actually were writing the content down, but they were 37 percent more successful in the areas that they were achieving than those that sat in the back of the room. It just goes to show you, you sit in front, one, for those purposes, but also now you’re surrounding yourself with other likeminded people that are high achieving people that want to actually learn, that want to get better, and then eventually want to implement as well. So you say that in any classroom, does this apply to even something basic, like fourth grade? It was talking about like college and actually people like post college, people that were going to seminars. So when they were like adults that were going for continuing education or adults that were going to like a seminar that was helping them improve in a certain expertise or area of business that they were in, those adults were actually seeing dramatically bigger improvements from those that actually stood closer to the actual stage. Okay, and that could be anything, like I recently attended in Boulder, Colorado, a startup week, and startup week, we have one in Denver, they have them kind of all the country, it’s just a series of different workshops, panel discussions, presentations, all these things where you go into these different rooms and you sit there. So is that true even if something like that where, if I would look at the people who chose to sit in the back or the people who chose to sit in the front barring time constraints and all the people showing up late, that those people sitting in the front are more likely to at least get more out of that particular event? Yep, 100 percent. Well, you think about it, they’re the most engaged. They’re the ones making eye contact with the speakers. The speakers are making eye contact with them as well too. They’re typically the ones in the rooms that are asking the questions when there’s a Q and A opportunity. So, yeah, you’re making a much deeper connection, and when you start to feel like that person as a speaker is actually looking at you, then you really are actually taking ownership of the things that are said. So I talk a lot about these small habits and these small habit changes that whether or not that can actually have a much larger impact on your mindset over time if you implement a small change day in and day out, is sitting toward the front of the room at any kind of event, even if you’re, say, at a normal corporate job and they are bringing in people for some sort of corporate training from time to time, is getting in the habit of sitting in that front of the room something that could actually help people get more in the mindset of a high achiever? What do you think people are going to start to say about you if you were the person that was staying in maybe in the middle of the room to the back of the room, and now, all of a sudden, they start to see you participate and actually sit at the front of the room