Benjamin Saldana for New Definitions Consulting Video Testimonials

Speaker: Benjamin Saldana

Benjamin Saldana: When I first saw Ben's post on LinkedIn. I was struggling with it felt like everything. I felt like I was battling on all fronts, and nothing was going right in my life, um, from parenting to job stuff to wife. And so when I saw his post, and he said, you can ask me anything, it just felt like a hand reaching out that wanted to help, and there's so many things I could think of and so many questions I had. Um, and even as I signed up, I already had something ready to go on day one that I just needed to get off my chest and needed someone to hear and tell me something that could help me.

Benjamin Saldana: Some of the things that Ben talked to me about and really helped me implement was just getting back to the basics of self-care and realizing that in a lot of ways, when one thing's not going right, or when you're struggling in certain places, that it can affect everything. So he helped me a lot with not only getting those basics back in place of exercise and meditation. And daily reflection to kind of see where I'm going right and where I'm going wrong, and where tomorrow or even that day is gonna go better, but also just recognizing more than anything, the negative kind of thoughts that I had, then how to see them, recognize them, but then shift my mindset and say, no. You know, those aren't productive, they're not helpful, you know, they're not gonna do anything for me today, and they're wrong. At the end of the day, they're just wrong about what I have going on. Then shift and change the mindset to something positive, you know, um, especially when it comes to that there is things that are not going right in my life, OK, but I need to be able to have a good mindset that is going to tackle the problems and fix them when they come up. And not be drowned by them or not be bogged down to the point where I can't even handle them.

Benjamin Saldana: When thinking about what the results were from this course, I come back to the quote that I still have written here in my office from it. And it is that my life only gets better when I get better. And for me it was just as simple as that. There's so many things that I want to improve on or fix or feel like aren't going right, but at the end of the day. It really is that simple that when I get better as a man, as a father, as a co-worker, all these different aspects. When I improve in these little ways and when I make effort to improve and do better, they do. They all improve and especially the mindset change, I think is really big too, because I know even in the last few days, I've used things that I learned from this course and things that I learned from them. About, OK, you know, I'm a little bogged down. OK, you know, there's a lot of things going on, but again, you know, I need to get better at handling these things, and I need to get better at multitasking and running multiple things at once, but also recognizing the negative thoughts and the thoughts that are keeping me from being actionable when it comes time to tackle everything. So it just really helped not only with the mindset, but just that reminder that. You know, have to get better. And just taking this one step at a time, helped me get better and help me fix a lot of the problems that I have going on.

Benjamin Saldana: I would encourage this course for everyone because I believe that all of us have something going on that we could speak on. I know when I first started and talked a lot about, yes, therapy is good, but courses like this help you have actionable ways that you can move into the future and overcome these problems more than muddling up the past. And that was big for me. Um, I know that Ben was incredibly insightful, especially as I would explain things and send him video messages, there was things that he picked up on and he was able to say, OK, you know, you're talking about this and your coworker and these different things. But it sounds like you have this going on, or it sounds like when you talk about this, you think about it in this way, and it was amazing. It was, I told him so many times, wow, you're so insightful. I can't believe you read that. I can't believe, you know, that you're able to see that. I've struggled with that in the past, um, and that was just through voice messages. So very insightful as he listens and tries to understand kind of what you have going on, and he digests the problem and actually comes back to you. Um, and he was very direct and for me that was really great because sometimes that's what I need is just that direct, hey, OK, you know, you have this going on here. This is how simple it is to fix it. And even him saying to me that how much of a time sink these things are to fix, but something like this is not, it's small, it's something that you can. Do every single day and have just an open opportunity to talk about the different things you have going on in your life and have someone else. Just analyze and help you think a little bit more into it and think about ways to improve, which I think we all could really use at this time.