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SNS68: Don’t Make It Complicated

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Join us today for the Saturday Night Special about why Keep it Simple is so important...

In tonight's Saturday Night Special I talk about why we make it too complicated too often...

In tonight’s Saturday Night Special, I share why we often make things more complicated than they need to be. I share why the simple is often powerful but ignored and how even in a complicated situation we can find the simple to focus on.

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00:00:00 Welcome to tonight's Saturday night, special episode 68, I'm Darryl Lyons, author of 18 to 80. I challenge you to invest in yourself, invest in others, develop your influence and impact the world by using your time, your talent and your treasures to live out your calling, having the right behavior with your money is key to doing that. And one way to be inspired to do that is to listen to this,
00:00:29 the inspired stewardship podcast with my friend, Scott Mader, And then one more. And then one more it's about knowing what's next. Not knowing everything. That's what allows us to make forward progress. That's what allows us to be diligent. That's what allows us to improve and out of that improvement come simplicity. That makes it work welcome. And thank you for joining us on the inspired stewardship podcast.
00:01:08 If you truly desire to become the person who God wants you to be, then you must learn to use your time, your talent and your treasures for your true calling in the inspired stewardship podcast, you will learn to invest in yourself, invest in others and develop your influence so that you can impact the world. And tonight, Saturday night special, I share why we often make things way more complicated than they need to be.
00:01:42 I share why the simple is often powerful, but ignored and how even in a complicated situation, we can find the simple to focus on. Now, one area that a lot of folks need some help with is around the area of productivity. Getting not just more things done, but actually getting the right things done can be really, really tough. I've got a course called productivity for your passion.
00:02:11 That's designed to help you do this, and then to hold you accountable and walk with you so that you can tailor productivity, not just to be getting more done, but actually getting the right things done. What's more, we take the approach of looking at your personality and how you actually look at things in the world and tailor the productivity system to your personality.
00:02:37 Because the truth is a lot of the systems that are out there are written really well for somebody with a particular personality type. But if you have a different approach to things, they just don't work, but there's tools and techniques and approaches that you can take that will work for anyone. And we help you do that and productivity for your passion. Check it out [email protected]
00:03:00 slash launch. One of the biggest problems that I think we have as humans is our tendency to try to make things overly complicated. We often think that the more complicated something is the more complicated a solution is the more steps there are, the more complexity and in our life or in our situation somehow or another. That seems like it's almost a better thing.
00:03:27 I know that sometimes whenever I talk to people about budgeting their money and how it's basically just a matter of planning, what you're going to do tracking back against it, and then making adjustments to your behavior and your plan as you go, people are like that. That's too simple. There's got to be more steps to it. There's gotta be more process to it.
00:03:48 And, and the truth is that often something that is simple is not easy. And that simplicity, that act of looking at just the basics often, lets you make massive changes that lead to improvement. But all too often, what we want instead is either the one simple thing, the one trick, the one, one single step, the one tool,
00:04:14 the one app, the one, whatever that instantly fixes everything, which doesn't exist by the way. Or we want something that sounds like it's a really complex set of solutions and steps so that we know that we've mastered something because the truth is if it's something that we're struggling with, the answer to it, the fix to it has to be complex, obviously,
00:04:39 because if it was simple, we would have already understood it. We would have already done it on our own. But the truth is we often ignore the simple, in a complicated situation. We instead try to focus on the complexity and make the situation even more complex as a way of answering it in part, because I think we think exactly what I just said that if it was simple,
00:05:04 if it was this easy, I would've done it already, but all too often, you haven't even tried the simple fixes you haven't done the basics. You haven't taken the first step. You haven't stopped and thought about what it is that you need. You haven't actually looked at any sort of simple measurement and the truth is you can always find the simple,
00:05:27 it's really just a matter of asking the question, what is the smallest action that I can take that would move me in the direction that I want to go? What is the smallest step that I can take that would move me in the direction that I want to go? Or if this is a bad situation, what is the smallest step that I can take that moves me in a positive direction?
00:05:49 That moves me towards what I want. That simple question. Often bubbles up new and new techniques and new steps and new things that you can try because the truth is all too often, we're trying to solve the entire problem. That's what makes it complex. We're trying to solve all of the various moving parts. We're trying to make everything work exactly the right way.
00:06:13 But the truth is if instead we just take one small action and then one more and then one more it's about knowing what's next. Not knowing everything. That's what allows us to make forward progress. That's what allows us to be diligent. That's what allows us to improve. And out of that improvement comes simplicity. That makes it work. Now earlier I said,
00:06:40 it's often simple but not easy because see the truth is executing on the simple, doing that small thing day after day after day, isn't easy. Sometimes it isn't easy because we don't see it as sexy. Sometimes we don't see it as, as cool enough or interesting enough. Sometimes it's not easy because the truth is our brain and our other systems and habits will fight against us improving and making change.
00:07:07 That moves us in a positive direction. Sometimes it isn't easy because the world around us or other people fight against what we're trying to do and push back on it. But the truth is regardless of why it's not easy. If you continue to focus on taking those simple steps, each day gets a little bit better. You begin to improve. And out of that,
00:07:29 improvement becomes its own momentum. See momentum can spin us downward or momentum can build us up. But all too often, we try to make it take all of the steps at once. And the truth is you can only take one step at a time. So what's your next step that moves you in a simple direction towards what you want to have. Thanks for listening. Thanks so much for listening to the inspired stewardship podcast.
00:08:05 As a subscriber and listener, we challenge you to not just sit back and passively listen, but act on what you've heard and find a way to live your calling. If you enjoy this episode, please, please do us a favor. Go over to inspired stewardship.com/itunes rate. All one word iTunes rate. It'll take you through how to leave a rating and review and how to make sure you're subscribed to the podcast so that you can get every episode as it comes out in your feed until next time,
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SNS67: Are You Happy Being Yourself?

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Join us today for the Saturday Night Special where I talk to you about what it means to be happy...

All too often we forget what it means to be happy with ourselves.

In Tonight’s Saturday Night Special I talk with you about why the answer to that question, Are you happy being you, is tricker than you might think.  I give you some tips on how to be happier with who you are and I talk about why happiness isn’t really about external or internal feelings it’s about choices and your response.

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00:00:00 Welcome to tonight's Saturday night, special episode 67. I'm Al Como. I challenge you to invest in yourself, invest in others, develop your influence and impact the world by using your time, talent and treasures, to live out your calling. Having the ability to manage change is key. And one way to be inspired to do that is to listen to this.
00:00:26 The inspired stewardship podcast with my friend, Scott Mader. Happiness is having that contentment that you're not perfect. You're not doing everything every day where there's never a mistake or never a failure, but that you are a happy person. You're somebody who looks at the world as a place that you want to be and looks at yourself as someone who adds value to the world.
00:01:02 Welcome, and thank you for joining us on the inspired stewardship podcast. If you truly desire to become the person who God wants you to be, then you must learn to use your time, your talent and your treasures for your true calling in the inspired stewardship podcast, who learn to invest in yourself, invest in others and develop your influence so that you can impact the world.
00:01:33 And tonight's Saturday night special. I talk with you about why the answer to that question. Are you happy being you? Are you happy being yourself is trickier than you might think. I give you some tips on how you can be happier with who you are. And I talk about why happiness isn't really about external or internal feelings. It's about choices and your response to those,
00:01:57 you know, one area that a lot of folks need some help with is around the area of productivity. Getting not just more things done, but actually getting the right things done can be really, really tough. I've got a course called productivity for your passion. That's designed to help you do this, and then to hold you accountable and walk with you so that you can tailor productivity,
00:02:26 not just to be getting more done, but actually getting the right things done. What's more, we take the approach of looking at your personality and how you actually look at things in the world and tailor the productivity system to your personality. Because the truth is a lot of the systems that are out there are written really well for somebody with a particular personality type.
00:02:50 But if you have a different approach to things, they just don't work, but there's tools and techniques and approaches that you can take that will work for anyone. And we help you do that and productivity for your passion. Check it out [email protected] Slash launch happiness. This is one of those emotions that I think everyone wants at some level. In fact, I,
00:03:16 I would say if you ask people, what is a goal or what is important to you, what do you want out of life? Happiness would come up as one of those things that people would often say, now you may not use that exact word. Instead. You may talk about, you know, getting a certain amount of money or getting a certain job or starting a family or finding a spouse or something like that.
00:03:39 Having children, oftentimes we look at events and we say, this is going to give me that feeling. This is going to make me happy. This pursuit of happiness is often what motivates us to do other things. And I would say that a lot of people actually go throughout life pursuing happiness, but never get it. And I think one of the biggest reasons for that is because what they associate with being happy,
00:04:10 He is the wrong stuff. And because it's the wrong stuff, they end up going through life, feeling Frustrated, feeling upset, constantly striving for the next thing, because they associate happiness with those external things that we were talking about. Massive well, celebrity fame, job promotion, big house, Even a spouse. The problem Well, ms. Though,
00:04:37 if you're not happy without those things, you almost certainly won't be happy with them instead. You'll simply move the needle and say that you need something else. If, if you ask people, are they happy with what they make in terms of income? They'll always tell you that if they just made about five or $10,000 more than they would be happy, and it really doesn't matter how much they make that number always seems to be out there just A little bit more.
00:05:08 And the truth is, I think a lot of us go through life. That way we get frustrated by it. But happiness is one of those things that takes Practice. It's an emotion, It's a feeling, but it's also a state of being. It's also something that you create in yourself. So what can you do to be happy if you're frustrated right now,
00:05:36 if you're unhappy right now, what can you do to be happy? And, and the truth is there. Isn't a magic pill. There is a certain item. There isn't any one thing that you can do. Instead. Happiness is often about a choice. It's about making the effort to decide, to be happy. It's about making the effort to decide,
00:06:00 to have a positive attitude. It's about surrounding yourself with other people that do that as well. It's about taking care of yourself, your health, your mental and physical health. And it's about finding those things that you really see as your calling, as your capabilities, and then pursuing those. And of course it is about learning to be happy with who you are,
00:06:26 learning to accept who you are and be happy with it. Even if it's not exactly the way you want to be in the future. See it's this weird balance of being content with where you are, and yet continuing to drive forward. See it's not wrong to want a bigger house. It's not want wrong to make more money or to want to make more money.
00:06:49 But if that event is what you're hanging your happiness on, you're never going to reach happy because the destination will continue to move. You know, the truth is one of the biggest things that holds us back often from happiness is not being able to forgive ourselves for past mistakes, holding onto the things that have gone wrong and not looking for a way to find the things that have gone,
00:07:17 right? That's one of the reasons that creating a gratitude journal or having a daily practice of gratitude, where you reflect on things that you are happy about is such a great happiness tool, because the truth is happiness is not about your feelings per se. It's about the choices you make. And even more importantly, it's about the responses to those choices. It's about how you choose to react,
00:07:48 to act and to feel how do you want to be remembered at the end of your life? Do you want to be remembered as someone who was happy or someone that is sad because the truth is everyone has a story and everyone has certain things in their life that are difficult or hard things that they wish were different. Things that on the journey that they went through,
00:08:15 didn't really go the way they wanted to. And instead of focusing on those and dwelling on those and letting those be what defines you, you can change it. You can find the things that you aspire for and begin to drive forward towards them. You can have something that you want out of life. You can want to serve and help others. You can look for ways to put it in perspective and that even if your life is rough and bad,
00:08:44 find the things that are good in it and find the things that sets you apart that make you unique. That make you have a story that no one else has because out of comes your power to shape your life, to recognize that you aren't a victim, you have control, you have choices, and you can respond in a way that drives you forward towards happiness.
00:09:11 And I want to be clear too. Happiness and joy are two different feelings. Joy is the temporary little joke. I mean, hit you get when something happens as an event. And we think that that's something that we should have all the time and that's what happy is. But the truth is happy. Isn't that same feeling, happy. Isn't that excited and joyful feeling.
00:09:33 Happiness is having that contentment that you're not perfect. You're not doing everything every day where there's never a mistake or never a failure, but that you are a happy person. You're somebody who looks at the world as a place that you want to be and looks at yourself as someone who adds value to the world. Thanks for listening. Thanks so much for listening to the inspired stewardship podcast.
00:10:08 As a subscriber and listener, we challenge you to not just sit back and passively, listen, but act on what you've heard and find a way to live your calling. If you enjoy this episode, please, please do us a favor. Go over to inspired stewardship.com/itunes rate. All one word iTunes rate. It'll take you through how to leave a rating and review and how to make sure you're subscribed to the podcast so that you can get every episode as it comes out in your feed until next time,
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SNS66: Why Review, Reflect, Revise, Plan, Execute Is Key

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Join us today for the Saturday Night Special where I share the most powerful cycle to really have a great year...

In tonight's Saturday Night Special I share with you my cycle that I've been using for years to make sure I achieve my goals...

In tonight’s Saturday Night Special I talk about the Review, Reflect, Revise, Plan, and Execute cycle, I share why these are the key to making improvement, and how they fit at all different scales of your journey.

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00:00:01 Welcome to tonight's Saturday night, special episode 66 here on the inspired stewardship podcast. I'm Matt and I'm Jocelyn from the family life movement podcast. We challenge you to find a way to balance your work and your family. And one way to be inspired to do that is to listen to this inspired stewardship podcast by my friend, Scott Mader. But what I have discovered is when I use this,
00:00:40 I end up having some of the best years ever, even when it's a really challenging time in my life or in the environment around me, even then, I discovered that at the end of the year, I've had one of the best years ever. I've had more growth. I've had more approvement, I've achieved more goals. Welcome. And thank you for joining us on the inspired stewardship podcast.
00:01:04 If you truly desire to become the person who God wants you to be, then you must learn to use your time, your talent and your treasures for your true calling and the inspired stewardship podcast, who will learn to invest in yourself, invest in others and develop your influence so that you can impact the world. And tonight, Saturday night special, I talk about the review,
00:01:35 reflect revise plan and execute cycle. I share why these are the key to making improvement and how they can fit together at different scales of your journey. Now, one area that a lot of folks need some help with is around the area of productivity. Getting not just more things done, but actually getting the right things done can be really, really tough.
00:02:07 I've got a course called productivity for your passion. That's designed to help you do this, and then to hold you accountable and walk with you so that you can tailor productivity, not just to be getting more done, but actually getting the right things done. What's more, we take the approach of looking at your personality and how you actually look at things in the world and tailor the productivity system to your personality.
00:02:36 Because the truth is a lot of the systems that are out there are written really well for somebody with a particular personality type. But if you have a different approach to things, they just don't work, but there's tools and techniques and approaches that you can take that will work for anyone. And we help you do that and productivity for your passion. Check it out [email protected]
00:02:59 slash launch. So if you've been listening to the podcast for a while, you've heard me reference this review, reflect revise plan, execute kind of cycle, but I wanted to unpack it a little more tonight. So I presented on this idea as part of a larger presentation I did for the international financial coaches conference a few weeks ago. And I thought it would be valuable to unpack it here as well.
00:03:26 For those of you that are listening to the podcast, you know, this idea of a cycle first off, I want to execute or want to in, you know, make a point that this is not a line. This isn't about start with review and end with execute. Instead, this is a circle. And that means you can start it at any point.
00:03:46 So this is something that you haven't been doing. It's fine. You can start at any point in it. So let's say there's something that you've been doing. You've been executing on it. You've been working on maybe a habit, maybe something around fitness, maybe something around budgeting, maybe something around how you use your time. Maybe you've been working on a business idea or trying to get something off the ground,
00:04:10 or you feel like you have a calling that you need to be doing. And you've been working on trying to get it so that you can transition out of a corporate environment, whatever it is, maybe you've been working on something. And so let's take the idea here of working on a habit goal. Let's say in something that you're trying to do three times a week,
00:04:30 like take a long walk. You're trying to take a three mile walk three times a week. So as you execute on that goal, you want to spend some time each day that you're supposed to walk or once a week or both see there's a daily cycle, there's a weekly cycle. There's a monthly cycle. There's a quarterly cycle. Then there's an annual cycle.
00:04:55 You can do this at multiple scales of time. But after you've executed, you need to spend a little bit of time reviewing what happened. So for a habit goal, it's as simple as did you walk or did you not walk for something that's more complex? It may actually spend some time thinking about, and the three questions I like to use for reviewing is what went well,
00:05:21 what didn't go well? Or what did I struggle with? And what would I like to change? What should be doing differently? And that change is key because sometimes what you want to change is actually something that went well. It's possible that it went well, but you either want it to go better. Or you've identified that even though it's something that's going well,
00:05:41 it's not actually something that's very valuable for you and you need to eliminate it so that you can do something even better. See that's what happens in the next phase, the reflect phase, you begin to think about what did you review? What happened in the execution? How did that affect you? What was good about it? What was bad about it?
00:06:01 What would you like to change about it? And then you revise your plans. So maybe a five mile walk, turns out to be too long for starting out. And so you drop it down to a three mile, maybe on the other hand, instead of walking on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, you discover that Friday and Wednesday are really busy and it'd be better for you to walk on Tuesday,
00:06:25 Thursday, Saturday, there's ways you can change what's going on so that you can begin to adjust and have more success. Usually what happens instead is you start breaking the habit and because you're not revising anything, you're not redoing it. You eventually just fall off the wagon and stop trying. See the next phase is plan. This is the idea of actually sitting down and figuring this out.
00:06:52 What was your goal using the smarter goal kind of framework that I've taught before? And I'll teach again, the idea of sitting down and coming up with specific measurable goals that you're trying to achieve in a finite amount of time. This is the planning phase, and then you execute again and you keep repeating this. And what you'll discover is instead of quitting on your goals,
00:07:16 you'll slowly begin to make incremental improvement, see this kind of cycle, this kind of return, and try and do again and again and again, these are keys to continuing to improve over time. This is what keeps you from stalling out. This is what keeps you from stopping and allows you to move forward. Even if you're struggling, this is what keeps the frustration level down because you're constantly revising and seeing new ways to improve.
00:07:47 And again, I want to mention these fit at all different scales. This works for great big goals. This works for tiny goals. This works as something you do every single day. It only takes about five or 10 minutes at the beginning and end of the day to begin to implement this. You can do this weekly. I do mine on Sunday night.
00:08:06 This is when I execute and I plan for the next week. And I review from the week before. And then I execute on that week. During the week, each day, I do this little cycle for what happened that day. Each week. I do this cycle for what happened that week and the week before. And then at a monthly period,
00:08:24 I do this little cycle to reflect on what happened the month before and what do I want to achieve in the next month? And then each quarter I look at what happened the quarter before, what do I want to achieve in the next quarter? And then at the end of the year, I do this again is an annual planning and reviewing cycle. So I do this every single year.
00:08:44 And I mentioned a couple of episodes ago. I've tracked this back and I actually started a version of this 35 years ago. I will tell you it, wasn't exactly this idea then because I've let it grow and adapt and change over time as well. It's not something that I'm always successful at. I guarantee you, there are weeks where I've not executed on this.
00:09:06 There are days where I've not executed on this. There are even months and quarters and whole years where I haven't really successfully executed on this across at 35 year history. But what I have discovered is when I use this, I end up having some of the best years ever, even when it's a really challenging time in my life or in the environment around me,
00:09:31 even then I discover that at the end of the year, I've had one of the best years ever. I've had more growth. I've had more approvement, I've achieved more goals. I've gotten more things done and I've had in general, a better feeling as well as more Results I would encourage you as we come to the end of this fourth quarter for 2020 to begin to implement this cycle.
00:10:00 And don't wait until the end of the year. Don't wait until new year's resolutions. Begin it now because you can use it at any time to improve what you're doing. Thanks for listening. Thanks so much for listening to the inspired stewardship podcast, as a subscriber and listener, we challenge you to not just sit back and passively listen, but act on what you've heard and find a way to live your calling.
00:10:33 If you enjoy this episode, please, please do us a favor. Go over to inspired stewardship.com/itunes rate. All one word iTunes rate. It'll take you through how to leave a rating and review and how to make sure you're subscribed to the podcast so that you can get every episode as it comes out in your feed until next time, invest your time, your talent and your treasures,
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SNS65: Putting Things In the Right Order

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Join us today for the Saturday Night Special about why we often forget to put things in the right order...

In tonight's Saturday Night Special I share how you can focus on putting things in the right order instead of letting the wrong order disturb you.

In tonight’s Saturday Night Special I talk with you about why the order in which we attack things is important, how it’s not about the tool or the skill until you have the mindset, and why doing “something” is often the enemy of doing the right thing.

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00:00:00 Welcome to tonight's Saturday night, special episode 65. I'm RJ Jackson, the courage giver. I encourage you to have the courage you need to live your calling. And one way to be inspired to do that is to listen to this, the inspired stewardship podcast with my friend, Scott Mader. That's true. If your family is important, how are you going to set up a system and a process where you can carve aside time and when you're with your family,
00:00:40 you're actually with your family. Cause the other thing I see happen is people will spend family time, but the entire time they're actually multitasking. They're on their phone or they're on their computer. And they're trying to send emails and answer things from the client and do other work. Welcome. And thank you for joining us on the inspired stewardship podcast. If you truly desire to become the person who God wants you to be,
00:01:04 then you must learn to use your time, your talent and your treasures for your true calling in the inspired stewardship podcast. Learn to invest in yourself, invest in others and develop your influence so that you can impact the world. And tonight, Saturday night special. I talk with you about why the order in which we attack things is important. How it's not about the tool or the skill until you actually have the right mindset and why doing something can often be the enemy of doing the right thing.
00:01:43 Now, one area that a lot of folks need some help with is around the area of productivity. Getting not just more things done, but actually getting the right things done can be really, really tough. I've got a course called productivity for your passion. That's designed to help you do this and then to hold you accountable and walk with you so that you can tailor productivity,
00:02:12 not just to be getting more done, but actually getting the right things done. What's more, we take the approach of looking at your personality and how you actually look at things in the world and tailor the productivity system to your personality. Because the truth is a lot of the systems that are out there are written really well for somebody with a particular personality type.
00:02:35 But if you have a different approach to things, they just don't work, but there's tools and techniques and approaches that you can take that will work for anyone. And we help you do that and productivity for your passion. Check it out [email protected] slash launch. One of the biggest enemies of actually doing the right things, getting the things that are most important to you done paying attention to your relationships are actually focusing on.
00:03:07 If you've run a business, the things that help you grow the business, working on the business instead of in the business, if you're a stay at home, mom, being able to create time to do the things that you want to do with the kids without feeling stressed. And like you're putting something else off. These sorts of things, doing the right things is so hard often because we think about it wrong.
00:03:33 We put things in the wrong order. You know, I work with a lot of people on productivity and it's one of the reasons that I fight against the term time management, having this idea of managing our time. I think it puts the focus wrong. I think it puts the focus on creating situations where we use every instance of our time to the most.
00:03:56 We squeeze all of the work out of it and we're working 24 seven. When in reality, I want people to be focusing on doing the things that really matter to them. And the truth is when we attack things. When we look at doing the work that matters all too often, we start focusing on all of the skills on the tools, on the techniques.
00:04:19 We start focusing on having a calendaring system and don't get me wrong. I think the tools are important because they create efficiency around how we do things. But the truth is until you have the right mindset for work, none of the tools matter at all. Because if you just learn the skills and if you just start developing and using the tools, well,
00:04:43 then it doesn't matter because you're not going to use them. Well, if you have a calendar system, but you fill every minute of it with work, if you have a way of capturing all of your tasks, but you, all you do is dump them down and never actually look at them. If all you ever do is add more and more to your to-do list and you never guard what's most important.
00:05:07 What's really the things you want to say yes to when you'd ever do the hard step of saying no to other things. Then the truth is having all the tools in the world, having all the skills in the world won't matter. You can make yourself more efficient, where you get more done more quickly by adding tools and by adding skills. But the problem is if you haven't done the hard work from a mindset perspective,
00:05:35 then all you'll do is free. That take that new free time, take that time that you've freed up and fill it with even more tasks that aren't actually the task that matter. You'll simply get more of the wrong things done. You won't actually fill that free time with things that matter. You won't actually use it to build relationships and to connect with other people.
00:06:00 You won't set aside time to plan and to build your business and be more effective. If that's your dream, you won't set aside time where you can actually be there with your family and your friends and not feel guilty about, About it. You'll do all of that because the truth is you'll just feel it All, all of your time with more stuff,
00:06:23 not the right stuff. Instead, what happens is we find that doing something becomes the enemy of doing the right thing. It's so important to just be doing something I've got to be busy all the time. I can't have any idle moments. I can't have any moment where I set aside for anything that isn't productive and efficient and using my time and using every second of the day,
00:06:49 I will tell you right Now using every Second of the day, yes, you're going to do that anyway. And, and I do want you to be deliberate and intentional about how you use those Seconds, but being deliberate And intentional means taking the mindset of saying no to things Who was meeting With a client last week. And I pointed out that they had to guard yeses by saying no,
00:07:14 and their answer was, but there's nothing on my calendar that I can say no to. There's nothing on my task list that I can say no to. Everything is important. And the truth is when everything's important, nothing is important. You've got to find a way to balance that. You've got to find a way to say, no, we're not Superman.
00:07:36 We're not super women. We cannot do it all. It's just not Physically possible. But until you admit that to yourself, until you give up that dream of being perfect in every way, until you take on the mindset that you know what I am going to have to say no to some things. So let me be deliberate and intentional and say no to the things that don't matter as much so that I can say yes to the things that really matter.
00:08:07 You've heard me say it before. If you've been listening to the podcast for a while, if you really want to tell me what you value, let me check your checkbook and let me check your calendar. Let me see how you spend your time. And let me see how you spend your money. And if you're not spending your time and your money in alignment with those things that you say,
00:08:27 you value that I'm going to question if you really value them at all. Because the truth is the only ways we have to show what we value is through how we spend our time and how we spend our money, how we spend the resources that are finite in our life. And all too often, what I see is people that go through life and they keep saying,
00:08:51 you know, my family is important, but then they never spend any time with their family. If that's true, if your family is important, how are you going to set up a system and a process where you can carve aside time? And when you're with your family, you're actually with your family. Cause the other thing I see happen is people will spend family time.
00:09:10 But the entire time they're actually multitasking. They're on their phone or they're on their computer. And they're trying to send emails and answer things from the client and do other work. And so, yes, they're physically present, but they're not really present. And if this is you, if this is how you find yourself dealing with it, this is one of those things that coaching really can help with because it helps you see it differently.
00:09:34 It helps hold you accountable to actually changing the way you do things, because the truth is you can just keep going through life, doing it the same way. You've always done it and you'll get the results that you've always gotten. Or you can figure out a way to put things in the right order and do the right thing instead of just doing something.
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