good morning believe nation today we’re
going to talk about five ways to manage
your time and your self rule number five
is my personal favorite I’m curious to
figure out which one you guys like the
best also as you’re listening in if
somebody says something that really
resonates with you please leave in the
comments below and put quotes around it
so other people can be inspired as well
my challenge in our generation is it
gradually to entertainment through
television through media through every
way possible we are living in a
generation of the dumbing down of ideas
because we have traded effectiveness for
busyness statistics say yes somebody
oughta clap oh man we are busier than
any other generation we have seen in the
last three to four hundred years we are
so busy where we are busier than a wall
than a one-armed wallpaper hanger
richest busy bill you’ll get it later
don’t worry about anything in a hitch in
a minute we are just as busy as we can
be and we think because we’re busy
we’re effective but I want you to
challenge your schedule for a minute and
ask yourself are you are you really
being effective or is your life
cluttered with all kinds of stuff that
demands
and drains you and taxes you and stops
you from being your highest and best
self and are you substituting busyness
and all the chaos that goes along with
business from being effective let me
tell you bunch of scientists got
together they begin to do some research
and they begin to determine that 80% of
the things we do are busy things that we
do in an area that is not effective that
the average person only spends 20% of
their time doing the thing that they are
really gifted at creative and passionate
about excited to do and the rest of it
is all the dismal dumb stuff that we all
have to do in order to survive just
crazy stuff that we’re doing wonder what
would happen if we would go from going
80% of things that are busy but not
effective and 20% of the things that are
really effective if we would switch
those numbers around and only give 20%
of our time to the things that we have
to do and 80% of our time to the thing
that we were created to do
wonder what would happen to your life
now think about it a minute I did a lot
of things you could take from me and I
could make it you could take my suit I
got another one you can take my car I
could get another one you could take my
house I could get another house but when
you take my time you have taken
something from me
that is totally irreplaceable we take
all kind of classes for money management
we know how to manage our money we know
how to repair our houses we’re working
on our hair and our bodies and all this
kind of stuff we do everything except
the most important thing is to value our
time it takes time to be creative you
were meant to be creative you were
created in the likeness and the image of
a creator and in that likeness and in
that image you have creativity if you
had time you would be creative but in
the absence of time and with busyness
and clutter be the following baby y’all
got music playing on your phone all kind
of stuff and no matter what kind of song
you put on after why you hate to hear it
because every time you hear that sound
you know it’s somebody else one
something else from you that’s taking
you away from what you are gifted and
creative to do
all time management should always start
with a higher-level conversation about
your life goals about what do you really
want to achieve in life and working
backwards from there because most people
say well you know time management uh
check your email just twice a day I’m
like okay yeah that’s a great tip thanks
but what’s your goal I mean what do you
really want in life if you don’t start
from there and then work backwards then
you’re just kind of doing random tasks
each day you’ll find yourself doing busy
work but it’s not your life’s work you
might be getting progressively faster or
better or higher achieving or more
respected over here but it’s in the
wrong area so let’s not make you
effective and productive going down the
wrong path start with the big question
what do I really want for my life now
you’ve been through enough
what now you’re you’re older now you’re
more mature now you’re more independent
but what do you want
now and when you think about that think
about three big categories first think
about yourself your character who do you
want to become as a person who would you
feel proud to be you know what would
create a lot of self-respect and
integrity in your life were you thinking
that’s the kind of person I want to be
start they’re always like what kind of
person do you really want to be what
would you have to achieve to feel good
about yourself second think about your
relationship goals like how do you want
to show up for your family for your
spouse for your team for those that you
lead or serve what kind of person shows
up for them what’s that energy like in
your interactions
what do you altima want to have or
experience in your family like how would
you know you’re successful unless you’re
gauging somehow what you want in your
relationships and then also think about
your growth goals like what would make
you exceptional
what you do what would really bring a
higher level of excellence into your
life what about growth goals in terms of
enrichment what would make you happier
what would make you feel calmer more
stable more mindful more joyous more
happy
I know these are a random sets of
questions but they’re all tied to one
simple idea we should know what our big
picture is what’s our life goals and
then work backwards from there prepare
in advance you know the old saying
proper prior preparation saves poor
performance or prevents poor performance
the six PS and so prepare your work list
for the following day the evening or the
night before the last thing you do at
the end of the day is you lay out the
day that’s coming the best exercise is
for you to plan your entire next day as
the last thing you do before coming home
from work when you find your day the
night before your subconscious mind then
goes to work on your plans and goals
while you’re asleep very often you’ll
wake up in the morning with ideas and
insights that apply to the work of the
day now a major benefit of preparing
your daily list the night before is that
this exercise lets you sleep more
soundly a major reason for insomnia is
people lying awake trying not to forget
to remember everything that they have to
do the following day but once you’ve
written down everything that you have to
do on the list it clears your mind and
enables you to sleep deeply this will
help you increase your productivity
throughout the whole next day of work
because you’ll be more relaxed and more
refreshed interestingly enough I’ve
discovered that time management really
comes down to setting conditions in your
life that make it so that you can’t do
anything but focus on the important
things okay it’s not about making a list
of things to do and then doing the right
things although that can be important
sometimes it’s about setting up your
life in your environment so that you
automatically do the things that are
important and you don’t have the option
to do other things
examples include when you first get to
work in the morning don’t check your
voicemail in your email work for a
couple of hours on your most important
project and work on something that has a
high lifetime value something that’s
going to make a lot of value create a
lot of money now and in the future what
most people do they come in they check
their email on their voicemail and they
see what everyone else has on the agenda
for them another thing to do is to set
aside entire days the entire days of
time where you’re only focused on the
things that create the most value and
bring in the most money so you’re not
checking your email you’re not checking
voicemail you’re not doing any of that
stuff you might check your email on your
voicemail once or twice during that day
but only for a little period of time the
rest of the time you’re you’re just
solely focused on getting something done
another thing that we need to train
ourselves to do is invest time in
focused uninterrupted blocks now this is
an idea that all of the great time
management gurus teach all the way from
Peter Drucker back in the effective
executive to modern experts like Dan
Sullivan and Jim Lehrer and Tony
Schwartz who wrote the powerful
engagement it’s very important to just
focus on one thing for an extended
period of time
cultivate the ability to focus your mind
and when you’re focused on one thing for
an extended period of time and you block
out all the distractions interruptions
and I mean turn off the phone turn off
the computer turn off everything else
you don’t have anything to do but that
one thing so time management what it is
it’s about managing yourself not about
managing your time it’s about learning
how to develop healthy habits and
rituals so that you do the right things
every day
and counter-intuitively it’s about
setting up the conditions in your life
physically emotionally and logically so
that you’re forced to do the right thing
and you don’t have any other options
spend time alone it’s incredibly
important to get away from this noise in
this world of so much complexity and
think think about how we can be more
productive think about the best uses of
your time as I actually flew here from
Botswana to this game reserve I had a
chance be out in the in the cockpit
behind the to fly the plane a little bit
we were in a small bush plane and I had
a chance to fly the plane and you’ve
heard this before but was a powerful
metaphor which is a lot of
I mean I was getting pushed pushed off
course and then I come back on course
and most of the flight when I was flying
the plane I was getting pushed off
course and getting back on course and
that’s what happens in our days and our
weeks or months in her life we’re
constantly being pulled off course by
facebook notifications Mobile’s ringing
emails meetings interruptions I mean
that is one of the greatest things we’re
wore out right now the war against into
the war against distraction and most of
us are suffering from partial attention
deficit disorder and you really need to
pull yourself away from the noise on a
daily basis and think maybe it’s by
writing in a journal maybe it’s by going
for a walk in the woods maybe it’s by
meditating but thinking about the best
uses of your time reconnecting with your
values refocusing so you come back even
stronger and by the way time alone also
recharges your focus it focus is like a
a it’s a commodity and it gets depleted
and you must refill your focus every day
to be more productive what is time how
do you know when it’s a long time or how
do you know when it’s a short time it’s
not because it’s ten minutes or ten
hours how many been in ten hours and
time flew because you loved what you’re
doing didn’t have any sense of time
whatsoever how many thought that
experience say I how many to have 10
minutes feel like 10 years you want to
kill somebody to get out of the
situation so what is time time is
emotion got to remember that time is
emotion what you’re really managing is
emotion in other words for that would be
meaning or fulfillment focus is power
but you got to take it take it back take
back that power and you got to know when
you do that that focus how to chunk it
how to group it so you’re not
overwhelmed let me show you how to make
it simpler when mass information is
coming at you you get overwhelmed most
of us are great deletion creatures we
delete most of life right now there are
millions and things around you you could
be focusing on thinking about getting
meetings – making decisions about what
to do millions right now you can be
focusing on the blood rushing through
your left eardrum or the feeling of your
skin against your body but
most of you delete that you don’t even
think about clothing against your skin
till I mention it or your heartbeat most
of the universe you’ve deleted because
you go crazy if you try to think about
it all because human beings have a
limited amount they can focus on at one
time the most your stress is because
you’re thinking about too many things at
once in fact when people don’t do things
if not because they can’t it’s not even
because they don’t want to it’s because
of the way they are focusing on what I
call chunking things when people don’t
follow through here’s what they do give
an example who here believes exercise is
very important but you don’t exercise
regularly let me see your hands raise
your hand more hands than most of us
want to raise our hand right now who
here really focuses I should say
exercises regularly raise your regulate
okay but who here does not exercise
regularly even though you believe it’s
important just be truth okay great so
let’s see what the difference is here a
person who does not exercise regularly I
want you raise your hand and I want you
to tell me why you don’t exercise
regular be truthful okay yes sir
I don’t have the top that is that true
he even knows it’s not sure he’s going
to answer your first no but it feels
like he doesn’t have the time because
time is emotion and he’s got so many
other things he is focused on getting
results in the adding this to the list
seems like a lot right and the other
things are very important to him like
his business I don’t have a time he has
the time what’s the real reason he
doesn’t do it because of the way he
thinks about exercise when he focuses on
what it would take to exercise he does
it very differently than someone who
follows through when you think about
exercising what’s involved
okay he starts thinking about I got to
get to mile 14 of the London Marathon
and that even the thought of trying to
get to the 14th mile much less the 20
good mile is like beyond my imagination
right now so he is what I call over
chunked he’s not thinking about what he
wants he’s thinking about what’s painful
he’s just our perfect example he’s not
even thinking about victory or
succeeding so the chance of him
following through on something that he
associates major pain to when he could
do something else right now he can feel
competent or successful at his chances
of falling to our very limited how many
would follow that say I his focus is on
failure his focus is on pain that’s why
he isn’t following through okay
he’s also focused on the 14th mile of a
marathon rather than today’s workout
which one seems more daunting to you so
when you think of would here’s also he’s
thinking about he’s thinking about the
process not the outcome or result he
wants and when you think about what it’s
going to take to do something usually it
takes a lot and you’re not going to want
to do it so he’s over chunked himself
he’s trying to eat the whale hole
without taking any smaller bites it
seems too big for him so he says well
I’ll do it when later
it’s my Australian friends would say
later right of course the problem with
doing it tomorrow is when you get to
tomorrow tomorrow’s today tomorrow never
comes so and you keep promising yourself
by the way what does this do to you
emotionally when you keep breaking your
own promises with yourself or you keep
failing to do things that you know are
important does it increase your length
some of certainty and confidence you
know what it does is it roads it when
you wrote confidence in one area believe
it or not it affects the other areas too
do you believe on that don’t believe me
what about your own life experience
maybe not one area but it starts to be
multiple areas it sure does another
reason why somebody doesn’t exercise or
do anything is because they don’t just
chunk it too big they chunk it into many
details I’ll give you a perfect example
so I asked somebody one time I said okay
how important these exercises all
exercise is extremely important really
okay good and tell me why don’t you
exercise regulate well I just don’t have
time okay everybody gives that answer
that sounds wonderful so tell me though
don’t tell me about how much time you
don’t have tell me this when you think
about exercising what do you think about
which is a way of saying what do you
focus on and so this woman says to me
well my gosh you know I I mean I know
what do you mean when I think about well
let’s say I said to you you got to start
exercising and I’m gonna put a gun to
the head of your children and I will do
very horrible things and hurt them badly
if you don’t exercise could you do it oh
yeah I could do it you know if you if
some mafia person came here it said I’m
going to kill your children you don’t
exercise every day how many think you
can find a way that sighs every day no
matter what your time constraints may be
so remember this remember this change is
never a matter of ability it’s always a
matter of motivation I’ll say that again
change is never a matter of ability it’s
always a matter of motivation or Drive
having strong enough reasons if you got
a strong reason you can figure out the
time couldn’t you so the biggest part of
life and time management is knowing what
you want and having enough reasons to
follow through so my quick take I’m
managing your time and yourself I have
two quick thoughts on it the first is
you want to make sure that you plan it
into your schedule at least for me it
works really well for me it may not work
for you but it’s worth testing out the
important things that I want to get done
I make sure that there’s a time in the
week for me to do them whether that’s
shooting videos here on a Wednesday
afternoon for the week on YouTube
whether that is spending time on
Tuesdays making my book whatever it is
the important things that have to happen
in my life I scheduled them in also
making sure I have time you know for my
wife and for my son and for my family
and booking nights off and managing this
business as well the important things go
in first and then if I have extra time
it goes to the other things where I feel
like too many people let things bleed
from one into the next you feel like
you’re not getting enough of your to-do
list done and so put those important
things in first the second thing I would
say to that was making sure that you’re
doing the things that you really
want to do your doing the things that
you’re passionate about that you’re
excited about to have high value I feel
like a lot of times the goals that we
set for ourselves aren’t really truly
deeply meaningful goals it’s great
tonight it like nice to have we should
do that you’ve read a book and
somebody’s all fired up about something
and so you want to go out and do that
I remember reading books and somebody’s
talking about going out and writing the
manuscript or making a painting yeah
yeah I want to do I want to write a
manuscript I want to make a painting and
I realize it’s not actually something
that I want to do and so taking a really
good hard look at your goals and seeing
are the things that are really
motivating for you are the things that
must happen or things that just should
probably happen because you’re not going
to do the things that you should do the
things that you must have to do so be
passionate but the goals that you put
there
so thank you guys so much for watching
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in Switzerland there are some mountains
that can be claimed by people like you
and me we got to get a little bit better
condition but I mean it’s not like the
mountain climber mountains that would be
way beyond our skill level but but but
some of these mountains that can be
climbed by you and me that it takes a
day to get to the top and then that you
just camp up there and you come in at
down the next day and on many of these
places where in Switzerland where you
could do that about halfway up the
mountain is what they call the halfway
house halfway house half way up the
mountain so the group of people starts
off with a guy in the morning and about
noon you’re kind of tired you’ve been
walking now for four or five hours and
here comes you’re coming up to the
halfway house it is just a it’s it’s a
wonderful sight because as soon as you
enter in the halfway house you can smell
the food and they’re they’re getting
ready for a good lunch and you sit down
there’s a fire in the fireplace and
there’s nice soft chairs and you just
rest your body and refresh your body and
and so the people go into the halfway
house and they eat and laugh and enjoy
and just really really just kind of take
in that that wonderful refreshing
atmosphere about an hour and a half
after be in the halfway house the guide
gets up this will gang assigned to put
on your gear we we got a hike we got to
get on at the top this is a fact about
half the people decide not to go on up
to the top they’re sitting around the
table there and just saying you know
what go on up and you’re going to be
come by here tomorrow you’ll be having
lunch here again tomorrow we’re just
going to hang here and and so the people
that want to get to the top they put
their stuff on and they kind of leave
and the rest of the people sit behind
they eat a little bit more food get
around the piano sing some songs get
around the fireplace enjoy the fire warn
themselves about the fire no I’ve played
games all afternoon kind of enjoy
themselves but about 4:30 chordal 5:00
in the afternoon without anybody saying
a word the people who stayed in the
halfway house
they slowly go over to where the window
is the big window and they start looking
outside and they start looking up at the
top of that mountain and as they look at
the top of that mountain they see their
friends their friends are now getting
the tents out and they’re getting ready
to prepare for the night and it becomes
very quiet very somber because everybody
in the halfway house realizes the
mistake they’ve made they’ve they’ve
they’ve they’ve sold their mission for a
little bit of comfort for a few hours
next morning down come their friends and
by noon they come into the halfway house
when they come in the halfway they are
laughing they’re high-fiving they’re
talking about what they’ve seen where
they’ve been experiences the fact that
it was almost impossible to get up there
in fact they had to help each other get
up there and how they join teams and
held hands and and they just telling all
these stories and talk about the
pictures they’ve taken and they yeah
they got the group picture up there with
the flag at the top and the people who
remain behind
you’ll say much they just eat their
lunch and then follow the rest of them
down to the bottom of the hill where
their friends are waiting for them and
those who paid the price and went to the
top who understood now is the time to
reach the mission they hug can tell
stories and celebrate and the others
they just kind of slip off and get in a
car and go home because they realize
they’re never going to be what they
wanted to be they’re never going to see
what they wanted to see they’re never
going to do what they wanted to do
because they fail to realize when
there’s the halfway house now’s the time
to rest and they go on
going to talk about five ways to manage
your time and your self rule number five
is my personal favorite I’m curious to
figure out which one you guys like the
best also as you’re listening in if
somebody says something that really
resonates with you please leave in the
comments below and put quotes around it
so other people can be inspired as well
my challenge in our generation is it
gradually to entertainment through
television through media through every
way possible we are living in a
generation of the dumbing down of ideas
because we have traded effectiveness for
busyness statistics say yes somebody
oughta clap oh man we are busier than
any other generation we have seen in the
last three to four hundred years we are
so busy where we are busier than a wall
than a one-armed wallpaper hanger
richest busy bill you’ll get it later
don’t worry about anything in a hitch in
a minute we are just as busy as we can
be and we think because we’re busy
we’re effective but I want you to
challenge your schedule for a minute and
ask yourself are you are you really
being effective or is your life
cluttered with all kinds of stuff that
demands
and drains you and taxes you and stops
you from being your highest and best
self and are you substituting busyness
and all the chaos that goes along with
business from being effective let me
tell you bunch of scientists got
together they begin to do some research
and they begin to determine that 80% of
the things we do are busy things that we
do in an area that is not effective that
the average person only spends 20% of
their time doing the thing that they are
really gifted at creative and passionate
about excited to do and the rest of it
is all the dismal dumb stuff that we all
have to do in order to survive just
crazy stuff that we’re doing wonder what
would happen if we would go from going
80% of things that are busy but not
effective and 20% of the things that are
really effective if we would switch
those numbers around and only give 20%
of our time to the things that we have
to do and 80% of our time to the thing
that we were created to do
wonder what would happen to your life
now think about it a minute I did a lot
of things you could take from me and I
could make it you could take my suit I
got another one you can take my car I
could get another one you could take my
house I could get another house but when
you take my time you have taken
something from me
that is totally irreplaceable we take
all kind of classes for money management
we know how to manage our money we know
how to repair our houses we’re working
on our hair and our bodies and all this
kind of stuff we do everything except
the most important thing is to value our
time it takes time to be creative you
were meant to be creative you were
created in the likeness and the image of
a creator and in that likeness and in
that image you have creativity if you
had time you would be creative but in
the absence of time and with busyness
and clutter be the following baby y’all
got music playing on your phone all kind
of stuff and no matter what kind of song
you put on after why you hate to hear it
because every time you hear that sound
you know it’s somebody else one
something else from you that’s taking
you away from what you are gifted and
creative to do
all time management should always start
with a higher-level conversation about
your life goals about what do you really
want to achieve in life and working
backwards from there because most people
say well you know time management uh
check your email just twice a day I’m
like okay yeah that’s a great tip thanks
but what’s your goal I mean what do you
really want in life if you don’t start
from there and then work backwards then
you’re just kind of doing random tasks
each day you’ll find yourself doing busy
work but it’s not your life’s work you
might be getting progressively faster or
better or higher achieving or more
respected over here but it’s in the
wrong area so let’s not make you
effective and productive going down the
wrong path start with the big question
what do I really want for my life now
you’ve been through enough
what now you’re you’re older now you’re
more mature now you’re more independent
but what do you want
now and when you think about that think
about three big categories first think
about yourself your character who do you
want to become as a person who would you
feel proud to be you know what would
create a lot of self-respect and
integrity in your life were you thinking
that’s the kind of person I want to be
start they’re always like what kind of
person do you really want to be what
would you have to achieve to feel good
about yourself second think about your
relationship goals like how do you want
to show up for your family for your
spouse for your team for those that you
lead or serve what kind of person shows
up for them what’s that energy like in
your interactions
what do you altima want to have or
experience in your family like how would
you know you’re successful unless you’re
gauging somehow what you want in your
relationships and then also think about
your growth goals like what would make
you exceptional
what you do what would really bring a
higher level of excellence into your
life what about growth goals in terms of
enrichment what would make you happier
what would make you feel calmer more
stable more mindful more joyous more
happy
I know these are a random sets of
questions but they’re all tied to one
simple idea we should know what our big
picture is what’s our life goals and
then work backwards from there prepare
in advance you know the old saying
proper prior preparation saves poor
performance or prevents poor performance
the six PS and so prepare your work list
for the following day the evening or the
night before the last thing you do at
the end of the day is you lay out the
day that’s coming the best exercise is
for you to plan your entire next day as
the last thing you do before coming home
from work when you find your day the
night before your subconscious mind then
goes to work on your plans and goals
while you’re asleep very often you’ll
wake up in the morning with ideas and
insights that apply to the work of the
day now a major benefit of preparing
your daily list the night before is that
this exercise lets you sleep more
soundly a major reason for insomnia is
people lying awake trying not to forget
to remember everything that they have to
do the following day but once you’ve
written down everything that you have to
do on the list it clears your mind and
enables you to sleep deeply this will
help you increase your productivity
throughout the whole next day of work
because you’ll be more relaxed and more
refreshed interestingly enough I’ve
discovered that time management really
comes down to setting conditions in your
life that make it so that you can’t do
anything but focus on the important
things okay it’s not about making a list
of things to do and then doing the right
things although that can be important
sometimes it’s about setting up your
life in your environment so that you
automatically do the things that are
important and you don’t have the option
to do other things
examples include when you first get to
work in the morning don’t check your
voicemail in your email work for a
couple of hours on your most important
project and work on something that has a
high lifetime value something that’s
going to make a lot of value create a
lot of money now and in the future what
most people do they come in they check
their email on their voicemail and they
see what everyone else has on the agenda
for them another thing to do is to set
aside entire days the entire days of
time where you’re only focused on the
things that create the most value and
bring in the most money so you’re not
checking your email you’re not checking
voicemail you’re not doing any of that
stuff you might check your email on your
voicemail once or twice during that day
but only for a little period of time the
rest of the time you’re you’re just
solely focused on getting something done
another thing that we need to train
ourselves to do is invest time in
focused uninterrupted blocks now this is
an idea that all of the great time
management gurus teach all the way from
Peter Drucker back in the effective
executive to modern experts like Dan
Sullivan and Jim Lehrer and Tony
Schwartz who wrote the powerful
engagement it’s very important to just
focus on one thing for an extended
period of time
cultivate the ability to focus your mind
and when you’re focused on one thing for
an extended period of time and you block
out all the distractions interruptions
and I mean turn off the phone turn off
the computer turn off everything else
you don’t have anything to do but that
one thing so time management what it is
it’s about managing yourself not about
managing your time it’s about learning
how to develop healthy habits and
rituals so that you do the right things
every day
and counter-intuitively it’s about
setting up the conditions in your life
physically emotionally and logically so
that you’re forced to do the right thing
and you don’t have any other options
spend time alone it’s incredibly
important to get away from this noise in
this world of so much complexity and
think think about how we can be more
productive think about the best uses of
your time as I actually flew here from
Botswana to this game reserve I had a
chance be out in the in the cockpit
behind the to fly the plane a little bit
we were in a small bush plane and I had
a chance to fly the plane and you’ve
heard this before but was a powerful
metaphor which is a lot of
I mean I was getting pushed pushed off
course and then I come back on course
and most of the flight when I was flying
the plane I was getting pushed off
course and getting back on course and
that’s what happens in our days and our
weeks or months in her life we’re
constantly being pulled off course by
facebook notifications Mobile’s ringing
emails meetings interruptions I mean
that is one of the greatest things we’re
wore out right now the war against into
the war against distraction and most of
us are suffering from partial attention
deficit disorder and you really need to
pull yourself away from the noise on a
daily basis and think maybe it’s by
writing in a journal maybe it’s by going
for a walk in the woods maybe it’s by
meditating but thinking about the best
uses of your time reconnecting with your
values refocusing so you come back even
stronger and by the way time alone also
recharges your focus it focus is like a
a it’s a commodity and it gets depleted
and you must refill your focus every day
to be more productive what is time how
do you know when it’s a long time or how
do you know when it’s a short time it’s
not because it’s ten minutes or ten
hours how many been in ten hours and
time flew because you loved what you’re
doing didn’t have any sense of time
whatsoever how many thought that
experience say I how many to have 10
minutes feel like 10 years you want to
kill somebody to get out of the
situation so what is time time is
emotion got to remember that time is
emotion what you’re really managing is
emotion in other words for that would be
meaning or fulfillment focus is power
but you got to take it take it back take
back that power and you got to know when
you do that that focus how to chunk it
how to group it so you’re not
overwhelmed let me show you how to make
it simpler when mass information is
coming at you you get overwhelmed most
of us are great deletion creatures we
delete most of life right now there are
millions and things around you you could
be focusing on thinking about getting
meetings – making decisions about what
to do millions right now you can be
focusing on the blood rushing through
your left eardrum or the feeling of your
skin against your body but
most of you delete that you don’t even
think about clothing against your skin
till I mention it or your heartbeat most
of the universe you’ve deleted because
you go crazy if you try to think about
it all because human beings have a
limited amount they can focus on at one
time the most your stress is because
you’re thinking about too many things at
once in fact when people don’t do things
if not because they can’t it’s not even
because they don’t want to it’s because
of the way they are focusing on what I
call chunking things when people don’t
follow through here’s what they do give
an example who here believes exercise is
very important but you don’t exercise
regularly let me see your hands raise
your hand more hands than most of us
want to raise our hand right now who
here really focuses I should say
exercises regularly raise your regulate
okay but who here does not exercise
regularly even though you believe it’s
important just be truth okay great so
let’s see what the difference is here a
person who does not exercise regularly I
want you raise your hand and I want you
to tell me why you don’t exercise
regular be truthful okay yes sir
I don’t have the top that is that true
he even knows it’s not sure he’s going
to answer your first no but it feels
like he doesn’t have the time because
time is emotion and he’s got so many
other things he is focused on getting
results in the adding this to the list
seems like a lot right and the other
things are very important to him like
his business I don’t have a time he has
the time what’s the real reason he
doesn’t do it because of the way he
thinks about exercise when he focuses on
what it would take to exercise he does
it very differently than someone who
follows through when you think about
exercising what’s involved
okay he starts thinking about I got to
get to mile 14 of the London Marathon
and that even the thought of trying to
get to the 14th mile much less the 20
good mile is like beyond my imagination
right now so he is what I call over
chunked he’s not thinking about what he
wants he’s thinking about what’s painful
he’s just our perfect example he’s not
even thinking about victory or
succeeding so the chance of him
following through on something that he
associates major pain to when he could
do something else right now he can feel
competent or successful at his chances
of falling to our very limited how many
would follow that say I his focus is on
failure his focus is on pain that’s why
he isn’t following through okay
he’s also focused on the 14th mile of a
marathon rather than today’s workout
which one seems more daunting to you so
when you think of would here’s also he’s
thinking about he’s thinking about the
process not the outcome or result he
wants and when you think about what it’s
going to take to do something usually it
takes a lot and you’re not going to want
to do it so he’s over chunked himself
he’s trying to eat the whale hole
without taking any smaller bites it
seems too big for him so he says well
I’ll do it when later
it’s my Australian friends would say
later right of course the problem with
doing it tomorrow is when you get to
tomorrow tomorrow’s today tomorrow never
comes so and you keep promising yourself
by the way what does this do to you
emotionally when you keep breaking your
own promises with yourself or you keep
failing to do things that you know are
important does it increase your length
some of certainty and confidence you
know what it does is it roads it when
you wrote confidence in one area believe
it or not it affects the other areas too
do you believe on that don’t believe me
what about your own life experience
maybe not one area but it starts to be
multiple areas it sure does another
reason why somebody doesn’t exercise or
do anything is because they don’t just
chunk it too big they chunk it into many
details I’ll give you a perfect example
so I asked somebody one time I said okay
how important these exercises all
exercise is extremely important really
okay good and tell me why don’t you
exercise regulate well I just don’t have
time okay everybody gives that answer
that sounds wonderful so tell me though
don’t tell me about how much time you
don’t have tell me this when you think
about exercising what do you think about
which is a way of saying what do you
focus on and so this woman says to me
well my gosh you know I I mean I know
what do you mean when I think about well
let’s say I said to you you got to start
exercising and I’m gonna put a gun to
the head of your children and I will do
very horrible things and hurt them badly
if you don’t exercise could you do it oh
yeah I could do it you know if you if
some mafia person came here it said I’m
going to kill your children you don’t
exercise every day how many think you
can find a way that sighs every day no
matter what your time constraints may be
so remember this remember this change is
never a matter of ability it’s always a
matter of motivation I’ll say that again
change is never a matter of ability it’s
always a matter of motivation or Drive
having strong enough reasons if you got
a strong reason you can figure out the
time couldn’t you so the biggest part of
life and time management is knowing what
you want and having enough reasons to
follow through so my quick take I’m
managing your time and yourself I have
two quick thoughts on it the first is
you want to make sure that you plan it
into your schedule at least for me it
works really well for me it may not work
for you but it’s worth testing out the
important things that I want to get done
I make sure that there’s a time in the
week for me to do them whether that’s
shooting videos here on a Wednesday
afternoon for the week on YouTube
whether that is spending time on
Tuesdays making my book whatever it is
the important things that have to happen
in my life I scheduled them in also
making sure I have time you know for my
wife and for my son and for my family
and booking nights off and managing this
business as well the important things go
in first and then if I have extra time
it goes to the other things where I feel
like too many people let things bleed
from one into the next you feel like
you’re not getting enough of your to-do
list done and so put those important
things in first the second thing I would
say to that was making sure that you’re
doing the things that you really
want to do your doing the things that
you’re passionate about that you’re
excited about to have high value I feel
like a lot of times the goals that we
set for ourselves aren’t really truly
deeply meaningful goals it’s great
tonight it like nice to have we should
do that you’ve read a book and
somebody’s all fired up about something
and so you want to go out and do that
I remember reading books and somebody’s
talking about going out and writing the
manuscript or making a painting yeah
yeah I want to do I want to write a
manuscript I want to make a painting and
I realize it’s not actually something
that I want to do and so taking a really
good hard look at your goals and seeing
are the things that are really
motivating for you are the things that
must happen or things that just should
probably happen because you’re not going
to do the things that you should do the
things that you must have to do so be
passionate but the goals that you put
there
so thank you guys so much for watching
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in Switzerland there are some mountains
that can be claimed by people like you
and me we got to get a little bit better
condition but I mean it’s not like the
mountain climber mountains that would be
way beyond our skill level but but but
some of these mountains that can be
climbed by you and me that it takes a
day to get to the top and then that you
just camp up there and you come in at
down the next day and on many of these
places where in Switzerland where you
could do that about halfway up the
mountain is what they call the halfway
house halfway house half way up the
mountain so the group of people starts
off with a guy in the morning and about
noon you’re kind of tired you’ve been
walking now for four or five hours and
here comes you’re coming up to the
halfway house it is just a it’s it’s a
wonderful sight because as soon as you
enter in the halfway house you can smell
the food and they’re they’re getting
ready for a good lunch and you sit down
there’s a fire in the fireplace and
there’s nice soft chairs and you just
rest your body and refresh your body and
and so the people go into the halfway
house and they eat and laugh and enjoy
and just really really just kind of take
in that that wonderful refreshing
atmosphere about an hour and a half
after be in the halfway house the guide
gets up this will gang assigned to put
on your gear we we got a hike we got to
get on at the top this is a fact about
half the people decide not to go on up
to the top they’re sitting around the
table there and just saying you know
what go on up and you’re going to be
come by here tomorrow you’ll be having
lunch here again tomorrow we’re just
going to hang here and and so the people
that want to get to the top they put
their stuff on and they kind of leave
and the rest of the people sit behind
they eat a little bit more food get
around the piano sing some songs get
around the fireplace enjoy the fire warn
themselves about the fire no I’ve played
games all afternoon kind of enjoy
themselves but about 4:30 chordal 5:00
in the afternoon without anybody saying
a word the people who stayed in the
halfway house
they slowly go over to where the window
is the big window and they start looking
outside and they start looking up at the
top of that mountain and as they look at
the top of that mountain they see their
friends their friends are now getting
the tents out and they’re getting ready
to prepare for the night and it becomes
very quiet very somber because everybody
in the halfway house realizes the
mistake they’ve made they’ve they’ve
they’ve they’ve sold their mission for a
little bit of comfort for a few hours
next morning down come their friends and
by noon they come into the halfway house
when they come in the halfway they are
laughing they’re high-fiving they’re
talking about what they’ve seen where
they’ve been experiences the fact that
it was almost impossible to get up there
in fact they had to help each other get
up there and how they join teams and
held hands and and they just telling all
these stories and talk about the
pictures they’ve taken and they yeah
they got the group picture up there with
the flag at the top and the people who
remain behind
you’ll say much they just eat their
lunch and then follow the rest of them
down to the bottom of the hill where
their friends are waiting for them and
those who paid the price and went to the
top who understood now is the time to
reach the mission they hug can tell
stories and celebrate and the others
they just kind of slip off and get in a
car and go home because they realize
they’re never going to be what they
wanted to be they’re never going to see
what they wanted to see they’re never
going to do what they wanted to do
because they fail to realize when
there’s the halfway house now’s the time
to rest and they go on
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