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Weekly Decisions Made...Do You Know Them? (Podcast) · The Providers Playbook Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Hello, my beautiful providers.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's Saturday, and I am so excited to launch this podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Turn me up or turn me off.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's fucking go.
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  SPEAKER_00: Decisions, decisions, decisions.
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  SPEAKER_00: We make a lot of them every single day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some are easy.
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  SPEAKER_00: What to wear,
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  SPEAKER_00: how you style your hair,
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  SPEAKER_00: brushing your teeth,
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  SPEAKER_00: Although,
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  SPEAKER_00: honestly,
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope that's not a decision you're contemplating on a daily basis for the sake
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  SPEAKER_00: of everyone out who talks to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some more challenging examples would be your career,
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  SPEAKER_00: people you hang out with,
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  SPEAKER_00: your friends, how do you want to spend your money, so on and so forth.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I actually want to give you an example of where decisions resonate.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're at work.
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  SPEAKER_00: You get three emails.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number one, email comes in, subject line weekly status update.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your second email, subject line weekly project update.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that last email, email number three comes in, weekly decisions made.
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  SPEAKER_00: Which one of those emails are you opening?
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  SPEAKER_00: I can tell you right now, I'm opening up that weekly decision email 10 out of 10 times.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's very important to take a look at decisions.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sure, I want to know about a status and projects,
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  SPEAKER_00: but wow, that weekly decision email, which shows you how important decisions are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, I could spend all fucking day on this,
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  SPEAKER_00: especially where it applies to work or professional lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I've been in business for a while.
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  SPEAKER_00: But this is the provider's playbook, and we're all providers.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I want to talk about how to apply this topic of decision-making with our kids,
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  SPEAKER_00: which are really important in our lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll give you an example recently.
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  SPEAKER_00: My daughter, you know, she came to me and complained about a situation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she shared a personal story with one of her friends.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she said one of her friends was, you know, a known gossip person.
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  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, heaven forbid, surprise, surprise, the story got out.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that was a great learning opportunity for me to share with my daughter
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  SPEAKER_00: a simple example of, you know, decisions and the consequences.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another recent one, my oldest son, you know, was into a series and really wanted to finish it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stayed up way too late.
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  SPEAKER_00: And my God, the next day he was cranky as a badger.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sure as shit, he paid for it the next day and cranking it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And again,
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  SPEAKER_00: it's just another simple example of where decisions come into play and
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  SPEAKER_00: the consequences.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you get my drift.
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  SPEAKER_00: This could go on for a while.
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  SPEAKER_00: And these are just a few examples I had with my family.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I sat down with them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I said, at work, here's what I do.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want you guys to consider creating a decision log.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're like, Dad, what the fuck?
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  SPEAKER_00: Really?
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  SPEAKER_00: A decision log?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, a decision log.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it is on paper.
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  SPEAKER_00: So go down to your local CVS or Walgreens.
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  SPEAKER_00: Grab that piece of paper or notepad.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't want it in the digital realm.
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  SPEAKER_00: And by the way, this isn't an innovative idea I created today.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's been out for a while.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure somebody could take credit,
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  SPEAKER_00: so this isn't something I'm sharing that is proprietary or patented,
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  SPEAKER_00: but it is very, very useful.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll give you an example.
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  SPEAKER_00: What I like to capture in the piece of paper is the decision I made,
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  SPEAKER_00: how I made it,
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  SPEAKER_00: some of the trade-offs I considered,
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  SPEAKER_00: what I expected to happen,
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  SPEAKER_00: and how I felt about it because feeling about it is important And if you look back
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  SPEAKER_00: and do review of it,
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  SPEAKER_00: you can help develop your intuition by taking a look at that if there was
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  SPEAKER_00: a certain gut feeling on something.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the key is here, make it your own.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to follow that column that I have and rows and things.
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  SPEAKER_00: The key is logging the decisions and looking back at them.
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  SPEAKER_00: A decision log is useless if you don't look back and learn from it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So for me, it's always been like Sundays.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sundays, you're preparing for the week.
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  SPEAKER_00: Traditionally, trying to outline your schedule, making sure everything's going.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then obviously,
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  SPEAKER_00: you can look back at your decision log and see where you find errors
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  SPEAKER_00: in your judgment and quickly fix them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the benefits of a decision log are enormous.
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  SPEAKER_00: On the business side, right, your speed of decisions increases.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing is more bad and allergic in businesses.
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  SPEAKER_00: Analysis paralysis.
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  SPEAKER_00: It slows everything down.
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  SPEAKER_00: And trust me,
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  SPEAKER_00: if you lead teams and manage people,
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  SPEAKER_00: you're going to want to incorporate decision logs going forward.
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  SPEAKER_00: You'll see your productivity go through the roof.
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  SPEAKER_00: In life, you want to compound good decisions.
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  SPEAKER_00: You may be tracking your food.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some people really want to control their macros and get physical.
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  SPEAKER_00: You want to compound whatever is important to you and your family.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your good decisions and reduce and or eliminate the bad ones or poor ones.
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  SPEAKER_00: And also too,
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  SPEAKER_00: this is good practice because as my kids,
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  SPEAKER_00: I tell my kids,
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  SPEAKER_00: the most important decision you're gonna make in life or maybe the one of
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  SPEAKER_00: the most important is who you're gonna spend your life with, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Your partner, spouse, husband, wife.
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  SPEAKER_00: Beyond that, there's some other significant ones, but that's one near the top.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in closing here,
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  SPEAKER_00: how you are looking forward To do decisions and learn from that and share that
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  SPEAKER_00: with your children is the focus of this podcast today.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'd ask you guys, I'll be back next Saturday, how are you making better decisions this week?
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  SPEAKER_00: What is something you're writing down going forward?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'd love to hear about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So get after your weekend, my fellow providers.
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  SPEAKER_00: This means,
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  SPEAKER_00: and it's really important,
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  SPEAKER_00: Spend your valuable and precious time with those you love,
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  SPEAKER_00: those you want to laugh with, and those you care about.
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  SPEAKER_00: Get your ass outside and get some vitamin D and exercise.
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  SPEAKER_00: And do it all with fucking vigor.