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A Master Class On Tech Tools · Money And Wealth With John Hope Bryant

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Speaker 1: Welcome the Money in Wealth with John Ho'bryant, a production
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Speaker 1: of The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartRadio. Yo Yo.
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Speaker 1: This is John Hope Bryant. This is Money and Wealth
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Speaker 1: podcast series. I am honored in twenty twenty five to
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Speaker 1: bring you another exciting episode. This is going to be
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Speaker 1: a bit of a masterclass I give you today. I'm
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Speaker 1: calling in, I'm phoning this in. I'm recording this live
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Speaker 1: from Poland. That's right halfway around the world, and it's
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Speaker 1: appropriate that I'm doing this from Poland. I'm actually here,
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Speaker 1: Schaefer and I are here is commemorating with Van Jones
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Speaker 1: and Robert Smith and others, the only invited delegation that
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Speaker 1: includes African Americans. Oddly enough are interestingly enough, should I
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Speaker 1: say for the eightieth of liberation of Auschwitz the Jews
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Speaker 1: who were murdered here eighty years ago in World War Two?
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Speaker 1: This is commemorating the liberation from auschwitzen God bless the
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Speaker 1: soul's loss here. But when I'm on travel, I've got
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Speaker 1: to run my businesses. While I'm doing well, I have
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Speaker 1: to do good too. In order to do good, I
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Speaker 1: have to do well first, and so I have to
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Speaker 1: find a way to continue to run my operations. I've
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Speaker 1: got five divisions of John O'Briant Enterprises. You know me
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Speaker 1: most from my work at Operation the Hope, which is
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Speaker 1: the largest financial literacy coaching organization in America. Fifteen hundred offices,
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Speaker 1: give or take in almost every state in the United States.
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Speaker 1: We have thousands of volunteers, we have collaborative partnership offices.
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Speaker 1: We have four hundred full time employees in all of
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Speaker 1: our operations. You have Operation Hope, You've got Brianger Adventures,
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Speaker 1: You've got brig Adventures Advisors, Brian Go Digital ETCA, et cetera,
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Speaker 1: et cetera, and then all the projects with an Operation Open.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to do a masterclass at some point on
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Speaker 1: how to run an effective nonprofit and how to build
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Speaker 1: one from scratch. Let me know if you like that idea,
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Speaker 1: by the way, how to build one from scratch, how
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Speaker 1: to to take an idea and turn it into and
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Speaker 1: operating entity, How to take an operating entity and turn
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Speaker 1: it into a successful enterprise. How to take a successful
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Speaker 1: enterprise that's boutique, our small business turning into a boutique
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Speaker 1: boutique successful enterprise that's been with a reputation, but it is,
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Speaker 1: you know, basically local, and how to take something local
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Speaker 1: and turning it into something that is known regionally doing
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Speaker 1: is regionally and nationally, et cetera. And how to turn
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Speaker 1: that too from a personality driven the activity into an
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Speaker 1: institution that is an upcoming podcast. You tell me whether
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Speaker 1: you like that. By the way, I'll do the same
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Speaker 1: thing for a for profit, but I wanted to start
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Speaker 1: with something that is a bit of a mystery with people,
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Speaker 1: which is a nonprofit. But the larger issues, whether it's
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Speaker 1: my real estate stuff, or whether it's my nonprofit financial
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Speaker 1: literacy stuff, or whether it's my you know whatever, we're
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Speaker 1: writing books and and speaking and et cetera, et cetera,
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Speaker 1: how do I do it? And people like how do
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Speaker 1: you do this? And then you you know, you have
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Speaker 1: a family, a personal life, how do you do all
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Speaker 1: this stuff? Well, I'm going to unpack some of that today,
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Speaker 1: and today no pun intended to unpack them and tell
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Speaker 1: you about also how I pack. I will put a
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Speaker 1: couple of photos in of this actual photos of actually
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Speaker 1: my suitcase on this trip to give you some sense
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Speaker 1: of literally how I pack. But I'm going to most
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Speaker 1: importantly tell you about my tech tools. People will tell
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Speaker 1: you to be successful, they don't tell you how. So
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Speaker 1: part of my masterclass in twenty twenty five is breaking
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Speaker 1: down the how. This series, this session is my tech Tools,
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Speaker 1: John Bryant's tech Tools, the how of how I do
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Speaker 1: all this stuff and not go crazy. Somebody told me
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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, and it's completely true that
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Speaker 1: if you don't have technology in the center of your
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Speaker 1: business or enterprise or nonprofit or government agency or whatever
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Speaker 1: it is you're running. If you don't have technology in
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Speaker 1: the center that I even believe in your personal life,
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Speaker 1: then you're actually not succeeding. You're falling behind. I'll say
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Speaker 1: that again. If you don't have technology, if technology is
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Speaker 1: not centric, centered in the center of whatever it is
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Speaker 1: you're doing. And I don't mean just having a iPhone
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Speaker 1: or whatever, the Samsung phone, whatever it is you use.
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Speaker 1: I use iPhone, I use Apple products. But I don't
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Speaker 1: just mean having a smartphone and treating it like it's
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Speaker 1: a dumb device. I don't mean just having a phone
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Speaker 1: and sending an email to somebody, or sending a text
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Speaker 1: to somebody, or making a phone call. That's not what
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about. If you don't have technology and use
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Speaker 1: it intelligently, use it smartly, and center that root that
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Speaker 1: in the center of your life. As a growing twenty
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Speaker 1: first century business, enterprise, entrepreneur or doer, you're actually not
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Speaker 1: going forward, you're going backwards. In real time, You've got
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Speaker 1: to be organized. It could be said that half a
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Speaker 1: success is showing up and having good habits. Showing up
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Speaker 1: and having good habits, it's time to take out your
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Speaker 1: notepad and begin to take some notes. So let's go.
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Speaker 1: I'll do the packing piece as a bit of a
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Speaker 1: bonus here, how I, how do I travel? What do
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Speaker 1: I use? Let's get into the technology and how I
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Speaker 1: do it beyond the magic soft of how I think
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Speaker 1: and how I lead, which are value propositions our assets
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Speaker 1: that I have in my institutions have because leadership is
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Speaker 1: that outlier, unique asset that defines everything. And you have leaders,
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Speaker 1: you have managers, you have tacticians, you have doers. Those
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Speaker 1: are different categories of executives that you will have in
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Speaker 1: your organization. You give somebody a title does not mean
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Speaker 1: that they're a leader, by the way, But let's assume
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Speaker 1: for the moment you've got the right team in place.
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Speaker 1: Many of my people be with me for twenty or
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Speaker 1: thirty years. My chief of staff Rachel Dove has been
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Speaker 1: with me for thirty two years. I make sure it's
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Speaker 1: my second employee when I founded out Brian Group Ventures
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Speaker 1: and Operation Hope Lands Triggs building me for I think
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Speaker 1: going on thirty years. Mary Harrison going on, you know,
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Speaker 1: close to thirty years. Jenney Roscoe over twenty years and
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Speaker 1: goes on, goes on, goes on. So most of my people,
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Speaker 1: if you're if you're a newbie with me, you building
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Speaker 1: me for a decade. So you've got to have a
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Speaker 1: special forces team. It's been said, and I agree that
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Speaker 1: eighty percent of important work is done by twenty percent
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Speaker 1: of your people. Eighty percent of important work is done
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Speaker 1: by twenty percent of your people. But if you're going
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Speaker 1: to have by and then the other people just complain
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Speaker 1: and make your life miserable. But anyway, being an employer,
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Speaker 1: oftentimes the babies that are actually have great employees, So
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Speaker 1: I'm not complaining about by people. But even if you
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Speaker 1: have a special forces team, which's dinner different from having
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Speaker 1: a General Army special forces team, no different than special
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Speaker 1: forces in the military who has advanced weaponry to go
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Speaker 1: be dropped behind enemy lines so they can have an
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Speaker 1: outsized impact being outnumbered and outgunned. They've got to have
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Speaker 1: the you know, the element of surprise, and they have
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Speaker 1: to have superior training and be able to outsmart their adversary.
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Speaker 1: They're playing you know, chant and everybody else is playing checkers.
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Speaker 1: But they have to have you know, technology in their
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Speaker 1: again example, the example weaponry, which is far superiod in
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Speaker 1: those that they are coming up against. I have technology.
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Speaker 1: I have weaponry. It's called technology tools that allow me
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Speaker 1: and my special forces team to operate with outsized effectiveness.
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Speaker 1: Because even though we have four hundred people, it feels
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Speaker 1: like somebody told me that we have forty thousand people.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if they said four thousand, orto that
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Speaker 1: you get the point. It feels like ten x or
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Speaker 1: twenty x or one hundred x of what we have
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Speaker 1: in human capital actually on our payroll because we've been
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Speaker 1: so effective. Okay, so start writing this down. You don't
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Speaker 1: have to use these tools, but I think you should
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Speaker 1: use something like it. So the first thing I do,
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Speaker 1: and I have this graph, and I'm going to put
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Speaker 1: this graph somewhere on the video version of this podcast
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Speaker 1: so people can see it. I'm going to put this
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Speaker 1: graph in, but it's by JSB formula for achievement. So vision, mission, strategy, plan,
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Speaker 1: business plan, execution tactics to dos to done's assessment readjustment
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Speaker 1: for a grade back division. Now I haven't gotten to
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Speaker 1: the technology tools, per se. This is the technology is
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Speaker 1: how I use mind mapping, which is the first piece
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Speaker 1: of technology software that I'm gonna suggest that you get
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Speaker 1: for yourself. I don't care which software you use. There's
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Speaker 1: a simple one that you can use called mind le
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Speaker 1: It's very easy. In my n D L Y, there's
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Speaker 1: my thoughts. There's another one I've used before. What I
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Speaker 1: use at the moment is mind Meister. Mind Meister. It's
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Speaker 1: German mind mapping, and I like it because it's collaborative
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Speaker 1: and sophisticated and all that stuff. You can put links
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Speaker 1: in it. And I do a mind map for almost
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Speaker 1: everything important in my life. I start with the mind map.
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Speaker 1: And what you're doing in the mind map is getting
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Speaker 1: all the gello and all of the wiring, uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: the all the wiring of thoughts. I it is going
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Speaker 1: through your head at a million miles and miles and
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Speaker 1: miles an hour. You dry down the street, all these ideas,
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Speaker 1: so we to organize it, and you give yourself a headache.
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Speaker 1: Take all that stuff, clear the cobwebs out of your head,
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Speaker 1: and put it on a mind map. Literally, it is
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Speaker 1: a mapping of your mind as relates to the idea
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Speaker 1: at hand. So the first thing I do is take
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Speaker 1: my vision and make it real for my team, because
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Speaker 1: they can't get in my head. If they even they could,
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Speaker 1: they may not be able to understand what the heck's
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Speaker 1: going on there. I've been told them, just a different
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Speaker 1: kind of guy. I'm operating on different juice. I operate
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Speaker 1: three four times faster and everybody else when they get
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Speaker 1: up in the morning, right down the street and around
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Speaker 1: the blocks, you know I've finished when they're starting. And
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Speaker 1: I'm also just I'm just I'm operinging a different bit rate.
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Speaker 1: But I'm also maybe operating. I'm just thinking differently than
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Speaker 1: everybody else. I'm at thirty thousand foot and they're at
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Speaker 1: you know, three thousand feet or three hundred feet. Because
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Speaker 1: they're tacticals. Most people are managers. They're just trying to
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Speaker 1: get stuff done on their to do list in front
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Speaker 1: of them. It's very different from executing against a vision,
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Speaker 1: and the Bible says, well, there is no vision that
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Speaker 1: people perish. So you have to have a vision. You
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Speaker 1: have to be disciplined about keeping it. So I have
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Speaker 1: mind maps, is my first suggestion for you. It works
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Speaker 1: in my business life. And here's a success hack. Is
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Speaker 1: a cheat she can give you now. It also works
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Speaker 1: in your personal life. Your personalize needs to be organized
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Speaker 1: just like your business life. Use mind maps to map
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Speaker 1: out a project, an initiative of your goals for twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty five, whatever it is, a new startup, business, restructuring,
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Speaker 1: whatever it is. You know you're going to send your
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Speaker 1: kids to college. You want to map that out over
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Speaker 1: the next five years. How you're going to pay for it.
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Speaker 1: Start with a mind map. Okay, so here's my map
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Speaker 1: for achievement of anything. Again, I would say one more time, vision,
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Speaker 1: what am I doing? Why? Mission? Why am I doing
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Speaker 1: that thing? Like, what's the purpose behind that? Uh strategy? Okay,
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Speaker 1: so my mission to go back to my missions. You know,
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Speaker 1: one of my missions is to un is to unleash
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Speaker 1: untapped human potential at scale. It's one of my missions. So, uh,
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Speaker 1: my vision might be the change of the world in
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Speaker 1: my lifetime. My mission might wait to do that is
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Speaker 1: to unleash untapped human potential at scale, to create an
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Speaker 1: economic infrastructure for underserved America, and so on and so forth.
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Speaker 1: And so you can look through my vision, see my
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Speaker 1: mission and vision might also be to extend on the
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Speaker 1: third reconstruction, or do the work of the third reconstruction,
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Speaker 1: which was the work that maybe doctor King and ambassor
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Speaker 1: Andrew Young we would be doing. Uh and doctor King
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Speaker 1: was still alive today, Andrew Young is very much alive,
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Speaker 1: or or if Frederick Douglas Nabam Lincoln was still alive today,
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Speaker 1: that was the first reconstruction in the second what I
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Speaker 1: believe this is a third reconstruction. So my vision might
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Speaker 1: be big, you know, and audacious, which is to you know, X,
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Speaker 1: Y and Z whatever that big bode here at big
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Speaker 1: Bode audacious idea is that's your vision for yourself. My
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Speaker 1: vision's this crazy big. Your vision might be to become
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Speaker 1: a business owner or have financial freedom or whatever. It's all.
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Speaker 1: Everybody's vision is different. Your mission, right, is a bit
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Speaker 1: more tangible. Right, And you've heard just now what my
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Speaker 1: mission is, right, and your mission should align with your
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Speaker 1: vision and then your strategy. Okay, how are you going
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Speaker 1: to go about this? Like what route are you going
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Speaker 1: to take to get to this objective? And then you
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Speaker 1: have a business plan. Okay, how's that? Strategy and admission
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Speaker 1: and vision get codified and run the ground. PhDs are good,
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Speaker 1: PhDs are better. Then you have execution. That is what
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Speaker 1: it sounds like. You know, there's nothing better than getting
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Speaker 1: stuff done. So if there's an end of the story,
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Speaker 1: can we please start there. Let's get about the business
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Speaker 1: of getting it done. And don't let the perfect be
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Speaker 1: the death of the good. Sometimes you just need to
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Speaker 1: oftentimes just get out there and do it. You can always,
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Speaker 1: you know, fix it, repair it, upgraded, change it while
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Speaker 1: you're out there. But don't wait for things to be
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Speaker 1: perfect before you start something. You'll never start anything. Tactics,
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Speaker 1: it is against it. Most people are there are tactical
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Speaker 1: in their life. Most people getting up and that's all
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Speaker 1: they're doing is just tactical stuff, and they're urgent. Is
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Speaker 1: crowding out the importance in their life. They can't figure
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Speaker 1: out why they're not making any progress because busyness is
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Speaker 1: different from business to dos again it is when it
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Speaker 1: says again from tactics, tactical is Okay, how do I
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Speaker 1: achieve this project or this objective today that my boss,
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Speaker 1: my vision has given me or maybe it is your
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Speaker 1: boss and to do's right or that's what they sound like.
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Speaker 1: And then literally you want to have a software for todos.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get to that in a minute. Two dons again,
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Speaker 1: you want to confirm you did the toadoos assessment? How
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Speaker 1: are you going to evaluate whether you were effective at
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Speaker 1: the pieces? I just articulated vision, mission, strategy, business plants,
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Speaker 1: Hugan tactics to dos to dons. What's your assessment with that?
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Speaker 1: Be honest? Did you screw up? If so, how, where,
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Speaker 1: when and how it went? And why? Readjustment based on
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Speaker 1: your assessment? Right? So yeah, readjustment and then give yourself
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Speaker 1: a software grade, a mental software grade. Okay, how do
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Speaker 1: I now take what I've learned and make myself better tomorrow?
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Speaker 1: You should go to bed tonight. You should get up
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Speaker 1: in the morning smarter and wiser, more fine than you were,
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Speaker 1: a better person even than you were when you went
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Speaker 1: to bed last night, because you've got a new mindset
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Speaker 1: or refined thought process, and you've got some sleep, and
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Speaker 1: then you're gonna give yourself a software grade, and then
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Speaker 1: you're gonna come back to vision the next day, and
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Speaker 1: everything you do in that day has to align with
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Speaker 1: vision or why are you doing it? You can waste
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Speaker 1: my money occasionally. You can't waste my time. I'm ruthless
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Speaker 1: about my time. Out Let anybody waste my time. I
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Speaker 1: can waste my time. You can't. Okay, So now let's
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Speaker 1: get into the tools to achieve the things that I
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Speaker 1: just said on this graph. Okay, and I've had this this,
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Speaker 1: I've been using this graph for two plus decades. Right,
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Speaker 1: So mind mapping software. I told you I used mind Master,
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Speaker 1: I suggested Mindly, have suggested I thoughts as other alternatives,
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Speaker 1: but use what you like. There's literally hundreds of software
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Speaker 1: that are available. To find the one that you really enjoy.
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Speaker 1: Then I have I use From there, I use something
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Speaker 1: called Confluence. Well in truth, I have a note taking
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Speaker 1: app it's really for crazy people called Obsidian. It sounds
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Speaker 1: like obsessed, but it's Obsidian, and it uses a technology
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Speaker 1: or an approach called markdowns, which I won't get into
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Speaker 1: in this video. But this is essentially your second brain. Okay,
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Speaker 1: this is the second brain. This is you talking to you.
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Speaker 1: If you can keep one hundred things in your head.
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Speaker 1: This allows you to keep one hundred thousand things in
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Speaker 1: your computer. And it's just it's it's just you talking
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Speaker 1: to you. Nobody. No one sees my Obsidian notes but me,
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Speaker 1: So just look into it. I call it my second brain.
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Speaker 1: But you need a note taking app. So you take
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Speaker 1: this vision, this this mind map, and now you've got
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Speaker 1: to make some comments yourself about how are you going
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Speaker 1: to strategize to get this done? And then I've got
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Speaker 1: this Confluence software right, which is documents storage, cloud based
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Speaker 1: document and knowledge sharing with your team whoever's working with
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Speaker 1: you on this stuff, and an active collaboration. You can
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Speaker 1: have twenty thirty forty fifty people collaborating working with you
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Speaker 1: on the business plan, the strategy plan, whatever it is.
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Speaker 1: You're working on the project at the same time on
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Speaker 1: a document that's live that came from you, you know,
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Speaker 1: consolidation of your note taking which was which was birth
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Speaker 1: through your vision. Okay. So now I've got you from
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Speaker 1: vision right and mind mapping. Then I've taken you to
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Speaker 1: note taking with Obsidian, okay, or any note taking app
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Speaker 1: you like. Don't you don't have to use your subsidian.
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Speaker 1: I'm just giving you ideas of what I use, and
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Speaker 1: then I have stepped into a suite of software that
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Speaker 1: I use, the first of which is Confluence Confluence, and
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Speaker 1: Confluence is this collaborative tool. You don't have to use Confluence.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna use whatever you like. This is just what
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Speaker 1: I use, and it is not I outgrow a lot
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Speaker 1: of things, but I have not outgrown this. And that's
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Speaker 1: saying a lot for this software, but I have not
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Speaker 1: yet outgrown it. I also use ever Note to store
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Speaker 1: things that are one offs. So ever Note is cloud based.
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Speaker 1: And you know, if you've got your birth certificate, you
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Speaker 1: know you're gonna need that. At some point you're gonna
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Speaker 1: be flying around somewhere. You're gonna need your birth certificate.
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Speaker 1: It won't be won't be to get to your house,
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Speaker 1: get to your safe. You're gonna be in Nebraska or
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Speaker 1: someplace you need your birth certificate. And you don't want
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Speaker 1: to be walking around with all this stuff. I used
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Speaker 1: to go to Maui on a retreat twice a year,
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Speaker 1: and literally I have this sixty seventy pound bag that
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Speaker 1: I throw at my shoulder. All these books I wanted
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Speaker 1: to read when I was a mall and retreat and
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Speaker 1: now just take my iPad. All my books are loaded here,
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Speaker 1: so you try to digitize as much as you can.
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Speaker 1: I hate paper. There's nothing. There's not a piece of
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Speaker 1: paper that I use in the course of the day anymore.
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Speaker 1: Now I used to use nothing but paper once upon
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Speaker 1: a time. Everything I use now is digital encrypted, which
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Speaker 1: means it has a deep security application to it, and
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Speaker 1: cloud based with encryption, which means it's hard for people
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Speaker 1: to basically steal your stuff. Ever. Note again, a birth certificate,
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Speaker 1: I only careful. I tell you what to put in here,
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Speaker 1: and I want to take it because I want you
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Speaker 1: blaming me if it doesn't work out. But it's one off.
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Speaker 1: Receipts warranties is the easy stuff. Copies of important things
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Speaker 1: go in every note. I then use from Confluence, I
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Speaker 1: use Trello, and Trello is a lovely, wonderful, visually stimulating
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Speaker 1: program that allows you to do project management. And the
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Speaker 1: collaboration with Confluence has now moved into project management. How
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Speaker 1: you're going to get this thing. You're going to run
22:25
Speaker 1: it down ground to get it down. And so I
22:27
Speaker 1: have project boards, organizational and project boards and have cards
22:33
Speaker 1: in those projects that take this big vision and crunch it,
22:38
Speaker 1: crunch it, crunch it down to manageable steps. Right. And
22:42
Speaker 1: then we won't get into this today. But it's something
22:44
Speaker 1: called GIRA j I r A that is deep project management. Well,
22:49
Speaker 1: we won't get in that today. That's a bridge too far.
22:52
Speaker 1: I want to give you head I want to give
22:53
Speaker 1: you a headache, but project management, you know. And I
22:56
Speaker 1: used to use another software before TrailO called Airtable. And
23:02
Speaker 1: then one note is on Microsoft. But one note is
23:04
Speaker 1: note taking in the Microsoft as a whole suite. So
23:07
Speaker 1: there's a whole Microsoft version of what I'm telling you.
23:11
Speaker 1: But there's two sides of my organization. There's the hunter
23:15
Speaker 1: side of my organization. I'm the hunt. I'm the chief Hunter,
23:18
Speaker 1: going and get it, going, to get the business, going
23:20
Speaker 1: to get the you know, the relationships, the joint ventures,
23:25
Speaker 1: the securing the future, closing the deal, you know, launching
23:33
Speaker 1: new projects and products. But hunting, that's what I do.
23:38
Speaker 1: There's a hunting group, there's hunter organization. Every organization is
23:41
Speaker 1: a hunter, skinner and a cook. Okay, the hunter that's me.
23:45
Speaker 1: Call it business acquisition. Keep that simple skinner, that's analysis
23:51
Speaker 1: and administration. Right. My chief of staff is my chief
23:55
Speaker 1: of staff. And she also is the chief administrative officer
23:58
Speaker 1: for our companies, right, so she is very high level
24:01
Speaker 1: executive and she's administering. And my chief financial officer is
24:04
Speaker 1: also part of the Skinner Skinner group. Right, So the
24:09
Speaker 1: Hunter Skinner this Cook. So the guy who is in
24:13
Speaker 1: charge of my products and my programs, he's delivering on
24:17
Speaker 1: my promises. That's the Cook. So the Skinner and Cook
24:23
Speaker 1: is a known You need of particularly you get organies
24:27
Speaker 1: as big as mine as mine is. We have you know,
24:30
Speaker 1: US one hundred standardization. You need policies and procedures. You
24:34
Speaker 1: need dependability, You need a software backbone that you know
24:39
Speaker 1: won't break. You need standardization. Uh, this is the general
24:44
Speaker 1: army stuff, right and this get this wrong and your
24:48
Speaker 1: whole thing freezes up. You cannot be it cannot be
24:51
Speaker 1: based on our personality. So we use Microsoft for that
24:54
Speaker 1: full disclosure. But the Hunter side of the house we
24:58
Speaker 1: use io Apple products for that and these customized apps
25:04
Speaker 1: that I have decided we're best in class over time.
25:09
Speaker 1: Because I'm really an underground tech geek. I don't know
25:11
Speaker 1: if you knew that I'm really a techie. I've run
25:15
Speaker 1: around with computers in my head have you ever seen
25:17
Speaker 1: me walking through the airport or whatever. If you see
25:20
Speaker 1: me sitting down with any free time, it's good chance
25:22
Speaker 1: I got my iPad app. I might have my app
25:24
Speaker 1: iPad out and a little magnetic because max safe allows
25:29
Speaker 1: things to stick to the to the iPad and stick
25:32
Speaker 1: to your eye. Stick your iPhone there too. You might
25:34
Speaker 1: see me have my iPhone up, iPad out with a
25:40
Speaker 1: floating keyboard and a magnetic elegant magnetic device next to
25:45
Speaker 1: the keyboard where I put my iPhone, so everything is
25:48
Speaker 1: I've got field of view. Sometimes if you you might
25:52
Speaker 1: see me out, I'll have my Mac, my iPad connected
25:57
Speaker 1: to my Mac, and my phone connected to my Mac also,
26:03
Speaker 1: and I've got three in that example, three screens of
26:09
Speaker 1: work going at the same time, three independent screens of work.
26:12
Speaker 1: But that's another video for another time, dealing with efficiency.
26:16
Speaker 1: Coming back to the tool. So we're now at Trello again.
26:21
Speaker 1: I've used other products. I've explained to you now that
26:24
Speaker 1: there's a getting side of the house, the hunter side.
26:28
Speaker 1: That's me and I've been taking it from zero to
26:31
Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars a year in activity. Then there's
26:33
Speaker 1: a skinner in the cook side of the house, and
26:36
Speaker 1: we have a four star Sharing Navigator reading, which I
26:39
Speaker 1: do walk through when we do the other video on
26:42
Speaker 1: how to build a nonprofit, which essentially means we're like
26:45
Speaker 1: a four We're like a triple A bond rating on
26:48
Speaker 1: Wall Street, which is extraordinarily good. So we have a
26:52
Speaker 1: fast running organization, fast growing organization, but also stabilized, conservatively managed.
26:57
Speaker 1: We've got all the ratios and numbers, so they call
27:00
Speaker 1: it KPIs keep performing indicators are in all the right
27:04
Speaker 1: places where your bankers and your financiers, your backers, your
27:07
Speaker 1: partners want to see those numbers. Your donors if you're
27:09
Speaker 1: a nonprofit, want to see that most of your money's
27:12
Speaker 1: going to helping people. You need technology to keep track
27:17
Speaker 1: of all that. You can't keep track of it in
27:19
Speaker 1: your heads. Impossible. World's moving too fast these days. So
27:24
Speaker 1: by the way, I'm not doing any notes here. I'm
27:26
Speaker 1: just talking to you from literally not even my memory.
27:29
Speaker 1: This is this is just my flow. My intuition is
27:32
Speaker 1: I'm talking to you organically, giving you my heart and
27:35
Speaker 1: my soul of how I run my enterprise. So hopefully
27:39
Speaker 1: you're finding this very valuable and hopefully you're taking lots
27:43
Speaker 1: of notes. So we've gotten down to project management, which
27:47
Speaker 1: is where a lot of stuff happens, and I project
27:50
Speaker 1: manage everything. Right, You've got to understand again, the PhDs
27:56
Speaker 1: are good, but PhDs are even better, or at least
27:58
Speaker 1: equally as good. You can't just have a vision. Don't
28:01
Speaker 1: let the perfect become of the death of the goods.
28:03
Speaker 1: You get it half a success as showing up and
28:06
Speaker 1: having good habits. And I show up every day, and
28:09
Speaker 1: my good habits are aided by this technology that I'm
28:12
Speaker 1: trying to get your hip on. And so Trello is
28:19
Speaker 1: really big in my life, and I look at it
28:22
Speaker 1: several times a day, certainly in the morning, and I
28:26
Speaker 1: do a lot of left bright analytical work in the morning,
28:29
Speaker 1: and I do right brain creative work late at night.
28:33
Speaker 1: So then I go from Trello to Slack right slack
28:37
Speaker 1: And by the way, cheat sheet here, Slack, Trello and
28:43
Speaker 1: Confluence are owned by the same company, and you can,
28:46
Speaker 1: when you get really good at this, you can jump
28:48
Speaker 1: from one app to the other inside of the app,
28:50
Speaker 1: never having to leave. So talk about being effective well.
28:54
Speaker 1: Slack is used for essentially for confidential, encrypted targeted text
29:00
Speaker 1: you're testing along a channel of activity. So you have
29:04
Speaker 1: a Slack channel for administration, a Slack channel this is
29:07
Speaker 1: if you're running a company for marketing, a Slack channel
29:10
Speaker 1: for finance and making this up, a Slack channel for
29:13
Speaker 1: product development, a Slack channel for customer service. You decide
29:16
Speaker 1: what's the Slack channel, name is, what the topic is.
29:20
Speaker 1: I used to do Slack channels even by micro projects.
29:23
Speaker 1: In fact, to this day, we still have a Slack
29:25
Speaker 1: channel for every trip that I take, like the trip
29:28
Speaker 1: I'm one now has its dedicated Slack channel, And people
29:31
Speaker 1: who are in Slack channel A may not be in
29:32
Speaker 1: Slack channel C and D and F. These are different
29:36
Speaker 1: projects that require different skills and different clearances, security clearances
29:41
Speaker 1: and all that stuff because we're dealing with confidential information
29:44
Speaker 1: and so on and so forth. So Slack is a
29:49
Speaker 1: wonderful I know the guy who made it, breat guy,
29:52
Speaker 1: by the way, and I think he sold it to
29:56
Speaker 1: a at I get the name right at Lesian, which
30:01
Speaker 1: is which owns uh these three softwares that I just mentioned,
30:08
Speaker 1: and I'm encouraging you to to to to get serious
30:15
Speaker 1: about looking to them as as as options in your life.
30:18
Speaker 1: Your ad Lesian A t L A s S I
30:21
Speaker 1: A N is the owner. It's a Nordic area company
30:26
Speaker 1: in Europe. Uh. They own Slack, they own Trello and
30:31
Speaker 1: their own confluence. Okay, so now we got it down
30:35
Speaker 1: to texting and back and forth. And these are non
30:39
Speaker 1: urgent texts. Right then you have regular texting on your
30:43
Speaker 1: phone for things that are like right now. But do not,
30:46
Speaker 1: please hear me, do not try to manage your business
30:48
Speaker 1: by texting. That is, I noticed that, I know that
30:51
Speaker 1: this generation loves texting. You cannot manage your business by texting.
30:55
Speaker 1: You got a text, gets lost, you don't know where
30:57
Speaker 1: it wents, you don't know know what you said. Do
30:59
Speaker 1: not that. In fact, texting is actually there's a lot
31:03
Speaker 1: of risk these days of countries and companies trying to
31:10
Speaker 1: rob you and defraud you by going through your text
31:12
Speaker 1: messaging or grabbing your text messages before it gets to
31:15
Speaker 1: the cloud. It's all kind of risk with just doing
31:18
Speaker 1: raw texting. You want to do texting on a platform
31:20
Speaker 1: if you can that's again encrypted, something like WhatsApp. There
31:25
Speaker 1: are other platforms, but again for non urgent stuff Slack
31:32
Speaker 1: and never put pass codes all that stuff in a
31:35
Speaker 1: text message. By the way, case in case you want
31:37
Speaker 1: some unsecured network and somebody stills gets that information, they
31:40
Speaker 1: can take your whole identity. So I'm now given you
31:54
Speaker 1: a range of tools that I use. This is these
32:00
Speaker 1: things that I use. I also use other twos, and
32:02
Speaker 1: I use Salesforce for my again, this is the non
32:07
Speaker 1: special force a side of my operations. And I use Podio,
32:12
Speaker 1: which is that's not important today, but that's how I
32:14
Speaker 1: talk to my employees and team members. My general army
32:18
Speaker 1: is how I talk to them and how they talk
32:19
Speaker 1: to each other. That's tied to the Microsoft side of
32:22
Speaker 1: my house. That's another video for another time. So these
32:27
Speaker 1: are some examples of how I use these technologies. And
32:30
Speaker 1: I'll take a vision from a mind map, I'll drag
32:33
Speaker 1: it to the ground with my note taking in Obsidian.
32:37
Speaker 1: I'll then take all of my notes from Obsidian. I'll
32:39
Speaker 1: consolidate those notes into something I don't mind now the
32:43
Speaker 1: publics of my team seeing. I'll then throw that into
32:47
Speaker 1: Confluence and make it a word document. Well, I'm thrown
32:52
Speaker 1: the Confluence and make it a work, a document we
32:54
Speaker 1: can work on, and I encourage my team to come
32:57
Speaker 1: and help me refine that thought process to turn it
33:00
Speaker 1: from vision into a business plan. Then once I've got
33:05
Speaker 1: a new business plan, I then converted into a word
33:07
Speaker 1: document and filed away in Dropbox. It's another subset app
33:12
Speaker 1: I use, similar to Evernoe. It's not primary, but it's
33:15
Speaker 1: a place where I store some source documents. Then once
33:19
Speaker 1: I've done it with Confluence, then I go into typically
33:23
Speaker 1: into Trello set. Trello's a whole another thing all but
33:26
Speaker 1: can do it podcast just on Trello. But I've given
33:29
Speaker 1: you enough to what your appetite if you're interested, And
33:32
Speaker 1: that's where I do project management. Again, Gira is a
33:35
Speaker 1: way to plug in also on Leasian to plug in
33:39
Speaker 1: to Trello to do deep project management. We won't talk
33:43
Speaker 1: about that today. And then Slack again targeted text messaging
33:48
Speaker 1: and communication. But do not try to manage enterprises from Slack.
33:52
Speaker 1: Don't try to get Slack to do more than it's
33:54
Speaker 1: designed to do. And then I told you you can
33:58
Speaker 1: use regular texting, but I think you should do be
34:01
Speaker 1: encrypted for right now. Something's urgent, need to talk to
34:05
Speaker 1: you right now sort of stuff, and take big ideas
34:09
Speaker 1: and break them down into small, actionable concepts that you
34:12
Speaker 1: can track. And then in Trello. I use things like
34:19
Speaker 1: in Trello and a card, I use it to do
34:21
Speaker 1: I love my favorite thing is the favorite sub app
34:24
Speaker 1: and Trello is a to do list. So every car,
34:27
Speaker 1: every card in Trello, a card is where you have
34:33
Speaker 1: an activity, has a to do list. So I might have,
34:37
Speaker 1: you know, fifty cards on a Trello board, and each
34:42
Speaker 1: one of them has its own individual to do lists,
34:44
Speaker 1: and I go through there and I check those boxes.
34:47
Speaker 1: It's a very good feeling to feel like you check
34:49
Speaker 1: something and got something done. I check it myself. You'd
34:54
Speaker 1: also do to do lists in calendars and confluence with
34:58
Speaker 1: your team. So I hope this has been helpful as
35:03
Speaker 1: a starter set on how you can have two people
35:08
Speaker 1: and look like and feel like you've got twenty to
35:11
Speaker 1: have five or ten people, it feel like you've got
35:13
Speaker 1: fifty or one hundred to have my case, four hundred
35:19
Speaker 1: and feel like you have four thousand, maybe even forty
35:21
Speaker 1: thousand employees, not forty thousand, four thousand employees because you're
35:26
Speaker 1: just that tight. How do you I can't The one
35:31
Speaker 1: thing I can't manufacture is more time, right, and I'm
35:35
Speaker 1: ruthless about my time. How do you create more time
35:38
Speaker 1: you cheat technology. If you're very smart and using technology
35:43
Speaker 1: to make you more efficient, it allows you to be
35:46
Speaker 1: more present. That's what I called it. Being a present
35:48
Speaker 1: a gift. And there's no yesterday and there's no tomorrow, right,
35:53
Speaker 1: those are illusions. All you have is this moment make
35:56
Speaker 1: and you want to maximize this moment. You want to
35:58
Speaker 1: be completely present in this moment, which means you want
36:01
Speaker 1: to be organized. The Bible even talks of being you know,
36:05
Speaker 1: to organization and being neat and clean, So you want
36:09
Speaker 1: to be organized at your mind. The clutter out your mind,
36:11
Speaker 1: which is why you want to use mind maps. Get
36:13
Speaker 1: all that clutter and the dust and those all the
36:15
Speaker 1: main ideas and sticky those in your brain. Is clear
36:18
Speaker 1: it all out and put it in one, two, ten,
36:22
Speaker 1: fifty mind maps, doesn't matter. These are your mind maps.
36:26
Speaker 1: Share the mind maps to your team and then as
36:28
Speaker 1: needed basis to help them understand how you are thinking.
36:31
Speaker 1: And then and then and then run every idea down
36:34
Speaker 1: to ground in up you call it a fancy to
36:39
Speaker 1: do list if you want, but a project plan. And
36:42
Speaker 1: then there's budgeting software like you know, there's Excel or
36:46
Speaker 1: you can I use Excel to do budgets, but you
36:48
Speaker 1: can use budgeting software like Quicken or quick Books. You
36:51
Speaker 1: should definitely have a budget and budgeting software. But that's
36:54
Speaker 1: not what this is about. I'm out of running budgets
36:58
Speaker 1: of myself for myself, I'm running. I'm now working more
37:01
Speaker 1: on the businesses than in the businesses uh where I
37:05
Speaker 1: used to do have every task and in those cases
37:08
Speaker 1: when I was just starting out in business, your best
37:11
Speaker 1: friend is a budget. If you if you love what
37:13
Speaker 1: you're doing, you need a budget. If you love your
37:17
Speaker 1: your wife, your wife loves you, then you should have
37:20
Speaker 1: a budget because a budget is a way so sure
37:22
Speaker 1: that whatever you're doing can be sustained, because if your
37:25
Speaker 1: outflow sets your inflow, then your overhead will be your downfall.
37:29
Speaker 1: I can do this forever of helping to unpack how
37:32
Speaker 1: I use these technologies. Won't you leave some comments when
37:36
Speaker 1: you when when you where you hear this, If you're
37:39
Speaker 1: able to comment, or either you're you're listening to this
37:42
Speaker 1: on iHeart or wherever you listen to your podcasts, then
37:47
Speaker 1: make sure you go over to the social media platforms
37:49
Speaker 1: and leave me a note saying John, I heard you
37:52
Speaker 1: on your podcast this week and here's my question for you.
37:57
Speaker 1: If you want me to unpack this, I'm happy to
37:59
Speaker 1: answer very Specif the questions how to go from nothing
38:01
Speaker 1: to something, they just tell you go do it, well,
38:04
Speaker 1: you're confused, and it's what you don't know that you
38:06
Speaker 1: don't know that is killing you. But you think you know,
38:08
Speaker 1: and Where're supposed to learn all this stuff. So I'm
38:10
Speaker 1: just giving you. I'm giving you cheat sheets and shortcuts
38:13
Speaker 1: to and life hacks success hacks, because I'm already I've
38:18
Speaker 1: already succeeded in. This is not speculation. If it's worked
38:21
Speaker 1: for me to work for you now. If you're lazy,
38:23
Speaker 1: if you won't, if you're not consistent, if you don't
38:25
Speaker 1: have good habits, if you're not going to do this
38:27
Speaker 1: every day. I work out every day fifteen minutes or
38:29
Speaker 1: more when I get up in the morning. There's no excuses.
38:31
Speaker 1: The first thing I do stretch and workout, and this
38:34
Speaker 1: is a version of stretching and working out again, showing up,
38:38
Speaker 1: being consistent and good habits. If you're not going to
38:41
Speaker 1: show up, you're not gonna be consistent. If you're gonna
38:43
Speaker 1: do a Tuesday and Friday and the next Monday and
38:46
Speaker 1: then skip a week like you're going like going to
38:48
Speaker 1: the gym or using that treadmill that has clothes on it.
38:52
Speaker 1: Then don't even bother doing this right. You can still
38:55
Speaker 1: do the mind mapping part that will help, but you're
38:57
Speaker 1: not going to get any momentum you build again. You
39:00
Speaker 1: need to you build wealth by compounding. It's not just
39:05
Speaker 1: financial wealth, it's the wealth of ideas. It's the wealth.
39:10
Speaker 1: It's building an organization that is valuable. And you need momentum.
39:14
Speaker 1: You need consistency. People. You know that they can count
39:17
Speaker 1: you Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday will be the
39:20
Speaker 1: same as Monday was. And then the next Monday when
39:23
Speaker 1: you come back from your break, there you go again
39:26
Speaker 1: being consistent. Then they can literally bank on you, and
39:30
Speaker 1: they're willing to lead in, lead into you. Okay, let
39:33
Speaker 1: me give you this bonus. I could again this technology
39:35
Speaker 1: stuff I could talk about all day and don't even
39:39
Speaker 1: get me back into how I used to roll around
39:41
Speaker 1: with computers back when it was not in vogue as
39:43
Speaker 1: a kid, and I used to have I had a
39:46
Speaker 1: radio shack computer set that I had as a kid.
39:50
Speaker 1: I had a compact computer that weighed fifty pounds that
39:54
Speaker 1: was called a portable computer back then fifty to seventy
39:56
Speaker 1: five pounds. I had one computer that I would go
39:59
Speaker 1: on a plane with coach seats back then cheap coach
40:03
Speaker 1: seats and on airlines that don't exist anymore, and I
40:07
Speaker 1: would have I would take the tray and God blessed
40:11
Speaker 1: people who are sitting next to me, I apologize with you.
40:13
Speaker 1: You're one of those who sitting next to me. And
40:14
Speaker 1: I have this. I had this beautiful carrying case that
40:21
Speaker 1: was leather, and then the front of it would flip
40:24
Speaker 1: down and that would be the keyboards on the on
40:27
Speaker 1: the port book computer I was using that weighed fifty pounds,
40:29
Speaker 1: maybe that would weigh thirty five pounds, okay, the keyboard,
40:33
Speaker 1: and then on the other side it would flip out
40:38
Speaker 1: and that would be the printer. This is in my
40:40
Speaker 1: coach seat now. And then on the top I'd flip
40:43
Speaker 1: that up and that'd be Oh. That was a fax
40:48
Speaker 1: machine that remember the plain paper faxes and also the
40:53
Speaker 1: facts paper that curled up. If you were if you
40:56
Speaker 1: had some money, you had plain paper facts. But this
41:00
Speaker 1: is generation realized where a fax machine is. Anyway, I
41:03
Speaker 1: had all that in a portable computer that I that
41:08
Speaker 1: I yeah, I took over the whole row in coach
41:13
Speaker 1: when I was flying, and that I would plug that
41:15
Speaker 1: into the wall into the port in my seat, or
41:19
Speaker 1: I had some battery power also. That was you know,
41:22
Speaker 1: and I'd run my businesses and all the devices and
41:26
Speaker 1: technology has gotten smaller. I used to have a brick
41:30
Speaker 1: a phone, a brick that would go on my shoulder
41:33
Speaker 1: at forty five cents a minute. Back those days, I
41:35
Speaker 1: had the first mobile phones ever. I've been using technology
41:39
Speaker 1: my whole life. People laughed at me back then. They're
41:42
Speaker 1: not laughing anymore. Right, So, first people will ignore you,
41:45
Speaker 1: then they'll criticize you. Then they'll try. Well, First they'll
41:49
Speaker 1: ignore you, then they'll criticize you. Then they'll try to
41:53
Speaker 1: copy you. Then you win. First ignore you, then they'll
41:57
Speaker 1: criticize you, try to get you off the stage competition.
42:00
Speaker 1: Then they're trying to copy you, and they're using this
42:02
Speaker 1: technology being efficient. They won't be able to because because
42:05
Speaker 1: the devil's lazy, they just don't want to do the work.
42:09
Speaker 1: But it's only successfully. It comes before the word work
42:12
Speaker 1: in a dictionary because it's alphabetical. So first, first he
42:15
Speaker 1: will ignore you, then they'll criticize you, then they'll try
42:18
Speaker 1: to copy you. Then you win, and you just keep
42:20
Speaker 1: your foot of the gas and just don't give up.
42:21
Speaker 1: You just don't stop. Even if you hit a wall,
42:23
Speaker 1: you over the round it, through it, you don't get
42:25
Speaker 1: to it. You just never stop, right, don't let the
42:28
Speaker 1: purpose become the death of the good. Just never ever, ever,
42:31
Speaker 1: ever stop and think about never stopping. When I'm traveling,
42:36
Speaker 1: which is a lot, I use certain products, and I'm
42:41
Speaker 1: gonna put a photo here and have my team put
42:43
Speaker 1: a photo here of a couple of shots of what
42:47
Speaker 1: some of my travel setups look like. But I use
42:50
Speaker 1: cues with which I which I use for different types
42:55
Speaker 1: of things. Toilet trees, a night where workout year, formal
43:03
Speaker 1: dress shirts, casual dress shirts, because again, you don't be
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Speaker 1: sitting there spending time trying to run through your bag
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Speaker 1: kind of stuff. I know exactly what I'm going to
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Speaker 1: takes me a minute a second, define it. I grab that,
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Speaker 1: and I've already saved that valuable commodity. It's talked about time.
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Speaker 1: It also looks good. I'm a little vain, but I
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Speaker 1: am I. They're expensive, but they have a lifetime guarantee
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Speaker 1: warranty and a little heavier than normal luggage. But they
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Speaker 1: don't break. And when they if something does break up
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Speaker 1: a zipper breaks, they'll fix it like you. Literally just
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Speaker 1: drop it off to me. They give you a loaner.
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Speaker 1: Can you believe that they give you a loaner. You
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Speaker 1: give them the luggage they sent, They fix it like new,
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Speaker 1: They send it to you a month or two later,
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Speaker 1: and then you give them the loaner back and gone
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Speaker 1: about your business. They even clean it for you. Yeah. Again,
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Speaker 1: these are these are life hacks that that I use.
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Speaker 1: I'm looking at my too me backpack. I've got my iPad,
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Speaker 1: I've got my mac book. I've got all of my
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Speaker 1: which is where I'm now. But I also have several
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Speaker 1: These are investments that will pay dividends. But you buy
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Speaker 1: and I'm very serious about my shoes, Like I only
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Speaker 1: wear Ferragamo shoes because I was tired of my feet hurting.
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Speaker 1: I used to wear Louis Vauton boots and all that
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Speaker 1: stuff for years, not because I was being bougie, because
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Speaker 1: they really make good shoes and my feet. Never hurt
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Speaker 1: don't hurt my feet. It can go all day online.
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Speaker 1: They look great and they built great, and it's a
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Speaker 1: great investment. Shoot. You can even sell some of this
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Speaker 1: stuff later on. If the same bags I use for
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Speaker 1: business I've been using for decades now. I've got some
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Speaker 1: bags I've owned for more than ten years. And if
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Speaker 1: you're a good bag, you can clean it up, put
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45:34
Speaker 1: you know, different season you've been having worked, used it
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45:42
Speaker 1: that's so cool. Where'd you get that from? I want
45:43
Speaker 1: to tell them this stuff is eight years old, but
45:46
Speaker 1: it's just timeless. And when you buy things that are
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45:56
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45:58
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Speaker 1: But yeah, my suits are pre packed to recently bought
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46:43
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