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How to break a busy, broke and exhausted cycle · Cash Confident with Brie Sodano

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  Speaker 1: Hello, hello everyone, brie Sedano, here today for the Cash Confident podcast, and today we are going to be talking about how to break a busy, broke and exhausted cycle, and this topic is near and dear to my heart because so many of my clients at all different income levels at all, different levels of quote-on-quote success have come to me in this exact same cycle, and so what we're going to talk about today is what is what's the underlying energy, what's the underlying thing that's common between busy, broke and exhausted?
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  Speaker 1: And then we're going to kind of reverse engineer how to break that cycle, and so that's what we're going to talk about today, and I am excited, excited to be part of it.
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  Speaker 1: So let's get into busy, broke and exhausted.
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  Speaker 1: So there is a common thread between that busy, broken, exhausted and it's called scarcity.
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  Speaker 1: It's the idea, it's the mindset, it's the physical response to not having enough, and that could be not having enough time, not having enough energy, not having enough money.
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  Speaker 1: And I do want to say that we have three primary resources in our life, and I kind of joke about these three primary resources.
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: Like you could turn time, money and energy into a college degree, into a new business, into a thriving home life, into a drug ring, whatever floats your boat, you can turn those three resources into any kind of life that you want.
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  Speaker 1: And so where busy, broken, exhausted, right, that's that same time, money, energy.
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  Speaker 1: When we have scarcity, the idea that there's not enough right running through all of those resources, we very quickly will fall into a pattern of like a cycle, you know, a situation of busy, broken, exhausted, and so what I notice generally is scarcity is super pervasive, like it's like one bad apple spoils a bunch.
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  Speaker 1: Once you have scarcity in your time, it's only a minute before scarcity is in your energy and then it's only another minute before scarcity is in your money.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to just tell you a quick you know, give you a quick example, right.
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  Speaker 1: So, like, let's just say, today I sleep in, i run late, you know, and then I don't have time to pour myself a cup of coffee.
• 4:56
  Speaker 1: I run out the door and I feel like I'm running late for me.
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: I know, anyways, that when I'm running late to a place in the car, i will expend so much more energy like I will get to my destination, like you know, after I drove white knuckling it, you know cursing people, taking left turns, and you know driving the speed limit, that all of that energy, you know I will expend so much more energy driving when I'm late than driving when I'm perfectly on time.
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: Right, and then, so we can see that, that this is my little, you know, bag of bullshit, but the that time shortage then becomes an energy shortage, and then we know that I'll be buying a cup of coffee and a snack because then I'm uncaffeinated and I'm hungry, right, and so then I'm using money that I didn't want to or plan to or I mean, and that's not a big purchase, That's not that big of a deal.
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: But you know, that's how that thread of scarcity kind of passes through, and we'll see it with energy too, like we'll see icy clients use money to plug in an energy leak, right.
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  Speaker 1: So if, like, at the end of the day, i'm so exhausted that I can't deal with cooking, all right, you know it's time to bring my kid to soccer practice and I literally can't even deal with looking for the cleats that I know I have, and I just go to the store and buy another pair because I'm not sure where they are, i'm not sure if I could find them, i'm not sure if they fit right.
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  Speaker 1: That exhaustion will just lead to spending And a lot of times being exhausted will cause us to misuse our time, like, either waste our time.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like I know when I'm exhausted, i'll sit, i'll sit and watch TikToks or scroll the interwebs, you know, and then, once you're exhausted and you're scrolling, it's really, really easy, you know, to see a really juicy little Instagram ad for something that you definitely want because you know, they know you.
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  Speaker 1: So this is how busy, broken, exhausted.
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  Speaker 1: It kind of gets into the all of the facets of your life and the you know, and this is held in place by you know expectations, and sometimes I feel like they could be society expectations.
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  Speaker 1: But I feel like sometimes the people I've worked with just have some real unrealistic and incredibly high expectations of themselves, expectations that one person certainly couldn't meet in one day.
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: Like those kind of expectations where you're like all right, well, you know, i'm going to go to work for a whole day, i'm going to be a good mom, i'm going to keep a clean house, i'm going to eat nutritious food, i'm going to drink enough water, i'm going to have sex with my spouse, i'm going to look hot while I'm doing it.
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: Like this is like kind of a lot, right.
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  Speaker 1: Those just aren't really all expectations that one person could really meet every single one of them every single day.
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  Speaker 1: It's just not realistic.
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  Speaker 1: So what I want you to understand about scarcity is that scarcity is its own cycle And we'll just and again, i'm always talking about things that are not perfectly linear but this cycle, you know what?
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: I'll just go through the pieces of it and you can just see where you are in the cycle.
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  Speaker 1: So let's just say there is a circumstance that will trigger the thought of scarcity, right?
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: So let's just say you know, i don't have enough groceries right now, i don't have enough money in my bank account, i don't have enough time to get from here to there to be on time.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, that scarcity, that recognition of a lack of resources and that could be time, money, energy resources then we'll become, you know, a mindset, right?
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  Speaker 1: I will think to myself oh, i don't have enough time, or I don't have enough money, or I don't have enough resources.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have, you know, the supplies that I need, right?
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: And that will generally create a response in the body.
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  Speaker 1: Now, not all scarcity hits the body the exact same way, like financial scarcity can really trigger a fight or flight response, because part of your brain's job is just like to keep your body alive every single day.
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: And so when you're like we don't have the resources that we need, the brain will pick, or the brain will send the signal of like we don't have the money, right, We don't have the time.
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: The body picks that signal up as threat of starvation, right, which is a pretty big deal to the body, which is why scarcity can be so overwhelming, right?
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  Speaker 1: So then there's that physiological response Now fight, flight and freeze.
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  Speaker 1: That can show up.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen that show up for people in their money and a lot of variety of different ways.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes I will see people take a lot of action in scarcity, that is, we'll just call it interesting, right, like.
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: I'll see people open up a lot of bank accounts or a lot of just accounts and then play kind of like you know the game where they have three cups in a ball and they're like like they'll just be a lot of movement but really nothing changes, right, so I'll see people do that in a state of scarcity with their money.
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: Sometimes I'll see people go and get rid of the money they have, stacking up on things like I'm never going to have money again.
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  Speaker 1: I must go to Costco and buy a single can of tomatoes, right?
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: Or things like you know, really getting making interesting, interesting choices with time, like, oh, i'm going to go to.
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: I'm going to waste my gas and my time and my energy to go to 14 different grocery stores this week to buy all of the things that I need, and you know choices like that.
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: Or, or I will see people avoid their money, not look at their bank accounts when they're in scarcity.
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: Not, you know, not look at.
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: That's generally more of like a freeze response, right, like not acknowledge the situation, not open their statements, not, you know, not take any kind of action, and then I'll see.
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: Sometimes people will just get rid of their money, like kind of like I said about the tomatoes, but you know, so sometimes we just we just take interesting actions when we're in a state of scarcity And the action is the place that creates additional scarcity, right?
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  Speaker 1: So you can think scarcity in your mind and not necessarily create it in your tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: You can feel scarcity in your body and not necessarily create it.
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  Speaker 1: But once you start taking action from that place of scarcity, that's where scarcity becomes like jam hands.
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: Now, jam hands is a concept that actually a friend of mine was talking to me about.
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  Speaker 1: We were talking about my son when he was I don't know, maybe five, and that kid was perpetually sticky, like every day.
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  Speaker 1: I mean he was clean, i would clean him, he would be clean And then he would be sticky And I'm like, where did you even get anything that would make you sticky?
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: But everything that that kid would touch, my little son, marco, when he was like four and five, would be sticky And I and I was be like, just stop touching things, let me clean you again.
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: You're so sticky And so we, like, would joke about jam hands.
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  Speaker 1: But that's kind of what happens when we're in scarcity.
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  Speaker 1: It's like everything that we touch when we're in a moment of scarcity, when we're feeling scarcity in our body, when we're in that state of like, i just want to do something to not have to feel this way kind of vibe That is jam hands.
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  Speaker 1: That's why scarcity is so sticky and so pervasive.
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  Speaker 1: So what I want you to start to pay attention to is what the scarcity you know like, what kind of situations will trigger your mind into being like Oh my God, there's not enough, there's not enough time, there's not enough energy, i'm so exhausted, there's never enough resources.
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: And then what that feels like in your body, and then start to notice what kinds of actions you want to take in a moment of scarcity And from here we can start to learn how to regulate ourselves So that way, when we're in a moment of scarcity, we get out of that scarcity before we start taking action, right?
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  Speaker 1: So I'll give you a couple.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you a couple ideas.
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  Speaker 1: So, if you're in like a full blown, like like panicky feeling, you know about scarcity, what you can, one of the things that you can do that's super fast and super effective, is to raise your heart rate up for like 90 seconds.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like it doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: You don't need to go to the gym, you don't need to do a lot of exercise.
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  Speaker 1: At 90 seconds, you know should do the trick.
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  Speaker 1: But what that does is when your body gets a fight or flight response and then it believes that it did the fight or flight, it closes that loop and it can calm down and stop looking for danger, right?
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: So a lot of times that lack of resources, your body gets all of that energy, that like flush of adrenaline and stress, so that way you could literally go hunt yourself a deer for dinner, right, that's like what your body is getting ready for.
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: But since most of your money problems can probably actually not be solved by hunting.
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  Speaker 1: Getting your brain back online really would be more helpful.
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  Speaker 1: So raising your heart rate up for just a few minutes will really help to move you through that cycle And that's like in an acute moment And some medium term scarcity, like ways to retrain your brain.
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  Speaker 1: Now listen, i want to say this too Your brain is always going to notice scarcity more than it notices abundance, because scarcity is dangerous and abundance is not Right And your brain has to keep you alive every single day.
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: That's why people are like I just want to get rid of my scarcity mindset And I'm like once and for all And I'm like well, so it's like part of your like, literal part of your brain that like keeps you alive every day.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: So we're probably, when we're not going to like one, it's not going to go away And two, we really don't want it to like.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: The thing about scarcity that scarcity gets a really, really bad rap is that the decisions that we make in it when we, when we don't know how to manage it.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: Well, but the truth is, scarcity comes with focus and a lot of like.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of energy in that, that fight or flight, which can be really helpful to get some things done.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: So it's not always all bad.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: It's just how you manage yourself through scarcity.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: And you can learn to manage yourself through scarcity gracefully, like it's it mean, it took me a couple of years to do, but I mean I'm breaking this down for you right now, for free, so that way you know, you don't have to spend seven years learning how to do the thing, i'm just teaching it to you, right?
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: So Learn, like learning to rewire your brain to to be more balanced towards abundance is I mean honestly, it's a gratitude practice, it's an appreciation practice and it's a noticing and acknowledging of the abundance in your life.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: And it doesn't always have to be financial abundance, because once you can start to really notice, you know, abundances of beauty or space or whatever else, like you'll.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: You know, sometimes tuning in to the to the money aspect of it is just a little bit harder because we have more belief structures in there.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: But you can certainly like go, look at the sky and be like, wow, there's an abundance of space here.
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  Speaker 1: You can look at the blades of grass and you're like there's an abundance of grass here You can look.
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  Speaker 1: I mean even like when you're in your house, like you know, i just, i just got myself together for the day.
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  Speaker 1: So, like you know, when you're in the shower and you're like, oh, i have an abundance of shampoo, more shampoo than I could even use today.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: I couldn't even use all of the shampoo today If I wanted to, i have an abundance of shampoo and you do that same kind of practice with your toothpaste and was, you know, in your pantry and in your, in your cabinets and in your refrigerator and things like that, and you'll start to really what it does is it trains your brain to see it, and then it also helps your body to relax, like, oh, you know what, maybe I don't have enough of this one thing, but I do have enough of this and I do have enough of this.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: And it just helps your body to remember that like you're probably not going to starve to death, like you're going to be fine, right, and that really helps to make better decisions when our bodies all full of stress, hormones and adrenaline, like we're not making our best choices.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: So, you know, a gratitude, appreciation or abundance practice.
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  Speaker 1: Those are things that you can do.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: You can start them in your journal if you want to.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: You could say them out loud.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Sometimes I send little gratitude or appreciation or text messages to people that I care about, and I think that's nice The way that you do it.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: It doesn't even matter.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: You could speak them out loud when you're driving, you know, sometimes if I'm driving usually by myself, if I'm driving by myself, i'll just speak out loud, like of all the beautiful things, all of the abundance of beauty that I see in the world.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: And it's these just little micro practices.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: You don't necessarily need to, like you know, get out your journal and talk, you know, or write for a half hour every day, but the more that you can get your body, so for me, gratitude really feels like a very warm and fuzzy kind of emotion.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: It feels really like filling, you know, it's a really kind of good, like it feels good in my body.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: That state right.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Same thing for appreciation and abundance.
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  Speaker 1: It feels really like safe, you know.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: So the more I can use my mind to get my state to move into those places, the better decisions I make.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: And, honestly, the more money that I make too, the less I feel my body being in that tight, constricted, icy, cold puddle of scarcity.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: The more my business flourishes, the more I'm able to pay for support that I require, and that sort of stuff does take time, but it feels slow in a moment.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: But when you look back you're like, wow, i really drastically changed my situation over a couple of months.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: That's some real good stuff there.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: So those are some great places to kind of get started.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: And I'm gonna give you maybe like one more thing to talk about on a practical level.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: But when we are thinking about changing our financial habits, a lot of times one of the issues, one of the core problems that I see with people when they're in this cycle of busy, broken, exhausted and they're trying to save money, is that they do it with time and energy resources that they actually don't have to spend.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: All right, so let's just say I'm already busy, i'm already exhausted and I'm having a money problem and I'm thinking to myself all right, well, what do I have control over?
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: And for most people, they go to like their food budget.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: That's what I really really find, you know, working with clients.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: So they'll be like all right, i'm eating out too much rice, i spend too much on food.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Let me, you know, let me go to multiple different grocery stores to buy the you know least expensive, everything right, our, let me really, so that's like one way people will do it.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Or sometimes I'll see things like let me come up with this really incredible budget and money tracking system that requires a lot of energy, like a lot of mental energy, to keep up with, and then that sort of stuff doesn't work.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: There's other ways, but a lot of times that's generally the cause, right, it's like I'm gonna fix my money problem by expending a lot of time.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna fix my money problem by expending a lot of energy.
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  Speaker 1: And when we're in that cycle of busy, broken, exhausted that is a foreshore like you will fail and it's not because there's anything wrong with you.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: It's because you're trying to spend resources you don't have.
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  Speaker 1: You are already busy, you don't have time, you are already exhausted and you don't have energy for that.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: So what I suggest doing when that's the case is to really look through your transactions and really look for ways that you could increase efficiency in your household, like the way that you procure all of the goods.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Right, if you were like the procurement department of your address, how could you most of the time it's shop less like?
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: how could you are like some of the things that I suggest to clients is things like going to the grocery store one time per week, going to like a bulk store, like a Costco or a BJs or something where you buy, like you know, eight pounds of walnuts, to try to do those kind of things once a month or, if you're really organized, and once a quarter you know clothes shopping, depending on you know if you have children, that age your children, or if you're upgrading a wardrobe or if you just change sizes.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: You know this may not be perfectly true for you, but you know, somewhere between two and four times a year is enough, you know, to usually keep an updated wardrobe.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: And what I find when we do less shopping is that we get time, money and energy back, because every single one of those decisions you make at a grocery store or at the clothes store or at any kind of shopping, those have a mental energy cost.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: So when we can shop less and do all of that less often, we save time, money and energy.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: And that's the kind of places that we start to free up those resources, to start to look at like what's gonna move us in the direction of the life that we want, right, so, like people, don't go on a financial journey just to have better numbers in their bank accounts, although sometimes they think that really like, we want to create the life that we want.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: That's why we're doing this, that's why I would say no to Margaritas, like if you called me for Margaritas then I was like no, i would rather spend the money on something else.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: It's about, like that intentional creation of the life that we want.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: So the intentional creation of life that you want creates time, money and energy directed to that life.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: And so once we can wiggle out of this pattern right, once we stop letting scarcity make all of our decisions and we can wiggle out of this busy, broken, exhausted and we start to be well resourced in our time and we find some spaciousness and stretchiness in our time, and once we're not busy and we feel like we got a good night's sleep and we had time to play and I had time to be and time to enjoy, some of our ravenous consumption just kind of goes away, because a lot of the times that we're really spending a lot of money, it's to plug a time leak or plug an energy leak, and so when you're looking through your transactions, those are the things that you're gonna wanna look for.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: How am I using this money to plug a time or energy leak?
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: And then like, if you're using money to fix a time problem, it's really just a band aid.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Like you're gonna have to fix a time problem with a time-based solution.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: You're gonna have to fix an energy problem with an energy-based solution, although in a moment you can use money to buy time or you can use money to buy energy, right?
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Like you know, if I get takeout, it's either conserving time or energy, depending on kind of where I'm coming from.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: So learning to see yourself is all, learning to see all three of these resources as something to be managed really helps you to like kind of start to call back these resources And for most people there's low hanging fruit, right, like the other day I just did a class and I talked with a married couple who were like in a total state of busy, broken, exhausted, And so the fellow smoke cigarettes and every single day he goes and he buys himself a pack of cigarettes, and every single day he spends an additional five to ten dollars on like snacks or drinks or whatever the things that he didn't really he wasn't going to the store for them, They just happen to be there and he would just happen to buy them.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: So when we think about the cost we have, you know, let's call it you know 30 trips, 30, starting your cars, 30, you know 10 minute drives there and back.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: You know of gasoline I don't know how much that equates to, but probably a half a tank of gas over the course of 30 days.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: You know an additional, you know, let's call it $10 a day.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: You know that's an extra $300 a month in addition to the price of the cigarettes.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: And then I mean, even if it was 20 minutes a day right there and back, you know 10 minutes there, 10 minutes back, was that 600 minutes, 10 hours a month.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: And it's like, yeah, of course, you're busy, broken, exhausted you're, you're expending 10 hours.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Three, you know an additional $300 in addition to the cigarettes.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: And all of in every day.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: You have to think about it, every day.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: You have to manage your cigarette supply right, every single day.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: So just that one thing was costing this person 10 hours, three additional $100, and that many thoughts, that much mental energy.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: And you know, and I was talking with his spouse there and she was I mean, she was traveling all over, you know, two towns doing her shopping.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: You know, because she tries to get the cheapest stuff to save the most amount of money, she's going to all these, she's going to you know a different grocery store, she's going to BJs, she's going to you know all of these different places, and then she's feeling exhausted and then they're ordering takeout.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: And it's like all of all of these resources, these times, this time, money and energy, you know, and then it's like if you go to three different grocery stores with your kids, you are definitely buying, like you're not saving money.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: You know, one impulse purchase negates any savings on the cheapest granola bars that you were, you were going to get.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: And you know that after you've been to three different grocery stores, if you're bringing kids, like they're getting you for a snack, they're getting you for a pack of gum, they're getting you for a high sugar drink, like it's just part of.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: And even if you're not with kids, like I'm getting myself for a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, after I've been to the store, you know, like after I've spent all that mental energy and then I'm just in my impulses, waiting, you know, to check out, i'm like, oh, reese's Peanut Butter Cups, yes, please, right.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: So this is how you can start to reverse, engineer, breaking out of that busy, broken, exhausted cycle.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: It's looking for the places that you can save time, money and energy all at once.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: And the thing that I that I want to put out there to you is you have to prioritize at first the time and time and energy when you're saving right.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: And people will always fight me about like oh well, i know that the snacks, that all these are cheaper.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: I know that this is the cheapest way to get this.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: I know that this, you know this thing costs more at the grocery store, and I'm and really I've been doing this with you know, i've talked with thousands of people over the last decade.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: So just trust me for a minute and try it and see how it goes.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: But I find that if you do less shopping, you spend less money and you spend less time and you spend less energy, and that's generally the place that gets you out of that busy, broken, exhausted cycle.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Even if you do, you know, on an individual item, pay more money, like for, for, said, granola bars, like you may pay more money and still spend less time, less energy and less money all together over the course of the week.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: So I guess that is my lesson that I wanted to teach you today.
• 28:28
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• 28:28
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• 29:15
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• 29:18
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• 29:20
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• 29:25
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• 29:30
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