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Daily Leadership Mastery: How Small Habits Drive Big Results · Business Roundtable

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  Speaker 1: All right, everybody here we are Business round Table Podcast
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  Speaker 1: with returning guest Bill Hatch. Welcome back, Bill, Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: glad to be back. Yeah, so I thought we were
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  Speaker 1: talking right before we're recording. I thought Bill has been
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  Speaker 1: with honest in the podcast almost from the beginning in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three when we launched this podcast, and I thought,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, leadership in business development is not done
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  Speaker 1: in a day. It is done a built in it's
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  Speaker 1: built daily, and I thought it would be fun to
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  Speaker 1: bring Bill on and just ask some questions for both
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  Speaker 1: of us about how do you stay powerfully engaged, driving
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  Speaker 1: masteryt motivate, being motivated, whether you're leading yourself or a
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  Speaker 1: team running the business, striving for personal growth. I know
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  Speaker 1: you're writing a book, Bill, and just how do we
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  Speaker 1: stay focused, inspired and effective every day? So I'm glad
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  Speaker 1: to have you back. Bill, Welcome back.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very glad to be back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well we've had some other guests, you know, so
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  Speaker 1: we're like, okay, we got to get get it, bail
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  Speaker 1: back and see where you're at. And I like to
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  Speaker 1: have returning guests on the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 1: Just briefly, Bill, give us a quick background for those
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  Speaker 1: of you that have maybe missed previous episodes. Your your
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  Speaker 1: background as a as a business owner, and yeah, just
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  Speaker 1: share a little bit with with the audience.
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  Speaker 2: Well, wow, I've been my own business owner off and
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  Speaker 2: on for like the past. Let's see what decade is this.
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  Speaker 1: We're twenty twenty five, We're.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty twenty five now, so it's been it's been over
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  Speaker 2: thirty years since since I started this trail of tears,
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  Speaker 2: you know. But yeah, yeah, off and on. I've tried
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  Speaker 2: a few different a few different projects to turn them
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  Speaker 2: into uh, into regular businesses. And I've had some businesses
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  Speaker 2: that that I've kind of taken personal ownership in. You
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  Speaker 2: know that when I've been I've actually been working for
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  Speaker 2: someone else, but I treated it as though it was
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  Speaker 2: my own business.
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  Speaker 1: Seriously, Yeah, it was an entrepreneur.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, taking responsibility for things and uh and
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  Speaker 2: actually that's propelled me forward in a in a couple
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  Speaker 2: of different areas because one of those businesses was I
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  Speaker 2: was in auto sales and uh, you know that's a
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  Speaker 2: very that's a very difficult business to be in.
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  Speaker 1: We've talked episode, So go back for the past episodes.
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  Speaker 1: You're a creative because you do your own podcasts.
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  Speaker 2: You're working, you know, Yeah, and I'm going to school
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  Speaker 2: at the same time. There's there's a lot going on,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, and and I do need to stay motivated.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, I want to talk a lot about that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's difficult to to keep on track, to stay
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  Speaker 2: focused and uh, and stay motivated. You know. I've got
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  Speaker 2: my my up playlist, uh, you know, and and uh
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  Speaker 2: and all those kinds of things. I've got a list
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  Speaker 2: of jobs that I need to do every day on
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  Speaker 2: a piece of paper that's on my wall in front
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  Speaker 2: of me, so I can look at it and anytime
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  Speaker 2: I lose focus, Okay, is this one of these seven jobs?
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 2: Because these are the essentials of my life? And uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and so so I can I can look
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  Speaker 2: at it and get back on track.
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  Speaker 1: So you hit a couple of things I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: touch base on already. Uh, you know, the power of
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  Speaker 1: kind of these daily you just kind of mentioned daily
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  Speaker 1: habits that you're creating and why how we have to
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  Speaker 1: be as consistent as we can be to make those
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  Speaker 1: impactful and occasionally those big moves you you mentioned having
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  Speaker 1: that list there, I would say that's helping you with clarity, right,
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  Speaker 1: being clear on what's the most important thing that we
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  Speaker 1: should be focusing on, right, and does that so when
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  Speaker 1: you get up Bill and like you're looking at that,
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  Speaker 1: so you have you know, kind of energetically or what's
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  Speaker 1: the tone or what's the theme for the day if
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  Speaker 1: you will, right, like, hey, what what where am I
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  Speaker 1: going to be today? What's the focus?
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  Speaker 2: Well? I try to. I try to get it. I
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  Speaker 2: try to get the energy up, that's for sure, and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know I try to. And then you know, energy
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  Speaker 2: and focus are are my biggest problems, you know, being
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  Speaker 2: of the A D D generation.
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  Speaker 1: Uh focus point now it is?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no kidding, but actually I have something to
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  Speaker 2: say on that, but maybe not for tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah we'll come back.
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  Speaker 2: To that, get a whole of.
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  Speaker 1: Euro diversions all of that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, but but yeah, clarity isn't so much
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  Speaker 3: a problem once I get it done, you know, because
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  Speaker 3: you should always start your projects with clarity on what
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  Speaker 3: what it is, what you need to do, and what
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  Speaker 3: your finish line is for it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, whatever that finish line is, if that's retirement
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  Speaker 2: or or or an actual project finish. You know, you
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  Speaker 2: don't wanna you don't want to prematurely put up the
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  Speaker 2: sign that says mission accomplished. Yeah, you know so so yeah,
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  Speaker 2: clarity begin with the end in mind.
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  Speaker 1: But we're talking about that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, clarity is is definitely an important one. But
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  Speaker 2: but it's not so much a daily thing for me, okay,
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  Speaker 2: because I'm clear on what it is that I'm doing already.
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  Speaker 2: You know that.
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  Speaker 1: It's more Yeah, you already have that. I use a
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  Speaker 1: full focused planner. I've talked about that before. I'm kind
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  Speaker 1: of looking at us my daily big three, my schedule.
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  Speaker 1: I think for me, part of the building this daily
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  Speaker 1: habit is reflection and sometimes I do I do at
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of the day. I also do at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, like what am I going to
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  Speaker 1: be preparing for tomorrow? I as well to help me
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  Speaker 1: keep focused, uh right, and and you know, be folk
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  Speaker 1: be on them on the most important things right now.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, and play it like you're playing chess. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, be several steps ahead, you know. Uh, that's uh,
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  Speaker 2: that's you know, that's become something that I've been hearing
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  Speaker 2: a lot lately with with the way the president is
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  Speaker 2: doing things in that it's like in some cases it's
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  Speaker 2: it feels like he's playing chess because he's so many
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  Speaker 2: steps ahead, and uh, you know, so play chess not checkers.
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  Speaker 2: You know, uh, you know know what, know what tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: needs to bring, what you plan to bring tomorrow. Have
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  Speaker 2: your backup plan, you know, maybe do have that. Few
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  Speaker 2: have that several days weeks months out, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 2: not every day for months, but you know, knowing that, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: in three months on this project, I have to do this,
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  Speaker 2: and every thing else leads up to that. And in
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  Speaker 2: some ways, knowing knowing what you're going to do in
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  Speaker 2: three months will actually help you plan the next three
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  Speaker 2: months because you know where you need to be, and
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  Speaker 2: then you can work backwards on Okay, this is a
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  Speaker 2: little less done, this is a little less done than that,
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  Speaker 2: and so on and so forth until you get back Okay,
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  Speaker 2: this is where I am. Now, I'm I've got a
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  Speaker 2: track laid out for for my plan, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: on the trains, the train's going to get moving.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, hmmm. Well, I think the planning. So I
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  Speaker 1: think there's two things you just talked about. There is
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  Speaker 1: there's long term planning, which is that, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: forecasting and you need and then you need both both
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  Speaker 1: long term and short term. So if you're if you're
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  Speaker 1: you you need both. So I think what you're saying
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  Speaker 1: is I look at that I call the impossible game.
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  Speaker 1: I do these fact maps. I guide people through this
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  Speaker 1: in my coaching of like looking at the year out
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  Speaker 1: the bringing it down to the month of the week,
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  Speaker 1: to the day. To me, all of those are connected.
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  Speaker 1: And if you don't have that, it's really it can
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  Speaker 1: really be hard to develop proper habits that get you
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  Speaker 1: where you want to go and do those daily activities
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  Speaker 1: that you need to in order to make that make.
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  Speaker 2: You know if for for long term planning, I've always
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  Speaker 2: admired the Japanese model, which is generally multi generational. And
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  Speaker 2: when you're talking about long term planning, you're talking about
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  Speaker 2: one hundred years in the future. Americans like three months
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  Speaker 2: is long term and not long term.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's just that's it's that's as a way of planning.
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  Speaker 1: But I think looking at it different ways sure can
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  Speaker 1: keep you motivated, because what is you're building these habits
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  Speaker 1: of like why am I doing things like exercising or
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  Speaker 1: eating the food I am because I don't see really
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  Speaker 1: much change in a given day, but I will see it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in the months and the years to come,
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  Speaker 1: and certainly our generations will see things if we do
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  Speaker 1: it well. All we raise our children, how do we
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  Speaker 1: build our businesses right? And so we stay focused on
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  Speaker 1: developing those habits that really serve us, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and yeah, well you know, I've been working really
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  Speaker 2: hard on my weight recently and I've lost about twenty
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  Speaker 2: or so pounds, and yeah, but I see nearly the
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  Speaker 2: same face in the mirror every day, So I don't
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  Speaker 2: know that I don't I don't realize that there's a difference.
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  Speaker 2: And this is true of micro improvements. You know, if
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  Speaker 2: you've if you've earned one more dollar than you did yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: the bank account's not blown up, right, you know, from yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, you know what I mean. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I talk to people about when it comes to to
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  Speaker 2: saving emergency funds and all, it's like, well, don't do it,
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  Speaker 2: don't do it big, you know, put in ten bucks
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  Speaker 2: a week, put in one hundred dollars a month, whatever
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  Speaker 2: it is that, you know, whatever small amount you can
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  Speaker 2: afford to do to put towards that emergency fund, and
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  Speaker 2: you won't even realize in six months when you have
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  Speaker 2: your emergency fund built.
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  Speaker 1: You just kept adding a right that goes to the
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  Speaker 1: question about Okay, we talked a little bit about daily habits.
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  Speaker 1: We definitely go more this. We're doing a fast and
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  Speaker 1: furious episode tonight for you guys are listening. We normally
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  Speaker 1: do long form, but I thought we would just do
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  Speaker 1: a fun, quick, engaging podcast about daily habits. But then
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  Speaker 1: staying motivated, like you're just talking, You're just talking about motivation.
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  Speaker 1: Stay motivated even when it's challenging, like okay, because you
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  Speaker 1: have You're being very purposeful in like can I needed
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  Speaker 1: I need to have an emergency fund. I need to
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  Speaker 1: be there. This my mission or my my this mission
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  Speaker 1: that I'm on right is to get that fund there. Okay, Well,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you know, things come up, I get distracted, but
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  Speaker 1: just keep doing keep doing that so you don't avoid burnout.
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  Speaker 1: What what happens if people will go to the gym
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  Speaker 1: right where in the beginning beginning of January? Usually the
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  Speaker 1: gyms are packed the first week and everyone's like, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna do all the hard weights, I'm gonna do run
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  Speaker 1: a marathon, I'm like you're you're you're burning yourself out
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  Speaker 1: and then you quit. Right, It's like a burn, a
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  Speaker 1: quick burn. How many times we see that versus like
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  Speaker 1: what you just said, Bill, don't don't burn out, take
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  Speaker 1: a small step and build on that step.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Yeah, it's the It's like the old saying, how
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  Speaker 2: do you eat an elephant one bite at a time? Right,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you know, don't don't try to swallow the
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  Speaker 2: whole elephant all at once.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's yeah, it's not gonna work.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: That's why quitter. Quitter's day is like the second Friday
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  Speaker 2: of January or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and why I brought you One of
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  Speaker 1: the reasons I brought you back on bills because you're consistent,
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  Speaker 1: You're you're making progress, you're moving forward. Now all of
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  Speaker 1: us can go at different speeds. But here here's here's
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  Speaker 1: a concept for me that blew my mind years ago
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  Speaker 1: from one of my mentors, Garrett ja White. He was
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  Speaker 1: talking about running marathons and he said, this goes for
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  Speaker 1: running marathons or riding bikes or whatever you do. There's
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  Speaker 1: some people that just burst out and go to the
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  Speaker 1: front and then they burn out. And there's people that
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  Speaker 1: do this. You know, they'll they'll they'll thigs that I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they'll run really fast and then they fall back and
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  Speaker 1: they run really fast they try to get there's this
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  Speaker 1: concept back and forth and if you can just if
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  Speaker 1: you really watch professional runners, one's interesting. There's a pack
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  Speaker 1: you ever noticed there, like a pack of runners that
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  Speaker 1: you know because what they're doing is they're not they're
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  Speaker 1: not blowing themselves out the beginning and they're not trying
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  Speaker 1: to like you know, and then in order they fall behind.
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  Speaker 1: And then you see people that it takes so much
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  Speaker 1: more energy if you fall behind to try to catch
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  Speaker 1: back up. But if you could just be maintained to
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  Speaker 1: be consistent, you're much likely going to be able to
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  Speaker 1: rent make it through the entire race, Right, Bill, That's
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  Speaker 1: what I hear you saying.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, for sure. Yeah, trying to trying to
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  Speaker 2: go all out doesn't work for more than a couple
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  Speaker 2: of days, It really doesn't. You know that that give
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and ten percent you know kind of attitude
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  Speaker 2: that's gonna get you. You know, that's gonna that's gonna
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  Speaker 2: burn you out pretty fast and right, and it will
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  Speaker 2: frustrate you because you're not gonna see no matter what
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  Speaker 2: you do, you're not going to see that much of
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  Speaker 2: an improvement. I mean, you know, I've I've come to
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  Speaker 2: realize that that speeding from from here to like church
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  Speaker 2: or something. If I if I go ten miles over
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  Speaker 2: the speed limit, I'm much more likely to get a
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  Speaker 2: speeding ticket, and I'm probably only gonna save a few
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  Speaker 2: minutes on my total drive time. That few minutes is
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  Speaker 2: not worth the risk of the going going twenty p
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  Speaker 2: sent over the speed limit is not worth the risk
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  Speaker 2: of the time.
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  Speaker 4: You say, it is not worth the risk of of
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  Speaker 4: of getting a ticket, you know, And and it's the
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  Speaker 4: same thing in business, because you're you're not going to
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  Speaker 4: see huge You're not going to see the ten thousand
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  Speaker 4: dollars improvement between today and tomorrow by giving one hundred,
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  Speaker 4: and you're you're going to.
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  Speaker 2: See you might see a five hundred dollars improvement if
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  Speaker 2: you're if you're fortunate, if you're working on just the
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  Speaker 2: right project. But but yeah, unless you win the lotto,
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  Speaker 2: you're not going to get that ten that ten thousand
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  Speaker 2: dollars improvement overnight, no matter what you do. So take
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  Speaker 2: a deep breath, pace yourself and uh, so that you
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  Speaker 2: can so you can get that ten thousand dollars improvement,
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  Speaker 2: because if that's the goal, then then you need to
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  Speaker 2: get to it.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, there was something I was thinking of. I I
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  Speaker 2: usually encourage people to use smarter goals, which is a
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  Speaker 2: specific measurable, ambitious, but realistic, time bound, ethical and reevaluable.
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  Speaker 2: And that reevaluable is so important because you need to
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  Speaker 2: be able to go you know, if you're okay, let's
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  Speaker 2: say you do give one hundred and ten percent and
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  Speaker 2: you give it for a week. If you if you
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  Speaker 2: haven't planned your goal to be reevaluable, then you are
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  Speaker 2: going to stop. You're going to quit because you can't
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  Speaker 2: look at that goal again and reevaluate it and go, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: what do I need to change to be able to
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  Speaker 2: keep making my way toward this?
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 2: So you know, and if you're giving eighty percent, you
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  Speaker 2: need to be able to do the same thing because Okay,
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  Speaker 2: this isn't happening fast enough, this isn't what am I
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  Speaker 2: doing wrong. Let's go back and evaluate what I'm doing
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  Speaker 2: and how I'm doing the different.
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  Speaker 1: Things you're making me. Think of a book I got
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  Speaker 1: back care called The twelve week year. I'm looking at
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  Speaker 1: my bedshelf. But but but the idea is what you're saying, Bill,
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  Speaker 1: is like you evaluate the tactics that you're taking. Now
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  Speaker 1: if if if we're changing tactics every week or two,
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  Speaker 1: probably not going to get the goal either, right.
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  Speaker 2: Right, so that that might be a problem.
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  Speaker 1: We're burning out, Like, oh I did I just did
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  Speaker 1: it really hard for a week, I got to change gears.
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  Speaker 1: How many entrepreneurs and even business owners, they'll get the
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  Speaker 1: shiny objects syntome and they're like, if they would have
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  Speaker 1: just stayed consistent and just did the work long enough,
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  Speaker 1: they would see the result. But they keep shifting every time.
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  Speaker 2: Right right, Well, that's why you got to stick with
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  Speaker 2: ambitious and realistic, and they're in the in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of smarter. You know, it should be it should be
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  Speaker 2: a stretch for you to do whatever it is you're
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  Speaker 2: planning to do, but it should also be realistic. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it should be ambitious enough that it's making you work,
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  Speaker 2: but it shouldn't be so ambitious that you're trying to
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  Speaker 2: leap over over a tall building and a single bound.
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  Speaker 2: You know that's just not going to happen. You can
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  Speaker 2: you can make your ambitious goal to break somebody's record,
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  Speaker 2: to break your own record, and that's realistic, you know.
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  Speaker 2: But but yeah, you're trying to go too far that
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  Speaker 2: that that violates the realistic part of the part of
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  Speaker 2: your smarter goal.
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  Speaker 1: So that is really important, you know, in staying motivated.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things I use, actually it's kind of fun,
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  Speaker 1: the Full Focused Planner that I have literally in front
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  Speaker 1: of you right now. They came out with a new
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  Speaker 1: planner this year that I use with some clients called
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  Speaker 1: the Wellness Planner. And the other thing that helps you
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  Speaker 1: do is how are you taking care of yourself? Like
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  Speaker 1: so you can also look at this and I use
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  Speaker 1: this with my Warrior app to kind of a foundational
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  Speaker 1: understanding of like are you taking care of yourself physically,
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  Speaker 1: getting the right sleep, moving, connecting, relaxing, Because if you're
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  Speaker 1: not doing some of these things are off. I use it.
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  Speaker 1: I use another app called the Warrior App where I
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  Speaker 1: go the core four where I look at how am
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  Speaker 1: I showing up in relationships, how am I show up
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  Speaker 1: in learning new things like taking care of myself physically spiritually.
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  Speaker 1: I think when these things are off, that does affect
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  Speaker 1: you and how impactful you're going to be in leading
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  Speaker 1: yourself in your business and other things. So are you
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  Speaker 1: paying attention to those things on a daily basis, even
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  Speaker 1: as much as like are you you know, yeah, like
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  Speaker 1: are you drinking enough water? Are you staying hydrated? Are
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  Speaker 1: you eating the right foods? Right? Being intentional about those
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  Speaker 1: things again, all those little things. Sometimes we're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I can skip a meal or you know, I can
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  Speaker 1: push through this right, and it doesn't and then we're
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  Speaker 1: like wondering why we're so frustrated or just don't have
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  Speaker 1: energy to stay motivated. And then I don't know about you, Bill,
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  Speaker 1: but I've unfortunately found the my place where I let
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  Speaker 1: that happen. And then I'm not as effective leader because
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  Speaker 1: I start to be snippy or not as responsive or
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  Speaker 1: caring or understanding the people around me, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: they don't like, I don't want to be around you
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  Speaker 1: as a leader. You're not leading yourself. Well, why would
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  Speaker 1: I want to participate versus the other side? If we're
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  Speaker 1: coming from a healthy, abundant place right where we can
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  Speaker 1: give and help lift up other people, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know you have to you have to love
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  Speaker 2: yourself before you can love others and you know that's
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  Speaker 2: that's just because because as a leader, your main job
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  Speaker 2: is to give and you know, so if you're not
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  Speaker 2: if you're not taking care of yourself, and you certainly
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  Speaker 2: can't do that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I know, we're just doing a short, short snippet
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  Speaker 1: here today, Bill, but I want to We've covered daily habits,
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  Speaker 1: We've covered some being motivated. You talked about smarter goals,
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  Speaker 1: which I like and I have a different version of that.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have to come back to you because I like
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  Speaker 1: what you brought in a day. But okay, if if
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  Speaker 1: if I were you know, I'm just you know, those
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  Speaker 1: are listening to the podcast today, what would be you know,
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  Speaker 1: your like top three things perhaps that you would be
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  Speaker 1: doing leadership pactice if you would say, hey, if you
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: could do this tomorrow, Uh here can you give them
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  Speaker 1: three Bill? Or I'll add in there. But then and
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: they and then they can pick maybe one of those
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  Speaker 1: exercises or thoughts or ways of being that they could
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  Speaker 1: use to start to increase their effectiveness in leading themselves.
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  Speaker 1: What would what would what would comes to mind to you?
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  Speaker 2: Well, one which we did talk about already, which I do,
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  Speaker 2: is make up a responsibilities list. If we want to
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: call it that instead of a jobs list. That sounds
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  Speaker 2: a little more draining, but you know, be clear about
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  Speaker 2: what your your responsible your core responsibilities are and put
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  Speaker 2: them up somewhere where you can see them all the time.
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  Speaker 2: And that way, if you feel like you're getting sidetracked,
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  Speaker 2: you can just go, Okay, is this part of the
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  Speaker 2: core responsibilities? Do I need to do? It's if that
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  Speaker 2: answers a no, yeah, you know, and you know that's
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  Speaker 2: as a as a leader, you should definitely know what
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  Speaker 2: your core responsibilities are and you know, be able to
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  Speaker 2: do if.
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  Speaker 1: You're working for somebody else, right, Bill, you should have
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  Speaker 1: a role and responsibilities clearly identify. If you don't, then
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  Speaker 1: start writing it down and then go to your employer
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  Speaker 1: and say, hey, here's what I think it should be.
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  Speaker 1: Do you agree?
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  Speaker 3: You know?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I mean there's always the other task is
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  Speaker 2: required line in the in everybody's job description, but there
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  Speaker 2: really should be a core set of responsibilities absolutely, and
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  Speaker 2: those are what you should be spending percent of your
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  Speaker 2: time on. Yeah, so so yeah, and you can also
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  Speaker 2: do one up for that includes your home responsibilities as
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  Speaker 2: well the things outside of work, you know, whether that
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  Speaker 2: be some professional organization, your church, your family is should
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  Speaker 2: definitely be in the core responsibilities, you know, whatever, whatever
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  Speaker 2: you want to put in it, and that's what you
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  Speaker 2: stick to.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: If it's not one of the if it doesn't fall
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  Speaker 2: into one of those categories, then you need to seriously
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  Speaker 2: consider whether it's something you should be working on.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, it would be a second one.
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  Speaker 2: A second one would be, well, what what you mentioned
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  Speaker 2: self care? Yeah, you know, at all at all different levels.
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  Speaker 1: M hyeah, because yeah, you.
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  Speaker 2: If you aren't in a place of abundance, I really
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  Speaker 2: like that that phrasing there, David, good job. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you're not coming from a place of abundance, then
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  Speaker 2: you're not going to be able to do your job
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  Speaker 2: as a leader, a leader at work, a leader in
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  Speaker 2: your community, a leader in your home, you know, because
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  Speaker 2: your first job is to give and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you can't, if you're not if you're not full,
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  Speaker 2: then you can't give. So so yeah, so so self
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  Speaker 2: care definitely definitely something to do on a daily basis.
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  Speaker 2: I guess the reel of life wouldn't be wouldn't be
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  Speaker 2: a daily thing so much I think is as maybe
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  Speaker 2: a weekly task.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see, well, I think, I like, I like, I
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  Speaker 1: like how you said the goal in the smarter goal,
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  Speaker 1: So you know that that And I mentioned this earlier
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  Speaker 1: in the habit of of like reflection or reevaluating. Are
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: you practicing I guess that's what I'm just pulling out
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  Speaker 1: a bill is like, are you practicing that? Reevaluating? And
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  Speaker 1: I use a framework of what should I stop doing?
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  Speaker 1: What should I start doing? What should I sustain doing?
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  Speaker 1: I is that as a framework for me. You're prompting
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  Speaker 1: me to think about if am I reevaluating it? Am
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: I reflecting on what I'm doing? Because if you've been
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  Speaker 1: doing it for a long time, let's say, and it's
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: not getting you where you want to be, maybe then
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  Speaker 1: that that's a point where maybe I need to adjust.
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  Speaker 2: That right or surrender it entirely.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe just lay it down all together, say I
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: guys got to stop. This is this is I was
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: talking to Stacey for example, uh Skinishida, which we've had
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: in the podcast, and and we're talking about how she's
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: trying to do some things in her business and she's
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: messing around with a lot of things that's just draining
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: her on the computer and other things. I'm like, it's
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  Speaker 1: not worth it, Like you need to stop doing that.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: It's not getting you where you really need to be
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: serving your clients. Right, we were talking about like how
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: to help each other and and focus on that and
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: by having good people like yourself and my life, Bill
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: and others, that we can help be a reflection to
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: each other. Right, And do you have somebody that helps
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: you to just reflect to say is serving you? Is
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  Speaker 1: that getting you what you want? You know? Yeah?
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah? And that leads to to accountability, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the old accountabil of buddy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, able to
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  Speaker 2: re evaluate. You can't, then you're gonna get stuck. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they're a pretty good chance your goal wasn't perfect to
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: begin with.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: No, No, we're wrapping up the episode here. We're excited
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: that you guys came and joined us for Bill and
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I coming back again. If you really enjoyed this podcast,
• 26:41
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• 26:45
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• 26:48
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• 26:51
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• 26:55
  Speaker 1: We have a whole business roundtable domain podcast. We're expanding
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: and we'd love to have you a part of the journey,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: so until then, Bill, thanks for joining us, Thanks for
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: having me. Yeah, and continue to be that intelligent leader
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  Speaker 1: leading your business well and we'll look forward to having
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: you next time on the Business Roundtable podcast. Thanks everybody,