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Episode 260. Work Faster by Building Routines · The Refrigeration Mentor Podcast

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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of, people that want to figure out how to get into a routine. To really help them, changing the things that you do the way you talk to people, the habits that you have.
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  It's just putting that work in and then as you challenge yourself a little bit more, you'll start to recognize things start to change. I was hanging out with a. A friend of mine last night, Scott Farley, had been on the podcast a few, few times. And I, I seen him last year and I, I seen him today and I was like, Scott, he'd lost, like, I could tell he lost a pile, pile of weight.
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  I think he, he lost 40 or 50 pounds. I'm just like, Scott, man, you look great. And he's, he, what he's doing is putting the work in. He, he says start in January, just started running. Thinking about his, the food he was be, been eating, and he just been putting the work in for four months, and he lost like over 40 or 50 pounds.
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  And once again, when I talked to him, he just, I'm putting the work in you know, I, I'm consistently making sure that I go to the gym, I think about the food that I'm eating, and I'm thinking about making sure that I'm conscientious on how I go about this. And so people around him are starting to, to, to work out or challenging him and they talk about it and they, they ask each other if they made it to the gym or if they did their walks or the runs and, and that's what you do kind of need to have sometimes accountability partner to really give yourself a kick in the butt. Sometimes it's you if you can be your own accountability partner, that is the best. That is the best because now you can really do anything. You can accomplish anything, but if you're finding it's a struggle for yourself, find someone else who, who wants to change, who wants to do something a little bit different.
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  So they, they, maybe they want to stop drinking so many beers. Maybe they want to eat a bit healthier. Maybe they want to go to the gym more. Maybe they want to figure out how to make extra income, whatever it is. And so I have that accountability partner to talk to them about it. You know, have the conversation and maybe it's meeting each week and say, okay did you, did you, did you go for that run that you said you were going to do?
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  Did you not eat out five times a week? You know, maybe, maybe that's what it is. It's reducing the amount of times you eat out. You like greasy food or fast food and just have that accountability partner and you be an accountability partner for someone else. And when you do those things, man, you'll see the things to start to change.
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  And once again, I see a bunch of you on here that have been here consistently day in, day out. I know for sure there's There's things changing within you, you may not, you may not notice or may not recognize it yet, but you will, because this, this comes back to getting into a habit of doing something that same thing with accountability part, getting into the habits of the things that you want to accomplish, I think a big one is doing challenges.
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  I talked to a lot of people like do a challenge just like this morning coffee with Trevor, this is a 30 day challenge for myself to be, be here, having this conversation with you, sharing a little bit of knowledge and hopefully inspiring you a little bit to get to that next level into your personal life or your career, because that's what it's all about to get you to to motivate you to be able to do it because you can do it.
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  Yeah, you can do it and we're in such a great industry like refrigeration is awesome so the biggest thing on the routine, just say troubleshooting. If if you want to get, a routine going. So you, you'll get certain calls each day. So dispatch will give you calls or you can, you find your own calls or you have your own list of calls you need to do.
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  You should have a list. There's only so many realistically, there's only so many calls that you can do at a, say, if you work in a supermarket application, there's only so many calls. So it could be mechanical calls, so mechanical could be like refrigerant, fans, air flow, all that stuff. There's only so many calls, like the drain's plugged, or the case is frozen, or you have a burnt out coil, or you have low, low charge, or you have overheating situation.
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  So, there might, there's quite a few, but there's only so many. There's, if you sat there and wrote down every kind of call, so say there's a thousand components in the system. So, and that, so only a thousand components that could be the problem. For an example, there could be a lot, but if you, you break it down into all the different calls that you can have in a day.
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  So each week, if you do 10 calls, 20 calls, 30 calls, 40 calls in a week, you're going to do quite a few of the similar calls, even though the system may be different. And this goes for even any, anything that consider refrigeration equipment. If it's air handling unit, if it's an ice machine, if it's a condensing unit, there's only so many different types of calls.
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  It could be because there's only so many parts. Refrigeration works in one way. You're moving heat around a system using a refrigerator. And if you understand the different calls that you could go on, get into the routine of trying to troubleshoot it in a systematic approach. So when you get a call and it's a, let's say it's a case not working, well, what is that systematic approach you take?
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  It's not going in and just tearing the case apart, it's, maybe it's, once again, go in and talk to the customer, go in and talk to the department manager, go in and look if the lights are on, check if the air is going, touch the liquid and suction line, like, you have this process, so you get into that routine, so it's the same thing each time on those types of service calls, and then you will miss less cases. You can't figure that problem out, but you get all this information. You can make a phone call to, to a team lead or that service manager, and they'll be able to help you, but you have all that information. It's not like you're calling them and you're just driving to say I just got the call and the case is warm and they pulled the case and do you know what it is?
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  And you're still driving the site. You go and get all that information. We, we know that. That's refrigeration 101. Get to the site. Do an assessment. Look around. Get your, get the minimum set points. And we talk about this all the time. Suction. Discharge temperatures and pressures and superheats and airflow.
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  All those different things. It's a liquid line hot or cold is the suction line hot or cold is the oil line hot, cold or warm. You just get all that information. And so when you get into the routine of those different calls, You'll start to find more problems quicker. You'll be able to start to troubleshoot quicker.
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  And then that, once again, that brings you, that brings value to the company and it makes you more valuable to the company and then get it in a routine going in your personal life. For example, some of you got a routine going now coming here every day of the week. Every day, Monday to Sunday, showing up and just coming out, asking questions, filling out the survey and getting the routine going.
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  It's not hard, it's just setting a time to do something every single day. That's a routine. It's like you get up and you brush your teeth in the morning. That says it. So you brush your teeth every day in the morning before you leave, or you get up and you take a shower every day. That's a routine. Get up, take a shower, go to work.
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  Get up, take a shower, or you get up and you eat breakfast. If you eat breakfast, that's the thing. That's a routine. It doesn't have to be any anything big. A lot of people think Think that it has to be this big thing to get into a routine. It doesn't have to be a big thing Maybe if you start off your start off your day And your routine this would be a great one is that you take 15 minutes before you leave and say you get out to your vehicle your truck or your van 15 minutes before And you sort out all your calls for a day and you do that every day You For a month, 30 days straight.
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  And then what do you do on the weekends? You get up and then you plan your day routine, but you've got to do it even on the weekends, that's the thing. It's like, Oh, well, Saturday, I'm going to sleep until nine because it's my time. No, you still get up at 5 30. If you're getting up to 5 30 every day, get up at 5 30 on Saturday.
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  What's wrong with that? Get up at 5 30 on Sunday. What's wrong with that? Keep it, keep it consistent. Then it makes it easier. you know, You don't have to get up with an alarm. You're just at your internal time clock, getting you up, getting up before that alarm clock even rings.
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  So get into that routine of, okay. , going to work today, getting the into the van and truck. Okay, start writing down. Okay, I got this job today, this job today, just what did I do yesterday? Okay. Reflect on yesterday and then have that process as a routine. And then you get into those, those routines turn into habits and hopefully they're because you got to think about this because you want that to be a good habit.
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  That's going to help your progress. You know, and so it could be like, maybe it's every day that I listen to technical pod, I listen to the Refrigeration Mentor podcast every day, maybe it's that I do 15 minutes a day, or maybe it's I read a book like Jim Quick's Limitless book, I'll read that every day and until it's done, but I'll take 10 minutes every day until it's done.
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  So it might take you a month, it might take you six months. It doesn't really matter, but you know, after you start getting to that, that, that consistency, that routine, you're going to be like, man, this is, this is good. I'm noticing a change, then you'll put, invest more time in it if you see value in it.
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  I think a lot of people want want the dad, the idea of the change will be great, but it's, it's hard for them to put the work in and set those first initial steps. But when you can get over those, those curves, so those hurdles, so, cause you got to put it in. And so, oh man, I've been doing it for seven days.
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  Oh, if I miss one day, it's okay. No, it's not. If you say you're going to do something for 30 days, do it and do it as hard as you can and do it as best you can get in the routine of that. And then you'll notice that you'll keep doing it. And it's like, man, okay, I got to, let's try something else. Let's say, okay, well now I want to work out.
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  I want to go for a walk for 20 minutes a day. And then you do that and in order, so I want to go to the gym or whatever it is. Maybe it's okay getting the routine of I want to have a clean van. So every day at the end of the day, even though you have to rush to get home, you, you plan it. Okay. Before I leave my last site, I'm going to spend seven to 10 minutes cleaning the back of my van or cleaning the front of my van.
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  And so after 30 days, you, and even if you have a messy vehicle right now, truck or van in 30 days, if you spend seven to 10 minutes every day, by the end of that month, that. That van will be clean, but you got to put the work in. It's not like, oh man, I got to rush home and, and, and do this and do that.
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  Maybe it's then it doesn't have to be at a certain time. Maybe it's in the morning before you leave. So you get up, you make your lunch, you have breakfast, you kiss the kids and the family before you leave. You go out to the vehicle 10 minutes before you usually leave and then you work on cleaning the front of your truck so it's not a mess and having garbage everywhere or cleaning the back where you're putting your tools away properly and you're having everything organized because it gets overwhelming when it's all destroyed but just take 10 minutes okay i'm going to do this one shelf Okay, and then I'm going to do this one just shelf the next day.
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  Then maybe you'll throw something in the evening, but that next morning you're going to tidy it up, you're going to strap stuff up, and you're going to do it up. And so that is getting into the routine, and it's just doing it, holding yourself accountable to do it, or have someone else holding you accountable to do it.
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  So I think that's a great question. Getting into different routines. Yeah, another one, like I said, it could be for the troubleshooting. Maybe it's reading a technical document for 15 minutes a day. Man, if you do that, in one year your, your technical skills are going to be hands down way, way better if you spend 15 minutes a day.
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  Because you'll read it, and then hopefully that day you'll go out and you'll try something like that. Say this is reading it on a, on a compressor or reading it on a controller and you're going to go out there. But like I said, I said this time and time again, lots of people are like, Oh, I'm no good at controllers.
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  Well, when did you ever open up the controller manual, like the E2 book or a micro thermal manual or Dan Foss SF 800 manual? Not many do it. So what if you take 10 minutes a day and when you go into a site, you just go up and press those buttons that it mentions the press. We'll try that. And see where that that leads you for doing a routine and then getting some technical skills in.
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  Hopefully this was helpful a little bit. Hopefully you can take something away from this to maybe get into, get into that routine or help someone be more accountable or, or think of how you can make those next steps in your personal life or career. Once again, I want to thank you for taking the time to come and hang out at a morning coffee with Trevor.
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  Like do it, just, just do it. And when you start doing stuff, taking those actions, your life is going to change for the better. Let's get a conversation going. Everyone.