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The Systems Behind My Success · Money And Wealth With John Hope Bryant

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  Speaker 1: Welcome The Money and Wealth with John Hobryant, a production
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  Speaker 1: it's John Hobrant and this is the Money and Wealth
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  Speaker 1: Black Effect Network presented podcast series for twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 1: to kick off this year, I want to do something
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  Speaker 1: a little different. No guests today, no headlines, no debate. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: I want to answer a question I get more than
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  Speaker 1: almost any other question, John, How do you actually run
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  Speaker 1: your life? What is it that you do to become successful.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not the speeches. It's not the quotes, it's
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  Speaker 1: not the highlight reel. It's the systems. It's not the
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  Speaker 1: hype structure, the habits, the routines at home and on
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  Speaker 1: the road. I told you make money during the day,
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  Speaker 1: you bill wells in your sleep. It's compounding. Success is
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  Speaker 1: about compounding, and this is a compounding effect also, And
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to give you a sneak peek into my
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  Speaker 1: world and how I function. You like this, let me
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  Speaker 1: know in the comments on where the platform where you
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  Speaker 1: see or listen to this podcast. I read those comments.
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  Speaker 1: I often comment on many of them. If it's on
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  Speaker 1: social media platforms, I listen to you. And I'm willing
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  Speaker 1: to do more of this if it's helpful. Success is
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  Speaker 1: really misunderstood. Only in the dictionary does a word success
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  Speaker 1: come before the word work, because it's alphabetical. Here's what
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  Speaker 1: I've learned over time. Success is not about motivation. It's
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  Speaker 1: about infrastructure. If your life has no structure, your dreams
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  Speaker 1: don't stand a chance. I'll repeat that. If your life
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  Speaker 1: has no structure, your dreams don't stand a chance. The
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  Speaker 1: late doctor Dorothy Height civil rights icon, the only black
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  Speaker 1: woman to own a building on Pennsylvania Avenue is the
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  Speaker 1: National Council of Negro Women. I believe my friend Oprah
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  Speaker 1: Winfrey actually paid off their mortgage, if I'm not mistaken,
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  Speaker 1: because you respect the Dorothy Heights so much. But she
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  Speaker 1: once said to me, John, I like you because you're
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  Speaker 1: a dreamer with a shovel in your hand. A dreamer
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  Speaker 1: with a shovel in your hand. So it's about not
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  Speaker 1: just having the dream, not just having that dream, but
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  Speaker 1: having the structure to execute them that dream. Again, if
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  Speaker 1: your life has no structure, your dreams don't stand a chance. Today,
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  Speaker 1: I'm pulling the curtain back just a little bit, not
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  Speaker 1: to impress you, but to demystify success, which is I
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  Speaker 1: try to do repeatedly on this podcast, because if my
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  Speaker 1: life works, it's not magic, it's designed. Let's get into this.
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  Speaker 1: The philosophy, the core philosophy. People romanticize discipline. They think
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  Speaker 1: successful people wake up inspired every morning, energized, focused, locked in.
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  Speaker 1: That's not reality. I don't rely on motivation. I rely
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  Speaker 1: on systems. People get up, edgy, cranky, irritable, needing their
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  Speaker 1: coffee out too late the night before. Not me. Not
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  Speaker 1: typically clubs don't pay. Hanging out doesn't pay. Hanging out
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  Speaker 1: with a bunch of folks getting drunk, high and whatever
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  Speaker 1: it is they're doing, talking about somebody else's business. None
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  Speaker 1: of that stuff pays dividends on me. You see me
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  Speaker 1: at a club, know that I probably own it or
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  Speaker 1: have a stake in it, or I'm meeting with somebody
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  Speaker 1: who I'm doing business with, who's in the entertainment business.
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  Speaker 1: There's some purpose I'm there. But anyway, people have lots
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  Speaker 1: of reasons why they may not get up in the
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  Speaker 1: morning feeling motivated, and maybe they might just be tired,
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  Speaker 1: worn out, and so you can't rely on vibe and
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  Speaker 1: energy and motivation alone. I'll tell you something, and this
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  Speaker 1: is why I continue to tell people to become reasonably
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  Speaker 1: the goal should be to become reasonably comfortable in their
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  Speaker 1: own skin. If you ask me what my silver bullet is,
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  Speaker 1: it's not anything obvious. It's that I am reasonably comfortable
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  Speaker 1: in my own skin. That is like number one. So
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  Speaker 1: joy comes from the inside. What happiness affects you from
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  Speaker 1: the outside. You can be happy and joyful, you can
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  Speaker 1: be well. You can be joyful and happy and joyful
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  Speaker 1: and unhappy. But if you are joyful, you'll never be unjoyful.
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  Speaker 1: Where you can be happy and not be joyful, and
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  Speaker 1: you'll will. And one thing I guarantee you is one
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  Speaker 1: day you'll be unhappy. So you just really have to
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  Speaker 1: get that core right. And that's your first system is
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  Speaker 1: your inner system. Motivation is emotional, and emotions are inconsistent.
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  Speaker 1: I've said repeatedly, if you make an emotional decision, it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a bad one. Systems don't care how
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  Speaker 1: you feel. They carry you on the days when you're tired,
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  Speaker 1: when you're distracted, when you're overwhelmed, or just that life
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  Speaker 1: hits you hard. Here's the line that governs everything I do.
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  Speaker 1: If something it needs a system, and in my systems,
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  Speaker 1: everything has a place. I'll get into this in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: So your health needs a system, your finances needs a system.
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  Speaker 1: You're thinking needs a system, Your leadership needs a system.
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  Speaker 1: Your relationships I call it relationship capital needs a system.
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  Speaker 1: If it lives only in your head, it's fragile. That
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  Speaker 1: means also there's noise in your head. That's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of stuff to try to keep together, to keep organized.
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  Speaker 1: If you're keeping it all in your head or even
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  Speaker 1: on little sticky notes all over the place. That's like
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  Speaker 1: chaos right, just waiting to happen. You've got to get
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  Speaker 1: things organized in your life so that you're running it,
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  Speaker 1: or your to do list in your head is not
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  Speaker 1: running you, you're running it. So let's now get right
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  Speaker 1: into the JGEB Achievement formula. Let me give you the
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  Speaker 1: framework that quietly runs my life. And I'm gonna if you,
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  Speaker 1: as on the back end of posting this publishing this episode,
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  Speaker 1: if you go to Briant Journal on my Brian ger
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  Speaker 1: Ventures website, you'll see an article about this piece, and
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  Speaker 1: you'll see a couple of formulas I'm gonna post there
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  Speaker 1: that amplify what I'm talking about here so you can
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  Speaker 1: see it visually. And I'll also do some social media
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  Speaker 1: posts and I'll put those formulas a couple of the
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  Speaker 1: formulas there. But my primary formula, the JGEB Achievement formula,
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  Speaker 1: goes like this, and it's like a mind map which
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  Speaker 1: I'll get into, okay, and this is it's a circular vision,
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  Speaker 1: not a linear vision. Right vision, mission, strategy, plan, execution,
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  Speaker 1: tactics to dos tow dons. Then I say assessment, reevaluation, readjustment,
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  Speaker 1: and then I do a softwareup grade at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day based on what happened that day. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna repeat that again. This is a success formula.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna put it in places we can see a visually,
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  Speaker 1: most notably my Bryant Journal. Go there to get a
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  Speaker 1: copy of this, print it out, put on your wall.
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  Speaker 1: Are adapted to yourself and how you're going to use
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  Speaker 1: this in your own life. Starts with vision. Where are
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  Speaker 1: you going? The Bible says, well, there is no vision.
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  Speaker 1: The people perish, right then mission, Why are you going there?
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of folks going a lot of places.
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  Speaker 1: They have no business, right, just wasting time trying to
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  Speaker 1: impress somebody you really don't want to be like, just
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  Speaker 1: wasting the only real assets you've got, which is your time.
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  Speaker 1: Strategy I love this, How do you intend to win? Right?
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  Speaker 1: Strategy speaks to structure, and a lot of businesses fail
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  Speaker 1: and ventures fail, not because the product is bad. The
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  Speaker 1: product may be excellent, the business actually might be decent,
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  Speaker 1: but the structure is all screwed up. And strategy and
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  Speaker 1: structure sort of go hand in hand. The plan what
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  Speaker 1: what's that strategy look like on paper? And the plan
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  Speaker 1: is what you're going to execute, which is coming next.
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  Speaker 1: So this is really important to translate vision, mission, strategy, plan.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: If it's not written down, it's not real. Right, what's
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  Speaker 1: that strategy look like on paper? Then execution putting it
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  Speaker 1: into motion. PhDs are good. PhDs are even better. Right
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  Speaker 1: then tactics the specific moves right, the specific moves around
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  Speaker 1: what you're doing. And I would encourage you as fast
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  Speaker 1: as you can delegate things that you don't have to
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  Speaker 1: do yourself. For two decades, people around me criticize me
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  Speaker 1: for paying for I'd had started a little organization, have
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  Speaker 1: a great vision, and this was in South Central AA.
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking about now there's the New Leaders Organization in
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  Speaker 1: Young Black Professionals, another organization, and I'd hire an executive
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  Speaker 1: director of part time and I'd pay them money I
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  Speaker 1: really didn't have. And they're like, John, why are you
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  Speaker 1: paying that money? So I can free myself right to
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  Speaker 1: do things that person can't do that only I can do, right,
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  Speaker 1: And I believed in myself. I backed myself enough to
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  Speaker 1: believe that I could go get some serious things done.
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  Speaker 1: But I needed the freedom to be able to do it.
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  Speaker 1: I needed to time the heads me able to do it,
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  Speaker 1: but I need these other things done. So I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to hire team leaders who could help me execute on
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  Speaker 1: the pieces, the tactical pieces. They really didn't need my
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  Speaker 1: attention quantitative versus qualitative, or qualitative my part versus quantitative
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  Speaker 1: their part. And now I have, you know, four hundred
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  Speaker 1: employees that are helping me lift what I tell you
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  Speaker 1: to tell you again, you make money during the day,
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  Speaker 1: you build wealth in your sleep, compounding, right, you're strying
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  Speaker 1: to get it. All these things work together. So the
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  Speaker 1: tactics are the specific moves that to do's that should
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  Speaker 1: be obvious right, and then the too donees, what did
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  Speaker 1: you get done? Right? It doesn't matter if you have
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  Speaker 1: a to do list if it keeps moving every day
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  Speaker 1: or every week and you never get anything to done.
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  Speaker 1: You want to get some things to done so you
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  Speaker 1: can move. You can grow up, as my T shirt says,
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  Speaker 1: my T shirt and they says grow up. That's an
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  Speaker 1: operation hope from the operation of store. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: it's ordered the whole bunch of stuff from the operational store.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty cool. So you want to get things done.
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  Speaker 1: So here's where most people stop. Right, if they get
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  Speaker 1: this far, it's amazing. But then they sort of stop
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  Speaker 1: here and they don't realize that there's a couple more steps.
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  Speaker 1: After done comes assessment. You want to assess what did
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  Speaker 1: you get done? What was the quality of that thing? Right?
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  Speaker 1: Then you want to readjust you want a readjustment based
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  Speaker 1: on the assessment and be it in. This should be
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  Speaker 1: an honest assessment. To make a mistake doesn't make you
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  Speaker 1: a mistake. Right to screw up does not make you
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  Speaker 1: a screw up. There's nothing wrong with saying I'm suboptimal today.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't perform as well as I did.
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  Speaker 1: I may as I'm messed up, I was tripped in fall.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, you cannot even grow except through legitimate suffering.
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  Speaker 1: So success, and you know, failure, to me is just
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  Speaker 1: an outcome to experiment. It's a it's you know, if
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  Speaker 1: you if you try something a thousand times and you
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  Speaker 1: failed nine hundred and ninety nine times, but then you won,
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  Speaker 1: Nobody remembers the failures. Right, success has a thousand mothers
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  Speaker 1: and failure as a bastard child. Just keep pushing. As
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  Speaker 1: my friend Tony Rushier would say, if you don't stop,
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  Speaker 1: or you don't quit, you can't fail, right, So you've
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  Speaker 1: got to constantly be reassessing, like a softw up grade
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  Speaker 1: on your phone. You know, you get that iPhone, it
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  Speaker 1: does not come out perfect, right, I got a seventeen
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  Speaker 1: pro Now I love it, but you know, within two
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  Speaker 1: weeks of that phone coming out, here's Apple's coming to
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  Speaker 1: me with a seventeen point one software upgrade. I think
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  Speaker 1: we're up to eighteen point nine now, and the phone's
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  Speaker 1: been out for about a year. Because they keep finding
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  Speaker 1: things that they need to fix. They keep assessing and readjusting.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I want you to do. Then, I want
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  Speaker 1: you to give yourself a software upgrade, right, This is
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  Speaker 1: what I really want you to focus on, is giving
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  Speaker 1: yourself a real software upgrade on your life daily. Start
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  Speaker 1: with annually, right, Stop doing stupid stuff and start doing
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  Speaker 1: smart stuff right. And then you want to get it
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  Speaker 1: down to maybe monthly, trying not to put any pressure,
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  Speaker 1: too much pressure on you, right, And then I want
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  Speaker 1: you to I want you to do it weekly, and
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  Speaker 1: at some point I do want you to get it
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  Speaker 1: down to daily. I make adjustments now, literally in real
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  Speaker 1: time in my life, constant software grades. I want to
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  Speaker 1: wake up tomorrow better than I was when I went
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  Speaker 1: to bed yesterday or last night, and then you're right
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  Speaker 1: back on track with vision, a new vision, Vision one
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  Speaker 1: point two, Vision one point six, Vision point point nine. Right,
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  Speaker 1: it's trying to get it. That loop is everything. It means.
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  Speaker 1: Failure is feedback not shame. Adjustment is discipline not weakness.
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  Speaker 1: Growth is expected, not accidental. My life works because it's
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  Speaker 1: designed to evolve. That's the infrastructure energy before time. I
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  Speaker 1: manage my energy because time without energy is useless. If
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  Speaker 1: I'm exhausted, mentally cluttered, or emotionally drained, it doesn't matter
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  Speaker 1: how open my calendar is, I won't perform well. So
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  Speaker 1: I protect my sleep at least six hours a night,
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  Speaker 1: no matter where I am in the world, no matter
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  Speaker 1: what I'm doing, I get six hours a night of sleep.
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  Speaker 1: My mental clarity, this is really important. That's why I
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  Speaker 1: say you cannot have a bunch of noise going on
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  Speaker 1: in your life. You need to get the noise out
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  Speaker 1: of your head. You need clarity, emotional stability. If you
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  Speaker 1: have a surviving mindset, you're in a surviving state of mind,
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  Speaker 1: then your life is ready fire, aim right, and that's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna work long term. The clutter and the noise
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  Speaker 1: in your head. It's not gonna look work for long term.
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  Speaker 1: So that's why I forget which book it was. It
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  Speaker 1: was the Memo or from Nothing. I speak about this
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  Speaker 1: specifically and try to get you go from a surviving
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  Speaker 1: mindset to a thriving mindset, to a winning and a
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  Speaker 1: building mindset. So I protect these things, not perfectly, but intentionally.
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  Speaker 1: There is no perfect. A saint is a center that
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  Speaker 1: got up. What I want you to do is the
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  Speaker 1: very best you can. Burnout isn't a badge of honor.
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  Speaker 1: It's a warning sign that the systems are missing. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to work smarter, not just harder, even though
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  Speaker 1: hustle and hard work are not to be underrated. When
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have any money in my life, I had
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  Speaker 1: to have hustle on hustle, creating more hustle that compounded
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  Speaker 1: on itself. That's another podcast for another time. Thinking and capture.
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  Speaker 1: Most people don't lack intelligence, they lack capture. I hope
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  Speaker 1: you're writing this stuff down. Ideas are fragile people. They
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  Speaker 1: don't arrive politely when you're sitting at a desk. They
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  Speaker 1: show up while walking, while traveling between meetings in quiet
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  Speaker 1: moments when you get up to the middle of the
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  Speaker 1: night to go to the restroom, right when you're talking
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  Speaker 1: to your kids. Just there you go. Right, So I
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  Speaker 1: never trust my memory. Haven't you have this great idea
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  Speaker 1: about something? You say, Oh, I'll write that down later.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't write it down, it's not real. Please
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  Speaker 1: remember that. Please write it down. Write that down. If
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  Speaker 1: you don't write it down, it's not real. You had
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  Speaker 1: some great, brilliant thought and then later on you went
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  Speaker 1: to go write it down, and you're like, where did
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  Speaker 1: it go? Exactly my point, it went away because it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't real. You didn't write it down. It just fluid. Right,
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  Speaker 1: So you never trust your memory. You trust your systems.
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  Speaker 1: If I have an idea that it's worth having, it's
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  Speaker 1: worth saving immediately. So I have voice notes. There's a
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  Speaker 1: voice note on your phone. It's a voice note app
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  Speaker 1: on your phone. Most people don't even know that. I
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  Speaker 1: used to use that. I don't use that anymore, but
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  Speaker 1: that's where I started written notes. I'll tell you the
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  Speaker 1: tools that I used in a minute, written notes.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: For those who don't use technology, you write things down,
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  Speaker 1: that's fine, or maybe if you use an iPad and iPad,
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  Speaker 1: pen then do that right. Digital capture, we all know
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  Speaker 1: what that means. Right, your phone, your iPad or whatever
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  Speaker 1: digital tool you're using. Judgment comes later, people, just get
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  Speaker 1: it written down. Editing comes later. Just get it written down.
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  Speaker 1: It could be messy as head could have typos, have
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  Speaker 1: spelling errors. It doesn't matter. Just you're talking to you.
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  Speaker 1: Just get it written down, all right. Respect the idea first, right.
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  Speaker 1: Entire books, speeches, and initiatives have started this way. Nation building,
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  Speaker 1: business building, empire building have started this way with the
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  Speaker 1: power of a powerful idea that's been written down and
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  Speaker 1: then and later on refined and structured. The JGB arch
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  Speaker 1: tools inside a system. Once you have a framework, you
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  Speaker 1: now need tools. Right, tools only work inside architecture. I
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  Speaker 1: think of my tools as an arc. Every piece has
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  Speaker 1: a role. Remove one and the structure weakens. So let
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  Speaker 1: me tell you about what just happened in the midst
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  Speaker 1: of this podcast taping to give you a sense of
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  Speaker 1: my tools. I don't use different kinds of manufact if
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  Speaker 1: you like if you like PCs, that's great, then use PCs.
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  Speaker 1: I use Apple products. They don't glitch, they don't they
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  Speaker 1: don't crash. I used to got PTSD from computers crashing
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  Speaker 1: on me back in the day. You right, be all
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  Speaker 1: into something, crashes and it goes away. And I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't happen anymore. I'm sure there's gotten much more
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  Speaker 1: efficient and technologically, you know, elegant. But I just like
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  Speaker 1: Apple products myself, and I'm not you know, I have
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  Speaker 1: no business relationship with Apple. I'm just telling you how
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  Speaker 1: what I do and what happened in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: this taping. Is my primary device that I was using
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  Speaker 1: for my recording. I didn't have it hooked up to
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  Speaker 1: a power unit, and I had been messing around for
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  Speaker 1: longer than I expected. Well, the power died. That's okay.
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  Speaker 1: My iPad which was my secondary unit, and I have
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: a third, actually four pieces of tech here in front
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: of me. It's all cloud based, right, It's all on
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: a cloud system. It's all real time sync. So in
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: real time, I just switched without you even knowing. I'm
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: letting you know, without you even knowing, I switched to
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: my iPad pro, which and I get. I get. Make
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: sure you get the best tech with the highest level
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: of what I can afford it now can't afford it
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: back in the day, but maybe you could afford this
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: if you weren't, you know, out of the mall or
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: partying or whatever. Right, what do you spend your money?
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I'm not judging you, just saying this is where I
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: decided to invest my cash is in technology and systems
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: to run my life. Because I do the work of
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: several people through technology. I get the work done of
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: several people because I leverage the power of technology. Okay,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: back to this, the jage b arc. So I think
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: of my tools as an arc. Every piece has a role.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Remove one in the structure weakends right, because this is
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: the jage b arc. Again, I'm gonna put these graphs
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: out so you can capture them and use them yourself.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Some tools help me capture ideas. Some tools help me plan,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: some help me execute, Some help me help my teams communicate.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Some help manage scale and relationships. The names of the
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: tools matter less than their function. Now that said, let
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: me tell you the tools. Some of the tools I
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: use in order to capture ideas. And I cannot underscore
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: this enough. To capture an idea about a business, a function,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: a project, your kid's birthday party, everything from personal to
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: a wedding, anniversary to a business concept to a joint venture,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: idea to a new patent, a product you want, a
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: patent to a business trip, to client acquisition for your
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: new venture, the house rehab, whatever it is you want
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: to do. I initially would capture that in what was
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: called a mind map. It's called mind mapping software. Write
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: that down mind mapping software. Find the one that works
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: for you, and I use mind map software used to
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: And now I've sort of idly enough don't even need
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: that anymore because I've gotten most of my idea's pretty
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: refined now. But I used to. I mean, I had
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: fifty or sixty different mind maps going. But capturing your ideas, yes,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: you can do it in a note car. You can
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: do it, you know, a linear writing, but your brain
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: is sees a pick. Sure again, the Bible says, where
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: there's no vision, that people pairish, right, so you capture
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: that vision, that idea. I deal with a mind map.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: So then I have other tools that help help me
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: with a plan. Well, of course, uh you know, artificial
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: intelligence and writing tools like Microsoft and uh gee, I'm
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: doing this off the top of my head. Ever, note
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: I used to use every note to both capture ideas
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: and write out my plan. But there's you know, whatever
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: business tool works for you best. That's typically a collection
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: of tools, is uh is what I use to write
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: my plans. I certainly use artificial intelligence helped with my research.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Used to be the Internet. Before that it was a
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: dictionary and you know, going to the library things. So
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: technology really has helped you to be smarter. Then I
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: have to help me execute. I used to use airtable,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: I used to use a bunch of stuff. I currently
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: my base station, my command center. I have everything, my
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: entire life sitting in Trello, right so, and I managed
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: my professional life, my personal life, my passions, my priorities,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: my projects. I managed everything in a technolog piece of
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: technology called Trello, which is encrypted as it has you know,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: multiple levels of security so to worry about that people
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: getting into your stuff. It's password protected times too, and
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: it's and it's visual, but it's also a technical's project
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: management essentially, and it's really quite elegant. And I've not
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: found this capacity yet and I've not found its outer
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: limits yet, which is which is really cool. And I
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: definitely pushed the push the envelope. And I may may
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: share a photo screenshot of some of my TrailO trailer boards.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: But if you just just search for Trello, you'll get
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: the you'll get the picture of go to YouTube and
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: ask to do a tutorial video on what Trello is.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: It'll make your life so much easier, personal again and professional.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: I use these tools in all parts of my life.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Then I also have a subtool for Trello that uh,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: that's a knowledge tool that is called Obsidian, and Obsidian
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: is for crazy people like me. But I have Obsidian notes,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: which I use markedowns. You can research what a markedown is,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: but I use Obsidian notes to capture knowledge and data
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: as it comes to me. I just throw it in there.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: I throw it in there, and I throw and I
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: link it right. I linked. You know, I met somebody.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: They live in Atlanta. I marked that they marked Atlanta's
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: a marked down. So everybody that lives in Atlanta that
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: I know, when I go to Atlanta, it tells me
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: everybody that lives in Atlanta, they own a restaurant. It
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: tells me everybody that I know that owns a restaurant.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Because I put that as a marked down, they're an architect.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Later on I can say what architects do I know
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: who live in Atlanta, it will tell me all of
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: those It's really quite fascinating. It's called obsidian, but it
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: it's you know, it's a little out there. You got
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: to be somebody who's a tech obsessed person like me
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: to really want to get in that. So don't spend
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: a lot of time of city in but you should
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: know that that's what a lot of very successful people use.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Tech geniuses, tech bros, tech leaders, business leaders, CEOs, billionaires, multimillionaires,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: CEOs of fortune, public companies. They use these tools, right,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: And if you see my obsidian map, it is it
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: looks like it looks like it looks like a Cosmo, right,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: it's all it's all these little dots from all these
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: little context of relationships. Because when I grew up, I
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: didn't have financial capital, so I had to use relationship capital,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: and so my relationships were my capital. And so then
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I had to then value that capital and how to
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: keep up with them and what are they doing? And
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: they've never got a new piece information on them. I
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: put it in this database. And then you have some
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: tools you use to communicate, right, And I use Slack
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: to communicate. Slack it's like text messaging in a very
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: narrow confine about a specific topic with a specific group
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: of people. It's encrypted between security protected, it's password protected.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: It you know your your text messages are not secure.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: They're just not. And you also, don't you forget where
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: you which text stream? Who you text? Where's that information
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: that you texted or somebody texted you? Where is it?
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: You forget again? Like an electronic sticky note, you get
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: lost in all of these text messages. This would slack.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: You don't get lost. But slack is also temporary. So
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: now you have a stream of information that you're communicating
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: with Europe. In my case, I call my Special Forces Team,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: my senior team leaders, the twenty people I rely on
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: for most things in my life. But that's that stream
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: will be pushed out by new information in that stream.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: So if something that's important, I translate something in Slack,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: I convert that into a Trello card, and Trello card
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: into a Trello board, and a Trailler board manages the
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: project or part of my life. Everything has a place.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: I told you that earlier, and then that Trello board
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: relates to a project space, and that project space it
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: relates to is probably a company or companies in my life,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: or groups of activity, and that group of activity ties
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: into my strategy, my mission, my vision. See what I'm saying,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: See how this works together. Some tools help me manage
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: scale and relationships. And I've talked about that already. The
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: names of the tools again matter less than their functions.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Here's the key. Lesson the tools change the architecture, doesn't.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: I don't chase apps. I designed systems. I was on
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: retreat recently in Mali, and I spent half my time there,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: in indition to enjoying myself, upgrading into redesigning my system
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: for twenty twenty six because I've grown so much that
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: I've outgrown the system I had in January of twenty
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: twenty five. And so in order to move fast, because
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: you get to when I was struggling, money was more
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: important than time, So I would waste time in order
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: to try to make money. That hustle was real. But
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: please believe me, when you as you become more successful,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: please hear me saying this, Your time becomes more valuable
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: than your money. You can waste my money for a minute,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: you cannot waste my time at all. I'm ruthless about
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: my time. Everything I'm telling you now is a time
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: wasting hack. It is a way to get back your
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: time to create more time. Oh this is so powerful,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: but I don't have time to stick to anyone topic
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: because I want to get through all this in one podcast.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: If you like this, let me know, and I'm happy
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: to take any one of these topics and go deeper.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Your brain is for thinking, not storage. Please write that down.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Your brain is for thinking, not storage. I'll go one
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: step further. You're thinking your brain is by thinking about
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: where you want to go. Don't let your brain overtake
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: your life. My brain don't control anything that I do.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: I'm an intuitive leader. Women's intuition are stronger than anything
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: I know. Men have it to the ego, the bravado.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: The lack of comfort with our emotions sometimes keep us
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: from listening to our intuition. But God's to me, that's
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: God speaking to you and through you. We're not human
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: beings having a spiritual experience. Where spiritual beings having a
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: human experience, energy matters. So when I get an intuitive reading,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: not an emotional reading, not an anger read, not an
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: ego read. When I get an intuitive read about something,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: when I know what I know about somebody or something.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: I feel it in my gut. They say someone will
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: say that, right, and now I know I want to
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: do I'm a vision for something. Right. I've done my research,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: I've created a plan, I've water tested, I've pressure tested
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: to make sure that the plan is real. By the
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: time an entrepreneur actually moves on something, the risk is
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: mostly go to rung out of it. By the way
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: through the process, I'm telling you, everybody has their own
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: way of doing it. This is my way of doing it,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: and so by the time you execute on it, you
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: know you just want to move efficiently and quickly. Right, Well,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: I'm moving so fast now on things that I have built.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to institutionalize everything now, and things are coming
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: at me hot and heavy. I don't have time to
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: be sitting around and messing around with time and messing
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: around with analysis or screwing. So I spend time on
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: my retreat, on calorifacation. I retreat. It's intentional retreat, to
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: go away so I can think, so I can slow
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: the world down, reimagine everything. Go through this process of
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: reimagination reassessment very slowly. Go from my left side of
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: my brain. Analytic, go to the right side of my brain,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: creative and intuitive and contextual. I come up with an
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: upgraded software from my operating system. I take time to
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: develop it so that when I get back into the game,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: I'm relaxed and I'm just executing boom boom bang bang,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: I'm just moving grooving. Yes, no, that that go, don't
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: do that? No right, It's very clean, it's very elegant.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: It gives me more time for my family, more time
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: for my passions. That's how I'm able to do so much.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Your brain is for thinking, not for storage. Once tasks
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: leave your head and into a system, your mind relaxes,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: and a relaxed mine thinks better. So my intuition is
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: from a decision making Actually, my brain is a GPS
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: device to tell me how to get to where my
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: intuition has told me I'm going.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: That is a drop to my and a podcast all
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: by itself. But I don't want to get distracted from
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: giving you the tools of my success. Execution and delegation.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: If you do everything yourself, you're not in control. You're trapped.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: I organize execution around one question, what only I can
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: do and what should never be done by me again.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you this is so good. I organize myself
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: around this question what only I can do? What's those
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: things are that thing that only I can do and
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: what should never be done by me? Ever? Again, anything
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: repeatable gets documented, anything scalable gets delegated. This isn't about ego.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: It's about sustainability. It's about building. It's about building something
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: that outlives you and can grow underneath you. Communication and boundaries.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Communication overload is where leaders burn out. Email texts, direct
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: messages DMS, they call them. I don't do dms. I
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: tell people, don't DM me, You'll get your heart broken.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: I just don't bother with it again. I walk through life.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: I walk through life consciously oblivious of most things around me,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: because most things just don't matter, at least not to me.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I decide what matters, and I focus on those things.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: And I decided direct messages don't matter, that they don't
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: matter that most people listening to this podcast, I just
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: don't do them. I don't manage by text message. I
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: don't project manage with my email. Right, these are just
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: efficiency tools to get from you know. I decide the
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: way I'm going to communicate, and then it's a stream
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: of communication in this portal with the folks that I
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: have already predecided that I want to communicate with in
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: that way. Now somebody else picks up my direct messages.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: I just don't myself, but I'm in the comments. By
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: the way, if you're an any social media platform and
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: you see a response from me, that's me so uh
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: just leaders get burned out emails, text messages, DM, slack, WhatsApp, uh,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: which is another form of communication, What's app and all
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: kinds of other apps. Accessibility without boundaries is chaos. I
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: structure communication. So what matters. What matters to me rises,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: noise falls away. Not to be distant, but to stay effective.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Boundaries aren't arrogance, their survival. Home mode versus travel mode.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: My life runs in two modes, home mode and travel mode.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Trying to live the same way in both places is
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: a mistake. There are things that cross over, and they're consistent,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: but the flow is different. Home mode allows depth, Trouble
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: mode demands simplicity so that you can flow. What stay
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: is constant sleep, discipline, idea, capture in the day, reflection,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: and a little fun. I do have fun every day.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: I binge watch on YouTube or whatever, they read a book,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: I'll get them if I'm here at the house. Here's
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: a difference between home mode and travel mode. I have
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: a race simulator at the house. I'm a full competitive
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: all a racing license, and I'll give them the racing simulator.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: And I just absolutely that just renews me. I'll I'll
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: go and watch a movie. I can do that on
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: the road. I just got to anyway, never mind give
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: you all in my world. But anyway, I have passions,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: and I find a way to take some of those
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: passions with me. I have portable versions of my life
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: that go with me when I travel. For trips are
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: more than one day, and there's certain things I can
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: only do at home. Flexibility within structure is the real discipline.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: Flexibility within structure is the real discipline. Daily habits that matter.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: I don't have a perfect morning routine. Leaders who say that,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, God bless them, they mostly have engineer's brains.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: But my life is dynamic, and I give myself the
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: flexibility for it. I think that actually all money is
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: his freedom. So I've got enough money to have the
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: freedom to do as I like it with how I'm
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: allocating my time. But I do have a morning orientation. Okay,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: I ask what matters today? What would make today successful?
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: What do I need to avoid sometimes? Who do I
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: need to avoid at night? Actually, by the way, I
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: can avoid somebody right in front of me. Just to
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: be clear, I don't have to physically avoid somebody because
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: that takes too much energy. I literally can I mean
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: somebody unless I decide you're visible, You're invisible? All right,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: We'll put it this way. Most people are visible until
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: they make themselves invisible by tearing their rear in and
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: acting a full So again I walk through life constantly,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: abilities and most things around me because it just doesn't matter.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: And I just don't let bat I don't let the
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: people irritate me to argue with the food whos there
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: are too over mess not in it. At night, I
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: reverse my mode. So again I ask what matters today?
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: What would make today successful? What do I need to avoid?
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: At night? I reverse it? What did I learn? What worked?
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: You know? What success is, what wins that I have today,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: what needs adjusting, and then of course planning for tomorrow.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: That's how you stay aligned over decades, not days. And
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: I use my tools and I have a command center
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: TrailO board, by the way, that where everything flows up
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: to me in this command center. And then that command center,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: there's no to do's, there's no there's no there's no directives.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: This is this is a visualization of my life at
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: the vision level. Then below that, I have a CEO
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: dashboard that's where my teams and I interact. And yes
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: there's some you know, ex there's execution stuff in there,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: but that's them executing, mostly not me. And then below
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: that is you know, like operating companies and operating projects,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: and there's mostly other folks again delegation doing that stuff,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: not me. But I am certainly all in it, all
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: over them about whether they're hitting their deadlines and whether
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: it's it's it's speaking to the vision starting to get it,
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: by the way, and everything started with me when this
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: old things started. I forigned employees right now. But when
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: this thing started, this was just me. It was just me,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: and I was homeless and I had nothing. So don't
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: think this is like some trust fun guy giving you
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: a vision with a lot of resources. I started with
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  Speaker 1: absolutely nothing. Anybody knows my story. I had extremely humble beginnings.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you that the apps, the tools, the computers.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I used to have a computer that literally
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  Speaker 1: it was like fifty pounds. I carried around with me,
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  Speaker 1: a compact computer. I used to have a radio check computer.
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  Speaker 1: Used to have a mobile phone. It was like a brick,
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  Speaker 1: literally a brick. It cost forty five cents a minute,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So now we have the iPhone and the
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  Speaker 1: tools are elegant, right, But I mean, I've always been
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a geek. I've always been a techie.
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  Speaker 1: The tools have changed, but I haven't. And this strategy
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you about has paid off. And all the
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  Speaker 1: folks who wanted me to go party with them now
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  Speaker 1: I want to work for me, all right. The meta
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  Speaker 1: lesson this isn't about productivity. It's about freedom, freedom from clutter,
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  Speaker 1: mental clutter, constant reactivity, emotional overload, being stressed the heck out,
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  Speaker 1: which leads to depression. I think also, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: systems don't cage you. They free you. And here's the
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  Speaker 1: most important thing. These systems are learnable. You don't need
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  Speaker 1: my life, you need your version of structure. You may
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  Speaker 1: not like the tools that I use, I don't care
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  Speaker 1: find the ones you do like. That's why I didn't
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  Speaker 1: tell you which mind mapping software. Just find the one
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  Speaker 1: that speaks to you that you like visually. But mind
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  Speaker 1: mapping software is a big get. That's a hack. A
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: cheat sheet from this podcast. Everything should have a place
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  Speaker 1: to a document your vision. Think about a Pinterest board
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  Speaker 1: that's like seriously interactive with you, like a dream board
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  Speaker 1: that is operational, and then you're getting close to what
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  Speaker 1: mind mapping is, literally mapp being your mind. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to start small. Capture one idea. Don't overwhelm yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Remove one friction point from your life. Protect one block
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  Speaker 1: of energy. Over time, it compounds, it builds on itself.
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  Speaker 1: So that's how I actually run my life. And yes
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  Speaker 1: I have a workout routine. I didn't mention that. But
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  Speaker 1: when I get up in the morning, I meditate and
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: I reflect. If I'm in a hotel, I do a
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  Speaker 1: ten minute fifteen minute workout. Push ups, twenty push ups,
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: twenty setups, squats, stretches. Stretches come first. If I have
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: a little bit of time, I go down to the
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: gym and get on the peloton machine and cycle. I
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: have a red light machine at the house, so when
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  Speaker 1: I finish working out, I'll get on the red light machine.
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  Speaker 1: If you never heard of red light therapy, look into that.
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  Speaker 1: My wife Shaker as a wellness expert. I'm well, she's
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: health and she's taught me so much. One of the
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: things that's been a game changer is red light therapy.
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  Speaker 1: And we have a full body red light machine. I
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: spend ten minutes front and back three times a week,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't have pain in my body anywhere, and
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: I move all the time. And I have a red
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  Speaker 1: light machine I travel with. I have tools I travel
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  Speaker 1: with and maybe if you want me to, I'll do.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: I'll do a special video of me on the road
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  Speaker 1: because that is a that is a science all by itself.
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  Speaker 1: And I do not I do not wait till I
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  Speaker 1: get home for my life. I take my life elegantly
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  Speaker 1: with me wherever I go. So if you see me
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: on the road, know that I'm flowing and I'm going
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: and I'm living and I've got a routine system and
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: a structure to make that'll work. So yes, I work
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: out at home in the gym. Red light My racing
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: simulator is a version of working out. Also, I incorporate
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: that because you motorsports is like the one of the
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: top five most strenuous sports in the world. You use
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: every muscle in your body and you cannot multitask. You've
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: got to focus. So I have a raising simulator acrosstreet,
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: from the from the gym, here at the house, and again.
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  Speaker 1: Yet these are, you know, options that I have now.
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  Speaker 1: But remember keep in mind I started where you were
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  Speaker 1: where you are right now. No matter where you are
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  Speaker 1: in your trajectory, I've been there right But with enough
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: discipline and enough structure and enough consistency, you just outrun
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: your problems. You outrun failure. You outrun you outrun You know,
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: folks who are lazy, you know, you're just putting the
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: work in. There's a book called Outliers ten thousand and
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: basically says, if you put ten thousand hours into anything,
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: you'll be the equivalent of an NBA player in your field.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: You will be the best of the best. Just ten
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: thousand hours makes you an outlier. And I agree with that.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: So that's how I actually run my life, not perfectly,
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: not rigidly, but intentionally. In this episode helped you think
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: differently about success. Then do one thing today for yourself,
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: not for me, for yourself. Build one system that supports
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  Speaker 1: the life you want, because success isn't mysterious people, it's designed.
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  Speaker 1: I use every note, I use Trello, I use Slack,
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: I use Obsidian, I use plot notes, which is artificial intelligence.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: I use chat GPT fifty times a day. Coach chair
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: of the AI at this council with Sam Martman, who
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: is the CEO of Chat GPT. I use other AI
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: platforms to just to have different different disciplines. An opera shoal.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: We'll be launching Hope AI soon. Will we launched it.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: We've announced that we be launching it soon so that
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: it'll be a tool that you can help you in
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: addition to financial literacy, So make sure you go to
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: the opera show for both in the future. Van Jones
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: is my new coach here on that. So, yeah, these
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: are some of the my core tools and mind mapping
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  Speaker 1: mind my Steward is one of my uh my mind
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: mapping software, but that I used a couple there. Yeah,
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: these are my core too. Notice I notice I didn't
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: mention financial tools or spreadsheets or anything like that, like
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: you know that's tactical and they used to. I used
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: to live in spreadsheets, you know, I lived in numbers
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: or excel back when I had to. But again I
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: moved from working increasingly working in the business to working
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: on the business, which is where you want to graduate to.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: But you can't get to one without doing the other.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: Because the only place that success comes before the word
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: work is in the dictionary, because it's alphabetical everything else,
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: every other kind of success or every kind of work.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: It's just hard. You got to do it and there's
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: no shortcuts. If it's a free lunch, it's probably stale.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: So build one system that supports the life you want.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: Because success is a mysterious right. It's designed. I want
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: you to tell me, give me some feedback of how
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: you felt about this. This is John O'Brien and Money
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: and Wealth podcast, And I want you to go to
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: Operation Hope and ask them for a scholarship a program
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: scholarship for financial coaching and counseling. I want you to
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: tell your friends about this podcast. I want you to
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: take this episode and use it as a talk point
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: amongst your group of friends and let me know what
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: they think about it. What if you get twenty percent?
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: If you can use twenty percent of what I said,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: it can be a game changer for your life. And yes,
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: you should not spend every dollar that you make. You
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: should take ten cents as a habit. This is part
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: of systems. Ten cents of whatever you make and put
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: it in a savings account, put in the four oh
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: one k thens matched by your employer, or put it
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: in a stock account, or invest it in something. But
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: don't you know, don't just live to pay your bills.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: If you're making If you make a dollar, put ten
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: cents aside. You're not going to miss the ten cents.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: If you make one thousand dollars, put one hundred dollars aside.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: You probably waste that without even knowing it. And if
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: you can't put one hundred dollars a side, try putting
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: twenty five dollars a side or fifty dollars a side,
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: and it's wramp it up. Increase it little by little
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: over time. Right, So there's a system for everything, and
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: you want everything to fit in your life. In my
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: life this year, everything has a place. By the way,
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: why do wealthy people have big houses They call them mansions? Right,
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: we have a big house on forty acres. It's not
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: for profiling, it's not for flossing. It's for systems. As
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: your life gets bigger, as your vision gets bigger, as
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: your success gets bigger, as your travels get broader, as
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: you move from traveling down the street to across the county,
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: to cross the state, across the country to other countries,
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: then doing that all the time. You collect things, if
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: you collect people, you collect friends, you collect experiences, and
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: you will your life expands to meet the level of
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: exposure you have in your life, and you will find
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: that you need places for things that you never thought
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: you had needed a place for at all. I mean,
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: it just wasn't even a thought before. I have a
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: gift closet. For God's sake, Well, who would need a
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: gift closet? I mean I never thought I wanted a closet,
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: But now I you know, a regular part of my
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: life is both giving gifts to business associates and friends
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: and colleagues and family, and I receive gifts and uh
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: there and there's an intake section where every package has
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: to be recorded because there are security issues. There's all
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: kinds of stuff that happens when your life expands that
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: you're just not thinking about. I have a technology closet.
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: I never thought i'd have one of those. I mean,
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: if everything from it's this, from the simple things to
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: the big things. But but when you're moving efficiently, if
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: you're wasting time trying to find something, you're an unorganized mind.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: Waste time, and you've got to not abuse yourself by
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: wasting your own time. So I'm going to introduce these
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: these visuals in the social media platform, so you can
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: download them from there or my Brian journal, and I'll
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: see you on the road to success. I may even
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: see you on the roads. I run into a lot
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: of people literally on the road. We'll listen to the podcast.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: Thanks for making it one of the top twenty five
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