Prioritize Your Life & Achieve Limitless Capacity | Rob Dyrdek EP 529

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:11here's the biggest lesson i've learned in five years the mastery of my capacity and your capacity is taken by a lot of different things but one of the main things that takes your capacity is stress what i'd call stuck stress things that you just can't release can't let go people in your life all these different things the stress over money stress over where you're at like relationships It's like, yeah, it's like there's, it is this drainage on your energy that pulls from your actual capacity, right? Then now you try to overcorrect and try to do all these things and then you get burnt out. Even super ambitious driven people like just keep the hammer down all the way till you need a complete reset.

0:53The only way to get capacity, once you get to a place of free, right, where I have no more stuck stress. Stress doesn't exist inside me, right? All of the things that ever caused stress, I cleared and then built systems to protect me from ever happening. What was the one you had to let go that was the hardest? There's no specific one. Because I do that, the beauty of that qualitative, asking yourself every day, how do I feel about my life? How do I feel about my work? How do I feel about my health? When you ask yourself that, you come up with a number and a reason why. And when the number is low and the reason why is someone you work with, and that happens two or three times, it's so clear to you that, okay, I need to remove this.

1:37Or I need to adjust it or whatever. Yeah, and I think even like a big one early on was just not understanding money. And, you know, we talked about in 2016 how profound, you know, Money Mash the Game was for me and how it began this evolution of learning money. But it was a huge one for me. But in that period, once I saw that happening, man, this is actually bringing to surface all these things about my life, work and health that are bothering me that became now easy to eliminate because it's like, oh, well, there's that again. Like, OK, let's let's just stop that. Right. Versus like when it's coming from all these different ways, it's hard to tell what is actually causing the stress.

2:19Right. And so as I got to that level of getting clear, now there's this extraordinary energy behind it. Part of that process too was like, okay, I no longer want to do things that take energy from me. I only want to do things that give me energy. So here's your option. You need to either learn it really well so that it can take less effort so it now begins to give you energy, like not take it from you. You either need to automate it or you need to hire someone. Outsource it. Yeah. You know, and it's like as I transitioned to seeing everything through the lens of how do I drive it to automation, everything began to change.

2:58What were the three biggest things you automated or outsourced that were taking a lot of energy from you? I mean, look, you got to think I built an entire system around my life. And this is my chief of staff and my two assistants run my life operating model called the Rhythm of Existence. That's an 80-page document that is basically food delivery, how our housekeepers and nannies work, travel, haircuts, meeting agendas, schedules, family agendas, all the weekly date nights. Everything to do with operating and running my entire existence. It's all the outsourced. If there's a leak, you just go into the document.

3:37Here's all the plumbers that would deal with it. It is basically eliminating a giant aspect of your core life that now is humming by itself. And a great example of true, create something, automate it, and then optimize it, right? Because greatness is found in optimization after you've automated, right? Is ridiculousness, right? Because you've got to think, I used to shoot 30 or 40 a year and it would take all this time of lead up and production. It would take so much energy. I'd be there all day to shoot two episodes. I eventually started to optimize it, evolve it. Then I went to shooting three a day.

4:19Then I started to stop going to production meetings and standardized how we delivered scripts to me. And now I no longer have to look at no guest scripts. Like I just slowly got the entire thing down to where I don't even need to meet with producers anymore. They send me the shows. I have the scripts with all these adjustments I can make. I watch it one time, make all my adjustments and then go shoot it. And now I shoot six a day instead of shooting two a day. And I shoot six between 9 a.m. and 3 o 'clock where I used to shoot two between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. Right. And so when you look at my time, where I've tagged my time and, again, designed pure balance, and then tagged it all in the calendar.

5:09And so it pumps out the dashboards of how I spent my time. And it's even fascinating to me that I spend 30 % with my family, 30 % sleeping, 30 % working, 10 % on health. but when you look at the data i shoot 250 episodes and it is four percent of my total time in a year right and that is when you have just gotten to a place of extraordinary optimization and efficiency but what is it it becomes effortless it only requires the energy to go and do it where in the beginning you're thinking about it all the time you're thinking about the Like, yeah, what do I got to do? And like, and then you're trying to get prepared and all of these things that are part of that, that ultimately get there.

5:56Now I go back to it's 4 % and takes very little energy. So I have a ton of capacity, right? So it's like every time something comes, every time I do something new, it's like, how can I drive it? What's the pathway to automation? You know, because even doing the podcast, I didn't know how I wanted to do it. But I knew that I didn't want to do it interview style because it's like, I just think of like how hard it is to like book guests. That's a lot, man. It's a full-time job. That's what I'm saying. Like I think of like all that, then researching to get all these things. Like I, when I, when I think about like pushing to that, it was too difficult.

6:33Then it was like, what's the, why am I doing it? Because I need a platform for people to hear the way that I speak and think about business to attract other great entrepreneurs to want to build companies with me. That is the primary focus of it, right? And ultimately, who better to do that with than just the people that you build companies with, right? So that's why I launched it of just telling the stories and now it's partners going through it. I'm continuing to transition the format until I can get to a place where I can see it, where I could do it effortlessly. And now I can optimize it. Now, how do I just make this better and better and better?

7:10How do I just turn that now into the entrepreneur's life and business Dave Ramsey type of show? You know what I mean? He doesn't need guests on all the time either. It's his philosophy, coaching, mentoring. Right, right. and something I get way more energy from. And then I still bring on my partners to be part of the monologue, to be like advice on part of the show. When we launch a new company, I still do the specials to do it. But I launched it and I had to feel through it. I had to feel through it, right? Because another thing that I've really discovered over these five years that's actually anything you ever want to do in your life and you first have to come up with the idea.

7:51The next thing you do is diligence. Okay, do I want to do this? What does it take to do this? You've got to figure out, do I want to do this? Then you've got to build the plan. So now you build the plan, and boy, it's exciting. Because now you're like, oh, man, this is going to be amazing. Then the plan fails at some point. Then you launch it. Now it's real. Now it's like, oh, my God, this doesn't work. Is this ever going to work? It's all the doubt. In business, they call it the valley of death. You don't have a real business until you have product market fit. But I believe that then when you get past the launch and you find product market fit you scale You now grow you expand and grow because you figured it out You learned everything that you needed to learn to be able to plan more precisely to actually achieve What you didn't fully understand when you build the plan earlier because you'd never done it before Right, you have to actually experience something to begin to understand What you actually need to do to accomplish it, but you could almost tie that to anything you attempt to do that's a relationship right when your first relationship oh we kind of like you all right let me see is she really like the one like hey you're a couple dates like hey let's get into a relationship oh but that offended you like oh you don't like oh you're like i don't really like silent movie you know whatever it's like before you decide if it a fit boom you can grow together right like it's it's this almost foundational structure of any creative idea having the ability to grow and scale.

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