How To Make Time For The Things That Matter MOST

24:52Can you get a hold of them right away? And you're like, well, no. Well, what if you could every second of every single day? Let's just think about this. Do you think maybe their value would be diminished to you to some extent based on your access and proximity? Just their value alone. sometimes their proximity and access point to you is diminished. So oftentimes what you think you're doing by being courteous and professional is diminishing your value, diminishing your value, because what's rare is valuable. That's why a diamond is more valuable than paper, because it's more rare. I'm not saying take this to the extreme.

25:28I'm saying consider the principle as you're trying to navigate busy seasons of your life, keep the right people in your life and keep some form of mental and emotional piece in your life. Yes. Let me add a practice to this and a little bit of science for those geeks out there like me. Okay. The practice is, and this will stun people, how great this makes your life. I want everyone to listen. You should always schedule when you check your email and when you check your DMs. It should be scheduled. Very good. Not my opinion, but based on science. The science is that when you are busy, when you're trying to do important things and you randomly check something, they call this a lot of productivity training or research, I'll just call it an interruption, generically.

26:18You get interrupted by something. You're doing one task, you get interrupted. On average, if it's a significant, like you're doing a two-hour project, as an example, every interruption takes on average 20 to 45 minutes to get back in the creative or the mental thinking flow of that project. Well, when you're in busy season, everything is a problem. Like you're just in it. Every look, every check-in, every DM that's random is actually taking away 30 to 40 minutes of your mental focus. So you're stealing your mental focus every check-in. You always have to Wait, a check-in is stealing and depleting focus.

27:02You know, I've taught this since 2009 that your inbox, your email inbox, is nothing but a convenient organizing system of other people's agendas. If you have a life agenda, if you have a day's agenda, randomly checking into your inbox is checking into other people's agendas. That means you're checking out of yours into theirs. And now you're going to lose the mental focus for probably 40 minutes. Many people even longer, if they're not high performers, underperformers, I'd say they lose two hours now. Completely derailed. Why did you derail? Because you randomly checked. I want everyone to write that down.

27:39I derail because I randomly check. Get completely out of the random check-ins. And instead go, you know what? I do my email between eight and nine, and then again, four and five. I've always said, I get it back to them the same day. I'm like, great. Get back to them at the end of the day. You do your most important tasks throughout the day. Let the end of the day be the replies if you feel like you have to. But don't check in throughout the day. You'll completely steal your focus and your energy. And guess what? The more you check in and the more interruptions you get. Here's what's fascinating about high performance.

28:17The more you check in and the more you get those random, I mean, what's this needy friend? Why is this person reaching out to me? This is bad timing. You develop bitterness. You get bitter to work. There's a bitter energy. Yep. You check it. Damn her. Why him? This, and all of a sudden there's bitterness. And you take a high performer who has to joyfully serve throughout the day, who has to be in mental flow. And you add in these little sprinkles of bitterness or overwhelm, their performance goes down. Brother, that's exactly right. I have to just acknowledge how absolutely right. And by the way, this principle of getting back to people by the end of the day is something I've absolutely lived by until I couldn't.

29:03So I just couldn't. And this random check-in idea is brilliant. This is so good today, by the way. I just want you to know. I'm loving this. Because it's 100 % true. And believe me, I understand that I'm going to respect everybody and get back to them by the end of the day mentality. I did that forever until I just can't anymore. And there needs to be some peace and winding down in your evening as well. It's why I like that four to five window. I don't want to do it at 10 to 11 o 'clock at night because then I'm thinking about your problem while I'm trying to go to sleep. Right. The other thing, one little tiny thing, and then I'll shift to another strategy and throw it back to you, is I have told my friends, voice notes are lazy.

29:41so if you're going to leave me a voice note on your phone a lot of you that have iphones it has to be less than a minute or you need to type it oh that's good the reason is is that because what you're doing is you're burdening me with the time you didn't want to take to type me something so you ever get these seven eight long voice notes from people you're like my god i this is this is insane this is this is it's longer than if we would have just talked so because you don't want to type out this long message you're just blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah and my phone, I don't know why it interrupts every 40 seconds and stops the message anyway.

30:11And I got to go back to the beginning. So I've told people, they know this. If you send me a six minute long voice note, I say, listen, type it or send it back in one minute or less. I can't think about this. What if someone got 10, five minute long voice notes an hour? That's the entire hour I'm listening to your messages. And so these are just courtesy things you do for one another, but also things like you just manage your time. They got to type it out. I can read that in 10 seconds. the same thing takes three or four minutes to listen to. And every minute counts when you're a high performer, every minute counts in busy season and it's energy and it's focus.

30:45So none of that. All right. I'll give you another strategy for me. I love that. And also I want everyone to hear, as you rewind this and listen to earlier, I want you to hear Ed and I's tone because we are in busy season and we receive these things and we feel like we should check in. And the energy that you're hearing from us is going, it's an exasperation, right? It's like, oh, I can't believe I have to deal with this during busy season. And that's what I want you to hear. Internally, that's how you feel. There's an exasperation when you didn't control how much you check in or you didn't teach people how to communicate.

31:18In busy season, it can really derail you and mess your energy up. By the way, and you do end up sort of resenting people. Let me tell you why it's also important. About an hour ago, I got a text message, a long closer to than you just happen to be someone I know better than you, but you also know this person. And it was the fact that he loved me and was so grateful for me. And also that his stepfather had just died. And he was thinking about my dad and the experience I had and the things I shared with him about that experience that made it more peaceful for him. Anyway, it was a beautiful message.

31:56And of course, that's something I'm getting back to immediately as I checked it. But the point is, is what if I had 10 other messages that were voice notes in that hour and I missed this really important one? And so we all know this message I'm sending to someone is a level two importance. Every once in a while, there's a level 10 important message. And if you're overwhelming a busy person with the two and three level messages with voice notes, imagine what they're missing and who they can't give to. So it's really a selfish play. And if you really want to give, you really want to contribute, I would recommend that you evaluate how you're depleting other people's time as well.

32:36All right, I'm gonna give you one that's non-negotiable for me in busy season. And that's my physiology. It's my fitness. I actually triple down on my workouts. I triple down on my hydration. I triple down what you were doing this weekend. You and I were talking and you were running around and I was running around and you're like, I'm in the gym right now, brother. I'm getting these guns. And I'm like, I'm in the gym too. to something that because I'm making deposits and investments in my energy reserves by doing that. And so one thing what most people let go and I have in the past during busy season is, oh, I'm traveling, I'm at a hotel or man, my first meetings earlier than normal.

33:12I'll get around. I won't work out today. It's probably the number one mistake you could make is depleting your own vitality and energy and strength. And that's also something that you've committed to do and when you can keep one thing that happens in busy season, I think, is you feel a loss of sense of control sometimes because there's so many things coming at you and that you've got going on. And working out and hydrating are two promises that you can keep to yourself. And part of self-confidence is a reputation with yourself that you keep the promises that you make to yourself. And when you can start a day or at least some point in your day, keep that significant promise to your longevity, your vitality, your strength, your wellness, your fitness, your cosmetic appearance even.

33:57You've done something to make an investment in yourself that will give you the confidence, the strength, and the energy to persevere through the busy season. And it's an easy thing on that schedule where we go hardcore delete, right? Ruthless deleting. The easy one is like take from myself. I just won't serve me. I won't work out today. And it's one of the biggest mistakes you can make. So right now I'm actually training harder. And by the way, maybe I won't be training longer during busy season, but I'm going to train every single day. So, you know, when I'm not busy, maybe I do get 90 minutes in the gym, or maybe when I am busy, it's going to be 40, but I'm in there.

34:32I've made the commitment. I've gotten dressed. I've sweated. I've had my heart exerted. I've pushed some heavy things around and I feel a sense of accomplishment and energy and the endorphins and the dopamine and all this stuff I've done. it's the number one thing other than my spirituality, which I'm going to talk about in a minute. It's the number one thing I can physically do is to maintain my strength and physiology during busy season and not let that go. Letting that go is like giving kryptonite to the Superman or superwoman that you are not working out, not hydrating is giving yourself a dose of kryptonite during the busy season of your life.

35:10And you will get weaker and weaker and weaker, feel worse and worse about yourself and so during busy season be more disciplined with your nutrition right busy season a lot of you that you travel you're having out more restaurant dinners if that's what you do more just nothing better than going out to a restaurant a business dinner let everybody else eat bad and you're like i'll have the chicken or the fish you know or like like just like and you just did something at that table nobody i i'm nuts but i get off on going i worked out today and i know these other guys didn't yes they're gonna eat this butter cake at mastro's afterwards and I am on the damn, I'm on the steak and broccoli thing over here.

35:47It may sound crazy, but it actually makes me feel like I've made an investment in myself. It makes me feel good. And there's nothing like walking in a room and just feeling good. I got a good pump. I got a good workout and I feel like I've done something, man, that can carry you so far. And so it should be a non-negotiable for you during busy season is your physiology. So key. I'll add a phrase that that everyone can write down. The 72 hour energy rule. Your energy right now is not a reflection of your morning routine. Your energy right now is not a reflection of your mindset. Your energy right now is not usually a reflection of even what happened today.

36:29We're biological specimens. Most of the physical energy we have right now, including our digestion, is a result of the last 72 hours. What did I eat three days ago is driving my energy just as much now as anything else. What did I work out like yesterday is impacting me right now just as much as anything else. We can in the moment do things, but the problem is, again, we're talking about busy season. In busy season, if we wait every day for that good behavior and all get back to it, We're screwed. And I'll give the example because and I both work with athletes. If you're working with an Olympian, an NFL player, somebody who's got to be on the field and win, they don't get up and do good habits that morning.

37:20They're so obsessed about the three days leading into it. And most people don't even know they're like, athletes just fall into that rhythm because they've learned it naturally. The best athletes I've ever worked with absolutely know it. the conditioning they do in the three days prior to the game is way more important to them. They fall into that. And so in busy season, what I always do is I look out three days. I'm like, what's the energy I need during that meeting on that day? And I literally start crafting my conditioning for that. I'll give an example. In my busy season, I had a big negotiation last week and I knew it was coming up and it was going to be really stressful.

38:04And so the more stress you have to have, the more you can imagine you have, it's weight, there's weight on your shoulders. And everything we know from mental health is if you will go do weight bearing activities, which of course everyone knows Ed does to the max, right? It's like you have to lift heavy objects to deal with the stress. And if you can do it in advance, literally the days in advance of stressful moment, you'll find like, wow, I feel better because that heavy weight bearing activity that's loading up the good hormones in the gas tank. Right. You're you're preparing and conditioning.

38:40So I want you to always think what I eat today, what I drink today, how I move today, how I sleep today. I'm preparing for three days from now. it's why like if even my friends everyone knows like if ed and i go out and we have some wine we're only having wine because i know the next day i don't have to do anything and i will never have wine if i have a busy next day i can't do it like i'm not somebody some people can do it i cannot i'm a mess last time we had wine the next day i was like man i'm glad i didn't plan nothing it wasn't that long ago by the way it was about a week ago i know that next morning too.

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40:51Very short intermission here, folks. I'm glad you're enjoying the show so far. Be sure to follow the Ed Milet Show on Apple and Spotify. Links are in the show notes. You'll never miss an episode that way. By the way, one thing I've noticed with you lately, I mean, you've always been fit and lean, but you are taking lifting heavy things more seriously now. One thing about Brendan, I'll tell you guys just so that you know this personally. He has an amazing ability to bring an energy to an environment. Actually, like no one I've ever met. One thing he's very conscious of, and I think this is a key during busy season too, is to be monitoring the energy you're bringing.

41:29I would say you do a better job of that than me. I think once in a while with me, I think you can tell, you know, like I'm in a difficult season, as you know, in some areas of my life, too. And I think sometimes you can tell not often, but sometimes in your case, you cannot. Brendan brings an energy. He's very and I believe you're conscious of it, too. I'll let you speak to it. But there's an enthusiasm and an energy, not just when you go out on a stage, but like right when the Zoom camera comes on. It's not like, hey, man, what's up? It's immediately energy. His if he does leave you a video or a voice note, they're usually under a minute.

42:05And they're also there's an energy to it. In other words, I think you're the best controller. You user of energy that I've ever met in my life. Wow. The way you reserve it for yourself and that you give it to other people. And I have to think for you that that's got to be one of your keys as you navigate every season of your life. But are you even more conscious of your energy? I'm talking about not just how you feel, but what you're giving energetically to people during that season, because it's very easy to say the same words during busy season. Right. But it just doesn't hit like it does when you're in the season that's not quite so chaotic, if that makes any sense.

42:46Yes. I think it's for me, it's two things. One, the philosophy of joyful service. My schedule is busy. Thank God. God put all these opportunities in front of me. You know, I was a poor kid from Montana and I get to work with this person. I get to be on this stage. I think that's amazing. I also think that our legacy is a function of how we make people feel. And so I don't want to make people feel bad. I want people, when they leave me, they feel lifted. They feel energized. They We see, they feel like, wow, he saw me, he heard us. And that honoring and respecting of them and their energy is like, I want to be an energy addition to people's lives, not a subtraction.

43:34You're the best ever at it, bro. Like, I mean it. Like we all know, we all know people that are great. I'm just telling you the best at that. I think most people at No, Brendan would say this too. And one of my tips is what you just said. I was going to add it. So let's go back and forth on that. Yeah. It's a perspective of the season. and this took me many years but man this this little phraseology difference you've heard before perhaps but i want you to all ponder this i have to do this or i get to do this and i'm telling you that seemed like i am not a corny hokey phrasey guy right i'm just not that guy but i'm going to tell you many many days in this season i'm in right now i'm like i get to do this what a privilege What an honor it is that I remember when nobody wanted to meet with me.

44:19My biggest problem is I couldn't get a meeting, right? I get to do this. And inside of that, I always kind of tell myself and everything's going to be okay. And this may sound really subtle, but like there's a pressure that builds up when you have a lot to do and you actually start worrying and projecting about events and meetings that haven't even happened yet. So the two little things I do, sometimes you just wake up because you're in that different brainwave state where it's like your worry state. Like, my day. Yes. And I'll immediately just go, everything's going to be okay. Yeah. Okay. It's all going to work out.

44:55And I get to do this. I get to do this. And it seems small and subtle. But, man, if you can begin to say, like, right now, we're like, let's create some content today. Bro, we got to do this. This is so freaking good. Like this is going to be one of these masterclasses people listen to in four years. We didn't know we're going to magic like this. Right. Like we get to do this. Like, and so you get to be busy. You get to have this beautiful family, even the challenges you have, you get to have these challenges. Cause on the other side of them, you're going to learn so damn much. You're going to do so much data and information and understanding so many breakthroughs, even if the things feel like failures and they don't go the way you want, that will serve you.

45:39Do you know how many, You know how many hundreds of millions of dollars I've made in my life from the knowledge extracted from massive failures during previous busy seasons? Nice. Like, they weren't failures. Like, they felt like I didn't close the deal. I lost the account. I didn't get. And, like, I'm like, I'm busy and I lost. No. I actually extracted so much information. I didn't know it at the time. But now that I'm 52, I can tell you all this. It's all good. It's all gravy. It's all going to work out. It's just going to work out in this meeting. But you're going to get information or the win.

46:16You're going to get better or the win. And you get to do it. And when you start to approach your life, like I'm further down the lifeline than most of you, fortunately and unfortunately. I can just tell you, that's how it works. Yes. And the other thing is this season, if you're in it, no matter how chaotic it might feel, you're growing so damn much. It's unbelievable. The amount of growth you're going through right now, the amount of changing. And usually when you're really, really growing, I don't think it always feels like it. Sometimes it just feels like pain. Sometimes it just feels like chaos.

46:51Sometimes it just feels like you're out of control. Sometimes it feels like you're just spinning your wheels. You're just not me. You're just running in circles on the treadmill. That's not what's happening. You are growing in emotions, in knowledge, in data, in your ability to communicate, in your ability to deal with things. Your emotional maturity is growing in ways you can't even measure right now. You get to do this and there's massive upside from what you're going through right now. And now you can embrace what's happening in a way that it's not so burdensome to you. It's yes, it's not. So I think of Jesse Lee, Brendan, I do.

47:28Maybe this is cryptic, but I do think of these things on days like this. Like today's a busy day, busy day for me, busy day for you. And many of you know, I used to coach Jessie Lee Ward, who's recently passed away. She's been on my show. Brendan knew her as well. And this may sound an odd thing to say, but I have thought this many days. Jessie Lee would love to have this day I have right now. Exactly. She doesn't get to have another one of these days where I get to engage with you and see people. What a blessing it is that I'm here. Right. What do you think Jessie Lee would give to have a meeting today with 10, 15 different people in 10, 15 different meetings and another one tomorrow and another one tomorrow.

48:07And bless her heart. She's in heaven. She's in a better place than we are. But in the physical realm of things, what she would have been given that last day of her life when she was taking her final 30 breaths, what would she have given for another day? That preciousness. The preciousness, the blessing of it. And so perspective is everything on this season. oh my gosh, you complimented me earlier on my energy. And everyone's listening to this as I have a cold and I've been on the road and I'm like, oh, maybe not my best representation. And the philosophy that comes from, you know, the car accident that I was in that gave me that gift of, I call it mortality motivation is like when you're motivated by the fact that you have life, you show up through that in a different way than when it feels like you have to carry the burdens of life, but rather you are lifted by life and the opportunity of it.

49:03And I teach people all this time, you have to create phrases in your own mind to get yourself in that place. The phrase I have is, the power plant doesn't have energy, it generates energy. It's my biggest dominant metaphor in my entire life. The power plant, what it does is it takes energy from one utilization, one source. and then what it does is it transforms it into a higher utilization and it transmits it. So what I do is I recognize in most places I go in my life, including this event I was recently at where everyone was down, they were discouraged, they were disheartened, their business wasn't going great.

49:40I know I'm walking in there and the energy is low. I know that I can be the power plant. I can take that low energy and I can build it and transform it and transmit it into a higher utilization. The power plant doesn't have energy. It generated it. I don't have energy today. I'm tapping into something and I'm generating a higher utilization. So good, Brenda. The other phrase I have is bring the joy. So if, if, if, if, you know, Ed calls me and says, Brenda, I'm coming to your house. What kind of wine do you want me to bring? What do you want me to bring? I go, Ed, bring the joy. That's all I want in my life is people show up with joy and happiness and authenticity and spontaneity.

50:23And so I teach myself that literally I have bracelets and shirts that say, bring the joy. That's like, I'm conditioning my mind all the time. Oh yeah. Joy. And last thing I'll say this is, and I have coached everybody and I can tell you after a person has safety and sustenance and some success, no matter what that is, you know, in the U S call it 40 grand a year, even everything beyond that, when you actually get down to it, what do people want? What do they really desire? I can tell you the first thing that they always desire is more aliveness. They want to feel life again. They want a sense of aliveness to it and a sense of spontaneity or pop or creativity or joy or passion, what would be called the positive range of emotions.

51:11And so what if you knew what everybody on the planet wanted? Would you live an abundant life? Would you be an abundant entrepreneur? I know what everybody in the world wants. They want more aliveness. They want more aliveness in their intimate relationships. They want more aliveness in their passion. They want more aliveness at work. And so I try to bring life. And that's why I believe that the world is rewarded. So many of my actions is like, oh, this kid's bringing energy in. I'm bringing life into situations. And I believe that life is celebrated. God gave us life, our promises life, our promises ever after life, if you believe in that type of faith.

51:53And so I go, oh, I knew I would be wealthy the rest of my life when I figured out what people want is aliveness. And I can bring a little bit of that. What a gift. So good, Brendan. That is absolutely awesome. And that would be my last point. And then I'll let you conclude things. For me, you hit on it, which was during that season of my life, my faith life needs to be at the forefront. And so I know without being personal, like this is an area of life that you're growing tremendously in right now and exploring and loving about your life. And I am as well. But for me, the last time, the last point for me during the season would be to be connecting with your higher power because that's where your power comes from.

52:36So if you do want to plug into something that can give you supernatural energy. Yes. Holy Spirit type discernment. If you believe in the quantum, which you and I both also believe in the quantum field where you can vibrate at the highest possible frequency, you've got to give yourself the gift. For me, it's meditation. That's where I plug into the energy field. That's where I empty my mind. That's where I give myself the gift of stillness. And that's important. And then my prayer life as a Christian, in my case, me asking for discernment and wisdom and blessing and comfort. And I don't always ask God to make things better.

53:13I prayed most recently for Him to help me be better. And for me, that's the time where I get the most comfort. I draw on my faith during this time. I found that my faith has grown the most during the most chaotic and busy seasons of my life, ironically. I think you find peace and stillness, but oftentimes we uncover the depths of our faith during chaos. Because for me, I've reached the conclusion in my life that I'm not capable just on my own, that I do need to rely on something greater than me. And that reliance becomes more and more important to me during times where I do feel overwhelmed and where I feel like I don't.

53:58You can have every technique and tactic in the world, but at the end of the day, I need a blessing. I need grace. I need peace. And so for me, that's a it's just easy when you're busy to let your schedule get away to let your fitness and hydration to let your energy right to let those things get away to to let your perspective to let God get away and these are times I think we're both saying is bring these things closer yes that's how you don't only survive during this time but you thrive and your point bro like one of the things I love about you is, you know, I do try to, when I'm feeling helpless, I try to get helpful.

54:37And one of the great role models in my life for that is you, like, you're just always giving to people. And one of the things you do, I want to say this last, because we both did this today too, but like you give to people with no expectation of anything in return. The law of reciprocity is a really powerful law, but at the same time, then there's people that almost rise above the law of reciprocity. And they're like, I just give, I just give. And if it's reciprocated, that's wonderful. But that's not why I'm giving. And it's one of the things that I admire most about you, brother. And I would be remiss if I didn't say that in today.

55:10Like, this has been magic, bro. And we're just rifting today. Yeah, this has been amazing. So I'll let you finish up with whatever your final thought was. But my final thought would be your faith in your spiritual life. Thank you. Well, I reflect back that exact same thing. I mean, my spiritual life began standing on the crumpled hood of a car, bleeding out in the Dominican Republic when I thought I was going to die at 19. And I felt God's grace and God's gift of a second chance at that moment, standing there. I knew I would be okay. I felt that spirit enter and I was like, you're gonna be okay.

55:43And I looked up at the moon that night and I just thought, I want to earn this life. I want to earn it. It wasn't just a thank you, God. It was like, gosh, I want to earn this. I want to do, thank you for this second chance. I want to do something good with it. And I know that I like to reflect back a gratitude towards you as well, that if I can bring a lot of energy to the world, I think that's great. You bring so much mentorship and wisdom. I don't think people realize how much you could go do other things, but you choose to give your message out for free on podcasts and Instagram. And you've made all this incredible success and discernment in your life that you share so openly.

56:26And as we're in busy season, my hope for you too is this last point I have, which is do daily, if not hourly, intensity checks. I'm going to give some people language here. An intensity check is, you know, if you've ever worked with the NFL and the quarterbacks in the huddle, there's an intensity of the tone that's about to happen. That is very important. The pregame, you know, locker room talk, there's an intensity check that has to happen there. and throughout the days when we're busy and we're solopreneurs, we're solo out there, we forget to check in on our own intensity, and we get really fired up about something, and then we're drained three hours later because we didn't check.

57:07Is that the intensity that's appropriate for that thing? And the way that high performers get over this is in two ways. Number one is mastering the pit stop. I always say this. The high-performance race car doesn't need the pit stop. it can actually do the entire race without a pit stop. It takes the pit stop to prevent the wreck and the burnout later. So that high performance race car coming into the pit stop where it's refueled, checked, calibrated, it gives the driver a second to calibrate. The driver literally gets like seconds, but it's a recalibration for them. It's a recalibration of the car.

57:47So the car can go longer, faster, and win more because it took the pit stop. When you're in busy season, you better find those pit stops. And it's got to be daily. It can be your daily prayer, your daily meditation, your daily time in the gym, your daily time in the sauna, your daily time for a long walk at the end of the night, which I highly recommend for every high performer in the world. Go out, get some darkness on your body, just like in the morning, and go out and get some sunlight on your body. At night, there's an end of the day. Go for a walk at the end of the day. Let that dark set on you.

58:22You'll sleep better and you'll calibrate to the time zone of the night and you'll downshift into a different time. It's like a little pit stop at the end of the day. But I take pit stops throughout the day. It's important for me to maintain. I might just, you know, at the top of every hour, you'll see me. I usually hit the floor and do some vinyasa flows to open up my body, my flexibility, my energy. So pit stop, find your pit stops throughout the day by checking on your intensity. And the last thing is, is you have to learn in busy season to master the downshift. You got to learn to downshift your energy.

58:58You can't bring that intensity to dinner table. She won't like you. You can't bring that intensity to the kids. They'll freak out. You can't bring that intensity to the team. When you're in busy season, you're, you're, you're kind of keyed up. you're at a different level you've got a downshift so that you don't run over people you've got a downshift so you can slow to their speed and not ever be bitter that they're not at the speed you're at so a lot of people in busy season they get really mad at their family well she doesn't understand he doesn't understand it's like they're they're on a different race than you are you're in a different race right now you got a downshift so before you come into the house sit in the car Close your eyes for three minutes.

59:41Do a release meditation or a prayer. Set your intention for how you're going to go in the house. That's the downshift before you walk in the house. Go in the other room. Lay on the ground. Repeat the word release to yourself. Release all the tension before you go to dinner. Before you make that big business decision, take the 30 minutes before it and downshift your energy from the intensity and get in that place of wisdom, of peace, of spirit, of just higher intention. Because if you don't downshift, I promise you will just run over everybody and everything and you won't realize it because you're keyed up in busy season.

1:00:23It's something that's such an important practice for my high performers. So, I just want to give you that language to learn to master the downshift.

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1:01:02Mutine. Adjective. Used to describe an individual whose spirit is unyielding, unconstrained. One who navigates life on their own terms, effortlessly. They do not always show up on time, but when they arrive, you notice an individual confident in their contradictions. They know the rules, but behave as if they do not exist. Muteen. The new fragrance by Miu Miu. Defined by you. That was a great conversation. And if you want to hear the full interview, be sure to follow the Ed Milet Show on Apple and Spotify. Links are in the show notes. You'll never miss an episode that way. Let me tell you one thing I've noticed about all the Max Out performers that I've interviewed on my program and that I've known throughout my life for the last 30 years, really, in business, sports, entertainment, politics, you name it.

1:01:51The elite performers look at time and use time completely differently than the people who perform at an average level. And so I want to talk to you about some tips and strategies today to begin to think about time and utilize time Differently, so let's start out the first thing I want to tell you about people who win who max out They are in a much bigger hurry than the people who are average and I'm not kidding you when I say this They're in a bigger hurry to get to their destination to get to their outcome their pace is faster They walk faster They talk faster and their expectation when they're gonna arrive at their destination is sooner This may seem like a very small subtle thing, but I want you to evaluate How big of a hurry are you in?

1:02:34Because there's something to be said about how close you think you are to a goal and how fast you will run to get to the finish line Let me give an example of that if you and I started out right now And we had a 26 mile marathon to run right in our minds. It was 26 miles We were gonna race each other We would pace ourselves at a certain speed in order to maintain that speed because of the duration of the run So it was a marathon we'd jog wouldn't we pretty slowly you certainly wouldn't sprint 26 miles And so because the destination because the finish line is so far away Our pace or our hurry is limited based on how far away we think we are or when we'll arrive there But if you and I were to run a hundred yard dash Would the pace be the same because the finish line is so much closer We'd run full speed from the minute we took off wouldn't we because of the proximity of how close the finish line is The people that win in life don't necessarily have more vision than you See, it's not a lack of vision always that means that you are going to lose It's a lack of a type of vision which is depth perception You think you're further away from the outcome and so you pace yourself like it And you jog all the time throughout your life The people that win may have a bigger vision, but they have accurate depth perception They understand how close their goals are how close their outcome is and they're constantly in a sprint to get there throughout their day.

1:03:59That means consequently, they get started earlier and they finish later. They get up earlier throughout the day. They're in a bigger hurry to get to the places they need to be because the finish line in their mind is so much closer. I cannot emphasize this enough to you is just the pace and the way time shrinks for elite performers compared to the average. I'm telling you, the average performer can say the same things, read the same books, have the same schedule, Yet the person who is in a bigger hurry throughout the day ends up winning the day winning the week winning the month winning the year and winning the life And so please evaluate your pace.

1:04:37You should be in a so much bigger hurry than everybody around you You almost have people telling you to slow down a little bit So that's number one is you've got to be in a bigger hurry The second thing is the way we begin our day I'm gonna tell you right now either you're going to control your time or your time's gonna control you Either you are gonna dictate the terms of your life or you're gonna be somebody who reacts and responds throughout their life This device right here can both speed up time in your life or it can slow it down It's not always a speed tool So one of the tips that I've covered before but not enough people implement that I promise you is a quality of max out performers that relates to their time is they control it.

1:05:20They do not react and respond. They dictate the terms of their life most of the time. And that means this, when you wake up in the morning, the greatest thing you could do for yourself is not touch or look at this device for 30 minutes to an hour after awakening. So that when you wake up, you take control of your time. You control the time. You control the beginning of the day. You get clear. You meditate. You You pray, you stretch, you think, you go through a gratitude exercise, you control the first 30 minutes of your day, it sets a tone that I'm in charge of my time, not what enters this. If the first thing you do is grab this, this now dictates the term of your day.

1:05:59This controls my day. What hits this, what email, what text, what call hits this, what Instagram post hit this, this controls me. It controls my time. But if you can stay away from it for the first 30 minutes to an hour, you send a message to your brain, to yourself, that you control time, that this day is on your terms. And again, you stack up a day, a week, a month, a year, five years of a lifetime of you controlling and dictating the terms of your life for just the first 30 minutes to an hour every day. It will revolutionize your life. It'll be very difficult to do for the first 30 days. But after 30 days, you'll never have the desire to do it again.

1:06:38You'll completely flip your life around. I'm not suggesting that all max out performers dictate every turn Of course, I respond. Of course, I react throughout my day It's not the syntax or context of my day I control my day that there are things throughout every day where we react and respond their conversations where someone says something to us We clearly react and respond, but I'm the assessor of my life not the asses II. I assess my life I dictate the terms of my life I'm not being assessed and I'm not being dictated to by other people all the time in my life. That's a huge separator in how people look at time for max outperformers.

1:07:15The third thing is this. Why is a day only 24 hours? I mean, if the average people in the world or the majority of people in the world have a 24-hour day, why does that have to apply to you? Many years ago, I discovered, have you ever had a day where in four or five hours, You got more in the first four or five hours done or accomplished in your day than you had in a normal day You ever have a four or five hour window a six hour window like they go I've got so much done in these six hours. It's more than I get done in an average day And what I found out was max out elite performers people that perform at the highest level They get more done in a six hour window than most people get done in a day And here's why most people measure a day by 24 hours So I started to think I was young in business I was in my early 20s.

1:07:59And one of the things that was held against me by other people is you're too young to win. You don't have enough experience. You just haven't have enough days of experience of your life, enough days in business to win. I thought, well, how can I fix that? And here's how you can fix that. And I've adopted this now for almost 30 years. I want the average people I compete against to think they have a 24-hour day. My days are six days long. So I want to teach you the concept of running mini days. my day my first day is from 6 a.m. To noon every day. That's a full day for me So I try to get done a full day's work from 6 a.m.

1:08:34To noon because I no longer have a 24-hour day in my life I have a six-hour day And so a day to me is that measure of time it altered the complete direction of my life It transformed who I am. So now from 6 a.m. To noon is a day. That's my first day every single week, 6 a.m. to noon, Monday morning. And what happens in that 6 a.m. to noon, I see there's a mental thing we have. I have a whole day to get all these things done. And so we stack and dictate and schedule our day over that 24-hour window of time. You'd be surprised if you shrunk the day to six hours. You can get the same things done in those six hours you used to get done in 24.

1:09:13From noon to 6 p.m. is my second day. And in that second day, I fill that up with a full day's worth of fun, memories, meetings, phone calls, you name it, meetings with my relationships in my life. In that six hour day, I pack out another day. From noon to 6 p.m., I fill that day up. And my third day is 6 p.m. to midnight. And in that 6 p.m. to midnight, same thing. My relationships, my meetings, my phone calls, my emails, the work I do is a third day. And so what happened was when I was in my early twenties, I went from having three days in the same window of time when the average person had one.

1:09:50And I started to accomplish triple what the average person was accomplishing. Now, once again, you stack up three days in 24 hours over a week, a month, a year, in just one year, I end up with over a thousand days and I'm competing against people only have 365. Think about the mind blowing difference could be in your life if you ran many days the rest of your life. I'm telling you right now that my days are six hours long. The amount of work you can get done, the amount of compounding that'll take place in your life, it's going to blow your mind. When you start looking at your schedule, day one is 6 a.m.

1:10:27to noon. Day two is noon to 6 p.m. Day three is 6 p.m. to midnight. Your whole existence is going to change. It'll be kind of fun in the beginning. You'll mess it up, but you stack up a week or two and you do that for a month. Imagine that in one month getting 90 days. Think about what would happen in your life if in a month you had 90 days and the rest of the world, the average in your life, imagine that for a second. The rest of the world only had 30 and you stack that up over a year or three years. How different would your life be? And I'm telling you, I'm an example of how different your life would be.

1:11:03I'm an example of what that productivity and compounding in your life can look like more fun more memories more meetings more encounters more relationships more experiences more money more achievement more joy more bliss I'm creating opportunities constantly so what I do is I shrink the finish line so there's sprints all the time and so because I only have a six hour day I'm gonna hurry throughout that day I'm not jogging I'm not walking I'm in a big hurry and you're gonna be amazed at the transformation you're like I may never give you a bigger gift than the concept of six-hour days. I think I'm one of the only people you'll ever hear explain this to you.

1:11:40But I can tell you, I started to study these successful mentors. My gosh, they get so much done before 9 o 'clock in the morning. My gosh, by 1 o 'clock, they've accomplished so much. And the average person is just stretching, getting out of bed, done their first appointment or two. Especially you entrepreneurs out there, how critical this is. Because when you're an employee, at least as an employee, to some extent, they control your time. They dictate you need to be here at 9 a.m. You can't leave until 5 p.m. And so although that's a that's a nuisance it helps you be more productive because they're paying you they tell you when to be there But what happens for most entrepreneurs they don't realize when you become an entrepreneur You've taken on three jobs four jobs.

1:12:17It requires more time but people start to relax. Oh my times mine My times free. I love the freedom of being an entrepreneur There's the greatest fallacy in the world is that you are free as an entrepreneur and as a matter of fact you have more responsibility, more obligations, more accountability when you're an entrepreneur because there's no guaranteed money coming in. The biggest mistake, the biggest misnomer, the worst thinking you could have as an entrepreneur is that somehow you're free because you don't have a job. Just because you call yourself an entrepreneur, if you are one, doesn't make you free.

1:12:46In fact, it makes you less free. And so what will make you free is really being free, really getting financially independent, really having enough money that you would never need to work again. Really having enough money that if you didn't want to take a meeting, you didn't have to. So stop diluting yourself into this false sense of freedom because you call yourself an entrepreneur. It's hilarious and it's why you're losing. You have this fallacy, this relaxed state of freedom where you're going to get around to doing things and you get to go to the gym anytime you want to. And you're wearing your sweats at 1030 in the morning, right?

1:13:18You wouldn't do that if you work for someone else. You don't do that when you work for you and so the greatest thing I could give you is the gift of many days the next thing I want to share with you is that there needs to be an alarm clock where performance is measured performance improves secondarily the more you can shrink the time frame where you measure performance the better chance you can have to alter that performance and improve it so what do most people do they measure their performance the average people in the world measure their performance at the end of every year New Year's Eve right They take an account, but here's my life.

1:13:53Here's what I accomplished. Here's what I didn't get done. And once a year, they take a look at themselves, they make an adjustment, and their performance improves. They measure their performance, they measure their results, and then they make an adjustment. So they adjust about once a year. Pretty good performers shrink the time frame. At the end of every month, most companies kind of do an inventory. Most people do an inventory. They look at their books. They look at the profit and loss. They look at their schedule, and they make an adjustment after they measure that performance at the end of the month.

1:14:19really good people kind of get together on a Sunday night if they're pretty good performers once a week they measure their performance they make adjustments and they move on weekly and then there's really top-level performers and they do at the end of every day don't they the end of every day they sit back they look at their calendar they look at the results and they measure the performance daily well who do you think is going to do better the person who measures it once a year once a month once a week or once a day we all know the better adjustments they've shrunk the timeframes down they adjust they get better they improve daily and then there's the max out 1 % of 1 % performers and they have a clock that goes off every hour every hour in their head the alarm goes off in my mind it's sort of weird but it works I'm addicted to it now about every hour the top of every hour at 11 a.m.

1:15:12it's funny my mind just knows what did I do to move closer to my goals? What did I do to move closer to my outcomes? Have I achieved the things on my to-do list today? Have I achieved my biggest and baddest outcomes of the day? And every hour, did I move closer? Did I move closer? What adjustments do I need to make? What do I need to celebrate? What tweaks? What's been accomplished so far? An hourly alarm clock goes off in your head. If you can get to the point where you just begin to practice it, and maybe for now, you program this thing to go off every hour, just to remind you, what did you get accomplished?

1:15:42So maybe when that hour goes off, you know what flashes on the screen? Your outcomes and your goals. Hourly, the alarm goes off. Hourly, the alarm goes off. It'll begin to train you to begin to measure the time frame of your performance every hour. Now let me ask you a question. There's a group of people that measure their performance. Their race, their marathon is once a year. Then there's those that do it once a month that make adjustments and measure where they are and increase effort. Then those that do it monthly, weekly, daily, hourly. I can tell you that I run many days and I measure my performance hourly.

1:16:15It will transform your life You will become more productive in your family in your personal relationships in your faith in your business in your fitness in your nutrition In your money in every area if just something goes off every by the way It's a five-second just reminder am I move closer to my outcome if I move closer to my to-do list today What adjustments do I need to make you'll be reminded at that time of someone you forgot to call an email you didn't return, a meeting you haven't asked for yet, something you're supposed to eat, hydrate, whatever it is, if you can begin to have that alarm, just go, it's just five seconds.

1:16:48It's just every hour. It's just five seconds. And I'll tell you, it happens to me constantly now. And I know that one of the reasons my life has improved is because I've shrunk the timeframes down of where I measure my results, right? Where I recalibrate, where I course correct, where I make an adjustment, where I realize I'm behind or I've made a mistake and I improve a performance. And so, so far, can you imagine if you started just being a bigger hurry and you had perception correct about how close you really are to your goal? The difference in winning and losing is this much. It's like a veil.

1:17:21And when you remove that veil, you see, my gosh, I'm so much closer. I promise you, one of the things that you suffer from isn't just like a lack of vision and clarity. I wish you more clarity and more specificity in your vision. And I wish you more proximity that you knew how much closer you were to achievement than you think you are In fact, it's the fact that you think you're so far away from achieving these things That's causing them to constantly stay that far away from you because you're not running fast enough towards them You're not measuring them fast enough You're killing your goals and your dreams by thinking they're so far away.

1:17:55It kills everything If you knew how close you really were you run so much faster So if you altered that if you altered the first 30 minutes to an hour of your day and you just stop letting yourself be a Reactor but you took control and became a dictator of your time If you manipulated and bended time like I have to where a day is six hours Let the rest of the world think a day is 24 hours By the way someone just made that crap up a long time ago an hour of measurement 24 hours is a day 365 is a year someone just made that up and everybody's bought into it Well, guess what? I've made mine up. My days are six hours long.

1:18:33I've just manipulated and changed time. It's a figment of our imagination is how time works. And what if an alarm could go off every hour in that mind of yours, in that heart of yours, just checking, just a wake up call, just a wake up, just an alarm. Hey, am I closer to my goals? Am I closer to my outcome? What adjustments do I make? What course corrections? What was achieved? What am I grateful for? It's just a five to 10 second reminder and you're back off to the races again. If the earth spins around once we call that a day if the moon goes around us once we call that a month If we go around the Sun once we call that a year It's just stuff people made up right and so time is a figment of our imagination and if you'd use your imagination Imagine what you could accomplish if you shrunk the timeframes down the last thing I want to tell you about time is that the best people I know have a focus on the future and use their time in the present They focus on the future and use their time in the present.

1:19:25Too many of you are focused in the past and are thinking all the time about the future dreaming and aren't taking advantage of the present. The present is a gift and we need to treat it as such. The past is literally gone forever. And in many cases, it's a figment and a manipulation of our imagination. The future is grand and powerful and we need to be focused there and thinking about it and dreaming about it because we are pulled towards it. But the best people can simultaneously be dreaming and optimistic about the future and take massive action right now. Most of the max out achievers I know in my life spend almost 0 % of their time on the past.

1:20:06And I'm talking about people who have pretty darn good past in some cases as well. It is wasted time. You are wasting time. you're stealing and robbing your future and your present by focusing any of your attention or thoughts on the past the past if it's negative and wasn't positive for you is a place you should avoid forever it's not coming back it doesn't exist anymore all we really truly have is this moment right now and our dreams about the future if the past was wonderful and you were a high school quarterback or had a business victory or got a college degree or had an achievement there those things aren't your present and aren't your future and dwelling on them and focusing on what you've done previously is not going to produce for you a future here's the truth your past does not equal your future what will equal your future is what you do in the present and so I want to encourage you to take these tips I've shared with you today and I want you to know if you would make a couple of these changes I can assure you your future is closer to you than you think it is if you'll take massive action right now in the present.

1:21:12Here's a clip of Ed Milet appearing on the Heavy Checklist podcast. By the time we're done with this book, we have no excuse to not be at 99 degrees. And here's why. You'll be associating with me the whole time you read the book. Don't read this book like, ah, I'm reading the words this guy wrote. Pretend I'm talking to you. That's one of my favorite parts about, I don't know if it's the first chapter or the foreword, but you say, I'm going to read it word for word. You were not born to be average or ordinary. You were born to do something great with your life. I know this about you. Yeah. Those are Ed's exact words.

1:21:43Ed, how the hell do you know that about me? How the hell do you know that about the people reading this book? Because I have faith. And my faith informs me that we're all brothers and sisters of the same loving God. And so whatever DNA I have running through me, you can have running through you. And if one man can do something, another man can do it. and you're born with your own unique skills and giftedness, just like you described earlier, that are yours, combined with your life experience makes you one of a kind. Here's one thing I want you to think about, bro. This is going to blow your mind.

1:22:14It just occurred to me after I wrote the book. My dad got sober, and that one decision changed my family forever. If my dad doesn't get sober, I'm probably not talking to you. And then it occurred to me after I wrote the book, I want everyone to hear this. This is super important. I woke up the other night, and I woke my wife up. I woke Christine, and I go, babe, someone helped my dad. She goes, what, honey? I said, someone helped my dad. I never thought about it before. Someone helped my dad get sober. She goes, oh my God. I said, I don't have no idea who they were. It's like an anonymous program.

1:22:47And I said, babe, do you know what qualified them to help my dad? She goes, no. I go, they were a drunk. yeah they were a mess they were an alcoholic their mess qualified them to help my dad this average everyday human being whose life was a shambles at one point helped my dad change his entire life which helped me which changed his grandkids you know what we call that compounding interest that's exactly what it is that's exactly what it is because you are now the fruits of those single small actions, those single one more steps that people took. One drunk helped another drunk. You got it. That drunk cleaned up his life.

1:23:29He inspired you and now you inspire millions. That's exactly right. And what I want everyone to know that, bro, is like your mess doesn't disqualify you from helping other people or making your dreams come true. In fact, it's what qualifies you to make something great with your life. This thing you think that you fear about you or you're embarrassed by or not confident about or ashamed of, that may be the very thing that helps you change other people's lives. It may be one of your great gifts. And it sure was for my family. So I just had to tell you that because it's not in the book and it just occurred to me like a week ago.

1:23:59That's wild. Yeah, it's wild. Yeah. That's a, that's a wild middle of the night thought. It is, man. Because that's a heavy one. It's a heavy one. It's a big one. It's a real one. I know we're going heavy today. Whatever. That's what we're here for, man. I mean, The thing is, I got to tell you, Ed, it's an honor to be able to turn the tables on you because you are one of the world's best interviewers. You're good, too. You could be on any broadcast network in the world and you could just kick Larry King's ass. You could just absolutely dominate because you have a way of reading people's body language.

1:24:32You don't step on people's words. You're able to feel what I'm saying. The empathy that you have. I feel your empathy right now. it's like your heart is like like shiny at me and even when i'm texting you and so you have that ability and it's just incredible that you've been able to turn it into words that are easy to digest thank you that anybody i'm serious this book is heavy but i feel like my 10 year old daughter could probably start to chew through this i hope so i think so and i'm going to teach her these things because my 10 year old daughter is a miniature version of me oh yeah and she if you think I'm doing great things yeah just wait till you see what Charlie does and you feel the same way about Max and Bella right is your daughter yeah so there's another thing and I think you actually is there a chapter on the on the 24 hour day yeah was that in Max out as well a little touch on the details one of my favorite things that you've ever talked about because I want to dive into that a little bit because it it changed the way that I view life me too because how do we view life right now 24 7 right yeah we got 24 hours in a day seven days in a week and usually the work days what if you're if you're if you're working an average job eight nine hours a day guys that are you know entrepreneurs are usually working 14 15 hours a day um you have learned how to turn one day into three days that's right yeah how did you do that by the way i'm just so proud of you i'm just watching you man you're just so good you just you're gonna change the world dude I told my wife that this morning.

1:26:05So having said that, I'll help you a little bit here. So the idea that there's 24 hours in a day is stupid and it's antiquated and dated. So a 24 hour day was created when there was no electricity, when there was no Internet, when there was no nothing. Most people still measure time the same way people did 250 years ago. How insane is that? That's wild. Right. And so most human beings are walking around oblivious to the fact that like we can compress time frames now. Information is faster. there's actually cars and like electricity and lights and you don't have to send stuff by horse. And there's this thing called email now.

1:26:40And you know what's so funny? I'm sorry to cut you off. We were sitting downtown. We love tacos. I'm a, I'm a, I'm a connoisseur of tacos. And so anytime we land in SoCal, I Google, you know, whoever's got the best reviews. So we're sitting there eating tacos today and I look up and I look over my buddy Jason and I say, how archaic are power lines? Power lines. You go downtown, anywhere in California, and there's just lines and wood poles everywhere. And we're stuck in these old, old ways that we're just stuck with. And nobody really knows why. I mean, maybe it's expensive to bury them and change them.

1:27:14But as you move into these newer communities, I guarantee you some of the houses that you have don't have power lines running to them. You bet they don't. And by the way, it's super interesting you say that because we become so used to seeing them that they become invisible. And so if you were to ask somebody in Laguna Beach, she's got this incredible ocean to look at. You do realize there's power lines blocking your view. They would actually say, I don't see them anymore. We become so oblivious to the dumb things that we do in life that we just unconsciously, like zombies, walk through them. And one of them is the way we manage time.

1:27:42So my days, my first day is from 6 a.m. to noon. That's a day. You ever have a morning where you're like, I got more done this morning than I get all day or all week? That's because you compress time frames. So my first day is 6 a.m. to noon. That's a day. And in that day, I could have all fun. I could have faith. I could have family. I could have business, but it's a day. I measure the day in that window. What's important about that is around noon, this light bulb, this clock goes off in my head that goes, what did I just get done? What did I do? What do I need to be accountable for? What do I need to redouble my efforts on?

1:28:10What do I need to do more the second day? Second day is noon to 6 p.m. Some of those days, like Sundays, it's just straight faith and family for me. But in that day, I can do contacts, meetings, working out, you name it. But that's a day. And then the next day is from 6 p.m. to midnight. These days, now I got three days in a day. I got 21 in a week. I got 44 in a month or more. You tell me that you're going to compete against me when I get 44 days, 44 days, by the way, let me do the math again for you. 21 days in a week, right? That's 84, by the way. 21 days in a week I get, and you get seven, and we stack that up over a year, three years, five years, 10 years, I'm going to smash you in fun, in happiness, in fitness, in success, in family, because I get more days than you.

1:28:59And there's one other thing that happens. Because you treat time more preciously, you've bended time and manipulated it. Other people take you more seriously. Other people look at you as moving faster, talking faster, more valuable. What there is less of is more valuable. What's precious is more valuable. That's why diamonds are worth more than paper. So most people treat their days like paper instead of diamonds. But if you start having six-hour days, all of a sudden time becomes precious. It becomes valuable to you and everybody around you. Your entire life will change. Sorry, my math was bad.

1:29:31Your entire life will change when you get 21 days a week. I promise you. It'll be a completely different existence. And by the way, after like about six real months of doing this, you're going to tell me, man, you know what? About noon every day, this thing goes off in my head. It goes, what did I get done? What do I need to do now? How much fun did I have? Did I make sure I said my prayers? Did I make enough money? And it starts calibrating time completely differently. And you'll never go back to 24 hours. Ed, I don't know if you realize what you've done, but you've taken something that has been linear for hundreds of years, which is the 24 hour clock.

1:30:04And you made it three dimensional. Yeah, I know. You really did. Now you have these blocks and these bubbles and you have these areas where you can get in, dive in, do more. And you know the movie Groundhog's Day? Yeah. That movie stresses me out so bad because it's a reflection of what happens to humans. Middle-aged men as they go to start to work or anybody. You get stuck in Groundhog's Day and you start doing the same thing over and over. and Groundhog's Day is an exaggeration of it, but I think a lot of people do live Groundhog's Day because they're doing the same thing over and over and over again, and they don't find a way to, I love the way that you don't make it, okay, 6 a.m.

1:30:47to 12 a.m., I have to do this. It's no, 6 a.m. to 12 a.m. is a day for me, and whatever I do in that day. Like any other day. It's, you're gonna flip-flop things, move them around. If you wanna go golf from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m., that's gonna be what you did in that day. And I do it. And that's the most. Here's what's nuts. I had to move out of the storage unit. This is going to date me like how old I am, but it's like an old storage unit because I bought that island. I'm like, all right, I'll take all my old stuff and dump it on this island. I had a bunch of encyclopedia Britannicas in there. And these old encyclopedias, most of your audience won't even know what they are.

1:31:17Google what that is and realize that when I used to try to research something for school, I would have to go to an encyclopedia or drive down to a freaking library, find the book, open the book, write it all down by hand. And now my kids go, how to build a fort, how to do whatever, how does science work? They Google it and have it like that. And I'm going to measure time the same way now that I did back then. This is so funny you're saying. It's just ridiculous. Literally yesterday, we did a video where we bought a bunch of storage units sight unseen. And we got in them, opened them up. And when you buy storage units, you find all kinds of wild stuff.

1:31:52And we found a whole volume of, you ever heard of what's called the Book of Knowledge? Yes. And it's like volume A, DC. and you go in there and I opened one and it's like, here's how tractors work. And you go through, you know, later in the book and it's like, here's how the tides in the ocean work. You used to have to go through page by page by page to find this information. And so if that's changed so quickly, if I can go to my phone now and figure out how tractors work in 30 seconds, why can't I do that with time and productivity and my family and my relationships? You can and everything. And the best part about this is the people who are going to benefit the most are the people who are closest to you.

1:32:33If you're a family man or you're a single mom, it doesn't matter who you are. I believe, after going through your book, that if people start to do those one more things, those just that little inconvenience, that extra rep, whatever it is, that... And here's the thing, Ed. I'm not a big believer. this is why you know andy frizella good friend of ours yeah his program 75 hard scares the living shit out of me okay because it's a lot at once and some people need that shock to the system i'm the type of person where i decided that if i want to feel better i'm going to start drinking a little bit more water every day yeah and so i started easing into it and everybody has different personality types and so what i what i don't want people to think is if you read this book don't think I have to implement all 19 chapters at once take the principles that you're learning and say that's one that really resonates with me I'm going to implement that one now this is the Ed Myland Show