WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:07.360 All righty. Well, while we're waiting for a couple more people to hop in with us, we can go ahead 2 00:00:07.360 --> 00:00:14.560 and get started. So last week we talked about taking your contribution to the next level, 3 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:20.480 and we had an opportunity to kind of hear about and assess our work contribution and what level 4 00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:26.640 it's currently at. And then we also talked about ways to upgrade our mindset for success and also 5 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:32.240 how to avoid some of those common pitfalls. And so today, this is one of my favorite topics. It's 6 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:39.200 so helpful. We're talking about how to make work more effortless. And we do this by making our 7 00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:45.600 essential activities the easiest and most enjoyable ones. So that's a tool called Inversion. And Dion, 8 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:50.720 I know you're going to chat much more about that. And then just before we dive in, I do have a pro 9 00:00:50.720 --> 00:00:55.920 tip for you all today. This is one that I had to use this week. But the pro tip is don't forget 10 00:00:55.920 --> 00:01:01.600 to set up and use your weekly buckets. Because buckets, just as a reminder, it's where we divide 11 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:08.160 our week into 10 four-hour blocks. So we typically have two buckets throughout our day. And we want 12 00:01:08.160 --> 00:01:13.680 to ensure that we're giving ourselves time for distraction-free focused work or uninterrupted 13 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:19.360 deep work. And I know for me, I was finding myself a little short on time this week. And that's when 14 00:01:19.360 --> 00:01:24.880 I realized I need to put my buckets back. I need to plan them out and make sure that I'm really 15 00:01:24.880 --> 00:01:30.240 using them to free up and protect my time. Because they're meant to solve the problem of multitasking 16 00:01:30.240 --> 00:01:35.680 and meant to prevent the switching costs that come when we're constantly in general work. So 17 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:41.360 don't forget to use your buckets. It will help free up and protect your time. And then, of course, 18 00:01:41.360 --> 00:01:46.000 don't forget, as Dion is going through the material, please add your questions, your comments, your 19 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:53.040 reactions in the chat. And if everyone is ready to dive in, then Dion, I will hand it over to you. 20 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:59.920 Thank you, Jaylen. I appreciate that. Yeah, that was very understated there from Jaylen. She's 21 00:01:59.920 --> 00:02:04.000 standing for Janie's on vacation. We had a conference. The whole team worked through 22 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:10.000 the weekend. We had huge follow-up to do. And we had to keep all the usual stuff going. So we were 23 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:18.880 on a reduced team. So yes, so red flag is if you find yourself suddenly feeling 24 00:02:18.880 --> 00:02:23.600 that cognitive stress, it's because you haven't taken them, put them in your cue book. 25 00:02:23.600 --> 00:02:27.120 And if they're in the cue book, you haven't put them into a bucket. The minute you do that, 26 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:34.640 you'll find 90% of that will just go away. So since that's the topic of today. So I want to 27 00:02:34.640 --> 00:02:43.520 deal with, we do these things. And I'm sure now by now, as we come into week 33, I believe, 28 00:02:43.520 --> 00:02:48.960 as we come into week 33, we've got basically about eight weeks left, which was sort of two 29 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:57.280 months and a little less. And in that time, this is where we get to really put the bow on things. 30 00:02:57.280 --> 00:03:01.680 And we really get to build it up. Because when we were first introducing it, there was, 31 00:03:02.720 --> 00:03:07.360 there's a big new concept. And then we give supportive concepts to give that big concept 32 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:12.400 time to take root. And then we do it again. So we do these big pillars. And then we have these 33 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:18.560 spaces in between. But as we get to the end, we start tying everything together. So this is 34 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:24.480 definitely the time to stay with stay on these last few weeks, not only will you end strong, 35 00:03:24.480 --> 00:03:31.680 but I think you're going to be pretty amazed at your growth level. And so, you know, we want to 36 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:39.360 deal with this idea of why do we believe that if it's truly worth doing, it must be hard. 37 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:47.520 And this actually turns out to be a very deep issue in Western culture. And it comes from, 38 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:51.360 you know, something people think, well, certainly in American history, it might go back to the 39 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:58.320 Puritans, wherever we got it from, it's very deeply ingrained in modern culture. And so the 40 00:03:58.320 --> 00:04:03.840 idea basically is, you know, when you ask yourself, well, why does everything have to be so hard? 41 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:10.240 And then we say, well, you know, if something is worthwhile doing, 42 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:15.120 you know, it's gonna be difficult, because if it was easy, everyone would do it. 43 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:23.840 This concept, this idea is very deeply baked into our belief systems. And it turns out to 44 00:04:23.840 --> 00:04:30.640 be pretty wrong. We'll go through why it's a fun one to be wrong on. And so we can have some fun 45 00:04:30.640 --> 00:04:36.640 with it. So, you know, in fact, we really actually a bit suspicious, if something's a bit easy, 46 00:04:36.640 --> 00:04:42.720 we say, oh, it's easy money. You know, in other words, we're kind of downgraded in its value. 47 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:48.080 Well, that was easy money, or easy for you to say, well, that's easy for you, because, 48 00:04:48.080 --> 00:04:52.720 you know, you're so gifted, you said this. So we got all these things about, here's all the reasons 49 00:04:52.720 --> 00:04:57.520 I can't do it, because I just haven't got to that level of difficulty. You know, if it's worthwhile, 50 00:04:57.520 --> 00:04:59.920 it must be difficult. So I want to challenge 51 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:04.960 to this core belief because it's one of the big things that holds back productivity. 52 00:05:05.840 --> 00:05:11.040 And so our creativity and our innovation is limited because we've put a boundary, 53 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:15.680 we've put a cap on what we are allowed to do and how we're allowed to work. 54 00:05:16.400 --> 00:05:23.360 So in fact, it's so deep in our thinking, this thing, that we even, if something, if somebody, 55 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:32.480 you know, if something is gained easily, we immediately assume it was gained in a manner 56 00:05:32.480 --> 00:05:37.600 that wasn't reputable, or maybe something inappropriate happened, or what sleazy thing 57 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:43.120 did they pull off to have such great results so easily? You know, it's deep in our thinking, 58 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:49.200 I'm sure you immediately realize this, and we love hard work and all that, but what if 59 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:57.680 your best work is done and is the most delightful to you? So here's the problem with that old system 60 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:03.040 of thinking. If you believe that, you know, it must, if it's worthwhile, it must be difficult, 61 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:09.600 you know, it must be necessarily difficult, then when what you're doing, and you're all in, 62 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:14.080 and you're giving your best, and it isn't enough, you only have one of two choices. Either 63 00:06:14.880 --> 00:06:20.400 you can say, I'm going to try even harder, which usually leads to burnout and other problems, 64 00:06:20.400 --> 00:06:25.600 or two, I'm going to lower my expectations and lower my goals. Both are lousy options, 65 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:32.160 those are really terrible choices. So what if is another option? So as we're thinking about, 66 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:40.240 you know, what if not everything has to be so hard, right? What if, you know, that if we're 67 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:46.480 thinking about this idea, that is perpetuated in modern culture, we've talked about it before 68 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:51.520 here on The Edge, you know, if we're not perpetually exhausted, we're not doing enough, 69 00:06:51.520 --> 00:06:58.640 we're not bringing our A game. And so making a contribution doesn't have to be at the expense 70 00:06:58.640 --> 00:07:04.720 of your mental and physical health. So, you know, when Greg McKeon wrote the book Essentialism, 71 00:07:05.280 --> 00:07:11.360 you know, it was a, you know, of course, a global, you know, bestseller. And it was about just 72 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:14.880 figure out what's essential and say no to everything else. It's a fantastic book, 73 00:07:14.880 --> 00:07:19.440 if you haven't read it, Greg McKeon, Essentialism, definitely a great read. 74 00:07:19.440 --> 00:07:25.280 But then he realized that there were still people suffering under this emotional and cognitive 75 00:07:25.280 --> 00:07:29.840 fatigue, even when they were just doing the essential thing. And then he wrote the second 76 00:07:29.840 --> 00:07:35.120 book seven years later, called Effortless. And Effortless was about doing the essential things 77 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:40.560 the right way, he realized that people were still held this deep belief, it had to be hard. 78 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:45.600 And subconsciously, they were creating the difficulties, they were, they were not allowed 79 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:52.720 giving themselves permission to work in a smarter way. So today, we're going to get into some of the 80 00:07:52.720 --> 00:07:59.680 research that's been done, and of course, implemented by us in several different organizations. 81 00:07:59.760 --> 00:08:03.600 And when you're going through a tough time, or you've got a lot of pressure, or you know, 82 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:09.280 Robin, you said you guys launched a new, a new venture. Here at Brilliant, as you know, we just 83 00:08:09.280 --> 00:08:14.800 had a very intense weekend. With everything that's going on, this is a great time to talk about 84 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:19.120 making work effortless. So the next this week, and next week, we're going to really get into this. 85 00:08:19.840 --> 00:08:28.640 So the idea that, you know, that the harder the work is, the more valuable it is has to break in 86 00:08:28.640 --> 00:08:35.360 our thinking. So we have to break that distrust system. So what would happen in your life, 87 00:08:36.400 --> 00:08:41.039 if the easy but pointless things, right, became more challenging, 88 00:08:42.480 --> 00:08:48.640 and the essential things became easier? Say it again, what if the pointless 89 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:55.840 things, the easy but pointless things became more challenging, and the essential things 90 00:08:55.840 --> 00:09:00.320 became easier and more enjoyable? Well, let me turn around. If the essential projects 91 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:06.400 that you've been putting off, what if those became enjoyable? And then all the pointless 92 00:09:06.400 --> 00:09:12.000 distractions lost their appeal completely? How would that change your life? How would that change 93 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:18.400 your work life, your working? So, you know, and that we've already identified earlier on that 94 00:09:18.400 --> 00:09:27.920 perfectionism makes essential projects hard to start, right? And there's a whole, so much research 95 00:09:27.920 --> 00:09:33.120 around perfectionism, what causes it, and so on. And self-doubt makes them hard to finish. So 96 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:37.760 perfectionism makes them hard to start, and then self-doubt makes them hard to finish. And then we 97 00:09:37.760 --> 00:09:44.800 try to do too much too fast. And it just gets, it just builds this heavy momentum of, and it feels 98 00:09:44.800 --> 00:09:50.400 sometimes crushing. All, none of that was meant to be how it ought to work. So let's talk about 99 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:58.080 how do we move into a new state of work? We call the effortless state. So let me give a definition 100 00:09:58.080 --> 00:09:59.360 for that. 101 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:08.160 I'm just organizing my notes here for a second. The effortless state is one in which you are 102 00:10:08.160 --> 00:10:15.680 physically rested, emotionally unburdened, and mentally energized. Does that sound amazing? 103 00:10:17.040 --> 00:10:22.560 Yeah, right? So physically rested, emotionally unburdened, mentally energized, 104 00:10:23.520 --> 00:10:31.680 and you are entirely present, attentive, and focused on what's the most important thing 105 00:10:31.680 --> 00:10:38.640 at the moment. Whether you're talking to your spouse, or your kid, or an employee, or customer, 106 00:10:38.640 --> 00:10:46.080 you're fully focused because you're not distracted. And so you can do what matters most with ease. 107 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:51.920 Now this sounds like, oh, and the reason that we push back on, oh, no, that can't be right, 108 00:10:51.920 --> 00:10:55.680 is because of that Puritan view I discussed at the beginning. That's why I started with 109 00:10:55.680 --> 00:11:00.720 the false belief up front, because I knew when I got to this piece, there'd be pushback. 110 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:05.440 Because we're like, no, that doesn't sound right. I don't know anyone who does that. Actually, 111 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:12.160 there are a lot of people who do this. And so when you come to that effortless state, 112 00:11:12.160 --> 00:11:20.160 you just feel lighter. You live lighter. So when we use all this language of expectation, 113 00:11:20.160 --> 00:11:26.480 of difficulty, and even when people do well, we're critical of them, or we say, hey, 114 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:32.080 it won't be easy, but it'll be worth it. We all know what we mean. Because for us, the right way 115 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:37.280 is the hard way, and it costs us. And when we get to the end of it, we say, look how hard it was. 116 00:11:37.280 --> 00:11:45.280 I deserve this. And so we have to rethink that as a foundational premise for work. 117 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:51.440 And I can't tell you how much research is behind all this. It's tremendous. Some 118 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:56.640 leading schools in the world have been very involved in studying where we get this from. 119 00:11:57.360 --> 00:12:05.360 So here's the big question of the day. What if your essential work could be made easy? 120 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:09.520 That's the big question of the day. What if your essential work? So remember, 121 00:12:10.640 --> 00:12:14.480 if you know, what do we mean by essential work? Remember your one line job description 122 00:12:14.560 --> 00:12:20.000 that we all came up with? That one thing, that if you did that one thing and nothing else, 123 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:26.080 the organization would move forward. And then it turns out that takes about 20% of our time, 124 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:32.480 is about 80% of our contribution. What if that one thing that you do, that if you didn't do 125 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:38.640 anything else, just the one thing, you people would feel like, wow, they're doing a great job. 126 00:12:38.640 --> 00:12:44.880 She's doing an amazing job. He's doing an amazing job. So to do that, we have to introduce the 127 00:12:44.880 --> 00:12:50.880 concept of the principle of least effort. Let me talk a little bit about what it is. 128 00:12:51.680 --> 00:12:58.160 What we find is when we're trying too hard, the brain goes into a weird state. 129 00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:07.600 When you start overthinking, overengineering, you set it up to be too hard. So what happens is, 130 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:17.200 you know, you create an imaginative state in when you're trying to anticipate what it would be like, 131 00:13:17.200 --> 00:13:22.080 how hard it's going to be, how much work it's going to be. And you're literally talking yourself 132 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:27.200 emotionally out of it. And that's so draining. So as your emotional energy is dropping, 133 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:31.360 your mental complexity is growing, and you end up in this very complex state. 134 00:13:32.080 --> 00:13:37.200 We all do this from time to time. It turns out that, you know, even some people like they will 135 00:13:37.200 --> 00:13:44.160 end just before they break through. So often, trying too hard makes it harder to get the 136 00:13:44.160 --> 00:13:51.280 results we want. This is the most counterintuitive result from the research. And it's fantastic news, 137 00:13:51.280 --> 00:13:57.360 because it means there's a different way to do this. So we want to introduce the idea of inversion. 138 00:13:57.360 --> 00:14:00.880 So Jalen mentioned that in the introduction. So inversion 139 00:14:01.760 --> 00:14:08.080 means to turn an assumption on its head, turn your assumption or approach upside down, 140 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:14.720 to work backwards, right? Here's the key question. What if the opposite were true? 141 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:17.840 This is going to be so hard. What if it's not? 142 00:14:20.160 --> 00:14:23.600 This is going to be, wow, it's going to be challenging. This is going to use so much 143 00:14:23.600 --> 00:14:30.000 capital. What if it doesn't? You say, well, that's just a little bit of Jedi mind trick stuff. 144 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:35.520 Well, no, what's happening, that inversion does is it sets you up and it releases your creativity 145 00:14:35.520 --> 00:14:41.360 in another direction. You know, this is going to exhaust the team. Well, what if it doesn't? 146 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:47.360 The team all exhausted. What if they're not? So, you know, when we talked about reframing, 147 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:53.360 you'll notice there's a similarity to this, except, you know, for instance, the CEO of LinkedIn said, 148 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:59.840 I've come to learn that the part of the business strategy is to. 149 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:05.000 of the simplest, easiest and most valuable problems first. 150 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:08.600 And then he learned later on, 151 00:15:08.600 --> 00:15:11.320 those are the only ones worth saving. 152 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:13.880 He said, and actually, in fact, 153 00:15:13.880 --> 00:15:16.200 that part of the strategy is to only solve 154 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:19.360 the easiest problems all the time. 155 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:22.360 He found that when they tackled the biggest problems, 156 00:15:22.360 --> 00:15:25.840 what happened is they got bogged down. 157 00:15:25.840 --> 00:15:29.400 And so I remember one of my favorite, 158 00:15:29.400 --> 00:15:31.600 I used to be a Berkshire Hathaway investor 159 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:33.400 and I've studied Warren Buffett 160 00:15:33.400 --> 00:15:35.360 as part of my formal studies. 161 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:37.280 He's an extraordinary thinker. 162 00:15:38.120 --> 00:15:41.680 And so Warren Buffett, they asked him, 163 00:15:41.680 --> 00:15:43.160 what are you gonna do this year? 164 00:15:43.160 --> 00:15:44.720 So if you don't know what Warren Buffett is, 165 00:15:44.720 --> 00:15:46.280 so Berkshire Hathaway, 166 00:15:47.680 --> 00:15:49.440 I've forgotten what the new valuation is, 167 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:51.560 but it's about $300 billion company. 168 00:15:51.560 --> 00:15:53.440 They buy a lot of companies. 169 00:15:53.440 --> 00:15:55.640 And what he does is he goes and finds companies 170 00:15:55.640 --> 00:15:58.160 that are really easy to understand, 171 00:15:58.160 --> 00:15:59.680 easy to focus on, 172 00:15:59.680 --> 00:16:02.840 and then he just buys them out and he leaves them in place. 173 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:06.160 Buffett has bought companies that he's never visited. 174 00:16:06.160 --> 00:16:08.560 He's bought it from CEOs he's never met. 175 00:16:08.560 --> 00:16:09.960 And those CEOs still work for him. 176 00:16:09.960 --> 00:16:12.640 And in all the 38 years of doing this, 177 00:16:12.640 --> 00:16:14.520 they've never lost a single CEO. 178 00:16:15.480 --> 00:16:16.320 So in other words, 179 00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:18.360 that would be like building your business up 180 00:16:18.360 --> 00:16:20.080 and it's worth whatever it is, 181 00:16:20.080 --> 00:16:22.040 and you call them and they look at all your numbers 182 00:16:22.040 --> 00:16:25.320 and you'll make a decision in 10 minutes on the phone. 183 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:29.160 And then it drives all the attorneys and CPAs nuts 184 00:16:29.160 --> 00:16:31.760 because we didn't do the due diligence in the six months 185 00:16:31.760 --> 00:16:34.320 and he just makes a decision and buys it. 186 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:37.400 And there's a famous story of, 187 00:16:38.880 --> 00:16:40.360 oh, I just lost her name. 188 00:16:40.360 --> 00:16:41.840 There's a lady in, 189 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:44.720 cause of course he lives in Omaha, Nebraska. 190 00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:47.320 And there's this lady who built this furniture store 191 00:16:47.320 --> 00:16:50.880 and sorry, such a famous story. 192 00:16:50.880 --> 00:16:53.440 I just forgot, temporarily forgot her name anyway, 193 00:16:53.440 --> 00:16:55.240 or call her Mrs. Smith cause I can't remember her name, 194 00:16:56.120 --> 00:16:58.960 but anyway, so he goes in and Mrs. Smith is well-known. 195 00:16:58.960 --> 00:17:01.280 She built this incredible furniture store 196 00:17:01.280 --> 00:17:04.359 and it was just high quality, 197 00:17:04.359 --> 00:17:08.200 great prices, good customer service, et cetera. 198 00:17:08.200 --> 00:17:11.640 And he walked in and he said, 199 00:17:11.640 --> 00:17:13.640 Mrs. Smith, I want to buy your business. 200 00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:15.480 And she said, I don't want to sell business. 201 00:17:15.480 --> 00:17:17.079 She said, why do you want to buy my business? 202 00:17:17.079 --> 00:17:18.880 He said, it's my birthday. 203 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:21.640 And so she said, well, how much do you want to give me? 204 00:17:21.640 --> 00:17:24.160 So he said, well, can I see the financials? 205 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:25.200 So she says, okay. 206 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:26.760 So she hands him the financials. 207 00:17:26.760 --> 00:17:28.760 He stands there, he's in for about 10 minutes, 208 00:17:28.760 --> 00:17:30.880 goes through them, ask her a few little questions. 209 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:33.440 He pulls out a piece of paper out of the printer drawer, 210 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:34.440 you know, a blank piece of paper. 211 00:17:34.440 --> 00:17:36.760 And he writes, I, Warren Buffett, 212 00:17:36.760 --> 00:17:38.000 on behalf of Berkshire Hathaway, 213 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:40.920 hereby purchase from Mrs. Smith her business, 214 00:17:40.920 --> 00:17:43.960 blah, blah, blah, for the amount of, he says, sign here. 215 00:17:43.960 --> 00:17:44.880 She says, are you serious? 216 00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:47.920 You see, I will wire the money this afternoon. 217 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:50.520 So she signs, I know, and now they're sitting on, 218 00:17:50.520 --> 00:17:53.240 you know, $20 billion in cash or whatever it is. 219 00:17:53.280 --> 00:17:54.560 It's a very large cash reserves. 220 00:17:54.560 --> 00:17:57.000 Of course, his thing says, 221 00:17:57.000 --> 00:17:59.320 his whole idea is, so he buys the business. 222 00:17:59.320 --> 00:18:03.160 Anyway, longer story is, he buys the furniture store. 223 00:18:03.160 --> 00:18:05.360 And then over the next couple of years, 224 00:18:05.360 --> 00:18:07.960 her grandkids take it over and then they get at, 225 00:18:07.960 --> 00:18:10.640 you know, they want to introduce all this new stuff 226 00:18:10.640 --> 00:18:13.960 and make it complicated and they won't listen to her. 227 00:18:13.960 --> 00:18:16.000 So eventually she gets so annoyed, 228 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:17.560 she leaves them with the business 229 00:18:17.560 --> 00:18:19.680 and she starts a business across the road 230 00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:20.960 in competition to them. 231 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:24.800 And so that just thrives and the other one struggles 232 00:18:24.800 --> 00:18:27.480 and finally the one that Buffett now owns dies. 233 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:28.840 So Buffett goes back to her and says, 234 00:18:28.840 --> 00:18:30.360 Mrs. Smith, I want to buy your business again, 235 00:18:30.360 --> 00:18:31.720 but I'm adding in a clause. 236 00:18:31.720 --> 00:18:34.200 You have to stay in the business this time. 237 00:18:34.200 --> 00:18:37.480 You know, you can imagine how that drives attorneys nuts. 238 00:18:37.480 --> 00:18:40.680 Anyway, he bought the business twice from Mrs. Smith. 239 00:18:40.680 --> 00:18:41.920 But here's the interesting thing. 240 00:18:41.920 --> 00:18:44.960 They say, how do you have so much cash available? 241 00:18:44.960 --> 00:18:46.240 And his answer is, 242 00:18:47.120 --> 00:18:51.520 our biggest discipline is inactivity. 243 00:18:53.360 --> 00:18:55.240 You know, when you're suddenly sitting on money 244 00:18:55.240 --> 00:18:57.560 in your account and then it like eats at you 245 00:18:57.560 --> 00:19:00.200 and you want to go buy something, you know that feeling? 246 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:02.000 Well, just think of that on steroids 247 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:03.520 when you're buying companies. 248 00:19:03.520 --> 00:19:04.480 You've got all this cash 249 00:19:04.480 --> 00:19:06.040 and it's not like they want to buy it. 250 00:19:06.040 --> 00:19:08.160 They've got investors who want a return. 251 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:09.400 So if the money's sitting there 252 00:19:09.400 --> 00:19:11.840 and it's not in another business, 253 00:19:11.840 --> 00:19:13.080 they're not getting a return. 254 00:19:13.080 --> 00:19:16.280 There's a lot of pressure from investors to say, 255 00:19:16.280 --> 00:19:18.000 what are you doing? 256 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:21.080 So they asked Buffett at a conference. 257 00:19:21.080 --> 00:19:22.880 There's a big conference once a year. 258 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:24.520 If you're a Berkshire Hathaway investor, 259 00:19:24.520 --> 00:19:26.880 you go there, it's like 60,000 people arrive. 260 00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:28.440 And then they ask him all these questions. 261 00:19:28.440 --> 00:19:29.280 And the one person said, 262 00:19:29.280 --> 00:19:31.960 listen, you haven't bought anything for a year. 263 00:19:31.960 --> 00:19:36.000 What's your marketing strategy to really make this happen? 264 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:37.240 And he thought for a second, he said, 265 00:19:37.240 --> 00:19:38.480 oh, I know what it is. 266 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:39.400 So the guy said, what's that? 267 00:19:39.400 --> 00:19:41.960 He says, we're going to buy an extension cord for the phone 268 00:19:41.960 --> 00:19:44.920 so when it rings, we can answer it after two rings, 269 00:19:44.920 --> 00:19:45.760 not four. 270 00:19:46.640 --> 00:19:48.480 That was his marketing strategy. 271 00:19:48.480 --> 00:19:50.240 So they were like, no, I'm serious. 272 00:19:50.240 --> 00:19:51.320 He said, so am I. 273 00:19:51.320 --> 00:19:56.320 He said, listen, the discipline to not do difficult things 274 00:19:56.400 --> 00:19:58.160 just because you have to do something, 275 00:19:58.160 --> 00:20:00.160 that desire, I've got to do something. 276 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:03.960 Controlling that impulse is one of the hardest things to do. 277 00:20:03.960 --> 00:20:06.760 What he's practicing here is inversion. 278 00:20:06.760 --> 00:20:09.280 What he's saying, what if I don't have to buy something? 279 00:20:09.280 --> 00:20:13.920 What if I wait for only the best products and then move then? 280 00:20:13.920 --> 00:20:17.960 So effortless inversion means looking at problems 281 00:20:17.960 --> 00:20:20.480 from the opposite perspective. 282 00:20:20.480 --> 00:20:22.360 You know, what if this could be easy? 283 00:20:22.360 --> 00:20:24.080 What if this could be fun? 284 00:20:24.080 --> 00:20:25.960 What could I do to make this? 285 00:20:25.960 --> 00:20:29.680 So when it's, for instance, when a strategy is complex, 286 00:20:29.680 --> 00:20:31.960 this is really important for you as leaders. 287 00:20:31.960 --> 00:20:33.400 When a strategy is complex, 288 00:20:33.400 --> 00:20:36.920 the people who follow you can't follow what you're doing. 289 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:40.400 I've been under leaders who literally every month, 290 00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:43.080 or, you know, I've seen this in non-profit organizations, 291 00:20:43.080 --> 00:20:45.360 every month they've got a vision of the month, 292 00:20:45.360 --> 00:20:46.640 vision of the quarter. 293 00:20:46.640 --> 00:20:48.480 This is this year's strategy, last year's strategy, 294 00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:50.520 a quarter from now, and they're constantly changing. 295 00:20:50.520 --> 00:20:52.400 Now, I understand if you're trying to figure 296 00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:54.760 the business out, there's pivoting, 297 00:20:54.760 --> 00:20:57.720 but if the strategy is complex, 298 00:20:58.600 --> 00:21:02.880 it means that nobody can follow it. 299 00:21:02.880 --> 00:21:06.160 And it'll feel like pushing a boulder uphill. 300 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:10.400 So you should hit the pause button and invert the problem 301 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:12.480 and say, what if there's a much simpler way 302 00:21:12.480 --> 00:21:14.040 to achieve this result? 303 00:21:14.040 --> 00:21:15.560 That's a little bit like thin slicing, 304 00:21:15.560 --> 00:21:16.760 but at a corporate level. 305 00:21:17.680 --> 00:21:19.640 So what if this could be fun? 306 00:21:19.640 --> 00:21:21.360 So I want you to do the following thing. 307 00:21:21.360 --> 00:21:23.480 We're going to give you a moment here to work 308 00:21:23.480 --> 00:21:25.200 and we'll stop for questions. 309 00:21:26.200 --> 00:21:28.800 So what if the essential projects you do, 310 00:21:28.800 --> 00:21:32.840 the essential activities, every one of us have activities. 311 00:21:32.840 --> 00:21:36.840 How many of you have activities on your, you know, 312 00:21:36.840 --> 00:21:40.480 responsibilities list that are not that fun for you? 313 00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:42.520 That are like, don't really enjoy them, 314 00:21:42.520 --> 00:21:45.320 but I've got to be done and I do them and I do them well. 315 00:21:45.320 --> 00:21:47.400 Anybody got any of those? 316 00:21:47.400 --> 00:21:48.480 Nobody? 317 00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:50.000 Everybody got great jobs? 318 00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:54.160 I think I just gave the talk to the wrong people. 319 00:21:55.520 --> 00:21:57.680 Okay, if you do have problems, 320 00:21:59.240 --> 00:22:02.080 then here's a couple of ways 321 00:22:02.080 --> 00:22:04.360 to make the inversion quick and easy. 322 00:22:04.360 --> 00:22:07.920 One of the most fun ways to use inversion 323 00:22:07.920 --> 00:22:12.200 is to combine something that is very joyful, 324 00:22:12.200 --> 00:22:15.160 a joyful activity with an essential activity. 325 00:22:15.160 --> 00:22:17.560 So you take a joyful activity and essential activity 326 00:22:17.560 --> 00:22:18.880 and combine them. 327 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:23.880 In Greg McKeon's case, 328 00:22:23.920 --> 00:22:26.520 he hated doing return calls to his customers 329 00:22:26.520 --> 00:22:27.360 at the end of the day. 330 00:22:27.360 --> 00:22:29.200 He's tired, he's exhausted, 331 00:22:29.200 --> 00:22:31.480 but then he realized one of the joyful things for him 332 00:22:31.480 --> 00:22:34.120 is to sit in his hot tub with a glass of wine 333 00:22:34.120 --> 00:22:36.520 at the end of the day, just relax his muscles. 334 00:22:36.520 --> 00:22:38.160 So he combined them. 335 00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:41.240 So he got in his hot tub with his glass of wine 336 00:22:41.240 --> 00:22:42.720 and he started calling customers. 337 00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:44.640 And then he thought it would be fun to tell them, 338 00:22:44.640 --> 00:22:46.800 hey, I'm sitting in my hot tub calling you back. 339 00:22:46.800 --> 00:22:48.680 Hey, Robin, I'm calling you back. 340 00:22:48.680 --> 00:22:51.600 I'm in my hot tub enjoying an amazing wine. 341 00:22:51.600 --> 00:22:52.520 So how was your day? 342 00:22:52.520 --> 00:22:54.920 He said, it shifted the whole conversation. 343 00:22:54.920 --> 00:22:59.320 And suddenly what was a horrible job that he hated doing 344 00:22:59.320 --> 00:23:01.400 suddenly became joyful to him. 345 00:23:01.400 --> 00:23:04.840 It became easy and something he actually looked forward to. 346 00:23:04.840 --> 00:23:07.880 And so, you know, 347 00:23:07.880 --> 00:23:10.560 Al Newport, when he wrote Deep Work, 348 00:23:10.560 --> 00:23:14.840 his inversion method is what he did is 349 00:23:14.840 --> 00:23:17.720 he writes a lot of articles for Wall Street Journal 350 00:23:17.720 --> 00:23:19.240 and he's a professor. 351 00:23:19.240 --> 00:23:21.160 So he's used to doing a lot of writing, 352 00:23:21.160 --> 00:23:23.240 but he wanted to get Deep Work done. 353 00:23:23.240 --> 00:23:24.720 And he has a family and so on. 354 00:23:24.720 --> 00:23:28.320 So once the family went to bed, then at 10 p.m. at night, 355 00:23:28.320 --> 00:23:33.320 he'd go and sit in his favorite leather chair. 356 00:23:33.320 --> 00:23:36.040 He'd put on his favorite music. 357 00:23:36.040 --> 00:23:37.480 It was, you know, smooth jazz 358 00:23:37.480 --> 00:23:39.640 or whatever it is he liked to listen to. 359 00:23:39.640 --> 00:23:41.640 Got out his favorite wine. 360 00:23:41.640 --> 00:23:46.640 And then he would give himself one and a half hours to write. 361 00:23:46.640 --> 00:23:51.000 And his rule was if it wasn't fun in the first 15 minutes, 362 00:23:51.000 --> 00:23:52.760 he'd stop. 363 00:23:52.760 --> 00:23:56.000 But he found like never once did he stop 364 00:23:56.000 --> 00:23:57.880 because what he did is he combined things. 365 00:23:57.880 --> 00:24:00.520 So our team, and I'm sure if you ask Team Brilliant, 366 00:24:00.520 --> 00:24:01.960 they will come up with lots of ideas 367 00:24:01.960 --> 00:24:03.680 of all the things they've done. 368 00:24:03.680 --> 00:24:06.040 You know, combine, you know, giving yourself, 369 00:24:06.040 --> 00:24:08.160 we talked a little bit of a slight version of this, 370 00:24:08.160 --> 00:24:09.600 like rewarding yourself with, 371 00:24:09.600 --> 00:24:11.640 okay, I'll get my chocolate or my this. 372 00:24:11.640 --> 00:24:14.360 But when you combine a joyful activity 373 00:24:14.360 --> 00:24:17.360 with an essential one permanently, 374 00:24:17.360 --> 00:24:18.640 I'm not talking about just one time, 375 00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:21.560 just join them together and that's what you do. 376 00:24:21.560 --> 00:24:25.400 So that's going to be the challenge for today 377 00:24:25.400 --> 00:24:27.600 is to find one joyful activity 378 00:24:27.600 --> 00:24:30.160 that you can combine with one essential activity 379 00:24:30.160 --> 00:24:33.120 to substantially make it feel easier 380 00:24:33.120 --> 00:24:35.680 and make it feel more delightful. 381 00:24:35.680 --> 00:24:37.800 And this is the technique of inversion, 382 00:24:37.800 --> 00:24:40.040 turning it on its head. 383 00:24:40.040 --> 00:24:42.000 What if we don't have to do that? 384 00:24:43.840 --> 00:24:45.800 In a two or three weeks time, 385 00:24:45.800 --> 00:24:47.640 we'll get through a series from SpaceX 386 00:24:47.640 --> 00:24:49.520 called Making Things Less Dumb. 387 00:24:49.520 --> 00:24:52.280 It's one of the most advanced trainings we do, 388 00:24:52.280 --> 00:24:56.000 and you need to have this thing sort of clear in your mind 389 00:24:56.000 --> 00:24:57.000 for that to work. 390 00:24:58.000 --> 00:24:59.400 Okay, questions. 391 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:07.160 All right, while you're thinking of questions, how are we doing for questions, Jaylin? 392 00:25:07.160 --> 00:25:08.160 We are good so far. 393 00:25:08.160 --> 00:25:10.600 Lots of people saying they need hot tub time. 394 00:25:10.600 --> 00:25:11.880 Hot tub. 395 00:25:11.880 --> 00:25:15.480 Hey, you can get your creativity going here, right? 396 00:25:15.480 --> 00:25:17.280 And do crazy stuff. 397 00:25:17.280 --> 00:25:19.080 You know, it's time to be creative. 398 00:25:19.080 --> 00:25:22.960 It's time to make yourself love what you do. 399 00:25:22.960 --> 00:25:25.480 So I forgot to give you one example. 400 00:25:25.480 --> 00:25:28.400 It wasn't in my notes, but one I love to tell. 401 00:25:28.400 --> 00:25:32.680 How many of you know how Winston Churchill worked? 402 00:25:32.680 --> 00:25:36.240 That was a pretty brutal job, right? 403 00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:41.360 So Winston Churchill was never considered great leader until, right, so this is a guy 404 00:25:41.360 --> 00:25:44.360 who fought in South Africa in the world war. 405 00:25:44.360 --> 00:25:45.360 He fought in India. 406 00:25:45.360 --> 00:25:50.220 He was a soldier, was in the military, became one of the, I think he still holds the record 407 00:25:50.220 --> 00:25:53.720 for the youngest member of parliament in British history. 408 00:25:53.720 --> 00:25:57.280 I suspect that's still true for the longest time. 409 00:25:57.320 --> 00:26:02.760 And then when the war broke out, Winston Churchill was brought back in the war effort. 410 00:26:02.760 --> 00:26:04.760 So he's leading World War II. 411 00:26:04.760 --> 00:26:10.120 The British are taking a huge hit before America joins in to the war. 412 00:26:10.120 --> 00:26:14.720 Guess what he did to do inversion? 413 00:26:14.720 --> 00:26:18.040 Does anyone know what time he got out of bed? 414 00:26:18.040 --> 00:26:23.280 Usually between 1130 a.m. and 2 p.m. 415 00:26:23.280 --> 00:26:24.280 You say, what did he do? 416 00:26:24.280 --> 00:26:25.280 He wasn't sleeping. 417 00:26:25.280 --> 00:26:28.280 He liked the comfort of his bed. 418 00:26:28.280 --> 00:26:35.120 And so at 6 a.m., his assistant would come in with tea, of course, and she would give 419 00:26:35.120 --> 00:26:38.400 him tea and she'd brief him for the day. 420 00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:41.840 And then he would give her all her stuff and then she'd go off and then he'd lock himself 421 00:26:41.840 --> 00:26:43.720 down for two hours to think. 422 00:26:43.720 --> 00:26:46.720 And he would lie in bed with his notepad and he would write. 423 00:26:46.720 --> 00:26:49.480 He did this every day, by the way. 424 00:26:49.480 --> 00:26:52.280 So he rarely got out of bed before midday. 425 00:26:52.280 --> 00:26:55.480 You can't call him a lousy leader. 426 00:26:55.480 --> 00:26:57.360 He's one of the greatest leaders. 427 00:26:57.360 --> 00:27:02.000 So this idea that, you know, you have to be up and exercise and yeah, sure, do all that 428 00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:04.400 if that's your thing. 429 00:27:04.400 --> 00:27:07.440 And it's not mine, but it might be yours. 430 00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:09.440 Totally free to do your thing. 431 00:27:09.440 --> 00:27:12.680 Anybody got some ideas about what you want to do? 432 00:27:12.680 --> 00:27:16.760 And we're going to we're going to we're going to have a breakout here in a bit and you can, 433 00:27:16.760 --> 00:27:18.320 you know, share with your team. 434 00:27:18.440 --> 00:27:20.920 Tyler, it looked like you had a comment or a question there. 435 00:27:23.280 --> 00:27:29.040 I do, so I think this this is similar to the joy table that we've talked about a couple 436 00:27:29.040 --> 00:27:36.240 times. I'm curious, at what point do you think you use this inversion method or you just 437 00:27:36.240 --> 00:27:37.920 delete it like. 438 00:27:37.920 --> 00:27:40.160 Yeah. Now, deleting is the best. 439 00:27:40.160 --> 00:27:41.320 OK. Yeah. 440 00:27:41.320 --> 00:27:42.840 We'll start with deletion first. 441 00:27:42.840 --> 00:27:44.280 Yeah. Yeah. 442 00:27:44.280 --> 00:27:45.360 Absolutely. That's the one. 443 00:27:45.360 --> 00:27:47.160 That's the hardest thing for me. 444 00:27:47.160 --> 00:27:48.160 Deleting? 445 00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:49.400 Not just deleting. 446 00:27:49.400 --> 00:27:54.080 Yeah. Don't simplify, optimize and then delete. 447 00:27:54.080 --> 00:27:55.480 Think of all the energy you went through. 448 00:27:55.480 --> 00:27:59.840 Just delete. So when we get to the SpaceX thing, we talk a lot about this. 449 00:27:59.840 --> 00:28:01.800 This is the one I was talking about a few weeks time. 450 00:28:01.800 --> 00:28:04.000 So you're already alluding to the next thing. 451 00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:05.800 So what we do is we lay the ideas down. 452 00:28:05.800 --> 00:28:08.560 So when we get there, they feel more obvious. 453 00:28:08.560 --> 00:28:13.560 So where we are now is think about think about your essential. 454 00:28:13.560 --> 00:28:15.720 So remember, what's the job here? 455 00:28:15.720 --> 00:28:20.320 To make essential tasks easy. 456 00:28:20.320 --> 00:28:27.720 Right. And the other things we can do to to make the, you know, the distracting stuff 457 00:28:27.720 --> 00:28:30.760 harder. So excuse me. 458 00:28:30.760 --> 00:28:35.720 So the pointless distractions can become harder, like putting your phone on the other 459 00:28:35.720 --> 00:28:40.400 side of the room. So you have to go over there to get to your notifications. 460 00:28:40.400 --> 00:28:42.840 You know, you know, I saw a great diagram. 461 00:28:43.080 --> 00:28:48.000 I try to actually copy the diagram shows focus, very intense focus. 462 00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:52.520 And then there's this little dot and then this is crazy amount of activity. 463 00:28:52.520 --> 00:28:58.400 And the caption says, total focus until I hit the first notification. 464 00:28:58.400 --> 00:29:01.800 And then we because then you went into this and, you know, the rest. 465 00:29:01.800 --> 00:29:08.600 So how do we make that harder than the distractions and all that stuff? 466 00:29:08.600 --> 00:29:10.080 That's a part two to this. 467 00:29:10.080 --> 00:29:11.720 We'll do a little more of that next week. 468 00:29:11.720 --> 00:29:18.040 But this week, how do you use inversion combining a joyful activity? 469 00:29:18.040 --> 00:29:20.160 So, yes, Tyler, from the joy table. 470 00:29:20.160 --> 00:29:23.400 So let's drop the worksheet. 471 00:29:23.400 --> 00:29:28.640 And we'll do breakouts and we'll get back at five minutes to the top of the hour. 472 00:29:28.640 --> 00:29:29.640 Over to you, Jalen. 473 00:29:30.920 --> 00:29:34.720 All right, I saw Robin had a quick hand up there, if you want to take one more question, 474 00:29:34.720 --> 00:29:36.040 Dion. Yeah, sure. 475 00:29:36.040 --> 00:29:37.040 Go, Robin. 476 00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:39.400 Yeah, thank you, Dion. 477 00:29:39.600 --> 00:29:47.160 What if I'm just thinking about this, trying to put it into perspective and somehow I have 478 00:29:47.160 --> 00:29:53.240 programmed my brain that hard work, easy work, I can't tell the difference between them. 479 00:29:53.240 --> 00:29:56.560 So I can't figure out what's the easy and what's the hard. 480 00:29:56.560 --> 00:29:58.160 It's just stuff that has to be done. 481 00:29:58.400 --> 00:29:59.600 And I've I've just. 482 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:06.560 just got this routine, I get up at 5am, I do this, you know, I've got everything. And I don't know 483 00:30:06.560 --> 00:30:10.720 how to tell what I like and what I don't like. I just do it. You know what I mean? 484 00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:15.520 So what I would, I would do there, Robin, is start with what's essential, 485 00:30:15.520 --> 00:30:18.960 what you'll contribute, think about your contribution. By the way, this gets harder 486 00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:24.800 as you're the leader of the company, because you can do many things. But what's the thing you do 487 00:30:24.800 --> 00:30:30.000 that most moves the company forward? Is it meeting with clients? Is it training the team? 488 00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:35.280 What is it the big thing? Take that one thing and make it more joyful and easier for you. 489 00:30:36.640 --> 00:30:45.280 So let's say I do that. And now I've got four hours extra in my day. I'm bored. 490 00:30:46.960 --> 00:30:52.320 Well, then that's a great problem to have. Reallocating and buying back your time is 491 00:30:52.320 --> 00:30:54.720 critical. You know, you can put it into your new business. 492 00:30:57.840 --> 00:31:02.320 So yeah, very good. Okay, guys, let's give you your time. 493 00:31:04.080 --> 00:31:08.720 All right, so we're going to go ahead and break out into our rooms where you can discuss the 494 00:31:08.720 --> 00:31:13.840 material. The worksheet has been posted in the chat. Let me know if you cannot access it. And 495 00:31:13.840 --> 00:31:19.920 we will be back at 1.55 if you have any extra questions that we can ask Dion. So I'm going to 496 00:31:19.920 --> 00:31:24.960 go ahead and open up all those rooms now. And you should be able to self-assign to your room. 497 00:31:24.960 --> 00:31:27.360 And let me know if you need any help getting where you're going. 498 00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:33.280 Welcome back. Welcome back. Was that fun? 499 00:31:37.520 --> 00:31:39.360 Very enjoyable. We had a great time. 500 00:31:40.400 --> 00:31:44.560 It's good. I want to hear some creative ideas. I want to hear the hot tub ideas. 501 00:31:45.520 --> 00:31:47.120 Let's hear. Who's brave? 502 00:31:51.760 --> 00:31:58.320 And our Matt also had talked a little bit too. So I'd like to have him jump on there after Matt. 503 00:31:59.040 --> 00:32:06.400 So I have specific coffee shops reserved in the city for doing things that either when I'm in a 504 00:32:06.400 --> 00:32:11.600 particularly bad headspace and have to do things that I dislike, and they're the best coffee shops 505 00:32:11.600 --> 00:32:15.920 in the city. So I don't go and work there normally. I save them specifically for moments 506 00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:21.600 where I need to feel an environment of joy and delight around me. And I just walk in there and 507 00:32:21.600 --> 00:32:29.520 I'm like, okay, okay. So I'm a complete coffee snob. So for me, it completely flips the narrative 508 00:32:29.520 --> 00:32:33.040 and I get to really enjoy it. And then I'm like, okay, now I can get on with the stuff I don't 509 00:32:33.040 --> 00:32:41.840 want to be doing. Yeah. So, okay. Matthew, how they met. There you go. Yeah. So for me, 510 00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:46.320 switching to the remote work environment and something that really helped me, 511 00:32:47.200 --> 00:32:55.600 I raised dogs and what I found before I started working remotely, having to leave the house, 512 00:32:56.160 --> 00:33:01.120 the excitement rises, having to let them out, being gone all day and then having to come back 513 00:33:01.120 --> 00:33:08.240 after working all day, them getting excited again. That was adding a lot to my plate 514 00:33:08.240 --> 00:33:13.120 in the mornings and the evenings. And then when I was away from the house, it'd be distracting me 515 00:33:13.120 --> 00:33:20.560 for my work when I wasn't working remotely. And now with this setup here, the energy level in the 516 00:33:20.560 --> 00:33:25.760 house stays low. I'm able to take care of my essential tasks and it's been much easier on me. 517 00:33:26.320 --> 00:33:32.720 Okay. It was working from home is his hot tub and wine is what we said. So 518 00:33:33.600 --> 00:33:37.040 he didn't realize how much, how great it was until after he did it. 519 00:33:38.800 --> 00:33:40.480 Absolutely. Anyone else want to share? 520 00:33:42.800 --> 00:33:50.960 I'll share. So for me, when I start feeling like I'm living under something and I always need to 521 00:33:50.960 --> 00:33:56.800 go for, and I need to remind myself that instead of just trying to push through it to go for a walk 522 00:33:56.800 --> 00:34:02.560 or for me, just go worship because it re it reframes everything in my, my heart, 523 00:34:02.560 --> 00:34:06.880 which then reframes my mind. It allows me to see the situation differently. 524 00:34:06.880 --> 00:34:12.400 It allows me to live above that, that situation and look down on it. But more importantly, 525 00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:18.320 it's always, it's reminding myself that it's an invitation, just like we talked about at the event 526 00:34:18.960 --> 00:34:23.760 that there is a partnership that the father wants to partner with this in the process. 527 00:34:23.760 --> 00:34:27.679 And that if you don't know what it is that you want to invert that, ask the father 528 00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:32.800 saying, Lord, what is the gift that you want to give me? So I can invert this partner with you 529 00:34:32.800 --> 00:34:38.880 and rise above this because I know that for where you want me to go, you need me to see 530 00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:44.880 this differently and you want me to walk through this differently. So it's like taking that 531 00:34:44.880 --> 00:34:50.800 inversion is really at that partnership piece and that everything comes from a gift and just 532 00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:55.760 reminding yourself, you know, if you can't find what that gift is for some people at Brilliant, 533 00:34:55.760 --> 00:34:59.760 it's a piece of chocolate hiding on your desk, you know, that helps. 534 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:04.320 that inversion. For others, it's, you know, being at home. For me, it's going for a walk. 535 00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:12.800 Well, I hope from all of that, you guys got the basic structure of it. Try to this week, 536 00:35:13.600 --> 00:35:19.600 change your workflow. Don't just do it now and again. Make it a permanent connection. Find to 537 00:35:19.600 --> 00:35:25.040 see if you can change your workflow. So I know that construction often don't come back off these 538 00:35:25.040 --> 00:35:30.000 sessions because I've actually set up Friday mornings in their organization to work through 539 00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:34.400 all the worksheets. So they've actually taken the worksheets even more seriously. So if you don't 540 00:35:34.400 --> 00:35:38.000 see them back, that's the reason. So they told me up front, that's what they're doing now. I found 541 00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:42.480 it works very good for their team. But why don't you do that? Why don't you do another follow-up 542 00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:47.920 session and just look and see how you could connect something that, you know, is a joyful 543 00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:53.360 activity with something that's essential and see if you can make that more of a habit, you know, 544 00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:58.720 more of a permanent connection. Well, we'll see how it goes next week. Everybody, thank you again. 545 00:35:58.720 --> 00:36:01.520 Really appreciate it. Jaylen, is there anything we need before we go? 546 00:36:02.320 --> 00:36:07.120 Nope, that's everything. Don't forget about the end of call survey as you leave these in call. 547 00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:08.720 Okay. Thanks so much. 548 00:36:09.600 --> 00:36:10.080 Bye. 549 00:36:10.080 --> 00:36:12.320 Thanks everyone. Bye.