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share a little bit today about just productivity.

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And these are some things,

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we actually did a training for another group

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and then we had the new roadmap group come in

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and then Lindsay and I shared some piece of that training

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and we realized we actually hadn't really talked

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to you guys about it since this was,

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they're just, you know, we're just always updating content.

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So we try to take us as creatives,

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like it's very difficult sometimes to focus

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on like what to do next, right?

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And so, and then obviously trying to get, you know,

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everything's kind of compressed into a week

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and you're trying to get as much as you can done

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inside of a week.

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And there's just different ways to kind of, you know,

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cut that up as far as like how to use like, you know,

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specifically use your time during the week.

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And that is probably one of our most valuable resources

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as creators, like you have a limited amount of time, right?

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That we all have to get something done.

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So just making sure you can focus on the right thing,

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making that you're actually like working

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towards certain goals.

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So we just wanted to share some of our productivity hacks,

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if you will.

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I know that's like a very thrown around, you know, phrase.

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Well, I think it's coming from a conviction

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where we realized that so much of our lives,

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we were allowing time or our concept of,

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or our perception of how much time we thought we had

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to lead us instead of us taking leadership of our time.

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And so there's been many variations

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and it does take some, I would say,

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trying new things and figuring out what works for you.

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But this is probably years in the making

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as far as like what is working for us now

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in this season of life and giving us a new sense of freedom.

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And what we really have squelched

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is the scarcity poverty mindset

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of never having enough time to do the things

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that either we are feeling led to,

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like led by the Lord to do, or we just want to do.

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And this is the funny thing.

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I would say the thing that we encounter,

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and you guys, I'm sure you have encountered this as well,

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where you're working on different stuff

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and you're kind of like, well, if I just had time, right,

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I would do this thing.

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If I just had, you know, and really what it is,

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I think more than anything is focus.

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Because if you had focus for a specific time,

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if you were like, your life depended

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on getting this thing done in the next week,

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like you wouldn't make it happen.

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Like you would lose, like not having as much sleep,

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you would rearrange your schedule.

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It's just a matter that I think a lot of us

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are trying to do too many priority items,

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like all at the same time, right?

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And I guess life is busy and that,

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but when I think when it comes to your job,

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your kingdom channel, you know, if you're a coach

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or whatever you're doing as your kind of job,

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that's something where we really can try to do

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like really one thing at a time, right?

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You know, and there's so many things,

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like whether you're watching, you know, training from us,

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you're getting it from other places,

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you're just seeing something cool on social media.

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Like there are a lot of ideas of things to go do.

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And this is where like, we're trying to want to help you

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filter down through the noise and say, look,

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sometimes there's just too many voices

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speaking to you at the same time.

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And that's something where you're just feeling like

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I should go left or right, or I could do this,

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I could do that.

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And then you get so many different ways you can go,

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but you actually get stuck because you feel like

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you can't really move in any one particular direction.

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You get a little bit paralyzed,

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I think, because you're overwhelmed.

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Yeah, it's the analysis paralysis.

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And again, you're not taking leadership of your time

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and your energy and leadership of just what input

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you take in and receive in the season that you're in.

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Yeah, so I think, you know, if we're gonna summarize

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this sort of first three sort of keys for, you know,

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time management and making the most of your time is one.

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I would like to say time leadership.

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Time leadership, that's a good, we're gonna, that's great.

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I love that.

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And basically the first thing is really just this idea

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of seeing time as not from a scarcity mindset,

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And having that, you know, we've been given a certain time

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on earth, right, to accomplish certain things.

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And I know that we can hear the voice of the Holy Spirit,

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we've got other people in our lives,

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we've got family that are speaking into us

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as far as what to do with that time.

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And I think it's one of those things that if you can,

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you know, put those big rocks in place

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as far as what has to happen in the week,

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then everything else can kind of filter in around that.

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And we have a lot of dialogue with the Lord about this,

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especially when we're feeling pressed in,

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or we're feeling like we're shifting back

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into that scarcity mode,

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recognizing that time is not our source.

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It is a resource, but it is not our source.

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The Father is our source in all things.

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He's our all in all.

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bolder in trusting Him as our source

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and the way that we ask Him and talk to Him about time.

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Lord, can you accelerate this?

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I mean, there have been times just in my practicing,

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trusting Him, like, Lord, I have left the house too late.

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need to be somewhere in 10 minutes that I know is gonna take me 20 minutes with

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traffic. Can you slow down time? You know, and that's, that's silly.

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And people make fun of people part, you know,

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praying for parking spaces and stuff like that. But like, it's just a practice.

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It's me reminding myself, reminding my soul,

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who is my source and recognizing that I can lead

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time. I don't have to be led by it.

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So it's something you can even just start incorporating in your conversations

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with him.

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If you're feeling pressed or if you're feeling like I don't want this to take

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as much time, you know, and start to just have dialogues with him about that.

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Yeah. That's great. I think, um, so that's,

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I would say probably the first key would relabeling that taking leadership of

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time and not scarcity.

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It's time leadership. Think it, start thinking of it as time leadership.

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That's good. Time's not managing me and I don't have to manage it.

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I'm going to lead this. I'm going to take dominion over this space of my life.

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It's awesome. It's a mindset shift. It's a belief to embrace. Yeah.

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And I think maybe some, like how we've learned that. I think, you know,

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I think that's something that's just come over when you have,

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let's say, so we've recently gone from, you know,

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not having kids to having kids in the last two years. Right.

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So like you don't realize how much time you have until you have a baby.

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And so like, you're like, what honestly did we do every single night?

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We didn't have time to do this thing or this project.

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and so we actually said this, I think very early on in our marriage was we,

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we will never have as much margin as we have as we do today. Like,

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and that's always relative because it's only,

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you're only losing margin as you add new things and you take on other

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commitments and all that. And so, cause if there's a question of like,

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well, I'll wait till I have time for this or I'll wait till there's margin for

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that may not, may not happen. Like, cause life,

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it will get filled automatically.

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And I think part of that leadership thing is just taking, you know,

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taking that ownership of it and not letting it own you.

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And so that's something that we've just experimented with.

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And that's something we've constantly said that like, Hey, yeah,

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we even may feel busy now,

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but like we still have more margin than we may have a few months from now or,

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you know, a year from now. Yeah. And so,

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and just with that mindset shift, you'll start to,

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you'll start to run across scenarios and think of them differently.

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Like you're going to have to start saying no to certain things.

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Yes to certain things,

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because you might find as you start to take leadership of your space,

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you might discover that other people,

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well-meaning have filled your time,

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whether it's asking you to volunteer for something or, you know,

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do this or do that.

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going to say yes to and what you're going to say no to based on where you feel

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the Lord is leading you. And it's easier said than done,

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but it's something about taking that mindset shift of like,

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I'm not letting life happen to me anymore.

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I'm not letting time take ownership of me. I'm going to flip the script.

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There's an empowerment that happens when you,

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when you kind of put your intent intentions behind that.

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That's great. Yeah. I love that. And so that, that's probably like,

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I'd say probably the first kind of thing,

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the one thing that as well,

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that we kind of shifted our view as well on time is this idea of

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deep work. And there's a book by Cal Newport that you can check out.

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I can drop a link to it as well for you guys, but basically this is a fantastic

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book. If you are just looking for,

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if you're really interested in this whole topic of time and managing time,

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this was a great book that I read a few years ago.

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And some of the key things around this is,

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is he uses the analogy of this idea of working deeply.

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And all you have to think about when you think of deep work is just think of

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deep sleep.

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When you are sleeping and someone is interrupting you every 15 minutes,

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like you are going to feel not great in the morning. Right.

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And so this idea is that like you work in the same ways,

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like the same way you have different sleep cycles and how that your brain needs

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to like, you know, that works. Same thing happens with work as well.

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It's very difficult to come in, do something for 15,

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20 minutes and then go straight back out.

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We've all been in that spot where like you're trying to get something creative

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done. And it's,

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it's very difficult because a lot of our calendars and all that stuff are based

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in either 15 minute increments or, you know, hour long increments. And so,

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um, it's, it's, but that's not really how necessarily,

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and everybody will be a little bit differently,

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but most of the time it's at least a 90 minute to two hour, uh,

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session to do anything meaningful or creative. And if you can just go,

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cause what happens is you kind of get into a,

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your mind kind of brings everything to the forefront and you're actually like,

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it's, it gets kind of builds up momentum through that time.

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So if you do it for 30 minutes and then you go off and do something else and

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come back, like you, you kind of lose that, that, um, uh, momentum.

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that you had built.

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And so this is something we've, we've experimented a little bit with, um, as

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far as even in our business, we've made very specific times, uh, cause the, the,

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the biggest interruption when you're running a business is meetings, especially

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if you have started having a team and you're meeting with clients and you're

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doing, you know, consulting calls or whatever, uh, the, the meetings are the

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most, um, the biggest interruption because you have clients could book

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them through Calendly, it just show up.

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So we said, that's fine.

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We'll keep all that automated, but we blocked off days.

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So like, we don't do calls on really Mondays or Fridays.

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So all of our Calendly and all that stuff just got blocked off.

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So we don't even have to think about having meetings.

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Um, and it just made our whole week so much calmer, at least for me, like

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the way I've structured it.

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And so, and that's just a little, it's a little adjustment when you're

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setting up a tool like Calendly.

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Um, if you were doing any kind of external thing where you're meeting

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with clients or they're booking consultations or anything like that,

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Calendly is awesome.

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You guys have probably used it to book for us as well.

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It's, I think it's a free app, but, um, that it's just those

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little adjustments you can have.

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We're again, taking the leadership of it.

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We're saying, Hey, let's, what if we just didn't have meetings

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on Mondays and Fridays?

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getting to decide like, okay, I know that I'm making an exception to the

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boundary, but again, it's not something that's happening to you.

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often a gift that we're not willing to give ourselves at the end of the day.

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our time to things that are not very meaningful, but think of it as a gift

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other things I could be doing, or let's be real.

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found there's been a multiplication.

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have the time and I've given myself the time anyway, and it's been amazing how

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I've sown into myself and it feels like versus I could have spent that time even

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doing things that I, that I think are, you know, okay, we got to get the laundry

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different projects, there's so many different tasks that it just

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kind of not doing anything, um, because just too many options, because your

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have a long to-do list and might not even remember everything that's on the

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differently about your to-do list.

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building any kind of ministry, like you are as a creator and a founder, you

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have a million ideas of things that could happen, at least if this is just me.

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things done and there's like 10 things on the list.

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plus all the new ideas you have on this week.

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So if we can set some of you guys free, it's okay to just reset and be like, okay,

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this week I'm not doing anything except for.

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two, three. That's our only goal. So that was the little thing. Yeah, let me share this template on

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time blocking, because that's kind of where we're going to next. And then I want to show

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you guys our calendar and how we arrange our calendars. So this, I'll show the screen here,

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but this is something that is popular with like, you can just Google time blocking.

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I just wanted to show this one template I found. But getting to where there's just like

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for the day, particularly, I currently do it kind of for the week, but I'll show you that. But for

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the day, just saying if I just did these like three things, like if I just finished writing

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my episode, if I just hit publish, if I just recorded this piece, that would be like a huge

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one. And then tomorrow it would, we'd build on that momentum. And then what you can do is like

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write three things up there and then just write absolutely everything that is in your brain,

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right? Like I'm going to do the laundry and do this thing. And I need to like pick up this

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thing from the post office and this thing and this, and just like list literally everything

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that's like going on in your brain. And then what you can do here is just kind of like write out,

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like, okay, I'm going to, from nine to 10, I'm doing this for this thing, I'm doing that. And

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there's ones that go in finer increments and stuff. But when you have something like this top

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priority, and it's going to be like, write an episode for my podcast, block off like nine to

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11, or block off like a good section of the time. So that you can actually, and then mentally-

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There's just no way. No one's doing that.

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like I've got to download and it's like, okay, I feel like I can just hit, you know,

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but that's the exception. I know that, I just know because I've been doing this for two years,

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that it takes me at least two hours to write an episode. Wouldn't you say?

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three hours for the filming.

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because I'm studying and I'm looking at a scripture and I'm looking at different

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translations I'm going into. And if I don't give myself that time, I never quite feel confident

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with what I'm sharing. When I'm talking about theology or my interpretation of a scripture,

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like I always feel a little bit like I sold myself short if I'm trying to rush through that process.

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So I know now, and I only know that because I've tried it before, right? Like maybe I can just get

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this done and I'm sure this is what this means. But give yourself the time because then you also

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whole thing of productivity and time management and all that from a place of rest and from peace,

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your brain just thrives in peace. Right? And so all this stuff, like these little exercises and

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putting things in there, it's just to help you kind of see it and your brain just to kind of

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calm down for a second and kind of see, okay, look, yes, there's all these things that need

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to be done, but this is the most high priority thing and that I'm going to block off this time.

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and your brain can see, okay, cool. Like I can breathe for a second. Like I'm going to get to

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those things later, but right now we're focusing in on this and it just helps your brain sort of

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come at it really from peace is a whole different way then. And I'll say there's also time management

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systems and productivity tools out there that don't really do that. They're just,

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they kind of just stack bigger and bigger and bigger and you never quite chip away at the,

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you know, at anything. And something that I'm discovering, like the kingdom piece of this

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is the power of my will, the power of me making a choice that this is actually a priority.

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Because for a long time, I didn't want to choose a priority because I didn't want to be wrong.

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I didn't want to let other, I didn't want to make the choice to let other things kind of wait

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because it's like, what if those things end up being more important? Or what if I, you know,

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what if I made the wrong decision, but we are sons of God and our free will, our choice is powerful.

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this is what I choose to spend time on. This is what I choose to put my energy behind today.

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very powerful about that. So, and I think that's part of, you know, even the multiplication factor

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later on of having, it feels like you have more time to do other things is because there's been

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a powerful decision here that has effect in other areas of your life. That's good. Yeah. I love that.

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And it's that like, it always comes back to like sowing and reaping really, like you're

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sowing into those things, those big things that you're putting time in,

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you're putting those seed in there.

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Then and sometimes I do want to say sometimes that choice that we sometimes, you know, again, this is a spirit led

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Situation and it will come across almost so naturally that you don't even recognize it as so because it will feel so

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something that doesn't feel as spiritual or as meaningful, but i'm

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I don't need to be sitting and writing an episode. Yeah, and there's sometimes it takes just as much faith and trust in the lord

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Mystique or mystery. It's just like this is how i'm going about my day

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And as you begin to practice that and think about it correctly, i'm a son of god. I make powerful choices

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I partner with the spirit i'm led by the spirit

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Like the grocery store is a priority today

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It's also setting me free from feeling like again that to-do list of 20 things like okay i'm doing the grocery store

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No, so I still have this burden in the back of my head of all these other meaningful things I have to do

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But you set yourself free to be like i'm doing the grocery store today and i'm gonna give myself to that, you know

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yeah, and and we've like we're always this is probably more like i'm always as a

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Like do a kroger pickup or something? Yeah, and there's like lots of things there, which doesn't cost any more money

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um to do your grocery shopping and then it's just it's just like there's a lot of ways that there's a lot of little things

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Labor intensive as before but automation is probably like its own. I think it is. Yeah

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challenge we'll do one day which is like multiple parts and all of that stuff, but um

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um and your computer and I know there's there's alternate like there's outlook and other things have um,

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Great, you know calendars as well

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All this will work for anyone but what you'll see is i've actually got a couple different calendars. Well, there's there's a lot

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Don't be overwhelmed by that. Um, but mainly we've got one that's for our family and anything that happens

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This this was a game changer. I think we did this like

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your two accounts, so

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what's great is things that happen and we've

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Um open coaching. Yep. That's what we're doing right now. So we have a kingdom messenger calendar here

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Um, just because we kept it a little separate because I actually have my work calendar tent. Are you guys ready for this?

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It's a little busy when I add all my meetings

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um what that is and what happens is like a few days before the week like the whole calendar just like fills up especially like

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Monday hits and the rest of the week just gets like booked really really fast. So because of that, um

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Thing kind of right in in here and we'll put chores if we're going to do a project if we're going to you know

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because every little thing is just kind of mapped out so I don't have to go like to two to three

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different places I can see all of our family stuff in one place and then I also have my work stuff I

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can lay in here and turn it on and off and then the same thing I make another one here just for

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work so this is my deep work and I literally just called it deep work and these are just

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three blocks that I have repeating every single day every single Monday and every single Wednesday

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where I just know those two hours are for some big project for that week and I also really really

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love to start my week with a good few hour sessions I typically do some some planning stuff

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at nine to ten and then we go right into like just a three hour session here where I can just

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go and knock a bunch of stuff out and it just creates so much momentum for the beginning of

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the week and just super helpful but what I would do is if you have things like you know let's say

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for example like we were gonna go here you can make a new new thing here and you can just say

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hey I'm gonna this time I'm just gonna write you know my episode like 208 or whatever that and you

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just kind of place it where it makes sense and what's cool is if I put everything back on I can

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see where all my meetings are so like okay cool it's like Tetris you're just sort of moving things

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around we leave a little bit of margin between calls and stuff and so you can actually block

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that in exactly where you know there's going to be a slot and again I'm not doing it for 15 minutes

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I'm doing big chunks like this two three hours if you can so you can actually get that done and I

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would recommend for this like a little thing like this but when you go to write a task on your to-do

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list or anything like just start it with a verb it's so funny how like we don't do that sometimes

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and we just write down like episode 209 or you just write down like yeah episode 209 and you're

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like okay so I have to do all of the episode to know what if you just like wrote the outline for

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209 like okay cool I think I could do that in an hour so it's different items on my list yeah to

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record record yeah to edit this is like I just have to get this whole episode done like yeah

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or else you just have this one massive thing called um you know you're never crossing it off

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and yeah you're never crossing it off and it gives you a little bit of momentum that like cool I got

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the writing done I got this done and it helps you break it down into more achievable steps and we do

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a lot of this with our team for big projects where they're like spreading over two four six weeks and

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we have one or two people that are all doing work together we're constantly breaking things down

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into small and I know if I get stuck on a project um if I'm stuck somewhere on a project and uh I

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can't feel like I'm moving forward it's probably because I put too many things at a high level and

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I haven't broken down into an even smaller piece and it's so funny but if you could just take what

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we call is like a thin slice of something where you just take like like maybe I can't um like you

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you're not getting your episodes out every week right for your channel so you don't go and try

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to make a 15 minute episode try to get one tick tock out like get one 60 second piece and you

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write that 60 seconds you record that 60 seconds and you publish the 60 seconds it'll create so

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much momentum because you'll publish it and you're like oh okay that was actually I did it I you know

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and it builds a little bit of momentum and you can kind of get the same thing out so you don't have

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time to do a 15 minute episode see if you can squeeze it into a tick tock like that's totally

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fine um to just take a slice of it because it builds that little momentum and then you can keep

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scaling it about micro habits from the book atomic habits yeah yeah and like you're building

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those micro habits in by getting it yeah atomic habits is like another great book if you haven't

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read that james clear james clear yeah and and but for some of these books as well like if you

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guys don't have time to go read it go on youtube just type like atomic habit summary there's like

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so many there's amazing videos on there where people take 15 minutes and they just give you

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the highlights of like the basic core concept so um it's very useful but that is um our calendar

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so sharing the calendar kind of uh the color coding as well just helps your brain know that

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green is for family you know these are kind of gray are blocked out I've got my work calendar

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sort of dropped in there as well um so that's just color coding things and just kind of simplifying it

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makes it um work really well so I don't know if you have any comments on this but and this this

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syncs to your your phone it's got my ipad it's on everything at once so it's all kind of updated

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in real time but we'll