Atamarie, hello family, it is great to be with you guys again, I have had an exceptional
week and I've been hanging out with a few of you amazing people in the Systems for Success
Life Coaching group as well, which has been fantastic, so welcome this morning, it's our
bright and early live, this is in honour of Si Pauly who is probably one of the most consistent
early risers among us, great to have you with us and remember whether you are joining live
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are there and I can journey with you in the process, I see your notifications as they pop
up, morning Si, my man, good to have you with us, who else is out there, I can see some of you,
someone else is out there bright and early, really really cool to be here with you guys
this morning, so we have got template number 6 up, it is live ready for you to access and jump
into and you are going to love template number 6, we are coming close to the end actually of our
templates but I've got a cool announcement that I'm actually going to make later on today,
so you'll love this announcement if you haven't heard it yet, it's going to be fantastic for you,
so check this out, I've got a copy right here, the Precision Action Planner,
I think that will auto, probably auto focus on that, boom, that is good chicken,
very very good chicken, now let me pray for you for a moment and then I'll jump in to the
Precision Action Planner and I want to spend a bit of time as well just answering two of the
questions that I get asked on a really common basis and I want to tell a story about my grandpa,
my grandpa and me driving along the road, so here we go, Jesus you are the man when it comes to
priority and precision planning and we give you the glory and the honor Jesus that you are perfection,
you model perfection, you're perfect in every way, you are the name above every name and when
you live Jesus, you live this, you breathe this, you demonstrated this and we thank you for divine
precision coming on our lives like never before, Jesus you had the ability to look and see and do
only what the Father was doing, you had the ability to see what the single most important
action was and to do it every time, we're asking for that same grace to come on our lives Jesus,
that just like you we would be able to see the single most important action in front of us right
now and take that action with massive passion in Jesus name, Amen. Boom, well I think I've been
asked it at least two maybe three times this week by really awesome people as well, people that I
really respect have asked me how do you get the balance, how do you do everything that you're
doing and also the other question that I get asked is how do you get all this energy, where do you
get this all this energy from, I think I've been asked both of those questions twice and roughly
the last week by really awesome people and so first of all one of my secrets is the Pareto
principle, so the Pareto principle is an Italian guy who lived ages ago and what he understood is
that 80% of our productivity usually comes from 20% of our activity, so 80% of our productivity
usually comes from 20% of our activity and often that 20% is that often the hardest jobs that we
need to do, the most difficult jobs that we need to do but they're going to produce the greatest
return and so I like to, when I come up with my to-do list, now my
Will works around
projects and to-do lists and I have a high priority to-do list and
My tripod is on top of my high priority to-do list from yesterday
Let me let me whip this bad boy out now. I have I have different types of to-do lists
All right, I have I can't show you the to-do list on my phone
But I have a high priority to-do list on my phone and on my phone. I also have
On that high priority to-do list
It's kind of like a master list of all the things that I need to get done are you are on there?
and I find as well that if
If there's a bit of pressure coming on me from I'm starting to feel like oh my gosh
There's so much happening in my mind's like what a little I realize I'll hang on if I'm getting to that place
I really need to get my to-do list out and make sure everything is on the to-do list
Once I've got everything on the to-do list, it's like your mind can just settle down
I find often at night and this is one of the things that's beautiful part of my journey with the Trinity is they love
They love to-do lists with me. So they will be giving me to-do lists through the night. I'll wake up in the night and
You know, I might spend sometimes I'm like wow Jesus
There's not much time between going to bed and waking up
But you still want to have an hour or so chatting about the to-do list
But I actually love it because it sets me up to embrace the Pareto principle
which is the 80-20 principle make sure that you get you know, if you're gonna put have a to-do list and
You got ten things on your to-do list. Make sure you put the very most important critical crucial things at
The top. Alright, and and so that if you've got your if you've got your prior to-do list do that
Now the other thing that I that I like about my master to-do list right now
These things are actually in the precision action planner. So you get to do them there. So don't be like, oh my gosh
Am I gonna remember this? It's in the planner already. So it's it's in the planner
But here's the to-do list from yesterday
Now not all to-do lists get absolutely decimated this to-do list got pretty decimated yesterday
Let me see if there's anything on here
That I didn't get to tick
And what I wanted to get done from it yesterday, so
Yep, that one's a tick
There's only on this list from yesterday
there's only
Two
Oh, there's three things here
Three things here and I'm gonna just put a star on them now
Because they become more important today
Okay, so see those stars? Those stars represent three things that didn't get done yesterday
that I'm gonna go, okay right now, they need to get kind of bumped up a little bit because the urgency is increasing
First of all, let me tell you a story about grandpa and then boom we'll come right back in here
When I was young, I remember going cruising around with my grandpa. We're out in the car
We're going for a drive and it wasn't a lot of fun
It wasn't just a casual drive. My grandpa was an editor
So he was a he stuck he was one of the key figures and starting what is now in the county news
And what's actually become the Franklin News. It's a really quite a significant newspaper now, but he
He started that he ran a farm. He was a dad. He was mr. Community and he
He accomplished a huge amount and I remember
Driving with great driving with grandpa one day
And he just took a moment just to give me a little bit of a pearl of wisdom he said look
Whatever you're doing
You know, you want to be making sure that you're maximizing your time and everything you're doing
He said I never waste any time
He said if I'm driving to an interview
I use that time while I'm driving to the interview to plan out all the interviews
He said when I'm driving back from the interview
I'm already writing the story in my head
So he was actually a real master of not wasting any time
So
But some people get that. Okay, I'm not gonna waste time. I'm gonna be busy
I'm gonna do stuff all the time now. I want to bring in Mary and Martha into this into this equation as well
Mary and Martha
But Jesus made an interesting observation
He said Martha
Mary has chosen what is better and it will not be taken away from her
What's the moral of the story there? Well
Here's the moral of the story
Jesus said to her
I'm not going to waste any time
What's the moral of the story there? Well
Here's what I see as a life lesson
As something that's happening all over the place
Something that's happening all over the place is that
There are a lot of busy people
A lot of people who are busy, just like Martha, but they're not seeing their dreams come alive.
Now why? Because they didn't nail what Mary nailed. Mary chose what was better. It meant
that there was there was a limitless amount of things that Mary could have been doing,
and there was a limitless amount of things that Martha could have been doing. The thing that Mary
mastered is she saw what she obviously didn't know the Pareto Principle, but she
embodied it anyway. She understood what was the number one priority in that moment. Now
things can change. Life is so dynamic. So my to-do list, right, I've got a to-do list of
top priority things, but just say for example there had been a major earthquake yesterday.
Now this happens, you know, this happens in life. There's major, sometimes there's major earthquakes
or there's natural disasters or there's major family moments. All of a sudden what was once
a priority on my to-do list is not going to be important anymore. Oh my gosh, priorities change,
and what we've got to be able to be really really good at is adjusting, dynamically adjusting,
to changing priorities. Things could change, and for me here's something interesting that changes.
Priorities change for me in the moment. If the Trinity brings to my attention, they say actually
this is the priority job. You've got to do, you've got to connect with this person. You've got to do
this, and often I find that often the priorities that the Trinity bring along, or the priorities
that life demands, are not always what I was planning. So I don't know if Mary was planning
to have a visitation where Jesus was going to be turning up in her lounge. I don't know if she
planned that or not, but the moment that it happened, she readjusted her world and brought
the priority into alignment with what was happening there. So how do I balance everything that I'm
doing so I can accomplish everything that I'm trying to accomplish? Well one thing, one sad
reality that I've embraced, the sad truth that I've embraced, is I can't do everything in a day,
and I often can't do everything in a week. So I'm going to have to choose what I'm not going to do
in more ways than one. So I have a, I have a not-to-do list, and it's something that's more
like just things that are on roughly on my not-to-do list. So one of them is, these are
just classic things that can, that can get me bogged down, you know, or get me behind where I
want to be. So one would be if I'm going to watch too much TV. Watching TV, like watching some TV,
is actually one of my disciplines to make sure that I do take a break for me and have some time
for myself. So actually watching some TV and chilling out, that's actually one of my disciplines
for fun. It feeds me, I'm like, ah, I'm going to be careful not to get, not to watch too much. So
for example, last night I'm watching Netflix, but it was getting later, things had happened,
so I'm like, okay, I'm going to watch some TV, but I'm only going to watch half an episode. So
I watched 20 minutes, I filled the tank, sweet, but if I'd watched the whole thing, then I wouldn't
be getting, you know, my bedtime would be later, and I have another discipline that I wanted to do
as well, is just, you know, connect with Alana after bed. That gets really difficult, I've been
watching too much TV, so I have a not-to-do list. So that's one of the, one of the things on there,
and then another thing, just where I'm at, is I get a lot of people who want to connect with me. So
example, like someone last night who wanted to connect with me, and they wanted to connect with
me at a certain time, so I put a boundary, and I said, no, I can't connect after this time period,
and instead of, you know, sometimes in the past I loved connecting with people, I might spend half
an hour, well, last night it was seven minutes, because I didn't really know this person, and
so I was just kind of like, yeah, I'm going to give them some time, but I'm not going to give
them half an hour, I'm going to give them less than 10 minutes, and so, boom, that, you know,
there's just some things that are on my not-to-do list that are important. Then, I understand as well,
when I'm putting together my planner, there's just stuff that's not going to get done, so when I look
at my to-do list, what is the absolute highest priority activity on there that I've got to get
done, boom, put that at the top, and even if it's the hardest thing, smash that, you know,
even if it's the most difficult thing, go for the throat on your most, like, urgent priority
to-do list requirement, go for the throat on that, and boom, smash it, all right, so just go for the
throat on the highest, what is the single action that's going to produce the greatest productivity,
the greatest return on investment, what is that one thing that if you get this done today and
nothing else, this is going to set you up for success, so boom, nail that.
Now, I make a distinction as well, right, a distinction between
what's on your to-do list. So your Precision Action Planner, right? With your Precision
Action Planner, it's good to be aware that you've got disciplines and it's good to be aware that
you've got a to-do list. Now, to me, to-do list and disciplines are totally separate. They're
both of my things that actually need to, they're both on my list of things that need to be done,
but my discipline list for a day doesn't actually go on my to-do list. My discipline list for the
day is a discipline list and the disciplines that are on my daily and weekly disciplines,
for those disciplines, they're just going to be happening every, they're going to be happening
all the time anyway, okay? So the difference between a discipline and a to-do list action
is a discipline is something that's going to be happening over and over and over and over again
and then the things that go on my to-do list, I don't put my disciplines on my to-do list
because they're already in play with what I'm going to be doing in the week, in the day,
all right? So I separate them out and to-do lists, right?
Here I want to share with you a little bit about ways that I get my energy or how I,
I have to balance my time, right? So getting everything done, it comes down to doing the
highest priority thing each day. There's one other thing that I want to share with you first before I
jump into this energy thing is I outsource as much as possible, all right? I avoid mowing my
lawns, all right? Lawns have to be mowed. I avoid mowing my lawns. I will, I try to outsource stuff
like that. A couple of reasons. Here's one reason why I outsource mowing my lawn and other jobs like
firewood, anything that I can do, I try and outsource it. So if I'm going to mow my lawn,
it's usually going to be either a Saturday or a Monday where I'm going to mow my lawn and those
are the only two days that I've got as like designated family days or the chance for having
a rest. And so if I'm mowing my lawn on a Saturday or a Monday, there's a good chance that either I'm
not hanging out with my family, which I really want to do, that's a big discipline, a high priority,
or I am not, I'm not getting any rest. So those are things that I can outsource that. And you
know what? I can often, here's what I want to suggest as well. Look for, you've got more leverage
than you realize. You've got more value than you realize. Could you offer someone some mentor and
say, hey, I've got some amazing mentoring that I can offer you. I actually, you know, I'm not
going to charge you for the mentoring. I'm not going to charge you for this coaching, but how
about this for a deal? How about you mow my lawns and I give you some mentoring, some coaching for
free. It's valued at $140 an hour. I'll give you that for free. And how about you mow my lawns and
we'll do something. Or what have you got that's high value to other people, but low cost to you?
For example, you might be selling something. Say you've got honey. Now honey is high cost and high
value to most people, but you can get it at a lower cost because you're producing your own
honey, but it's got huge value to other people. So you've got leverage there. What could you do
that would produce disproportionate results and disproportionate success, disproportionate
productivity because it doesn't cost you that much, but it's got a huge value for other people.
How could you leverage honey for lawns or honey for something else that's going to save your time?
That's what I like to do. I like to think, okay, what resources have I got that can like, don't
necessarily need to cost me anything that much, but it can produce a good return. At the moment
for outsourcing, I've got two people working on IT things for me that working a lot. I've got
two designers working for me doing things a lot. I've got a photographer working for me doing edits
and photography. I've got a videographer. That's you, Darren. You're doing amazing work. He's doing
videography and he's doing edits on a couple of awesome projects. I've got someone else doing
sound projects for me right now. I've got someone else doing admin for me right now and I just look
and if I can outsource something, I'll outsource, outsource, outsource as much as possible so that
I can focus on my priority jobs. Boom. Balance. Okay, energy. Here's another thing with energy.
Now, energy for me, I understand that energy comes from more ways than just sleeping. There's
more things than just sleeping that are going to produce energy for me and I need to embrace those.
Actually, some of my disciplines, I embrace those disciplines because I know that they're going to
produce energy for me. They're on quite a high priority discipline. They're precision actions
that I take as part of my disciplines. One of them is exercise. Exercise doesn't rob you of
energy. Exercise gives you energy. So, if you're feeling tired,
it's not necessarily the time to go, oh I'm too tired to do any exercise. Wrong maths!
Exercise is going to give you energy, so prioritize exercise. I schedule rest as
well, you know, Saturdays and Mondays and try and make those sacred days. If I can
get a sleep in on one of those days for the week that's going to be a game
changer. I look for moments where I can take naps. Sunday afternoon I can
sometimes take a nap, not every Sunday afternoon, but some. Other things that I
look for, early nights. I'm trying to do, like from the time I start the day, I'm
trying to work towards my end goal of an early night. I know that there's real
value in those early nights. Food. Now intermittent fasting, people might think
well you're eating less, but intermittent fasting really helps because your
gut uses a huge amount of energy processing food, so I don't necessarily
eat less than other people. I'm not trying to necessarily eat less, I'm just
trying to eat less often. If I can reduce the amount of snacking, if I can reduce
the amount that I'm eating, I can actually save my gut a huge amount of
energy. Reducing the levels of sugar. Now I still eat some sugar, I love to have a
bit of chocolate in the evenings, but overall I've reduced my snacking, I've
reduced my sugar intake. I really avoid sugary drinks, like I can't remember the
last time I had a Coke or a Fanta or a Sprite. Occasionally, occasionally I have
something like that, but it's a rare occasion. Oh you might get me with a
Bundaberg though, yeah boy. So those are just some simple things that I do to
maximize energy and maximize productivity. Love to hear what you guys
are doing and excited for you guys to be smashing up the Precision Action Planner.
When you start nailing this as a lifestyle, I don't fill out this
Precision Action Planner on a daily basis, I don't go on a weekly basis and go
alright Precision Action Planner, but this is an extract, this is
how I live and this is actually one of the secrets for me behind balancing
everything, getting everything that I am working on, getting it done and also it's
one of the secrets behind having high energy. So I know that's going to be
awesome when you put it in place, so enjoy the Precision Action Planner.
Massive love to you guys, enjoying this journey and I'm going to put out a
notice later on today as well, that's going to be fantastic. Love you heaps and
we'll catch you soon. See you.