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When you focus on that's encouraging, then your subconscious starts thinking, man, this is going to be a bummer. This sounds like this Might be a challenge. I don't know if I want to go into all that. So you got to kind of rewire your brain and focus on, well, what are the benefits of taking on this challenge? What are the benefits of taking on this challenge and getting through this challenge? And who can I work with to help me through this challenge or these challenges? Because when you focus on that, right, your intention, then your attention follows. I mean, that's everything. You guys probably can think about your life, where that happens. Like, if you're driving a race car, you know, you can't. If you turn your head, you start going this way, right? Or you're riding your bike and you go this way, you just start going this way. Like, you have to look at where you want to go. I mean, it's life, right? Am I right? Like, where your intention is, your attention follows. So look straight ahead, focus on your goal, and don't follow all the shiny objects or chase down rabbit holes. Sometimes that's fun every now and again. But you want to be structured as much as you can. So start better intentions. Intention determines direction. Intention determines direction. And remember we talked about. So another thing for today, I'm huge on what Mindset. Because mindset times skill set. Remember this times skill set plus tool set equals asset, which is you. You are your greatest asset. You are your greatest asset. So mindset times skill set plus tool set equals asset. And I focus on mindset so much because, I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, everywhere that I've been in this industry, no one focuses enough on mindset. Like events, trade shows, training. It's all about skill set and tool set. Like knowing your numbers, employees, finances, which are all great and important. But if you're not a leader up here and in here, none of that matters. You need to be the right leader to run the systems and manage the people and lead your company to success. It all starts with mindset. We can learn. It's sad to me sometimes when I see the rooms packed with people that are all about the skill set, but they don't have the right mindset and they're never going to achieve or it's going to be harder for them to achieve their goals because. Because they don't have the right mindset. They're so focused on the skills, which are very necessary. But it's not the only thing. It's mindset time. Skill set plus the tool set. Like, okay, well, now how do we. What do we use to get all this accomplished? Equals the asset. So mindset is the first thing, it's so critical if you're not right. You know, if you're struggling with your marriage or you have something else going on in your life that is making you not in the right mindset. You're going to bring that to your, to your business to work, and it's going to infect your employees or employee or future employees. Like, you need to get your mind right. You need to have the right mindset so that you can actually learn a new skill set and then use the right tool set. So that's why I focus on that so much. And I'm going to be continuing to focus on that this whole, like, day and a half. So some more things, you can't make more time. Like I've talked about before, you can't make more time. That's why it's more valuable than money. You can't manufacture an extra hour. You can't negotiate with the clock. But every single day, your time gets assigned. Like I said, I really want you to understand this. Your inbox, like, your emails, your customers, your emergencies, your habits. You know, the first thing I do when I wake up, like, literally the first thing I do when I wake up, I mean, after I get out of bed and all that, before I do all the things that I just said, I read the Bible and then I look at my text notifications to see if there's anything from my family that's important. I mean, they should all be home, but if they're not, like, I'm looking to make sure there's nothing there. And then I check my emails to see if there's anything important there. I don't even go on social media. And then I move on to start the rest of my day right, get coffee, breakfast, start moving around, doing different things. And then I will start to, like, especially then, you know, I'll look at my agenda, I'll look and see what, what do I have to do? And then I will. If social media is a, is a priority on there, then I will definitely dive into that. But I'm just going to show you an example here. Like, you know, so like, this is how, where I would write all my stuff down. So like, this was, this was. Come on, here we go. This was yesterday. So just, you know, look at what's on the list. You know, obviously I was traveling, so there's not a whole lot of things. But I look at that and I'm like, okay, what do I need to do today? What's a priority? And get my wrap, my Head. I finish my day, right? I finish planning my day. Because the night before, I look at my day like, okay, what have I done? What haven't I done? What needs to get moved to tomorrow? What needs to be completed or deleted? And then in the morning, because sometimes, you know, you have to sit and let things. You have to sleep on it literally, right? You have to sleep on some things. So in the morning, you wake up and you're thinking about something different or you have a different perspective on something. So then I'll finish my day planning my day that way. Go back to my thing here. So that's how I start designing my time first thing in the morning. Like that. I don't just go on my phone and immediately get distracted with all of the craziness on your phone. I have a gazillion notifications on my phone all the time. And I could get lost. The whole hour could be gone. Me just scrolling through my notifications, right? So like I said, yeah. So I start, like, deleting stuff and unsubscribing to things. I'm constantly staying on top of that. You know, I'm just changing things up because I don't want all that nonsense going on. So I don't need all that noise because I want to. I want to assign my time by design and not just let it be sucked away by default. So. So again, so what. What are you guys. What. How are you guys assigning your time? So a couple more things. The first. First big lesson that I've talked about that I want you guys to learn more about is creating boundaries. Creating boundaries for freedom. Remember, I've talked about this recently in our calls. I used to think that micromanaging and time blocking and writing things down was annoying and a waste of time. But it actually creates freedom because like I said, for one thing, Parkinson's law will allow you to take forever to do anything. So if you give yourself all day to do one thing, it'll take you all day to do that one thing. So that's why if you list two to three priorities, anything beyond that, statistically I've read it makes you. You don't do anything. You don't get anything done. Like, people can get two to three good priorities done in a day, because then you have all the other noise anyway. It doesn't mean those are the only three things you're going to get done. It just means those are your priorities that have to get done and move the needle. Of course there's going to be phone calls and Fires to put out and, you know, family stuff. And maybe on the whim, you're like, oh, I want to do this or I want to do that, or I'm going to go out and grab something to eat, I don't have time to make dinner. Like, all that stuff doesn't have to be written down on the list. That's just going to happen. I get it. But if you write down two or three priorities and you make sure that that's a focus, at least you get those things done, you feel accomplished, and you're moving that much closer to whatever that 90 day or 60 day or a year goal is. And you can keep chipping away at that. So for boundaries, like, and a good example. Well, for one thing, a good author, famous author, Napoleon Hill, said in one of his books, riches do not respond to wishes. Riches do not respond to wishes. You have to put in the work. You have to be intentional, right? Like we said, like I said, where your intention is, your attention follows. So you can't just hope, you can't just expect money to flow. You can't expect success to just come. You have to actually be intentional. So that's why I say, don't prioritize your list. List your priorities. And creating boundaries for that is going to help. One of the ways to create boundaries is time blocking. And this is what I thought was extremely annoying at first. But I realized if I give myself an hour to do something, even if it takes me an hour to do that thing, at least I got that thing done and I didn't give myself all day, so I have the rest of the day to do other things. So you don't have to necessarily know exactly how long it's gonna take you to do stuff. Just like in our business, a new service or a new neighborhood or yard or whatever, you're not really sure 100% how long it might take. So you have to kind of play around with it and, you know, you have to guess and then you have to adjust and then you have it down pat. So it's the same thing with the tasks in your life. Like, you might not know how long it might take you to do a certain thing. So you just write it down. You give yourself an hour or 30 minutes or two hours and you see where it goes and you're like, how much that time did I waste? Like, could it have only taken me 30 minutes to get this done? Could it have taken me 15 minutes? Because we always wait till the end to get something done. Like, like I said, Parkinson's law, if you have an hour, I mean there are, over there, there are high achievers that can get stuff done immediately. Like my wife, she just wants to get stuff like done quickly and get it out of her mind. She doesn't want to have to deal with it. Right. But there are a large portion of human nature at different levels where you will add more. Oh, I have an hour. Okay. And then you just kind of add more things in there and you're like, oh no, I still gotta get this done. And you're struggling to get it done. If you wait all day now you're like sacrificing dinner, family, all that kind of stuff. So creating boundaries for freedom because so time blocking in the bullet journal, you'll see that. And then like you saw on my screen, you write down the times that you want to, what you want to do and how it looks. So I just wanted to show you another quick visual. When you guys, when, when you look at the times, however, whatever planner you're using, there's times here like hours, hour blocks. And if you write down what you're going to do in those hour blocks and you have a visual. I don't know about you guys, but I'm a visual person. So I look at these visual cues and I see, okay, how much did I have to do? Like, let me show you an example. Like so on the side I'll write down my priorities and then I'll schedule them like where they want to fit in there. Right. And then that's time blocking and you look and you keep track and it kind of gives you a sense of urgency to get stuff done so that you can actually get stuff done.