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You're listening to the Travis Makes Money podcast presented by gohighlevel.com for a free 30 day trial of the best all in one digital marketing software tool on the planet, just go to gohighlevel.com Travis, what's going on, everybody? Welcome back to the show. This episode is just me, you, and the mic. We're just chilling. Just the, just the three of us, I suppose. You, me, the mic. Yeah, the three of us. We're talking a little bit today about wanting things to fast. The problem, your problem is not that you want too much, it's that you want too much too fast. And this applies across almost everything that you could possibly imagine. I, I'll use it, I'll use it in the, in the frame of, in, in the frame of a, a routine, a daily routine or a stack of habits that you want to build. So imagine, you know, it's December 31st of this year and you're sitting there writing out your New Year's resolutions and, and New Year, new me and Tom changes. And you have zero routine right now. You don't do, you don't wake up early, you don't do the cold plunge, you don't meditate, you don't journal, you don't get deep work done first thing of the day. You don't exercise, you don't drink water, you don't get sunlight. You're not doing any of those things. And then tomorrow, because you've seen all these personal development people online talk about how effective it is to have a morning routine, you go, all right, tomorrow everything changes. Here's 12 things I'm gonna do tomorrow. Tomorrow I'm gonna. I've never gotten up before 9am in my life. But tomorrow I'm gonna start 5am I give up 5am every day. And as soon as I get up, I'm going to go for a run. And then as soon as I'm done with that run, I'm going to, I'm going to read for 20 minutes, and then as soon as I read, I'm going to journal and write down what I learned from reading and then write down what I'm grateful for and then write down my affirmations. And then as soon as I'm done with that, I'm going to meditate for, for 25 minutes. And then as soon as I'm done and you build out this insane stack of things to do. And it's like the, the whole point, the whole point of this conversation is to say that it's not that that's too much. It's not that you shouldn't want to have a list of those things that are objectively helpful to overcome your day or whatever. It's not that that's, that that's too bad. It's not, that's a bad plan to have all of those things. It's just that you want it too fast. You going from doing none of those things to all of those things is not mentally sustainable. You're using way too much of your discipline stores to try to. That's why you burn out. That's why. That's why six days in, you quit and give up the whole thing. When. If you would have just said, you know what? Screw everything else. I'm not going to worry about any of the other things. I'm just going to do the first thing on the list that'll prompt me to be. That'll. That'll prompt the road to be an easier road so that I can add in those other things as I continue to progress in this, in this venture. So instead of, instead of saying, I'm gonna do these 14 things, just say, I'm gonna get up at 5. That's it. I've never gotten up before. Again, 9am Before. It's never been a big thing for me. But, but I've heard it's really helpful and useful. I'm gonna, I'm gonna change that about myself and I'm gonna get up at 5. Great. Get up at 5. Don't do anything else. Don't worry about anything else. If some of those things naturally occur, great. But do not hold yourself to this impossible standard that you can't achieve. That, by the way, will prevent you from getting a. Done anyway. It's not even going to be helpful. You're just going to be tired, you're going to be exhausted. You know, you go from not working out to working out. Just the soreness alone is enough to keep you in bed the next day, let alone to get back to the gym or put on the running shoes again and go for another run. Like, stop overwhelming yourself with this, this impossible list of things to do right off the bat. Just do the first thing. Getting up at 5. Getting up at 5. Regardless, even if this episode of the show is brought to you by. Factor.
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I gotta take a nap at 7:30. I'm getting up at 5. Doesn't matter. I'm getting. Do the one thing and do it. Do. Do the. Do the one thing and just get it done. Then in three years from now, if you just did that and you added in one thing every 90 days to six months, you know, three to six months, you add in another thing. All right, I'm getting up. I'm getting a five. Now it feels like clockwork. It's not a ton of discipline to get up at 5 because I just up at 5 and I do that every day regardless. Great. Okay, well, now let's put on the running shoes and go for a run. Okay. Now let's go to the gym or now let's meditate. Now let's be. Let's do a gratitude practice. Now it's okay. Hour of deep work. As soon as I get up at 5 now I do an hour of deep work and I don't have any distractions. That's it. You know what I mean? Like just, just do one thing at a time. It's not that you want too much is you want it right now. We live in this. We live in this, you know, the modern impatience trap of the TikTok ification of society, the Amazon brain that makes us want that we desire all at the same time and we want it now. And in reality, it's not how any of this stuff works. Even, even stacking money, becoming like a multimillionaire. So, you know, the people look at the result and then reverse engineer to, to the end result too quickly and without realizing the steps that those people took. So another classic example of this is like, you know, I've read that, I've read that the average millionaire has seven income streams. So I'm going to start with seven income streams. Even though I make $30,000 now as a junior employee at my work that I just got like, that is too much. And none of those millionaires became a millionaire by doing seven different things at the same time. They did it by focusing on one thing. And then they started to diversify their income streams as that one thing continued to improve. And typically the things that they diversified into are not wildly different things. They didn't start a digital marketing agency and then, and then go build a chiropractic practice. They started a digital marketing agency and then they went, okay, we do, we do ad buying. Then they went, huh, A lot of our clients need ad creatives done for them. So why don't we jump into, why don't we jump into creatives production? Okay, great, now we got that. Now you know, they need funnel optimization. Let's add in some funnel. Like they, they start, they start just vertically integrating themselves more into the problem stack that their client base is currently experiencing. They're not just going out like, you know, I talked to some people who are the, the quote unquote serial entrepreneur and it's like, yeah, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a real estate agent and I'm a marketing specialist and I do content for small businesses and I, I have a restaurant and it's like, what are we doing? This is, where are you going with this? This is way too off base. There's way too many different things that you're doing. None of them are doing particularly well. But because you read some stat about the average millionaire having seven income streams, you think that's what you got to do and you think you got to do it now again, it's not that you want too much much, it's that you want it too fast. So slow down and ask Yourself. What's the one thing that I can work on that would probably get me to the point where I can then worry about diversifying my income streams and it'll set me up in a way to be able to diversify those streams of income without cannibalizing the existing streams that I've already built. So the, the, the whole, the whole concept here is that it's sort of these two warring ideas online, which is that you have, you have somebody like Gary Vee who's, you know, telling 68 year olds that they're, you know, his classic line is, you're young as. And he says that to every person that he talks to. And it's mostly in the context of, you know, people who are 36 and they're, they're, they're talking about how they're running out of time and whatever, and he's just like, oh my gosh. And it's a great reframe. And I agree that life is really long and that they're, and, and that, and that you're probably, you're probably younger than you think that you are. Meaning that, you know, the, the classic examples of, of Colonel Sanders starting KFC when he was like 72 years old. So I get the idea that, okay, life is long and we should have patience and because, you know, if we can, if, because most people are shooting for the one year goal instead of the ten year goal, they're overestimating what they can accomplish in one year, underestimating what they can accomplish in ten years. So this forces you to think long term and think about like life informed in terms of decades rather than in terms of months or in terms of years. And again, you don't want too much, you just want it too fast. So reframing that, I agree with all of that. That's a great frame.
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But then the danger of buying into that frame too much is that you won't have any urgency to act against those goals now. And so I see the other side of the equation, which, you know, some talking heads out there online are talking about how, how, how you don't have a ton of time. Like, okay, you're 35, let's do the math. Well, the average person lives to be, you know, 78 years old and then, you know, how many waking hours do you have to actually work on your goals and dreams? And then, okay, your, your, your is going to significantly decrease as you reach age 40 and as you reach age 50. So you know, your, your highest potential for work output is going to be 20s and 30s. And so you actually don't have any time. You actually have to get to work now. And it's like, and I understand that part of the equation, but there's also dangers to, to thinking about that too much, because then you might just be on this treadmill of constant anxiety and worry and fear that you've built up in your mind, even though none of those things actually exist. And so the whole idea is to, is to get to the point where you have urgency and effort, but patience and outcome. Urgency and effort, patience and outcome. You have to act as if you have no time, while also putting yourself in the mindset that life is long and that everything can change in a matter of a 12 month period of time. And even some of the people who are preaching this like you don't have any time thing, those are the people who I've noticed, it's like, well, man, you're the perfect example of the urgency and effort and patience and outcome because they're building for the long term. But most of the time, those types of people, it's like they, they worked their ass off for 15 years doing this one thing over and over and over again and not getting a bunch of results, just failure after failure, loss after loss, rejection after rejection. And then year 16, they have more economic success, financial success, whatever metric of success they're shooting for, they have more success in that one in terms of the metrics than they did in the entire previous 15 years combined. Well, that is when you have somebody that is urgent or urgent in their effort and patient in their outcome, they tend to get these, these crazy results that happen in a really condensed period of time because they're constantly working and they know that time is working against them, but they're also patient in terms of their decision making, in terms of their goal setting. Their vision is thinking about 10 years, 15 years, 25 years. It's not necessarily thinking too much about, you know, well, what happens next month. Can I, can I go from making $50,000 this year to making a million in a month? And it's like, well, you again. The problem is not that you want too much. The problem is that you want it too fast. So you gotta stay aggressive, but not so aggressive that you burn out. And you gotta stay patient, but not too patient, that you never work on anything today because you all, it's always tomorrow. And what am I gonna Remember more in 70 years from now that I worked more or that I spent time with my friends? Friends. It's like, look, I Get that. But also, if you only ever do this thing, then you're never going to see the success that you want to see over here either, which will allow you to spend more time over here, but in a way that's separated from the anxiety of having to pay your bills every month. So there is a peaceful sort of middle here that exists that allows you to be urgent in your effort, patient in your outcome. And it applies, I love the frame because it applies across all of these things. Whether it comes to habit, stacking a morning routine, or it comes to diverse diversifying your income streams, or it comes to building wealth, or it comes to growing your podcast, your YouTube channel, or it comes to getting in good shape, being healthy, losing 50 pounds or gaining 10 pounds of muscle. All of those things require urgency in effort, but patience in outcome. And if you can find a way to marry those two things together and allow those two truths to exist simultaneously, then you're probably going to be setting yourself up, up much, much better for the long term. So that's it for today's episode. The problem is that is not that you want too much, it's that you want it too fast. Remember, just to stay urgent in your effort and patient in your outcome. And you'll probably get a lot better results than everybody else. So that's it for today's episode. Thanks for tuning in. Catch you on the next one. Peace.