1 00:00:07,069 --> 00:00:09,440 Well, Hey everybody, Jonathan Doyle with you. 2 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:12,379 Once again, welcome aboard friends to the daily podcast. 3 00:00:12,379 --> 00:00:13,610 It is good to be with you. 4 00:00:13,969 --> 00:00:16,669 I hope you got a chance to listen to yesterday's episode where I went. 5 00:00:17,300 --> 00:00:20,480 Deep on the topic of commitment of showing up when you just don't 6 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:23,150 feel like it of honoring the gift that you have been given. 7 00:00:23,150 --> 00:00:24,950 So I hope you got a chance to listen to that, to yesterday's 8 00:00:24,980 --> 00:00:25,970 episode, which I think. 9 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:29,810 If you're looking on, the platform would have been Sunday, July 10 00:00:29,810 --> 00:00:33,590 24, 20, maybe Monday the 25th, depending on when it landed. 11 00:00:34,100 --> 00:00:35,570 So I hope you got a chance to listen to that. 12 00:00:35,570 --> 00:00:38,210 Would you please subscribe, hit that big subscribe button? 13 00:00:38,210 --> 00:00:39,290 It means a great deal to me. 14 00:00:39,290 --> 00:00:40,970 It's a great chance to reach more people. 15 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:41,840 I'd love it. 16 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:44,300 If you could leave a comment and go and check out the show notes, you can get 17 00:00:44,300 --> 00:00:46,370 free access to my book, bridging the gap. 18 00:00:46,700 --> 00:00:48,410 You can find out how to book me to speak. 19 00:00:48,410 --> 00:00:51,350 I am back on the speaking circuit as things have begun to open up. 20 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:55,190 So I would love to come to your organization business school. 21 00:00:55,760 --> 00:01:00,650 Uh, government organization, church, whatever it is, and shape some content, 22 00:01:00,650 --> 00:01:02,750 particularly to help and inspire and 23 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:06,620 encourage and help people grow. 24 00:01:06,620 --> 00:01:10,100 That's the goal to help people grow, to help everybody in your organization. 25 00:01:10,100 --> 00:01:14,360 And you realize this remarkable potential you have been given to 26 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:15,619 go and check out those show notes. 27 00:01:16,070 --> 00:01:16,759 Friends today. 28 00:01:16,759 --> 00:01:18,289 We're going to talk a little bit about systems. 29 00:01:18,289 --> 00:01:19,460 I know some of you are listening. 30 00:01:19,550 --> 00:01:22,490 Um, regular listeners thinking, when are we back on Marcus Aurelius? 31 00:01:22,490 --> 00:01:23,990 I'll probably pick that up again tomorrow. 32 00:01:24,500 --> 00:01:26,600 Um, we're going to take that journey over us. 33 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:28,699 Extended period of time. 34 00:01:28,699 --> 00:01:29,000 So. 35 00:01:29,630 --> 00:01:32,570 Um, Marcus Aurelius will rejoin us tomorrow all the 36 00:01:32,570 --> 00:01:34,009 way from first century Rome. 37 00:01:34,009 --> 00:01:35,899 He's just great how he just makes time for us. 38 00:01:35,899 --> 00:01:37,160 So we're going to check in there tomorrow. 39 00:01:37,669 --> 00:01:40,610 Today, we're going to talk about a quote from James clear, who's an author. 40 00:01:40,639 --> 00:01:44,479 And I came across a quote of his a few days ago, which I thought was excellent. 41 00:01:44,509 --> 00:01:46,039 I'm going to unpack that a little bit together. 42 00:01:46,580 --> 00:01:47,270 He says this. 43 00:01:47,270 --> 00:01:48,889 He says, you do not rise. 44 00:01:49,309 --> 00:01:51,229 To the level of your goals. 45 00:01:51,649 --> 00:01:55,160 You fall to the level of your systems. 46 00:01:55,789 --> 00:01:58,729 Or more time you do not rise to the level of your goals. 47 00:01:59,479 --> 00:02:02,089 You fall to the level of your systems. 48 00:02:02,089 --> 00:02:08,060 Now, if you read his work, you will know that he is deeply focused on the way 49 00:02:08,060 --> 00:02:13,190 that habits shape our outcomes and what incredibly habitual creatures we are. 50 00:02:13,730 --> 00:02:16,790 If you're not across the basic sort of neuroscience of habits. 51 00:02:16,820 --> 00:02:22,250 Um, You know, Imagine if we had to relearn most things every single day. 52 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:25,670 Imagine if we sort of went through life, having to relearn every day. 53 00:02:26,060 --> 00:02:29,150 How to brush our teeth, how to cook a particular meal, how to make a 54 00:02:29,150 --> 00:02:31,130 cup of coffee, how to drive to work. 55 00:02:31,609 --> 00:02:35,570 If every single day we know kind of like Dory and finding Nemo, or 56 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:37,670 we just keep forgetting everything and having to do it again. 57 00:02:37,670 --> 00:02:38,180 And again. 58 00:02:38,690 --> 00:02:43,370 So to, you know, I guess to take the pressure off the neural load that we bear. 59 00:02:44,750 --> 00:02:48,019 As a species we've got really good at habits. 60 00:02:48,019 --> 00:02:52,940 We've got really good at habitual things that we do day in, day out that reduce 61 00:02:52,940 --> 00:02:55,670 the neural load that stop the brain drain. 62 00:02:56,359 --> 00:02:58,549 And hopefully make our lives more efficient and effective. 63 00:02:58,549 --> 00:03:02,840 And of course, There's a whole perimeter here of, uh, different habits, right? 64 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:06,019 The different ways that we can use habits positively and negatively. 65 00:03:06,380 --> 00:03:10,070 You know, people can use a substance to change their feeling state. 66 00:03:10,579 --> 00:03:11,750 And it's highly effective. 67 00:03:11,750 --> 00:03:15,890 So you can take drugs for example, and immediately change your feeling state. 68 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:18,859 But there's of course other what the economists would 69 00:03:18,859 --> 00:03:20,630 call opportunity costs, right? 70 00:03:20,660 --> 00:03:24,109 Trade-offs in health and relationships and all sorts of other stuff. 71 00:03:24,109 --> 00:03:26,359 So humans are always looking for these ways. 72 00:03:27,230 --> 00:03:30,410 To simplify life, to make life more efficient and effective. 73 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:33,410 So what, uh, James clear is telling us here is that. 74 00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:37,310 You know, none of us really have too much trouble articulating goals. 75 00:03:37,310 --> 00:03:38,900 Most people could say, oh yeah, I'd like this. 76 00:03:38,900 --> 00:03:40,850 Or I want to be this fit or lose this weight. 77 00:03:40,850 --> 00:03:43,130 Or I live here, I own this or drive that. 78 00:03:44,359 --> 00:03:48,049 Most of us do not have too much trouble figuring out the things 79 00:03:48,049 --> 00:03:49,280 that we actually want in life. 80 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:50,150 So why don't we get them? 81 00:03:50,150 --> 00:03:52,400 I've been talking about this a lot in recent episodes. 82 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:53,420 What stops us? 83 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:56,510 You know, I've spoken recently about Stephen Covey's sort of 84 00:03:56,510 --> 00:03:59,030 point is that if you want different goals, you want different outcomes. 85 00:03:59,060 --> 00:04:00,410 You have to do different things. 86 00:04:01,010 --> 00:04:04,100 So there's a bunch of reasons why people don't get to their goals. 87 00:04:04,730 --> 00:04:08,060 But I think today, this is another insight is James clear says you 88 00:04:08,060 --> 00:04:11,090 fall to the level of your systems. 89 00:04:11,510 --> 00:04:13,850 So he's immediately highlighting the systemic. 90 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:18,829 The systematic nature of human personal effectiveness is the goal of life to be. 91 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:22,490 Um, optimized is the goal of life to be hyper-efficient no, the 92 00:04:22,490 --> 00:04:24,230 goal of life is to love people. 93 00:04:24,590 --> 00:04:27,170 And to fully actualize your potential in the service of 94 00:04:27,170 --> 00:04:28,400 something bigger than yourself. 95 00:04:28,430 --> 00:04:29,420 That's the purpose of life? 96 00:04:29,450 --> 00:04:30,020 I think. 97 00:04:30,860 --> 00:04:31,130 But. 98 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:34,280 Part of the, you know, the freedom that we have. 99 00:04:34,970 --> 00:04:38,330 Is to choose how we want to develop and what we want to develop in our lives. 100 00:04:38,750 --> 00:04:41,870 And one of the ways we do that is the systems that we build around it. 101 00:04:41,870 --> 00:04:42,530 You know, you look at. 102 00:04:42,950 --> 00:04:44,420 Elite military units, right? 103 00:04:44,510 --> 00:04:46,640 Everything is systematized. 104 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:49,820 Everything because they're high pressure situations. 105 00:04:50,090 --> 00:04:52,100 With a huge number of variables. 106 00:04:52,460 --> 00:04:56,810 So the, the training is built on this endless redundancy of systems. 107 00:04:56,810 --> 00:04:59,060 This happens, then do this, this happens, then do that. 108 00:04:59,060 --> 00:04:59,990 This thing goes over here. 109 00:04:59,990 --> 00:05:01,130 Then that thing goes over there. 110 00:05:01,550 --> 00:05:02,960 So I've never been in the military, but. 111 00:05:03,620 --> 00:05:07,040 You know, you understand that from the moment you're inducted, your 112 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:09,680 life becomes radically systematized. 113 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:10,550 You don't join the. 114 00:05:11,060 --> 00:05:12,470 You know, the U S Navy seals. 115 00:05:12,470 --> 00:05:15,920 And then I'd say, Hey guys, listen, I'm the head to bed when you feel like 116 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:18,620 it, and look just wake up tomorrow or whatever time suits and then a. 117 00:05:19,340 --> 00:05:22,460 You know, we'll meet together, we'll have a vote and see, uh, we want to do 118 00:05:22,460 --> 00:05:24,860 some exercise and on, and then we'll just, you know, have a bit of a chat and 119 00:05:24,860 --> 00:05:26,060 see what we've got planned for the day. 120 00:05:26,300 --> 00:05:27,410 That's not how it works. 121 00:05:27,410 --> 00:05:27,950 Is it right? 122 00:05:27,950 --> 00:05:30,770 It's like every single second of the day. 123 00:05:31,490 --> 00:05:32,930 It's highly systematized. 124 00:05:33,470 --> 00:05:39,080 And that systematic nature of the day leads to extraordinary accomplishment of 125 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:41,120 goals and outcomes and mission parameters. 126 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:41,390 Right. 127 00:05:42,260 --> 00:05:46,670 So we look at these different effective systems such as elite military units, 128 00:05:46,700 --> 00:05:48,560 and we discover that the systems. 129 00:05:49,100 --> 00:05:50,720 Create high-level outcomes. 130 00:05:51,140 --> 00:05:53,690 You know, imagine being like a neurosurgeon, right? 131 00:05:53,690 --> 00:05:55,970 Like there's a bunch of systems that you follow. 132 00:05:55,970 --> 00:05:59,870 There's a bunch of protocols about what happens next and then this, and then this. 133 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:01,940 Think about pilots, right? 134 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:04,610 I mean, Paula, stand, sit there and go, Hey, let's just get it off 135 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:05,720 the ground and see what happens. 136 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:05,990 Right. 137 00:06:06,050 --> 00:06:07,520 You know, let's just fingers crossed. 138 00:06:08,030 --> 00:06:08,570 Is it windy? 139 00:06:08,570 --> 00:06:09,530 I don't know who cares. 140 00:06:09,530 --> 00:06:11,480 Let's just hit those engines and see what happens next. 141 00:06:11,510 --> 00:06:14,570 Of course, it's massively systematized and it's funny to note. 142 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:19,400 That even in this really advanced, you know, technological culture we live in 143 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:22,460 that pilots are still highly systematized. 144 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,310 Checklist checklist checklist checklist. 145 00:06:25,310 --> 00:06:26,270 So what's the goal? 146 00:06:26,570 --> 00:06:28,010 Well, to get the plane off the ground. 147 00:06:28,700 --> 00:06:31,700 And to not kill a whole bunch of people and land them safely on the ground. 148 00:06:31,700 --> 00:06:32,660 Another destination. 149 00:06:33,110 --> 00:06:34,400 So the goal is clear. 150 00:06:35,150 --> 00:06:37,700 But the systems are utterly central. 151 00:06:37,790 --> 00:06:39,290 So let's just take this into our own lovers. 152 00:06:39,290 --> 00:06:39,500 Right? 153 00:06:39,500 --> 00:06:42,650 So what James clear is telling us is that if we want to have a higher 154 00:06:42,650 --> 00:06:46,610 level of goal attainment in our lives, What we are going to need. 155 00:06:47,060 --> 00:06:50,930 Is to have quality systems in our lives, quality systems around nutrition, 156 00:06:50,930 --> 00:06:55,220 quality systems, around exercise quality systems around how we use our free time. 157 00:06:55,220 --> 00:06:59,660 Uh, quality systems about how we avoid distractions, quality systems. 158 00:07:00,260 --> 00:07:03,920 About, you know, the, the, how we allocate our time, how we effectively 159 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:05,270 and efficiently use our time. 160 00:07:05,810 --> 00:07:06,860 I spoke recently about a. 161 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:09,470 A video is Lex Frieden. 162 00:07:09,470 --> 00:07:13,130 Who's a Silicon valley guy and he he's a single guy, but he did a video 163 00:07:13,130 --> 00:07:14,570 on how he uses his time in a day. 164 00:07:14,570 --> 00:07:16,310 And he's a very influential dude. 165 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:17,900 And it's fascinating to watch. 166 00:07:17,900 --> 00:07:22,490 He sort of builds his day around three, four hour blocks of uninterrupted, 167 00:07:22,490 --> 00:07:23,780 deep verticals, deep work. 168 00:07:24,380 --> 00:07:27,380 You know, like this idea that he wants to be highly, you know, 169 00:07:27,500 --> 00:07:31,100 uninterrupted, he wants to focus intently on a particular thing. 170 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:36,620 And so his systems, his whole day is just highly systematized. 171 00:07:36,620 --> 00:07:39,170 He allows himself sort of free reign later in the evenings. 172 00:07:39,710 --> 00:07:44,450 And often some time on the weekends, but his goal outcomes, his attainments 173 00:07:44,450 --> 00:07:47,360 in life are a mix of, you know, genetics and intellect and all 174 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:50,960 the stuff that he brings, but he's really systematized his life. 175 00:07:51,140 --> 00:07:53,120 You know, and I'm, you know, I would have to say. 176 00:07:54,170 --> 00:07:57,980 I mean, it's harder for me with three young kids and, um, you know, we're, 177 00:07:58,010 --> 00:07:59,870 we're home educating one of our kids. 178 00:07:59,870 --> 00:08:01,310 So that takes up a fair bit of time. 179 00:08:01,340 --> 00:08:02,420 There's a little, there can be sort of. 180 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:05,420 You know, sometimes for us, there's different challenges with how 181 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:06,620 time's allocated during the day. 182 00:08:06,620 --> 00:08:12,440 But definitely for me between about 4:00 AM and 8:00 AM, basically every single 183 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:14,990 day, my time is highly systematized. 184 00:08:15,650 --> 00:08:18,500 You know, I've got a beautiful coffee machine in my downstairs office. 185 00:08:18,500 --> 00:08:19,760 It's set on a remote timer. 186 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:22,310 It turns on about 3:30 AM I come down at four. 187 00:08:22,940 --> 00:08:26,000 I have coffee exactly the same way at exactly the same time. 188 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:27,620 I don't touch any email or anything. 189 00:08:28,220 --> 00:08:30,350 I have an hour for sort of prayer or meditation. 190 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:34,430 And then I'm usually training some other on the trainer bike or I'm out on 191 00:08:34,430 --> 00:08:37,730 the road or I'm running or I'm rocking or doing whatever it is I'm doing. 192 00:08:38,210 --> 00:08:39,740 Uh, and then I'll do some recording. 193 00:08:39,740 --> 00:08:42,860 I'll often try and get, uh, the days podcasts and videos done, 194 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:44,210 you know, before eight o'clock. 195 00:08:44,780 --> 00:08:47,480 And then, you know, I'll take one of the kids to school and I'm back. 196 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:49,190 And then it's just bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. 197 00:08:49,250 --> 00:08:50,660 It's very systematized. 198 00:08:50,660 --> 00:08:54,950 And it helps me, like, I've always just been somebody who has really responded. 199 00:08:55,550 --> 00:08:57,770 To predictability in the environment. 200 00:08:57,770 --> 00:09:01,580 So I just want to say to you in this episode that if you want some more 201 00:09:01,580 --> 00:09:05,450 efficiency and effectiveness in your life, if you want some more goal attainment 202 00:09:05,450 --> 00:09:07,130 in your life, look at the systems. 203 00:09:08,030 --> 00:09:11,720 Do you let the day happen to you or do you take control of the day? 204 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:13,850 Yes, that can be spontaneity. 205 00:09:13,850 --> 00:09:14,120 Yes. 206 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:15,860 We can make time for people that need us. 207 00:09:15,860 --> 00:09:16,280 Yes. 208 00:09:16,310 --> 00:09:16,670 Yes. 209 00:09:16,670 --> 00:09:17,090 Yes. 210 00:09:17,750 --> 00:09:22,700 But is the broad description of your life, a life that has a level of systems. 211 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:27,140 And repetitive behaviors that move you towards success. 212 00:09:27,170 --> 00:09:27,980 What is success? 213 00:09:27,980 --> 00:09:32,120 Success is unleashing and using the extraordinary potential God has 214 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:33,950 created you with that's the game. 215 00:09:33,950 --> 00:09:35,330 That's the game we're playing here. 216 00:09:35,660 --> 00:09:39,140 The game we're playing is not the game of accumulation or financial reward. 217 00:09:39,140 --> 00:09:42,230 The game we're playing is not the game of power and cultural recognition. 218 00:09:42,470 --> 00:09:43,820 The game that we are playing. 219 00:09:44,300 --> 00:09:48,170 Is the game of gratitude for the talents and abilities that we have and the 220 00:09:48,170 --> 00:09:52,130 game of finding ways to develop them fully so that we can serve other people 221 00:09:52,130 --> 00:09:54,590 and make the world of fractionally better place than we found it. 222 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:57,140 So let system serve you. 223 00:09:57,140 --> 00:09:59,360 My friend, let systems serve you. 224 00:09:59,900 --> 00:10:02,300 If you think about what I'm saying, you will get it. 225 00:10:02,330 --> 00:10:05,270 It's like, don't let the day just happen. 226 00:10:05,330 --> 00:10:08,720 Don't just look if you're on holiday, if you're in Hawaii, whatever me, 227 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:11,750 but even then, you know, when we will ask, we've been Hawaii heaps and. 228 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:15,500 You know, even then we're still thinking about, okay, what do we want to go? 229 00:10:15,530 --> 00:10:16,310 What do you want to see? 230 00:10:16,310 --> 00:10:17,330 What do we want to experience? 231 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:18,170 We would have a rest day. 232 00:10:18,170 --> 00:10:18,860 We'll have this day. 233 00:10:19,310 --> 00:10:19,790 Trust me. 234 00:10:19,820 --> 00:10:23,210 I'm not like I don't run around with my family with a clipboard. 235 00:10:23,210 --> 00:10:23,570 I don't. 236 00:10:24,260 --> 00:10:25,280 I really do not do that. 237 00:10:26,060 --> 00:10:28,550 Um, though this morning when we were heading off to church, getting 238 00:10:28,550 --> 00:10:30,020 them all in the car on time is. 239 00:10:30,350 --> 00:10:31,730 They could have done with a clipboard. 240 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:33,440 I tell you the truth that would have worked beautifully. 241 00:10:33,980 --> 00:10:38,300 But in general, um, you know, I hold myself to a pretty high standard. 242 00:10:39,020 --> 00:10:40,490 I try and model this to the kids. 243 00:10:41,180 --> 00:10:44,150 Uh, just in terms of, you know, they see that I do certain things 244 00:10:44,150 --> 00:10:46,400 in a certain way, and I do them regularly to them every single day. 245 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:49,580 I think it's good for them to see that, to model it, but I don't inflict this 246 00:10:49,580 --> 00:10:51,110 on others and not inflicting it on you. 247 00:10:51,110 --> 00:10:52,220 I'm offering it to you. 248 00:10:52,580 --> 00:10:56,270 So one more time, James clear says you do not rise to the level of your goals. 249 00:10:56,270 --> 00:10:58,670 You fall to the level of your systems. 250 00:10:59,060 --> 00:11:02,090 So you can write down the most magnificent goal on the planet. 251 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:04,490 It can be beautiful, spectacular, remarkable. 252 00:11:05,300 --> 00:11:08,420 But if your systems will not support it, you're not going there. 253 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:12,080 And it's going to be eventually deflating and annoying and frustrating. 254 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:12,980 So God bless everybody. 255 00:11:12,980 --> 00:11:13,700 That's all I want to say. 256 00:11:13,730 --> 00:11:14,720 Think about your systems. 257 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:15,740 Think about your systems. 258 00:11:15,740 --> 00:11:20,420 Think about the structures and protocols and repeated behaviors that lie underneath 259 00:11:20,420 --> 00:11:21,800 the things you say are important. 260 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:23,780 In your life. 261 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:24,800 All right. 262 00:11:25,460 --> 00:11:25,880 We're done. 263 00:11:25,940 --> 00:11:27,830 Would you subscribe for me if you haven't done it already? 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