So if you don't structure what the priorities are,
Speaker:you don't have a checklist for the priorities,
Speaker:you don't have a metric to give you incentives to keep on those priorities,
Speaker:well,
Speaker:you got nothing to look at except yourself of why it's not producing the results
Speaker:you want.
Speaker:For many years, 48 plus years actually,
Speaker:I've developed a series of habits that have helped me
Speaker:fulfill the dreams that I've had in my life.
Speaker:Some of them I'd like to share with you. I want to give you,
Speaker:I won't say that this is the only set of habits that I've had because they've
Speaker:evolved over the years,
Speaker:but they are things that you can do that can help you unquestionably.
Speaker:There are many,
Speaker:many teachers out there with a list of things that you might do as a
Speaker:daily ritual. And many of them are very useful.
Speaker:I can't say that you want to be locked into any one set,
Speaker:my set or anybody else's set, you need to find what is natural for you.
Speaker:First I want to say that some people have very different hours than other
Speaker:people.
Speaker:I know a very successful actress that goes to bed at four or five in the
Speaker:morning and gets up mid day and has a completely different ritual.
Speaker:I also know a very successful business person that's up at four o'clock.
Speaker:When they're going to bed, someone else is getting up.
Speaker:So I don't want to say that it's mandatory that you have a certain pattern.
Speaker:A very successful doctor that was a mentor of mine,
Speaker:had a late morning ritual and went to bed
Speaker:early in the morning also.
Speaker:So I just want to say that each person has their own time clock.
Speaker:There are biological rhythms.
Speaker:There is the suprachiasmatic nucleus in the hypothalamus that is
Speaker:involved in circadian rhythms that ideally
Speaker:we could benefit by.
Speaker:But if you normalize your clock consistently in a certain pattern,
Speaker:your body will adapt.
Speaker:So ideally that may be wise to get up early and go to bed early,
Speaker:but that's not always the case for each person.
Speaker:Some people are morning and some people are afternoon people.
Speaker:So I just want to say whatever the timeframe is,
Speaker:there are certain things that you could do that could start your day and I'll
Speaker:give you a variety of them that I found that helpful to me and things that I've
Speaker:seen helpful to some of the clients I have and colleagues that I've known.
Speaker:First of all I do believe that when I do arise,
Speaker:I do love going through my head on a series of internal
Speaker:dialogues.
Speaker:And I have a set of dialogues that I've had since I was 17.
Speaker:And there are some that have evolved and that have achieved and now have evolved
Speaker:further into new sets,
Speaker:but it's no harm to have a dialogue inside your head,
Speaker:some people have called them affirmations.
Speaker:Some people call them quotations to recite.
Speaker:Some people call them internal dialogues.
Speaker:The word affirmation is not just positive statements.
Speaker:I'm not a promoter of just positive fantasy statements.
Speaker:But affirmation means to make firm in one's mind.
Speaker:A condition of firmness in one's mind.
Speaker:So I do believe that having a statement that is deeply meaningful,
Speaker:that is inspiring to you,
Speaker:sort of a checkup from the neck up to start your day,
Speaker:I found it very productive. I have a series of them,
Speaker:I get up in the morning and I say to myself that I'm a master persistence,
Speaker:I do whatever it takes. And I do what I love and I love what I do.
Speaker:And I'm grateful for the opportunities that I have before me.
Speaker:I'm blessed, appreciation each day. And I have a series of things,
Speaker:you know, I've said for many years that I'm a multimillionaire money magnet.
Speaker:I have many different statements that are true today.
Speaker:All of those are realities today the ones that I've been saying.
Speaker:Now to say that that affirmation is the only thing that made it come true,
Speaker:is not true.
Speaker:But the affirmation is a statement about how I want my
Speaker:life that my life demonstrates I'm committed to taking actions on.
Speaker:So if you're going to make statements to yourself in the morning,
Speaker:make sure that they are truly aligned with what you value most and that your
Speaker:life is demonstrating a concerted effort and incremental
Speaker:momentum building actions that are leading to that outcome.
Speaker:Or otherwise you're going to internally conflict with yourself and kind of have
Speaker:a BS meter go off and say, 'ah, that's not it'. So,
Speaker:but I do say that in the morning, I do have a ritual that I do.
Speaker:And I also think about from what the night before,
Speaker:I document the things I had the opportunity to do,
Speaker:which I call my gratitude journal.
Speaker:And because I've done that towards the end of the night,
Speaker:I wake up with that on my mind and they're pretty fresh.
Speaker:So I can be thinking about the things I'm grateful for,
Speaker:the business opportunities, the people I got to meet,
Speaker:the interviews that I've gotten the opportunity to do,
Speaker:the clients I've gotten to work with,
Speaker:the income generating opportunities, business opportunities,
Speaker:celebrities I've gotten to work with, things I've gotten to do with my family.
Speaker:Last night, I got an opportunity to have a birthday dinner, which was lovely.
Speaker:But going through and documenting exactly what it is that you get to do
Speaker:each night and waking up with that and kind of going through and thinking about
Speaker:what you're grateful for and having your internal dialogue,
Speaker:I think has merit. I've been doing that all these years,
Speaker:and I think it has merit because it aligns me with what I'm committed to
Speaker:and reminds me of it, even though I don't need really a reminder.
Speaker:It's something I do every day anyway.
Speaker:I delegate pretty well everything other than what I'm focused on.
Speaker:But I do believe that that's impactful because the reality is that those
Speaker:statements are all real today, they're all what my life is demonstrating.
Speaker:So I do believe that saying statements to yourself in the morning
Speaker:could be useful.
Speaker:Paul Bragg taught me when I was 17 that what you think about,
Speaker:what you visualize, what you affirm, what you feel,
Speaker:and what you take actions on every single day, it does make a difference.
Speaker:It determines sort of your destiny. And, you know, I've said many times,
Speaker:your hierarchy of your values dictates your day.
Speaker:And so if you're stating something about how you want your life,
Speaker:that matches what you value most, and the statements are congruent with that,
Speaker:and they're not polarized and fantasized, you know, 'I'm always happy.
Speaker:I'm never sad.' Those are fantasies. But 'whether I'm happy or sad,
Speaker:whether I'm supported or challenged,
Speaker:whether I'm attract opportunities or threats,
Speaker:I know that both of them are synchronously balanced and guiding me to the
Speaker:authentic self'.
Speaker:If I say things that are reminders about how I want my life and how I can
Speaker:achieve through life. Great. You can say that,
Speaker:'I'm at the right place at the right time to make the right deals',
Speaker:that 'I stick to priority'.
Speaker:And I prioritize my daily life and delegate all things that are uninspiring'.
Speaker:'I fill my day with inspiring actions.' You might as well do it.
Speaker:I have in my book, that's right next to me, probably
Speaker:a 20, I think it's 29 page internal dialogue,
Speaker:that I run through and read periodically.
Speaker:And I just love going through it in my mind. It's how I wanted my life to be.
Speaker:If you don't fill your day with high priority actions that inspire you,
Speaker:it's going to fill up with low priority distractions that don't.
Speaker:So starting your day with a reminder of exactly how you want your life,
Speaker:how you want to live, the priorities you want to do, a checkup from the neck up.
Speaker:Or you can get up and you can actually type them all out.
Speaker:And you can go through and read that checklist, not just a general checklist,
Speaker:but the highest priority actions that you've proven that work.
Speaker:And having that as a reminder. When I was in practice many years ago,
Speaker:god 39 years ago now,
Speaker:I had a daily checklist and I would read it in the morning and I would read it
Speaker:evening, and anything I didn't get done, I would look at why.
Speaker:Is it not linked to my highest values? Am I not really committed to it?
Speaker:And if I was not committed to it, I'd link it to the values or I'd delegate it.
Speaker:If I'm not doing it, I delegate it or I'd link it.
Speaker:Either go and do what you love through delegation or go love what you do through
Speaker:linking I've found. But having a checklist is also a great thing to have.
Speaker:We wouldn't want to go fly a plane without a checklist.
Speaker:You wouldn't want to fly your life in a day without a checklist.
Speaker:Might as well start the day with a checklist.
Speaker:But I'm a firm believer of having an internal dialogue, it can be useful.
Speaker:And making sure it's clear. And of course while you're saying it,
Speaker:look and see it in your mind's eye.
Speaker:There's no harm in having a visual board as the vision board,
Speaker:as they used to talk about in The Secret.
Speaker:There's no harm in having a visual book. I don't have a vision board.
Speaker:I have a vision book and the book has pictures all through it about how I want
Speaker:my life that are come true.
Speaker:They're all real today that pretty well I've set out for
Speaker:over all these years. So I'm a firm believer that utilizing your brain,
Speaker:your thoughts, your vision, your internal dialogue, your feelings,
Speaker:they all help. Now,
Speaker:there are polarized emotional feelings and there are synthesized feelings and
Speaker:the synthesized feelings, which is gratitude, love, inspiration, enthusiasm,
Speaker:certainty, and presence,
Speaker:those feelings have a higher probability of aligning congruently with
Speaker:what you value most. So I make sure when I get up,
Speaker:I go through it and I kind of love getting my gratitude tear to make sure I'm
Speaker:grateful and that I'm inspired by what I'm focused on.
Speaker:And so seeing what you would love to do, saying what it is you'd love to do,
Speaker:thinking of what the priorities are and going into state of gratitude and
Speaker:thinking about what is the highest priority thing,
Speaker:after a while I've done it so many times,
Speaker:I know what the highest priorities are.
Speaker:And sticking to the highest priorities of the highest priorities of the highest
Speaker:priorities is going to increase your momentum, your energy levels,
Speaker:your vitality.
Speaker:And this morning I got up right out of the bed and
Speaker:I started doing pushups and I did 132 pushups.
Speaker:And then I went and jogged for about just under the four mile mark,
Speaker:and then I came back and showered and here I am now getting to do this.
Speaker:But before I got up,
Speaker:I got up about five minutes before I was to hit the pushups,
Speaker:but I did that exercise, I visualized what it is.
Speaker:I internally dialogued with myself and I thought about my day and thought about
Speaker:the priorities.
Speaker:I knew some of the things that I was going to be having on my agenda,
Speaker:I thought through them,
Speaker:what would be the highest priority thing I could do to deliver?
Speaker:And I knew that I was getting ready to do some of this,
Speaker:the presentation on the daily wake ups, and also during the day.
Speaker:But those are all very, very valuable things to do.
Speaker:And keeping a record as I said,
Speaker:at night of the things you're grateful for,
Speaker:I have the largest collection of those that anybody I've ever met in life.
Speaker:I don't know. Maybe there's somebody out there that I haven't met,
Speaker:but I have thousands and thousands and thousands of pages
Speaker:of 'I had the opportunity to...' And it's my gratitude journal
Speaker:and I keep those daily. So anyway, that's a way you can start it.
Speaker:You will definitely get more vitality If you'll do a little exercise,
Speaker:if you drink water, you don't eat unwisely.
Speaker:Those are wise things to do, you know, live, not to eat, but eat to live,
Speaker:look at what works and what doesn't work for you and stick to a routine.
Speaker:It works, to maximize your energy levels.
Speaker:If you have a rhythm and a consistency in a moderation with your physiology,
Speaker:you're probably going to get more energy out of the day.
Speaker:Then you will have more and more accomplished in a day.
Speaker:And then making sure that you delegate,
Speaker:if you're not delegating lower priority things,
Speaker:you're going be trapped doing low priority things.
Speaker:And in the process of doing that,
Speaker:you're going to be in your amygdala and your amygdala is less efficient,
Speaker:less energized than the other. Cause it keeps having futilities.
Speaker:It's searching for that which is unavailable and
Speaker:unavoidable all the time.
Speaker:Whenever you're in your amygdala you're in a judgment mode. And when you do,
Speaker:you tend to want to change others relative to you or you relative to others,
Speaker:and you've got futility there. So prioritize your day,
Speaker:get back up in your executive center, get into your visual center,
Speaker:get into where you can articulate what it is you want to do and start your day
Speaker:that way. I think that's just a wise thing to do.
Speaker:And those with a clear vision.
Speaker:If you can actually paint the picture in your mind's eye of what you want,
Speaker:you're going to increase the probability of achieving it.
Speaker:Phelps demonstrated that in his gold medals, his 28 medals he received,
Speaker:he saw it in his mind's eye and that became his reality.
Speaker:So I don't think anybody would argue with that.
Speaker:Almost anybody I know that's achieved greatness,
Speaker:they use the power of their mind, power of their vision. I mean,
Speaker:I imagine Elon Musk is seeing himself going to Mars,
Speaker:and he's then creating that reality. So use your brain,
Speaker:use your thoughts and the little affirmations in the morning,
Speaker:or little words of power I call them. They're articulating
Speaker:exactly what you want and don't write something that's BS.
Speaker:Write only what your life demonstrates you're committed to.
Speaker:Don't waste your time on anything that's not really most meaningful, priority,
Speaker:most important.
Speaker:And find a way to delegate lower priority things to go in and then go produce
Speaker:something and do something that serves people.
Speaker:So you have the remuneration and fair exchange to be able to pay for people to
Speaker:delegate it so you're not trapped doing low priority stuff.
Speaker:You'll have more energy, you'll get more done.
Speaker:You'll be more of an exemplar of possibilities for other people,
Speaker:which will open up doors of opportunity. So anyway,
Speaker:those are some things, and then make sure you eat wisely and don't live to eat,
Speaker:eat to live, eat the highest priority foods, just the right amount,
Speaker:not too much, not too little,
Speaker:to maximize your performance and have a rhythm and learn what's working
Speaker:and stick to it. If you do that, you're going to have more out of your day.
Speaker:It's that simple. And schedule your day. If you don't schedule your day,
Speaker:other people will. If you don't fill your day with your own agenda,
Speaker:other people will fill it with theirs.
Speaker:Opportunists and distractions will take over.
Speaker:Just like if you don't pay your wealth and pay your money into your investments,
Speaker:before you'll end up with unexpected bills eroding it. People always,
Speaker:if they pay themselves last,
Speaker:they always have unexpected bills that erode the potential for building wealth.
Speaker:If they pay themselves first,
Speaker:they put the money into the investments and they don't have as many unexpected
Speaker:bills. Well, the same thing in your mind, if you focus on how you want it,
Speaker:you don't get what you don't, it's that simple.
Speaker:If you don't go after challenges that inspire you,
Speaker:you get challenges that don't, that don't inspire you.
Speaker:So those are things that can start your day as a little habit. And yeah,
Speaker:that doesn't take but a few minutes a day.
Speaker:If you structure it and get a checklist made up of the statements that you want
Speaker:to do and recite them for a period of time, exactly how you want your life,
Speaker:I think you'll find it might blow your mind of what happens and structure it,
Speaker:formalize your life in some degree and develop it.
Speaker:If you can see it, have a series of pictures.
Speaker:I went over to American Express travel service one time,
Speaker:and I went in there and I said, 'I'd like every brochure you have.' And they go,
Speaker:'Are you planning a world tour or something?' I said, 'Yes, I am.
Speaker:But not all at once,
Speaker:but over time.' 'Okay.' And I came back and I got a foot and a half of
Speaker:stacked brochures in those days, and it wasn't electronic in those days.
Speaker:And I came back to the office and I got some scissors out and I cut out every
Speaker:picture of all the places in the world that I wanted to do.
Speaker:And I just kept looking at those pictures. And then amazing things happened.
Speaker:I started ended up having trips and programs there, show up there,
Speaker:people would hire me to come into those locations and I'd be real close by where
Speaker:the picture was. I was amazed at how many of those things.
Speaker:And I knocked out all those pictures. I mean the China wall, the Eiffel tower,
Speaker:all the places that I thought I'd like to see the wonders of the world.
Speaker:I even went to the, where the Colossus of Rhodes, the wonders of the world were.
Speaker:And so I cut out the pictures and by God, they showed up in my life.
Speaker:Same thing with the celebrities I wanted to meet.
Speaker:I made a list of all the celebrities I wanted to meet and then one by one,
Speaker:all 50 of the people that I wrote on that list showed up in my life.
Speaker:It didn't take that long, really. So I'm a firm believer that you know,
Speaker:you use your brain and that's all those actions can help you start the day.
Speaker:And a little exercise is really valuable,
Speaker:no harm in doing a little exercise to get a little circulation going.
Speaker:I don't think excessive amounts,
Speaker:but a moderate amount of exercise would be helpful. And drink a lot of water.
Speaker:And don't OD on sugar. And I don't know about you. I don't use stimulants.
Speaker:I don't do coffee or tea or drugs or alcohol or anything like that because of
Speaker:what they do is they create volatilities, ups and downs.
Speaker:You get up and then you go down and then you gotta do something else to get up
Speaker:again. I don't do that. I drink water.
Speaker:I believe the universal solvent a water is the wisest thing to be filling your
Speaker:brain with, it cleans out the brain. It doesn't clog it up.
Speaker:It allows the brain to function better. And that's what you got,
Speaker:is your brain is your greatest asset.
Speaker:So you might as well drink water and eat wisely and make sure
Speaker:you get a bit of rest as you know.
Speaker:And I think that's a good starting point of the day. Now during the day,
Speaker:that doesn't mean you can't do some of those same things during the day.
Speaker:When I get a little opening in my day that I didn't anticipate or
Speaker:something that I may not have had scheduled,
Speaker:or maybe I had an interview that lasted less than I thought,
Speaker:and I got an extra 10 minutes,
Speaker:I'll go to my gratitude systems and update it throughout the day,
Speaker:instead of waiting at the end of the day, and update it during the day,
Speaker:I'll also maybe go through and do some of the reciting.
Speaker:Those little internal dialogues are in my head throughout the day.
Speaker:I remember when I was 30 years old,
Speaker:I used to go through 600 internal dialogues a day on average, at least 600.
Speaker:And no harm in having that cause, what you think about you bring about,
Speaker:what you say to yourself you tend to think about. You know,
Speaker:Think and Grow Rich with Napoleon Hill,
Speaker:he talked about autosuggestion and there's some wisdom to it.
Speaker:I don't think fantasies,
Speaker:I don't think just little positive statements all the time that I'm happy and
Speaker:you know, never have the other side. I think that's delusional.
Speaker:But you want to state it that's in a way that's aligned with what's truly
Speaker:valuable to you. Don't waste your time on visualizing, affirming,
Speaker:or thinking about something that's not really truly, you're dedicated to.
Speaker:Because anytime you're going after high priority things, you grow.
Speaker:Anytime you go lower priority things,
Speaker:you slow yourself down and you self-depreciate,
Speaker:hesitate and frustrate on things that are low on your values.
Speaker:So during the day you can be doing that also. In the evening,
Speaker:it's a great time to start documenting what you
Speaker:accomplished.
Speaker:And I always say that if you find yourself with a series of agenda for the day,
Speaker:priorities for the day, and you get them all done by four o'clock,
Speaker:then add one more. And if you get that one done, then add one more.
Speaker:But don't do goal overrun, watch out for goal overrun.
Speaker:Goal overrun is when you actually stack up 50 things that you're going to do
Speaker:that's unrealistic and then at the end of the day,
Speaker:you feel like you didn't get it all done and you feel like less.
Speaker:Mary Kay from Mary Kay cosmetics. Oops.
Speaker:I can see I'm getting blurry here for some reason. Let me try it again.
Speaker:Mary Kay from Mary Kay cosmetics told me about goal overrun 35, 36 years ago,
Speaker:to not set too many in one day.
Speaker:It's better to set the highest priority actions,
Speaker:fewer in number and get them done.
Speaker:Don't set projects that take multiple days in a daily action.
Speaker:Chunk projects down into daily bites and make sure that they're
Speaker:doable and reasonable for the day. So you, at the end of the day,
Speaker:you actually can get what you set done. It's very important to do that.
Speaker:I was involved in a mastermind group many years ago, 30 something years ago,
Speaker:35 years ago with a very elite group of people.
Speaker:I was very blessed to be a part of it.
Speaker:And we had a responsibility at the end of each mastermind meeting to declare
Speaker:what we were committed to by next week. And we would have done.
Speaker:And if for some reason you didn't have it done,
Speaker:you were released from the group and you didn't want to be released from the
Speaker:group. So you would set something that was not too low,
Speaker:cause that would be kind of not inspiring for the people to be in a group with
Speaker:you is doing little trivia's, but at the same time,
Speaker:something that's too high where you can't get it done, you're out.
Speaker:So it taught you to set real goals in real times.
Speaker:So it's really wise to set small action steps that
Speaker:day, each day. And then if you get done early, add another one,
Speaker:but one you can do in that timeframe you have left.
Speaker:It's wise to prioritize those actions and to make them into small bites so you
Speaker:can do them on a daily basis and make a habit of doing what you say.
Speaker:You'll build momentum, you'll gain confidence.
Speaker:The Instantaneous Personal Magnetism,
Speaker:that book years ago talked about starting with a little goal, achieving it,
Speaker:starting with a little bit bigger goal and achieving it,
Speaker:a little bit bigger goal. And he started,
Speaker:Edmond Shaftesbury started with the idea of just draw a circle,
Speaker:and then draw a square, and then draw a triangle, and achieve it.
Speaker:Just to make your mind go, 'I set the goal and I achieve it.
Speaker:I set the goal and I achieve it.' And every time you practice setting a goal and
Speaker:achieving it,
Speaker:because it's high on your values and it's incrementally more challenging as you
Speaker:go, you develop the brain power of achievement.
Speaker:So set goals for the day that are priority,
Speaker:that are in small bites that you know you can get done,
Speaker:so at the end of the day,
Speaker:you feel you fulfilled what you set out and you did what you said.
Speaker:And you develop a walking your talk and accomplishment mentality each day,
Speaker:and then document what you did. Then at the end of the day
Speaker:document the metrics of what you actually accomplished relative to the goals
Speaker:that you have. So if you have a goal,
Speaker:I had a goal to be able to do a certain number of consults with corporations
Speaker:around the world and so every time I got to do the corporate consult,
Speaker:I logged it, documented it underneath the goal, here's the company,
Speaker:here's what I got to do. Here's the company, here's what I got to do.
Speaker:And I started metricking the goals to find out if I was really committed to the
Speaker:goals. If there was never progress being made on that goal,
Speaker:then it must not be real.
Speaker:But if I'm making progress week by week or month by month,
Speaker:I can see that there's a metric that showing it,
Speaker:that allows me to be really clear about the goals that I'm setting.
Speaker:So if it's really important to you, you'll metric it.
Speaker:And if you're metricking it,
Speaker:you'll accomplishment and you'll keep your mind focused on it. And you'll also,
Speaker:if you document what you did accomplish at the end of the day with the gratitude
Speaker:and the metrics of what you said you wanted to do that you did,
Speaker:you'll have more gratitude.
Speaker:It's just a wise reciprocal relationship between those as you do that.
Speaker:In the process of of building a momentum that way.
Speaker:So metric what you set as a goal.
Speaker:Make sure you set objectives for the day that are doable that day,
Speaker:as you accomplish them, get another one and add another one,
Speaker:but stick to the ones and make sure they're priority.
Speaker:And then put together a checklist on those things that are proven to work,
Speaker:ask yourself at the end of the day, what worked and what didn't work?
Speaker:And the things that work make a list of it, the things that didn't work,
Speaker:make a list of it. So, you know what's working.
Speaker:And then you can check that list off every day and make sure you're doing the
Speaker:things that are proven to work. And if you find yourself doing the other ones,
Speaker:either delegate it, if it's not something you're inspired to do,
Speaker:or go fill your day with something that's more inspiring to do. You know,
Speaker:I'm a firm believer that if I do the highest priority things, I get results.
Speaker:The checklist that I used to have in my practice was a gold mine.
Speaker:I still have it in my book here. I have a different one now that I use,
Speaker:but the one that I did was a gold mine, without a doubt,
Speaker:it helped me stay focused.
Speaker:It reminded me every single day of the things that are proven to work and I
Speaker:could monitor it on a daily basis. And my stats,
Speaker:if you're not keeping stats on what you're achieving on a daily basis,
Speaker:that's also great return. In other words,
Speaker:if you're in sales and you say,
Speaker:I want to make 10 sales a day or whatever the number is,
Speaker:how many did you do? Here's the goal. What did you achieve? What's working,
Speaker:what's not working? You want to make sure that you have some sort of a
Speaker:feedback to yourself so you're not lying to yourself.
Speaker:And also prioritizing it and making sure you have a checklist.
Speaker:These are basic things that really make a difference in people's lives.
Speaker:And yes if you're, in my situation,
Speaker:I've delegated so much away that I really only do the things that are highest on
Speaker:the priority. I don't have to go and do the other stuff.
Speaker:I've got people doing most of that now. So I basically,
Speaker:and I found that when I did that, it helped the business. So it makes,
Speaker:it doesn't cost to delegate, It pays.
Speaker:Because you're free to do the higher priority things that go and produce the
Speaker:more, more for you. So in the long run, it's wiser to do that.
Speaker:But having a checklist like that and a priority list,
Speaker:and a metric list and a stat sheet, you know, some people say, 'well,
Speaker:that's kind of neurotic. I don't want to do all that.' Well, okay.
Speaker:At the end of the day,
Speaker:you might beat yourself up because you can get the things done.
Speaker:I found that many times people will have fantasies about what they want to get
Speaker:done. They don't get it done. Then they beat themselves up.
Speaker:I have no interest in doing that. I'm interested in having a product today.
Speaker:And if I don't fill my day with high priority things and get focused on
Speaker:it, I'm likely to have self depreciation.
Speaker:Self-depreciating is nothing more than a healthy biological response to let you
Speaker:know you're not living by priority. That's all it is.
Speaker:So if you don't structure what the priorities are,
Speaker:you don't have a checklist for the priorities,
Speaker:you don't have a metric to give you incentives to keep on those priorities,
Speaker:well,
Speaker:you got nothing to look at except yourself of why it's not producing the results
Speaker:you want. And so I think that's a very valuable feedback to give yourself.
Speaker:At the end of the day, you want to document what you did.
Speaker:And I think that that's, again, I just say it this way;
Speaker:'I had the opportunity to...
Speaker:do this meeting, have this consult, meet these people,
Speaker:serve this client, do this consulting, do this podcast, webinar,
Speaker:write this article, send off this proposal,
Speaker:whatever it may be that I may be involved in,
Speaker:I document what I do and I keep a record of it. And then I take it from that.
Speaker:And then I put it over into my metrics on what I accomplish if it's something
Speaker:that I'd set as a goal. And I'm amazed,
Speaker:I keep records of all the podcasts I get to do and how many people roughly on it
Speaker:so I look at how many millions of people I get to reach each year.
Speaker:I look at the number of articles. I even keep records of all the books,
Speaker:I'm in 632 books now that I've been referenced in.
Speaker:Because I had a goal when I was in my twenties to be able make some sort of
Speaker:contribution in the world enough where people would write about me.
Speaker:I read Isaac Asimov, who was a science writer,
Speaker:brilliant science writer that in my, about 20, 21, 22 years old, I was reading,
Speaker:I kept seeing his name. And I go, God,
Speaker:this guy is in almost every book I pick up. And I thought, wow,
Speaker:I'd like to be able to make a contribution like that man. So I set a goal.
Speaker:I wrote it out that I wanted to make enough contribution on this planet that a
Speaker:thousand people with a thousand books would reference me.
Speaker:And now every time a book's referencing like that, and I find out about it,
Speaker:I document it. I get a picture of the book. I document the name of the book,
Speaker:who it was, and I'm, I'm 632.
Speaker:I think I'm about five to 10 years away from that goal being met.
Speaker:That's a long wait, it's almost 50 years of wait. So what.
Speaker:I'd rather have some sort of goal that I'm accomplishing.
Speaker:At least it gives me a metric that I know I'm making some sort of contribution
Speaker:out there, it's feedback. So I keep a record of the things I'm grateful for.
Speaker:And some people think, you know,
Speaker:I'm a little bit excessive about it because I do that.
Speaker:I don't think so. I think I'm just grateful.
Speaker:I think what that does is it gives me something to be grateful for every day.
Speaker:It's a document and proof that what I'm saying, that I'm doing,
Speaker:it's a document proof that what I'm intending, I'm creating,
Speaker:it's a document proof of the contribution.
Speaker:Why wouldn't you want to keep a record of that in life? You know,
Speaker:when I was in practice years ago when somebody would come up to me and say,
Speaker:'You know, I wasn't able to make love but because now,
Speaker:because of what you've done in the work I can now, my back is doing so well.
Speaker:I can actually make love again.
Speaker:And we're now going to have a baby.' Or 'I now can play sports again',
Speaker:or 'I can now go back to work again.' And when I would do,
Speaker:I would get teary-eyed and they would say those kind of comments.
Speaker:And I would say,
Speaker:would you please just either write that down or put that in a recording.
Speaker:And I would d get those things written up and put out in the front reception
Speaker:room and patients would read those testimonials and the stories,
Speaker:and they'd be brought to tears.
Speaker:And I found it that it helped me help more people.
Speaker:It helped them have more persistence.
Speaker:It helped them be more diligent in the work. It helped me help them,
Speaker:it helped the person. I'm like, why wouldn't I do that on a daily basis?
Speaker:Why wouldn't I document what I'm blessed to be able to get to participate in in
Speaker:life? So I think that's, I think the small amount of time,
Speaker:a few minutes a day,
Speaker:10 minutes in the morning and 10 minutes in the evening or something,
Speaker:that's insignificant compared to what it pays off, insignificant.
Speaker:To document what you do and to be able to look at that, I mean,
Speaker:look at the impact it has, you can read it at any time. If you're not inspired,
Speaker:you'll get inspired again. And your family will be able to read it.
Speaker:Your kids will be able to read it, my students get to read those. And yeah,
Speaker:it inspires them to go and push themselves to do more with their life.
Speaker:So I'm a firm believer that that's a wise thing to make a habit.
Speaker:I think that that's the way to end the day.
Speaker:And if you do you'll have something to go to bed with gratitude on because if
Speaker:you read that and you go, wow, I really got to do a lot. I mean,
Speaker:I've had some days where I'm just mind blown by what the opportunities that have
Speaker:come in and the connections and the leads and the opportunities and the people
Speaker:we reach.
Speaker:I sometimes get off an interview that I get to do and I get teary-eyed
Speaker:because of what we got to say and the impact it's had on people.
Speaker:And I think it's,
Speaker:on a daily basis every time you do what you intend,
Speaker:please document it. Please write down that you had the opportunity to do it.
Speaker:And if you have a goal journal where you actually have the day you set the goal
Speaker:and the day you achieve the goal, the day you expected to achieve the goal,
Speaker:if it's before you expected,
Speaker:that means you're setting too small a goal in too long a timeframe.
Speaker:If it's afterwards, you're probably setting too big in too short a timeframe.
Speaker:And both of those give you feedback to set real goals in real timeframes,
Speaker:to have real objectives, not fantasies.
Speaker:Fantasies tend to make you self-defeat and depreciate into nightmares.
Speaker:But real objectives that are goals that are really truly meaningful,
Speaker:that are really in line with your values that are chunked down into small bites
Speaker:that you can see in your mind's eye,
Speaker:one of the signs you have a real goal is that it feels impossible for you not
Speaker:to fulfill it. It feels destined. It feels done. It feels not in the future.
Speaker:It feels like it's already happening. I want to write a goal that gives me that.
Speaker:I've got thousands of those written down, thousands, and they're coming true.
Speaker:And it's amazing watching them. I mean, it's just amazing.
Speaker:I had an opportunity this last week that was mind blowing. Things are,
Speaker:just mindblowing, opportunities, economic opportunities.
Speaker:And so I'm a firm believer that, you know,
Speaker:I set out when I was in my twenties that I want to be in movies. Well,
Speaker:I've gotten to film in 50 movies now, 50 documentary movies.
Speaker:And I set that out in my twenties. I didn't know what that was.
Speaker:I just knew that I wanted to be able to be myself. I didn't want to act.
Speaker:I wanted to be myself in there.
Speaker:And wow that documentary movies allowed me to be me,
Speaker:and I get to still get to film out there.
Speaker:So I'm a firm believer that you write down exactly what you want.
Speaker:Start that day with it, focus on that, metric what you're accomplishing it,
Speaker:write your gratitudes at the end of the day. The small amount of time per day,
Speaker:of what that takes compared to the returns on the investment is unquestionable.
Speaker:If you saw my 30 volumes, 30 volumes of those,
Speaker:and these volumes aren't small volumes, I got one of the volumes here.
Speaker:You can't see it, but it's a big, it's about 900 pages here.
Speaker:That's one volume.
Speaker:That's how much information and people go 'you spent a lot hours on that.' I
Speaker:said, 'yeah.
Speaker:And it saves me a lot of hours.' So just wanted to take a few moments today to
Speaker:go over some things that I've found myself doing that spontaneously helped me
Speaker:achieve what I want in life, to help me become financially independent,
Speaker:to help me reach people around the world, to have my global business,
Speaker:to help me wake my genius ideas up, to help have social influence,
Speaker:to help be vitalized at 67 almost, be inspired,
Speaker:you know, have a global family dynamic, all the things that I set out to do,
Speaker:those little habits make big returns. You know,
Speaker:it's like piggy banks become piggy banks,
Speaker:little baby action steps make big dreams.
Speaker:And if you do little action steps consistently,
Speaker:you'll build momentum and momentum makes you unstoppable.
Speaker:So I just wanted to share those ideas. And along with that,
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Speaker:Thank you for being with me today.
Speaker:I look forward to seeing you next week and have a super day and start your day
Speaker:off. Maybe you can use some of those ideas I just gave you.