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Welcome back to the don't wait for your wake up call podcast. I

am Melissa dealey your host and super excited to bring you yet

another amazing guest today. Julie Jones of The Adventures of

Julie Jones. Welcome, Julie.

Oh my gosh, I am so excited to be here. Thank you so

much, Melissa, for having me here today.

It is my pleasure. And you're such a

perfect person to have on the show during the month of January

when you know everybody is thinking about what their goals

are for the year, how they're going to get it all done. And

you know, trying to set priorities, et cetera, and time

management. What is that? Right? So I just want to introduce you

to the audience. And then we're going to dive right in with your

story. But Julie Jones is an award winning international

speaker, International Best Selling Author and intuitive

coach of the get shit done platform, and a master connector

of people who is passionate about supporting purpose driven

entrepreneurs to live the best their best life now without

regrets. And as a former police officer and SWAT member, Julie

knows that there is no promise of tomorrow. And coaches

individuals to face the fear and live in the moment, which I

absolutely love. So that's just a tiny, tiny little introduction

of who you are Julie and your journey and how you came to

being this amazing person today. I love the name of your program,

they get shit done program, please just introduce yourself

to the audience. How you came to be where you're at today.

Oh my gosh, well, how much time do we have? Melissa?

Be a long time. So, you know, like, like everybody, you know,

you have these these dreams and aspirations. Right. And I have

to say, growing up, I was strong in the math and science field.

And so I thought I was gonna go into some type of medical field.

And about the ninth hour when I was deciding on college and what

I wanted to major in, I decided on criminal justice. So I have a

Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice and a minor in

psychology. Now knowing what I know about people while I should

have done a major key, right. And so I went ahead and

initially, I have to say I wanted to be secret service or

FBI. And I found out what secret service you have to have almost

perfect vision uncorrected. And I didn't. And so I'm like, Okay,

what am I going to do, and I really wanted to be on patrol.

And you know, as I look back, and I'll share a few things, but

from early on, it's always been about serving people like really

wanting to help and serve people. So I thought I could do

that with law enforcement. And I loved my career. I really did. I

mean, I was a police officer for 10 years. SWAT team member for a

somewhere between two and three years that I was a SWAT team

member. I haven't been a police officer for 21 years. So it's

like, it's kind of hard sometimes to remember, that was

part of my journey. And it was an exciting part of my journey

because it gave me so many skill sets that I applied today. And

then from that point, I'm just gonna, you know, like run down

the spectrum of everything that I've done, because I'm very

passionate about health like you. So I've been a chiropractic

assistant taught some lifestyle, you know, classes, that kind of

thing. I've been a property manager. I've been a makeup

artist, you know, but deep down in my heart again, always

serving people but what I love best is I love being an

entrepreneur. So in the last 15 years in some capacity, I've

always been speaking and coaching individuals and back

during the pandemic, I said enough is enough and decided to

full bore launch My speaking coaching business and so I

started in November of 2020. formed my LLC, I had been

branded as the adventures of Julie Jones for a long, long

time, but opened up my LLC and then started to get shit done

coaching platform, which I just love, I just love what I do. I'm

so passionate about helping people to live their best life.

Because as a police officer, I just saw how quickly life can

change, you know, here today gone tomorrow, and everybody

thinks they have forever, I'm here to tell you, they don't.

But there's so much that you can do in order to

extend what you have to write. Absolutely living your best life

now is so important. You don't want to put everything off for

the future and then find out there isn't that future. So it

is finding that balance and making the most of every day.

Right?

Absolutely. Because when you wake up in the morning,

and I do gratitudes in the morning, so when I wake up and

you know, almost every single day is some form of I'm grateful

to be alive, I'm grateful to have woken up, I'm grateful to

see the sunrise, right. Because of course, this is a podcast and

you don't visually see, but I'm six feet tall. So I always say

that I'm grateful to be you know, six feet above ground. You

know, kind of thing. So, and you know, we can joke around about

it. However, again, it's one of those things where I just look

at and I say, oh my gosh, you know, if if today is all I have?

How am I gonna make the best of it. And you know, like, even

when you walk out to your car and you find you have a flat

tire, is it like a bad day or a bad moment, right? And it's

always, like, I look at it as a bad moment. Because if you turn

it as a bad day, every other bad thing is going to come your way,

like you will just attract all this negativity that you weren't

planning on because you just deem that, oh my gosh, I'm

having a bad day. And I'm not a Pollyanna by any, you know,

means like, my life is not full of sunshine, rainbows and

unicorns. So, you know, sometimes I'm, you know, you

look at something like that. And it's like, oh, okay, well, you

know, to you know, it's a bad, you know, it's a bad day. Well,

it's a bad moment, usually.

Yeah, I really, I really like that attitude.

Because you're absolutely right, you know, where you lay your

focus, you attract more of. So if you've just got it's a bad

day, it's a bad day, it's about day running through your head,

of course, you're going to get more of that bad day. But if you

accept, okay, I've got a flat tire it sucks is gonna make me

late, I got to deal with it. But it's a bad moment. So you can

deal with it and move beyond it. And the rest of the day doesn't

have to be ruined,

right? Because maybe, just maybe, and again, this is

probably that Pollyanna thinking, but it's really not.

Maybe having that flat tire prevented you from being in that

spot where there was a massive accident that just happened. And

so you could have been there instead, the flat tire prevented

you from being you know, at that moment. So

there's 100%. And you might think that, you

know, say it's that Pollyanna moment, and some people don't

buy into it. But it's so true. I am a big believer that

everything happens for a reason. And we don't always understand

it in the moment. But often with that 2020 hindsight, we do and

is a flat tire really big enough to be you know, researching

that, but it's it's so interesting, because, you know,

my journey to coming here was through my daughter's

concussions. And I remember the day my oldest daughter got her

concussion that that happened right in the second half of the

game at the beginning of the second half, like five minutes

in. We weren't even meant to be there for that second half, I

was meant to be taking her out of the game and going to

Vancouver. But she didn't want to leave. And so we stayed and

then we have the concussion. And so there was that part of me

that was like, only I'd left if only I'd made her leave, we

wouldn't have had that. And I had a neighbor say to me stop

thinking that because you could have driven down the highway and

got in an accident. And she could have still had a

concussion. Right? Right. So you know, there is a piece of that.

And so if you just accept the moment for what it is deal with

it and then let it go. That allows us to, you know,

obviously release the bad day, but also release the stress that

we carry with us through these moments, right, and the

overwhelm, and the frustration, etc, etc. And it ties in

beautifully to, you know, this whole conversation that I want

to be having with the audience in January, and this theme of

slowing down and we get more done. When we slow down, right?

Because we can get ourselves out of that stress state. So I know

that one of the areas that you specialize in and there's many,

but one of them is, you know about getting things done, get

shit done. Right? And you've got some tips for the audience on

how people can do that more effectively.

Well, yes, I do. And actually, one of the things that

as you were, you were talking that come to mind, is this whole

idea of like, you know, when you're reducing your stress

levels, is the idea of like a morning routine. And I know

you're a big proponent of a morning routine, right? Because

we, we've talked about this before. And it really does set

the day for, you know, this idea of slowing down, right. Because

if you jump out of bed, and you start running like a chicken

with your head cut off, like your whole day is like that

hectic, frantic, you know, issues are coming up. Like you

just feel like you're always behind the eight ball that

you're not getting anything done.

You can earth the day and reactionary mode.

Right,

right. And so but like, even if it's just a simple 15

minutes that you take for yourself first thing in the

morning, to really set the pace of how your day is going to be.

Because like, here's one of my tips that kind of goes along

with this idea of slowing down. Is Believe it or not people we

are not designed to be multitaskers Whoa, tip number

one multitasking, right? Because here's the the truth about it.

And sometimes it's even been like a badge of honor. You know,

like, especially for women, oh, my gosh, I got so much done. And

I was doing this and doing that and multitasking all day long,

right? The brain can only focus in on one thing. So as much as

you think that you're getting done, you're really not. It's in

the slowing down that you find that you're more productive.

See, we can be Whoo, busy as I call it, I love Ooh, busy,

right? We're we're busy doing this and doing that. And we're

running around all over the place. And again, we get to the

end of our day, and we look back and we think oh my God, what did

I really get done. And so productive time productive

moments, is so much more important. So really taking that

time to be focused in on one thing. And that's going to be

like leading into my tip. So a lot of times we have this idea

when we if we do calendar blocking. I know I know, not

everybody does it. That's like a whole separate topic that we

could talk about for hours. But if you are doing calendar

blocking, a lot of times people will set two, three hours aside

for, you know, some kind of like task or project or during these

next three hours, this is what I'm going to get done. And we

find that we have a million distractions that come at us.

And then all of a sudden, you got nothing done during those

three hours, right? So if you really just set a timer, or you

know, some and don't use a timer on your phone, because your

phone is one of your biggest distractions. I'm just here to

tell you very good point. Yes, yes. So because we can get lost

in all those apps and social media and like scrolling

through, and then all of a sudden it's like, well, how did

five hours pass?

Okay, because, and all of which are

deliberately designed to addict you and keep you on them?

Yes, yes, it's an addiction of people. So yeah,

because just as a side note, I just recently discovered that

one of the new addictions that are out there, we think of

alcohol, we think of drugs, we think of all this stuff, it's

social media, that's a new, that's a new addiction that is

out there that they are now having to address is, you know,

being so tied to our technology and our phone. Anyway, I

digress. So the the the 15 minute increments. So what that

looks like is that you eliminate all distractions, you you know,

shut off your phone, put it on, do not disturb. If your computer

dings at you, make sure it's not dinging at you or be in a place

where your computer is not going to distract you. And the

subconscious is so unique and like when it knows you're going

to get serious about something, all of a sudden you feel like

it's time to clean the refrigerator. I don't know why

but you do. And so then or like you have to go to the bathroom,

all of a sudden you're extremely thirsty. Okay, whatever it

takes, just eliminate the distractions and all I'm saying

is do 15 minutes. Ideally, if you can do it first thing in the

morning because that's when a lot of people are most

productive. And put your head down and work for 15 minutes.

When the timer goes off. I want you to celebrate like I'm

serious, like do a little dance, celebrate Whatever it looks like

and don't cooperate To find or qualify what you got done, you

showed up for yourself, you took action. And if that's all you

get done, but you worked on, like, for 15 minutes, whatever

it was it, maybe you normally set two or three hours for you

do this five, six days a week, you're so much further ahead and

setting up those huge chunks of time. Trust me, it works.

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Well, I love that. And, you know, it sounds I'm listening to

you talk and I did my workout this morning. And it actually

sounds really similar to you know, I did it at home, I got

the mirror, the Lululemon mirror, which is very cool at

Christmas time, my daughter's work there. And the trainer is

saying, you know, you showed up for yourself, whatever you do

here, you're winner, because you're here and you've done

this, right. And so I love the idea of not quantifying it. Just

give yourself that 15 minutes and focus and get it done. And

over the course of time, you will find you're just getting so

much more done, than if you allow all of those intrusions on

your time. And then that creates more time in your day for other

things. And one of those might be self care, because so often I

hear people go, I don't have time to exercise. But guess

what, what if we were able to focus on getting those, you

know, three tasks that we need to get done during the day done

at work first thing in the morning, and it's taking us 15

minutes, as opposed to three hours, we've just bought all of

this extra time in our day.

Right? Because here's the thing, like when when you're

so focused in, you're focused in your being Uber productive. See,

because when you are working on a task, and let's say you've

been in it in it for five minutes, and then you allow like

that text message that you look at, or you look at that email

that just flashed across your computer right? Now you just got

distracted, you may or may not look at that. But even if you

don't respond to it, the brain has gone off in that direction

and starts this whole like spin cycle of thinking about what

what was that about? What do I do, I need to do that right now.

And yada yada yada, and it takes you a good 10 minutes to refocus

back in on what your you know, your original priority was. And

so think about how much you do that during the day. You know,

we are we are constantly distracted, you know, with a

million different things at any given time. And so if the brain

has to continue to refocus, that's why it's such a

challenge. And you find like, sometimes you just don't get as

much done, because you didn't set up that you know that that

increment of time. And people don't think that 15 minutes as

possible, I do the 15 minutes, because it's a it's a short

time, but you really can be productive. And again, like if

after the first 15 minutes, like you're ready to set up another

15 minutes and set up another 15 minutes and maybe do an hour's

worth of increments, you know, for 15 minutes, whatever works

for you. It's you know, it's it's figuring it out, but then

being consistent with it. because consistency is the key

in order to then to make it a new habit. Because 95% of all we

operate our habits. And so like if you don't like a habit, you

think it's a bad habit, and you want to incorporate something

else. Well now you've got to still spend that amount of time

to you know, to implement a new habit.

Exactly, and then implementing that new habit

anytime we want to get rid of a bad habit, we have to replace it

with a good habit. Right. And that's where habit stacking

comes in and triggers that remind us of the new habit. So

is that an area that you work on as well?

While I work on a lot and you know, it's it's about

productivity, because if we want to live our best life now, you

know, we really need to know how to maximize our time without

losing our sanity. And you know, like a lot of times people talk

about this whole like work life balance well, again, hate to be

you know, like the party crasher. Our there is no such

thing as a balanced I like to call it like balance, sometimes

counterbalance because sometimes we're going to be really focused

in on work. And then you know, and then we still want to have a

life, right? Well, the key around that is like boundaries.

So like, what are your working hours going to be our, you know,

our, like Saturdays, Sundays, non negotiables? Like maybe

you'll work Saturday don't want to work Sunday, what does it

what does it look like, but really sticking with your your

boundaries and you know your commitments around those kinds

of things. And again, that focus comes into play when you're when

you're with your family, be with your family, or whatever you're

doing at that moment, give it 100% Put away the technology,

you know, don't be like you know, because it's not fair to

the other, the other person if you're with them, but you're

really not, because you're focusing on what's happening on

your phone and your work and everything else. Work, work,

family, or personal life or self care. It's, you know, you're in

that moment, as well. And then everything goes hand in hand.

And I believe how you do one thing is how you do everything.

So that's where, you know, I do coaching around life and

business and blowing up the box, like, let's like, like, not even

think about the box, like, let's just blow up the box and get

right

outside. Right. That's, I love that. And it's

definitely something that I practice and I'm more productive

in the morning. And what I find that, you know, I need to do is

I really do shut off all those notifications. And if I can, and

I'm not working in email, I just close it. Because then I'm not

getting those notifications. And you're right, if they're, if

it's open, it does pull you just that little bit, even if you

don't act on replying to that email, the brain is alerted to

something else, and it pulls you out of that zone of focus. And

so I love how productive I can be when I set myself up to not

have any notifications come in. And then yeah, the celebration

at the end of that is important to right. It's we have to, as

part of creating the habit take that time to celebrate,

right, because as human beings, we have a tendency to go

to, if you want to say the negative. I really heard this

very interesting. Presentation not too long ago by a friend of

mine, who's a hypnotherapist, and she talks about the

subconscious. And you know, we're talking to ourselves and

giving ourselves like messages all day long, right? And she

said that for most people. Now I say most because like I know,

I've worked on this and have that positive attitude. But for

most people in the subconscious 70% of the messages that we're

telling ourselves are negative. And so that is I like I thought

about that. And I was like, wow, you know, so no wonder sometimes

it's like, oh, my gosh, I didn't, you know, I didn't get

anything done. Because we look at we go to the negative, we

look at what didn't get done, instead of celebrating what did.

Because I've been and I know you're doing this in the month

of January. And we I've been really talking to people about

doing their urine review. And you know, and I, you know, of

course, what I what I what I preach, I'm practicing and like

I started going through, you know, my 2021 and seeing

everything and I have a huge list of things that I have

accomplished and that I was able to do in 2021. And I think that

that's really key, again, to celebrate and look at what we

did get done, because sometimes we're so quick to be like, okay,

yeah, that's done, you know, Next, Next Next, instead of just

being, I always say we're human beings, not human doings. I

love that. I absolutely love that. And you're

so right, you know, we finish something and move on to the

next but then, you know, maybe we haven't reached that big

lofty goal. And then we beat ourselves up because we didn't

achieve that without taking the time to recognize everything

that we did do along the way. Right. So that was talking about

the your year in review, which I love the idea of doing that. But

I know you're also a proponent of success lists.

Yeah.

Let's talk about success lists.

Well, this is this will probably be the topic that like

throws everybody off and they're like, What the heck is that?

Julie Jones talking about? Right? So we've all heard about

the to do list. Okay. And so, let me just tell you what a to

do list is it's, you know, it's a scattery category. Okay,

that's what I'm going to talk about. So What it looks like is

that on a to do list goes everything. Like everything that

pops into your brain, there's no priority behind it. The list is

usually like, you know, 500 things long, because it's all

these things that just popped into the brain. So the

difference between that and a success list is really taking a

look at kind of like, what is it that most people have an

overriding target overriding goal, if you want to say, of

what they want to accomplish in any given year, or maybe in the

next quarter. Sometimes for people, that's another thing

like shortening up how we look at stuff, SAP looking at the

whole year, and maybe just break it down into quarters, like 12

weeks. Okay, what is it that I really want to get done in the

next 12 weeks? And so what the success list, you're going to

put things on the success lists that are going to bring you

closer towards that. And so like every time you're doing

something, it's important to ask yourself, is this taking me

towards what I'm working for? Or is it taking me away from what

I'm working towards? And so the success list is very short. It's

a priority list of like, this is taking me closer to what I'm

looking to achieve. And again, I know for a lot of people, it's

hard to get away from the to do list and there are so many

people who I tell this to and they love making the lists and

they love making the checkoff, right. It's it's a visual type

of thing, because so many people will add stuff to their to do

list and then be able to check it off because it was something

that they got done, right? Like no, no, no, no, no. So I get it.

So like I tell people take a very small post it note not like

not something huge, take a small post it note if that's going to

help you and write down like three or four things for your to

do list. Or put them if you do electronic calendaring, you

know, put them on like, you know, maybe you've got an hour

blocked off that you're going to do to do things, put it in

there. Because then and then crumble it up, especially a post

it note, throw it away. Because basically, when you look at that

to do list to me, when you see all the things, again, that you

didn't get done, it chips away at your self esteem. And again,

it's so easy for the brain to go to oh my gosh, look at what I

didn't get done, versus what I did get done success list. But

no, you're being successful, because you're working on that

priority activity, that's going to be result producing, that's

really what it is, what do you want to you know, accomplish?

With, you know, your success list?

So I have a question for you there. Can you

have a to do list and a success list, because the to do list is

kind of the things that you're just writing down because you

don't want to forget to do them. Right, they're gonna get done at

some point. And the success list are the things that that's

what's moving you forward, that's what you need to focus

on. And potentially, those are the things that you're doing in

15 minute increments of Uber focus,

right? Does that say Use caution, like, cuz like I

hear and I see where you're going, you know, with that. It's

just that you're like you don't want to mix up. So let's just

say that the to do list could be chores, errands and things you

don't want to forget, that are not like maybe such a big

priority. So like your success list is what is my priority. The

To Do List is I got to pick up dog food, dry cleaning, you

know, those kinds of right like tasking things that may not be

necessarily driving you towards? What are some of the things that

you're looking to achieve? And you know, we'll just say 2022,

right? Because it's, again, like to do lists usually combine the

two, like, you've got some priority things, you've got some

non priority things. And then because you're staring at that,

chances are that you're going to be going through that list and

be focused possibly on the non priority because they're easy to

do. It's, you know, again, because you have to be self

disciplined to be working on those things that are on your

success list. Right.

So it's interesting, because part of

that is also the habit change, right? Because I have a notebook

where I just write everything down to your point. But then I

will go through and be like, Okay, what are the three things

I have to get done today? And so that's my success list.

Yes. Are the three things I get to do? I get

to do I got to the three things I get to do

today, right because and I have my sticky notes here. So see my

sticky notes and have them right here. and celebrate the faith

three things I get to do today.

And really, and that is that, you know, people are like,

Oh my gosh, what do you mean? Celebrate? I'm like, I'm

serious. And celebrate doesn't mean like you're throwing a big

party, I'm like, just celebrate, and what is it then that you

like to do? So then take 15 minutes as you wrap up the end

of your day on something that really fuels your fire for the

next day? You know, like, I mean, we're all so a lot of us

are, you know, reward driven. And it should be more pleasure

than pain, you know, kind of things. So, I think that that's

really important and key to, you know, to take a look at.

Definitely, and I know, I am personally, one who

is learning to celebrate the things along the way and

recognize that journey, as opposed to just keep pushing,

keep pushing, keep pushing. So we were talking about

boundaries. Earlier, we've been talking about the to the success

list, somewhere in there is setting priorities. Do you have

suggestions on how people can set the priority to get that

success was done to have their focus time and work within

boundaries? How do we pull it all together?

Well, it's a lot, and then this isn't going to happen

overnight. So for people who are listening, again, my suggestion

is to take one thing that really resonates with you, and

implement it, some people say, you know, there's books on 21,

you know, 21 days, 30 days to a new habit. Average is 66 days.

And I really believe that's why I like the 12 weeks the

quarterly, because I really believe it's about 90 days to

implement something new. So take one thing and decide what it is.

And so when it comes to priorities, again, that goes to

the idea of the success list, what is taking you towards what

you're working towards, you know, for, versus what you know,

what is going to D track you from, you know, what it is that

your end result, called, like life goals, dreams, designing

the life that you know, you desire. And when it comes to

priorities, this is always something that I say, and you

kind of alluded to it before self care is not selfish. So you

really want to take a look at your life. And for everybody

this is, you know, unique and individual put into your

calendar, what are your non negotiables? Like, you know, you

don't work Sundays, you go to church on Sundays, you know,

what is it that for some people it's working out, you know, that

those kinds of things go in, because you know, that if you're

not working out, or you know, your whatever, like, you're

going to be a basket case, and you're going to be angry all

day, whatever it is. And then whether you do paper, that stuff

goes in and pattern. Like there, there is no changing and it's an

appointment with yourself. If it's in your calendar, there's

no like negotiating. Well, I'll, you know, take this out, because

here's what happens, you take it out once, and all of a sudden,

before you know it, it's like two weeks. And gosh, I haven't

been to the gym in two weeks. Right? It's a it's a priority

for you. And like the biggest way that I look at priorities,

and how I'm going to do things, is the order of importance, you

know, for what's taking me towards my big picture, my big

picture dreams, you know, for for 2022. So, again, best

question to ask yourself, I love this question, taking me towards

taking me away, you know, it's it is that will help you a lot

of times to decide, is this a priority at this moment or not?

And priorities can change in the given moment. You know, but

again, here's another tip, somebody else's, you know,

emergency is not your crisis. So like, there is no point in

dropping everything, you know, for somebody else, you know,

it's like, really, again, just take a look at can this be

addressed? At a later point, of course, we're all going to have

things that happened, like when your daughter got the

concussion? Well, that took priority over everything else

that was happening. But for sometimes we just have to look

at it like, well, you know, you didn't, you know, plan or

prepare, you know, like somebody else, that doesn't mean that I

have to drop everything to you know, help or support you.

Exactly. So when one of my daughter's suddenly

decides that, oh, can I drive them somewhere right now?

Because that's when that's their emergency. It's not my crisis,

right?

Absolutely. Absolutely.

That's what I'm trying to teach them if they

want me to drive them anywhere I need 24 hours advance notice.

And it has to fit in my schedule that I've already prioritized,

right? Right. So yeah. So coming back to weight. Well, first of

all, I was there I totally agree with, you know, all that you've

said, I love it and that self care is not selfish. And I just

want to highlight that when you're creating that success

list to build that self care in, that's not something for later,

you can only be your best self, if you're first looking after

yourself. Right? Right. listeners that have been

listening to the podcast for a while will have heard my one of

my favorite quotes, which is that self care is the most

selfless act because it allows you to show up and give the

world the best of you instead of what's left of you. So that's on

my success list. And I really think that should be on

everybody's success list in some way, shape, or form, because it

is very individual. And once you've looked after you, then

what else is on your success list for the rest of that day.

But I just want to loop back to what you had talked about

earlier. And that was the morning routine. And I know that

we've been working together and you let me know today that

you've got your morning routine in place, which is awesome. So I

would love for you to share what that is, if you would like to

and then how that's been benefiting you over the last

month or so.

Yeah, so thank you, because it's, um, if anybody has

ever read the book, The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod, and I have

taken, you know, taking a guess a page out of his book to

establish my morning routine. So right now my morning routine is,

you know, getting up and one of the first things I always have

to do, which is not part of my morning routine is feed my dogs,

because if I don't see myself away, they're like, what, what

you're up and you know, it's like five minutes in and we

haven't eaten yet, right? But I'm serious. No. So it looks

like I'm in the process of reading the book to think

thinking grow rich. And so there's like a desired

statement. So it's basically my desired plan, what I'm working

on this year, so I read that out loud, you know, it's almost like

an affirmation that I'm reading out loud, and that I'm doing

that I do a little bit of reading, either thinking grow

rich, I'm also in the process of some other things. And I do the

reading, the big thing for me is some journaling. So I do my list

of gratitudes, I have a list of like 10 gratitudes, that I do

every morning, as well as a little visualization around

that. I also have another journal that has these

questions. And so like, I just randomly open it to a page and I

journal and I answer, you know, I answer my questions. And then

I also, I do a little exercise right away. Okay, so I have one

of these. I don't know exactly the appropriate like, like the

term to use, but it's like a vibrating machine. So you stand

on it for 10 minutes, and you edit vibrates your entire body.

And it's like supposed to be equivalent to working out for

about 45 minutes, it's really good for the joints. I'm not

saying that like replaces cardio or anything like that. But it

really is, like I like it, because I noticed a difference.

Like I have a little knee issue and stuff like that. So I always

feel better. And I can feel it. Like you can actually do like

squats on it and, you know, lunges and all those kinds of

things. But I usually just stand there, you know, for 10 minutes

and let it vibrate? Well, I think I

really I haven't heard of that before. But I'm

thinking that is really cool in the morning. Because of course

the body's detoxing overnight, and then that vibration is

getting your lymphatic tissue moving first thing in the

morning to help you know, get those toxins that the body's

tried to clean up overnight, flushed down to be removed from

the body.

Absolutely. That's it, you know, and if you want

because if you do show notes or something, I can get the name of

it, like, you know, and put it in there because it's actually

it's actually, you know, it's a pretty cool machine. So all in

all, like right now because, you know, people are like, Why don't

have any extra time in the morning. Right? Like, all in

all, like everything that I'm doing right now for myself is

taking about 30 minutes. 30 minutes. Yeah, you know, to to

set myself up for the day. And, and I just because it doesn't

always have to, like Hal Elrod talks about it being like an

hour 10 minutes on like six different things, right. But

then he also has like the abbreviated version, which is

like 10 minutes, you know, like a minute and a half on like

certain things and then a minute on one thing, right just as long

as you're getting yourself into your routine. Whatever your

routine looks like for you is the importance and the key that

you know you're not right away again, going into that frantic

hectic state. Like you said reacting instead of okay, this

is how I'm going to set you know My day up, usually, like, you

know, closing my eyes and a little meditation, you know,

that kind of thing. You know, imagining how I want my day to

unfold and look is really important as well, too. So,

yeah, and I love all of that. And when I, what I

hear from so many people is that they use their phone as their

alarm clock. So a the phone is in the bedroom. And which I

don't love from the EMF perspective, and Bluetooth and

Wi Fi, and all of that, that we know that can cause harm to the

body. And some people are quite sensitive to it, and I'm one of

them. But because it's your alarm clock, that's what's

waking you up, and then you pick it up, to turn off the alarm,

right. And then boom, you can see all your notifications that

have come in overnight. And now all of a sudden, you're looking

at those emails, and you're starting to scroll Facebook, and

you just end up in that, you know, overwhelmed state, and

you've the alarm went off 30 seconds ago,

right. And so

many people are doing that. And it's just the

way we've been programmed is well, the phone does everything.

So I'm going to have it with me 24/7, right. And I really

encourage people to go and buy like that $10 alarm clock that's

either battery run or plugs into the wall. And you know, when I

do my sleep course, I go into a lot more on that. But use that

to get the phone out of the room. Because the alarm wakes

you up, maybe you can choose you know, wake up to the radio or

whatever, you can turn it off, and then start your morning

routine. Or if you don't mind the music in the background

during your morning routine, you can you know, continue listening

to that. But that right away is a huge shift in habit for people

that allows them to not immediately go into that

reactionary state. It's just right.

And I will say I'm a work in progress. And so like

here has what I've been doing because I I am I'm a bad girl,

Melissa like I that bad habit, bad habit, I do use my phone as

an alarm clock. But here's what I do when I shut it off. It's in

like a Do Not Disturb mode. So show me all my notifications.

And so what I do is I leave the bedroom, and I leave the phone

in the bedroom, because I do my morning routine outside of the

bedroom. So right, like I'm in my living room, that kind of

thing. So then the phone isn't even anywhere near me to

distract me with anything with anything else. And so that's

worked really well. And honestly, like that I've been

getting into this morning routine, I haven't really had

the need to like be checking my phone because I'm so into what

I'm doing that that's become my new skill. Right? Right, right

social media for myself. Right?

And that sounds like you're in that zone of

focus. Right? Right. As you're doing something for yourself,

that's bringing you joy, that, you know, makes you feel better

as you go into the rest of your day. So I love it, you're

starting your day out slowing down in order to be more

productive, right? And I know that so counterintuitive to

people, right? We're just trained, do more, do more, do

more, work harder, get more done. But the reality is, is we

have a plan and we slow down. So the tortoise and the hare,

right? Instead, he gets the job done. So awesome, awesome. So I

love your morning routine that you've set up and that you're

working on that. And I've really enjoyed working with you through

our program that we've done together. And you're someone as

you said that you've been focused on your health for a

long time you prioritize it. And I love that. As someone who's

prioritize it for a long time, you still want to do more in

order to be ensuring that you stay healthy. And because you're

an entrepreneur, and how do you build your business if you don't

have your health. So I really appreciate that about you. And

that's part of my message that I want to be sharing with the

world is that if you have your health, everything else else can

flow. And if you don't have your health, then you're struggling

to get it all done. So between slowing down, creating your

morning routine, focusing on self care, focusing on health,

that's how people can have an amazing 2022 And if they need

help with time management, time blocking success lists getting

shit done, then they need to reach out to you. So has someone

how would someone do that?

Well, the probably the easiest way that you can go to

my website, which is simply Julie Jones dot biz. So you can,

you know, find out all the information about me and email

me connect with me. And you know, I'd love, love, love, love

making new friends and having conversations.

And I love that. And I know that there are, you

know, some people that this comes really naturally to. And

there's so many people that struggle with this. And so

though for those people that struggle with this, don't beat

yourself up, don't think that you can never do it. Truly reach

out to Julie because she will give you the tools and the

support to for you to be able to implement so that you can turn a

new leaf and be really productive and get shipped.

Absolutely. And so yes. So please come to the website.

You can book a 30 minute complimentary call with me, I

promise you I'm a lot of fun. And you know,

maybe even wear a costume or googly eyes. No, I.

Yes. So 30 minutes with me. And then as a special offer.

I just recently wrote a book. And so if you come on and you

know, you say during our call that you heard about me through

Melissa, I will send you a free copy of my book. Oh,

thank you that's so generous of you. And I know,

I know that you sent also a free download on productivity that

I've put into the show notes as well.

Yes, yes. So that is an offer there as well. So I'm just

not feeling all kinds of generous today. Because I just

love Melissa. And I've loved working with her. You know, I

mean, she's helped me with some of my health. And one of the

reasons why I have a morning routine is because I did work

with her and realize the importance because of some of my

cortisol levels being off kilter first thing in the morning. So

that was really key to helping me, you know, get my mind

wrapped around my health. And thanks to Melissa, I'm right on

track.

Well, thank you, it's been awesome working with

you. And just you know, the different skill sets that we all

have that we can bring to the table to support other people

is, is really powerful. So thank you. Thank you. So before I let

you go, though, I have two questions. I love to ask my

guests before we wrap up. And that first one is what is don't

wait for your wake up call mean to you.

Oh my gosh, again, life happens. And so it can turn on a

dime, like, don't wait until you're 95. And you're on your

deathbed. And you're you have these regrets of what you didn't

do, versus what you did do. And so that's what it means to me.

It's like live each and every moment. But live in gratitude

and live in health and live your best life. That's really what it

means to me.

I love that and living in that higher vibration

to that vibration of joy, love happiness. Right? Absolutely.

And that comes when you're living in gratitude. So and then

my other question is, what message would you like to leave

with the audience to inspire them to take action today? After

all, we've talked about how do we inspire them to slow down so

they can get more done?

You know, it's, I see it in the background for you in

the background for me. And I just love to tell people that

you are enough, you know, it's really not about going to a

point of beat up mode. Like, again, we always talk about

Hindsight is 2020 Because now all of a sudden, we have all

this information that we didn't have before when we made a

decision, right. And so just knowing that you have all the

tools that you need to be anything that you want. And so

just remember like that is like that is such a big message is

step going to beat up mode and know that everything that you

offer this world that you are enough and sometimes it just

takes a little tweaking and a couple of little things to make

all the difference in the world.

I love them. Thank you so so much. So thanks

for being here. Julie Jones. This was a powerful episode. I

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