1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: I got our team happy, bloody, terrific. Welcome to another 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:04,640 Speaker 1: installment of the show. I want to talk to you 3 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:10,920 Speaker 1: today about efficiency, and this is an area of interest 4 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:15,800 Speaker 1: and at times concerned for me, because I have had 5 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 1: and do have a propensity to be periodically inefficient. Now 6 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:27,800 Speaker 1: let me just preface this with saying I don't think 7 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:33,240 Speaker 1: every day needs to be about efficiency and high performance 8 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 1: and ticking boxes and results and outcomes and productivity and 9 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 1: of course not. But I think in general terms, you 10 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:44,199 Speaker 1: and I, when it comes to doing the things that 11 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 1: we want to do with work, with projects, with our health, 12 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 1: with creating certain outcomes on planet us, whatever those outcomes 13 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 1: are given the option to be inefficient or efficient, all 14 00:00:56,080 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 1: of us are going to choose efficient. Because I have 15 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:06,640 Speaker 1: a pretty busy diary most days, most weeks, most months. 16 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 1: You know that include seven podcasts a week minimum. There's 17 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:14,959 Speaker 1: seven of these seven new projects, and then there's often one, 18 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 1: two or three podcasts that I do on somebody else's show. 19 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:23,640 Speaker 1: And then of course there's my research, my PhD that 20 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 1: you know is drawing to a close, thankfully. Then there's 21 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 1: all my corporate speaking work, which is I guess, on average, 22 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 1: two times a week one hundred times a year, give 23 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:36,319 Speaker 1: or take. And then there's public workshops and events, and 24 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 1: there's online stuff, and there's face to face stuff, and 25 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 1: then there's a bit of coaching and a bit of consulting, 26 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,199 Speaker 1: and then there's a bit of lifting weights every day, 27 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:46,959 Speaker 1: seven days a week. And then there's my commitment to 28 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 1: walk kind of about ten kilometers a day. And then 29 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 1: there's the old people that I love the most, my 30 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: mum and dad, who are eighty five years I hate 31 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: it when people say young. Let's just say eighty five 32 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 1: years old, because that is exactly what they are. And 33 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 1: you know, so I've got a I don't have to 34 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 1: of course, I want to spend time with them, look 35 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 1: after them, love them, make sure they're okay. So that's 36 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:14,360 Speaker 1: something that needs to be factored in high on my 37 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:19,640 Speaker 1: priorities every day and every week. And so you know, 38 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 1: when you put all of that together, and trying to 39 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 1: get some quality sleep and trying to eat some quality 40 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 1: food and also prepare quality food because I live by myself, 41 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 1: and then have a bit of fun and a few 42 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 1: laughs and you know, lift heavy shit with my mate 43 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 1: and all of that and be a good human. It's 44 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 1: very easy with so many variables and so many things 45 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 1: and so many factors to be inefficient. And so I think, 46 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:54,799 Speaker 1: and I've said this before, I think we can have 47 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 1: but I think a lot of us do have, if 48 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 1: not all the time, a lot of the time or 49 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 1: some of the time, but we do have this tendency 50 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:09,240 Speaker 1: to kind of operate on autopilot, to live kind of 51 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 1: unconsciously and do the thing that we did yesterday and 52 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 1: the day before and the week before and the month before, 53 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 1: and do that thing not because it works well, or 54 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:20,240 Speaker 1: not because it's optimal, or not because it's efficient, but 55 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 1: just because we are in the habit. We are in 56 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 1: the unconscious habit of doing that thing that way. So 57 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 1: I think it's good to, as I always say, to 58 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 1: maybe put up our operating system, our day to day 59 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 1: operating system, up on the old hoist, the metaphoric hoists, 60 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 1: so that we can walk around and have a look 61 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 1: at it and see what's working, what's efficient, what's inefficient, 62 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 1: what's optimal, what's suboptimal, what kind of results we're getting. 63 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 1: So I guess efficiency is it's getting the most output 64 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 1: from the least input. And that doesn't mean we're not 65 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: trying it just means what is the best what is 66 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 1: the best return on investment physical, mental, emotional, time, skill, knowledge, whatever, 67 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 1: What is the best ROI that I can get doing 68 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 1: this thing now, whether or not that is you know, 69 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:18,360 Speaker 1: time or energy, or money or effort or resources or 70 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 1: all of those other things. It's about doing things well 71 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 1: with minimal minimal what minimal waste? I guess. So, in 72 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 1: simple terms, efficiency is, for example, I'm going to give 73 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 1: you some examples so we're clear, and then I'm going 74 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: to give you some strategies along the way, and then 75 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:47,480 Speaker 1: I'm going to give you some questions that you can 76 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: ask yourself and then operationalize off the back of that, 77 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 1: so that you might if you feel like you're not 78 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:58,719 Speaker 1: always efficient or you are wasting like I said, time, energy, resources, skills, 79 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:02,040 Speaker 1: that you might be able to think better, do better, 80 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 1: create better. So it's lifting heavier with better form and 81 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 1: less effort. That's an example of efficiency. I'm doing a 82 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:15,160 Speaker 1: better weight or a heavier weight perhaps, or maybe I'm 83 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 1: lifting the same weight but with better form, and now 84 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:22,039 Speaker 1: I'm going to get best, better results and over time 85 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:26,400 Speaker 1: when I train well, So when the quality is high, 86 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 1: not just the quantity, but when the quality is high. 87 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 1: Now I'm getting the best return on investment because one 88 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:35,280 Speaker 1: my body needs to adapt. I'm going to build more 89 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:37,599 Speaker 1: strength and there's going to be more muscle, or there's 90 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 1: going to be more fitness or flexibility or range of 91 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 1: movement or whatever fitness variable it is that I'm trying 92 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:47,120 Speaker 1: to stimulate to respond. Right, I'm going to get a 93 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 1: better outcome because I'm doing it a better way. It's 94 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 1: not junk training, it's not trash training, and it's not 95 00:05:53,560 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 1: taking forever. Efficiency is solving a problem in five minutes 96 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:04,599 Speaker 1: that used to take you thirty. It's having a ten 97 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 1: minute conversation that creates more clarity than a fucking thirty 98 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:16,919 Speaker 1: minute waffle fest. You know those meetings where you go 99 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 1: and sit in meetings. I don't sit in lots of them, 100 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 1: fortunately because I work for me, but I do sit 101 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 1: in enough of them where I'm thinking, fucking hell, we 102 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:27,359 Speaker 1: could have all done. We could have said all of 103 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:31,839 Speaker 1: this shit much more succinctly, much more quickly. We could 104 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 1: have been in and out with more clarity, less confusion, 105 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 1: and less bullshit in one fifth of the time. And 106 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 1: for a range of reasons that often doesn't happen. But 107 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:48,040 Speaker 1: I think for those of you who can control that, 108 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 1: like if it's your meeting or it's your business, or 109 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:55,359 Speaker 1: you can somehow influence the way that that goes, or 110 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 1: maybe you can even suggest bravely, I feel like we 111 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:02,800 Speaker 1: could be more efficient even if you're not in charge. 112 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:05,720 Speaker 1: But I feel like we take sixty minutes to do 113 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 1: ten to fifteen minutes of work, because sometimes that's just true, 114 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 1: and sometimes we need to be brave enough to say it. 115 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:19,560 Speaker 1: Efficiency is writing an email once that answers ten people's questions. 116 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 1: It's about writing. In my case, it was about writing 117 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:30,679 Speaker 1: a global or a generalized auto reply to the myriad 118 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 1: of emails that I would receive. So one of the 119 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 1: things Melessa. If you don't know who Melessa is, she 120 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:38,679 Speaker 1: runs my life. She's amazing. She's my business partner, business manager, 121 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 1: much smarter than me, et cetera, et cetera. Melissa would 122 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 1: spend some days four or five hours responding to all 123 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 1: the emails that would come through my website, and without 124 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 1: being rude, a lot of those were people wanting something 125 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 1: for free essentially, or people are asking me a question 126 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: that with respect, I just don't have the time or 127 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: energy to be able to answer deeply personal things sometimes 128 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 1: and things that it's not It's not my role to 129 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 1: do that. It's not my role to sort through seven 130 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 1: hundred emails a week and dispense personal advice. My gift 131 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 1: to the world, if it's a gift, is what I'm 132 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 1: doing now, which is sharing my thoughts and ideas and 133 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 1: my knowledge and my inspiration in a way where speaking 134 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 1: of efficiency, I can reach a lot of people at once. 135 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:36,240 Speaker 1: Me spending thirty minutes like I am right now talking 136 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 1: to thousands of humans like I am right now or 137 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 1: who will hear it eventually, is way more efficient than 138 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 1: me grinding away with one on one responses that come 139 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:49,720 Speaker 1: through my email. So what I did was I wrote 140 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:55,480 Speaker 1: a really thoughtful, really comprehensive email where I basically answered 141 00:08:55,559 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 1: every potential question and set everything clearly so that people 142 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:03,600 Speaker 1: would know this is not a personal advice column. This 143 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:05,679 Speaker 1: is not you know it is what it is. Love 144 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:07,600 Speaker 1: you all, thank you for your support. But I can't 145 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:10,680 Speaker 1: be a personal advisor or counselor, or nutrition coach or 146 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:13,560 Speaker 1: fitness coach. So if you want personal advice, there's a 147 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 1: lot of people who can do that, but I'm not 148 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 1: that person, right And that just that one email reduced 149 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 1: Melissa's work in that space by ninety eight percent. It's 150 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: about efficiency. Is about a ten minute zoom call instead 151 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 1: of a two hour round trip in person meetings that 152 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:35,800 Speaker 1: I have I often so before and events I have 153 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:39,120 Speaker 1: pretty much every event, one hundred events a year what's 154 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:41,959 Speaker 1: called an event briefing. And people will want to will 155 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 1: often want me to come to them. Now I live 156 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 1: twenty five thirty minutes out of the city in Melbourne, 157 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 1: they would want me to drive into the city quite often, 158 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,440 Speaker 1: find a park, go and find them, sit with them, 159 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:56,200 Speaker 1: have a conversation that we could have honestly had on 160 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:59,840 Speaker 1: the phone, but way more conveniently, and still being able 161 00:09:59,880 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 1: to see each other and interact and all of those 162 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 1: things on zoom. So when it's possible, which is most 163 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 1: of the time, I would say to people, love to 164 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 1: meet with you, love to answer your questions, love to 165 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 1: sit with you and look at you and connect with you. 166 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 1: But rather than me spend two hours out of my day, 167 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:23,080 Speaker 1: can we spend ten to fifteen minutes on a zoom call. 168 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:25,559 Speaker 1: And if it takes twenty or thirty that's also okay. 169 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,360 Speaker 1: And ninety nine percent of the time they go, oh yeah, sure, 170 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 1: of course, of course, but you need to be able 171 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:37,079 Speaker 1: to with these things, recognize that you do it politely. 172 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:42,840 Speaker 1: There's no real advantage for either of us on either 173 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:48,400 Speaker 1: side with me sitting in a room across the table 174 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 1: versus me sitting at the desk where I am, and 175 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:52,959 Speaker 1: then sitting at a desk. There might be one or 176 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,560 Speaker 1: two things, to be honest, but in general terms, it 177 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:57,839 Speaker 1: really doesn't make any difference, and it saves everyone a 178 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 1: lot of time and it's a lot more efficient, especially 179 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:07,720 Speaker 1: for me. It's about efficiency, is about doing a thirty 180 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 1: minute workout of compound movements in the gym. Sometimes sometimes 181 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,080 Speaker 1: I will go in and I will do something like 182 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:21,200 Speaker 1: deadlifts and chin ups and push ups and maybe a 183 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:25,000 Speaker 1: version of squats or leg press. I'll do four exercises. 184 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 1: I'll do them pretty much back to back. There'll be 185 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:31,680 Speaker 1: minimal recovery. I'll hit pretty much every major muscle group 186 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:34,360 Speaker 1: in my body. I'm building strength, my heart rates up, 187 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:39,080 Speaker 1: so there's a cardio component to it. I'm training effectively efficiently, 188 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:43,160 Speaker 1: I'm using good technique, I'm not chatting, I'm not wasting time. 189 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:46,440 Speaker 1: And obviously I don't do this all the time, just 190 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 1: sometimes when I really need to be in and out. 191 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:52,560 Speaker 1: But I can do a thirty minute session that would 192 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:54,960 Speaker 1: equate to what a lot of people would do in 193 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:58,080 Speaker 1: seventy five or sixty minutes. But we just need to 194 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 1: make sure that we know what we're doing and we're 195 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 1: optimizing everything once we get into that environment. It's about 196 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:10,080 Speaker 1: For me, efficiency is about the guy that does my 197 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:13,200 Speaker 1: garden doing my garden. Because the guy that does my 198 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 1: garden awesome me. Shit he can do in sixty minutes 199 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 1: with his skills and his tools and his knowledge and 200 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:24,680 Speaker 1: his experience and his energy. He can do in sixty 201 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 1: minutes what I will do not very well in three hours. 202 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:30,520 Speaker 1: And not only that, I can pay him a decent 203 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:32,960 Speaker 1: hourly rate for him. But while I'm paying him that 204 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,640 Speaker 1: Ali rate, I'm doing other shit and making a better 205 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:39,280 Speaker 1: HOLI rate. So bibbity Bobby boo. He's happy. I'm happy. 206 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:41,079 Speaker 1: I don't have to do the thing that I don't 207 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:43,679 Speaker 1: really like doing. I'm not great at it. I love 208 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:46,079 Speaker 1: being in the garden. I love looking at the garden. 209 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 1: And some of you are going. 210 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:49,920 Speaker 2: To go, oh, perhaps it's therapeutic. You know what, it's 211 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 2: therapeutic if you love doing it. If you fucking hate 212 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:55,760 Speaker 2: doing it, it ain't therapeutic. So I will continue to 213 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:57,920 Speaker 2: look at it and sit in it, and I mate 214 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:02,120 Speaker 2: will work in it him gladly. I pay him more 215 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:04,160 Speaker 2: than he gives me a bill for every time. 216 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:08,120 Speaker 1: So he loves me and I love what he does. 217 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:11,360 Speaker 1: So it's about efficiency. And the same thing goes with 218 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 1: everything you know with Melissa that I mentioned before. There, 219 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:17,839 Speaker 1: Let's say there's fifty things that need to be done 220 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:22,040 Speaker 1: on the U project and through Craig harpadot Net and 221 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:25,640 Speaker 1: all the meetings and all the events and all the 222 00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:29,400 Speaker 1: camps and all the things that we do. If there's 223 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:32,520 Speaker 1: fifty things that need to be done, there's at least 224 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:34,959 Speaker 1: twenty five of those things that Melissa is better at 225 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,120 Speaker 1: than me, at least probably thirty five, probably forty five, 226 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 1: let's be honest. And now that doesn't mean she does 227 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:43,560 Speaker 1: forty five and I do five. But what that means 228 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:45,720 Speaker 1: is we both of us go all right, these are 229 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:48,840 Speaker 1: all the things that we need to do. Also, Tiff 230 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:51,679 Speaker 1: works with us as well, who's amazing, and we go 231 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 1: all right, Well, between Tiff and Melissa and Fatty Harps, 232 00:13:56,640 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 1: who's going to do what who's going to do what? 233 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:04,040 Speaker 1: So the question is what is the best use what 234 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 1: is the best use of Tip? What is the best 235 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:08,600 Speaker 1: use of Melissa? And what is the best use of me? 236 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:12,560 Speaker 1: And so the question that I ask myself a version 237 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:16,840 Speaker 1: of this question every day is based on what I 238 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:20,240 Speaker 1: want to do, be, create and change today. What's the 239 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:24,560 Speaker 1: best use of me? What's the most efficient use of 240 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:30,080 Speaker 1: my time? Knowledge, skills, energy? And then when I ask 241 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:34,240 Speaker 1: with a question like that, what it does? It gives 242 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 1: me clarity, It gives me focus, it gives me intention, 243 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 1: and off the back of all of that, it gives 244 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 1: me a plan and a timetable. Now I have, essentially 245 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 1: I have a to do list because at the start 246 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 1: of the day I jumped into it consciously, thinking critically. 247 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:58,240 Speaker 1: I didn't just jump into another groundhog day doing what 248 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 1: didn't work yesterday, last week, month, here. I started the 249 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 1: day with a good intention and the intention is was 250 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:08,080 Speaker 1: is today. I want to be efficient and effective. I 251 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:09,560 Speaker 1: want to get the most out of me, the most 252 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 1: out of my energy. I want to get the most 253 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: out of my day, my relationships, my conversations. I want 254 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:16,320 Speaker 1: to get the most out of everything. How do I 255 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 1: do that? How do I get the most out of 256 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 1: Melissa in this working relationship? How do I get the 257 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:24,640 Speaker 1: most out of me? How do I get the most 258 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 1: out of Tiff? Now, also with those questions comes what 259 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:30,400 Speaker 1: does Tiff want to do? Melissa want to do? What 260 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 1: does Craig want to do? And of course the other stuff. 261 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:37,440 Speaker 1: It's not just all about efficiency. It's about purpose, it's 262 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 1: about having fun, it's about having a laugh. But today 263 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 1: specifically we're talking about efficiency. And so the challenge for 264 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 1: us is to figure out what is the operating system 265 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 1: or what is the paradigm, or what is the protocol 266 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 1: or the process? Pick any of those big sciency words 267 00:15:56,920 --> 00:16:01,480 Speaker 1: that works best for me. It's best for me. So 268 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 1: I might even say, well, how do you listener? How 269 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:09,800 Speaker 1: do you study most effectively? Now, if you're like a 270 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 1: lot of people, sitting down with a big fat book 271 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:15,080 Speaker 1: or staring at a screen full of words for an 272 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:19,200 Speaker 1: hour is probably not the most effective way for you. 273 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 1: I don't know what it is for you, But for 274 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:26,320 Speaker 1: some people, the most effective way to study is to listen. 275 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 1: For some people it's to read a little bit and 276 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:30,840 Speaker 1: then write stuff down, then highlight some of the stuff 277 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 1: they wrote down, then go over those notes later not 278 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 1: nates notes, and then to read another bit to read 279 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:40,720 Speaker 1: it out loud perhaps rather than when I read stuff 280 00:16:40,760 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 1: out loud, it goes in more, by the way, even 281 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:47,240 Speaker 1: when and I recall it better, even when I'm by myself. 282 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:49,960 Speaker 1: If I really want to remember something or I want 283 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 1: to lock it in, I read it out loud because 284 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:56,240 Speaker 1: when I'm reading it out loud, I'm much more present 285 00:16:56,320 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 1: and much more focused versus I can literally read something 286 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:02,400 Speaker 1: on a screen while be thinking about while I'm thinking 287 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 1: about something else, But when I'm reading something out loud, 288 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:11,160 Speaker 1: I can't do that because I'm totally present. So one 289 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 1: of the things that I used to do I don't 290 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:16,080 Speaker 1: do as much anymore, but a version of it sometimes. 291 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:19,880 Speaker 1: But in my first degree, there was no AI. There 292 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:23,480 Speaker 1: was the Internet was there, but it was really really fundamental. 293 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:27,080 Speaker 1: But what I used to do was and I'm just 294 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 1: giving you an example of efficiency. When I first started 295 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:32,760 Speaker 1: my first degree, I could not study, I couldn't concentrate. 296 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:37,359 Speaker 1: It was all bloody. It was terrifying, it was arduous, 297 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:42,879 Speaker 1: it was uncomfortable, It was inefficient, it was ineffective. It 298 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:45,800 Speaker 1: was all of that. So what I learned over time, 299 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:48,840 Speaker 1: for me. And again, remember we're always trying to figure 300 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 1: out how do I work optimally. What I figured out 301 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:55,800 Speaker 1: for me was if I read. Let's say I'm reading 302 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 1: a paragraph of something in a book or on a 303 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:03,960 Speaker 1: on a screen. So I'll read the paragraph and I'll 304 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 1: try to comprehend it, and then I would I mostly 305 00:18:09,359 --> 00:18:12,919 Speaker 1: started with books first time round, not online as in, 306 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:14,879 Speaker 1: you know. The stuff that I needed to read and 307 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:18,520 Speaker 1: absorb would be generally through books or papers. Then I 308 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:21,160 Speaker 1: would read whatever it is i'm reading again, I would 309 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:23,320 Speaker 1: read it with a highlight or I've literally got two 310 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:26,119 Speaker 1: highlighters about six inches from my hand right now. I 311 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 1: still use highlighters all of the time. I would read 312 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:32,760 Speaker 1: the stuff in the paragraph. I would read the paragraph 313 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:34,800 Speaker 1: I should say. Then I would highlight the stuff that 314 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:38,000 Speaker 1: for me was the most important stuff I thought I 315 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:41,760 Speaker 1: needed to know, remember and recall. And I would do 316 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:45,639 Speaker 1: that for hours. And I would sometimes do ten or 317 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:49,480 Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. Then I would go get a drink, Car'd 318 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 1: do another ten, fifteen minutes, I'd do some squats and 319 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:54,240 Speaker 1: push ups. I do another ten. I'd just do what. 320 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 1: Sometimes it'd be seven, sometimes it'd be twenty four. Right, 321 00:18:57,600 --> 00:18:59,760 Speaker 1: there's no set protocol, but it was as long as 322 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:02,840 Speaker 1: I've felt I was present and I was absorbing as 323 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:04,920 Speaker 1: well as I could. Now, I'd do that for hours 324 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:08,520 Speaker 1: on and off in my little installments, and then at 325 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:11,920 Speaker 1: the end of the study session, I would get out. 326 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:14,639 Speaker 1: I had a digital recorder, so this is before we 327 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:17,960 Speaker 1: had recorders in phones, but I had a digital recorder, 328 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:25,400 Speaker 1: and I would record all the highlighted stuff into my recorder. Right, 329 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:32,879 Speaker 1: so now I'd read it multiple times, I'd highlight highlighted 330 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:36,880 Speaker 1: it is that the word highlighted, highlighted, and then I'd 331 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:39,160 Speaker 1: read it, so I'd read it, and now I can 332 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:41,560 Speaker 1: listen to it. And then what I would do is 333 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:45,199 Speaker 1: wherever I would be going, if I was going for 334 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:46,919 Speaker 1: a walk, if I was going for a drive, if 335 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:50,119 Speaker 1: I was heading somewhere. Not all of the time, but 336 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,040 Speaker 1: a lot of the time, I was listening to the 337 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:57,200 Speaker 1: stuff that I'd read, that i'd highlighted, and that I'd recorded, 338 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:01,840 Speaker 1: because for me, that helped lock it in, so I 339 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 1: could literally hear the same information five, ten, fifteen, twenty 340 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:12,000 Speaker 1: times without doing the thing that I hated or didn't enjoy, 341 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 1: which was sitting looking at a book in a room 342 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:18,680 Speaker 1: where there are so many other awesome things I could 343 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:20,879 Speaker 1: be doing other than looking at this fucking book in 344 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:23,480 Speaker 1: this fucking room and trying to remember this shit that 345 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:26,959 Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember. So for me, that was a 346 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:30,639 Speaker 1: way of becoming more efficient and more effective. But you 347 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:35,879 Speaker 1: need to find out your efficiency protocol every day. I 348 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:42,360 Speaker 1: suggest that you start with a clear focus, a clear intention, 349 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 1: and they're from there, you know, and asking me what 350 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:48,480 Speaker 1: do I need to do today, Like what's the most 351 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:52,120 Speaker 1: efficient use of me time, energy? All that. Then off 352 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 1: the back of that, build a plan for the day. 353 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:57,879 Speaker 1: If not do it the night before, what do I 354 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 1: want to do tomorrow? What's the best use of me tomorrow? Cool? 355 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:03,720 Speaker 1: Then you get up, you've already got to do, list, 356 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:07,080 Speaker 1: your timetable, your plan, and then you jump into it. 357 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:10,920 Speaker 1: And I think, also also speaking of efficiency, we need 358 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:14,720 Speaker 1: to learn to say no to the things that don't 359 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 1: align to the things that don't align with our purpose 360 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 1: and our mission and our goals and our intentions, and 361 00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:31,280 Speaker 1: to protect the time that we have doing what matters, 362 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:36,840 Speaker 1: because it's so easy just to go down a rabbit 363 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:41,119 Speaker 1: hole of bullshit. Now, by the way, rabbit holes I 364 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 1: think are fine, but maybe we need to go. You 365 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:47,160 Speaker 1: know what, I'm done. It's five o'clock in the day. 366 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:49,200 Speaker 1: I'm done. I don't need to be more productive or 367 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:51,360 Speaker 1: efficient today. I'm just going to fuck off and have fun. 368 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:53,440 Speaker 1: I'm gonna lift shit, I'm going to eat some shit. 369 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:55,800 Speaker 1: I'm going to watch some Netflix, and I'm gonna I'm 370 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 1: going to jump online and look at two hundred motorbike 371 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:01,439 Speaker 1: reviews as is often my way or whatever. Right, But 372 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:03,639 Speaker 1: we know that we're doing that and we're okay with it. 373 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,760 Speaker 1: We're not doing it because we got distracted. We're not 374 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 1: doing it because we're being inefficient. So I want to 375 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:15,880 Speaker 1: give you some questions that you can hear and then 376 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:20,880 Speaker 1: potentially write down and then potentially operationalize. Question number one, 377 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:26,879 Speaker 1: is am I efficient? Am I busy? Am I both? 378 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:30,119 Speaker 1: Or am I neither? Am I efficient? Just busy, both 379 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 1: or neither. Sometimes we're busy and also efficient. Sometimes we're 380 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:38,720 Speaker 1: busy and inefficient, and sometimes we're not busy, but we're 381 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:43,439 Speaker 1: really efficient. Which that's kind of a beautiful scenario, isn't it. 382 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 1: Where we're really we're really being effective with all of 383 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:49,679 Speaker 1: the things that we have at our disposal to do 384 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:55,640 Speaker 1: the work, to create the outcome and questions that I've 385 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:57,879 Speaker 1: already mentioned. I'll just repeat, what's the best use of 386 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:01,439 Speaker 1: my time? Etc? Am I best person for this task? 387 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 1: You know? Should someone else do this? Also, here's a 388 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 1: good question, when am I most efficient? I think everybody has, 389 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 1: for want of a better term, I've never heard this term. 390 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:22,240 Speaker 1: I'm making it up as we go, an efficiency window. Right, 391 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 1: we have a time of the day, not everyone. I mean, 392 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:28,680 Speaker 1: some people are awesome in the morning, then they lag 393 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:30,040 Speaker 1: in the day, and then they have a bit of 394 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 1: a bloody a burst at night. Melissa seems to be 395 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,920 Speaker 1: like that. Melissa seems to come to life after six 396 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:39,479 Speaker 1: She's like a fucking efficiency vampire. I don't know what 397 00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:44,280 Speaker 1: that is about, but knowing how your body and your 398 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:47,440 Speaker 1: brain and your mind and your nervous system and your 399 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:53,040 Speaker 1: focus and your attention and your efficiency are all intertwined, 400 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 1: I know for me, I tend to be better before 401 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:05,280 Speaker 1: three o'clock, two o'clock in the morning. I'm often sometimes 402 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 1: I feel fucking amazing. I feel literally smarter in the morning. 403 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:14,080 Speaker 1: I feel literally and well. We do know that people 404 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:18,159 Speaker 1: score higher and lower on IQ tests at certain times 405 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 1: of the day and under certain circumstances and conditions. That's 406 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:25,640 Speaker 1: a really interesting topic for another day. But because by 407 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:29,360 Speaker 1: the way, your IQ as a measure is a variable, 408 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:33,879 Speaker 1: that's not a constant. So which is why depending on 409 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:36,200 Speaker 1: a bunch of variables, you could do the same IQ 410 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:39,639 Speaker 1: or the same kind of quality of IQ tests, not 411 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,200 Speaker 1: the same questions, but the same style of IQ test 412 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:46,359 Speaker 1: ten times and you would be scored potentially at ten 413 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 1: different levels of IQ depending on a myriad of things. Anyway, 414 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 1: I'm getting off efficiency. Here are some more questions for 415 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:58,280 Speaker 1: you to think about. Is there a simpler, faster, or 416 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:04,679 Speaker 1: smarter way to this? Here's another e what's eating up 417 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:11,480 Speaker 1: my time and or energy without producing meaningful results? Where 418 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:16,320 Speaker 1: am I being busy rather than effective? Am I focused 419 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:19,160 Speaker 1: on the right things or just doing the easy and 420 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:26,160 Speaker 1: or urgent things? What mental clutter is slowing me down 421 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:33,879 Speaker 1: or making me second guess myself? Where am I overthinking? 422 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:38,680 Speaker 1: And what am I overthinking that I should just take 423 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:43,560 Speaker 1: action on. How much of my day is spent doing 424 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:46,280 Speaker 1: things that don't actually matter to my goals and values. 425 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 1: Like I said before, I think there's a time where 426 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:53,760 Speaker 1: that's okay. But I like to like, for example, as 427 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 1: I record this, it's one seventeen. I have another podcast 428 00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:00,160 Speaker 1: at two o'clock with a guy called Perry who we've 429 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:03,240 Speaker 1: had on the show before, and I want to do 430 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:06,920 Speaker 1: another solo one after Perry. So my intention this afternoon 431 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:10,800 Speaker 1: is to do three podcasts now. In order for me 432 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:14,000 Speaker 1: to be efficient and effective and get that done, I 433 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,480 Speaker 1: needed to get a lot of stuff done before. I 434 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 1: needed to organize my food, my coffee, my walking, and 435 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:24,199 Speaker 1: I needed to block out around four hours to get 436 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:27,560 Speaker 1: these three podcasts done so that I could be effective 437 00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:32,439 Speaker 1: and productive and efficient. And I think that day to 438 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 1: day there will be times when it's absolutely understandable and 439 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:43,200 Speaker 1: fine for you to go from nine till midday. I'm 440 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:47,680 Speaker 1: in the zone. I'm flying, no distractions, I'm down the hole. 441 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:50,840 Speaker 1: I'm doing what I need to do, batten down the hatches, 442 00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:57,400 Speaker 1: captain productivity. But between midday and three or midday and two, 443 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 1: I'm taking it easy and I'm going to go have 444 00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:03,600 Speaker 1: lunch with my missus or my bloke or my kid 445 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:05,600 Speaker 1: or whatever it is. Or I'm going to watch an 446 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:07,359 Speaker 1: hour of Netflix, or I'm going to do a workout, 447 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:08,960 Speaker 1: or I'm going to go for a walk along the river, 448 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,160 Speaker 1: or I'm going to watch some funny shit and laugh. 449 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:14,119 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. I don't think that well. I know 450 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:18,160 Speaker 1: that the idea of being every day, all day efficient, 451 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,920 Speaker 1: productive and effective is not a great plan because it's 452 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:26,440 Speaker 1: not healthy. But I think it's just deciding when and 453 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,960 Speaker 1: how we're going to be most effective and most efficient. 454 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:35,280 Speaker 1: Could this task be automated, delegated, or deleted? That's a 455 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:39,440 Speaker 1: great question. Am I doing this out of habit, obligation 456 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,439 Speaker 1: or actual purpose? In other words? Does it? Is it 457 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,920 Speaker 1: moving the needle? Is this something that I do because 458 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 1: I've just always done it and I'm kind of psychologically, emotionally, 459 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:57,160 Speaker 1: behaviorally addicted to it. It's just what I do. It's 460 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:02,680 Speaker 1: my unconscious kind of pattern. Or am I intentionally consciously 461 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:07,439 Speaker 1: doing something which is productive? Let's still a couple more 462 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:12,040 Speaker 1: of them were jam Am I clear and direct? Some 463 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:14,840 Speaker 1: communication stuff? Am I clear and direct? Am I using 464 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:18,919 Speaker 1: one hundred words when ten would be fine? What do 465 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,159 Speaker 1: I need to say? And how can I say it 466 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,720 Speaker 1: with empathy and awareness and kindness? Of course? But how 467 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 1: can I say it as succinctly as possible? So one 468 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 1: they get what I'm talking about? There's no confusion, there's 469 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:40,360 Speaker 1: no mystery? And two we're done quite quickly? Have I 470 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:44,520 Speaker 1: said what I actually mean? Am I clear? Am I 471 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:50,040 Speaker 1: speaking in bloody metaphors and analogies that they don't understand? 472 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:55,120 Speaker 1: Or am I being thoughtful but also direct so they 473 00:28:55,160 --> 00:29:00,720 Speaker 1: don't need to solve any kind of verbal mystery we're 474 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:07,400 Speaker 1: telling them, we're sharing directly. Could I prevent future confusion 475 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:13,400 Speaker 1: or current confusion by being clearer in this moment? And 476 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 1: let's do a few about energy and effort? Is this 477 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:20,240 Speaker 1: effort giving me growth? Is the effort? Is the psychological, 478 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:24,320 Speaker 1: emotional and physiological energy that I am spending on this? 479 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,800 Speaker 1: Is it growing me? Or is it exhausting me? Is 480 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 1: it wearing me out? Is it moving the needle in 481 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 1: a positive or a negative way? Two? More? Am I 482 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:42,320 Speaker 1: working hard on the wrong thing? Last one? What one 483 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,560 Speaker 1: change would make the biggest difference to how I feel 484 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:50,560 Speaker 1: or how I perform this week? I think the idea 485 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:56,240 Speaker 1: is to realize that we do so much. In conclusion, 486 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:01,000 Speaker 1: the idea is to think about how much stuff that 487 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:04,040 Speaker 1: we do on autopilot without, as I said earlier, without 488 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:09,440 Speaker 1: really being conscious, without really thinking critically, and without having 489 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:14,400 Speaker 1: I guess a bigger picture awareness of what we're doing 490 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 1: that's great, that's effective, that's efficient, and what we're doing 491 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 1: that's maybe somewhere closer to the end of the scale. 492 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 1: And as always, this is about us thinking better and 493 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:28,520 Speaker 1: doing better and being better. This isn't about self loathing 494 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,880 Speaker 1: or hating on ourselves. This is about recognizing that all 495 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:36,360 Speaker 1: of us. I don't think there's anybody listening to this 496 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:41,560 Speaker 1: that wants to be more inefficient. And with that in mind, 497 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 1: the question is, well, then, how do I become more 498 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:47,360 Speaker 1: effective and efficient and productive? How do I get the 499 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:52,480 Speaker 1: best ROI return on investment without killing myself or wearing 500 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:54,760 Speaker 1: what's the best plan, what's the best strategy, what's the 501 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:57,520 Speaker 1: best use of me and my time? All of those things, 502 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,240 Speaker 1: but none of that, none of that in movement. That development, 503 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:04,960 Speaker 1: that growth, that efficiency is going to happen if we 504 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 1: keep doing what we've been doing.