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S2: You can change your whole life in just six months
S2: by taking back your 5 to 9. These are the
S2: five steps that I took to take back my time
S2: working a $50,000 a year job that I hated to
S2: making millions of dollars working for myself if I had
S2: to do this all over again. This is exactly how
S2: I would use my 5 to 9. The first step
S2: is to sacrifice your comfort for six months to build
S2: your future. Most people fail because they don't make the
S2: sacrifices necessary to reach their goals. Because let's be real,
S2: sacrifices are not sexy. It sounds sexy when someone's saying
S2: sacrifice for your dreams. But when you actually have to
S2: make sacrifices, it sucks because the sacrifices sound like not
S2: spending time with people you love, not having the free
S2: time that you want to have, doing things that are hard. Mentally.
S2: Staying in the game can be so challenging. The way
S2: that your life is today is built off of what
S2: you want to do, and the results that you have
S2: are directly tied to the way that you spend your time.
S2: The only way to make sacrifices sexy is to tie
S2: your sacrifices to who you want to be, where you
S2: want to go, and what this future state of your
S2: life actually looks like. I can't tell you how much
S2: hate I get online from people saying, I don't know
S2: what I'm talking about. I only have business acumen because
S2: of the man I married. I'm just some blonde dumb
S2: gold digger. Super cool. They could say that about me
S2: ten years ago, and I might feel some sort of
S2: way about that. I might feel a little bit down
S2: about myself and then honestly think, why make sacrifices if
S2: I'm not going to get the life that I want
S2: to have? This is the worst way to think about
S2: what you have to do in order to create the
S2: life that you want. Do not fall into this trap,
S2: because the coolest thing about making sacrifices is only you.
S2: Get to know the sacrifices that you made. And the
S2: bigger the sacrifices are, the better you are going to
S2: feel about yourself when you get to where you're trying
S2: to go because you know it wasn't luck. The worst
S2: thing that can happen to somebody is they just get lucky.
S2: They stumble into success. They fall into it. When you
S2: actually take the time to say, I'm going to dedicate
S2: myself from 5 to 9, from when I'm off work
S2: until the time I go to bed, to becoming this
S2: next version of myself. And as you do this for
S2: six months and you make those sacrifices, no one can
S2: take that away from you. No one can ever throw
S2: stones at you, and you are going to be completely
S2: unbothered by anything people say. Why? Because you know what?
S2: It took this sacrificial phase in the process of you
S2: becoming successful is the power. So lean into it and
S2: in your brain, rewire it. Make it so that you
S2: think sacrifices are sexy because the result at the end
S2: is super sexy. But it's not sexy just to get
S2: there because you happen to get lucky. No, you got
S2: there because you made sacrifices and you can be proud
S2: and stand tall next to those sacrifices. And this is
S2: the intense balls to the wall phase. You got to
S2: be real honest with your family, real honest with your
S2: friends about how your time and commitments are going to
S2: look over the next six months. It's going to be different.
S2: That is okay if they don't support you. See you later. Bye.
S2: They were never really your friends to begin with, but
S2: when you let people know around you that you're going
S2: into the sacrifice phase, you're removing the excuse that the
S2: people in your life are going to be. The thing
S2: that holds you back. Next is number two, which is
S2: to really think about where you're spending your time. I'm
S2: challenging you to map out every minute of your day
S2: for the next six months. There's nothing more important than
S2: mapping out your day, especially the time that you have
S2: between 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm, which is the before
S2: and after your current 9 to 5 job. Now, some
S2: people think I don't have enough time to work on
S2: my goals. That is a lot of freaking time. Now
S2: I want to make something really clear here. I'm not
S2: recommending that you build your next thing during your 9
S2: to 5. You should not be building your next thing
S2: during the time that you are currently in what you
S2: are doing right now. If somebody is paying you a paycheck,
S2: do not screw that person over. Do not start spending
S2: the majority of your time creating this other thing. Why
S2: you are always going to think and feel shitty about
S2: the fact that somebody else is doing that to you,
S2: especially if you're wanting to become a business owner. If
S2: you become a business owner and you build that business
S2: on the back of somebody else paying you and you
S2: didn't do a good job with them, you are always
S2: going to think that your team members are doing that
S2: to you. They're going to be trust issues. Don't do it.
S2: It is the wrong way to exit. You can work
S2: full time, 9 to 5 for somebody else, earn a
S2: paycheck for doing that work while still being able to
S2: build the next thing that you want to go after
S2: and you want to do. And you use the time
S2: after work, not during work, after work, to go build
S2: that thing. That is the right way to do that.
S2: But the time that you have after work from 5:00
S2: pm to 9:00 pm is a vital. It is important.
S2: That is like the gold treasure time that you have,
S2: and every single minute of that time should be planned out.
S2: 2 to 3 hours of your 5 to 9 every
S2: single day should go towards study and application. These things
S2: go together. You can't just study something for six months
S2: and assume that you're gonna become great at it. I
S2: one time took this approach. For years I studied public speaking,
S2: and the study made me think that I was making
S2: progress towards public speaking. Let me just tell you something.
S2: You can read every freaking book, you can watch every
S2: YouTube video, you can talk with other public speakers and
S2: get their advice. But if you never actually publicly speak,
S2: you are not going to get better at public speaking.
S2: So the study has to come. Yes, you should learn
S2: how to make a presentation in Canva. You should learn
S2: the basics of storytelling, but as soon as you learn
S2: that thing, you instantly move into application, study and application.
S2: So knowing that you have a 5 to 9 chunk
S2: on a Monday night, you would study Canva. You would
S2: actually understand. How do I make things and put it
S2: in the right order and make transitions so that it
S2: makes the presentation interesting? Cool. Then for an hour that
S2: night you're going to actually use Canva. You're not just
S2: going to take this information. All this inflow without outflowing.
S2: That is my rule. If you inflow you must also outflow.
S2: You're getting information. You're receiving knowledge. Okay. Great. We're going
S2: to apply that. That is how you make progress in
S2: your 5 to 9 over the six months. Instead of
S2: feeling like you're just making all of these sacrifices for
S2: this long extended period of time without really seeing, am
S2: I able to get a result in the field of
S2: study that I am currently investing my time into? Now
S2: I'm going to ask you to really look at where
S2: do you currently spend your 5 to 9? If you
S2: have a one hour commute to the office? First off,
S2: maybe you should move closer to work because an hour
S2: of your time is valuable. It is precious. It is
S2: one of the most important things that you have. And
S2: if you are spending that full hour driving where you
S2: can't pay attention to really learning something new, you are
S2: robbing yourself of valuable time. Now you can use that
S2: time in order to learn something. Listen to podcasts, but
S2: your full attention isn't there, and I would just strongly
S2: recommend get as close as possible to the places that
S2: you have to go every single day, because it's going
S2: to give you more time back in order to do
S2: things and create things that you might not right now
S2: have time to do because you're stuck in a car driving. Now,
S2: if you're unwilling to move closer to your work because
S2: you want to make it easier for yourself to be
S2: more successful and you are just committed to this one
S2: hour commute, this actually means that you don't have a
S2: 5 to 9. It means you have a 6 to 9,
S2: so you just shrink the total amount of time that
S2: you have and you have one less hour. Now you
S2: can still get a lot done from 6 to 9,
S2: but you will have to be extra vigilant about where
S2: that time is being spent, so you can make progress
S2: towards getting to where you were trying to go. Now
S2: that brings us to tip number three, which is that
S2: errands are distraction. Have you ever wondered why rich people
S2: don't go to the grocery store. It's because somebody else
S2: can go to the grocery store for them. That is
S2: the least valuable thing that they could spend their time doing.
S2: It's not because they're so important or think so highly
S2: of themselves. They value their time and they can't get
S2: that time back. What I like to think about is
S2: if I want to make $1 million, I want to
S2: be $1 million earner. I can't also do things that
S2: somebody who makes $50,000 a year does. Because if I'm
S2: doing things that somebody who makes $50,000 a year does,
S2: I can't then make $1 million a year. I can't
S2: be both people. It's confusing. I'm gonna be strategic. I'm
S2: gonna sell. I'm gonna learn all these valuable skills while
S2: also spending my time doing something that has no value.
S2: So think about your groceries. You can have your groceries
S2: delivered to you. Think about a workout. You can actually
S2: work out at home. You don't have to drive somewhere
S2: to work out. You can shrink and use effectively the
S2: time that you once wasted by outsourcing and optimizing where
S2: you spend your time. The mindset shift is what I
S2: really want to hammer into you. Because if you do
S2: not value your time, you're going to add things that
S2: just waste your time and wonder why you're not making progress.
S2: One of my hacks to get my time back very
S2: early on in my career was having all of my
S2: food in frozen containers that I would put in the
S2: freezer at my office so I could microwave it for
S2: 2.5 minutes and be able to eat it while I
S2: took more meetings. Now, some people aren't willing to do this.
S2: They're like, oh, I need time. I need to decompress.
S2: I have to check in with things. What the frick
S2: do you have to check in on? If you're trying
S2: to change your life, you need to spend more time
S2: that you don't have right now doing productive things. Something
S2: that's productive would be eating as fast as possible so
S2: that you're able to actually talk to people, move an
S2: initiative forward, learn something new. So I don't add time
S2: to me having a meal. I try to eat as
S2: efficiently as possible. Now. Today I am no longer eating
S2: Lean Cuisines for lunch. However, I don't hate on Lean Cuisines.
S2: I think Lean Cuisines are fantastic and if that's what
S2: you need to do in order to get your time back,
S2: eat the Lean Cuisine. It takes three minutes in the freezer.
S2: It takes three minutes in the microwave for you to
S2: efficiently get food so you can get back to work.
S2: But this idea of lunch breaks or spending a lot
S2: of time eating breakfast or going out to dinner with
S2: people just sucks time away from you. So what I'd
S2: recommend you do is take an audit of your 5
S2: to 9 for the last two weeks. Where do you
S2: invest that time today and how do you batch those tasks?
S2: So you do them all at once and make it
S2: as efficient as possible. And for the ones that you
S2: can't batch, how do you outsource them so that somebody
S2: else can get that task done so that it frees
S2: up your time and ability to make more progress? Next
S2: up is step number four, which is you have to
S2: earn your fun. There's no dinner with friends until you
S2: hit your goals. Use the things that you want to
S2: do as something that is a treat and a reward
S2: for doing the things that you have to do. Nothing
S2: feels better than getting a treat from hard work. A
S2: reward for your sacrifices. When I'm in a period of sacrifice,
S2: it's frustrating. As much as I try to sell myself
S2: on sacrifices, sexiness is awesome. It feels shitty. It feels
S2: crappy while it's happening. So I create these little treats
S2: for myself to look forward to along the way. When
S2: I first started working out, my treat was buying one
S2: new article of clothing for every month that I was
S2: consistent with my workouts, so I would look forward all
S2: month to being able to pop into Lululemon and to
S2: get a new top, or to get a new pair
S2: of shorts, and it would feel so good spending that
S2: 45 minutes going around the store, because I knew that
S2: I was making progress towards something that I wanted to
S2: make progress in deeply, and it made me feel so
S2: good to go around the store and to pick out
S2: something as a reward for the sacrifices that I made. Similarly,
S2: I remember during Covid it was such a crunch time
S2: in my business, but every week that I actually executed
S2: on the commitments that I made to myself with the
S2: meetings and the training I did and the bedtime that
S2: I had, I would reward myself with an hour long
S2: trip to target, and I would walk around every single
S2: aisle of target, and it made me feel so good
S2: about myself and the weeks when I slacked off, which
S2: was only one I didn't let myself go to target.
S2: And during that four months of being heads down, so
S2: locked in, spending morning till night working and creating value
S2: inside our business, I was able to create these little
S2: tiny moments throughout that allowed me to feel some sort
S2: of a reward. It wasn't just four months of hard,
S2: it was four months of hard with little tiny moments
S2: of things that I could look forward to that helped
S2: keep me in the game. One of my favorite quotes
S2: is pay the price today so you can pay any
S2: price tomorrow. Pay the price today. What are you willing
S2: to sacrifice and give up on today in order for
S2: you to get to where you're trying to go so
S2: you can do whatever you want in the future? That
S2: brings us to the last step, number five, which is
S2: all about learning and practicing how to learn faster than 99%
S2: of people. One of the fastest ways to learn something new.
S2: Instead of going to college and paying some institution tens
S2: of thousands of dollars, use ChatGPT to put together a
S2: curriculum that is actually going to get you a tangible skill.
S2: ChatGPT can be a wonderful tool to get you to
S2: actually learn and then do, but it's only wonderful if
S2: you prompt it to do that. So as you're having
S2: it build you a six month curriculum to become a
S2: master at sales, or to become a master in editing
S2: videos or creating viral social content, tell it that yes,
S2: you want the data and the information in the most
S2: up to date places where you can go to become
S2: an expert, but then have it give you quizzes and
S2: practicals so you can demonstrate that you actually know how
S2: to do that data. I give it all sorts of
S2: additional requirements, such as how much time I actually have
S2: to dedicate to this, and the exact types of quiz
S2: questions that it should give me. Are they easy quiz questions?
S2: Are they advanced quiz questions? Do I want it to
S2: trip me up? I want ChatGPT to get me a
S2: final result, which is my ability to do something that
S2: right now I can't do. So the more I'm able
S2: to structure a prompt to help it build me a
S2: curriculum that over time I am working through, the more
S2: effective it's going to be at actually getting me the
S2: education that I need. And when you get the education
S2: that you need and the implementation that can change your life,
S2: everything changes. It is wild how fast you can start
S2: to pick up new subjects, new topics, things that honestly,
S2: you might have felt dumb about before. All because you
S2: were able to get somebody to actually understand what you
S2: do and don't know and fill that gap in the information.
S2: Now it's going to provide this list. You have to
S2: make the time, which is your 5 to 9. You
S2: can't just tell ChatGPT you create me a six month
S2: curriculum of me studying two hours a day and have
S2: it give you that information without you taking the action.
S2: But we live in a day and age where there's
S2: no reason for you not to get the data that
S2: you need in order to change your life. You have
S2: the data, but now you need to use the time
S2: that you have to actually learn and then implement it.
S2: You can't just read and study. The way you become
S2: confident is by creating competence, and you get competence through implementation.
S2: If you're serious about changing your life, then the next
S2: step is to build the right systems and habits to
S2: make success inevitable.
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