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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your home for

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Speaker 1: deer hunting news, stories and strategies, and now your host,

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Speaker 1: Mark Kenyon. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host Mark Kenyan in this episode number two hundred

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Speaker 1: and eighty and today in the show, Dan and I

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Speaker 1: are talking about the power of habits and other life

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Speaker 1: structuring processes that can help you better prepare for and

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Speaker 1: enjoy your next hunting season. All right, welcome to the

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Speaker 1: Wired to Hunt podcast, brought to you by Onyx and

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Speaker 1: today joined by my right hand man, Dan Johnson. And

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Speaker 1: I was gonna try to fit some kind of joke

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Speaker 1: in there when I when I thought I'm gonna say

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Speaker 1: I usually write up to some very basic notes, and

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Speaker 1: like those are the words just like came out like

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Speaker 1: right hand man, And I thought there's gotta be a

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Speaker 1: finger joke in there somewhere. It's not I'm not a

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Speaker 1: full right hand like that. I was thinking of my hand,

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Speaker 1: like I couldn't remember if your nub is on your

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Speaker 1: right hand to your left hand, which is it. It's

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Speaker 1: on the right hand, it is the right hand, Okay,

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Speaker 1: So so that would have played very well into my

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Speaker 1: wording there. Well, well, next time, buddy, next time. If

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Speaker 1: you're gonna be a stand up comedian, you've got to

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Speaker 1: practice your routine before you actually go on here with it.

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Speaker 1: I know. I think what we did here is this

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Speaker 1: more like a choose your own adventure. So everyone everyone

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Speaker 1: can now insert your own missing one finger joke for

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Speaker 1: Dan right now, think of whatever kind of thing you'd

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Speaker 1: like to throw out there at them, and say that

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Speaker 1: to yourself. Chuckle, and we're gonna pause for a moment

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Speaker 1: if you enjoy that laugh And continuing on the hunting

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Speaker 1: industries punching bag, Dan Johnson exactly. So I'm here with Dan,

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Speaker 1: and Um, what I want to talk about today is

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Speaker 1: a little different than usual. Um, but it's something that

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Speaker 1: I think is really interesting, and this is habits. I

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Speaker 1: want to talk about habits and systems and processes. And

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Speaker 1: what I mean by that is all the stuff that

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Speaker 1: or throughout a hunt. All these things that we kind

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Speaker 1: of subconsciously do, or these processes that we develop and

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Speaker 1: thinking about it. Um. I spend a lot of time

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Speaker 1: reading about or listening to podcasts or watching videos from

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Speaker 1: different folks that kind of, UM, like study excellence. I'm

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Speaker 1: really intrigued by just like studying people that are high

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Speaker 1: performers and like how they do it. So whether that

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Speaker 1: be CEOs or athletes or writers or scientists. UM, it's

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Speaker 1: really interesting to me to try to study these high

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Speaker 1: performers and then pull out, like, what are the things

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Speaker 1: that these people do that can be applied to to

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Speaker 1: my daily life or to what I do as a hunter. UM.

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Speaker 1: And I feel like that's kind of what we try

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Speaker 1: to all these really high performing hunters and try to

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Speaker 1: pull out little lessons from them, a little patterns. UM.

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Speaker 1: But I think there's things that we can take from

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Speaker 1: folks outside of the hunting world and pull that into

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Speaker 1: of on my own, I I do this and I

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Speaker 1: be applied to hunting. But we've never really talked about

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Speaker 1: it UM on the podcast, So I thought we maybe

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Speaker 1: today could do that kind of you know, I've been,

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Speaker 1: we could talk a little bit about what that means,

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Speaker 1: how that might apply to what we do as hunters, um,

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Speaker 1: and then walk through some of the things that you

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Speaker 1: and I do, Dan, talk through some of our habits,

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Speaker 1: talk through some of our processes, talk about different things

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Speaker 1: us in our hunting goals and whatnot. So that's the

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Speaker 1: high level plan. Um. Before that, though, I thought we

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Speaker 1: end since you are here Dan to get our our

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Speaker 1: I guess. Um. So, first off, we've got to give

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Speaker 1: a quick shout out to the moms. Right yesterday the

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Speaker 1: day before today when we're recording with Mother's Day. Uh,

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Speaker 1: big shout out to all the moms out there. Now,

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Speaker 1: and Dan, did you guys have a good Mother's Day? Yeah? Man,

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Speaker 1: one eagle in captivity, bald eagle in captivity there is

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Speaker 1: thirty four years old. I didn't even know bald eagles

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Speaker 1: and it was just a fun day. That's awesome. Sounds

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Speaker 1: and but yesterday was a little cool. Yeah. I was

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Speaker 1: wondering if you guys had the nice the nice weather, yester,

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Speaker 1: So other than that, man, we just did uh, me

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Speaker 1: your best side. It's just like looking for sheds, but

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Speaker 1: much smaller, you know what I mean. It's it's not

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Speaker 1: Um So, I did that whole Montana trip, found a

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Speaker 1: But apparently I've been talking about Montana too much or something.

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Speaker 1: and there's like that you know, that feeling where you

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Speaker 1: think about what we're striving for. Um, you know, it's

428
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Speaker 1: it's it's hard to know to get where you're going

429
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Speaker 1: if you don't know where that is. So this first

430
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Speaker 1: question from a guy named Jake, and he emailed me

431
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Speaker 1: and he said that he's enjoying kind of book recommendations

432
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Speaker 1: have been putting out there, and he said he just

433
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Speaker 1: recently read a book called Measure What Matters by John

434
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Speaker 1: dor And this John dor is a big Silicon Valley

435
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Speaker 1: um investor guy out there doing a bunch of early

436
00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:05,200
Speaker 1: stage investing and things like that. And so Jake goes

437
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:07,480
Speaker 1: on to right to me, he said, quote, I imagine

438
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Speaker 1: you know about the okay, our process. Since you worked

439
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Speaker 1: at Google, I'm interested to hear how or if you

440
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Speaker 1: implement the okay our process into hunting objectives. And if

441
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Speaker 1: you do, how do you recommend we do the same?

442
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Speaker 1: End quote. So there's a question. He brings up this

443
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Speaker 1: thing called okay rs and okay ours. Uh. This is

444
00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:31,159
Speaker 1: basically the goal setting and tracking system that we had

445
00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:33,040
Speaker 1: in place at my old day job at Google. It

446
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:37,040
Speaker 1: stands for objective and key results. Objectives and key results,

447
00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:38,679
Speaker 1: and so what we had to do back in the

448
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:42,080
Speaker 1: day job was every quarter, so every three months we

449
00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:45,040
Speaker 1: would have to put together a set of okay rs

450
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Speaker 1: for that quarter, and then we would have those as individuals,

451
00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,480
Speaker 1: and then our team would have larger okay rs as well,

452
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:55,040
Speaker 1: so that our manager put together his team okay ours,

453
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Speaker 1: and then our individual cares health would have to kind

454
00:23:57,840 --> 00:23:59,760
Speaker 1: of funnel up into those. But basically what they were

455
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Speaker 1: is is an objective. So like a high level goal. Um,

456
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:07,119
Speaker 1: maybe that's something like I want to, you know, drive

457
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,480
Speaker 1: ten percent growth in sales that on my old day job.

458
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:14,840
Speaker 1: Now it might be something like I want to, um,

459
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Speaker 1: you know, I want to have ten new tree stands

460
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:21,440
Speaker 1: hung this year, or set up ten new trees to

461
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:23,320
Speaker 1: hunt from this year or something like that, whatever might

462
00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:26,560
Speaker 1: be some high level objective and then the key results.

463
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:28,080
Speaker 1: And this is kind of the key with this whole

464
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Speaker 1: system at the job was that it's not okay just

465
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Speaker 1: to have goals. You need to have actual key results

466
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Speaker 1: that indicate success in those goals that can be measured. So, um,

467
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:41,719
Speaker 1: maybe my first example of the tree stand wasn't good.

468
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Speaker 1: Maybe I should just say I want to kill buck

469
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Speaker 1: this year is a high level objective, and then key

470
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Speaker 1: results would be like five things or three or four

471
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:53,960
Speaker 1: different things that you can do leading up to that goal,

472
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:56,760
Speaker 1: like things that would let that goal happen, and that

473
00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:58,960
Speaker 1: can be measured. So if the goals I want to

474
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Speaker 1: kill a deer, the key results might be I will

475
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Speaker 1: have hunted a minimum of ten times, um, I will have,

476
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:12,199
Speaker 1: you know, spent a minimum of ten hours scouting, I

477
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:16,040
Speaker 1: will have hung ten trail cameras, and I will have

478
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Speaker 1: spent you know, fifteen hours practicing with my bow. These

479
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:23,960
Speaker 1: are arbitrary, but the key thing being have a high

480
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Speaker 1: level goal and then a set of actual things that

481
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Speaker 1: you can do and make sure you're doing and check

482
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:32,359
Speaker 1: on um that would lead to the success of that goal,

483
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:34,879
Speaker 1: and then every three months we would have to go

484
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Speaker 1: back and look at those and say, Okay, how have

485
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Speaker 1: I done as far as you know, knocking out those goals?

486
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:43,119
Speaker 1: How HAVEING made progress on these these things that I

487
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Speaker 1: said I was measuring and taking action on UM. So

488
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Speaker 1: we should do that every three months and at the

489
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Speaker 1: end of the year look back at the whole thing.

490
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Speaker 1: And the gist of this was that, and the reason

491
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Speaker 1: why we did it was that, you know, having these high,

492
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Speaker 1: high lofty goals are great, but most people never all

493
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Speaker 1: through on them. Most people don't really understand the small

494
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 1: steps needed to achieve big things. Most people aren't tracking

495
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:07,639
Speaker 1: what's happening, and then they get to the end of

496
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 1: the year, maybe like someone sets a New Year's resolution

497
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:12,680
Speaker 1: and then a month then you kind of fizzle out

498
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:14,639
Speaker 1: and you forget about until next new year. So with

499
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 1: these okay rs, the thing is, Okay, we have the

500
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Speaker 1: high level goal, we have the measurable, actional, actionable steps

501
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:23,280
Speaker 1: will lead to it, and then we check often and

502
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:26,200
Speaker 1: we get accountability on it. So feedback on it said okay,

503
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:29,200
Speaker 1: how are we doing? Someone else reviews it with us UM,

504
00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:32,960
Speaker 1: and that led to people actually taking progress towards the goal,

505
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Speaker 1: because I think it's a baby steps. If you do

506
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Speaker 1: all these baby steps leading to it, you actually get

507
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Speaker 1: stuff done. Yeah, so that's what I used to do. UM.

508
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Speaker 1: Do I use that still today? Not to the degree

509
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Speaker 1: that we used to do it, um in my old

510
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:51,760
Speaker 1: day job, but I certainly take some of these things

511
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Speaker 1: into account in my daily life. And UM, I think

512
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Speaker 1: this would be something we should we should talk about, Danny.

513
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Speaker 1: How do we set our goals? How do we track

514
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Speaker 1: our goals? How do we make sure making movement on them? Um?

515
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 1: You and meet each year, usually in August, we do

516
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 1: a podcast where we talk about our goals for each year, UM,

517
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 1: which I've always enjoyed and that's like a fun, helpful thing. UM.

518
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 1: But what I haven't done a good enough job of

519
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:18,919
Speaker 1: is really, um going beyond that? And I think I

520
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 1: probably should after you know, kind of rethinking through the

521
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 1: old okay, our process and and even looking at how

522
00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 1: some other people have been doing stuff like this, there

523
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 1: probably is something to be said about trying to make

524
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 1: yourself more accountable about all the little steps that lead

525
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 1: to the big goals. So, you know, if I was

526
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:38,239
Speaker 1: better at this, and I should be better at this.

527
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Speaker 1: If my goal of this year is to kill a

528
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Speaker 1: four and a half year old buck in Michigan, let's

529
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 1: say one of my goals. Um, it would be really

530
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 1: smart for me to line out four things I could

531
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Speaker 1: do in the next you know, six months that would

532
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Speaker 1: help make that happen. In my head, I know some

533
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,160
Speaker 1: of those things, UM, but it would be a really

534
00:27:56,200 --> 00:28:01,480
Speaker 1: smart system to put into place, to start, um, making

535
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 1: myself a little bit more accountable to the steps along

536
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 1: the way. UM. I mean so right now as far

537
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Speaker 1: as what I do, we have our our our yearly conversation.

538
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 1: You and me do our goals. Another thing that I

539
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 1: do the last handful of years is in the spring,

540
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,400
Speaker 1: usually well late winter, like February March, I usually put

541
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Speaker 1: together a deer hunting to do list. So every different

542
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 1: trip I'm gonna go on, or every main hunt or

543
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,159
Speaker 1: farm i'm gonna hunt or whatever, I'll put together to

544
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 1: do list of everything that's got to get done before

545
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 1: the season starts. I've got that already going now for

546
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,199
Speaker 1: this year, so I keep track of at least the

547
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,479
Speaker 1: tasks that I need to do. UM. And that's been

548
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 1: a helpful adjustment that I've kind of added to my

549
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 1: repertoire the last couple three years, probably, um, but I

550
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 1: do think I could probably take it to the next level.

551
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 1: Do you how do you track this stuff? Dan? So?

552
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 1: I am a list maker, right, and UM, what I

553
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 1: mean by that is like, not necessarily on the hunting things,

554
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 1: but on the things I need to do before a

555
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 1: certain date. Excuse me. So I'd say, for example, I

556
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 1: have a long term to do list or a list

557
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 1: and a short term list. And so like the first

558
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 1: thing that pops into my head, I'm looking at this

559
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 1: white board that I have in my office right now,

560
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 1: and it's just a breakdown of everything I need to

561
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 1: do for the Sportsman's Nation. Right, I need to you know,

562
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:26,440
Speaker 1: accomplish these goals by this date. They are not necessarily goals,

563
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 1: They're just things I have to do before this These

564
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 1: dates they have a date um with them. So it's

565
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 1: just like I need to do, you know, submit this

566
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 1: RSS feed by this date. I need to have this

567
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 1: profile set up by this date. I need to do

568
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:44,800
Speaker 1: all these things by this date. And if I don't,

569
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Speaker 1: if I see that date creeping up on me, I

570
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 1: need to, you know, work harder and faster on that. Right.

571
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 1: It's basically just the list and it's in order of importance.

572
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 1: I think that's the really important thing to the prioritization.

573
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: That's huge is importance and then dates to putting that

574
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 1: kind of UM restriction on it almost forces you to

575
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Speaker 1: take action. And I think that what we've done a

576
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 1: little bit, UM my wife and I his we started

577
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:23,760
Speaker 1: doing like every New Year's Eve, we have this, like

578
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 1: the third year we've done this. Now we sit down

579
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 1: and we make a set of goals for the year.

580
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 1: UM Like, okay, there's like personal goals, work related goals,

581
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 1: family related goals. UM. So we go and we set

582
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 1: these goals out. But the first year or two we

583
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,160
Speaker 1: would would make these goals on New Year's Eve and

584
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Speaker 1: then we didn't check back in on it until the

585
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Speaker 1: next New Year's Eve, and we kind of failed on

586
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff. But it was good. We thought

587
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:48,320
Speaker 1: was a good helpful thing and encourage a lot of

588
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:50,800
Speaker 1: good conversation. But then this past year what we did

589
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:53,840
Speaker 1: is we started checking in UM kind of doing what

590
00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 1: he used to do and work but slightly less formalized.

591
00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 1: But we started checking in midway through the year, and

592
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 1: then we start doing just said, we started putting dates

593
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 1: on certain things. We started ranking certain things. Um, because

594
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 1: stuff doesn't get done. Life just gets in the way

595
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 1: unless you find ways to to lock stuff in. And

596
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 1: so same thing with like a hunting to do list.

597
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 1: Like every year, I can't tell you I've gotten better,

598
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 1: but every single year it gets to be late August

599
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 1: or middle of August. I'm like, oh my gosh, I

600
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 1: have so many things I gotta get done still before

601
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 1: you know, of September, when I try to stay out

602
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 1: of the woods completely. Um. And so every year I've

603
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 1: tried to get better utilizing these list systems and and

604
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,600
Speaker 1: now starting to put dates on things. But now now

605
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 1: much better than used to be. And that I've got

606
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 1: these lists put together here in the early spring, and

607
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 1: now I'm saying, Okay, this project and this project I

608
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: gotta get done before the end of May. This thing

609
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 1: I get done before the end of June. And if

610
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 1: you don't do that, it's just there's always some other

611
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:51,320
Speaker 1: thing that needs to be done more in your head.

612
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 1: Right now, I gotta go pick up the kids, I

613
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 1: gotta take out the trash, I gotta mode the lawn,

614
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 1: I gotta do this, gotta do that. Um. It's only

615
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 1: when at least for me, the only way I can

616
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 1: get things done well ahead of time without procrastinating on

617
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 1: is if I put a date on it and I

618
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:08,239
Speaker 1: forced it to happen, Like, Okay, I know this thing

619
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 1: has to happen. I need to make time for it

620
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 1: because the time isn't just gonna magically arrive, like you

621
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:18,120
Speaker 1: have to carve it out somehow thought like proactively doing it. Um.

622
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: But I'm I struggle with that, like I'm a procrastinator

623
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 1: unless I force myself to do stuff like this. Um

624
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 1: And I feel like this is the stuff like doing

625
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: like getting these Earth offseason projects done, getting this gutting done,

626
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 1: getting all the work done. That is usually what's one

627
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 1: of the main separators from the guy that gets out

628
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: there and has a good time but doesn't fill his tag,

629
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 1: whereas the guy or a girl that gets out there

630
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 1: and does fill fill the tag. Yum, it's it's follow through.

631
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 1: I think that's I think that's key. So so yeah,

632
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 1: I'm I'm definitely big on those lists. And I think

633
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: that I'm trying to trying to find a way to

634
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 1: to to get more accountable. And that's an another thing

635
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 1: with a lot of these habits and a lot of

636
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 1: these systems stuff is finding a way to get accountability

637
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: around it. You know. It's almost like I feel like

638
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 1: with you, like having someone like you that I can

639
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 1: talk to you every year about this. There's a certain

640
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 1: level like an accountability partnership here, Like you can call

641
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:18,959
Speaker 1: me out if I'm not doing something I was gonna do.

642
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 1: I can call you out if you're not doing something

643
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 1: you're not doing. Um, But I feel like we all,

644
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: at least I benefit from that. We could probably all

645
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 1: benefit from having people like that that keep track of

646
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 1: stuff and call us out and we're not taking action,

647
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, someone to throw the bullshit card every

648
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 1: once in a while. Yeah, It's almost like I imagine

649
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 1: that you could. I think this is a simple thing

650
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 1: that everyone could do that would probably help is if

651
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 1: you know, right now you put together this kind of

652
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 1: list for yourself. Okay, here's a couple of high level

653
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 1: goals I have for my hunting season. Here are the

654
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 1: two or three or four steps I need to take

655
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:01,000
Speaker 1: to achieve that goal. And and then do this with

656
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 1: a friend, like get one of your other hunting buddies

657
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 1: to do the same thing. Both of you guys put

658
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 1: together lists and like share them with each other and

659
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 1: say here's my list, and everybody gives his list to you,

660
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 1: and then you just make a deal and say, all right,

661
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:16,239
Speaker 1: we're gonna hold each other to this and maybe plan

662
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 1: on like a check in, you know, halfway from now

663
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 1: to the day of hunting season. Maybe you guys just

664
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:23,359
Speaker 1: need to plan. All right, Hey, on this day, we're

665
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: gonna go get a beer and we're gonna check on

666
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:29,200
Speaker 1: our progress. Um, make sure we're taking action on some

667
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:31,240
Speaker 1: of this stuff. Make sure we're making progress and this stuff.

668
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 1: And I think I think that's like a pretty simple

669
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 1: way to um to notice some real improvements just by

670
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: doing the stuff you know you have to do. I

671
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:42,359
Speaker 1: feel like that's such a thing. Like we know a

672
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,360
Speaker 1: lot of the stuff we should be doing to have success.

673
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 1: It's just do we follow through on all of it? Yeah,

674
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 1: and this seems to be a good way to it.

675
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:54,319
Speaker 1: I'll be the first one to say, yes, I have

676
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 1: these lists, uh, and yes I have all this stuff.

677
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 1: But just like you, I'm not gonna say I'm not

678
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 1: necessarily a procrastinator. But one thing I'm not good at

679
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 1: is when so like I like to I like to

680
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 1: have things set in place, but I am not necessarily

681
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 1: good at adjusting when chaos enters my life or when

682
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,799
Speaker 1: a wrench gets thrown into the spokes per se. Right,

683
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 1: So let's say I have you know, I have this list,

684
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 1: and at the end of the list today I want

685
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 1: to shoot my bow. But if something happens where my

686
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 1: wife needs to hop on a meeting at work, then

687
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 1: I don't get the works my work done because I'm

688
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 1: watching a kid, and then everything gets pushed back, and

689
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:48,400
Speaker 1: then shooting my bow or maybe working out or uh

690
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 1: maybe you know, doing some extra stuff on the business

691
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 1: side of things takes a back seat. So all that

692
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:59,720
Speaker 1: just means that I am up an hour, two hours

693
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 1: later or in a day, you know, trying to get

694
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 1: all this done, and then I get I get to

695
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 1: the point where I'm just like, screw it, I'll do

696
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 1: it tomorrow or screw it, I'll do it, which is

697
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:16,240
Speaker 1: kind of like procrastinating, but it's not by my own choice,

698
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 1: if that makes sense. Yeah, And I totally relate to that. Um,

699
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:25,880
Speaker 1: that's that's something I definitely deal with. And I I

700
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 1: wonder if that goes back to kind of what we

701
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 1: were talking about, like the prioritization thing and it's like

702
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:35,359
Speaker 1: identifying certain things that are easy to get bumped. Like,

703
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 1: for example, I do this all the time. I'm I'm

704
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 1: I'm struggling with a couple of things like this, Like

705
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:44,839
Speaker 1: right now, UM, I have fallen off the bandwagon when

706
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 1: it comes to like regular running and cardio workout. UM,

707
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:50,800
Speaker 1: usually pretty good about it. But I've just fallen off bandwagon,

708
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 1: have let bad habits seat back in. And it's one

709
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:56,319
Speaker 1: of those things that I tell myself already I get

710
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 1: out there and do I gotta get back out there

711
00:36:57,640 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 1: and do it. But it's always just like what you

712
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 1: just said. Something comes up and I was gonna do

713
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 1: in the afternoon, and then I work out crazy. Now

714
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: it's already five thirty and I gotta be helping with dinner,

715
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:06,799
Speaker 1: and I gotta do this, and I gotta do this,

716
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 1: and I gotta do that. And if I were to

717
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,600
Speaker 1: take my own advice, which is what I should be doing,

718
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:15,239
Speaker 1: I should be doing what I'm talking about here. I

719
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: should probably find a way to incorporate if I think

720
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 1: that's so important for myself, which I do think so

721
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 1: I need to man up and build a better habit

722
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:29,960
Speaker 1: around it that forces it to happen. Before things can interfere. Right,

723
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:32,239
Speaker 1: So it's like what I need to do and what

724
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:35,479
Speaker 1: I what I used to do successfully and fell off,

725
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 1: was that I would wake up early in the morning.

726
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 1: The first thing I would do would be go for

727
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:41,319
Speaker 1: a run before anything else can get in the way. Right,

728
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 1: If I get it done right away, no other obstacles

729
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:45,920
Speaker 1: could get in my way. On that, and that that

730
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 1: whole morning routine thing, it's a good segue for something

731
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:52,840
Speaker 1: I was going to mention. Um. One of the things

732
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:55,879
Speaker 1: I've tried really hard struggled with but I've gotten much

733
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 1: better at it is developing a morning routine. And this

734
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:00,880
Speaker 1: is another one of those things when I when you

735
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 1: look at all these high high achievers and high performers,

736
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:09,839
Speaker 1: another big consistent UM pattern with these people is that

737
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 1: they start their mornings and like a really planned, thoughtful way,

738
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 1: like a morning routine is. Like if you go out

739
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 1: there and like google morning routine, there's tons and tons

740
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: and tons of stuff written about this, Like there's been

741
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 1: a lot of evidence that shows that the people that

742
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 1: have a certain way they start their days and don't

743
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 1: just don't wake up at a random time and kind

744
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 1: of fiddle fattle around, but actually have a plan of

745
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:31,400
Speaker 1: getting their day start off the right way, do the

746
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 1: same things, have good habits around it, like for for

747
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 1: number a number of different reasons. It really leads to

748
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 1: positive change, good stuff. So I've been trying to develop

749
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 1: that myself. Like my tendency is I like to stay

750
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 1: up late, and I would like to sleep in late.

751
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:46,800
Speaker 1: If it was like if it was just my body

752
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 1: doing what my body would do, I can sleep in

753
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:51,319
Speaker 1: late and I just do that. But I don't want

754
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:52,880
Speaker 1: to do that, like I want to be up early

755
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 1: and getting stuff done. So I've had like a really

756
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 1: hard time over the last ten years to do that

757
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: because I used to be good back in the day job,

758
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:02,439
Speaker 1: and then I quit my day job and started working

759
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 1: for myself. Then I would just like sleep till I

760
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:06,399
Speaker 1: wanted to sleep. I was like, hey, this is great,

761
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:07,919
Speaker 1: I'll wake up when I want to wake up and

762
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 1: enjoy the day in that kind of way. Um, but

763
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:12,759
Speaker 1: it just found that your day got off to a

764
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 1: slowish start. And and I've been in the last five

765
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:20,319
Speaker 1: years or so changing that in waking up early for me,

766
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:22,919
Speaker 1: except for if it's like for hunting season or going

767
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 1: on a fishing trip or some kind of thing like

768
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:26,840
Speaker 1: that where there's like, I don't know that reward, I

769
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:28,880
Speaker 1: can get up and go for that, but getting up

770
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 1: for just a daily day, it's a regular work day. Man,

771
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a chronic hitting the snooze or kind of guy. Yeam.

772
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 1: So what I started doing was actually implementing something that

773
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 1: that kind of falls right into this stuff. If you're

774
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 1: trying to change the habit. One of the things I've

775
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 1: read a lot about one of the things that I've

776
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 1: tried to incorporate. So if you're trying to change the habit,

777
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:55,759
Speaker 1: maybe it's to try to start running every day or

778
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:59,360
Speaker 1: waking up early every day. Is going for incremental changing.

779
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 1: It's really hard hard to go from doing something to

780
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:04,719
Speaker 1: doing like a completely different, dramatic thing like so to

781
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:07,279
Speaker 1: go from waking up at seven in the morning to

782
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: wake up at four in the morning would be really

783
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 1: hard to do. Um And if you can't do it

784
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:13,400
Speaker 1: that one time, it just becomes harder and harder to

785
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 1: repeat it. So the theory is that if you can

786
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 1: shoot for small goals at first, shoot for something that's

787
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 1: achievable first, and achieve it. So what I did is

788
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 1: I said, Okay, my body usually wakes up at seven,

789
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 1: but I want to be waking up earlier. So I'm

790
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:31,719
Speaker 1: just gonna try to wake up at six thirty and

791
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 1: do that and try to try to form like a

792
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:37,240
Speaker 1: consistency there. And so I started waking up at six thirties,

793
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:39,720
Speaker 1: so it's only half an hour earlier. It's not that different.

794
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 1: My body wasn't that messed up. I could achieve it,

795
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:44,560
Speaker 1: and every time I did it, I did it day

796
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 1: after day after day. It became a little bit easier.

797
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:48,560
Speaker 1: And you also get a little bit of a reward,

798
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:50,719
Speaker 1: right like you did the thing you said you're gonna do.

799
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:54,280
Speaker 1: That feels good. Um. So this is theory incremental change,

800
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:56,920
Speaker 1: and then the theory of small wins. This is the

801
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: other things. If you're trying to make a big change,

802
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,480
Speaker 1: start with these small little changes that you can actually

803
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:04,000
Speaker 1: achieve and get done, because that builds momentum kind of

804
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 1: a snowball, and then you find a small wind, so

805
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:10,120
Speaker 1: small reward. Uh. So that's kind of what I did there.

806
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:13,800
Speaker 1: I started with six thirty that felt good, rewarded myself.

807
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: I got the outcomes I was wanting, and then I

808
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 1: would slow him push it. So now now I wake

809
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:19,879
Speaker 1: up at six am. Every day, I have more time

810
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 1: to get the stuff done I want to get done,

811
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:23,880
Speaker 1: feeling good about it, and it's much easier to do

812
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 1: all these other things I want to do now that

813
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 1: that What I need to get back to is I

814
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 1: used to wake up around five thirty, go for the run,

815
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:32,439
Speaker 1: get shower, and start working. Then a bunch of crazy

816
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 1: stuff with work just made it harder. And then have

817
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 1: a baby made it harder for me to get all

818
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:39,279
Speaker 1: that stuff done. But now I'm trying to. Now I'm

819
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:41,240
Speaker 1: trying to get back into it. Well. What So basically

820
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 1: my morning routine is I get up at six, have

821
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:46,799
Speaker 1: a couple of water, organize my day. I kind of

822
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:50,319
Speaker 1: set my to do list for the day. Um, drink

823
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:52,960
Speaker 1: a cup of coffee, and then get into my hardest work.

824
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:55,400
Speaker 1: Um right at the gate is what I do on

825
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:58,359
Speaker 1: like a regular work day. Um, I'm curious what your

826
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 1: regular day morning routine is like day, But then we

827
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 1: should talk to what our hunting morning routine looks like.

828
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 1: I think that's one of these things that could apply

829
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:10,240
Speaker 1: to hunting that I think would be interesting to look at. Yeah,

830
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 1: so I'll be completely honest my my hunting routine and

831
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 1: my morning routine at home are completely different, completely different

832
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:26,320
Speaker 1: when and I'm gonna start with the hunting first because

833
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 1: I'm more proud of it like that. Well, and the

834
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:32,320
Speaker 1: reason I say that is because I get out of

835
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: the tree stand, let's say, and I'm just gonna jump

836
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 1: right into the full blown rut where you're hunting morning

837
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:40,399
Speaker 1: and you're hunting, you know, most of the day, right

838
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:43,839
Speaker 1: and you're hunting evening. So I get home after an

839
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 1: evening hunt, I organized all my gear, charge my osonics batteries, whatever,

840
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:53,880
Speaker 1: you know, lay put my uh, set my boots by

841
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:56,799
Speaker 1: the chair, have my socks ready to go, have my

842
00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:00,920
Speaker 1: pants ready to go, have my bow um in the truck.

843
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:02,399
Speaker 1: So all I have to do is take it out

844
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 1: like all these things. It's just I mean, it's it's

845
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:08,399
Speaker 1: literally I plan my day in a straight line. Wake up,

846
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 1: walk out to the you know, shower, walk out to

847
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:15,719
Speaker 1: the garage, uh, get dressed, Hop in the car, drive

848
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:18,319
Speaker 1: to the property, pick out what I need to pick

849
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 1: out of the truck, turn on, turn on my head lamp,

850
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:23,799
Speaker 1: go to the tree stand. Like that. It's it's that

851
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 1: organized where there's hardly any problems, right, I get home

852
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 1: from the morning hunt, I do the same thing I

853
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 1: set up. I set everything up to where I know

854
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:37,440
Speaker 1: it's almost there's a lean manufacturing term called five s

855
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:42,319
Speaker 1: where you you put everything in a specific spot so

856
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 1: you know where it's at, you know, you know that

857
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 1: it's going to be there the next day, and there's

858
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:51,000
Speaker 1: no issues. Right, It's just it's clean, it's smooth, like,

859
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:55,360
Speaker 1: there's no there's no issues now at home, Like, I

860
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 1: got a son who still gets up, uh throughout the

861
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:00,279
Speaker 1: middle of the night. Right, So last night he got

862
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:04,399
Speaker 1: up twice, once at once at two and once at four,

863
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 1: and he cries and he cries and he cries and

864
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 1: he cries. Right, we try to cry out. Method doesn't work.

865
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 1: So if we don't give him a bottle, or we

866
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:15,600
Speaker 1: don't put him in our bed or whatever, then that

867
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 1: just means I'm up right. So there's no like in

868
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 1: my life now. I gotta sleep when I can sleep right,

869
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 1: because I'm waking up multiple times a night because whether

870
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 1: I'm the one going and getting him or I'm the

871
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:32,879
Speaker 1: one uh like my wife goes and kids, I'm still

872
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:35,879
Speaker 1: waking up right. So then some mornings I can wake

873
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 1: up at five thirty when the kid wakes up or

874
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 1: sometimes like today, I can sleep until six something and

875
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 1: and there's no like, there's no organization, there's no straight line.

876
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: It's just like I got we wake up, I got

877
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:55,239
Speaker 1: kids saying hey, I want breakfast, I want this, I

878
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:57,600
Speaker 1: want this, I want this, I want that. There's no routine,

879
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 1: it's just complete and utter asks every morning. And even

880
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:05,960
Speaker 1: when I try to get things organized, it just it

881
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 1: seems like it quickly falls out of that line, right,

882
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 1: just because of the chaots, the chaotic state that the

883
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:20,160
Speaker 1: household is in every single day. Yeah, that's gotta be challenging. Yeah. Yeah,

884
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 1: So I know this is kind of maybe a little

885
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:26,799
Speaker 1: bit off off the topic, but I think it's very

886
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 1: important because for me, and I think for you, you

887
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 1: are very passionate about hunting and the outdoors. I won't

888
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 1: say the outdoors because I know your wife is pretty

889
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 1: outdoorsy too, but you as far as hunting, right, and

890
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:46,160
Speaker 1: and me as far as hunting, and my wife she

891
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:49,400
Speaker 1: likes the outdoor like she likes hunting, but it's not

892
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 1: her passion, right. So how have you addressed this issue

893
00:45:56,680 --> 00:46:00,440
Speaker 1: to where yes, you want everything in your hunting world

894
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:04,600
Speaker 1: to be organized, but maybe somebody else like your wife

895
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:08,879
Speaker 1: doesn't really care about that kind of thing. Yeah, yeah,

896
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 1: that's an interesting point. And and where I get into trouble.

897
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:15,880
Speaker 1: And this just came up the other day. There was

898
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:17,960
Speaker 1: something there was a project in the house at the

899
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:19,800
Speaker 1: house that I was working on. I did it, I

900
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:22,279
Speaker 1: thought I did, just to find job with it. My

901
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:24,719
Speaker 1: wife felt like I did a half ass job with it.

902
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 1: And she was really frustrated with it because she's like,

903
00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:32,040
Speaker 1: how come there's all these things around the house that

904
00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:34,120
Speaker 1: need to get done and you just kind of schmuck

905
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:36,400
Speaker 1: it together. But then when it comes to hunting, you

906
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:38,520
Speaker 1: don't cut any corners. You talk about how important the

907
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 1: details are. You're working so hard this stuff, so why

908
00:46:41,239 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 1: are you prioritizing that stuff and doing quality work? And

909
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 1: then you do a halfass job here at home? And

910
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:48,319
Speaker 1: that was that was a hard burn. That was a

911
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:51,719
Speaker 1: hard burn. And and I don't try to do that,

912
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:54,759
Speaker 1: like I'm not purposefully trying to do a half ass

913
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:59,400
Speaker 1: job staying in the deck or something like that. But um,

914
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:02,879
Speaker 1: but maybe that maybe she's right. Maybe there's certain things

915
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 1: like stuff that I don't enjoy as much, or stuff

916
00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:06,520
Speaker 1: that I just has to get done because it has

917
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:10,480
Speaker 1: to get done. Um, you know, maybe I'm guilty of that.

918
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:12,279
Speaker 1: She might have made a good point, and I don't

919
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:14,480
Speaker 1: know how to deal with that. It's like to your

920
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:19,400
Speaker 1: earlier point, It's like almost the biggest thing I've been

921
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 1: trying to do is understanding what really matters to my

922
00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:31,320
Speaker 1: wife as far as um, what is she prioritize and

923
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 1: so for her, Like it's like action and service is

924
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:38,959
Speaker 1: really important to her. So like it's not how much

925
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:40,560
Speaker 1: I tell her I love her, or how nice I

926
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:42,880
Speaker 1: am to her, or how while I treat her or

927
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 1: anything like that. That's great, but the stuff that really

928
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: fills her up is like acts of service, So actually

929
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:52,960
Speaker 1: doing things to help her, doing things around the house, Um,

930
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:55,319
Speaker 1: all that stuff is the stuff that really shows her

931
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:58,399
Speaker 1: that I care. And so I struggle with that because

932
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:00,759
Speaker 1: I used to be much more like I've verbalized stuff,

933
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:03,040
Speaker 1: but I'm not as good as like doing all those

934
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 1: kinds of things. She's much more of like the taking

935
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 1: care of people. And I guess maybe I get a

936
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 1: little bit tunnel vision and I get focused on something

937
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:11,880
Speaker 1: that I'm working on, and then I get the blinders

938
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:13,560
Speaker 1: and I don't do is get at helping other folks.

939
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:15,440
Speaker 1: So that's been a struggle for me and been trying

940
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:19,720
Speaker 1: to recently like just prioritize it, like figure I actually

941
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:23,120
Speaker 1: have this kind of ties and everything. I've tried to

942
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 1: place queues within my life to make sure I think

943
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:27,879
Speaker 1: about these other things. So I've got post it note

944
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:30,160
Speaker 1: right next to my computer. So that's the place where

945
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:32,279
Speaker 1: I'm usually so focused on work, and that's where I

946
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:34,320
Speaker 1: get into trouble because I get in here and I'm

947
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:37,200
Speaker 1: working on some project and I'm obsessing over work. Now

948
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 1: I've got a queue right next to me that I

949
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:41,040
Speaker 1: see every day that reminds me, says, what have you

950
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:44,399
Speaker 1: done around the house today, Like making sure that because

951
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:46,720
Speaker 1: I'm so passionate about the outdoors and my outdoor projects

952
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:48,919
Speaker 1: there I'm spending all this time on that, I need

953
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:50,799
Speaker 1: to give back just as much though to this other

954
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 1: part of my life that is more important. But sometimes

955
00:48:54,239 --> 00:48:57,800
Speaker 1: I get sidetracked by the thing I'm passionate about outside

956
00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:00,880
Speaker 1: of it. Um. So I think I've try to recognize

957
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:03,040
Speaker 1: that there's some balance, trying to figure out ways to

958
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 1: remind myself to you know, fix make sure I don't

959
00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:08,440
Speaker 1: get off track. And if I'm doing that, if I'm

960
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 1: showing my Karen and and and love for my family

961
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:16,879
Speaker 1: through my action. That helps my wife understand why I'm

962
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:20,239
Speaker 1: so helps my wife be okay with the amount of

963
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 1: time and passion I put into the other stuff, as

964
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:24,799
Speaker 1: long as I'm keeping the scales balanced with the thing

965
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 1: that matters to her most. So the thing that matters

966
00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:29,359
Speaker 1: for most is that doing my share here at the house,

967
00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:32,080
Speaker 1: doing things like that. Um you know, if I brought

968
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:34,120
Speaker 1: her flowers every time I got back from a hunting trip,

969
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 1: she wouldn't give a shit about that. That wouldn't help.

970
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:39,680
Speaker 1: But if I were to spend if I would take

971
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:41,480
Speaker 1: a weekend out of hunting season and do a bunch

972
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:43,440
Speaker 1: of stuff around the house or put together something that

973
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:47,480
Speaker 1: she really wanted to get done, that's the kind of thing. Um. So,

974
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:49,719
Speaker 1: I don't know if that answers your question, but like

975
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 1: that's how I'm trying to tackle that. What about you?

976
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:56,839
Speaker 1: Just like it's kind of the same, right, But it's

977
00:49:56,880 --> 00:50:00,200
Speaker 1: just our lives are so busy right and now at

978
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:04,560
Speaker 1: it's crazy because at when I was had my cubicle job,

979
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:08,160
Speaker 1: I had a routine. I was up, I was up

980
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:11,319
Speaker 1: in the morning, I did this little thing, you know,

981
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:13,759
Speaker 1: I did that. I went to work, I worked out

982
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:17,280
Speaker 1: over my lunch break, I you know, went back to work,

983
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 1: I came home. I had a schedule every day for

984
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:23,880
Speaker 1: a podcast until X time, and then after that it

985
00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 1: was family time all after that, like complete routine. Now

986
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:30,680
Speaker 1: since I've had to take the kids out of daycare,

987
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:33,640
Speaker 1: right because you know, we're not making the same money

988
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:36,440
Speaker 1: that we're making anymore. I took the kids out of daycare,

989
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:41,480
Speaker 1: and yes, we're saving money, but now there's you know,

990
00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:45,080
Speaker 1: sixteen hours a week. If I'm not gonna say sixteen

991
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:47,680
Speaker 1: hours because that's just the amount of time that the

992
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:50,000
Speaker 1: kids were at daycare, sixteen to twenty hours a week

993
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:54,960
Speaker 1: that I no longer have to work on things. So

994
00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 1: now that has to be redistributed throughout three other days

995
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:00,840
Speaker 1: for other days. Five other days of the week, Sundays

996
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:04,319
Speaker 1: and Saturdays are typically for the family, right, And I

997
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:06,520
Speaker 1: can't just like, hey, I got this work to do.

998
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:09,520
Speaker 1: Go that's kind of that kind of frustrates my wife, right,

999
00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:11,719
Speaker 1: whether I need to shoot my bow or you need

1000
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:14,360
Speaker 1: to work out right to get ready for you know,

1001
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 1: the Colorado trip, and it just I don't know, it's

1002
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:23,680
Speaker 1: I need to stop this snowball from getting bigger and

1003
00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:29,680
Speaker 1: bigger and bigger and bigger, and that's very hard to do. Yeah, yeah,

1004
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:34,040
Speaker 1: I'm right there with it. I think this is a

1005
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:38,680
Speaker 1: good this a good opportunity to talk about. Then, uh,

1006
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:41,920
Speaker 1: what I've been researching and understanding about how to create

1007
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:44,680
Speaker 1: or change a habit. So let's talk about your situation

1008
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:47,400
Speaker 1: right there. You got a ship ton of stuff going on,

1009
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 1: really busy, lots of chaos. Um, but you want to

1010
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:57,040
Speaker 1: do something like um incorporated shooting your bow habit? Like, right,

1011
00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:58,680
Speaker 1: would you say you wish you had a better habit

1012
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:02,719
Speaker 1: of shooting your bow? Okay, So from the reading I've done,

1013
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:05,680
Speaker 1: there's a couple of things that they're saying that can

1014
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:08,239
Speaker 1: help you create this kind of habit or or change

1015
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:11,480
Speaker 1: a bad habit. So number one, it's just defining what

1016
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:14,200
Speaker 1: behavior is you want changed. So you want to, you know,

1017
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:17,120
Speaker 1: start shooting your bowl more consistently. You want to develop

1018
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:18,839
Speaker 1: a habit or on shooting your bow and somehow find

1019
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:21,160
Speaker 1: a way to fit that into the chaos. So the

1020
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:23,400
Speaker 1: number one thing would do is is define it, and

1021
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:25,920
Speaker 1: then you've got to figure out what's the trigger. So

1022
00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:28,520
Speaker 1: habits come in. There's there's three steps in a habit.

1023
00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:31,720
Speaker 1: If like when people actually break this down for research

1024
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:33,480
Speaker 1: and stuff, but they found is that there's it's a

1025
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:36,440
Speaker 1: three part process. So there's the first part, which is

1026
00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 1: called the trigger or the queue. This is the thing

1027
00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:42,640
Speaker 1: that like kicks your mind into autopilot. And what it's

1028
00:52:42,719 --> 00:52:45,239
Speaker 1: interestingly people have done these studies where they put up

1029
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:50,320
Speaker 1: um receptors on different people's brains and actually watch how

1030
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:53,440
Speaker 1: brain waves change as people go throughout their daily lives,

1031
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:58,600
Speaker 1: and researchers specifically trying to study habits see that there

1032
00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:02,440
Speaker 1: is the spike and brain activity once a trigger happens.

1033
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:07,160
Speaker 1: So we'll say, um, maybe a hypothetical snare might be

1034
00:53:07,239 --> 00:53:09,880
Speaker 1: someone who has a habit of drinking that pepsi on

1035
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:12,440
Speaker 1: their way to work. So the trigger is that they

1036
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:14,279
Speaker 1: are about to walk out to the car and they

1037
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:15,919
Speaker 1: know that before they get to the car they always

1038
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:18,800
Speaker 1: grab pepsi. So there's this trigger, and then there's the reward.

1039
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:22,000
Speaker 1: The reward is that first wig of pepsi, that bubble

1040
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:24,600
Speaker 1: ly carbonation and the sugar hit and all that great stuff.

1041
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:27,960
Speaker 1: That's the reward. So there's the trigger, there's the behavior

1042
00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:31,040
Speaker 1: or the routine, and then there's the reward. So the

1043
00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:33,919
Speaker 1: key to changing habit number one what these folks says,

1044
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:36,080
Speaker 1: you need to identify what those things are if you

1045
00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:38,439
Speaker 1: have a bad habit, or you need to create those

1046
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:41,439
Speaker 1: things if you're trying to create a habit. So we'll say,

1047
00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:44,680
Speaker 1: in your case, you want to shoot your more often

1048
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:47,200
Speaker 1: the trigger. There's got to be something that's gonna trigger

1049
00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:49,359
Speaker 1: you to remember when you need to do it, Like,

1050
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:52,000
Speaker 1: developing that system is the way to do this. So

1051
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:54,640
Speaker 1: for me, I've struggled with the same thing where I

1052
00:53:54,719 --> 00:53:57,520
Speaker 1: will push off the shooting that bow. I won't get

1053
00:53:57,520 --> 00:53:59,279
Speaker 1: too as often as they want to, or if it's

1054
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 1: two incon convenient, it becomes outside of you know, the

1055
00:54:03,160 --> 00:54:05,200
Speaker 1: realm of my daily life, then I just don't end

1056
00:54:05,239 --> 00:54:07,399
Speaker 1: up falling through. So when I've done a good job

1057
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:10,120
Speaker 1: of this what I started doing because I would actually

1058
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:14,480
Speaker 1: put the bow in my mudroom right by um the door,

1059
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:16,960
Speaker 1: so that I would actually see it before I stepped out,

1060
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:18,560
Speaker 1: And I used, I don't do this right now. I

1061
00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:20,880
Speaker 1: do it now in my barn. But I used to

1062
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:23,520
Speaker 1: have my bow hanging up right next to the door,

1063
00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:26,120
Speaker 1: and then I had a target right outside of the door,

1064
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:28,279
Speaker 1: on the side of the barn, so I would as

1065
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 1: I walk out the door to go do something, if

1066
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:32,360
Speaker 1: I went in there to get some something for some reason,

1067
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:34,600
Speaker 1: I'd see the bow and then it triggers, oh, hey,

1068
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:37,440
Speaker 1: shoot that bow, and then right then I could go ahead,

1069
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:40,960
Speaker 1: open the door, shoot three arrows and get that kind

1070
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:43,920
Speaker 1: of developed that habit, just something to trigger your brain

1071
00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:46,400
Speaker 1: remember to do this, and then you kind of have

1072
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:48,680
Speaker 1: that basic routine. Then the key is then some kind

1073
00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:52,040
Speaker 1: of reward um. So you can kind of flub this,

1074
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:54,279
Speaker 1: you can make it your own reward, or sometimes there's

1075
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:57,239
Speaker 1: a natural reward um. So then it's just knowing what

1076
00:54:57,280 --> 00:55:00,160
Speaker 1: that feels like. So maybe in your case, you at

1077
00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:02,880
Speaker 1: your bow somewhere that you're gonna see it and remember, Okay,

1078
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:05,480
Speaker 1: every morning at six thirty am, when I walk out,

1079
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:07,839
Speaker 1: I wake up, I walk out, take a piss, and

1080
00:55:07,880 --> 00:55:11,120
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna see my bow sitting over top of

1081
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:13,560
Speaker 1: the refrigerator or something, so that before I can go

1082
00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:17,239
Speaker 1: and grab my iced coffee or whatever I want to

1083
00:55:17,239 --> 00:55:18,960
Speaker 1: eat for breakfast, I'm gonna see the bow right there,

1084
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:20,920
Speaker 1: which is gonna cue me to say, hey, before you

1085
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:23,480
Speaker 1: can eat breakfast, you have to shoot your bow ten times,

1086
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:26,160
Speaker 1: so you grab that bow, you step outside, you shoot

1087
00:55:26,200 --> 00:55:29,280
Speaker 1: ten times, and then you've got to give yourself a reward.

1088
00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:32,520
Speaker 1: So maybe that reward is just gonna be some sense

1089
00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:35,400
Speaker 1: of self satisfaction, or maybe you tie the reward if

1090
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:38,320
Speaker 1: you can't drink your coffee until after you shoot your bow.

1091
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:41,360
Speaker 1: So now you're forcing yourself. You're reminded right away with

1092
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:43,720
Speaker 1: that trigger when you walk to the freezer, you shoot

1093
00:55:43,719 --> 00:55:46,120
Speaker 1: your bow, and then you get the reward of drinking

1094
00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:48,759
Speaker 1: your coffee. Studies that have shown if you can do

1095
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:51,960
Speaker 1: something like that about two months, sixty six days of

1096
00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:54,680
Speaker 1: the number I saw, if you can do something sixty

1097
00:55:54,719 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 1: six times consistently, it will move from a behavior that

1098
00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:02,080
Speaker 1: you are actively thinking about to becoming ingrained and your

1099
00:56:02,120 --> 00:56:04,480
Speaker 1: body just wants to do it, and you build that momentum,

1100
00:56:04,560 --> 00:56:06,719
Speaker 1: so then you get the snowball effect, but it's the

1101
00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:09,160
Speaker 1: positive snowball effect. So you're gonna get up and you're like,

1102
00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:11,239
Speaker 1: okay to do it. Do it, and then you get

1103
00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:14,520
Speaker 1: your coffee. And so by putting that kind of thing

1104
00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:16,520
Speaker 1: in a period of your day where you do have

1105
00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:21,080
Speaker 1: control and then developing a system around it, supposedly this

1106
00:56:21,120 --> 00:56:23,040
Speaker 1: is the way you can start incorporating these good things

1107
00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:24,400
Speaker 1: into your life. So I think you could do that

1108
00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:27,040
Speaker 1: with shooting your bow. I think someone could do that

1109
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:29,280
Speaker 1: by with like I'm what I'm trying to do is

1110
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:32,440
Speaker 1: get back to my running habit. So for me with

1111
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:34,160
Speaker 1: my running habit, and what I'm trying to do now

1112
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:37,319
Speaker 1: is my queue in the morning so that I can't

1113
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:39,480
Speaker 1: ignore it, so that it just becomes part of my thing.

1114
00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:41,840
Speaker 1: Is I put my running shoes out right next to

1115
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 1: the door, so I walk out in the morning, take

1116
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 1: a leak, and then when I want to go to

1117
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:48,360
Speaker 1: my office, instead of walking in my office, my running

1118
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:50,879
Speaker 1: shoes are sitting right there. So it's just that big

1119
00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:53,799
Speaker 1: quel it boom. Gotta get your running habit and get

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00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:55,520
Speaker 1: that and then after that and then I can eat

1121
00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:59,600
Speaker 1: my breakfast. Um. So that's kind of this system that

1122
00:56:59,640 --> 00:57:02,000
Speaker 1: people are talking about that's supposed we can help you

1123
00:57:02,040 --> 00:57:04,480
Speaker 1: create these new positive habits. So I think you know,

1124
00:57:05,120 --> 00:57:07,360
Speaker 1: there's these things that applied to us as in preparation

1125
00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:10,160
Speaker 1: for hunting. Um or you might have a bad habit.

1126
00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:13,960
Speaker 1: And the big thing with people have bad habits. Let's

1127
00:57:14,040 --> 00:57:16,920
Speaker 1: I don't know what that might be in the hunting context. Um,

1128
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:18,600
Speaker 1: but I'm sure there's lots of bad habits we have.

1129
00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:21,400
Speaker 1: Like the bad habit maybe is procrastinating on getting all

1130
00:57:21,440 --> 00:57:25,080
Speaker 1: your tree stamp prep done or whatever. Right, So, what

1131
00:57:25,120 --> 00:57:26,880
Speaker 1: they're saying the key thing to do here is is

1132
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:29,760
Speaker 1: too again identify that the three parts of your habit.

1133
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:32,120
Speaker 1: So try to figure out what's the trigger, what's queuing

1134
00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:34,960
Speaker 1: my bad behavior, what is this thing that I'm always

1135
00:57:34,960 --> 00:57:40,000
Speaker 1: doing this routine? And then finally, what's the reward I get? Um. So,

1136
00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:43,200
Speaker 1: what they what the researchers have found is that it's very,

1137
00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:49,360
Speaker 1: very hard to change a trigger and a reward. What

1138
00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:50,440
Speaker 1: you want to do is you want to keep the

1139
00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:53,000
Speaker 1: same trigger, keep the same reward, change the routine in

1140
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:56,600
Speaker 1: the middle. So we'll go back to the pepsi drinking thing.

1141
00:57:57,640 --> 00:58:01,560
Speaker 1: It's really hard to change the bad thing you're drinking

1142
00:58:01,560 --> 00:58:02,840
Speaker 1: on the way to work if you just try to

1143
00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:04,640
Speaker 1: up and change it. But if you were to try

1144
00:58:04,680 --> 00:58:07,520
Speaker 1: to change that habit by having the same trigger. So

1145
00:58:07,560 --> 00:58:09,480
Speaker 1: in the same trigger, let's say you're walking out, you're

1146
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:11,560
Speaker 1: gonna go to the fridge because that's what we always do.

1147
00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:15,120
Speaker 1: You're gonna get that trigger. The routine is what you

1148
00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:17,240
Speaker 1: can change. So in the middle change the routine from

1149
00:58:17,280 --> 00:58:19,200
Speaker 1: grabbing the pepsi to now instead you're gonna grab the

1150
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:22,520
Speaker 1: sparkling water. Let's say that's the healthier alternative. And then

1151
00:58:22,520 --> 00:58:24,680
Speaker 1: you're gonna get the same reward though, because it's got

1152
00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:26,360
Speaker 1: that same fizziness and it's got a little bit of

1153
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:29,120
Speaker 1: sweetness to it. So those are like ways to make

1154
00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:31,200
Speaker 1: up change in your life that makes it easier try

1155
00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:33,240
Speaker 1: to get something as the same reward, the same queue,

1156
00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:37,600
Speaker 1: just that better middle per um. So I'm thinking like

1157
00:58:37,640 --> 00:58:41,080
Speaker 1: there's ways to apply that into what we do as hunters,

1158
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:43,800
Speaker 1: Like when you're in tree, when you're in the tree stand.

1159
00:58:43,840 --> 00:58:45,800
Speaker 1: Here's a bad habit of mine. I sit in the

1160
00:58:45,800 --> 00:58:47,480
Speaker 1: tree stand. I found this out a couple of years

1161
00:58:47,520 --> 00:58:49,480
Speaker 1: ago when one night I decided to go out there.

1162
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:51,760
Speaker 1: And now I do this more often. I'll just turn

1163
00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:55,040
Speaker 1: my phone off and put in my backpack, don't have

1164
00:58:55,120 --> 00:58:56,600
Speaker 1: my phone at all with me in the tree stand.

1165
00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:59,560
Speaker 1: What I discovered that I did is that I'd be

1166
00:58:59,600 --> 00:59:02,240
Speaker 1: sitting there, I do a scan, look around, look around,

1167
00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:05,480
Speaker 1: and then I had this like I had no control

1168
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:07,440
Speaker 1: over my hand just would go to the pocket and

1169
00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:09,360
Speaker 1: I was gonna grab my phone out and look at it,

1170
00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:11,400
Speaker 1: and I didn't even think about it, just happened. I

1171
00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:13,960
Speaker 1: had this compulsion, and then I kept realizing, Oh, I

1172
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:16,160
Speaker 1: don't have my phone. And then ten minutes later I

1173
00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:17,920
Speaker 1: would reach my phone and I was like, oh, I

1174
00:59:17,920 --> 00:59:20,400
Speaker 1: don't have my phone. And then fift two minutes later,

1175
00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:22,600
Speaker 1: two minutes later, reached my phone. Oh I don't have

1176
00:59:22,640 --> 00:59:25,440
Speaker 1: my phone. And I realized that this horrible habit of

1177
00:59:25,480 --> 00:59:28,440
Speaker 1: like getting so easily distracted when'm hunting by my phone.

1178
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:32,000
Speaker 1: So I imagine that's something that you could probably change that.

1179
00:59:32,520 --> 00:59:35,920
Speaker 1: You could find something. You've got this trigger that is, hey,

1180
00:59:36,240 --> 00:59:39,080
Speaker 1: I need something to distract me or something, and then

1181
00:59:39,120 --> 00:59:42,640
Speaker 1: the reward is you get some tiny little distraction. Um.

1182
00:59:42,680 --> 00:59:44,640
Speaker 1: But the bad routine in the middle was looking at

1183
00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:47,000
Speaker 1: my phone. UM. I don't know what this would be,

1184
00:59:47,080 --> 00:59:49,280
Speaker 1: but maybe there'd be some different thing. Maybe you could

1185
00:59:49,280 --> 00:59:52,160
Speaker 1: have like a little stress ball or something in your hand,

1186
00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:54,720
Speaker 1: in your pocket, and then when you typically would try

1187
00:59:54,720 --> 00:59:56,840
Speaker 1: to go and grab your phone because you've looked around

1188
00:59:56,840 --> 00:59:59,080
Speaker 1: for ten ntes, I haven't seen anything. Instead of doing that,

1189
00:59:59,560 --> 01:00:02,000
Speaker 1: you just add a little fiddle gadget or your a

1190
01:00:02,000 --> 01:00:03,800
Speaker 1: little stress ball or whatever, and that's the little thing

1191
01:00:03,880 --> 01:00:07,120
Speaker 1: that takes your mind off the monotonate for comments, and

1192
01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:10,800
Speaker 1: then you're back at it. Um. I think that's how

1193
01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 1: you could start implementing this kind of system, UM to

1194
01:00:14,160 --> 01:00:18,760
Speaker 1: deal with various things in your in your hunting world too. UM.

1195
01:00:18,880 --> 01:00:22,400
Speaker 1: I don't know, does any of that resonator makes sense? Yeah? Man,

1196
01:00:22,600 --> 01:00:25,320
Speaker 1: it does. UM, I get that. I get that same

1197
01:00:25,400 --> 01:00:27,480
Speaker 1: kind of thing where you know, when I'm closing, I

1198
01:00:27,560 --> 01:00:30,160
Speaker 1: hunt closer to my house as opposed to my main farm.

1199
01:00:30,280 --> 01:00:32,960
Speaker 1: My main farm, I don't get like three g or

1200
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:36,640
Speaker 1: four g or anything down in there, so I don't

1201
01:00:36,640 --> 01:00:39,800
Speaker 1: have that problem, right, I get like one bar, two bars.

1202
01:00:40,640 --> 01:00:45,560
Speaker 1: I basically get enough h enough I guess coverage to

1203
01:00:45,640 --> 01:00:49,000
Speaker 1: where if I kill a deer then or shooted ere,

1204
01:00:49,240 --> 01:00:52,360
Speaker 1: I can call even if the call gets dropped. Uh,

1205
01:00:52,440 --> 01:00:54,560
Speaker 1: people know that I've killed a deer, right so, because

1206
01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:58,520
Speaker 1: I don't call people when it's when I'm hunting, right So,

1207
01:00:58,520 --> 01:01:03,480
Speaker 1: so I don't typically have that problem. It's just man,

1208
01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:11,600
Speaker 1: My big problem is when chaos, Like I have my path,

1209
01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:17,200
Speaker 1: but when chaos enters it, and I don't know, that's

1210
01:01:17,200 --> 01:01:21,080
Speaker 1: something I work on every single day. Yeah, there was

1211
01:01:21,240 --> 01:01:23,720
Speaker 1: UM this book I was reading by a guy named

1212
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:27,160
Speaker 1: Tim Ferris, who, um, kind of this is his big

1213
01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:30,680
Speaker 1: main stick is that he does. He's got one of

1214
01:01:30,720 --> 01:01:33,400
Speaker 1: the most highly listen to podcasts out there, a lot

1215
01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:36,680
Speaker 1: of very successful books. Um, it's all about analyzing these

1216
01:01:36,720 --> 01:01:38,800
Speaker 1: top performers. So he's kind of doing exactly what we're

1217
01:01:38,800 --> 01:01:43,160
Speaker 1: talking about. And one of his big takeaways, one of

1218
01:01:43,160 --> 01:01:45,920
Speaker 1: the big kind of rules coming out of all these

1219
01:01:45,920 --> 01:01:49,080
Speaker 1: different interviews he did with all these different people, was

1220
01:01:49,160 --> 01:01:53,680
Speaker 1: that the basically he says, he's this quote that he

1221
01:01:53,760 --> 01:01:58,280
Speaker 1: said is do not work more to fix, overwhelm, prioritize.

1222
01:01:58,560 --> 01:02:00,800
Speaker 1: So it's just like what you're talking about, Like, if

1223
01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:03,480
Speaker 1: you're overwhelmed with chaos, if there's just too much going on,

1224
01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:06,640
Speaker 1: very often, the solution to that isn't by just like

1225
01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:08,320
Speaker 1: trying to do more and more and more and more.

1226
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:11,480
Speaker 1: Very oftentimes, the best way to deal with that is

1227
01:02:11,520 --> 01:02:14,800
Speaker 1: the prioritization. UM. And I feel like that applies exactly

1228
01:02:14,800 --> 01:02:17,040
Speaker 1: to what you're saying. It's like, figure out a way

1229
01:02:17,080 --> 01:02:20,880
Speaker 1: to to rank order things and then push stuff up

1230
01:02:20,880 --> 01:02:24,240
Speaker 1: on that list if it's typically getting getting knocked off.

1231
01:02:24,280 --> 01:02:26,840
Speaker 1: I think that's that's kind of the big thing he saw.

1232
01:02:27,160 --> 01:02:29,560
Speaker 1: And then the other thing for me I always remind

1233
01:02:29,600 --> 01:02:31,800
Speaker 1: myself and this is more of like when I'm dealing

1234
01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:34,240
Speaker 1: with a big project versus like lots and lots of

1235
01:02:34,240 --> 01:02:37,280
Speaker 1: little things. But whenever I'm dealing with a big project,

1236
01:02:38,400 --> 01:02:41,240
Speaker 1: I always remember that old adage that you know, how

1237
01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:43,000
Speaker 1: do you eat how do you eat an elephant? Or

1238
01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:45,360
Speaker 1: how do you eat a whale or something? Bike? BikeE

1239
01:02:45,360 --> 01:02:51,720
Speaker 1: by bite? So just like little step, little step, little step. Um.

1240
01:02:51,880 --> 01:02:54,360
Speaker 1: So that's that's how I've been trying to approach the

1241
01:02:54,400 --> 01:02:57,960
Speaker 1: big stuff. But but yeah, it's it's also frustrating. And

1242
01:02:58,000 --> 01:03:00,480
Speaker 1: this is where and I think a lot of guys,

1243
01:03:01,480 --> 01:03:04,600
Speaker 1: you know, what would you say the breakdown for the

1244
01:03:04,680 --> 01:03:10,080
Speaker 1: demographic of men versus women for this podcast like men

1245
01:03:10,280 --> 01:03:15,560
Speaker 1: five percent women or is it more like? Okay, so

1246
01:03:16,320 --> 01:03:19,600
Speaker 1: of the men on this podcast, whether your your wife

1247
01:03:19,640 --> 01:03:21,880
Speaker 1: is a hunter or she's not, I'm just gonna say

1248
01:03:21,880 --> 01:03:26,480
Speaker 1: a majority of them are men, right, So I don't know,

1249
01:03:26,920 --> 01:03:28,800
Speaker 1: or maybe a woman can relate to this too, I

1250
01:03:28,840 --> 01:03:32,400
Speaker 1: don't know. Um, I better just stop talking before I

1251
01:03:32,440 --> 01:03:35,919
Speaker 1: dig a hole. Anyway, Anyway, what I what I got

1252
01:03:35,920 --> 01:03:40,520
Speaker 1: it is okay, So to to to do this passion

1253
01:03:40,560 --> 01:03:45,320
Speaker 1: that we have takes time, right, and if I'm doing that,

1254
01:03:45,320 --> 01:03:47,320
Speaker 1: that means my wife is with the kids. If I'm

1255
01:03:47,360 --> 01:03:51,680
Speaker 1: in this office working, um my wife is with the kids,

1256
01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:54,680
Speaker 1: right because we're not in daycare. We don't have daycare anymore.

1257
01:03:54,840 --> 01:03:58,960
Speaker 1: If I'm doing something related to my business or my

1258
01:03:59,640 --> 01:04:04,640
Speaker 1: um hobby, which is now this big gray area, um

1259
01:04:04,760 --> 01:04:07,200
Speaker 1: my wife is with the kids. And I know that

1260
01:04:07,840 --> 01:04:11,360
Speaker 1: spending time with my kids can be very frustrating. Because

1261
01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:14,000
Speaker 1: I now spend time with the kids, I have to

1262
01:04:14,040 --> 01:04:19,480
Speaker 1: figure out a way to like I don't necessarily want

1263
01:04:19,480 --> 01:04:24,600
Speaker 1: to say train her or like help her, or I

1264
01:04:24,640 --> 01:04:27,120
Speaker 1: don't like I don't know how to do this without

1265
01:04:27,440 --> 01:04:30,680
Speaker 1: like I'm gone. She has to be with the kids.

1266
01:04:30,680 --> 01:04:33,600
Speaker 1: And when she's with the kids, then she's frustrating, Like

1267
01:04:33,680 --> 01:04:36,920
Speaker 1: she gets frustrated. So I don't know. I'm trying to

1268
01:04:36,960 --> 01:04:40,560
Speaker 1: find out what I need to do so she's less frustrated,

1269
01:04:40,600 --> 01:04:44,240
Speaker 1: to make things less frustrating for her when I'm not

1270
01:04:44,360 --> 01:04:47,680
Speaker 1: in the picture. Okay, so you need to do is

1271
01:04:47,760 --> 01:04:50,960
Speaker 1: you need to develop a habit for your wife by

1272
01:04:51,080 --> 01:04:54,480
Speaker 1: establishing a que when you leave to go hunting, starts

1273
01:04:54,600 --> 01:04:57,120
Speaker 1: routeam and then there's a reward when you get back,

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Speaker 1: so then she starts having a positive association with you

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Speaker 1: being gone for hunting. No, I know what you mean,

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Speaker 1: um man. You know. The only other thing, like, the

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Speaker 1: only the thought that comes to my mind as I

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Speaker 1: think about the same challenge that I've had to a

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Speaker 1: degree is um is efficiency. It's like, how do I

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Speaker 1: cut out the other fat because I don't want to

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Speaker 1: cut out the importance of the family time and my

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Speaker 1: family obligations, and I don't want to cut out the

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Speaker 1: important uh you know, hunting work related obligations. But I'm

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Speaker 1: finding myself I don't time to do it all or

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Speaker 1: make a sacrifice where I don't want to make sacrifices

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Speaker 1: what I've tried to do and not that I've figured

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Speaker 1: this out at all completely, but the the what I've

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Speaker 1: been trying is finding out where to trim things up elsewhere,

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Speaker 1: Like where's the other stuff that doesn't really matter to me?

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Speaker 1: But I spend time, um just because as a habit

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Speaker 1: that I could cut so I don't need to watch

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Speaker 1: Netflix for an hour on a Thursday. I don't need

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Speaker 1: to look at my phone for twenty minutes here in

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01:05:59,240 --> 01:06:02,120
Speaker 1: twenty minutes that in twenty minutes here if you if

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Speaker 1: you add it up, all the time you looked at

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Speaker 1: Facebook or Instagram or read news articles throughout a day,

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Speaker 1: that might be an hour of time if you took

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Speaker 1: every five minutes and ten minutes and three minutes and

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Speaker 1: added it all up. So it's like I've been trying

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Speaker 1: to fare out ways to to free up chunks of

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Speaker 1: time by cutting out the small stuff and like just

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Speaker 1: being more efficient with my time because one of my

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Speaker 1: kind of like you just said and me and my

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Speaker 1: wife just talking about this, one of my big challenges

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01:06:28,120 --> 01:06:31,280
Speaker 1: is that I oh over commit, Like I'm always too

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Speaker 1: many projects, too many things, too many goals, too much

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to do. I'm constantly running behind, I'm constantly

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Speaker 1: feeling overwhelmed, them constantly too busy. Uh, And it's it's,

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Speaker 1: you know, number one, I could be doing a better

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Speaker 1: prior job prioritizing number two. Maybe from the front end,

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Speaker 1: I should be doing a better job of understanding what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying yes to. But once you're committed to stuff,

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Speaker 1: you're committed to stuff. At that point then it's like,

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Speaker 1: just have to use your time better, Like I just

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01:06:58,640 --> 01:07:00,760
Speaker 1: need to figure out what better way to cut the

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Speaker 1: junk out there, because they're like, I'm not I don't

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Speaker 1: think any of us are on task every second, Like

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Speaker 1: no one's perfect like that. But maybe I could get

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Speaker 1: half hour better every day, or maybe I could find

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Speaker 1: ways to you know, remove some other bad Habit might

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Speaker 1: maybe it's trying to think to myself, what do I do? Um,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, it's right, right, there's a great example.

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Speaker 1: There's an hour a week, Um, you could cut that

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Speaker 1: really in the long scheme of things. Is that really

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Speaker 1: going to change your life? Now? Like it's so good?

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Speaker 1: But there's an easy you know, there's an easy six

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Speaker 1: hours over the next six weeks that you could have

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Speaker 1: back to work on your big deer hunting project, to

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Speaker 1: work on a big job project, or to to do

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01:07:47,480 --> 01:07:49,640
Speaker 1: the important thing that your wife really wants to get

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01:07:49,640 --> 01:07:51,560
Speaker 1: done around the house, to make your feel a little

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Speaker 1: bit better about you know, us going off and doing

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Speaker 1: our thing. So there's probably if we if if I'm guessing,

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Speaker 1: if each one of us sat down for twenty minutes

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Speaker 1: now and just kind of thought through our day and

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Speaker 1: wrote down a list of like little things we do

1337
01:08:05,800 --> 01:08:08,720
Speaker 1: that don't really matter but we just always do, we

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Speaker 1: could probably find some time to do things the way

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Speaker 1: we really should. That's Uh, that's one thing to think about. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know the what are we talked about here? We've

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01:08:21,080 --> 01:08:24,720
Speaker 1: talked about creating habits. We talked about changing habits. We

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Speaker 1: talked about the importance of setting goals and being able

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Speaker 1: to quantify and track them. Talked about having accountability partners.

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Speaker 1: We've talked about some of these habits, how you might

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Speaker 1: be able to establish a practicing with your bell habit

1346
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Speaker 1: or running habit. Um talked about some of these struggles

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Speaker 1: we've had balancing time between family obligations and our passion. Um,

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Speaker 1: what do you think Dan about you and me trying

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Speaker 1: to take on a change like this, each of us

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Speaker 1: in our own lives, and hold each other accountable to it,

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01:08:57,880 --> 01:09:00,599
Speaker 1: and then like report back and and try to demo

1352
01:09:00,800 --> 01:09:02,639
Speaker 1: something like this for folks and see if we can

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Speaker 1: do it. Yeah, man, I'm down. What do you want

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Speaker 1: to do? Do you want to do the bow? Because

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01:09:08,600 --> 01:09:10,479
Speaker 1: I need to do better there too. Do we want

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Speaker 1: to try to put together something in place that we

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Speaker 1: can need to do and try to stick to. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think I think a lot of these things come right.

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Speaker 1: Like also with lean manufacturing, we do something called a

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Speaker 1: five Y right And we talked about I wrote an

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Speaker 1: article about this a while ago. But it's about, Okay,

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Speaker 1: why didn't I shoot my bow? And then you ask

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Speaker 1: yoursel and then you answer that question because I didn't

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Speaker 1: have time. Why didn't you have time? Well, because I was.

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Speaker 1: You know, life is kaok why is it chaotic? Well,

1366
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Speaker 1: it's because you know whatever, And you go back five

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Speaker 1: times and and this is to help find a rick

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Speaker 1: cause to your problem. Right, So my goal is to

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Speaker 1: do something like this, And I don't know if we

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Speaker 1: can necessarily I can necessarily do it right now, but

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Speaker 1: I want to be able to. I think if why

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Speaker 1: if I find the root cause, it clears up much

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Speaker 1: more than me finding time. It's going to allow me

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Speaker 1: to be more efficient in my work week, it's going

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Speaker 1: to be it's gonna allow me to be more efficient

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Speaker 1: with my family. And so my goal, what I want

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Speaker 1: to do is try to figure out what I need

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Speaker 1: to do. And this might just be a conversation I

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Speaker 1: have with her about what I need to do. What

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Speaker 1: a conversation with my wife to make my wife less stressful?

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Speaker 1: And yeah, I don't know, like something like that. I

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Speaker 1: like it. What about this? What if we both think

1383
01:10:39,280 --> 01:10:41,240
Speaker 1: about what we wanted things to be. You can do

1384
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Speaker 1: some exploring and maybe talk with talk to your wife,

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Speaker 1: figure out try to figure out the root cause when

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Speaker 1: we come back for the next podcast together, let's both

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Speaker 1: have like one thing that we both want to do

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Speaker 1: better or different and will make an agreement between each

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Speaker 1: of us, like here's the thing we're just gonna do,

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Speaker 1: here's how we're gonna do it, and and you and

1391
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Speaker 1: me we can try to keep each other accountable on

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Speaker 1: it throughout the rest of the year. Right is that's

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Speaker 1: not a good plan? Cool? We can try to we

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01:11:07,680 --> 01:11:09,800
Speaker 1: can try to demo some of these ideas we're talking

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Speaker 1: about here, and uh, maybe you can you and I

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01:11:13,720 --> 01:11:16,080
Speaker 1: can both get better at something near and and maybe

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Speaker 1: help folks see how they can incorporate some some possible

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Speaker 1: positive change into their hunting life as well. And uh,

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Speaker 1: it might be fun. So anything else on this topic

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Speaker 1: you want to make sure we hit on before U

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Speaker 1: before we wrap it up. No, I'm good man? All right?

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01:11:32,479 --> 01:11:35,240
Speaker 1: Well then, um, I think we should just shut it

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Speaker 1: down and then check back in soon. And that's gonna

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Speaker 1: do it for us today. Hope you enjoyed this one.

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Speaker 1: You know, if you were interested in this topic, there's

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Speaker 1: a couple of books that I've read that that I

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Speaker 1: found pretty handy. I mentioned Tim Ferris. He's got a

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Speaker 1: book called The Tools of Titans and another one called

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01:11:52,600 --> 01:11:56,400
Speaker 1: Tribe of Mentors, both of which um combine a whole

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01:11:56,400 --> 01:11:59,320
Speaker 1: bunch of different answers to questions related to these topics

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01:11:59,600 --> 01:12:03,680
Speaker 1: from areas high performers that Tim has interviewed. They're great resources.

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Speaker 1: I also referenced a couple of books by Charles do Hig.

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Speaker 1: There's one called The Power of Habits and there's another

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Speaker 1: one called what is It Smarter, Faster, Better? Both of

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01:12:14,720 --> 01:12:18,439
Speaker 1: these talk about habits and different um, different types of

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Speaker 1: processes and things you can do to become a higher achiever,

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01:12:21,600 --> 01:12:23,479
Speaker 1: high performer, the kind of stuff that we're trying to

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Speaker 1: do here as hunters. So lots more out there on

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Speaker 1: the innert to lots of good podcasts. Um. Tim Ferris

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Speaker 1: show again is a good one along those lines. So

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Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed it, Hope you found this interesting,

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01:12:33,479 --> 01:12:35,720
Speaker 1: and maybe you'll try incorporating a few things into your

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Speaker 1: own uh, you know, schedule. Try it out, let us

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Speaker 1: know what you think, and until next time, thanks for

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Speaker 1: being you, Thanks for foulling Wired to Hunt and stay

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Speaker 1: wired to hunt,