WEBVTT - We're giving up. Admit defeat. 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:22.919 What's up y'all? Grangersmith Podcast, Episode twenty two. Thanks for watching, 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:27.600 Thanks for listening, Thanks for being involved. This is episode 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:30.920 number three since we started putting it on YouTube. There 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:36.319 are nineteen before that on your favorite podcast app, and 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:39.519 if you want to go back, the purpose of the 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:42.640 previous nineteen kind of tells you the story of who 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:46.360 I am. So if you've ever wondered like, well, where 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:48.800 did you learn to play guitar? Or what got you 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:52.720 inspired to play music? Or how did you get your 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:55.440 big break? Or two or three or four, because it 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:59.280 takes multiple layers, where do you come from? Tell me 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:03.040 about your face? Those are kind of the stories that 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:07.440 I told the story of who I was, the Diary 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:11.800 of who I am, And it took about nineteen episodes 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:15.840 plus a little, you know, little shaking bake here and 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:19.400 there throughout those episodes, different things. Right now, where I 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:24.560 am with this podcast is giving you, hopefully some quality content, 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:29.280 something that could answer some questions that you might need 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:34.160 to know about me. And ultimately my goal is give 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:36.959 you some things to make your life a little bit better, 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:40.880 Things that I've maybe learned along the way that are 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:46.320 not secrets of me, that are moreover things that I 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:50.040 have read or learned from people in my travels, or 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:53.840 witnessed myself, or applied to something that's going on in 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:59.320 my life, and they are ideas worth sharing. And that 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.760 makes me motivated to do this because I feel like 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:06.800 if I could, if I could see something, and there's 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:11.359 not many philosophical original ideas, right, I mean, everything has 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:15.000 been thought out over thousands of years of human learning. 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.320 So if I could take a little piece of something 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:20.920 I learned and share it with you guys, and someone 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:23.560 else grabs onto it and then expands on it and 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:25.520 learns more and then flips it and tells it to 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:29.160 someone else, I mean, that's the way we evolve mentally 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.480 as a species. That's the way we improve, that's the 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:34.840 way the earth gets better. And so that's what I'm doing, 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:39.640 and that's the main motivation. It inspires me. It helps me, 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:45.200 helps me to know that I'm doing something good. I'm 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.680 making the world a bit better than the way I 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:52.519 found it, knowing that some life has breathed easier because 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:56.600 you lived. Ralph Waldo Emerson and I read that point 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.000 It's called success, and I read it a couple episodes ago. 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:03.240 One of my favorite poems. We found it in my 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:07.600 dad's belongings. He had handwritten it from wherever he originally 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.960 saw it, and it was in a cabinet with all 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.320 of his things after he died. We found it and 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:16.000 we read that point. We're just blown away and then 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.640 that that's that's the kind of man my dad was. Really. 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:25.040 I want to I want to talk about answering your 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:30.720 questions and this is this is something not only is 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:33.640 it endless, it could never end there there's always another 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:36.240 question and I and I don't mind answering them. And 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.480 I'm going I go into this stuff completely unprepared, like 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:42.920 I have zero notes on the desk here, and so 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:47.800 I think this is a way for me to not 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:51.960 continually have a guest or a content or you know, 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.360 a planned content. And I will do those and I 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:57.080 will have guests, but in the in the meantime so 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:58.720 that I can give you guys a pod tic cast 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:02.920 every single Monday, which is the plan. Drop these about 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:06.240 two am on Monday morning. That way, when you wake 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:09.800 up on Monday morning, you'll be able to have something 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:13.480 to listen to, going to work, going to school, sitting 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:17.240 in the tractor, sitting in the semi truck, sitting in 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:21.560 your headphones, ignoring your boss at your office. You know 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:25.760 that's the goal. And I'll start this. I mentioned Ralph 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:29.400 Waldo Emerson. I'll also mention the quote that is above 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:33.640 me here at my desk, and that is Theodore Roosevelt. 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.640 Far better is it, the dare mighty things to win 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:42.640 glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:48.360 with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:52.120 because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:57.320 victory nor defeat. And I have that tattooed on my 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:00.440 left arm. Deare mighty things. It's such an such an 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:04.120 important quote, and to me, well you know what that 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:06.400 means is well, first of all, let me tell you 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:09.000 where we found this. Where I originally found this Teddy 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:12.920 Roosevelt quote was on the back of a tombstone. And 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:15.440 you could see that exact tombstone on my music video 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:18.320 Bury Me in Blue Jeans. But we found that quote 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:22.560 on the back of a tombstone of two parents. It 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:26.039 was like the dual tombstone when when two folks eventually die, 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:28.719 and that was on the back of their tombstone to 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:34.320 their children, knowing that when their children go in their 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:37.919 old age or whenever to grieve their parents at the 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:41.720 grave site, they would see far better. Is it to 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:47.039 dare Mighty Things? By Teddy Roosevelt? That just give me 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:51.000 chills and that awesome, What an awesome message to tell 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:56.320 your kids. And it doesn't to me. That just means 0:05:56.360 --> 0:06:00.840 that obstacles are okay. Failure's okay as long as you're 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:02.760 in the arena, as long as you're fighting, as long 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:06.320 as you're willing to sacrifice, you're willing to throw a punch, 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:09.560 you're willing to take that chance, then it's okay to 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:13.239 lose because you will. Inevitably you will lose in life. 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:18.760 That's what happens. But eventually you'll win too, right, It's 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:27.560 just an odds game. I love that. I always do 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:32.000 these giveaways. Now and I'm gonna give away right now, 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.320 where's my pen there it is. I'm gonna give away 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:40.440 a black Ee Apparel cap. This is what we call 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:45.839 American buck and it's an American flag with a black 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.599 silhouette of a buck on top of the American flag 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:53.320 and all of our Ee Apparel hats which I got 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:55.440 this one on in my closet. This is mine, but 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:58.200 all of our hats are If you look on the inside, 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:02.600 you're not going to see some brand recognize from Walmart. 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:07.240 These are EEE Apparel, official merchandise. It says ye yee 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:11.000 is actual maker all inside the hat. So we design 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:16.600 these custom for our people. I'm gonna sign this one 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:23.480 right now, live on the air on the microphone. I'm 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:26.960 gonna give this away. So go to social media and 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:30.480 make a post, start a new post, and say hashtag 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:37.559 in any order, hashtag granger Smith Podcast episode twenty two hat, 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:42.240 or I want the hat in episode twenty two, or 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.920 give me the daggum hat in episode twenty two. Make 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.200 sure you mention episode twenty two. So when I go back, 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:50.480 what I'll do is I'll literally just go to socials 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.760 type in hashtag Grangersmith podcast and I'll look for that 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:57.760 and that way, when I see hat, i'll know when 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.240 it says episode twenty two which hat it is, because 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.680 I've got them wind up in my closet right now 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:07.080 for the when these podcasts launch. All right, we're good, 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:12.600 were good. Sometimes I check the camera to make sure 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:14.360 it's rolling, so I don't sit here and talk for 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:19.720 twenty minutes and then go, oh, it wasn't recording. I'm 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:24.520 sourcing these questions from social media, and I asked one time, 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:28.360 like two weeks ago, and I got hundreds and hundreds 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:31.360 of questions. So I haven't asked since then because I've 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:34.559 just I've been going through those same questions, going through 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:37.599 rolling through those comments. If you have a question, or 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:40.680 if you asked, then please ask again. If I don't 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:43.640 answer your question, just ask again. Say hashtag Granger Smith 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.120 podcast so I could find it and then ask you 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:51.360 know how many dogs you got? You know whatever, it 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.679 doesn't matter. I like the shallow ones because I could 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:57.200 answer those. I also like going deep, so if you 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.320 want to go deep on these questions, we could do 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:04.920 that too. First up, this is this is sourced from Facebook. 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:09.240 Question is how do you keep yourself so well grounded, 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:13.160 humble and focused with all that you do and have going? 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:23.600 What drives you and what's your biggest motivation? Well, there's 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:25.920 there's several layers to that question that I think. The 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:30.400 first thing right off the bat is I choose to 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:34.440 not live in a massive music city, So I don't 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:38.920 live in Nashville or New York or LA. I live 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:43.800 in Georgetown, Texas. I have lived in Nashville before. I 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:47.160 have sat in a restaurant booth where the waiter was 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:52.680 a singer songwriter, the hostess was a singer songwriter. The 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.920 booth next to me was two singer songwriters talking about 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:57.959 how jaded they were and how much they hate the 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:01.520 music business. The tale over that was a you know, 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:03.880 across the way. It was a singer trying to get 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:07.840 a record deal. That drove me absolutely insane, It really did. 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:11.120 I could not stand it. I couldn't stand how it 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.880 became such a business and something that we love so 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:17.080 much turned into a business. I couldn't stand it. So 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:22.400 for twenty years since then, I've moved back to my 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:24.680 home state of Texas, and I've been here for twenty years. 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:30.559 And so along with that, maybe to Julie to answer 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.640 your question directly, because I doubt you're a singer songwriter. 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:39.840 So I keep myself surrounded by people that have earned 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:45.400 my trust through friendship or family, blood or longevity and 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.960 a relationship with me that I trust them enough to 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:53.439 keep me straight, Meaning if I say something out of line, 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:58.080 if I'm starting to act a little crazy and they say, bro, 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:04.560 get in line. That's not you, that's not right. I 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.160 believe them right because they have earned the trust for 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:11.520 me to believe them. Now, some random critic, if they say, bro, 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:15.000 you're out of line, and I don't know them, I 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:17.439 dismiss it because you're not in the arena with me, 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.520 like Teddy Roosevelt. Don't you don't know me well enough. 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:24.880 You haven't spent the years of investment of my trust 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:29.400 for me to listen to that. That a personal attack. 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.080 But if a buddy from high school that we grew 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:34.920 up together, we know all the same joint places together 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:37.520 that we used to hang out. If that guy comes 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:39.200 up and goes, man, I got to tell you're acting 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.680 a little different lately, and I'm not in a good way. 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:48.400 I'm listening. You know that's called being grounded. Literally, they 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:50.280 will take you to the ground and you got to listen. 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:52.800 Same with your mama. You know your mama starts telling 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:54.800 you you're out of line, you got to listen because 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:57.079 she knows you better than anybody else, or your spouse 0:11:57.200 --> 0:11:59.640 or you know, God forbid your kids tell you something 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:06.599 like that. Going back to that question, humble, humble is 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:13.439 first of all, I love I love hearing that because 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:17.480 because I strive so hard to be humble, and that 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:22.720 is getting rid of ego. Ego is the Enemy, which 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.400 is a great book by Ryan Holliday called Ego is 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:29.040 the Enemy, and there has been many books written about 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.880 this subject. But Ego gets in the way so many 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:36.360 times in our life. Ego gets gets gets its little 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:40.680 gritty hands in the middle of conversations, in the middle 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:44.520 of us in social media comments and on our walk 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:48.319 to work. It's it is crippling. You have to get 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:50.120 rid of it. You have to know when that that's 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:52.360 the voice speaking to you is ego. You got to 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:57.760 shut your ears off. What drives you and what's your 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:02.280 biggest motivation? That's a questions within the question that are 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:10.080 massive questions. But when I have then surrounded myself with 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:15.120 those friends and family and mama and hometowns and and 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:18.640 i've and i've I put the circle of trust around me, 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:22.920 then that that's what drives me, is to make them 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:26.960 proud and to be the best version of myself. Does 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:28.440 that make sense? I can go on and on on 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:31.480 this question, the great question, Julie, I'm gonna move on here. 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:38.360 Mike Marshall says, I own a restaurant and Phil, there 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:40.959 is not enough time in a day. How the heck 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.560 do you balance yours so well with your music career, 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:48.160 yeee apparel, family, et cetera, et cetera. Thank you, Mike. 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:53.240 First of all, that's probably just your impression. You Maybe 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:56.920 you just think I'm handling this well or that I'm 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:02.280 balancing this well, and I like to think that I am, 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:05.920 but it is there's many times in the day when 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:07.880 I pulled my hair out and think I can't do this. 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:12.120 I've got too many things going on. So brother, I 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:14.600 feel you. I've known a lot of people in my 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:18.480 life that have owned restaurants, and I've had aspirations myself 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:23.280 to start a restaurant or or be involved with a restaurant. 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.640 And I understand, Mike. I don't. I don't understand exactly 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:29.240 what you're going through, but I could see how that 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.600 is a lot of work and a lot of investment. 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:37.360 So that that is a that is something that is 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:40.840 you have to work on, that you have to First 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:45.200 of all, if it's actually becoming a problem, then I 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:52.840 would suggest actually time, first time, blocking your day, journaling 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.960 your day, and when you journal your day, you don't 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:58.120 have to do this very long. Do it for seven days, right, 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:02.960 So good old fashioned pen and paper. Okay, you got 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:06.760 an iPhone, pull out your notes and go Monday all 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:11.160 the way down to Sunday and go and write down 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.920 exactly what you're doing, and then examine and then go 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:18.800 back and study what you're doing, study that time, the 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:24.400 journal of your time. And typically we're shocked when we're 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:29.840 actually focusing in on what we're actually doing when we 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:33.160 see it written down and you see all the moments 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:37.040 of your day. When I like to call your unconscious 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:42.120 right conscious meaning I'm present, I'm in the moment, I'm 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:45.440 on task, I'm in some deep work right now, I'm 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:48.160 focused on what I need to be doing to make 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:52.200 the most of this minute, which, by the way, sometimes 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:55.320 the most that you could make in a minute is 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:59.720 by not thinking about anything and relaxing. That's doing something. 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:03.720 Really relaxing and clearing the mind is doing something right. 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:11.880 It's not nothing versus unconsciousness. Flipping through Instagram, sitting on 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:15.200 the couch, flipping through TV, not really wanting to watch anything, 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.400 but you're just kind of seen and maybe something catches 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:23.840 your eye. Daydreaming, thinking about the future, dreaming about what 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:26.800 you could be doing, thinking about the past, things you 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:29.160 should have done, or things that you are really proud of, 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:34.400 just lost in any other time besides the present. Those 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:39.080 are being unconscious times, right, That's that's unconscious and we're 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:42.240 all guilty of it. So if you could make a 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:46.320 time block, make a journal of your day, and you'll 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:50.680 you'll realize quickly, Man, I was unconscious for forty three 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:56.600 minutes from noon to twelve forty five. I was just 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:59.920 sitting there doing you know, lost. And I have to 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:05.440 say again, I'm not talking about getting away from relaxation. 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:10.000 That's different. But a true relaxation is something where you're 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:14.560 actually in the present and you're you're recharging your batteries. 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:19.040 That's not boom boom, going through the the remote control 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:21.920 on the TV and the old the old Apple TV 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:25.760 or whatever you're watching or YouTube, unless you're watching you know, 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:29.159 like the Smiths or a Granger Smith music video or 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:32.600 this podcast. That's great, that's a great thing to be doing. 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:37.320 That's definitely conscious. But so Mike, after you do that, 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:41.639 go through this this list of your day and see 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:45.240 and see exactly you're You're not gonna know how busy 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:48.040 you are until you write it down and study that. 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:52.439 Once you do that, then you could actually time block 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:57.040 and you can go, Okay, this is when I wake up. 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:00.800 From this to this is when I do this. From 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:03.800 this to this, this is when I do this. Right 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.560 then I get to the restaurant, and for the first 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:09.440 forty five minutes of at the restaurant, I'm gonna do this. 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:14.400 And then from I'm just throwing this out there, from 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:18.320 nine am to ten thirty, I'm gonna be free for questions, 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:22.800 for my employees to ask me questions, to mingle with customers, 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:26.560 to take some sales calls, you know, take a new 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:29.600 linen company wants to come in and take over our uniforms, 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.840 I'll see. As long as it's between nine and ten thirty, 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:36.080 that's my time to listen. But if it's if it's 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:41.399 one o'clock, I'm sorry, I'm busy during one o'clock. But 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:45.280 you can come back on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, anytime between 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:47.800 nine and ten thirty, that's my time to talk to you. 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:51.160 And it's not rude, it's really not. That's just being honest, 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:55.640 and that's time blocking and making the most of your day. 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.359 And so then when you time block, you've got to 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:01.399 make sure you have time for you. You got to 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:03.800 make sure you've got time for your family. So for instance, 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:09.240 five pm, the seven pm, that's family dinner time. I 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:12.359 don't have my phone, don't call me, don't text me. 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:15.199 I'm not gonna watch TV. I'm not listening to the 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:18.399 Grandersmith podcast. There should be a time when you do that, 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:21.080 but not five to seven. And once again throwing this 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:23.399 time out there, but you're focused on your family, and 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:27.199 you're giving the most of yourself to that time in 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:31.199 your family. You're conscious, you're present in that moment. And 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:35.760 then from seven to eight, you're gonna go back in 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:38.439 and you're gonna finish up some emails and you're not 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:41.160 gonna do anything else. You're not gonna do anything besides 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:43.960 what is in your time block. And then after eight, 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:48.560 maybe that's your wifetime. You are one hundred percent focused 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:53.120 on her from eight till nine p thirty or whatever. 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:55.359 You don't tell her this because then it kind of 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:58.600 sounds like it's you know, she's part of your schedule. 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:01.600 It's not true. But but this is only this is 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:04.560 only the beginning to help you and then set a time. 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:07.760 This is this is important for everyone too. Set a 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:10.200 time to go to bed and make that the same 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:12.480 time every night. Then set set a time to wake 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:16.720 up and make that the same time every morning. That's 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:19.320 so important to get on that rhythm of the earth 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:20.960 right to have the same time you go to bed 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:24.480 the same time you wake up. And by the way, 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:27.840 this is another side note. This is it's probably important. 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:32.159 We could talk about this later. It's it's important to 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:35.919 limit your screen time before you go to bed and 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:39.760 right when you wake up. So there's I would say 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:42.520 about an hour you should you should mark off where 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:46.359 so you go to bed at ten thirty pm. After 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:49.920 nine thirty, no more screens that just messes with your brain, 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:52.560 you know. Make that the time you take a shower, 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:55.479 brush your teeth, hang out with your wife, you know, 0:20:56.640 --> 0:21:01.560 relax but not not mindfully go through your phone. And 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:07.040 so I hope that helps, buddy. And it's not easy. 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:09.320 Everything I said kind of on paper it sounds easy, 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:12.080 but once you kind of dig into it, it's a 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:16.399 lot more difficult. But writing it down helps tremendously. Let 0:21:16.440 --> 0:21:18.320 me go to this question. This is a little bit lighter. 0:21:19.119 --> 0:21:21.600 My buddy, Keith Tarrell, Keith has been coming to shows 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:24.800 for a long time and always been. I mean, you've 0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:29.439 been a supporter of me for fifteen years. Probably I 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:32.399 love seeing common names pop back up here. But the 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:35.399 question is when do you expect new album to drop? 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:40.239 New Yeee Energy? When will that be released? I can 0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:43.720 answer both of those. So new album, I've been working 0:21:43.760 --> 0:21:45.719 on a lot of music. There is a lot of music. 0:21:46.800 --> 0:21:53.080 There is some songs that were complete, mixed, mastered, done 0:21:53.600 --> 0:21:57.440 in the box, ready to go, and then we had 0:21:57.640 --> 0:22:01.240 a family tragedy last June, so a lot of that, 0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:03.720 I mean, all of it just got put on hold. 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:08.080 I wasn't excited about putting out new music when that happened, 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:12.560 so everything just kind of, you know, got shelved by 0:22:12.600 --> 0:22:20.240 my purpose. But the thing is now, the good news 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:22.640 is a lot of that is ready, So it hasn't 0:22:22.680 --> 0:22:24.520 it's not going to take me any more work. You know. 0:22:24.680 --> 0:22:27.480 Any work I'm putting in now is new stuff, new songs, 0:22:27.880 --> 0:22:29.760 and I probably have like eight to ten of them 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:33.199 ready to go or at least written. And the demos 0:22:33.200 --> 0:22:35.000 are done and I need to go record the band. 0:22:35.640 --> 0:22:41.040 And so that's exciting because I'll start releasing these singles 0:22:41.080 --> 0:22:45.119 again and music videos again. And then I think that 0:22:45.200 --> 0:22:47.440 the original plan that I had in twenty nineteen was 0:22:47.480 --> 0:22:49.760 when I kind of get to a point where I've 0:22:49.800 --> 0:22:53.159 released enough of them, I'll released like one more and 0:22:53.160 --> 0:22:55.480 we'll wrap it up and call it an album. So 0:22:55.520 --> 0:22:58.800 that'll be the new album. Most likely we could we 0:22:58.800 --> 0:23:02.760 could say twenty twenty, you'll see that new album. If 0:23:02.800 --> 0:23:06.399 not anything, you'll see several more new songs. And then 0:23:06.480 --> 0:23:09.280 let me get to EEE Energy. Those of you that 0:23:09.320 --> 0:23:11.119 have followed me, those of you that have listened to 0:23:11.160 --> 0:23:15.160 this podcast since day one, I've been relentless about talking 0:23:15.200 --> 0:23:17.840 about ee Energy, so passionate about it. It's an energy 0:23:17.920 --> 0:23:22.520 drink me and my brothers created from ground zero, from 0:23:22.560 --> 0:23:26.000 the recipe to the packaging and the can and everything. 0:23:26.040 --> 0:23:30.200 And we've been just so so proud of that drink. 0:23:30.400 --> 0:23:39.359 And guess what, we discontinued it. And you will not 0:23:39.520 --> 0:23:44.560 see EEE Energy for sure in twenty twenty and maybe 0:23:45.359 --> 0:23:51.760 maybe not ever. And you know, it goes back to 0:23:52.000 --> 0:23:53.359 it goes back to a couple of things. One of 0:23:53.400 --> 0:23:55.480 them is it goes back to Teddy Roosevelt. It goes 0:23:55.560 --> 0:23:58.400 back to far better is that to dare mighty things 0:23:58.920 --> 0:24:04.000 to win glorious, even though checkered by a failure than 0:24:04.080 --> 0:24:06.800 to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor 0:24:06.880 --> 0:24:10.399 suffer much because they live in a great twilight that 0:24:10.440 --> 0:24:14.680 knows neither victory nor defeat. And there's a I think 0:24:14.720 --> 0:24:18.760 we were defeated eee energy Tyler. My brother will argue 0:24:18.760 --> 0:24:21.520 and say, no, it was a learning experience. It's about 0:24:21.520 --> 0:24:26.119 that perspective. But needless to say, Red Bull and Monster 0:24:26.240 --> 0:24:30.280 kicked our butt. And it was so much work going 0:24:30.320 --> 0:24:37.239 out and recruiting these distribution companies and convenience stores and 0:24:37.320 --> 0:24:40.760 grocery stores, convincing them to put our drink on their 0:24:40.760 --> 0:24:45.120 shelves when Red Bull was paying them fifteen thousand dollars 0:24:45.160 --> 0:24:47.639 a year to put it on their shelf, you know. 0:24:48.320 --> 0:24:50.800 And that's literally what's happening. And they're doing that at 0:24:50.840 --> 0:24:54.560 every store and every big distribution company, and here we 0:24:54.600 --> 0:24:56.800 are just trying to sell one can at a time. 0:24:57.359 --> 0:24:59.959 And so I can understand we're a mom and pop company. 0:25:00.520 --> 0:25:05.720 And it was ultimately came down to the eighty twenty rule. 0:25:05.920 --> 0:25:08.280 And this is such a valuable thing for me in 0:25:08.280 --> 0:25:10.960 my life and my career, and Mike, this could go 0:25:11.040 --> 0:25:13.679 back to the question about your restaurant too. But the 0:25:13.720 --> 0:25:18.640 eighty twenty rule is it's that old percentage that applies 0:25:18.680 --> 0:25:21.680 to anything in your life. It applies to your closet. 0:25:21.760 --> 0:25:26.359 For example, you wear twenty percent of your closet eighty 0:25:26.400 --> 0:25:30.640 percent of the time you spend at work, you spend 0:25:31.080 --> 0:25:34.399 twenty percent of your time doing or excuse me, you 0:25:34.440 --> 0:25:37.760 spend eighty percent of your time doing work. That's twenty 0:25:37.800 --> 0:25:42.600 percent of your company. And that is what we realized 0:25:42.640 --> 0:25:45.800 with EE Energy, that we were spending eighty percent of 0:25:45.840 --> 0:25:49.679