WEBVTT - Ep 225 - Find Your "Zone of Genius" At Work 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:23.320 Hey, hey, hey, we're black, We're brown. My blind AMBITI girl, 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:25.439 Hey man, joy, that was take two and not doing 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:26.600 take three. 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:29.480 Oh if that was take two, I don't want to 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:35.880 hear table. How odd happy happy middle of July. I'm 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:39.600 hanging in there. I'm hanging in there. We just put 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:42.680 the baby down by the hair of my chinny chinchin. 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:45.240 I got here in time. Homeboy is sleeping twelve hours 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:45.600 a night. 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:46.159 Okay. 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:48.680 I could only if I could only go back to 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.440 little baby Mandy from four months ago and tell her 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:53.640 it was going to be okay, she would have slapped 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:56.600 me in the face and said, no, we won't. But yeah, 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:58.920 things have been much much better. It could not his 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:02.440 his whole turning into a regular human who sleeps long 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.200 stretches could not have come at a better time. I'm 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:07.000 finally feeling like I'm getting my brain back. 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:09.400 Good. Oh that's good. 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:13.200 Yeah, well, I I'm trying not to get two of 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:15.600 my feelings about it. But this whole the news about 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:19.360 Nia Rivera from Glee who passed away, Oh my god, 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:21.600 that story. I can't That's the kind of stuff. When 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:23.960 I was like really in the throes of postpartum anxiety, 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:26.640 would I would have been like down for a whole day, 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:30.200 just just like sobbing. But oh my god. So it's 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:32.800 that four years. You know, baby in the boat. 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.000 I know, and he's like, Mommy went for a swim, 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.200 and I'm like, what happened? Did she jump? Did she? 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:37.840 Yeah? 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:39.520 Yeah, I don't know. 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:43.360 Well they said that apparently lakes like that they are 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:47.240 really big and the wind can cause riptides or currents, 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:50.720 and so the press I did. I did watch a 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:53.040 bit of the press conference. I was kind of following 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:55.680 the news on Twitter, and they said that it seemed 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:58.360 like she used just all of her energy to get 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:02.240 her baby back in the boat, year old Josie, and 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:06.480 then she had and then she basically couldn't save herself, 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:07.320 which is just. 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:11.960 Because I'm like, yeah, it's here, so yeah, I know. 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:15.359 Just with your baby. So my heart goes out to 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:17.359 their family and I just want it makes me want 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:22.440 to squeeze everybody. You know. Mortality is just it is 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:26.560 just it looms. It looms, it looms, and you know, 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:29.799 you don't want to let yourself get to drag down 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:31.880 by it, but it does. I mean, with everything going 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:34.280 on in this world right now, it's a lot it 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:38.200 is just a lot, even for me sometimes. Yeah, but 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:42.079 thankfully for this show, I cannot have something to look 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:46.000 forward to. Dr Dave reading these crazy headlines, Yeah, do 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:47.119 you have any good news to share? 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:47.600 What did you? 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:49.200 What did you cook for dinner? You said you cooked 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:49.680 for Superman? 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:52.959 I did. I mean it's not anything fancy, just some spaghetti. 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:54.360 But it's like the way he loves it, because he 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:57.120 like he was like, hey, bab I know. And that's 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.360 why I feel so bad because when I'm always like, 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:01.280 oh my god, girl, like the fact that he's so 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:03.400 geeked about spaghetti. 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:08.400 Is like so telling Loki sounds so comforting and delicious. 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.800 Right now, I haven't had spaghetti, and I don't even know, 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:12.839 like bears, when's the last time I had a big 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:15.120 old bowl of spaghetti? You know? But like I did 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:16.720 you use like did you make your own sauce or 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:19.000 were you talking like prego here? Well see what I 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:20.360 do with like don't say ragu no. 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:22.200 So what I do is like, you know, like I 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:25.600 cut up fresh garlic and onion and peppers, and so 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:28.280 I will jazz up a sauce, you know, like whatever 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:29.560 he has in that. I don't even know what I 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:31.400 just poured the cannon and then like I'll you know, 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.680 like I don't really eat meat, but we use ground turkey, 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.680 so like I'll make the ground turkey first, all these seasonings, 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:40.040 and then you know, I pour the sauce and then 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.200 he's the type of so are you manajor? Are you 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:46.840 a separate sauce noodle girl? Or are you a combined 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:47.800 spaghetti person? 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:51.560 I used to eat spaghetti like a savage, which was 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:53.840 you put the dry noodles on the plate and then 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:57.200 you PLoP the sauce on. That was me, because yeah, 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.720 well that's what that's like the cartoons spaghetti that you 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:01.960 see your whole life. You grow up and then any 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:03.920 and then you get old enough for like a real 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.520 Italian to be like, we do not eat that way. 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:08.880 I don't know what kind of accent that was, but yeah, 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:10.920 they mix it up and this like this like the 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:13.360 what did I read? Oh, we use way too much 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:15.680 sauce in America, Like the pasta is supposed to be 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:20.920 the star box. I don't know about that. I'm trying 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:23.000 to drown out the taste of the cart here. 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:26.520 No, because I never had it mixed. I remember the 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:28.080 first time Superman made it for me. I was like, 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:31.080 what is this? What is this sorcery? And I'm like, oh, 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.839 I like it, so yeah, so I mix it all together. 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:35.120 But yeah, so it was good and I've just made 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.760 him like a side sound. But wee me and Supergirl 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:40.560 today for lunch, I said, what should eat for lunch? 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.040 She's always like, she said, I don't know what about Mexican? 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.839 So she had tacos and I had vegetarian burrito. 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:50.920 It was dilish, you ordered out or did you go out? 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:54.440 No? We ordered out. We don't grow where where, so no, 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:55.480 we ordered Tiffany. 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:59.039 But Tiffany, listen, It's like people are out there living 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:01.560 their lives and as if nothing is going on. And 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:04.960 I am like here in the bunker, like what what's 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:08.200 happening out there? Wire? And I see pictures, you know, 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.839 like people eating on the sidewalk in New York. Not 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.200 to mention even my home, my home state of Georgia, 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:16.799 and what's going on there. It just like it feels 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:19.320 like an alternate universe out there with always lives being lived. 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:21.440 Yeah, in the open, I don't feel I mean like 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:22.919 I go out Wesson. 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:26.200 Down my Trader Joe stuff with the damn Clorox wipe. 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:28.159 I just don't feel comfortable like on the I go 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:31.120 on the weekends, I will like go to my office 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:33.440 to check the mail because no one's there. And then 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:35.599 sometimes like you know, so I try to do big 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.560 shopping now, so I went, I go to Costcos. I 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:41.520 would say every two and a half months I've been going. 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.320 So I've gone like two or three times since quarantine started. 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.000 And I just get like a ton of everything and 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:49.840 it's honestly more than enough. And then in between things 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:51.640 like you know, veggies and fruit that you know that 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:53.520 have to be eating in a timely manner. That's just 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:56.640 like my Superman just gets that on those way home. 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.159 So we've been really good with Like I'm just like 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:01.160 I just don't and I hones see. The truth is 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:03.719 I always have a big outside, go outside person anyway. 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:08.000 So I'm just like more more from. But I do 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:11.279 want to share something. So I feel like I haven't 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:15.200 given you guys an update on business coaching. So I 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:17.279 learned this exercise I feel like we can all do. 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:20.720 It's called have you ever heard of your Zone of Excellence? 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:25.720 No, but I'm paying attention because that sounds awesome. So 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:30.200 are you talking or like no, well again, where are 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:30.920 we going with us? 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:34.320 So it can be anything. So really it's called I 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.560 forget what like the actual full activity it is called. 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:39.799 But there are four zones that you put an activity into. 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:44.440 So Zone one are things that you love to do 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:47.840 and you're good at them. That's one. Zone two things 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:50.880 that you like to do. No. So Zone one is 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:52.960 things that you love to do and you're great at them. 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:55.800 So you literally create like a box, love to do great. 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:59.119 Zone two like to do, you're good at it. Zone 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:02.720 three don't like to do and you're good at it. 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:06.080 Zone four don't like to do and you're bad at it. 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.320 So what are the business? So? But I love about 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:10.800 our business coach, it's just not him. He has a 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:14.240 whole team. So he had everyone on the team do 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:17.800 this activity and create a role scorecard, like almost like 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.200 a report card for the things that you do. So 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:22.040 list all of the activity that you do for the 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:26.000 company and how many minutes that you work on these 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:28.920 things and is it a one, a two, or three 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:31.520 or four. So I'm looking and I'm like, oh my gosh, 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:36.080 something that I like, For example, brown ambition, I put 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:38.360 well because it's not for my other company, but still 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:40.600 I spend a lot of time so brown ambition I 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:42.800 put as a one love to do it, I'm good 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.120 at it. It was just so interesting to see all 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:48.320 of my activities rate it that way, like one, two, three, four? 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:50.600 Do I love to do it and I'm really great 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:52.240 at it, I'm excellent at it. Do I just like 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:54.400 to do it and I'm good at it? Am I 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:56.280 good at it? But I hate to do it? And 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:58.160 do I hate to do it and I'm bad at it? 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:00.160 And so you really don't want any threes in four 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:02.720 and if you're spending a lot of time in the 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.400 three and four zone, you really have to reevaluate, like 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:07.200 what's really going on here? So it was just like 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:11.120 I said, it was really powerful. And I don't think 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.240 the activity is called zone of excellence, It's called something else. 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:15.480 But zone of excellence is like where you're wanting to be, 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:16.280 which is in the one. 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:19.960 So you ideally want everything to be one or two, 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:21.760 and then what do you do with the with the 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:23.520 threes and fours? I mean, what if there's no one 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:24.200 else to do that? 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:27.760 So just well one first acknowledging, like so Zion who's 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:30.040 our coach? Is always like, you know, celebrate the acknowledgment. 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:33.440 I'm like, oh you're so zion, so like, yay, I 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:35.280 celebrate the fact I hate this thing, but. 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:39.040 I diggust the tell's that's first. 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:43.400 But then, you know, like you'd be surprised. Maybe there's 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:46.720 someone on your team that wouldn't mind sharing in that 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:49.319 responsibility because they actually have something in their three that's 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:52.480 a two for you. So or maybe it's something like 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:55.120 someone that you manage, Mandy might come to you and 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.599 share like, you know, I'm really great at these, but 0:08:57.640 --> 0:08:59.880 this is not really something I enjoy. But you know, 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.079 because you manage everyone, you know what, Sarah on the 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.920 team actually loves that, do you see? Like that's why 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.360 the role scorecard that he gave us is something that 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.640 the team all did and we me as the leader 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.480 and CEO and my other lead team we get to 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:18.040 review to see is anyone's role or anyone's role scorecard 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:20.640 full of threes and fours because we need to adjust 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:23.520 what they do. So really it's it's their job to 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:25.360 kind of say, you know, I'm really not happy in 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:27.040 this space, but it's our job to say, what can 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:30.920 we do to adjust? You know? And yeah, so because 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:32.320 It could also be like, let's just say you're a 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:33.920 really small team. It's just like, you know, you just 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.160 starting your business and it's you in an intern. Well 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:38.440 obviously you have to do all the things, but you 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:40.480 might say, when I get a little money, I'm going 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:42.719 to hire for three or four. But do you see, 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.000 it just helps you to guide you with next steps, 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.200 Like I hate emails. I hate emails. The next person 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:50.040 I'm hiring is definitely an admin, you know, like or I. 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.080 So it just it's just such a great tool to 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:57.120 really understand, like are you spending your time within your 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:02.079 zone of excellence? It's Quadrat one is called zone of excellence. 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:06.480 Quadrant two is called zone of Ah dang it, I 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:10.959 had it. It's called zone of acrity. No Quajet two 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:13.600 is called zone of something something good. Quadjet three is 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:18.679 called zone of competence. Quadrat four is called zone of incompetence. 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:21.480 But I forget what Quadrit three is called. It's like excellence. 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:23.959 I have so many jokes. I'm gonnauld thement. 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:27.000 But yeah, it was just like I said, it was 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.960 just a really good, like lesson an exercise. So just 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:33.240 google like zone of excellence, quadrant or whatever. And it's 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.000 just I think it's a really good exercise to. 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:38.640 Do one of my I feel like one of the 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.680 things that I enjoyed doing as a manager of people, 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:44.720 and that also kind of drives me nuts because I 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:45.760 have to. I feel like I have to do it 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.400 a lot is tell people how to fix their problems 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:52.000 by asking other people to help. It's it's amazing to 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:55.160 me how often someone's complaining about something that they can 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:59.360 absolutely fix by just asking for help or delegating or 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:03.840 using the undn't resources at their behest. And you know, 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.520 I think sometimes you know, you have people who who 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.000 think if I'm not busy in killing myself, then I'm 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:12.000 not working hard enough, or my boss doesn't think I'm 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.400 working hard enough. But I mean, we had a meeting 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:17.320 today one of my one of my editors. He won't 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:19.000 I mean not that he listens. I don't know, maybe 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:21.440 he does, but he wouldn't mind. He was he was 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.360 kind of joking, but he was like, yeah, man, I'm like, patmos, 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:26.600 I'm almost going to pass out, just so much to do. 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.600 And I was like pass out where doing what this job? 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:30.080 Editing? 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:34.080 You're like, come on, now, who's passing out? Why are 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.600 you feeling like you got to pass out, okay, And 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:39.160 it turns out like all of our editors set their 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.480 own goals right for the beginning of the month. Here's 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:43.680 you know, the number of articles we're going to produce. 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.880 Just I'm just super simplifying it. They literally set their 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:49.840 own goals. And then when they complained about that, I'm like, 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:53.920 who told you to publish ninety five things this month? 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:54.560 Oh? 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:58.640 I did? I'm like, well, and you know it's it's 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:00.920 you know, I'm not at that content sending, but it 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:04.719 really is. It is I leave a lot of room 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:06.840 for people to set their own goals. And I'm guilty 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:08.800 of this too, you know, creating goals for myself that 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:13.959 are on realistic, especially in this yeah realistic. And then 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:17.280 even my therapist was like, so, who was in charge 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.240 of what you your deadline? And I said, well me, 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:23.160 and I mean it's I have to walk the walk 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:24.960 and it's often me. And she's like, so, what's the 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:27.560 worst that would happen? Would you fire yourself if you 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:30.480 missed this deadline? I'm like, no, I mean I guess not. 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:32.520 I guess I can change it. She's like, so, what 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:36.240 you know anyway, anyway, so I think that's great because 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:39.800 often and I also think the busyness like being busy 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:41.880 for me as a manager, I want people to be 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:45.160 spending their time busy with the things that only they 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:47.600 can do. Yes, and I don't think there's enough time 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:51.800 people spend. And that's why I love like our editorial assistant. 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.000 And you know, we have other people on the team 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:56.040 who can be sort of like your Swiss Army knives 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:59.600 to pitch in and help out when there's tasks that 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.920 are important, but not it's not the only task that 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:04.920 you can do. Like there's things that I hired you 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.400 for because you have these skills and you're good at 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:08.880 this thing, and we're. 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.679 Rated so much time of things and for clarity, my bad, 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:15.679 because you're not the worst memory tool. It's zone of genius, 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:17.319 so jone of genius is. 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:19.480 Lovingly al sold on Zone of eler. 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:21.880 Sorry but no. So Zone of genius is you love 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:23.480 it and you're good at Zone of excellent is you 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:25.240 like it and you're good at it. So Zone of 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:26.920 genius you love it and you're great at it. So 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:29.880 that's ideally if you can get the majority of your 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.920 things and your genius, it's like Mandy you are. You 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:36.280 might be like super organized, you're a great leader, you're 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:39.320 a great writer, but you're also like a critical thinker. 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:43.120 So you know, the role that you're in is perfectly 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:45.520 in align with how you show up. Like for me, 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:48.199 that's why teaching is like my jam because it's my 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.400 zone of genius. It's like all the things that I 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:54.200 am like, you know, fun, outgoing and you know, personality 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:56.720 and so, but also wanted to share and be of service. 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.720 So when I teach, that is my zone of genius 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:02.559 because it's like all the things I actually enjoy are 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:05.360 matched up with the things I really really really really 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:09.040 really good at. So yeah, zone of genius one, zone 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:13.679 of excellence to zone of competence three and zone of incompetence. 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:17.320 For of course, I want to think about what am 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:22.680 I incompetent at? Power points power points. The day that 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:25.480 I realized I could delegate the creation of my power 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.600 points was the day that I was like, this is 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.840 I My life has been changed for the better. I said, 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:34.720 you are officially the most valuable employee on myself camera 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:37.320 editorial assistant because I'm never going to do a PowerPoint 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:38.920 and you were going to do them because It's like 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.160 I could sit here and type these words into bullet 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.800 points and make them pretty and add witty gifts and 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:46.200 things like that. Or I could have camera and who's 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:47.800 very good at these things do it for me and 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:49.160 then spend my time elsewhere. 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:51.480 That's like for me, I say myself three hours. For me, 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:53.920 it's probably technology stuff. Like I remember I was like, Oh, 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.400 I'm gonna, you know, pull this link or I'm going 0:14:56.480 --> 0:15:00.160 to like, you know, create this graphic girl. Why to 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:03.880 in project management? Like I'm good at setting the intention 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:07.600 and you know, doing my part, but I project management 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:12.960 requires a level of organization that is foreign to why 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:15.520 So like I'll start off good, like we got our checkpointed, 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:17.600 our checklists, Yes a lot. 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:18.760 That's my genius zone. 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:21.600 So for me, that's zone of incompetence where I'm like, 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.240 not only do I not like necessarily project managing at 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:26.560 least not to the nitty gritty, I'm terrible at it. 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:29.240 So it's like why am I leading this? You know? 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:31.840 Like why did I ask Karen? Like I just actually 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:34.400 had to talk with someone today who I was supposed 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:37.560 to be helping to do a project, and I promised 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:38.800 to take the lead on it. And actually had to 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:41.360 call and have a candid conversation because I did my 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:43.800 my my chart and I was like, yeah, you know, 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:45.440 I promise I was going to be a lead. Yeah, 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:47.840 I'm not capable. I'm not capable. 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:52.120 I get this picture. What happens if someone comes to 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.480 you like, actually, that's not in my zone of genius, 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.080 so I can't talk about Sometimes is there a zone 0:15:57.120 --> 0:16:00.840 for your zone of nobody? But you here available, You're 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:02.560 a warm body and you must do this to help 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:03.040 the company. 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:05.600 Right now, Well, I'll say this that, like I would 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.760 think that what I wouldn't want. It's sometimes there are 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:11.239 moments when you have to work in zone of competence, 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:13.240 meaning it's something that you really don't care for but 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:15.720 you're good at it. But I don't ever want anyone 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.120 to work in zone in competence because you are literally 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:20.280 doing a bad job and the thing that you hate. 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:22.120 Why would I want anybody working in the bad job? 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:24.520 You know? Like because they have of course, you know. 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:25.320 So that's why. 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:29.040 So those some people go ahead, Some people like some people. 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:31.960 I have been at places not my current and player 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:34.520 at all, but I have been in environments in the 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:37.560 office where people really like to complain and they like 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:41.120 that little misery stew in the zone of incompetence where 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:43.360 they're not great at their job. They're also loved to 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:46.320 bitch about it, and that is kind of like their thing, 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.240 you know, just complaining and dragging everybody down, and they 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:52.160 just fester and they're in the shadows of a work 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:55.400 environment and they just bring they just the toxicity that 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:57.640 Ooz is out of those people. Ooh. I was like, 0:16:57.760 --> 0:16:59.520 never again, let me be. I don't want to work 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:00.440 with anybody like that. 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:02.400 If you notice that other people, like I've gotten because 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:05.320 I'm fortunate in that we have free range to let 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.280 go folks like that because we have. We haven't hasn't 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:12.159 happened often, but we have. But yeah, and then you know, 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:14.800 if you're fortunate for those types of people to leave, 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:17.320 what you learn is like after a while, you know 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:20.880 it's in leadership. You learned to spot spot the template, right, 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:24.080 So you know, I'm like, oh, I've had enough people. 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:27.920 Then I'm like, ooh that, let's pretend names that's a Brian. Yeah, 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:30.440 You're not gonna fool me. I met you three years ago, 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.240 Like it's not you, but it's you. You know, like 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:36.160 that type of personality and you're or you're like, oh, 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:39.360 that's a Sarah. Oh, Sarah's worked great here. So I've 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:42.399 learned that there are certain personalities where I can tell 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:45.080 where people sometimes will pretend they know how to do 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:46.480 a thing but don't know how to do a thing. 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:49.680 And there's certain languages that people use. I've had people 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:52.840 who were, you know, kind of like for less lack 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.280 of a better word, like a suck up, and I'm like, okay, 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:58.280 that's great, but what about the delivery? Oh oh, so 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:00.920 you think that if we're KOUCHI that's what we say 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:04.119 back in the day. If you think that we're that 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:06.160 just means super I don't even know where me when 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:08.640 I'm saying this is like second grade. If you think 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:09.720 that we're coaching. 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:13.360 Twenty lens, I don't know that we can say much. 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:16.320 Klay might have to beat that out. 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:18.640 Yeah that's okay, But I mean it's so crazy because 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:20.040 that's something we used to say, like as a kid, 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:22.560 I don't know, I'm thinking like where did that come from? 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:24.919 But as kids we would say that. So if you 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:27.280 think that you are super close to me, you think 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:31.240