WEBVTT - A Master Class On Tech Tools 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.440 Welcome the Money in Wealth with John Ho'bryant, a production 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:15.960 of The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartRadio. Yo Yo. 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:19.120 This is John Hope Bryant. This is Money and Wealth 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:23.520 podcast series. I am honored in twenty twenty five to 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:26.560 bring you another exciting episode. This is going to be 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:29.600 a bit of a masterclass I give you today. I'm 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:33.040 calling in, I'm phoning this in. I'm recording this live 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:39.519 from Poland. That's right halfway around the world, and it's 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:43.400 appropriate that I'm doing this from Poland. I'm actually here, 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:47.919 Schaefer and I are here is commemorating with Van Jones 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:52.519 and Robert Smith and others, the only invited delegation that 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:56.640 includes African Americans. Oddly enough are interestingly enough, should I 0:00:56.680 --> 0:01:04.039 say for the eightieth of liberation of Auschwitz the Jews 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:07.640 who were murdered here eighty years ago in World War Two? 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:13.040 This is commemorating the liberation from auschwitzen God bless the 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:17.560 soul's loss here. But when I'm on travel, I've got 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:21.319 to run my businesses. While I'm doing well, I have 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:24.040 to do good too. In order to do good, I 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:29.039 have to do well first, and so I have to 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:33.240 find a way to continue to run my operations. I've 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:40.080 got five divisions of John O'Briant Enterprises. You know me 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:42.840 most from my work at Operation the Hope, which is 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:49.200 the largest financial literacy coaching organization in America. Fifteen hundred offices, 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:55.640 give or take in almost every state in the United States. 0:01:56.600 --> 0:02:02.160 We have thousands of volunteers, we have collaborative partnership offices. 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:05.040 We have four hundred full time employees in all of 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:10.360 our operations. You have Operation Hope, You've got Brianger Adventures, 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:16.440 You've got brig Adventures Advisors, Brian Go Digital ETCA, et cetera, 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:19.840 et cetera, and then all the projects with an Operation Open. 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:22.160 I'm going to do a masterclass at some point on 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:26.200 how to run an effective nonprofit and how to build 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.360 one from scratch. Let me know if you like that idea, 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:31.000 by the way, how to build one from scratch, how 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:35.079 to to take an idea and turn it into and 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:37.560 operating entity, How to take an operating entity and turn 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:41.760 it into a successful enterprise. How to take a successful 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:45.720 enterprise that's boutique, our small business turning into a boutique 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:51.360 boutique successful enterprise that's been with a reputation, but it is, 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:54.239 you know, basically local, and how to take something local 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:59.920 and turning it into something that is known regionally doing 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:04.079 is regionally and nationally, et cetera. And how to turn 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:09.840 that too from a personality driven the activity into an 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:14.720 institution that is an upcoming podcast. You tell me whether 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:16.880 you like that. By the way, I'll do the same 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:19.880 thing for a for profit, but I wanted to start 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:22.360 with something that is a bit of a mystery with people, 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:26.000 which is a nonprofit. But the larger issues, whether it's 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.600 my real estate stuff, or whether it's my nonprofit financial 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:33.000 literacy stuff, or whether it's my you know whatever, we're 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:39.240 writing books and and speaking and et cetera, et cetera, 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:41.640 how do I do it? And people like how do 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.200 you do this? And then you you know, you have 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:47.000 a family, a personal life, how do you do all 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:50.520 this stuff? Well, I'm going to unpack some of that today, 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.440 and today no pun intended to unpack them and tell 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.200 you about also how I pack. I will put a 0:03:56.200 --> 0:04:01.520 couple of photos in of this actual photos of actually 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:05.120 my suitcase on this trip to give you some sense 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:09.040 of literally how I pack. But I'm going to most 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.000 importantly tell you about my tech tools. People will tell 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:14.280 you to be successful, they don't tell you how. So 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:17.480 part of my masterclass in twenty twenty five is breaking 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:24.200 down the how. This series, this session is my tech Tools, 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:29.560 John Bryant's tech Tools, the how of how I do 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:34.440 all this stuff and not go crazy. Somebody told me 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:38.159 a couple of years ago, and it's completely true that 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:41.599 if you don't have technology in the center of your 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:46.600 business or enterprise or nonprofit or government agency or whatever 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:49.240 it is you're running. If you don't have technology in 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:51.440 the center that I even believe in your personal life, 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:57.039 then you're actually not succeeding. You're falling behind. I'll say 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.599 that again. If you don't have technology, if technology is 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:03.200 not centric, centered in the center of whatever it is 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:08.840 you're doing. And I don't mean just having a iPhone 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:11.599 or whatever, the Samsung phone, whatever it is you use. 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:15.240 I use iPhone, I use Apple products. But I don't 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:17.560 just mean having a smartphone and treating it like it's 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.440 a dumb device. I don't mean just having a phone 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:23.400 and sending an email to somebody, or sending a text 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:25.599 to somebody, or making a phone call. That's not what 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.600 I'm talking about. If you don't have technology and use 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:32.560 it intelligently, use it smartly, and center that root that 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:36.920 in the center of your life. As a growing twenty 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:41.760 first century business, enterprise, entrepreneur or doer, you're actually not 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:46.480 going forward, you're going backwards. In real time, You've got 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:48.560 to be organized. It could be said that half a 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:53.920 success is showing up and having good habits. Showing up 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:56.720 and having good habits, it's time to take out your 0:05:56.760 --> 0:06:02.680 notepad and begin to take some notes. So let's go. 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:07.479 I'll do the packing piece as a bit of a 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.919 bonus here, how I, how do I travel? What do 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:14.920 I use? Let's get into the technology and how I 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:18.320 do it beyond the magic soft of how I think 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:25.800 and how I lead, which are value propositions our assets 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:30.840 that I have in my institutions have because leadership is 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:36.239 that outlier, unique asset that defines everything. And you have leaders, 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:40.200 you have managers, you have tacticians, you have doers. Those 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:44.240 are different categories of executives that you will have in 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:47.400 your organization. You give somebody a title does not mean 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:51.400 that they're a leader, by the way, But let's assume 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:53.440 for the moment you've got the right team in place. 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:55.640 Many of my people be with me for twenty or 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.280 thirty years. My chief of staff Rachel Dove has been 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:01.360 with me for thirty two years. I make sure it's 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:06.800 my second employee when I founded out Brian Group Ventures 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:10.960 and Operation Hope Lands Triggs building me for I think 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:14.720 going on thirty years. Mary Harrison going on, you know, 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:17.880 close to thirty years. Jenney Roscoe over twenty years and 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:20.840 goes on, goes on, goes on. So most of my people, 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:25.320 if you're if you're a newbie with me, you building 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:29.440 me for a decade. So you've got to have a 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:33.840 special forces team. It's been said, and I agree that 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:36.440 eighty percent of important work is done by twenty percent 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:40.080 of your people. Eighty percent of important work is done 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.000 by twenty percent of your people. But if you're going 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.160 to have by and then the other people just complain 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:47.520 and make your life miserable. But anyway, being an employer, 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.040 oftentimes the babies that are actually have great employees, So 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:55.480 I'm not complaining about by people. But even if you 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.559 have a special forces team, which's dinner different from having 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:02.480 a General Army special forces team, no different than special 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:06.400 forces in the military who has advanced weaponry to go 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:09.120 be dropped behind enemy lines so they can have an 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:14.280 outsized impact being outnumbered and outgunned. They've got to have 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:16.840 the you know, the element of surprise, and they have 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:21.800 to have superior training and be able to outsmart their adversary. 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:26.360 They're playing you know, chant and everybody else is playing checkers. 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:30.160 But they have to have you know, technology in their 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:33.920 again example, the example weaponry, which is far superiod in 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:37.760 those that they are coming up against. I have technology. 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:43.080 I have weaponry. It's called technology tools that allow me 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:48.840 and my special forces team to operate with outsized effectiveness. 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:53.640 Because even though we have four hundred people, it feels 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.960 like somebody told me that we have forty thousand people. 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:00.079 I don't know if they said four thousand, orto that 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.079 you get the point. It feels like ten x or 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:05.480 twenty x or one hundred x of what we have 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:09.920 in human capital actually on our payroll because we've been 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:15.120 so effective. Okay, so start writing this down. You don't 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:17.040 have to use these tools, but I think you should 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:21.400 use something like it. So the first thing I do, 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:23.680 and I have this graph, and I'm going to put 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:28.520 this graph somewhere on the video version of this podcast 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:32.080 so people can see it. I'm going to put this 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:44.199 graph in, but it's by JSB formula for achievement. So vision, mission, strategy, plan, 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:58.280 business plan, execution tactics to dos to done's assessment readjustment 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.960 for a grade back division. Now I haven't gotten to 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:06.439 the technology tools, per se. This is the technology is 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:09.600 how I use mind mapping, which is the first piece 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:14.840 of technology software that I'm gonna suggest that you get 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:17.520 for yourself. I don't care which software you use. There's 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:19.880 a simple one that you can use called mind le 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:24.600 It's very easy. In my n D L Y, there's 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:27.960 my thoughts. There's another one I've used before. What I 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:33.840 use at the moment is mind Meister. Mind Meister. It's 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:39.520 German mind mapping, and I like it because it's collaborative 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:44.400 and sophisticated and all that stuff. You can put links 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:48.080 in it. And I do a mind map for almost 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.720 everything important in my life. I start with the mind map. 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:52.560 And what you're doing in the mind map is getting 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:57.880 all the gello and all of the wiring, uh, you know, 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:00.559 the all the wiring of thoughts. I it is going 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.280 through your head at a million miles and miles and 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:04.520 miles an hour. You dry down the street, all these ideas, 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:06.720 so we to organize it, and you give yourself a headache. 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:10.200 Take all that stuff, clear the cobwebs out of your head, 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:13.840 and put it on a mind map. Literally, it is 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:18.640 a mapping of your mind as relates to the idea 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:23.120 at hand. So the first thing I do is take 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:26.200 my vision and make it real for my team, because 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.280 they can't get in my head. If they even they could, 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:29.840 they may not be able to understand what the heck's 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:33.040 going on there. I've been told them, just a different 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:37.000 kind of guy. I'm operating on different juice. I operate 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:39.959 three four times faster and everybody else when they get 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:41.679 up in the morning, right down the street and around 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:47.280 the blocks, you know I've finished when they're starting. And 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:52.319 I'm also just I'm just I'm operinging a different bit rate. 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:57.200 But I'm also maybe operating. I'm just thinking differently than 0:11:57.200 --> 0:11:59.600 everybody else. I'm at thirty thousand foot and they're at 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.360 you know, three thousand feet or three hundred feet. Because 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.520 they're tacticals. Most people are managers. They're just trying to 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:07.920 get stuff done on their to do list in front 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:11.000 of them. It's very different from executing against a vision, 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.640 and the Bible says, well, there is no vision that 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.439 people perish. So you have to have a vision. You 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:20.480 have to be disciplined about keeping it. So I have 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:24.400 mind maps, is my first suggestion for you. It works 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:28.400 in my business life. And here's a success hack. Is 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:31.160 a cheat she can give you now. It also works 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:36.000 in your personal life. Your personalize needs to be organized 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:40.280 just like your business life. Use mind maps to map 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:44.160 out a project, an initiative of your goals for twenty 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:49.120 twenty five, whatever it is, a new startup, business, restructuring, 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:51.440 whatever it is. You know you're going to send your 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:54.280 kids to college. You want to map that out over 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:56.160 the next five years. How you're going to pay for it. 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:59.760 Start with a mind map. Okay, so here's my map 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:04.440 for achievement of anything. Again, I would say one more time, vision, 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:08.400 what am I doing? Why? Mission? Why am I doing 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:14.000 that thing? Like, what's the purpose behind that? Uh strategy? Okay, 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:17.480 so my mission to go back to my missions. You know, 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:20.280 one of my missions is to un is to unleash 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:24.920 untapped human potential at scale. It's one of my missions. So, uh, 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:26.680 my vision might be the change of the world in 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:29.439 my lifetime. My mission might wait to do that is 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:33.840 to unleash untapped human potential at scale, to create an 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:37.200 economic infrastructure for underserved America, and so on and so forth. 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:40.280 And so you can look through my vision, see my 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:43.520 mission and vision might also be to extend on the 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:46.040 third reconstruction, or do the work of the third reconstruction, 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:48.840 which was the work that maybe doctor King and ambassor 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.960 Andrew Young we would be doing. Uh and doctor King 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.360 was still alive today, Andrew Young is very much alive, 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.720 or or if Frederick Douglas Nabam Lincoln was still alive today, 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.280 that was the first reconstruction in the second what I 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:02.839 believe this is a third reconstruction. So my vision might 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:09.040 be big, you know, and audacious, which is to you know, X, 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:11.760 Y and Z whatever that big bode here at big 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:17.440 Bode audacious idea is that's your vision for yourself. My 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:22.080 vision's this crazy big. Your vision might be to become 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:25.840 a business owner or have financial freedom or whatever. It's all. 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:30.000 Everybody's vision is different. Your mission, right, is a bit 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:33.880 more tangible. Right, And you've heard just now what my 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:36.880 mission is, right, and your mission should align with your 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:39.600 vision and then your strategy. Okay, how are you going 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:43.520 to go about this? Like what route are you going 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:46.920 to take to get to this objective? And then you 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:50.920 have a business plan. Okay, how's that? Strategy and admission 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:55.600 and vision get codified and run the ground. PhDs are good, 0:14:55.720 --> 0:15:09.160 PhDs are better. Then you have execution. That is what 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:12.560 it sounds like. You know, there's nothing better than getting 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:14.560 stuff done. So if there's an end of the story, 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:17.800 can we please start there. Let's get about the business 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:19.600 of getting it done. And don't let the perfect be 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:22.080 the death of the good. Sometimes you just need to 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:24.880 oftentimes just get out there and do it. You can always, 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:28.560 you know, fix it, repair it, upgraded, change it while 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:30.400 you're out there. But don't wait for things to be 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.920 perfect before you start something. You'll never start anything. Tactics, 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:36.880 it is against it. Most people are there are tactical 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:38.360 in their life. Most people getting up and that's all 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:41.440 they're doing is just tactical stuff, and they're urgent. Is 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:44.000 crowding out the importance in their life. They can't figure 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:47.040 out why they're not making any progress because busyness is 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:51.600 different from business to dos again it is when it 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:54.920 says again from tactics, tactical is Okay, how do I 0:15:54.960 --> 0:16:00.480 achieve this project or this objective today that my boss, 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:03.320 my vision has given me or maybe it is your 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.680 boss and to do's right or that's what they sound like. 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:10.160 And then literally you want to have a software for todos. 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:13.200 I'm gonna get to that in a minute. Two dons again, 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:17.280 you want to confirm you did the toadoos assessment? How 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:22.240 are you going to evaluate whether you were effective at 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:27.400 the pieces? I just articulated vision, mission, strategy, business plants, 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:30.240 Hugan tactics to dos to dons. What's your assessment with that? 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:34.040 Be honest? Did you screw up? If so, how, where, 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:37.800 when and how it went? And why? Readjustment based on 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:42.800 your assessment? Right? So yeah, readjustment and then give yourself 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:45.480 a software grade, a mental software grade. Okay, how do 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:49.120 I now take what I've learned and make myself better tomorrow? 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:51.920 You should go to bed tonight. You should get up 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:56.040 in the morning smarter and wiser, more fine than you were, 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:58.320 a better person even than you were when you went 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:02.040 to bed last night, because you've got a new mindset 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:05.720 or refined thought process, and you've got some sleep, and 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:08.479 then you're gonna give yourself a software grade, and then 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:10.679 you're gonna come back to vision the next day, and 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:13.399 everything you do in that day has to align with 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:16.320 vision or why are you doing it? You can waste 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:19.640 my money occasionally. You can't waste my time. I'm ruthless 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:22.560 about my time. Out Let anybody waste my time. I 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:27.760 can waste my time. You can't. Okay, So now let's 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:31.040 get into the tools to achieve the things that I 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:33.439 just said on this graph. Okay, and I've had this this, 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.600 I've been using this graph for two plus decades. Right, 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:40.800 So mind mapping software. I told you I used mind Master, 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:44.119 I suggested Mindly, have suggested I thoughts as other alternatives, 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:49.280 but use what you like. There's literally hundreds of software 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:52.000 that are available. To find the one that you really enjoy. 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:58.479 Then I have I use From there, I use something 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:06.280 called Confluence. Well in truth, I have a note taking 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:10.480 app it's really for crazy people called Obsidian. It sounds 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:14.680 like obsessed, but it's Obsidian, and it uses a technology 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:17.520 or an approach called markdowns, which I won't get into 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:21.359 in this video. But this is essentially your second brain. Okay, 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:23.639 this is the second brain. This is you talking to you. 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:25.840 If you can keep one hundred things in your head. 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:29.040 This allows you to keep one hundred thousand things in 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:32.520 your computer. And it's just it's it's just you talking 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:35.439 to you. Nobody. No one sees my Obsidian notes but me, 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:39.560 So just look into it. I call it my second brain. 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:42.160 But you need a note taking app. So you take 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:44.840 this vision, this this mind map, and now you've got 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:47.320 to make some comments yourself about how are you going 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:52.479 to strategize to get this done? And then I've got 0:18:53.040 --> 0:19:02.520 this Confluence software right, which is documents storage, cloud based 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:08.159 document and knowledge sharing with your team whoever's working with 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:12.040 you on this stuff, and an active collaboration. You can 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:16.159 have twenty thirty forty fifty people collaborating working with you 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:19.639 on the business plan, the strategy plan, whatever it is. 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:23.800 You're working on the project at the same time on 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:30.439 a document that's live that came from you, you know, 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:34.439 consolidation of your note taking which was which was birth 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:37.919 through your vision. Okay. So now I've got you from 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:44.000 vision right and mind mapping. Then I've taken you to 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:50.240 note taking with Obsidian, okay, or any note taking app 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:52.240 you like. Don't you don't have to use your subsidian. 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:57.480 I'm just giving you ideas of what I use, and 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:02.320 then I have stepped into a suite of software that 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:09.600 I use, the first of which is Confluence Confluence, and 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:12.920 Confluence is this collaborative tool. You don't have to use Confluence. 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:15.240 You're gonna use whatever you like. This is just what 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:20.960 I use, and it is not I outgrow a lot 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:27.000 of things, but I have not outgrown this. And that's 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:28.800 saying a lot for this software, but I have not 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:36.040 yet outgrown it. I also use ever Note to store 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:39.919 things that are one offs. So ever Note is cloud based. 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:43.119 And you know, if you've got your birth certificate, you 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:45.000 know you're gonna need that. At some point you're gonna 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:47.320 be flying around somewhere. You're gonna need your birth certificate. 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:49.280 It won't be won't be to get to your house, 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:51.840 get to your safe. You're gonna be in Nebraska or 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:54.640 someplace you need your birth certificate. And you don't want 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:56.880 to be walking around with all this stuff. I used 0:20:56.920 --> 0:20:59.440 to go to Maui on a retreat twice a year, 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:03.399 and literally I have this sixty seventy pound bag that 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:05.480 I throw at my shoulder. All these books I wanted 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:08.320 to read when I was a mall and retreat and 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:10.880 now just take my iPad. All my books are loaded here, 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:13.080 so you try to digitize as much as you can. 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:16.520 I hate paper. There's nothing. There's not a piece of 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:19.840 paper that I use in the course of the day anymore. 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:22.680 Now I used to use nothing but paper once upon 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:26.280 a time. Everything I use now is digital encrypted, which 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:31.680 means it has a deep security application to it, and 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:35.880 cloud based with encryption, which means it's hard for people 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:40.000 to basically steal your stuff. Ever. Note again, a birth certificate, 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:44.280 I only careful. I tell you what to put in here, 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:45.560 and I want to take it because I want you 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:51.600 blaming me if it doesn't work out. But it's one off. 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:59.000 Receipts warranties is the easy stuff. Copies of important things 0:22:00.840 --> 0:22:07.280 go in every note. I then use from Confluence, I 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:15.440 use Trello, and Trello is a lovely, wonderful, visually stimulating 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:19.159 program that allows you to do project management. And the 0:22:19.200 --> 0:22:23.679 collaboration with Confluence has now moved into project management. How 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:25.600 you're going to get this thing. You're going to run 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:27.679 it down ground to get it down. And so I 0:22:27.720 --> 0:22:33.560 have project boards, organizational and project boards and have cards 0:22:33.720 --> 0:22:37.919 in those projects that take this big vision and crunch it, 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:42.760 crunch it, crunch it down to manageable steps. Right. And 0:22:42.800 --> 0:22:44.720 then we won't get into this today. But it's something 0:22:44.760 --> 0:22:49.600 called GIRA j I r A that is deep project management. Well, 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:52.119 we won't get in that today. That's a bridge too far. 0:22:52.160 --> 0:22:53.359 I want to give you head I want to give 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:56.840 you a headache, but project management, you know. And I 0:22:56.920 --> 0:23:01.959 used to use another software before TrailO called Airtable. And 0:23:02.000 --> 0:23:04.840 then one note is on Microsoft. But one note is 0:23:04.880 --> 0:23:07.240 note taking in the Microsoft as a whole suite. So 0:23:07.280 --> 0:23:10.960 there's a whole Microsoft version of what I'm telling you. 0:23:11.359 --> 0:23:14.560 But there's two sides of my organization. There's the hunter 0:23:15.280 --> 0:23:17.680 side of my organization. I'm the hunt. I'm the chief Hunter, 0:23:18.000 --> 0:23:20.080 going and get it, going, to get the business, going 0:23:20.080 --> 0:23:25.160 to get the you know, the relationships, the joint ventures, 0:23:25.240 --> 0:23:33.280 the securing the future, closing the deal, you know, launching 0:23:33.359 --> 0:23:37.880 new projects and products. But hunting, that's what I do. 0:23:38.359 --> 0:23:41.520 There's a hunting group, there's hunter organization. Every organization is 0:23:41.520 --> 0:23:44.720 a hunter, skinner and a cook. Okay, the hunter that's me. 0:23:45.920 --> 0:23:51.040 Call it business acquisition. Keep that simple skinner, that's analysis 0:23:51.080 --> 0:23:54.800 and administration. Right. My chief of staff is my chief 0:23:55.119 --> 0:23:57.920 of staff. And she also is the chief administrative officer 0:23:58.520 --> 0:24:01.080 for our companies, right, so she is very high level 0:24:01.080 --> 0:24:04.840 executive and she's administering. And my chief financial officer is 0:24:04.880 --> 0:24:09.000 also part of the Skinner Skinner group. Right, So the 0:24:09.560 --> 0:24:13.440 Hunter Skinner this Cook. So the guy who is in 0:24:13.520 --> 0:24:17.320 charge of my products and my programs, he's delivering on 0:24:17.400 --> 0:24:23.159 my promises. That's the Cook. So the Skinner and Cook 0:24:23.800 --> 0:24:27.680 is a known You need of particularly you get organies 0:24:27.680 --> 0:24:29.920 as big as mine as mine is. We have you know, 0:24:30.280 --> 0:24:34.760 US one hundred standardization. You need policies and procedures. You 0:24:34.880 --> 0:24:39.359 need dependability, You need a software backbone that you know 0:24:39.520 --> 0:24:43.879 won't break. You need standardization. Uh, this is the general 0:24:44.000 --> 0:24:48.399 army stuff, right and this get this wrong and your 0:24:48.440 --> 0:24:50.840 whole thing freezes up. You cannot be it cannot be 0:24:51.080 --> 0:24:53.560 based on our personality. So we use Microsoft for that 0:24:54.160 --> 0:24:58.480 full disclosure. But the Hunter side of the house we 0:24:58.720 --> 0:25:03.840 use io Apple products for that and these customized apps 0:25:04.200 --> 0:25:09.320 that I have decided we're best in class over time. 0:25:09.359 --> 0:25:11.600 Because I'm really an underground tech geek. I don't know 0:25:11.640 --> 0:25:15.880 if you knew that I'm really a techie. I've run 0:25:15.880 --> 0:25:17.520 around with computers in my head have you ever seen 0:25:17.560 --> 0:25:20.120 me walking through the airport or whatever. If you see 0:25:20.119 --> 0:25:22.280 me sitting down with any free time, it's good chance 0:25:22.320 --> 0:25:24.480 I got my iPad app. I might have my app 0:25:24.520 --> 0:25:29.320 iPad out and a little magnetic because max safe allows 0:25:29.440 --> 0:25:32.800 things to stick to the to the iPad and stick 0:25:32.840 --> 0:25:34.880 to your eye. Stick your iPhone there too. You might 0:25:34.920 --> 0:25:38.159 see me have my iPhone up, iPad out with a 0:25:40.400 --> 0:25:45.760 floating keyboard and a magnetic elegant magnetic device next to 0:25:45.800 --> 0:25:48.600 the keyboard where I put my iPhone, so everything is 0:25:48.640 --> 0:25:52.480