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Ep 77 - Finding Meaning, Purpose, and Beauty in Your Busy Life
Today's episode begins with a review of the popular Netflix series, Midnight Diner - a Japanese show that focuses on the wonders of simplicity. We'll explore key components of communication and be inspired by a father's story of heartbreak followed by meaning and beauty. Also, we delve into an inspirational story about young teens that survived on a deserted island for 18 months! Apply these lessons about meaning and purpose to your life now.
Transcript:
Joyful, productive and fulfilled. That's what you're gonna learn. When you listen to this podcast, all the hats we wear. I'm your host, Scott Snow. I'm a life coach and productivity expert. Our first story here is midnight diner. That's a new TV show on Netflix. Well, I guess it's there's a second season now. But I really liked this show, it's 30 minutes long. And it's reminds me of the beauty of simple pleasures. It's all in Japanese. It's about a guy they call master who is who owns a diner, and they open up a midnight, and they close at seven in the morning. So it's all of the people that, you know, they leave work, and they come stop off at the diner for something to eat. And this reminds me of role transitions. Because as you know, one of the trickiest transitions to make is from your work role, to your home personal role. And a lot of times, it helps to, you know, open the windows in the car to have some specific music you like maybe it's quiet, maybe it's a meditation that you do something going out to eat, grabbing something grabbing a coffee, something you need to do to make help you make that transition between the work view and the home you. Now this show, he only has one thing on the menu, and that's a pork miso soup. But if he has the ingredients, he'll make whatever you request. That's his rule. So a lot of people bring their own ingredients and give them to him. So each episode is it's really a charming, sweet show. And each episode focuses on a dish, a simple Japanese dish, it could be butter, rice, soup stock with a rolled omelet. orcia Zuki, which is basically rice with some kind of meat with it pickled plum, cod row salmon, rice with tea rice with soup, bonito flakes over rice, Benito, I guess is like a fish that you It looks like a piece of wood that you shave, you know, with a planer it's called cat rice. So I really enjoyed the show. And it's based on manga series, I guess called Shinya shokudo. And I love the simplicity of it. Actually, you know, I one of my bucket list is to get Japanese flooring in my house. It's called tatami, and this is a woven straw. I'm sure you've seen it, you know, in Japanese movies, or even the, you know, the famous scene in The Matrix, when he's training for kung fu that all the floors, it's just that beautiful, smooth, woven straw material I really like. So some episodes were about friendship, you know, there was one between a mob boss and a transexual. In the, of course, their paths usually wouldn't, you know, connect, but they became friends. And there's one funny quote from the transexual. And they're drinking and he's feeling more comfortable with the mob guy who is very, you know, rigid and standoffish. And they both say that usually they wouldn't like each other at all. Like they they despise mobsters, or despise transexual in the transactional says, oh, get off your high horse. And I thought that was such a perfect response, you know, when he's feeling less inhibited, just to say the truth of what it is. There was one episode about three female friends that they they're funny together, they always talk in unison and they're, they're searching for the perfect love. And there's a fancy food critic, who was very conceited and very rude. And he became very interested in you know, very simple butter rice. There's an episode about a porn star who reunites with his reunites with his elderly mom, who has dementia, a boxer who falls in love. It's just a really charming, interesting show. Reminds me of Episode 13 of my podcast, where I talk about the great documentary Jiro dreams of sushi about the world's greatest sushi restaurant in Japan. Story number two, David kantoor passed away and he was an innovative mental health counselor. He created this idea for mental health support groups, which I'm very interested in because I'm considering starting some open zoom groups. For my all the hats we wear a podcast on all the hats we wear
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So where people could get together and have support and have some exercises to help them manage their busy life, and share resources with one another. love that idea, I think there's a great need for it too. So, keep watch on the website, I do have a page about this zoom support group. So I'm trying to find out the schedule. I mean, probably in the next week, you'll see some regular office hours that where we can get together and you can pop in and get some help. Now this guy, David Cantor, he he left a lasting legacy. And his pioneering work pioneering work was his structural dynamics theory of communications and sounds very fancy. He had a theory of face to face communication, where anytime two or more people were in a room conversing. If they have history, they'll develop a dynamic. So the foundation of his theory was the four player method, or model. And he says, There are only four kinds of structural acts that people use in all communication. All communication within this group can be funneled down to four actions. The first is to move like an example let's go to the movies, someone who's in charge and who's given the suggestion to is to follow, three is to oppose. And four is the bystander, which is the most important vocal act of the four. And this is the ability to add perspective to what's going on, and to bridge differences between people. I'm also thinking of Irvin yalom, who was like the godfather of psychiatric group therapy, and he wrote an excellent book about that, that was part of my internship. Report, my paper that I had to do with my six month internship at Westboro state psychiatric hospital. Also, he started something he called the well met halfway house. And it was innovative back in then, because it had college students working in residential group homes, this halfway house, and it was a family atmosphere, that people in transition are more open to change than those stably located in an institution. I think that's an important point. He expanded his systems theory to the business world and did a lot of management consulting in his later years, and he wrote a book called reading the room, group dynamics for coaches and leaders. interesting guy. Next story, finding meaning in grief. The book is called finding meaning the sixth stage of grief by David Kessler. He says that we have to find meaning in our loss, to process our grief. Now, we've all lost things due to the pandemic, rituals, loved ones, events, graduations ceremonies. And we have the false idea that our work is to make the grief smaller word our actual work is to become bigger and go around that grief and that loss. Kessler says that meaning doesn't mean understanding. For example, you may never understand why a loved one died. But you can find meaning. And that may change you for the better example. The woman who lost her child to a drunk driver went on to found MADD Mothers Against Drunk Driving. So she became much more determined and generous and she had a vehicle to celebrate his life and to do something worthy of meaning. Also, Kessler says that he fears when things open up after the pandemic that people that have passed away, their family members might just say, Well, they've been gone for a while, you know, let's not have a funeral. But he says that we need to have funerals, that their grief hasn't been witnessed. The person who passed away it was left alone in isolation during the pandemic, and that we need these rituals like a funeral. A funeral is a marking of life, he says. And Kessler had some extreme loss in his life as well. He lost a 21 year old son back in 2016. Very suddenly. And Kessler doesn't agree with the the advice, move on, just move on. He prefers move forward with it.
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And I love this story here. This gets a ding. He did a lecture series in Hamburg, Germany. And he says there's a church right in the middle of a bustling, beautiful city. There's a church that's still in ruins, and they keep it there. It's St. Nikolai church, in Hamburg, Germany. And he likes to hold the loss of his son in his heart like this church. is surrounded by a beautiful new city. So Kessler says his heart partially is always devastated by that loss of his son. There's always a place in his heart that's just always going to be ruined because of that. But that doesn't mean that he can still build a beautiful structure around that devastation. He can go on with his life and make beautiful things happen. So well said, Kessler. Next story is about shipwrecked boys that had a situation just like the Lord of the Flies. And Australians seafarer named Peter Warner, in 1966 discovered six boys on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific. They had been there for 15 months, hadn't had six boys. When they 15 months before the boys their ages 13 to 16. They stole a boat for a joy ride, or Mariner joy ride. And then they got a storm. And then they were adrift for eight days. And then finally they saw this island so they got to the island. They first lived off rockfish and birds eggs. And after a while they stumbled upon the ruins of a village and they found a machete and some chicken and they made a fire. And then they created their own house a thatched roof hut. They made a garden. They had badminton, they made a guitar and each night they ended the night with prayers and songs. I mean, it sounds like the best movie ever. They had a strict duty roster where they all participated in duties. And they learned how to trust themselves. So it's kind of a real life Lord of the Rings, but it wasn't murderous anarchy. Like in the famous book. It suggested that cooperation perhaps is an integral feature of the human nature. So inspirational story there. All right. Thanks for joining me. I hope you got something out of this podcast. If you did, let me know. If you want to hear more about what I do. Check out the website. All the hats we wear calm, and you can even take a free one hour course to completely change your approach to time management and balancing your crazy busy life. Check out all the hats we wear calm. Until next time, we'll see you!
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Ep 76 - How to Become More Focused in Each of the Roles You Play
Learn to become indistractable, make important connections between identity and behavior change, identify your role attributes, and explore how to show up as who you wish to be without first receiving acknowledgment for it.
Episode outline:
1:15 Indistractable book
2:50 Four reasons happiness is fleeting
4:00 Identity and behavioral change
5:50 My roles and identities
6:30 Essentials of a healthy human psyche
7:30 Roles in obituaries
9:30 Police reform: warrior to guardian mindset
11:20 Role attributes
12:15 Amira Alvarez interview (Ep 63) - switching between energy levels
13:25 Top self-development lesson I learned last year
14:45 Paul Stanley story
Ep 75 - Around the World: Effectively Manage Your Time With a Simple Productivity Technique
Learn a simple productivity technique that will keep you current in all of the moving parts of your life. We'll explore crazy, out-of-the-box ideas so you can start thinking big. You'll decide for yourself how inspiration comes to you: quietly or like a ton of bricks. And we'll hear one more handy tip for squeezing everything you can out of your day.
Episode notes:
0:30 Crazy ideas
6:30 Banana ball
8:13 Inspiration comes in shouts and whispers
10:15 San Antonio Spurs' locker room quote about perseverance
11:20 Warren Buffet's Cigars
16:25 Around the World: productivity technique
Ep 74 - Steven Spielberg's Secret for Becoming What You're Meant to Be
The biggest question for today's episode is: Does our purpose come to us all at once or in tiny messages? Spielberg can teach us about creativity, intuition, and how to discover what we're truly meant to do!
Episode notes:
0:50 Steven Spielberg's wisdom
9:37 Benita Raphan, experimental film director (Boston Globe, 4-12-21)
10:34 Tell me a story - Game of Thrones scene
12:30 Batching: productivity hack
15:35 Beauty of what Charles Shultz did with the Peanuts comic (New York Times, 4-28-21)
18:00 Treasure hunt in Maine (Boston Globe, 4-12-21)
Hello, World!
aEp 73 - Jane Goodall: Living a Life of Purpose
Today's episode was inspired by the documentary "Jane” - a beautiful film about the amazing life of Jane Goodall. We’ll explore how her life is a model for living a life of purpose and meaning.
Episode outline:
0:22 Jane Goodall and living a life of purpose
4:43 DING! Top takeaway from the episode: how we define a purposeful life
5:54 Indistractable: How to control your attention and choose your life by Nir Eyal: Why happiness is fleeting
8:34 Positive effects of daydreaming
9:34 NFT (non-fungible tokens) Connection between NFT's and journaling
10.48 Journaling tips: Book "Author Your Life" by Laura Zielen
15.05 Burn the boats!
Ep 72 - With a Pure Hear You Can Be Productive and Aligned With Your Purpose
When you come from a pure heart, you're aligned with your purpose completely. Apply this attitude to your life and see how your life will be more joyful and efficient!
Episode outline:
0:30 Fred van Fleet and having a pure heart
2:56 Wahl Street - Mark Wahlburg's documentary - tips for entrepreneurs
5:57 Gary Vaynerchuk's advice for getting more done
7:06 Towel technique: peak performance without opinion or inner dialogue
8:11 Happiness research
9:54 Immediacy of art - Chelvanaya Gabiel, art activist
11:58 Extraordinary chef, Erin French
12:54 Secretary of Health & Human Services, Marylou Sudders
13:45 The Power of Subtraction - taking away can be more effective than adding to
Got to Be A Guest on the Blasting Bliss Podcast with Shell Phelps!
Shell Phelps invited me to be a guest on her excellent podcast called Blasting Bliss and it was a blast! Her theme for this season of her show is “soul searching.” Ms. Bliss asked me all about how I found my way back to my passion and purpose.
Her show notes give a sneak peak into this episode that you’ll enjoy immensely:
”Listen to Scott's captivating story of how he begins living his passion in high school and how it carved out a new path for him in college. Yet, he soon discovers his dream and passion were cut short by external circumstances that left him abandoning his passion for many years. As his journey continues, Scott revives his passion and dream in an unexpected direction. Listen to how he rediscovered his passion by helping others and by giving back.”
If you would like to find out more about Shell Phelps, please visit the website at https://www.phelpsconsulting.net/.
If you're interested in Phelp's award-winning book, The Big Bliss Blueprint, be sure to visit her bookshelf for more self-help motivation https://www.phelpsconsulting.net/shell-s-book.
The episode is “Reclaiming Your Passion.”
Be the Curator for Your Life to Increase Your Wellness, Purpose, and Joy
A curator for a museum makes sure that only the highest quality art makes it into the museum. We must be the curator for our life.
We choose books to read and how to spend out time. We choose the people we wish to spend time with, too. You’ve probably heard the old saying: love your family, choose your friends.
The trickiest part comes when we must stand guard to protect against negative energy and draining influences. In order to prevent a toxic person’s influence, we must first recognize the negativity for what it is: horse pucky! See it for what it is - right away. This takes practice and requires awareness.
Be able to identify BS and anything that isn’t going to serve you. I’m not saying you have to live in a perfect bubble. The more you spend time on self-development, mission, purpose, goals, and self-work, the easier it’ll be to sense the toxic energy coming your way.
Let’s describe the feeling you want to have when curating your life. As you may know from prior blog posts, I recommend a creativity-building writing exercise called word salad. It’s a short, zany, stream-of-consciousness story you write and you have to use 15 color words (new vocabulary or at least uncommon words and phrases). It takes about 10-15 minutes. Start by carefully selecting - ahem… curating - your 15 words. I like to think of myself as walking through the forest with a big straw basket and carefully selecting the best truffles to place into my basket. I’m foraging. It’s a warmly invigorating feeling - that’s what you want to move towards.
Surround yourself with things, habits, activities, hobbies, passions, people, music, books, and ideas that enhance your mental wellbeing. Be a curator and stringent guardian - the toughest gatekeeper you can be - for the richness and beauty of your life.
Ep 70 - SMART Goals Are DUMB
Today's episode is a response to a question I saw on Facebook: How can I use SMART goals to become a better dad, husband, and friend - a beautiful question! We'll explore productivity strategies including goalsetting, project management, creativity, mission statements, and managing all the haste we wear.
Episode outline:
0:48 SMART goals
1:45 Four types of goals
3:16 Passions, hobbies, & interests
4:30 Four types of roles
5:50 Manage your roles
8:25 Transitioning between roles
8:56 Unleashing your creativity
9:55 Around the world tool
10:35 Mini-mission statements
12:39 Project management
14.52 Journaling
15:45 Fred VanFleet on playing basketball with a pure heart
16:30 My first podcast episode
17:18 I.N.T.F.H motto
17:50 Tom Brady and Father Time
18:21 Life Purpose Ted Talk
19:00 Mick Jagger on peak performance
Transcription: Well, you have arrived. This is the all the hats we wear a podcast. Here you'll hear a plethora of tips and strategies for living your purpose. We all wear many hats. In fact, we're proud of wearing a lot of different hats are proud of all the roles we play. As you can see, from people's social media profiles. My goal is to support you to become joyful, productive and fulfilled. I'm your host, Scott Snow life coach, productivity expert. Today we're going to focus on an article I did. That was in response to a Facebook group I was part of, and the person had a question about, they wanted to know how to create SMART goals, to help them become a better parent, spouse and friend. So as I started to formulate how I wanted to contribute to the thread, it became an entire blog post, which is on my website, if you want to check it out all the hats, we were just search SMART goal. So in terms of SMART goal, actually, I don't agree with smart goals, I don't like them. I don't think they're very interesting or fun. They're boring. an acronym for the SMART goal is specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely, boring. I don't find them inspiring. I think that we have four types of goals that we should be using. We need different types of goals. Because they're like different tools in the tool belt, you need different goals for different reasons. Here are my four types of goals, the habit goal, that's a rule for how you're going to live your life. It's not a habit yet. And once it is, you'll create a new one. But it's a habit goal, An example might be, I meditate for 20 minutes every day, or I exercise every day for a half hour. It's very clear and specific. next type of goal is a deadline goal. And that of course is an outcome with a deadline, a snapshot in time. An example by June 15, I weigh x pounds. Next is the visionary goal. And this is an aspirational goal that can't be measured. So this goes against the whole idea of a SMART goal. But it's crucial to get you inspired and think big. An example might be I'm the best dad I can be or I'm a world class problem solver. I enjoy abundance and all my roles. I'm a visionary. Those who can't really measure. And the fourth type of goal is called the sky's the limit goal. These are huge goals requiring plenty of imagination, the sky's the limit, think big. An example, my company's innovation helped a billion people get out of poverty. So I suggest that you write goals for all of your different roles, and use a mix of all four types. Next is you need to identify your passions, hobbies and interest. This is the first step in identifying your roles. You want to strive for at least 15 items in each category. And the reason you do this is that a lot of times your roles will be pre staged. With your brainstorming for your passions, hobbies and interest. You'll forecast your roles, given your interests, your loves and likes. So it's important to cultivate them, I often find that students and younger adults, they seem to have trouble cultivating interests. It's it's a very worthwhile activity to continue to chip away at those interests. You know, for me, it's backgammon. I've been really into backgammon for the last four or five years. And everything you know every book, I read every YouTube video or instructional thing, every time I play, you learn a bit more in it, and it adds to that bulk of your interest. So it really becomes fun, it's much better to go deep on something, then just do a million different things. How much can you get into you know yoga with gold goats. So there our next would be to identify those roles of yours. Now our role is a category and your life requiring quality time to be fulfilled. There are four types of these roles. The first is the mind body spirit role. An example might be spiritual person, visionary, body, genius, Christian Buddhist. next type is the giving and receiving roles. That's the end of the hour. So you might think investor, wealth builder, millionaire or billionaire giver. therapists volunteer for little league.
Next is the personal role. This is what you might think of is roles. A wife, sister friend, Mom, Chef, rock climber, adventurer, yoga instructor, roller derby queen. And then we have the professional roles. Like director of leadership training, supervisor, entrepreneur, sales, Pro, speaker, networker, blogger. Also, you should include future roles. You don't have to be doing it to assume the role. Like a millionaire, I have a millionaire role, but I'm not a millionaire. Think Big, why not? Now you can combine all of your roles in a quadrant, just make a quadrant and then list all of all of your roles. Now that we've identified our roles, we have to start to manage them. First, you can go through all your roles and assess them one by one, on a scale of one to 10. Get some perspective on where your life is? Where are the difficulties? And where are the things that are going well, you can brainstorm activities that combine roles. If you're a parent, husband or a friend or spouse, what can you do that will involve multiple roles simultaneously plan a camping trip with another family. We just had Super Bowl so that was a nice role connector for me, invited my mother over and we had a lot of food. My kids were involved they were they had fun. You know, have fun betting on the game and all that. And I had my chef role involved I made some coconut beef stew for the big game. And you know, you could even see parts of relationships with there was a nice video, a viral video after the game when the Buccaneers won. And one of their star players was with this fiance whatever and they were doing they were doing snow angels, you know, on their back on the field with all the confetti and everything. That was cool. I played some backgammon with my mother. And I even started to think about pirate songs because I do music therapy as well. I work with kids with disabilities using music, and I got on this pirate song theme. And well here's one of the songs I did. This is a sea shanty which is big on Tick Tock right now I don't know if you're on Tick Tock if you are following me there. I'm having a lot of fun there. My handle is all the hats we wear. Of course. There once was a shoe that went to sea and the name of the ship was the belly of tea the winds part her bow dip down old blow my bully boys blow. Soon May the women come to bring sugar and tea and rum. One day when the tongue is done, we'll take leave and go. That's the willemijn it's actually not a sea shanty. It's a ballad. But everybody calls it a sea shanty, and sea shanties are big.
Now, you can also consider the transition between your roles on a typical day. Think of a marine drill sergeant tough, ruthless, demanding. These are great attributes for a drill sergeant, it saves lives and helps, you know, teach Marines how to be Marines. But it's not going to go so well with relationships and parenting and those other roles. So you need to adjust your roles you need to transition between roles. Next, we have to unleash our creativity. These are all the head head parts of this blog post that I did in response to that question about sparkle. So unleashing a creativity. brainstorm quality questions related to your roles. Make sure you're asking empowering, open ended solution focused questions. You know, there's a difference between good questions and bad questions. A good question might be, what new recipes Can I prepare that will be healthy and make me lean and strong? Or for my dad role? What's something my child is struggling with now? And how can I support her? For my entrepreneur role? Who's my dream mentor? My visionary role? What would be my perfect day? These are questions you can ask about all of your roles. And I suggest making a habit every Friday. You just take 15 minutes and just write down brainstorm as many questions as you can relate it to your roles. Another thing you can do that's fun, which is something I called around the world. That's like that basketball kids game where you go around the key for basketball and you have to make a shot at each station all around the circle. You can do the same thing with all your rolls. round the world. Make a little progress for each roll five minutes for each roll and then have a timer. You'll be amazed at how many ideas you come up with. There's also bad questions. Why am I always broke? Why does this always happen to me? You know, some people are always the eternal. What's the word? worrywart or the victim, the victim mentality. Next one, clarify your mission and connect with your why's. Now, this involves a mission statement. But I have a different take on mission statements. I do what they call a, what I call a mini mission statement for each of my roles. you first start by brainstorming all the words you associate to that role. You know when you're at your best at that role, an example of a visionary role. Some of the words I came up with were creativity, beacon, innovation, Willy Wonka of design. Mozart, simplicity, elegance. JOHN Coltrane, Frank Zappa. Next step is to write a 40 to 60 word mini mission statement for each role. Here's the template. I am a blank, insert the role name, I blank, blank and blank so I can blank. This is my blank role. And that's the nickname role is the last sentence. So there's your template for a perfect mini mission statement. Let me give you an example of a finished mini mission statement. On my role, visionary. I'm a visionary. Creativity is my greatest gift. I think big every day and constantly absorb new insights and apply them. I'm a lookout tower and lightning rod. I'm a voracious reader an unstoppable force for good. My crystal clear goals keep me on track for achieving my juiciest goals. This role is my Willy Wonka engine role that drives everything good in my life. Next, you should make an audio recording of your mini mission statements, and your goals and listen to them every day. So you hover over them and connect with them all the time. So key, the worst thing you can do is make your role list and or goals on New Year's Eve and then never look at it again, that's worthless. You have to revisit the emotion of your need to achieve these things every day.
Next is to ace your large projects. We all have our handful with all different projects. And usually we underestimate the time required to do them. Another thing that prevents many of us from achieving projects and just we just keep them on the backburner forever is that we don't have a system for taking up where we left off. And it's so important. Everybody has a busy life, we've got a lot of moving parts. And the ability to be able to say I'm going to work on project number three, you know, writing an ecourse, or working on my book, and to say, Well, I'm at this stage. And this is the type of work I do at that stage. And now I can get right down to business. So here are the seven stages of your project management. This is how you achieve any creative project. Whether it be planning a wedding or writing a book. Stage One, identify the spark. This is your emotional connection to your project. So it's key. You can't start your project without having that clear, emotional connection your spark. Why are you doing this? What makes you How does it make you feel? That's the fuel for the whole project. Next step is stage two the gathering stage. You collect all your resources, and inspiration related to the project. Throw it all in a cardboard box and slap a label on. Three is brainstorm. ask lots of questions for a structure stage. What are the main components of this project, if it's a book, how many chapters next stage five is the action stage, roll up your sleeves and get the bulk of the project work done. Stage six is the refining stage, make it shine, and seven is to celebrate. Now you're done the project. So you can make a list of all the projects on your plate and a few that you'd like to begin and find creative ways to connect your roles while working on projects. An example make a treehouse. redo the patio in the back. Plan a Disney trip with the family. Next is to start a daily journal. This is a great creativity helper. And throughout the day, you want to jot down Some ideas that come up that you want to explore in your journal that night. I call these creative snippets. So example might be my four year old nephew was wrestling with Grandpa and said, Papa, you know, my favorite old man. A favorite song from high school came on the radio, Van Halen 5150 as I drove home, and I had the moonroof open, and it was great. So those are examples of what you can do. In response to that question, in the thread, I read about starting a SMART goal to make progress with some of your roles. Now let's go right to a couple of inspirational stories. Story number one is about a basketball star on the Toronto Raptors named Fred van fleet. He had like an outstanding game A while back, and he scored on an O 60 points or something. And afterwards, they asked him about it. And he says he was just playing with a pure heart. And I love that he says you can't go wrong when you're just playing like that. So your good intentions. And I applied that a bit to my own work, you know, like you start to go, Well, you know, there's this person that could be a great mentor, just rattle off a quick email to say something and don't even second guess it. You know, as long as you're from a pure heart, because then you start getting the doubt, like, Oh, I don't want to bug that person. I don't know what's gonna happen. Just do it. Number two. The other day I was in line at Taco Bell, getting something from my son, he loves soft tacos and popcorn chicken and plain mashed potatoes, of course. And I decided to watch listen to the first episode of my podcast, the most powerful time management skill you'll ever learn. And I was kind of saying, Oh, brother, this is gonna be bad. You know, I was listening to and I thought it was really good. I totally enjoyed it. In fact, I recommend you go back and listen to episode number one. I wouldn't change much about it at all. I thought it was really good. So it's nice that we can look back and be happy with things that we've done. That's another reason journaling is so great. Celebrate all of these things. We need moments that we can look back and feel proud. Story number three. This is my Yoda board for inspiration. And I usually put some different quotes. This one says I NTFH
It's not that frickin hard. That quote helps me. You can substitute whatever word you want. But just it's a quick reminder like, don't get bogged down. Keep going. It's not that hard. That helps. Started number four. Tom Brady and father time Sheesh. 43 years old and won a Super Bowl. Incredible, incredible. I'm inspired by his obsessive diet and training regimen. 365 days a year all the time. He lives and breathes his TV 12 system. And I respect that we can surely apply our standards and habits through the weekend. Right if he can do it all year long. Story number five. Adam leap Zig has a TED talk about life purpose, how to know your life purpose in five minutes. He's a movie producer. But he's got a great system. See what you think. I still I'm still not sure if I totally agree with if this is a viable way to do that to determine your life purpose, but it certainly gets the conversation going. He says you need to answer the five following questions. who you are, what you do, who you do it for? What those people want need, and how those people change as a result. Check out his TED Talk. How to Know your life purpose in five minutes. Story number six is from Mick Jagger. Are you a Rolling Stones fan? I am definitely. I think they're the greatest rock and roll band ever. I just saw them. two summers ago in Foxboro stadium awesome. Of course, I was wearing an apron because I volunteered through part of my local band with my wife to be servers in one of the concessions. So you get a free ticket there. You get. I mean, you're working all night, but a lot of times they let you out and you could watch corn from the side. watch the show and you're hearing it and it was definitely an experience. I learned I don't know how to pour beer right from the tap because it kept bubbling over. So anyway, Mick Jagger's point was that when he's on tour, every minute of his day determines his planned so that he can be at his best at Showtime, whether it be 10pm or whatever time that he hits the stage from When he has his coffee when he has a nap when he eats, when he travels, everything is just that he can be at his best for that. And that's cool. I do a similar thing at night. I try to have a coffee by 630 at the latest, because that helps me I like to work into the night, maybe you know, one in the morning 1230 get a lot done when it's quiet. And I usually do some tm in the afternoon, transmit some meditation, and I often watch bad movies or have them in the background while I'm working. Pink Floyd's DVD, pulse, something I go to a lot. Maybe if there's a Celtics game, I like to have stuff on in the background. And that's how I plan my night. Who, well, we covered this article of smart goals. You have to decide for yourself if a SMART goal does it for you. Or maybe you need my four types of goals. Here's an ending quote from the great Mahatma Gandhi. Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do, are in harmony. Gandhi Well, thanks for joining me today. If you want more information on what I do, check out the website. All the hats we wear.com and if you want a free console for training or a individual coaching, let me know through the website and we'll set something up right away. Thanks for joining me. See you next time.
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