Monk Like Discipline: What It Really Takes To Win

Summary

Sam Ovens dives into the essence of achieving success through relentless discipline, arguing that while setting visions and missions is simple, consistent execution demands monk-like self-control. He emphasizes that success is not about having it all but rather about sacrificing for your goals. Self-discipline, willpower, and constant focus are key, and these must be honed by delaying gratification and avoiding distractions. Moreover, breaking tasks into prioritized projects and maintaining consistency over time are vital to not merely achieve success but to ensure it becomes sustainable and replicable.

Highlights

• Discipline is more vital than motivation; disciplined individuals persevere through demotivation. 🌟
• Willpower and discipline combined create a formidable force towards achieving monumental success. 🚀
• Success often requires massive sacrifices; how much are you willing to give up for your goals? 🤔
• The key to self-discipline is delaying gratification and resisting the lure of quick fixes. 🕰
• Staying focused and consistently measuring performance helps maintain progress towards your goals. 🔍

Key Takeaways

• Setting a vision is easy, but executing it consistently is the real challenge. 💪
• Success requires relentless discipline, often demanding sacrifices that question how bad you really want it. 🎯
• Discipline trumps motivation; motivation can wane but discipline is your constant ally. 🏆
• Avoiding distractions and focusing energy are crucial to achieving more output from the same energy. ⚡️
• Consistency in applying systems and tools will keep you on the track to ultimate success. 🚂

Overview

Sam Ovens starts by acknowledging the simplicity of setting grand visions and missions but stresses on the difficulty of actual execution. He argues that the real game only begins when your commitment to discipline and self-control is put to the test. This session is a push to understand that dreaming is different from doing, and success candidates need to differentiate themselves through action.

The key takeaway from Sam's talk is the emphasis on discipline as opposed to motivation. Motivational sparks can be fleeting, but a disciplined individual can keep progressing even in their absence. He provides insights into the correlation of success with the height of sacrifice and invites listeners to reflect honestly about their priorities and sacrifices they’re prepared to make.

Sam provides a structured approach to maintaining discipline, such as prioritizing through the 'rice scoring tool' and using daily performance metrics to track success. By seeing business as an energy grid, where focused energy and deliberate actions lead to greater outcomes, he encourages embracing sacrifices and planning meticulously to keep moving consistently towards the ultimate vision.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction to Monk-like Discipline Introduction to Monk-like Discipline introduces the concept of attaining a high level of discipline, likened to that of a monk. The speaker, Simmons, promises to guide the audience through mastering self-control, which is crucial for success in business. The chapter emphasizes that while anyone can set a vision, disciplining oneself is a key element in achieving those goals.
• 00:30 - 01:00: Vision and Principles The chapter 'Vision and Principles' discusses the ease of ideating a better future and articulating a grand mission along with supporting principles. However, it emphasizes the challenge of not just creating but consistently practicing these principles daily over years to truly accomplish the envisioned mission.
• 01:00 - 02:00: Relentless Discipline Relentless Discipline is a chapter focused on the concept of achieving success through an extraordinary level of discipline. It emphasizes the idea that success is a result of unwavering human will combined with relentless discipline. The chapter aims to not only help readers understand this concept but also guide them in integrating it into their lives. It promises to explore why success stems from these elements and provides a roadmap for internalizing and executing this discipline as part of one's character.
• 02:00 - 03:00: The Sum of Human Will The chapter titled 'The Sum of Human Will' delves into the concept of sacrifice as an essential tool for achieving one's goals. It challenges the notion propagated by various self-help gurus that individuals can 'have it all' without sacrifice. The chapter argues that without the willingness to give up certain things, the pursuit of a goal itself will be sacrificed. Additionally, it touches on the importance of focusing and channeling energy efficiently into achieving objectives.
• 03:00 - 03:30: Self-Control and Willpower This chapter focuses on the concepts of self-control and willpower. It discusses the importance of having a strong focus and unwavering commitment to achieve goals. The text highlights that achieving superhuman focus requires not only discipline and sacrifice but also consistent effort over many years. Additionally, it suggests using systems and tools to help maintain this discipline and keep oneself in check.
• 03:30 - 04:00: Motivation vs Discipline The chapter explores the relationship between motivation and discipline. It discusses how success is determined by one's willpower and mindset. The training has reached a stage where individuals have set their vision, mission, and principles, and identified their current self and who they need to become. The missing piece addressed in the chapter is the execution and perseverance needed to turn their vision and mission into reality.
• 04:00 - 07:00: Building Self-discipline This chapter focuses on the concept of self-discipline, emphasizing the role of human will in achieving success. It argues that the missing piece in many people's journey to success is the strength of their willpower. The chapter highlights that highly successful individuals often endure significant suffering and pain, which parallels their levels of success. This endurance and ability to manage adversities stem from their desire and determination, or willpower, to achieve their goals. The chapter implies that building self-discipline is crucial for success as it enables individuals to persist through challenges in pursuit of their ambitions.
• 07:00 - 10:00: Sacrifice for Success The chapter explores the concept of "Sacrifice for Success," emphasizing the necessity to endure hardships to achieve greater goals. It discusses the essence of willpower and human will, defining it as the ability to control one's impulses and actions. Willpower is depicted as a strong determination crucial for accomplishing difficult tasks without giving up or becoming distracted. Self-control is highlighted as an essential trait observed in successful individuals.
• 10:00 - 12:00: Focus and Channeling Energy This chapter discusses the concepts of self-control, self-discipline, and willpower as forms of energy. It emphasizes that developing these qualities is akin to harnessing a superpower. The chapter explores techniques and practices to enhance one's ability to get energized, maintain focus, and channel energy effectively for personal growth and productivity.
• 12:00 - 16:00: Exercise and Diet The chapter 'Exercise and Diet' discusses the common misconception that motivation can be easily obtained through external sources such as videos, books, or courses. Instead, it emphasizes that true motivation comes from within and hinges on discipline. Discipline is presented as the key to building energy and determination, referred to as the 'tool of the Masters'. The chapter emphasizes the importance of internal discipline over external motivation.
• 16:00 - 18:30: Consistency in Pursuit In the chapter titled 'Consistency in Pursuit,' the idea of relying on discipline rather than motivation is explored. It emphasizes that most individuals wait for motivation to act, which is unreliable as motivation can wane. The narrative portrays how winners and true masters depend on discipline to achieve their goals, unlike those who wait for the ephemeral return of motivation. The chapter suggests that consistent discipline is key to success, a trait seen in professional athletes and successful individuals who do not depend solely on motivation.
• 18:30 - 20:00: Systems and Tools for Discipline The chapter 'Systems and Tools for Discipline' focuses on the concept of discipline over motivation. It presents the idea that while motivation can be beneficial, it is not always present and should not be relied upon entirely. Instead, discipline should be the driving force to achieve continuous progress. The transcript emphasizes that successful individuals often persist through their discipline rather than fleeting motivation. It suggests that individuals aiming to reach higher levels of success should cultivate self-discipline, which will sustain their efforts even when motivation wanes.
• 20:00 - 20:30: Conclusion with Motivation The chapter focuses on the importance of self-discipline and self-control. It emphasizes the necessity of overcoming weaknesses and maintaining the ability to pursue what is right despite temptations. Building self-discipline involves training oneself to delay gratification, prioritize long-term goals over instant gratification, and develop a preference for long-term rewards.

Monk Like Discipline: What It Really Takes To Win Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 [Music] everyone Simmons here and welcome to this module called monk-like discipline and in this module i'm gonna show you how to get so disciplined and in a really master the art of controlling yourself because in business you know anybody can set a vision and submission
• 00:30 - 01:00 and some principles right it doesn't take much to sit down and dream up of a better future and dream of a big grand mission and quest and also state some principles that you believe a true and you know should be upheld by people trying to achieve this mission alright though those are pretty easy things to do it's another thing to do it and do it consistently and do it every day for years and actually get it done and what it really takes now what what success
• 01:00 - 01:30 really takes is relentless discipline discipline on a level which you cannot fathom and in this module i'm going to show you how you can feather mitt and how you can not only fathom it but execute it and make it a part of you so here's what we're going to cover why success is the sum of your human will and then discipline and why it is the
• 01:30 - 02:00 tool of the masters and then sacrifice and why you need to give everything to win you know there's myths that you can have it all you know all these gurus seem to tell you you can have it all you can't you can't have it all you know if you're if you're not willing to sacrifice things for your goal then your goal will become the sacrifice and we'll talk about that and then focus in channeling energy into the grid and it
• 02:00 - 02:30 was plain what that means and how you can really work on your focus and make it superhuman and in consistency unwavering commitment to your goal you know not only do we have to be focused disciplined we have to sacrifice but we have to be consistent with it every day day in day out for years upon years upon years that's what it takes and then finally some systems and tools so that you can stay on the rails and keep yourself in check
• 02:30 - 03:00 so why success is the sum of your human will so where we're at at the stage of the mindset training we've defined your vision mission and principles as well as who you are right now and who you need to become to make your vision and mission become a reality and the missing piece so right now we know what we want and we know who we need to become to get it but actually executing it and seeing it through to
• 03:00 - 03:30 the end that's the hard part that is the missing piece and what success really is is it's just the sum of your human will and if you study any insanely successful person and you'll find that the height of their suffering in pain will be equal to the height of their success and the reason they can take this suffering and pain is due to their willpower you know they want something so bad that they're
• 03:30 - 04:00 willing to go through hell and to get it and they actually kind of like it and that's what it takes to go to that next level so what is willpower what is human will so it's the ability to control yourself your impulses and your actions in its strong determination that allows you to do something difficult without giving up or getting distracted and it's basically self-control in successful people have
• 04:00 - 04:30 this on another level this is really that super power self-control and self-discipline so how do we get more how do we get more willpower how do we get more self-control and self-discipline well the first thing that really builds willpower and it builds willpower like nothing else you know a lot of people think that if I want to get energized then and if I want
• 04:30 - 05:00 to get motivated I should watch a motivational video or read a motivational book or you know I should I should I don't know do a course on how to get motivated or something this isn't how you get motivated you know really it's a discipline discipline is the most powerful thing for building energy and determination and that's why I call it the tool of the Masters so motivation
• 05:00 - 05:30 verse discipline so most people rely on motivation to get things done and then when it runs out which it always does they give up and they wait for more motivation to come again you know they sit there and they're like I'm just waiting for my motivation to come back you know this is what losers do winners do not do this and true masters rely on discipline not motivation you know people are not motivated all the time pro athletes pro
• 05:30 - 06:00 businessman they're not motivated at all sometimes sometimes they're completely demotivated but they don't stop because their discipline is what keeps them going not their motivation and so if you want to go to that next level you've got to forget about motivation I mean if you if you have it awesome use it but if you don't have it doesn't matter your discipline is what keeps you going so self-discipline what is it well it's
• 06:00 - 06:30 the ability to control your feelings and overcome your weaknesses and it's the ability to pursue what you think is right despite temptations to abandon it and if you really want to build self-discipline you need to get used to delaying gratification so the secret to self-discipline is to train yourself to think long term and live in accordance to your long-term goals this means you're addicted to long term gratification not instant gratification
• 06:30 - 07:00 so what's instant gratification it's the desire to experience pleasure or fulfillment without delay or deferment basically it's when you want it and you want it now so in the sink ratification is like you know I have this thought I want to take in action and I want to have the thought then take the action immediately and then receive the reward immediately so just all instant right there's no long
• 07:00 - 07:30 time period so things that really get you hooked on instant gratification is social media likes comments views sugar fast food smoking drugs alcohol Netflix partying socializing gossiping etc all of these things are very stimulating and very immediate so you do the action like you you know you you drink the alcohol you feel its effect this is it's instant gratification you smoke a cigarette you
• 07:30 - 08:00 feel that rush or whatever it is that smokers feel or you eat that sugar or that chocolate you feel it instantly because you you know the sugar hits you when you also it tastes good in social media you know you just keep scrolling on that on their newsfeed just keep pulling that lever on that slot machine just keep cranking it you know something might pop up something might we don't know it's the fact we don't know that makes it so damn addictive just keep cranking on that wheel and so really if
• 08:00 - 08:30 you want to get self-discipline you need to practice the inverse of instant gratification so weaning yourself off social media and all that crap is great and then getting yourself hooked on delayed gratification great that is that that's how you start to develop steel-like discipline so here's 11 things that you
• 08:30 - 09:00 should do to develop self-discipline and you should do all of these all the time and never stop so number one resist impulses so resist all urges to eat and drink snacks throughout the day or go grab a treat or buy something or check social media alright we have these Olympus's like oh I just feel like a snack or I feel like a drink I feel like just going out and nipping down to the store and doing that or I feel like just buying something on the
• 09:00 - 09:30 internet or I feel like just chicken on this group on social media or checking my posts or my comments resist those impulses I feel like checking my email resist I feel like resist just keep practicing the resistance and then what will happen is you know you'll have that thought in that impulse but instead of immediately reacting you'll actually be you'll actually catch yourself and you'll be like nope not today you know it's funny when people people have trained these
• 09:30 - 10:00 loops and their minds are so well that when they get to their computer they just immediately go to this Facebook just it's just automatic and then they arrive they're in there they don't even know how they got on it and so their body is moving automatically without it even passing consciously through the mind and that's how strong that is so when you practice this more you'll go to your computer and you might feel like it or you might ever thought to like go to
• 10:00 - 10:30 the social media but you'll be like no it's not what I'm doing it's not what I'm here to do and then you are controlling yourself not your impulses and number two is to love pain so a lot of people try to avoid pain right and I mean we should avoid like you know breaking our league you know that's not that's not fun and it's not something you should do for fun but I'm talking about a different type of pain most
• 10:30 - 11:00 people try to avoid this type of pain which is you know if they're training hard or like physical exertion or you know going to the limit where their hearts racing very fast and you know their muscles are sore and tired and they're all sweetie but people people avoid that sort of physical pain they also avoid going to the dark places so thinking about the things that I had to think about the places they don't want to go in their mind or confronting difficulties right at work or working on
• 11:00 - 11:30 a big project that's gnarly and you're putting it off like you've got to learn to love their stuff in eat it and every day you need a practice taking yourself to the dark places just go into the gnarliest little alleys in your mind and then play around in there and be like this is pretty this is pretty like this is pretty painful but you know what I like it and confront
• 11:30 - 12:00 difficulties if there's a difficulty confront it head-on and when you feel your body kind of reacting to it and it's getting a bit emotional you're just feeling it and you're like this is good and then feel the pain and love it you know I've I've practiced working so hard that when I get tired during the day you know I get worn out tired and everything but then it's it's really weird when I get to that real exhausted tired
• 12:00 - 12:30 pain zone it's like that's when I find another level and I get even better and it's because I've just practiced so much like working hard that you know I can just keep going and I actually kind of enjoy it there it's kind of like a nice nice place where I feel comfortable and you've got to learn to love this paint because all successful people have massive pain tolerances and people don't understand how they can tolerate it but the truth is is they actually like it in the absence of the pain that they don't
• 12:30 - 13:00 want that and then exercise you want to workout first thing in the morning every day regardless of whether you want to and you should love the burn so first thing in the morning is a great time to exercise one because you just get it out of the way and it's something hard out of the way immediately so as soon as you get something hard done and ticked off the list it builds momentum for you doing other things also it gets your nervous system fired up it gets your
• 13:00 - 13:30 blood flowing it gets you know your body and mind awakened and ready to go and then you know when you when you get into that exhaustion spot and your body's telling you stop stop stop don't get off get off get off just keep going and then just listen to it and be like man this thing's having skits this thing's going nuts it really wants me to get off but you know what I'm just gonna keep going and just play with it show it who's the boss and then kind of
• 13:30 - 14:00 like it and then it will start to lose all of its control of you and it will just die and fade away and that's when you start to gain self control this other little voice no longer really does anything and then eat clean so get a healthy diet plan and stick to it and why you want to do this is that first of all eating better food will give you more energy and it will also make you healthier you will live longer and
• 14:00 - 14:30 you'll be more productive you'll look better your everything is better when you're healthy so there is no valid argument for not eating healthy I mean who would want to live shorter and live a shittier existence and look worse and feel worse and do worse work and do everything worse like who would want their there's that it makes no sense alright so you should eat clean and the other positive you get from this is when you wean yourself off flavor it'll
• 14:30 - 15:00 sharpen your senses in your mind so people are so addicted to you know all these salts and sauces and flavors and oils and all of this crap that every time they want to go and eat something they expect it to be this like this gourmet just flavor sensation alright and that isn't your tastebuds that it's not even what you want that's just what you've become addicted to and when you expect such stimulation all the time
• 15:00 - 15:30 you know stimulation is what you're trying to remove because then it sharpens your senses in your mind it's like if you eat a lot of hot sauce then your senses start to blunt in and you know you start to be able to eat more and more and more hot sauce and you just need more of it and needs to be hotter and then if you just have some hot sauce that isn't that hot it blows your mind I mean you can't you can't taste it at all and this isn't good because it means
• 15:30 - 16:00 that you're blunt turning your senses you want to sharpen them and that also sharpens your focus and your attention to detail and your ability to perceive things everything and then meditate so you should meditate for 20 minutes every day before work and then do it religiously without ever missing a single day and I mean this you don't meditate if you've done it once or twice or you did it for a couple of weeks and then you didn't it has to be done every day every single
• 16:00 - 16:30 day and at the same time ritualize it and then sleep so sleep is self-discipline it really is your sleep the time you got to be at in the time you wake up is really a measure of your self-discipline because if you make sure that you go to bed and wake up at the same time every day you have to really police yourself you know you have to wake up with your alarm and actually do it not snooze and then you have to get
• 16:30 - 17:00 yourself to go to bed even if you're in the middle of watching a movie or reading a good book whatever you just have to do it and so this is a really good test of your self-discipline and it also helps your body in your chemical was all balanced because you know if you're going to bed and waking up at the same time it learns so it spikes it spikes dopamine and it spikes melatonin and it spikes cortisol and all of these different things at different times so
• 17:00 - 17:30 that you can get sleepy at the right time and so that you can get fired up and work at the right time and you're our digestive system also learns when it's going to get food and how how it's going to best digest and all of these things now if you start screwing with this and changing it all around you're just going to put yourself through chaos because you know your body's going to be like spiking cortisol and you're gonna be awake trying to go and then try to go
• 17:30 - 18:00 to bed and you've got all this cortisol in you then you can't go to sleep now and it's hard for you to go to sleep and then you know in the morning your body might be like spiking melatonin and all that and you in its dropping cortisol and you're not able to really function in the morning and so it plays havoc with you you need to get it on an even keel number seven organization so keep your office house car drawers desktop email and everything
• 18:00 - 18:30 in your life clean and organized you know the state of your desktop computer like of what your desktop looks like is probably the state of your mind the state of your email inbox state of your mind the state of your desktop like your actual physical desk and then you the state of your drawers the state of your car the state of your room and the state of your house these are all pretty good reflections of your mind so you want to keep everything organized
• 18:30 - 19:00 clean and get rid of clutter not only is it nicer to live in but it will do the same thing to your mind and then time management so plan your months weeks days and hours deliberately and stick to it and say no to everything that isn't in the plan and you have to be relentless with this will you upset some people yes well people think that you're not a nice person probably well
• 19:00 - 19:30 people think or that you should make exceptions yes but do we care no because you know the the world around us like most of people in society they're trying to pacify us you know they're trying to just numb our senses and they're trying to make us feel for them and get in and listen to them and hear their voices and all of this crap and they're trying to make you behave and think like everyone else they're basically just trying to pacify you and cut you down to size and
• 19:30 - 20:00 make you fit in and you can't have that because normal gets normal and if you're what you're pursuing isn't normal then it's going to take abnormal to get abnormal and so you have to not care about that and just stay true to your goal and then you need to set goals always look at your vision in your mission your annual goals your monthly goals and your war map action planner
• 20:00 - 20:30 and going to show you these tools later in this module today and their number teen gratitude so always looking to the future can cause fear and anxiety and stress and you need to practice gratitude daily to balance yourself because if you're constantly looking out into the future and you're never grateful for anything you've got and you're always what you start to get anxious and you're you know your mind starts to worry so you need to make sure that you do gratitude as well you should want things in the future you should think out into the future but you should
• 20:30 - 21:00 also be grateful for things you've got now and then number eleven relentless persistence so stick to your plan daily and never waver despite emotion drama failure or uncertainty come hell or high water you have to stay on the rails and get it done and I've included this this sheet here in the resources section beneath this video it's called developing self
• 21:00 - 21:30 discipline it's just a PDF that you can download and I recommend printing this thing out putting it up on your wall because remembering these things you know this is really if you no one in the world does these things perfectly all the time but the people that do these things closest to perfection in the closest to all the time they're the ones who win so we're seeking perfection in all of these areas so now let's talk
• 21:30 - 22:00 about sacrifice and giving everything to win so here's the thing nobody knows success equals sacrifice and you can't have it all and if you don't sacrifice for what you want what you want becomes the sacrifice so how bad do you want it now people often talk a big game and say
• 22:00 - 22:30 they're hungry but as soon as you get them to sacrifice something they care about they reveal their true character and their true priorities you know the best test I've got for people is just whether they will sacrifice something and if they don't then you know exactly where their priorities lie but if they're willing to give up everything you know where their priorities lie too and sacrifice fuels the fire so every time you sacrifice something it's like taking that thing and all of your
• 22:30 - 23:00 thoughts about it all of the time that you spend on it all the time you spend thinking about it and just throwing it onto a fire and the energy from that thing makes the fire burn brighter and that fire is your energy you know so if you're doing if you're thinking about caring about and doing all of these different things right if you just start throwing them all onto the fire you're just you're gonna your energy is going to burn brighter and more intense and
• 23:00 - 23:30 winners sell their souls so if you study the goats and it means greatest of all time goe T and what you'll see is that they've sacrificed massively to win and they give up everything they dedicated their entire being their entire existence to the relentless pursuit of the goal and me personally I gave up my
• 23:30 - 24:00 social life if my country and my friends I don't drink or party at all I don't have any hobbies I don't really have any friends I mean I've got people that I'm friends with but it's not like I have like an active social life with my friends all the time and with texting and talking to each other I don't have that in every waking minute I have I dedicate its full intensity to my work and every dollar I have is invested in my business and I truly am all-in now I
• 24:00 - 24:30 do leave time the only other place I have I have time is for my wife and so I have all of Sunday blocked out and that's her day don't do any work then and then I also have I work from 9:00 a.m. in the morning till 9:00 p.m. at night Monday to Saturday six days a week and so after 9:00 I have time to spend with her too but really like between you know I'm not
• 24:30 - 25:00 including wife and family in in the sacrifice thing but everything that isn't that has been sacrificed and you know I don't have I'm not like hedging my bets and putting money into other things all my money's in my business I'm all-in and so that's how intense my energy and focuses so finding things to sacrifice how do you find things that you can you
• 25:00 - 25:30 know check on the fire well we want to use the hundred units of time exercise and this is a powerful exercise I do monthly to see where my time goes and here's how it works for seven days track what you do every thirty minutes and you can do this by setting an alarm on your phone you can just set it 30 minutes repeat and that way it'll just start dinging and then at thirty minutes you can write down what you're doing and then you want to write down what you're doing every thirty minutes and you want
• 25:30 - 26:00 to put it into a journal and do it every day for seven days straight this isn't just work time this is every single hour of the day you're mapping 24 hours a day now if you're asleep then you're just right sleep for those increments but we're trying to track personal life sleep everything where time goes completely and at the end of seven days categorize activities into buckets and then calculate how much time went into each bucket so by buckets I mean you
• 26:00 - 26:30 know it might have been watching Netflix even though you're watching different things on Netflix you could probably just bucket those into one category called Netflix and then if you were doing email it doesn't matter if you're responding to different people via emails you can just bucket that in if you're creating content you can bucket that into like content creation so you're just creating these categories that you can put things in and then calculate how much total time went into
• 26:30 - 27:00 each bucket so if you did if you if you watched for Netflix episodes know one hour each then you would create a category flix then you had put all four in there and you'd say Netflix for hours right that's how it works and then you're able to take a bird so if you were where your time went over that seven-day period and you can see these like where it all goes and then sacrifice so every activity
• 27:00 - 27:30 that isn't related to your goal eliminate it completely and I don't care about your feelings if you want to win you'll get rid of it so you might be attached to something like oh I can't get rid of that I've watched that show forever I can't get rid of that I can't stop doing it you know I can I can hear you saying this [ __ ] right now and of course you're attached to it of course you have feelings about it that's why
• 27:30 - 28:00 you're addicted to it but you have to cut the cord and if you want to hang on to your little thing do it just know it'll cost you everything it's your choice I'm not forcing you to do it I'm just telling you what the truth is so that you can find out now instead of at the end of your life when you regret it and you might be saying well but I can't and I can hear you saying it already and it's [ __ ] you can get rid of it you
• 28:00 - 28:30 just don't want to and you're scared and you've created a lie in your head that this thing is necessary and that your business and you need it the word you're probably saying is I need it Sam I need it you don't and if you're saying even my family well not your wife family or your health you know there's some things you don't want to sacrifice you don't want to sacrifice sleep you need at least seven hours a night you don't
• 28:30 - 29:00 sacrifice that and you also need good food and exercise in meditation you don't sacrifice those things because that's your health and without your health you don't exist and so nothing else matters if you don't exist all right so that's that's number one priority we don't sacrifice that and then we also need you know a relationship in our family without that you know we without that a very primal part of our brain will won't be able to focus on on financial
• 29:00 - 29:30 things in on a business and on future things because it's more concerned with its primal need right now and you need a loving relationship because without these things your limbic system will play havoc with you in harm your focus but you know one thing that's that's kind of a bit hard to swallow for a lot of a lot of family people is that a lot of the time they need to actually spend less time with their family to to
• 29:30 - 30:00 really achieve the things that they want to achieve and it's a place that's a dark place some people don't want to go but it's just the way it is you know I'm not saying you you have to neglect your family but you know there's some people who spend a ton of time with their family like they're literally always doing something dropping the kids off picking them up doing this project with them going here going on this trip over here and it's like it's it's really demanding and if you want to do that
• 30:00 - 30:30 then that's cool do it but just know that you can't really do that and chase your vision if your visions big if your visions small then you you can balance both but if your visions big and you think you can do both then you're kind of lying to yourself you know and you need to just understand this and be real with it and you know take yourself to that dark place and face it honestly and
• 30:30 - 31:00 make a proper decision about what you want to do now let's talk about focus and channeling energy into the grid so here's pretty much how I operate is a system in a sheet in a like a audio corner these in a slide like in a diagram kind of how I operate so first of all we've got like the fire and that's the energy right and I need
• 31:00 - 31:30 energy to do anything like if I don't eat anything and if I don't sleep at all then I'm not gonna have any energy and I'm not even really gonna be able talk right let alone like move let alone do anything like hard so energy is important and energy is the input that we can put into things and to really get energy I have my mission my vision mission and principles these things are great it shows me what I want what I
• 31:30 - 32:00 care about what I'm here to do and what what I'm actually doing this is great give us a lot of energy then clear goals and time management so stating exactly what your goals are for this year this month this week today mapping out like planning tomorrow today mapping out exactly what I'm going to do for all waking hours when I'm gonna go to sleep and all of that that helps immensely to and then self-awareness so you know
• 32:00 - 32:30 being aware of my baseline self which we did in one of the previous modules in the mindset week but who am i right now what are my biases and tendencies and strengths and weaknesses being really aware of Who I am right now in my baseline self and then also being aware of the future self that I need to become so that I can achieve my mission vision in principles so I'm constantly aware of these two things I may call I'm regressing to baseline or all in progressing towards goal and I'm
• 32:30 - 33:00 constantly optimizing things that I don't regress the baseline and if I do I catch it as a warning flag and if I do progress to goal I start optimizing those variables to achieve that and then self-discipline and control you know everyday things are trying to get my attention honestly just feel like that there's just a thousand leeches trying to latch on to me every day all the time and no matter how hard I try they're
• 33:00 - 33:30 still coming and I really do police this well so I don't know what normal people feel like but normal people probably have like a million leeches trying to get on them you know people want to tell you their story people want to talk to people want to people want you to care about what they've got to say and people want you to understand them and you know all of these people everywhere all want something they're very needy they want your time they want your attention they think they know what you should do they've got all of this crap and they're
• 33:30 - 34:00 just trying to leech onto you and the beauty of knowing your vision mission and principles and your goals and being self-aware and knowing who you need to become and is that you can really have the self-discipline to just ignore pretty much everything so you just ignore it and then if people do ask you then you can just say not and that's self-discipline and control no no no no no no no no I say it so often I'm pretty much an oh man I say no more than yes
• 34:00 - 34:30 and then self clean food and daily exercise so if you eat bad food then you'll probably have like 1/3 as much energy as if you eat good food good food burns a cleaner flame and it's less chaotic and that gives you you know more focus more energy and daily exercise does the same thing at like candles that flame meditation and mindfulness this
• 34:30 - 35:00 Kindles that flame too and then sacrifice you know I've just grabbed everything and throwing it on the fire and that means that the fire is burning clean it's burning strong it's burning constantly and reliably and it's producing a lot of heat and I'm also all-in financially everything I have is in my business so I got that on the fire - so it's burn and red-hot and so that's how I'm getting energy and then there
• 35:00 - 35:30 that's the input then is the process that I'm you I'm processing their energy through myself and processes you're really just channeling it you know you're you're basically controlling like a switch about where this energy gets distributed and so I'm always trying to ask myself what's the number-one priority right now for me to achieve my long term vision and so I look at my vision mission
• 35:30 - 36:00 principles I look at my goals and everything and then I look at how much energy I've got to allocate and then I look at where like I scanned my whole business and all the components of the business and I find what the number-one priority is to achieve that long term vision and then I lock on to that like the Terminator just locking its gaze onto something and then it's just been submerged in it it's like I don't even exist anymore it's like my entire body and environment around me
• 36:00 - 36:30 just just disappears it's like I am in that computer my existence has just morphed into that thing and I will stay there in that zone until it's done and then when it's done I'll go just back out and then I scan again running for the number one priority for the long-term find it lock back in come back out scanning find it lock back in coming back out scanning finding lock back in
• 36:30 - 37:00 that's focus and that's channeling that fire into the right places where it's going to get the most results now it can be quite hard to channel and focus properly so I do a lot of things that help me focus and really the trick to focus is to think about what the opposite of focuses in it's distraction so if you don't do distraction than you do focus so I don't really try to focus
• 37:00 - 37:30 I try to not do distraction and I just remove distractions and then focus becomes the default so to do that you want to remove all stimuli that isn't the thing so you know don't have your phone out turn it off put it away don't have all this crap all over your desk don't have multiple screens don't don't sit in a place where you're gonna you know get distracted don't have anything around you that's going to distract you
• 37:30 - 38:00 remove all stimuli and then any requests that aren't related to the main thing say no and ignore them and in the only time you're going to break your focus and deviate is if it's necessary for survival so if something happens you know with your family and you have to deviate you gotta deviate there's fine if something happens you know if you need to look after yourself or your health whatever BAM that's fine deviate and if
• 38:00 - 38:30 your business if something blows up in its mission critical in the business then it's fine you have to break the focus and go look after it but anything that isn't mission-critical you just leave it well people get pissed off years well you upset some people years but that's what happens when you focus that's the cost or focus the the winning the the wind that you get from focus is is amazing it nothing is better than it
• 38:30 - 39:00 but there is a small negative to focus which is you piss a few people off because you just you know you just disappear and then outputs there the results so when you when you get your energy and your when you really get your flame burning strong through sacrifice and self-discipline and meditation and goals and awareness and clean food and exercise and sleep when you really get that fire burning hot and then when you
• 39:00 - 39:30 really get it channeled in and focused in on something specific then the output the results intensely focused deliberate action and then completing things you know completing things is important shipping things and in making progress and getting results and so I'm channeling all of this energy into the grid somewhere in the screw to wherever it's going to get the most out put and then there's feedback that comes out of that and comes back and feeds back into
• 39:30 - 40:00 the flame the input so the feedback I'm basically looking at should I increase or decrease energy and or focus on this thing that I'm working on so if I'm working on this thing and I keep burning energy into this thing then I keep getting feedback and as soon as the feedback comes back and says this level of this thing is now completed I even like okay well new decision should I decrease my energy or focus should I you
• 40:00 - 40:30 know should I this thing only needs us all amount of focus and energy now and now the new place that needs my focus is over here and then I'm also measuring results against baseline and goals so you know I've got my mission vision principles I've got my goals I know what I'm supposed to do today and I know my current self and future self so I have a baseline and I have a goal a baseline is where I meant now currently a goal is
• 40:30 - 41:00 where I want to be and as I burn energy into this thing I'm constantly getting feedback and I'm seeing am i regressing to the baseline or am i progress into the goal and I'm constantly reshuffling variables reshuffling everything so that I'm making progress as efficiently as possible towards the goal and I'm also looking at the variable combinations and whether they do or don't work so you know if my current situation is that you
• 41:00 - 41:30 know I if my current situation is that I am not getting enough customers and my desired situation is that I want to get you know more customers then I'm constantly shuffling variables so I might be trying you know different types of Facebook ads different types of different types of landing pages and things so I'm shuffling those variables around and I'm asking myself when I'm doing this should I do more of this or
• 41:30 - 42:00 less it out more of this or less of that and I'm optimizing for the most rapid progression towards the goal now this entire process which I run in like I run this process 24/7 365 is constantly scanning it's constantly doing this and these feedback loops are at the speed of light it's just put just going all the time and really what I'm this whole
• 42:00 - 42:30 process would break down if number one I didn't know what I was trying to do I'm optimizing for a goal and so if I didn't know if I didn't have a goal this whole process would just break and so that's you need a goal and the other things you need to know your baseline because if you don't know where you are then you don't know whether you've made progress because you might be getting closer to your goal but you don't even
• 42:30 - 43:00 know where you were so you can get anxious so you need a baseline you need a goal and you need to constantly measure where you are all the time and then this process will just just go this is the process this is basically what I've trained myself to do you know to myself into like a learning an optimization machine that runs like this now I included this as a pin up that's
• 43:00 - 43:30 available in the resources section beneath this video so you can download it pin it up on your wall and it's called feeding at the grid pin up and this is a good thing to remember for you like you want to make sure you're managing and optimizing your inputs you need that energy without that energy everything breaks then you need to be managing and optimizing your your focus like how tight is the focus we're we're what areas is that going into and how
• 43:30 - 44:00 are you choosing the areas in which it's going into and in the outputs what results are you getting and then making adjustments through feedback do we do more of this less of that do we optimize these variables or those variables like how are you optimizing the system through its feedback loop so now let's talk a little bit about focus specifically I showed you the overall
• 44:00 - 44:30 high-level view of how the system works but now let's talk about focus and channeling energy into the grid so focus means to concentrate all available energy into a sharp central point and the equation for focus is basically no energy times focus equals results so if you have that let's say you have 10 energy units and then let's say you don't have very good focus you're
• 44:30 - 45:00 distracted so then let's say focus is one so you get ten times one equals ten now let's say you have the same energy units ten but you tighten your focus to two and then you have ten times two equals twenty so focus is a multiplier you know focus is such a powerful tool it's like a it's like a superpower because you can take the same energy and just channel it and get exponentially
• 45:00 - 45:30 more output and what we're really trying to do is we're trying to optimize both you know with this is when I when I do something I'm gonna really do it I'm gonna find every little piece that I can get and I'm gonna optimize the hell out of it and take it to the absolute knife's edge of the limit and so I'm not just trying to play with us I'm trying to play with both I'm constantly thinking how can I get more energy cleaner energy just how can i optimize
• 45:30 - 46:00 the hell out of this so I know that I've got max of this that's meditation eating clean exercising all of that and then focus I'm trying to take this to the knife's edge as well so imagine the average person has a five energy and a one focus so they get a five then imagine I've got a ten energy in at a ten focus I get a hundred right that's 20 times and it's probably accurate I'd probably get 20 times the efficiency of
• 46:00 - 46:30 a normal person it might be a lot more and it's just through mostly focused but also energy but focus is the main leverage point and then it talks here about leverage so focus focus is a multiplier of energy and your major leverage point and you can't leverage much with energy but you can with focus and what I mean here is you can only really like double or triple energy right like if you can if you eat better you'll get more energy if you sleep
• 46:30 - 47:00 better more energy and if you exercise more energy meditate more energy and if you sacrifice things way more energy so you can really take energy up by maybe a factor of three but focus has like a teeny a 10x range so there's more leverage and focus and this is basically how it works just imagine your energy is the important flowing into this and then
• 47:00 - 47:30 your focus is how you concentrate that energy and then your results as are the output and that's the you know the results you get from the focus x energy or energy x focus and so when you sacrifice things and eat clean you're getting more of this more flowing and then when you Pro when you focus this in you just multiply all of that and your results the are the output of this this multiplication and so here's how it
• 47:30 - 48:00 works remember sacrificing vision mission principles exercise diet meditation self-discipline sacrifice this fires getting strong coming in here focusing sharpening that point so that it's just piercing and then wolf straight into the right part of the grid boom lights up all the different components of the grid getting feedback
• 48:00 - 48:30 measuring and taking a position measuring basically by comparing to baseline and goal and I'm trying to progress towards goal and optimize variables and and things to to progress to goal as efficiently as possible now let's talk about you know the grid because they keep saying focus energy into the grid what do I mean by the grid and what is this thing over here it kind
• 48:30 - 49:00 of looks like a grid with a power plant on it and some little thermometers well here's what I mean by saying you know channel energy into your grid so the grid imagine your business as an electric grid a network of interconnected power providers and consumers that are connected by transmission and distribution lines and operated by control centers and
• 49:00 - 49:30 control systems so you're mentioned you know the United States and it's got all of these different power plants right some nuclear some like hydro some wind some all sorts and these different plants are producing energy and then they're sending their energy through lines you know through power lines to other seeing other distribution centers and those other centers might store it or they might split it out into like a
• 49:30 - 50:00 whole suburb or city and they're controlling how it gets distributed throughout the whole grid to make sure that you know the lights stay on for everyone and it's used in the most efficient way possible and so basically with our business it's kind of the same you know if we think of our business as the whole and it's got it's the whole it's the sum of its parts and it has health right and the health its health
• 50:00 - 50:30 is the sum of its parts health and so we're always trying to optimize where we put our energy into this grid so that the whole is as healthy as possible and it progresses towards its goal as efficiently as possible and so we're trying to optimize for the whole and how we optimize for the whole is we scan all of its parts and we know and we spot where we need it most so if something is getting desperately low on energy and it
• 50:30 - 51:00 needs it really bad then we have to put our focus in here and boot power this thing back up and it ignites up and you know it helps the health of the whole but sometimes we need to let energy get a little bit low in one area because we need what's most important for us is to channel a lot of energy in here and by channeling a lot of energy in here it subsequently ignites all this all the rest of it and lights it all up because there's leverage points you know a few
• 51:00 - 51:30 channel energy into this grid system not all places give equal outputs output is not equal to input you know there's some places where you might put in 10 and get out zero for example social media right the output from input relationship with social media is [ __ ] terrible that's why I don't do it I have to do a little bit because I tried to do nothing I tried channeling zero energy into
• 51:30 - 52:00 social media and I kept monitoring its output and it had a few little glitches in it like people thought I wasn't real on things because they didn't do any of it so then I was like alright well it lets channel a tiny bit of energy in here let's just do the bare minimum and then I managed that output noise alright cool that's good that's where that thing should be balanced at and then you know because I didn't channel so much energy into social media I was able to channel
• 52:00 - 52:30 more energy into product so as able to make a great product things that other people were like how does how did he do that this they just don't know I just sacrificed the things that they care about you know I wasn't doing the social media I wasn't going and speaking at these events I'm not watching Netflix I'm not doing all of this other crap and I don't have 10 businesses and you know I don't have 5 email addresses and I don't follow like 42 different people so
• 52:30 - 53:00 I can focus intense energy into places that are strategic within the grid so that I can get the maximum output and the most leverage so this is where this equation gets really exponential first of all I'm optimizing energy input I'm making sure that's way above the average person then I'm multiplying that by a factor of 10 by making sure that my channel and my focus is more intense than anyone else so now I'm burning you
• 53:00 - 53:30 know the bit like I'm burning like 5 times as much energy with ten times as much focus I've got a massive advantage like fifty to a hundred times advantage already but then I multiply that advantage again by channeling it into the best part of the grid so I can figure out which one's going to get me the most output from the least input and I just unleash the energy into that part and it blows up then at times it by a
• 53:30 - 54:00 factor of 10 again so now we're going to have like a hundred times ten we got a thousand output a thousand and let's say the average person has a one energy and a one focus because they're so spread thin and so distracted and eating bad food and sleep in bed and and on social media so one energy one focus and then let's say they choose to put their into social media in the grid and so they get a one multiplier and so they've probably got a one output but me I got a ten
• 54:00 - 54:30 times at ten times a ten so I got a thousand output now we're at a thousand x advantage this is how it works and the entrepreneurs job is to oversee balance and manage the health of the entire system which is the business the whole and all of its subsystems which are its parts so a business is the sum of its parts and the parts are different pieces in the system and you know these could
• 54:30 - 55:00 be things like products teams departments different processes different software's or systems it could be customers it could be prospects could be marketing there's all sorts of different things within a business and you know it's the the business is the sum of its parts and what you're really trying to get good at masterful entrepreneurs really get good at prioritizing and focusing so masterful entrepreneurs learn how to
• 55:00 - 55:30 rapidly scan the entire grid check its health and then allocate energy which is basically time and money where it's most useful to the overall system and this requires rapid scanning abilities to check its health it also requires really good accurate in fast rapid prioritization so you quickly see all of these things that you could do and people want you to do and you very quickly choose what one to lock onto and then once you've found that one thing to
• 55:30 - 56:00 lock on to it you just lock like a Terminator gaze and then you focus on it and just unleash all of that potential energy through the channel through the channel into the grid and with prioritization you're really trying to number one make sure that you ensure survival so survival of yourself and also survival of your system your business that's number one priority so if survival is ever at risk you have to allocate energy
• 56:00 - 56:30 there that takes priority but once you've got survival sorted number two is achieving the vision in the mission knowing what that is and going like how to get it and so here you can understand it we've got the energy inputs trying to sacrifice things eat clean get more sleep it's coming in we're focusing we're really choosing it and we're really channeling it all into a into a point and then the output of
• 56:30 - 57:00 this is really strong powerful focused energy and we're putting this into the right spot in the grid at the right time and when we focus it in here we just charge it up the whole grid lights up and what we're constantly doing is we're channeling this energy into the grid is we're optimizing for our goals number one is to ensure survival once that's ticked off then we go for achieving our vision and mission and if we regress
• 57:00 - 57:30 towards baseline we optimize to not do that and if we progress towards goal we optimize to do more of that we're basically doing more of what works less of what doesn't and we're mostly trying to achieve our vision and mission and the only time that priority changes is to ensure survival that is the system that is me and my brain and everything I do and think about my entire my entire being this is what I do 24/7 365 I dream
• 57:30 - 58:00 about this I'm just going scanning across everything thousands of variables just flicking between them in my mind and using different metrics and measuring sticks and timeframes to understand weird the health of these things set and then I'm looking at all of the different interconnections between all of these different things and how if one thing moves up then it might move down over here but if one thing moves up over here and ten things move down over there overall it doesn't matter we actually go up overall so I'm not just I'm not just
• 58:00 - 58:30 being reactive to any spot that wants my help or any spot that might be getting down in energy I'm not trying to make sure all of these thermometers as our are full all the time sometimes I learn that I can cut off whole things and get more in sometimes I realize that I can sacrifice you know doing kind of shitty in a lot of areas to do really well in one and that that
• 58:30 - 59:00 one is more powerful than all the others so I'm constantly flicking through all of these scenarios and all of these situations and I'm looking at the interconnections between the parts ways to measure the parts different inputs that could be applied to those parts to achieve different outputs and how those outputs would affect those different inputs and then I'm looking at different time horizons I'm looking at short term medium term long term and I'm flicking
• 59:00 - 59:30 between those and I'm flicking between all of these different things all the time and then when I find one I go lock that's where it's going make sure that energy is constantly burning hot focused get it done back out scan again find it get it done come back out scan back in that's how you want to operate and here
• 59:30 - 60:00 is the diagram again and I suggest you download this one it's available for download in the resources section beneath this video download it print it off put it on your wall and if you ever get stuck or be like Oh what should I do Oh what should i do should I go with listen to a Gary Vee video or should I work on my business just just look at this just tried it optimize this get more energy try to optimize this get more focus when you do that you'll get more outputs and then from those outputs
• 60:00 - 60:30 you'll get information and feedback and you can make adjustments to then further get more and then you can just form an X Angell superhuman alien-like machine now let's talk about consistency unwavering commitment to your goal so this process seems pretty awesome but how can it go wrong well let's look at a few different scenarios here let's say you know
• 60:30 - 61:00 success how would we define success will success is consistent progress towards the vision ultimate success would be the realization of the vision but our visions are going to be so massive that we're just mostly making consistent progress towards the vision that success so if we're making that we good stagnation which isn't failure but it also isn't success is inconsistent
• 61:00 - 61:30 progress towards vision maybe we're making some progress than we fall back and get distracted some progress fall back and get distracted I mean that's better than complete failure but it's still not great and in failure there is no progress towards the vision so we're not moving at all worse yet we might be regressing from baseline worse yet we might have quit and have ceased to exist all right so that's failure so these
• 61:30 - 62:00 this is very simple how do you know if you're doing well will you're making progress towards vision how do you know if you're doing okay well it seems consistent shaky progress towards vision how do you know if you failed no progress or you've quit and even if you've made no progress and you're still in the game I mean it's not good but you're still alive and you just need to try get up here so really the really the only thing that can go wrong with this is if you're inconsistent if
• 62:00 - 62:30 you get distracted or if you just forget what you're trying to do then you're inconsistent and consistency is really the main thing once you've got that system operating because it doesn't matter if you can insanely hard and be very focused for a short period of time that doesn't matter success is all about how consistent you are and system performance is the output
• 62:30 - 63:00 and efficiency of your system over a long period of time so we would look at that performance equation like this we'd take your output and multiply it by time so let's say you output like 10 units of energy on a daily basis for a whole year so that's output 10 units time 365 days so we get you know 3,600 then with we're dividing it by your input in time so you
• 63:00 - 63:30 know if your input is let's say a 5 and you get a 10 output because you multiply it by a to focus times time so then we just take 365 multiply it by 5 and then we would get that and we divide it by that which means that you know that gives us our efficiency in our performance over time this is also our consistency and what's important about this equation is that you've got to
• 63:30 - 64:00 understand that it's not just about output and input it's mostly about time all right people don't understand this hey this is the whole launch model this is why people that do launches just don't get it because they're like you know you see people all the time like I got a twenty thousand percent ROI on Facebook ads and I'm like oh why aren't you a billionaire they're like oh because they stopped
• 64:00 - 64:30 doing it and I'm like why the hell would you stop doing it and I like I don't know and then someone might have done a launch three years ago and made a million dollars in a week and they're like well how come you're poor now it's like oh because that was a year ago and I haven't done anything since right time is the most powerful one so if you just got a small income each day if you just had a small output in a small input each day but you had a long period of
• 64:30 - 65:00 time you would a Nile somebody who had a really massive output over a short period of time so time is a very very very powerful part of the equation you know one of the reasons why my funnel in that the two ka automated consulting accelerator automated webinar phone all the main reason why that thing crushes is because that sucker is consistent it works like a dog 24/7 365
• 65:00 - 65:30 you know we're advertising in all of these different countries all over the world all the time so a customer is buying consulting accelerator pretty much every 20 minutes even all through the night even on Saturdays even on Sundays even on Christmas so it's not like it's doing these miracle these miracle spikes like launches do the thing is just consistent as hell and that's what really makes the output so
• 65:30 - 66:00 high is because sure it's great with its output and but people make way more than that during a live webinar 104 speaking on a stage one off but it's mostly about the time there's things doing it every day consistently so that's why consistency is so important and to really be consistent you can never deviate and the number one reason for
• 66:00 - 66:30 failure and inconsistency is forgetting the vision mission and goal if you forget why you're in business and why you exist you're going to be inconsistent because you know you've gotten lost you're gonna now be choosing any action and anything because you have no idea why you're just kind of doing it on a whim and it's making no sense so the number one reason for failure and inconsistency is forgetting the vision
• 66:30 - 67:00 mission and goal never ever ever waver never forget and how do you stay consistent well don't forget the goal and keep tracking performance against baseline and towards goal so it's very important to always keep a baseline always keep and always keep measuring and never take your eye off the ball and keep optimizing your inputs in the system and measuring their effect to the output in pursuit of the goal and perfection
• 67:00 - 67:30 so always optimizing you know it's not enough to just keep in mind the goal have a baseline and to measure you also have to channel energy through and you have to optimize variables feed it back around and keep going and do it consistently relentlessly over a long period of time so main failure reasons people forgetting the goal people getting distracted people varying their
• 67:30 - 68:00 inputs so you know they they forget that inputs are important so they just decide to no you know they forget that sacrifice helps them so they decide to start taking more things on oh yeah cool I'll do this hobby Oh y'all learn to do this I'll learn to do that I'll play the piano I'll do all this crap you know it's funny I when I first started making money I just started taking up all of these hobbies I was like I'm gonna get a helicopter license that'll be fun so
• 68:00 - 68:30 cool I'll do that started practicing for that and then I was like I've always wanted to play the piano so I bought a piano and then you know I thought I'd start doing that and also under learn the guitar too so I bought a guitar and some books on how to do that and then I thought yeah in a boat cuz I'd like to go fishing so I got a boat then I had two nice cars and then you know I had to look after the cars look after the boat and all the maintenance related to those things then to also get any enjoyment or
• 68:30 - 69:00 use out of the car or the boat I had to use the boat and then using the boat was more energy going into it and then driving the cars more energy into it and then you know I had to try to learn how to play piano more energy try learn to play the guitar more energy and then I'd also have to look after and manage and upkeep the guitar in the piano and then I also you know the helicopter thing was just insane I can't believe I was that dumb very quickly I realized there
• 69:00 - 69:30 I couldn't achieve any one of these things without sacrificing all of the others and so when I had this realization I was just like do I want to learn piano more than I want to Succeed in Business no piano is gone so I want to learn guitar more than I want to went succeed in business know do I want to drive around on a boat more than I want to succeed in business no I was like 24
• 69:30 - 70:00 at the time I was like dude you can do that when you're retired you're 24 years just cruise around like you know a 7 year old dude in a boat so I got rid of the boat do I need to drive around in a car in bulk rich no it would be better to just be rich and not have to not have to tell anyone about it and be really rich and then have no one know and then that would be pretty cool so I got rid of everything and so you
• 70:00 - 70:30 know another way you can lose is by varying your inputs so forgetting the things that you sack with forgetting that sacrifice helps you know if you look at any of the best athletes in the world they do massive sacrifice they do it as a routine I was looking at Michael Jordan documentary and when he got to a point in his career where he got very distracted he realized that he was just
• 70:30 - 71:00 doing too much you know he had said he'd be in the Olympics for basketball he was also doing all of these ad campaigns and promotions and sponsorships in all of these public appearances and he asked himself the question he was like these things more important than winning the game and he was like no these are these are byproducts of being the best and if I get so distracted on these things then I'll be focusing on these byproducts
• 71:00 - 71:30 instead of what created them and then I'll forget what created them start losing there and then I'll lose the byproducts too so he just can't solve everything locked the windows closed the doors stop doing sponsorships stop doing everything and just went back to the game and dominated and you can also if you take your eyes off the metrics then that's another way stop measuring things that's another way I stopped taking baselines and stop scanning the grid
• 71:30 - 72:00 stopped looking at the function of the outputs and basically accepting entropy you know accepting that things are just going to be inefficient in accepting that things aren't going to grow or are going to go backwards and regress a little and really it's always avoidable if you keep your eye on the ball 24/7 365 you remember your vision mission and your goal you keep a baseline you measure things and you never take your eye off the ball and you're relentless
• 72:00 - 72:30 in your pursuit and you stay consistent and you don't waver for a second now let's talk about some systems into tools so that you can stay on the rails so once we are on the railroad towards our vision emission we don't want to deviate and when we were starting to optimize our inputs and burn a clean fire of energy and once we have channeling it
• 72:30 - 73:00 and focusing it really well and once we get in good outputs in choosing the right places to channel that energy and we're growing that business towards its goal and we're getting feedback all the time and we're constantly adjusting and making things more efficient once we're doing this we are on the rail world towards our vision emission and we just don't want to get off but we don't want to deviate that's the only thing that can really happen at this point is you
• 73:00 - 73:30 just somehow get off the rails you've got to stay on the rails and to stay on the rails we need metrics controls and observers to monitor those metrics and those controls because it's all good if you don't have any metrics in controls then you're screwed because you don't know what you're you don't know what you're measuring you don't even know what's going on you know it's like trying to observe the ten preacher of the ear you can't do that
• 73:30 - 74:00 you can't look with your eyes at the ear and be like I wonder if it looks hot or cold you've got no idea so you need a metric you need a thermometer and you need a measuring stick to measure it you need controls no controls the things that you can do to adjust it so having some air-conditioning or opening the window to adjust the temperature you know if you don't have the option to open a window or turn on a heater or put on some air conditioning it doesn't
• 74:00 - 74:30 matter if you've got metrics because now the now the temperature of 3 is just very hot or very cold and there's nothing you can do about it so you need metrics to know the temperature of the air in the room you need controls to be able to change the temperature of the air in the room to bring it towards we want it to be and you need observers to actually monitor those metrics in those controls because if you have the ability to open or close a door turn on a heater or an air conditioning system that's
• 74:30 - 75:00 your control if you've got a thermometer with an accurate read of the temperature of the room then you've got a metric you've got metrics and controls but if no human is there to watch those things and do something about it it's useless that's why you need that human observer to monitor things so here's the systems and tools that I use in that you should use too so that you can stay on the rails and get your vision emission so first and foremost vision mission and principles do these
• 75:00 - 75:30 make them clear and keep them handy and look at them multiple times a day every day you will forget you're extremely forgetful you're a human so look at it multiple times a day every day remind yourself of why you exist and what you're actually doing and in baseline self and future self so keep your alchemy of self workbook handy and look at it every day we did this in the
• 75:30 - 76:00 previous modules in week 2 sorry not week 2 and week 7 mindset training and up level keep this handy you want to see who you are now so that you can understand your baseline who you want to be so that you can achieve your vision mission and principles and tracking all of that so that you're growing your character and you've got your TrueNorth that's your vision mission principles and you're growing your character and then you need self-discipline so keep your inputs consistent eat consistent
• 76:00 - 76:30 food if you if you vary your diet all the time you'll vary your output and if you vary your output you'll vary everything exercise keep it consistent hydration sleep meditation behavior keep it all consistent now here's an awesome tool that I use it's called an aura ring oh you are a and use this ring to track your sleep quality and bed and wake times and you can go to consulting calm for - aura
• 76:30 - 77:00 that's consulting.com for sesh oh you are a the URLs on the screen and if you go here you can see this ring I'll show you what it looks like it's a small little ring and it tracks your sleep so it tracks the time you go to sleep the time you wake up and your heart rate and
• 77:00 - 77:30 everything you can see it's a tiny little ring and it's got these little readers inside it and it's honestly amazing like it works really well let me see if I can show you the metrics that it shows you so it shows you you know sleep trends and all of this your REM sleep deepen everything it shows you how your heart rate and your body temperature and your
• 77:30 - 78:00 respiratory rate it shows you activity it shows you all sorts of things and has an app it's honestly amazing what it really does is it provides you with a metric in a feedback mechanism so that you can optimize your sleep because most humans don't have a measurement for sleep nor do they have any feedback mechanism for sleep so they're not able to optimize the inputs that go into optimizing a good sleep so they just end
• 78:00 - 78:30 up with an unmeasured unregulated unchecked unoptimized chaotic shitty system all right you want to have a good one so go to that URL and the one I have it's called a balance so you can go choose balance choose your color I'm pretty sure I just have this color here this one so it's just a balance ring and it's the silver color and the total price is $2.99 you do not need the
• 78:30 - 79:00 thousand dollar one with these shitty diamonds on it you just need the $2.99 one choose silver and then you choose your ring size you probably need to get a sizing kit they send you out a sizing kit you can find your size and then you can order it and then it's $2.99 and then you get the app on your phone and it is 100% worth it it'll change your life get it then a health tracking sheet so you want to use this sheet to track your daily health and puts and it's
• 79:00 - 79:30 available for download in the resources section beneath this video it's just called health tracking sheet and what you can do is you can download it it will be an excel file and I recommend that you don't use the excel file and what you do instead is you just click this link up the top right and open it up using Google Docs Google sheets and then what you can do is you can just go file make a copy save it to your own Drive now here's how the sheet works on
• 79:30 - 80:00 - bored we have a bird's-eye view of our average for the month for each month so we can see how we're trending month-to-month and how we're trending overall at an annual level and then these different tabs are used to measure the daily inputs for our these different metrics so we're in this column here we've got our date and it shows us you
• 80:00 - 80:30 know the date and what day it was and then we have sleep s so sleepy s is sleep start what time did you fall asleep your aura will tell you that and you want to set your goal like when you want to go to bed by I'm supposed to be asleep by 11:00 so I'm supposed to fall asleep anytime in between 10:30 and 11:00 all right so I can track that sleep start sleep end that's when I actually woke up and the aura ring will
• 80:30 - 81:00 track the stuff when you actually fell asleep when you actually woke up so you know a human might say I went to bed at 10 o'clock and I woke up at this time but they might not have fallen asleep till 12 that means that you didn't fall asleep till 12 this is actual sleep start sleep end then it will Auto calculate sleep duration for you that's the total amount of hours that you were asleep and what's awesome about this is it will show you what day to day down here it will show you the month on a
• 81:00 - 81:30 monthly basis you should be averaging eight eight hours now on a day-to-day basis you should be hovering in between seven and nine seven and nine if you hover between those then on a monthly average you'll be at eight if your monthly average is lower than a seven it's getting sketchy and then we've got a wake time that will be Auto calculated
• 81:30 - 82:00 by the oil ring but how many minutes were you awake during your sleep then light sleep how many hours or minutes we all were you light and then RYM how many hours or minutes were you in rapid eye movement and then how much was deep this all all get from your or ring and plug it in here what was your heart rate Allah HR as a percentage and then what was this as a time and then you can read this up
• 82:00 - 82:30 here it talks about what it is and then your body temperature and then your RR which is like resting heart rate and pretty sure HIV right all of these metrics you just get these straight from the oil ring plug them in your readiness this is a score that the oil ring gives you and it shows you how good you should be feeling you want your readiness to always be above eighty if your readiness is below
• 82:30 - 83:00 eighty you're doing something wrong if your readiness is in the 90s you're doing something very right your sleep score should also be above 80 now these three inputs alert Ness mood and soreness we manually input ourselves so every morning when I fill out the sheet at roughly 9:00 a.m. every morning I ask myself how alert am I feeling today and I just put in a hundred is perfect and I put in how alert I'm
• 83:00 - 83:30 feeling what my moods like if I'm feeling grumpy or moody or angry or said it will be lower if I'm feeling great it's hundred my soreness like if I've been training and my legs in arms are extremely saw it then I'd put in my curve fifty if I'm feeling perfect I've put in 100 there my meditation time how long did I meditate for today I do it 20 minutes a day every day religiously did I look at my mindset vision mission and principles and goals
• 83:30 - 84:00 and everything today yes or no why yes what you know then diet so if I eat clean that means full clean no snacks no sugar nothing that's out of the plan it's just clean lean food if I eat totally clean for the day then it's a 1 if I eat clean but I have a snack or something that is isn't in the
• 84:00 - 84:30 then that's a - and if I kind of completely botch it and I like have like some ice cream or I have a meal that wasn't in the plan then I will put it as a three all right and then what I'm doing here is I'm trying to get as much ones as possible and that means that if the if I'm geared like thirty is perfection for the month and like her ninety would be you're you're totally
• 84:30 - 85:00 [ __ ] it up for the month and then what's cool is the year view you know you can see how clean your diet is month-to-month and how clean your diet is yearly and then you can see how good your heart rate is yearly how much REM you're getting on a yearly basis and what your average sleep time and wait time is and sleep duration is on an annual basis no one has this insight this this is this is like no one has
• 85:00 - 85:30 this [ __ ] most people don't even know if I can time they go to bed they don't know what time they wake up they have no idea what they eat they're basically just a walking zombie with no awareness of anything and if they do think they're aware mostly they're delusional because they're not aware but they think they are which is a dangerous thing so by doing this you get real data and you treat yourself like a machine you know and this is how you get discipline this is how you stay on the rails and this is
• 85:30 - 86:00 how people start calling you an alien or something because they just don't know how the hell it works and then supplements if you if I have my supplements for the day then I put that as a one if I forget and I don't I put that as a zero so it's zero or one binary state workout do did I work out today or not yes or no then what time did I start work work if I'm supposed to start at 9:00 a.m. you should have a target start time what time did I finish
• 86:00 - 86:30 work I know thirty and I finished work in between 9:00 9:30 every day that's my target in time work duration will that be twelve and a half hours work output so I put this in my self how much do what like how good was my output for the day - I think 100 percent is great zero percent has basically forgot to do anything and stayed in bed and just watch Netflix for the day right
• 86:30 - 87:00 that's output and then focus is how how good was I with focusing on things and not getting distracted hundred is great and then did I plan tomorrow today plenty tea yes or no then reading did I read like are usually what I do is I read from about 9:00 to 10:30 and I say yes or no and then it's audited so I have read come in and check every single
• 87:00 - 87:30 entry here to make sure these are accurate to make sure he's seen these observations and that it gets done every day and there's no missing data so read checks this daily and he signs read and then if there's any notes oh I want to put in I'll put notes like if I'm sick I've got the flu or whatever put them in him and you want to do this every day and you want to track these things every day because then you can see trends you might think oh man that week that I'd
• 87:30 - 88:00 like that week two weeks ago I was so productive then how come I can't do that again well you can't you just got to know what happens that week what were the ingredients of that week so if I had a week that was just on fire I'll trace it back and I'll be like alright what was going on in this week I see well I got way more sleep my heart rate was very lower I was exercising more my meditation was consistent and my diet was clean so of course my output was
• 88:00 - 88:30 going to be great if my inputs were great my outputs going to be great but then if I have a really shitty week and I'm like man this week just sucked I wonder what it was and it's what most people do or maybe you know just maybe it was the planetary alignments or something you know or maybe it was just a thing maybe it was just just a glitch alright this is the sort of [ __ ] people do when they don't have any information
• 88:30 - 89:00 instead you come here and you're like why were my output [ __ ] okay always because I haven't been getting any sleep I would you look at that my heart rates through the roof and yeah my readiness is really bad and my moods all over the place I've totally forgotten to do my meditation my diet has gone to [ __ ] and I'm just eating basically fast food I forgot to take any supplements and I didn't work out a single day oh no wonder my outputs bad outputs created
• 89:00 - 89:30 outputs are derived from inputs garbage in garbage out put shitty things and get shitty things out ain't any magic here this deciphers the whole roller coaster ride of being an entrepreneur it deciphers the code and it finds out what the [ __ ] going on and it allows you to change things and play with things you know if there's a variable in here that you want to change you look at its
• 89:30 - 90:00 inputs oh I want to get my sleep time sleep duration longer how would I do that oh I could sleep a bit longer in the morning or go to bed a bit earlier at night you know what to do you see the metric you pull it into shape by adjusting its inputs and if it has the desired effect you turn it into your new mode of operation and when you find a good mode of operation you stayed you stick to it and that's why I have read he's a living personal trainer who
• 90:00 - 90:30 watches me and watches all of my inputs and outputs every day to make sure that I don't go off the rails because the other danger is even if you have all of these metrics you might forget to input them or yeah that's going to be an accident but also you might input them but you might lie and you might not even know you're lying so having someone make sure it gets done and in fact checks it and he's like hey you didn't really do that checks it and then if you start
• 90:30 - 91:00 trending in a negative way in regressing from baseline that observer will pull you into shape be like hey dude you need to fix this look look where this is going all right that's why I have a third party external objective observer for that so that's the health tracking sheet use it it's good warm app calendar so
• 91:00 - 91:30 use this to plan your years your months your weeks your days in your hours and it's available for download in the resources section beneath this video and I'm gonna open it up using Microsoft Excel I suggest you click this blue link up the top open it in Google Docs it's way better and Doc's use it there then you can just go file make a copy save it to your system and here we've got I've explained this before in another video so I'm not gonna do it too long here we plan our high level views so we plot
• 91:30 - 92:00 different things maybe we've got some different vacations some live events whatever we plot these in and we use the color-coded scheme to pull this off then we drill into the specific months and here we just state what we're going to be doing each day all right what are we going to be doing each day and we can plan our month in advance we can put down here our main objectives and now we want to start by plotting our objectives here and then reverse-engineering them
• 92:00 - 92:30 from all right if I want to achieve this this month then I need to do this this week and this this week in this this week to achieve this you start at the end in your reverse engineer back to the week back to the day back to the hour back to the minute and then you execute and then you stayed to the stick to the plan that's how it works and yeah I use this religiously every day so I'm using my health tracking sheet and I'm using my warm app calendar and I'm looking at
• 92:30 - 93:00 these things all the time and you want to save them bookmark them you can see here my warm app calendar is is in my bookmarks bar and my health tracking sheet is here too right so they're all ready to go like quick access so use the warm app calendar and then another one is the rice prioritization tool and you want to use this tool to prioritize the order of project execution and this is available for
• 93:00 - 93:30 download in the resources section beneath this video it's an excel file open it up using Microsoft Excel then click this blue link to open it inside Google Docs and here is a tool for really prioritizing because if we go back to this let me go to back to this alright we have where was it yeah
• 93:30 - 94:00 prioritizing focus so you know really masterful entrepreneurs they're rapidly scanning this thing and choosing which place to channel their energy so that they can channel it into the place that it's going to get the most exponential output this tool helps you do that you state the different projects so they say there's all of these different things you could do in your business that could help you progress you write them all
• 94:00 - 94:30 down different projects then you put in like reach so how many customers will this project impact over a single quarter so over 90 days will actually a quarter yeah quarters 90 days how many customers could this particular reach put it in and there's a guess then impact so how much will this project increase conversion rate when a customer encounters it is it massive high medium
• 94:30 - 95:00 low you put in this multiplier so put in the force multiplier then confidence so how confident are you about this about this estimate high low medium so it's confidence thing if it estimate the total amount of time that it will require you or your team to do it so you know these are person months so if it's going to take you one month with one person that's one if it takes two people
• 95:00 - 95:30 one month that's two if it takes one person two weeks there's reserve both and then you get your rice score in your rice score is basically an algorithm that's using you know these so we're looking for something that's going to reach the most people with the highest impact with the highest confidence with the least effort that's its secret sauce so here you can see this function and we're basically looking for highest impact with the
• 95:30 - 96:00 greatest reach with the highest confidence with the minimal effort whatever that is that is what we should do so then we scan through error when you find the thing with the highest race score at 9000 and this is new webinar and it's because it has a 2000 reach a three impact 275 confidence is 0.5 effort so yeah this has got massive power very high confidence in low input so high output low input that equals an
• 96:00 - 96:30 exponential you know function so this is going to take priority number one and I'm going to do that immediately so remember back here scanning the grid trying to find it trying to find it trying to find it what am I trying to do I'm trying to find the thing that I can do I can channel my energy into and get the most out of it and it's measured according to my long term vision mission principles and so I'm getting this
• 96:30 - 97:00 energy channeling it in prioritizing the number one priority using that rice scoring tool find the thing lock Terminator gaze on that thing just energy going into it done next scan the grid again find out where I should spend my time make a decision lock pull straight in constantly doing this 24/7 365 near the ends so that's the rice
• 97:00 - 97:30 project scoring tool download it save it to your drive bookmark it with your other tools use it and then standardized metrics so use key metrics to measure your business outputs for example you need to be measuring how much money you're making how much profit you're making what your profit margin is what your growth is what's your growth month over month what's your growth quarter-over-quarter what's your growth year over year know these things know your baseline know
• 97:30 - 98:00 your targets and know whether you're regressing or progressing and keep these metrics standardized because if you keep changing your metrics then you keep changing your measurements so you have some key metrics that you use and you know I gave you some of those in the health tracking sheet for you to use and throughout this training I've given you good ones for measuring your funnels performance your ads performance your sales calls performance all sorts of
• 98:00 - 98:30 stuff and then a third party observer so if you're feeling extreme then get a live-in coach and trainer to observe you and keep you focused that's what I did with red relives in my house and he works with me every day and he sets my diet he monitors the she manages the chef who buys the groceries and cooks the food that I eat so he monitors what I'm eating when I'm eating it and he
• 98:30 - 99:00 also monitors that I don't go off and eat other things and he makes sure that I go to sleep and then I wake up at the right times that I meditate that I also exercise right and I log all of my metrics and he's constantly acting as that third party observer because remember I said you've got let's say your vision is to get the temperature of the room up to a high temperature all right let's say that's it now your tools you've got to have a you've got ever
• 99:00 - 99:30 metric first of all you've got ever thermometer that can accurately read engage the temperature of that room BAM got that then you've got to have some controls so some ways that you can actually change the temperature of that room make a holder ricotta so air conditioning window heater right so that's good then I need an observer to make sure that you know I'm controlling that the metrics and controls in the right way so I'm basically playing with
• 99:30 - 100:00 the controls and the metrics and Rhett standing behind me to make sure that I don't get too low you know and I don't get distracted and I don't go off the rails or I don't start changing inputs into my own human body that make me start to get emotional and bring that emotion into my work and start screwing with things and blowing things up that's why I got a third party observer now it's not hundred percent necessary pretty much none of this is necessary but this is about going to
• 100:00 - 100:30 that next level and if you want to go to the next level you've got to get extreme and remember success is the sum of your human will your will to win your will to prepare and your will to relentlessly pursue in the face of anything so let's go get it
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