November 8, 2021 • 39 mins
Changing your habits, change your life.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Prompt Us is a production of I Heart Radio. This morning.
I walk into the bathroom and jess was showering, and
I don't know why. I like, well, no, no, it's
just I walk into the bathroom singing and I'm like,
I'm like just getting embarrassed, right, I'm like, I'm like,
I don't know I mentioned that fact, but I'm just
setting the scene. There's nothing Jessica do about. It's the
(00:22):
point that I was trying to make. It's like she's
behind the glass and I'm screaming at the top of
my lungs. I'm going I believe I can fly. I
believe ac in touch the sky and I'm like, I'm
like going through the bathroom, think about it every night
and day, spread the wings and fly. I believe akin
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flat and Jesse was I don't get that song stuck
in my head from behind the glass. All right? That
is awesome, dude. It's you need to do the halftime
show Supervolt Cable halftime Show. Put that in the podcast.
Everyone's gonna be like, you release music, dude. Is it
Creed the band? That's like it's like a growl. Oh
(01:12):
my gosh, dude. When the red light comes on. I know,
I know, I gotta put my game show time. I know,
it's freaking showtime, lights, camera action speaking. You just have
to lick the stamp and send it. Oh, okay, Daniel Ricardo.
That was the best. Daniel Ricardo. How good was that that?
He's like on the podium. Yeah, he's that go on
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the podium. He's like sometimes you just gotta lick the
stamp and send it. He is an all around vibe.
Oh dude, he's just a legend. Anyway, what are we?
What are we? What's the prompt? I forgotten? Oh I
have to intro? Yeah, sorry, what the flip dude? What's
(01:55):
up everyone? Welcome back to the prompt this podcast. I'm
Gabriel Conti, one of your hosts. Join my other two hosts,
Zach and Chad. What's up everyone? How are we doing? Boys? Hey,
let me hear you with the prompt? Actually, first off,
how we all doing? I think it's everyone doing good.
Everyone's doing good, doing good. I think we're doing good.
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To be honest, I'm flipping tired. Past two days. Yeah, man,
past few days of work. I've been like just and
ben't like in work hours. I've been switched on it's
like a lot of work. Yeah yeah, yeah, So like
I'm I'm running up fumes, but I'm good. That's probably
why I'm delusional right now, because I'm just like, well, honestly,
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I'm not gonna lie. I'm a fan of delusional game.
I don't know about you za, but this thing, the
thing is is like the one that we picked. I
feel like you guys were like, oh, you have a
lot to say about this, and now it's on me
to like actually make some sense to you. Said when
the light turns red, it's showtime. Yeah, all right, here
we go. I gotta live up, live up to that.
(02:58):
Here we go. Well, hey, let me hear you with
prompt them right? What the heck was that this is
gonna need editing? Freak, Let's let's get let's get it,
let's get it on. I lost the problem. Give me
one second? What what morning morning routine? How do I
hear you? All Right? So, guys, I'm very excited because
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I feel like this is going to be a real
practical podcast today. The prompt is from Allison in Ontario, Canada.
I know who that is. Let's go. We've like answered
plenty of her prompts is it? Is it? Allison? Her
last name starch to than Ell. Can you see that?
What the heck? Allison? How do you keep getting in
our podcast? We just keep crushing us with great The
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master spam just just comes strong. Baby. So Tory and
I do this thing on our YouTube channel plug where
we do a subscriber of the week and every week
we choose someone who just noticed their name or whatever
and we want to shout them down and give them
some praise. And in every week it's Alison every week.
So so I thought that Allison was engaged, but she's
in a long distance relationship that's very hopefully close to
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getting engaged. So on the YouTube video, I'm just like,
congratulations on your engagement all this, and they were all
out about it chat they were like laughing, but I
was like, pretty upset with myself. That's hilarious anyway, publically
apologized to you. Dang anyway, congrats on the marriage, Zack.
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You want to go, but that was quick anyway, So Allison,
Alison hit us with a good one this morning. How
do I create a solid morning routine starting with a
good bedtime routine? Question mark? Waking up early when it's
dark out question mark not being on my phone. Well, Alison,
you pretty much just answered your questions. So the next
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prompt is how do you So that's good? No, but
I think it's so good because I'm currently trying to
get up at five thirty. That's my current goal. So
I'm keen to talk about it. Boys, I'm keen to
flip and dive in and hear what you've been doing
for your routines, because I know Dave's real structured and
Chad's all over the shop at the moment, I'm all over.
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My work hours right now are wake up, work until
you go to sleep. Yeah, I that I am adamant.
Well actually today today that is because we're podcasting, and
podcasting starts to seven pm for us over here. That's
our that's my day to day. But um yeah, my
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normal days, I'm like adamant about ending around like five
thirty six. Sometimes it like pushes to seven. That's probably
like one day a week. Your struggle with it going
longer because you do so much business on the West Coast.
Um weird flex likes. I'll I'll take it. I mean
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not really. I read the book we talked about her
a Bunch, which is funny that it just come full circle. Um,
but at your best, carrying you off. I kind of
have structured my week in a way, and it was
what I said in one of the last podcasts. I
forgot which one it was, was like maybe one or
two ago, um, but it was the planning your week
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and putting things into your calendar so no one else
takes up that time for you, because if you don't
take up your time with something or block out your
time for something, someone else is going to take it
up with something. So that was one of the most
profound things I'd heard in a while where I've been like,
I've been telling I hate that it sounds like one
giant plug, but I just I mean honest, I've been
telling our podcast listeners NonStop, like if you don't plan
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your time, someone else will plan it for you. And
do you do you want the world planning? I mean serious,
Like it's like, well, if you just look at the
world and you look at the way things are going,
do you want the world planning your life out? And
if you don't take control of it, the world will.
And then it's like, do you just want to react
to all this stuff going on or do you want
to proactively act and bring heaven earth? Yeah, that's exactly
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where I'm like my mindset is on things is I
want to be in an active offensive position every single day.
Oh that sounds good. You know. I want to be
on the move, offensively moving forward, rather than trying to
move forward not seeing where I'm going because I have
a shield up trying to deal with everything that's coming
at me. You also stay forward, really interestingly forward forward
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for forward follow. Um. So anyway, I basically have forward.
Oh my gosh. On my schedule. I have like sections
of time booked out for things, and I make sure
they get done. And I've gotten to a point where
I'm I check my email and text once a day. Wow,
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at three thirty. How did you pick that time? I
used to be in the morning. But what I realized
is as soon as I start texting one, I'm using
the best hours of my day for something that's not.
Um best hours of my day being when I'm the
most refreshed, right at the beginning of the day. If
you read the book, is called your green zone. Um,
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so I'm using my green zone. I figured out that
it's probably between It starts like roughly around like eight
nine o'clock and it goes so probably like twelve. In
that range is like a three to five hour window
of like your best hours. And if I start sent
replying to text and emails at the beginning of my
green zone to like get stuff out of the way,
that is what I spend my entire green zone doing,
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and then I end my green zone and my most
productive hours doing something that is not worthy of my
best hours, if that makes sense. Where what is worthy
of my best hours is like basically most of the
things that I need to spend creatively that I need
to work on creatively and use my most creative as Okay,
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are we gonna rewind here a little bit. We live
in a manager's world. So if you're creative and you
do something like relatively decent creatively, now you have something
creative some career whatever to manage, and now you're we
live in a manager's world, so you're going to be
automatically strung into this constant cycle of the emails and
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texts and phone calls and maybe administrative stuff. Yeah, And
as a creative I realized those things seem like they're
the most urgent and important because other people are paying
you for those things, but they in your and this
this took me. I'm not saying this because like I
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know everything. This literally took me five years to realize
of me being like why can't I get done the
things that I want to get done. I'm like text
and emails can wait? What can't wait? What like actually
can't wait? And me moving the ball forward is me
filming me brain story, dude. The time the time that
I spend thinking and developing stuff now just like sitting
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down and thinking of and basically like planning, like what
am I going to do? What is this video going
to be about? What? Just like that time is so
valuable and I haven't I literally have not done that
for years and just like really, but it's not. I
don't approach it with this with the mindset of like, Okay,
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now I need to do this. I have some spare time.
It's blocked in every day for every week for the
rest of the year. The first yeah, it's not, it's
already there. It's on I know Friday, we're recording this.
I know on Monday when I wake up it's a Monday,
So we're gonna have a Monday meeting with our assistant.
First thing, just planned the week, which is another planning thing,
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I guess you could say. But then right after that,
I'm going straight into I might be filming a YouTube video,
or I might be like prepping and planning and researching
for YouTube videos. Question for you, if someone isn't like
just like a creative by trade, what would be some
other examples of like a green zone for someone else?
You know what I mean. It's the area to do.
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It's find your most productive time. It's usually the morning
for people. Sometimes if you're like a night owl, that
probably might like shift to being, you know, more afternoon
or something like that. Um, but it's usually the morning
hours for people. Some people if it's like really early,
like Zack you're saying you're trying to wake about five thirty,
his green zone could start at six am, you know,
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and it could be six am to tend to tend
a m Yeah. So like using your green zone for
the things that are the most important, especially and it's
like in Zax position, it's really good because no one's
gonna bug him at six am. He can start working
on something like say he's trying to write a book,
and most of the things that I think of are
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creative because that's just like what I think about when
I'm approach of my task, because like, what are the
creative things I'm going to do those? But um, yeah,
if he's trying to write a book, his most productive
hours are probably gonna be wake up, have a coffee, whatever.
Even if he you know, does a little workout to
get his brain up and moving, you know, reads the
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word and an hour later, hour and a half later,
so he gets into working. Say it's like seven am,
he starts, and he's he has two uninterrupted hours before
nine am where his phone is not going to start buzzing,
emails aren't coming through or anything, and he can just
in Well, I've realized is like just blocking an hour
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that small period of time. When you think of like
the bigger picture of like let's say it's it's some
sort of big project and you need to get some
sort of whatever this big thing done that seems daunting,
don't underestimate the single thirty minutes or the single hour
of hyper focused time. Just focus on up one single task,
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Like you can get so much done. But if you
have your phone next to you, notifications on full volume,
bells ringing, like you're me capping your your progress and
like when when I focus on certain things, like when
I film a YouTube video, my phones are not in
the room for me to check a notification my computer.
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I turned off my text on there. I need to
do that. Fully, you can't. I can't text on my
computer anymore because I completely kneecapped my my my progress
and efficiency on when when I work and stuff. So
I mean, I feel you right now because my phone
is somewhere over there sitting down and I could have
it in my hand. But I do feel so much
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more engaged. I feel so much more like in the
conversation versus kind of like you know, like my phone vibrates,
I'm gonna check that real quick. Yeah, But that's like
across the board like being engaged in Stuffits if you're
having dinner with your wife and you want to be engaged,
like obviously don't have your phone there. And I'm such
a I'm like speaking to the choir because I'm such
a culprit of that all the time. But um, we
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haven't even talked about morning routines though I think we're talking.
But I think it's good what you're saying, because I
guess it's asked someone crafts third morning routine. They need
to understand, like what's what's Because for me, I originally
wanted to wake up and go work out, do my
devotional have a good breakfast. But like right when I
wake up, I feel like a truck hit me. You
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know what I mean, Like I don't wake up like
a like a sprite whatever. I don't know what the phrases,
but you know what I mean, Well, what's that phrase
a young sprite? I don't know. I'm not sprightly in
the morning. Okay, how old are you one? Probably it.
All I'm saying is is that I had to probably
had to be born before in the nineties too. I
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was born in nineties. Dang it, freaking got hit into
the throat with that karma right there. My god. No,
I mean for me, I know that I can't just
wake up and go to the I can't go to
the gym in the morning. So that's like not like
I guess a green zone. For me, Well, it takes
me like thirty minutes to like feel like a human being.
That's the thing too. I mean even in the in
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the book, he was talking about like, oh, I don't
need to spend a lot of my best hours necessarily
my most like high intensity, most brainpowered hours on exercising.
So he switches exercising for the afternoon. For me, I find,
I just find that I if I if I have
it in the afternoon, I don't end up doing it.
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And it also exercising the morning really helps me wake up. Sorry,
I'm like, it's totally cool because I guess I'm kind
of like internally processing zactly such good you imagine if
I'm that guy that like throws up when other you know,
like gosh, so I would love to get Zack take
on this, but I feel like I love Modern Family
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by the way, I love, love, love Modern Family. Tory
and I are working back through it in season nine. Yeah,
we love Monor Family and so um, I just feel
like almost two. If I break down what you're saying
to land on a good morning routine, you have to
know what you want your whole day to look like,
you know what I mean. Like, it's like it's like
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for me, if I want to work out to an extent,
well yeah, yeah, no, keep going now. I was gonna say,
if I want to work out Okay, well it's cool
to know that that's not a green zone thing for me,
so I could do that later, yes, yes, yes, And
then understanding where you want to place things through your day.
And then but if I know that, if I don't
spend time with the Lord in the morning, I'm a
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walking basket case. So that that's like a I don't
want to say, I don't know if it's a green's
I don't know what zone it is, but it's a priority.
That's like a. And then so it's almost like good
to write down what it all is you're going to
be doing throughout the day and then start kind of
like Zach, I wish you could pull up your notion
right now to show people how if you pull he
has like the table thing view where if he pulls
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it from like green to yellow to red or red
yellow to green, and you can pull it and will
change color and based on where his task is. It's
really honestly, it's really sexy. That's your project project management system. Yeah,
that's my that's my client management stuff. It's so satisfying
to like, that's so good, it's super attractive. I think
you have a similar because I have that with my
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YouTube videos. So I have a template bill and it
makes a little CHRG yeah yeah, And so I have
the same where it goes to like just an idea
that it's ready to film with all the stuff filled out,
so I know I can go color coded like that.
It's not color coded, color coded and whatever. You don't
have to can change it. You just want to switch
it over. It turns that color. I didn't even know
you could color code it. That's so sick. I mean,
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we always go back to it, like what's the big picture,
what's the y and stuff? But it's like, what do
you want to do? Yeah, what do you what do
you want your life to be? What do you want
to learn? Where do you want to end up? Yeah?
Just start working those little things in now. And so
for me, I know that I'm like, man, I'm a
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flipping mus Asian. Why don't I practice music every day?
Why aren't I doing my vocal warmups every day? You know?
So now every morning, every morning, I'm doing it because
it's just part of my It's part of my routine
that I do. And I'm playing guitar and piano every
single day, and I'm singing everyone every day I mean,
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I could walk you through my whole thing, um, but
I want to hear what Zak has to say first,
and then we can maybe go through each other's like
morning routines and compare and see and just you know,
kind of kind of worked out together if I did so. Yeah,
I mean, I love hearing you guys talk about setting
up for the whole day, because it fully changes when
you get married and you now have somebody else's green
zones and somebody else's life. For sure, morning routine to
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balance within yours and for a long time, Like with Chelsea,
she's getting ready for work at nine o'clock, it's very
clear starting point for her day, where like you guys
are saying, and you hit the nail on the head, Gabe,
Like I could get up at five thirty and like crush,
shout a bunch of work before seven thirty and feel
like I'm start this is the best. That was my
most productive time. But that means that I miss out
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in time with Chelsea. So I'm like sacrificing really important
relational time because I'm like congrined that time. Even dude,
that freaking delay carry Neuhoff says that in the book
as well, Like it's not just for being productive, but
it's doing the things that are important to you. And
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spending time with your wife is going to be a
lot more productive and a lot more beneficial if you're
doing it in both of your green zone time. Then
if it's like an end of the day, yeah, not
afterthought necessarily, but you're both exhausted and tired, that conversation, Yeah,
the conversation is not gonna be nearly as fruitful as
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it would be as if you did it when you're
both fresh and fully mentally, they're inattentive yet and if
you're stressed out and frustrated, you know, you're going to
bring from the You're going to bring all that to
that conversation and then it could you know. Yeah, yeah,
And I'm finding that by spending time with Chelsea and
actually putting that into my morning routine properly, even if
it's fifteen minutes, and like Chelsea makes coffee, blessed, so
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like once she's making coffee, I'm just hanging with her.
I'm not on my phone for them less bro um.
But yeah, like it's that's actually made a difference for
the afternoons because oh, Chad you say this all the
time about um setting the temperature of the household, Like
you've been talking about that a lot over the last month,
and my mate out integrated in regard to serving at church,
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which is a whole nother podcast, dude freaking chad man Um,
but that I was like, dang, like one of us,
we're both going to set the temperature of the house.
But I can at least at the very least be
positive and set a positive temperature in the house. And
when I'm not doing that, I see the whole week
kind of crumble away. An you know, it's not not
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super dramatic and it's not like that was the worst
week of my life. But life's hard. So like, to me,
morning routine is like, all right, life's hard, So I
might as well set up by day the way that
I want to set it up and kind of take
a bit of control back in. I'm going to you know,
I'm going to read in the morning. I'm going to
try and run in the morning rather than at night.
Like yeah, that's kind of the way my routine at
the moment is just like it's so weird. Do you
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guys ever do this thing where you wake up in
the morning and you're like, this was exactly how I
woke up yesterday and the day before and the day before,
and you start. But I used to think that was
a bad thing. I used to be like, wow, life's crazy.
It's just the same day every day, like Groundhog Day vibes.
But recently, because I've had more control over my morning routine,
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I've been like, I'm freaking jack to get up today.
Let's go. It is the same as yesterday, and yesterday
was like it was dope, So I want to get
up today in today's loop, you know what I mean.
It's just like I don't know. I just literally woke
up this morning. I was like, this is what yesterday
felt like. Yeah, dude, I mean that in reality, if
you're if you're implementing things into your day, a implementing
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habits into your day and things that happen every day
that are very enjoyable, You're gonna have a very enjoyable day,
very enjoyable week, months, years in a very enjoyable life.
So like, and it doesn't have to be crazy big things,
it's like just those simple things that having coffee with
ChEls is an incredibly enjoyable part of my day, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly,
so in my notion since I use it too, I
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have what I call my habits stack, based off of
atomic habits, and that's the that's how I developed my
morning routine is based off of my habits that happen
every and it's like to the micro thing that it's
just habitual now and I carry that over as much
as possible when I'm traveling in a different location and
it keeps me consistent because a lot of times if
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you travel, especially if you need to work when you're traveling,
you get thrown off. That's why I do all the
YouTube video workouts now that are basic mostly mostly bodyweight
stuff because I can carry that wherever I go. I
don't need the dumbbells or the squat rack or whatever like.
I can carry that wherever wherever I go, and just
and I do travel quite a bit, but anyway, I
developed a habit stack. And the theory of the habit
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stack is basically, and I've talked about it before on
the podcast, but it's it's implementing a habit that you
want to make a new habit that you want to
create on the back of a habit that you already have.
So you say, you know, when I do this and
the habit that you already have, I will do this,
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and it's the new habit that you want to implement.
So my habit stack is I usually have my water
bottle at my on my nightstand, wake up and mine.
Another side note before I get into this whole thing,
is I'm I wake up at seven am. Now I
used to. I used to just be doing six am.
But I found that like just the way when Jess
and I and the day and the amount of time
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we want to spend together in the evening and kind
of how we wind down and stuff if you're exhausted, well,
it was just it was very it kind of like
naturally happened to like be this very specific amount of
time where we were kind of like getting to bed
right before right around ten, maybe right after ten. And
if I was waking up at six, I wasn't getting
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like a full eight hours of sleep, and it would
take me a while to fall asleep. So sometimes it'd
be like I'd fall asleep by Levin and I would
wasn't getting And I found that even if I woke
up at six with one hour less of sleep, my
days were less productive than if I got that extra
hour of sleep. It was so interesting. I noticed there
was a week where I finished the week waking up
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at at six am every day, and I was like,
I'm a zombie just from like this, losing that one
extra hour of sleep. I was like, I'm like not
enjoying things in my day. I'm not getting through my days,
you know, not like efficiently. But it's just what I felt,
just exhausted on everything to do. And then and then
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if by Thursday, by Friday, I'd be waking up being like,
oh my gosh, I need to work today, you know,
and just getting the extra hour waking up aut seven
am just really helped me to actually I found myself
being more productive. Like the following week, I was getting
more done every day by giving myself more time to sleep,
which is nuts. Um, which there's a whole study done
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on that, which I think I've mentioned before, like the
violin players that like the ones that were the best
violin players in this like study that was done. I
don't think you've mentioned this one has zac. I don't
remember this. It's it's from atomic atomic habit. Yeah, it's
from atomic habits there's like this study of the certain
and I remember I'm remembering it, like not to the
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full excent of all the details, but this is this
certain study of like these this group of violin players
and the ones that were always performing at the very best.
The only the one thing that they all had in
common was that they all had like an average of
eight and a half hours of sleep every night. That
was like the common thing that made them, that made
the greatest great is that they just weren't. Uh yeah,
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I think that's I don't want people to sleep on that.
I mean, actually I do want you to sleep on that.
Either way, I want you to sleep on that. Where
there are some things in life that can seem counterintuitive
that actually are really helpful. Like I say this quote
way too much, but I always say we shouldn't step
over a dollar to grab a penny, And it's true.
It's like Chick fil A taking off on Sunday right,
one of the most profitable fast food companies in the States,
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and for the most profitable in the United States. Well there,
I think there's two ahead. I think McDonald's and Starbucks
are but they're just so much bigger. I mean, Chick
fil as not even in every state, you know what
I mean. But the thing is is like I just
want Chick Fila to be at the top. And there's
there's business articles that are coming out where like fours
in Fortune, five dred they're all saying, like other fast
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food companies to take a note out of Chick fil
A's book, where it's just like wow, it's like there's
something that happens by resting correctly that may makes you
more productive. And I love the idea that some things
can seem really counterintuitive, but you're like, oh no, I
actually am better this way if I get a full
eight to eight eight and a half hours asleep and
I'm not so stressed throughout my day and I'm actually
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getting more done than if I if I woke up
an hour earlier. It's kind of interesting how that works. Yeah. Yeah,
With that said, I'm gonna finally go through my habits
stack here. I feel like I've been saying I'm gonna
go through it for like forty and Zack and I
are just trying to get that retention right up. Bro listen,
let's go Okay. With that said, you can listen to
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this ad before we do have a stack. So, and
I haven't updated this because there's certain things that I
I have kind of just taken out. But I'll just
go through and just say the things that I do. Basically,
I wake up, drink a bunch of water out of
my water bottle that's right there. That's there's a lot
of like scientific stuff to that of like how dehydrated
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your body gets at night, and how much water you
need to take in right in the morning to kidrate
your body and get your you know, it just helps
you wake up anyway, drink water. Take my vitamins at
it right there on my nightstand. Can you take vitamins
on empty stomach? You're not supposed to? I do it anyway.
I struggle with it. Bro it makes me sick. That's
so funny because the same thing happens to Jest, and
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I'm just like, I don't care. I'm taking them. You're
freaking steel tread. It's a freaking habit stack. Dude, just
makes me freaking man um. Anyway, I'm freaking habit jacked
right now. Everyone just collects off the podcast. So I
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wake up, drink a bunch of water. Why I shot
off my alarm, Drink a bunch of water, Take my vitamins,
replace those vitamins the vitamins for the next for that
night and the next day. And that's another thing, is
like environment hacking. So I know I'm not going to
forget to take my vitamins because they're right there on
my nightstand. As I go to sleep and when I
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wake up, which are the two times that I need
to my vitamins. And when I'm done with them, I
replace them with the ones that I'm taking the next day.
So do that get changed. Grab my workout clothes another
environment hacking thing. Grab my workout clothes, my workout stuff.
I don't necessarily want to sit on the couch and
read in my workout clothes, so I grabbed them. Bring
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them downstairs with me, put them on the table so
they're they're waiting for me. Take the dog outside, bring
them back in, make my coffee, sit down on the couch, read, pray,
do my devo, get up, put on my workout clothes
in the living room, full send. Then I go, Then
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I do. Then I exercise. It's honestly, I don't even
exercise for a long time, fift twenty minutes a day,
and it just allows me to be consistent, and I
just the videos are just like so efficient with how
much you're getting done in such a short period of time.
And I'm just maintaining like a really good routine there.
So fifteen and twenty minutes a day of exercise, come
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back in, grab my clothes that I was wearing at
the start of the day, Go up, shower usually dress
is up by that time, and reading and you know,
doing what she's doing. Um, and and that's kind of
like this yeah, and that's usually like the start of
mynd whatever the things that girls do. Let's usually started
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my day of a shower. Then I'll that's when I
do my music right after a shower. Then that goes
into after my music, after I you know, do my
vocal warmups, practice my instruments. That stuff goes into the
creative tasks green zone stuff. Like the start of my
green zone is essentially like when I start practicing my
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music and stuff like that. So I like that I
need music. I need a music producer to remix everything
just said, wake up, drinks, change clothes. It's so funny.
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Replace um. You know, I really I really like that
because I feel like you're also we're creating a bunch
of little wins for you to you know what I mean.
I think we talked about my podcast a long time
ago where it's like when you check things off your
two lists, but you put what was that thing you
put on your cheer list that you like? You like?
It was like an extra win. Was Oh yeah, you
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just when you start writing your do list, you just
the first thing is to write it to do list.
So by the time you're done writing to the do list,
you've already crossed off the first thing and you're on
You have a win for the day. Yeah, and I
love that. I feel like a lot of yours are
like these small little victories almost like to make your
bad mentality where you know when you start your day.
And right now, for Tory Night, it's been just I
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don't know if I'm gonna say this in the podcast,
but balls to the wall, frecking balls to the walls,
big boy, it's been a lot because you know, in Bro,
you open the door, you said it, we're going we're
full sin. Yeah that was baby, Let's go. I'll do
my best to keep this short and quick, where like
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I do most things, I was just gonna say me too,
But right now we're just like, it's funny to hear
you guys talk about how you've planned things, especially for
like your different zones, because right like I I love
the idea of not giving certain things access to certain
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parts of my day. But just speaking candidly, we're just
getting a lot of pushback on getting a loan for
the house. And whenever they send me additional documents they need,
I dropped everything for it. I wish I could like
say no, email me at three, but right now we
have to, like I have to close now that that's
one thing in particular, Like I went through that same
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thing where the period of like a big life change,
that is, there's stuff that you can't necessarily plan for.
But the way I kind of planned for that is
I don't over commit my day, and we definitely had
over committed. Yeah. I think what's been cool about listening
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to the thing I was saying is that, like we
can see how much not having a consistent morning routine sucks.
It absolutely sucks to not have one, because right now
we're just like, because you you you wake up walking
into chaos, yeah, exactly, and you go to sleep like
you know xact like that one. It's very true to
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write that down. That's a song. It's it's kind of
like put it on TikTok tory and I um we
we just did this whole devotional series on dealing with
stress and finding peace and stuff like that, and it
was it was really really good. But it's funny how
when you start learning different I guess better ways to
live your life, it exposes how poorly you're living. And
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and that was something that was really big for me
is because like, so we do the word of the week, right,
I don't know if you do that in the family
planing calendar and all that. Yeah, well do a word
of the week and it's not anything too intense, but
it's just like use that family planning calendar, ye okay,
so and it's it's not like anything aggressive, like okay,
my word of the week is like drank and my
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word of the week is no spaces, you know, but
like one word so so my week or so my
word last week was just grateful because I was letting
the blessing of our home become a burden because how
stressful it's been getting it ready and everything. And I
was like, no, I need I need to be grateful
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for this stuff that I read you. One more thing actually, no,
absolutely not. This is remember when I was talking about
the affirmations that last time, and I like wrote one
thing down, so I kind of finished them to an
extent of like I called them my rules for today,
and I basically wrote down there's five personal ones and
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five like professional ones and every Actually I forgot to
add this to my habits sat because the habits sat
doesn't actually have I haven't updated it, so it doesn't
have the exact thing. So I was kind of like
free ball in there. But um wait, wait you were
what I was free balling with it, dude, free flowing?
But you drop Okay, this is a ball episode. That's
not the only that's not That's not the only thing
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I'm free balling with all right, basketball or like what, um,
I haven't done laundry yet. Uh So, anyway, my personal ones,
this was about to get really like good and seriously,
Zack is like shut up, let's go. Um So my
rules for today personal today, whatever I do is for
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the glory of God. Today I will plan and work
diligently to maintain romance with my wife. Today I will
be generous. Today, I will act so I can be
truthful about how I act today. I will compare myself
to who I was yesterday, not to not to who
someone else is today. Then the professional ones are today.
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I will build for Jesus with Jesus, with joy. Today
my work as a privilege, not a burden. So I
will have fun today. I will make small progress on
the things that matter today. I will say no to
shiny things. Today. My failures will be my greatest opportunities
to learn. So I wish you would save that for
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the end of the podcast. I know where's basically the
end of the podcast, but I was like sharing a
thought and that was like so strong, I just want
to end there almost, you know, like THOT thought, bro, well, no,
that's you can share what you're gonna say about it.
I was sharing that it was exposing how bad I
am at certain things, because when I chose a word
of the week, or when I try a new self
discipline that first week you're trying to implement it, you
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see how how how poorly you are at it, but
also how much it negatively impacts your schedule. Because whenever
I was trying to be more positive on things. I
realized how negative I was, and then I realized how
that negativity bled over into every area of my life,
including my marriage. And so that first week or two
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of trying some new self discipline is honestly really hard. Yeah,
it is hard. Man Like building a habit is way
harder than breaking one. And it is Yeah, games on
fire this episode? Is he not freaking reel that? Baby,
I'll take it. Listen, all right, if you're giving, if
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you're giving compliments, I'm taking anyway. Yeah. I mean my
my like approach with these like rules that I essentially
made for myself that I read every day, where things
that I knew they were just areas because like similarly
you could have been like why don't you just say
the ten commandments or something like that. These were just
areas that I needed to write something down and relatively
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my own words. Some of them are like quotes and
stuff that I kind of like pulled and reworked or whatever.
But things that I'm not good at that I know
I need to remind myself daily to work on, you know,
and kind of like a mindset thing Like usually when
I'm like I have a stacked schedule, I get overwhelmed
and I don't like what I'm doing, but knowing, like
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you know, all this isn't that big of a deal.
I'm just making some YouTube videos and having fun because
I'm doing what God made me to do. Yeah, and
and you know, and there's you know, all the other
ones can be there or whatever for what they are,
and like once we have kids, there's probably gonna be
ones in there about like fatherhood and stuff like that.
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But um, yeah, I just wanted to with that along
with the habit stack, along with the daily stuff. It's
knowing what my weaknesses are and who I want to
become and what I want to get done with my
life and just implementing that at into your day to
create something unique that can get you to where you
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Prompt Us is a production of I Heart Radio. This morning.
I walk into the bathroom and jess was showering, and
I don't know why. I like, well, no, no, it's
just I walk into the bathroom singing and I'm like,
I'm like just getting embarrassed, right, I'm like, I'm like,
I don't know I mentioned that fact, but I'm just
setting the scene. There's nothing Jessica do about. It's the
(00:22):
point that I was trying to make. It's like she's
behind the glass and I'm screaming at the top of
my lungs. I'm going I believe I can fly. I
believe ac in touch the sky and I'm like, I'm
like going through the bathroom, think about it every night
and day, spread the wings and fly. I believe akin
(00:46):
flat and Jesse was I don't get that song stuck
in my head from behind the glass. All right? That
is awesome, dude. It's you need to do the halftime
show Supervolt Cable halftime Show. Put that in the podcast.
Everyone's gonna be like, you release music, dude. Is it
Creed the band? That's like it's like a growl. Oh
(01:12):
my gosh, dude. When the red light comes on. I know,
I know, I gotta put my game show time. I know,
it's freaking showtime, lights, camera action speaking. You just have
to lick the stamp and send it. Oh, okay, Daniel Ricardo.
That was the best. Daniel Ricardo. How good was that that?
He's like on the podium. Yeah, he's that go on
(01:33):
the podium. He's like sometimes you just gotta lick the
stamp and send it. He is an all around vibe.
Oh dude, he's just a legend. Anyway, what are we?
What are we? What's the prompt? I forgotten? Oh I
have to intro? Yeah, sorry, what the flip dude? What's
(01:55):
up everyone? Welcome back to the prompt this podcast. I'm
Gabriel Conti, one of your hosts. Join my other two hosts,
Zach and Chad. What's up everyone? How are we doing? Boys? Hey,
let me hear you with the prompt? Actually, first off,
how we all doing? I think it's everyone doing good.
Everyone's doing good, doing good. I think we're doing good.
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To be honest, I'm flipping tired. Past two days. Yeah, man,
past few days of work. I've been like just and
ben't like in work hours. I've been switched on it's
like a lot of work. Yeah yeah, yeah, So like
I'm I'm running up fumes, but I'm good. That's probably
why I'm delusional right now, because I'm just like, well, honestly,
(02:37):
I'm not gonna lie. I'm a fan of delusional game.
I don't know about you za, but this thing, the
thing is is like the one that we picked. I
feel like you guys were like, oh, you have a
lot to say about this, and now it's on me
to like actually make some sense to you. Said when
the light turns red, it's showtime. Yeah, all right, here
we go. I gotta live up, live up to that.
(02:58):
Here we go. Well, hey, let me hear you with
prompt them right? What the heck was that this is
gonna need editing? Freak, Let's let's get let's get it,
let's get it on. I lost the problem. Give me
one second? What what morning morning routine? How do I
hear you? All Right? So, guys, I'm very excited because
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I feel like this is going to be a real
practical podcast today. The prompt is from Allison in Ontario, Canada.
I know who that is. Let's go. We've like answered
plenty of her prompts is it? Is it? Allison? Her
last name starch to than Ell. Can you see that?
What the heck? Allison? How do you keep getting in
our podcast? We just keep crushing us with great The
(03:40):
master spam just just comes strong. Baby. So Tory and
I do this thing on our YouTube channel plug where
we do a subscriber of the week and every week
we choose someone who just noticed their name or whatever
and we want to shout them down and give them
some praise. And in every week it's Alison every week.
So so I thought that Allison was engaged, but she's
in a long distance relationship that's very hopefully close to
(04:03):
getting engaged. So on the YouTube video, I'm just like,
congratulations on your engagement all this, and they were all
out about it chat they were like laughing, but I
was like, pretty upset with myself. That's hilarious anyway, publically
apologized to you. Dang anyway, congrats on the marriage, Zack.
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You want to go, but that was quick anyway, So Allison,
Alison hit us with a good one this morning. How
do I create a solid morning routine starting with a
good bedtime routine? Question mark? Waking up early when it's
dark out question mark not being on my phone. Well, Alison,
you pretty much just answered your questions. So the next
(04:46):
prompt is how do you So that's good? No, but
I think it's so good because I'm currently trying to
get up at five thirty. That's my current goal. So
I'm keen to talk about it. Boys, I'm keen to
flip and dive in and hear what you've been doing
for your routines, because I know Dave's real structured and
Chad's all over the shop at the moment, I'm all over.
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My work hours right now are wake up, work until
you go to sleep. Yeah, I that I am adamant.
Well actually today today that is because we're podcasting, and
podcasting starts to seven pm for us over here. That's
our that's my day to day. But um yeah, my
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normal days, I'm like adamant about ending around like five
thirty six. Sometimes it like pushes to seven. That's probably
like one day a week. Your struggle with it going
longer because you do so much business on the West Coast.
Um weird flex likes. I'll I'll take it. I mean
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not really. I read the book we talked about her
a Bunch, which is funny that it just come full circle. Um,
but at your best, carrying you off. I kind of
have structured my week in a way, and it was
what I said in one of the last podcasts. I
forgot which one it was, was like maybe one or
two ago, um, but it was the planning your week
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and putting things into your calendar so no one else
takes up that time for you, because if you don't
take up your time with something or block out your
time for something, someone else is going to take it
up with something. So that was one of the most
profound things I'd heard in a while where I've been like,
I've been telling I hate that it sounds like one
giant plug, but I just I mean honest, I've been
telling our podcast listeners NonStop, like if you don't plan
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your time, someone else will plan it for you. And
do you do you want the world planning? I mean serious,
Like it's like, well, if you just look at the
world and you look at the way things are going,
do you want the world planning your life out? And
if you don't take control of it, the world will.
And then it's like, do you just want to react
to all this stuff going on or do you want
to proactively act and bring heaven earth? Yeah, that's exactly
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where I'm like my mindset is on things is I
want to be in an active offensive position every single day.
Oh that sounds good. You know. I want to be
on the move, offensively moving forward, rather than trying to
move forward not seeing where I'm going because I have
a shield up trying to deal with everything that's coming
at me. You also stay forward, really interestingly forward forward
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for forward follow. Um. So anyway, I basically have forward.
Oh my gosh. On my schedule. I have like sections
of time booked out for things, and I make sure
they get done. And I've gotten to a point where
I'm I check my email and text once a day. Wow,
(07:50):
at three thirty. How did you pick that time? I
used to be in the morning. But what I realized
is as soon as I start texting one, I'm using
the best hours of my day for something that's not.
Um best hours of my day being when I'm the
most refreshed, right at the beginning of the day. If
you read the book, is called your green zone. Um,
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so I'm using my green zone. I figured out that
it's probably between It starts like roughly around like eight
nine o'clock and it goes so probably like twelve. In
that range is like a three to five hour window
of like your best hours. And if I start sent
replying to text and emails at the beginning of my
green zone to like get stuff out of the way,
that is what I spend my entire green zone doing,
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and then I end my green zone and my most
productive hours doing something that is not worthy of my
best hours, if that makes sense. Where what is worthy
of my best hours is like basically most of the
things that I need to spend creatively that I need
to work on creatively and use my most creative as Okay,
(08:59):
are we gonna rewind here a little bit. We live
in a manager's world. So if you're creative and you
do something like relatively decent creatively, now you have something
creative some career whatever to manage, and now you're we
live in a manager's world, so you're going to be
automatically strung into this constant cycle of the emails and
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texts and phone calls and maybe administrative stuff. Yeah, And
as a creative I realized those things seem like they're
the most urgent and important because other people are paying
you for those things, but they in your and this
this took me. I'm not saying this because like I
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know everything. This literally took me five years to realize
of me being like why can't I get done the
things that I want to get done. I'm like text
and emails can wait? What can't wait? What like actually
can't wait? And me moving the ball forward is me
filming me brain story, dude. The time the time that
I spend thinking and developing stuff now just like sitting
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down and thinking of and basically like planning, like what
am I going to do? What is this video going
to be about? What? Just like that time is so
valuable and I haven't I literally have not done that
for years and just like really, but it's not. I
don't approach it with this with the mindset of like, Okay,
(10:26):
now I need to do this. I have some spare time.
It's blocked in every day for every week for the
rest of the year. The first yeah, it's not, it's
already there. It's on I know Friday, we're recording this.
I know on Monday when I wake up it's a Monday,
So we're gonna have a Monday meeting with our assistant.
First thing, just planned the week, which is another planning thing,
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I guess you could say. But then right after that,
I'm going straight into I might be filming a YouTube video,
or I might be like prepping and planning and researching
for YouTube videos. Question for you, if someone isn't like
just like a creative by trade, what would be some
other examples of like a green zone for someone else?
You know what I mean. It's the area to do.
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It's find your most productive time. It's usually the morning
for people. Sometimes if you're like a night owl, that
probably might like shift to being, you know, more afternoon
or something like that. Um, but it's usually the morning
hours for people. Some people if it's like really early,
like Zack you're saying you're trying to wake about five thirty,
his green zone could start at six am, you know,
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and it could be six am to tend to tend
a m Yeah. So like using your green zone for
the things that are the most important, especially and it's
like in Zax position, it's really good because no one's
gonna bug him at six am. He can start working
on something like say he's trying to write a book,
and most of the things that I think of are
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creative because that's just like what I think about when
I'm approach of my task, because like, what are the
creative things I'm going to do those? But um, yeah,
if he's trying to write a book, his most productive
hours are probably gonna be wake up, have a coffee, whatever.
Even if he you know, does a little workout to
get his brain up and moving, you know, reads the
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word and an hour later, hour and a half later,
so he gets into working. Say it's like seven am,
he starts, and he's he has two uninterrupted hours before
nine am where his phone is not going to start buzzing,
emails aren't coming through or anything, and he can just
in Well, I've realized is like just blocking an hour
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that small period of time. When you think of like
the bigger picture of like let's say it's it's some
sort of big project and you need to get some
sort of whatever this big thing done that seems daunting,
don't underestimate the single thirty minutes or the single hour
of hyper focused time. Just focus on up one single task,
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Like you can get so much done. But if you
have your phone next to you, notifications on full volume,
bells ringing, like you're me capping your your progress and
like when when I focus on certain things, like when
I film a YouTube video, my phones are not in
the room for me to check a notification my computer.
(13:23):
I turned off my text on there. I need to
do that. Fully, you can't. I can't text on my
computer anymore because I completely kneecapped my my my progress
and efficiency on when when I work and stuff. So
I mean, I feel you right now because my phone
is somewhere over there sitting down and I could have
it in my hand. But I do feel so much
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more engaged. I feel so much more like in the
conversation versus kind of like you know, like my phone vibrates,
I'm gonna check that real quick. Yeah, But that's like
across the board like being engaged in Stuffits if you're
having dinner with your wife and you want to be engaged,
like obviously don't have your phone there. And I'm such
a I'm like speaking to the choir because I'm such
a culprit of that all the time. But um, we
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haven't even talked about morning routines though I think we're talking.
But I think it's good what you're saying, because I
guess it's asked someone crafts third morning routine. They need
to understand, like what's what's Because for me, I originally
wanted to wake up and go work out, do my
devotional have a good breakfast. But like right when I
wake up, I feel like a truck hit me. You
(14:27):
know what I mean, Like I don't wake up like
a like a sprite whatever. I don't know what the phrases,
but you know what I mean, Well, what's that phrase
a young sprite? I don't know. I'm not sprightly in
the morning. Okay, how old are you one? Probably it.
All I'm saying is is that I had to probably
had to be born before in the nineties too. I
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was born in nineties. Dang it, freaking got hit into
the throat with that karma right there. My god. No,
I mean for me, I know that I can't just
wake up and go to the I can't go to
the gym in the morning. So that's like not like
I guess a green zone. For me, Well, it takes
me like thirty minutes to like feel like a human being.
That's the thing too. I mean even in the in
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the book, he was talking about like, oh, I don't
need to spend a lot of my best hours necessarily
my most like high intensity, most brainpowered hours on exercising.
So he switches exercising for the afternoon. For me, I find,
I just find that I if I if I have
it in the afternoon, I don't end up doing it.
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And it also exercising the morning really helps me wake up. Sorry,
I'm like, it's totally cool because I guess I'm kind
of like internally processing zactly such good you imagine if
I'm that guy that like throws up when other you know,
like gosh, so I would love to get Zack take
on this, but I feel like I love Modern Family
(15:52):
by the way, I love, love, love Modern Family. Tory
and I are working back through it in season nine. Yeah,
we love Monor Family and so um, I just feel
like almost two. If I break down what you're saying
to land on a good morning routine, you have to
know what you want your whole day to look like,
you know what I mean. Like, it's like it's like
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for me, if I want to work out to an extent,
well yeah, yeah, no, keep going now. I was gonna say,
if I want to work out Okay, well it's cool
to know that that's not a green zone thing for me,
so I could do that later, yes, yes, yes, And
then understanding where you want to place things through your day.
And then but if I know that, if I don't
spend time with the Lord in the morning, I'm a
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walking basket case. So that that's like a I don't
want to say, I don't know if it's a green's
I don't know what zone it is, but it's a priority.
That's like a. And then so it's almost like good
to write down what it all is you're going to
be doing throughout the day and then start kind of
like Zach, I wish you could pull up your notion
right now to show people how if you pull he
has like the table thing view where if he pulls
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it from like green to yellow to red or red
yellow to green, and you can pull it and will
change color and based on where his task is. It's
really honestly, it's really sexy. That's your project project management system. Yeah,
that's my that's my client management stuff. It's so satisfying
to like, that's so good, it's super attractive. I think
you have a similar because I have that with my
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YouTube videos. So I have a template bill and it
makes a little CHRG yeah yeah, And so I have
the same where it goes to like just an idea
that it's ready to film with all the stuff filled out,
so I know I can go color coded like that.
It's not color coded, color coded and whatever. You don't
have to can change it. You just want to switch
it over. It turns that color. I didn't even know
you could color code it. That's so sick. I mean,
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we always go back to it, like what's the big picture,
what's the y and stuff? But it's like, what do
you want to do? Yeah, what do you what do
you want your life to be? What do you want
to learn? Where do you want to end up? Yeah?
Just start working those little things in now. And so
for me, I know that I'm like, man, I'm a
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flipping mus Asian. Why don't I practice music every day?
Why aren't I doing my vocal warmups every day? You know?
So now every morning, every morning, I'm doing it because
it's just part of my It's part of my routine
that I do. And I'm playing guitar and piano every
single day, and I'm singing everyone every day I mean,
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I could walk you through my whole thing, um, but
I want to hear what Zak has to say first,
and then we can maybe go through each other's like
morning routines and compare and see and just you know,
kind of kind of worked out together if I did so. Yeah,
I mean, I love hearing you guys talk about setting
up for the whole day, because it fully changes when
you get married and you now have somebody else's green
zones and somebody else's life. For sure, morning routine to
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balance within yours and for a long time, Like with Chelsea,
she's getting ready for work at nine o'clock, it's very
clear starting point for her day, where like you guys
are saying, and you hit the nail on the head, Gabe,
Like I could get up at five thirty and like crush,
shout a bunch of work before seven thirty and feel
like I'm start this is the best. That was my
most productive time. But that means that I miss out
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in time with Chelsea. So I'm like sacrificing really important
relational time because I'm like congrined that time. Even dude,
that freaking delay carry Neuhoff says that in the book
as well, Like it's not just for being productive, but
it's doing the things that are important to you. And
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spending time with your wife is going to be a
lot more productive and a lot more beneficial if you're
doing it in both of your green zone time. Then
if it's like an end of the day, yeah, not
afterthought necessarily, but you're both exhausted and tired, that conversation, Yeah,
the conversation is not gonna be nearly as fruitful as
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it would be as if you did it when you're
both fresh and fully mentally, they're inattentive yet and if
you're stressed out and frustrated, you know, you're going to
bring from the You're going to bring all that to
that conversation and then it could you know. Yeah, yeah,
And I'm finding that by spending time with Chelsea and
actually putting that into my morning routine properly, even if
it's fifteen minutes, and like Chelsea makes coffee, blessed, so
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like once she's making coffee, I'm just hanging with her.
I'm not on my phone for them less bro um.
But yeah, like it's that's actually made a difference for
the afternoons because oh, Chad you say this all the
time about um setting the temperature of the household, Like
you've been talking about that a lot over the last month,
and my mate out integrated in regard to serving at church,
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which is a whole nother podcast, dude freaking chad man Um,
but that I was like, dang, like one of us,
we're both going to set the temperature of the house.
But I can at least at the very least be
positive and set a positive temperature in the house. And
when I'm not doing that, I see the whole week
kind of crumble away. An you know, it's not not
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super dramatic and it's not like that was the worst
week of my life. But life's hard. So like, to me,
morning routine is like, all right, life's hard, So I
might as well set up by day the way that
I want to set it up and kind of take
a bit of control back in. I'm going to you know,
I'm going to read in the morning. I'm going to
try and run in the morning rather than at night.
Like yeah, that's kind of the way my routine at
the moment is just like it's so weird. Do you
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guys ever do this thing where you wake up in
the morning and you're like, this was exactly how I
woke up yesterday and the day before and the day before,
and you start. But I used to think that was
a bad thing. I used to be like, wow, life's crazy.
It's just the same day every day, like Groundhog Day vibes.
But recently, because I've had more control over my morning routine,
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I've been like, I'm freaking jack to get up today.
Let's go. It is the same as yesterday, and yesterday
was like it was dope, So I want to get
up today in today's loop, you know what I mean.
It's just like I don't know. I just literally woke
up this morning. I was like, this is what yesterday
felt like. Yeah, dude, I mean that in reality, if
you're if you're implementing things into your day, a implementing
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habits into your day and things that happen every day
that are very enjoyable, You're gonna have a very enjoyable day,
very enjoyable week, months, years in a very enjoyable life.
So like, and it doesn't have to be crazy big things,
it's like just those simple things that having coffee with
ChEls is an incredibly enjoyable part of my day, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly,
so in my notion since I use it too, I
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have what I call my habits stack, based off of
atomic habits, and that's the that's how I developed my
morning routine is based off of my habits that happen
every and it's like to the micro thing that it's
just habitual now and I carry that over as much
as possible when I'm traveling in a different location and
it keeps me consistent because a lot of times if
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you travel, especially if you need to work when you're traveling,
you get thrown off. That's why I do all the
YouTube video workouts now that are basic mostly mostly bodyweight
stuff because I can carry that wherever I go. I
don't need the dumbbells or the squat rack or whatever like.
I can carry that wherever wherever I go, and just
and I do travel quite a bit, but anyway, I
developed a habit stack. And the theory of the habit
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stack is basically, and I've talked about it before on
the podcast, but it's it's implementing a habit that you
want to make a new habit that you want to
create on the back of a habit that you already have.
So you say, you know, when I do this and
the habit that you already have, I will do this,
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and it's the new habit that you want to implement.
So my habit stack is I usually have my water
bottle at my on my nightstand, wake up and mine.
Another side note before I get into this whole thing,
is I'm I wake up at seven am. Now I
used to. I used to just be doing six am.
But I found that like just the way when Jess
and I and the day and the amount of time
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we want to spend together in the evening and kind
of how we wind down and stuff if you're exhausted, well,
it was just it was very it kind of like
naturally happened to like be this very specific amount of
time where we were kind of like getting to bed
right before right around ten, maybe right after ten. And
if I was waking up at six, I wasn't getting
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like a full eight hours of sleep, and it would
take me a while to fall asleep. So sometimes it'd
be like I'd fall asleep by Levin and I would
wasn't getting And I found that even if I woke
up at six with one hour less of sleep, my
days were less productive than if I got that extra
hour of sleep. It was so interesting. I noticed there
was a week where I finished the week waking up
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at at six am every day, and I was like,
I'm a zombie just from like this, losing that one
extra hour of sleep. I was like, I'm like not
enjoying things in my day. I'm not getting through my days,
you know, not like efficiently. But it's just what I felt,
just exhausted on everything to do. And then and then
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if by Thursday, by Friday, I'd be waking up being like,
oh my gosh, I need to work today, you know,
and just getting the extra hour waking up aut seven
am just really helped me to actually I found myself
being more productive. Like the following week, I was getting
more done every day by giving myself more time to sleep,
which is nuts. Um, which there's a whole study done
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on that, which I think I've mentioned before, like the
violin players that like the ones that were the best
violin players in this like study that was done. I
don't think you've mentioned this one has zac. I don't
remember this. It's it's from atomic atomic habit. Yeah, it's
from atomic habits there's like this study of the certain
and I remember I'm remembering it, like not to the
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full excent of all the details, but this is this
certain study of like these this group of violin players
and the ones that were always performing at the very best.
The only the one thing that they all had in
common was that they all had like an average of
eight and a half hours of sleep every night. That
was like the common thing that made them, that made
the greatest great is that they just weren't. Uh yeah,
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I think that's I don't want people to sleep on that.
I mean, actually I do want you to sleep on that.
Either way, I want you to sleep on that. Where
there are some things in life that can seem counterintuitive
that actually are really helpful. Like I say this quote
way too much, but I always say we shouldn't step
over a dollar to grab a penny, And it's true.
It's like Chick fil A taking off on Sunday right,
one of the most profitable fast food companies in the States,
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and for the most profitable in the United States. Well there,
I think there's two ahead. I think McDonald's and Starbucks
are but they're just so much bigger. I mean, Chick
fil as not even in every state, you know what
I mean. But the thing is is like I just
want Chick Fila to be at the top. And there's
there's business articles that are coming out where like fours
in Fortune, five dred they're all saying, like other fast
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food companies to take a note out of Chick fil
A's book, where it's just like wow, it's like there's
something that happens by resting correctly that may makes you
more productive. And I love the idea that some things
can seem really counterintuitive, but you're like, oh no, I
actually am better this way if I get a full
eight to eight eight and a half hours asleep and
I'm not so stressed throughout my day and I'm actually
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getting more done than if I if I woke up
an hour earlier. It's kind of interesting how that works. Yeah. Yeah,
With that said, I'm gonna finally go through my habits
stack here. I feel like I've been saying I'm gonna
go through it for like forty and Zack and I
are just trying to get that retention right up. Bro listen,
let's go Okay. With that said, you can listen to
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this ad before we do have a stack. So, and
I haven't updated this because there's certain things that I
I have kind of just taken out. But I'll just
go through and just say the things that I do. Basically,
I wake up, drink a bunch of water out of
my water bottle that's right there. That's there's a lot
of like scientific stuff to that of like how dehydrated
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your body gets at night, and how much water you
need to take in right in the morning to kidrate
your body and get your you know, it just helps
you wake up anyway, drink water. Take my vitamins at
it right there on my nightstand. Can you take vitamins
on empty stomach? You're not supposed to? I do it anyway.
I struggle with it. Bro it makes me sick. That's
so funny because the same thing happens to Jest, and
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I'm just like, I don't care. I'm taking them. You're
freaking steel tread. It's a freaking habit stack. Dude, just
makes me freaking man um. Anyway, I'm freaking habit jacked
right now. Everyone just collects off the podcast. So I
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wake up, drink a bunch of water. Why I shot
off my alarm, Drink a bunch of water, Take my vitamins,
replace those vitamins the vitamins for the next for that
night and the next day. And that's another thing, is
like environment hacking. So I know I'm not going to
forget to take my vitamins because they're right there on
my nightstand. As I go to sleep and when I
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wake up, which are the two times that I need
to my vitamins. And when I'm done with them, I
replace them with the ones that I'm taking the next day.
So do that get changed. Grab my workout clothes another
environment hacking thing. Grab my workout clothes, my workout stuff.
I don't necessarily want to sit on the couch and
read in my workout clothes, so I grabbed them. Bring
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them downstairs with me, put them on the table so
they're they're waiting for me. Take the dog outside, bring
them back in, make my coffee, sit down on the couch, read, pray,
do my devo, get up, put on my workout clothes
in the living room, full send. Then I go, Then
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I do. Then I exercise. It's honestly, I don't even
exercise for a long time, fift twenty minutes a day,
and it just allows me to be consistent, and I
just the videos are just like so efficient with how
much you're getting done in such a short period of time.
And I'm just maintaining like a really good routine there.
So fifteen and twenty minutes a day of exercise, come
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back in, grab my clothes that I was wearing at
the start of the day, Go up, shower usually dress
is up by that time, and reading and you know,
doing what she's doing. Um, and and that's kind of
like this yeah, and that's usually like the start of
mynd whatever the things that girls do. Let's usually started
(30:26):
my day of a shower. Then I'll that's when I
do my music right after a shower. Then that goes
into after my music, after I you know, do my
vocal warmups, practice my instruments. That stuff goes into the
creative tasks green zone stuff. Like the start of my
green zone is essentially like when I start practicing my
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music and stuff like that. So I like that I
need music. I need a music producer to remix everything
just said, wake up, drinks, change clothes. It's so funny.
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Replace um. You know, I really I really like that
because I feel like you're also we're creating a bunch
of little wins for you to you know what I mean.
I think we talked about my podcast a long time
ago where it's like when you check things off your
two lists, but you put what was that thing you
put on your cheer list that you like? You like?
It was like an extra win. Was Oh yeah, you
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just when you start writing your do list, you just
the first thing is to write it to do list.
So by the time you're done writing to the do list,
you've already crossed off the first thing and you're on
You have a win for the day. Yeah, and I
love that. I feel like a lot of yours are
like these small little victories almost like to make your
bad mentality where you know when you start your day.
And right now, for Tory Night, it's been just I
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don't know if I'm gonna say this in the podcast,
but balls to the wall, frecking balls to the walls,
big boy, it's been a lot because you know, in Bro,
you open the door, you said it, we're going we're
full sin. Yeah that was baby, Let's go. I'll do
my best to keep this short and quick, where like
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I do most things, I was just gonna say me too,
But right now we're just like, it's funny to hear
you guys talk about how you've planned things, especially for
like your different zones, because right like I I love
the idea of not giving certain things access to certain
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parts of my day. But just speaking candidly, we're just
getting a lot of pushback on getting a loan for
the house. And whenever they send me additional documents they need,
I dropped everything for it. I wish I could like
say no, email me at three, but right now we
have to, like I have to close now that that's
one thing in particular, Like I went through that same
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thing where the period of like a big life change,
that is, there's stuff that you can't necessarily plan for.
But the way I kind of planned for that is
I don't over commit my day, and we definitely had
over committed. Yeah. I think what's been cool about listening
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to the thing I was saying is that, like we
can see how much not having a consistent morning routine sucks.
It absolutely sucks to not have one, because right now
we're just like, because you you you wake up walking
into chaos, yeah, exactly, and you go to sleep like
you know xact like that one. It's very true to
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write that down. That's a song. It's it's kind of
like put it on TikTok tory and I um we
we just did this whole devotional series on dealing with
stress and finding peace and stuff like that, and it
was it was really really good. But it's funny how
when you start learning different I guess better ways to
live your life, it exposes how poorly you're living. And
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and that was something that was really big for me
is because like, so we do the word of the week, right,
I don't know if you do that in the family
planing calendar and all that. Yeah, well do a word
of the week and it's not anything too intense, but
it's just like use that family planning calendar, ye okay,
so and it's it's not like anything aggressive, like okay,
my word of the week is like drank and my
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word of the week is no spaces, you know, but
like one word so so my week or so my
word last week was just grateful because I was letting
the blessing of our home become a burden because how
stressful it's been getting it ready and everything. And I
was like, no, I need I need to be grateful
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for this stuff that I read you. One more thing actually, no,
absolutely not. This is remember when I was talking about
the affirmations that last time, and I like wrote one
thing down, so I kind of finished them to an
extent of like I called them my rules for today,
and I basically wrote down there's five personal ones and
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five like professional ones and every Actually I forgot to
add this to my habits sat because the habits sat
doesn't actually have I haven't updated it, so it doesn't
have the exact thing. So I was kind of like
free ball in there. But um wait, wait you were
what I was free balling with it, dude, free flowing?
But you drop Okay, this is a ball episode. That's
not the only that's not That's not the only thing
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I'm free balling with all right, basketball or like what, um,
I haven't done laundry yet. Uh So, anyway, my personal ones,
this was about to get really like good and seriously,
Zack is like shut up, let's go. Um So my
rules for today personal today, whatever I do is for
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the glory of God. Today I will plan and work
diligently to maintain romance with my wife. Today I will
be generous. Today, I will act so I can be
truthful about how I act today. I will compare myself
to who I was yesterday, not to not to who
someone else is today. Then the professional ones are today.
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I will build for Jesus with Jesus, with joy. Today
my work as a privilege, not a burden. So I
will have fun today. I will make small progress on
the things that matter today. I will say no to
shiny things. Today. My failures will be my greatest opportunities
to learn. So I wish you would save that for
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the end of the podcast. I know where's basically the
end of the podcast, but I was like sharing a
thought and that was like so strong, I just want
to end there almost, you know, like THOT thought, bro, well, no,
that's you can share what you're gonna say about it.
I was sharing that it was exposing how bad I
am at certain things, because when I chose a word
of the week, or when I try a new self
discipline that first week you're trying to implement it, you
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see how how how poorly you are at it, but
also how much it negatively impacts your schedule. Because whenever
I was trying to be more positive on things. I
realized how negative I was, and then I realized how
that negativity bled over into every area of my life,
including my marriage. And so that first week or two
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of trying some new self discipline is honestly really hard. Yeah,
it is hard. Man Like building a habit is way
harder than breaking one. And it is Yeah, games on
fire this episode? Is he not freaking reel that? Baby,
I'll take it. Listen, all right, if you're giving, if
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you're giving compliments, I'm taking anyway. Yeah. I mean my
my like approach with these like rules that I essentially
made for myself that I read every day, where things
that I knew they were just areas because like similarly
you could have been like why don't you just say
the ten commandments or something like that. These were just
areas that I needed to write something down and relatively
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my own words. Some of them are like quotes and
stuff that I kind of like pulled and reworked or whatever.
But things that I'm not good at that I know
I need to remind myself daily to work on, you know,
and kind of like a mindset thing Like usually when
I'm like I have a stacked schedule, I get overwhelmed
and I don't like what I'm doing, but knowing, like
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you know, all this isn't that big of a deal.
I'm just making some YouTube videos and having fun because
I'm doing what God made me to do. Yeah, and
and you know, and there's you know, all the other
ones can be there or whatever for what they are,
and like once we have kids, there's probably gonna be
ones in there about like fatherhood and stuff like that.
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But um, yeah, I just wanted to with that along
with the habit stack, along with the daily stuff. It's
knowing what my weaknesses are and who I want to
become and what I want to get done with my
life and just implementing that at into your day to
create something unique that can get you to where you
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