March 18, 2025 • 44 mins
Have you ever noticed how what you do today directly impacts your tomorrow? This powerful concept forms the foundation of our conversation about seizing opportunities and making each day count.
Recording from our coffee shop (complete with background noise and all!), we dive into why focusing on the present moment is crucial for creating your best possible future. Drawing wisdom from Proverbs 27:1, we explore the balance between not worrying excessively about tomorrow while taking responsible action today.
We share practical strategies for eliminating barriers to productivity – from something as simple as laying out workout clothes the night before to creating systems that make important tasks easier to accomplish. Through personal examples (including Calvin's confession about being distracted and Holli's admission of needing alone time as an introvert), we demonstrate how these principles apply to real life.
The conversation takes a tactical turn as we break down productivity frameworks like time blocking, the 80/20 principle, and the urgent/important matrix. Rather than presenting these as one-size-fits-all solutions, we discuss how different personality types might adapt these approaches to fit their unique styles.
Perhaps most valuably, we challenge the common excuse of "not having enough time" by examining what we truly prioritize. Whether managing a business, raising children, or pursuing fitness goals, taking ownership of our choices empowers us to create meaningful change rather than just reacting to circumstances.
Join us next week for a special spring break edition where we'll share childhood memories and stories! We'd love to hear your spring break experiences too – send us a message with your favorite memories.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey everyone and welcome to episode 9 of our
podcast.
We're wonderfully excited to behere with you again.
Our background looks different.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
We're in a little bit of a different environment.
We decided to try recording inthe coffee shop today.
During operating hours, soyou'll hear the POS go off and
the grinder and customers comingin and things like that.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
The doorbell ringing.
Uh, the process right is on onthe tv, right on live tv.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
We got the prices right on there so y'all hear the
the sounds from it.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
But this is a little different, being uh recording in
you know front of people.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
So uh, it's all good though yeah, I'm excited about
it.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Um so, today's episode nine.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Can't believe we've already been at this for nine
episodes so if we've beenrecording one a week, really
that's nine weeks, right?
Yep, hey, so the reason whywe're in here to begin with is
really the reason for theconversation that we're going to
have today.
We're just kind of on the fly,but we're like, hey, let's just
do it, let's make sure we knockit out, prioritize it, because
we want to make sure an episodegets out this week.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
So we're going to get it.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yeah, we are.
We were just seizing theopportunity, which is what our
episode is about today.
Today, we want to talk abouthow important it is to make the
day your best possible, mostproductive, so that your
tomorrow is better.
You know, the Bible teaches usthat we shouldn't be worried
about tomorrow.
Yeah, but what we do today doesaffect our tomorrow, and he
(01:26):
does tell us to focus on thepresent moment and the present
day.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, it talks a lot about not being a sluggard.
Yes, yes.
Some of the terms it uses, andmaking sure that you're
preparing, Make sure you'retaking action Right.
A lot of what it calls you todo is to be a man or a woman of
action.
You know whatever that is inyour life, whatever that calling
is or whatever the occupationthat you work in or the things
(01:51):
that you do, to really takethose to heart and act on them
and don't be lazy.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Correct.
Before we get into all of that,we do have to talk about our
cups.
You know, it's not a fancyschmancy, one of our from our
collection.
We actually are using just ourto-go cuts from our shop, since
we were in here in the shop andwe're just drinking some of our
drip coffee today they stillhave the happy birthday.
From our two-year anniversarycoming, new sleeves coming we're
(02:17):
excited to have celebrated twoyears already, so going into
this third.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
But we've learned a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
We have, uh, we've learned that we do have to seize
the day, because I'll tell you,if you put off things to today,
it can make your tomorrow a lotharder.
Yeah, so let's dig into this,calvin.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
All right.
Well, the scripture that we hadpicked out for this um in our
minds was Proverbs 27, one, itsays do not boast about tomorrow
, for you do not know what a daymay bring forth.
You don't know what tomorrow'sgoing to have for you.
Don't, don't put off fortomorrow, Don't uh brag that
tomorrow's going to be such agood day.
You know it'll be bettertomorrow, because today is what
(03:00):
you have.
You're not promised tomorrow,Um.
So seizing the opportunity andmaking sure that you're taking
action in the moment, right now,is where we're at.
You're living in the present,you know.
I think the phrase is yourpresence is a present.
You are given it.
It is a gift to you to be inthe present, right now.
Whatever you're doing, whereveryou're at, while you're
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listening to this, it is a giftthat you are here, that you are
alive, that you're able to doyour calling and able to serve
and to help and to enjoy thecreation that God has given us.
So how do we optimize that?
How do you make sure that we'redoing what we need to?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
do?
How do we make sure we're nottaking our own life for granted?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I know.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
It's very easy to do and it's easy to let days slip
away from you, and I can testifyto this.
So yesterday was Sunday.
It's usually my run rest dayand it's a rest day for our
family.
Typically.
I think we've gotten a littlebit better about our Sundays
being more restful than theywere and not planning things and
stuff like that.
But yesterday I kind of feltlike I was in a funk I don't
(04:03):
know any other way to say itLike nothing was wrong.
Like I was in a funk, I don'tknow any other way to say it
Like nothing was wrong, likenothing was bothering me or
anything.
But I felt like and this mightsurprise some people, especially
some of my family members butI'm actually a pretty
introverted person and peoplethink that if you're introverted
then it means that you're quiet.
And I'm not a quiet person.
Introverted just means that youdo not gain energy from others
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around you.
You gain more energy from beingalone and by yourself, and it's
kind of it's a pretty type, apersonality kind of thing.
You know, like if you're doinga project I really didn't love
group projects.
I liked being able to workalone because I felt like that's
how my creative juices reallystarted flowing, you know, yeah,
but I kind of just lost mytrain of thought and guys.
(04:50):
I'm surprised that it hasn'thappened in this podcast more
than I think it's happened oncebefore, Just like got lost into
what I was saying.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
When you were talking about the opportunities of each
day, you know, and and when,like yesterday, you, you took a
day of rest, and that is apriority.
That is a priority to to rest.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Thank you for being my helpmate and bringing it back
to me, okay, okay.
So I went to church like normaland we did some new songs.
That was exciting.
And when I came home I was likedrained, and I think it's
because because I'm introverted,like when I'm in the shop all
day long and stuff sometimesit's and I love people because I
come up with all theseactivities and events that we're
going to do but it drains me.
It really does drain me, andsometimes I just need to be
(05:35):
alone and I'll even tell you I'mnot mad at you or anything, but
I just need to be alone andcollect my thoughts.
But yesterday I felt like I didit for a little bit longer than
I needed to and it was puttingme in a funk and I started
thinking about this exact topic.
So it's kind of cool that we'retalking about this God just
makes everything come fullcircle but I remember thinking
(05:56):
what I'm doing right now is nothelping me for tomorrow, it's
not getting me anywhere.
In fact, it could just make metake a few steps back, because I
feel like if you allow yourselfto be lazy, you'll just keep
being more lazy.
Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah, well, I mean, that's the reason why, like when
the Bible talks about notworrying about tomorrow, right?
Well, that doesn't mean don'tact today for things that are
going to affect tomorrow, right,you know, what you do today
will affect tomorrow, like we'vealready said.
So focusing on the things thatyou have to prioritize today is
really important.
And you let the chips fall fromyour actions today into
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tomorrow and then you reevaluatetomorrow.
If God gives you tomorrow as agift, you reevaluate and you
reprioritize tomorrow, but youdon't think about it and worry
about it until it gets here.
Yes, you, basically you knowwhat your future is, so far as
you can plan out, you know, likeyou know what's around the bend
as much as possible.
So you take action today forthe things that are the most
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important or have the mostpriority or God's calling you to
do the most today.
Um, and it might be um in themiddle of the day, being like
you know what.
We don't have time tonightbecause of X Y Z.
We've got to prioritize sometime during the day to record
this podcast.
So here we go this might allthis noise in the background and
stuff it might be like, man, Ican't hear anything they're
saying, but we don't know.
(07:16):
We're going to record this andwe're going to rock on and we're
going to prioritize making surethat y'all have what y'all need
when you come and join us, thatyou feel encouraged to be able
to take on your day and realizethat we're all just living in a
crazy world and we're all justseizing opportunities to do
everything we possibly can,whether it's a ministry, a
calling, or whether it's justgoing about normal life and
(07:37):
picking up your kids from school.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah.
So how do we do that?
How do we prioritize our daysso that we are getting the most
out of them?
And I think also, scaling thatback, getting the most out of
your day doesn't mean thatyou're jam-packing it full of so
much stuff, because, once again, rest is so important, mindful
rest is so important, but youknow, it is prioritizing.
(08:00):
Okay, for instance, this podcast, we could have put it off and
done it tomorrow night, right,yeah, we could have, and still
been able to roll it out byWednesday, but there was nothing
that was really stopping usfrom doing it now.
And it really just and sometimeswe're still flying by the seat
of our pants, like it's not.
Like yesterday we had this hugegame plan of what we were going
(08:21):
to do.
We really came up with thisgame plan this morning, you know
, but it was like, okay, here'sour day, these are the things
that we need to accomplish, andyou kind of know the things that
you need to get accomplishedthroughout the whole week and
you kind of prioritize thisthroughout the week.
So it's like, if we need toroll out a podcast by Wednesday,
when is the best time to dothat?
Well, you're not at your otherjob right now.
(08:43):
We were plenty staffed up.
I didn't have anywhereimmediately I had to go.
So it's like, hey, let's do itnow.
We might have to do it in anunconventional way, but we can
get it done.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
So I guess the thought for this podcast for
y'all to bring y'all value andfor us to really wrap our head
around what we're talking about,we want to kind of give you a
few, uh, ways that you canoptimize your day, and there's
been a few techniques that I'veheard of that we just kind of I
jotted down like throughout mylife listening you know how you,
you consume stuff on youtube orwhatever we consume.
(09:15):
Podcasts, yeah podcasts andstuff.
So there's some some tacticalthings, some tactical advice,
but then, like, we want to telly'all like the three things that
really kind of like we use inour daily life to try to
prioritize what we're doing, andthen some of the basic um
programs I guess you could go bythat that they, they say, are
common practice, but, um, themain thing that, like with what
(09:37):
we're trying to accomplish is,uh, with our running um, with
our ministry, with our business.
you know with, with life ingeneral, um, is you try to
eliminate as many barriers toprevent you from performing the
tasks that you know are mostprioritized.
So we were just talking aboutthis.
Like your day is going to startout differently with what your
(09:58):
clothing is based on, whateveryou have coming up in your
activities for your day, andkind of reverse engineer it.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Reverse engineer my day, which means you go back.
You start with how the day'sgoing to end and you go
backwards.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah, what am I going to need to be able to perform
what I need that day and thenwork your way back?
You wouldn't come in inbusiness attire when you know in
two hours you're going to bedoing a workout class.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Because you'd have to change.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Right, you have to power, and if I know that I've
got a run that I have to do orneed to do or want to do, I may
just need to go ahead and havemy workout clothes on.
Look, if I'm getting here at theshop at 4 o'clock in the
morning and sometimes I'mteaching a class at 4.30 in the
morning I already have workoutclothes on, you know.
(10:47):
So might as well keep them on,and it's going to make sure that
I do that task that I wassupposed to do, which was run,
whereas if I have a dress on or,like you said, or business
attire, I might not be asinclined to go ahead and get the
run done.
You know, it's like I will findpockets of opportunity, and
sometimes it's like I will findpockets of opportunity, and
sometimes it's like the starsmight not all align about where
I want to run.
(11:07):
Sometimes I'm having to usewherever it is that I'm at, like
, let's say, for instance, Ionly have two people working, I
might can still go get my rundone, but I may just need to do
it right here beside the shop sothat, if they can call me, I
can literally just run back Abarrier can be like distance,
like, for instance.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I was just thinking about this If you're needing to
get that laundry folded, and youneed to get that laundry folded
, I'm telling you, don't leaveit where it's at, okay, and I'm
speaking to the class.
So if you need to get it done,put it in a place you're going
to see it, you know.
Eliminate that barrier.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I know some things that you've done is you will put
it on our, you will take thelaundry and dump it on our bed.
It forces us to have to put thelaundry up because we can't go
to bed until.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
You can't sleep on that bed until it is taken care
of or putting it on the couch.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
You know it's like you're you can't sit down on the
couch until the laundry is putaway, so you are eliminating the
barrier and life changes?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
obviously yes, but it puts it in a place where you
see it, you know the, the thingthat you deem is most important.
Um, your kids need their socksand underwear.
They need that you know, so, um,making sure that you take that
as a, as a, as a visual thatyou're going to say this is what
I'm going to do.
It's like with running I'mgoing to make sure I have my
shoes, my, my task for mystrategy, for making sure I'm
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able to run with either you orJude, whichever way or when I
have opportunity, because my dayis a little less scheduled.
I just have a go bag.
I put everything I need to beable to change into all of my
even reflective gear,flashlights shoes, everything
that I could possibly need forany situation.
I have it in a go bag ready togo.
That way I can change into iton the fly and I just keep it in
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whatever vehicle we're in.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Because I don't know when that's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Right.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
And so that's like my prep for it.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yes, and getting the run in is so important, like if
you have a goal that you'retrying to set with your running
and you probably should alwayshave some kind of goal.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I'm just going to tell you that you should have.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I mean, yes, you can just go out and say I'm going to
run every day, but I'll tellyou, it makes it more meaningful
if you have some kind of goalAt least I have found that in my
life and that you actuallystart seeing some results
because you've set a goal.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
And it doesn't necessarily, in my opinion, like
your goal.
It doesn't necessarily need tobe have to be a time goal or a
distance goal.
It can be a what you hope toachieve during that goal, like I
hope to achieve a newperspective on my relationship
with Christ.
Is it going to be a mindful ora prayer run, you know, or
something like?
That where your goal is toachieve something on purpose for
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it, with intention.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
And the ultimate goal is is that you doing it that
day, in the present day, is onlygoing to affect your future in
a positive way.
Whereas not doing it is going toaffect it in a negative way.
Now I'm not saying don't freakout if you've missed a run or
something, Like I've totallyruined everything.
It's like no, Like you said,life happens.
But we do need to optimize thattime, optimize that day so that
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we are getting it done.
It's just like when you aredoing the laundry, Like when you
are doing that laundry on thatday, so that we are getting it
done.
It's just like when you aredoing the laundry, like when you
are doing that laundry on thatday, you are ensuring that the
next day you have cleanunderwear, you have clean socks
to put on.
It made your tomorrow better.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
There was a guy during COVID that he did.
He started vlogging his runsbut he only had the ability.
He was lived in a city and hehad only his backyard to run in.
He couldn't run down the street, Like wherever he was at I
can't remember there was veryhigh restrictions on your
outside activity, so he was onlyrunning in his backyard and he
was a long-distance runner, sohe basically wore a path around
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the fence in his backyard andhis backyard is like in a
subdivision so he only wouldhave like maybe a 100-meter loop
.
We've lived.
That yard is like in a you knowsubdivision, so he only would
have like a maybe a 100 meterloop.
It was really difficult toimagine running in the same loop
every time, you know, but hehad a priority and a goal that
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he didn't want to.
You know, digress and it'sthese.
The same, the same concept canbe brought to every area of your
life you know like the amountof time that you put into
worship, the amount of time thatyou put into worship, the
amount of time that you put intoyour family, invest with them,
the amount of time that youspend with your business
ventures, or whatever it is.
You want to make sure that youtake the opportunity to use
those small times or thosesituations to optimize them.
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You know, it might not be theexact way that you would hope it
would be.
Yeah, it might not be the exactway that you would hope it
would be.
Yeah.
And I think there's one of thethoughts was like to make sure
that you're doing what it takesto have the best results.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
You know.
What's going to give you thebest results for that time Is a
long run and speed runs going togive you better results than if
you just go for a little jogfor a couple of miles.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Or, too, you can't just do a whole week of speed
runs Like you're going to hurtyourself.
You're going to probably seeregression not progression.
You can't just do a ton of easyruns where you're never getting
any speed built in, and, onceagain, it just depends on what
your goal is.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
you know like, for instance, right now, I'm
specifically working on gettingmy time down, so I need to put
speed workouts in there, um, andalso long distance runs, but um
well, when it comes to likeyour home life, you know if you
only focus on one meal or youonly focus on one bill, you know
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you've got to look at what'sgoing to have the biggest impact
on your family.
You know what are thepriorities, and that's like with
every budget, you know what'sthe?
priorities you're looking at,you're looking at utilities.
You know, you know the basicfood, shelter and clothing, you
know then, everything else afterthat, they can have an impact
on your life, but not as much asnot feeding your kids.
Correct, you know what's yourpriorities.
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You can think about the sameway with every area of your life
.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
And another thing, another thought we had was, you
know, making sure that you aretruthful with yourself.
We've talked about this beforemultiple times, about if someone
says I don't have time to dothis.
Oh yeah, Um, have you reallyreally sat down and thought
about how much time you actuallyhave to do something?
Um, I don't have time to foldlaundry.
Maybe I'm just harping onlaundry because I got laundry
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that needs to be done, but we doand we always have it.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
that needs to be done .
Speaker 2 (17:20):
But, like um, do you have time to do it?
Your answer is no, I don't havetime to do this.
Well, have you really sat downand thought what are other
things that I'm spending my timeon that aren't actually
affecting my future correct?
Aren't actually going to movethe needle in a positive
direction?
Yes, you know you have to dotoday what you can, because it
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will affect tomorrow I thinkthat goes back to the proverb
about the ant too.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
He says consider the ant Like.
The ant is not lazy and the antis constantly working for a
better tomorrow, right.
It's using that day to get thework done.
It can that day and it's onlygoing to help the tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Yeah, so Elle was jumping on the trampoline last
night while we were grilling, oryesterday while I was grilling,
and she was asking me is thereany more wasp nest yet?
Because the trampoline isactually like covered and right
above it.
About two seasons ago she wasjumping on it and she looked up.
I looked up and there was awasp nest about the size of my
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face right above the trampoline.
I thought all I could do is see, like see, like you know, like
I think it might have been themovie mocking jay or whatever.
It was one of those.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yes, anyway, those movies where?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
she knocked a wasp nest down on her, on the people
who were trying to attack herfrom, and all I could see was
that in my head like that waspnest falling on my daughter
while she's jumping on thetrampoline.
It's like there's there's nohope of me getting to her
without them getting her.
So, uh, obviously it's likestop and let's kill this thing
right but she was like, lookingup, are there any wasp nests yet
?
and I was like, no, they're notthere.
She's.
Well, where are they at?
You know, and I got to thinkingabout it, that that these wasps
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they go into like a hibernation, right, like they, they, they
die off the ones that are thereand the ones that are gonna come
out in the beginning of the newyear like they've've hidden
themselves.
Basically, I think they hidethemselves like in the dirt, you
know, like they try to getwarmth from the earth to survive
the winter, and then the queenis the first one to come out and
release the first worker beesto start building the new nest
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for the new year.
I think that's how it goes.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
But there's only just a handful of them that survive
and make it to the next year,and of them that survive and
make it to the next year, andthen they multiply very quickly
and their lifespan is very short.
So it's like mass productionright on a grand scale.
Um, but I was thinking about it.
I was like, yeah, they, they'redoing what they can to survive,
but they're working like crazyin the season that they're in
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right now they're preparing forthat hard winter.
If that queen or that, that onethat lives through the
wintertime, does not have thenourishment, the nutrients and
the preparation to be able tosurvive, they go extinct.
That hive goes extinct and itwill not come back the next year
because they didn't do whatthey needed to prepare, and God
builds that into nature.
He builds it into them like theant.
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It builds it into them thatthey don't have to think about
what I'm going to do.
They just do what's built intothem.
You know we as humans.
You throw me on a desertedIsland.
I'm going to do what's I thinkis possibly best to try to
survive.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I'm going to try to stay warm.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I'm going to try to find food and I'm going to try
to find shelter.
You know it's just built intous, our human nature.
So making sure that you are, uh, focused on the things that are
going to have the largestimpact.
A lot of times that meansignoring the things that could
be distractions.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
That's hard to pinpoint sometimes.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
It is.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Because sometimes it can be good positive things that
are distracting us fromactually moving forward.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Yeah, Distractions aren't necessarily things that
are, like you know, bad or quoteunquote, sinful or things like
that.
It can be just what you putyour time on and your focus on
that could be affecting tomorrowthat you should be doing, you
know, at a different later timein your life and it's just like
we.
We dealt with this multipletimes in our life where we feel
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like, oh, we're focusing onsomething too much and it's not
really moving the needle in ourlife Right.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
And we've talked about that.
We have to be careful with therunning on that, like we don't
want the running to becomesomething that's prideful or
something that is distracting usfrom what the ultimate goal is,
and at this point in time Ifeel like we have a good handle
on that.
You know, it is a part of ourlife, but it's not our life.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah, I saw a phrase the other day or I showed it to
you, I think it said it was anote on the window and it said
Mom's gone for a run.
Do not call her unless thehouse is on fire.
And it's funny.
You know, if you're on a longrun, obviously you have to set
your family up or your situationup to be able to have that
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block of time to be able to dothat, especially if you're
training for something longdistance.
It takes time, it just takestime, and that's probably the
hardest thing about running longdistance is that the time that
you have to allocate to actuallyperform it well yes, but I will
say and a lot of people wouldsay I don't have time to like
our run that we did saturday.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
It took two hours.
You know, we knew it was goingto take that long because we
were running a long distance andwe weren't supposed to be
running it at a super fast speedor anything.
We did run it at a medium speedthough.
So that run could have taken alot longer than what it did, but
two hours of running.
People will be like I can't dotwo hours of running.
Well, you can watch a two hourmovie, you know, or I don't know
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what's something else that youcould do all kinds of things.
There is scroll on facebook, or,oh my goodness, when your phone
tells you how long you've beenon your phone the for the week
or how many, what your averagehours is on your phone.
Yeah, yeah, you know I thinkyes, and it's like you time.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
And you don't have to do a two-hour run.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
No.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
You can find 30 minutes in there to be active
for your health, because it'sonly going to affect your future
in a positive way.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yeah, and remember, we only talk about running
because that's our form ofexercise that we're focused on
right now.
It could be HIIT, it could beyoga, it could be stretching be
stretching.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
It could be whatever I do strength training.
Calvin doesn't really dostrength training just because
he hasn't prioritized that inhis life right now.
And um, but I do, I do strengthtraining, um, and really running
.
This is just a side note.
Running is not going to makeyou lose weight.
Running is not going to makeyou strong, it just isn't the.
What running does is it buildsup your cardiovascular health so
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that you need the strengthtraining for your body to be
able to withstand running longdistances or running hard.
And so you know and like I saidI think I've said this before
running is a great defensemechanism.
You know, if you can get awayfrom a situation, that's good.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Do you remember that we just watched a video and it
was talking about avoidingbullies?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
And it was like a high school video from like the
1990s maybe.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
It was like one of those videos that they rolled
the TV in.
They rolled the TV into theclassroom.
They were like, okay, watchthis.
Yeah, everybody watch this,yeah, yes.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
And I think there was a famous person that was on it,
someone that we recognized.
I can't remember who it was,though, but they were like if a
bully attacks you, you know, dothis, and it had them like smack
him in the groin and and thenrun.
It's like, instead of ballingup your fist because you could
damage your fist, give him ahard slap across the face and
run, and it's like it alwaysended with and run and it's like
, well yeah, avoiding situations, or distracting, distracting
them to be able to get away youknow it, it really is good, so
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like running is a really gooddefense mechanism, you know a
bear's coming after me.
You know, try to throw somethingout that'll distract them, but
get out of there as much as youcan.
You know um you avoid it, avoidit at all possible costs, but
um.
But you do have time.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
I want you to think about that.
You do have time.
I want you to think about that.
You do have time to seize theopportunity.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
So maybe we can go into now the tactical things,
the programs that kind of areout there that you could Google
and find.
But then I want us to kind ofrelate how do you utilize them
versus how I utilize them.
Because we're going to be verydifferent in this.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
We are Because our personalities are different.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
I was looking over and I was like we're totally
different.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
We are, we're so different.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I'm a list kind of guy.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
You're not oh my goodness, I hate a list.
Okay, so look Calvin's shownotes and y'all can't see called
like.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Time blocking is like the technical term.
That's what I wrote down, butit's basically like where you
use a timer or you actually setaside certain times to do things
.
Um, we use it a lot in the shopfor when it comes to making
sure we don't miss like productsand things like that, like
overcook things or baking thingslike that.
It's just you say this is whatit needs to be able to perform
this task.
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I'm going to set aside thistime and I'm going to do it, and
they even sell these things onamazon or whatever that all over
the place where you'd like toscroll it and hit it, and it's
like you set a certain amount oftime to focus on what you're
doing.
And I actually use this withjude when it comes to, like,
cleaning up his room.
I say I, jude, you can't doanything else till you set a 10
minute timer on your phone andstart picking up your room when
that timer goes off you'reallowed to start going, doing
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whatever else you wanted to do.
you know so, you, you can, youknow, focus that way on, on a
certain task that you're needingto accomplish and that that, I
think you know, works for me toan extent I don't utilize it as
much as I probably need to, um,but that would.
That was something that wouldtrigger me.
You yes.
And allow me to focus on it.
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What are your thoughts?
Speaker 1 (26:26):
My thoughts are that that would be fantastic for me
to do Me actually ever doing it.
It goes against you, it does goagainst my personality, which
doesn't mean that I shouldn'tattempt to do it, though I think
we should do it.
Just because, oh, that's nothow my personality works doesn't
mean that you shouldn't try it,Because there are some things
that I have manipulated my ownpersonality, but no like I think
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you should do this, you knowjust because it's your
personality doesn't mean it'sgreat.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yeah, you know well, you're like okay, so your life
changes off automatically.
You set a timer for 20 minutessomething.
You get a phone call and itchanges.
That's fine.
But at least you started.
You know, you tried and youattempted to start it.
But if you never start thattime or you never try it, then
it's not going to help you atall.
So, it's kind of like how itgoes back to we were just
talking about eliminatingbarriers, Like have your shoes
on.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
If you have your shoes on you're running shoes,
yep, and you're in your workoutgear and you go out.
But if you're in your workoutgear, in your casual shoes, you
have less of an opportunity well, I even thought about that when
I was putting my shoes on thismorning.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
I was like okay, what shoes.
Am I wanting?
What do I need to have on?
Yeah, and I was like I need toeliminate the process of maybe
having to come back home to getwhat I needed.
I needed to go ahead andeliminate that barrier and just
be ready.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Yeah that's really important.
So set those timers, eliminatebarriers.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
All right.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
The next one was um.
This one is uh it can be veryinterpretive, like to what's?
You have to think about yourpriorities, but and what's going
to have the most effect on your, your task, whatever it is
fitness, business, whatever itis family, focus on the 20%.
They gets 80% of the resultsthat you need for the day, and
that's really hard because a lotof times that means letting
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something go.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Oh, yeah, letting something go.
And how do you know what needsto be let go, yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
So you think about like at the moment, like what is
the most priority in my mindwould be like the thing that's
right in front of me, you knowthe thing that is right in front
of me.
Is it going to be the thingthat I spend 100% of my focus on
?
I really struggle with myattention when it comes to what
I hear my ears.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
You're very squirrely Very squirrely.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
So if I am focused dead on something, even if it's
something simple as watching TV,and you start talking to me or
Jude starts talking to me,anyone starts talking to me.
If they don't actually say myname and get me to divert my
attention, I'm not going to hearthe majority of what you say
until I realize you're talkingto me.
And it can be a struggle point,because not everyone is that
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way.
So it's going to come off as I'mignoring you.
It's going to come off as rudebecause I'm not actually paying
attention to you.
But I'm so focused on what I'mlistening to because I want to
receive what I can from what I'mfocused on even if it's reading
a book or whatever.
It is Right, driving down theroad, say dad first, but my
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focus isn't on it, so how do?
we make sure that we're focusedon what's going to bring us the
best results.
Well, that takes a lot ofintrospection.
That takes a lot ofintrospection.
That takes a lot of like,planning and thinking.
What am I going to do todaythat has the best results for my
family, my career, my exercise,whatever it is?
It's going to have the bestresults.
I need to focus on that, Evenif, um, it's hard, even if it's
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difficult, but if that's the 20%that's going to move me the
furthest along that's what Ineed to focus on, and the rest
of it I can get to as the daygoes on.
If I am out of socks, I need toat least try to find some pairs
of socks and fold those.
If I don't have time to foldthe rest of it, fold that.
Make sure they've got matchingsocks, because we're getting
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into shorts weather.
Fold that Yep.
Make sure they got matchingsocks, because we're getting
into shorts weather.
Yes, and you can tell now.
When you're in your coldweather you can get away with
unmatching socks, sometimes whenyou're kids, but when you get
into the hot weather, they'regoing to see them, it's going to
show.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
You got to make sure they're matching, Fold those and
then move on with life and thenthat evening, when you have
time to come back to it, get therest of the clothes up.
Yes, you know, but but that 20%of socks that's going to affect
their day because they don'thave a pair of matching socks.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
It's true, that's just a basic example, and I will
say too this goes to 80, 20running.
I think I've said this beforethat I started doing 80, 20
running, which means you run 80%slow and 20% fast and hard, but
that 20% because you think, oh,it's just 20%, the 20% is so
important.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Yeah, you've got to get it hard.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
You have to because if you don't, then you're
running 100% easy, which meansif you had a goal of your
wanting to be able to runsomething really hard and fast,
you're not going to be able toachieve it, you'll be able to go
the distance.
You're not going to do a badjob, but you're not going to
achieve what you wanted toachieve.
So focusing on that 20% reallyis going to have the lasting
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effects, but you've got to dothe 80% too.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
And that's the thing I guess I mentioned this the
other day like the difference inyour mind is you have a uh not
running to complete it, you'rerunning to compete it yeah
mentality yes your mind revertsto how do I compete?
Even if it's against yourself,I'm going to compete against my
old time.
I'm going to compete against myold weights right.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
You know, whatever it is, and if I see someone do
better than me, I I really amhappy for them.
You are, and all.
I do, is I think, okay, how didthey get where they're at?
I know that it takes work.
There wasn't some magic wandthat was like, oh, they're going
to race this amazing race andit just happened for them.
No, that's not true, thateverybody has to put the work in
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.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Yeah, how much business knowledge did we gain
from observing other businesses?
And listening to otherentrepreneurs and listening to
other coffee shops and listeningto other roasters.
We, we, you consume as much asyou possibly can and you try to
apply it to your life, to try toadvance your career or your
fitness goals or yourrelationship goals.
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You've got to apply what youlearn to it, yep, and say this
is right here, this 20% is goingto move the needle the most in
this area, so focus on it, yep.
And that's another one of thetactics, yep.
Now this third one that was outthere.
I've seen it on a graph before,I've seen it on charts, I've
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seen it on people have whiteflip boards, dry erase, whatever
, but it's a four part quadrantand it's how to prioritize the
thing, the tasks that you haveat hand, and the four terms are
is it urgent, is it important oris it not urgent?
And is it not important?
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Ooh, yeah, okay, so let's break this down so a lot
of times, like I was saying, Ooh, ooh, yeah, okay, so let's
break this down.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
So a lot of times, like I was saying, the thing
that's in front of me is goingto be what I focus on.
Right, right, that's mystruggle point.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Of prioritizing.
So if you can ask yourselfthese questions and I fail to do
so this might be a really goodthing for me.
Okay Is if you can ask yourselfis it urgent and important?
Those are the things that youneed to do Okay.
But if it's urgent and notimportant, those are the things
that you need to try to delegate.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Delegation.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
We could do a whole episode on delegating things.
If it's urgent to get thelaundry, we're going to go
laundry again to get the laundryoff of your couch so that you
can sit on it.
But it's not important to you,it's important to your kids.
Delegate that to yes they canthey can fall laundry if they're
of a certain age, okay but ifit's not urgent and not
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important, you don't do thoseokay but if it's and if it's not
urgent but it is important, butit doesn't have to be done
today, this is that part whereyou have to say that's the 80%.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
You have to figure out when you are going to do it.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
That's the stuff that you don't need to focus your
time on.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
You need to schedule those because it is important,
and I can already think of younaming those things, I can
already think in my head ofthings that I know, of things
that we have to do that areurgent and important.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
And I would say an urgent and important task would
be simply like making sure weget our order in for our truck
this week.
I mean because we can't serveanybody without those things,
and it can also be as huge as wehave to file the taxes, or you
know those are urgent becausethey have a time stamp on them
and they're important.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
I guess the goal would be is to make things that
are important, keep them in thenot urgent moment, Like today.
Let's go ahead and get ourorder for the food together as
best as possible and thenfinalize it the day of you know,
that way it's never urgent butit's extremely important.
So you are scheduling it,you're prioritizing it at that
(35:06):
time.
So I mean that would be thegoal, but obviously if things
that are urgent and important,they would take priority that
day.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Right.
And you can even take these tothings like when it comes to is
your family doing too many tasks, you know, like, is your child
involved in too many things?
We kind of touched on this lastweek, yeah, but you could even
apply this concept to that, likeis it urgent, is it important?
You know, I've seen this sharedover the weekend so many people
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saying don't schedule ballgames and practices on Sundays
and Wednesday and Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Yes, I saw that too.
Did you see that too?
I did, I saw it a couple times.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
I saw it shared by so many people and I was like,
okay, and I totally agree withit, but let me tell you the only
way that you're preaching tothe wrong person.
You can't be telling thecoaches to quit scheduling it.
It's really up to you to not goto it.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Because if you stop taking your kids to it, they
won't schedule them.
You are the boss of your child.
You have them for a very shorttime and I don't know why I'm
(36:21):
saying this, but I just feellike I need to um you set the
priorities in their life.
And so don't put that all on acoach, because I'll tell you
this too, the coach has his ownmentality of he's.
You know, there might be reallygood intentions there.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
He might have a lot of pressure on him to perform
Sure.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
And I'm not, and I cause I don't want to be like
the coach is the devil.
I'm not saying that.
What I'm saying is is you arethe one who sets the priorities
in your child's life, not yourcoach.
Yeah, so you are the one whosets the priorities in your
child's life, not your coach,yeah, and that comes to
everything.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
That's not just your kids, that's your career, your
business.
And I had this one guy I wasworking with one time and he
told me he says I can't do thisanymore.
This is just I can't do thiswork anymore.
You know, they're alwaystalking about the man, like I
can't believe they're making usdo this.
And I looked at him one day andI said well, quit.
You know, I was, I was hiscoworker.
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I wasn't his boss, I wasn'ttelling him to quit, but I was
his coworker and I was like, ifhe said this job is killing me,
that's what the that's what.
It's what he said this job iskilling me.
I can't do this anymore.
I said, well, quit.
He's like what is going to putyou in an early grave because of
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the physical exertion or thechemical hazardness, or the
hours that you're working andnot sleeping, and all those
things.
If you genuinely believe thatthis is going to put you in an
early grave, leave, findsomething that is going to take
its place or supplement it orwhatever you need to do to
change.
I said you can blame them allyou want, but you're the one
that comes in here every day.
Sure, you know, and you have totake some accountability for
what you're doing.
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Yes, preaching to the choir.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Yes, so you have to take accountability for what
you're not doing, what you'renot doing too, yeah, so um, and
actually it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
maybe five months after that he he quit, he
retired, he found him adifferent job that had better
hours, that had better umability for him to use his
physical ability, um, where hewas in his life.
He was an older gentleman, youknow, yeah, and he and he's
happy, you know, and I stillkeep track with him on social
media and stuff like that, andevery once in a while we'll
message and it's like he's foundsome things, some joy in life
(38:20):
later on.
That is helping him enjoy his,his life later on, you know, and
and it like I might've been ayounger man that was just kind
of like perturbed at himcomplaining, but I felt like
there was some wisdom in what Iwas saying because it was like I
want what's best for you.
And if this genuinely isn't bestfor you, it's still up to you
to change it.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Right, and that's how we feel about our employees
here.
I've always told them hey, ifthis isn't working for you, like
if you're not happy here, youcan feel free to please come to
us.
There are no hard feelings herebecause we know what's best for
you.
What's best for you is alsogoing to be what's best for us.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
I mean, you don't want somebody here that doesn't
want to be here right and thatcould be a scheduling thing or
what their focus is for theircareer, or how much hours or
lack of hours they're gettingyou know anything that causes
tension that could prevent youfrom performing your best at the
20% of the time that you had todesignate the things, the
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things that are urgent andimportant, whatever's going to
draw you away from performingyour best at that.
You got to eliminate thosebarriers and when it comes to
being an employer, we want ouremployees to have the least
amount of barriers as possible.
We want to eliminate thosebarriers that's on us and we
take ownership of.
A lot of the mistakes, or a lotof the things that do happen
have happened over the last twoyears where someone might not be
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completely satisfied andeverything, and it's like, well,
what did I do to contribute tothat?
You know we might have had,just for something as a basic
example, almond milk versus oatmilk.
You know, it's easy, it's easyto make that mistake.
What am I doing to prevent thatfrom being a visual thing?
Am I making sure that things aresectioned off in a way that
they always grab from the samelocation You're like it's a
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process thing in my opinion.
Now they got to take ownershipthat they didn't double check.
We're going to have thatconversation.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
But what can I?
I do as a, as an owner, to makesure that they're not having to
think about that right as muchas possible right you know, and
and that's the thing with you inyour life we want to see you
succeed.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
We want to hear your stories of success and you might
be like you don't even know me.
Well, we want to know you wereally do like.
This is our heart like it's justcommunicating with, with our
community and beyond.
You know I don't know ifthere's anybody that's uh
listening that it doesn't cometo our shop?
You know, I have no idea.
I know that god laid it on herheart to do this and uh, and we
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feel like we're doing what hewants us to do, so I know that
he will bless it.
Whatever's supposed to come outof this, it will it come out of
it, you know, because he's init.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Yeah, so it's basically are you human, Are you
struggling and are youlistening to us?
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
So if you hear us and you're human and you're
struggling, we're with you.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
If you're not struggling, we're with you.
No, whatever.
But we're with you.
If you're not struggling, we'rewith you.
No, whatever, but more likelyif you're human, you've got
problems.
Yeah, we all do.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
And we all do, and we're just wanting to try to
share our stories.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
I think it's important for people to see too
that people might look reallysuccessful, like on the outside
or whatever.
But you can't paint that apretty picture that they got
there easy or that they're notstruggling.
Yeah, you paint that a prettypicture that they got there easy
or that they're not struggling.
Yeah, you can be successful andbe struggling.
Yeah, you know, and so it'slike let's all learn from one
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another.
Yep, take the opportunity,seize the day to learn from one
another.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Yep but you got to yeah, but we love y'all.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
We do.
We hope that the Lord blessesyou and keeps you and makes his
face shine upon you and we willsee you next week.
Oh, really quick.
Next week is spring break andso we're going to do a special
edition episode.
We're going to be recountingsome of our favorite spring
break stories.
Now, these are childhoodstories and I'm just going to
tell you I don't have any ofthose crazy spring break beach
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moments.
Never experienced that and I'mnot regretful that.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
I haven't experienced any of that.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
So I have some really great memories from my
childhood of things that, andmaybe we can get my sister on
here too.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
Or and maybe your brothers, I don't know, we'll
see.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
We'll see who gets on here.
Yeah, let's get them on here.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
We'll talk about our childhood, about because we
definitely spent spring breakwith our siblings very, very
unique and very different springbreaks between me and you yes.
So in the meantime, if you'relistening, we would love for you
to send us a message of maybe afun spring break story you have
, or a fun memory uh is theresomething that you did every
spring break, or do you justhave like this one weird story
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that you remember?
uh, we would love to know it andshare it.
Maybe we can do a poll on someof our tidbit posts about what
your spring break activitieswere yes, all right, I guess
that wraps this one up.
Yes, and we'll see you nexttime.
Hey everyone and welcome to episode 9 of our
podcast.
We're wonderfully excited to behere with you again.
Our background looks different.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
We're in a little bit of a different environment.
We decided to try recording inthe coffee shop today.
During operating hours, soyou'll hear the POS go off and
the grinder and customers comingin and things like that.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
The doorbell ringing.
Uh, the process right is on onthe tv, right on live tv.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
We got the prices right on there so y'all hear the
the sounds from it.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
But this is a little different, being uh recording in
you know front of people.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
So uh, it's all good though yeah, I'm excited about
it.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Um so, today's episode nine.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Can't believe we've already been at this for nine
episodes so if we've beenrecording one a week, really
that's nine weeks, right?
Yep, hey, so the reason whywe're in here to begin with is
really the reason for theconversation that we're going to
have today.
We're just kind of on the fly,but we're like, hey, let's just
do it, let's make sure we knockit out, prioritize it, because
we want to make sure an episodegets out this week.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
So we're going to get it.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yeah, we are.
We were just seizing theopportunity, which is what our
episode is about today.
Today, we want to talk abouthow important it is to make the
day your best possible, mostproductive, so that your
tomorrow is better.
You know, the Bible teaches usthat we shouldn't be worried
about tomorrow.
Yeah, but what we do today doesaffect our tomorrow, and he
(01:26):
does tell us to focus on thepresent moment and the present
day.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, it talks a lot about not being a sluggard.
Yes, yes.
Some of the terms it uses, andmaking sure that you're
preparing, Make sure you'retaking action Right.
A lot of what it calls you todo is to be a man or a woman of
action.
You know whatever that is inyour life, whatever that calling
is or whatever the occupationthat you work in or the things
(01:51):
that you do, to really takethose to heart and act on them
and don't be lazy.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Correct.
Before we get into all of that,we do have to talk about our
cups.
You know, it's not a fancyschmancy, one of our from our
collection.
We actually are using just ourto-go cuts from our shop, since
we were in here in the shop andwe're just drinking some of our
drip coffee today they stillhave the happy birthday.
From our two-year anniversarycoming, new sleeves coming we're
(02:17):
excited to have celebrated twoyears already, so going into
this third.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
But we've learned a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
We have, uh, we've learned that we do have to seize
the day, because I'll tell you,if you put off things to today,
it can make your tomorrow a lotharder.
Yeah, so let's dig into this,calvin.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
All right.
Well, the scripture that we hadpicked out for this um in our
minds was Proverbs 27, one, itsays do not boast about tomorrow
, for you do not know what a daymay bring forth.
You don't know what tomorrow'sgoing to have for you.
Don't, don't put off fortomorrow, Don't uh brag that
tomorrow's going to be such agood day.
You know it'll be bettertomorrow, because today is what
(03:00):
you have.
You're not promised tomorrow,Um.
So seizing the opportunity andmaking sure that you're taking
action in the moment, right now,is where we're at.
You're living in the present,you know.
I think the phrase is yourpresence is a present.
You are given it.
It is a gift to you to be inthe present, right now.
Whatever you're doing, whereveryou're at, while you're
(03:23):
listening to this, it is a giftthat you are here, that you are
alive, that you're able to doyour calling and able to serve
and to help and to enjoy thecreation that God has given us.
So how do we optimize that?
How do you make sure that we'redoing what we need to?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
do?
How do we make sure we're nottaking our own life for granted?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I know.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
It's very easy to do and it's easy to let days slip
away from you, and I can testifyto this.
So yesterday was Sunday.
It's usually my run rest dayand it's a rest day for our
family.
Typically.
I think we've gotten a littlebit better about our Sundays
being more restful than theywere and not planning things and
stuff like that.
But yesterday I kind of feltlike I was in a funk I don't
(04:03):
know any other way to say itLike nothing was wrong.
Like I was in a funk, I don'tknow any other way to say it
Like nothing was wrong, likenothing was bothering me or
anything.
But I felt like and this mightsurprise some people, especially
some of my family members butI'm actually a pretty
introverted person and peoplethink that if you're introverted
then it means that you're quiet.
And I'm not a quiet person.
Introverted just means that youdo not gain energy from others
(04:27):
around you.
You gain more energy from beingalone and by yourself, and it's
kind of it's a pretty type, apersonality kind of thing.
You know, like if you're doinga project I really didn't love
group projects.
I liked being able to workalone because I felt like that's
how my creative juices reallystarted flowing, you know, yeah,
but I kind of just lost mytrain of thought and guys.
(04:50):
I'm surprised that it hasn'thappened in this podcast more
than I think it's happened oncebefore, Just like got lost into
what I was saying.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
When you were talking about the opportunities of each
day, you know, and and when,like yesterday, you, you took a
day of rest, and that is apriority.
That is a priority to to rest.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Thank you for being my helpmate and bringing it back
to me, okay, okay.
So I went to church like normaland we did some new songs.
That was exciting.
And when I came home I was likedrained, and I think it's
because because I'm introverted,like when I'm in the shop all
day long and stuff sometimesit's and I love people because I
come up with all theseactivities and events that we're
going to do but it drains me.
It really does drain me, andsometimes I just need to be
(05:35):
alone and I'll even tell you I'mnot mad at you or anything, but
I just need to be alone andcollect my thoughts.
But yesterday I felt like I didit for a little bit longer than
I needed to and it was puttingme in a funk and I started
thinking about this exact topic.
So it's kind of cool that we'retalking about this God just
makes everything come fullcircle but I remember thinking
(05:56):
what I'm doing right now is nothelping me for tomorrow, it's
not getting me anywhere.
In fact, it could just make metake a few steps back, because I
feel like if you allow yourselfto be lazy, you'll just keep
being more lazy.
Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah, well, I mean, that's the reason why, like when
the Bible talks about notworrying about tomorrow, right?
Well, that doesn't mean don'tact today for things that are
going to affect tomorrow, right,you know, what you do today
will affect tomorrow, like we'vealready said.
So focusing on the things thatyou have to prioritize today is
really important.
And you let the chips fall fromyour actions today into
(06:34):
tomorrow and then you reevaluatetomorrow.
If God gives you tomorrow as agift, you reevaluate and you
reprioritize tomorrow, but youdon't think about it and worry
about it until it gets here.
Yes, you, basically you knowwhat your future is, so far as
you can plan out, you know, likeyou know what's around the bend
as much as possible.
So you take action today forthe things that are the most
(06:55):
important or have the mostpriority or God's calling you to
do the most today.
Um, and it might be um in themiddle of the day, being like
you know what.
We don't have time tonightbecause of X Y Z.
We've got to prioritize sometime during the day to record
this podcast.
So here we go this might allthis noise in the background and
stuff it might be like, man, Ican't hear anything they're
saying, but we don't know.
(07:16):
We're going to record this andwe're going to rock on and we're
going to prioritize making surethat y'all have what y'all need
when you come and join us, thatyou feel encouraged to be able
to take on your day and realizethat we're all just living in a
crazy world and we're all justseizing opportunities to do
everything we possibly can,whether it's a ministry, a
calling, or whether it's justgoing about normal life and
(07:37):
picking up your kids from school.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah.
So how do we do that?
How do we prioritize our daysso that we are getting the most
out of them?
And I think also, scaling thatback, getting the most out of
your day doesn't mean thatyou're jam-packing it full of so
much stuff, because, once again, rest is so important, mindful
rest is so important, but youknow, it is prioritizing.
(08:00):
Okay, for instance, this podcast, we could have put it off and
done it tomorrow night, right,yeah, we could have, and still
been able to roll it out byWednesday, but there was nothing
that was really stopping usfrom doing it now.
And it really just and sometimeswe're still flying by the seat
of our pants, like it's not.
Like yesterday we had this hugegame plan of what we were going
(08:21):
to do.
We really came up with thisgame plan this morning, you know
, but it was like, okay, here'sour day, these are the things
that we need to accomplish, andyou kind of know the things that
you need to get accomplishedthroughout the whole week and
you kind of prioritize thisthroughout the week.
So it's like, if we need toroll out a podcast by Wednesday,
when is the best time to dothat?
Well, you're not at your otherjob right now.
(08:43):
We were plenty staffed up.
I didn't have anywhereimmediately I had to go.
So it's like, hey, let's do itnow.
We might have to do it in anunconventional way, but we can
get it done.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
So I guess the thought for this podcast for
y'all to bring y'all value andfor us to really wrap our head
around what we're talking about,we want to kind of give you a
few, uh, ways that you canoptimize your day, and there's
been a few techniques that I'veheard of that we just kind of I
jotted down like throughout mylife listening you know how you,
you consume stuff on youtube orwhatever we consume.
(09:15):
Podcasts, yeah podcasts andstuff.
So there's some some tacticalthings, some tactical advice,
but then, like, we want to telly'all like the three things that
really kind of like we use inour daily life to try to
prioritize what we're doing, andthen some of the basic um
programs I guess you could go bythat that they, they say, are
common practice, but, um, themain thing that, like with what
(09:37):
we're trying to accomplish is,uh, with our running um, with
our ministry, with our business.
you know with, with life ingeneral, um, is you try to
eliminate as many barriers toprevent you from performing the
tasks that you know are mostprioritized.
So we were just talking aboutthis.
Like your day is going to startout differently with what your
(09:58):
clothing is based on, whateveryou have coming up in your
activities for your day, andkind of reverse engineer it.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Reverse engineer my day, which means you go back.
You start with how the day'sgoing to end and you go
backwards.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah, what am I going to need to be able to perform
what I need that day and thenwork your way back?
You wouldn't come in inbusiness attire when you know in
two hours you're going to bedoing a workout class.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Because you'd have to change.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Right, you have to power, and if I know that I've
got a run that I have to do orneed to do or want to do, I may
just need to go ahead and havemy workout clothes on.
Look, if I'm getting here at theshop at 4 o'clock in the
morning and sometimes I'mteaching a class at 4.30 in the
morning I already have workoutclothes on, you know.
(10:47):
So might as well keep them on,and it's going to make sure that
I do that task that I wassupposed to do, which was run,
whereas if I have a dress on or,like you said, or business
attire, I might not be asinclined to go ahead and get the
run done.
You know, it's like I will findpockets of opportunity, and
sometimes it's like I will findpockets of opportunity, and
sometimes it's like the starsmight not all align about where
I want to run.
(11:07):
Sometimes I'm having to usewherever it is that I'm at, like
, let's say, for instance, Ionly have two people working, I
might can still go get my rundone, but I may just need to do
it right here beside the shop sothat, if they can call me, I
can literally just run back Abarrier can be like distance,
like, for instance.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I was just thinking about this If you're needing to
get that laundry folded, and youneed to get that laundry folded
, I'm telling you, don't leaveit where it's at, okay, and I'm
speaking to the class.
So if you need to get it done,put it in a place you're going
to see it, you know.
Eliminate that barrier.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I know some things that you've done is you will put
it on our, you will take thelaundry and dump it on our bed.
It forces us to have to put thelaundry up because we can't go
to bed until.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
You can't sleep on that bed until it is taken care
of or putting it on the couch.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
You know it's like you're you can't sit down on the
couch until the laundry is putaway, so you are eliminating the
barrier and life changes?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
obviously yes, but it puts it in a place where you
see it, you know the, the thingthat you deem is most important.
Um, your kids need their socksand underwear.
They need that you know, so, um,making sure that you take that
as a, as a, as a visual thatyou're going to say this is what
I'm going to do.
It's like with running I'mgoing to make sure I have my
shoes, my, my task for mystrategy, for making sure I'm
(12:21):
able to run with either you orJude, whichever way or when I
have opportunity, because my dayis a little less scheduled.
I just have a go bag.
I put everything I need to beable to change into all of my
even reflective gear,flashlights shoes, everything
that I could possibly need forany situation.
I have it in a go bag ready togo.
That way I can change into iton the fly and I just keep it in
(12:42):
whatever vehicle we're in.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Because I don't know when that's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Right.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
And so that's like my prep for it.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yes, and getting the run in is so important, like if
you have a goal that you'retrying to set with your running
and you probably should alwayshave some kind of goal.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I'm just going to tell you that you should have.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I mean, yes, you can just go out and say I'm going to
run every day, but I'll tellyou, it makes it more meaningful
if you have some kind of goalAt least I have found that in my
life and that you actuallystart seeing some results
because you've set a goal.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
And it doesn't necessarily, in my opinion, like
your goal.
It doesn't necessarily need tobe have to be a time goal or a
distance goal.
It can be a what you hope toachieve during that goal, like I
hope to achieve a newperspective on my relationship
with Christ.
Is it going to be a mindful ora prayer run, you know, or
something like?
That where your goal is toachieve something on purpose for
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it, with intention.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
And the ultimate goal is is that you doing it that
day, in the present day, is onlygoing to affect your future in
a positive way.
Whereas not doing it is going toaffect it in a negative way.
Now I'm not saying don't freakout if you've missed a run or
something, Like I've totallyruined everything.
It's like no, Like you said,life happens.
But we do need to optimize thattime, optimize that day so that
(14:01):
we are getting it done.
It's just like when you aredoing the laundry, Like when you
are doing that laundry on thatday, so that we are getting it
done.
It's just like when you aredoing the laundry, like when you
are doing that laundry on thatday, you are ensuring that the
next day you have cleanunderwear, you have clean socks
to put on.
It made your tomorrow better.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
There was a guy during COVID that he did.
He started vlogging his runsbut he only had the ability.
He was lived in a city and hehad only his backyard to run in.
He couldn't run down the street, Like wherever he was at I
can't remember there was veryhigh restrictions on your
outside activity, so he was onlyrunning in his backyard and he
was a long-distance runner, sohe basically wore a path around
(14:38):
the fence in his backyard andhis backyard is like in a
subdivision so he only wouldhave like maybe a 100-meter loop
.
We've lived.
That yard is like in a you knowsubdivision, so he only would
have like a maybe a 100 meterloop.
It was really difficult toimagine running in the same loop
every time, you know, but hehad a priority and a goal that
(14:58):
he didn't want to.
You know, digress and it'sthese.
The same, the same concept canbe brought to every area of your
life you know like the amountof time that you put into
worship, the amount of time thatyou put into worship, the
amount of time that you put intoyour family, invest with them,
the amount of time that youspend with your business
ventures, or whatever it is.
You want to make sure that youtake the opportunity to use
those small times or thosesituations to optimize them.
(15:19):
You know, it might not be theexact way that you would hope it
would be.
Yeah, it might not be the exactway that you would hope it
would be.
Yeah.
And I think there's one of thethoughts was like to make sure
that you're doing what it takesto have the best results.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
You know.
What's going to give you thebest results for that time Is a
long run and speed runs going togive you better results than if
you just go for a little jogfor a couple of miles.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Or, too, you can't just do a whole week of speed
runs Like you're going to hurtyourself.
You're going to probably seeregression not progression.
You can't just do a ton of easyruns where you're never getting
any speed built in, and, onceagain, it just depends on what
your goal is.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
you know like, for instance, right now, I'm
specifically working on gettingmy time down, so I need to put
speed workouts in there, um, andalso long distance runs, but um
well, when it comes to likeyour home life, you know if you
only focus on one meal or youonly focus on one bill, you know
(16:29):
you've got to look at what'sgoing to have the biggest impact
on your family.
You know what are thepriorities, and that's like with
every budget, you know what'sthe?
priorities you're looking at,you're looking at utilities.
You know, you know the basicfood, shelter and clothing, you
know then, everything else afterthat, they can have an impact
on your life, but not as much asnot feeding your kids.
Correct, you know what's yourpriorities.
(16:49):
You can think about the sameway with every area of your life
.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
And another thing, another thought we had was, you
know, making sure that you aretruthful with yourself.
We've talked about this beforemultiple times, about if someone
says I don't have time to dothis.
Oh yeah, Um, have you reallyreally sat down and thought
about how much time you actuallyhave to do something?
Um, I don't have time to foldlaundry.
Maybe I'm just harping onlaundry because I got laundry
(17:16):
that needs to be done, but we doand we always have it.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
that needs to be done .
Speaker 2 (17:20):
But, like um, do you have time to do it?
Your answer is no, I don't havetime to do this.
Well, have you really sat downand thought what are other
things that I'm spending my timeon that aren't actually
affecting my future correct?
Aren't actually going to movethe needle in a positive
direction?
Yes, you know you have to dotoday what you can, because it
(17:40):
will affect tomorrow I thinkthat goes back to the proverb
about the ant too.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
He says consider the ant Like.
The ant is not lazy and the antis constantly working for a
better tomorrow, right.
It's using that day to get thework done.
It can that day and it's onlygoing to help the tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Yeah, so Elle was jumping on the trampoline last
night while we were grilling, oryesterday while I was grilling,
and she was asking me is thereany more wasp nest yet?
Because the trampoline isactually like covered and right
above it.
About two seasons ago she wasjumping on it and she looked up.
I looked up and there was awasp nest about the size of my
(18:19):
face right above the trampoline.
I thought all I could do is see, like see, like you know, like
I think it might have been themovie mocking jay or whatever.
It was one of those.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yes, anyway, those movies where?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
she knocked a wasp nest down on her, on the people
who were trying to attack herfrom, and all I could see was
that in my head like that waspnest falling on my daughter
while she's jumping on thetrampoline.
It's like there's there's nohope of me getting to her
without them getting her.
So, uh, obviously it's likestop and let's kill this thing
right but she was like, lookingup, are there any wasp nests yet
?
and I was like, no, they're notthere.
She's.
Well, where are they at?
You know, and I got to thinkingabout it, that that these wasps
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they go into like a hibernation, right, like they, they, they
die off the ones that are thereand the ones that are gonna come
out in the beginning of the newyear like they've've hidden
themselves.
Basically, I think they hidethemselves like in the dirt, you
know, like they try to getwarmth from the earth to survive
the winter, and then the queenis the first one to come out and
release the first worker beesto start building the new nest
(19:15):
for the new year.
I think that's how it goes.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
But there's only just a handful of them that survive
and make it to the next year,and of them that survive and
make it to the next year, andthen they multiply very quickly
and their lifespan is very short.
So it's like mass productionright on a grand scale.
Um, but I was thinking about it.
I was like, yeah, they, they'redoing what they can to survive,
but they're working like crazyin the season that they're in
(19:38):
right now they're preparing forthat hard winter.
If that queen or that, that onethat lives through the
wintertime, does not have thenourishment, the nutrients and
the preparation to be able tosurvive, they go extinct.
That hive goes extinct and itwill not come back the next year
because they didn't do whatthey needed to prepare, and God
builds that into nature.
He builds it into them like theant.
(19:59):
It builds it into them thatthey don't have to think about
what I'm going to do.
They just do what's built intothem.
You know we as humans.
You throw me on a desertedIsland.
I'm going to do what's I thinkis possibly best to try to
survive.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I'm going to try to stay warm.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I'm going to try to find food and I'm going to try
to find shelter.
You know it's just built intous, our human nature.
So making sure that you are, uh, focused on the things that are
going to have the largestimpact.
A lot of times that meansignoring the things that could
be distractions.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
That's hard to pinpoint sometimes.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
It is.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Because sometimes it can be good positive things that
are distracting us fromactually moving forward.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Yeah, Distractions aren't necessarily things that
are, like you know, bad or quoteunquote, sinful or things like
that.
It can be just what you putyour time on and your focus on
that could be affecting tomorrowthat you should be doing, you
know, at a different later timein your life and it's just like
we.
We dealt with this multipletimes in our life where we feel
(20:59):
like, oh, we're focusing onsomething too much and it's not
really moving the needle in ourlife Right.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
And we've talked about that.
We have to be careful with therunning on that, like we don't
want the running to becomesomething that's prideful or
something that is distracting usfrom what the ultimate goal is,
and at this point in time Ifeel like we have a good handle
on that.
You know, it is a part of ourlife, but it's not our life.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah, I saw a phrase the other day or I showed it to
you, I think it said it was anote on the window and it said
Mom's gone for a run.
Do not call her unless thehouse is on fire.
And it's funny.
You know, if you're on a longrun, obviously you have to set
your family up or your situationup to be able to have that
(21:43):
block of time to be able to dothat, especially if you're
training for something longdistance.
It takes time, it just takestime, and that's probably the
hardest thing about running longdistance is that the time that
you have to allocate to actuallyperform it well yes, but I will
say and a lot of people wouldsay I don't have time to like
our run that we did saturday.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
It took two hours.
You know, we knew it was goingto take that long because we
were running a long distance andwe weren't supposed to be
running it at a super fast speedor anything.
We did run it at a medium speedthough.
So that run could have taken alot longer than what it did, but
two hours of running.
People will be like I can't dotwo hours of running.
Well, you can watch a two hourmovie, you know, or I don't know
(22:24):
what's something else that youcould do all kinds of things.
There is scroll on facebook, or,oh my goodness, when your phone
tells you how long you've beenon your phone the for the week
or how many, what your averagehours is on your phone.
Yeah, yeah, you know I thinkyes, and it's like you time.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
And you don't have to do a two-hour run.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
No.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
You can find 30 minutes in there to be active
for your health, because it'sonly going to affect your future
in a positive way.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yeah, and remember, we only talk about running
because that's our form ofexercise that we're focused on
right now.
It could be HIIT, it could beyoga, it could be stretching be
stretching.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
It could be whatever I do strength training.
Calvin doesn't really dostrength training just because
he hasn't prioritized that inhis life right now.
And um, but I do, I do strengthtraining, um, and really running
.
This is just a side note.
Running is not going to makeyou lose weight.
Running is not going to makeyou strong, it just isn't the.
What running does is it buildsup your cardiovascular health so
(23:26):
that you need the strengthtraining for your body to be
able to withstand running longdistances or running hard.
And so you know and like I saidI think I've said this before
running is a great defensemechanism.
You know, if you can get awayfrom a situation, that's good.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Do you remember that we just watched a video and it
was talking about avoidingbullies?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
And it was like a high school video from like the
1990s maybe.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
It was like one of those videos that they rolled
the TV in.
They rolled the TV into theclassroom.
They were like, okay, watchthis.
Yeah, everybody watch this,yeah, yes.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
And I think there was a famous person that was on it,
someone that we recognized.
I can't remember who it was,though, but they were like if a
bully attacks you, you know, dothis, and it had them like smack
him in the groin and and thenrun.
It's like, instead of ballingup your fist because you could
damage your fist, give him ahard slap across the face and
run, and it's like it alwaysended with and run and it's like
, well yeah, avoiding situations, or distracting, distracting
them to be able to get away youknow it, it really is good, so
(24:29):
like running is a really gooddefense mechanism, you know a
bear's coming after me.
You know, try to throw somethingout that'll distract them, but
get out of there as much as youcan.
You know um you avoid it, avoidit at all possible costs, but
um.
But you do have time.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
I want you to think about that.
You do have time.
I want you to think about that.
You do have time to seize theopportunity.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
So maybe we can go into now the tactical things,
the programs that kind of areout there that you could Google
and find.
But then I want us to kind ofrelate how do you utilize them
versus how I utilize them.
Because we're going to be verydifferent in this.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
We are Because our personalities are different.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
I was looking over and I was like we're totally
different.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
We are, we're so different.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I'm a list kind of guy.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
You're not oh my goodness, I hate a list.
Okay, so look Calvin's shownotes and y'all can't see called
like.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Time blocking is like the technical term.
That's what I wrote down, butit's basically like where you
use a timer or you actually setaside certain times to do things
.
Um, we use it a lot in the shopfor when it comes to making
sure we don't miss like productsand things like that, like
overcook things or baking thingslike that.
It's just you say this is whatit needs to be able to perform
this task.
(25:43):
I'm going to set aside thistime and I'm going to do it, and
they even sell these things onamazon or whatever that all over
the place where you'd like toscroll it and hit it, and it's
like you set a certain amount oftime to focus on what you're
doing.
And I actually use this withjude when it comes to, like,
cleaning up his room.
I say I, jude, you can't doanything else till you set a 10
minute timer on your phone andstart picking up your room when
that timer goes off you'reallowed to start going, doing
(26:04):
whatever else you wanted to do.
you know so, you, you can, youknow, focus that way on, on a
certain task that you're needingto accomplish and that that, I
think you know, works for me toan extent I don't utilize it as
much as I probably need to, um,but that would.
That was something that wouldtrigger me.
You yes.
And allow me to focus on it.
(26:24):
What are your thoughts?
Speaker 1 (26:26):
My thoughts are that that would be fantastic for me
to do Me actually ever doing it.
It goes against you, it does goagainst my personality, which
doesn't mean that I shouldn'tattempt to do it, though I think
we should do it.
Just because, oh, that's nothow my personality works doesn't
mean that you shouldn't try it,Because there are some things
that I have manipulated my ownpersonality, but no like I think
(26:53):
you should do this, you knowjust because it's your
personality doesn't mean it'sgreat.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yeah, you know well, you're like okay, so your life
changes off automatically.
You set a timer for 20 minutessomething.
You get a phone call and itchanges.
That's fine.
But at least you started.
You know, you tried and youattempted to start it.
But if you never start thattime or you never try it, then
it's not going to help you atall.
So, it's kind of like how itgoes back to we were just
talking about eliminatingbarriers, Like have your shoes
on.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
If you have your shoes on you're running shoes,
yep, and you're in your workoutgear and you go out.
But if you're in your workoutgear, in your casual shoes, you
have less of an opportunity well, I even thought about that when
I was putting my shoes on thismorning.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
I was like okay, what shoes.
Am I wanting?
What do I need to have on?
Yeah, and I was like I need toeliminate the process of maybe
having to come back home to getwhat I needed.
I needed to go ahead andeliminate that barrier and just
be ready.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Yeah that's really important.
So set those timers, eliminatebarriers.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
All right.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
The next one was um.
This one is uh it can be veryinterpretive, like to what's?
You have to think about yourpriorities, but and what's going
to have the most effect on your, your task, whatever it is
fitness, business, whatever itis family, focus on the 20%.
They gets 80% of the resultsthat you need for the day, and
that's really hard because a lotof times that means letting
(28:10):
something go.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Oh, yeah, letting something go.
And how do you know what needsto be let go, yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
So you think about like at the moment, like what is
the most priority in my mindwould be like the thing that's
right in front of me, you knowthe thing that is right in front
of me.
Is it going to be the thingthat I spend 100% of my focus on
?
I really struggle with myattention when it comes to what
I hear my ears.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
You're very squirrely Very squirrely.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
So if I am focused dead on something, even if it's
something simple as watching TV,and you start talking to me or
Jude starts talking to me,anyone starts talking to me.
If they don't actually say myname and get me to divert my
attention, I'm not going to hearthe majority of what you say
until I realize you're talkingto me.
And it can be a struggle point,because not everyone is that
(28:58):
way.
So it's going to come off as I'mignoring you.
It's going to come off as rudebecause I'm not actually paying
attention to you.
But I'm so focused on what I'mlistening to because I want to
receive what I can from what I'mfocused on even if it's reading
a book or whatever.
It is Right, driving down theroad, say dad first, but my
(29:20):
focus isn't on it, so how do?
we make sure that we're focusedon what's going to bring us the
best results.
Well, that takes a lot ofintrospection.
That takes a lot ofintrospection.
That takes a lot of like,planning and thinking.
What am I going to do todaythat has the best results for my
family, my career, my exercise,whatever it is?
It's going to have the bestresults.
I need to focus on that, Evenif, um, it's hard, even if it's
(29:44):
difficult, but if that's the 20%that's going to move me the
furthest along that's what Ineed to focus on, and the rest
of it I can get to as the daygoes on.
If I am out of socks, I need toat least try to find some pairs
of socks and fold those.
If I don't have time to foldthe rest of it, fold that.
Make sure they've got matchingsocks, because we're getting
(30:05):
into shorts weather.
Fold that Yep.
Make sure they got matchingsocks, because we're getting
into shorts weather.
Yes, and you can tell now.
When you're in your coldweather you can get away with
unmatching socks, sometimes whenyou're kids, but when you get
into the hot weather, they'regoing to see them, it's going to
show.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
You got to make sure they're matching, Fold those and
then move on with life and thenthat evening, when you have
time to come back to it, get therest of the clothes up.
Yes, you know, but but that 20%of socks that's going to affect
their day because they don'thave a pair of matching socks.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
It's true, that's just a basic example, and I will
say too this goes to 80, 20running.
I think I've said this beforethat I started doing 80, 20
running, which means you run 80%slow and 20% fast and hard, but
that 20% because you think, oh,it's just 20%, the 20% is so
important.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Yeah, you've got to get it hard.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
You have to because if you don't, then you're
running 100% easy, which meansif you had a goal of your
wanting to be able to runsomething really hard and fast,
you're not going to be able toachieve it, you'll be able to go
the distance.
You're not going to do a badjob, but you're not going to
achieve what you wanted toachieve.
So focusing on that 20% reallyis going to have the lasting
(31:18):
effects, but you've got to dothe 80% too.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
And that's the thing I guess I mentioned this the
other day like the difference inyour mind is you have a uh not
running to complete it, you'rerunning to compete it yeah
mentality yes your mind revertsto how do I compete?
Even if it's against yourself,I'm going to compete against my
old time.
I'm going to compete against myold weights right.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
You know, whatever it is, and if I see someone do
better than me, I I really amhappy for them.
You are, and all.
I do, is I think, okay, how didthey get where they're at?
I know that it takes work.
There wasn't some magic wandthat was like, oh, they're going
to race this amazing race andit just happened for them.
No, that's not true, thateverybody has to put the work in
(32:05):
.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Yeah, how much business knowledge did we gain
from observing other businesses?
And listening to otherentrepreneurs and listening to
other coffee shops and listeningto other roasters.
We, we, you consume as much asyou possibly can and you try to
apply it to your life, to try toadvance your career or your
fitness goals or yourrelationship goals.
(32:27):
You've got to apply what youlearn to it, yep, and say this
is right here, this 20% is goingto move the needle the most in
this area, so focus on it, yep.
And that's another one of thetactics, yep.
Now this third one that was outthere.
I've seen it on a graph before,I've seen it on charts, I've
(32:53):
seen it on people have whiteflip boards, dry erase, whatever
, but it's a four part quadrantand it's how to prioritize the
thing, the tasks that you haveat hand, and the four terms are
is it urgent, is it important oris it not urgent?
And is it not important?
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Ooh, yeah, okay, so let's break this down so a lot
of times, like I was saying, Ooh, ooh, yeah, okay, so let's
break this down.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
So a lot of times, like I was saying, the thing
that's in front of me is goingto be what I focus on.
Right, right, that's mystruggle point.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Of prioritizing.
So if you can ask yourselfthese questions and I fail to do
so this might be a really goodthing for me.
Okay Is if you can ask yourselfis it urgent and important?
Those are the things that youneed to do Okay.
But if it's urgent and notimportant, those are the things
that you need to try to delegate.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Delegation.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
We could do a whole episode on delegating things.
If it's urgent to get thelaundry, we're going to go
laundry again to get the laundryoff of your couch so that you
can sit on it.
But it's not important to you,it's important to your kids.
Delegate that to yes they canthey can fall laundry if they're
of a certain age, okay but ifit's not urgent and not
(33:58):
important, you don't do thoseokay but if it's and if it's not
urgent but it is important, butit doesn't have to be done
today, this is that part whereyou have to say that's the 80%.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
You have to figure out when you are going to do it.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
That's the stuff that you don't need to focus your
time on.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
You need to schedule those because it is important,
and I can already think of younaming those things, I can
already think in my head ofthings that I know, of things
that we have to do that areurgent and important.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
And I would say an urgent and important task would
be simply like making sure weget our order in for our truck
this week.
I mean because we can't serveanybody without those things,
and it can also be as huge as wehave to file the taxes, or you
know those are urgent becausethey have a time stamp on them
and they're important.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
I guess the goal would be is to make things that
are important, keep them in thenot urgent moment, Like today.
Let's go ahead and get ourorder for the food together as
best as possible and thenfinalize it the day of you know,
that way it's never urgent butit's extremely important.
So you are scheduling it,you're prioritizing it at that
(35:06):
time.
So I mean that would be thegoal, but obviously if things
that are urgent and important,they would take priority that
day.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Right.
And you can even take these tothings like when it comes to is
your family doing too many tasks, you know, like, is your child
involved in too many things?
We kind of touched on this lastweek, yeah, but you could even
apply this concept to that, likeis it urgent, is it important?
You know, I've seen this sharedover the weekend so many people
(35:35):
saying don't schedule ballgames and practices on Sundays
and Wednesday and Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Yes, I saw that too.
Did you see that too?
I did, I saw it a couple times.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
I saw it shared by so many people and I was like,
okay, and I totally agree withit, but let me tell you the only
way that you're preaching tothe wrong person.
You can't be telling thecoaches to quit scheduling it.
It's really up to you to not goto it.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Because if you stop taking your kids to it, they
won't schedule them.
You are the boss of your child.
You have them for a very shorttime and I don't know why I'm
(36:21):
saying this, but I just feellike I need to um you set the
priorities in their life.
And so don't put that all on acoach, because I'll tell you
this too, the coach has his ownmentality of he's.
You know, there might be reallygood intentions there.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
He might have a lot of pressure on him to perform
Sure.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
And I'm not, and I cause I don't want to be like
the coach is the devil.
I'm not saying that.
What I'm saying is is you arethe one who sets the priorities
in your child's life, not yourcoach.
Yeah, so you are the one whosets the priorities in your
child's life, not your coach,yeah, and that comes to
everything.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
That's not just your kids, that's your career, your
business.
And I had this one guy I wasworking with one time and he
told me he says I can't do thisanymore.
This is just I can't do thiswork anymore.
You know, they're alwaystalking about the man, like I
can't believe they're making usdo this.
And I looked at him one day andI said well, quit.
You know, I was, I was hiscoworker.
(37:10):
I wasn't his boss, I wasn'ttelling him to quit, but I was
his coworker and I was like, ifhe said this job is killing me,
that's what the that's what.
It's what he said this job iskilling me.
I can't do this anymore.
I said, well, quit.
He's like what is going to putyou in an early grave because of
(37:30):
the physical exertion or thechemical hazardness, or the
hours that you're working andnot sleeping, and all those
things.
If you genuinely believe thatthis is going to put you in an
early grave, leave, findsomething that is going to take
its place or supplement it orwhatever you need to do to
change.
I said you can blame them allyou want, but you're the one
that comes in here every day.
Sure, you know, and you have totake some accountability for
what you're doing.
(37:51):
Yes, preaching to the choir.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Yes, so you have to take accountability for what
you're not doing, what you'renot doing too, yeah, so um, and
actually it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
maybe five months after that he he quit, he
retired, he found him adifferent job that had better
hours, that had better umability for him to use his
physical ability, um, where hewas in his life.
He was an older gentleman, youknow, yeah, and he and he's
happy, you know, and I stillkeep track with him on social
media and stuff like that, andevery once in a while we'll
message and it's like he's foundsome things, some joy in life
(38:20):
later on.
That is helping him enjoy his,his life later on, you know, and
and it like I might've been ayounger man that was just kind
of like perturbed at himcomplaining, but I felt like
there was some wisdom in what Iwas saying because it was like I
want what's best for you.
And if this genuinely isn't bestfor you, it's still up to you
to change it.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Right, and that's how we feel about our employees
here.
I've always told them hey, ifthis isn't working for you, like
if you're not happy here, youcan feel free to please come to
us.
There are no hard feelings herebecause we know what's best for
you.
What's best for you is alsogoing to be what's best for us.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
I mean, you don't want somebody here that doesn't
want to be here right and thatcould be a scheduling thing or
what their focus is for theircareer, or how much hours or
lack of hours they're gettingyou know anything that causes
tension that could prevent youfrom performing your best at the
20% of the time that you had todesignate the things, the
(39:17):
things that are urgent andimportant, whatever's going to
draw you away from performingyour best at that.
You got to eliminate thosebarriers and when it comes to
being an employer, we want ouremployees to have the least
amount of barriers as possible.
We want to eliminate thosebarriers that's on us and we
take ownership of.
A lot of the mistakes, or a lotof the things that do happen
have happened over the last twoyears where someone might not be
(39:37):
completely satisfied andeverything, and it's like, well,
what did I do to contribute tothat?
You know we might have had,just for something as a basic
example, almond milk versus oatmilk.
You know, it's easy, it's easyto make that mistake.
What am I doing to prevent thatfrom being a visual thing?
Am I making sure that things aresectioned off in a way that
they always grab from the samelocation You're like it's a
(39:59):
process thing in my opinion.
Now they got to take ownershipthat they didn't double check.
We're going to have thatconversation.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
But what can I?
I do as a, as an owner, to makesure that they're not having to
think about that right as muchas possible right you know, and
and that's the thing with you inyour life we want to see you
succeed.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
We want to hear your stories of success and you might
be like you don't even know me.
Well, we want to know you wereally do like.
This is our heart like it's justcommunicating with, with our
community and beyond.
You know I don't know ifthere's anybody that's uh
listening that it doesn't cometo our shop?
You know, I have no idea.
I know that god laid it on herheart to do this and uh, and we
(40:44):
feel like we're doing what hewants us to do, so I know that
he will bless it.
Whatever's supposed to come outof this, it will it come out of
it, you know, because he's init.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Yeah, so it's basically are you human, Are you
struggling and are youlistening to us?
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
So if you hear us and you're human and you're
struggling, we're with you.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
If you're not struggling, we're with you.
No, whatever.
But we're with you.
If you're not struggling, we'rewith you.
No, whatever, but more likelyif you're human, you've got
problems.
Yeah, we all do.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
And we all do, and we're just wanting to try to
share our stories.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
I think it's important for people to see too
that people might look reallysuccessful, like on the outside
or whatever.
But you can't paint that apretty picture that they got
there easy or that they're notstruggling.
Yeah, you paint that a prettypicture that they got there easy
or that they're not struggling.
Yeah, you can be successful andbe struggling.
Yeah, you know, and so it'slike let's all learn from one
(41:35):
another.
Yep, take the opportunity,seize the day to learn from one
another.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Yep but you got to yeah, but we love y'all.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
We do.
We hope that the Lord blessesyou and keeps you and makes his
face shine upon you and we willsee you next week.
Oh, really quick.
Next week is spring break andso we're going to do a special
edition episode.
We're going to be recountingsome of our favorite spring
break stories.
Now, these are childhoodstories and I'm just going to
tell you I don't have any ofthose crazy spring break beach
(42:06):
moments.
Never experienced that and I'mnot regretful that.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
I haven't experienced any of that.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
So I have some really great memories from my
childhood of things that, andmaybe we can get my sister on
here too.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
Or and maybe your brothers, I don't know, we'll
see.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
We'll see who gets on here.
Yeah, let's get them on here.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
We'll talk about our childhood, about because we
definitely spent spring breakwith our siblings very, very
unique and very different springbreaks between me and you yes.
So in the meantime, if you'relistening, we would love for you
to send us a message of maybe afun spring break story you have
, or a fun memory uh is theresomething that you did every
spring break, or do you justhave like this one weird story
(42:44):
that you remember?
uh, we would love to know it andshare it.
Maybe we can do a poll on someof our tidbit posts about what
your spring break activitieswere yes, all right, I guess
that wraps this one up.
Yes, and we'll see you nexttime.
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