May 10, 2024 • 16 mins
This week’s question comes from Mike’s Instagram:
“How do you organize your thoughts, wants, and plans when you’re building a business.”
Everybody has their own personal organizational approaches (with varying degrees of success). We talk about what has worked for us.
Sebastian Brambila (@sebastian_brambila) ran the board and chimed in on this one.
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“How do you organize your thoughts, wants, and plans when you’re building a business.”
Everybody has their own personal organizational approaches (with varying degrees of success). We talk about what has worked for us.
Sebastian Brambila (@sebastian_brambila) ran the board and chimed in on this one.
Do you have a question for one of our Friday “One Good Question” episodes? Share it with us on social media using the hashtag #onegoodquestion.
Join our Discord for free at goodcompanydiscord.com!
Check out our gym (Third Street Barbell) at ThirdStreetBarbell.com https://www.thirdstreetbarbell.com/ and subscribe for updates about our apparel line at goodcompanyapparel.com https://3sb.co/! Local memberships and international fresh fits! Get early access to our NEXT DROP!
Check out our podcast website: 50percentfacts.com https://www.50percentfacts.com/
50% Facts is a Spreaker Prime podcast on OCN – the Obscure Celebrity Network.
Hosted by Mike Farr (@silentmikke) https://www.instagram.com/silentmikke/ and Jim McDonald (@thejimmcd). https://www.instagram.com/thejimmcd/ Produced by Jim McDonald Production assistance by Sam McDonald and Sebastian Brambila. Theme by Aaron Moore. Branding by Joseph Manzo (@jmanzo523).
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(00:10):
Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Friday'sepisode One Good Question of fifty percent Facts,
where we take questions from y'all andanswerm in ten minutes or less.
Today we got a doozy, itsays subus. Maybe you can hop into
as you're you're maybe new to thisall right, where Jim and I have
done it in a couple of differentfacets. How do you get organize your
(00:30):
thoughts, wants and plans, etcetera when you're building a business. And
I mentioned the subots because he's tryingto and he already has, but he's
doing it more formally now, organizinghis photography outside of YouTube podcast. What
he does within these walls. Heruns our website, he does all our
apparel pics, et cetera, etcetera. But he's stepping out beyond his
(00:54):
uh fitness clothing background into other areasand how to organize that, how to
sell it your again, your wants, your thoughts or plans or needs.
I'll start to give you guys asecond to think, mind are pretty easy.
I organize my days similar and we'veyou know, ragged on the American
style or most of the world styleon education. Now, I think that's
an issue because they line up everythingfor you perfectly, and they don't teach
(01:15):
you these skills on how to lineup your own stuff, which not only
if you're an entrepreneur, but ifyou have any kind of freedom in your
job and not someone hounding down theback of your neck, you're gonna have
to learn how to organize your ownshit. And even college, you don't
really write like class schedules. Youkind of pick one or two, but
like they're set. Everything's set foryou. Deadlines are set, everything's set.
(01:37):
And I don't know where I learnedit per se, maybe because I
was entrepreneurial ish in the beginning,or maybe extra curriculars played a role growing
up where I had to fit inthings. But for me, it's been
really easy. So I organize myday on what I feel as most productive.
I do it the same every dayand how I like to do it.
(01:59):
So I've mentioned this multiple times multipleplaces. But all my computer work,
which is my least favorite but takesmaybe the most brain power in some
senses, emails, communication with sourcing, et cetera, et cetera. I
always do that first thing in themorning. That's my you know, seven
(02:20):
eight in the morning till ten elevenclock, where I'm handling those and organizing
anything any bullshit, and that that'sdoue with my personal bullshit too. I
do my taxes in that time period, I'll do my communication with some of
the real estate stuff I'm going throughin that time period. And I say,
I hate that because I don't knowif you guys know this about me,
(02:42):
because I don't really talk about itdoesn't really matter in modern day because
email and text is such a thing. But I hate talking on the phone
and shit, I hate even justtalking to people, but I hate making
calls. And there's something that makesme have an anxious wall that I have
to step through to even send anemail. Sometimes I know you feel sil
yeah yeah, and so like similar, yeah, bite the bullet or whatever
(03:04):
it is. So I do thatall first thing in the morning where I'm
just trying not to think. ReallyI'm not I'm kind of shutting down.
What is it? What's creative?Left brain? Right brain? I forgot
whatever that is? Uh, Ithink the right brain is created, yeah,
because left handers are supposed to becreative or something. So whatever,
I'm trying to shut that off andjust go like analytical logic step one through
three brain and that's when I doall that kind of shit. After that
(03:27):
is then content stuff, so YouTube, podcasts, whatever it might be,
or even like planning, light planningstuff like that. Is when I'm texting
the team about social media posts orsocial media ideas or thinking of my own
organizing. It's all easy for me. I just do it on my phone.
I just do it in notes orjournal or whatever that app is.
And then nighttime, which I thinkis kind of stereotypical but true, is
(03:50):
kind of my creative time. SoI like to absorb content in that time
because I think it inspires me,and I don't necessarily absorb the content in
which I'm going to make in termsof so obviously probably content, YouTube,
podcast plus apparel is most of mycreative outlets, and all absorb things that
are not that. So I absorbmovies, TV series, music, I'll
(04:13):
listen to music at night, streamers, different things of the cultures and things
that I like. News. Ilike politics, so I'll watch that kind
of stuff in the evening and thenjot down ideas if they come to me.
I don't force it. I'm luckyenough in a spot and the creations
that we do because podcasts and YouTubeare like authentic, we don't have to
like act, you know, Idon't have to like force the creation of
(04:36):
it. And the clothing is abrand, so there's like barriers on the
creation of it, and there's spotswhere it doesn't have to be created.
Long story short, like, ifyou're a writer and your business is writing,
you have harsh deadlines where you're forcedto create, Like you have to
write every morning because you have towrite a book in a month, or
a comedian needs new material because theyhave to do a new show or a
(04:59):
new special next week, so they'reconstantly have to write. Our type of
creation doesn't have as strict of atimeline, so I'm not forced myself to
create. I kind of let thatside come to me. But that's kind
of how my day goes in termsof organizing my thoughts, plans, et
cetera, my wants, I don'treally organize. I don't know how to
answer that, but uh yeah,that's how I go about business and life.
(05:24):
Yeah see, Bat, you wantto go next, you go first,
all right, I know you're gonnado that. I am not as
organized as that. Typically, butwhen I have a lot of things going
on, the more I'm going on, the more organized I'm gonna be.
I'm similar. Yeah, I thinkthat, Like I don't do anything that
requires like in depth analysis in themorning. I am so much better for
(05:47):
that kind of stuff at night orunder pressure. Yeah, those I mean
that's always the case we talked aboutin the last episode, that you're a
night person. Yeah, it seemsto line up right, like when you
have the most energy or juices forthat mine's I don't. I've talked about
too. I don't think I'm amorning or night person, so I force
it that one. I force I'mI am very deadline focused in that,
(06:11):
like I want to plan about howI'm going to meet a deadline, but
I may not actually do the workto meet the deadline until close to the
deadline. Sure, I think that'spretty common. Like I think that that's
something I fell into in school.Yeah, and as I've always kind of
been that way. Probably the mostcreative times are when my mind is on
(06:33):
something else entirely. Yeah, Yeah, that's why I absorb content. Yeah,
Yeah, the same idea I'll seelike a I sent Subasa old music
video of like a tribe called questfrom like the nineties. There's nothing to
do with the word doing, andit's like really shitty green screen, but
it like just looks so cool,you know, and so like that inspires
maybe a photo shoot or something,but I'm not looking for it. I
(06:53):
was just listening to music, likeany of the business admin stuff. I
either or if I can get itoff my plate quick, I will get
it off my plate. If itrequires that combination of analysis and creativity,
it has to wait until I'm eitherunder deadline or I feel like I'm going
(07:15):
to be good at it. Yeah, it's a really weird, like kind
of gut thing where like, uh, it is even you could say in
the mood for but that's not reallyit. You feel prepared for. But
I feel ready to do this nowand I can know I can do a
good job with it, whereas othertimes you just pass things over because for
a while, because like I knowthat I'm not going to do my best
work on that, right. Yeah, bandwidth probably right, Yeah, some
(07:36):
of Yeah, depending on what elseis going on. If you have the
bandwidth to handle something that's annoying orfrustrating or in depth, I do make
at times make lists of you know, like to do lists or whatever,
but I try not to make themaspirational. I make them, you know,
I don't make I don't make goalssort yeah, because I find them
(07:59):
depressing. Yeah, I don't reallyhave to do list. I have like
notes, hey, like remember tokind of focus on this ish and even
I don't even check them because andthey say it and I think it's been
proven. I'm not one hundred percentsure, but when you write it down,
you tend to remember it better.Yeah, And that's mostly why I
take notes. It's not it's notbecause because a lot of entrepreneurial or like
life coaches have you make lists andcheck it off and there is something to
(08:20):
that, I think, because thenyou feel better about it, like there
is something there. But I haveso much anxiety that if I had a
too, I have a two dolist screaming in the back of my head
all day. So if I haveone in front of my face also,
then all I hear is noise.So then I would rather just have notes
like hey, check in with Seabass on X and that would be one
of my notes. And then I'llgive me tell me to give a little
bit more attention to whatever that sitsin. I do think, yeah,
(08:43):
similar do I say, with nutrition, is as strict as your goals are,
is as strict as your plan needsto be. And I think running
businesses are similar. If you setup processes from the beginning, which maybe
take more time, those processes thenare kind of organized on their own and
hopefully are a little bit more utons. So then you only need to be
as organized as busy season or busneyproject or busy thing comes. Like,
(09:07):
sure, there's probably CEOs out therethat are running one hundred million dollar companies
that have to schedule out every tenminutes. But I don't think unless you're
like the treadmill of Microsoft, likeyou're the thing keeping Microsoft moving, you
probably don't have to be that crazy. No, probably not. Like there's
a lot of successful people that aren'tlike that too. You know, like
(09:28):
there's a lot of successful that leanwayor like a spiritual flowy route or something,
you know, And I think youjust have to find out, Yeah,
what makes you productive? I thinkthat just kind of an I guess
this is kind of an insight tomy process around creativity and problem solving and
and how those come together. Isthat I like to think through a lot
(09:50):
of scenarios about how something might work, or how a problem might be solved,
or you know, or something I'mgonna build or whatever, but I
don't know exactly what I'm gonna doit until I get in it. Sure,
especially when you're running your own businessbusiness, I feel like that's kind
of everything. Yeah, it's becauseyou're going to run into another problem.
Yeah, I know I'm gonna makethis work. I just don't know how
I'm gonna make it work. Yeah. I mean I think I would rather
(10:11):
get started and figure out where runinto the problems, and then figure out
what the solutions are, rather than, you know, spend all of the
time at the beginning to know exactlywhat I'm going to do going in.
No, I think that's the bestadvice for any project, any business anywhere,
is if you have the end goalin mind and they say it right,
like, how you get there willchange, But if the goal stays
the same because you just can't.You want to have some foresight and you
(10:33):
want to be as predictive as possible. We just talked about that in a
vlog with like setting up equipment inthe gym, like we've all thought all
the through best we can, butyou also just have to like put it
there right and then observe for sixweeks and see how the flow is and
adjust and say, with any project, the problems may look different, but
you kind of just have to startwith an end goal in mind and then
(10:54):
just tell yourself I'm going to getthere no matter what, and then bounce
around through a million many obstacles.Yeah. Well, like we're sitting in
a thing where like the set likewe had, we lost a bit of
the set to the to the feralcats. It pissed on things. Yeah,
it's like, okay, so Ineed to get I have an idea
of how I'm gonna set the setup, but I know I'm not have
time to finish everything I want todo with it. So I'm gonna get
(11:18):
through this part and I will figureout the rest of it as going along.
And it's been like this for afew months or even this entire room
was like that. Yeah, thisentire room is like right, like we
just started breaking walls down and likeall right, yeah, we don't know
where we're headed, but but we'regoing this. We're going this way.
We need to clean that part,and then we'll clean this part, and
then we'll see what it looks like, and then we'll organize it and even
how a suball set up the appareland stuff. Sort of the right of
the podcast is are shipping a fulfillingand where we have like a I guess
(11:41):
an office room where we meet formeetings that's gone through like three or four
transformations and they're all functional enough,and then you find on one and this
one seems to be working the bestso far, so you keep it there.
Yeah, many problems solved, butyou don't know those until you're like
in the water. Yeah, no, sure for sure, Okay, see
you out anything. How do youorganize editing? And because you wore many
(12:03):
a hat honestly, I wish Ihad. I wish I had like a
way that I do it, ButI feel like I have so many things
that go on through like my head. And obviously I work here at the
gym. I try to get thingsdone for like the website or clothing stuff
and then also YouTube, but Ijust kind of chip away one thing at
a time. So let's say Ihave a video do on Monday. Yeah,
(12:26):
kind of how Jimbo is where likehe he's good like under pressure.
Yeah you need a little deadline.Yeah, I feel like I need a
little deadline, So I just startchipping away at that. Do you bounce
around between edits even, because yeah, you do the photos and videos for
not only Instagram but the website itself. You update the website itself, You
run video shoots and photo shoots forother lifters at meats and shit like that.
(12:46):
So obviously my content you help within the gym's content on Third Street,
Barboll, Instagram, et cetera.Do you chip away at each piece
or do you like, all right, I'm gonna finish this video complete,
complete, and then move on tothe next video or picture. If I'm
doing like meat videos, let's perse, I like to finish one complete.
But if I get stuck, orif I'm in between a YouTube video
(13:09):
and a photo shoot, yeah,just to switch my eyes, I just
go I work on one, andthen I'm like, all right, I
need to look at something different.Yeah, because I've been listening, because
I've been listening to Mike talk forthirty minutes or ten hours, and I'm
boring here. I'm out of here. I'm out here. I need to
go fuk around with some pictures.Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.
Yeah, but still yeah, slightlydifferent tasks then. Yeah, and then
(13:31):
every once in a while try tolike sneak in like creative stuff. Yeah.
I've never been good at like lettinga project rest. I'm just sometimes
good. Yeah, sometimes you haveto. Yeah, I'm so bad.
When I run out of options,sometimes that's what I'll do, set it
aside, or run out of time. Yeah yeah, yeah, one hundred
percent. I've run out of time, Like especially with our renovation sheet,
(13:52):
you just run out of a day, you run out of it, like
can I get to a stopping spot? Yeah, and then I'll with both
of my shit. I like tojust get it done. I like to
check it out because and it's likeanxiety screaming at me all day, like
hey, Mike, you gotta doset this paper, email, that's so
and so, Like get it fuckingdone. If that's that's why I like
to have like a deadline, likefor meat videos, I'm like, all
right, I'm gonna get in myhead. I'm like I'm gonna get everything
(14:13):
out in one week, even ifI have let's say ten to fifteen and
it's not just like meat throwing video. It's like I'm putting music you make
like I'm like analyzing and I'm like, all right, I need to do
this this this that I tell everybodya week to two, but in my
head, I'm like I'm dogging thisit out in like a week. Yeah.
Some of it depends on project too, right, like editing videos like
(14:35):
YouTube and stuff like that. Thereare stages, right because like the very
first stage is just clip out everythingthat sucks ror like that's not gonna be
used. So you can like almostdo that and pause. Like there's almost
set chapters to pause, where otherprojects sometimes there's not set things to pause
for sure. That said, folks, hopefully it helps you with your life.
It's a skill that I think helpsa lot of people. But most
importantly it is just allow you tobe productive. That's all that really matters.
(14:58):
If you get your shit done andyou're kind of happy about it.
We call it workflow or bandwidth whenwe're talking about you know, speaking to
people on how they work and settingyourself up like that will let it be
a little bit more productive. Havea wonderful weekend. New episodes Wednesday Friday
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(15:20):
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Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Friday'sepisode One Good Question of fifty percent Facts,
where we take questions from y'all andanswerm in ten minutes or less.
Today we got a doozy, itsays subus. Maybe you can hop into
as you're you're maybe new to thisall right, where Jim and I have
done it in a couple of differentfacets. How do you get organize your
(00:30):
thoughts, wants and plans, etcetera when you're building a business. And
I mentioned the subots because he's tryingto and he already has, but he's
doing it more formally now, organizinghis photography outside of YouTube podcast. What
he does within these walls. Heruns our website, he does all our
apparel pics, et cetera, etcetera. But he's stepping out beyond his
(00:54):
uh fitness clothing background into other areasand how to organize that, how to
sell it your again, your wants, your thoughts or plans or needs.
I'll start to give you guys asecond to think, mind are pretty easy.
I organize my days similar and we'veyou know, ragged on the American
style or most of the world styleon education. Now, I think that's
an issue because they line up everythingfor you perfectly, and they don't teach
(01:15):
you these skills on how to lineup your own stuff, which not only
if you're an entrepreneur, but ifyou have any kind of freedom in your
job and not someone hounding down theback of your neck, you're gonna have
to learn how to organize your ownshit. And even college, you don't
really write like class schedules. Youkind of pick one or two, but
like they're set. Everything's set foryou. Deadlines are set, everything's set.
(01:37):
And I don't know where I learnedit per se, maybe because I
was entrepreneurial ish in the beginning,or maybe extra curriculars played a role growing
up where I had to fit inthings. But for me, it's been
really easy. So I organize myday on what I feel as most productive.
I do it the same every dayand how I like to do it.
(01:59):
So I've mentioned this multiple times multipleplaces. But all my computer work,
which is my least favorite but takesmaybe the most brain power in some
senses, emails, communication with sourcing, et cetera, et cetera. I
always do that first thing in themorning. That's my you know, seven
(02:20):
eight in the morning till ten elevenclock, where I'm handling those and organizing
anything any bullshit, and that that'sdoue with my personal bullshit too. I
do my taxes in that time period, I'll do my communication with some of
the real estate stuff I'm going throughin that time period. And I say,
I hate that because I don't knowif you guys know this about me,
(02:42):
because I don't really talk about itdoesn't really matter in modern day because
email and text is such a thing. But I hate talking on the phone
and shit, I hate even justtalking to people, but I hate making
calls. And there's something that makesme have an anxious wall that I have
to step through to even send anemail. Sometimes I know you feel sil
yeah yeah, and so like similar, yeah, bite the bullet or whatever
(03:04):
it is. So I do thatall first thing in the morning where I'm
just trying not to think. ReallyI'm not I'm kind of shutting down.
What is it? What's creative?Left brain? Right brain? I forgot
whatever that is? Uh, Ithink the right brain is created, yeah,
because left handers are supposed to becreative or something. So whatever,
I'm trying to shut that off andjust go like analytical logic step one through
three brain and that's when I doall that kind of shit. After that
(03:27):
is then content stuff, so YouTube, podcasts, whatever it might be,
or even like planning, light planningstuff like that. Is when I'm texting
the team about social media posts orsocial media ideas or thinking of my own
organizing. It's all easy for me. I just do it on my phone.
I just do it in notes orjournal or whatever that app is.
And then nighttime, which I thinkis kind of stereotypical but true, is
(03:50):
kind of my creative time. SoI like to absorb content in that time
because I think it inspires me,and I don't necessarily absorb the content in
which I'm going to make in termsof so obviously probably content, YouTube,
podcast plus apparel is most of mycreative outlets, and all absorb things that
are not that. So I absorbmovies, TV series, music, I'll
(04:13):
listen to music at night, streamers, different things of the cultures and things
that I like. News. Ilike politics, so I'll watch that kind
of stuff in the evening and thenjot down ideas if they come to me.
I don't force it. I'm luckyenough in a spot and the creations
that we do because podcasts and YouTubeare like authentic, we don't have to
like act, you know, Idon't have to like force the creation of
(04:36):
it. And the clothing is abrand, so there's like barriers on the
creation of it, and there's spotswhere it doesn't have to be created.
Long story short, like, ifyou're a writer and your business is writing,
you have harsh deadlines where you're forcedto create, Like you have to
write every morning because you have towrite a book in a month, or
a comedian needs new material because theyhave to do a new show or a
(04:59):
new special next week, so they'reconstantly have to write. Our type of
creation doesn't have as strict of atimeline, so I'm not forced myself to
create. I kind of let thatside come to me. But that's kind
of how my day goes in termsof organizing my thoughts, plans, et
cetera, my wants, I don'treally organize. I don't know how to
answer that, but uh yeah,that's how I go about business and life.
(05:24):
Yeah see, Bat, you wantto go next, you go first,
all right, I know you're gonnado that. I am not as
organized as that. Typically, butwhen I have a lot of things going
on, the more I'm going on, the more organized I'm gonna be.
I'm similar. Yeah, I thinkthat, Like I don't do anything that
requires like in depth analysis in themorning. I am so much better for
(05:47):
that kind of stuff at night orunder pressure. Yeah, those I mean
that's always the case we talked aboutin the last episode, that you're a
night person. Yeah, it seemsto line up right, like when you
have the most energy or juices forthat mine's I don't. I've talked about
too. I don't think I'm amorning or night person, so I force
it that one. I force I'mI am very deadline focused in that,
(06:11):
like I want to plan about howI'm going to meet a deadline, but
I may not actually do the workto meet the deadline until close to the
deadline. Sure, I think that'spretty common. Like I think that that's
something I fell into in school.Yeah, and as I've always kind of
been that way. Probably the mostcreative times are when my mind is on
(06:33):
something else entirely. Yeah, Yeah, that's why I absorb content. Yeah,
Yeah, the same idea I'll seelike a I sent Subasa old music
video of like a tribe called questfrom like the nineties. There's nothing to
do with the word doing, andit's like really shitty green screen, but
it like just looks so cool,you know, and so like that inspires
maybe a photo shoot or something,but I'm not looking for it. I
(06:53):
was just listening to music, likeany of the business admin stuff. I
either or if I can get itoff my plate quick, I will get
it off my plate. If itrequires that combination of analysis and creativity,
it has to wait until I'm eitherunder deadline or I feel like I'm going
(07:15):
to be good at it. Yeah, it's a really weird, like kind
of gut thing where like, uh, it is even you could say in
the mood for but that's not reallyit. You feel prepared for. But
I feel ready to do this nowand I can know I can do a
good job with it, whereas othertimes you just pass things over because for
a while, because like I knowthat I'm not going to do my best
work on that, right. Yeah, bandwidth probably right, Yeah, some
(07:36):
of Yeah, depending on what elseis going on. If you have the
bandwidth to handle something that's annoying orfrustrating or in depth, I do make
at times make lists of you know, like to do lists or whatever,
but I try not to make themaspirational. I make them, you know,
I don't make I don't make goalssort yeah, because I find them
(07:59):
depressing. Yeah, I don't reallyhave to do list. I have like
notes, hey, like remember tokind of focus on this ish and even
I don't even check them because andthey say it and I think it's been
proven. I'm not one hundred percentsure, but when you write it down,
you tend to remember it better.Yeah, And that's mostly why I
take notes. It's not it's notbecause because a lot of entrepreneurial or like
life coaches have you make lists andcheck it off and there is something to
(08:20):
that, I think, because thenyou feel better about it, like there
is something there. But I haveso much anxiety that if I had a
too, I have a two dolist screaming in the back of my head
all day. So if I haveone in front of my face also,
then all I hear is noise.So then I would rather just have notes
like hey, check in with Seabass on X and that would be one
of my notes. And then I'llgive me tell me to give a little
bit more attention to whatever that sitsin. I do think, yeah,
(08:43):
similar do I say, with nutrition, is as strict as your goals are,
is as strict as your plan needsto be. And I think running
businesses are similar. If you setup processes from the beginning, which maybe
take more time, those processes thenare kind of organized on their own and
hopefully are a little bit more utons. So then you only need to be
as organized as busy season or busneyproject or busy thing comes. Like,
(09:07):
sure, there's probably CEOs out therethat are running one hundred million dollar companies
that have to schedule out every tenminutes. But I don't think unless you're
like the treadmill of Microsoft, likeyou're the thing keeping Microsoft moving, you
probably don't have to be that crazy. No, probably not. Like there's
a lot of successful people that aren'tlike that too. You know, like
(09:28):
there's a lot of successful that leanwayor like a spiritual flowy route or something,
you know, And I think youjust have to find out, Yeah,
what makes you productive? I thinkthat just kind of an I guess
this is kind of an insight tomy process around creativity and problem solving and
and how those come together. Isthat I like to think through a lot
(09:50):
of scenarios about how something might work, or how a problem might be solved,
or you know, or something I'mgonna build or whatever, but I
don't know exactly what I'm gonna doit until I get in it. Sure,
especially when you're running your own businessbusiness, I feel like that's kind
of everything. Yeah, it's becauseyou're going to run into another problem.
Yeah, I know I'm gonna makethis work. I just don't know how
I'm gonna make it work. Yeah. I mean I think I would rather
(10:11):
get started and figure out where runinto the problems, and then figure out
what the solutions are, rather than, you know, spend all of the
time at the beginning to know exactlywhat I'm going to do going in.
No, I think that's the bestadvice for any project, any business anywhere,
is if you have the end goalin mind and they say it right,
like, how you get there willchange, But if the goal stays
the same because you just can't.You want to have some foresight and you
(10:33):
want to be as predictive as possible. We just talked about that in a
vlog with like setting up equipment inthe gym, like we've all thought all
the through best we can, butyou also just have to like put it
there right and then observe for sixweeks and see how the flow is and
adjust and say, with any project, the problems may look different, but
you kind of just have to startwith an end goal in mind and then
(10:54):
just tell yourself I'm going to getthere no matter what, and then bounce
around through a million many obstacles.Yeah. Well, like we're sitting in
a thing where like the set likewe had, we lost a bit of
the set to the to the feralcats. It pissed on things. Yeah,
it's like, okay, so Ineed to get I have an idea
of how I'm gonna set the setup, but I know I'm not have
time to finish everything I want todo with it. So I'm gonna get
(11:18):
through this part and I will figureout the rest of it as going along.
And it's been like this for afew months or even this entire room
was like that. Yeah, thisentire room is like right, like we
just started breaking walls down and likeall right, yeah, we don't know
where we're headed, but but we'regoing this. We're going this way.
We need to clean that part,and then we'll clean this part, and
then we'll see what it looks like, and then we'll organize it and even
how a suball set up the appareland stuff. Sort of the right of
the podcast is are shipping a fulfillingand where we have like a I guess
(11:41):
an office room where we meet formeetings that's gone through like three or four
transformations and they're all functional enough,and then you find on one and this
one seems to be working the bestso far, so you keep it there.
Yeah, many problems solved, butyou don't know those until you're like
in the water. Yeah, no, sure for sure, Okay, see
you out anything. How do youorganize editing? And because you wore many
(12:03):
a hat honestly, I wish Ihad. I wish I had like a
way that I do it, ButI feel like I have so many things
that go on through like my head. And obviously I work here at the
gym. I try to get thingsdone for like the website or clothing stuff
and then also YouTube, but Ijust kind of chip away one thing at
a time. So let's say Ihave a video do on Monday. Yeah,
(12:26):
kind of how Jimbo is where likehe he's good like under pressure.
Yeah you need a little deadline.Yeah, I feel like I need a
little deadline, So I just startchipping away at that. Do you bounce
around between edits even, because yeah, you do the photos and videos for
not only Instagram but the website itself. You update the website itself, You
run video shoots and photo shoots forother lifters at meats and shit like that.
(12:46):
So obviously my content you help within the gym's content on Third Street,
Barboll, Instagram, et cetera.Do you chip away at each piece
or do you like, all right, I'm gonna finish this video complete,
complete, and then move on tothe next video or picture. If I'm
doing like meat videos, let's perse, I like to finish one complete.
But if I get stuck, orif I'm in between a YouTube video
(13:09):
and a photo shoot, yeah,just to switch my eyes, I just
go I work on one, andthen I'm like, all right, I
need to look at something different.Yeah, because I've been listening, because
I've been listening to Mike talk forthirty minutes or ten hours, and I'm
boring here. I'm out of here. I'm out here. I need to
go fuk around with some pictures.Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.
Yeah, but still yeah, slightlydifferent tasks then. Yeah, and then
(13:31):
every once in a while try tolike sneak in like creative stuff. Yeah.
I've never been good at like lettinga project rest. I'm just sometimes
good. Yeah, sometimes you haveto. Yeah, I'm so bad.
When I run out of options,sometimes that's what I'll do, set it
aside, or run out of time. Yeah yeah, yeah, one hundred
percent. I've run out of time, Like especially with our renovation sheet,
(13:52):
you just run out of a day, you run out of it, like
can I get to a stopping spot? Yeah, and then I'll with both
of my shit. I like tojust get it done. I like to
check it out because and it's likeanxiety screaming at me all day, like
hey, Mike, you gotta doset this paper, email, that's so
and so, Like get it fuckingdone. If that's that's why I like
to have like a deadline, likefor meat videos, I'm like, all
right, I'm gonna get in myhead. I'm like I'm gonna get everything
(14:13):
out in one week, even ifI have let's say ten to fifteen and
it's not just like meat throwing video. It's like I'm putting music you make
like I'm like analyzing and I'm like, all right, I need to do
this this this that I tell everybodya week to two, but in my
head, I'm like I'm dogging thisit out in like a week. Yeah.
Some of it depends on project too, right, like editing videos like
(14:35):
YouTube and stuff like that. Thereare stages, right because like the very
first stage is just clip out everythingthat sucks ror like that's not gonna be
used. So you can like almostdo that and pause. Like there's almost
set chapters to pause, where otherprojects sometimes there's not set things to pause
for sure. That said, folks, hopefully it helps you with your life.
It's a skill that I think helpsa lot of people. But most
importantly it is just allow you tobe productive. That's all that really matters.
(14:58):
If you get your shit done andyou're kind of happy about it.
We call it workflow or bandwidth whenwe're talking about you know, speaking to
people on how they work and settingyourself up like that will let it be
a little bit more productive. Havea wonderful weekend. New episodes Wednesday Friday
three is dot Coe Sacramento, California, Third Street, Barbell and I'm selling
Mike where you wanna find Me?I am Ath DJ mcdonne, all those
social media. This show is fiftypercent facts. For percent is a word
(15:20):
and the fifty is just numbers.Fifty percent facts. This is a Speaker
Prime podcast and association with our mediaon the Obscure Celebrity Network. And we'll
talk to you next week, bahh
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