July 5, 2024 • 16 mins
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Ready to transform your productivity and achieve your entrepreneurial dreams? Discover the game-changing block timing techniques that will help you structure your workday effectively. Learn how to start by scheduling only 50% of your time, making it easier for your brain to adapt without feeling overwhelmed. We also tackle the common issue of discipline, offering unconventional tips like cold showers to build mental resilience, and discuss the critical step of eliminating distractions by removing temptations altogether.
Later, we dive into maintaining focus and achieving balance throughout your workweek. Uncover the power of the "Is it time?" list for capturing unexpected big ideas and projects, ensuring you stay on track with your deep work sessions. The "weekly dump list" is another valuable tool we introduce, helping you manage immediate tasks without interrupting your workflow. By organizing these tasks with designated due dates, you'll maintain a steady rhythm and avoid productivity burnout. Tune in to gain practical insights that can revolutionize the way you manage your limited work hours and enhance your efficiency as an entrepreneur.
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Joey Young (00:00):
Welcome to Breadside Business, where we talk
directly to online entrepreneurslike yourself about how to grow
your business to seven figuresand beyond.
My name is Joey Young.
I help grow my family'sprofessional service business
from $19K to over $100,000 amonth in revenue in under two
years, and I'm really excited totalk about some of the lessons
I learned along the way on thatjourney.
(00:20):
This particular episode I wantto talk about how to maximize
your workday.
If you're someone who hastrouble focusing and getting the
most juice, the mostproductivity and the most
efficiency out of your workdayand you kind of feel like you're
aimless or you don't really useyour block timing very well to
schedule your tasks, this is theperfect episode for you,
(00:41):
because I was talking to aclient recently who asked me
like man, how do, how do Imaximize my workday?
How do I get the most out ofthese limited hours I get to
grow my business?
And at the time we were workingon block timing together and
really integrating that strategyof block timing into his
calendar and he said you know,how do I make the most of this?
And so I gave him thisframework and I think it would
(01:01):
be really helpful for you,especially if you're more of the
creative, intuitive type thatdoesn't like to schedule out
your day.
First thing I told him was man,I think you're trying to dive
into the deep ends headfirstwithout knowing how to swim.
I was like man, you reallysigned up for the whole hog.
Because if you schedule 6 am to9 pm each weekday and you've
(01:25):
never done block time before,your brain is just going to
reject that.
It's just going to be too much.
You're going to feel likeyou're being controlled.
So I was like dude, you got toease into this.
Instead, why don't we walk downthe steps of the shallow end
feet first and get your brainused to having more of a
structured workday?
So I said listen, 50% of yourworkday schedule that the
(01:51):
morning.
Get that locked in your mostimportant tasks on the calendar
and then leave the afternoonfree, completely open.
That way your brain can kind ofknow okay, even though I'm
being sort of structured andforced to work on this in the
morning it has a little bit ofbreathing room and it knows in
the afternoon it can do whateverit wants, right, and then later
on you can kind of likeschedule out more and more of
your workday to kind of dial itin.
But that was the first thing Isaid.
(02:12):
And then you know we weretalking more and he was like
well, even when I do have myblock time on my calendar, I
sometimes get distracted and Idon't know why.
I'm like really, and so here'sthe thing I said like there's
only really three reasons whyyou wouldn't key in and focus on
whatever your block time iswhen you have it on your
(02:32):
calendar to do.
There's really only threethings that'll stop you from
actually sitting down and doingthe work that you pre-schedule
on your calendar to do on anyparticular day at any particular
time.
And the first one is prettysimple and you can probably
guess what it is it's a lack ofdiscipline, and this is, you
know, not a sexy topic, butlisten, there's a lot of people
out there who don't have themuscle of discipline developed,
(02:55):
and if that's you, you just gotto learn how to enjoy doing hard
things.
It's really that's what itcomes down to If you don't like
to be forcing yourself to dohard tasks and you don't find a
lot of satisfaction andfulfillment out of like grinding
and doing something hard butmeaningful and then
accomplishing it and having thesatisfaction of knowing that you
(03:16):
did something really hard thathelped somebody and that feels
good like that's just somethingyou got to learn, you got to
develop over the long term.
I mean, one of the things thatreally helped me in the
beginning was I loved takingcold showers in the morning and
to this day I still five days aweek, even in this New York
winter we have here.
I'm taking cold showers fivedays a week in the morning
(03:38):
because I know if I can do thatin the morning, if I can force
myself in the shower where it'sice cold and it's, it's like
jolting me out of my my currentmindset of waking up and kind of
like groggy, you know,puttering in the morning, I know
I'm going to be keyed in towhatever task I have the rest of
the day because I've alreadydone the hardest thing that
(04:00):
morning that I'll do the wholeday, which is step into a nice
cold shower.
So use that idea if you want to, and the other you know.
The other thing too is if, ifyou're struggling with
discipline sometimes it's notabout trying to force yourself
to do something.
It's about removing thepotential distractions that will
inhibit your discipline.
(04:20):
You have to banish thosedistractions from your life.
If you find it very hard tostay disciplined and work on
whatever task you're working on,take all the things that could
potentially pull you away fromthat discipline and remove them,
banish them.
I'm talking phone in adifferent room, I'm talking
slack and emails completelyclosed.
(04:40):
Maybe you even have to get awayfrom those, uh, from the
browser altogether.
Maybe you've got to have aspecial device like an iPad or
something you do your work on inthe middle of the patio, in the
backyard, because you know ifyou're in your office or in a
place where there's potentialdistractions, you'll go for it.
It's really, really importantthat you start by saying, all
(05:01):
right, how can I banish thedistractions, instead of
thinking how do I avoidtemptation to engage with them
when they're right in front ofme?
Take the candy bowl, just getit off the table.
Don't try to resist eating thecandy on the table.
Okay, so that's the first thing.
If you're having troublesticking to your block timing,
first of all build a discipline.
That could be the first reasonwhy you're having trouble.
(05:22):
The second reason people havetrouble sticking to their
calendar and those block timesis because there's something
that truly is more importantthan what's on their block time
and I want to be very clear onthis.
This is true about 0.01% of thetime when someone if someone is
(05:50):
truly dying or you know kid issick and has to be picked up
from daycare or the school orsomething like that.
That is true in very few andfar between cases.
Something is very, veryimportant only if it is more
urgent and more important thanwhat you put on your calendar,
and that happens way less oftenthan we think it did, than we
(06:13):
think it does.
So if you're constantly beingpulled away and your brain's
being pulled off into otherthings that you know feel
important, remember, at the endof the day, there are instances
where something urgent trulycomes up.
You get a phone call, you get areally bad, you know
(06:34):
information about someone closeto you and something that's
happening and it just cannotwait for the hour to finish Like
you have to deal with it inthat moment.
But that is the 0.01% of cases.
Okay, and that's the secondreason why we get distracted
from block time.
The third reason and the mostprevalent reason why we get
(06:54):
distracted from block time thethird reason and the most
prevalent reason why we getdistracted and we don't focus
during our block time is becausesomething feels like it's more
important than what we put onour calendar.
And when something feels likeit's more important than what we
put on our calendar, there arereal strategies we can use to
counteract this.
And I'm not going to leave youhigh and dry.
I'm not going to let you gowithout telling you some of
(07:16):
these things that can help youavoid this reason for avoiding
your calendar, because we allstruggle with this.
Okay, so here's the thing Ifyou ever are sitting down and
all of a sudden, you get hitwith an idea or you listen to a
podcast or a YouTube video andyou get inspired with a new
(07:38):
product, a new marketing avenue,a new channel, something like
that, and you're like, oh mygosh, this is awesome.
I got to jump in and I got toget this kind of fleshed out in
my brain, I got to research thisand kind of write it out or
whatever.
If some big project isinspiring you, that is almost
always a distraction from what'son your block time, and what I
(08:00):
do in these scenarios is put iton what I call my is it time
list.
So the is it time list is justa productivity list in my
software that I made, and it canbe a piece of paper for you, a
sticky note, I don't care.
But what it is is it's a listwhere I put all the projects and
ideas that I don't have timefor right now and throw them on
(08:26):
that list, put a due date onthem for three months from the
future and then forget aboutthem.
And what's great about thislist is that I can capture all
these ideas, all these products,all these marketing channels,
all these you know, ideas thatcome to my brain or
inspirational things that I hearthat I'm like, oh, I should
implement that, but I know Idon't have the time for right
(08:46):
now.
So if you are struck with ahuge idea, throw it on a list.
Is it time?
Is what I call it Is it time?
And then when it pops up on mycalendar three months from now,
because I put a reminder on it,you know it's like the is it
time?
And then like, whatever theidea is and if it is time, great
, I can implement it.
If not, I just set the reminderback another three months and
it's out of my head, out ofsight, out of mind.
(09:08):
I can get back to whatever I'mfocused on in that particular
season.
Whatever I'm focused on in thatparticular season, that's a
really good strategy to keep youfocused.
Now, the other strategy to helpyou avoid getting distracted
when things feel urgent is tothrow them on what I call a
weekly dump list, and this isseparate from my.
Is it timeless?
Is it timeless is like for bigthings.
Weekly dump list is like ohshoot, I forgot to send that
(09:31):
email to that person.
Shoot, I forgot to follow upabout that thing, darn it.
I wanted to check in with thatperson and see how they're doing
.
You know, this is like thoselittle things that you remember
for some reason, because yourbrain is a little bit more empty
while you're doing deep work,because it's less intense, and
so like these things that youforgot to do or you meant to do
(09:52):
or you should do, kind of likebubble to the surface.
And for a lot of people, meincluded, our brain loves these
things because they'reopportunities to escape from
whatever we're forcing our brainto focus on.
So what you need to do is havea place to capture those things
and know when you'll when you'llget to them.
So the weekly dump list is forthings like you know, follow up
(10:12):
with suzy about blah.
That's what I throw in thatweekly dump list.
It's in my productivitysoftware.
Again, you can use a stickynote, you could use a paper list
and then you know, put a duedate on it for Friday, so I
remember before the end of theweek I'm going to follow up with
Susie about X, y and Z, so thatway you don't forget about it,
you don't get pulled away fromwhat you're focusing on and
(10:36):
you'll get to it within the timeframe that you need to get to
it.
So those are a couple ofstrategies the is it time list,
the weekly dump list.
They kind of help you stay ontask with whatever you're doing
and not getting off track, whichis so, so easy to do with tasks
that feel like they're moreimportant and more urgent, but
they're really not.
(10:56):
So again, lack of disciplinesomething is more important,
something feels more important.
Those are the only reasons whywe get distracted from our block
time on the calendar, and thereare certain ways to combat each
one.
Lastly, I just want to leave youwith this.
This is something that Inoticed a lot with people who
are kind of new to the highperformance game is they don't
(11:17):
really know how to view theparticular day that they're in
in context with the rest of theweek.
I made this mistake as well.
This is a huge lesson for me.
I used to like jump into aparticular day and I woke up
feeling great.
I would launch into work.
(11:37):
You know, I was like hittingthe end of the workday feeling
good, so I'd work some extrahours.
You know, I knew I had, youknow, some big stuff later in
the week, but I would just kindof be vibing and I just work
really late and work really hardthat day.
But then I wake up the next dayfeeling kind of like a
productivity hangover.
I was like, wow, like that wascrazy yesterday.
(11:58):
Kind of like a productivityhangover.
I was like wow, like that wascrazy yesterday.
And I kind of want to likeputter around the next day Like.
This happens to a lot of people,unfortunately, and it's a
result of not viewing anyparticular day in the context of
the week that it's in.
So if you're someone whonaturally goes hard, or someone
who naturally doesn't go softhard, or someone who naturally
(12:22):
doesn't go soft, this is reallyimportant.
Take the first five minutes ofyour day and look at what's
going on.
Do.
I have a gigantic block ofmeetings that's going to get me
really, really tired.
I know because it's likeback-to-back Zooms.
Is it on the flip side, kind ofan open day?
It's a lot of you know, focusblocks on long-term projects
where you know it's not likeanything urgent needs to happen
(12:45):
by the end of the day and lookat that day and then balance it
out.
So if it's a really busy dayand I've got five hours of
meetings, I'm going to put in mycalendar man, get myself a nice
coffee and take a walk right inthe middle of that, because I
know I'm going to be tired, I'mgoing hard, but I don't want to
burn myself out that day.
I don't want to be completelyspent on the end of the day
(13:06):
because if that's a Wednesday, Igot two more days in the week.
I need to be able to be at mybest those days.
Conversely, if it's a big, wideopen day and I've got big blocks
of time focused on long-termprojects, I need to also key
into those and make someadjustments to my calendar in
the morning of.
So I'll sit down that morning,take five minutes, look at the
day and say, okay, this couldeasily slip into a day where,
(13:31):
just because there's not a wholelot of urgent things going on,
I lose my urgency.
So what I do is I say, allright, here's the thing that
absolutely has to get done bythe end of this day, here's the
day's deliverable.
So I'm really focused and I'mreally keyed into one particular
task or two particular tasks.
That will be a little bit of astretch goal for the day.
So I don't just look at thewide open day the kind of like
(13:53):
easy, lackadaisical day it couldbe and lose my sense of urgency
while I'm at work day it couldbe, and lose my sense of urgency
while I'm at work.
So, whatever kind of day it is,balance it out with.
On a busy day, maybe a treat,maybe a break.
On a slow day, maybe you putyourself into a certain here's
what's got to get delivered bythe end of the day, here's my
(14:14):
daily task I got to accomplish.
And that way you balance outthe day and you don't burn out
or lose momentum in the middleof the week.
I think that'll be really,really helpful for you and it'll
help you to see the day in thecontext of your week, step back
a little bit and feel like youcan actually maintain your
momentum the whole week notoverdo it, not underdo it any
(14:35):
particular day, but maintainconsistent momentum throughout
the week.
Which is the name of the game inhigh performance is consistency
.
Consistency ability to bounceback quickly.
After you hit a roadblock ordiscouragement or something that
stops you from achieving a goal, you can bounce back quickly.
It doesn't destroy youemotionally, you just keep going
(14:57):
.
You get up the next day and youkeep fighting, and that will be
really helpful for you.
And hey, if this is helpful, youreally need to check out my
priority clarity sheet.
It's a free worksheet to helpyou define exactly what your
priorities are right now to growyour business.
It's specifically made foronline entrepreneurs to focus on
(15:18):
.
Okay, what are those needlemoving tasks that will actually
create the revenue and createthe growth I'm looking for?
Because a lot of people havetrouble focusing on those most
important needle movingactivities.
They maybe spend half the dayon less important things and
then it just doesn't really panout in terms of really
productive day.
So I created this priorityclarity system so you can
(15:40):
understand, for your businessand your context, exactly what
needs to get done and you havehyper clarity on it at each and
every day.
So download that.
It's a free download.
There's a link in thedescription of this show.
Also, if you like this show, ifyou have any thoughts or any
questions for me, I'd love tohear from you.
Email me, joey at joeyhyoungcom, or shoot me a DM on Instagram.
(16:04):
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Happy scaling.
Welcome to Breadside Business, where we talk
directly to online entrepreneurslike yourself about how to grow
your business to seven figuresand beyond.
My name is Joey Young.
I help grow my family'sprofessional service business
from $19K to over $100,000 amonth in revenue in under two
years, and I'm really excited totalk about some of the lessons
I learned along the way on thatjourney.
(00:20):
This particular episode I wantto talk about how to maximize
your workday.
If you're someone who hastrouble focusing and getting the
most juice, the mostproductivity and the most
efficiency out of your workdayand you kind of feel like you're
aimless or you don't really useyour block timing very well to
schedule your tasks, this is theperfect episode for you,
(00:41):
because I was talking to aclient recently who asked me
like man, how do, how do Imaximize my workday?
How do I get the most out ofthese limited hours I get to
grow my business?
And at the time we were workingon block timing together and
really integrating that strategyof block timing into his
calendar and he said you know,how do I make the most of this?
And so I gave him thisframework and I think it would
(01:01):
be really helpful for you,especially if you're more of the
creative, intuitive type thatdoesn't like to schedule out
your day.
First thing I told him was man,I think you're trying to dive
into the deep ends headfirstwithout knowing how to swim.
I was like man, you reallysigned up for the whole hog.
Because if you schedule 6 am to9 pm each weekday and you've
(01:25):
never done block time before,your brain is just going to
reject that.
It's just going to be too much.
You're going to feel likeyou're being controlled.
So I was like dude, you got toease into this.
Instead, why don't we walk downthe steps of the shallow end
feet first and get your brainused to having more of a
structured workday?
So I said listen, 50% of yourworkday schedule that the
(01:51):
morning.
Get that locked in your mostimportant tasks on the calendar
and then leave the afternoonfree, completely open.
That way your brain can kind ofknow okay, even though I'm
being sort of structured andforced to work on this in the
morning it has a little bit ofbreathing room and it knows in
the afternoon it can do whateverit wants, right, and then later
on you can kind of likeschedule out more and more of
your workday to kind of dial itin.
But that was the first thing Isaid.
(02:12):
And then you know we weretalking more and he was like
well, even when I do have myblock time on my calendar, I
sometimes get distracted and Idon't know why.
I'm like really, and so here'sthe thing I said like there's
only really three reasons whyyou wouldn't key in and focus on
whatever your block time iswhen you have it on your
(02:32):
calendar to do.
There's really only threethings that'll stop you from
actually sitting down and doingthe work that you pre-schedule
on your calendar to do on anyparticular day at any particular
time.
And the first one is prettysimple and you can probably
guess what it is it's a lack ofdiscipline, and this is, you
know, not a sexy topic, butlisten, there's a lot of people
out there who don't have themuscle of discipline developed,
(02:55):
and if that's you, you just gotto learn how to enjoy doing hard
things.
It's really that's what itcomes down to If you don't like
to be forcing yourself to dohard tasks and you don't find a
lot of satisfaction andfulfillment out of like grinding
and doing something hard butmeaningful and then
accomplishing it and having thesatisfaction of knowing that you
(03:16):
did something really hard thathelped somebody and that feels
good like that's just somethingyou got to learn, you got to
develop over the long term.
I mean, one of the things thatreally helped me in the
beginning was I loved takingcold showers in the morning and
to this day I still five days aweek, even in this New York
winter we have here.
I'm taking cold showers fivedays a week in the morning
(03:38):
because I know if I can do thatin the morning, if I can force
myself in the shower where it'sice cold and it's, it's like
jolting me out of my my currentmindset of waking up and kind of
like groggy, you know,puttering in the morning, I know
I'm going to be keyed in towhatever task I have the rest of
the day because I've alreadydone the hardest thing that
(04:00):
morning that I'll do the wholeday, which is step into a nice
cold shower.
So use that idea if you want to, and the other you know.
The other thing too is if, ifyou're struggling with
discipline sometimes it's notabout trying to force yourself
to do something.
It's about removing thepotential distractions that will
inhibit your discipline.
(04:20):
You have to banish thosedistractions from your life.
If you find it very hard tostay disciplined and work on
whatever task you're working on,take all the things that could
potentially pull you away fromthat discipline and remove them,
banish them.
I'm talking phone in adifferent room, I'm talking
slack and emails completelyclosed.
(04:40):
Maybe you even have to get awayfrom those, uh, from the
browser altogether.
Maybe you've got to have aspecial device like an iPad or
something you do your work on inthe middle of the patio, in the
backyard, because you know ifyou're in your office or in a
place where there's potentialdistractions, you'll go for it.
It's really, really importantthat you start by saying, all
(05:01):
right, how can I banish thedistractions, instead of
thinking how do I avoidtemptation to engage with them
when they're right in front ofme?
Take the candy bowl, just getit off the table.
Don't try to resist eating thecandy on the table.
Okay, so that's the first thing.
If you're having troublesticking to your block timing,
first of all build a discipline.
That could be the first reasonwhy you're having trouble.
(05:22):
The second reason people havetrouble sticking to their
calendar and those block timesis because there's something
that truly is more importantthan what's on their block time
and I want to be very clear onthis.
This is true about 0.01% of thetime when someone if someone is
(05:50):
truly dying or you know kid issick and has to be picked up
from daycare or the school orsomething like that.
That is true in very few andfar between cases.
Something is very, veryimportant only if it is more
urgent and more important thanwhat you put on your calendar,
and that happens way less oftenthan we think it did, than we
(06:13):
think it does.
So if you're constantly beingpulled away and your brain's
being pulled off into otherthings that you know feel
important, remember, at the endof the day, there are instances
where something urgent trulycomes up.
You get a phone call, you get areally bad, you know
(06:34):
information about someone closeto you and something that's
happening and it just cannotwait for the hour to finish Like
you have to deal with it inthat moment.
But that is the 0.01% of cases.
Okay, and that's the secondreason why we get distracted
from block time.
The third reason and the mostprevalent reason why we get
(06:54):
distracted from block time thethird reason and the most
prevalent reason why we getdistracted and we don't focus
during our block time is becausesomething feels like it's more
important than what we put onour calendar.
And when something feels likeit's more important than what we
put on our calendar, there arereal strategies we can use to
counteract this.
And I'm not going to leave youhigh and dry.
I'm not going to let you gowithout telling you some of
(07:16):
these things that can help youavoid this reason for avoiding
your calendar, because we allstruggle with this.
Okay, so here's the thing Ifyou ever are sitting down and
all of a sudden, you get hitwith an idea or you listen to a
podcast or a YouTube video andyou get inspired with a new
(07:38):
product, a new marketing avenue,a new channel, something like
that, and you're like, oh mygosh, this is awesome.
I got to jump in and I got toget this kind of fleshed out in
my brain, I got to research thisand kind of write it out or
whatever.
If some big project isinspiring you, that is almost
always a distraction from what'son your block time, and what I
(08:00):
do in these scenarios is put iton what I call my is it time
list.
So the is it time list is justa productivity list in my
software that I made, and it canbe a piece of paper for you, a
sticky note, I don't care.
But what it is is it's a listwhere I put all the projects and
ideas that I don't have timefor right now and throw them on
(08:26):
that list, put a due date onthem for three months from the
future and then forget aboutthem.
And what's great about thislist is that I can capture all
these ideas, all these products,all these marketing channels,
all these you know, ideas thatcome to my brain or
inspirational things that I hearthat I'm like, oh, I should
implement that, but I know Idon't have the time for right
(08:46):
now.
So if you are struck with ahuge idea, throw it on a list.
Is it time?
Is what I call it Is it time?
And then when it pops up on mycalendar three months from now,
because I put a reminder on it,you know it's like the is it
time?
And then like, whatever theidea is and if it is time, great
, I can implement it.
If not, I just set the reminderback another three months and
it's out of my head, out ofsight, out of mind.
(09:08):
I can get back to whatever I'mfocused on in that particular
season.
Whatever I'm focused on in thatparticular season, that's a
really good strategy to keep youfocused.
Now, the other strategy to helpyou avoid getting distracted
when things feel urgent is tothrow them on what I call a
weekly dump list, and this isseparate from my.
Is it timeless?
Is it timeless is like for bigthings.
Weekly dump list is like ohshoot, I forgot to send that
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email to that person.
Shoot, I forgot to follow upabout that thing, darn it.
I wanted to check in with thatperson and see how they're doing
.
You know, this is like thoselittle things that you remember
for some reason, because yourbrain is a little bit more empty
while you're doing deep work,because it's less intense, and
so like these things that youforgot to do or you meant to do
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or you should do, kind of likebubble to the surface.
And for a lot of people, meincluded, our brain loves these
things because they'reopportunities to escape from
whatever we're forcing our brainto focus on.
So what you need to do is havea place to capture those things
and know when you'll when you'llget to them.
So the weekly dump list is forthings like you know, follow up
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with suzy about blah.
That's what I throw in thatweekly dump list.
It's in my productivitysoftware.
Again, you can use a stickynote, you could use a paper list
and then you know, put a duedate on it for Friday, so I
remember before the end of theweek I'm going to follow up with
Susie about X, y and Z, so thatway you don't forget about it,
you don't get pulled away fromwhat you're focusing on and
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you'll get to it within the timeframe that you need to get to
it.
So those are a couple ofstrategies the is it time list,
the weekly dump list.
They kind of help you stay ontask with whatever you're doing
and not getting off track, whichis so, so easy to do with tasks
that feel like they're moreimportant and more urgent, but
they're really not.
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So again, lack of disciplinesomething is more important,
something feels more important.
Those are the only reasons whywe get distracted from our block
time on the calendar, and thereare certain ways to combat each
one.
Lastly, I just want to leave youwith this.
This is something that Inoticed a lot with people who
are kind of new to the highperformance game is they don't
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really know how to view theparticular day that they're in
in context with the rest of theweek.
I made this mistake as well.
This is a huge lesson for me.
I used to like jump into aparticular day and I woke up
feeling great.
I would launch into work.
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You know, I was like hittingthe end of the workday feeling
good, so I'd work some extrahours.
You know, I knew I had, youknow, some big stuff later in
the week, but I would just kindof be vibing and I just work
really late and work really hardthat day.
But then I wake up the next dayfeeling kind of like a
productivity hangover.
I was like, wow, like that wascrazy yesterday.
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Kind of like a productivityhangover.
I was like wow, like that wascrazy yesterday.
And I kind of want to likeputter around the next day Like.
This happens to a lot of people,unfortunately, and it's a
result of not viewing anyparticular day in the context of
the week that it's in.
So if you're someone whonaturally goes hard, or someone
who naturally doesn't go softhard, or someone who naturally
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doesn't go soft, this is reallyimportant.
Take the first five minutes ofyour day and look at what's
going on.
Do.
I have a gigantic block ofmeetings that's going to get me
really, really tired.
I know because it's likeback-to-back Zooms.
Is it on the flip side, kind ofan open day?
It's a lot of you know, focusblocks on long-term projects
where you know it's not likeanything urgent needs to happen
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by the end of the day and lookat that day and then balance it
out.
So if it's a really busy dayand I've got five hours of
meetings, I'm going to put in mycalendar man, get myself a nice
coffee and take a walk right inthe middle of that, because I
know I'm going to be tired, I'mgoing hard, but I don't want to
burn myself out that day.
I don't want to be completelyspent on the end of the day
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because if that's a Wednesday, Igot two more days in the week.
I need to be able to be at mybest those days.
Conversely, if it's a big, wideopen day and I've got big blocks
of time focused on long-termprojects, I need to also key
into those and make someadjustments to my calendar in
the morning of.
So I'll sit down that morning,take five minutes, look at the
day and say, okay, this couldeasily slip into a day where,
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just because there's not a wholelot of urgent things going on,
I lose my urgency.
So what I do is I say, allright, here's the thing that
absolutely has to get done bythe end of this day, here's the
day's deliverable.
So I'm really focused and I'mreally keyed into one particular
task or two particular tasks.
That will be a little bit of astretch goal for the day.
So I don't just look at thewide open day the kind of like
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easy, lackadaisical day it couldbe and lose my sense of urgency
while I'm at work day it couldbe, and lose my sense of urgency
while I'm at work.
So, whatever kind of day it is,balance it out with.
On a busy day, maybe a treat,maybe a break.
On a slow day, maybe you putyourself into a certain here's
what's got to get delivered bythe end of the day, here's my
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daily task I got to accomplish.
And that way you balance outthe day and you don't burn out
or lose momentum in the middleof the week.
I think that'll be really,really helpful for you and it'll
help you to see the day in thecontext of your week, step back
a little bit and feel like youcan actually maintain your
momentum the whole week notoverdo it, not underdo it any
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particular day, but maintainconsistent momentum throughout
the week.
Which is the name of the game inhigh performance is consistency
.
Consistency ability to bounceback quickly.
After you hit a roadblock ordiscouragement or something that
stops you from achieving a goal, you can bounce back quickly.
It doesn't destroy youemotionally, you just keep going
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.
You get up the next day and youkeep fighting, and that will be
really helpful for you.
And hey, if this is helpful, youreally need to check out my
priority clarity sheet.
It's a free worksheet to helpyou define exactly what your
priorities are right now to growyour business.
It's specifically made foronline entrepreneurs to focus on
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.
Okay, what are those needlemoving tasks that will actually
create the revenue and createthe growth I'm looking for?
Because a lot of people havetrouble focusing on those most
important needle movingactivities.
They maybe spend half the dayon less important things and
then it just doesn't really panout in terms of really
productive day.
So I created this priorityclarity system so you can
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understand, for your businessand your context, exactly what
needs to get done and you havehyper clarity on it at each and
every day.
So download that.
It's a free download.
There's a link in thedescription of this show.
Also, if you like this show, ifyou have any thoughts or any
questions for me, I'd love tohear from you.
Email me, joey at joeyhyoungcom, or shoot me a DM on Instagram.
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That's at joeyhyoung onInstagram.
And while you're there, book afree 20 minutes coaching call
with me and I'd love to justtalk through your business, see
how I might be able to help yougrow your business.
It's a free call.
There's a link in the bio of myInstagram there at joeyhyoung.
And hey, while you're here, ifyou're still listening, thank
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you.
Hit that like button, hit thesubscribe button, hit the follow
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Leave a five-star review ifyou're on a podcast platform, I
really appreciate it.
And hey, until next time.
Happy scaling.
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