September 4, 2025 • 17 mins
The Guilt-Free Future Planning method helps prioritize personal goals that consistently get pushed aside when we're busy making things happen for everyone else. This three-step process—Brain Dump, DAMN Matrix, and Walking the Plank—creates a framework for getting your goals out of your head, prioritizing them, and committing to action.
• Brain Dump: List all your goals in three categories—business/professional growth, personal growth, and meaningful connections
• Focus only on what YOU want, not what others expect of you
• DAMN Matrix: Prioritize goals based on impact (high/low) and effort (high/low)
• Start with high impact/low effort goals to build momentum
• Walking the Plank: Commit to goals one at a time in priority order
• Block time in your calendar specifically for your personal goals
• This method is part of a larger Self-First Time Mastery approach
• Momentum matters more than completion—just start making progress
If you want to try this method, download the template using the link provided. For those who prefer learning with community, sign up for the full Self-First Time Mastery workshop where we'll cover guilt-free future planning, strategically selfish scheduling, and daily domination.
Check out the Video Demonstration on YouTube: https://youtu.be/EXj7NpfBpzo
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So I want you to think about the list of goals
that you've had just for thisyear and we never make the time
to make those things happen.
But what's happening is we'redoing all kinds of other things,
making stuff happen foreverybody else.
Putting yourself first is theway to overcome that.
I know it's super uncomfortable.
That's why I'm calling it theguilt-free future planning,
(00:22):
because I'm going to take allthe guilt for you and you don't
have to worry that you're likethe first person ever to go
through this, because we've hadpeople go through this before.
What we're going to talk abouttoday is the guilt-free future
planning and it has three piecesto it.
So we're going to walk youthrough the brain dump.
(00:42):
If you're like a make ithappener self-starter actually
that's kind of perfect becauseyou can sign up and download the
template I'm going to walk youthrough kind of the basics of it
.
We're going to do the braindump, then we're going to go
through the damn matrix and thenwe're going to do the walking
the plank, which are the threeelements of guilt-free future
planning.
It's a way to prioritize andmake stuff happen.
(01:04):
And if you're wondering like howin the world did this ever come
up, it was because I struggled.
I was looking at a list ofthings that I had on the wall.
A friend of mine was like Jess,you're so organized, you've got
all these things, all your bigprojects, big ideas, and you're
just knocking them out.
And I'm like, okay, thank you.
And she said, but I think youwrote down the wrong year.
(01:25):
And I said, no, actually that'sthe year I made the plan.
I just haven't done thosethings.
Yet it was five years hadpassed and I hadn't made any
moves on the things that filledmy cup because I was putting
everybody else first.
And so the analysis was this Iknow how to make things happen.
I'm kicking butt in my career.
I'm kicking butt in thecommunity.
(01:45):
I'm doing good in my job, I'mgetting promotions.
I know how to make thingshappen for everybody else, but I
need to make things happen forme.
So this is the template.
Again, if you want the template, there's, there's a link.
Go get the link and sign up.
What's most important to me isthat you use it so that you can
get more we'll say, fulfillmentout of life.
Now, there are three elementshere.
(02:09):
The first element I'm going torefer to as the brain dump right
.
And so that's this first toppart here.
And, like I said a little whileago, think about all the things
, all the objectives, the ideas,the projects that you have been
like oh, I would love to dothat or that you committed to
(02:29):
doing this year and the onesthat you haven't made any
movement on.
The idea is to get those thingsout of your head, and I have
three buckets there.
Right, this is the brain dump.
One bucket is like what are thethings in your business or
professional growth right Inthat segment of your life, what
are the things that you've beenwanting to do, that you keep
(02:50):
thinking about, that you keepputting off?
That would be awesome if youactually had the time.
Dump those in this little boxhere.
Right?
Examples of that arecertifications.
If you run your own business,maybe you want to expand
services, or you want to expandyour business, you want to hire
people, you want a new promotion, you want a side gig, like all
of these kinds of things thatare like in the professional
(03:12):
space.
Write them down in that bucketand don't worry about it.
Right, I'm not going to tell onanybody, just write them down,
get them out of your head.
The other bucket is personalgrowth.
Now, I know that's kind ofclose to what we're talking
about a little while ago, butwhen I'm talking about personal
growth, I'm about me, right,like what new skills do I want
(03:32):
to learn?
Maybe I'm going to start aYouTube channel.
Maybe I want to pick up runningor exercise or spend more time
journaling these kinds of thingsthat we all kind of think about
.
Someday we're going to do it.
Dump those out, get them out ofyour head and put them in that
little box.
And then the last box is likemeaningful connections,
relationships, personal,romantic, professional,
(03:56):
community, engagement, stuffwith your church.
If you're a church person, likethese types of community things
are meaningful connections.
Cause why?
Because they're valuable, right?
Or maybe maybe you'resurrounded by turkeys and a
bunch of scrubs and you want toupgrade the people that you are
connected with, that you spendtime with.
That's a good plan.
I highly highly recommend it,and so you would get all of
(04:19):
these things out of your head,right.
This is the bring them.
What are the things that you'vethought about, that you've
flirted with the idea but thenyou suppressed it because you
had to pick up the kids orbecause you have a deadline, or
because you have an email orbecause you have a media, and so
those things just staycluttered in our head.
Get them out of your head.
If you got a question, if I'mgoing too fast, if I ain't
(04:40):
making sense, drop it in thecomments so that I can respond
back to you.
And if you don't have anyquestions about the brain dump
segment of the thing, we'regoing to transition into the
damn matrix.
So this is the second part ofthe guilt-free future planning.
Now, one thing that's really,really important is when you
(05:00):
think about these things the bigideas, the goals, the things
that you want to invest inyourself, about what do you
think about?
Not what other people want youto do, not what you should do,
what exactly, what the hell youwant to do.
And I am here to absolve you ofany and all guilt, because
(05:23):
guess what, as soon as you'redone with this piece of it, you
go back and do whatever you wantto do, like go back to normal.
But just for now, when you'resitting through this piece, I
want you to think about it fromyour perspective.
Only, not what other peopleexpect, not what you think
people want.
What you want, period.
Okay, I had to say that Got tosay that, right.
(05:44):
And so after you do the braindump this is the idea you come
in here to the damn matrix.
Right, and I'll explain thedamn matrix real quick.
This is going to help usprioritize all of those things
the stuff, the business,professional related stuff, the
skills, the skill building stuffand the community relationship
stuff, all of those things likeman, that's a lot of stuff, I
(06:07):
know I get it.
So now we want to prioritize itand this is a way to prioritize
it and we're going to kind ofweigh them based on impact and
effort.
I am a huge proponent of lookingand focusing on the things that
are going to bring the greatestimpact with the lowest effort,
right, like, if it's hard, wecan do that one later.
(06:27):
And so if we think of the scaleright up and down high impact
at the top, low impact on thebottom.
If we think left the scaleright up and down high impact at
the top, low impact on thebottom.
If we think left to righteffort low effort to the left,
highest effort to the right.
And so what that means is thetop left quadrant.
What we want to put in thatquadrant are the things that are
highest impact, lowest effort.
(06:48):
Is it going to be easy Pullingthe trigger, making that
decision?
How easy is it?
Low effort, boom, let's putthat bad boy on it.
We think it's going to have ahigh impact.
Good, like you don't need to doa data study or any of that.
Just what does it feel like?
What do you think?
Get it out of your head, dumpit there.
Then we have high impact stillon the high impact side of it.
But it's high effort, right,it's going to take some, maybe
(07:09):
some, some sacrifices, somecommitment.
You might have to get out thereand run a few miles.
Whatever it is your target is.
But think about it.
If it's got high impact andhigh effort, that's going to be
on the top right-hand quadrant,okay.
And then we go down to thebottom, where the M, which is
lower impact but still loweffort.
Right, like it's not going tobe as impactful as the other
(07:31):
things.
Like this is a relativeassessment.
We're going to be as impactfulas the other things.
This is a relative assessment.
We're going to put that downthere low impact and low effort.
If it's not going to take a lotof effort and it's not going to
have great impact, it may notbe the end of the world to
invest time and resources there.
And then, lastly, is high effort.
It's going to take a lot ofeffort to do the damn thing and
(07:55):
it's going to have low impact Ifanything falls in there.
We need to evaluate that.
And so why is it the damnmatrix?
Because D everything in the topleft quadrant.
We want to do those first.
Anything that is high impact,low effort, pull the trigger on
that bad boy.
Because it helps us buildmomentum.
It helps us build momentum andI know most of us out there are
(08:18):
no bueno.
We are not good at makingourselves a priority.
We have been conditioned tomake everyone else a priority
and put ourselves last.
And if you're one of thosepeople out there, you know what
I'm talking about.
Give me a high five or somethumbs up, some hearts and all
that other beautiful stuff, sothat I know I'm not the only one
.
Now, anything that landed in thetop right quadrant is what
(08:40):
we're going to do after whateveris in the D quadrant Right the
D quadrant high impact, loweffort.
Once we get those balls rolling, then we can go on to the next
one.
Why?
Because there's still highimpact and the effort might be a
little bit higher, but they'restill very, very impactful.
Then we think about the lowimpact, low effort.
(09:02):
Right, let's think about it.
Maybe we want to do them ormaybe, after we've pulled the
trigger of the high impactthings, we found a new path and
we say, oh my God, I just allthat other stuff, I don't need
to worry about it, this iswhat's filling my cup.
I'm going to just go doubledown on these things.
Anything that falls in the higheffort, low impact quadrant, we
(09:23):
need to evaluate it right,because it's going to take a lot
of time and resources and youare already like a super, super
committed overachiever.
Make it happener.
You don't just need to bepicking things up to do things.
You got plenty going on, somaybe it just needs to come off
the list.
Boom, bam.
So that's the damn matrix.
Again, I want to remind you ofthis three pieces, three steps
(09:44):
in here, which is the brain dumpright, get the things, ideas
that we've had in our head, thatwe've been kind of
procrastinating ondeprioritizing someday.
I'll do it whenever I have thetime.
And then, once we do that, thenwe slide them over and we weigh
them based on impact and effort, right, boom, put them wherever
they need to be.
And guess what, if you put itthere now and it doesn't make
(10:05):
sense, it's okay, you can moveit.
I'm not going to tell anybody,I promise.
And then, lastly, we get intowalking the plank.
And this is where we get tolike commitment time.
We've covered the brain dump,we've covered the damn matrix,
effort and impact, and now we'regoing to do walking the plank.
(10:26):
And so I know I'm going likesuper, super speedy, talking a
million miles an hour, becausethat's me, that's the way I do
it.
I need to tell you this is onepiece of the whole workshop, the
self first time masteryworkshop we go into guilt-free
future planning.
(10:46):
After we do that, then we getinto strategically selfish
scheduling and after we do that,we slide into daily domination.
And so it's big picture, futureplanning, future outlook.
How do we do that?
All with the purpose, or maybewith the philosophy of
self-first right, of reinvestinginto ourselves and making
(11:07):
ourselves a priority.
We start high level, bigpicture.
Then we say, okay, now let'sget it in our calendar.
And then we say, okay, now it'sin our calendar.
And then we say, okay, now it'sin our calendar.
How do we go and make thingshappen every day so that we get
that momentum and we're clickingon all 12 cylinders and making
stuff happen.
So what I'm showing you todayis just one piece of that.
Again, you don't have to signup for the workshop.
(11:29):
You can sign up and downloadthe damn template and start
using it yourself and modify itand customize it for your own
needs.
But if you like learning withthe community and my energy
doesn't disgust you you shouldprobably sign up for the
workshop.
All right, so let's go into thefinal piece of the guilt-free
future planning.
(11:49):
Let me find my thing.
I've got so many clickingsgoing on over here, and so the
last element of the guilt-freefuture planning is walking the
plank.
And so the funnel, right.
How does this thing flow?
Well, we did the brain dump.
We got all the stuff out of ourhead in terms of, like, our
business and professional growth, the things that we want to do,
(12:10):
personal growth, meaningfulconnections, all right.
Then we said, okay, we're goingto prioritize them based on
effort and impact.
Yay, awesome, we're movingforward now.
And now what you would do iswalk the plank, and this is the
hard one for me.
Like, if you're super, like, Iwant to do everything right now.
I get you because I have thatproblem, but walking the plank
(12:33):
is what's helped me transitionfrom like starting fires all
over the place to like actuallygetting stuff done and making
progress and meaningful impacton the things that I want to
have impact on.
And so walking the plank meansone at a time, and so I got all
this stuff out of my head.
I've weighted them based onimpact and effort, and now I
(12:56):
take the one that's going tohave the highest impact with the
lowest amount of effort and Iput that first, and then I pick
the second one, and then I pickthe third one and I just put
them in order and that's that'sthe deal.
Now, again, highly recommend tostart with the highest impact
and lowest effort, becausethere's less friction there and
you'll be able to get like makereal progress and start taking
(13:18):
action and get that momentum andget excited and energized.
You don't have to complete thething.
This is all about momentum andgetting the ball rolling.
A lot of people get hung up like, oh, I can't start because I
can't finish this and it's a bigproblem.
No, no, no, no, it's just aboutmaking progress.
So, one at a time we put itdown.
Number two, put it down Numberthree.
(13:40):
Bring it from the damn matrixand put it down there and you
can choose to walk the plank andput the things in the order
that you want.
It doesn't matter.
Again, I'm not going to gradethis and nobody's going to get
mad at you, but the idea is thisis to transition that all of
that stuff.
We've got it out of our head,we've prioritized it.
Now we're like we're closer tocommitment time.
(14:01):
We're saying this is going tobe first, this is going to be
second, this is going to bethird, so on and so forth.
If that scares you a little bit, I get it.
Some people are like, oh, we'regetting closer to commitment
and commitment is where it's atright.
Like the whole point of thisthing is to help you commit to
you, and I know it's reallyuncomfortable.
(14:21):
But if you download the thingand you start using it like
shout out and props to you,because I think that's like the
first step in making those typesof commitments, once we've done
this, we all of a suddendiscover a brand new problem.
Because why?
Because we're human beings.
The next step is to take each ofthose things that you've walked
(14:44):
the plank on one at a time andfind empty space in your
calendar, right, like?
Open up your Outlook calendar oryour Google calendar or your.
If you have a daily planner thatyou use and you plan, it
doesn't matter.
Open that thing up and go findempty space, space that's not
committed, and start committingto yourself one at a time,
(15:09):
whatever.
That is that one thing.
If it's a 30-minute thing, ifit's a 10 10 day project, if
it's a six month training thing,all you need to do is dedicate
a block of time to it into inthe future, because right now I
know you ain't in your calendarBlock some time for that thing,
and then you take number twoblock some time for that thing,
(15:29):
then you take number three blocksome time for that thing.
Now what normally happens ispeople get stuck here.
They get scared because theyknow when they open up their
calendar, their calendar doesn'thave everything in it.
There's a whole lot of othercommitments that are still
wrangling, binging, bangingaround in their brain.
They haven't got it out oftheir head and that's why the
(15:51):
next step is strategicallyselfish scheduling, where you
will get a framework to wrangleall of that stuff and get it
under control and get clearabout what's important and
what's not.
So I want you to think about the list of goals
that you've had just for thisyear and we never make the time
to make those things happen.
But what's happening is we'redoing all kinds of other things,
making stuff happen foreverybody else.
Putting yourself first is theway to overcome that.
I know it's super uncomfortable.
That's why I'm calling it theguilt-free future planning,
(00:22):
because I'm going to take allthe guilt for you and you don't
have to worry that you're likethe first person ever to go
through this, because we've hadpeople go through this before.
What we're going to talk abouttoday is the guilt-free future
planning and it has three piecesto it.
So we're going to walk youthrough the brain dump.
(00:42):
If you're like a make ithappener self-starter actually
that's kind of perfect becauseyou can sign up and download the
template I'm going to walk youthrough kind of the basics of it
.
We're going to do the braindump, then we're going to go
through the damn matrix and thenwe're going to do the walking
the plank, which are the threeelements of guilt-free future
planning.
It's a way to prioritize andmake stuff happen.
(01:04):
And if you're wondering like howin the world did this ever come
up, it was because I struggled.
I was looking at a list ofthings that I had on the wall.
A friend of mine was like Jess,you're so organized, you've got
all these things, all your bigprojects, big ideas, and you're
just knocking them out.
And I'm like, okay, thank you.
And she said, but I think youwrote down the wrong year.
(01:25):
And I said, no, actually that'sthe year I made the plan.
I just haven't done thosethings.
Yet it was five years hadpassed and I hadn't made any
moves on the things that filledmy cup because I was putting
everybody else first.
And so the analysis was this Iknow how to make things happen.
I'm kicking butt in my career.
I'm kicking butt in thecommunity.
(01:45):
I'm doing good in my job, I'mgetting promotions.
I know how to make thingshappen for everybody else, but I
need to make things happen forme.
So this is the template.
Again, if you want the template, there's, there's a link.
Go get the link and sign up.
What's most important to me isthat you use it so that you can
get more we'll say, fulfillmentout of life.
Now, there are three elementshere.
(02:09):
The first element I'm going torefer to as the brain dump right
.
And so that's this first toppart here.
And, like I said a little whileago, think about all the things
, all the objectives, the ideas,the projects that you have been
like oh, I would love to dothat or that you committed to
(02:29):
doing this year and the onesthat you haven't made any
movement on.
The idea is to get those thingsout of your head, and I have
three buckets there.
Right, this is the brain dump.
One bucket is like what are thethings in your business or
professional growth right Inthat segment of your life, what
are the things that you've beenwanting to do, that you keep
(02:50):
thinking about, that you keepputting off?
That would be awesome if youactually had the time.
Dump those in this little boxhere.
Right?
Examples of that arecertifications.
If you run your own business,maybe you want to expand
services, or you want to expandyour business, you want to hire
people, you want a new promotion, you want a side gig, like all
of these kinds of things thatare like in the professional
(03:12):
space.
Write them down in that bucketand don't worry about it.
Right, I'm not going to tell onanybody, just write them down,
get them out of your head.
The other bucket is personalgrowth.
Now, I know that's kind ofclose to what we're talking
about a little while ago, butwhen I'm talking about personal
growth, I'm about me, right,like what new skills do I want
(03:32):
to learn?
Maybe I'm going to start aYouTube channel.
Maybe I want to pick up runningor exercise or spend more time
journaling these kinds of thingsthat we all kind of think about
.
Someday we're going to do it.
Dump those out, get them out ofyour head and put them in that
little box.
And then the last box is likemeaningful connections,
relationships, personal,romantic, professional,
(03:56):
community, engagement, stuffwith your church.
If you're a church person, likethese types of community things
are meaningful connections.
Cause why?
Because they're valuable, right?
Or maybe maybe you'resurrounded by turkeys and a
bunch of scrubs and you want toupgrade the people that you are
connected with, that you spendtime with.
That's a good plan.
I highly highly recommend it,and so you would get all of
(04:19):
these things out of your head,right.
This is the bring them.
What are the things that you'vethought about, that you've
flirted with the idea but thenyou suppressed it because you
had to pick up the kids orbecause you have a deadline, or
because you have an email orbecause you have a media, and so
those things just staycluttered in our head.
Get them out of your head.
If you got a question, if I'mgoing too fast, if I ain't
(04:40):
making sense, drop it in thecomments so that I can respond
back to you.
And if you don't have anyquestions about the brain dump
segment of the thing, we'regoing to transition into the
damn matrix.
So this is the second part ofthe guilt-free future planning.
Now, one thing that's really,really important is when you
(05:00):
think about these things the bigideas, the goals, the things
that you want to invest inyourself, about what do you
think about?
Not what other people want youto do, not what you should do,
what exactly, what the hell youwant to do.
And I am here to absolve you ofany and all guilt, because
(05:23):
guess what, as soon as you'redone with this piece of it, you
go back and do whatever you wantto do, like go back to normal.
But just for now, when you'resitting through this piece, I
want you to think about it fromyour perspective.
Only, not what other peopleexpect, not what you think
people want.
What you want, period.
Okay, I had to say that Got tosay that, right.
(05:44):
And so after you do the braindump this is the idea you come
in here to the damn matrix.
Right, and I'll explain thedamn matrix real quick.
This is going to help usprioritize all of those things
the stuff, the business,professional related stuff, the
skills, the skill building stuffand the community relationship
stuff, all of those things likeman, that's a lot of stuff, I
(06:07):
know I get it.
So now we want to prioritize itand this is a way to prioritize
it and we're going to kind ofweigh them based on impact and
effort.
I am a huge proponent of lookingand focusing on the things that
are going to bring the greatestimpact with the lowest effort,
right, like, if it's hard, wecan do that one later.
(06:27):
And so if we think of the scaleright up and down high impact
at the top, low impact on thebottom.
If we think left the scaleright up and down high impact at
the top, low impact on thebottom.
If we think left to righteffort low effort to the left,
highest effort to the right.
And so what that means is thetop left quadrant.
What we want to put in thatquadrant are the things that are
highest impact, lowest effort.
(06:48):
Is it going to be easy Pullingthe trigger, making that
decision?
How easy is it?
Low effort, boom, let's putthat bad boy on it.
We think it's going to have ahigh impact.
Good, like you don't need to doa data study or any of that.
Just what does it feel like?
What do you think?
Get it out of your head, dumpit there.
Then we have high impact stillon the high impact side of it.
But it's high effort, right,it's going to take some, maybe
(07:09):
some, some sacrifices, somecommitment.
You might have to get out thereand run a few miles.
Whatever it is your target is.
But think about it.
If it's got high impact andhigh effort, that's going to be
on the top right-hand quadrant,okay.
And then we go down to thebottom, where the M, which is
lower impact but still loweffort.
Right, like it's not going tobe as impactful as the other
(07:31):
things.
Like this is a relativeassessment.
We're going to be as impactfulas the other things.
This is a relative assessment.
We're going to put that downthere low impact and low effort.
If it's not going to take a lotof effort and it's not going to
have great impact, it may notbe the end of the world to
invest time and resources there.
And then, lastly, is high effort.
It's going to take a lot ofeffort to do the damn thing and
(07:55):
it's going to have low impact Ifanything falls in there.
We need to evaluate that.
And so why is it the damnmatrix?
Because D everything in the topleft quadrant.
We want to do those first.
Anything that is high impact,low effort, pull the trigger on
that bad boy.
Because it helps us buildmomentum.
It helps us build momentum andI know most of us out there are
(08:18):
no bueno.
We are not good at makingourselves a priority.
We have been conditioned tomake everyone else a priority
and put ourselves last.
And if you're one of thosepeople out there, you know what
I'm talking about.
Give me a high five or somethumbs up, some hearts and all
that other beautiful stuff, sothat I know I'm not the only one
.
Now, anything that landed in thetop right quadrant is what
(08:40):
we're going to do after whateveris in the D quadrant Right the
D quadrant high impact, loweffort.
Once we get those balls rolling, then we can go on to the next
one.
Why?
Because there's still highimpact and the effort might be a
little bit higher, but they'restill very, very impactful.
Then we think about the lowimpact, low effort.
(09:02):
Right, let's think about it.
Maybe we want to do them ormaybe, after we've pulled the
trigger of the high impactthings, we found a new path and
we say, oh my God, I just allthat other stuff, I don't need
to worry about it, this iswhat's filling my cup.
I'm going to just go doubledown on these things.
Anything that falls in the higheffort, low impact quadrant, we
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need to evaluate it right,because it's going to take a lot
of time and resources and youare already like a super, super
committed overachiever.
Make it happener.
You don't just need to bepicking things up to do things.
You got plenty going on, somaybe it just needs to come off
the list.
Boom, bam.
So that's the damn matrix.
Again, I want to remind you ofthis three pieces, three steps
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in here, which is the brain dumpright, get the things, ideas
that we've had in our head, thatwe've been kind of
procrastinating ondeprioritizing someday.
I'll do it whenever I have thetime.
And then, once we do that, thenwe slide them over and we weigh
them based on impact and effort, right, boom, put them wherever
they need to be.
And guess what, if you put itthere now and it doesn't make
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sense, it's okay, you can moveit.
I'm not going to tell anybody,I promise.
And then, lastly, we get intowalking the plank.
And this is where we get tolike commitment time.
We've covered the brain dump,we've covered the damn matrix,
effort and impact, and now we'regoing to do walking the plank.
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And so I know I'm going likesuper, super speedy, talking a
million miles an hour, becausethat's me, that's the way I do
it.
I need to tell you this is onepiece of the whole workshop, the
self first time masteryworkshop we go into guilt-free
future planning.
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After we do that, then we getinto strategically selfish
scheduling and after we do that,we slide into daily domination.
And so it's big picture, futureplanning, future outlook.
How do we do that?
All with the purpose, or maybewith the philosophy of
self-first right, of reinvestinginto ourselves and making
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ourselves a priority.
We start high level, bigpicture.
Then we say, okay, now let'sget it in our calendar.
And then we say, okay, now it'sin our calendar.
And then we say, okay, now it'sin our calendar.
How do we go and make thingshappen every day so that we get
that momentum and we're clickingon all 12 cylinders and making
stuff happen.
So what I'm showing you todayis just one piece of that.
Again, you don't have to signup for the workshop.
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You can sign up and downloadthe damn template and start
using it yourself and modify itand customize it for your own
needs.
But if you like learning withthe community and my energy
doesn't disgust you you shouldprobably sign up for the
workshop.
All right, so let's go into thefinal piece of the guilt-free
future planning.
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Let me find my thing.
I've got so many clickingsgoing on over here, and so the
last element of the guilt-freefuture planning is walking the
plank.
And so the funnel, right.
How does this thing flow?
Well, we did the brain dump.
We got all the stuff out of ourhead in terms of, like, our
business and professional growth, the things that we want to do,
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personal growth, meaningfulconnections, all right.
Then we said, okay, we're goingto prioritize them based on
effort and impact.
Yay, awesome, we're movingforward now.
And now what you would do iswalk the plank, and this is the
hard one for me.
Like, if you're super, like, Iwant to do everything right now.
I get you because I have thatproblem, but walking the plank
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is what's helped me transitionfrom like starting fires all
over the place to like actuallygetting stuff done and making
progress and meaningful impacton the things that I want to
have impact on.
And so walking the plank meansone at a time, and so I got all
this stuff out of my head.
I've weighted them based onimpact and effort, and now I
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take the one that's going tohave the highest impact with the
lowest amount of effort and Iput that first, and then I pick
the second one, and then I pickthe third one and I just put
them in order and that's that'sthe deal.
Now, again, highly recommend tostart with the highest impact
and lowest effort, becausethere's less friction there and
you'll be able to get like makereal progress and start taking
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action and get that momentum andget excited and energized.
You don't have to complete thething.
This is all about momentum andgetting the ball rolling.
A lot of people get hung up like, oh, I can't start because I
can't finish this and it's a bigproblem.
No, no, no, no, it's just aboutmaking progress.
So, one at a time we put itdown.
Number two, put it down Numberthree.
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Bring it from the damn matrixand put it down there and you
can choose to walk the plank andput the things in the order
that you want.
It doesn't matter.
Again, I'm not going to gradethis and nobody's going to get
mad at you, but the idea is thisis to transition that all of
that stuff.
We've got it out of our head,we've prioritized it.
Now we're like we're closer tocommitment time.
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We're saying this is going tobe first, this is going to be
second, this is going to bethird, so on and so forth.
If that scares you a little bit, I get it.
Some people are like, oh, we'regetting closer to commitment
and commitment is where it's atright.
Like the whole point of thisthing is to help you commit to
you, and I know it's reallyuncomfortable.
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But if you download the thingand you start using it like
shout out and props to you,because I think that's like the
first step in making those typesof commitments, once we've done
this, we all of a suddendiscover a brand new problem.
Because why?
Because we're human beings.
The next step is to take each ofthose things that you've walked
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the plank on one at a time andfind empty space in your
calendar, right, like?
Open up your Outlook calendar oryour Google calendar or your.
If you have a daily planner thatyou use and you plan, it
doesn't matter.
Open that thing up and go findempty space, space that's not
committed, and start committingto yourself one at a time,
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whatever.
That is that one thing.
If it's a 30-minute thing, ifit's a 10 10 day project, if
it's a six month training thing,all you need to do is dedicate
a block of time to it into inthe future, because right now I
know you ain't in your calendarBlock some time for that thing,
and then you take number twoblock some time for that thing,
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then you take number three blocksome time for that thing.
Now what normally happens ispeople get stuck here.
They get scared because theyknow when they open up their
calendar, their calendar doesn'thave everything in it.
There's a whole lot of othercommitments that are still
wrangling, binging, bangingaround in their brain.
They haven't got it out oftheir head and that's why the
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next step is strategicallyselfish scheduling, where you
will get a framework to wrangleall of that stuff and get it
under control and get clearabout what's important and
what's not.
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