April 15, 2024
827. Overcome Procrastination With The "Early 30" Method.
You may not always have time to finish, but you always have time to start.
Today, you will learn how to overcome procrastination through my "Early 30" Method. I use this technique with my writing and in other areas where I delay starting simply because I won't "finish."
Listeners will gain:
- Strategies to Combat Procrastination: Learn practical ways to start tasks without the pressure of needing to finish them in one sitting.
- Morning Routine Mastery: Discover how dedicating the first 30 minutes of your day to personal priorities can lead to increased productivity and a clearer mind.
- Enhanced Creativity: Get tips on how daily writing and other creative practices can sharpen your thinking and expand your problem-solving abilities.
Tools for Thought Capture: Learn how to use technology like voice recording apps to never lose a fleeting idea or moment of inspiration again.
- Improved Communication Skills: Learn how the discipline of recording and reflecting can refine your speaking abilities and reduce unnecessary filler words.
- Consistency and Momentum Building: Understand the importance of small, consistent actions in building momentum that can lead to significant long-term benefits.
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many times I procrastinate from starting because I know that I don't have time to finish.
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See, starting beats procrastination and this is what feeds the momentum.
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I don't have to ever start over.
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If I never quit and I won't always have time as much as I'd love to, but I used to get so frustrated because, oh man, I got to finish this and I would, I would put my health on the sidelines and say, oh, I got to finish this.
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There was always justification.
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I would be late for work because I got to finish this.
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Like all these kinds of different things.
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I won't always have time to finish in one sitting.
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But I can start in one sitting.
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That's what's beautiful about it.
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So the early 30 is important because you start the first thing in the morning.
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Okay.
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It's that first 30 minutes in the morning where you come first.
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So you get the ball rolling and sometimes you finish.
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Other times you don't, but what happens is, is you get the consistency going, you get the momentum flowing, and then you just add to it along the way.
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Kind of like when my dad loves to make homemade bread.
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And so he's got this starter kit.
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That he keeps in his fridge and it's this jar of yeast.
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I don't know.
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It looks kind of nasty But anyway, it's this jar of yeast that he keeps in the refrigerator So when he wants to start a new loaf of bread, he reaches to the back of the refrigerator He puts that yeast I guess with the dough.
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I don't really know how that shit works but all of a sudden it's that starter kit form and it It's a lot easier to make bread that way.
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That's what, that's what it is for you.
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So the early 30 is like that baking a loaf of bread of success.
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It's where you're actually adding, you've already got a little starter going that early 30 and then you just add to it along the way the early 30 is important because you start first thing in the morning when your mind is most fresh and just like you don't like eating leftovers after a couple of days, your life doesn't like feeding on leftovers day after day, month after month.
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This is why I say you come first and so the freshest version that you have is that early 30.
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It's that first thing in the morning, getting the writing down.
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This is what's so key for you, man.
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Because number one, you hear me preach it all the time.
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This is what's going to empty your mind.
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It's kind of like cleaning out storage on your phone.
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You finally got to get around to it.
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Like I'm having trouble on my big Mac, computer.
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Because I've downloaded so much stuff and I said, Oh, I'm gonna get around to it and clean out the files till finally my system crash and said, no more memory.
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I can't do anything else.
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That's what happens in your life.
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You keep filling up, keep filling up saying, Oh, one day I'm going to deal with these things.
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Oh, one day I'm going to clean this storage out.
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And then finally, you just snap writing.
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Is what will prevent that occurrence from happening.
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And so what you're doing is, is you're emptying out your mind.
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You're clearing out those things, the wins, the losses, the lessons, the conversations, the aha moments, anything.
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You just write it down and you write about it.
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I have a challenge every single day, write at least one page.
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When I first started, that was tough.
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Now it's tough to just keep it at one page.
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Many times I'm two and three pages on, but write these things down, man.
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If you're in a creative field this will especially be helpful for you.
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Don't sit there and say, Oh, I'm not gonna write.
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Cause I'm not in creative field.
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You are in the creative, but you are, your life is creative.
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This is what helps flex that curiosity.
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That creativity muscle is writing these things down because the beautiful thing about writing is you have to think you have to contextualize it.
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You have to write it.
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You shouldn't type it cause you're going to self censor.
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So writing is that psychoneural connection that you have, and it causes you to think, pick up the pen, look around, talk it out, write it down.
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That's how important writing is.
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So write about anything, man.
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Like I said, the wins, the losses, the aha moments.
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Write it, write it, write it.
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For me, for the early 30, because I have the podcast, what I'll do is I'll start on an episode.
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And then sometimes I'll just add to it as the day progresses.
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Sometimes I'll just go back to it many days later.
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If I can't get it done all at once, many times I don't, but see, it's easier to pick it up along the way.
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Once you start with the early 30 and all you got to do is add to it.
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This is what makes it so much easier because you just keep it going.
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You've already overcome that initial wave of resistance, because think about resistance many times you don't get started because why I don't have time to finish.
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But if you just get started and you just roll with it, and then you say up times up, many times when you walk away from it and you go out into society, then you're going to have something that you just wrote about.
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And you're so keen and you're so clued in that something is going to pop up along the way.
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And you're going to be like, I can add to this and because your work was not done, but it was started, you just add to it along the way.
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See how helpful that is, man.
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This is the benefits of that early 30 you're going to find that when you start with this early 30, this is what's going to make you more purposeful.
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And you're not going to sleep walk through your day because you started with writing.
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You started putting yourself first.
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You started with this thing and now you got your, your juices flowing.
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Think about how many people just come into work, just brain dead.
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When you're brain dead, you're not receptive to what's going on during the day.
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But when you sit there and you just take 30 minutes, man, early 30, call it early 10, early 15, whatever early 30 for me, I segment, I put my timer on my Fitbit and I go 30 minutes when the time is up.
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I walk away from it.
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Sometimes like this morning, I had time to continue to add to it.
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Good.
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So I just keep writing.
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That's what's beautiful about that.
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Writing that thing is going to make you more, perceptive it's going to make your day more colorful from there.
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Now, many, many people hit me up and say, I don't know what to write about.
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I get up in the mornings and I don't know what to write.
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Here is something that will really help you throughout the day.
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Download a voice recording app to your phone.
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Most, most phones come with it, but go to your app store.
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Just download the free version and, whenever an idea, an aha moment, a great conversation, a passage from a book, a quote, a tweet, a post, whatever, when something triggers you capture it right then and there what's important about capturing an on voice memo app is number one.
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You capture the moment right then and there, because you're going to forget about it.
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Five minutes later, how many times have you said, Oh, as soon as I get to this stop, I'm going to write it down.
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And then you get there and you're like, well, what was I thinking about?
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So capture it in the morning, dude, I'll be riding down the road.
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I'll be jogging.
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I'll be working out.
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I come up with ideas.
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I capture it right then and there.
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What's important also is, is you capture not only the thought, but you capture the emotions around the thought I've listened to.
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Like I listened to one.
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Today from April of 2021, I have like 2000 messages.
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I listened to one from April of 2021 and I heard the background and I remember right then and there where I was.
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So you can capture the emotion and kind of spitball because sometimes when you just make little three word notes to yourself on those things, then when you go back to it later and you just wrote it and that was it, you're like, I don't really know where I was going with that.
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But if you capture it on your voice memo app and all the emotion and a little.
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Context to that, then here's what's key.
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Then you can come back around in the mornings when you're freshest and you need something to write about, dude, I'll go through 2000 of these.
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I'll just like Russian roulette, man.
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I'll just, until I find one that really sticks to my soul.
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I said, that's what I'm going with today.
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You can label these voice memo apps.
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So you label it with something that, it's a trigger word, uh, momentum, uh, converting sales, customer service, the name of a book, Ray Dalio's principles, label it, whatever you want to.
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So that way.
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It's got a search bar at the top.
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So when you want to look up something, you type in R A Y for Ray Dalio and anything you ever wrote about Ray Dalio is gonna be right there.
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And so you may have five different, like I'll type in momentum.
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I have a lot of different things on momentum.
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I'll have 15 or 20 topics of momentum to choose from and that'll give me something to rock with.
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What makes it even interesting too is say for instance if you capture a thought from a book and you label the book Then when you're out at dinner, you're sharing thoughts with friends.
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You're like, I'm trying to think of it.
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You can look it up, go to your search bar, type in the book title, and you'll be able to listen back to any thing.
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Like you go to the bathroom and you come back or say they brought up a book.
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You're like, yeah, it's been a man since I listened to that book.
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Why I read that book, go to the bathroom real quick, capture some of your notes that you left on your voice memo app, you come back and it's fresh and you're like, Oh my God, this guy's so smart.
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This will give you man, if you do this throughout the day, I try to make it a point to capture anything and everything I can.
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I try to capture something every day.
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Many times I do.
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Many times it's five or six things, but that way I can capture the emotions.
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It's labeled.
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And I'm never just waking up with, Dry powder trying to figure out what the hell I'm going to talk about or think about today.
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I actually have some starters like that, like that yeast itself.
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Here's something I learned along the way too.
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When you start recording practice your cadence.
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As you're speaking into the microphone, nobody's around, you're recording the idea, but try to stop and not say, um, like, you know, those kinds of different things, you know, so as you're doing that, make it a conscious effort to be clear with what you're saying and concise.
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And as you do that, you'll be less likely to do the ums and ahs and this.
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Is a way that I found that I actually speak better.
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And so when I'm working with customers, when I'm on live, when I'm recording a podcast, I don't have to edit out the ums and the you knows quite as often because I've practiced.
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So much recording to my voice memo app that many times I've eliminated those things because a lot of times it's just nerves or you're just trying to link one thought to the next.
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But if you start practicing the spaces in between the thoughts, if you just hold the space, then you connect to the next thought.
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And you rock on from there.
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All right.
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So that's the early 30.
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That's what I use.
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Hopefully this helps you.
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You may not have time to finish, but you always got time to start.
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All right, let's get out of here.
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Keep it simple.
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Keep it moving.
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Never settle.
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Keep building the momentum.
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Stay tough.
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Peace.
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many times I procrastinate from starting because I know that I don't have time to finish.
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See, starting beats procrastination and this is what feeds the momentum.
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I don't have to ever start over.
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If I never quit and I won't always have time as much as I'd love to, but I used to get so frustrated because, oh man, I got to finish this and I would, I would put my health on the sidelines and say, oh, I got to finish this.
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There was always justification.
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I would be late for work because I got to finish this.
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Like all these kinds of different things.
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I won't always have time to finish in one sitting.
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But I can start in one sitting.
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That's what's beautiful about it.
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So the early 30 is important because you start the first thing in the morning.
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Okay.
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It's that first 30 minutes in the morning where you come first.
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So you get the ball rolling and sometimes you finish.
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Other times you don't, but what happens is, is you get the consistency going, you get the momentum flowing, and then you just add to it along the way.
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Kind of like when my dad loves to make homemade bread.
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And so he's got this starter kit.
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That he keeps in his fridge and it's this jar of yeast.
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I don't know.
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It looks kind of nasty But anyway, it's this jar of yeast that he keeps in the refrigerator So when he wants to start a new loaf of bread, he reaches to the back of the refrigerator He puts that yeast I guess with the dough.
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I don't really know how that shit works but all of a sudden it's that starter kit form and it It's a lot easier to make bread that way.
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That's what, that's what it is for you.
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So the early 30 is like that baking a loaf of bread of success.
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It's where you're actually adding, you've already got a little starter going that early 30 and then you just add to it along the way the early 30 is important because you start first thing in the morning when your mind is most fresh and just like you don't like eating leftovers after a couple of days, your life doesn't like feeding on leftovers day after day, month after month.
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This is why I say you come first and so the freshest version that you have is that early 30.
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It's that first thing in the morning, getting the writing down.
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This is what's so key for you, man.
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Because number one, you hear me preach it all the time.
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This is what's going to empty your mind.
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It's kind of like cleaning out storage on your phone.
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You finally got to get around to it.
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Like I'm having trouble on my big Mac, computer.
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Because I've downloaded so much stuff and I said, Oh, I'm gonna get around to it and clean out the files till finally my system crash and said, no more memory.
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I can't do anything else.
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That's what happens in your life.
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You keep filling up, keep filling up saying, Oh, one day I'm going to deal with these things.
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Oh, one day I'm going to clean this storage out.
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And then finally, you just snap writing.
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Is what will prevent that occurrence from happening.
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And so what you're doing is, is you're emptying out your mind.
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You're clearing out those things, the wins, the losses, the lessons, the conversations, the aha moments, anything.
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You just write it down and you write about it.
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I have a challenge every single day, write at least one page.
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When I first started, that was tough.
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Now it's tough to just keep it at one page.
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Many times I'm two and three pages on, but write these things down, man.
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If you're in a creative field this will especially be helpful for you.
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Don't sit there and say, Oh, I'm not gonna write.
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Cause I'm not in creative field.
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You are in the creative, but you are, your life is creative.
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This is what helps flex that curiosity.
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That creativity muscle is writing these things down because the beautiful thing about writing is you have to think you have to contextualize it.
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You have to write it.
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You shouldn't type it cause you're going to self censor.
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So writing is that psychoneural connection that you have, and it causes you to think, pick up the pen, look around, talk it out, write it down.
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That's how important writing is.
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So write about anything, man.
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Like I said, the wins, the losses, the aha moments.
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Write it, write it, write it.
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For me, for the early 30, because I have the podcast, what I'll do is I'll start on an episode.
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And then sometimes I'll just add to it as the day progresses.
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Sometimes I'll just go back to it many days later.
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If I can't get it done all at once, many times I don't, but see, it's easier to pick it up along the way.
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Once you start with the early 30 and all you got to do is add to it.
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This is what makes it so much easier because you just keep it going.
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You've already overcome that initial wave of resistance, because think about resistance many times you don't get started because why I don't have time to finish.
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But if you just get started and you just roll with it, and then you say up times up, many times when you walk away from it and you go out into society, then you're going to have something that you just wrote about.
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And you're so keen and you're so clued in that something is going to pop up along the way.
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And you're going to be like, I can add to this and because your work was not done, but it was started, you just add to it along the way.
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See how helpful that is, man.
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This is the benefits of that early 30 you're going to find that when you start with this early 30, this is what's going to make you more purposeful.
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And you're not going to sleep walk through your day because you started with writing.
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You started putting yourself first.
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You started with this thing and now you got your, your juices flowing.
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Think about how many people just come into work, just brain dead.
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When you're brain dead, you're not receptive to what's going on during the day.
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But when you sit there and you just take 30 minutes, man, early 30, call it early 10, early 15, whatever early 30 for me, I segment, I put my timer on my Fitbit and I go 30 minutes when the time is up.
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I walk away from it.
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Sometimes like this morning, I had time to continue to add to it.
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Good.
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So I just keep writing.
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That's what's beautiful about that.
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Writing that thing is going to make you more, perceptive it's going to make your day more colorful from there.
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Now, many, many people hit me up and say, I don't know what to write about.
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I get up in the mornings and I don't know what to write.
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Here is something that will really help you throughout the day.
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Download a voice recording app to your phone.
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Most, most phones come with it, but go to your app store.
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Just download the free version and, whenever an idea, an aha moment, a great conversation, a passage from a book, a quote, a tweet, a post, whatever, when something triggers you capture it right then and there what's important about capturing an on voice memo app is number one.
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You capture the moment right then and there, because you're going to forget about it.
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Five minutes later, how many times have you said, Oh, as soon as I get to this stop, I'm going to write it down.
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And then you get there and you're like, well, what was I thinking about?
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So capture it in the morning, dude, I'll be riding down the road.
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I'll be jogging.
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I'll be working out.
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I come up with ideas.
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I capture it right then and there.
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What's important also is, is you capture not only the thought, but you capture the emotions around the thought I've listened to.
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Like I listened to one.
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Today from April of 2021, I have like 2000 messages.
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I listened to one from April of 2021 and I heard the background and I remember right then and there where I was.
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So you can capture the emotion and kind of spitball because sometimes when you just make little three word notes to yourself on those things, then when you go back to it later and you just wrote it and that was it, you're like, I don't really know where I was going with that.
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But if you capture it on your voice memo app and all the emotion and a little.
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Context to that, then here's what's key.
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Then you can come back around in the mornings when you're freshest and you need something to write about, dude, I'll go through 2000 of these.
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I'll just like Russian roulette, man.
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I'll just, until I find one that really sticks to my soul.
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I said, that's what I'm going with today.
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You can label these voice memo apps.
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So you label it with something that, it's a trigger word, uh, momentum, uh, converting sales, customer service, the name of a book, Ray Dalio's principles, label it, whatever you want to.
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So that way.
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It's got a search bar at the top.
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So when you want to look up something, you type in R A Y for Ray Dalio and anything you ever wrote about Ray Dalio is gonna be right there.
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And so you may have five different, like I'll type in momentum.
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I have a lot of different things on momentum.
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I'll have 15 or 20 topics of momentum to choose from and that'll give me something to rock with.
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What makes it even interesting too is say for instance if you capture a thought from a book and you label the book Then when you're out at dinner, you're sharing thoughts with friends.
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You're like, I'm trying to think of it.
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You can look it up, go to your search bar, type in the book title, and you'll be able to listen back to any thing.
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Like you go to the bathroom and you come back or say they brought up a book.
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You're like, yeah, it's been a man since I listened to that book.
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Why I read that book, go to the bathroom real quick, capture some of your notes that you left on your voice memo app, you come back and it's fresh and you're like, Oh my God, this guy's so smart.
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This will give you man, if you do this throughout the day, I try to make it a point to capture anything and everything I can.
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I try to capture something every day.
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Many times I do.
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Many times it's five or six things, but that way I can capture the emotions.
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It's labeled.
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And I'm never just waking up with, Dry powder trying to figure out what the hell I'm going to talk about or think about today.
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I actually have some starters like that, like that yeast itself.
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Here's something I learned along the way too.
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When you start recording practice your cadence.
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As you're speaking into the microphone, nobody's around, you're recording the idea, but try to stop and not say, um, like, you know, those kinds of different things, you know, so as you're doing that, make it a conscious effort to be clear with what you're saying and concise.
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And as you do that, you'll be less likely to do the ums and ahs and this.
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Is a way that I found that I actually speak better.
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And so when I'm working with customers, when I'm on live, when I'm recording a podcast, I don't have to edit out the ums and the you knows quite as often because I've practiced.
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So much recording to my voice memo app that many times I've eliminated those things because a lot of times it's just nerves or you're just trying to link one thought to the next.
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But if you start practicing the spaces in between the thoughts, if you just hold the space, then you connect to the next thought.
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And you rock on from there.
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All right.
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So that's the early 30.
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That's what I use.
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Hopefully this helps you.
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You may not have time to finish, but you always got time to start.
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All right, let's get out of here.
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Keep it simple.
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Keep it moving.
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Never settle.
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Keep building the momentum.
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Stay tough.
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Peace.