You’re listening to the Transform Your Life from the Inside Out podcast. This is a throwback episode from episode number 11. That episode was titled The Real Reason You Never Have Enough Time To Do All That You Want To. In this episode, I talk about how many of us, literally, we want to do a lot of different things. We just don’t have the time to do it. And the reason we don’t have the time to do it is because we’re mismanaging ourselves. Many of us are trying to manage our time by time. We’re trying to manage the clock by time. That’s not how we wanna manage our time. We want to start managing so that we can get more things done. We wanna start managing through commitment, values, and priority. When we manage through commitment, values, and priority, now we’re effectively and wisely using our time, so therefore we have enough time to get done what we need to get done. So, if you want to actually start creating more in life and you want to get more done, then simply stop managing by the clock and manage by priority and manage by commitment. Hopefully, you enjoy this episode and apply what you learn. Keep listening. Hi, I’m Jim Fortin and you’re about to start transforming your life from the inside out with this podcast. I’m widely considered the leader in subconscious transformation, and I’ve coached super achievers all around the world for over 25 years. Here you’re going to find no raw, raw motivation and no hype because this podcast is a combination of brain science, transformational psychology, and ancient wisdom all rolled into one to take your life to levels you’ve never thought possible. If you’re wanting a lot more in life, to feel better, to heal, to have peace of mind, to feel powerful and alive, and to bring more abundance and prosperity into your life, then this podcast is for you because you’re going to start learning how to master your mind and evolve your consciousness. And when you do that, anything you want, then becomes possible for you. I’m glad you’re here. All right, this is not going to be a time management episode. I’m not gonna talk to you about time management and give you processes or tactics or any of that. This episode is about your brain-based habits. It’s about your unconscious paradigms. And it’s about your unconscious values that drive you. Because see, these are all internal things and these all drive what you do. And then what people try to do is they try to actually fit their unconscious values and habits and paradigms into a clock. And then, like I started this episode with, is most people never have enough time. So, we’re gonna, and this is gonna be not, this is not gonna be a really, really long episode. Hopefully, I’m gonna make it a little shorter, but definitely, once you’re done with this episode, you’ll understand that managing your time is no longer about the clock. Something else that I want to mention is that one of the biggest traps that a lot of people get into is they manage their time by circumstance, they manage their time by time, and they manage their time by convenience. What I want you to get, and this is something that I learned from a coach of mine, and it was life-changing, is, and you may want to write this down, and you hear me say, “If you’re not driving, you know, you may want to write this down.” But it’s this simple phrase, “When I manage my time by time, I never have enough time. I’ll repeat that. When I manage my time by time, I will never have enough time. And the same thing applies to our circumstances and convenience. When I manage my time by circumstance, I will never have enough time. And when I manage my time by convenience, I will never have enough time. You know, I’m not gonna get into it this podcast in this episode, but managing our lives by convenience is what most of us do. And then we wonder why we’re not getting the outcomes that we want. All right, so I just said that many of us work by circumstance. Here’s something else that I want to understand is that when we work by circumstance, I tell people this all the time. And people, they get it, they understand it, but people don’t know it. But here’s the thing, when we work by circumstance, when you work by circumstance, you repeat your circumstance. Let me give you a great example of that. Many times people will say things like, “You know, Jim, I wanna go into your coaching programs, but I don’t have the money right now.” But then I’ll write, well, so what they’re doing here is they’re saying, “In my circumstance, I don’t have the money. So therefore, I’m not going to do it. And then what they’re not even recognizing is that they’re working from their circumstance. They are the person who created their circumstance. And if they never change who they are, they never change their circumstance. So please, this would be a foundational thing that I want you to get in all the episodes that I put out is that when I work by circumstance, meaning you, when I work by circumstance, I repeat my circumstances. So what that means is, if you wanna create different things in your life, you can no longer work by circumstance. So big takeaway, it’s a bit relative to what we’re doing this week, and hopefully that will be a life-changing thought and paradigm for you. Where we have to start working from is we have to start working from priority. Meaning we have to start working from what am I going to make a priority so that I can shift and I can change my life? Now notice what I just said about circumstance. If we work from circumstance, what we’re also saying is that we’re making our circumstance a priority over what it is that we want to create and do and be in happen life. That’s why it’s vital that going forward after this podcast that you start working from priority, meaning what is it that you want to create and that has to be prioritized. The biggest mistake that most people make is that they work from short term low hanging fruit tactics. What I mean by that is people, many people are so busy chasing money and what’s right in front of them, which are tactics, low hanging fruit money, as opposed to working from long term strategy and they manage your time, their time and that whole process. And I have to say that I used to be that same person. I used to always look at okay I’m gonna manage my time this week and what I’m going to do with it And this was all unconscious by the way and many if you do the same thing is you say I’m going to do X Y Z this week and when you stand back and you look at it You know what you’re doing with your time every bit of your time is invested in Chasing, you know short-term tactics to make you money And when you do that, you will never, ever, ever make the amount of money that you can make. Where we ideally want to work, and you can ask different people and time management experts and blah, blah, blah, but what I’ve noticed in my own life where you ideally want to work towards is you want to work towards looking at a three-year strategy, meaning what can I do today to have my business up and running where it, or my life or my health or whatever it is, in three years. also a caveat there. There’s no reason to worry or fret or any of that. I’m speaking more in terms of business. And when I say worry, I know some of you listening might have said, oh my God, three years, I need money now, or I need health now. Obviously I’m talking about focusing on it now. But what I’m looking at also is what can I do in terms of long term strategy, as opposed to short term tactics to actually create the outcomes that I want to create in life. Because if you notice when you’re working the tactics, which this week is about time, and, you know, the allocation of it, have you noticed that when you’re working the short-term tactics, you’re generally like a dog chasing its tail. I mean, you’re running from this to that to this to that to this to that. And you never get off the hamster wheel. You know, a great example of that is I used to coach heavily in the real estate industry. And I remember this woman, she was, she told me she was 55 years old and she was telling me about how she was building her business. What she was doing is she was door knocking every day, which by the way is tedious. I mean, you’re, you know, you’re literally pounding the pavement, beating on people’s doors, looking for somebody that’s looking this, you know, sell their property and it’s a lot of work. And I said, you know, we’re, it’s a, there’s a bigger story here. I’m like, do you have any money saved, et cetera, you know, do you have investments and all this kind of stuff and she’s like, no. So what she’s doing, she’s using all of her time, 100 % of her time to work a short term tactic of door knocking as opposed to actually allocating part of her time to look at a long term strategy so that she doesn’t have to door knock anymore. And quite literally, as I said, she’s on a hamster wheel because every day it’s the same thing over and over and over, and she’s caught in the trap. Not only that, she said she’s 55, I’m 54, I don’t think 55 is old at all. I tell people 50 is the new 30. However, she doesn’t have any money saved and this tactic that she’s trapped in literally keeps her trapped and chasing her tail and running every single day doing the same thing over and over and over again. That’s why it’s so important that you prioritize. Now what I told her is what I prioritize is what can I do to build a long-term strategy so that in three years, and it can be sooner, I mean I’ve seen people build one of my clients built a company that does $100 million a year in four years. But what I’m always looking at, I mean it could be one year, it could be two years, it could be three years, three years is not the magic number, it’s just a number that I work by is, you know, it can happen a lot quicker, but what I’m telling you is you want to actually prioritize some of your time and your energy and your effort to something that’s going to get you bigger long-term rewards than chasing your tail every single day. So the best place for you to work from and to think from in this moment is, what am I committed Now the lady that’s door knocking, what she’s committed to is short-term tactics, but she didn’t even recognize she was committed to it. I mean, she didn’t get up every day and say, “You know what, I am committed to chasing my tail today. I’m committed to chasing business. I’m committed to short-term tactics.” No, it was completely unconscious. It
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You’re listening to the Transform Your Life from the Inside Out podcast. This is a throwback episode from episode number 11. That episode was titled The Real Reason You Never Have Enough Time To Do All That You Want To. In this episode, I talk about how many of us, literally, we want to do a lot of different things. We just don’t have the time to do it. And the reason we don’t have the time to do it is because we’re mismanaging ourselves. Many of us are trying to manage our time by time. We’re trying to manage the clock by time. That’s not how we wanna manage our time. We want to start managing so that we can get more things done. We wanna start managing through commitment, values, and priority. When we manage through commitment, values, and priority, now we’re effectively and wisely using our time, so therefore we have enough time to get done what we need to get done. So, if you want to actually start creating more in life and you want to get more done, then simply stop managing by the clock and manage by priority and manage by commitment. Hopefully, you enjoy this episode and apply what you learn. Keep listening. Hi, I’m Jim Fortin and you’re about to start transforming your life from the inside out with this podcast. I’m widely considered the leader in subconscious transformation, and I’ve coached super achievers all around the world for over 25 years. Here you’re going to find no raw, raw motivation and no hype because this podcast is a combination of brain science, transformational psychology, and ancient wisdom all rolled into one to take your life to levels you’ve never thought possible. If you’re wanting a lot more in life, to feel better, to heal, to have peace of mind, to feel powerful and alive, and to bring more abundance and prosperity into your life, then this podcast is for you because you’re going to start learning how to master your mind and evolve your consciousness. And when you do that, anything you want, then becomes possible for you. I’m glad you’re here. All right, this is not going to be a time management episode. I’m not gonna talk to you about time management and give you processes or tactics or any of that. This episode is about your brain-based habits. It’s about your unconscious paradigms. And it’s about your unconscious values that drive you. Because see, these are all internal things and these all drive what you do. And then what people try to do is they try to actually fit their unconscious values and habits and paradigms into a clock. And then, like I started this episode with, is most people never have enough time. So, we’re gonna, and this is gonna be not, this is not gonna be a really, really long episode. Hopefully, I’m gonna make it a little shorter, but definitely, once you’re done with this episode, you’ll understand that managing your time is no longer about the clock. Something else that I want to mention is that one of the biggest traps that a lot of people get into is they manage their time by circumstance, they manage their time by time, and they manage their time by convenience. What I want you to get, and this is something that I learned from a coach of mine, and it was life-changing, is, and you may want to write this down, and you hear me say, “If you’re not driving, you know, you may want to write this down.” But it’s this simple phrase, “When I manage my time by time, I never have enough time. I’ll repeat that. When I manage my time by time, I will never have enough time. And the same thing applies to our circumstances and convenience. When I manage my time by circumstance, I will never have enough time. And when I manage my time by convenience, I will never have enough time. You know, I’m not gonna get into it this podcast in this episode, but managing our lives by convenience is what most of us do. And then we wonder why we’re not getting the outcomes that we want. All right, so I just said that many of us work by circumstance. Here’s something else that I want you to understand is that when we work by circumstance, I tell people this all the time. And people, they get it, they understand it, but people don’t know it. But here’s the thing, when we work by circumstance, when you work by circumstance, you repeat your circumstance. Let me give you a great example of that. Many times people will say things like, “You know, Jim, I wanna go into your coaching programs, but I don’t have the money right now.” But then I’ll write, well, so what they’re doing here is they’re saying, “In my circumstance, I don’t have the money. So therefore, I’m not going to do it. And then what they’re not even recognizing is that they’re working from their circumstance. They are the person who created their circumstance. And if they never change who they are, they never change their circumstance. So please, this would be a foundational thing that I want you to get in all the episodes that I put out is that when I work by circumstance, meaning you, when I work by circumstance, I repeat my circumstances. So what that means is, if you wanna create different things in your life, you can no longer work by circumstance. So big takeaway, it’s a bit relative to what we’re doing this week, and hopefully that will be a life-changing thought and paradigm for you. Where we have to start working from is we have to start working from priority. Meaning we have to start working from what am I going to make a priority so that I can shift and I can change my life? Now notice what I just said about circumstance. If we work from circumstance, what we’re also saying is that we’re making our circumstance a priority over what it is that we want to create and do and be in happen life. That’s why it’s vital that going forward after this podcast that you start working from priority, meaning what is it that you want to create and that has to be prioritized. The biggest mistake that most people make is that they work from short term low hanging fruit tactics. What I mean by that is people, many people are so busy chasing money and what’s right in front of them, which are tactics, low hanging fruit money, as opposed to working from long term strategy and they manage your time, their time and that whole process. And I have to say that I used to be that same person. I used to always look at okay I’m gonna manage my time this week and what I’m going to do with it And this was all unconscious by the way and many if you do the same thing is you say I’m going to do X Y Z this week and when you stand back and you look at it You know what you’re doing with your time every bit of your time is invested in Chasing, you know short-term tactics to make you money And when you do that, you will never, ever, ever make the amount of money that you can make. Where we ideally want to work, and you can ask different people and time management experts and blah, blah, blah, but what I’ve noticed in my own life where you ideally want to work towards is you want to work towards looking at a three-year strategy, meaning what can I do today to have my business up and running where it, or my life or my health or whatever it is, in three years. also a caveat there. There’s no reason to worry or fret or any of that. I’m speaking more in terms of business. And when I say worry, I know some of you listening might have said, oh my God, three years, I need money now, or I need health now. Obviously I’m talking about focusing on it now. But what I’m looking at also is what can I do in terms of long term strategy, as opposed to short term tactics to actually create the outcomes that I want to create in life. Because if you notice when you’re working the tactics, which this week is about time, and, you know, the allocation of it, have you noticed that when you’re working the short-term tactics, you’re generally like a dog chasing its tail. I mean, you’re running from this to that to this to that to this to that. And you never get off the hamster wheel. You know, a great example of that is I used to coach heavily in the real estate industry. And I remember this woman, she was, she told me she was 55 years old and she was telling me about how she was building her business. What she was doing is she was door knocking every day, which by the way is tedious. I mean, you’re, you know, you’re literally pounding the pavement, beating on people’s doors, looking for somebody that’s looking this, you know, sell their property and it’s a lot of work. And I said, you know, we’re, it’s a, there’s a bigger story here. I’m like, do you have any money saved, et cetera, you know, do you have investments and all this kind of stuff and she’s like, no. So what she’s doing, she’s using all of her time, 100 % of her time to work a short term tactic of door knocking as opposed to actually allocating part of her time to look at a long term strategy so that she doesn’t have to door knock anymore. And quite literally, as I said, she’s on a hamster wheel because every day it’s the same thing over and over and over, and she’s caught in the trap. Not only that, she said she’s 55, I’m 54, I don’t think 55 is old at all. I tell people 50 is the new 30. However, she doesn’t have any money saved and this tactic that she’s trapped in literally keeps her trapped and chasing her tail and running every single day doing the same thing over and over and over again. That’s why it’s so important that you prioritize. Now what I told her is what I prioritize is what can I do to build a long-term strategy so that in three years, and it can be sooner, I mean I’ve seen people build one of my clients built a company that does $100 million a year in four years. But what I’m always looking at, I mean it could be one year, it could be two years, it could be three years, three years is not the magic number, it’s just a number that I work by is, you know, it can happen a lot quicker, but what I’m telling you is you want to actually prioritize some of your time and your energy and your effort to something that’s going to get you bigger long-term rewards than chasing your tail every single day. So the best place for you to work from and to think from in this moment is, what am I committed Now the lady that’s door knocking, what she’s committed to is short-term tactics, but she didn’t even recognize she was committed to it. I mean, she didn’t get up every day and say, “You know what, I am committed to chasing my tail today. I’m committed to chasing business. I’m committed to short-term tactics.” No, it was completely unconscious. It was habitual. It was sort of unconscious paradigms and her value system. So a takeaway again, write this down, is what you wanna look at is what am I committed to? Because whatever you’re committed to is what you want to prioritize. And then whatever you prioritize is where you want to invest the most amount of your time, energy, and money to get the bigger long-term outcomes. You know, something that we do is I tell people that we’re also the biggest liar to ourselves. I see many people say things like, “Well, I’m committed to my health.” Well, many Sometimes people aren’t committed to their health. I haven’t done it in a lot of years. I used to be a hypnotherapist and I’d have women come to me and say, “Well, I want to lose weight because I want to be healthy.” That’s generally not the case for most people. Most people, and especially women, want to lose weight. Why? Because they want to be sexy to their husband or their partner or they want to look, you know, they’re going to take family pictures in three months and they want to look better or they’re getting married or they’re going on vacation this summer and they want to look good in their bathing suit on the beach. Most of us lie to ourselves about why we think we want the outcomes that we want. But let’s take, you know, going to the gym or a health club or a diet or whatever, for example, and by the way, diets don’t work. That’s a whole different episode. But people will say things like, “You know what? I want to get healthy and I want to go to the gym.” And then what happens, because we’re talking about time this week, is they never go to the gym. And the reason they never go to the gym is because they’ve habituated and they are a person who’s in the habit of never going to the gym or they don’t value health as much as they think that they do or they’re not committed to it. So as you can clearly see, it’s obvious. It’s not about time. It’s about what are the habits, the brain-based habits, what are the unconscious values and what are the unconscious paradigms. That’s what you want to look at, which is why I just said where you really want to work from is what am I committed to? We’ll talk more about that in just a moment. Use the word commitment a few times and I’m, you know, I am certain that I’m going to do an episode on commitment at some point. However, most people want things and generally it’s an idle wish and a left-brain analytical desire like I want that house or I want that car, and they never find themselves creating it. And the reason why is because they can’t stay committed is because it’s not in their identity. As I mentioned before, you might have heard me say before on another episode or somewhere else is that my dad was an alcoholic. And I don’t know if they’re related, so I’m going to just give you the example here, but my dad, I don’t think they are related. It could be. But my dad was actually more committed to being an alcoholic than he was anything else. And of course, that’s brain based and, you know, there’s chemicals involved and all this kind of stuff. So I’m going to leave that there for now. However, when it comes to commitment, I watched my father never finish anything ever. I mean, he’d start projects, home projects, whatever, and he would never finish. I can’t think of one thing he ever finished. and literally, you know, over the years, I’m like, well, did that ever finish it? You know, anything? And he never did. So I learned at an unconscious level, which I do not operate from that place anymore, that it’s okay to actually want things and not commit to them. And the reason that I tell you that is if I had to guess that probably applies to a lot of you listening right now, is that you want things but you don’t commit because you’ve never learned how to commit to things. So just take a look at that. Because as I said a little earlier, we fool ourselves. You know, many times also, I see people will say things like, you know, I’ve wanted the brand new house for 10 years, or I’ve wanted to start a, you know, a new company for seven years, or I’ve wanted this, or I’ve wanted that. And they always throw in like a lot, you know, three years, five years, whatever. And what I’ve recognized, and they don’t recognize is because they’re working from the outside in instead of the inside out. What I’ve recognized is they don’t understand the fundamentals that you’re learning here in all these podcast episodes is the be-do-have models. We have to be it on the inside first. So what I’m wanting to drive home for you is what I’m wanting you to look at in your own life. Instead of managing your days and your life by time, hopefully this is going to reinforce one of the very first episodes that I did is what we have to go back to is who do I have to be? Because who you’re being will determine exactly how you actually either invest or squander your time. Something one of my coaches said to me, and I’ve had coaches literally in my life for over 25 years, and one of my coaches, phenomenal coach, she said that if you don’t know what you’re committed to, you don’t know how you’re choosing. You might wanna write that down. If I don’t know what I’m committed to, I don’t know how I’m choosing. Now, let’s apply this to time and where you invest time. So let’s say, for example, I’m gonna just use, because it’s a real life example that just pops into my mind. Well, everything’s real life that I talk about, but there’s a particular client that I remember this example. He used to, and I live here in Texas, and he actually was in Dallas as well. and we generally have, until the last couple of years, we generally have very mild winners. And I remember we were talking about playing golf one afternoon and I said, “Are you gonna play golf on Friday?” And he said, “Nope.” He goes, “I’ve got something else I have to do relative to building his business.” And in that moment that I recognized, because I’ve watched him build a lot of things, I recognized that if we were gonna play golf, that’s a matter of us using our time. And where he was working from is he was working from, I’m more committed to building my business than I am playing golf. However, if he would have actually said, “Sure, let’s go play golf.” What I wanna demonstrate here is, let me go back to the phrase, if you don’t know what you’re committed to, you don’t know how you’re choosing. So when I asked him if he wanted to play golf, he made a choice. And his choice was, nope, I’m going to build my business because he knew what he was committed to. So I also want you to look at where that plays out in your own life. The people ask you to do things and you’re like, oh sure, let’s go do it. Yeah, I’m going to blow off something else, which means you’re investing your time in something that doesn’t actually get you to the bigger outcomes that you want. Why? Because you don’t know what you’re committed to and when you don’t know what you’re committed to, you don’t know how you’re choosing. and when you don’t know how you’re choosing, you do not know how you’re investing or squandering your time. So the ideal approach is for you to decide what you’re committed to. And then what you wanna do is you wanna break that down into small steps and small tasks. A big strategy, and it’s a faulty strategy that I see a lot of people use, is that when they have a big problem in life, they’re looking for big solutions. And that’s generally an ineffective strategy. What I mean by that is if they need a lot of money, they’re swinging it for the fences. I mean, they’re actually looking for big solutions. And what I’ve noticed is really what generally works over time is little solutions will fix big problems, but generally big solutions generally won’t fix big problems. But that all goes back to consistency, is that most of us do not work by consistency and we don’t work by consistency because we’re not committed to something. So I know this is going to be mechanical for right now, but I want to get started somewhere because I know that in the earlier episodes, we did talk about subconscious reprogramming. In my opinion, that is the most, which I didn’t teach you guys here in the podcast, but I got you guys started. And my interpretation, Subconscious reprogramming is the most valuable, most valuable life skill that you can ever learn because you can use it for health and wellness, you can use it to reprogram your unconscious paradigms, your habits, everything. But yet, a lot of people, they hear it and they’re like, “Oh, that’s nice,” and they go about their life and they can completely forget about it and then wonder why they’re not creating what they want. But to give you some tactics here instead of long-term strategy, which I guess you could turn it into long-term strategy as well. It’s like I just said, so you decide what you’re committed to. Then you break it into small tasks, and then I want to know that tangent about, you know, people having big problems wanting big solutions, doesn’t work that way. Break it into small tasks, break it into things that are simple. Why? Because simple things give us quicker wins, and when we get quicker wins, we are then more likely to continue with the behavior, as opposed to something bigger we’re trying to tackle, we don’t achieve it and then we quit earlier. Then what you want to do is you want to prioritize your task and then you want to habituate your task. And there is an episode here on habits. So that’s a pretty simple formula, but again, it’s simple, but a lot of people won’t do it. And the reason they won’t do it, let’s go back to habits again. Somebody asked me recently, they said, Jim, why don’t I do the things that I know that I need to be doing. Plain and simple. You’re not in the habit of it. When I say plain and simple, life really is plain and simple and we human beings, we love to complicate things. I mean, we love to make things really hard and actually much harder than they need to be. I know over in the habit episode that I said, and I know when I say this, I know people hear it analytically, but later what I recognize is they hear it, they understand it, but they don’t know it. When I said in that episode, and I actually, I don’t remember if I did say it or didn’t, but I’m 99 % sure that I did, is that everything you have in life, everything, everything you have, everything you don’t have is a reflection of unconscious habits. Then, whatever you’re in the habit of is how you invest your time. So when I started, as I said, this is not about time, this is about habit. And what you may want to do is go back and search or look at one of the, or listen to the earlier episode on habits. Because see, you don’t get in life what you want. You don’t get in life what you want. I know I said it in that episode, you get your brain-based unconscious habits. And if you want more in life, And by the way, we even use our time habitually, if you want more in life, stop, you know, stop doing all these things that people do, which I’ll get to in a moment about beliefs, stop that and habituate it. Actually, let’s get to it now. When I say beliefs, and I believe I mentioned in that episode, is people actually left brain analyze? Yes. And they will say, yes, I believe I want X, Y, Z. I want the new house, number one diamond, blah, blah, blah, status of my multi-level marketing company. I want this, I want that, and I believe that I wist it because I see other people having it. And if they have it, I can have it. Only reason they don’t have, and it never happens 98 % of the time is because they don’t have the unconscious paradigms. And again, paradigms are what drive the investment of time. You know, I used to speak at the same events as Robert Kiyosaki. I don’t know if he’s still out in the bout or how big he is or whatever. He wrote the series and his whole, his whole foundation was Rich Dad Poor Dad. But he said, and you might have heard this before, something along the lines of the most valuable asset that you have is time, because you cannot get your time back. So what you want to start looking at is what you’ve been committed to. And people also don’t understand that. I do a transformational coaching program, which by the way, I’ll mention in just a moment because we’re actually opening the doors again in May. However, for now, we do a week on commitment and people will say, “Oh my God, I never realized that I’m not really committed to anything in life. I’ve never been committed to anything. I’ve never gotten anything done. I basically have just used tactics day by day to get through life.” And what I tell people, every one of you listening right now, is that you’ve always been committed to something. You are always committed to something. It’s just a matter of what you’re committed to. And then whatever you’re committed to is how you invest your time, energy, and everything else. So let’s say, for example, you’re 100 pounds overweight. Well, and by the way, I can defend every bit of this. I might hear somebody saying this, and they’re going to take offense to it or whatever. But it all goes back to the paradigms. And we learn our habits through habituation very early in life and our in our unconscious paradigms. But where I’m going here is somebody could say, well, I’m not committed to being overweight. Well, if you’re doing all the things that you’re doing, you’ve got paradigms unconsciously that drive it. Yes, you are committed to it. So a person that’s lying on the couch and they’re watching all these reruns of TV shows and everything else three hours a night and they’re overweight and only an example, guys, no offense to anyone, just an example and a metaphor. Well, you know what? You’re committed to the ways of being and the habits that get you, you know, that you invest your time in the way that you do or you squander it and you get the outcomes that you don’t want. A bigger takeaway here or to simplify this is listen very carefully. You’re always committed to something. It’s just a matter of what you’re committed If you’re committed to the gym, you’re not committed to the gym. You’re committed to healthy eating, you’re not. You’re committed to lead generation or business building or building relationships, or you’re not. And you are, or you are in varying degrees, but you’re not. If you’re not getting the results that you want, then you’re more committed to doing and being and using your time in ways that don’t get you the outcome that you want. Okay, that was a mouthful. I got that out and hopefully you understand that by this point. And hopefully you’re getting in your time with me is obviously, you know, you’re here. You’re here because you want to go to a higher emotional state in life. I mean, that’s, we’re all wired. Don’t want to go to higher emotional states. You look at babies crying in the crib. I mean, a baby’s crying because they want to be held. They’re angry, they won’t love, they want their diaper changed, they’re wanting to go to a higher emotional state. You’re here and you’re listening because you want to go to a higher emotional state. But hopefully in your entire time with me, you’re getting that creating the higher emotional states, which means the outcomes that you want in life, it’s not about doing more, it’s about being more. Everyone wants more and they think they have to do more, but that’s the wrong and ineffective and broken strategy, is that you have to be more, which goes all the way back to, I believe, episode number one or number two, and I am referencing those, because a lot of this content ties together, even though they’re different episodes, it all ties together. When I talk about being, let me give you an example here. Many years ago, I used to work out five days a week. I mean, I was in the gym lifting free weights literally every afternoon, Monday through Friday. And the time that I’d go to the gym is like three o’clock and there weren’t a lot of people in there. And there was this other guy that worked out one I did, and he was like an extraordinary shape. I thought he was a trainer, but he was actually training on his own time or something. And he spotted me one day, and we started talking. And I said, “Are you a trainer?” And I even said, “You know what? Because, you know, I’ve been to a lot of gyms over the years and many times trainers are not even in shape. This guy was walking his talk and I said, “You know what? You obviously know what you’re doing. I want to hire you as my trainer.” And he said, “I’m not a trainer.” And I said, “What do you do?” And he said, “Oh, I’m in pharmaceutical sales.” What I want to point out here about how we invest our time comes from who we are. Something he said to me was this. He goes, “I’m in pharmaceutical sales.” And he goes, “You know what? I get a lot of business dinners and we go out and everyone else has steak and potatoes and salads and dressing and wine. When I have, you know, chicken and steamed veggies and and rice and water and this is what he said that I want you to understand and this also comes to identity and identity actually determines how he uses his time. So he uses his time in the gym five days a week and this is what he said. He said, “I do that because that is who I am.” So you look at, if you wanna know who you are, look at how you use your time, because using your time, again, as external, will tell you who you are in your unconscious values, your unconscious filters, and your brain-based habits. So your transformational takeaway. Instead of working from the clock and by the clock, where you wanna start working from is what am I committed to? Now, even by saying that it doesn’t mean that you will actually be committed to it, our objective is to actually condition you, inhabit you, habituate you to being committed to it. So what I suggest you do is what I said a little earlier is Let’s take the gym, for example. Let’s say that you’re committed to being in shape. Let’s say that you want to go to the gym. What a lot of people do not do is they do not recognize the difference between macro habits and micro habits. And then what they do is they don’t have the micro habits to support the macro habits. So the example of that about the gym would be this. Let’s say the habit of going to the gym is a macro habit. It’s the big habit, it’s the target goal. However, every morning you’re like, where’s my gym clothes? I don’t have any clean clothes to wear to the gym. Where are my gym shoes? Oh my gosh, I’m running late today and my gym bag is not packed. Well, see, that gym bag being packed is a micro habit that supports the macro habit. So what I would tell you to do is every night before you go to bed, you have your gym bag packed and you have it in the back seat of your car or wherever you have it or however you’re gonna get it to the gym and you have that because you’ve used that micro habit that you need by not doing the micro habit to sabotage the macro habit. So one of the takeaways this week is look at your habits and start small. And when I say start small also, it would be the micro habit is what is something that I can start doing small every day that will actually, you know, when I do it, I can habituate it. And if I do this every day, then this will get me the outcome that I want. And something else is look at your values. career or they are a business builder, entrepreneur. And what we do is we go through a subconscious values exercise. And what’s shocking is the amount of people, after we go through the exercise, I’ll say, “What are your top 10 values?” And then I break those down even further. And I take people through a process to actually help them unconsciously determine their values, not analytically determine their values. And What’s interesting is I would say, and I’ve done this long enough to really project this or prognosticate it or whatever or guess, is that probably 50 to 70 % of people that are business people don’t even have money in their top 10 values. Now the interesting thing about that is because they don’t have money in their top 10 unconscious values is they’re never making any money and then they wonder why they’re broke and they analytically think, “Well, I’m a business owner. I’m an entrepreneur. I need to make money.” Well, the reason they don’t is because it’s not in their unconscious values. So you know, when you look at your own life, if you’re not making money, I’m going to tell you this because people have all these convoluted beliefs about money. It’s probably not in your value system, and then if it’s not in your value system, you’re not doing it. And if you’re not doing it, that means you’re not investing your time in a way be at the outcome that you want. You know, on the flip side of that, for example, a good friend of mine, he does very, very well financially. And one of his highest values is his kids. He’s got two small kids. So what he will do is when it comes to investing time, he literally will actually, if he has to pick between business and he’s not in crunch time or his family, he will always pick his kids because why That’s a higher value to him than making money, but also he does have he does have my coach team Actually, he does have money in his higher values But notice what I’m sharing with you here is that he will determine how he’s going to invest his time Based upon his unconscious value system So going forward no longer. Do we actually work by the clock? We work by our habits and our values and our commitments And when you do that, you will find things changing for you. So you may want to write this down. And I say again, mainly because it’s just a habit, is if you’re not driving, is a sentence that will serve you well as this is, “What am I committed to and who do I have to be to make it happen? What am I committed to and who do I have to be to make it happen?” Okay, before I tell you about the next episode, I want to actually just tell you just a tiny bit about the upcoming Transformational Coaching Program. And by the way, that’s what the program is called, TCP, the Transformational Coaching Program. You know, the fact that you’re here, as I said earlier, means that you want to create better things in your life. You want more. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be here. I mean, why listen to a podcast unless you’re, you know, if you’re not wanting to get something out of it. So even though I know that a lot of people, I’m getting a lot of responses and this podcast is doing very well and people are messaging a team and everything else, I know that you’re getting a lot out of this, you know, this podcast in these episodes. However, if you’re interested in truly transforming your life at a core level, my transformational program. It’s a 12-week, very intensive, it is group, but it’s a very intensive step-by-step program that I walk you through to quite literally reinvent yourself, reprogram yourself, rewire yourself from the inside out. All I’m going to say right now is go to the show notes and you will find a link to the waiting list. The waiting list doesn’t obligate you for anything. It simply means that we will make you aware because you’ll be on our list will make you aware of a live training that I’m gonna have prior, and we’ll send you the page on it and everything else. So, if you’re serious, I mean truly serious, and you’re no longer wanting to work by your circumstances and you’re wanting to create different and better circumstances, then at least whatever you do, click the link, learn more about the program, and as you learn more about it, you may not find it is for you, but you will not know until you click the link. Be on the live training. We’re having an early May and at that point you might find that it’s, you know, it’s exactly what you’ve been looking for to transform your life. One more thing. I know I said it a little bit, but the transformational coaching program is not just information. It’s weekly homework. It’s process. It is me literally walking you through a reinvention of yourself at the core level Alrighty, so as you know now, we’re going to two episodes a week and next week is a Q &A episode next Monday, I believe. And what I’m going to be answering are three questions from somebody that submitted questions on that episode. And those questions are going to be how to be accepting of the way that things are. And by the way, that’s the biggest thing that makes most people unhappy is they do not accept life as it is. They accept life as they interpret it and they want it to be. Therefore, they become unhappy. Question number one, question number two is how to stay happy every day when something bad happens. I’d mentioned in the prior episode, stop working from good to bad. That actually, right there, sets people up for a lifetime of unhappiness. We work from what is, which again, I’ll go into deeper in that episode. And actually, I’m going to leave her her question, she asked three, I’m gonna leave it at those two. So how to be accepting the way that things are and how to stay happy every day when something bad happens. Okay, that wraps up this episode. Like I said, go over and or go, go below it to show notes, click the link, get on the waiting list for the transformational coaching program, and I’ll catch you over on a live training relative to that program, or I’ll catch you over on the next episode. I want to share with you also something that I say to a lot of people, and especially people that work with me. So I’m going to say it, and I’ve never said it in this podcast, is we are living in very, very tumultuous times right now on this planet. We have a lot of chaos going on in the world. The world needs you. It needs me. The more that we evolve ourselves, the more that we grow, the more that we can help other people. So thank you for being here, thank you for sharing, and I’ll catch you over on the next episode or where I catch you next. Okay, bye-bye.