WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.440 I'm a work lots of hours guy. I'm a pound it. Let's go grind bingo. 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:06.320 And 00:00:06.480 --> 00:00:10.240 you're like, hey. That's not exactly how it works, bro. 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:18.845 Hey. There's a better way. And sometimes I'll, you know, I'll watch your stories, and it's like, I don't feel like going today, but I gotta get up and I gotta make it happen. 00:00:19.645 --> 00:00:25.725 And I'm like, man, why are you putting yourself in a position where you don't feel like going today? You know what I mean? Like, that's It's fair. 00:00:26.845 --> 00:00:41.210 You know, if you wanna have a truly rich, fulfilling life, you have to find joy in every part of it. In order to do that, you have got to use your time with absolute intention. When I started tracking all of my time, 00:00:41.770 --> 00:00:50.315 my life changed. We all are in the same construct of time. Yes. Our energy may vary, but we all have control to take care of ourselves, 00:00:50.475 --> 00:00:55.435 to do more things that we like, to begin to evolve our life in a way to where we have higher energy, 00:00:55.755 --> 00:00:59.115 but we all have a limit. I have completely organized 00:00:59.310 --> 00:01:10.190 perfectly designed time, beautiful rhythm, clear vision and goals, and executing everything within this beautiful matrix. I'm highly optimized. Why am I overwhelmed? Because I went past capacity. 00:01:16.965 --> 00:01:26.485 Welcome back, everybody. Today's gonna be amazing. I have a really good friend here today. One of the most downloaded shows we've ever done before because he'll surprise you. You know him from television. 00:01:26.990 --> 00:01:36.510 He's an incredible television personality with ridiculousness and a million other projects that he's done, but I don't know him from that. I know him from his brilliance as an entrepreneur 00:01:36.910 --> 00:01:45.325 and as a human optimizer of himself, of time, and in everything connected to him. And he's a very, very good friend of mine, 00:01:45.885 --> 00:01:53.405 and I love my conversations with him. He's one of my favorite people I've ever met in my life to talk with, if not my favorite. 00:01:54.045 --> 00:02:15.085 And I thought today I'd just let you sit in on one with us. We're gonna talk today with the great Rob Dyrdek. Welcome to the show, brother. Hey. Thank you for having me. It's nice to to to go from Laguna's a beautiful place to do a show, but it's it's nice to come to Hollywood into the fancy studio as well. This is more your, like, comfort level, isn't it? This Hollywood thing? You were saying No. It's not. I stay I 00:02:15.325 --> 00:02:25.725 stay away from this area of the city. You know what I'm saying? When I'm driving over here, I'm like, man, haven't been here in forever. Look at this place. I think that one it certainly has changed over the years and it hasn't improved, but that's probably a whole other conversation. 00:02:26.420 --> 00:02:46.635 But we are going to dinner down the street from here, so you have to make sure I stay safe. Yeah. And and again, I've arranged our dinner on the other side Got it. As we enter Beverly Hills. Okay. Okay. You, quieter, peaceful location. Thank you, sir. More on your level. You were saying before we started though, it was four years ago that we did our show. Mhmm. And that at the time when we were doing the show, 00:02:47.115 --> 00:03:06.640 there were a lot of theoretical things that you talked about on that show that you believed in that you were implementing into your life. And now you're like, now I have some data to really validate some of the stuff that I believe in. So what are some of those things that, like you said on the show, and you're like, and now I've seen in real life the results from those things? Yeah. You know, I think the most profound one was 00:03:06.640 --> 00:03:12.235 really about sort of what I really discovered and talked a lot about in 2018, 00:03:12.235 --> 00:03:23.250 we did the show, was that life is about this pursuit of the ideal version of yourself. Right? And and this has been something you've talked about forever where it's it's this idea of 00:03:24.690 --> 00:03:25.970 putting out into 00:03:26.850 --> 00:03:27.890 the future 00:03:28.210 --> 00:03:38.425 what you want to become and then building a plan and strategy and putting all the energy and effort to go and achieve it. Right? And you will grow into that person over time. And so that pursuit, 00:03:38.825 --> 00:03:41.865 we talked a lot about as being really important. 00:03:41.945 --> 00:03:42.425 And 00:03:42.825 --> 00:03:49.690 I was talking a lot about it from the business lens and and doing it from a balanced perspective. 00:03:49.690 --> 00:03:50.250 Yeah. 00:03:50.490 --> 00:03:59.690 And what happened for me in in that conversation is it led to what happens when you reach that person. Mhmm. And I made the comment of, 00:04:00.415 --> 00:04:04.655 I think, like, when you eventually get to the ideal version of yourself, 00:04:05.055 --> 00:04:08.015 that you sort of settle in to sort of a rhythm, 00:04:08.495 --> 00:04:13.855 and your pursuit wouldn't quite be the same. And within four years, 00:04:15.180 --> 00:04:16.380 I achieved 00:04:16.460 --> 00:04:19.420 all of the goals that I set in 2016 00:04:19.420 --> 00:04:20.540 and became 00:04:20.860 --> 00:04:31.295 the ideal version of myself. So I actually, rather than guessed at what would happen to me when I finally reached the ideal version of myself, 00:04:31.615 --> 00:04:36.415 I actually experienced it. And what was so profound for me is 00:04:36.735 --> 00:04:38.415 since you grow into 00:04:38.990 --> 00:04:40.510 your ideal self, 00:04:40.830 --> 00:04:46.350 you're growing along the way, and as you learn more and see you begin to see further, 00:04:46.590 --> 00:04:48.910 so the ideal version of yourself 00:04:49.390 --> 00:04:51.710 is always 00:04:51.035 --> 00:04:53.595 off in the distance. And it's not about 00:04:54.315 --> 00:04:58.235 ever ending the game and that you're there. It's actually 00:04:58.475 --> 00:05:00.635 the pleasure and the actual joy 00:05:01.515 --> 00:05:04.875 that you get from living is in that pursuit. 00:05:05.500 --> 00:05:11.500 The difference was is I learned to control that pursuit and grew in a systematic harmonious 00:05:11.500 --> 00:05:12.140 way, 00:05:12.540 --> 00:05:14.060 and then grew beyond 00:05:14.460 --> 00:05:18.780 what my ideal version at that time would become 00:05:18.875 --> 00:05:24.235 because I grew into a completely different person by the time I got there. Do you guys all get it now? 00:05:25.035 --> 00:05:31.115 See what I'm talking about? It took four minutes, and there you get it. So his wife's my dude to talk to. He is 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:32.880 special. 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:36.400 The success that he's had in his life isn't by mistake. 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:40.160 And I'm not just talking about his financial or television success, I'm talking about 00:05:40.400 --> 00:05:44.800 kind of father he is, kind of friend he is, kind of husband he is. None of this is by mistake. 00:05:45.425 --> 00:05:46.385 In my life, 00:05:46.865 --> 00:05:58.465 I have some really brilliant entrepreneur friends and I have some really brilliant personal development friends. I don't know anybody with the combination of both like you. I don't. One of the things I'm learning from you, I wanna go right to some of your stuff. 00:06:00.440 --> 00:06:02.600 I'm a work lots of hours guy. 00:06:02.760 --> 00:06:05.480 I'm a pound it. Let's go grind. 00:06:05.480 --> 00:06:07.000 Bingo. And 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:10.920 you're like, hey, that's not exactly how it works, bro. 00:06:11.320 --> 00:06:12.120 Hey, 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:14.440 there's a there's a better way. 00:06:15.405 --> 00:06:21.005 So why don't you share with us the better way? What your theory about hours and time and 00:06:21.805 --> 00:06:25.565 also the value of a minute, the value of time. Yeah. 00:06:26.285 --> 00:06:34.580 It's funny because, you know, sometimes I'll watch your stories and it's like, I don't feel like going today, but I gotta get up, I gotta make it happen. 00:06:35.460 --> 00:06:43.060 And I'm like, man, why you don't feel like why why are why are you putting yourself in a position where you don't feel like going today? You know what I mean? Like, that's It's fair. 00:06:43.805 --> 00:06:48.845 You know, because, you know, I almost like to look at myself I've evolved into, like, a blend of 00:06:49.245 --> 00:06:50.445 sad guru, 00:06:51.245 --> 00:06:52.445 Ray Dalio, 00:06:52.445 --> 00:06:53.725 and and 00:06:55.245 --> 00:06:57.085 who's the great the the good doctor 00:06:57.620 --> 00:07:07.460 that's tapped into the quantum field are Dispenza. Dispenza. I I'm basically a combination of of Woah. All three of those. Woah. Dalio, Dispenza, and Sadguru. 00:07:07.460 --> 00:07:09.540 Right. Like that. That's 00:07:10.500 --> 00:07:16.935 that's me. The best combo ever. Look, when I think about what's intersected through me, it's that analytical, 00:07:16.935 --> 00:07:21.575 data driven side of Dalio. It's the tap into the quantum field of Dispenza, 00:07:21.575 --> 00:07:32.750 and it's the, hey, the reality you experience today is based off of every action decision that you have made in the past that is the sad guru sort of karma concept. Right? 00:07:33.870 --> 00:07:35.550 And and to me, 00:07:35.950 --> 00:07:43.575 you know, if you wanna have a truly rich fulfilling life, you you have to find joy in every part of it. 00:07:43.975 --> 00:07:49.175 And in order to do that, you have got to to use your time with absolute intention. 00:07:49.335 --> 00:08:09.135 And so for me, it's it's everybody knows that. Mhmm. It's the only resource you got. It's the only resource that's limited, man. You you locked up. And and for me Is that your impression of me? No. That was like a middle middle ground for me. Know what I'm saying? When it but it's I was halfway in it. I was halfway in it. You know? I push you towards, like, a wrestler voice. You know what I mean? 00:08:10.415 --> 00:08:11.695 But I'm 00:08:11.935 --> 00:08:16.575 when I started tracking all of my time Mhmm. My life changed. 00:08:16.815 --> 00:08:21.215 Right? Because it's like I I used to design what I called 00:08:22.050 --> 00:08:26.130 existence. Right? So I I built the rhythm of existence in 2015, 00:08:26.130 --> 00:08:45.795 which was essentially the operating system for my life. And so it had all these these principles and had all these things that I would do with my time, and then I would create a rhythm of the year, like when sort of all the constants were and when the variables would happen, you know, because your life flows around weekends and holidays and birthdays. It has this cadence that you can build 00:08:46.275 --> 00:08:52.355 sort of your time around that you can get better and better at predicting how to use your time more efficiently. 00:08:53.100 --> 00:09:02.780 But boy, I started tracking all of it. I would just you know, I'd plan a lot of it, and then I would be highly adaptive and adjust it. But the thing that I started doing every day 00:09:03.660 --> 00:09:06.140 is just tagging every hour and what did I do? 00:09:07.285 --> 00:09:10.325 And I eventually found somebody in 2020 00:09:10.325 --> 00:09:19.605 that heard me talk about it and came in and and wrote a script that went into my Google Calendar that pumped that thing out into a dashboard. And 00:09:19.605 --> 00:09:21.205 now I could see 00:09:21.900 --> 00:09:25.740 how I used my time on a weekly, monthly, 00:09:25.820 --> 00:09:28.060 yearly basis by hour 00:09:28.300 --> 00:09:29.580 and by 00:09:29.900 --> 00:09:31.180 percentage. 00:09:31.180 --> 00:09:37.035 Mhmm. And so that that began to create this really interesting clarity 00:09:37.275 --> 00:09:53.780 as it related to, like, the time matrix from a percentage standpoint. Right? If you have, you know, eight thousand seven hundred and sixty hours in a year and you do something for three hundred and sixty five days a year for one hour, it's 4% of your life. Right? If you, 00:09:54.660 --> 00:10:05.735 you know, sleep seven hours, it's like, you know, 28% of your life. You know, if you work a forty hour a week, it's it's 23% of your life. So I began to see the structure of this time. 00:10:06.215 --> 00:10:08.695 And as you begin to 00:10:08.935 --> 00:10:14.455 understand and design it against how you want to use it, you begin to question its efficacy. 00:10:14.535 --> 00:10:23.030 How high of efficacy are you using with this actual time? And then when you decide to do something, you start thinking about it in second and third order consequences. 00:10:23.190 --> 00:10:26.710 Right? Because we'll get excited about an idea that we wanna do, 00:10:27.030 --> 00:10:29.510 and we just think about the idea. We 00:10:29.830 --> 00:10:30.870 don't think about 00:10:31.545 --> 00:10:40.025 the time, energy, and mental capacity that it'll take from, and then the long tail of that, because once we commit to something, what happens? 00:10:40.505 --> 00:10:44.505 We could be trapped by it. Right? And if it ends up taking way more time, 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:47.760 it could end up being detrimental 00:10:47.760 --> 00:10:53.680 to your overall well-being and your balance in your in your mind. Right? So for me, as I 00:10:54.080 --> 00:10:57.440 began to do all that and really look at the time matrix, 00:10:57.760 --> 00:11:00.355 I began to put value on every 00:11:00.675 --> 00:11:06.755 bit of that time. And then I began to assess that time by how did it make me feel qualitatively. 00:11:06.915 --> 00:11:08.595 And that then 00:11:08.915 --> 00:11:13.875 began to make me continually adjust how I designed the time. Because what I realized is 00:11:14.310 --> 00:11:22.710 what's happening, the world's changing, you're changing at all times. You're evolving, everything around you is evolving. So you can't just make one great schedule, 00:11:23.190 --> 00:11:32.685 and there you go, you did it. You have a perfect time time management skills. Like, you constantly need to be adjusting how you use time and the value of that time and and 00:11:33.005 --> 00:11:42.525 and how you see you should spend that on an ongoing basis or on an ad hoc basis, like and you have to continually design it better and and better over time. And what I did 00:11:43.110 --> 00:11:45.350 was grow the skill set 00:11:45.670 --> 00:11:47.030 of continually 00:11:47.030 --> 00:11:47.830 optimizing 00:11:47.830 --> 00:11:52.870 time and assessing it and redesigning it that allowed me to get more and more efficient 00:11:53.030 --> 00:11:54.630 so I could go from, 00:11:55.475 --> 00:11:57.315 you know, doing 250 00:11:57.315 --> 00:12:01.075 episodes of television, doing, you know, 52 podcasts, 00:12:01.075 --> 00:12:09.395 managing, you know, you know, if I have core six companies that I have to be actively managing inside it to go along with all my other pursuits 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:11.560 and still do that with only 00:12:11.880 --> 00:12:12.920 23% 00:12:12.920 --> 00:12:16.280 of my time. You know what I'm saying? Like, that is where 00:12:16.280 --> 00:12:18.440 you now have gotten so efficient 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:20.760 that you choose efficiency 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:49.100 over anything else that You mind giving them an example? Because I know it. Like for example, like when I've come to you with different things like, hey, I got this TV show idea, like, how much of your time is it gonna take? How does it make you feel? What's it gonna cost you somewhere else? You know, what percentage of it is for you? Even when we first started here, even this podcast, I'm like, it's this percentage of my time, it's this percentage of my income. However, it's a big percentage of joy for me. Yep. But in your case, if you don't mind and if you don't, it's okay. But like even the way you shoot your show Yep. One of the things, when you hear this man talk, 00:12:49.900 --> 00:12:50.460 he 00:12:51.260 --> 00:13:06.385 has as big a life as about anybody that I know. I mean, got a show where he shoots a bazillion episodes. He's in production side. He's on the talent side. He's got the dir dick machine. He's got his investments. He's got different business. He's got a core, and he's got he's a very, very active father, 00:13:06.465 --> 00:13:07.825 very, very active husband. 00:13:08.790 --> 00:13:17.270 He's got a public persona to keep up. He's got a social media. He's got a podcast, and that's just like some of it. Yet, I don't know anyone who navigates their life more 00:13:19.030 --> 00:13:38.105 seamlessly and beautifully than you do. I I don't. But you'd make it it wouldn't seem that way. So give us a practical example for you, like, on the way that you scale time, like, for your show. What you did in the way that you shoot it, and the the gaps in between shows. Is that too personal? Or No. No. No. Share that? Because this because I want people to think, okay. That sounds really good theoretically, 00:13:38.185 --> 00:13:41.120 but I'm trying to get my start up off the ground. My kids are in soccer. 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:49.040 I've got the the gym I got to get to. So what does that look like practically? How do I actually begin to navigate it? Yeah. Look, I I think, you know, like, 00:13:49.520 --> 00:13:58.605 it it's every bit of your life has the ability to be designed into time. You know what I mean? And, yes, things are gonna come at you that you need to change, and then and then 00:13:59.005 --> 00:13:59.885 everything 00:13:59.885 --> 00:14:01.645 you wanna drive to automation. 00:14:02.045 --> 00:14:07.190 Right? Everything in my life, I try to drive to automation. And then when I feel friction, 00:14:08.230 --> 00:14:13.430 I try to I I go to optimize it. When I feel friction, I apply a system or a solution, 00:14:13.830 --> 00:14:17.110 and I just keep doing that over and over and over 00:14:17.350 --> 00:14:24.255 to reduce all friction and drive everything to a much higher state of efficiency, right? And the show itself is this 00:14:24.575 --> 00:14:28.575 beautiful example of -It is. -I used to shoot 60 00:14:28.735 --> 00:14:35.135 episodes a year and it would tear the soul out of me. It would tear the soul out of me. I wouldn't I didn't even wanna shoot the show anymore. 00:14:35.680 --> 00:14:39.200 I didn't want to shoot the show anymore because it just took too much energy. 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:44.480 It would be five weeks straight where I would shoot like four days a week, and it would just like 00:14:44.880 --> 00:14:55.875 I would be at the end of it, I would be so exhausted and be like, I don't even enjoy doing this. I don't care what it pays me. It's like, it's too much of my energy and well-being. 00:14:55.955 --> 00:14:57.875 Right? And so 00:14:58.435 --> 00:15:05.520 I began to just look at ways to make it more and more efficient and look at the things that bothered me. Because we used to shoot 00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:32.420 two a day, and then we would, you know, shoot for an hour, do all these pickups in between, then I would stay for an hour, and then do voiceover on the stage for an hour, and then we would break for an hour, then I would do the whole thing again. I would get there at like 09:30, ten, and leave at like six. Right? And then that would be a five week stretch of like four days a week, and just just terrorize me. Then I'd have to drive out to Glendale 00:15:33.380 --> 00:15:38.020 to get prepped for the shows and spend three or four hours going through all the shows, 00:15:38.580 --> 00:15:50.835 and I just slowly kept looking at every possible thing that I could optimize, and it first with how they built the shows and presented them to me. And I got to, instead of driving out to 00:15:52.195 --> 00:15:57.315 Glendale to look at them, hey, let's start doing it online and send them to me. And then it's like, start 00:15:57.955 --> 00:16:14.730 presenting them to me in this structure. And then it got to the point where I stopped even talking to them. They just would send to me, I would review them, and it went from three hours round trip to do it to fifteen minutes. This is Rob right here, you This is the stuff. And and and to 00:16:14.915 --> 00:16:35.410 then actually shooting the show, then it was like, how can we make it more and more efficient? Alright. I'm not I'm just gonna to to fire off a lot more off the cuff stuff that you can edit in instead of doing the voice over. And then I took, you know, shooting the show for an hour, hour plus, and then do an hour of voice over. I drove that all the way down to about thirty five minutes. 00:16:35.650 --> 00:16:37.010 Then I said, Hey, 00:16:37.330 --> 00:16:38.210 how do we take 00:16:38.770 --> 00:16:41.650 Can we take one clip out of every single one of these? 00:16:42.605 --> 00:17:08.260 Because we're only we're shooting with six clips, but we're only editing four and five. And so we took a clip out of everything, drove the time down to twenty nine minutes. Right? And so then it became, okay, you shoot two a day, let's shoot two a day before lunch. Then it was like, okay, let's shoot three a day before lunch. Then it was like, alright, let's shoot six a day, three before lunch, three after. And then now, 00:17:08.755 --> 00:17:14.595 I could get six done in a day, and then I could spread out when I shoot to where I only shoot 00:17:14.755 --> 00:17:22.115 a couple times a month. Mhmm. Then, boy, now I feel like it's back in my life, it's back in my rhythm, it's no longer taking energy, 00:17:22.740 --> 00:17:44.175 it's much more efficient to get prepped for, it's easier to shoot, I the energy's not gone because I'd shoot it so quickly that it that the energy's good, pop into the next one, but I just kept looking at way after all these different ways that I continued to optimize and optimize, and then now going into next year, I'm gonna start shooting 336. 00:17:44.735 --> 00:17:49.215 Okay? And I'm gonna shoot eight a day. And so I was like, I don't want to 00:17:49.690 --> 00:17:55.530 give up any more time. Where can I save time? We have fifteen minutes between the shows 00:17:56.090 --> 00:17:59.450 to change wardrobe. So if I eliminate 00:17:59.690 --> 00:18:01.130 two wardrobe changes 00:18:01.450 --> 00:18:02.170 Mhmm. And 00:18:03.065 --> 00:18:09.385 in between the shows, and fifteen minutes at lunch, I get back that hour, and now I can shoot 00:18:11.145 --> 00:18:12.345 336 00:18:12.345 --> 00:18:15.545 in the same forty two days, five hours a day, 00:18:16.380 --> 00:18:19.340 as I did to shoot the 252 00:18:19.340 --> 00:18:26.620 with prep time the night before and drive time there and back, that is 4% of my life. See, you guys, this is 00:18:27.260 --> 00:18:33.965 why I want him around me. Let me give you let me interrupt you. Okay? I wanna give you guys like the easy application for me. 00:18:34.445 --> 00:18:37.485 This hyper obsession with optimization 00:18:37.485 --> 00:18:39.565 of time and oneself, 00:18:40.125 --> 00:18:41.485 when you're around somebody 00:18:41.805 --> 00:18:52.350 and become a friend of yours, some of it rubs off on you. So I don't have the types of show that he has. I don't shoot three fifty episodes. Don't have that. But it has caused me to begin to evaluate 00:18:52.510 --> 00:19:00.885 where am I just pissing time away? Where is it causing me more stress? What are the different things I do? I'll give you one small thing that's a massive thing after I met you. 00:19:01.445 --> 00:19:06.485 I started looking at just meetings that I take. And I'm like, why are all my meetings one hour long? 00:19:07.285 --> 00:19:20.060 Why is it blocked from think about all of you dudes. You're like, that's right. Why is it from four to 05:00? How do how do I know this thing's going to last an hour? And because it lasts an hour, because we've blocked an hour, we take up the hour. 00:19:20.620 --> 00:19:22.860 But perhaps this is a twenty minute meeting. 00:19:23.260 --> 00:19:25.500 Right? Perhaps this is a fourteen minute meeting. 00:19:25.740 --> 00:19:52.220 Why is everything four to 04:30, 05:30 to five why are they all these round number blocks of time that we've all accepted need to be blocks of time? And because that's the block, that's how long the meeting takes. Right? You're nodding when I say this. So I've gotten with my team now, and now they know. Let's find out how long this meeting is required to happen, the most efficient time for the meeting. Not where I'm dismissive of people or don't give them the adequate amount of time or the emotional connection, 00:19:52.540 --> 00:20:32.715 but you'll find everybody, most meetings don't need to be an hour. They don't. They don't. They don't need to be a half an hour. Yeah. And so when I started to get those things done, I have a lot of fifteen minute meetings now. Yep. And my whole life opened up because of it. And here's the other thing, I bring better energy to those meetings. So you're so right. Like, when you first say, I'm like, this is really good in theory, dude, because you got this big old life. But for the beginner, they just got to go. Yeah. But the truth is, when you're just going, I want you to speak to this. So let's now the guy goes, that's great. I don't have 350 of anything. I don't have 64 of that. Yeah. I got a job. I've got a side hustle. I got a family. I'm trying to get this going, so I'm throwing a bunch of time at it. 00:20:33.595 --> 00:20:37.995 But my thing I want you to speak to is your lack of valuing 00:20:37.995 --> 00:20:38.235 time 00:20:38.920 --> 00:20:42.840 is impacting not only your fatigue, your energy, your performance, 00:20:43.320 --> 00:20:46.200 but it's impacting every part of you because other 00:20:46.200 --> 00:20:48.200 people don't value 00:20:48.200 --> 00:20:50.760 your time or you when you don't. 00:20:51.235 --> 00:21:00.755 And when you begin to take control of your time, even as a beginner, my belief is other people value you more. You agree with that? Yeah. And and look, I think the other thing is you 00:21:01.075 --> 00:21:05.315 you end up creating sort of your system that also allows you to be available 00:21:05.850 --> 00:21:19.210 a lot more than you should be. Good point. You know what I mean? And then people rely on that availability to then have a more scattered, erratic schedule that you've gotta be fit into, and they pull the energy from you because you're you're essentially 00:21:19.290 --> 00:21:22.235 operating that way, and that scatteredness 00:21:22.235 --> 00:21:31.675 becomes how the people operate around you, right? Which Really good. Almost never allows you to get there, right? And to me Oh, yeah. You're right. When you start thinking about your whole life, 00:21:31.995 --> 00:21:34.395 forget about just time as 00:21:34.560 --> 00:21:43.920 because time's just one sort of piece of what you need to have high energy and have a great life. And so it's if if you don't design time to meditate, 00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:59.475 to free think, to get to the gym, to do all these things that you know you need to do that make you the better version of you and make you feel more balanced in your mind, that allows you to have better energy and more clarity at 00:21:59.635 --> 00:22:00.515 that meeting. 00:22:00.675 --> 00:22:01.955 And you just continually 00:22:02.470 --> 00:22:08.950 go from thing to thing to thing because, oh, I have to go from thing to thing to thing, then you are never gonna have 00:22:09.110 --> 00:22:18.675 the time to do the things that you wanna do because you're too busy doing the things you have to do on an ongoing basis as a way of life. 00:22:18.915 --> 00:22:26.515 Man. You are the machine, and you design the machine to go from thing to thing to thing to thing till you're exhausted, 00:22:26.675 --> 00:22:29.155 then you complain, then you overcorrect 00:22:29.860 --> 00:22:35.540 and try to get rid of all these things to get it back, when in fact, it is the way that you have built your system 00:22:35.620 --> 00:22:38.420 that has bound you to this habitual 00:22:38.420 --> 00:22:47.715 way of not having time, rather than designing your whole system around using time the right way. I think it's the most breakthrough stuff anyone's talking about right now, 00:22:48.115 --> 00:23:08.830 particularly designed for this time. I really I I mean it. I I think it speaks to everybody at every stage, no matter if they have a big huge life and all the things you have going or I have going, or they're beginning to build their dream life, if you don't get intentional about this, that's the microbe. But let me say this to that. Yeah. Right? Everybody's got a big life. Mhmm. Because everybody I have the same 00:23:09.390 --> 00:23:27.925 time, energy, and capacity as you. Yeah. Like anyone listening to this, we all are in the same construct of time. Yeah. We all we all Yes, our energy may vary, but we all have control to take care of ourselves, to do more things that we like, to begin to evolve our life in a way to where we have higher energy, 00:23:28.245 --> 00:23:34.540 but we all have a limit. A human physical and mental capacity, and if we go over it, 00:23:34.940 --> 00:23:47.605 we collapse in. Gosh. Even me. Right? Like, I I have completely organized, perfectly designed time, beautiful rhythm, clear vision and goals, and executing everything within this beautiful matrix. I'm highly optimized. 00:23:47.685 --> 00:23:49.845 Why am I overwhelmed? Why 00:23:49.925 --> 00:23:51.445 am I overwhelmed? Because 00:23:51.765 --> 00:23:53.365 I went past capacity. 00:23:53.605 --> 00:23:56.580 Right? And that's sort of the second edge, understanding 00:23:56.580 --> 00:24:00.500 your physical and mental capacity and being able to manage that inside 00:24:00.660 --> 00:24:04.580 the way that you design your time. Because when you become overwhelmed, 00:24:04.820 --> 00:24:05.860 your decisions, 00:24:05.940 --> 00:24:07.060 like like, 00:24:07.300 --> 00:24:08.020 degenerate, 00:24:08.305 --> 00:24:18.945 and then you ultimately start over correcting. By the way, how brilliant you are about that. I make the worst decisions when I'm fatigued, and typically what I'm doing when I'm fatigued is the over correction, and I'm over scheduling. 00:24:19.025 --> 00:24:25.760 Then once my energy comes back, I look at a day or a week, I'm like, oh my gosh, what was I thinking when I agreed to all of this stuff? 00:24:26.160 --> 00:24:33.760 A lot of it isn't productive stuff, and then I don't have time for the things that would move the needle in my fitness, in my mental health, in my financial life. 00:24:34.080 --> 00:24:44.105 All of a sudden, lots of stuff is in a schedule that doesn't necessarily move the needle in my life in the areas that I want the needle to move to. Speaking of life and needle moving, 00:24:44.345 --> 00:24:50.105 I don't know if you texted me this or you posted it, so it probably doesn't matter. That's the micro stuff. The macro 00:24:50.580 --> 00:24:53.460 is you're so obsessed with this that you look at duration 00:24:53.460 --> 00:24:54.340 of time 00:24:54.660 --> 00:24:56.420 on the planet. It 00:24:56.580 --> 00:25:15.865 was something about you just realized you read something on you're laughing, but did you text me this or did you post it? I just posted that I wanted to live one million hours. That's exactly right. So you read something that convinced you that you're going to that you could live to a particular age and you deduced how many hours there so I actually think this is brilliant. Yeah. Because this type of focus 00:25:16.745 --> 00:25:18.585 causes us to live with intention 00:25:18.930 --> 00:25:20.290 and attention, 00:25:20.290 --> 00:25:28.690 and the lack of I think all the time. Do you know when I pray at night? You're gonna laugh at this. Never said this out loud, not even to my wife. I'm gonna tell you and about 00:25:28.930 --> 00:25:30.770 70,000,000,000 people right now. When 00:25:31.170 --> 00:25:34.770 I pray at night, one of my last prayers is that I'm gonna live to a 128 years old. 00:25:36.265 --> 00:25:41.625 Okay? And I really believe now, again, someone will listen to this in three years. Wow. It's so sad he passed away. 00:25:42.025 --> 00:25:49.145 But but but I I I have that prayer and that intention, and I've repeated it over and over and over and over again 00:25:49.390 --> 00:25:56.510 because I believe if I don't pick a number, if I don't pick a time, if I don't set a goal, if I don't, then I'll be up to the whims of whatever else comes my way. 00:25:56.990 --> 00:26:07.445 I really believe that you create a space when you set something like that that didn't exist before you did it, and then you find the behaviors, the people, the things, the thoughts, the technology, the nutrition to fill it up. What I didn't do 00:26:07.765 --> 00:26:14.405 was calculate the amount of hours that it gives me Yep. To then optimize that time. So speak to that whole thing. Yeah. And and look, I'm 00:26:14.885 --> 00:26:29.060 you know, it makes it really makes me happy. That means we're gonna we're literally we're gonna be friends deep into our hundreds. I love it. We're gonna be having these conversations about, well, what do you think? You're thinking you're going to one twenty eight? You think you're gonna I don't know. I'm push I'm feeling pretty good right now. 00:26:30.420 --> 00:26:36.455 But I think about it more from a This is what I'm big on. This is your existence. 00:26:36.935 --> 00:26:40.775 Right? And this is the framework of the human 00:26:41.015 --> 00:26:41.735 experience. 00:26:42.055 --> 00:26:43.415 Right? You 00:26:43.815 --> 00:26:49.700 only truly can judge anything. Your energy, how well you're using time, everything 00:26:49.700 --> 00:27:01.140 that's happened in your past, how you actually feel in the present moment. True. You can only do it in the present moment, and you only experience it in your mind. Right? And then you have to make a decision of, I want to change 00:27:02.375 --> 00:27:04.295 all of these things, so I'm 00:27:04.295 --> 00:27:06.455 going to create a better future experience. 00:27:06.535 --> 00:27:08.855 That is the human experience, 00:27:09.015 --> 00:27:11.015 and I realized that I 00:27:11.255 --> 00:27:13.575 wanted to make it last to 01/2012. 00:27:13.575 --> 00:27:16.695 I initially wanted to live to 01/2004 00:27:17.160 --> 00:27:22.600 and be shot in a rocket into space and explore the universe without the 00:27:23.800 --> 00:27:28.920 light pollution from planet Earth for the last year before I died and then floated out into the cosmos. Now, 00:27:29.685 --> 00:27:31.685 that was before I had a wife and kids. 00:27:32.005 --> 00:27:37.125 So it's like, now the audacity of don't worry about me and then like, I'm up there for like twenty four more years. 00:27:39.205 --> 00:27:39.845 That 00:27:40.805 --> 00:27:44.000 changed and then when I read the book Ikigai, 00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:47.280 right, the Japanese long life and happiness book, 00:27:48.320 --> 00:27:50.400 they talked about super centurions, 00:27:50.400 --> 00:27:51.440 and I'm like, oh, 00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:54.720 like that brand. I wanna be a super centurion. So 00:27:57.155 --> 00:27:57.955 that then I made 00:27:58.835 --> 00:28:00.595 I would want to live to 112. 00:28:00.595 --> 00:28:04.835 And then as I started getting deeper into, okay, how many days is that? 00:28:05.235 --> 00:28:15.500 Alright. Okay. That's how many days I have. This is how many days that I've done so far. Then when I was going going through my time matrix and looking at all these different things where I spend time of like, wow, 00:28:15.900 --> 00:28:16.860 I spend 00:28:17.180 --> 00:28:18.140 nearly 00:28:18.220 --> 00:28:19.660 as much time 00:28:19.820 --> 00:28:21.580 shooting a television show 00:28:22.215 --> 00:28:26.135 as I will picking up my kids and taking them to school for the year. 00:28:26.455 --> 00:28:28.615 Right? And and to me, 00:28:28.935 --> 00:28:53.355 as I just started looking at these hours and then where am I where am I losing a lot of time? On the couch watching Netflix. You know what I mean? It's it's me and the wife on there watching our favorite show, but, when you start looking at what that is, man, you're letting you're letting the hard eight to 9% go on the couch. You know what I mean? Like, it's it's cold, hard reality, but as I looked at that, you know, I'm I then was like, you know, 00:28:53.675 --> 00:29:01.595 what is, like, what's a round number of time? And like, wow, one million hours is one hundred and fourteen years and fifty four days. 00:29:02.250 --> 00:29:04.330 I'm gonna I'm gonna experience 00:29:04.490 --> 00:29:18.135 a million hours on this earth. Right? And so, of course, a lot of people push back on like, oh, it's good. Yeah. You're like a vegetable. What are you gonna do? And and it's like like, I didn't even contemplate that, and and it's because 00:29:18.695 --> 00:29:24.775 you live in two different mindsets. There's I live in a mindset that I just keep getting healthier and happier, 00:29:24.775 --> 00:29:26.215 more balanced, lighter. 00:29:26.580 --> 00:29:28.100 Life is more effortless, 00:29:28.100 --> 00:29:31.540 my system, that is my entire body is more efficient. 00:29:31.780 --> 00:29:34.180 And I can show you in blood work, 00:29:34.420 --> 00:29:39.620 I can show you in net worth, I can show you in time, and I can show you in qualitative 00:29:39.620 --> 00:29:45.345 data that I have collected about how I feel about my life, work, and health that I am 00:29:46.065 --> 00:29:46.705 in 00:29:46.945 --> 00:29:49.265 healthier, better physical condition, 00:29:49.505 --> 00:29:51.265 wealthier, more balanced, 00:29:51.665 --> 00:29:52.705 and happier 00:29:53.120 --> 00:30:00.320 in the data, which only proves to me there's no reason why you can't keep getting healthier, happier and wealthier 00:30:00.400 --> 00:30:01.440 for the remainder 00:30:01.920 --> 00:30:03.520 of your life. That's a And then 00:30:03.840 --> 00:30:05.760 I'll just fall right off a cliff. You 00:30:06.240 --> 00:30:12.545 know what I mean? Whatever it ends up ending. But again, what's it go back to? I want to live with absolute 00:30:12.545 --> 00:30:13.345 intention, 00:30:13.505 --> 00:30:15.185 and I want to experience 00:30:15.185 --> 00:30:16.465 every moment 00:30:16.785 --> 00:30:19.105 that I get into and feel 00:30:19.265 --> 00:30:27.370 the vividness and the richness and the beauty that is the human experience and life. You know, you don't wanna be so future focused 00:30:27.690 --> 00:30:30.090 and trying to create a better future 00:30:30.250 --> 00:30:37.850 that you never feel the present, right? And so for me, I'm I really began to understand 00:30:38.445 --> 00:30:47.005 what state my mind is at all the time at all times, and how do I learn to control that and begin to put in systems and solutions 00:30:47.325 --> 00:30:56.480 that keep my mind in a balanced state is really one of the bigger things that I've learned to do over the last year or so. Share with us one of those systems. 00:30:56.960 --> 00:30:57.680 Know, if 00:30:58.480 --> 00:31:00.800 you can imagine this, your mind 00:31:01.280 --> 00:31:01.920 is 00:31:02.560 --> 00:31:04.640 balanced in this way, right? 00:31:05.280 --> 00:31:13.295 It's past, present, and future. Right? And so there's sort of five sections as I see it. And and on one end, it's dwelling in the past. 00:31:13.935 --> 00:31:21.640 You ain't doing nothing. You wanna sit and dwell about something you did, you ain't doing nothing. Then the next level up is rectify. 00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:39.915 Right? You are problem solving, taking action. Something that happened in the past, so now you're in the present past, where, okay, I'm dealing with something that happened, now I'm problem solving, taking action to make a better future. Right? You sit right in the middle and you experience it, or you go to the next level is creating. 00:31:40.075 --> 00:31:52.610 Right? And so now you're in this future present, right, where you're experiencing the present while creating the future. That's that's where you wanna toggle. Right? Because what goes beyond creating the future is wishing. 00:31:52.930 --> 00:31:59.650 Right? Because then, if you're sitting there wishing the future was better and wishing like like this will be like this 00:31:59.890 --> 00:32:05.245 or you're dwelling, you're not moving. Right? And so you wanna be either experiencing 00:32:05.245 --> 00:32:06.845 the moment or 00:32:06.845 --> 00:32:09.405 handling something that happened in the past present, 00:32:09.565 --> 00:32:16.525 or creating something in the future present state, and and and swing between that, right? And so if you can imagine, that's your mind, 00:32:17.010 --> 00:32:28.850 What you what you think about on an ongoing basis is ranges between all of that. That's where the action lives. Now, it's the quality of your mind, and your mind's quality is either in a proactive 00:32:29.410 --> 00:32:31.170 state, a reactive state, 00:32:31.845 --> 00:32:33.445 an inactive state, 00:32:33.845 --> 00:32:37.205 or a magnetic state. Right? And for me, 00:32:37.605 --> 00:32:53.500 when I when all aspects of my life are in order, meaning I'm eating super clean, everything all all my goals and visions and everything is is running smooth. I'm I'm spending very little time rectifying the past because I've designed my present future experience 00:32:53.660 --> 00:32:57.100 with such intention. I'm dealing with very little disruption 00:32:57.500 --> 00:33:01.020 that then I eventually go beyond just being proactive 00:33:01.020 --> 00:33:02.755 to this magnetic state. 00:33:03.155 --> 00:33:06.675 And I know you've experienced this before because this is when 00:33:06.915 --> 00:33:17.650 your everything is going, operating at such a level that answers start coming to you without you asking the questions. It is the law of attraction that that's the unexplainable 00:33:17.650 --> 00:33:20.130 force that lives in the quantum field, 00:33:20.370 --> 00:33:36.365 where your energy is at such a high level. You are so clear of not only being present and experiencing, but creating your better future, and you rise to this you vibrate to this level to where the answers show up and you never ask the questions. Right? And for me, 00:33:36.925 --> 00:33:44.365 I'm trying to master all aspects of my existence to where I basically sit in that state of toggling 00:33:44.445 --> 00:33:48.020 between future present and proactive 00:33:48.180 --> 00:33:50.260 and magnetic at all times. 00:33:51.060 --> 00:33:52.180 Oh my god. 00:33:52.420 --> 00:33:54.740 It's a deep one. It's a deep one. Oh, no. 00:33:54.900 --> 00:33:55.380 Okay. 00:33:56.660 --> 00:34:03.815 That's an all timer right That's a deep one. I I want everyone to go back the last five or six minutes there. That's an all timer. 00:34:05.255 --> 00:34:15.575 When we talk, I always filter it through my life and my perspective. I just realized something because I do know what that vibrational frequency feels like when I am getting answers to questions I haven't even asked. 00:34:16.320 --> 00:34:17.760 It's not frequent enough. 00:34:18.160 --> 00:34:32.065 The and the reason it's not frequent enough is I'm depleting my energy reserves to not put myself in a state where I can have that type of energy and what I call vibrate at that frequency. Yep. And you're exactly right. And that's the other reason why rest, recovery, 00:34:32.305 --> 00:34:37.905 being present matters. I just really pulled something here. I just really did. But let me say this, 00:34:38.545 --> 00:34:39.425 every 00:34:39.585 --> 00:34:40.305 single 00:34:40.545 --> 00:34:41.825 thing matters. 00:34:42.720 --> 00:34:45.600 Every thought, every action, every decision, 00:34:46.080 --> 00:34:49.600 every single thing that you do is interconnected 00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:57.475 to to get you to that space. And and for me, it's like, I think, oh, I'll have a glass of wine. I'll have a couple chips. 00:34:57.635 --> 00:34:58.275 It 00:34:58.515 --> 00:34:59.075 will 00:34:59.475 --> 00:35:00.915 pull away from that. 00:35:01.395 --> 00:35:05.635 I'll make one bad decision from eating bad that will then cause 00:35:05.715 --> 00:35:08.675 me to be short with my wife that leads to this entire 00:35:09.395 --> 00:35:14.580 pulls me right out of the magnetic magnetic state. State. Right? Because it's like, even when you're there, it's really sensitive, 00:35:14.980 --> 00:35:22.660 and you could just get one thought that could rip you out of that. You could look at one text that could rip you out of that. Right? It's like And so that requires 00:35:24.175 --> 00:35:26.575 really, really understanding 00:35:26.575 --> 00:35:33.295 every single bit of you, and then giving value to everything you do, rather than 00:35:33.695 --> 00:35:35.135 trying to pocket 00:35:35.135 --> 00:35:44.270 your values. Oh, if I eat healthy, oh, if I stay focused, oh, if I clear out this stuff, oh, if I rest or recover, versus like, no, it all works together 00:35:44.510 --> 00:35:53.695 to make the best version of you. How committed are you? How disciplined are you to live at the level that you know you have to live at, 00:35:53.935 --> 00:35:57.775 at a consistent enough basis that it becomes to compound 00:35:58.095 --> 00:35:59.295 effortlessly 00:35:59.295 --> 00:36:12.890 and become a way of life, rather than getting disciplined again? That's really what it is. Know? Well, for me, I burn myself out going from those states to the good state back to the bad state. I'm still having wine with you at dinner tonight, but 00:36:13.770 --> 00:36:21.015 I know exactly what you're talking about. And I everybody you you all hear the show every single week. It's pretty rare that I'm this quiet 00:36:21.575 --> 00:36:22.375 because 00:36:23.015 --> 00:36:24.935 I just I I 00:36:25.015 --> 00:36:32.960 really process a lot of information when you and I go like this. Yeah. It's good for me. I'm already thinking of stuff I'm gonna say and I'm gonna teach, that I'm gonna steal, that I'm gonna make mine. 00:36:33.680 --> 00:36:45.825 One of the things in addition to all of this that we talked about when we were down in Mexico was this notion of momentum. Here's what I do. I'm gonna tell you what I do. I go, I got all that and I'm gonna get to it. But right now I got momentum. 00:36:46.065 --> 00:36:47.345 So I'm gonna throw 00:36:47.665 --> 00:36:49.185 fuel on the fire. 00:36:50.065 --> 00:36:50.545 And 00:36:51.025 --> 00:36:59.665 I think this is what burnout is. So I've got momentum. I mean, you've had momentum in your career for freaking twenty five years, maybe more. Right? 00:37:00.300 --> 00:37:04.540 So and by the way, that's the other lesson from Rob. He said sustainability 00:37:05.100 --> 00:37:06.300 and consistency 00:37:06.380 --> 00:37:07.500 in the public 00:37:07.740 --> 00:37:09.820 world or in the entrepreneurial space. 00:37:10.060 --> 00:37:13.580 It is extremely rare to have duration of success 00:37:13.925 --> 00:37:16.405 or expansion of success like what you've had. 00:37:16.885 --> 00:37:27.445 And I was telling you maybe we were both talking about, like, yeah, but I got momentum. Yeah, but I got this. Yeah, but I got that. Yeah. But so I'm gonna get to this, but that'll be like, I see it, and you're right, and I'm gonna do some of it. 00:37:28.560 --> 00:37:34.000 But what I'm realizing is that momentum was generated from a space of 00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:35.520 creativity, 00:37:35.600 --> 00:37:38.720 of rest, of a particular vibrational frequency, 00:37:38.720 --> 00:37:41.520 and I'm almost running on the fumes of it now 00:37:41.840 --> 00:37:51.335 rather than and it so it will run out if I don't get back to this creative state where I'm in that present problem solving or present creativity state. 00:37:51.575 --> 00:38:10.590 So what would you say to someone who's listening to going, I got all that, but I'm finally got my business moving. I'm finally we're we're scaling. We're finally getting this, and the economy's changing, and I got these other things coming. Man, for me to think about this theoretical stuff you're talking about is really good. Man, you know supply chain's going on, interest rates are going up. 00:38:12.655 --> 00:38:26.050 Unemployment may start to get higher again. They're national debt, I'm just getting it going. This is really good, and I'm going to remember this podcast for three years from now. What would you say to them? It'll always be like that. It's 00:38:26.050 --> 00:38:41.295 never not gonna be like that. It was the startup version when it was a startup. Oh, now it's working, and there's more to even worry about. Oh, now it's like scale and it's even guess what? It's always like that. Gosh. So if you don't build a harmonious 00:38:41.615 --> 00:38:42.415 system, 00:38:42.735 --> 00:38:48.895 your goal is to lead with harmony. If you don't build harmony in your system from the very beginning, 00:38:49.135 --> 00:38:50.975 you won't have harmony 00:38:51.820 --> 00:38:56.540 when you find the success. Right? And this is why I preach designing life 00:38:56.700 --> 00:39:02.540 and business at the same time. So when you find success in your business, you find success in your life. 00:39:03.420 --> 00:39:05.855 And to me, in 2016, 00:39:05.855 --> 00:39:08.815 when I designed the plan for the way that I wanted to live, 00:39:09.135 --> 00:39:15.535 I designed a balanced life that would make me healthy first, and then I fit work into it. I 00:39:15.615 --> 00:39:16.415 created 00:39:16.415 --> 00:39:18.815 hundreds of millions of dollars 00:39:19.670 --> 00:39:24.390 with using a small percentage of my time living a fully balanced, 00:39:24.390 --> 00:39:29.990 harmonious life. All of the success that I have created since we sat down in 00:39:30.390 --> 00:39:31.670 2018 00:39:31.670 --> 00:39:32.710 was 00:39:32.710 --> 00:39:41.325 done from this beautiful, peaceful place. I got better and better and better at being more efficient with my time and my energy 00:39:41.485 --> 00:39:51.260 and got healthier and healthier and my output got higher and higher and higher and, like, all of the things that you can worry about that drive you down, 00:39:51.900 --> 00:40:06.795 you you continue to clear them out to where you're only dealing with incoming stress rather than all these things that come in and then break you. Right? Then you gotta reevaluate all this stuff and do all this stuff again, but that's 00:40:06.795 --> 00:40:08.235 my passion for 00:40:08.795 --> 00:40:11.035 harmony over hustle. You know what I mean? 00:40:11.675 --> 00:40:19.590 Build a harmonious existence and then get better and better at living in a harmonious way. But I wanna say this to Momentum, right? 00:40:19.990 --> 00:40:20.630 Is 00:40:20.870 --> 00:40:24.470 why it was so profound when we were in Mexico because I 00:40:24.790 --> 00:40:25.670 I'm 00:40:26.445 --> 00:40:29.245 you know, it's this it's the pursuit. 00:40:29.325 --> 00:40:41.350 Right? Like, I look at you as, like, this is the ideal way of life, man. You want your island, you wanna be flying on your jet, you wanna head out to the golf course, you wanna go to the beach house, like, it's really like And 00:40:41.590 --> 00:40:48.150 now, I look at the world through how I look at how much travel time it's involved in that, right? Forget about how could you possibly 00:40:48.710 --> 00:40:50.790 do the show, do the book, do 00:40:51.190 --> 00:40:56.805 the podcast, and then still have time to get there? Oh, the kids are going to college. I see 00:40:56.885 --> 00:40:57.925 the strain 00:40:58.165 --> 00:40:58.965 in 00:40:59.125 --> 00:41:03.525 sort of the use of time just in the structure. And so then I 00:41:04.005 --> 00:41:07.620 know you have more than enough money to live 00:41:08.180 --> 00:41:09.700 peacefully and happily. 00:41:09.860 --> 00:41:18.580 I know that your mission is is really more on like how can I reach people and impact people? And when you say momentum, it's like, man, you know, I I 00:41:18.835 --> 00:41:20.435 as the world was changing, 00:41:20.835 --> 00:41:21.315 then 00:41:21.795 --> 00:41:28.275 as I was changing, I saw an opportunity to share my voice on social media. Then I saw an opportunity to share my voice on a podcast. 00:41:28.515 --> 00:41:43.310 Now I got momentum. Now it's like, like, so many more people wanna talk to me, so many more opportunities, I got momentum. Now it's like, I wanna make a book that impacts people and what it is. Oh, now I got even more momentum, oh, what about this television show? Like, I saw that as 00:41:43.310 --> 00:41:47.375 like, man, I know what that's like. Yeah. Right? And to me, 00:41:48.575 --> 00:41:51.135 I also know that, boy, man, you can get 00:41:51.455 --> 00:41:56.655 caught up in that and and trapped by by that momentum. 00:41:56.655 --> 00:41:59.855 Listen close, everyone. Yeah. If you don't understand 00:41:59.855 --> 00:42:03.310 sort of the second and third order consequences 00:42:03.310 --> 00:42:03.950 of 00:42:04.110 --> 00:42:14.510 capturing that momentum. Yep. Let's stay on this. I won't say what it is with you, but you because we don't want that. But there's been some significant opportunities come your way. Some things that could have been, 00:42:15.295 --> 00:42:19.135 you think your brand's big now, you're like really 00:42:19.215 --> 00:42:21.375 different. I'm talking about a public brand. 00:42:21.775 --> 00:42:23.455 When those things came your way, 00:42:24.255 --> 00:42:25.535 you declined. 00:42:25.855 --> 00:42:31.770 You know what I'm talking about, right? We won't get into what those things were, but you have learned to say no 00:42:32.010 --> 00:42:35.370 because your decision making process has a process. 00:42:35.850 --> 00:42:38.650 And I think one thing I wanna say to everybody that 00:42:38.970 --> 00:42:47.625 I think Rob has that I don't, that I'm developing because I know him, is a is a process and a philosophy through which I make decisions 00:42:47.785 --> 00:42:49.385 rather than just emotionally. 00:42:49.785 --> 00:43:06.950 Because I will if you let me, I'll just keep helping more and more and more people with no process to make the decision, no evaluation of what the consequences are, and no evaluation of what maybe looks like I'll help more people will cost me, deplete the energy that could have done it in a more efficient and productive way. So you have also learned to decline, 00:43:07.510 --> 00:43:14.205 to say no to different things in your life, and I think that's probably something everyone should know. Yeah. Look, it's 00:43:15.005 --> 00:43:23.005 one of those things that you could read it in every single personal development book. Gotta learn to say no. You know what I mean? And we know it as 00:43:23.565 --> 00:43:25.165 guys who lived out 00:43:26.685 --> 00:43:27.725 on the edges 00:43:27.965 --> 00:43:29.965 of 00:43:28.810 --> 00:43:41.530 of saying yes to everything. Right. Because, you know, the the early process for me is like, man, this this might be the one. Mhmm. Oh, this might be the one. Oh, wow. This might be the one. And the problem was is I hadn't defined 00:43:42.015 --> 00:43:43.215 what is the whole. 00:43:43.935 --> 00:43:46.735 Once I finally defined what the whole was, 00:43:46.975 --> 00:43:48.175 and now I'm like 00:43:48.655 --> 00:43:49.935 And I refer to 00:43:50.575 --> 00:44:00.660 it as like the human why, where we all have the same why. We wanna live a harmonious, high quality quality life. Life. Right? And so, you have to define what that is for you. And for me, 00:44:00.980 --> 00:44:06.020 that was how I used my time, the type of things that I did, and ultimately, 00:44:06.740 --> 00:44:17.565 the amount of money I had, where I invested that money, and what that money did for me, and the lifestyle that I lived. I had a certain way of living that I wanted, that I connected to my identity, 00:44:17.805 --> 00:44:22.845 that I needed to create enough wealth that would provide me that lifestyle 00:44:23.700 --> 00:44:28.020 in a sustained manner forever Forever. Before I would be truly 00:44:28.260 --> 00:44:29.140 harmonious. 00:44:29.220 --> 00:44:30.580 Right? And 00:44:30.580 --> 00:44:33.220 when I when I finally did that, 00:44:33.380 --> 00:44:38.715 right, and I defined it, and I built the plan backwards, And and when I finally got to there, 00:44:39.035 --> 00:44:39.995 I changed. 00:44:40.155 --> 00:44:43.435 Mhmm. I changed because I now had this extraordinary 00:44:43.435 --> 00:44:44.235 security. 00:44:44.395 --> 00:44:55.170 Mhmm. Right? And and that security now allowed me to get even more efficient with my time, make even more decisions that are based on, is this going to affect my energy? Like, 00:44:55.330 --> 00:45:02.530 and and continuing to build my life around what gives me energy, anything that takes energy, anything that slightly takes it, 00:45:03.245 --> 00:45:08.125 address it and get rid of it, create a system or or a solution to solve it, 00:45:08.365 --> 00:45:09.485 just completely 00:45:09.485 --> 00:45:11.325 get it out of your life. And 00:45:11.485 --> 00:45:13.725 and now you will never compromise, 00:45:13.885 --> 00:45:14.685 especially 00:45:14.685 --> 00:45:15.645 doing something 00:45:16.440 --> 00:45:17.560 that's 00:45:17.560 --> 00:45:28.040 for money or some higher level of fame, if you will. Yeah. Because I don't wanna disrupt the harmony that I've created because it's unnecessary. I am as happy 00:45:28.775 --> 00:45:34.135 and balanced as a human being could be. I am excited to continually 00:45:34.295 --> 00:45:36.695 evolve into my limitless potential 00:45:36.775 --> 00:45:38.775 in a controlled manner 00:45:38.775 --> 00:45:41.495 that is done 00:45:40.630 --> 00:45:47.590 on a consistent basis of joy. Because what I realized is, well, man, what is happiness? Well, happiness is really 00:45:47.910 --> 00:45:49.590 just consistent joy. 00:45:50.070 --> 00:45:51.750 And when you go from 00:45:52.635 --> 00:45:59.435 after day after day where thing after thing after thing is filled with joy and an extended period of time, 00:45:59.675 --> 00:46:05.195 that's when you're feeling what it feels like to be truly happy all the time. When you listen to him, everybody, 00:46:06.780 --> 00:46:09.580 this is a dude from Ohio who was a skateboarder. 00:46:10.140 --> 00:46:18.620 And now look at this. Mean The guy who quit high school. Yeah. Right. Look, keep in mind this. I didn't even understand personal development or even read until I met my wife, 00:46:19.285 --> 00:46:23.205 who was in the who was in who was like super into personal development and I like 00:46:23.845 --> 00:46:24.405 read 00:46:24.805 --> 00:46:32.245 Think and Grow Rich back then and it like was like, woah. Like, I had read it when I was younger, but it was like the beginning of unlocking 00:46:32.405 --> 00:46:33.480 Yeah. Like, 00:46:33.560 --> 00:46:36.840 is the human potential? And then my mind thinks 00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:38.520 in this sort of systems 00:46:38.520 --> 00:46:39.240 way, 00:46:39.640 --> 00:46:45.240 and I just keep as I'm living it and finding the success in life that I envisioned and planned, 00:46:46.165 --> 00:46:49.205 you know, five years earlier and are realizing it, 00:46:49.605 --> 00:46:56.725 I'm doing it while I'm thinking about how one day I can share it. Yeah. So it's almost like this meta process of your learning lessons, 00:46:56.885 --> 00:46:58.885 thinking of how they integrate together, 00:46:59.045 --> 00:47:03.690 and then how you can articulate this in an easy to understand way 00:47:03.850 --> 00:47:19.695 that you can share with people one day. It's this interesting process It's I've been really deep what you just said. So one thing I've I've begun to do I did a lot in my entrepreneurial life, but I didn't do it in my personal life. So my entrepreneurial life, I was always like, well, we need a process or a system for that 00:47:20.175 --> 00:47:40.820 because nothing could be related just to personality or emotion. So in all my entrepreneurial ventures, need a process or a system for that. It wasn't until really you and I connected that like, know, no, no, you're like, that's what my my life is. So everybody listening to this or watching, you got to ask yourself this. Do you have a process or system for that? Because if it's not a process or a system, it's probably not going to be sustainable over a duration. You have to have a process or a system. 00:47:41.140 --> 00:47:48.125 You are a you probably could have been some type of engineer in another lifetime, I think, because you do think systematically 00:47:48.125 --> 00:47:49.405 and process wise. 00:47:50.045 --> 00:47:53.965 But I think all of you, if you're trying to pull extract things you need to ask yourself is, 00:47:54.720 --> 00:48:02.400 do you have a process and a system for it? Is there one? Because if there isn't, you need one from your time, from your family stuff, from your entrepreneurial 00:48:02.560 --> 00:48:06.560 your part of your life. Energy depletion, one other place because you mentioned Brianna, 00:48:06.985 --> 00:48:16.505 and that is, what about humans who drain your energy? Mhmm. Have you had to sort of, I don't know, cut people out, or are you cognizant of the humans 00:48:16.745 --> 00:48:17.465 you 00:48:17.705 --> 00:48:38.255 associate with from an energy depletion or giving you energy standpoint? Is that something that's also part of this formula for you? Yeah. I wanna give you two versions of it. Right? Okay. Because I think that getting rid of the bad energy is an easy one to talk through. But it's it's how do you optimize with those that you love? Okay. That's what I think is is is a lot more 00:48:38.495 --> 00:48:41.935 evolved and and sort of what I've grown into. 00:48:42.255 --> 00:48:48.975 But I first started, you know, by just asking myself every single day and rating qualitatively, 00:48:48.975 --> 00:49:00.650 how do I feel about my life, my work, and my health, zero to 10. Mhmm. And you if it's low, you think about why it's low, and you make a note of it. And you'll find 00:49:00.970 --> 00:49:10.785 that the people that bring you down start popping up. Mhmm. And then then it becomes so obvious. Right? Like, had people that worked for me that were really 00:49:11.825 --> 00:49:16.385 truly disrupting the quality of my life on a consistent basis that I 00:49:16.705 --> 00:49:26.310 didn't have clarity on until I was asking myself, how did you feel about work yesterday, zero to ten? And then it was like a four because I was fighting 00:49:26.470 --> 00:49:27.510 with 00:49:27.510 --> 00:49:38.455 one of my executives for like three hours and had to change my entire vision for it because it's not what they wanted to do. Like, I began to see that and then eventually 00:49:38.535 --> 00:49:39.975 cleared every 00:49:40.215 --> 00:49:48.375 single person that brought me down out. All of them. Every single one of them, right? And including in that same process, 00:49:49.620 --> 00:49:54.340 there's certain parts of the business that drained me that I had to either learn 00:49:54.500 --> 00:49:56.660 or stop being involved in. Right? 00:49:57.220 --> 00:49:58.580 It was very 00:49:59.060 --> 00:50:13.535 informative from a qualitative standpoint. Now, I go to the most important relationship that is my wife. Mhmm. And it is I am just it is system after system after system on system on system on system on system strictly 00:50:15.615 --> 00:50:17.855 releasing and relieving any friction 00:50:18.015 --> 00:50:19.375 in our relationship. 00:50:19.455 --> 00:50:41.625 And and it sounds like, oh, well, like, what could that possibly be? Well, you know, first it starts with the age old date night. Mhmm. Right? And so, oh, like, schedule a date night. You know what I'm saying? It wasn't enough to keep us balanced and happy. So the schedule is, you know, a Monday night talk night, a Thursday night movie night, a Wednesday morning breakfast, 00:50:41.625 --> 00:50:48.265 a Friday night sushi. Like, it's it's having a rhythm of of dates and times that we spend in the week. Now, 00:50:48.920 --> 00:50:54.680 it's not a matter of, like, oh, you made one hour available. You've 00:50:54.680 --> 00:50:55.640 integrated 00:50:55.880 --> 00:51:01.975 your wife into your life. Now, that was essential to begin to stop that friction. Then, she started hearing 00:51:02.215 --> 00:51:21.270 me telling stories of stuff that I was working on, and be like, I didn't even hear that. So, okay, how do I solve that? Then I started That's a biggie. Sending her an email every single morning of everything that I was doing in the day Wow. And what it meant to me with a love quote, so that she got that every single day and was completely informed at at what I was doing. So, 00:51:21.510 --> 00:51:25.110 now, how do I automate that? I have my assistant scrape my 00:51:26.550 --> 00:51:35.295 my calendar and put it into an email and put it in my email that I can look in the morning. I go and find the love quote depending on the energy of the the the season, 00:51:35.455 --> 00:51:39.215 and then I send it to her every single day. Right? And so, okay, 00:51:39.695 --> 00:51:50.370 that seems like you look at that alone. Like, look at you guys, like, in your rhythm, like, you you go with her every day to drop the kids off and pick them up. For most days, like, you have this 00:51:50.610 --> 00:51:51.410 balanced 00:51:51.410 --> 00:51:54.930 rhythm with everything, and now she's completely informed, 00:51:55.650 --> 00:52:01.315 but getting friction on how complex our life was and all these big projects moving on. Then we move to 00:52:01.555 --> 00:52:06.435 a Thursday family sync, where we get all the executive or assistants 00:52:07.235 --> 00:52:09.075 and executive assistants together, 00:52:09.235 --> 00:52:18.700 and then we go through everything going on with the family and get organized and everything that needs to get done. Now, have the Thursday family sync to eliminate that. 00:52:19.180 --> 00:52:20.460 In the middle of that, 00:52:21.180 --> 00:52:42.210 stuff's popping up in the schedule. She's seeing it in that in the morning and be like, what is this? You're going to do Ed's podcast today? So what did we do? We added a new system to the family sync where I go through the calendar and then like say everything that I'm doing. Hey, the UFC fight in two weeks on Saturday night, I'm gonna wanna watch that. Anything that might be disruptive, 00:52:42.530 --> 00:52:46.050 and again, keeping our energy, our communication, 00:52:46.130 --> 00:52:47.730 and our flow. Then, 00:52:48.050 --> 00:52:48.290 like, 00:52:49.335 --> 00:52:57.575 okay, there's certain things where, you know, we'll get stuck on and not wanna talk about. We started bringing a therapist to the house every other Tuesday 00:52:57.655 --> 00:52:58.855 at 04:00. 00:52:58.855 --> 00:53:24.975 So now, now we have this neutral ground that's basically, you know, I I akin it to tuning a Ferrari, where you already have this this highly, another friction is like these issues that you may not wanna discuss even in these this sort of flow that you're in. Here's this sort of neutral ground that you really don't have unless you bring somebody in, and you just begin to see all of these things layering on top of the 00:53:26.815 --> 00:53:28.975 goal of having 00:53:29.500 --> 00:53:31.020 the happiest, 00:53:31.020 --> 00:54:09.860 amazing relationship that you could possibly have. So good. You know what I mean? I I knew about the email, in which, by the way, I started to do myself because you told me about that. By the way, everybody, you listen to my show so that somehow every week you become inspired or learn how to improve your life. If that is not happening for you right now, if there's not been something said here today by this man that is causing you to go, woah. By the way, you're on the inside of what people that have blissful and happy and successful lives talk about and think about. These are the conversations that they have. One so I got one more question for you. By the way, is that the fastest hour in the history of the world, by the way? Awesome. By the way, thank you, number one. Thank you. I just 00:54:10.100 --> 00:54:12.005 love you, and I 00:54:12.805 --> 00:54:15.605 I'm grateful for you. Yeah. Appreciate you. I'm grateful for you. 00:54:16.965 --> 00:54:21.445 Last thing, because it's this will be this episode, by the way, is timeless. 00:54:21.685 --> 00:54:32.450 What I love about this episode is someone can watch this right now, listen to it in a year, listen to it in four or five years. You'll be deeper and be further down this road, but the things that are said in here are timeless. 00:54:33.250 --> 00:54:55.380 But for the most part, people will get this right before the new year at some point. And so what are they doing? They're gonna be setting goals. They're gonna be thinking about the next year. Can you give us some advice or your system or parts of your strategy for the way that you set goals and your vision up? Is there a I know there is, but what is part of your system and strategy for doing it? You know, I have big, 00:54:55.940 --> 00:54:59.140 what I like to call evolution goals that anchor 00:54:59.380 --> 00:55:00.500 the four 00:55:01.700 --> 00:55:05.540 core systems of my life. Right? And, you know, that's my health, 00:55:05.700 --> 00:55:10.305 my life, my wealth, and my work. Right? And an evolution goal is essentially 00:55:10.545 --> 00:55:11.905 sort of, you know, 00:55:12.545 --> 00:55:17.985 the finite goal or the infinite goal. Right? Where having an extraordinary relationship with your wife is 00:55:18.545 --> 00:55:26.680 is an evolution goal. Whereas you continue to grow and evolve, like, what it means to have that amazing relationship is going to continue to 00:55:26.920 --> 00:55:33.000 evolve and grow over time. So, having those big anchors on those parts of your life are essential, 00:55:33.000 --> 00:55:35.240 then having the finite 00:55:35.320 --> 00:55:36.760 or quantifiable 00:55:37.755 --> 00:55:40.075 goals that you can measure, 00:55:40.075 --> 00:55:41.915 that will lead you towards 00:55:42.155 --> 00:55:44.635 that evolution goal, is 00:55:45.355 --> 00:55:48.075 sort of the goal stack that I use. Right? Because 00:55:48.475 --> 00:55:49.275 it's like you, 00:55:49.820 --> 00:55:56.460 this is gonna go on forever and continually change, but man, the more things that you can quantify 00:55:56.460 --> 00:56:00.300 and put a number to, and then create that goal, 00:56:00.700 --> 00:56:01.420 is the 00:56:01.900 --> 00:56:06.355 more motivated you're going to be, and the more clear it's gonna be for you 00:56:06.755 --> 00:56:33.380 to continue on the path. And especially if, you know, for those that are gonna fire up this year, and this is gonna be the year they get healthy. You know what I mean? Like, decide all the things that you have to do that are going to make you healthy against the numbers. So let's just say, Okay, I wanna be one hundred and fifty pounds. Okay, well, are all the things that you would need to do to do that? Well, I'd have to clean diet, and I've got to get in the gym, and I wanna do yoga and meditate, whatever it is. Map, 00:56:33.555 --> 00:56:39.955 design that into your rhythm, and then track how often you do it, and gamify your discipline 00:56:40.115 --> 00:56:54.470 by trying to beat your numbers, because if you beat your numbers, then you're going to reach your quantifiable goal of your weight goal. And then your quantifiable weight goal is going to lead to your health goal, which is really, I just want a fully healthy 00:56:54.550 --> 00:56:56.150 and vitality 00:56:56.150 --> 00:57:09.655 in my life as my evolution goal, and part of that is getting to one hundred and fifty pounds, and these five things, if I do them every day, will get me to that, and if I track that, my goal isn't to do it every day, but if I could do it at least 00:57:10.215 --> 00:57:11.175 75% 00:57:11.175 --> 00:57:20.600 of the time, now I've gamified it and can push my numbers to keep me more motivated and excited to reach the number which ultimately leads to my bigger goal. 00:57:20.840 --> 00:57:24.920 And then you grow over time, and your standards grow. Eventually, 00:57:25.080 --> 00:57:29.815 you'll just be at the weight you want, and then you'll you'll be wanting it for, 00:57:30.615 --> 00:57:48.400 you know, a healthier, more limber system. Now I'm gonna add yoga to it because I wanna be flexible and be able to, like, jog again. Like, it'll keep evolving. What vitality means to you will keep evolving, but that's how you stack an evolution goal to a quantifiable goal and then create a gamified system 00:57:48.720 --> 00:57:49.760 to achieve it. 00:57:52.720 --> 00:57:56.000 Sounds pretty good. I the idea of 00:57:56.415 --> 00:58:02.815 just going with some deep well, but could could barely hold back the laughter to, like good. Like, I'm just 00:58:03.295 --> 00:58:09.135 I don't I just think I just think it's so good. It's like we could go six hours. I can't wait for dinner, 00:58:09.950 --> 00:58:16.910 but I'm glad everybody got to have this hour with us today. It's as good as it gets, Rob. I mean, this is first cabin, 00:58:16.990 --> 00:58:18.910 world class, all timer, 00:58:19.550 --> 00:58:28.165 as good as it gets. And, like, uh, this will be just another one of these that people were like, man, you better have him back on. I just gotta thank you. This was probably 00:58:28.165 --> 00:58:30.485 the fastest hour ever. Mean, like, 00:58:30.805 --> 00:58:35.365 it's I I'm just so thankful for you and and our friendship because you are 00:58:36.085 --> 00:58:36.885 completely 00:58:37.525 --> 00:58:42.390 aspirational aspirational to me as a man and a human being and way of life, and 00:58:42.950 --> 00:58:48.070 I am thankful to be here today to even share my latest in my personal evolution 00:58:48.630 --> 00:58:51.270 and look forward to dinner tonight. Me too. 00:58:51.855 --> 00:59:05.850 Gosh darn it, everybody. You're welcome. That's all I can say. You're welcome. I usually, at the end of the show, say, you should share this. I don't need to tell you to do that today. I know you're doing that. This is an all timer, an all timer. This is one for the ages, 00:59:06.250 --> 00:59:11.770 and I just hope that maybe this is one the only thing I would say, maybe you should hear more than once. 00:59:12.010 --> 00:59:18.170 Maybe this is one of these you go, you know what? Tomorrow, I'm gonna do this one again because you will have missed stuff. There was so much here. 00:59:18.805 --> 00:59:20.485 I'm being really serious 00:59:20.485 --> 00:59:23.685 with everybody. I can't wait to hear this back myself, 00:59:23.765 --> 00:59:25.685 and I will listen to this multiple times 00:59:26.085 --> 00:59:34.165 because there was so much depth to this. There was not one wasted second of this conversation today. So Rob Dierdick, everybody. Follow him on social media. 00:59:35.020 --> 00:59:43.820 You probably already see him on TV all the time, so follow him on social media. You'll keep getting updates like this, and he's got more and more stuff coming. What you're really to be excited about is at some point, 00:59:44.940 --> 00:59:55.835 this book project he's told me about privately will come out, and that's going to blow the planet up. It's gonna be so good. It's not out yet, but it's it'll be forthcoming. The more I say that into a microphone, the more likely it is to happen sooner. 00:59:55.995 --> 00:59:59.995 So that's why I say it. Alright, everybody. God bless you. Max out your life. Take care.