How Do You Spend Your Drive Time?

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Hello. Chad Owen with Annuity Agents Academy. You know, I have about two and a half hours of driving today, and it got me thinking about what do most people do with their downtime. In other words, when they're running to an appointment or they're going to their office, whether they have traffic or it's just a long drive, we have hours and hours and hours. We're in our vehicles every single week. And what do you do with that time? For me personally, I listen to probably 10 to 12 audiobooks per year. I have many, many different podcasts that I subscribe to. And then I also have the audio Bible and I have some worship music that I listen to. And that's just. I try and focus on multiple things when I'm in the truck. Number one, I want to have a great peace of mind. I want to be able to feel relaxed because when I'm going to the next appointment, I don't want my client to feel that stress, maybe from the appointment or traffic or whatever. I mean, you guys know what I'm talking about. There's always something going on when we're driving. But I also want to continually educate myself. I want to make sure I'm growing, I'm being better every single day. I'm learning more and more, whether it's in my own industry or I have a couple mentorship groups that I teach every single week. And I want to become better and better so I can mentor these people. Well, how do you do that? To teach, you have to be taught. To give away knowledge, you have to take in knowledge. And so what I'd like to challenge you with is instead of listening to the Fox News or the, the Hannity's, the Resh Limbaughs, whatever it is, which quite frankly stresses you out like crazy. I mean, if you think about their topics, how they talk, how intense they are, that's not enjoyable at all. And it sure as heck isn't going to give you a peace of mind. I mean, some of these guys are just out there, man. They just constantly wired. It's like they're, they're drinking monster energy drinks all the time. And there's, it's a possible, impossible to keep the of mind when you have that going at all times. That being said, I don't even have news on in my office when I'm, when I'm actually focusing. I don't have any sort of TV or anything because I want to give my undivided attention. But that's a whole other topic. I just want to challenge you. Instead of listening to mindless music or just something in the background just to be to kill the dead space, try and get some things that have an educational value to them, something that challenges you. And I would bet that just give over a period of time you're going to start to notice that, wow, I'm not quite as stressed as I used to be when I walk into my next appointment or wow, I have a lot of energy or knowledge that I never thought I would have. And a book that I would recommend. One of the first Books is by Dr. Carolyn Leaf. She's a neuroscientist and it's just amazing because she actually talks about why it's important not to multitask and why it's important to make sure we focus on one thing, these different practical exercises we can do to become better at remembering things. But it's Dr. Caroling Leaf and it's called switch on your brain. So try that first. Go get that audiobook. You can go on to audible.com and you can download that onto your phone, play it through your speakers and I promise you, you'll become a better person when you continually seek knowledge and you don't have a bunch of dead time. Thank you so much. You have a great day. We'll talk to you later. It.