Focus On The Big Things First

You know Matt, right, My boxing trainer?

Love him.

Topped. He talked at Top Dog two years ago.

He did.

And he came and hung out at Top Dog.

I was. I was also wondering, on a side note, do you think that when we have boot camps and we have dinner with.

Our clients that come, do you think it would be fun to have, like, Matt and that group of characters at those.

Yeah, because we're not necessarily super characters like that. They just bring a cool energy to the party. I think it'd be fun for them to see what Matt's like.

Well, I was thinking Matt and a couple other people, like, yeah, but Matt is single. Have you ever seen Matt with a girlfriend?

Never with a girlfriend. I've seen him with women.

But, yeah, he's had dates before, but it never works out, right?

Never. Not in close.

In fact, one time, not that long ago, he had two dates in the same night. Remember that?

Oh, that's right.

One left and then another one showed up.

Yeah, great.

Was interesting. But he has not had a girlfriend. Yeah, correct. Right. Okay. So then I met somebody that I thought might be interesting for him to ask out. I'd actually talked to her about this. Like, I had already kind of broached the subject of, oh, you're single. I know a guy. He's a great guy. Like, I'm selling him. Right. Like, he's a great guy.

So then I tell him, hey, I have this opportunity for you that you could ask her out, maybe meet for coffee and see if there's something going on. And he deadpan says, nope, I don't. I don't. He said, this is how he worded it. From November to February 15th is a no fly zone.

Yeah. And then it all made sense to you, didn't it?

Well, so the no fly zone means that he doesn't date because he doesn't want to buy a Christmas gift, and he doesn't want to buy a Valentine's gift, and maybe he doesn't want to go for Thanksgiving to somebody's meet their family or whatever.

I bet you're right.

So now here's a guy that always complains about being single, wants a girlfriend, and then when you go to set him up with somebody, he has all these weird rules that keep him from doing so. Now we're treating the symptom, not the cause. And maybe the cause is he actually really doesn't want a girlfriend, which is.

Totally okay if that's the case.

Right.

But when you hear him talk, it seems like he wants one.

But that's how Most people walk through life is like, no, I have a goal, I want to buy a house, or I have a goal, I want to do this. But then all of their actions would tell you that that goal doesn't exist. All of his actions are telling you that he doesn't really. And so that incongruency, I think at the top of it is the cause of time management issues. Not actually time management, because you only have so much time.

That's right.

And also if you're better at managing time, there's that saying, you can't grow a tree in a room full of stuff. You actually don't want to stack your time, so you're busy constantly back to back to back to back because you have no room to get the things that are going to get you ahead done.

And no ideas, no creativity. The whole thing shuts itself in on you and you're.

You're making more impulsive decisions. You're reacting to stuff, right?

Yeah, I think that's pretty good.

So I think in a sense, whenever, whenever somebody says time management, what I hear is, I don't have priorities.

Or if you do, there are loose priorities where somebody can sneak in front. I think that the, the best people that are best at time management are rigid about their calendar.

There's an analogy in.

Franklin Covey. Covey, he has a book on time management that I've read, and there's an analogy in there of a vase. And he says, if you need to put these rocks and this sand in the vase, if you put the sand in first, the rocks don't fit. But if you put in the rocks first and pour the sand over the top, then it fits. And basically what he's saying, or my interpretation of that, is if you do the big things that are going to get you to where you need to go first, then the sand kind of takes care of itself. Yeah, it's. It's funny how many little things go away.

If you focus on the big things.

That's right.

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