How to Thrive in a Hustle Culture with Christine Lee (Part II)

What's up? Real estate Business builders.

This is part two of Christine Lee talking about her journey in business. How she shifted over into a tech and systems play with seize the market, but more importantly, how she's combated this culture of rise and grind and just this hustle, hustle, hustle culture that we live in. So this is part two. So if you're coming into the podcast on this episode, go back one episode so you have a little bit of context to the conversation. If you haven't grabbed a free copy of my book yet, go to ScaleOrDieBook.com enjoy that free resource and enjoy part two of Christine Lee chatting about the hustle culture and how to combat it while still being super successful. Hope you enjoy.

Hustle is where it's at. You know, yeah, you can have talent, but if you don't have hustle, you know, you're not going to get anywhere. Again, it's that, that compelling, right? Unhealthy, urgent to get things done. Because if you don't get it done, you're going to miss out. And when it's tied to like your self worth or your value or like how awesome you are and your awesome thoughts, then it's, you know, the more I get that, the better I am. So the truth in that is that, no, not your plan, it's God's plan. Like our plan is go, go, go, hustle, hustle, hustle. But God, like, yo, yeah, that's like the recipe for burnout. And long term, it's like the tortoise and the hare, you know, is it the Taurus nice and easy wins the race or the hair that just like burns out? And so like, do you actually want to win or do you just want to feel good hustling until you don't? So just going into licensures, I'd love to see which one of these lies are like, really prominent in your life. What ones ring in your head, what applied to you, how do you show up?

All of these I have, and it's a lot better now, but just a sense of urgency that is exhausting to for sure. And there are team members on here that will say, like, Lars, like a sense of urgency, like everything is the highest priority. And you rationalize it as a business person, you know, where there are some things that you know are high priority, but. But not to the point where they're going to trump other things. And so just priorities to me are, you know, very clear. If they're true priorities, they show up that way in your calendar. So that one for sure. The time thing, I've. I've figured that out, you know, pretty well. But productivity. We did an exercise as a family, like, creating our family values. And my. I was just so caught up on productivity, like, to me, like, people that. To the point where I. I almost think, like, if you're not, like, highly productive, and it even gets in between my wife and I, like, she's not the most productive. And like, coaching your wife is the worst idea ever. But I. I'm almost like, well, you're just not being productive, you know, and it's like. But. But then she'll be sitting outside and I'll be envious of. I'm, like, looking at her like, what is she doing out there? And I'll ask her later. She's just. I was just listening to the birds. And I'm like, you were listening to the birds? But then part of me is like, that's ridiculous. That part of me is like, I would love to listen to the birds.

You're like, I don't even know how to do that.

Like, sit out there for, like, three minutes. And it's like, okay, so there is still a part that is, you know, it's embedded. And I get better every day with. With my quiet time first thing in the morning. But, yeah, so I. I feel like this is all. All me.

And again, that's like, not pointing fingers. I was just kind of, like, dumping out what I've done and what I've experienced. But I think it's common for a lot of us, so no shame in that. Oh, here's another part. Speaking of shame. The lies will be that if you're not productive, right, you're useless. You know, you're not worth as much. And so that. Just recognize, not only is that fear, but that's a guilt and shame. How many times do we feel guilty when we're not being, quote, unquote, productive or hustling? Right? And so there's a lot of guilt and shame programmed into this whole hustle mentality that I literally had a very hard time going on vacation and just, like, truly just relaxing and not plugging into work. And I know. I've heard that so many different places, but just realize that is a guilt and shame that's rooted in that, and fear is something else. But guilt and shame is this huge, huge kind of thought about as well.

Real funny. In the comments, Jill Lindstrom said, all of my emails have ASAP in them, like, capital, I need this. And it's, you know, what makes me laugh on that is like, I'll do it, except I'll. I'll put it in lowercase so they know that I need it as soon as possible, but it's not like, as soon as possible, but I still need everything asap. I thought that was hilarious.

Does it make you feel better when you do it in lowercase, Lawrence? Is it like 100%?

Because I'm not being as much of a, you know, an a hole if I lowercase the asap.

Oh. It makes me feel like a little fuzzy delivery person. You're like, oh, I'm so sweet. I did it in all lowercase. Congratulations. I love it. That's pretty fun. Okay, all right, so here's the thing now connecting, you know, business and practicality to some spirituality. The truth is, is that Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. We talked about all the different labels that we put on, you know, productivity. Oh, you're a Florida worker, you're a go getter. All those things that come out as an angel of light, meaning it comes out like a wolf in sheep's clothing, right? It. It has a label of something good and noble, especially providing for your family as a husband, right? Like, what's more noble than that? That's pretty hard to pierce, right? But when you look at your motivator and the price that you're paying, the collateral damage, if any, right? Then you can determine, you can discern, right? You can recognize if there is some crap underneath that that's really not healthy and not God, or if it's like literally Satan disguised as an angel of light chamber, say, hey, we need to be more productive, right? Because these are good things. And you're not a human. You're not a man or a father if you don't. But let's tap into some truth here. For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind. I love this power love in a sound mind. Okay, so just that phrase alone, you can use that as like a thermostat, right? As a litmus test and be like, okay, am I operating in power, love and a sound mind? Sound mind also translates to self control, meaning you can turn it off, right? Let's translate it to business talk. You can turn it off. Do you find yourself not being able to turn it off? My friend, that is not self control, right? That is not sound mind. That is not power and love. That's called out of control. You can't turn it off. And you are spinning, right? And you can't go to sleep and you're anxious and you're depressed or you're stressed out, you have to take like antidepressant or whatever medication that you probably shouldn't have to. If you tap more into power, love and a sound mind, right? And by the way, I'm not trying to knock on anybody about medication, but I say like, there's a lot of situations where we're over medicated, right? Just as a banding, as an easy out. So I just want to be respectful on that note. But so the question is, how can we stop the fear and get into power, love and a sound mind? So let's talk solutions, let's talk strategy, right? So I'm just gonna lay some problems out there, like, okay, I want to do this, but here's the practical pitfalls that comes up, you know. Well, I got like 80 billion tasks due today. Which one do I choose? So that's priority management, okay, and when should I do them? Because my day is kind of crazy. The moment that I wake up to when I go to sleep, it's like, you know, crazy town. That's time management issue. And in the middle of all this, how do I not go crazy? How do I not get pissed off? How do I not get out of balance? How do I not go crazy doing all of this? That's peace management. Okay? So we're going to tap into all of these three things in this solution. So it is a multifong strategy of priority, time and peace management. So let's step into it, shall we? So I call it time blocking with God. Super simple. And it knocks out all these three things. So step one or what is it? So time blocking with God is just simple. It's just the integration of God in your time tasking, priority management. And the result of that is like the best high quality decisions you make and the increased amount of peace that you have around that through the whole day. So here, here's the pitch, here's the, here's the benefit package, right? You get, you get better productivity out of you and you have more peace, more sanity, more control in your mind over all of it throughout the day. Like, who doesn't want that, right? So it's both practical, logical and spiritual. So step one, it starts from waking up science. First 15 minutes of waking up, your brain is in the theta brainwave state. So that's that kind of, that, that kind of lucid kind of, you know, in the shower, I'm thinking and you have all these, you know, aha, oh my gosh. I thought of this in the shower scene, right? It's because your brain is more in like very mushy, moldable state and like the ideas are flowing. That's the same state that you're in when you wake up the first 15 minutes. Which means whatever you put in your brain in those 15 minutes is the mode that you're going to continue to operate. So if you wake up first 15 minutes, start looking at whether it's social media to dudes and you like get yourself riled up in like this fight or flight panic state of like I got to get all this crap done and hustle the crap out of the day, then you are literally imprinting your brain with that type of mindset and energy and it's going to ride you the rest of the day. Like it's freaking going to whoop you. So a strategy on that is starting your morning in a healthy way. So the way you start your mornings matters. Okay. So what I'm gonna say is no cell phone for the first 30 or 60 minutes. Definitely not in the first 15. Right. But don't even look at your phone. Like I know it's. It's almost like this, your hand is on autopilot to reach and then flip over your phone. Because I find myself doing that even like every single day. And so but I'm acknowledging the fact that it's a natural, like programmed and thing. And I'm telling you, you gotta like stop it, like say no. And so because those things over stimulate your brain. And what we're gonna show you is how to get into like time blocking with God. And you can't hear, sense or feel properly when you're overstimulated because you've got all this noise and it's literally clouding your mental real estate. And so that includes my social media. No email, no texting, no tv, no news, any. I know like a lot of people like coffee, but like highly caffeinated, like energy drinks. It'll make your head so noisy when you're trying to like get quiet and get into like divine timing. I would say hold off as much as you can. Okay, so the next thing is. All right, so this is the steps to the practice is that each week I have a master weekly like to do list. Right. And so one side is business, work stuff and the other one is more personal, spiritual. Right. So I'm going to make a list that separates the two that I'm going to continue to use throughout the whole week because we're going to reference it in these later two steps. So like let's say on Sunday or first thing Monday, what? Wherever your spacers, you brain dump everything. And if you have a list from before, you just carry it over, right? This is just so you have a clean sheet because there's going to be things that you scratched out and things that you want to add to just start fresh each week. So you have this master list that you have, okay? So imagine all of that being filled out and then you have two options. I'm going to give you two different styles of doing this for those who like to keep it, like, super, like kind of sticky note simple, and those who are a little bit more organized and want to get time blocked. So hopefully you can mix and match or whatever. But the simple one is that you have a sticky note. You literally. So I do both, okay? I do the sticky note. Literally just draw a line through it. And here's what happens. As I'm in, like, my morning God time, I'm asking God, God, what are the top three things you want me to do? Because here's the thing, you're not going to get done all 80 bajillion things you got. And so you got to prioritize and do it with God. So here's the thing. When you are in quiet God time and you're asking God to lead you, that's your faith in action. Because the other alternative is that you use your puny little human brain to decide and you're doubting yourself and trying to change it up all day long. This is like the act of faith. You're choosing it with God, and then by faith, you're executing on it. Okay? So what you do is we're looking at your master list. So this is your top three, like, business. Let's consider it like, big rocks, right? That you want to do. And so maybe one big rock is, you know, doing 30 minutes of lead gen, you know, Right? Or maybe it's 30 minutes of, you know, training your new admin or 30 minutes of operations. Like, you just need to organize some stuff. Maybe it's your taxes, maybe it's your mail, whatever it is, you know, like, there's these walks that haven't been moved that you need to actually get some progress on. It's going to be on your list, right? Like, just pick it out. Like, you're literally asking God, God, what are the top three things you want me to do today in my video? You're looking over the list, you're listening, and you're Just trying to be very quiet and almost like intuitive, right? There's language about, you know, just being led by the spirit or just listening to God, like what do you feel like he's putting on your heart? And you just faithfully just like take a leap of faith and select the ones that are popping out to you and put it on the sheet, right? You can just take your time doing it. But that's by faith. Choosing your top three priorities with God. And then you go into the follow up category. There's going to be follow up items that's like, oh, you touch base with this, repair that, repair or disclosing or whatever. There's going to be things that are more follow up oriented. So pick those three follow ups. Or like, it can be a group, you know, follow up with, you know, all the closings today or whatever. But again, you'll find your own style and language around that. But try and not overload it. Do not. God's not going to overload you. If anything, the three that you pick, here's the thoughts that commonly come to mind. That's not enough. That's all like, I need to get more done. If you're feeling that, then you're probably on the right track. If you're feeling like, oh, yeah, okay, that's a nice tight schedule. Nope, that probably is a good clue that you're packing it too much. So back the truck up. Um, and then you have your personal list, right? Then you're like, okay, God, what do you want me to do in my note in my personal list? Again, you're just leaning in. What you feel like God's gonna pop it out to you. And it doesn't mean you have to finish that whole thing. It might just mean like, hey, just do like spend 25 minutes, just like spare a time block for it. And then in the spiritual aspect, it could be like, hey, pray for, you know, Johnny and Susie and whatever. Or maybe it's just, hey, just spend time with, like spend 15 minutes with me. So you just, you know, you're just listening and being obedient to these things. So it's like you're doing the same things as far as prioritizing, but the extra bonus items, you're in a great class and it is that simple. Like just bother to ask God and he will show up for you. So the phrase on that is trust, listen and obey. So the next option is okay, so like, okay, so then once you have that, then you look at that. That's your to do list for the Day. And these don't all have to be full. If God just gives you one in, you know, like some of these categories, that's fine. He's never going to overbook you. And you just go about your day. Okay, for those of you who like to be a little bit more organized and actually like, have time blocks in there, here's what I would do. There's a sheet, and I'll share this with you. You know, this is just like a regular calendar, planning day type of sheet. First, write down any set appointments that you actually have. Right. Because those aren't moving. And so you write those in, including your lunch. Okay, people, let's eat lunch. Let's keep your body healthy. And, and ask God what three things after you fill this. And so instead of the sticky note, the second step is that you're going to ask that same question and write it down in here. Okay? And so now it's on your planner sheet. And then the last step that's different is, okay, now you're looking at this and say, okay, God, help me, time block here. Where and when should I do these things? So it's almost like you're draw dragging and dropping, but you know, with your pencil. So if it said, you know, you know, do lead gen, then you're like, okay, God, when should I do it? And might be like, you might just kind of feel like a little pope, you know, and you're like, oh, I feel like 10 o' clock is kind of standing out for me. Okay, right in 10 o', clock, you know. Okay, the second thing, you know, this other time block of, you know, training your admin. Okay, well then do that at 11:30, you know, so you're just literally, it's like you're doing the same thing, but you're integrating God into it. It's not like this whole new system. It's the same thing. But you're asking God. You're just bothering to ask God. And so that's literally all it is. Like, it's not rocket science, it's just simple. But just involve God. Just ask him. Just like, listen, sit still for a little bit and wait for his answer and see what you see, sense, or feel. And so that's pretty much what that looks like. And I just want to. This is my testimonial on it. The results from that is just like, amazing. Because I have like 10 is probably an understatement. Just so much more incredible. Peace. Because I'm like, okay, I did this with God. I time blocked with God. And by faith, I'm going to be obedient. By faith, I'm going to execute this in excellence, because that's what he does. And guess what? He's bigger than your mistakes. Because you're like, oh, what if I did? Oh, maybe this was supposed to be, you know, how many times have you been like, you know, back to right on. Oh, I got to move this, move that. Oh, I really should have put this on my to do list. I've got to take this out. Like, all this reorganizing, all this, like, craziness. But when you do it with God, here's what steps in. I'm like, whoa, wait, hold on. Am I going to believe that I time block with God or not? Or am I going to choose to panic and go back into fear and try and rearrange the crap out of it? Right? And so it literally helps me pump the brakes and be like, no, I did this with God. I'm going to honor it. He's going to honor me. And if I need to make any adjustments, I'll do it intentionally with him. But not in my crazy mode. Not in my mode where my brain is spinning and I'm doing it out of, like, panic, anxiety, or fear. So when you do that, oh, my gosh, you forget less things because you just, like, you just did it with God. You stress and worry less because you're doing certain things that God's prompting you. Like, there's just more organization and order. And may I say that you have more lucky breaks. Like, how many times has God, like, canceled appointments? I'm like, oh, this is feeling a little tight. I'm like, God, was I supposed to do that? Next thing I know, canceled appointment. Like, he actually. Because you're now inviting him into your time blocking and schedule. I promise, he starts rearranging your schedule, right? Like, it's the coolest thing ever. But you're not going to get it if you don't ever integrate God into it. Like, that simple invitation of doing that starts, like, procuring some, like, cool supernatural little, little fingerprints that are amazing. And you just have increased space that things are just going to work out. And they do so much more. You have so much more peace. So this will just help you progress more in all areas of life, personally, health, spiritual business. And that is pretty much what you can expect. So I have. I have all that. These, like, three sheets. It's not like this whole packet. It's just three sheets. Your. The to do list, the sticky note version. And then, like, the date planning version. And so it's a free download. This is not even. There's not even a registration. It's literally the link go download. Like I'm not even trying to load like an email or anything. Like it's just there for you to download. So seesthemarket.com time. It's all yours. Have fun. And we can open it up to any comments, thoughts or questions. So Lars, take it away.

Yeah. Any questions while we have Christine for a few more minutes? This is awesome. And I would say the results for me in a really short period of time was just like extreme clarity on my priorities, you know, so. And really getting my work into the smallest time blocks as possible to where it would just sort of flow into everything. I would be in it out of bed and an email kind of doing the things you know, I just cut it off and I just know that my kids need me right now and I'm just in. In that. And I know, you know, instead of watching Netflix before bed, I know that my wife needs me in that time and that's been the. And just a lot more peace has been awesome. Any comments or questions from you guys? Lots of really solid. Like this is just what I needed and thanks. Just confirmation. Moving my family on brokerage exp was the right thing to do for sure. Um, yeah. Really, really good. I, I would encourage you guys to. To what I, what I was doing which was wrong and Christine called me out on it. Do exactly that. Just go from waking up. So I wake up at 5:00am and I start my, my work time at 5:30. But that 5 to 5:30 is doing. Doing just this. Not exactly this. You were holding this back for me. This is a little bit new. This, this is pretty cool this process but awesome. Awesome. All right, cool. Well thanks Christina. I appreciate you.

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