0:00:00 - 0:00:28 So, um, I woke up this morning in, in day two, I've got a fever. Um, unfortunately, the cowbell I have on my drum set is just not doing anything for me. Um, but um, in, in trying to avoid this, this sickness and then finally succumbing to it. So my, my family picked it up and I just, I saw them all get 0:00:28 - 0:00:51 it and I, I was taking measures to try to quarantine myself, take extra vitamins. I got it anyway. But, um, yesterday was, was a Saturday and, um, it's project Day and we're into the fall. So the winter's coming and we've got a, a shortened list of things that we need to worry about before the, it starts 0:00:51 - 0:01:15 snowing, but they become very important. And so, um, one of those goals is, is just to literally get ready for the winter. So we need to uh, winterize our small engines and get the tractor implement switched over. So we have a snow blower that's very necessary. Um, and so on and, and all of that becomes 0:01:14 - 0:01:40 grossly unpleasant once it gets cold. Um, but another objective is to shorten the to do list and close out projects. And, um, it's funny, my garage sort of converts over to a workshop over the summer in this summer. Kind of more than, than prior summers. It's, it's been a few years since I've had, um 0:01:40 - 0:02:11 , a summer that I was not physically injured. Um, TV. So there's, there's just been kind of a sprawling, intensely chaotic uh, area and, um, the yard, everything, everything is just kind of a work in progress. So we're, we're, we're tying that up now. Um And so even though I, I felt um pretty terrible 0:02:10 - 0:02:44 yesterday, um I recorded like I still got up at two, I recorded like probably four hours of videos um between as many hours or more of writing, I guess more given when I woke up and then I converted over to project mode at about 11. Um And uh it's just what needed to get done and then we, I wrapped up 0:02:44 - 0:03:12 what I was working on at five and I had various kids assisting me. Others were off with my wife, uh getting some of her end of season projects taken care of. And, um you know, a thought that's recurring to me is that when I wake up or just during the day and I'm feeling terrible, um which happens, uh 0:03:12 - 0:03:39 whether that's a physical thing or just an emotional thing or whatever. Um This voice says something like what you accomplish in your life will depend on what you do when you don't feel like doing it. And, um, it's really important. So, one tactic that I employ to maximize my output when I don't feel 0:03:39 - 0:04:08 like doing anything or when I feel like doing a lot less than I could. Uh, if I felt good is, um, I revert back to my lists. So I have a written document that describes my adopted purpose in life. The purpose I've chosen, it's very explicit. Um There's a one sentence, big picture and then I have a list 0:04:08 - 0:04:32 of goals under that and those are measurable. Um It's hard to measure a big picture purpose. It's hard to measure your progress on that whether you've achieved it or not. Um So the goals are surrogates for this. They answer the question if I were to get these things done, if I were to achieve these things 0:04:31 - 0:04:55 . Um Sorry, that's not a question. It's a statement. Um The question is what's a list of things I can measure that would convince me that I'm accomplishing this purpose and those are your goals and then you decompose those into tasks and tasks are much smaller. They're, they're closer to a what you do 0:04:55 - 0:05:22 in a day um description than something that might take months or years or even decades. Um I have, I have some goals that span more than a decade. So um at least II, I anticipate they'll take longer than that. So as you create this framework, it, it becomes an individual constitution and, um, it's almost 0:05:22 - 0:05:43 like a recipe to produce the person that you want to be. And, um, it, it can be as long as you'd like, but just like corporate mission statements. If, if it becomes much longer than a page, you probably need to think more and, um, tease out the things that are actually much higher priority than everything 0:05:43 - 0:06:05 else on the list. And it turns out that that's the way it goes. I'm not gonna make a case for this, but I think you'll find that as you do this, you'll, you'll see that that, that Pato distribution comes in again. It's so important to understand and be familiar with. Um It's like a set of magic glasses 0:06:04 - 0:06:33 where you can see things that other people can't. Um And it's, it's cheat codes for life in a, in a way you're not cheating at all. But it's like, you know, rules of the game that no one else knows. So, you know about the secret tunnels um to his Nacho Libre reference. Um Anyway, it's, I won't go there 0:06:32 - 0:07:03 . Uh Yeah, so the list. So um you know, it's funny 11 reason people resist doing this. Well, the, the main reason is because people have no idea what you can accomplish with a little more prioritization and productivity and they see it as chains, they see it as an obstacle as like a running with a parachute 0:07:03 - 0:07:26 on your back. They see it as resistance. It's not, it's a rocket, it's a rocket on your back, which also doesn't sound pleasant, but if your goal is to get there, um, it's wings on your shoes. You know, that's a, that's a really important idea, but can't go there right now. But, you know, mythical characters 0:07:25 - 0:07:55 , they had some of them but there are a few, uh, mercury for instance, but they had wings on their shoes. Um, so, um, yeah, you can mount up like eagles with the wings and that's such an important scripture from Isaiah. But again, we don't have time. Um We'll talk about that some other time. So if you 0:07:55 - 0:08:23 can decompose, if you can set a principle, uh an overarching purpose and decompose that into goals and tasks, it will change your life how and this is, we could say all these same things about the gospel. Writ large. It's not, it's not an encumbrance, it sets you free. And so what does, what does an 0:08:23 - 0:08:46 intentional life, what does it get you whatever you want? It gets you whatever you want way more than you could have it in any other way. It's, it should be the easiest thing in the world to sell to people. But the problem is you don't actually want what you say you want 100%. I promise you, you don't 0:08:46 - 0:09:07 actually want what you say you want. What do you want whatever you do instead? So if, if you were to see all the barriers to what you say you want. And we went down that list, it turns out that there are things on that list that you hold at a higher priority than actually getting what you say you want 0:09:07 - 0:09:30 . It's that simple. It's, it's, it's just like a machine. And uh the reason you don't have what you say you want is because you don't live to get it. And the reason you don't live to get it, it's not because you don't know, it's because you choose differently. So a lot in there needs to be pulled apart 0:09:30 - 0:10:05 and laid out with more detail, uh more clarity and that will be done. But this is something that needs to be addressed for sure. It's not just a question of facilitating your progress towards what you want. Although that's a huge chunk part of that is um finding the, the resources to do so because right 0:10:04 - 0:10:26 now those resources are locked up. You don't even realize you, you're wasting them. You don't even realize you have them, but they're locked up in things that prevent your purpose instead of facilitating it. So once you can get that decomposed down to the task level, now you're in business and now you 0:10:26 - 0:10:49 , you'll know that you are there when you can write a post it, note the the normal size kind, you can't cheat this and use an easel size, a normal post it note you can write down in in first thing in the morning, you know what to write. And also it can be contained on a post it note and that will, that 0:10:49 - 0:11:11 little one day to do list will take up all your time that you have, but just the right amount. So you'll actually cross all the stuff off or close and you'll have full confidence that, that what is on that note is exactly what you need to do to get one day closer to everything else on your list. That's 0:11:10 - 0:11:31 when you know that you're doing this and uh it's absolutely free because all those crazy things swirling around in your head that you feel like you need to do that. You feel inadequate about that you want and don't have, you're worried about this. You're not sure about that. All of that goes away every 0:11:31 - 0:11:54 single day if you can just pray. No, just kidding. You know, just rhyming with that. Um If you can just get it organized and reduced down to the scope of one day, that's all you got to worry about today. And the Lord said this, I don't have my computer up, I'd, I'd pull it up. But there, there are at 0:11:54 - 0:12:19 least two references in the scriptures that say exactly this. There's one in the Old Testament when um when the Lord is referring to the manna and he says essentially he says what you have before you every single day is exactly the circumstance. It it's the exact circumstances you need to grow one day 0:12:19 - 0:12:45 closer to me. That's the idea. And the Lord says the same exact thing when he says, oh, the translations are pretty terrible. But this is this business about uh sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. That's the real meaning behind that is what it sounds bad, right? But it, it's not actually bad 0:12:45 - 0:13:14 at all. He's just saying every day provides enough challenge. It provides just the right challenge. Just the right challenge to propel you forward towards one day closer towards everything you want. So um big ideas, right? It's freeing, it's freeing to be able to do this. So when I share this idea with 0:13:14 - 0:13:36 people, I've done it with many, many people that, you know, they just oh whatever, like, like I'm just saying, you know, if you fold your bed sheets just this way, they'll fit easier in your closet. And it's like, no, thanks for the tip. I don't really care. Uh But this is, this is like telling someone 0:13:36 - 0:14:04 how to breathe, you know, and they're like, wow, I've never done that before. Um It's kind of a big deal. So um there's nothing you can say to uh fully show just how, how big of a deal it is. Um It's something that has to be lived in order to see. And there are quite a few aspects of the gospel that 0:14:04 - 0:14:30 are like that. But this one's a pretty big deal because what we need to do to be disciples of Christ requires us to be more productive than anyone else who's not a disciple of Christ. The, the, the duties on her shoulders are heavier. And, um, you might say, well, didn't he say my yoke is easy and my 0:14:30 - 0:14:54 burden is light. Yes. But that's from his perspective because, and he's right. He's right. There is no easier way than the Lord's way. But it, it, it does not seem that way for those on the other side. It seems a heck of a lot worse. That's the truth. Why? Because everything in their value system is 0:14:54 - 0:15:29 calibrated to right here right now. How do I feel? There's no reason, there's no future outlook, there's no faith. So 11 measure of faith is how fully can you experience future emotions right now? Or even if you can't experience them? It's like, um, this reminds me of ketosis. So your brain or your body 0:15:29 - 0:16:01 , but primarily your brain, um, your, your brain uses more calories than any other organ as far as I know. Um, but it uses a lot of sugar, a lot of glucose and when you eat, um, the first order of business is to keep your brain going, right? Because if that goes, everything else goes and, um, it's, it's 0:16:00 - 0:16:26 like a, a roaring fire and you just have to keep throwing fuel in there to keep it that way. And, um, your body has an emergency, uh, faculty for energy other than glucose. And those are ketones. And, um, so, so keto people, they don't eat carbs. And so what they're doing is they're forcing their body 0:16:25 - 0:16:48 into a starvation state. And that, that doesn't mean that they're not eating food. It just means that the glucose, that's the primary fuel, it's gone. Our bodies are kind of like a dual fuel generator where it runs on gasoline and it runs on propane. Um, and it just depends on what you've got and probably 0:16:47 - 0:17:13 those two do not have equal efficiencies and in the sake of your body, uh, in the case of your body, that, that's certainly the case, ketones are not efficient fuel sources. And so that's why people on keto lose weight because it's really hard to eat that, uh, that many calories in fats and in protein 0:17:13 - 0:17:43 . Uh, unless you drink oil, which I know at least one person who does. Um, and frankly, I'd probably be doing that if I didn't have a supply of chicken eggs, fresh chicken eggs. And, uh, if I had a gall gallbladder, which I don't. So, um, you know, anyway, um, so, so why did I deploy that analogy? I 0:17:43 - 0:18:04 can't remember. Ketones, yikes. It was good. Hopefully you can go back. I can't pause it and, and my phone doesn't support that. Um, but it was good. So, whatever we're talking about the, converting the one thing to the other ketones are not as efficient. That's, that's the problem. You have to eat more 0:18:04 - 0:18:22 calories to get the same energy out. But also it just doesn't operate the same way, which is why your brain gets fuzzy when you go on keto. Keto at first and then it actually gets a lot sharper because it's more constant. Uh, glucose based energy is up and down because it's so easy to consume. It's like 0:18:22 - 0:18:53 burning paper in a fireplace. Um It burns real quick and ketones are slow. Uh So they're more constant. Um Anyway, I cannot remember where we were with that. Shoot. Well, anyway, so, so if you can reduce your life down to the daily, then um it's a really good sign that you're, you're on all cylinders 0:18:52 - 0:19:14 and you're, you're doing what you can, you're taking advantage of the gifts that you have. If you can't do that, if you can't reduce your whole life down to the day, down to what's before you today, which there will be certain days that aren't like the others, right? Whether that's on a weekly cycle 0:19:13 - 0:19:34 or every once in a while or whatever. Um You know, if you have a big family trip to somewhere, then obviously how you use that to achieve your purposes is gonna, is going to vary from your daily routine if you have one, which I highly recommend. But also this is a powerful tool for people who maybe you 0:19:34 - 0:19:57 have an intermittent job or something but, or, or you very young child and you're up with them regularly. Uh, if you have some circumstance in life that prevents you from having a normal routine, this purpose document, this can be just the thing to get you to the next level. Um, because it's like principles 0:19:56 - 0:20:27 compared to rules, uh, rules are, are specified to a certain situation and, um, you have to upgrade to principles to have something that's applicable across all situations. It's a generalized version of the idea. And um it's like that. So if you have this purpose document, then um you have everything 0:20:26 - 0:20:52 you need to break it down to any day. So like if you wake up and your left leg is broken, cool. How do, how do I just fire so that I can? Sorry, that's a military term in the, in the military. There are, there are several weapons that there is a phrase for this. I don't know what it is now that um you 0:20:52 - 0:21:15 can't really aim. So you aim it by shooting it, which is as fun as it sounds. Uh when you're on a range, not necessarily when you have to use it on people. But um so for example, there's this thing called a Mark 19 and it's loads of fun, highly recommend it. Um So these are typically their vehicle mounted 0:21:14 - 0:21:34 . So imagine this a giant, you know, those uh probably see in the movies, there's grenade launchers where they go boop, right? Boop. And then you have to shoot these things at an arc. You don't shoot them straight like a rifle. Well, rifles are actually art too, but let's not get into the details. Um 0:21:34 - 0:21:55 So you know that you can on the rifle mounted version of these, they have a site and you can kind of aim it, but it's funky because you have to aim it up a lot. So the site is like you're looking this way and the rifles like this, but in March 19 ain't nobody got time for none of that. So what you do 0:21:55 - 0:22:18 is it's a clip mounted. You've got a chain, a belt of these grenades and the gun just goes doom, doom, doom, doom, doom. And, um, and it goes pretty far and then things start blowing up. And so to aim this, you just put it in the general direction and hold down the trigger. And then as you see the explosions 0:22:18 - 0:22:38 , you adjust fire. Um, you can do this with rifles too. If you've got tracer rounds, I've talked about this in my books, I think. But, um, when you, when you're using tracer rounds, every few bullets in your magazine, you put one of these things that glows as you shoot it. And so it's kind of cool. You'll 0:22:38 - 0:23:00 see, you can see videos of this online, but you see this streak of glowing light. It's like, uh, I don't know, glow stick of death or something. But, um, as, as you're shooting, you can dial in on your target and you know, you can use these with machine guns as well, which machine guns you also aim uh 0:23:00 - 0:23:28 by shooting. So a lot of times in life, we also have to aim by shooting. And that's where this phrase adjust fire. That, that, that's uh one application of it. So you have to adjust where you're shooting, how you're shooting, et cetera. So, um, yeah, as you're going through life, there are many, many 0:23:28 - 0:23:51 times and places where you have to adjust fire. Um, so that was the final thing. I don't know why I looked over there. I don't have any notes. Those are my imaginary notes. Um The final thing I wanna say is the applicability of this is another aspect of the freeing nature of writing a life plan and living 0:23:51 - 0:24:14 it. And this is, I have one person say, and I know many others have thought. They said, you know, they read which book was it is the glory of God is intelligence. This person said, I said, what do you think? And they said, um, this is both the most freeing and the most terrifying thing I've ever read 0:24:14 - 0:24:41 in my life. I said, OK, then you got it. We had some good conversations and then unfortunately this person kind of went off the rails and, uh, did some really terrible things. But, um, yeah, for a moment. It was a beautiful thing. So, um a lot of things from the Lord are like that they are the most freeing 0:24:41 - 0:25:09 and the most terrifying. And this, this idea of writing a life plan and living by it is certainly one of them because it's pretty high on the list, in fact, because what it does is it empowers you to get marvelously closer to anything that you want to accomplish amazingly more than you could ever otherwise 0:25:08 - 0:25:41 do and to feel way better while doing it than you otherwise could. But it also makes you responsible for your own life. So specifically, cause you could, you could you truthfully apply that in many ways to this. But what I really want to focus on my point here, if you don't like what that thing says 0:25:40 - 0:26:11 , you have the power to change it and if you don't, it's your problem. So it's one thing for some person to tell you you need to do this, you need to not do this, right? It's another thing to say. I told myself that I'm going to do this and I committed, like I said, this is what I want. This is truthfully 0:26:10 - 0:26:31 how I think I'm going to get it. It's a plausible plan and you know, people think faith is like leaping off a building or something. No, it's not. It's putting down the first brick and understanding and believing that at the end of the, the chain of bricks is a building and that, that's the building 0:26:31 - 0:26:51 you want. And if you want a different building, then you put down different bricks or if you don't want a building, if you just want a shack, you go get some cardboard, right? Or some trash or whatever, make yourself a trash shack. But that's what you choose. That's, that's faith. And so reducing these 0:26:51 - 0:27:09 things down to the daily level. Now all of a sudden it's plausible. Maybe no one else in the world thinks you're gonna get there. But you have a plan and you really believe that that's what it's going to take. And the Lord can help you if, if, if you're like, you know, this is what I want. I have no 0:27:09 - 0:27:41 idea how to get it or no one I've ever met has achieved what I'm trying to do. There was a time where it was hard for me um to believe what others think is impossible. It is not hard for me anymore. Why? Because when I look back on my life, it's a never ending chain of things that people said are impossible 0:27:40 - 0:28:15 . So just specifically at work, for example, um my company, we've been at it for six years now, I think. Um But this is work that I started thinking about in 2010, maybe 11 and uh worked hard at the, at the very first brick of this building um as a grad student for years and you know that was in a field 0:28:14 - 0:28:37 where I was brand new. I was the new guy. I had no idea what was going on. But with those beginner eyes, I saw problems that other people were afraid to look at and instead of backing away from them, I said, no, let's charge right into this. We can do this, we can fix this. And along the way, there are 0:28:37 - 0:29:03 people who most people just said this can't be done and you're an idiot. Um, a lot of people were willing to walk along with me for a time, especially if I was willing to pay them, especially if I was willing to pay them much more than they're worth to give them a shot, um, shot at something new. They 0:29:02 - 0:29:27 weren't, they weren't in it yet the field. Um, but it's just for a time and they too would become overwhelmed and, and kind of turn away. Um But, but I stayed at it and now there's a whole pile of things that we've done that no one has ever been able to do. Now. The commercial value of all that, that's 0:29:27 - 0:29:51 a different question. It's a different set of problems, but from a scientific perspective, um, I've seen too many supposedly impossible things done and that's just, that's just a very narrow slice of time and uh space in life. There are many, many, many, many other things I made another video. I don't 0:29:51 - 0:30:07 know when it's gonna be out relative to this one called the fruits of faith are all around or something like that. And I, I that's not even lengthy, but I just point to random things I'm saying out in my yard, I'm like that was, people said that was impossible. People said that was impossible. I'm like 0:30:07 - 0:30:37 Oprah giving away cruise ship trips or whatever she was doing on that clip. A famous clip. So um the way that you can, I uh you can start down a path that leads to an impossibly good outcome as you formulate a plausible path. So I wrote a book years ago called Through Faith that talks about all this 0:30:37 - 0:31:04 stuff. Probably not in the same with the same feel we'll say because it's different just talking to a phone, you say somebody, but uh than it is to try to write things up. But these ideas are not new. They've been out for years and um very few people, very few people have even begun to scratch the surface 0:31:03 - 0:31:31 of the positive effects that can happen in your life by applying these principles. It's huge. So let me just rant a little bit more about making changes and then we'll cut this off. So, um if you don't like where you're going, you should change where you're walking. And most of the time that includes 0:31:30 - 0:31:52 changing where you're facing, right? Because you, you can't turn another way, you can't walk a different way unless you turn another way. Unless you're doing some weird, I'm not looking where I'm walking thing, which has its own downsides, obviously. Um So if you don't like where you're going, then you 0:31:52 - 0:32:17 should make changes to where you're facing and how you're walking. If you don't like how fast you're going, uh, because you're going too fast or I think most people don't like that. They're going too slowly towards what they want, walk faster, walk faster and hit on this in another video. Um But look 0:32:16 - 0:32:34 at your efficiencies because if what you want is X and you're looking at this and you're saying at my current pace, this is gonna take more years than I have left. And by the way, we slow down as we get older, just look around. This is one of these things that ought to be obvious. But everyone pretends 0:32:34 - 0:33:04 like, well, I didn't know people get old. I didn't know that. Ok. You know, if you know some older people who excuse me, if you know some older people who, you know, a good day, a big high achieving day would be like when they went to the grocery store, then, uh or a doctor and then you know what I'm 0:33:04 - 0:33:29 talking about. So you have to get more efficient in order to make progress because it's gonna get harder as you go. The good news is you'll also get stronger if you do it right. And so, um, you know, I mentioned yesterday I was hard charging, even though I was feverish. Um, I built five large shelving 0:33:28 - 0:33:56 units out of, uh, two by fours and sheathing and they're, they're rock solid and their purpose in life is to hold really big, you know, it's black and yellow bins you can get at Costco. I don't remember how many gallons they are. I'd guess 30 maybe. And, um, we're using those to store rye and, um, we 0:33:56 - 0:34:22 need space for them and they're heavy when they're full. Right. My goodness. I think they're probably like £200. And, um, so we had these, uh, temporary metal shelves in there. We had two units and I had to move them all off of those. There were six of them, I think. Um, and the ground level ones, no 0:34:21 - 0:34:42 big deal, the mid-level ones, bigger deal, the higher ones really big deal. And, uh, yeah, I don't have a great back. I've got two herniated discs. So I try to be real careful about what I do and then sometimes I just gotta bite the bullet and do things I know are gonna hurt me. Um, but anyway, I put 0:34:42 - 0:35:14 together five shelving units and then we totally organized an enormous mess around that area that we've just been hobbling on with insufficient storage there. And then we went over to the garage and did the same thing. This is in a, a large storage shed. So, um, what's my point with that? Um, I didn't 0:35:13 - 0:35:36 want to do any of that, but it was on the list. It needed to get done. It was actually overdue and I knew I had faith that if I busted it out all day long, we could scratch that off the list and it's done. So many things in life are never done. And that's one reason why this larger topic of organizing 0:35:35 - 0:36:01 your time, time management, really, goal management and action management. Why it's so important, um, is to, to make something that's absolutely infinite to give you a finite approach to handling it. My to do list, um, is never ending yours isn't either. But maybe you haven't come to that conclusion 0:36:01 - 0:36:25 . Maybe you're still hiding from that fact, but it never ends and it doesn't matter. My to do list could be a million years long and it would not add one ounce to my stress. I am stress free all the time. And that's despite the fact that I do more than anyone I know and have for a very long time. Why 0:36:25 - 0:36:48 ? Because I've got a plan and I know what's most important. And if I don't get to the thing, that's 10 things down on my list. Fine. I did everything I possibly could. I did my best. I didn't think that I did my best. I didn't try to do my best. There is no way I could have gotten to item number 10 if 0:36:48 - 0:37:11 I didn't get there and that doesn't mean that I'm, I'm crawling over the finish line every day, you know, bleeding from every whatever. Um, sometimes I'll take a nap. Sometimes I will sit there for like five minutes or something. It feels like an eternity, which is beautiful. And, uh, I call that the 0:37:10 - 0:37:32 , trying to, to hit record moments where I, I wanna hold on to this one, you know, like I was up on the roof couple weeks ago. It's been a while, um painting and I got done painting and I turned around because I'd like holding on for my dear life on this very steep roof. I turned around still holding 0:37:31 - 0:37:50 on for my dear life. Um But it didn't matter, you know, um If, if you can hold on for your dear life and paint, you can hold on for your dear life and appreciate the surrounding, right? And then get the heck off the roof. Um I just sat there looking at the beauty and thanking God for this moment because 0:37:50 - 0:38:17 it was just amazing and it's so easy to pass by those things anyway. I'm really ranting at this point and I'm mostly doing that because I, I'm trying to remember. There's one other thing about making changes and I can't remember what I wanted to say about that. No, it's gone. It is gone. So it's this 0:38:16 - 0:38:37 interesting thing because this document becomes ironclad from one perspective, but it's the easiest thing in the world. To change from another. But you gotta be honest and that's where it gets, you gets you right in the crosshairs because so often every day you're changing your prioritization like a 0:38:37 - 0:38:59 million times and you don't realize it. And you have to get to the point where the only time you ever change that is when you do it intentionally, it's kind of like having a credit card versus having to go get cash some from a bank if any dinosaurs remember that. So my fellow dinosaurs. Um so when you 0:38:59 - 0:39:16 have a credit card, especially with online, you don't even have to run your credit card. If, if your credit card saved, you can buy all this stuff without actually thinking, oh, I'm, I'm buying things. It's just not the same, the thresholds way lower than going and getting cash. And so we have to get 0:39:16 - 0:39:36 to the cash thing with how we spend our time. We have to really think about it and it, it seems stressful, but it's not, it's um what you have to remember is the pain and conversion on this because it will be uncomfortable at first and you will feel more stress at first. But that's only because you've 0:39:36 - 0:39:57 trained yourself to be oblivious to the harm you do every day to yourself by not thinking about it. If, if you had a conscious realization of the harm you're doing by not thinking about it, you'd make the change in two seconds and then as you walk down the path, see it's like muscles. You, you hear people 0:39:57 - 0:40:17 say like, um, I'm sore in, in muscles. I didn't know I had because they just did something new. Right. If you climb a rock wall for the first time, you're gonna be sore in weird places. But there are people that run up those things like spider monkeys, right? Because they practice and for them it's not 0:40:17 - 0:40:42 hard. They have to have the funky things that no one, no other humans can climb to have a challenge. They need to compete with the mountain goats, not fellow humans. And this is much, much easier than that. Once you get down to um being fluent, let's say, in making a living by this plan, it's the easiest 0:40:42 - 0:41:04 thing in the world. And then you come to realize that like all things that are applications of, of the Lord's promise of his yoke being easy and his burden being light, there's no, there's no comparison to the other way. This is way better, way better. So I encourage you to get into this and to push 0:41:04 - 0:41:29 through that initial phase. I'd say if you can do this for two weeks solid and you, you, it, it's just not gonna be very hard after that. And that's true for most things. So give it a shot and uh 11 thing you're gonna be amazed at, it's just how much you do that has no desirable purpose again. Not according 0:41:29 - 0:41:51 to anyone but you, and you're gonna be like, oh, my goodness. I had no idea. I was wasting so much time and, and, uh, on things that really don't bring me joy that aren't intentional that are just, uh, basically make a pile of money and burn it either with actual money or your time. Um, mostly your time 0:00:00 - 0:00:28 So, um, I woke up this morning in, in day two, I've got a fever. Um, unfortunately, the cowbell I have on my drum set is just not doing anything for me. Um, but um, in, in trying to avoid this, this sickness and then finally succumbing to it. So my, my family picked it up and I just, I saw them all get 0:00:28 - 0:00:51 it and I, I was taking measures to try to quarantine myself, take extra vitamins. I got it anyway. But, um, yesterday was, was a Saturday and, um, it's project Day and we're into the fall. So the winter's coming and we've got a, a shortened list of things that we need to worry about before the, it starts 0:00:51 - 0:01:15 snowing, but they become very important. And so, um, one of those goals is, is just to literally get ready for the winter. So we need to uh, winterize our small engines and get the tractor implement switched over. So we have a snow blower that's very necessary. Um, and so on and, and all of that becomes 0:01:14 - 0:01:40 grossly unpleasant once it gets cold. Um, but another objective is to shorten the to do list and close out projects. And, um, it's funny, my garage sort of converts over to a workshop over the summer in this summer. Kind of more than, than prior summers. It's, it's been a few years since I've had, um 0:01:40 - 0:02:11 , a summer that I was not physically injured. Um, TV. So there's, there's just been kind of a sprawling, intensely chaotic uh, area and, um, the yard, everything, everything is just kind of a work in progress. So we're, we're, we're tying that up now. Um And so even though I, I felt um pretty terrible 0:02:10 - 0:02:44 yesterday, um I recorded like I still got up at two, I recorded like probably four hours of videos um between as many hours or more of writing, I guess more given when I woke up and then I converted over to project mode at about 11. Um And uh it's just what needed to get done and then we, I wrapped up 0:02:44 - 0:03:12 what I was working on at five and I had various kids assisting me. Others were off with my wife, uh getting some of her end of season projects taken care of. And, um you know, a thought that's recurring to me is that when I wake up or just during the day and I'm feeling terrible, um which happens, uh 0:03:12 - 0:03:39 whether that's a physical thing or just an emotional thing or whatever. Um This voice says something like what you accomplish in your life will depend on what you do when you don't feel like doing it. And, um, it's really important. So, one tactic that I employ to maximize my output when I don't feel 0:03:39 - 0:04:08 like doing anything or when I feel like doing a lot less than I could. Uh, if I felt good is, um, I revert back to my lists. So I have a written document that describes my adopted purpose in life. The purpose I've chosen, it's very explicit. Um There's a one sentence, big picture and then I have a list 0:04:08 - 0:04:32 of goals under that and those are measurable. Um It's hard to measure a big picture purpose. It's hard to measure your progress on that whether you've achieved it or not. Um So the goals are surrogates for this. They answer the question if I were to get these things done, if I were to achieve these things 0:04:31 - 0:04:55 . Um Sorry, that's not a question. It's a statement. Um The question is what's a list of things I can measure that would convince me that I'm accomplishing this purpose and those are your goals and then you decompose those into tasks and tasks are much smaller. They're, they're closer to a what you do 0:04:55 - 0:05:22 in a day um description than something that might take months or years or even decades. Um I have, I have some goals that span more than a decade. So um at least II, I anticipate they'll take longer than that. So as you create this framework, it, it becomes an individual constitution and, um, it's almost 0:05:22 - 0:05:43 like a recipe to produce the person that you want to be. And, um, it, it can be as long as you'd like, but just like corporate mission statements. If, if it becomes much longer than a page, you probably need to think more and, um, tease out the things that are actually much higher priority than everything 0:05:43 - 0:06:05 else on the list. And it turns out that that's the way it goes. I'm not gonna make a case for this, but I think you'll find that as you do this, you'll, you'll see that that, that Pato distribution comes in again. It's so important to understand and be familiar with. Um It's like a set of magic glasses 0:06:04 - 0:06:33 where you can see things that other people can't. Um And it's, it's cheat codes for life in a, in a way you're not cheating at all. But it's like, you know, rules of the game that no one else knows. So, you know about the secret tunnels um to his Nacho Libre reference. Um Anyway, it's, I won't go there 0:06:32 - 0:07:03 . Uh Yeah, so the list. So um you know, it's funny 11 reason people resist doing this. Well, the, the main reason is because people have no idea what you can accomplish with a little more prioritization and productivity and they see it as chains, they see it as an obstacle as like a running with a parachute 0:07:03 - 0:07:26 on your back. They see it as resistance. It's not, it's a rocket, it's a rocket on your back, which also doesn't sound pleasant, but if your goal is to get there, um, it's wings on your shoes. You know, that's a, that's a really important idea, but can't go there right now. But, you know, mythical characters 0:07:25 - 0:07:55 , they had some of them but there are a few, uh, mercury for instance, but they had wings on their shoes. Um, so, um, yeah, you can mount up like eagles with the wings and that's such an important scripture from Isaiah. But again, we don't have time. Um We'll talk about that some other time. So if you 0:07:55 - 0:08:23 can decompose, if you can set a principle, uh an overarching purpose and decompose that into goals and tasks, it will change your life how and this is, we could say all these same things about the gospel. Writ large. It's not, it's not an encumbrance, it sets you free. And so what does, what does an 0:08:23 - 0:08:46 intentional life, what does it get you whatever you want? It gets you whatever you want way more than you could have it in any other way. It's, it should be the easiest thing in the world to sell to people. But the problem is you don't actually want what you say you want 100%. I promise you, you don't 0:08:46 - 0:09:07 actually want what you say you want. What do you want whatever you do instead? So if, if you were to see all the barriers to what you say you want. And we went down that list, it turns out that there are things on that list that you hold at a higher priority than actually getting what you say you want 0:09:07 - 0:09:30 . It's that simple. It's, it's, it's just like a machine. And uh the reason you don't have what you say you want is because you don't live to get it. And the reason you don't live to get it, it's not because you don't know, it's because you choose differently. So a lot in there needs to be pulled apart 0:09:30 - 0:10:05 and laid out with more detail, uh more clarity and that will be done. But this is something that needs to be addressed for sure. It's not just a question of facilitating your progress towards what you want. Although that's a huge chunk part of that is um finding the, the resources to do so because right 0:10:04 - 0:10:26 now those resources are locked up. You don't even realize you, you're wasting them. You don't even realize you have them, but they're locked up in things that prevent your purpose instead of facilitating it. So once you can get that decomposed down to the task level, now you're in business and now you 0:10:26 - 0:10:49 , you'll know that you are there when you can write a post it, note the the normal size kind, you can't cheat this and use an easel size, a normal post it note you can write down in in first thing in the morning, you know what to write. And also it can be contained on a post it note and that will, that 0:10:49 - 0:11:11 little one day to do list will take up all your time that you have, but just the right amount. So you'll actually cross all the stuff off or close and you'll have full confidence that, that what is on that note is exactly what you need to do to get one day closer to everything else on your list. That's 0:11:10 - 0:11:31 when you know that you're doing this and uh it's absolutely free because all those crazy things swirling around in your head that you feel like you need to do that. You feel inadequate about that you want and don't have, you're worried about this. You're not sure about that. All of that goes away every 0:11:31 - 0:11:54 single day if you can just pray. No, just kidding. You know, just rhyming with that. Um If you can just get it organized and reduced down to the scope of one day, that's all you got to worry about today. And the Lord said this, I don't have my computer up, I'd, I'd pull it up. But there, there are at 0:11:54 - 0:12:19 least two references in the scriptures that say exactly this. There's one in the Old Testament when um when the Lord is referring to the manna and he says essentially he says what you have before you every single day is exactly the circumstance. It it's the exact circumstances you need to grow one day 0:12:19 - 0:12:45 closer to me. That's the idea. And the Lord says the same exact thing when he says, oh, the translations are pretty terrible. But this is this business about uh sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. That's the real meaning behind that is what it sounds bad, right? But it, it's not actually bad 0:12:45 - 0:13:14 at all. He's just saying every day provides enough challenge. It provides just the right challenge. Just the right challenge to propel you forward towards one day closer towards everything you want. So um big ideas, right? It's freeing, it's freeing to be able to do this. So when I share this idea with 0:13:14 - 0:13:36 people, I've done it with many, many people that, you know, they just oh whatever, like, like I'm just saying, you know, if you fold your bed sheets just this way, they'll fit easier in your closet. And it's like, no, thanks for the tip. I don't really care. Uh But this is, this is like telling someone 0:13:36 - 0:14:04 how to breathe, you know, and they're like, wow, I've never done that before. Um It's kind of a big deal. So um there's nothing you can say to uh fully show just how, how big of a deal it is. Um It's something that has to be lived in order to see. And there are quite a few aspects of the gospel that 0:14:04 - 0:14:30 are like that. But this one's a pretty big deal because what we need to do to be disciples of Christ requires us to be more productive than anyone else who's not a disciple of Christ. The, the, the duties on her shoulders are heavier. And, um, you might say, well, didn't he say my yoke is easy and my 0:14:30 - 0:14:54 burden is light. Yes. But that's from his perspective because, and he's right. He's right. There is no easier way than the Lord's way. But it, it, it does not seem that way for those on the other side. It seems a heck of a lot worse. That's the truth. Why? Because everything in their value system is 0:14:54 - 0:15:29 calibrated to right here right now. How do I feel? There's no reason, there's no future outlook, there's no faith. So 11 measure of faith is how fully can you experience future emotions right now? Or even if you can't experience them? It's like, um, this reminds me of ketosis. So your brain or your body 0:15:29 - 0:16:01 , but primarily your brain, um, your, your brain uses more calories than any other organ as far as I know. Um, but it uses a lot of sugar, a lot of glucose and when you eat, um, the first order of business is to keep your brain going, right? Because if that goes, everything else goes and, um, it's, it's 0:16:00 - 0:16:26 like a, a roaring fire and you just have to keep throwing fuel in there to keep it that way. And, um, your body has an emergency, uh, faculty for energy other than glucose. And those are ketones. And, um, so, so keto people, they don't eat carbs. And so what they're doing is they're forcing their body 0:16:25 - 0:16:48 into a starvation state. And that, that doesn't mean that they're not eating food. It just means that the glucose, that's the primary fuel, it's gone. Our bodies are kind of like a dual fuel generator where it runs on gasoline and it runs on propane. Um, and it just depends on what you've got and probably 0:16:47 - 0:17:13 those two do not have equal efficiencies and in the sake of your body, uh, in the case of your body, that, that's certainly the case, ketones are not efficient fuel sources. And so that's why people on keto lose weight because it's really hard to eat that, uh, that many calories in fats and in protein 0:17:13 - 0:17:43 . Uh, unless you drink oil, which I know at least one person who does. Um, and frankly, I'd probably be doing that if I didn't have a supply of chicken eggs, fresh chicken eggs. And, uh, if I had a gall gallbladder, which I don't. So, um, you know, anyway, um, so, so why did I deploy that analogy? I 0:17:43 - 0:18:04 can't remember. Ketones, yikes. It was good. Hopefully you can go back. I can't pause it and, and my phone doesn't support that. Um, but it was good. So, whatever we're talking about the, converting the one thing to the other ketones are not as efficient. That's, that's the problem. You have to eat more 0:18:04 - 0:18:22 calories to get the same energy out. But also it just doesn't operate the same way, which is why your brain gets fuzzy when you go on keto. Keto at first and then it actually gets a lot sharper because it's more constant. Uh, glucose based energy is up and down because it's so easy to consume. It's like 0:18:22 - 0:18:53 burning paper in a fireplace. Um It burns real quick and ketones are slow. Uh So they're more constant. Um Anyway, I cannot remember where we were with that. Shoot. Well, anyway, so, so if you can reduce your life down to the daily, then um it's a really good sign that you're, you're on all cylinders 0:18:52 - 0:19:14 and you're, you're doing what you can, you're taking advantage of the gifts that you have. If you can't do that, if you can't reduce your whole life down to the day, down to what's before you today, which there will be certain days that aren't like the others, right? Whether that's on a weekly cycle 0:19:13 - 0:19:34 or every once in a while or whatever. Um You know, if you have a big family trip to somewhere, then obviously how you use that to achieve your purposes is gonna, is going to vary from your daily routine if you have one, which I highly recommend. But also this is a powerful tool for people who maybe you 0:19:34 - 0:19:57 have an intermittent job or something but, or, or you very young child and you're up with them regularly. Uh, if you have some circumstance in life that prevents you from having a normal routine, this purpose document, this can be just the thing to get you to the next level. Um, because it's like principles 0:19:56 - 0:20:27 compared to rules, uh, rules are, are specified to a certain situation and, um, you have to upgrade to principles to have something that's applicable across all situations. It's a generalized version of the idea. And um it's like that. So if you have this purpose document, then um you have everything 0:20:26 - 0:20:52 you need to break it down to any day. So like if you wake up and your left leg is broken, cool. How do, how do I just fire so that I can? Sorry, that's a military term in the, in the military. There are, there are several weapons that there is a phrase for this. I don't know what it is now that um you 0:20:52 - 0:21:15 can't really aim. So you aim it by shooting it, which is as fun as it sounds. Uh when you're on a range, not necessarily when you have to use it on people. But um so for example, there's this thing called a Mark 19 and it's loads of fun, highly recommend it. Um So these are typically their vehicle mounted 0:21:14 - 0:21:34 . So imagine this a giant, you know, those uh probably see in the movies, there's grenade launchers where they go boop, right? Boop. And then you have to shoot these things at an arc. You don't shoot them straight like a rifle. Well, rifles are actually art too, but let's not get into the details. Um 0:21:34 - 0:21:55 So you know that you can on the rifle mounted version of these, they have a site and you can kind of aim it, but it's funky because you have to aim it up a lot. So the site is like you're looking this way and the rifles like this, but in March 19 ain't nobody got time for none of that. So what you do 0:21:55 - 0:22:18 is it's a clip mounted. You've got a chain, a belt of these grenades and the gun just goes doom, doom, doom, doom, doom. And, um, and it goes pretty far and then things start blowing up. And so to aim this, you just put it in the general direction and hold down the trigger. And then as you see the explosions 0:22:18 - 0:22:38 , you adjust fire. Um, you can do this with rifles too. If you've got tracer rounds, I've talked about this in my books, I think. But, um, when you, when you're using tracer rounds, every few bullets in your magazine, you put one of these things that glows as you shoot it. And so it's kind of cool. You'll 0:22:38 - 0:23:00 see, you can see videos of this online, but you see this streak of glowing light. It's like, uh, I don't know, glow stick of death or something. But, um, as, as you're shooting, you can dial in on your target and you know, you can use these with machine guns as well, which machine guns you also aim uh 0:23:00 - 0:23:28 by shooting. So a lot of times in life, we also have to aim by shooting. And that's where this phrase adjust fire. That, that, that's uh one application of it. So you have to adjust where you're shooting, how you're shooting, et cetera. So, um, yeah, as you're going through life, there are many, many 0:23:28 - 0:23:51 times and places where you have to adjust fire. Um, so that was the final thing. I don't know why I looked over there. I don't have any notes. Those are my imaginary notes. Um The final thing I wanna say is the applicability of this is another aspect of the freeing nature of writing a life plan and living 0:23:51 - 0:24:14 it. And this is, I have one person say, and I know many others have thought. They said, you know, they read which book was it is the glory of God is intelligence. This person said, I said, what do you think? And they said, um, this is both the most freeing and the most terrifying thing I've ever read 0:24:14 - 0:24:41 in my life. I said, OK, then you got it. We had some good conversations and then unfortunately this person kind of went off the rails and, uh, did some really terrible things. But, um, yeah, for a moment. It was a beautiful thing. So, um a lot of things from the Lord are like that they are the most freeing 0:24:41 - 0:25:09 and the most terrifying. And this, this idea of writing a life plan and living by it is certainly one of them because it's pretty high on the list, in fact, because what it does is it empowers you to get marvelously closer to anything that you want to accomplish amazingly more than you could ever otherwise 0:25:08 - 0:25:41 do and to feel way better while doing it than you otherwise could. But it also makes you responsible for your own life. So specifically, cause you could, you could you truthfully apply that in many ways to this. But what I really want to focus on my point here, if you don't like what that thing says 0:25:40 - 0:26:11 , you have the power to change it and if you don't, it's your problem. So it's one thing for some person to tell you you need to do this, you need to not do this, right? It's another thing to say. I told myself that I'm going to do this and I committed, like I said, this is what I want. This is truthfully 0:26:10 - 0:26:31 how I think I'm going to get it. It's a plausible plan and you know, people think faith is like leaping off a building or something. No, it's not. It's putting down the first brick and understanding and believing that at the end of the, the chain of bricks is a building and that, that's the building 0:26:31 - 0:26:51 you want. And if you want a different building, then you put down different bricks or if you don't want a building, if you just want a shack, you go get some cardboard, right? Or some trash or whatever, make yourself a trash shack. But that's what you choose. That's, that's faith. And so reducing these 0:26:51 - 0:27:09 things down to the daily level. Now all of a sudden it's plausible. Maybe no one else in the world thinks you're gonna get there. But you have a plan and you really believe that that's what it's going to take. And the Lord can help you if, if, if you're like, you know, this is what I want. I have no 0:27:09 - 0:27:41 idea how to get it or no one I've ever met has achieved what I'm trying to do. There was a time where it was hard for me um to believe what others think is impossible. It is not hard for me anymore. Why? Because when I look back on my life, it's a never ending chain of things that people said are impossible 0:27:40 - 0:28:15 . So just specifically at work, for example, um my company, we've been at it for six years now, I think. Um But this is work that I started thinking about in 2010, maybe 11 and uh worked hard at the, at the very first brick of this building um as a grad student for years and you know that was in a field 0:28:14 - 0:28:37 where I was brand new. I was the new guy. I had no idea what was going on. But with those beginner eyes, I saw problems that other people were afraid to look at and instead of backing away from them, I said, no, let's charge right into this. We can do this, we can fix this. And along the way, there are 0:28:37 - 0:29:03 people who most people just said this can't be done and you're an idiot. Um, a lot of people were willing to walk along with me for a time, especially if I was willing to pay them, especially if I was willing to pay them much more than they're worth to give them a shot, um, shot at something new. They 0:29:02 - 0:29:27 weren't, they weren't in it yet the field. Um, but it's just for a time and they too would become overwhelmed and, and kind of turn away. Um But, but I stayed at it and now there's a whole pile of things that we've done that no one has ever been able to do. Now. The commercial value of all that, that's 0:29:27 - 0:29:51 a different question. It's a different set of problems, but from a scientific perspective, um, I've seen too many supposedly impossible things done and that's just, that's just a very narrow slice of time and uh space in life. There are many, many, many, many other things I made another video. I don't 0:29:51 - 0:30:07 know when it's gonna be out relative to this one called the fruits of faith are all around or something like that. And I, I that's not even lengthy, but I just point to random things I'm saying out in my yard, I'm like that was, people said that was impossible. People said that was impossible. I'm like 0:30:07 - 0:30:37 Oprah giving away cruise ship trips or whatever she was doing on that clip. A famous clip. So um the way that you can, I uh you can start down a path that leads to an impossibly good outcome as you formulate a plausible path. So I wrote a book years ago called Through Faith that talks about all this 0:30:37 - 0:31:04 stuff. Probably not in the same with the same feel we'll say because it's different just talking to a phone, you say somebody, but uh than it is to try to write things up. But these ideas are not new. They've been out for years and um very few people, very few people have even begun to scratch the surface 0:31:03 - 0:31:31 of the positive effects that can happen in your life by applying these principles. It's huge. So let me just rant a little bit more about making changes and then we'll cut this off. So, um if you don't like where you're going, you should change where you're walking. And most of the time that includes 0:31:30 - 0:31:52 changing where you're facing, right? Because you, you can't turn another way, you can't walk a different way unless you turn another way. Unless you're doing some weird, I'm not looking where I'm walking thing, which has its own downsides, obviously. Um So if you don't like where you're going, then you 0:31:52 - 0:32:17 should make changes to where you're facing and how you're walking. If you don't like how fast you're going, uh, because you're going too fast or I think most people don't like that. They're going too slowly towards what they want, walk faster, walk faster and hit on this in another video. Um But look 0:32:16 - 0:32:34 at your efficiencies because if what you want is X and you're looking at this and you're saying at my current pace, this is gonna take more years than I have left. And by the way, we slow down as we get older, just look around. This is one of these things that ought to be obvious. But everyone pretends 0:32:34 - 0:33:04 like, well, I didn't know people get old. I didn't know that. Ok. You know, if you know some older people who excuse me, if you know some older people who, you know, a good day, a big high achieving day would be like when they went to the grocery store, then, uh or a doctor and then you know what I'm 0:33:04 - 0:33:29 talking about. So you have to get more efficient in order to make progress because it's gonna get harder as you go. The good news is you'll also get stronger if you do it right. And so, um, you know, I mentioned yesterday I was hard charging, even though I was feverish. Um, I built five large shelving 0:33:28 - 0:33:56 units out of, uh, two by fours and sheathing and they're, they're rock solid and their purpose in life is to hold really big, you know, it's black and yellow bins you can get at Costco. I don't remember how many gallons they are. I'd guess 30 maybe. And, um, we're using those to store rye and, um, we 0:33:56 - 0:34:21 need space for them and they're heavy when they're full. Right. My goodness. I think they're probably like 200 pounds. And, um, so we had these, uh, temporary metal shelves in there. We had two units and I had to move them all off of those. There were six of them, I think. Um, and the ground level ones 0:34:21 - 0:00:00 , no big deal, the mid-level ones, bigger deal, the higher ones really big deal. And, uh, yeah, I don't have a great back. I've got two herniated discs. So I try to be real careful about what I do and then sometimes I just gotta bite the bullet and do things I know are gonna hurt me. Um, but anyway, 0:00:00 - 0:35:13 I put together five shelving units and then we totally organized an enormous mess around that area that we've just been hobbling on with insufficient storage there. And then we went over to the garage and did the same thing. This is in a, a large storage shed. So, um, what's my point with that? Um, I 0:35:13 - 0:35:36 didn't want to do any of that, but it was on the list. It needed to get done. It was actually overdue and I knew I had faith that if I busted it out all day long, we could scratch that off the list and it's done. So many things in life are never done. And that's one reason why this larger topic of organizing 0:35:35 - 0:36:01 your time, time management, really, goal management and action management. Why it's so important, um, is to, to make something that's absolutely infinite to give you a finite approach to handling it. My to do list, um, is never ending yours isn't either. But maybe you haven't come to that conclusion 0:36:01 - 0:36:25 . Maybe you're still hiding from that fact, but it never ends and it doesn't matter. My to do list could be a million years long and it would not add one ounce to my stress. I am stress free all the time. And that's despite the fact that I do more than anyone I know and have for a very long time. Why 0:36:25 - 0:36:48 ? Because I've got a plan and I know what's most important. And if I don't get to the thing, that's 10 things down on my list. Fine. I did everything I possibly could. I did my best. I didn't think that I did my best. I didn't try to do my best. There is no way I could have gotten to item number 10 if 0:36:48 - 0:37:11 I didn't get there and that doesn't mean that I'm, I'm crawling over the finish line every day, you know, bleeding from every whatever. Um, sometimes I'll take a nap. Sometimes I will sit there for like five minutes or something. It feels like an eternity, which is beautiful. And, uh, I call that the 0:37:10 - 0:37:32 , trying to, to hit record moments where I, I wanna hold on to this one, you know, like I was up on the roof couple weeks ago. It's been a while, um painting and I got done painting and I turned around because I'd like holding on for my dear life on this very steep roof. I turned around still holding 0:37:31 - 0:37:50 on for my dear life. Um But it didn't matter, you know, um If, if you can hold on for your dear life and paint, you can hold on for your dear life and appreciate the surrounding, right? And then get the heck off the roof. Um I just sat there looking at the beauty and thanking God for this moment because 0:37:50 - 0:38:17 it was just amazing and it's so easy to pass by those things anyway. I'm really ranting at this point and I'm mostly doing that because I, I'm trying to remember. There's one other thing about making changes and I can't remember what I wanted to say about that. No, it's gone. It is gone. So it's this 0:38:16 - 0:38:37 interesting thing because this document becomes ironclad from one perspective, but it's the easiest thing in the world. To change from another. But you gotta be honest and that's where it gets, you gets you right in the crosshairs because so often every day you're changing your prioritization like a 0:38:37 - 0:38:59 million times and you don't realize it. And you have to get to the point where the only time you ever change that is when you do it intentionally, it's kind of like having a credit card versus having to go get cash some from a bank if any dinosaurs remember that. So my fellow dinosaurs. Um so when you 0:38:59 - 0:39:16 have a credit card, especially with online, you don't even have to run your credit card. If, if your credit card saved, you can buy all this stuff without actually thinking, oh, I'm, I'm buying things. It's just not the same, the thresholds way lower than going and getting cash. And so we have to get 0:39:16 - 0:39:36 to the cash thing with how we spend our time. We have to really think about it and it, it seems stressful, but it's not, it's um what you have to remember is the pain and conversion on this because it will be uncomfortable at first and you will feel more stress at first. But that's only because you've 0:39:36 - 0:39:57 trained yourself to be oblivious to the harm you do every day to yourself by not thinking about it. If, if you had a conscious realization of the harm you're doing by not thinking about it, you'd make the change in two seconds and then as you walk down the path, see it's like muscles. You, you hear people 0:39:57 - 0:40:17 say like, um, I'm sore in, in muscles. I didn't know I had because they just did something new. Right. If you climb a rock wall for the first time, you're gonna be sore in weird places. But there are people that run up those things like spider monkeys, right? Because they practice and for them it's not 0:40:17 - 0:40:42 hard. They have to have the funky things that no one, no other humans can climb to have a challenge. They need to compete with the mountain goats, not fellow humans. And this is much, much easier than that. Once you get down to um being fluent, let's say, in making a living by this plan, it's the easiest 0:40:42 - 0:41:04 thing in the world. And then you come to realize that like all things that are applications of, of the Lord's promise of his yoke being easy and his burden being light, there's no, there's no comparison to the other way. This is way better, way better. So I encourage you to get into this and to push 0:41:04 - 0:41:29 through that initial phase. I'd say if you can do this for two weeks solid and you, you, it, it's just not gonna be very hard after that. And that's true for most things. So give it a shot and uh 11 thing you're gonna be amazed at, it's just how much you do that has no desirable purpose again. Not according 0:41:29 - 0:41:51 to anyone but you, and you're gonna be like, oh, my goodness. I had no idea. I was wasting so much time and, and, uh, on things that really don't bring me joy that aren't intentional that are just, uh, basically make a pile of money and burn it either with actual money or your time. Um, mostly your time 0:41:51 - 0:42:12 and your emotional energy being spent on things that just don't matter. Anyway. I hope this is helpful. I really encourage you to, uh, get into this read or reread through Faith by Robert Smith. And I'll stop talking now because my voice is gone.