0:38:02 - 0:38:07what works for you and do it. And, um, let me know how that goes.
0:00:00 - 0:00:21There are some quick thoughts on priority lists and to do lists and I'm going to use, this is a program that comes for free. If you use Apple products, it's called, uh, reminders. And I've been using this, let's see, at least five years. It's a staple for me. It could be better in a lot of ways, but
0:00:21 - 0:00:45I don't need anything better. This is fine for now. So, um, I think the best way to show you this is to actually show you my real to do list and, um, this, this, well, there are other things that I use in my system. I have loose leaf notes and I have post it notes and I actually have a, uh, a word document
0:00:44 - 0:01:10. Well, it's pages, that's another Mac free Apple product. But, um, same d it's a, it's a document. Um, but this, this is good enough. I do have to apologize. Unfortunately, one limit of this little show and tell is going to be that there's nothing on here about my day to day, full time job. And that's
0:01:09 - 0:01:31just because I'm in a very strange spot right now compared to any previous time. Uh, in the sense of how focused that work is. I know exactly what I have to do and, um, and it's very focused and, and because I've spent so many years in the exact opposite extreme, I, I can, I can spin this plate with
0:01:30 - 0:01:49, with no amount of thought or effort. Um, that's not to say that the work doesn't require my full focus. I'm saying. I know what I need to do and I just go do it. It's like a Rocky four when he's training in Russia and his trainer comes along, but he's useless. He just says, well, you, you know what
0:01:49 - 0:02:10you need to do, you've been doing this for long enough, just do it. So that's a nice place. Anyway, look, here's the benefit of this. You'll get massively more done with massively less stress. The other day I was talking to a friend of mine and I was, he's like, well, anyway, I said, yeah, I, I got up
0:02:10 - 0:02:29really early and I told him when he's like, there's something wrong with you. I said that's true, but not because of this. And, uh, and he's like, maybe, maybe he's enumerating all of these ideas of why, what might be causing this. And I, I basically told him that now if this is a choice, it's a choice
0:02:29 - 0:02:50. I think he feels guilty because he doesn't do what I do. But that's all right. Um, it's not because I am stressed. He's, he's like, maybe you're just really stressed out. I said, I can't tell you the last time I felt stressed, I'm dead serious. I, I do not experience stress and it's not fully because
0:02:49 - 0:03:11of this system. I'm going to show you, um, the full recipe for that is something that I don't think anyone can handle just yet. But this is, this will get you really far. This is the highest impact thing for the lowest cost on that list on that path. Anyway. So here's how the stress gets vaporized right
0:03:11 - 0:03:35now. When you have something to do, it goes into your mind and your mind operates in um in a paradigm where you have this tiny capacity to focus on things. It's, it's like a computer with very little ra M and that's, that's everybody that's not a criticism of you, that's everyone very limited in the
0:03:35 - 0:03:56set of things we can think about at one time. And so you operate in a state where either something is important enough to worry about or it's not, that's a binary thing. It's a light switch, it's on or off. Unfortunately, reality doesn't work that way. In reality, there's far more that is important that
0:03:56 - 0:04:13could ever fit in that tiny postage stamp resource you have of your mind. So of your present attention, let's say, OK, so what happens is you load that up in about two seconds flat and then you get super stressed when new things come along because you realize you have to throw things out of the boat
0:04:13 - 0:04:28to make space for new things. And those are all important things because you, you felt that they were important enough to put on there in the first place. So things are constantly falling through the cracks. You constantly feel like you don't have enough resources to do what you need to do. And it's
0:04:28 - 0:04:48stressful all the time and you can't set that aside. There's nowhere to offload that too. And so you're gonna, you're going to, to, to continue in that stress until you're quote unquote done. But here's the thing and few people are honest enough to have figured this out. Unfortunately, you're never done
0:04:48 - 0:05:09. You're never done. If you feel like you're done, you're dishonest. That's, it's that simple. It's that clear, ok? You're just ignoring what's really obvious and I'm not saying alone that it should be that obvious that you're never done. I'm saying you're ignoring all these important things that you
0:05:09 - 0:05:28should be worrying about in order to yield this, this delusional state of done. Ok? And, and there are a lot of people who feel this way and they, they, you know, they go about, they do hard things so that they don't have to do hard things later. It's like they work to play. They think that life is this
0:05:28 - 0:00:00chain of freedom of, from concern or toil and that everything they do that's hard is just, well, I got to do this right now. In order to get back to the default state of done, there is no state of done ever if reality is continuous. So will your to do list be right? These things have to be the same,
0:00:00 - 0:06:18have the same qualities and if they, if they deviate it's you, that's off. Ok. So, um, this is very, very analogous because it's, it's not, it's not an analogy. This is a feature of the way things are. This is how it is with God. Um He has figured it out. He is the solution to the problem. And so if
0:06:18 - 0:06:39we deviate in how we are from how he is, we're the ones who are losing, we're the ones who are off. We're the ones who aren't going to solve the problem. You see, it's the same with reality if, if you know he created all these things. And so we got to get with the program. OK. So all that being said
0:06:39 - 0:07:00, imagine a world, imagine a world where when you get a new thought about something or something smacks you in the face as a shoot. This doesn't work the way I thought it did. Now, I have to do something about it. Instead of letting that go into whatever part of your brain that goes into you create some
0:07:00 - 0:07:18sort of to do list, it could be written uh by hand. I don't recommend that because you're gonna have to change it a lot. Um, you could use just a, a note file or something, but it's, it should probably be on a computer. And, um, if you have Apple products, I would highly suggest just starting with this
0:07:18 - 0:07:35, there are other programs out there, whatever you can find them, just type in to do list and you'll get all kinds of things and you can play around with it. This is sufficient for my needs. So this is what I use. Um And just shove all of your ideas in some. Look, this is how you create a new list. A
0:07:35 - 0:08:05list, unsorted, pick a color, let's see. Flesh. OK. Boom. Now, when I get an idea, so say I'm going to work and uh I have to step over uh a broken toy that's a fixed toy for Johnny. I don't have a son named Johnny, but somewhere there's a Johnny with a broken toy. Um OK. So that's there. And look, I
0:08:05 - 0:08:24didn't have to think about it at all. Now, the cool thing about this, if you, I'm on my computer right now, but if you have an iphone uh through your account, you can sync these things. It's very easy. It's automatic. So um if I open up my phone and I do the same thing, I just showed you, it'll show
0:08:24 - 0:08:48up here too. It's, it'll sync, which is really nice. You can also do this uh across families which I'm not going to get into, but you can delegate things to kids or have your wife delegate things to you uh whatever you can transmit these things between people. OK? And let's just pop out a couple more
0:08:47 - 0:09:15. Um You know, I really should have uh whatever um make special dinner for Tony's birthday again. Just funny fake names, whatever, right? And as ideas occur to you, you can capture them. Here's, here's, here's the, we talked about instant stress reduction. Here's the next benefit. You have no idea the
0:09:15 - 0:09:39creative power that, that you're allowing to just go to your fingers like sand um or, or to, to, to escape your life without taking advantage of it, like sand through your fingers. So creative ideas, they almost never come on demand, they almost always come um involuntarily. And so you need a system
0:09:38 - 0:10:04to capture those uh right now. OK. So you're familiar with many things that follow the pattern of if you don't think about these and practice this, um You won't even scratch the surface of, of its potential. So no one, no one becomes an expert piano player without ever thinking about piano or practicing
0:10:03 - 0:10:26, right? You don't just sit down and you, you, you can play like Mozart, that's probably not the greatest example. But anyway, um even Mozart practiced, he played a lot. OK. Um So you have to pay attention to things to get better at them and to practice things to get better at them. And then once you
0:10:26 - 0:10:47do, once you do all of a sudden, it's second nature like riding a bike. Think of how many times kids fall when they're learning to ride a bike. But when's the last time you fell on a bike? A so it turns out that we all have this tremendous capacity to come up with great ideas all the time and we can
0:10:46 - 0:11:21see things that need to be done if you're not capturing that and and and using it, God is not going to amplify it. So imagine the ability to see potential way beyond what you do. And the benefit of that is that you can help fill that potential. You can help manifest that opportunity. And that's one very
0:11:20 - 0:11:40important way. You create things that are more like heaven on earth. You help things achieve the potential that God gave them and you make yourself an instrument in its hands by seeing that potential and getting it done. So we're talking about the most practical things that to do list. But do you see
0:11:40 - 0:00:00how these tentacles they, they envelop all of the most important things in life? And this is one very good example of how the gospel, the power of the gospel is not lived by the people because the people don't see how the Gospel reaches every aspect of their lives. It's, it's embedded in everything,
0:00:00 - 0:12:28everything God created is embedded with His essence and can only be used for its full goodness in as much as we figure out exactly how and live that way. It's very important anyway. So we pop these on here instead of thinking about them. It's just second nature. You could, you could be driving and you
0:12:28 - 0:12:48shouldn't text while you're driving. But you could theoretically, uh, you could open this up and add an item here and just leave it or you could, you could be in a meeting and all of a sudden think, oh, I gotta fix the stove and you just click on here. Fix stove. You could say like, uh, I wonder if there's
0:12:48 - 0:13:11a more efficient thermostat setting, check into thermostat, whatever, right? It doesn't matter. You don't think about it, you just write it and leave it. Ok. So that's how things get into this. And then, and then what do you do? Well, then you, you pick a time and it doesn't have to be prescribed. It
0:13:11 - 0:13:27could just be a time. You tend to do it. Maybe it's when you're on the toilet, maybe it's first thing in the morning. Maybe it's Sundays, whatever, where you come into this list. Or maybe it's just when you're in the mood, you come into this list. And I'll tell you for me it's when I have a lot of energy
0:13:26 - 0:13:49, fresh energy. Like first thing not, I don't do it first thing in the morning. So I'm just doing spiritual things, but like 9 a.m. I hit my list, especially this was dominated by. Oh, I do have work. What is this? Oh, ok. It's a side project. Um, when this is dominated with my full time jobs because
0:13:48 - 0:14:09I had two and it was crazy trying to keep that straight. So I leaned on this heavily. It worked amazingly. So, between a calendar for the things that were not flexible. Like I have this meeting Tuesday at four. Ok. But then everything that I had control of was on this list and we'll get into why and
0:14:09 - 0:14:31how that's, that works. OK. So, um but you have the set apart times where your task is planning, planning. OK? You're not executing, you're just planning. So you get creative, you get excited about the future, you get hopeful and optimistic. This is one reason why I prefer doing this at the beginning
0:14:30 - 0:14:56of the work day because I'm not corrupted by small thinking people. Ok? That sounds super judgmental. But I, I wish it weren't true, but I'm just telling you how it is. Do you know why Jesus went off by himself when he woke up earlier than anyone else did? Uh So he was doing all the same things externally
0:14:55 - 0:15:13as the apostles were over the three years, but he woke up earlier than they did. Why he got less sleep. Why, you know, he was zonked out on the boat while they were all awake and alert and it wasn't because it was their job you know, there were some kind of slaves that were in charge of the sales or
0:15:13 - 0:15:32something. He was zonked out and they knew it. He never slept as much as they did. Why? Because he had to recharge his batteries. He had to make sure there's a time, you know, your kids go off to public schools and they're there for six hours and then you got them in all these stupid after school programs
0:15:32 - 0:15:53where they're around their peers for even more time. And the question is, how much are you offsetting that with weights on the other side of the scale through time that you spend with them? One on one? I don't mean just you and a kid. But I'm saying like you're really all in focused on them the way their
0:15:53 - 0:16:14peers are and their teachers are at school and after school and what's the counterbalance of the influence? So if you took a pie chart of your kids, they sleep, they go to school, they spend times with friends, they're on their cell phones. I just saw a report on average of 4.5 hours a day on social
0:16:13 - 0:16:38media. So what slice of that time is with you? And how are you balancing it? And so in the same token, we have an opportunity to charge ourselves with the spirit of God through one on one interactions with him. Now that will benefit us uh to the to the extent that the bandwidth we have with him is greater
0:16:37 - 0:16:59than alone. The bandwidth we have with him when we're alone with him is greater than what we would get in any other situation for most people. Um Studying the scriptures is probably the best bet of how to maximize that bandwidth during that time as you're starting out. Uh Some people can do it through
0:16:59 - 0:17:22prayer and others. It's something that looks a little different. But um there are a lot of people who get more out of other things than their alone time with God as far as spiritual battery charging. But uh as you ascend, it's, it becomes just you or so the set of things and people that will feed you
0:17:22 - 0:17:46that way shrinks the amount that's transferred through that increases. But the set of people and things decreases for Jesus. The only thing he could do is get by himself with the father. And um anyway, so when you're in that state where you're, you're, you're hopeful, you're happy, hopeful, energetic
0:17:45 - 0:18:11, et cetera, um The world has not yet beaten you to a pulp for the day. Then you uh that's a good time for planning. So you go to this list and you say, all right. Um Let's look at this and let's get these unsorted things into topics or however you're doing it. I'll get to that in a second and then the
0:18:10 - 0:18:33net result of this planning period is I'm going to produce a post it note. That is, is what I thoroughly believe I could get the best I could do for a day today. So I'm going to look at all this stuff and I'm going to reduce it down to one post it note for today. OK. And um I've mentioned in the past
0:18:33 - 0:18:57a life plan which is sort of a bigger picture thing. So the the full hierarchy of these is your life plan document. That's the big picture. This is all about tasks so that life plan has your, your transcendent purpose, your goals and your tasks, those tasks, it's, it's a very limited thing because it's
0:18:57 - 0:19:20of space constraints and everything. But those are kind of like long term habit kind of tasks like I want to take out the trash every Monday night kind of thing, right? But this is incidental things, projects, whatever that are, this is more of a day to day. Uh It's a, it's, it's pure pragmatism. OK
0:19:19 - 0:19:42? This is the actual rubber meets the road. So when you're planning, you take these things and you say, oh fix stove, OK. Well, that's gonna be I've got these are folders so you can put list into folders. Um But this is, this is going to be a home thing and then I could go to home and, and find out where
0:19:42 - 0:20:09it goes. And here's the cool thing about reminders. You can first off, you can order these lists, you just click and drag. And so you need a priority. There you go. That's first, this is second, whatever, right? You can also create sub tasks. Um So if I just click on this and hit enter, um let's say
0:20:08 - 0:20:30I need to buy mac and cheese for this. So it's an apple product. So of course, they assumed that by Mac, I mean their thing and then you go to the right and drop it onto this and now it's a subordinate task. OK? And maybe there's another one which is the easiest way of doing it. Let's just go down here
0:20:30 - 0:20:52and it stays on that indentation and maybe I need to buy, I don't know, I have to make the mac and cheese. OK. So then as you're going through this and you get it done, you click here and it goes away. Ah, and there's this great feeling of relief because now you're making measurable progress to, toward
0:20:52 - 0:21:11a meaningful goal, measurable, progress towards a meaningful goal. Very important. OK. Sometimes when I finish things, I don't check them off. And I just, um, mostly because I've moved on to something else and not thinking about it, but it feels very nice to come down and just click things off because
0:21:11 - 0:21:34you're all done and boom, it's gone. All right. Now, um, let's talk about what these lists are. Always. Remember, you're in charge of your system. You can make this anything you want it to be. If you find that something is insufficient. You can do the research and find a way to make it, make it work
0:21:34 - 0:21:53. If you're finding that something's not working, you can tweak it, it's all up to you. So I'll share with you some iterations of this that I've been through and it's not a best to worse. It's very much adaptive. I told you right now. I, I don't really need this for my work stuff. Um, so mostly I'm just
0:21:53 - 0:22:15using it for home stuff and there are a few things on here that I have no plans to actually do. I'm just using this to save the idea. So I don't lose it just in case it changed my mind. So, um, in the, in the current application of this, what, what I've got is, um, a categorization by topic and there's
0:22:15 - 0:22:42also one by time period and I found that to be very useful. So, um, one key to efficiency is batching things by topic or time so that you can take advantage of mutual efficiencies. So you avoid overhead. Like, look at this, this is actually my town list. So if I go to town, which is like once a month
0:22:41 - 0:23:01, these are things that I need to buy. But I'm almost always just going to Lowe's. So that's what I called it. If, if, um, when I convert this into a post it note, I'll actually break it out by place and, um, make a circuit around town. So I'm not wasting time driving back and forth and I don't forget
0:23:01 - 0:23:21things. My biggest problem is forgetting things because I have so many plates spinning that if I don't write things down, it's not going to happen. And so like uh if my kid will say one of my kids will say dad can we whatever. And I say, yeah, that sounds good. But send me an email and then that's another
0:23:20 - 0:23:46um intake to this whole process and I'll go through my emails and I'll make sure that they get on to this. Um ok, so my town list right now there's a few things I need to buy from Lowe's. This has been on here for like two months. This is the the last piece out of like 1000 things that will fully complete
0:23:45 - 0:24:03this irrigation raised bed irrigation project that has been going through iterations for like five years. This is the final step and they are out of stock and I cannot find it anywhere. So I'm just waiting. I don't actually need it. The thing can work. It's just not perfect yet. It just needs this one
0:24:03 - 0:24:23last piece. This is a anyway, so that's been on there for a while. That's fine. So every time I go to Lowe's, I check to see if it's there. This is a different store. This is obviously Home Depot. Um but look, this is the level, there's a guy in town by this store that sells battery things and he's got
0:24:23 - 0:24:42chestnut trees in his yard. And the next time I'm in town, I'm gonna check because it's the right time of year. The chestnuts are probably on the ground and I want to plant some. And so I'm going to drive by his house and take some off the sidewalk. Um So like there's no way for me to clearly convey
0:24:42 - 0:25:04this, this idea that I'm trying to tell you right now, which is when you feed the muse, the muse feeds you what you write down crazy ideas and you never know where they're gonna go. Maybe they go to the trash can because you come back to. This happens to me all the time. Two weeks later, I'm looking
0:25:04 - 0:25:28at this, I'm like, I'm not doing that and I just delete it right. But many times it comes to fruition and you know, one day this chestnut tree grows up and saves your life, that's obviously ridiculous. But you see that magnitude of surprise in the little things, you don't know where those little things
0:25:27 - 0:25:52will go. You have no idea. But, but we constrain what God can do in our lives so often every dang day, we don't even realize what we're doing because we've narrowed him down in ways we can't really see to such a small window of how he can help us that maybe the best thing he can do is say, oh, that while
0:25:51 - 0:26:11you're driving around town? Oh, there's a chestnut tree. I wonder if I could grow some of those on my place or whatever. Right. You see the battery place? You're like, oh, I didn't think about it but my phone dies all the time and I find myself not able to do things I need to do. That would be productive
0:26:10 - 0:26:28because I have to charge my phone and it's, when it's 50 ft away from me, it actually makes a significant difference in what I do with it, you know? And so you can say, oh, I better look into what it would cost to replace my battery and then it's sitting on your to do list or whatever the thing might
0:26:27 - 0:26:47be. You have no idea. It could just be. I had a random thought the other day to see if I could find a guy I worked with, um, in the National Guard who I really liked. Um, I was only working with him for a brief amount of time. We didn't get a chance to really become friends outside of work and then I
0:26:47 - 0:27:06was discharged suddenly we weren't expecting it. And, um, I really didn't get, have any time to get those ducks in a row to keep connections. And, you know, this was 10 years ago. I was like, I wonder how he's doing. Sure enough, you can find people online with two seconds of Googling. And which is a
0:27:06 - 0:27:25little scary how much of your personal info is online. But anyway, I'm, I'm not saying through Facebook or I'm just saying Google Searches. There's some weird website out there that you can get people's information on. It's not some dark web thing or anything, I promise. So, um, you write it down and
0:27:25 - 0:27:46then you do it. That's not on this list because it's on a post it in front of me. Ok. Whatever. So, um, this is a situational list. If I'm in town, this is what I'm gonna do. So when I'm doing a project and I'm like, oh jeez, I can see I'm low on paint brushes. I'm gonna need paint brushes before I paint
0:27:45 - 0:28:15anything else. Then I'll pop on here and I'll say paintbrushes that won't go into unsorted because I already know where it's going to go. So I just pop it in here. That's one reason this one didn't exist and does not exist. Um So, so the ones by topic, it could be things like um home projects, things
0:28:15 - 0:28:48to do with kids, things to do with your spouse. Um work things early morning, things like spiritual things, workout things, whatever. So that's topical categorization. You could have um you could have temporal organizations. So chronological um like today, this week, this month, next quarter, this year
0:28:48 - 0:29:13, you could have it by seasons. I use that one a lot because I, I have a garden. Um And, and we shut down outside half the year with snow where I live. Ok. So let's take a look at some of these. So, uh, well, here's here. Is that unsorted? I have no idea what's on any of these. Hopefully it's not embarrassing
0:29:13 - 0:29:36. Um, I haven't looked at this for a while. So, here's one I need to look into ways to preserve apples without electricity or fuel. Um, because I have a lot of apples and I rely on those and I have no idea what I would do if I didn't have them. Um electricity or fuel. Harrow rake. I was, I did do an
0:29:36 - 0:00:00experiment on this uh where I tried to use a piece of fence to make a harrow to help seed the ground with rye. So I did that and then I was going to get one of those big drums that you fill with water and push around. So at some point, I'm going to troll Craigslist for that. Um But yeah, so this is,
0:00:00 - 0:00:00this is the way I do it. So take a day, these are things that I need to take a day off of work in order to do. So, there are things that have to be done during the week. Um So I have a, I have a friend who has a dump trailer and there's a place that we can get mulch for free at this wood mill up to,
0:00:00 - 0:30:35it's like a half hour away, but to make the drive worth it. You need a dump trailer, which I don't have. So I need to um bribe a friend of mine to borrow this trailer. Um These are things I can get done during a weekday. So I, let's see, I have a whole collection of videos and pictures and stuff on my
0:30:35 - 0:30:53, on my computer that I have to give to my wife because she's the keeper of those and I, I've slowly been organizing them. So it's not just this dump of random things. Um There is a pipe to the raspberries that is, has a leak in it and I put electric tape on it for a quick fix and at some point I need
0:30:52 - 0:31:12to go and cut out that pipe and replace it. Um And then one thing that I noticed is that every single time I sync my phone to my computer because we have a road trip or something. Um Sometimes we're out in the yard to play music for my kids and I notice that there are duplicates of everything and I have
0:31:12 - 0:31:29no idea how that happened. It's annoying because I need space on my phone to make videos and I need to fix that. So these are things quick things I can do during the week that this is probably the worst place to start because these are all really low priority. Um I have a stockpile of ready, ready to
0:31:29 - 0:31:54go, fun things I can do with my kids. Um So I don't have to think of it in the moment. These are things that I still need to do out in the yard before it snows. Um So I put the back hole on my tractor yesterday and I moved a tree and bushes yesterday. So those are done. So I still have to do a few things
0:31:53 - 0:32:14. Um But these are my summer projects that I'm not done yet. This, there were probably like 300 things on this list at the start of the summer. And so there's just a few left and uh that's good. So in the fall, which we're now totally into, but I'm behind, I did put on back o so that was in more than
0:32:14 - 0:32:36one place. So there's still things that I need to do. OK. Um So we can just keep going through this. But when I know I won't be able to get to something in the fall, you know, I'll bump it forward to wherever it sits. There's, there's a couple of catches where I just put random things I thought of uh
0:32:36 - 0:32:57or things that maybe I'd like to do, but they're just not high priority. Um You know, I put those all through here so that, that's probably what is important here, but there's no limit of the impact this might have. So, for example, there's a store called Murdoch's here and every year they have 1/4 of
0:32:57 - 0:33:19July sale for people with military, prior military service and, um, it's a huge discount. But the problem is that it's only for like three days or something. So, anything that can wait to get purchased from there, I, I have a rolling list of things to keep buying from there every year because I never
0:33:18 - 0:33:39remember when I go what I should get. And then there, there are things that I need to buy for seeds, uh, for the garden, which this is an ever shortening list. I actually don't need this because I have tons. Um because I've already experimented with that and it's always nice for things to fall off of
0:33:39 - 0:34:03the set of what you worry about. Um So we're producing most of the seeds that we use at this point anyway, I hope this is useful. Um So I highly encourage doing something like this and I apologize that my list is a lot more narrow than it usually is. But that's, that's uh this, this will change your
0:34:02 - 0:34:35life for sure. Absolutely. And what you'll find is, um it's a very uh it will help you adopt a never ending mentality while producing even less stress than you currently experience. So you get to keep all of the increases in productivity with an even less ex uh cost than you currently spend. That's a
0:34:35 - 0:34:57pretty amazing deal if you think about it. So with all, as with all improvements, when you first start doing this, it might be a little jarring. So I would recommend just starting with two lists. One is your unsorted and the other is your sordid. And then from there you'll, you'll figure out what you
0:34:57 - 0:35:21need to do to break that down further and what works best for you. So I highly recommend you do this. And um what you're gonna see is massive productivity gains because you can sort those lists. We really didn't talk about that. You can sort those lists by priority. This is my number one priority thing
0:35:20 - 0:35:43for all my projects at home is this list right here. And actually I already did this. So I got a tip for a person. I reached out to someone for some mentorship. Um I wanna help my daughter get into, not get into but learn more about visual design. And uh so I got a tip that linkedin has all these classes
0:35:43 - 0:36:08. And so I figured I'd try that out and uh do the free trial and see what it's, see what it's like. And I have a post it note here actually that says to hop on there with my daughter. Um Where is that anyway? It's right here. Um There it is now, I see it, it's got a star next to it, so I wouldn't lose
0:36:08 - 0:36:32it. Um So I actually did this the other day and I also created a family linkedin account, um which is kind of humorous because we my kids like that movie National Treasure. And so the linkedin account is, is, uh, what was that guy's name? Something Gates. And he's a historian because I didn't want to
0:36:32 - 0:36:52use my linkedin account and have the kids on there doing, who knows what? So, um, that's done. And then I went beast mode and finished these shelves in this shed. We call the rabbit hutch because it used to have rabbits in. It doesn't anymore. So now I'm down to a few things that are projects that I
0:36:52 - 0:37:20have started and not finished and go away. Isn't this going away? Um And these are things that this is the highest priority, get these things done. And right now, actually, as I look at this, I'm going to bump this, this is not a priority. We can do this next year. So it's going to go to the spring 2024
0:37:19 - 0:00:00list, boom. So now I never have to think about that again until spring of 2024. And I don't have to remember it in spring 2024. It's already there. And so as that rolls around, I'm going to go to this list and I'm going to look, look through all this and I'm going to resort it according to priority.
0:00:00 - 0:38:02So this, this will keep you sane and it will help you be much more productive. So I hope, you know, I've rambled about this for quite some time. I hope it's useful to see it in practice and I hope this encourages you to give something like this a shot in your own life and do what works for you. So find
0:00:00 - 0:00:21There are some quick thoughts on priority lists and to do lists and I'm going to use, this is a program that comes for free. If you use Apple products, it's called, uh, reminders. And I've been using this, let's see, at least five years. It's a staple for me. It could be better in a lot of ways, but
0:00:21 - 0:00:45I don't need anything better. This is fine for now. So, um, I think the best way to show you this is to actually show you my real to do list and, um, this, this, well, there are other things that I use in my system. I have loose leaf notes and I have post it notes and I actually have a, uh, a word document
0:00:44 - 0:01:10. Well, it's pages, that's another Mac free Apple product. But, um, same d it's a, it's a document. Um, but this, this is good enough. I do have to apologize. Unfortunately, one limit of this little show and tell is going to be that there's nothing on here about my day to day, full time job. And that's
0:01:09 - 0:01:31just because I'm in a very strange spot right now compared to any previous time. Uh, in the sense of how focused that work is. I know exactly what I have to do and, um, and it's very focused and, and because I've spent so many years in the exact opposite extreme, I, I can, I can spin this plate with
0:01:30 - 0:01:49, with no amount of thought or effort. Um, that's not to say that the work doesn't require my full focus. I'm saying. I know what I need to do and I just go do it. It's like a Rocky four when he's training in Russia and his trainer comes along, but he's useless. He just says, well, you, you know what
0:01:49 - 0:02:10you need to do, you've been doing this for long enough, just do it. So that's a nice place. Anyway, look, here's the benefit of this. You'll get massively more done with massively less stress. The other day I was talking to a friend of mine and I was, he's like, well, anyway, I said, yeah, I, I got up
0:02:10 - 0:02:29really early and I told him when he's like, there's something wrong with you. I said that's true, but not because of this. And, uh, and he's like, maybe, maybe he's enumerating all of these ideas of why, what might be causing this. And I, I basically told him that now if this is a choice, it's a choice
0:02:29 - 0:02:50. I think he feels guilty because he doesn't do what I do. But that's all right. Um, it's not because I am stressed. He's, he's like, maybe you're just really stressed out. I said, I can't tell you the last time I felt stressed, I'm dead serious. I, I do not experience stress and it's not fully because
0:02:49 - 0:03:11of this system. I'm going to show you, um, the full recipe for that is something that I don't think anyone can handle just yet. But this is, this will get you really far. This is the highest impact thing for the lowest cost on that list on that path. Anyway. So here's how the stress gets vaporized right
0:03:11 - 0:03:35now. When you have something to do, it goes into your mind and your mind operates in um in a paradigm where you have this tiny capacity to focus on things. It's, it's like a computer with very little ra M and that's, that's everybody that's not a criticism of you, that's everyone very limited in the
0:03:35 - 0:03:56set of things we can think about at one time. And so you operate in a state where either something is important enough to worry about or it's not, that's a binary thing. It's a light switch, it's on or off. Unfortunately, reality doesn't work that way. In reality, there's far more that is important that
0:03:56 - 0:04:13could ever fit in that tiny postage stamp resource you have of your mind. So of your present attention, let's say, OK, so what happens is you load that up in about two seconds flat and then you get super stressed when new things come along because you realize you have to throw things out of the boat
0:04:13 - 0:04:28to make space for new things. And those are all important things because you, you felt that they were important enough to put on there in the first place. So things are constantly falling through the cracks. You constantly feel like you don't have enough resources to do what you need to do. And it's
0:04:28 - 0:04:48stressful all the time and you can't set that aside. There's nowhere to offload that too. And so you're gonna, you're going to, to, to continue in that stress until you're quote unquote done. But here's the thing and few people are honest enough to have figured this out. Unfortunately, you're never done
0:04:48 - 0:05:09. You're never done. If you feel like you're done, you're dishonest. That's, it's that simple. It's that clear, ok? You're just ignoring what's really obvious and I'm not saying alone that it should be that obvious that you're never done. I'm saying you're ignoring all these important things that you
0:05:09 - 0:05:28should be worrying about in order to yield this, this delusional state of done. Ok? And, and there are a lot of people who feel this way and they, they, you know, they go about, they do hard things so that they don't have to do hard things later. It's like they work to play. They think that life is this
0:05:28 - 0:00:00chain of freedom of, from concern or toil and that everything they do that's hard is just, well, I got to do this right now. In order to get back to the default state of done, there is no state of done ever if reality is continuous. So will your to do list be right? These things have to be the same,
0:00:00 - 0:06:18have the same qualities and if they, if they deviate it's you, that's off. Ok. So, um, this is very, very analogous because it's, it's not, it's not an analogy. This is a feature of the way things are. This is how it is with God. Um He has figured it out. He is the solution to the problem. And so if
0:06:18 - 0:06:39we deviate in how we are from how he is, we're the ones who are losing, we're the ones who are off. We're the ones who aren't going to solve the problem. You see, it's the same with reality if, if you know he created all these things. And so we got to get with the program. OK. So all that being said
0:06:39 - 0:07:00, imagine a world, imagine a world where when you get a new thought about something or something smacks you in the face as a shoot. This doesn't work the way I thought it did. Now, I have to do something about it. Instead of letting that go into whatever part of your brain that goes into you create some
0:07:00 - 0:07:18sort of to do list, it could be written uh by hand. I don't recommend that because you're gonna have to change it a lot. Um, you could use just a, a note file or something, but it's, it should probably be on a computer. And, um, if you have Apple products, I would highly suggest just starting with this
0:07:18 - 0:07:35, there are other programs out there, whatever you can find them, just type in to do list and you'll get all kinds of things and you can play around with it. This is sufficient for my needs. So this is what I use. Um And just shove all of your ideas in some. Look, this is how you create a new list. A
0:07:35 - 0:08:05list, unsorted, pick a color, let's see. Flesh. OK. Boom. Now, when I get an idea, so say I'm going to work and uh I have to step over uh a broken toy that's a fixed toy for Johnny. I don't have a son named Johnny, but somewhere there's a Johnny with a broken toy. Um OK. So that's there. And look, I
0:08:05 - 0:08:24didn't have to think about it at all. Now, the cool thing about this, if you, I'm on my computer right now, but if you have an iphone uh through your account, you can sync these things. It's very easy. It's automatic. So um if I open up my phone and I do the same thing, I just showed you, it'll show
0:08:24 - 0:08:48up here too. It's, it'll sync, which is really nice. You can also do this uh across families which I'm not going to get into, but you can delegate things to kids or have your wife delegate things to you uh whatever you can transmit these things between people. OK? And let's just pop out a couple more
0:08:47 - 0:09:15. Um You know, I really should have uh whatever um make special dinner for Tony's birthday again. Just funny fake names, whatever, right? And as ideas occur to you, you can capture them. Here's, here's, here's the, we talked about instant stress reduction. Here's the next benefit. You have no idea the
0:09:15 - 0:09:39creative power that, that you're allowing to just go to your fingers like sand um or, or to, to, to escape your life without taking advantage of it, like sand through your fingers. So creative ideas, they almost never come on demand, they almost always come um involuntarily. And so you need a system
0:09:38 - 0:10:04to capture those uh right now. OK. So you're familiar with many things that follow the pattern of if you don't think about these and practice this, um You won't even scratch the surface of, of its potential. So no one, no one becomes an expert piano player without ever thinking about piano or practicing
0:10:03 - 0:10:26, right? You don't just sit down and you, you, you can play like Mozart, that's probably not the greatest example. But anyway, um even Mozart practiced, he played a lot. OK. Um So you have to pay attention to things to get better at them and to practice things to get better at them. And then once you
0:10:26 - 0:10:47do, once you do all of a sudden, it's second nature like riding a bike. Think of how many times kids fall when they're learning to ride a bike. But when's the last time you fell on a bike? A so it turns out that we all have this tremendous capacity to come up with great ideas all the time and we can
0:10:46 - 0:11:21see things that need to be done if you're not capturing that and and and using it, God is not going to amplify it. So imagine the ability to see potential way beyond what you do. And the benefit of that is that you can help fill that potential. You can help manifest that opportunity. And that's one very
0:11:20 - 0:11:40important way. You create things that are more like heaven on earth. You help things achieve the potential that God gave them and you make yourself an instrument in its hands by seeing that potential and getting it done. So we're talking about the most practical things that to do list. But do you see
0:11:40 - 0:00:00how these tentacles they, they envelop all of the most important things in life? And this is one very good example of how the gospel, the power of the gospel is not lived by the people because the people don't see how the Gospel reaches every aspect of their lives. It's, it's embedded in everything,
0:00:00 - 0:12:28everything God created is embedded with His essence and can only be used for its full goodness in as much as we figure out exactly how and live that way. It's very important anyway. So we pop these on here instead of thinking about them. It's just second nature. You could, you could be driving and you
0:12:28 - 0:12:48shouldn't text while you're driving. But you could theoretically, uh, you could open this up and add an item here and just leave it or you could, you could be in a meeting and all of a sudden think, oh, I gotta fix the stove and you just click on here. Fix stove. You could say like, uh, I wonder if there's
0:12:48 - 0:13:11a more efficient thermostat setting, check into thermostat, whatever, right? It doesn't matter. You don't think about it, you just write it and leave it. Ok. So that's how things get into this. And then, and then what do you do? Well, then you, you pick a time and it doesn't have to be prescribed. It
0:13:11 - 0:13:27could just be a time. You tend to do it. Maybe it's when you're on the toilet, maybe it's first thing in the morning. Maybe it's Sundays, whatever, where you come into this list. Or maybe it's just when you're in the mood, you come into this list. And I'll tell you for me it's when I have a lot of energy
0:13:26 - 0:13:49, fresh energy. Like first thing not, I don't do it first thing in the morning. So I'm just doing spiritual things, but like 9 a.m. I hit my list, especially this was dominated by. Oh, I do have work. What is this? Oh, ok. It's a side project. Um, when this is dominated with my full time jobs because
0:13:48 - 0:14:09I had two and it was crazy trying to keep that straight. So I leaned on this heavily. It worked amazingly. So, between a calendar for the things that were not flexible. Like I have this meeting Tuesday at four. Ok. But then everything that I had control of was on this list and we'll get into why and
0:14:09 - 0:14:31how that's, that works. OK. So, um but you have the set apart times where your task is planning, planning. OK? You're not executing, you're just planning. So you get creative, you get excited about the future, you get hopeful and optimistic. This is one reason why I prefer doing this at the beginning
0:14:30 - 0:14:56of the work day because I'm not corrupted by small thinking people. Ok? That sounds super judgmental. But I, I wish it weren't true, but I'm just telling you how it is. Do you know why Jesus went off by himself when he woke up earlier than anyone else did? Uh So he was doing all the same things externally
0:14:55 - 0:15:13as the apostles were over the three years, but he woke up earlier than they did. Why he got less sleep. Why, you know, he was zonked out on the boat while they were all awake and alert and it wasn't because it was their job you know, there were some kind of slaves that were in charge of the sales or
0:15:13 - 0:15:32something. He was zonked out and they knew it. He never slept as much as they did. Why? Because he had to recharge his batteries. He had to make sure there's a time, you know, your kids go off to public schools and they're there for six hours and then you got them in all these stupid after school programs
0:15:32 - 0:15:53where they're around their peers for even more time. And the question is, how much are you offsetting that with weights on the other side of the scale through time that you spend with them? One on one? I don't mean just you and a kid. But I'm saying like you're really all in focused on them the way their
0:15:53 - 0:16:14peers are and their teachers are at school and after school and what's the counterbalance of the influence? So if you took a pie chart of your kids, they sleep, they go to school, they spend times with friends, they're on their cell phones. I just saw a report on average of 4.5 hours a day on social
0:16:13 - 0:16:38media. So what slice of that time is with you? And how are you balancing it? And so in the same token, we have an opportunity to charge ourselves with the spirit of God through one on one interactions with him. Now that will benefit us uh to the to the extent that the bandwidth we have with him is greater
0:16:37 - 0:16:59than alone. The bandwidth we have with him when we're alone with him is greater than what we would get in any other situation for most people. Um Studying the scriptures is probably the best bet of how to maximize that bandwidth during that time as you're starting out. Uh Some people can do it through
0:16:59 - 0:17:22prayer and others. It's something that looks a little different. But um there are a lot of people who get more out of other things than their alone time with God as far as spiritual battery charging. But uh as you ascend, it's, it becomes just you or so the set of things and people that will feed you
0:17:22 - 0:17:46that way shrinks the amount that's transferred through that increases. But the set of people and things decreases for Jesus. The only thing he could do is get by himself with the father. And um anyway, so when you're in that state where you're, you're, you're hopeful, you're happy, hopeful, energetic
0:17:45 - 0:18:11, et cetera, um The world has not yet beaten you to a pulp for the day. Then you uh that's a good time for planning. So you go to this list and you say, all right. Um Let's look at this and let's get these unsorted things into topics or however you're doing it. I'll get to that in a second and then the
0:18:10 - 0:18:33net result of this planning period is I'm going to produce a post it note. That is, is what I thoroughly believe I could get the best I could do for a day today. So I'm going to look at all this stuff and I'm going to reduce it down to one post it note for today. OK. And um I've mentioned in the past
0:18:33 - 0:18:57a life plan which is sort of a bigger picture thing. So the the full hierarchy of these is your life plan document. That's the big picture. This is all about tasks so that life plan has your, your transcendent purpose, your goals and your tasks, those tasks, it's, it's a very limited thing because it's
0:18:57 - 0:19:20of space constraints and everything. But those are kind of like long term habit kind of tasks like I want to take out the trash every Monday night kind of thing, right? But this is incidental things, projects, whatever that are, this is more of a day to day. Uh It's a, it's, it's pure pragmatism. OK
0:19:19 - 0:19:42? This is the actual rubber meets the road. So when you're planning, you take these things and you say, oh fix stove, OK. Well, that's gonna be I've got these are folders so you can put list into folders. Um But this is, this is going to be a home thing and then I could go to home and, and find out where
0:19:42 - 0:20:09it goes. And here's the cool thing about reminders. You can first off, you can order these lists, you just click and drag. And so you need a priority. There you go. That's first, this is second, whatever, right? You can also create sub tasks. Um So if I just click on this and hit enter, um let's say
0:20:08 - 0:20:30I need to buy mac and cheese for this. So it's an apple product. So of course, they assumed that by Mac, I mean their thing and then you go to the right and drop it onto this and now it's a subordinate task. OK? And maybe there's another one which is the easiest way of doing it. Let's just go down here
0:20:30 - 0:20:52and it stays on that indentation and maybe I need to buy, I don't know, I have to make the mac and cheese. OK. So then as you're going through this and you get it done, you click here and it goes away. Ah, and there's this great feeling of relief because now you're making measurable progress to, toward
0:20:52 - 0:21:11a meaningful goal, measurable, progress towards a meaningful goal. Very important. OK. Sometimes when I finish things, I don't check them off. And I just, um, mostly because I've moved on to something else and not thinking about it, but it feels very nice to come down and just click things off because
0:21:11 - 0:21:34you're all done and boom, it's gone. All right. Now, um, let's talk about what these lists are. Always. Remember, you're in charge of your system. You can make this anything you want it to be. If you find that something is insufficient. You can do the research and find a way to make it, make it work
0:21:34 - 0:21:53. If you're finding that something's not working, you can tweak it, it's all up to you. So I'll share with you some iterations of this that I've been through and it's not a best to worse. It's very much adaptive. I told you right now. I, I don't really need this for my work stuff. Um, so mostly I'm just
0:21:53 - 0:22:15using it for home stuff and there are a few things on here that I have no plans to actually do. I'm just using this to save the idea. So I don't lose it just in case it changed my mind. So, um, in the, in the current application of this, what, what I've got is, um, a categorization by topic and there's
0:22:15 - 0:22:42also one by time period and I found that to be very useful. So, um, one key to efficiency is batching things by topic or time so that you can take advantage of mutual efficiencies. So you avoid overhead. Like, look at this, this is actually my town list. So if I go to town, which is like once a month
0:22:41 - 0:23:01, these are things that I need to buy. But I'm almost always just going to Lowe's. So that's what I called it. If, if, um, when I convert this into a post it note, I'll actually break it out by place and, um, make a circuit around town. So I'm not wasting time driving back and forth and I don't forget
0:23:01 - 0:23:21things. My biggest problem is forgetting things because I have so many plates spinning that if I don't write things down, it's not going to happen. And so like uh if my kid will say one of my kids will say dad can we whatever. And I say, yeah, that sounds good. But send me an email and then that's another
0:23:20 - 0:23:46um intake to this whole process and I'll go through my emails and I'll make sure that they get on to this. Um ok, so my town list right now there's a few things I need to buy from Lowe's. This has been on here for like two months. This is the the last piece out of like 1000 things that will fully complete
0:23:45 - 0:24:03this irrigation raised bed irrigation project that has been going through iterations for like five years. This is the final step and they are out of stock and I cannot find it anywhere. So I'm just waiting. I don't actually need it. The thing can work. It's just not perfect yet. It just needs this one
0:24:03 - 0:24:23last piece. This is a anyway, so that's been on there for a while. That's fine. So every time I go to Lowe's, I check to see if it's there. This is a different store. This is obviously Home Depot. Um but look, this is the level, there's a guy in town by this store that sells battery things and he's got
0:24:23 - 0:24:42chestnut trees in his yard. And the next time I'm in town, I'm gonna check because it's the right time of year. The chestnuts are probably on the ground and I want to plant some. And so I'm going to drive by his house and take some off the sidewalk. Um So like there's no way for me to clearly convey
0:24:42 - 0:25:04this, this idea that I'm trying to tell you right now, which is when you feed the muse, the muse feeds you what you write down crazy ideas and you never know where they're gonna go. Maybe they go to the trash can because you come back to. This happens to me all the time. Two weeks later, I'm looking
0:25:04 - 0:25:28at this, I'm like, I'm not doing that and I just delete it right. But many times it comes to fruition and you know, one day this chestnut tree grows up and saves your life, that's obviously ridiculous. But you see that magnitude of surprise in the little things, you don't know where those little things
0:25:27 - 0:25:52will go. You have no idea. But, but we constrain what God can do in our lives so often every dang day, we don't even realize what we're doing because we've narrowed him down in ways we can't really see to such a small window of how he can help us that maybe the best thing he can do is say, oh, that while
0:25:51 - 0:26:11you're driving around town? Oh, there's a chestnut tree. I wonder if I could grow some of those on my place or whatever. Right. You see the battery place? You're like, oh, I didn't think about it but my phone dies all the time and I find myself not able to do things I need to do. That would be productive
0:26:10 - 0:26:28because I have to charge my phone and it's, when it's 50 ft away from me, it actually makes a significant difference in what I do with it, you know? And so you can say, oh, I better look into what it would cost to replace my battery and then it's sitting on your to do list or whatever the thing might
0:26:27 - 0:26:47be. You have no idea. It could just be. I had a random thought the other day to see if I could find a guy I worked with, um, in the National Guard who I really liked. Um, I was only working with him for a brief amount of time. We didn't get a chance to really become friends outside of work and then I
0:26:47 - 0:27:06was discharged suddenly we weren't expecting it. And, um, I really didn't get, have any time to get those ducks in a row to keep connections. And, you know, this was 10 years ago. I was like, I wonder how he's doing. Sure enough, you can find people online with two seconds of Googling. And which is a
0:27:06 - 0:27:25little scary how much of your personal info is online. But anyway, I'm, I'm not saying through Facebook or I'm just saying Google Searches. There's some weird website out there that you can get people's information on. It's not some dark web thing or anything, I promise. So, um, you write it down and
0:27:25 - 0:27:46then you do it. That's not on this list because it's on a post it in front of me. Ok. Whatever. So, um, this is a situational list. If I'm in town, this is what I'm gonna do. So when I'm doing a project and I'm like, oh jeez, I can see I'm low on paint brushes. I'm gonna need paint brushes before I paint
0:27:45 - 0:28:15anything else. Then I'll pop on here and I'll say paintbrushes that won't go into unsorted because I already know where it's going to go. So I just pop it in here. That's one reason this one didn't exist and does not exist. Um So, so the ones by topic, it could be things like um home projects, things
0:28:15 - 0:28:48to do with kids, things to do with your spouse. Um work things early morning, things like spiritual things, workout things, whatever. So that's topical categorization. You could have um you could have temporal organizations. So chronological um like today, this week, this month, next quarter, this year
0:28:48 - 0:29:13, you could have it by seasons. I use that one a lot because I, I have a garden. Um And, and we shut down outside half the year with snow where I live. Ok. So let's take a look at some of these. So, uh, well, here's here. Is that unsorted? I have no idea what's on any of these. Hopefully it's not embarrassing
0:29:13 - 0:29:36. Um, I haven't looked at this for a while. So, here's one I need to look into ways to preserve apples without electricity or fuel. Um, because I have a lot of apples and I rely on those and I have no idea what I would do if I didn't have them. Um electricity or fuel. Harrow rake. I was, I did do an
0:29:36 - 0:00:00experiment on this uh where I tried to use a piece of fence to make a harrow to help seed the ground with rye. So I did that and then I was going to get one of those big drums that you fill with water and push around. So at some point, I'm going to troll Craigslist for that. Um But yeah, so this is,
0:00:00 - 0:00:00this is the way I do it. So take a day, these are things that I need to take a day off of work in order to do. So, there are things that have to be done during the week. Um So I have a, I have a friend who has a dump trailer and there's a place that we can get mulch for free at this wood mill up to,
0:00:00 - 0:30:35it's like a half hour away, but to make the drive worth it. You need a dump trailer, which I don't have. So I need to um bribe a friend of mine to borrow this trailer. Um These are things I can get done during a weekday. So I, let's see, I have a whole collection of videos and pictures and stuff on my
0:30:35 - 0:30:53, on my computer that I have to give to my wife because she's the keeper of those and I, I've slowly been organizing them. So it's not just this dump of random things. Um There is a pipe to the raspberries that is, has a leak in it and I put electric tape on it for a quick fix and at some point I need
0:30:52 - 0:31:12to go and cut out that pipe and replace it. Um And then one thing that I noticed is that every single time I sync my phone to my computer because we have a road trip or something. Um Sometimes we're out in the yard to play music for my kids and I notice that there are duplicates of everything and I have
0:31:12 - 0:31:29no idea how that happened. It's annoying because I need space on my phone to make videos and I need to fix that. So these are things quick things I can do during the week that this is probably the worst place to start because these are all really low priority. Um I have a stockpile of ready, ready to
0:31:29 - 0:31:54go, fun things I can do with my kids. Um So I don't have to think of it in the moment. These are things that I still need to do out in the yard before it snows. Um So I put the back hole on my tractor yesterday and I moved a tree and bushes yesterday. So those are done. So I still have to do a few things
0:31:53 - 0:32:14. Um But these are my summer projects that I'm not done yet. This, there were probably like 300 things on this list at the start of the summer. And so there's just a few left and uh that's good. So in the fall, which we're now totally into, but I'm behind, I did put on back o so that was in more than
0:32:14 - 0:32:36one place. So there's still things that I need to do. OK. Um So we can just keep going through this. But when I know I won't be able to get to something in the fall, you know, I'll bump it forward to wherever it sits. There's, there's a couple of catches where I just put random things I thought of uh
0:32:36 - 0:32:57or things that maybe I'd like to do, but they're just not high priority. Um You know, I put those all through here so that, that's probably what is important here, but there's no limit of the impact this might have. So, for example, there's a store called Murdoch's here and every year they have 1/4 of
0:32:57 - 0:33:19July sale for people with military, prior military service and, um, it's a huge discount. But the problem is that it's only for like three days or something. So, anything that can wait to get purchased from there, I, I have a rolling list of things to keep buying from there every year because I never
0:33:18 - 0:33:39remember when I go what I should get. And then there, there are things that I need to buy for seeds, uh, for the garden, which this is an ever shortening list. I actually don't need this because I have tons. Um because I've already experimented with that and it's always nice for things to fall off of
0:33:39 - 0:34:03the set of what you worry about. Um So we're producing most of the seeds that we use at this point anyway, I hope this is useful. Um So I highly encourage doing something like this and I apologize that my list is a lot more narrow than it usually is. But that's, that's uh this, this will change your
0:34:02 - 0:34:35life for sure. Absolutely. And what you'll find is, um it's a very uh it will help you adopt a never ending mentality while producing even less stress than you currently experience. So you get to keep all of the increases in productivity with an even less ex uh cost than you currently spend. That's a
0:34:35 - 0:34:57pretty amazing deal if you think about it. So with all, as with all improvements, when you first start doing this, it might be a little jarring. So I would recommend just starting with two lists. One is your unsorted and the other is your sordid. And then from there you'll, you'll figure out what you
0:34:57 - 0:35:21need to do to break that down further and what works best for you. So I highly recommend you do this. And um what you're gonna see is massive productivity gains because you can sort those lists. We really didn't talk about that. You can sort those lists by priority. This is my number one priority thing
0:35:20 - 0:35:43for all my projects at home is this list right here. And actually I already did this. So I got a tip for a person. I reached out to someone for some mentorship. Um I wanna help my daughter get into, not get into but learn more about visual design. And uh so I got a tip that linkedin has all these classes
0:35:43 - 0:36:08. And so I figured I'd try that out and uh do the free trial and see what it's, see what it's like. And I have a post it note here actually that says to hop on there with my daughter. Um Where is that anyway? It's right here. Um There it is now, I see it, it's got a star next to it, so I wouldn't lose
0:36:08 - 0:36:32it. Um So I actually did this the other day and I also created a family linkedin account, um which is kind of humorous because we my kids like that movie National Treasure. And so the linkedin account is, is, uh, what was that guy's name? Something Gates. And he's a historian because I didn't want to
0:36:32 - 0:36:52use my linkedin account and have the kids on there doing, who knows what? So, um, that's done. And then I went beast mode and finished these shelves in this shed. We call the rabbit hutch because it used to have rabbits in. It doesn't anymore. So now I'm down to a few things that are projects that I
0:36:52 - 0:37:20have started and not finished and go away. Isn't this going away? Um And these are things that this is the highest priority, get these things done. And right now, actually, as I look at this, I'm going to bump this, this is not a priority. We can do this next year. So it's going to go to the spring 2024
0:37:19 - 0:00:00list, boom. So now I never have to think about that again until spring of 2024. And I don't have to remember it in spring 2024. It's already there. And so as that rolls around, I'm going to go to this list and I'm going to look, look through all this and I'm going to resort it according to priority.
0:00:00 - 0:38:02So this, this will keep you sane and it will help you be much more productive. So I hope, you know, I've rambled about this for quite some time. I hope it's useful to see it in practice and I hope this encourages you to give something like this a shot in your own life and do what works for you. So find