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Hey, Jordan Harbinger here.
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Welcome to Minisoad Monday.
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Happy to be here with you, kicking off the week with something quick and actionable that you can implement right away that ll make you more magnetic and effective.
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Today, Clay Abare.
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We re going to talk about understanding your perfect day, week, month, and year, and working backwards to make that happen.
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So, Clay, thanks for rejoining us here.
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I appreciate that.
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Thrilled to be here, Jordan.
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Now, I don t love things like vision boards and all that stuff, because I know that they re kind of the realm of maybe a little bit the life coach that hasn t done all the science research to show what this does and does not do.
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They re also kind of showcased as a panacea for, do you have big dreams but you re unhappy with your life?
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Put them all on the wall so you can pretend you re there once a day.
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It s not super useful for a lot of people.
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Yeah, so I think the the most important letters in law of attraction are the last six letters, which is action.
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If to the extent that putting something on your vision board or whatever helps you take action towards that as a daily reminder, that s fine.
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But I do think, like you said, in this life coach world and coaches coaching coaches how to coach, there is a little bit too much of if I if I put it on my Pinterest or if I put it on my wall, you know, the yacht s going to magically appear.
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And obviously it never appears without the action in between.
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And so
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Uh, I think there s a few more interesting ways to do that.
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Cause I m, I m with you.
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I m not vision boarding.
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Hey, if it works for you, great.
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Uh, I m not completely against it, but I think it s all about the action that that spurs.
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And for me, maybe it s just because I spent a decade at Accenture doing corporate consulting and we went into big companies and we said, okay, what s the, as is how, what s the situation today.
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How bad is it?
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What s good.
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What s bad, et cetera.
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And then our job was to paint the two B picture.
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What is it when these systems work perfectly?
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What is it when this strategy is implemented and then draw the two B picture?
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And then really all it is, is the Delta between those two, how do you get from a to B?
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And so the way I ve broken it down for myself, because I ve studied a lot of personal development stuff and I sort of try to handpick and figure out what, what works for me, which I think is kind of the only way to do it.
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And for me, it s all about describing your perfect day and then expanding that to a week and a month and a year, and then.
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looking at your current day and week and month and year.
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And if every day when I wake up, I think think the visual might be like a screwdriver turning, turning a screw.
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If I can turn the screw one degree from my current day towards my perfect day, that to me is what growth and personal development is all about.
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And so I ll give you a simple example, like Tom Peters, you know, management writer, author, speaker.
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He is 70 some years old and he s on the road all the time.
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He s speaking
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He s traveling, his perfect week is five talks in five cities, and he s seven years old and he s on the road all the time.
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Contrast that with Seth Godin, he also speaks and writes, right?
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They have a similar sort of career, they re a similar kind of person, but Seth likes to be home and cook dinner for his family at six o clock.
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So if you want Seth to fly to Los Angeles, it costs four times as much as speaking in New York City.
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So he s defined his perfect day, which is cooking dinner for his family, and then he s architected his business, meaning 4X-ing the price
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of a keynote in Los Angeles to, to live that perfect day.
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So I think it s just a super simple, something, anything can do a perfect little mini sod Monday, like write down your current day, look at your, which is easy to do.
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Just open your Google calendar.
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That s what you did.
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And then open a new Google calendar, simple, or get a piece of paper, legal pad, whatever you want and draw your perfect day and say in a perfect day, what do I do?
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I wake up, I make coffee in my Chemex.
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I meditate.
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I listened to this.
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then I get working and maybe I write for two hours without the internet before I check email.
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Like design your perfect day and then just lay those two next to each other and work on the Delta.
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So what about the things that we can t avoid?
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I mean, sometimes we have things we just have to do.
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What about those?
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We can t just not do those, right?
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Yeah.
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In the short term, that s absolutely true.
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But I think in the long term, in the medium term of a career, that s part of what I m talking about is, you know, if those things are, well,
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I really have to like spend time typing up the show notes.
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Well, maybe you do, or maybe you don t.
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Maybe you can outsource that.
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You know, Ari Mizell, a mutual friend of ours has a great framework, which is eliminate, optimize or eliminate, automate, and then outsource.
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So if you can eliminate it, you can, which a lot of us can, you know, email inbox, for instance, a lot of the junk we get in there and then automate.
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Can you automate it with systems, with IFTTT, with Zapier, with these tools, like you mentioned, and then what s left, can you outsource it?
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And that can free up a lot of time.
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If it s a meeting, a business development meeting, well, if that meeting is helping you get to where you want to go, then obviously you have to do that and you shouldn t outsource that.
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But I think there s a lot of things that we slog through that we could either eliminate or automate or outsource.
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Don t forget about the Art of Charm Challenge.
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It ll help you connect with others, create more productive personal and business relationships, and has step-by-step challenges to help you move forward.
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There s also a Facebook group with thousands of other AOC family taking the challenge as well.
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Of course, AJ and I are in there, as well as the rest of the Art of Charm team, helping you all move through the challenges.
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Text CHARMED to 33444 in the USA, or go to theartofcharm.com slash challenge and get rocking.