Help Mom

From 1-3pm cold call psychologists to mix up the day.

The goal is simple.  Discover new marketing strategies or ideas.  Ask questions, interview, discover.  As you discover things, figure out what new questions you have and then on future calls ask those questions to people who might be able to provide insight.


"Hi, I am calling because I had a question for any psychologists that might be able to help me.  my mom was a child psychologist for 20 years.  She had a stroke and has been trying to start again, but can't seem to get many referrals and we need help.  I am just wondering what strategies you used to get started and my question is, where can I start, or what is the one thing we should be doing?"

Today's plan

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Power & Direction

Current determination levels are slightly higher than last month, though still far lower than I want.

April in general: 2.75

May's monthly determination is Power & Direction.  

It's about being determined to stay on path and building powerful habits around getting right back on path and clinging to it.  Clinging to it is by restoring integrity every time as a habit, not waiting a moment to restore it.

My path is a daily schedule that heads directly towards my ROARS business objectives and my 160K annual salary goal.

The daily schedule involves:

• Doing a powerful morning ritual, leaving for my workout by 5:25am.
• Beginning a workout by 6am and leaving for a second one at 3:30pm.
• Planning out the day, and following through on that plan.
• Beginning work on ROARS by 5:15pm.
• Eating healthy, following my food discipline.
• Going to bed in time to get 6 hours of sleep.

Any time one of these is off, it simply means I am not authentically following my path.  This month my determination is that I will not let that fly - I will restore integrity immediately.

The solution is to be determined to build an a behavioral pattern that I follow without thinking about it, just out of habit and out of a pursuit of ALL.

Audio Editing Notes

Just listened to the "relation to community" snibbit from session 3, as I wanted to share with Krista, so I listened AS IF I were someone else.

Oh, boy.

This is the ROUGH edit.

After edit 1, I'm going to need to go through the whole thing and add spacing and fix wierd edits.

So there's going to be a smooth-over edit after the rough edit.  Which is going to add 10 hours to the process.  Lovely.

But it MUST be done.

Also, this is a good time to cut unnecessary content as well.

YOU CANNOT EDIT SLIDES UNTIL THE SMOOTH EDIT IS COMPLETE.

A True Entrepreneur Embraces Obstacles

"A true gladiator embraces pain and suffering."  And "caresses death", or whatever Oenomaus said.

When they go into the fight ready to die and enjoying pain, they win.

An true entrepreneur has a similar thing going on with obstacles.

Bill Gates loved computers, programming, and business challenges so much that the vast majority of every problem thrown his way occurred to him kind of like a fun game he could play.  He loved the majority of the obstacles, so he didn't break down when they occurred.  He wasn't scared of pushing the envelope, because it would just mean more fun obstacles.  From a nobody to the #1 richest man in the world, it was fun and enjoyable the whole time.  He embraced obstacles and there was no obstacle big enough to satisfy him, so he over-came the biggest obstacles he could possibly face in his pursuit of obstacles.

If I embraced obstacles in this way...

• The lower my daily disciplines, the more excited I'd be - my obstacle is to figure out a 40% gap.  What a massive, rich, juicy set of obstacles.  I don't even know where to start - nice - this could last a while and really keep me engaged.
• The more overwhelmed I get at work, the more fun I'd have.  I'd literally be covered in obstacles.  From the fuzzy headaches, to the gut clenches, to the explosive interrupting thoughts, to forgetting about urgent deals and dropping the ball, it'd be a fun packed day.  Everywhere I look there'd be stuff I could solve.  It'd be like living in paradise.
• The more I struggled to get myself to do something, the more fascinating it'd be.  The more things I could try.  The more I could adventure into my mind. 
• The more I wanted a break, or to play a game or watch a video, INSTEAD OF what I had chose to do, the more ecstasy I'd feel.  That mental ripping would feel SO SATISFYING. 
• The more I broke my muscles, the more satisfying my workout.

So you see, it's got nothing to do with pain.  It's got everything to do with becoming obsessed with a love of obstacles.  You love obstacles because they're fun, interesting, engaging, challenging, and so on.  And you embrace them just for the love of embracing them.  The same way you do ALL because you enjoy it, and you choose ALL because you choose it.

You want to gain intensity?  Love obstacles and then view it as your #1 obstacle.  Loving obstacles, choosing them, that's what comes first.

ALL

April Monthly Determination

Current "Determination Level" on a scale of 1-5 with 1 being the lowest possible and 5 being the highest possible: 2

March in general: 2.25

Become enrolled in creating as much happiness as possible.  That is, to become absorbed in creating happiness.  Becoming obsessed with happiness.


On 1-5...

Happiness: 3.5
Work: 2.5
Roars: 3
Social: 3.5
Finances: 3.5
Fitness: 4
Entertainment: 4
Romance: 4.5
Family: 4

If I just make a list of everything to do in these areas, it'll quickly become obligatory.  Then, a failure.  That'd be like taking the time to make rockets only to miss the building when you fire them.  (Frost: "YAH MISSED!")

Instead, focus on the goals and become obsessed with increasing them.

However, it seems rather pointless to take the time with things that are 4+... or even 3.5+, while there are large glaring numbers like 2.5 and 3.

So, we're back to focusing on Work and Roars.

So, April's determination is to get enrolled in creating as much happiness as possible with Work and ROARS.

The one thing that's missing is intensity.  It's a fighter's push to win.  It's that part where you're giving it all you got, like your life depends on it.

So, April's determination is to be driven to build my books of business.  

Like the greater side of me is letting them slide away and the smaller, losing side of me is fighting to build them up.  And it's going to take everything I got to win and get the "build them up" side bigger than the "let them slide away" side.


"Intense focus.  The other ingredients must get you serious enough to focus your mind.  Without a driven, intense focus, you will not be effective enough to deal with the vast amounts of obstacles life throws at you."


I've decided to focus on building my intensity this month, seems to be what's missing.  I started on the wrong foot yesterday... I've become complacent... I've become a weak man.  That's not who I am, and it's time I got back to being someone who is actively accomplishing great things.

HIGHLY VALUE STAYING IN INTEGRITY.

RI

Bedtime - you don't qualify until you review your daily plan.

I simply forgot about this agreement.

I will move the daily scheduling to my calendar (google doc is stupid and waay too much work) and I've set a 7pm daily reminder to review calendar. 

Morning Ritual

I Misplaced my keys, throwing my morning off searching for them

Moving forward, I will treat my keys as if they can break if I put them down anywhere other than in my droor.  I will continue to monitor and work on my awareness of this.

RI

Last night I did not work when I said I would.

This has resulted in no integrity with the morning ritual and starting workouts on time.

Moving forward, I will start nothing mediation by 5:05pm and begin work at 5:15pm.

Today I will leave for workout at 3:30pm because I must do that to complete CDH requirement.