My First Million: MFM Mini - Stop Living Hour-to-Hour

All right.

Quick break to tell you about another podcast that we're interested in right now, HubSpot

just launched a Shark Tank rewatch podcast called Another Bite.

Every week, the hosts relive the latest and greatest pitches from Shark Tank, from Squatty

Potty to the Mench on a Bench to Ring Doorbell, and they break down why these pitches were

winners or losers, and each company's go-to-market strategy, branding, pricing, valuation, everything.

Basically all the things you want to know about how to survive the tank and scale your

company on your own.

If you want to give it a listen, you can find Another Bite on whatever podcast app

you listen to, like Apple or Spotify, or whatever you're using right now.

All right.

Back to the show.

All right.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but for somebody, this is going to be a bit of a

game changer.

I know it was for me.

The other day, I was talking to my trainer, I was running late to our session, and I get

there and I'm slipping on my shoe, trying to get it over my heel, and I'm like, oh, man,

sorry.

I had to do lunch for my daughter, but then she spilled it everywhere, and then we're

cleaning it up, and then she blah, blah, blah, and then I had a podcast this morning,

and I ran a little bit over, so then I had this call with my boss, blah, blah, blah.

I'm telling them all my excuses of why I'm late.

I'm just trying to say why I'm late.

He goes, bro, I don't care if you're late, but I don't want you to have a day like that.

I said, oh, well, you can't control all these things.

He goes, well, you can.

I go, what do you mean?

He goes, well, you can't control that your daughter's going to spill the food or that

your podcast's going to go over, but you can control how you experience it.

I go, oh, man, here we go.

What's the lesson?

I was like, I wasn't ready to hear it, but he gave me some gold.

He goes, listen to the way you were talking.

He goes, forget the words.

Just listen to the rhythm of it.

It was da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, this and then that, this and then that.

That's living like an itinerary, like an agenda, and when you do that, it sucks the fun out

of life.

If you're doing this and then that and then this and then that, well, you're just rushing

from one thing to the next, and in doing so, you're not really enjoying all these different

experiences you're having.

This is a life you crafted.

Look at where we are.

Look at your backyard.

Look at the workout we're about to do.

You're talking about what you're doing with your daughter.

You have a podcast.

You have all these amazing things you created, but then look at how you're treating them.

You're treating them like a job.

You're treating them like a task.

You're treating it like an agenda.

I said, well, what do I do instead?

He goes, stop living hour to hour and start living experience to experience.

What does that mean?

It's like, so don't think about life like, okay, at nine, I got to do this call and then

10, I have to go here and then 11, I have to do this meeting and 12, we're going to record

and you know, one PM, I'm going to do this because what happens is you're going to start

running late and then you're feeling like you're losing time.

You're just going to constantly be focused on the time you don't have.

Instead, when you focus on experience to experience, you say, all right, what's this

experience right now?

Right now, I'm recording this podcast.

I'm putting out some wisdom into the world and I can just imagine people on the other

side are going to be hearing this and thinking, you know what, it's so true.

So true.

I'm going to try that.

Right?

You know, it sounds like work for him.

I'm going to try it for me.

And then after I'm done with this experience, I'm going to click stop.

And instead of thinking about what's the next thing I have to do, what's the next thing

I get to do?

What am I going to?

I'm hungry.

What am I going to eat?

I can eat leftovers in the fridge.

Is that the experience I want?

Maybe I'll cook something.

Oh, maybe I'll go try that place I saw yesterday.

Let me hop in the car.

I want to go have that experience.

And then when I'm in the car, am I going to focus on the traffic, you know, the waiting,

the heat?

Or am I going to say, all right, what experience am I going to have here?

I'm going to, you know what, every time I see somebody on the road, I'm going to try

to get them to smile.

That's the experience I'm going to have right now.

I'm going to be just through my facial expression, I'm going to try to get them to smile.

Or I'm going to listen to music.

I'm going to jam out.

That's the experience I'm choosing to have.

And so what that does when you start focusing on, hmm, what experience do I want next?

You're like, you're at a, you're at a, you know, a Michelin star restaurant and you're

ordering off the menu.

I'll have one of them.

I'll have one of these.

Oh, I want that experience.

Give me that one too.

Give me that dessert.

Right.

That's what life feels like instead of living off the itinerary.

So this has been a pretty big game changer for me over the last month or so is get off

of time.

These worry about time, they're worried about age and they're worried about lack of time,

too busy, too much.

Forget time.

Start focusing on, I'm going to go for, I'm going to hop in my day instead of hopping

from hour to hour, I'm going to hop from this experience to that experience and this

experience to that experience.

And then in doing so, you're going to start to choose those experiences wisely and you're

going to start to savor those experiences and fully enjoy them when you do them.

And that makes you a happier person.

So try it out.

Stop living hour to hour, start living experience to experience.

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