The Mindset Mentor - Ep. 11 - Follow Your Passion w/ Zack Sexton

Episode Date: September 14, 2015

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”In this episode Rob & Dean interview Zach Sexton of The Productivity Show Podcast. He takes us ...through his unique journey and his mindset of how he approaches life. He started off as a school teacher and eventually quit that to follow HIS PASSION which is teaching others to become their most productive self through some his many efficiency practices.His mission statement in life is "To Change the world and have a hell of a good time." What a great mission statement! Want to learn more about Mindset Mentor+? For nearly nine years, the Mindset Mentor Podcast has guided you through life's ups and downs. Now, you can dive even deeper with Mindset Mentor Plus. Turn every podcast lesson into real-world results with detailed worksheets, journaling prompts, and a supportive community of like-minded people. Enjoy monthly live Q&A sessions with me, and all this for less than a dollar a day. If you’re committed to real, lasting change, this is for you.Join here 👉 www.mindsetmentor.com My first book that I’ve ever written is now available. It’s called LEVEL UP and It’s a step-by-step guide to go from where you are now, to where you want to be as fast as possible.📚If you want to order yours today, you can just head over to robdial.com/bookHere are some useful links for you… If you want access to a multitude of life advice, self development tips, and exclusive content daily that will help you improve your life, then you can follow me around the web at these links here:Instagram TikTokFacebookYoutube

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to the MWF Motivation Podcast. My name is Rob Dial, occasionally joined by my co-host Dean DeVries. And this is our podcast that comes out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. We compress a massive life topic into about 10 to 20 minutes to help you take control of your life, become the best version of yourself, and follow your passion. Buckle up, because the best version of yourself, and follow your passion. Buckle up, because the podcast starts now. Welcome to the podcast.
Starting point is 00:00:39 This is Rob Dial with MWF Motivation. I am also surrounded by Dean DeVries, the co-host in beautiful Fort Worth, Texas, and Zachary Sexton of the Productivity Show. Honor to be on, guys. Yeah, we're excited to have you, man. Definitely. So just to kind of give you guys some context, we are up in Fort Worth. We are at a podcasting event, and I have an app called GroupMe, and I'm in a couple different GroupMes, and I was added to one by my old roommate because he had seen somebody put inside of the GroupMe. And so we sent message back and forth to each other, picked him up
Starting point is 00:01:30 yesterday, basically almost on the side of the road for him to join us. Just to have him join us. So he rode up with us. It should have been two and a half to three hour trip. It took about four hours of traffic. So we had some QT, quality time, quality time. We built a lot of rapport and he's got a really awesome story and definitely coincides perfectly with what we go over with. So he just moved to Austin, Texas four days ago. Is that correct? At this point, four days ago to kind of follow his passion and follow his dream. And so we wanted to bring him onto the podcast. So, um, if you could give us just a little bit about first off your podcast, what you do, um, and then also, you know, your journey up until, you know, that brought you all
Starting point is 00:02:15 the way to Austin as in actually becoming a podcaster as well. Absolutely. Yeah. The reason I'm in Austin is the people continue to meet amazing people like you, Rob, eventually. Dean, you'll make your way over here. I'll be there soon. Exactly why I'm coming for that type of thing. It's very motivating to have people who are around you, who are doing similar things to you, who understand. That's why we're at the podcast movement is because everyone here is, oh, do you have a podcast? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:44 Yeah, we do. Where maybe other people don't even know what one is. Or maybe they just think it's that thing cereal is or whatever it may be. So that's just one side tangent of motivation. But I understand you guys start with a quote. And I heard one recently. And I heard it from another fellow Austinite, the CEO of Whole Foods, and he said, which, by the way, you have to go to the Whole Foods over there.
Starting point is 00:03:08 I've been to the Mothership. Oh, my God. It is ridiculous. Another reason to move to Austin is the Whole Foods Mothership is here, and it's I don't know how many thousands of square feet of kale, but quite a few. Served all different ways. You got your kale tacos, you got your kale quesadillas.
Starting point is 00:03:29 Kale wrapped in kale. Kale on kale action. So, yeah, I visited Austin a few times and decided that this was a great environment for me. But the quote he said was a Mark Twain quote, which really resonated with me. I just heard it maybe a few days ago. He was on, I'll admit it, I was watching some Oprah. Oprah had some good stuff.
Starting point is 00:03:52 Nothing wrong with the own network. Oprah is amazing. Some Super Soul Sunday with the moms. I was back home for a family wedding. And he said the two most important days of your life are the day that you're born and the day you figure out why and on the productivity show are finding your why is huge finding your why in life is even more motivating and my story is one of a bit of struggle we're similar age group i'm turning 30 pretty soon and i think a lot of people of our generation
Starting point is 00:04:25 who are a bit younger graduated college in the recession. And 08, 09, even a little bit of 010, didn't have a great start to the career and had a hard time figuring things out. And your career was what exactly? So I was a business and economics student. So I always thought, you know, a little bit in entrepreneurial, but just kind of starting in fits and bits, and I wasn't really making any headway. So I sat down and I kind of thought about it, and I figured, what do I like to do? I like to collect information.
Starting point is 00:04:58 I'm a sponge for it. I like to organize it, and I like to share it with other people. Who does that? Well, teachers do that. And so I thought my mom was a teacher, aunt, uncle, lots of cousins, lots of teaching in the family. So I was like, this might be a good path for me. So I tried it out for a year and then got into a master's program, tried it out for another year and ended up kind of failing out of the master's program. I chose to leave, but I don't know how much longer I could have taken. I think I was down to 140 pounds and I'm about 165 now.
Starting point is 00:05:32 And you were teaching at the time? I was teaching at the time. I was just overly stressed, overly taxed. And what I found is that I didn't really figure out why I was put here. I thought it was teaching, but I didn't do enough work, enough self-thought, enough self-reflection to really understand how I could best serve. And I did a few different things. I know you guys want to, you like to end with one call to action,
Starting point is 00:06:00 but I can just only explain how I did it myself. And after watching out of this, this master's teaching program, which is just really difficult. It was, I was putting 50, 60 hours a week into it. I'd really tied my ego to it. I was, I was a teacher. I was really proud of that. When people ask what I did, I was like, Oh, I'm a teacher. And it was, it was something that I liked. And when it was gone and when it was no longer teacher. And it was, it was something that I liked when it was gone and when it was no longer the case, it was, it was really difficult. I, you know, just got kind of a blue collar job. And, um, and I did that on purpose because I had tried so many different
Starting point is 00:06:36 things, like banker, solar sales, worked in the government for a time. And I was just like, I don't know what I want to do. So I'm going to just stop using my brain for a little while at my job and, and figure this out because I was tired of, of going down a path and just not succeeding. I, none of the things that I were doing was doing were very motivating or fulfilling to me. And it was important that I find something like that. Yeah. I was going to mention, um, if we could back up for a second, I just want to know, like, what got you into teaching in the first place? You're obviously you graduate your economics and business degree, like what got you into, into teaching? Number one, what was your mindset at the time? And number two, if you could go back into that
Starting point is 00:07:21 same moment, because there's probably a lot of people that are listening to this right now that have a similar mindset. And what advice would you give the Zach that's just graduating college, about to take this teaching job? What kind of advice would you give him in order to live with your purpose? One of the things I would suggest is actually something that helped me realize the difference
Starting point is 00:07:47 between teaching as I was in the public school system and never public schools and what I currently do. And one big difference was finding my values. So I found my top value is autonomy. That does not work very well in a big bureaucratic system. It didn't work very well in the master's program that I was in. It was very, you just follow the rules and you don't really question much and you keep your head down and you do what you're told. And when I asked why, it didn't always flesh out that way. And when I felt constrained, I didn't
Starting point is 00:08:21 really enjoy that either. Adventure is another one of my core values that I enjoy having. This is from your Strength Finder? This is actually another thing. So there would be two different things. CVI? No, I just made this up myself. I went out there and I just found a list of adjectives. And it was about 300, so I suggest maybe getting a smaller list than the one
Starting point is 00:08:46 I did I printed them out and I cut them up and they were kind of they're little slips at the time and I I put them all on on the table and I put them into two different groups one group was more important to me right now less important to me right now more important less important more important less important you cut every single one out important, less important. More important, less important. You cut every single one out that did that. First time, it took me, I don't know, 10 minutes. 10 minutes to kind of go through these. And I put that pile aside, did it again.
Starting point is 00:09:17 Probably seven, eight minutes. Did it again, did it again, until I got down to five. Oh, wow. And these five are basically my direction. So they're not a destination. It's not like I have this big goal out there. It's sort of like West. You never get West. It's just you head West. Right. A trajectory. Yeah. So mine ended up being autonomy, mastery, adventure, helping, and knowledge. And a lot of those really do align with teaching. That's a really great exercise, by the way. I've never heard that. Did you make that up or do align with teaching. That's a really great exercise by the way. I've never heard that.
Starting point is 00:09:46 Did you make that up or did you? Yeah. You just decided to do that. I just decided that was going to be helpful. And that's why
Starting point is 00:09:52 we're having you on the podcast. Actually, I was telling somebody, I was telling, we met her earlier, Kendra Wright, about it
Starting point is 00:09:59 and she's like, oh my gosh, how can we do this? And it's so fun being around people who are interested in that sort of development. You should write a book on that.
Starting point is 00:10:06 I wrote a blog post. I sent it to her. We can link it up in the show notes. Yeah, for sure. So I did that, and that really helped me understand, oh, this is why that teaching thing, while I really do enjoy new knowledge, I enjoy sharing it. I get excited about new ideas. It wasn't working. And there was other things that are in the public school system that we currently have that are a bit 20th century, let's say. And there's a lot more areas that I wasn't very strong at, discipline and other areas that weren't as onstraight too. So there was other reasons besides that, but that was a big one. So what I did during this time of sort of tumult,
Starting point is 00:10:52 I was working at a warehouse, and I did that. I had done that exercise, and I was like, okay, well, that's helpful, but it didn't really get me to the next step. It's like, okay, I got this direction, and it was a new litmus test that I now had. So if I put something up against it and it didn't really give me to the next step. It's like, okay, I got this direction. And it was a new litmus test that I now had. So if I put something up against it and it didn't really give me a lot of autonomy, then I wasn't going to do it. And at that point, it was like,
Starting point is 00:11:13 well, basically I need to go into business for myself because working for other people has not panned out for me very well. I must just be too abrasive. Maybe people just don't like me. Maybe I lose interest too quickly. I don't know what it is, but it did seem like I wasn't fit for the corporate or the government or any sort of standard work that was out there.
Starting point is 00:11:37 But, again, it was 2015 at the time. It was 2010, 2011. So there's other options out there, and I so there's other options out there and i knew there was other options out there so i went to explore but in order to explore i didn't need to know more about myself right and we were talking about this really in fact we've been talking about it so much this whole time is meditation right and i got this deepak Chopra meditation. So speaking of Oprah, that's a little connection there. Deepak's my boy. Deepak is a good guru to follow.
Starting point is 00:12:11 He's got a lot of positive stuff out. And I believe it was called Desire and Destiny. I can get you guys the link to that as well for sure. And it's a 21-day meditation challenge. And I like those because it's a set number of days and they're guided. So you don't have to really – it's not like Zen meditation where you just imagine a candle in your mind's eye and you have to focus and all of a sudden your back itches and you can't it's hard um it's an easy easy way to move into meditation if you're interested in in exploring yourself and the main questions i could
Starting point is 00:12:40 still remember because i listened to the same meditation three or set three or four times. So probably heard 60 times. It's not, who are you? What do you want? How can you give value to the world using your unique skills and strengths? There's just those three questions. There's those three questions. And you were doing this while you were still finishing up or what were you in your life at this point? At this timeline, I apologize for jumping around a little bit. It was I had quit the master's program. I'd actually tried joining another startup that didn't pan out very well, had kind of a tough time with the boss again. So I was working at a warehouse and whenever we took a break, I would go out to the back of the field and I would pop this meditation in. Then eventually I would start to record what bubbled up because the idea was that I wasn't asking myself, I was asking my subconscious.
Starting point is 00:13:34 I, on the surface, only know so much, but the subconscious has been through all of the things that I've done and it's probably a much better memory than me and I was I was trying to get at that deeper level and what was ironic is what kept coming up was teaching and I felt so burnt I just was like no way yeah not gonna do that eventually I found a book called Getting Things Done by David Allen and I started applying the techniques to it, and it really changed my life. I've always been somebody who didn't have the best memory, would let things slip through the cracks, would not follow through on every single promise that I've made with other people or myself, just because I didn't have any sort of system for remembering and reminding
Starting point is 00:14:20 myself. So the idea of Getting Things Done, if you're not familiar with it, is just you write everything down and put it into one trusted system that you can reference at any point. So if it's an event, you put it in your calendar, it's a specific time and place. If it's anything else, any sort of action, you put it in a task manager. So I read this book.
Starting point is 00:14:40 It was so helpful to me that I wouldn't shut up about it because I like to learn and I like to share what I've learned because it gets me excited I think that's one of my strengths is I get excited about ideas and I can share them with other people that's why I thought teaching would be good for me and I found out it still is but I I would teach people about productivity and a series of events happened that I was just telling everybody about it and I eventually told my dad about it.
Starting point is 00:15:06 He tried it and it helped him out. He was like, my staff needs a little bit of this action. Managed to get the hospital to fly me out to Wyoming. I trained the staff. By the end, I was getting fought over. They were like, you got two hours with Zach? I only got one hour with Zach. How did you do that?
Starting point is 00:15:27 Who'd you talk to? And so I found it. I really enjoyed people. It was just showing them how to use their drive and clear their inbox. So you basically made yourself the productivity guy. I made myself somebody who can collect, organize, control, review,
Starting point is 00:15:43 and do all the things that you need to do in the information. So what, what, what right now is your mission statement? Like the mission statement that like, I feel like, you know, you, you say that, that, uh, you know, I mean, I feel like you're, you're, you know, yourself very well from what I've, you know, from the conversations that we've had. Um, what's your mission statement for your life? If you could just sum it up in a sentence. To change the world and have a hell of a good time. Cool.
Starting point is 00:16:12 I like it. That's one of them. I've got many, but I think that's one that I keep coming back to. That's one that's core to you. Yeah. I want to have a good time and I want to make a difference.
Starting point is 00:16:21 Let me bring it back. So at this point in time, you knew that your purpose was to teach. Is that correct? So you already knew before you went into this and this reaffirmed it. Yeah. Is that correct? This exercise reaffirmed it.
Starting point is 00:16:33 Also, one thing, and maybe we can only just touch on this because I'm sure you guys will want to do another episode on it. I did take a test called StrengthsFinders. And that was another thing that really helped. Yeah, we've actually all three taken it. Yeah, we were talking about it on the way up. So I guess maybe the takeaway for me would be if you feel stuck or if you feel aimless or if you feel less than motivated with what you're doing right now and have felt that way for a long time, don't immediately go out and search for the next thing.
Starting point is 00:17:07 time, don't immediately go out and search for the next thing. Don't try to find that new job is likely not going to be your savior. That new business idea might not be everything that it's cracked up to be. Take the time and do some, do some internal work, do some meditation. If, if that's a route you want to take, do some journaling. That's another way to, to really find out. Just in the morning, ask yourself, what do I want? What do I like to do? What lights me up?
Starting point is 00:17:30 What gets me energized? What gets me motivated? Listening to this show, I'm sure people are going to find all kinds of different ideas about what could possibly motivate them and then focus their attention on that once they understand how they can serve using their unique skills and abilities. their attention on that once they understand how they can serve using their unique skills and abilities.
Starting point is 00:17:48 And that's that last point, the unique skills and abilities. Certain people, everybody has rock star skills within them. At least in something. All it takes is finding them. A lot of times you look at other people and you're like, I wish I could speak like him or I wish I could write like that person or I wish I could, whatever skill it is that that person has, but they're uniquely suited for it. They worked hard at it, but they're uniquely suited for it. So when they practice it, it's not very difficult for them. For example, storytelling, Rob, for you, you never knew that
Starting point is 00:18:21 you were a great storyteller, but everyone basically reaffirms it all the time. Last night, we were just in stitches when you're talking about some Waffle House stories, and you just paint a very good picture. It's something that's easy to you. It's something that comes natural to you. It's something you can develop and get even better at. I'm sure doing a three-day-a-week podcast, you're going to be next-level storyteller by the next time I see you or the next year or so. So that's kind of the message and the takeaway is finding your why with almost anything. And so let's say you want to start an exercise habit or a journaling habit or any sort of
Starting point is 00:19:02 thing that you want to do on a repeated basis, the first step you should do is find out why and that deeper level why really knowing yourself yeah so so like with exercise it might be something weird it might be something like ah big muscles make me feel manly that's fine right you know knowing your why really helps you motivate you to do almost anything but if you know that global why for yourself that's huge yeah then then you're then you're heading west heading in one direction there'll be setbacks but when it when they happen you just can keep walking because you know it's just a minor setback in a longer path right so let's so let me take it back to the the quote and your quote was you know the two most important days in your life for the day
Starting point is 00:19:45 you're born and the day you actually realize why do you know a specific day when you were sitting there and you're like you do you have like that aha moment where you're like this is this is what i was put on this earth for sounds like you've been watching oprah too it was when I, it might've been that, that weekend or that weekday when I was with, at my dad's work, um, uh, really helping people out, really teaching people, showing when I started going into business for myself, helping other business owners doing that and seeing the impact that I could have something that was very easy for me. The idea of more of a systematized mindset and thinking of more of your global picture before you do something and
Starting point is 00:20:32 automating stuff, being able to delegate things efficiently. Being able to just see that very easily for me and then showing people that and understanding that they didn't see it and that they have such a relief and enjoy it so much that I was able to show that to them. And that I could actually create value and that I wasn't just some F up that couldn't really take care of himself. So it was a series of probably events that eventually got me to where I was. eventually got me to where I was. And now, I mean, even though I'm not in business for myself, I'm with a team that I'm really happy to be a part of.
Starting point is 00:21:13 We've got a core value, the four values at Asian Efficiency. You do have autonomy, though, right? I've got a lot of autonomy. I decided I'm going to podcast movement and hitched a ride with some randos here. And that's what I'm able to do. And this summer, I was able to do. And this summer I was able to travel all around the West coast, my girlfriend and puppy. Um, and so I, I, I, it, I've got what I need and I'm thrilled. I'm very happy. So let me ask you this, and this is the reason why I wanted to start this podcast and the kind of my, my main mission that I always want to find
Starting point is 00:21:45 is, you know, I know my why of, of what my passion, my purpose is, and you obviously know what it is as well. And you may have kind of answered this, but I'm very curious what other people think for if somebody is out there in their work in this job, you know, and they, they know that this is not their purpose, but they don't know that this is not their purpose, but they don't know what their purpose is. They just know that it's something better than what they're doing. Do you have any tips or ideas for someone to, you know, I know you talked about like the strengths, find out what they're good at, but do you have any other tips besides that of ways they could figure out what, what their reason for being on this earth is. Something that they can wake up every day and work towards
Starting point is 00:22:28 and eventually maybe make money out of it, but still be happy even if they didn't make money. And further to that point, what do you think, what are some of the red flags that people see or what are some of the red flags that you saw that you're like, okay, this is, this is not for me. You know, and you, and you realize that discontent, like what are some of the things that people should look out for and diagnose themselves as being discontent with, you know, how they're living their life and you know, what they're doing for a living
Starting point is 00:23:00 and eventually getting to the point where they say, wow, this is not what I'm supposed to be doing and I'm not utilizing my gifts and ultimately not living with my purpose. Honestly, if you're not excited for Monday. It's more of a gut feeling you think or like. You shouldn't be wasting your time. Yeah. If you dread pretty much most days going to work.
Starting point is 00:23:24 Yeah. If you dread pretty much most days going to work or looking in the mirror or dealing with relationships that you're in, if you feel any sense of unease and unhappiness there, explore it. Go ahead and look into it. Figure out why. It all comes to me down to the one core idea that i got from getting things done which is to write things down so the more you can externalize your thoughts the more you're able to manipulate and play with them right even doing so i was a math teacher when i taught and even doing basic algebra it's very difficult to do in your head you think 2x plus y x is equal to y is equal to
Starting point is 00:24:03 a max plus b it's a very simple equation if you write it down, but it's often very difficult to do in your head because there's so many different factors. So the sooner you can start to externalize your thoughts and your wants and your desires, and then process them in a meaningful way. One thing that when you said what are some red flags, I thought an area you might be going with is maybe going down some wrong paths. And a lot of times what happened to me in the past and what happens to a lot of people is that they see a shiny new object. Maybe it's a new app.
Starting point is 00:24:37 Maybe it's a new way to make money online, whatever it may be. And that shiny object pulls at their emotions. They're in a heightened state emotionally, and they'll go after it. Maybe they'll waste a whole day or a whole weekend doing something, and they found out that it wasn't what they thought it would be, and that was such a waste of time. And it's not a complete waste of time because you did learn, hey, you don't like that.
Starting point is 00:24:59 So if you change your story to that's what I don't want to do, oh, I learned, versus I wasted my time, but a way to avoid maybe wasting some time or getting there a little bit more effectively is a technique I learned from Aaron of Asian efficiency called the seven days rule. The idea is as soon as you see this shiny new object, you say, that's awesome. And you write it down. And we use a task manager called OmniFocus and it allows you to defer a task for seven days. Any amount of days, but I just chose seven.
Starting point is 00:25:38 And it pops back if you're now not in that heightened emotional state. And you look at it and you're like, hmm, all right. Well, how does this align with my values? How does this align with my strengths? How does this align with my strengths? Is this something I want to be doing right now? Maybe I can put it in my someday maybe list or maybe this just doesn't need to happen at all. So just knowing yourself and when you get ideas, write them down so you have a whole list to compare them to. I have a massive on my my own site, just bucket list type want to do someday whenever I see something new that I want to do for personal growth or development,
Starting point is 00:26:11 maybe a course or a seminar or whatever it may be, I put it in a file as well. And I look to make sure I'm doing things in a well-rounded fashion, like health and wealth and mindset, personal finance, all these things. And maybe I'm focusing a little bit too much on my finances right now and I actually need to focus a little bit more on my relationships. It's hard when it's all in your head and just muddied. You know, when things are in the back of your head, people, I coach a lot of individuals
Starting point is 00:26:40 and one of the most common things I hear is that, oh, yeah, no, my goals, they're always in the back of my head. And what I say, it's kind of hard to reach it back there. You need to have it. You need to have it in front of you. A little hack I use is to send myself using if then than that, an Evernote list of my goals every morning at eight o'clock. So I get a text every morning. I look at them. I'm like, okay, I got that. Every night does that? If then, then that does that.
Starting point is 00:27:08 Oh, I see. So time to text message. It's a pretty simple little one that you could do. Because I found that I wasn't reviewing my goals. It was something I wanted to do. I wanted to keep them top of mind, especially the goals that I was hyper-focusing on. Another one, I have multiple ones
Starting point is 00:27:25 because I have a number note that I see every day, so sometimes I add to it. And I think one of them, besides changing the world and having a hell of a good time, is that I'm very interested in finding more self-control, self-respect, and the seven days rule is the self-control. Self-respect is just knowing that I do have strengths and I just need to find them and
Starting point is 00:27:45 use them more regularly and, um, and, and, and helping others do the same. So I, that's, that's kind of the, the advice I would give is if you're, if you're in a funk, listen to stuff like this, um, uh, read as much as you can, get as many ideas into you as possible. Throw some spaghetti against the wall and see what sticks, but document that. Write that stuff down. Whatever you decide to do, maybe meditation is a little too woo-woo for you, so you just go the journaling route. Maybe you don't love writing things down or you have a hard time getting a habit of doing it. Um, take a little, go on a walk every day or every week and record yourself onto your
Starting point is 00:28:32 phone and listen back on it every once in a while and see, am I, am I doing what I want to do? Take some time for some self-reflection. Yeah. Figure out what's important to you. That's a big theme and takeaway that I'm getting. Yeah. I think that, I think that to wrap it up, the thing that we would, I'd like to do like a
Starting point is 00:28:48 seven day challenge. Cause I think what you said is really good. And there's a lot of, a lot of stuff that can come from journaling and writing stuff down. And so if I were to say the one takeaway that I would like people to have, even the normally it's just like, Hey, this is what we want you to do for today. Uh, this. The takeaway I'd like to take from this podcast is this is the thing we'd like you to do this week. So if someone's stuck at a job and they don't like their job and they don't like their boss and they know that they're meant for something bigger than what they're actually doing, I would say the challenge that we should issue to them and that I want to issue to them is that for the next week, why don't you pick out your phone and put whatever time you normally wake up. If you wake up at 7am, put 7.15 after you have
Starting point is 00:29:28 your cup of coffee and then put down in that 7.15 alarm, just say, write in journal or whatever it is and just write for 10, 5, 10 minutes and say, you know, what's my purpose? This is what I did yesterday. This is what I want to do with my life. And just, just like you said, take the spaghetti, throw it at the wall. And it's funny that your subconscious already knows what it is, but you just kind of have to pull it and pull it. And once you, you, you spend a week of doing it, you get that clarity, you get that clarity. The three questions I could use that I think are very powerful. And those three questions one more time. Who am I?
Starting point is 00:30:01 Who am I? What do I want? What do I want? How can I best serve using my unique skills and abilities I think that'd be awesome
Starting point is 00:30:08 so to wrap up everybody the three questions that you just asked if you can wake up 15 minutes after you wake up and it is important
Starting point is 00:30:16 you do it in the morning because that's usually when your creative mind is working at its best and then when you do it in the morning you will carry it with you for the entire rest of the day
Starting point is 00:30:24 ask yourself those three questions and journal it and if you start it at the morning, you will carry it with you for the entire rest of the day. Ask yourself those three questions and journal it. And if you start journaling the same thing each day, that's fine. Just keep writing and writing. It will be lots of things. It will be like a mom or a dad, a manager, a writer, a speaker, a Twitter follower. And it's okay to get vulnerable too. I mean there's no right answer to it. So just, you know, whatever feels right, just write it down. And seven days would be enough to get a
Starting point is 00:30:51 little staff shot. I mean, seven days is not a big commitment to change your life and go on the path that you're supposed to go. So I really appreciate your time. How can people get ahold of you? I'm at Asian Efficiency or the Productivity Show on iTunes. Do you have a website, correct? ZacharySexton.com. Okay. Or link that up in the show notes so people could reach out to you. So yeah, man, appreciate it. Thanks for the time. Thanks for having me on. And so that is it. Thank you so much for listening to this episode. If you like what you hear, please share with a friend, spread the love if you think it's something they could benefit from. If you want the show notes from today, you can get it at mwfmotivation.com,
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