The Mindset Mentor - You Are Wasting Your Time
Episode Date: December 4, 2017Episode 358 - Are you constantly busy but still feel like you don't have enough time in the day to get everything done? People are constantly busy but rarely productive. In this episode we talk about ...how to get more done in less time! 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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And what I'm going to be talking about today is majoring in the majors and minoring in
the minors.
And I had this conversation with one of my coaching clients, but my coaching client was
saying that he wakes up, he works from home and he wakes up, gets straight to work. We'll work for
10 or 12 hours and doesn't feel like he gets anything checked off of his to-do list because
his to-do list is so long. And then throughout the day, he adds more stuff to it. And what we
realized after going through his to-do list was that he was not majoring in the majors
and minoring in the minors.
He was majoring in the minors. So what that means is this. He was spending the majority of his day
doing crap that was not really bringing him money, not making him feel productive, anything like
that. Because what happens with our to-do list, we have these massive to-do lists we can come up
with of 20, 30 things we have to do.
But we do the easy things.
We pay the bills.
We clean the carpet.
We do the dishes.
We wash the car.
The things that are just easy for us to check off, whatever they might be, do the dishes,
blah, blah, blah.
But then the very important things we don't do because we know it's going to take a lot
of our brainpower to do these things.
do because we know it's going to take a lot of our brain power to do these things.
So with that being said, what do you spend your time on when you have a to-do list?
Do you take your to-do list and mark down those one, two, or three things that have to be done today? This is the key to doing the majoring in the majors, the minoring in the minors,
is to find those things where if nothing else got done today, if you just got this one thing done today, you would feel productive.
If you got these two things done today, you would feel productive. Those are your majors.
You want to major in the majors and you want to make sure that you find the most important things
because think of it, if you were to just put those things down and not worry about everything else and say, okay,
I have this to-do list of 20 things on this list. These three things have to be done today.
If you get those three things done, you're going to feel more productive, but also you're probably going to have time to do some of the other crap. Here's what I think. If you get the most important
things done, maybe you have to wait an extra day to do your laundry.
Maybe you have to wait an extra day and the dishes might have to stay
inside of the sink for a little bit longer. But who gives a crap? Because you are actually
productive. It's basically the 80-20 rule. The 80-20 rule means this. 20% of the stuff that you
can spend your time doing will bring you 80% of the results, 80% of the money, 80% of the stuff that you can spend your time doing will bring you 80% of the results, 80% of the
money, 80% of the productivity. If you're a sales rep, 20% of the people that you could call will
bring you 80% of the income that you're going to have throughout your year. The thing about that
though, is it also means this 80% of the stuff we could spend our time doing the minors, all of the
crap that really doesn't matter that much will only bring us 20% of our income, 20% of our productivity, 20% of everything else.
So what do we need to do? We need to focus on the 20%. So if you have your to-do list,
what's your 20%? What's your one, two, or three things that's going to bring you the most money,
that's going to bring you the most productivity, that's going to bring you the most productivity,
that's gonna make you feel like you got the most stuff done.
If you're a teacher,
what's the 20% that you could teach your students that's going to make them learn 80% of all the stuff
that you need to teach them?
It always works out this way, the 80-20 rule.
So if you're an entrepreneur or a small business owner
and you're struggling,
ask yourself,
what are you spending your hours working on? Are you working on getting all of the crap together
inside of your business? Or are you focusing on actually how to grow your business, who to connect
with to help grow your business, who to connect with that could possibly be a mentor for you?
And you get more done in less time if you do
it this way. If you're an employee, what are you spending your time doing? I've been an employee
before. A lot of employees, what we do is just waste a lot of time. That's what I know I did.
And that's why I hated being an employee because I felt like I never really got anything done.
It's human nature to just kind of waste time for some reason. So if you're an employee,
why don't you start knocking out your most important tasks and impressing your bosses
so that you can get that next promotion? Gary Vaynerchuk calls it the clouds in the dirt.
Don't spend time in the dirt. Spend your time in the clouds, the things that really matter.
If you're the type of person who also worries a lot, are you spending your time
worrying about the majors or are you spending your time worrying about the minors, the minor
crap that doesn't really matter? Here's what I would ask if you are the type of person to worry
a lot. What are you worrying about? Are you worrying about stuff that you're actually going
to remember in 10 years? So ask yourself this. If you're a worrier and you're worrying about one
thing right now, ask yourself 10 years from today, are you going to remember that thing that you're worrying about
right now? If not, forget about it. It's not serving you. Get rid of it. Don't worry about
it anymore. What I do want you to do is this. Get a to-do list. Figure out the most important thing
that you can get done. What are you most talented at? What are you best at?
I'm good at a few things. I'm bad at a lot of other things. I do know that.
You're probably the same way. There's a few things that you're really talented at that you can really
shine at. Why don't you spend your time in those things that you're the best at? If you're a sales
rep, maybe you're really good at talking to people on the phone, but you hate making phone calls.
Well, you're going to have to make those phone calls so you could start making all of the sales that you
really need. What are you most talented at? Make sure that you always remember that.
And here's the thing that I'll tell you. If you spend your time on the things that matter,
if you spend your time crossing out the things that matter the most each day,
you will always feel like you had a productive day because you got the things done that really matter.
And with that, I will leave you the same way
I leave you every single day.
Make it your mission to make somebody else's day better.
And I hope that you all go out there,
you conquer your to-do list,
the top 20% of your to-do list that really matter.
And I hope that you have an amazing day.
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Now you know what time it is.
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