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We all have 24 hours in a day.
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And I believe that
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every person who's inching along,
every person
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who is making progress
in their own life,
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I believe that creates
a lot of happiness.
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And so learning
the self-mastery of
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how do I use my 24 hour period
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when I'm feeling good
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or when I'm sick, or when I'm
going through a tough time?
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And how can I day to day, week
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to week, month to month, year
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to year, move forward every day?
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Hi everyone!
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I'm MaryRuth Ghiyam,
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the founder and CEO of
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MaryRuth Organics, and today
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we are going to talk
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about time blocking.
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This is the Move Forward
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Everyday podcast.
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And today's episode will be in
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live time.
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Exactly
what I have personally done
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for about 18 years of
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combining time
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blocking and the compound
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effect together.
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What's interesting is that
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you may love the whole example,
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or you might only take
a few pieces
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that resonate with you, but
the key is for about ten minutes,
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I will share with you
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exactly what I personally do.
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Even though my method
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I would not recommend to
everyone.
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I get asked
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this a lot like MaryRuth,
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can you please share with us
about time
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blocking, the compound
effect your iPhone notes, your
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your iPhone calendar,
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your paper calendar.
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So again, I'm going to
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just as transparently as possible
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today, share with you what I do.
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For almost two decades
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now, I think that's over
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150,000 hours of time blocking.
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And please, please,
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please do not feel pressure
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to do anything that I do.
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But I do think
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if you stay with us
the entire episode,
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which will be short
and efficient,
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I think you will find one
or two or three
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things that resonate with you
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that you can try to do
in your own life.
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I really got this idea
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to do this
particular podcast recently
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on this topic
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because in the most recent
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fireside chat,
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which is a monthly zoom meeting,
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we have. It's free.
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We have over a thousand
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people from our community,
our consumers
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who take our vitamins.
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They come on zoom at lunchtime
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and then in another
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group of people,
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that afternoon.
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when I was talking about time
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So this is the time
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They said, you know, MaryRuth,
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like last month when you were
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when you were talking
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all she said, all she did was
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just make a list and try to do it
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at certain times of the day.
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she's a mom as well,
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that this really,
really changed her life.
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So it's very rewarding for me
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how I explained it
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she came back to share
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that she just took a little bit
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of what I was already doing,
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and it made a big difference
in her life.
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The whole reason
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I love this podcast
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and our team,
the whole MaryRuth Organics
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marketing team,
said, MaryRuth, can
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you just make very short podcast
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is because
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I really hope
at the end of this episode,
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you will write
in your iPhone notes
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or write down in a journal,
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or write down on a piece of paper
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something that
you are going to do that
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will truly change your day to day
life.
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The thing that I am
the most passionate about
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is this idea that we all have
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24 hours in a day,
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and I believe that
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every person who's inching along,
every person
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who is making progress
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I believe that creates
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And so learning
the self-mastery of
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how do I use my 24 hour period
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when I'm feeling good
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or when I'm sick, or when I'm
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And how can I day to day, week
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to week, month to month, year
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to year, move forward every day?
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So without further ado,
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I am very excited
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to break this down for you.
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this is truly what I do.
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always
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I would just literally write
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down the hour on a piece of paper
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and what I wanted to do the day
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before that was like
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my first version.
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one child, two child,
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and the twins
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and having those four kids
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plus being with the MaryRuth
Organics team
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and just trying to be
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a good daughter, a good spouse,
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a good friend.
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I have added
in all of those layers.
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you to do is create
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either on a piece of paper
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or in your iPhone
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notes, your morning
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and nighttime routine,
which is something
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we talked about
in the very first episode
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of the Move for an
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everyday podcast, is,
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I believe, so
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much in the power of a morning
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No matter how long, how short,
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how big,
how small, it's an anchor
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to help you every day.
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I remember sharing that
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one of my favorite quotes
is I read it
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in the New York Times
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a few years ago, is
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most people think they need
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to feel good
in order to get going,
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but in reality,
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we need to get going in order
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to give ourselves a chance
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at feeling good.
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to start in this place.
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Creating a morning and nighttime
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routine is a micro version
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of a macro
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pursuit
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of where
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they want to be a veterinarian,
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or they want to hike
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a very tall mountain
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Some people do not
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have a macro view
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or self-awareness
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What is their passion?
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first things first.
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that is important to you,
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or taking care of your family
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like a big view,
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a big macro view of what
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you want to do every day
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and where you're going,
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then you can reverse
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engineer your morning
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and nighttime routine
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to be very connected.
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If you are a person
who's like, I don't,
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I want to learn
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I want to have more
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I want to figure out
what my hopes,
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my dreams are for myself,
my family.
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Maybe you're in college.
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don't have to know
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but the act of creating
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a morning and nighttime routine
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and trying to execute it
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every day in a 24 hour period
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will eventually create
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so many green lights in your life
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and show you a lot
about who you are
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and give yourself self-awareness.
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that North Star in your life,
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that macro view.
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you can break down your morning
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I do it on paper,
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and a lot of people
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I know also do it on the iPhone.
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your morning
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then your copy
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and pasting it below.
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So you write out in your iPhone
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morning routine,
nighttime routine.
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Whatever resonates with you.
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Then you're going to copy it
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and paste the same thing
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you wrote below.
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routine, your iPhone notes,
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as the identical morning
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and nighttime routine below it.
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every morning, you delete
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the copy
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and pasted version,
like when you've gone for a walk
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or had your vitamins or
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or stretch, you delete it
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and then you copy
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version of how to do this.
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I do something
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I really just have to do this
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for survival purposes
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of having these four extremely
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young kids.
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Ethan is eight, Elliot is seven,
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and the twins are four and a half
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and having them all
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go to school, having them,
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you know, whether it's school,
whether it's camp,
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getting them out the door by 730,
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it's a lot.
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So I use a piece of paper
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and I do photocopy it.
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So I write out my morning
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routine, which deeply
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involves getting my children
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lunches,
dressing them, breakfast,
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what they need,
and I photocopy it.
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as soon as I wake up, I'm
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the first one up in the house.
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I start crossing off
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what I can and can't do
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related to that morning routine,
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the greatest part of my day.
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It is so comforting,
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even if I can only do half of it.
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I like just
crossing off the things
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where, okay, I don't have
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in the summer league,
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basketball league.
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but it was July and August,
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and on those mornings
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basketball game all four of us
leave the house really fast
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on a Sunday morning,
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I would just cross off
some of the morning routine.
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I knew
I wasn't going to get to do,
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but maybe the day before Saturday
it was
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easier and I could.
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I'm just
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listening to Elliott
in the background, but it's okay.
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They don't need to cut this
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out of the podcast like it's
okay.
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It's real life.
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My children are home
from school
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and I mean, they're about
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to go to school, home from camp,
and we can hear some background
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noise, but it's okay. So,
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and then it would just cross off
what I want to do.
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Same thing for nighttime routine.
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I love seeing at 6 p.m.
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I start to make dinner.
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We all eat together.
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Then we tuck them in.
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I have certain time
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I turn off my phone.
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I love having camomile tea.
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Sometimes I will do a face
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mask or paint my nails
once the children are sleeping.
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And I love having that
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morning and nighttime routine.
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So that's
the first part of my day.
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My day begins where
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I have this locked in.
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It repeats the same every day.
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Now we're going to hold up
the time blocking journal.
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So I'm going to rip out
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a piece of this paper for us.
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And I'm going to show you here.
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Here it is 5
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a.m., 6 a.m., 7 a.m.,
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all the way to 10 p.m.
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at night.
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So the day before
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the next day is
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when I time block
what's happening.
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So this is the second tool I use.
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So the morning routine written
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on a different piece of paper.
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The day before
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I will write down
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taking it from my iPhone notes,
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all of my zoom
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meetings,
or my Google Meets,
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whatever's happening.
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And then I will around my work
schedule,
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add in anything else
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there that's relevant.
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Is it, a show
and tell day at school
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for one of my children?
Is it color war at camp?
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Anything I need to know.
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I usually rip out seven of these
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every single week.
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I like to do it on Thursdays
before the weekend.
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So Thursday to Thursday
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I have seven of these,
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and I write down the day
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before the next day
before 4 p.m..
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Okay, what's happening?
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What are my work responsibilities?
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When am I eating?
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I went to a mom's school dinner
last night.
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It was so fun.
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But I am able to see the day
before.
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Okay, this is what's happening.
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And what's great
is a lot of times
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our days do not go as planned.
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And so what's amazing, which is,
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an expression that's on
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the cover of this,
it says Move Forward Every Day.
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It also says structure
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creates freedom.
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Is that so many times,
every single day,
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there's going to be things
that happen
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that are not part of our plan,
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and it allows you to accept it
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even before it happens.
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Because you have everything written down,
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you can move
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whatever you're supposed to do
that day to the next day
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or the next day,
because it's all there.
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So we all want to be able to go
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with the flow,
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have freedom to do
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the things that we love.
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And I always say
structure creates freedom
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because if you can see
what your responsibilities are,
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then if something
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fun and amazing comes up,
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like your child has a play
date
or they want to go to a last
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minute birthday party,
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you can see what's happening.
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So you're still very
grounded and just shift it
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to the next day and the
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next day, or if you get sick,
it is shift it to the next day.
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You don't feel well or shift it
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to the following week.
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Everything's just inching along.
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And I really believe that time
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blocking creates a lot of freedom
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and should be a tool
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that is not about hustle culture,
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but about feeling like
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you can see the macro
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view of your week and shifting
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as things come up that you didn't
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plan for you
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or your children
or your loved ones
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or maybe you take care
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of an elderly parent.
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We want to do something special
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for your friend.
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So, so far we've talked
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about the morning routine
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on the iPhone notes
or on a piece of paper
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photocopied, time blocking.
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AI has a lot of great time
blockers.
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Harvard has done
a lot of research
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on how time blocking is
one of the best
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time management tools.
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I have these seven
pieces of paper
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that I take my meetings
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from my iPhone notes
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and write them out
really helps me
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get through the days, especially
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when I haven't slept.
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Really helps me to see like,
okay,
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I have like this little bit left
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to do before the
next day or before bedtime.
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Then I also use a paper calendar
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and this is the last tool
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that I use.
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So the paper calendar allows me
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to have deep breaths like I'm
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the type of person,
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especially with
my four
beautiful kids.
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Like I need to see
the whole month.
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I need to kind of see
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my bandwidth visually,
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and I can't really see it that
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well on a laptop or on my iPhone.
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So I also like to write
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on my paper calendar,
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certain birthday parties,
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certain sports games,
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certain holidays, certain times.
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I have something very important
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with the investors at work.
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I like to see it all.
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Even today,
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when Joel and I
were going to film the podcast,
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I could visually see it
when I looked
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at the month of August,
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and it allows me
to feel at peace.
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I get whenever
I feel overwhelmed.
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I go to the paper calendar
and I say, okay,
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I see that last Friday
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we took Elliot for his birthday
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to Universal Studios,
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and then I saw his birthday party
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and then I saw
we had basketball practice.
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It helps me feel
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at peace
and very grounded to have that
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large paper calendar
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where I can kind
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of see the whole year.
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When do we have
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marketing summits?
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When do we have quarterlies?
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When do we have
the board meeting?
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When do we have
monthly reporting?
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Our top two tops?
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I love seeing it
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and I can feel excited about it.
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So just to recap,
I personally use
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the morning and nighttime routine
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on a piece of paper.
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You can use your iPhone.
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I use a time blocking journal.
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You can use paper
or you can use I.
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I also use one very large
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paper calendar
that I carry everywhere with me.
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I carry it
in,
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pretty much a duffle bag
in the car
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with me.
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Okay.
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For example, last Tuesday
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work ended
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and then the dentist called,
and because I had the big paper
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calendar, I could see everything.
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And I saw, okay,
I could take all of the children
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to the dentist
the next day at 9 a.m.,
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the week
before they have to go to school.
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I love so much
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using
all of these tools together,
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and I have done it
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for years and years and years.
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I think the key is to figure out
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what resonates with you,
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what is practical for you,
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what sounds like oh,
I would really like that.
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Like I do make very short
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to do lists,
and then I try to time
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block it in
throughout that seven day window.
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Or if there's a little bit
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more monthly tasks,
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I kind of write that
on the big paper calendar
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and then try to time block it
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into the individual days.
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It is so deeply rewarding
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that I have dedicated
so much of my free time.
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Whenever I'm doing donations
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or volunteering or lectures,
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I always talk about time blocking
and the idea
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of the compound effect.
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The idea that these very small
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micro moments can compound
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greatly by the end of the year.
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And we've spot
we've spoken about that
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in the other podcasts.
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I think we said
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five minutes of stretching a day
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at the end of a year is 30 hours,
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and your body will thank you
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for those 30 hours of stretching.
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Then if you didn't do it,
and maybe just stretch the first
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five minutes of every show
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you watch that year.
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So again,
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it is
my wish that you will try out
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consistently
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anything that resonates with you.
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Making it to do lists,
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adding it into a piece of paper,
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just having a to do list
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with a big paper calendar.
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Just having your morning
and nighttime
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routine in your iPhone notes
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coupled with your regular
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calendar on your iPhone.
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Each person is unique and only
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you know what is best for you.
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But I want to share that
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it is absolutely worth it
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to create this structure.
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I do believe it creates
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a lot of peace,
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groundedness,
and freedom in your life.
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I am able to be a much happier
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mom and parent.
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I am able to be
so much more present
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in everything that I do.
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Because of these tools.
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Morning and nighttime routines,
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time blocking, compound effect,
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to-do list, paper calendar,
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and look, some months
and seasons of our lives
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are going to be
more difficult than others, but
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it is always worth the effort.
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If your used to time blocking,
you got
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you know, life
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kind of got away from you
and you want to try it again.
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I absolutely encourage it.
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And our team,
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the MaryRuth Organics team,
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and myself were always here.
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You can always email
all your questions
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at wecare@maryruthorganics.com
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That's wecare@maryruthorganics.com
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We have The Art of Health For Busy People pdf.
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We spoke about that
on one of the podcasts.
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So that is the 12 steps
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that are free and accessible
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to health and wellness.
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We have a free PDF time
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blocking document
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that we can send you
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at that email address.