#3632: Performance Time Vs. Existence Time

Work On Your Game: Discipline, Structure, and Execution Under Pressure

Dre Baldwin

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🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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I break down the difference between performance time and existence time, and most people don’t even realize which one they’re living in. Performance time is about results. I’m doing something with a clear outcome in mind, and the work only matters if it produces something. Existence time is just being busy, filling time without real results attached to it. The difference shows up in how I treat my time when something needs to get done. Am I focused on finishing and producing, or just staying occupied? In this episode, I explain how this shift changes how you work and what you actually get done. Show Notes: [02:22]#1 Performance time is measured by completion. [11:59]#2 Existence time expands when consequence is absent. [22:44]#3 Serious operators impose performance time on themselves. [27:37] Recap Episodes Mentioned: 2732: "Done" Over "To-Do" Next Steps: --- Execution is not a talent. It is a measurable standard. If your results don’t match your ability, you are not lacking information—you are lacking execution reliability. The Execution Reliability Index (ERI) identifies exactly where your discipline breaks, where your standards drop, and where your results are leaking. This is not theory. This is a system. Get your ERI score here: → http://www.WorkOnYourGame.com/ERI This show is the public record of standards. Measurement and enforcement happen elsewhere. All episodes and the complete archive: → WorkOnYourGamePodcast.com

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0:00.0	High performers don't need more information.
0:03.4	They need tighter execution.
0:06.1	ERI, that's the execution reliability index, measures how often you actually follow through when it matters.
0:14.2	If you're serious about results, go to work on your game.com slash ERI.
0:20.1	That's work on your game.com slash e r i that's work on your game.com slash e r i closure is the metric in
0:26.6	performance environments effort is not a metric in a performance environment ladies and
0:30.4	gentlemen work does matter you got to work on your game so you have some skills so that your
0:34.7	effort turns into outcomes working on your game is not the goal, that's the process.
0:39.3	Day all day.
0:42.3	Work on your game.
0:44.3	Work on your game.
0:45.3	Work on your game.
0:47.3	This is Drey Baldwin, and Work on your game is the system that turns discipline into dominance.
0:53.3	Today's topic is performance time versus
0:56.7	existence time. I'm going to explain to you what the difference is between these two things.
1:02.5	If you haven't thought about it, you have lived in both spaces. Some of you probably exist in one
1:09.3	space predominantly compared to the other. But now that you'll be aware of both,
1:14.4	you will now have options. Let's talk about exactly what this means. Some people operate on outcome.
1:20.4	In other words, they live their lives based on understanding that we are in a results-based business.
1:26.2	You perform, you produce results. The purpose of
1:28.2	performance is to produce a result. You don't perform, just for the sake of performing. The purpose of the
1:32.9	performance is when a performance is completed or at some time during the performance, an outcome is
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