As a 44 year old entrepreneur, I've learned a lot about business and life. So I put together the 44 cheat codes that I know now at 44 that I wish I knew back when I was 24. Welcome to The Gross Stacking Show. This is Dan Martel. If you love to read, my new book is out, Buy Back Your Time. You can get it on Amazon or any other retailer where books are sold or buybackyourtime.com. It's going to help you build a business. You don't grow to hate. Buy back your time. If you read it, I would love, love, love a review on Amazon so it could help it get in front of other people just like you. So let's get in this episode. Starting with, before you can be the king, you have to start by being a pawn. See, most people think that they can go straight to the top, but they're not willing to do the work. What I look at is you got to sometimes get into positions to learn, not earn. You have to decide to be the apprentice before you could ever be the master. The second cheat code is if it takes less than two minutes, do it now. I learned this from David Allen in his book, Getting Things Done. And if I get an email, I can respond to, I'm doing it now. If I have a question asked

to me that I can give an answer, I do it now. If I have an opportunity that I just got to decide

on, I just do it now because it takes more time to write it down than to actually just get it done.

Number three is you don't manage time, you manage energy. See, a lot of people try to manage the stuff they're doing, but they don't realize the energy that you bring to

your projects, your ideas, your creative stuff, it changes the whole output. So if you want to get

more things done and have a better life and have more fun, manage the energy within your day,

not specifically just the task. My morning routine has a completely

different list of things I'm going to do than my afternoon. So for example, all my creative

stuff in the morning, all my meetings and conversations in the afternoon, time with my family

at night. So you manage the energy you bring to the task, not the time and trying to just

put everything together that don't connect to each other. Number four is that some people come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. You know, just because you sat next to somebody in high school doesn't mean that you gotta be friends with them forever. And some people that might help you out on a project today, it might just be for that season of your life. And then there might be a new friend that you meet at an event and you decide this is a person I want in my life forever. Just know that those are different and you don't have to treat everybody like you have to be friends with them forever. Number five is you're allowed to cut people out of your life. If somebody makes you feel bad about yourself is always complaining, not celebrating your wins, then by all means,

don't reply to their text so quick and don't invite them to anything and choose to just

create some space, aka do a friend Ventory and have them not be part of your life.

There are other people that if you create space for will add so much more if you just

say no to the people that make you feel bad about yourself.

Number six is to create your community.

I'm a big fan of creating things like a founder's hike

or a dinner or an event and inviting people

I meet throughout my life to come join me

so that that way I can see if they'd be a good friend to add.

It's kind of like putting on a jacket and see how

it fits. But create your community and be intentional about the people he spend time with.

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