#92: How to Get Important Things Done Every Day - AM and PM Bookends

Real Estate Investing with Coach Carson

Chad Carson

Business, Investing

4.9 • 613 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Episode #92 - Have you ever found yourself looking back at a day and saying to yourself "What happened?! I didn't get ANYTHING done that I wanted to." If so, you're not alone.

But there is a way to control at least PART of your day, and it's an idea called AM and PM Bookends that I picked up from Darren Hardy in his book The Compound Effect. I'll explain the idea and how you can apply it in this episode.

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0:00.0	Have you ever noticed that sometimes our daily schedule, we start with the best of intentions. I'm going to do this type of thing to improve myself. I'm going to exercise. I'm going to get up in the morning early. I'm going to get this type of thing done at work that's really important. But then the reality sets in and at the end of the day, we look back and say, you know, really, I didn't get any of those things done or very few, and other people and other events controlled my entire day.
0:22.5	Well, I'm going to talk to you today
0:23.9	about an idea called AM and PM bookends
0:26.2	that's going to help you at least control part of your day
0:29.3	and get more done and have more peace
0:31.7	about the things that you do.
0:33.1	And we're getting started right now.
0:49.3	Welcome to a new episode of a new series I'm starting called Big Ideas in a short time. My name is Chad Carson.
0:50.4	You can also call me coach and this is a show all about investing in real estate, achieving financial independence, and doing more of what matters.
0:58.4	If you're brand new here, be sure to hit that subscribe button so you don't miss any future episodes.
1:03.1	Today's idea, AM and PM bookends, actually comes from a book, a really good book called The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy.
1:10.0	So check that out if you want more ideas
1:12.0	like this. The thing Darren Hardy acknowledged, which really resonated with me, was that all of us
1:18.6	experienced these days where other people, other events, tend to control what we intended to do.
1:25.8	We start off wanting to do these things and then life happens
1:28.6	and it doesn't always work out that way. But he pointed out that if you look at your day
1:33.4	and the whole period of your day, there are actually times when you have a little bit more control.
1:39.2	We're on a consistent basis. You can control things your schedule more. That happens to be
1:43.9	the a.m. and the PM. So first thing in the
1:46.9	morning and the very end of the day before you go to bed. Now this might be five minutes. If you're just
1:53.0	super, you know, busy and out of control right now with just other things are happening. And or it might be
1:58.5	an hour. As you get, my goal at least is to have more and more
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