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🗓️ 7 September 2020
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower often said that what is important is rarely urgent and what is urgent is rarely important.
I’ve found that the most badass people I know, the ones who are the best in the world at their craft, are rarely busy in the way we’ve been taught to think of it. Being busy is a disease, a terminal one. It destroys your precious time. Being effective is about using every minute thoughtfully and mindfully as you make steady progress toward your dream. The biggest surprise to me has been that those people, those creators who are so deliberate and planned in the way they work, are also incredibly joyful and playful while they work. Planning and play aren’t opposites; they complement each other beautifully.
Food for thought. Enjoy!
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0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, what's up? It's Chase. Welcome to another episode of the show. This week's show is special because it's a micro show and it is designed with a very specific intent. |
0:14.8 | It is the intent that I am so tired of and it's something that has reared its head for me of late. It's relevant to the |
0:24.2 | pandemic. I think it stands true for any time and it will not disappoint. So listen up for just a |
0:33.1 | second because I want something from you. I want you to stop glamorizing being busy. |
0:41.0 | You know what's busy? |
0:42.5 | A hamster on a wheel is busy. |
0:45.4 | And what did that ever get them, right? |
0:48.0 | Of course, at different times in my career, |
0:51.0 | I have had very grand ambitions. |
0:55.0 | And when those ambitions were realized, they correlated with something very specific. |
1:01.1 | And what it correlated with is my resolution to stop doing whatever came up, whatever shiny little object came before me and created some sort of sense of activity |
1:16.0 | that I was actually doing something. It's almost like a false aura of productivity and of glamour. |
1:22.6 | And instead, when I've had the most success, when I've created the best results, the best outcomes, |
1:28.9 | and coincidentally or not, the most fulfillment was when I focused on being effective rather than busy. |
1:38.9 | Now that shift in my mentality, how I spent my time and my energy, the limited, precious resource we have |
1:47.0 | called time, that shift made all of the difference. And I was still living a super full life |
1:53.3 | to be crystal clear, but it just eliminated the chaos. It eliminated the rush. I was just on the phone with a friend who is one of |
2:05.2 | the top entrepreneurs of our time. And I won't share his name because he didn't give me permission. |
2:11.9 | He is incredibly successful. He's a billionaire. And he's changed so many things in our culture that you would know and touch. |
2:19.6 | And he's like, you know what? |
2:21.4 | I can get so much done if I'm just slow and steady and working on the right things. |
2:29.4 | And that's what this is about. |
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