What's up guys? Welcome back to build. And today, what I want to talk about is one of my core,

I'd say like shifts in 2025, which was eliminating an immense amount of meetings from my calendar.

So I will say that I am not somebody like I don't like to waste time. And I also feel like I have a

pretty good idea of what a productive meeting is versus an unproductive meeting.

But I will say that this year has been the year that I have made the most changes to my calendar,

probably because it started a little bit with like I had no choice.

But then I saw how things did with me having a less chaotic calendar, with me having more time to do things for myself, more space, more thinking time.

And it was at a level and has been at a level that I just haven't had before.

And so I wanted to share it with you guys because as you go into 2026, I would love if you could take some of these lessons so that you don't have to learn them on your own, but you can just learn from what I have experienced. So I will say that like 2025 was the year that I deleted the most of my meetings ever. And the funny thing is, is that I didn't do it because I wanted to be more productive. I did it because I had to. Back in the early part of the year, I had some health issues and I was in a ton of pain to the degree that I was like working from bed on my phone for God, like all day every day. I lost like 20 pounds. I was just like really couldn't figure out doctors were trying to figure out what was going on and it was just like a series of misdiagnoses. So I was in pain for months. And I was still working because

those of you who have had health issues, you know that if you just lie in bed and nothing,

you also would probably not want to be there. So you're like, I have to do something at the same time,

which I'm glad I did. But I was like, I cannot do the amount that I'm doing right now. And so

it really was a forcing function for me. And the

amazing outcome of that is that I have completely eliminated things that are wasteful from my

calendar and my life. And it is something that though I had to change because of something that

really sucked and I would never want to wish upon anybody, I'm really glad that I was able to take away some of these lessons. And so once I started

cutting meetings, I started learning things about how I work and how I operate that I don't think

I would have learned if I hadn't done that and if I hadn't gone through that. And it really

brought me to be the person that I need to be

coming into 2026 in order to actually grow my business the way that I want to.

And so what I realized, first of all, is that if you do not control your calendar, your calendar

will control your life. Now, one lesson I will start with is this. Even if you have an

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