Valuetainment - Episode 271： How to Multitask & Automate New Habits

00:00:00.000 30 seconds. One time for the underdog. Ignition sequence start. Let me see you put them up. Reach the sky, touch the stars up above. Cause it's one time for the underdog. One time for the underdog.

00:00:17.400 I'm Patrick Bede, your host of Entertainment, and today we're going to talk about a topic that can be debatable. Can you multitask? Is it possible? We'll talk about that today.

00:00:27.020 So there's two groups of people when it comes down to the subject of multitasking, and you'll know which one you are. There's the part that says, I'm a great multitasker. You ever heard people say, I am very good at multitasking. I can do a lot of different things at the same time, and I'm effective. And then there's another side that says, there's no way in the world you can multitask. I do one thing, but I do one thing very, very good. Don't multitask.

00:00:52.080 And this is a great question to be asking yourself, but to me, what I like to do with a subject like this is to try to get as much clarity as possible.

00:01:01.640 So today's goal is to help get clear about the subject of multitasking or doing one thing at a time.

00:01:09.460 So prior to getting into that, the first thing we ought to ask ourselves is, so in order to do multitasking, that means we are doing multiple different things at the same time.

00:01:21.680 So that means there are habits that are being formed to do multitasking, right? You need habits to be formed.

00:01:31.560 And one of the best things I read about in this book called The Power of Habit is scientists have done studies to find out why the brain likes to create habits.

00:01:41.660 And the answer to me was unbelievable. I shared on a conference call this morning, it totally made me look at habit in a completely different way.

00:01:50.660 The reason why our brain creates new habits is because the brain likes to be lazy and take a break to do the things that really matter the most.

00:02:04.280 So the brain creates new habits to become automatic so it doesn't think about it anymore.

00:02:08.560 It does it automatically without having to use up any energy for small tasks.

00:02:14.040 So what does it mean to you and I, right? What does it mean to you and I?

00:02:16.900 Okay, walking, when you walk, you don't think about walking. It's a habit that was formed.

00:02:23.080 Breathing, it's an automatic. Your brain doesn't think about breathing anymore, right?

00:02:27.540 If you think about brushing your teeth, nobody needs to tell you about brushing your teeth anymore, but there was a formula on why you and I brush our teeth today.

00:02:36.700 Exercising, if you have that habit, there was a way that it created that habit of you and I exercise.

00:02:41.320 There's a formula for it, right?

00:02:43.560 Good or bad habits, there's a formula on how you and I picked up the good and the bad habit.

00:02:48.960 And so if you can figure out as an entrepreneur, one of the things about an entrepreneur running an organization,

00:02:54.200 it is very, very important to identify what those good and the bad habits are,

00:02:59.840 and what new good habits you want to create to make the brain become automatic.

00:03:03.620 And prior to me getting into the message, I'm going to talk about how to create new habits.

00:03:07.460 I'm going to talk about how to create new habits in your entire organization,

00:03:10.920 how to drop bad habits, as well as the willpower to create new habits.

00:03:15.540 I want to give you an example about multitasking and doing one thing at a time.

00:03:20.220 So, Mario, why don't you come on up here?

00:03:22.220 Let me show everybody here on what we're doing here.

00:03:25.260 I'm going to explain multitasking and doing one task at a time with the analogy of basketball.

00:03:31.920 And say I'm the point guard and I have the ball and Mario's the defender

00:03:36.480 and I'm playing a full court game with four other teammates

00:03:40.700 and how many different activities I have to be thinking about.

00:03:43.800 So watch this.

00:03:44.960 I have the ball, Mario's the defender.

00:03:46.580 Look at the activity.

00:03:47.820 One, I have to bring the ball back.

00:03:49.240 Two, I step forward here.

00:03:50.840 Three, I have to look at his foot to see if I go left.

00:03:53.120 Four, I have to watch out for the push-off he's putting me here, right?

00:03:57.520 Five, I have to look for my player that's coming for a screen.

00:04:00.040 And if I go left, he's going to come defend me.

00:04:02.460 He's going to leave, right?

00:04:03.780 Yeah, I have to look at my coach that's signaling me, telling me what play to run.

00:04:07.480 The fan that's saying bad things to me and cursing me out.

00:04:10.580 My shooter over there that's open.

00:04:12.120 The guy that's, you know, I have to pay attention to so many different things.

00:04:16.060 As a point guard, I'm multitasking.

00:04:18.100 So, I come here.

00:04:19.580 Mario could go for my knees.

00:04:20.800 He could do a Dell of a Dova, if you know what I'm talking about.

00:04:23.520 Then I go for the shot.

00:04:24.720 When I go for the shot, I can shoot the shot, but he's still going to try to block it, right?

00:04:29.020 So, this is an example of playing the game and having to multitask in order to compete at this level.

00:04:37.180 If I don't know how to multitask at all, I am not ever going to be in the NBA because I need to learn how to multitask.

00:04:42.100 Now, watch the difference.

00:04:43.800 This is an individual task.

00:04:45.260 So, if I shoot that field goal, the chances of me making it is relatively 45% to 50%, okay?

00:04:51.540 40% to 50% depending on my skill level.

00:04:55.160 But, free throw shooter, I'm only doing one task at a time.

00:05:00.200 Watch.

00:05:01.020 When I say one task, I dribble the ball.

00:05:04.140 Maybe that's one activity.

00:05:05.880 Bend my knees.

00:05:07.240 Bring my hands up.

00:05:08.140 Elbow, aims, wrist, look at the back of the rim, ball goes in, 80% chance, free throw, 45% field goal.

00:05:18.580 So, the efficiency on free throw will always be higher than a multitasker shooting.

00:05:25.280 But, to make it at the highest levels and compete at the highest level, you got to learn how to multitask where the footwork, the screen, the eyes, everything becomes automatic because your brain is no longer thinking about it because you've already created that habit.

00:05:39.560 And, you need to work to be efficient with that one task in hand because if you want to make it at a highest level as an entrepreneur, you got to be both good at multitasking and being efficient at one effective activity.

00:05:50.120 So, now the question becomes, how do I create a new habit?

00:05:53.760 We're going to talk about that next.

00:05:55.720 So, if that's the example of multitasking and doing one task at a time, the player versus the free throw shooter, you got to know when you're running a business and you're having a complaint and you have somebody that's doing this and somebody that's doing that and you have your family calling you, you know, kids are this, you got to drop this person off, you got to have commitment here, payment, car payment, and so on.

00:06:15.840 We are doing so many different tasks.

00:06:17.600 That's the extreme.

00:06:19.340 How do you manage being that so you don't have an explosion taking place?

00:06:23.260 And, on the other side, you also need to be extremely quiet at times and get away and turn off the music, turn off the phones, and be silent and ask the question when there's no movement, nothing else to worry about, no phones, no music, no nothing.

00:06:36.640 When there's nothing else going on, we think better.

00:06:40.100 Right?

00:06:41.100 We think better.

00:06:42.100 But if you only try to create this as a lifestyle and only keeping everything quiet, the real world of running an entrepreneur and running a business and all the millions of things that could take place, you're going to be overwhelmed here.

00:06:54.400 You got to learn how to react here.

00:06:55.520 This is why players mentally and emotionally, you got to be prepared when they played in the big leagues and everybody's watching, it's a lot more movement.

00:07:02.400 You got to know how to handle that.

00:07:03.820 And it always goes back to being mentally, emotionally strong when those moments come and it typically goes back to the habits that you put into your mind that's become automatic.

00:07:12.540 So now the question becomes, okay, so how do we create new habits?

00:07:15.360 The formula is actually very simple on how to create new habits for your business, for life, for whatever, maybe.

00:07:21.460 But right now, for the example we're using is, say, business.

00:07:24.960 So go back to when we were kids.

00:07:26.420 So think about it.

00:07:27.020 Some things that you do on a daily basis that we don't think about anymore.

00:07:30.740 When you brush your teeth, is there somebody that tells you to brush your teeth?

00:07:34.460 And if you brush your teeth, are you going to be given a gift or anything like that?

00:07:38.000 Not at all.

00:07:38.500 But there's a formula that our parents used on us to brush our teeth that we've been using for 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 years and we don't even know about it.

00:07:46.060 Right?

00:07:46.220 We have all these great habits that we have in our lives that was taught many years ago, good and bad sometimes.

00:07:51.460 And we don't even know about it, but it was programming many, many years ago.

00:07:55.400 I'll give you an example.

00:07:57.580 So let's use brushing your teeth as an example.

00:08:00.380 What is the formula to create a new habit?

00:08:02.060 First is the cue.

00:08:03.860 You've got to have a cue for your new habit.

00:08:06.520 Step number two is the actual habit, the routine.

00:08:09.740 And step number three is the reward.

00:08:12.040 So cue, habit, reward.

00:08:15.500 I want my son, my 18-month-old son, to learn how to brush his teeth.

00:08:19.240 Okay.

00:08:19.860 Cue.

00:08:20.540 When we go take a bath together, son, he knows the next step is brushing your teeth, the routine.

00:08:27.340 Cue is taking a bath.

00:08:28.820 Cue could be we're going upstairs.

00:08:30.700 Cue could be it's time to go take a bath. 0.50

00:08:32.640 Get us the cue.

00:08:33.580 Routine.

00:08:34.060 We brush his teeth.

00:08:35.360 The reward, he gets to watch one episode of Thomas and Friends, hypothetically.

00:08:39.300 He gets to play with his toys, hypothetically.

00:08:41.880 That's the reward.

00:08:43.240 Exercise.

00:08:44.100 Cue.

00:08:44.760 Routine.

00:08:45.800 Reward.

00:08:46.200 Cue.

00:08:47.400 Alarm goes off.

00:08:48.460 Cue.

00:08:49.260 A motivational recording is set to go off at 5 o'clock in the morning.

00:08:53.460 Whatever recording you listen to.

00:08:54.660 Tony Robbins.

00:08:55.440 A motivational video on YouTube.

00:08:57.300 It just gets you fired up.

00:08:58.420 Your affirmations.

00:08:59.440 That's your cue.

00:09:00.580 The routine.

00:09:01.380 Get up.

00:09:01.740 Splash cold water.

00:09:02.580 Go to the gym.

00:09:03.240 Do the routine.

00:09:03.920 It's your exercise.

00:09:05.040 The reward.

00:09:05.560 I come home.

00:09:07.120 I watch an episode of whatever.

00:09:09.820 You want to watch an episode of a show you follow or Mad Men or House of Cards or whatever

00:09:14.440 it is at 6.30 in the morning.

00:09:16.120 Or you're going to make yourself a blueberry yogurt, whatever you make.

00:09:19.880 You're going to have Nutella.

00:09:21.120 I don't know.

00:09:21.580 For your cheat in the morning to have your carbs.

00:09:23.680 And then that's your cue.

00:09:25.420 Your actual routine.

00:09:27.540 And your reward.

00:09:28.600 That's the programming on how to create habits.

00:09:30.580 This works in for you to create new habits for yourself, for your staff, for your agents,

00:09:35.220 for your employees, for your kids, for your family.

00:09:37.980 It's the formula that works effectively on how to create new habits.

00:09:42.280 Now, with that being said, let's talk about bad habits.

00:09:46.040 So, what's the good news and the bad news about bad habits?

00:09:49.180 So, a lot of times we think a bad habit can be dropped permanently.

00:09:53.820 It's always going to be good, right?

00:09:55.040 Okay.

00:09:55.900 Hey, honey, we're going to get married and none of my bad habits are ever going to show up.

00:10:00.260 Great.

00:10:00.920 That sounds very, very good in a perfect world.

00:10:04.580 Unfortunately, we're not living in a perfect world.

00:10:07.760 And so, bad habits are almost like a bankruptcy you had nine and a half years ago.

00:10:13.700 It's going to show up when you apply for an executive job, right?

00:10:16.900 You've been good for nine and a half years, but it's still going to show up.

00:10:19.600 A bad habit is like three late fees you had on a car payment six years ago.

00:10:24.660 You've been good for six years, but it's still going to show up on your credit score.

00:10:27.380 A bad habit could be, you know, a bad habit could be something you did many, many years

00:10:33.500 ago that is still in the back of your mind and you have to fight it off, right?

00:10:37.880 So, bad habits are never destroyed.

00:10:41.580 Bad habits, to be able to fight it off, it just gets easier and easier and easier if

00:10:47.140 you've created new habits to replace bad habits.

00:10:51.020 But a bad habit is not like Control-Alt-Delete.

00:10:53.220 Boom, I'm going to put it in the trash.

00:10:54.500 It's gone.

00:10:54.940 It's never, I don't even know about it.

00:10:56.260 It's gone.

00:10:56.640 No, we don't have those.

00:10:57.800 What was that movie with Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith?

00:11:00.380 No.

00:11:00.500 What was it, that thing that they put in your face and then you forget about what happened?

00:11:05.000 What was that machine that they were using?

00:11:06.560 You know what I'm talking about though, right?

00:11:08.240 So, they would do that and boom, it's gone.

00:11:09.740 That doesn't exist.

00:11:10.600 Bad habit stays, right?

00:11:12.300 You can't get rid of it.

00:11:13.840 So, you can't get rid of it from your mind, but you can replace it and reprogram it with

00:11:18.120 new habits.

00:11:18.620 So, this exercise helps with replacing that new habit in your mind that we just talked about

00:11:23.920 right now.

00:11:24.260 Now, let's talk about organization because a lot of times, if you look at the organization,

00:11:30.160 okay, when somebody asks and says, hey, come and look at my office and see how I'm doing

00:11:34.840 or come and look at my business and assess my business and see how I'm doing and find

00:11:39.360 out what we're doing over here in our organization, in our office, whatever.

00:11:42.980 The best way I like to do it is, I don't want to talk to them because we all know how to

00:11:49.020 give the right answers, right?

00:11:50.240 You're going to talk to somebody and they give you the right answers and they say, hypothetically,

00:11:53.800 that, yeah, we're supposed to do this and we work this and we do this and we do that.

00:11:57.940 Sounds great because we know the right answers.

00:12:00.660 The right answers is what?

00:12:02.000 How many times do you exercise?

00:12:03.140 I try to exercise five days a week.

00:12:05.220 What's your diet like?

00:12:06.280 I try to stay away from sugars.

00:12:07.720 I try to stay away from fat.

00:12:09.380 We know all the right answers.

00:12:11.300 Now, what we know and answer and what we do are completely different.

00:12:14.860 So, the best way to gauge an organization is to talk to the people in that organization.

00:12:19.960 So, when I go and talk to a group and I see the bad habits that the group has, if it's

00:12:25.380 10, 15, 20 people that have that bad habit, it comes from the top, okay?

00:12:29.360 So, if the bad habit is that none of them like to go out there and sell and get on the phones,

00:12:33.340 well, that fear from the phones comes from the top.

00:12:36.060 If I assess an organization and none of them like to go out there and sell on the field,

00:12:40.840 it comes from the top, right?

00:12:41.880 If you look at the organization and none of them work that hard, it comes from the top.

00:12:46.700 If they're very effective, it comes from the top.

00:12:49.040 If they're very respectful, it comes from the top.

00:12:50.940 If they're sloppy, it comes from the top.

00:12:53.260 No matter what it is, generally, the good and the bad habits are coming from the top

00:12:58.880 down.

00:12:59.300 So, when a leader at the top decides to create new habits in an organization to tell you

00:13:06.760 the results of that are positively, compoundingly incredible, I can't even describe it to you.

00:13:16.000 You know, we, in our organization, we decided to make reading books an absolute obsession

00:13:26.380 to make that a habit.

00:13:28.260 And to tell you the consequences that's brought to our organization, I can't even put a word

00:13:32.420 to it.

00:13:32.740 I can't put a number to it.

00:13:33.940 It's infinitely grown with the level of thinking because it's a new habit.

00:13:38.460 And there's many new habits that we constantly work on adding to the organization.

00:13:42.240 So, how do you create new habits in your organization?

00:13:44.020 Well, first, you've got to make a list.

00:13:46.540 And this is not a perfect exercise.

00:13:48.180 This is a real, honest exercise.

00:13:50.340 What are the good habits of your office, your business, your organization?

00:13:54.040 What are the bad habits?

00:13:55.280 And where do they learn the bad habits from?

00:13:57.400 Okay?

00:13:58.100 And where do they learn the good habits from?

00:14:00.020 It's a good exercise because you realize many of the good habits will come to you.

00:14:03.600 And then, some of the good habits are leaders on your organization, your company, that have

00:14:08.240 their own identities because they're better than you in that area.

00:14:10.660 It's good because that's a good habit that can rub off on other people and learn if you

00:14:14.620 can allow that person to share those good habits with everybody else.

00:14:17.720 But the bad habits are areas that you'll see a lot of it will come to you and you've got

00:14:22.400 to be able to identify that.

00:14:23.320 So, good habits, bad habits.

00:14:24.280 All right.

00:14:25.080 Then you write down what new habits I want to instill in my organization.

00:14:29.840 What are some new habits I want to instill in my organization?

00:14:31.920 I want to instill reading books.

00:14:33.240 Great.

00:14:33.560 I want to instill hard work.

00:14:34.880 Great.

00:14:35.500 I want to instill people staying late without even being asked to do because they want to

00:14:38.860 do it because they're in love with the company and they're in love with the cause.

00:14:41.640 Great.

00:14:42.060 I want to have their teamwork in my environment.

00:14:45.680 Great.

00:14:45.920 I want people to be thinking bigger.

00:14:47.400 I want to create a habit of competing.

00:14:49.920 I want to create a habit of going out there and listening to CDs.

00:14:53.100 I want to create a habit of people no longer listening to the radio in the car.

00:14:55.680 I want to create a habit of not drinking coffee or drinking coffee, whatever it may be the

00:14:59.960 habit you want to create.

00:15:00.860 Okay, I want to create the habit of our leaders exercising a lot more because if they exercise,

00:15:05.360 they're sharper.

00:15:05.880 If they're sharper, they feel better about themselves, they do better business.

00:15:08.700 What can I do to get that habit of exercising in that organization?

00:15:12.260 That comes from you.

00:15:13.040 Okay, formula.

00:15:13.920 Let's go to it.

00:15:15.180 One, how do you create good new habits in your organization?

00:15:17.580 One, figure out which small habits, which habits lead to small wins, okay?

00:15:23.520 So what habit can I instill that leads to a small win, a small victory for that individual?

00:15:29.480 So it's not putting something very big together.

00:15:32.380 It's putting something very small together.

00:15:34.420 Here's the victory for you.

00:15:36.760 If you can do this, you have this victory.

00:15:39.060 Okay, so once you link a habit to a small victory, it's not a very difficult task to do that everybody can slowly but surely do one.

00:15:47.680 Next thing you know, you're seeing growth and a new good habit being instilled for that one.

00:15:51.560 Now, you got to stay on it because if you don't stay on it, nothing happens.

00:15:54.640 So step number two is you actually staying on it.

00:15:58.240 Not doing it one time and you think it's going to change everything.

00:16:01.300 No.

00:16:01.800 If you do it one time, it's not real.

00:16:03.620 People think you just got excited about something, you're trying something new, and you got off of it.

00:16:07.720 It's continuously staying on that message.

00:16:10.860 One month, two months, three months, I always say it takes 90 to 180 days to create a new culture or a new habit in an organization.

00:16:17.220 It doesn't happen overnight.

00:16:18.080 Okay, then those small wins that they have themselves create a relatively minimal award but lead to a chain reaction of much larger rewards.

00:16:30.640 So I have a small victory.

00:16:33.160 I start thinking I can have a bigger victory.

00:16:35.320 Now I'm stretching myself for something else.

00:16:36.960 Now, organization sees, most of the people, by the way, come out with a new initiative for your organization, know this.

00:16:42.540 80% are not going to do it because they don't take you seriously.

00:16:45.640 But the 20% that do it, they notice the 20% getting results.

00:16:49.420 Remember, not everybody's a leader.

00:16:50.820 Most people follow and they wait for somebody else doing it until they say, I'm going to try it again.

00:16:55.420 I'm going to try it myself as well because it's working so good for Bobby.

00:16:59.060 Bobby did so good.

00:16:59.980 And Bobby, you know, has grown his business last month.

00:17:02.540 He made $58,000.

00:17:03.900 Great.

00:17:04.580 You know, he's grown his office so well.

00:17:06.340 He's doing so great with his business.

00:17:07.860 He's doing, so I'm going to take up that new habit as well and I'll try it.

00:17:10.800 But don't expect everybody to do it right off the bat.

00:17:12.800 Generally, a new habit being, and still this is what it looks like.

00:17:16.080 It goes like this and it goes like this.

00:17:18.420 Everybody's excited at first to trying it out.

00:17:20.180 Then they notice there is no instant results within two weeks, four weeks, six weeks.

00:17:24.540 So they drop doing it because they don't believe it works.

00:17:26.780 But enough people will stick with it.

00:17:28.560 So those people that drop off, these guys have a lead on them in a major way.

00:17:32.780 Then when they notice that they're separating, they don't like that.

00:17:35.780 So they now have to catch up.

00:17:37.500 And some of these guys will make this a permanent habit that they will not even stop doing it.

00:17:42.300 So then you have a separation because this guy took it seriously and this guy didn't, right?

00:17:46.240 This happens in every organization.

00:17:47.960 Now, if the guy at the top that took the new habit, he falls off, the habit drops, this guy passes him up.

00:17:53.480 The challenge is to create a new habit and stay on that habit for as long as possible that becomes automatic.

00:18:00.480 You're no longer thinking about doing it.

00:18:02.280 Reading a book is a prompt, boom, music in the morning, 10 minutes, boom, I'm going to the gym.

00:18:06.420 Cue, routine, reward.

00:18:07.920 Cue, routine, reward, and it's automatic.

00:18:09.620 It's automatic like that basketball player.

00:18:10.860 They're automatic, defense, shot clock, screen, shooter, elbow, block, you know, foul.

00:18:18.200 All that stuff is going automatic, automatic.

00:18:20.060 You're not thinking about it no more.

00:18:21.200 In that moment, you know how to multitask.

00:18:23.300 And last but not least, cultivating positive habits can completely transform an organization.

00:18:27.860 If you do it and if you stay on it, that can completely change an entire organization.

00:18:31.960 In order to do that, in order to stay on a habit, there is one last thing in order to stay on a habit.

00:18:37.960 The one last thing to stay on a habit is, you know, we hear it all the time.

00:18:42.020 We hear it in sports all the time.

00:18:43.260 You know, he willed them into victory.

00:18:45.900 The last one to create a new habit is willpower.

00:18:49.360 And willpower is something that it comes from you, the leader.

00:18:54.300 It comes from the individual that wants to create the new habit.

00:18:56.600 It comes from you, the entrepreneur, that wants to create a new habit, a new culture.

00:18:59.960 And your organization takes discipline.

00:19:02.480 And the great thing about willpower, again, scientists have been in a study.

00:19:05.440 A lot of times people used to say, willpower is a, you know, characteristic.

00:19:09.720 And it's part of a human being in the way they are.

00:19:11.720 Actually, it's not.

00:19:14.080 Willpower, I was a very, very lazy kid when I was younger.

00:19:19.060 I was not the hardest working kid when I was 14 years old.

00:19:23.140 I had a lot of bad habits.

00:19:24.520 You couldn't say that I had willpower.

00:19:26.040 You couldn't get me to do homework.

00:19:27.320 You couldn't get me to finish a chapter of a book, let alone read an entire book.

00:19:31.640 So nobody would have said I had strong willpower.

00:19:34.460 No.

00:19:35.300 As I joined the army and I got out and became an entrepreneur, I wanted to win big as an

00:19:39.540 entrepreneur, that willpower was a muscle that I developed.

00:19:44.200 You know, just like bodybuilding, I was 6'1", 135 at 14 years old.

00:19:47.940 I had to develop muscles.

00:19:49.880 Willpower is also a muscle to develop that you as a leader can develop.

00:19:54.120 And then from there, you start developing within your teammates.

00:19:57.280 But this is a challenge with willpower.

00:19:58.700 So let me explain something about willpower.

00:20:01.300 You ever catch yourself doing a lot of things throughout the day and it's nonsense things

00:20:05.240 that you're doing?

00:20:06.820 Let me clean off my desk.

00:20:08.920 Great.

00:20:09.300 Let me, you know, check my Facebook.

00:20:12.200 Let me check the email here.

00:20:13.640 Let me send this thing over here. 0.98

00:20:15.640 Let me send that thing over there. 1.00

00:20:16.880 All the tedious things that you're doing.

00:20:18.280 Guess what?

00:20:19.140 All of that takes away from your willpower because every day we have a dosage of willpower.

00:20:24.920 And if you allow nonsense activity to use up your willpower, then you barely have any

00:20:30.860 willpower to use when you need it for bigger things.

00:20:34.260 That makes sense?

00:20:35.480 So it's very, very important to look at your willpower as a gas tank.

00:20:39.160 Every day, you have a certain amount of willpower in your mind.

00:20:42.700 If you waste it on tedious activities, the big activities, when it requires a big willpower

00:20:48.020 to push it through, you're too tired.

00:20:49.540 You're mentally exhausted because you've wasted your willpower in all small little habits that

00:20:55.300 are irrelevant instead of the habits that create you money.

00:20:58.620 So you've got to also be very, very, pay very close attention to where you're using

00:21:03.280 your willpower to waste the stuff instead of the bigger items that you want to do.

00:21:07.840 And eventually, you know, great thing about a willpower, the more and more you do it,

00:21:11.160 the more repeated you're doing it, eventually it becomes automated.

00:21:14.700 It no longer needs you to think about what you need to be doing.

00:21:18.580 You know, I'm going to have a salad 30 days and automatically, every time you go, your

00:21:21.660 waiter already knows, I'm having the same barbecue chicken salad, double chicken, you

00:21:25.380 know, lunch portion, bring it over here.

00:21:27.700 I'll have an iced tea or I'll have a water, iced lemon on the side and this, this, this.

00:21:32.360 And you're used to ordering the, you know, Da Vinci pasta or the chicken piccata with the

00:21:38.160 extra sauce on the side.

00:21:39.560 And it sounds good when you hear it, right?

00:21:41.460 At the Cheesecake Factory or you're going to go and go get that garlic chicken noodles with

00:21:45.940 shrimp and the sauce on the side.

00:21:47.420 Well, when you go to the salad, once, twice, three times, four, 15, 20, 30 days, 40 days,

00:21:52.760 your willpower can handle it, smells everything else, it's over it and you stay on it, it becomes

00:21:56.760 a discipline.

00:21:57.800 Now it's automatic.

00:21:58.660 You don't even think about it anymore.

00:21:59.800 Then all of a sudden, a month later, two months later, three months later, you start

00:22:03.380 touching your abs, you start feeling your shoulders, your legs, you say, man, I'm getting

00:22:06.600 in shape.

00:22:07.900 Man, I'm more efficient at work.

00:22:09.520 I feel good the way I'm with my family.

00:22:11.820 I have a lot more energy to wake up.

00:22:13.320 I love reading books now.

00:22:14.360 I feel like I can do so much more.

00:22:16.440 I feel like I'm that athlete, that point guard.

00:22:18.100 I'm getting better at multitasking.

00:22:19.860 Because your energy also helps you have stronger willpower to get new habits and stay consistent

00:22:24.500 on your habits as long as you're constantly rewarding yourself.

00:22:28.640 Many times people want to create new habits, but they don't want to reward themselves.

00:22:32.220 Your brain's got to know that I get something good by doing something.

00:22:35.160 I'm willing to do something as long as you give me a reward at the end.

00:22:39.480 When I was 24, 25, I don't know how, when did we get a Harley, Mario?

00:22:43.920 24, 25?

00:22:45.240 Something like that.

00:22:46.220 I told myself, if I have a certain amount of savings at that time, it was a quarter million

00:22:51.620 dollars, I'm going to buy myself a Harley.

00:22:53.180 It was a Night Rot special.

00:22:54.660 It had just come out.

00:22:55.500 It was the anniversary one.

00:22:56.980 And I went out there.

00:22:57.960 I'd never ridden a Harley before.

00:22:59.320 I don't even know how to ride a Harley.

00:23:00.400 I'd never in my life ridden a motorcycle before.

00:23:03.800 And I had a friend of mine, Jim, God bless his soul.

00:23:06.020 He passed away a couple months ago.

00:23:07.900 He went with me to the Harley Davidson.

00:23:09.740 We picked up the Harley.

00:23:10.900 We brought it down to the office.

00:23:12.920 And that night is when I learned how to ride a motorcycle.

00:23:16.360 But it was my brain knowing that if you create new habits and new routines and this constant

00:23:22.820 queue, there is a reward at the end.

00:23:25.620 So if you don't have the reward, it actually backfires on you.

00:23:29.160 Because your brain gets annoyed with you that you're making it doing things without the

00:23:33.320 reward at the end.

00:23:34.240 I know we covered a lot today.

00:23:35.360 There's a lot of things we covered.

00:23:36.380 So I know in your mind, you're thinking, what do I do?

00:23:37.940 How do I, what do I attack first to work on?

00:23:41.080 But I want to tell you this, you know, it's so many people want to build a big business.

00:23:45.640 So many people want to be successful.

00:23:47.380 So many people want to build a big empire that they're proud of.

00:23:50.280 And there are so many articles that we try to say, maybe I need to do this.

00:23:53.720 No, I need to do that.

00:23:54.360 No, I need to do this.

00:23:55.040 Here's what I need to do.

00:23:55.800 Generally, those who build a big empire, they become very good at the fundamentals.

00:24:01.220 A good basketball player has fundamental footwork, fundamental defense, fundamental screens, fundamental

00:24:08.460 passing.

00:24:09.380 John Wooden, one more than anybody else, sticking to the fundamentals.

00:24:12.900 This is a message of fundamentals today.

00:24:15.340 And if you can learn how to improve your own fundamentals and become a better teacher of

00:24:19.380 fundamentals, it's going to help you tremendously in your business out.

00:24:21.440 So here's a few things I want to encourage you to do.

00:24:23.640 One, watch the video one more time.

00:24:25.620 I know I covered a lot, but watch the video one more time and take out a paper and pen

00:24:28.840 and actually take notes on areas that we covered.

00:24:32.720 Pause it, write it down, pause it, write it down.

00:24:35.100 And prepare not only for yourself, but also teaching it to your team, your organization,

00:24:39.560 the teammates that you work with.

00:24:41.820 Two, make a list of the new habits that you want to actually instill and start creating

00:24:46.620 the way that I'm talking about the cue, the routine, and the reward.

00:24:49.420 Add those habits, don't add a lot of them, because if you create too many of them at a

00:24:53.080 time, you get overwhelmed.

00:24:54.300 Don't get more than new habits you want to add.

00:24:55.820 I suggest three is the maximum number.

00:24:58.300 And in your company, the less habits you want to instill, the better it is.

00:25:01.400 Three is the magical number.

00:25:03.080 One is always good, but three is the max.

00:25:05.140 I don't suggest five.

00:25:06.240 I suggest three is a sweet spot right in the middle.

00:25:09.060 If you think you can do five, that's fine.

00:25:10.580 You can stretch it, but three is the number.

00:25:13.040 Put the formula together for that.

00:25:14.660 Share this video with your teammates and have them see it as well, so there's going to be

00:25:21.020 a lot of buy-in from them.

00:25:23.040 If you're watching this and you're an executive, somebody shared this with you, actually be

00:25:27.580 the student and learn this, because this can do a lot for you once you learn how to develop

00:25:33.120 new habits for yourself, because it can help you become very, very competitive.

00:25:36.260 It only benefits you if you do this.

00:25:38.440 And then, last but not least, become a master of teaching people how to develop new habits.

00:25:44.880 If you become a master of teaching people how to develop new habits, night and day, what

00:25:48.700 happens with your business.

00:25:49.800 So, the book I recommend is The Power of Habits by an author called Charles Duhigg, Power of

00:25:56.980 Habit.

00:25:57.440 Go buy the book.

00:25:58.140 The link is in the description as well.

00:25:59.940 It's a phenomenal book.

00:26:00.800 There's a lot of good books to read on this subject.

00:26:02.620 This is by far the best book I've read on habits, and I know a lot of people ask, what

00:26:07.040 other books would you recommend?

00:26:07.840 First, read this book, then I'll recommend some other ones once you finish it.

00:26:10.680 If you actually go out and create these new habits, I want to hear about how it

00:26:14.340 worked out for you.

00:26:15.320 So, we'd love to hear your commentary on the results you've gotten ever since instilling

00:26:19.860 new habits into yourself and your organization.

00:26:22.480 Thanks, everybody, for listening.

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00:26:44.340 With that being said, have a great day today.

00:26:46.280 Take care, everybody.

00:26:47.000 Bye-bye.

00:26:47.240 Bye-bye.

Valuetainment - February 18, 2019

Episode 271： How to Multitask & Automate New Habits

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