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Morning Motivation - 4/21/2021

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Morning, gang, it's Matt, I hope you're all doing really well. Thanks again for subscribing as a patreon. I really appreciate it. 

It's my intention to help you achieve your goals with this content. As you know, new audio is released to patreons every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. 

And today's Wednesday, Wednesday, April 21st, 2021. It's day number 111 of the year. So we have 254 days remaining, we're thirty point one-four percent through the year. And that puts us at sixty-nine point eighty-six percent of the year remaining. So we've just dipped under that 70 percent mark. 

So how is your week going?

Are you moving through it with clarity and intention? Do you know where you are headed before your day begins before you dig into your work? Are you determining your priorities to focus on before the day begins? 

I hope so, I hope you've taken the time to design a plan for your day each day this week. I hope you've taken some time to think about what you want to accomplish this week. I hope you have taken the time to build some annual goals for the year so you know where you're going. 

Yesterday I was doing a complimentary consult with... A consultation with that gentleman, he's 46 years old. He said he doesn't have time to plan out stuff because he feels like he has, like, lost too much ground, he has too much ground to make up to achieve his entrepreneurial pursuits. Dude is 46. 

Now, let's just remove some emotion out of this and look at data. Currently, right now, if you are alive and you're 35 years old, your life expectancy is you'll live to be about 82 years old. If you are alive right now, when you're 50, your life expectancy is to be 83 years old. I think this is out of like England and Wales is this data. But, you know, you get the point. So if you're 35 right now, you're on average live to be 82. If you're 50, you're expected to be... Your life expectancy is 83 because that removes like child mortality rates and some other stuff. They're saying, hey, if you've already made it to 50, they project you're going to make it to 83. 

So this cap was 46 years old. So just going by the data, he's expected to live to be one around eighty-two and a half or so. And that means he has another thirty-six point five years left, thirty-six point five years. 

So he has time...

And you guys, you have time... You have time. That doesn't mean you can't, you shouldn't function every day, make a plan and execute. But what it does mean is if you do this stuff, if you actually execute every day and just stop worrying about. Like worrying and it's stopping you from taking action and you actually do your shit every day, you're going to make progress and you're going to move forward on your goals. 

He mentioned to me he was worried about his competition. Let me tell you guys what your competition's doing right now, the average person. Let me pull up what's trending on Google right now. Yeah, this is great. OK, I just pulled up... This is right now, I just pulled up what's trending on Google? 

This is what's trending on Google right now, this is what people are looking at right now. This what the world is looking at, this is your competition, the world is your competition, this is what they're focusing on:

Coronavirus masks, Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, Las Vegas Raiders, Nike, Kobe Bryant, Michigan teacher cuts hair, Jake Paul, Trey Lance, NFL Pro Day, Mom's mother's day gifts... Now, that's a good one, yeah... Get your mom a mother's day gift that's the first decent one here... Doug Deucy Masks, Las Vegas gas shortage, Green Bay Packers mock draft, Sean Hannity live, Prince Charles, Prince Harry, Boston Red Sox, and flag is at half staff today. 

That is what people are focused on, they are not taking care of business. I'm telling you, people are fucking around all day, they're not executing. You have a huge advantage... If you can, like, stay off social media, stay out of Google and just execute on your work. This dude, that's forty-six years old, he's going to live. What do we decide? He's going to live another thirty-six point five years, thirty-six point five years.

He has tons of time... He has tons of time... Tons of time. 

I mean, it's... It's just a matter of executing, it's a matter of like making a plan and executing on that plan every day and getting out of your own way. I mean, the idea that, like, he's too busy to like... He's too busy to determine his priorities. It's literally like the funniest thing ever to me, it's... I shouldn't say it's funny, it's sad. And hopefully, I convinced him and I shared my book with him, which hopefully that I probably need to, like, tighten up the messaging in there to get like even more compelling. But it's just literally the opposite, thinking he has plenty of time, but he has to execute each day just like you. 

So a couple of messages there. One, your competition isn't nearly what you think it is. They are... I mean, just go look at what they're doing... I mean, I spent online. I'm just telling you, if you just wake up, function, and do your stuff, if you're an author and you write books, you're going to be in good shape. If you're a course creator, you're creating courses each day, you're going to be in good shape if you know, it's just... It's just not as your competition is not nearly as fierce as you're making them out in your head and especially like a lot of stuff that we're working on. 

I know for me personally, it doesn't matter, the market doesn't. They can buy David Allen stuff and they can buy my stuff, and same thing with you, like other authors in your space, they can buy your book and they can buy that book... like it's it's fine, it's... Some of that is like complimentary. Like, it actually helps that there is, that there's a need in the market or there's competition in the market. 

So anyway, but a lot of people are just paralyzed by competition and worrying about what other people are doing. And I'm telling you there, I mean, I'm a productivity coach. I deal with people all day long. I know what people are focused on and they are they're not executing at the level that you think they are in their head. 

So take advantage of that if you can

If you can function at a super high level every single day, over time, man, you are going to you're going to crush your goals, I promise. And just the idea, that like, if you can think both long-term, like me and I have time, I'm going to, I've got a chunk of time here, and at the same time panning to make the most of today. But as long as I make the most of today, the time is there to to really do some amazing things, If you can kind of find that space in your head, it's hard. That's a weird spot. 

Not... Not most people do not occupy both of those with their mind. They don't think short-term, I need to execute, I need to knock this stuff out, I need to have a great day, and then they also think I've got plenty of time... I want to do this, I want to think about the long game here. So if you can do that, I mean, you've... You're amazing, you've got a huge advantage. So you both have to be aggressive about the day and also realize, hey, there's time, don't freak out...You've got time. 

If you're fifty, you're going to live until you're eighty-three. On average, you've got thirty-three years to go, so that's it. 

That was meant to be an encouraging message, but we talked about death and life expectancy. I'm not sure I knocked this one out of the park. Regardless, take care of business, let's make it a great day. 

I hope you guys are enjoying these recordings. I'm enjoying making them. It's interesting, but I'm... I'm enjoying it. 

So I hope that you have a great day, I hope you make it a great day, let's just make today a great damn and have a great day today, and let's keep the momentum going, let's capitalize on what you did yesterday and what you did on Monday and... And... And just continue that into today. 

So that's it, let's do it the next 24 hours. 

You are not going to get back, make a plan and make the most out of it. You've got nine days left this month, make a plan and make the most out of that. 

You've got 70 days left in Q2. Let's make a plan and make the most out of that and you've got 254 days left this year, let's do it. 

Let's capitalize on that time. 

You've got time. 

You've... you've both got time, and you need to execute at your highest level possible today. So let's do it. Make it a great day. If you need anything, guys, let me know, you know where to hunt me down at bye.