Tools vs. Habits: The Key to Lasting Productivity

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Let's get let's cut straight to it, Jim.

Are you being productive or are you just collecting tools?

It's easy to believe that the right app, the right calendar system, or the right piece of tech

will fix everything.

But the truth is, tools don't create productivity.

Habits do.

Tools might make things smoother, but habits make things stick.

So Jim, here's the big question to kick us off.

Can a tool ever make up for poor habits, or is it always habits that do the heavy lifting?

Coach Jim Clayton: It's the habits.

Coach Jim Clayton: Tools don't create productivity, habits do.

Coach Jim Clayton: And habits are things that we do without thinking.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: Now you can have good habits, you can have bad habits.

Coach Jim Clayton: You know, it's just as hard to break a good habit as it is a bad habit.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: All right?

Coach Jim Clayton: And the tools

Coach Jim Clayton: And these systems that we're talking about are essential for success.

Coach Jim Clayton: But you've got to understand, habits are the real engine.

Coach Jim Clayton: They're the ones that keep you chugging down that road.

Coach Jim Clayton: uh for personal growth.

Coach Jim Clayton: So we're always trying when we say personal growth, we're trying to get what?

Coach Jim Clayton: We're trying to get better.

Coach Jim Clayton: All right.

Coach Jim Clayton: So you gotta have an engine that's running

Coach Jim Clayton: And you gotta make sure that engine is firing on all pistons and cylinders and everything is working the right way.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: Now, again, habits, you know

Coach Jim Clayton: A system, or let me rephrase that, system is a collection of habits.

Coach Jim Clayton: So if your system is good, you got a collection of what?

Coach Jim Clayton: Good habits.

Coach Jim Clayton: If your system is bad, well guess what?

Coach Jim Clayton: You got a collection of bad habits.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: Now

Coach Jim Clayton: These tools that we're talking about, these apps, all these little things that can help you, they're just a singular resource.

Coach Jim Clayton: Right

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, a system is an overall process.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Not a singular one-hit wonder.

Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?

Coach Jim Clayton: This is something that goes on and on and it's a process.

Coach Jim Clayton: And a habit is a it's a direct action.

Coach Jim Clayton: People who have bad habits, we talked about this last week, you know what a lot of them do?

Coach Jim Clayton: They go fall into that procrastination.

Coach Jim Clayton: category.

Yes.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: And we don't want to do that.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: And y you know y you you here's the big thing.

Coach Jim Clayton: You fall

Coach Jim Clayton: To the level of your systems.

Coach Jim Clayton: You don't rise to the level of your goals.

Coach Jim Clayton: So whatever your system is

Coach Jim Clayton: And again, that's something that does what?

Coach Jim Clayton: You're going to keep using it, you're going to revamp it, you're going to repolish it, you're going to add to it, you're going to find the wrong things, the right things.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: But the bottom line in life is

Coach Jim Clayton: Habits are going to direct you, not tools.

Coach Jim Clayton: Those things that you have now, those are, you know what we I call another word for that sometimes?

Coach Jim Clayton: Shortcuts.

Yes.

Coach Jim Clayton: Shortcuts.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, I'll give you an example.

Coach Jim Clayton: The guns.

Coach Jim Clayton: The the machines out here that throw the ball back to you.

Coach Jim Clayton: Right.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Ex exp for somebody listening who may not know what that is.

Kind of explain what it is so they get the picture in their head.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, the gun is a

Coach Jim Clayton: It it's a funnel system made up of a large net that when you shoot the ball, make or miss, it funnels into this net

Coach Jim Clayton: drops down a shoot into a machine and then so many seconds, depending on where you're on the quarter, where you want to be, it'll throw the ball back to you.

Coach Jim Clayton: So when you shoot it, you don't have to chase it.

Coach Jim Clayton: It's coming back to you.

Coach Jim Clayton: There's four, three or four balls in the system at one time.

Coach Jim Clayton: So they're always shooting it back to you.

Coach Jim Clayton: So you can actually get more reps.

Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: All right.

Coach Jim Clayton: But again, you know

Coach Jim Clayton: I told the kids tonight, I said, you know, have you ever shot one?

Coach Jim Clayton: And you just stood there and the ball came right back to you, like the perfect shot.

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, there wasn't no gun on that one.

Coach Jim Clayton: You just hit the perfect shot.

Coach Jim Clayton: Now that doesn't happen very often.

Coach Jim Clayton: It does for some people know what they're doing, but for other people, it'll hand them it it'll happen every once in a while whether you do it right or not

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: So, you know, what happens is these kids come in and they work on that gun.

Coach Jim Clayton: They get 500, 600 shots.

Coach Jim Clayton: Then they go home.

Coach Jim Clayton: And they don't touch a ball.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: They got a $3,000 goal sitting on their driveway.

Coach Jim Clayton: They got the Taj Mahal courts.

Coach Jim Clayton: And it's out there with ghost players.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: So there's no follow-up to that, okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: And then they forget what you taught them because they don't write stuff down.

Coach Jim Clayton: We'll talk about that later.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: And I mean it's just, you know, what happens is they're getting better by using some of these tools.

Coach Jim Clayton: To help them get more reps.

Coach Jim Clayton: But the process to be where they want to be is going to take a whole lot longer.

Coach Jim Clayton: And that's the biggest thing right there.

Coach Jim Clayton: That's the biggest thing.

So you you did a really great job there defining the difference between a tool and a habit.

And I really liked how you said that.

Because it kind of guides us in our discussion with with what we're looking at.

Um, you know, habits, um, when you think about it, a habit is just that that repeated action you have every single day.

And if you're gonna be successful, you have to develop those.

You know, things like taking your time to review your priorities, to to block in your time for what you're working on, simply showing up consistently at the same time.

Those are behaviors that really create some lasting results.

Great examples of habits, but tools, your tools don't necessarily make your habits.

You know, you can have some great tools.

You can have some task tracking apps like To-Doist and Microsoft To-Do.

uh you can have some project management platforms you can have a digital calendar and heck even today now we have ai and you can have an AI assistant

Those things promise to keep you organized.

They promise to keep you on track and automate your work, but on the surface, that's all they do.

They don't really help you to build in those habits to make those things part of what you're doing.

Oh yeah, because it's a flash in the pan.

Yeah.

The tool the tool can amplify what you do

But it can't create the discipline on its own.

The tool is only as effective as the habit you build that it supports and that you build to support using the tool.

So from your perspective.

And you might have hit on this a little bit already.

How do you see someone relying mostly on tools versus someone who's relying mostly on

their habits.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, so if you're relying on a tool, what happens when that tool's not there?

Ah that's the question.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, and a lot of those tools are technology based, right?

Coach Jim Clayton: So how many times does technology get messed up?

Coach Jim Clayton: A lot.

Coach Jim Clayton: A lot.

Coach Jim Clayton: So when it's not there, what are you gonna do?

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, it's like it's like almost like you're a fake.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, fake it till you make it

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: So you're relying on something that's not really you.

Coach Jim Clayton: Your habits are you.

Coach Jim Clayton: Your habits are the result of your choices.

Right.

Coach Jim Clayton: And you know the old saying, we are our choices.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: So it takes a lot of choices repeated what over and over and over again to where you do it without thinking.

Coach Jim Clayton: See, a habit is something you do without thinking.

Coach Jim Clayton: Whether it's right or wrong, you do it without thinking.

Coach Jim Clayton: Boom

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: You don't have to be talked into it.

Coach Jim Clayton: You don't want to be persuaded.

Coach Jim Clayton: You just do it.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, what if there's nothing there for you to do

Coach Jim Clayton: That's why you see kids today, they just sit there and look at you.

Yeah.

Oh, I see I see it every day, like you know, say the internet goes down, the teacher doesn't know what to do, the kids don't know what to do.

Oh yeah.

Pull out some paper, pull out a pencil, let's get to work.

Coach Jim Clayton: What's plan B?

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: What happens if that don't work?

Coach Jim Clayton: What's your what's your options on the table?

Coach Jim Clayton: See, some people have no options.

Coach Jim Clayton: They're in a dead end.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Because relying on stuff that's not really them.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, it for is whether you're successful or not, whatever you're doing and how you're doing it is on you.

Yeah

Coach Jim Clayton: It all depends on you.

Coach Jim Clayton: You can't rely on now these are great little assets to have when you need 'em.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: But you can't bank on them.

No, not at all.

Coach Jim Clayton: No, it all comes down to

Coach Jim Clayton: What you gonna do?

Coach Jim Clayton: You know it always says it's how you show up at the showdown accounts.

Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

Coach Jim Clayton: So whatever you're ready for?

Coach Jim Clayton: That's what's gonna show up.

Coach Jim Clayton: I don't need to hit a button and wait, okay, wait till this loads.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, then I'll know what to do.

Coach Jim Clayton: No, I already know what to do.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, so people that are so used to these these things, okay, I wouldn't want them to be making decisions in a crisis situation.

No, I would worry.

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh no

Coach Jim Clayton: You know, so I mean that that's the big thing.

Coach Jim Clayton: I mean it it's these things are all great and makes it easy, but when you really look at it, another word for that is old school.

Coach Jim Clayton: I'm an old school guy

Coach Jim Clayton: We never had tools.

Coach Jim Clayton: If we had we had anything we were going to use, it was called creativity and imagination.

Coach Jim Clayton: Those were our tools.

Coach Jim Clayton: And we just went and did them.

Coach Jim Clayton: We made them ourselves.

So it that kind of leads us into the big question that we hear all the time when we're talking about the idea of tools and habits, and it's can a tool actually replace a habit or

Does it just make a weak system that you've built look fancy?

Here's the reality.

Tools are only as good as the habits that are behind them.

You can have the most advanced app, the most detailed planner, the the flashiest, most amazing productivity system.

But if you don't consistently use it.

It won't do anything for you.

You've wasted your time.

So think about it.

How many times have s have people out there downloaded or we've seen an app

that is supposed to be so great.

We set up this complicated workflow and we start using it.

And after a week or two.

That that shiny object trap has worn off.

Tools amplify what you're already doing, but they don't create the discipline to act in the first place.

So Jim, in your experience, what's one of the most common mistakes that you've seen people make when they're relying too heavily on the tools without building the habits to implement the tools?

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, one of the biggest things is habits are something that take a while to develop.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: Now, think about it is, is, when you learn right and you practice hard,

Coach Jim Clayton: You will ultimately see the results you desire.

Yes, I agree.

Coach Jim Clayton: When you learn wrong and you don't practice, wrong plus wrong makes twice as wrong.

Yes.

Coach Jim Clayton: And then you're going to spend your life in repair because you did in prepair.

Coach Jim Clayton: Now one of the big reasons we've already mentioned that is shortcuts.

Coach Jim Clayton: Everybody's looking to the shortcuts.

Coach Jim Clayton: There are no shortcuts to success.

Coach Jim Clayton: There's no shortcuts to the top.

Coach Jim Clayton: Everything in life that's worthwhile is uphill.

Coach Jim Clayton: It's always going to be chudging going uphill, uphill.

Coach Jim Clayton: But consistency to do things is the key.

Coach Jim Clayton: See, most people are really inconsistent, but they want consistent results.

Coach Jim Clayton: They won't do it, but they want to act like they did it.

Coach Jim Clayton: Or they want the results that come from doing it

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, last time I checked, that doesn't really happen.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: I can't find that place.

Coach Jim Clayton: I tell people all the time, when you find that place, here's my number.

Coach Jim Clayton: Call me.

Coach Jim Clayton: I'm coming.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: But guess what?

Coach Jim Clayton: I'm not waiting on your phone call.

Coach Jim Clayton: Because the place really doesn't doesn't even exist.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: But the power of a habit is in how much to consistently use.

Right.

Coach Jim Clayton: Good or bad.

Coach Jim Clayton: Now that's not something that just normally happens.

Coach Jim Clayton: You're not born with that.

Coach Jim Clayton: That's developed.

Right.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, the one of the best ways to develop that is

Coach Jim Clayton: Taste a little bit of success.

Coach Jim Clayton: We talked about this earlier, about those little victories.

Coach Jim Clayton: Success.

Coach Jim Clayton: Success.

Coach Jim Clayton: Not failure to failure to failure to failure.

Coach Jim Clayton: Right.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: I mean failure is a better way to begin again more intelligently.

Coach Jim Clayton: But some people don't have thick skin and as soon as they say something goes wrong, they bail.

Coach Jim Clayton: They're looking for somebody to bail them out.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, that's not gonna happen in the game of life.

Right.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, so you know again, you can't rely on those tools

Coach Jim Clayton: You gotta rely on your habits.

Coach Jim Clayton: And when you have put your heart and soul into those habits, see the deal is here, giving up

Coach Jim Clayton: Ain't an option.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: The more you put into it, the less likely you're walking away.

Coach Jim Clayton: The less you put into it, oh, it's so much easier to walk away.

Mm-hmm.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, and that's what people do.

Coach Jim Clayton: Because I'm just telling you, people's habits, man, they got some funky habits.

Coach Jim Clayton: I'm just telling you.

Coach Jim Clayton: They got funky habits.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Because they have no system in place.

Coach Jim Clayton: They've never developed a system

Coach Jim Clayton: So it's kind of like what they learn when they come to here to Sports City.

Coach Jim Clayton: I have a system that teaches you how to grip the ball.

Coach Jim Clayton: Because if you don't hold so anytime there's a ball, yeah, there's a grip involved.

Coach Jim Clayton: And if the grip is off.

Coach Jim Clayton: The whole thing's off.

Coach Jim Clayton: The foundation's off, okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: And the footwork, the footwork is the foundation.

Coach Jim Clayton: Where are we going?

Coach Jim Clayton: A basketball court?

Coach Jim Clayton: Guess what?

Coach Jim Clayton: Your feet are going to take you there.

Right.

Coach Jim Clayton: Just like in life.

Coach Jim Clayton: How'd we get up here?

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, no elevator, nobody carried us up here.

Coach Jim Clayton: We walked.

Coach Jim Clayton: Our feet brought us up here.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, so you gotta learn how to master that stuff.

Coach Jim Clayton: And then going right, going left, all these little things are like Legos.

Coach Jim Clayton: Habits are like Legos.

Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: You connect them

Coach Jim Clayton: And then all of a sudden when you get to something that's not connected, that's where it ends.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: It's over.

Coach Jim Clayton: Makes sense.

Coach Jim Clayton: And so you guys keep adding and adding and adding.

Coach Jim Clayton: And it's like a branch.

Coach Jim Clayton: You know, there's a thick branch, but you ever notice these little ones that are going off of it?

Mm-hmm.

Coach Jim Clayton: One of these days, guess what?

Coach Jim Clayton: Those are gonna be thick branches.

Yeah

Coach Jim Clayton: But they didn't start out that way.

Coach Jim Clayton: And see, everybody wants to start out great.

Coach Jim Clayton: And it's just not going to happen.

Coach Jim Clayton: And I don't care whether it's education, school, business, whatever

Coach Jim Clayton: I mean your habits are going to they consistently shape your life and your results.

Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, you can't occasionally do these things.

Right.

Coach Jim Clayton: These are things that need to be reproduced every single day.

Yes.

Exactly.

Coach Jim Clayton: And again, when you do something every single day, what's the definition of that

Coach Jim Clayton: Consistency.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

With without the habits, the tools are just a fancy list of reminders or or a fancy way of organizing everything together.

You have to have the habit.

to make it implement it and be successful.

Here's here's an example.

I used to work at Huntington High School.

I was a sysop there.

So I handled all the technology for Huntington High.

That also meant I had to handle all the students and all their user accounts and everything with that

And I worked very hard with the registrar, the secretary in the counseling department to have a system in place.

We had a tool in place that when a student enrolled, there was a form she filled out.

And it sent me an email.

It also sent an email like if the kid was coming from another school in the county, it would email Jeff at Cabal Midland or Rhonda at

Crossroads Academy and tell them this student has left you and enrolled with us.

So they knew to expect this has happened.

If the student left us and she filled it out, it would send an email to them and tell them this student is coming to you.

If they were going in the county.

And it was a great tool.

It worked fantastic.

But if I didn't follow up with it every time I got the notification,

Those accounts wouldn't get moved, the accounts wouldn't get created.

I had to have the habit of checking that more multiple times a day to be able to make sure I was getting the things done.

The tool is great.

I did all the work on it, got it all set up, implemented, but if I didn't follow through and have the habit of checking and looking at it, it was a waste of my time.

It didn't do any good.

I had to be proactive and and build that habit to make sure I followed through on it.

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, the follow-up, good point, good terminology, is the human side of it.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, the other stuff is technology side stuff.

Coach Jim Clayton: That's not human.

Right.

Coach Jim Clayton: Technology.

Coach Jim Clayton: Now some human

Coach Jim Clayton: Built it.

Uh-huh.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: But you know a person could look at that machine I use for shooting.

Right.

Coach Jim Clayton: Which I've seen

Coach Jim Clayton: A little boy out on a farm?

Coach Jim Clayton: He did the same thing out of two by fours.

Coach Jim Clayton: Exact same thing.

Coach Jim Clayton: Built the whole machine out of two by fours shooting on a barn.

Coach Jim Clayton: Now that boy used his, you know, his brain, his thinking skills.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: He didn't have the money to buy one of those, so guess what?

Coach Jim Clayton: He built one

Coach Jim Clayton: And of the two who bought one and built one, who do you think gets more use out of it?

Coach Jim Clayton: The guy that built it.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: 100%.

Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?

Coach Jim Clayton: A hundred percent.

Coach Jim Clayton: Definitely.

Coach Jim Clayton: But uh yeah, man, I'm telling you, man, that that the human side of it, you gotta follow up.

Coach Jim Clayton: So if I told people today, here's a here's a little exercise.

Coach Jim Clayton: Go get your blank sheet of paper, put a line between down the middle, put habits, good habits, bad habits.

Coach Jim Clayton: Take it, take a couple minutes, list your good habits.

Coach Jim Clayton: List your bad habits.

Coach Jim Clayton: Then look over all the good habits.

Coach Jim Clayton: How'd I get those

Coach Jim Clayton: How'd I get those?

Coach Jim Clayton: Hmm.

Coach Jim Clayton: What do I gotta do to fix it?

Coach Jim Clayton: What can I do to take those good habits and make it even what?

Coach Jim Clayton: Not good.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Make it great.

Mm-hmm.

Coach Jim Clayton: What I gotta do with those bad habits to reverse it.

Coach Jim Clayton: You understand?

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: So there's the key word, reverse.

And it well and it it goes back to what we the the quote we or the clip we used on the last episode with Mel Robbins talking about procrastination.

Procrastination is a habit.

You've developed that to handle stress.

It's a very simple thing.

It's a habit.

And because it's a habit, what can you do?

You can change it.

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, absolutely.

Coach Jim Clayton: Now, again, speaking on terms of of things to do, how to how to how to reflect on where you are.

Coach Jim Clayton: Those people don't even know what their good habits they got.

That's true.

Coach Jim Clayton: They can't even write it down.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, so that kind of you gotta have uh and I'm a John Maxwell certified coach, and he's like the leadership guru of the world.

Coach Jim Clayton: So he talks about the rule of five.

The rule okay, good.

I was wanted to get I wanted to get to this.

Coach Jim Clayton: I wanted to talk about this because I saw this in your notes.

Coach Jim Clayton: Five daily activities that you need to do.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: Daily activities.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: Number one, you need to read something

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, now what I read and what you read might not be the same.

Right.

Coach Jim Clayton: Because I'm reading things that

Coach Jim Clayton: Ultimately what?

Coach Jim Clayton: They they directly are in correlation with what I'm doing.

Right.

Coach Jim Clayton: The road I'm on.

Coach Jim Clayton: My road and your road might not be the same road.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, which they're not.

Coach Jim Clayton: You're in the technology world, that's way above my pay grade.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: But reading, reading about people in this growth journey, reading about people about habits, reading about things that people have done that I never thought about doing that can help what I'm doing become even better.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: And you gotta read.

Coach Jim Clayton: And and and things that are in your field.

Coach Jim Clayton: Number two, you gotta write it down.

Coach Jim Clayton: Write it down.

Coach Jim Clayton: Ask kids tonight in class.

Coach Jim Clayton: Do you got a basketball notebook?

Coach Jim Clayton: No.

Coach Jim Clayton: Go to go to Walgreens over there.

Coach Jim Clayton: Go to Dollar General, get your notebook and write basketball notebook.

Coach Jim Clayton: When you leave out of here, write stuff down.

Coach Jim Clayton: If I'm going out tomorrow and do a workout, write the workout down.

You commit it to memory better.

You commit it into your processor.

Coach Jim Clayton: No question about it.

Coach Jim Clayton: And if you can't write it down, guess what?

Coach Jim Clayton: You don't know it.

Coach Jim Clayton: Number three, think.

Coach Jim Clayton: Reflection, planning.

Coach Jim Clayton: In today's world of multitasking, hustle and bustle, this and that, and everything else, guess what?

Coach Jim Clayton: We don't even have a chance to think.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: I'm talking about quiet time.

Coach Jim Clayton: People can't kisses, they can't even go to bed without turning that phone off and they stay up all night.

Coach Jim Clayton: Then they wonder why tomorrow they have a crappy day.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Turn it off

Coach Jim Clayton: Reflect.

Coach Jim Clayton: Think on your own.

Coach Jim Clayton: I got a shirt downstairs that says thinking is a skill.

Coach Jim Clayton: Just like shooting, just like writing, just like lifting.

Coach Jim Clayton: Just like driving a car, just like dribbling, just like hitting a golf.

Coach Jim Clayton: That's a skill.

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, thinking, you gotta think those things to do it.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: And you gotta reflect today.

Coach Jim Clayton: What did I do good today

Coach Jim Clayton: That's when I always start when I reflex, man, I had a good day.

Coach Jim Clayton: What were three things I did good today?

Coach Jim Clayton: What were the three things I didn't do so good today?

Coach Jim Clayton: What can I do tomorrow, you understand, to make those things better?

Right.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: Tomorrow's tomorrow.

Coach Jim Clayton: So those that's what I do.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: Organize it.

Coach Jim Clayton: Foul it.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, so if I'm talking about habits, I'm gonna have it under habits.

Coach Jim Clayton: Talking about consistency, I'm gonna have it under the work consistency

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: And they might inter l intersect a little bit on certain things, but I'm organized.

Coach Jim Clayton: I'm not trying to find things.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: When you're organized, everything's more accessible to you at a quick point when you need it

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, I got I know it's around here somewhere.

Coach Jim Clayton: Let me search for it.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: And then the last thing which nobody does.

Coach Jim Clayton: Nobody.

Coach Jim Clayton: Kids today, they oh, oh, they can't ask questions.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: So when you ask a question, you engage in constant learning.

Coach Jim Clayton: Because you're seeking answers.

Coach Jim Clayton: And you gotta say, you know, hey, I ask questions all the time.

Coach Jim Clayton: I ask open-ended questions.

Coach Jim Clayton: I'll ask the question and leave the word out I want you to say.

Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and then they look at you like

Coach Jim Clayton: And then when I say it again, I'll stop and go right back to that person.

Coach Jim Clayton: They can answer it.

Coach Jim Clayton: They can end the sentence.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, so they're following along with you, and they know what you're going to say before you actually what?

Coach Jim Clayton: Say it.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: See, and and when you do those things, you read, you write, you think, you file it where you want it, and you ask questions.

Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, my little grandkids, four and six, I say something, they go, Why?

Coach Jim Clayton: Wow.

Coach Jim Clayton: Wow.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: Wow.

Coach Jim Clayton: Wow.

Coach Jim Clayton: They always want to know why.

Coach Jim Clayton: That's great.

Mm-hmm.

And it's but it you know the sad part the sad part is most of these most kids they lose that.

Coach Jim Clayton: They do lose.

Coach Jim Clayton: You know why?

Coach Jim Clayton: Because we choked the creativity out of them by telling them what to do.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yep.

Coach Jim Clayton: I remember the last one of the last things I did when I was in school where I said, okay, here's I I passed them all a blank sheet of paper.

Coach Jim Clayton: And I said, here's five things.

Coach Jim Clayton: You can write this down.

Coach Jim Clayton: I want as criteria

Coach Jim Clayton: I want it to have this in it, this in it, this in it, this in it, this.

Coach Jim Clayton: Now I want you to create a picture.

Coach Jim Clayton: Whatever you think of where you can put all these five things together.

Coach Jim Clayton: Maybe something you like to do.

Coach Jim Clayton: Some of you guys might like engines or this or this or whatever.

Coach Jim Clayton: Doesn't have to be, and they and then I'll side say, you got it?

Coach Jim Clayton: Those are the five things I want to see in there.

Coach Jim Clayton: All right, no go get it.

Coach Jim Clayton: And then some that they start.

Coach Jim Clayton: And some just sit there and look at you.

Coach Jim Clayton: After about five seconds, six seconds, I go, what are you looking at?

Coach Jim Clayton: What's wrong?

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, I don't know what to do.

Coach Jim Clayton: You got to tell us what to do.

Coach Jim Clayton: I already told you.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: I didn't tell you what I wanted.

Coach Jim Clayton: I want you to create it, but somehow incorporate these things in.

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh

Coach Jim Clayton: Then I give an example.

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh.

Coach Jim Clayton: Then they start to do it.

You get the teacher that gives them this open-ended assignment.

You know, like that.

And they start giving them examples of what to do and they just do the example.

Oh yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, you could make a PowerPoint.

Got it.

Every kid does a PowerPoint because it's the first example they named.

You know, it's and it happens all the time.

It and it goes back to and I you know, little off topic, but it goes back to this this um this graphic that I found years ago

And it talked about technology usage in the classroom.

And it said that technology is not an outcome

Technology is not new.

The goal should not be to make a PowerPoint.

The goal should not be to create a presentation on Prezi or Google Slides.

It should not be to create a video.

It should not be to whatever.

The goal is use PowerPoint to raise awareness on this topic.

Use the video you're producing to teach someone how to do this skill.

Technology is not the out is not the the outcome, it's the tool.

It's the same idea.

We have all these great tools, but our habits have to use those to get the outcome.

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah, see, so I would do a PowerPoint and I'd leave certain things out

Coach Jim Clayton: I give them a bold statement and I go, ABC.

Coach Jim Clayton: They go, why come there's nothing in the ABC?

Coach Jim Clayton: I said, because you're we're going to decide what those are

Coach Jim Clayton: Tell me something that we could put in there that relates to, and I'd say a subject, that I know three or four kids are really good at in the class.

Coach Jim Clayton: Well guess what I'm expecting?

Coach Jim Clayton: An answer from those three or four kids.

Coach Jim Clayton: And then they'll give me an answer one of them.

Coach Jim Clayton: Now who can give me another answer based on something else there?

Coach Jim Clayton: They give me, start giving me now that it's called feedback.

Coach Jim Clayton: And then all of a sudden I look up and I say, hold up a minute.

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh there we I thought you said there was nothing in there

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, well we put something in it.

Coach Jim Clayton: That's exactly right.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: We put something in it.

Coach Jim Clayton: Or really I didn't.

Coach Jim Clayton: You did.

Yeah

Coach Jim Clayton: You put something in there.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

So You didn't just give them the knowledge.

Coach Jim Clayton: Exactly.

You led them to find it.

Coach Jim Clayton: That's exactly right.

Coach Jim Clayton: So every action that that kid took right there is a vote for their type of person they want to be.

Coach Jim Clayton: So they're voting for themselves.

Coach Jim Clayton: Now what no one's more qualified to be you than you, so vote for you.

Yeah

Coach Jim Clayton: But see, again, it comes back to confidence.

Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, again, choices.

Coach Jim Clayton: They're scared because they're thinking what I might say might sound dumb.

Coach Jim Clayton: There are no dumb answers.

Coach Jim Clayton: No, there aren't.

Coach Jim Clayton: This is an opinionated thing.

Coach Jim Clayton: What do you think?

Coach Jim Clayton: You know?

Coach Jim Clayton: And I mean i it's amazing.

Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, I I was watching a thing on TV where they were talking about Labor Day

Coach Jim Clayton: And they went to the beach, bunch of college kids.

Coach Jim Clayton: What is Labor Day?

Coach Jim Clayton: Uh uh these are college kids, right?

Coach Jim Clayton: Asking them questions that

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh my God, if if I was their parents and I saw that on TV.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh my God.

I s when I see that stuff, it worries me because

I was a soul studies teacher, and this is stuff we talked about, things that I'm I made sure we illustrated.

This is what this day is for.

This is what this day is about.

And that makes me realize that I may have been one of the few people doing it.

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh my gosh.

Coach Jim Clayton: I mean it's unbelievable.

Coach Jim Clayton: But you see, everybody today focuses, you know, on the outcome.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: Focus on what you want to be.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, now that all the outcome you might change two or three ways along I mean you know my dad said you're gonna be engineer.

Coach Jim Clayton: Everybody in my family's in I said no I'm not yes you are I hate math

Coach Jim Clayton: I'm not doing it.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: I'm gonna do what I wanna do.

Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

Coach Jim Clayton: Well guess what?

Coach Jim Clayton: I wasn't an engineer.

Coach Jim Clayton: I wasn't an engineer.

Right

Coach Jim Clayton: And the lady that got me into doing t teaching, that was the worst class.

Coach Jim Clayton: I hated that class one in the city.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah, you told you you told us all about it.

Coach Jim Clayton: It was Okay

Coach Jim Clayton: And and and your these habits that we're talking about, and these this confidence and this focus and this vote for you, all these things, they they shape your identity.

Yeah

Coach Jim Clayton: And they also provide the motivation and bam, the motivation to continue it.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: See what motivates people to continue growing?

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, if they hit that wall, you know it's John Maxwell calls it the law of the lid.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, you put your hand down

Coach Jim Clayton: If I put my hand right there, I don't care how hard you work, you're gonna hit the lid.

Coach Jim Clayton: But when I raise the lid, guess what?

Coach Jim Clayton: Now you can come up to the lid.

Coach Jim Clayton: So what's your lid?

Yeah

Coach Jim Clayton: So start small, build up to that lid.

Coach Jim Clayton: Then what?

Coach Jim Clayton: Raise the ball.

Coach Jim Clayton: You call it a bar.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: The lid, the bar, I don't care what you call it.

Some people might even say that it, you know, use that the term and I hate it as the

You know, it's that glass ceiling that you're trying to break through, you're trying to get through it.

It's the same idea, same concept.

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, there's no question about it.

You know, the idea is that you you don't build up your tools.

To fit your habits.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah, it's the other way around.

Or no, you build you you build you.

Sorry, I said that wrong.

Your tools should fit with your habits.

Your habits shouldn't fit with your tools

So like here's an example.

Let's say, and I know this is you.

You're a pen and paper guy.

You write things down.

I mean I cleaned up a lot of stuff up here the other when I moved the table and stuff around the other day.

Coach Jim Clayton: What do you say?

But there it's everywhere.

There's paper all over the place.

You're constantly writing things down.

That's that's how you

work your way through your thought process.

If I said, Jim, you got to stop and you start typing it in on this program, we're you're gonna fall flat on your face.

Not because you're not trying, because I know you'd try, but that's not you.

That's not how you work

So it's the idea that you have to make sure that your tools fit your habit, not your habit being forced to accept your tools.

100%.

You're 100% correct.

Stop and ask yourself, what is working for me already?

What do I already do that can make this work?

And then add tools to those habits to strengthen them.

Absolutely.

Build them up.

The goal is to create a workflow for yourself that feels natural, not forced.

Yeah.

Oh, you're you're dead on it.

And it and then that and that all falls right along in with that.

That rule of five that we just talked about.

It goes right along in that whole pra thing.

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, there's no question about it.

Coach Jim Clayton: And again, when you have these habits, how do you manage them?

Mm-hmm.

Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?

Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, t tools gotta fit what you're doing.

Coach Jim Clayton: I mean that's the natural progression when that happens.

Coach Jim Clayton: You naturally do that.

Coach Jim Clayton: So don't go against gravity

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, you don't win very very much in in in that situation.

Coach Jim Clayton: Because i i it when you go against that it's almost like I'm forcing you.

Coach Jim Clayton: I'm not trying to force it on anybody.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, but I know if you'll just stick with something, my mama used to always say, be like a posty staff, stick to something till you get there.

Coach Jim Clayton: And I say I say that's the dumbest thing I ever heard in my life.

Coach Jim Clayton: But the truth of the matter is it's not really that dumb.

Coach Jim Clayton: But some people can't stick to nothing.

Right

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: Because they're always looking for a way out because it's all forced.

Coach Jim Clayton: It's not natural.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah

Coach Jim Clayton: And I think that's that's just that's just huge.

You know, the biggest the biggest principle, like when we look at this and we talk about our tools and our habits, the biggest principle in all this is we really need to just keep it simple.

Oh, you know, you talk yeah, kiss, keep it simple, stupid.

Not that we're saying someone's stupid as we talked about last week, but it's it's the idea that keeping it simple makes it that much easier for you.

If you make things that are complicated and convoluted and full of this all this stuff, like you know, something as simple as a sticky note

Think about it.

How many times have you wrote some sticky note and stuck it on the fridge or stuck it on your desk or stuck it on your monitor because you know you'll see it

You know, a lot of people, they keep a count, an actual planner book, a calendar.

They write things down.

I put stuff on my phone.

That's my method.

That's how I do it, because I'm looking at that all the time.

You know, even something as simple as how do I end my day?

How do I sit down at night and say, okay, what was today like?

What can I do tomorrow to make it better?

What can I do from today to keep making it better tomorrow?

That whole routine.

Something like that can be so much more effective than going out and paying $30 a month for an app to try to keep yourself organized.

It's the simple things that get you there.

Coach Jim Clayton: And if you're paying $30 for that app and that's not something that you really do that's in your natural flow, guess what

Coach Jim Clayton: You'll still be paying that $30 and you're gonna get nothing for it.

Yes.

Coach Jim Clayton: Absolutely nothing.

Coach Jim Clayton: But you talk about sticky notes.

Coach Jim Clayton: I'll tell you, when I was growing up, coming through the ranks where I was starting to

Coach Jim Clayton: Get things going a little bit.

Coach Jim Clayton: I had sticky notes all over my house.

Coach Jim Clayton: The first one of the first real purchases I wanted a red Land Rover Discovery

Coach Jim Clayton: Old school.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: And I found a picture of it out of Colorado.

Coach Jim Clayton: Never forget it.

Coach Jim Clayton: Took the picture, put it on sticky note.

Coach Jim Clayton: I put it everywhere I went.

Coach Jim Clayton: Went to the bathroom

Coach Jim Clayton: There it was.

Coach Jim Clayton: Went over here.

Coach Jim Clayton: There it was.

Coach Jim Clayton: Went over here.

Coach Jim Clayton: There it was.

Coach Jim Clayton: And where I looked, guess what I saw?

Coach Jim Clayton: And it kept me on that trap.

Coach Jim Clayton: And then one day, guess what?

Coach Jim Clayton: I went up there and got it.

Coach Jim Clayton: Now it wasn't on a sticky note anymore.

Coach Jim Clayton: It was in my driveway.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: And I do that on, you say that's kind of a dumb thing too.

Coach Jim Clayton: Hey, it's just that little thing.

Coach Jim Clayton: Keep your eye on the prize.

Coach Jim Clayton: Keep your eyes in front of you on your path that you want to go.

Coach Jim Clayton: And it's a small little thing, but boy, does it yield huge results

Coach Jim Clayton: And that's what I did.

Coach Jim Clayton: And everything that I put on sticky note that I've wanted, I've gotten.

Coach Jim Clayton: Good.

Coach Jim Clayton: I've worked to get it.

Coach Jim Clayton: I might take me a year, two years, three years to get it, but guess what?

Coach Jim Clayton: Doesn't matter when or how it matters I got it.

Yeah

Coach Jim Clayton: So I finished the story.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

You set you set the goal.

And I went and hit it.

You you used your habits and the tools available to you to content to build those habits.

And and and achieve that.

Coach Jim Clayton: And that's the stuff that keeps keep keeps me creative.

Coach Jim Clayton: Like my pen is working as fast as my brain.

Coach Jim Clayton: I can't type that fast and I can't text very fast.

Coach Jim Clayton: So guess what?

Coach Jim Clayton: My fingers and my brain ain't in sync.

Coach Jim Clayton: So I'm gonna forget stuff.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: That I'm thinking.

Coach Jim Clayton: That's why I always keep a right next to my desk, guess what?

Coach Jim Clayton: 3 30 in the morning, I'll come up with some of my best ideas at 3 30 in the morning.

Yeah.

Wake up in the middle of the night like, oh I gotta write this down.

Coach Jim Clayton: And guess what?

Coach Jim Clayton: I said to myself before, I'll I'll remember that in the morning

Coach Jim Clayton: Then I can't remember and I'll never remember.

Yeah, it happens.

Coach Jim Clayton: So if I write it down, sometimes I might have to look at it a couple of times to see what I wrote 'cause I might be about half asleep.

But then you gotta get it to your brain to spark that idea again.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: You know, you gotta do that.

Coach Jim Clayton: And and again it comes I you know it's you have to harp on it, but it's just something that it's a daily thing.

Yeah

And how do you manage these habits?

Exactly.

And that's where I want to go.

I'm looking at your notes.

Okay.

And on your notes, you have how to manage your habits.

Yes.

Big heading at the top of the page.

Yep.

Go through let's start going through that.

Let's talk about that.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: So one, you gotta ask as y you assess your habits.

Coach Jim Clayton: Already told you that.

Yep.

Coach Jim Clayton: Make a list.

Coach Jim Clayton: What's that?

Coach Jim Clayton: List your good ones.

Coach Jim Clayton: List your list your list your bad ones.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: Now, here's what I'm going to say.

Coach Jim Clayton: Enhance the good ones.

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: Enhance the good ones.

Coach Jim Clayton: Make them better.

Coach Jim Clayton: Look for ways to strengthen and build on the positive ones.

Coach Jim Clayton: The negative ones usually are things that are not that important to you.

Right.

Coach Jim Clayton: Not things you're not good at.

Coach Jim Clayton: Again, back on the key word, procrastination.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: You're not good at it, so you put it on the back burner.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, enhance the good ones.

Coach Jim Clayton: Get rid and eliminate the bad ones.

Coach Jim Clayton: That's just time killers.

Yeah

Coach Jim Clayton: You're spinning your wheels on something that's never going to produce results.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Bad return on your investment.

But the thing is, though, that may be one of the hardest things you have to do.

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, no question.

Coach Jim Clayton: But see, nobody does that.

Coach Jim Clayton: Right.

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, they talk about it, but there's no call to action.

Coach Jim Clayton: You got to put it down, check it off, check, check, check, check, check, check, check.

Coach Jim Clayton: Again, and tackle them one at a time.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, we all have them.

Coach Jim Clayton: Right.

Coach Jim Clayton: We all have downhill.

Coach Jim Clayton: I mean you can call them good or bad.

Coach Jim Clayton: I call them downhill and uphill habits.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: That's a better way of saying good and bad.

Coach Jim Clayton: Makes sense.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: And your thoughts decide those things, man.

Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and we got we got some different types of downhill habits.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: And you gotta know what those things are.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: Uh, you know, here's a downhill habit.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, it's not going very well.

Ah, I hear that all the time.

Coach Jim Clayton: Things aren't quite going the way I envisioned them.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: That means maybe what you're doing, okay, again, we talk about learning things.

Coach Jim Clayton: Where's the application?

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Am I just learning a fact?

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, how can I again I asked this question today's Thursday

Coach Jim Clayton: Go tomorrow's Friday.

Coach Jim Clayton: I said this last week.

Coach Jim Clayton: So it's been almost, it's been a week.

Coach Jim Clayton: I said, tell me something cool you learned in schooling.

Coach Jim Clayton: I haven't heard one yet.

Coach Jim Clayton: I said, well, let me give you a cool thing.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Let me give you a cool thing.

Coach Jim Clayton: I just, and there's three boys sitting there.

Coach Jim Clayton: They're all about the same age.

Coach Jim Clayton: Eighth grade, ninth grade.

Correct.

Coach Jim Clayton: I said, I'm I just gave you a check for a million bucks.

Coach Jim Clayton: What are you gonna do with it?

Coach Jim Clayton: And the room got silent.

Yeah.

They're not sure how to read it.

Coach Jim Clayton: I just gave you me doors.

Coach Jim Clayton: You are all now millionaires.

Coach Jim Clayton: What are you gonna do with it?

Coach Jim Clayton: Uh uh They don't know what to do with it

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, I'm gonna put it in the bank.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: Hmm.

Coach Jim Clayton: Well the government's gonna get you ever heard of a thing called taxes?

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah, I've heard of that.

Coach Jim Clayton: Uh well the government's gonna get 50% of it

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, what could I do?

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, I could maybe invest it.

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, I could put it in my savings account.

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, don't touch it for 50 years.

Coach Jim Clayton: You'll probably have a little bit of money, but what you're going to learn is in a savings account there's not a lot of growth.

Nope.

Coach Jim Clayton: There is some, and it's safe.

Very, very low interest rates.

Coach Jim Clayton: It's safe to an extent.

Coach Jim Clayton: But it only covers so much money.

Coach Jim Clayton: It don't cover million.

Coach Jim Clayton: It only covers 250,000.

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, hold on, where's my other 750?

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, okay, so

Coach Jim Clayton: You know, what about investing in a foundation?

Coach Jim Clayton: Well what's that?

Coach Jim Clayton: They have no clue what to do.

Coach Jim Clayton: What about about I mean so here's the bottom line, but it they said, man, it's cool that you'd give me a hundred a million dollars

Coach Jim Clayton: But see, but you don't know what to do with you.

Coach Jim Clayton: Some of you don't even know cool from being a fool.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: They don't even know what cool is.

Coach Jim Clayton: You know, but again

Coach Jim Clayton: You know, you gotta that's the education part.

Coach Jim Clayton: I still have yet to hear somebody say, well, we just learned math and we did some things like that stuff.

Coach Jim Clayton: I said, well that ain't cool

Coach Jim Clayton: Well not that.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: If I give you meat, now what about the math that goes with that meat?

Coach Jim Clayton: Well that's cool because then I'm gonna be able to do s do some things I want.

Coach Jim Clayton: I say, yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

I told I I told you I talked to my son on the way up here this evening and you know he's he's in the marching band for the first time as a senior.

So he's, you know, this is all new experiences for him.

And when he was talking with me, he's like I asked him how things went today with school and

Up with band practice and everything after school.

He's like, well, he's like, we got the fourth movement down, the fourth song's down.

We we did it, we worked our way through it

We've got most of it complete.

He's like, we actually worked all the way through.

We got through the entire show.

And he was excited.

He's like, this was really fun.

He's like, we were actually doing this.

And he was excited about it.

For him, that was something cool he did at school, something he learned this week.

And it was new.

Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

Coach Jim Clayton: See, so you know, when kids

That's an exit strategy.

Coach Jim Clayton: That's an exit strategy because

Coach Jim Clayton: You know, you ain't even allowed the good things to happen.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, so here you use your son, for example.

Coach Jim Clayton: All the grueling things

Coach Jim Clayton: All summer, the band camp, the asphalt training, all that stuff which was not fun, fun, fun, fun.

Coach Jim Clayton: Now all of a sudden all that's coming to what?

Coach Jim Clayton: Fruit and

Coach Jim Clayton: It's coming to the top, it's coming to the surface.

Coach Jim Clayton: Now all of it's coming together, and now it's fun to push it all together.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, that's why amazing is not always amazing.

Coach Jim Clayton: The journey to be amazing is never usually amazing.

It's rough.

Coach Jim Clayton: It is tough.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: But you can't learn to navigate a ship

Coach Jim Clayton: on tough waters by getting in a rowboat and rowing around the lake.

Coach Jim Clayton: It just doesn't work that way.

Coach Jim Clayton: And so a lot of people have already thrown in the towel before it ever even gets to the good things.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: They're not anticipating the positive outcome.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: Because they're not engaged in it.

Coach Jim Clayton: You got to engage in something.

Coach Jim Clayton: Engagement and energy is by people that are what?

Coach Jim Clayton: Passionate people.

Coach Jim Clayton: I don't think kids they are passionate about nothing.

Yeah, a lot of them.

Coach Jim Clayton: When's the last time a parent asked a child, hey, you know what?

Coach Jim Clayton: Let me ask you a question

Coach Jim Clayton: Is there anything that you really get excited about doing?

Coach Jim Clayton: Like you're really passionate about it?

Coach Jim Clayton: If you could do anything and passionate about it, what would you really like to do?

Coach Jim Clayton: That's called a conversation with your kid.

Coach Jim Clayton: I don't think Paris had that many conversations.

Coach Jim Clayton: I think it's the it's like you shouldn't have done this.

Coach Jim Clayton: It's the after-the-fact conversation.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, why don't we have the before fact conversation?

Coach Jim Clayton: Then we don't have to get to after the fact.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: Because sometimes when you have the before fact conversation about this stuff, when they do it, which sometimes they'll do it anyway, you just look at them and go, mm-hmm.

Coach Jim Clayton: And they think, God, he already told me that was gonna happen.

Coach Jim Clayton: Maybe this guy does a little know a little bit more than I think he does.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: I mean that's just you know, you can't sit on your heels

Coach Jim Clayton: Because when you sit back on your heels, he sitting on your heels.

Coach Jim Clayton: You need to reactive self-doubt.

Coach Jim Clayton: You're back on your heels.

Coach Jim Clayton: Man, I want you on your toes.

Coach Jim Clayton: Leaning forward, man, like you're about to cross that finish line.

Coach Jim Clayton: Let's go, let's go, let's go

Coach Jim Clayton: Moving forward.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: Now the next thing we ask you, okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: It's not worth it.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Hmm.

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, some things aren't worth it to you.

Coach Jim Clayton: Then just guess what?

Coach Jim Clayton: Don't do it.

Coach Jim Clayton: Don't do it.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, things that are when you have the mindset it's not worth it, then your attention span is what?

Coach Jim Clayton: Short.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, and boy do we live in a world like that

Coach Jim Clayton: I mean the kids the tester span today is short, short, short, short, and shorter.

Mm-hmm.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, six, seven, eight seconds.

Coach Jim Clayton: I love hearing these watching these things on TV about cell phones taking them out.

Coach Jim Clayton: I saw a guy who's the guru of it yesterday.

Coach Jim Clayton: I can't know if I can remember all of them, but I can remember a couple of them.

Coach Jim Clayton: Here's was his four rules

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: Now some of y'all might kids you probably don't want to hear this.

Coach Jim Clayton: Nobody gets an iPhone before age 16

Coach Jim Clayton: Nobody.

Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: Nobody gets one.

Coach Jim Clayton: Number two, no social media, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, whatever all the other ones are, okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: Till you're 16.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: Now here's what's gonna happen.

Coach Jim Clayton: When you take those things away from people, here's the change we gotta make that we don't make.

Coach Jim Clayton: Now we got to get these kids actively engaged in stuff.

Coach Jim Clayton: They can't just be sitting in a classroom all day.

Coach Jim Clayton: They got to get up.

Coach Jim Clayton: They got to get out.

Coach Jim Clayton: They got to be working together.

Coach Jim Clayton: And I'll use this as a class example.

Coach Jim Clayton: The other day I had an old mini-bike

Coach Jim Clayton: That I bought and used to ride all over the place.

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, it got in the flood and the engine flooded.

Coach Jim Clayton: I bought the f the engine, the Harbor Freight for 99 bucks.

Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, hooked that thing on, had the cable band.

Coach Jim Clayton: Then I used to fly around that thing all the time.

Coach Jim Clayton: Well eventually it got flooded.

Coach Jim Clayton: I didn't drive it anymore, so it's sitting there

Coach Jim Clayton: So the little boy next door, I said, landed?

Coach Jim Clayton: I said, you want that mini-bike?

Coach Jim Clayton: I'll give it to you.

Coach Jim Clayton: He says, You won't give me that mini-bike?

Coach Jim Clayton: I said, yeah, I'll give it to you.

Coach Jim Clayton: Here's what you got to do.

Coach Jim Clayton: You got to get some new wheels on it.

Coach Jim Clayton: He said, I think I already got some.

Coach Jim Clayton: He said, well, you don't have to get any.

Coach Jim Clayton: I said, number two, strip it down.

Coach Jim Clayton: You probably need a loot throttle cable and you need to go get you a new engine for 99 bucks.

Coach Jim Clayton: Strip it down, sand it down real good.

Coach Jim Clayton: You and your dad, because his dad's really good at fixing everything.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: And I said, paint it a different color, whatever, you know what it means, and then reassemble it.

Coach Jim Clayton: But there's only one catch

Coach Jim Clayton: You have to let me drive around a block when he gets it done.

Coach Jim Clayton: He said, no problem.

Coach Jim Clayton: So my granddaughter was sitting right there.

Coach Jim Clayton: These two boys

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: All of a sudden he's sitting over on it doing the thing.

Coach Jim Clayton: Next thing I look, there's one of them over there.

Coach Jim Clayton: What?

Coach Jim Clayton: Doing the same thing.

Coach Jim Clayton: Well then they shift it and the guy went over and goes, Man, that's a cool basket.

Coach Jim Clayton: He's jumping up now to touch the net

Coach Jim Clayton: Guess what those two six and four year olds are doing?

Coach Jim Clayton: Touching the web.

Yep.

Coach Jim Clayton: Because they're engaging with people, asking each other questions.

Coach Jim Clayton: You know, all stuff.

Coach Jim Clayton: Man, I like that bite

Coach Jim Clayton: You know, you ever ride your bike?

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah, I got one, but it's at home.

Coach Jim Clayton: They're talking to each other.

Coach Jim Clayton: Now these two kids, these two girls, four and six, didn't know these two boys, they're eighth graders.

Coach Jim Clayton: They're doing what?

Coach Jim Clayton: They're talking with them.

Coach Jim Clayton: They're engaged with them.

Coach Jim Clayton: They're doing things with them.

Coach Jim Clayton: But see, if you just sit and look at stuff all the time, that's not engaging.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: I can't remember what the fourth was, but

Coach Jim Clayton: I'm thinking, man.

Coach Jim Clayton: But see, he says, not giving these kids iPads, not doing phones, not doing all this stuff.

Coach Jim Clayton: Nope, we're not giving you that junk.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: Because that's just a tool for a parent to give a kid so they sit down and shut up over there.

A lot of times.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Because they don't want a parent.

Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

Coach Jim Clayton: They just want the kid to go over there and get in his own little world.

Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?

Coach Jim Clayton: Well then one day I don't want you in that world.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: But I've allowed you to be in that habit.

Mm-hmm.

Coach Jim Clayton: Habit

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, uh, okay, put your pants.

Coach Jim Clayton: No, then they throw a what?

Coach Jim Clayton: Fit.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, then what do we do?

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, we bowed into the fit.

Coach Jim Clayton: A lot of times.

Coach Jim Clayton: That's what goes on.

Coach Jim Clayton: When I used to travel, I see kids that just sit on thinking like this.

Coach Jim Clayton: They're all gonna have neck problems and hand problems, and every time by the time they get down the road here

Coach Jim Clayton: I mean these guys now ought to be thinking about neck surgery.

Coach Jim Clayton: What's that called?

As I was doing research for an an uh an episode we have coming up

Uh one of the a lady I was listening to an interview that she had done and she was on a CBS um uh I can't remember which program on CBS, but as she's talking, one of the things she talks about is smartphones.

And she said, smartphones are fantastic.

They're great

But it's created a problem.

Everybody is hunched over.

Their necks for their heads forward and down, the necks pulled forward.

The body is even hunching forward.

We're creating a society of people.

Who are turning into hunchbacks.

That's not the way she said it, but it's but it was the implication that it's it's allow it's causing this to happen because we're all

Connected to the phone 247.

Coach Jim Clayton: But an analogy that is here's what I would say to you, guess what?

Coach Jim Clayton: Where are you looking down?

Coach Jim Clayton: If you look down long enough, it's kind of hard to go.

Coach Jim Clayton: You can't look down and up at the same time.

Right

Coach Jim Clayton: It's impossible.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: So if you're constantly looking down, that might be end up where you're going to be.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: But again, you know, is it worth it?

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, so growth becomes almost impossible when you do what only fulfills you for that day.

Yes.

Coach Jim Clayton: No long-term activity.

Coach Jim Clayton: It's all today.

Coach Jim Clayton: Just for today.

Coach Jim Clayton: Just for today.

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, today is the most important day.

Coach Jim Clayton: Today is the day.

Coach Jim Clayton: I'll grant you that.

Coach Jim Clayton: But it's going to end here in a while.

Coach Jim Clayton: What about tomorrow?

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, I don't have one for I I don't have anything for tomorrow.

Coach Jim Clayton: Well tomorrow's gonna be here.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, so what are you gonna do?

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: See that that's what you're doing.

Coach Jim Clayton: And and the best experience is getting better.

Coach Jim Clayton: Growing, getting smarter.

Coach Jim Clayton: You know, expanding your creativity, your comfort zone.

Coach Jim Clayton: Guess what?

Coach Jim Clayton: It's it's it's being comfortable, being uncomfortable.

Yeah

Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, I use that word all the time.

Coach Jim Clayton: But see, today, again, ooh, I hate this.

Coach Jim Clayton: We live in a world of immediate gratification.

Yes.

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh.

Right now.

You're a selfie of yourself online and ooh, I got 45 likes in three seconds.

Who cares?

Who cares?

Coach Jim Clayton: Who gives a flying fart about it?

Coach Jim Clayton: Who cares?

Coach Jim Clayton: And see

Coach Jim Clayton: That's the reason inconsistency is so huge.

Coach Jim Clayton: Because it's right now.

Coach Jim Clayton: It rewards you for a short term.

Coach Jim Clayton: It's in the moment.

Coach Jim Clayton: In the moment, short term.

Coach Jim Clayton: Now, what we need to do is change the word.

Coach Jim Clayton: I did a thing on this one.

Coach Jim Clayton: We need to go from instant gratification to what?

Coach Jim Clayton: Immediate gratification.

Coach Jim Clayton: That lives in the moment.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: Delayed gratification.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, so what happens as you piece this stuff together?

Coach Jim Clayton: The Lego connection, right?

Coach Jim Clayton: You're going to get there.

Coach Jim Clayton: That's daily commitment to getting better.

Coach Jim Clayton: You're either getting better or getting worse.

Coach Jim Clayton: Right.

Coach Jim Clayton: Daily commitment.

Coach Jim Clayton: Seven days a week.

Coach Jim Clayton: You know, the most successful people in the world never take a day off ever.

Coach Jim Clayton: Totally.

Coach Jim Clayton: They might not be in the office.

Coach Jim Clayton: But they're writing something down.

Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?

Coach Jim Clayton: They're thinking about something.

Yeah, and we're gonna and we're gonna talk about some of those people here just a little bit.

Just kind of a preview of what's coming up.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

I got a nice list of them.

Coach Jim Clayton: And the last thing I would tell you is people look at this and go

Coach Jim Clayton: Man, it shouldn't be this hard.

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, sometimes it takes a while.

Coach Jim Clayton: Because you may say like we've been working on a project

Coach Jim Clayton: I've been working on a project that's moving hopefully really soon to get done.

Coach Jim Clayton: And we've been working on it for 30 years.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, I didn't know it was going to take that long.

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, maybe it's just not that time yet.

Coach Jim Clayton: You ever noticed that when you go to bot buy a bottle of wine?

Coach Jim Clayton: That's really aged and old.

Coach Jim Clayton: It ain't like you're buying Boone's Farm off the shelf over here for $1.

Coach Jim Clayton: 25.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Man, that stuff costs what?

Coach Jim Clayton: It's aged.

Coach Jim Clayton: And so sometimes you gotta age with it.

Coach Jim Clayton: It's not as simple as you think it is.

Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, it's not always gonna be fair.

Coach Jim Clayton: Huh?

No.

Coach Jim Clayton: Sometimes you look at it and go.

Coach Jim Clayton: Man, this is unfair.

Coach Jim Clayton: Well get in line with everybody else.

Coach Jim Clayton: Right.

Coach Jim Clayton: But the real question is, what are you gonna do?

Coach Jim Clayton: What are you gonna do about it?

Coach Jim Clayton: You ain't gonna be able to sit on the sideline line and wait for things to happen.

Coach Jim Clayton: You gotta what?

Coach Jim Clayton: You gotta make them happen.

Yeah.

It's that it's what we talked about already.

It's that idea of are you gonna be passive or are you gonna be active?

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah, you gotta make things happen.

Make it happen or you're gonna let it happen to you.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah, oh that's exactly right.

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah, you either control it or it's gonna control you.

Coach Jim Clayton: And then when it controls you, here we go.

Coach Jim Clayton: We're going backwards.

Coach Jim Clayton: We're regressing.

Coach Jim Clayton: We are not progressing.

Coach Jim Clayton: And this happens to everybody every day.

Coach Jim Clayton: And they don't know what to do about it.

Coach Jim Clayton: Right.

Coach Jim Clayton: And then they get on to people.

Coach Jim Clayton: That's why negative sells so much

Coach Jim Clayton: They don't want to talk about the positive.

Coach Jim Clayton: It's easy to talk about the negative because there's more people what?

Coach Jim Clayton: That are in the negative than what?

Coach Jim Clayton: The positive.

Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?

Coach Jim Clayton: Deposit them, deposit them.

Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, like I said, I I've been looking at these reels.

Coach Jim Clayton: I've been in this real thing and watching people in higher powers

Coach Jim Clayton: look down on people, you know what I mean?

Coach Jim Clayton: That are working their way up, not knowing, judging them for what they look like, not who they are.

Coach Jim Clayton: And I know what the outcome's gonna be every time, but I still just like to watch it to see and what I can learn from it

Right.

Coach Jim Clayton: You know, because that's all stuff that what happens every single day.

Coach Jim Clayton: And

Coach Jim Clayton: You know, growth and you getting better, it cannot happen without challenge.

Yes.

Coach Jim Clayton: You've got to be challenged.

Coach Jim Clayton: You gotta be challenged.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, it's not about you all the time.

It's not about you.

That's and that's a that's a big one because there's so many people who think that everything in their life

and their family's life and their friends' life and those in their community, it all revolves around just them.

Coach Jim Clayton: I heard Joyce Meyer say this one time.

Coach Jim Clayton: They're going around, What about me at the mountains?

Coach Jim Clayton: What about me?

Coach Jim Clayton: What about me?

Coach Jim Clayton: What about me?

Coach Jim Clayton: I said, Well what about we?

Coach Jim Clayton: I said, if you want it to be about you truly

Coach Jim Clayton: Listen carefully what I'm about to tell you.

Coach Jim Clayton: Here's where it can all be about you.

Coach Jim Clayton: Right out there on the wrestling map.

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh.

Coach Jim Clayton: Me and you.

That's not where I thought you were going to go with that.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: I was talking to a wrestling coach today.

Coach Jim Clayton: And I said, if you want it to be about you, let's find out if you want it to be about you.

Coach Jim Clayton: When that guy slams you on that mat.

Coach Jim Clayton: Who you gonna blame out on?

Coach Jim Clayton: Mom and daddy can't come out there and save you.

Coach Jim Clayton: It's you against their God

Coach Jim Clayton: That's you.

Coach Jim Clayton: What about you?

Coach Jim Clayton: It's all about you, brother.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: You win or you don't.

Coach Jim Clayton: But see, in a team game where you got employees, you got other members of your team.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, those people do what?

Coach Jim Clayton: It's not singular.

Right.

Coach Jim Clayton: A national, you know, it's it's it's a team thing.

Everybody's working together to try to accomplish the goal.

Coach Jim Clayton: For the same goal.

Coach Jim Clayton: For the same goal.

Coach Jim Clayton: And they're willing to accept their what?

Coach Jim Clayton: Their roles.

Coach Jim Clayton: To make the betterment of the team

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: And I mean I I just look at that and I goes, and the people that are what about me, they always end up underachieving.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: They're always underachieving.

Coach Jim Clayton: And you can look at any of these people.

Coach Jim Clayton: I know you're going to talk about some successful people, but you know, I mean, it it they all have the same characteristics.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

Coach Jim Clayton: They all do.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: And guess what?

Coach Jim Clayton: You have them too.

Can.

Yeah.

So, you know, what we've as as we've worked our way through the episode today, we've we've talked about habits, we've talked about tools, we've talked about creating systems that fit with your natural workflow, but

Let's take a look at some real life examples, some people who are uh where where minimal tools for them have led to maximum productivity.

You know, some of the most productive people out there don't rely on dozens of apps or complicated systems.

They stick to like, for example, a simple notebook or a calendar, just a few core habits that they have

And they can get more done than people using fancy tools without any type of discipline, keeping them in check.

But here's a few great examples of individuals who've become successful by doing these exact things.

And these are people I've

Done some research and come across.

The first is a gentleman named Tim Ferris.

Tim Ferris is the author of the four-hour workweek

He focuses on just a few high impact tasks each day instead of trying to do everything at once.

He experiments with his routines and his habits to get the most results with the least wasted effort.

His approach shows that carefully chosen habits can produce outsized results.

He's all about doing less, but doing it better, and letting those habits drive the outcome.

Then we have a guy like Warren Buffett, the legendary investor in C.

Coach Jim Clayton: Can I say, can I say something?

Yeah, go ahead.

Coach Jim Clayton: About Tim Ferris.

Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

Coach Jim Clayton: What he's basically saying is you can't be great at anything and try to do everything.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah, exactly.

Coach Jim Clayton: One hundred percent.

Coach Jim Clayton: That's what I just heard you say.

Okay

He, you know, he's he's all about he's all about having that focus on those habits, those things he does to make the situation better, to make his work better, to keep his workflow going.

I mean, come on.

The name of his book is the four-hour work week.

Well, I bet a lot of people would be up for that.

I'm sure.

I'm sure.

But yeah, that's exactly what Tim is all about.

Then we got Warren Buffett.

Warren Buffett, the legendary investor, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.

He keeps his daily routines very simple.

He dedicates hours to reading.

Hmm, that sounds familiar, doesn't it, Jim?

Oh, reflecting and learning.

He limits the number of decisions he makes each day so he can focus on the ones that truly matter.

And these small, consistent habits have compounded over time, and they fuel his long-term success.

He's one of the wealthiest guys in the world.

His discipline proves that steady habits beat complicated systems every single time.

Coach Jim Clayton: And here's an interesting fact about Mr.

Coach Jim Clayton: Warren Buffett.

Coach Jim Clayton: He still lives in the same house that he paid $59,000 for

Coach Jim Clayton: That he did before he became a c a whatever there.

He's in he's in uh is he in Omaha?

Coach Jim Clayton: And here's the thing he says.

Coach Jim Clayton: People that drive big cars and live in big houses, that doesn't tell me how much money you're worth.

Coach Jim Clayton: That just tells me how much money you spend.

Yeah.

I love Warren Buffett for that.

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh man, he just keeps it simple.

Yeah.

Then we get to uh somebody like Serena Williams.

Everybody knows who the Williams sisters are from the tennis world.

Serena is one of the greatest athletes of all times.

She sticks to a very strict training, recovery, and mental preparation routines in what she does.

She builds up her day around those core habits instead of chasing new tools or gimmicks.

Her consistency in fundamentals has kept her performing at the top level for decades.

Think about it.

I remember the Williams sisters as teenagers

You know, and now they're both in their, you know, late 30s, 40s, early forties.

So they've for decades they've been able to do this by focusing on what works.

She avoids distractions that could derail the results she's hoping to achieve.

Her success is a clear example of how habits are driving her to her peak performance.

Coach Jim Clayton: And when I listen to you talk about that, here's the key words I picked up out her.

Coach Jim Clayton: One, core habits.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Core.

Coach Jim Clayton: Right there, ma'am

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: She doesn't chase wild things that don't produce results.

Coach Jim Clayton: She's consistent and she sticks to the the basics, the fundamentals.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: And she's great at 'em.

Coach Jim Clayton: Now she's getting up in a little age.

Coach Jim Clayton: Which we all have, and the things we used to do, you just can't do anymore.

Coach Jim Clayton: And her s younger sister, who they both became stars on the circuit

Coach Jim Clayton: Yep.

Coach Jim Clayton: She made a comeback at the US Open this year and she won her first round in doubles.

Coach Jim Clayton: I don't know where she did, but that just says she wanted to see if she could still compete with the best of.

Coach Jim Clayton: And she really did

Coach Jim Clayton: For that age.

Coach Jim Clayton: Now anybody her age, she'd smoke them off the court.

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: But again, that's learning what?

Coach Jim Clayton: She came from an old d old school dad.

Mm-hmm.

Coach Jim Clayton: Who put in the work, put in the work, reps, reps, reps, reps over and over and over and over and over.

Coach Jim Clayton: How long we gonna do this, Dad?

Coach Jim Clayton: We're gonna do it so long, honey, that you can't get it wrong.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: And it's paid off

Coach Jim Clayton: When everybody else wasn't willing to do that.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: They're not willing to do it.

Coach Jim Clayton: Then you're not going to get those results.

Yeah.

The last person I I I pulled up and put on our list here to talk about is Jeff Bezos.

Jeff Bezos is a little bit of a polarizing figure for a lot of people, but he's the founder of Amazon and he limits his daily decisions so he can avoid a mental overload, and he keeps his workflows very simple.

He prioritizes his energy for high value activities like innovation and long-term strategy.

I mean, look at it.

The guy has a company that is launching people into space.

You know, he's he's done well.

He owns the Washington Post, I believe it is.

So he's he's expanded what he does for his investments and his innovation and what he's wanting to do.

By removing the unnecessary distractions and relying on these routines, Bezos ensures that consistent habits, not complicated systems, drive the growth of his businesses.

His approach shows how clarity and discipline can outperform complexity every single time.

Coach Jim Clayton: And you see, the thing about it is is people see where he is now.

Coach Jim Clayton: But they do not remember

Coach Jim Clayton: Now he made his thing about taking a door, you know, man, and putting it on two saw horses, and that was his desk.

Coach Jim Clayton: That he started on the top floor of the police building in downtown Huntington on 10th Street

That was yep, that was a call center there.

Coach Jim Clayton: He took over that and got to Huntington to buy into all that stuff.

Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?

Coach Jim Clayton: And got a deal for 'em and it I mean I don't know the whole complexities of the whole thing.

I mean the they they

the the the company Amazon started selling books.

That was what they did.

And it was the first major online retailer who sold books at a good price and shipped them really quick.

And that was his goal.

And he built the habits for himself and then trained his employees to do the same thing.

And then when he started to expand his business, he came to Huntington.

We still have an Amazon call center just down the road right here.

Coach Jim Clayton: You can see it from Interstate.

Coach Jim Clayton: It's a heck of a lot bigger than that floor he started on.

Oh yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: But you see, everybody sees the end result

Coach Jim Clayton: They do not see the process.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

Coach Jim Clayton: And the process has been paid by people that have done two things.

Coach Jim Clayton: They paid the price.

Coach Jim Clayton: And they went through the process.

Coach Jim Clayton: They didn't skip anything.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: And they kept reinvesting and keep what?

Coach Jim Clayton: Moving forward.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Moving forward.

Coach Jim Clayton: And you see, you can there you can enlist ton of people that have done that same thing.

Coach Jim Clayton: But it didn't start at the penthouse.

Coach Jim Clayton: Uh-huh.

Coach Jim Clayton: They started on the ground floor.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: And what about the people who had no path to follow?

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, it's like you think about it in my business.

Coach Jim Clayton: You were the first.

Coach Jim Clayton: There was no such thing as a basketball lesson.

Coach Jim Clayton: So, you know, there was no model to follow.

Coach Jim Clayton: Now, for people wanting to get into this

Coach Jim Clayton: There's all kinds of models to follow, you know?

Coach Jim Clayton: But there wasn't.

Coach Jim Clayton: You had to be a trail blade.

Coach Jim Clayton: You had to cut the road.

Coach Jim Clayton: You had to pave the road.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: You had to do all those things.

Coach Jim Clayton: See, there's a difference between somebody that drives down the road once it's paved and then somebody that built the road.

Yes.

Coach Jim Clayton: Big difference in those two.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: And then that's the lasting difference.

Coach Jim Clayton: Because they know what?

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, it's not worth it.

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, I'm looking for a way out.

Coach Jim Clayton: Man, this is hard.

Coach Jim Clayton: No, they're not even thinking about that.

Coach Jim Clayton: Those thoughts never entered her mind.

Coach Jim Clayton: They just keep going, trudging forward.

Coach Jim Clayton: Keep going, keep going, keep going.

Coach Jim Clayton: The little engine that could.

Coach Jim Clayton: Toot doot.

Coach Jim Clayton: You know, that's the same principle.

Yeah.

And the pr the principle with what you know looking at these people, these four individuals, and what we've talked about here, the principle is really, really clear.

Tools are multipliers, but habits

That's the foundation.

You can add as many apps or gadgets as you want, but without the habits to support those tools.

Coach Jim Clayton: They won't take you very far.

Coach Jim Clayton: Hundred percent.

Coach Jim Clayton: And the bigger the house, guess what?

Coach Jim Clayton: The bigger the foundation gotta be.

Yep.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: You just can't you k you you if you go you can't have

Coach Jim Clayton: a twenty thousand square foot building on a two thousand square foot foundation.

It ain't gonna work.

Coach Jim Clayton: It ain't gonna work.

Coach Jim Clayton: Not gonna hold it up.

Coach Jim Clayton: Never will.

Coach Jim Clayton: So however big it is

Coach Jim Clayton: I don't know how big you want it.

Coach Jim Clayton: I don't I me personally, bigger's not always better.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: So it just depends on what you want.

Coach Jim Clayton: It's your preference.

Yeah.

So if you had to give the people listening right now

One simple habit that they could start this week right now that would immediately improve their productivity, Jim.

What would you throw at them?

Coach Jim Clayton: I'm gonna tell you.

Coach Jim Clayton: First thing I would say if I had to give you one thing, one simple habit, is to be consistent.

Coach Jim Clayton: Be consistent.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: Now that starts before your feet hit the floor every morning when you swivel out of bed.

Coach Jim Clayton: Boom.

Coach Jim Clayton: I'm gonna get up.

Coach Jim Clayton: I'm gonna what?

Coach Jim Clayton: I'm gonna have a good attitude.

Coach Jim Clayton: Now to be consistent, there's a lot of intangibles that go under that.

Yeah

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, I'm gonna have my A game on every day, I'm gonna be dressed, I'm gonna be ready to go, I'm gonna see that because with consistency, guess where everybody's gonna fall short?

Coach Jim Clayton: Focus.

Coach Jim Clayton: Can't focus.

Coach Jim Clayton: You can't have consistency without focus.

Coach Jim Clayton: And is that something everybody can have?

Coach Jim Clayton: Do you have to buy it

Mm-hmm.

No, you don't have to buy it.

You don't.

I mean, can consistent actions will outperform complicated systems every single time.

That's exactly right.

Like, for example.

Consistency.

Every Thursday night, 8 30.

Where are we at?

We're right here.

Right here.

Recording this show because we want to be consistent.

We want to get the messages that we're hoping to share, the content we're hoping to get.

For the listeners, we want to make sure it's out.

And we've got it scheduled.

We know Thursday night, we're going to be here.

We're going to do this.

We are considered that is our habit.

Now, we have great tools to put this podcast together.

We've got a Rodcaster Pro 2.

We've got some pod mics.

We've got a MacBook sitting here.

We've got the tools to do it, but if we're not consistent, we're wasting our time.

Coach Jim Clayton: No question.

Coach Jim Clayton: And so, you know, the people that would benefit from this, sometimes they're not listening.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Because they're out chasing something.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: Now, remember, Serena Williams says, Well, I'm not chasing nothing.

Coach Jim Clayton: They're chasing me.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, so in my sport and what I do, they're all chasing the scholarship.

Mm-hmm.

Coach Jim Clayton: But the question is, do they really want to have scholarship?

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Because when it gets down to where they need to at the nitty-gritty here in eleventh and twelfth grade, things have all changed.

Coach Jim Clayton: Because of inconsistency and lack of focus.

Yes.

Coach Jim Clayton: So again, they get to a certain high school, they used to train, train, train, train, train.

Coach Jim Clayton: So what are you doing?

Coach Jim Clayton: We're developing a bunch of really good young kids

Coach Jim Clayton: Well guess what?

Coach Jim Clayton: Last time I checked, they're not gonna be young forever.

Right.

Coach Jim Clayton: What happens when they get to high school and college?

Coach Jim Clayton: They're not young anymore.

Coach Jim Clayton: Now the things that they used to like doing down here, guess what?

Coach Jim Clayton: They lost that consistency.

Coach Jim Clayton: They lost that focus

Coach Jim Clayton: Now they're totally out trying to chase everything.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Uh-uh.

Coach Jim Clayton: Let it chase you.

Uh-huh.

Coach Jim Clayton: You know, unless you're the lead dog

Coach Jim Clayton: The scenery never changes.

Yeah, the view is not gonna change.

Coach Jim Clayton: It never changes.

Coach Jim Clayton: It's second place, third place, fourth place, whatever down the road.

Coach Jim Clayton: I'm not looking backwards.

Coach Jim Clayton: But you see, again, what you deem as important, that's what you'll basically go after.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Like the sticky note.

Coach Jim Clayton: I wanted that thing.

Coach Jim Clayton: I put it where I could visually see it every day.

Coach Jim Clayton: And I consistently focused and worked hard to achieve it.

Coach Jim Clayton: And when you get it, that's a sense of accomplishment.

Yes.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: That's motivation.

Coach Jim Clayton: That's positive things.

Coach Jim Clayton: I oh man, I knew I'd never do that.

Coach Jim Clayton: Da-da-da-da-da-da.

Coach Jim Clayton: You're buying into the exit rent.

It plays back into what we talked about with mindset.

Coach Jim Clayton: Positive mindset.

Yes.

Are you are you are you gonna gr are you gonna look at this and find a way to grow or are you gonna look at it and say, well, I'm that's not for me.

Coach Jim Clayton: Well remember, if you don't put much in it, it don't take much to get out.

Right

Coach Jim Clayton: But when you put a lot in it, you hear people say, man, I'm in it too deep now.

Coach Jim Clayton: I can't get out.

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, that's not the way you want to look at it.

Coach Jim Clayton: You're in it where you are because you stuck with it.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah

Coach Jim Clayton: See, that's two ways of looking at it.

Coach Jim Clayton: That's a positive and negative.

Coach Jim Clayton: All right?

Coach Jim Clayton: And I'm just telling you, consistency, telling you, focused, man.

Coach Jim Clayton: That will get you.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah, because if you don't you're incorissent.

Coach Jim Clayton: It means you're up and down.

Coach Jim Clayton: I mean as long as you like if you might like to ride on one of those roller coasters.

Mm-hmm

Coach Jim Clayton: But, you know, again, average.

Coach Jim Clayton: Average.

Coach Jim Clayton: Top and the bottom.

Coach Jim Clayton: Best of the worst.

Coach Jim Clayton: Average.

Coach Jim Clayton: And I don't really think people want to be average.

Coach Jim Clayton: I look at myself, do you really want to be average?

Coach Jim Clayton: No.

Coach Jim Clayton: Well then you can't do what average people do

Coach Jim Clayton: They have no direction.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: No purpose.

Coach Jim Clayton: They're like a bouncy ball on them crazy balls off the wall.

So so what you're saying is they're they're consistent at being inconsistent.

Coach Jim Clayton: Exactly right.

Coach Jim Clayton: They throw stuff on the wall and see if whatever sticks.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: That's what they go with.

Coach Jim Clayton: Now that ain't that's not that's not gonna get it

Coach Jim Clayton: Not gonna cut it.

Coach Jim Clayton: Never has, never will.

Coach Jim Clayton: And you can have the best tools in the world, but without the good habits, the consistency and the focus and the game plan, okay, and the things we just talked about today.

Coach Jim Clayton: Guess what

Coach Jim Clayton: It's not gonna happen.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: It's not gonna happen.

Coach Jim Clayton: Now I want it to happen for you.

Coach Jim Clayton: But you gotta have those things in place to make it happen.

Coach Jim Clayton: And anybody can get those.

Coach Jim Clayton: Excuse me.

Coach Jim Clayton: Anybody can get those.

Coach Jim Clayton: It's not about being rich or poor.

Coach Jim Clayton: It's not about being smart or dumb.

Coach Jim Clayton: It's about being driven.

Coach Jim Clayton: How bad do you want it?

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: Then that's when things start to get better.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: You know, sometimes how bad do you want?

Coach Jim Clayton: Show me how bad you want.

Coach Jim Clayton: I'm gonna go give it to you

Coach Jim Clayton: Because when you give somebody something, guess what?

Coach Jim Clayton: You can take it away.

Yep.

Coach Jim Clayton: But when you earn it, ain't nobody can take it away.

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, they'll talk about you.

Mm-hmm.

Coach Jim Clayton: But that's success, I mean, you know, jealousy is a success disease too.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: They're jealous of because they didn't get there.

Coach Jim Clayton: Well they didn't put to work in

Coach Jim Clayton: You know, so if I'm watching that guy, I'm watching a lot of videos of old old uh groups.

Coach Jim Clayton: Like I'm going tomorrow to Lexington with my daughter to see a concert.

Coach Jim Clayton: I'm going to see a group called Little River Band.

Oh yes.

Coach Jim Clayton: And a group called Three Dog Night.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yep.

Coach Jim Clayton: One is the loneliest number.

Coach Jim Clayton: There you go.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, so

Coach Jim Clayton: I remember all those guys looking at what's that.

Coach Jim Clayton: Now how come I'm not up there doing that?

Coach Jim Clayton: One, I can't sing.

Coach Jim Clayton: Two, I definitely can't walk.

Coach Jim Clayton: I can't play any instruments.

Coach Jim Clayton: But how'd those guys get to that way?

Coach Jim Clayton: Same way.

Coach Jim Clayton: Same exact thing.

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, I can shoot a jump shot and teach that.

Coach Jim Clayton: They worked.

Coach Jim Clayton: They worked on that guitar, that keyboard, or whatever.

Coach Jim Clayton: You know, whatever.

Coach Jim Clayton: And I was I'll I'll I'll end on this one.

Coach Jim Clayton: I was watching a thing last night and they were interviewing uh the lead singer of the Guess Who?

Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: You know who that is?

I don't know his name, but I I mean Norton Cummings.

Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Coach Jim Clayton: And he was talking about one of the greatest thrills of his life.

Coach Jim Clayton: Was getting a phone call

Coach Jim Clayton: Now he's already got success hits.

Coach Jim Clayton: I mean everything, right?

Coach Jim Clayton: I mean this guy, no time, left for all that stuff.

Coach Jim Clayton: He got a call from Ringo Star.

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh

Coach Jim Clayton: Ringo wanted to be in his all-star band.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Now the all-star bands consist I saw Ringo's all-star band.

Oh yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: There's been a Toto, Edgar Winter.

I mean you talk about Tim Schmidt from the Eagles was in there.

Joe Walsh has played with them.

Coach Jim Clayton: Tons of people.

Coach Jim Clayton: He said I couldn't call Ringo Star

Coach Jim Clayton: He said, I want to be in that.

Coach Jim Clayton: Ringo Star had to call you and invite you.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: So he said, I gotta call.

Coach Jim Clayton: This is Burton, this is Ringoo.

Coach Jim Clayton: I need you to call me.

Coach Jim Clayton: So he said, oh, somebody's playing a prank.

Coach Jim Clayton: So he called a number.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Hello.

Coach Jim Clayton: Ringo started answering.

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh my God, it is Ringo.

Coach Jim Clayton: He goes, that's right.

Coach Jim Clayton: He says, so they wanted me to sing some of my key songs, and plus they needed a keyboard guy.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: And he goes, that was the greatest call because I couldn't do it.

Coach Jim Clayton: I had to be invited.

Coach Jim Clayton: And that was all based off what?

Coach Jim Clayton: my past successes.

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: Which is due to what?

Coach Jim Clayton: Consistency.

Coach Jim Clayton: Focus.

Coach Jim Clayton: Direction.

Coach Jim Clayton: Habit.

Coach Jim Clayton: Practice.

Coach Jim Clayton: Good habits.

Coach Jim Clayton: Bad habits.

Coach Jim Clayton: They probably had a few bad ones in there somewhere down the road.

Coach Jim Clayton: But guess what?

Coach Jim Clayton: They're still kicking.

Coach Jim Clayton: And they sound better now than ever.

Nice.

Coach Jim Clayton: I'm pumped.

Awesome.

Coach Jim Clayton: See, I'll go watch that concert.

Coach Jim Clayton: And I'll be thinking about this.

Coach Jim Clayton: I'll be thinking about what we talked about tonight.

Nice.

Coach Jim Clayton: That's where my brain goes.

Yep.

Coach Jim Clayton: And I'll be sharing it with my daughter.

Coach Jim Clayton: She has no idea.

I don't know.

She might be listening.

Coach Jim Clayton: She might be listening.

Looking at the stats, there is somebody listening where she lives.

So it could be her.

Coach Jim Clayton: It could be her.

Coach Jim Clayton: There you go

Before we wrap up today, we're up to one of, as I've said before, my favorite segments I've ever come up with on a podcast.

And that's where we're going to throw to Coach Clayton with his Wisdom of the Week.

Cheesy Announcer Guy: Now it's time for Jimmy's Wisdom of the Week.

Cheesy Announcer Guy: This is where Jimmy shares one of his famous genius to inspire the listener.

Okay, Jim, so I'm gonna I'm gonna tell the the the folks how the sausage is made here a little bit.

We started recording without getting uh getting the wisdom of the week down on paper

So I'm going to throw it to you right now and let you throw out the wisdom of the week that you've chosen and break it down for us and tell us all about it.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, the wisdom of the week this week is goals without a without a

Coach Jim Clayton: Goals without a plan are just dreams.

Coach Jim Clayton: Every night we go to bed, we dream of the way things could be, want to be, all those things, right?

Coach Jim Clayton: But yeah, the question is, there's dreamers and there's doers.

Coach Jim Clayton: Which one are you?

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: So if you dream it the way you want it to be, what plan do you have set place?

Coach Jim Clayton: Set in place that you can go start knocking those things off.

Coach Jim Clayton: One, two, three, four, five, six.

Coach Jim Clayton: Because if you don't have one

Coach Jim Clayton: It's just going to be a really good dream, and you're going to wake up to tomorrow, and that's called reality.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: So set your goals, but have a plan.

Coach Jim Clayton: And then turn that dream into what?

Coach Jim Clayton: Something positive.

Coach Jim Clayton: That you actually.

Coach Jim Clayton: Dreamed up and wanted to do.

Coach Jim Clayton: Because that's a sense of accomplishment.

Coach Jim Clayton: And when you do those things and you put your head down every night on that pillow,

Coach Jim Clayton: Guess what, boy?

Coach Jim Clayton: Sleep a whole lot better.

Coach Jim Clayton: No regrets, baby.

Coach Jim Clayton: No regrets.

Thank you for that, Jim.

Another great wisdom of the week here on Shooting It Straight.

Before we close out, let's take a minute and wrap up what it is we've covered today.

Tonight we talked about the difference between tools and habits, why relying on tools alone

rarely works, and how to create systems that actually support your natural workflow.

We also shared some real life examples showing that minimal tools combined with strong habits often lead to the best results.

The big takeaway is this.

Tools can help, but habits are what drive real lasting productivity.

Focus on building simple, consistent habits first, and then use tools to reinforce them.

Jim, do you want to add any one final thought before we move into our closing announcements?

Oh, you nailed it, my friend.

Coach Jim Clayton: You nailed it.

Coach Jim Clayton: Habits.

Coach Jim Clayton: Habits.

Coach Jim Clayton: is what you if you want to be in that that place where you hit that big shot

Coach Jim Clayton: And the crowd is going crazy.

Coach Jim Clayton: You gotta put the practice in and develop those habits when there's nobody watching

Coach Jim Clayton: It's what you do when nobody's watching.

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Coach Jim Clayton: And the thing about it is, is in today's world, almost everything that goes on with our youth is adult generated.

Coach Jim Clayton: It's not generated by the person that really wants it.

Yeah.

Coach Jim Clayton: So start thinking on your own.

Coach Jim Clayton: Getting outside your comfort zone, going out on that Taj Mahal court that your mom and dad built for you and working on this stuff.

Coach Jim Clayton: Because then one day

Coach Jim Clayton: It'll happen and you'll feel like, man, have I done that before?

Yeah, deja vu, baby.

Nice.

So next week on Shooting It Straight, we're tackling a myth that nearly all of us fall for.

The idea that multitasking makes us more productive.

The truth is, science shows multitasking actually slows us down, drains our focus, and leaves us feeling busier than we really are.

We're going to break down what's really happening in your brain when you try to juggle too much at once.

We're going to share strategies for building deep focus and talk about how to cut through daily distractions without ignoring the people who need you.

If you've ever felt like you're working hard but not getting anywhere, this is an episode you won't want to miss.

So join us as we record straight on multitasking and show you how Focus wins every time.

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Don't let tools distract you.

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Consistency beats complexity every time.

Coach Jim Clayton: And always keep shooting it straight.

Coach Jim Clayton: Bam, son