Activity vs. Productivity: Are You Truly Achieving?

In this episode of “Shooting It Straight,” hosts Randy Black and Coach Jim Clayton delve into the crucial difference between being busy and being productive. They explore how activity often masquerades as achievement, leading many to confuse motion with progress. Through engaging anecdotes and practical insights, they emphasize the importance of setting clear goals, prioritizing tasks that deliver results, and eliminating distractions to truly achieve productivity. Coach Clayton shares his wisdom on how to focus on outcomes rather than just filling time, using sports analogies to illustrate how practice and preparation can lead to real success both on and off the court.

Listeners are encouraged to reflect on their daily routines and consider whether their actions are truly moving them forward or simply keeping them busy. The hosts discuss practical steps to shift from activity to productivity, including setting clear goals, tracking results, and taking necessary breaks to maintain focus. They also highlight the importance of having faith in future outcomes and letting go of past failures. Join the conversation and learn how to make your time count, ensuring that every action is a step towards achieving your goals.

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Have you ever had one of those days where you ran around like crazy, but at the end of the day, you just couldn't point to a single real result of what you had done?

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Coach Jim Clayton: All the time.

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Yeah.

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It happens a lot.

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A lot of people out there confuse being busy with being productive.

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They look at their calendar, they see that it's packed from top to bottom, and they think, wow, I really got a lot, something, something done today.

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I accomplished a lot.

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But when they stop and look back at it, they realize that all they really did was move around a lot.

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So here's the thing.

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Activity is not the same as productivity.

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Activity is just doing things.

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It's moving.

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It's staying in motion.

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But it doesn't necessarily mean progress.

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Productivity, on the other hand, is tied to outcomes.

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It's about achieving something that actually moves the needle forward.

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Think about sports for a second.

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You can have a basketball player who spends hours running around the court, but if they're not working on, say, free throws or some some game-specific skills,

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All that activity doesn't translate into wins.

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Activity is the motion.

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Productivity is the result.

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And the danger in confusing the two is that we trick ourselves into thinking we're accomplishing something just because we're tired or we're busy.

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But that's not true achievement.

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That's just motion without direction.

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So today we're going to break this down.

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What it really means to be productive, why busyness is such a trap.

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And how we can shift our mindset from just being active to actually being effective.

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So I know we have all had times in our lives when we have had

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Days where we felt like we were really, really busy, but we accomplished very little.

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I had one not that long ago, Jim.

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Uh my job in IT for Putnam County Schools here in West Virginia, I was preparing new laptops

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for incoming freshmen at Poca High School, had 94 laptops to prepare.

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And our process is fairly simple.

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We boot off of a USB stick.

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uh re uh erase the disk, reinstall Windows, and then we have what's called a provisioning package.

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It sets up all the things for us.

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And then we have to log in and let it do its magic.

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And I was having a problem.

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Every machine I had started, all 10 of them that I started that morning, did not complete.

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Every one of them failed.

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I'm like, well, what in the world?

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What's going on here?

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So I started them again.

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All of them failed.

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I was doing a lot, but not being productive, not getting things done.

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Come to find out it wasn't my fault.

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It was my network engineer and I'll throw him under the bus because we're friends.

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But he had had something misconfigured on the network, and it wasn't allowing these devices to connect properly and get out to the internet to do what it needed to do.

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It was a day where I was banging my head on the wall at the end of the day because I did not get the things done that I needed to get done.

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I was not productive.

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I was busy.

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It's a very, very different, a very, very different thing to have to experience it.

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I'm sure you've had some of those too, Jim.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, absolutely.

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Coach Jim Clayton: 100%.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, but a lot of times when we were growing up and this we always heard everybody say, Oh, busy man, I'm busy, I'm busy, I'm busy, I'm busy, I'm busy.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And everybody we just kind of thought, well, being busy is the thing to do.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It really we didn't think beyond the part of being busy.

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Coach Jim Clayton: What are we actually getting done?

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Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, because you know, t we've talked about this before, time you can't get back.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Once you've wasted it, it's gone.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, so many people when they don't have goals, direction, things like that, you know, like here's a classic example.

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Coach Jim Clayton: What's going on today, right now?

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Coach Jim Clayton: I asked the kid, what are you doing?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, I'm running cross country.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, my question is, are you good at cross-country?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Not really.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm running it, I'm doing it to get in shape for basketball.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well I didn't think basketball was a pace game.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, cross-country builds slow twitch muscle fibers

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Coach Jim Clayton: Basketball training builds fast twist muscle fiber.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So you're training what we don't want.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And then at the end of the day, you know, your legs are beat to left.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Cross-country season's over, and then you go right to basketball.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Pound, pound, pound, pound.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you wonder why you have what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: You have no life in your leg.

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Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because somebody did it

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Coach Jim Clayton: And in today's world, we've got a bunch of followers, not a bunch of leaders that actually do the research to see what works, what doesn't work, what's the waste of time.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But it's activity.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well in cross-country, everybody makes the team.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And basketball, everybody that makes that.

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Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: See, so it's it's an activity thing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, activity

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Coach Jim Clayton: You can have activity and get nothing out of it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So my question is with me, now as I'm older, I'm a little wiser, I hope, is

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Coach Jim Clayton: What am I getting out of it?

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Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, if you invest a bunch in something, you don't get any return, that's not a good investment.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, it's not at all.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So if that was money, oh you'd pay attention.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But see, it's time

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Coach Jim Clayton: And then as you get older you look back and say, Man, I wish I had that time back.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well guess what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Can't get it back.

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Nope.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And basketball, well, and sports, boy, it happens all the time.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh my gosh.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You talk about Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and the question is, what are you gonna do about it?

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Coach Jim Clayton: What are you doing about it to make it better?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, so is it how many hours you work

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Coach Jim Clayton: Or is it how many hours you have people there getting what you're offering in your business?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's the key.

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Okay.

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Yeah, we we've and you know there in the opening I've I've kind of defined it already for us in that, you know, and it's what you're saying right now, activity is doing things.

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It's motion, but what's the progress you're making?

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Whereas productivity is achieving, it's make having the outcome.

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It's tied directly to whatever your goal is.

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So examples, and these are examples I got from you, okay?

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A basketball player practicing the wrong drills or practicing the drills the wrong way.

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You know, it's the idea that everybody says practice makes perfect.

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There's no such thing.

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There's no such thing.

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You can't be perfect.

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You can try, and that can be your goal to get as close as possible, but if you're practicing it wrong, you're going to do it wrong in the game.

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You're not going to be successful at it.

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You know, and then you've got, you know, say, let's take an example.

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One of the, I won't say the worst, but he had a track record during his career of not being the best free throw shooter.

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Oh.

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Shaquille O'Neal.

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Yep, he didn't have to be.

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He was a big guy.

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He could pound it down and it was that was that was his game.

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But you send Shaq to the free throw line, you knew there was a good chance he was probably going to miss.

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I'm willing to say Shaq didn't practice free throws.

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But if he did, he could have improved that skill.

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If he had the person there to show him, here's the form, here's the process, here's how you do it.

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Good story on that one.

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Oh, here we go.

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Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm sitting at Sports City U, guy named Jeff Mullins, played for the Golden State Warriors, played at Duke.

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Coach Jim Clayton: had big ears, was a great score.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yep.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He had a basketball out called the Right Way Basketball.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And it had hand prints on it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And he brought it into my old sports CDU in Huntington.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He says, What do you think about this coach?

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Coach Jim Clayton: I said,

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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, well, I like the concept.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But everybody's hand size is not the same.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You guys never thought about that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So we're sitting there talking about Shaq.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He says, well, how would you teach Shaq how to shoot?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because that's what you do.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, well, first thing I'd ask him is can he ride a motorcycle?

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Coach Jim Clayton: And he looked at me with the funniest look he ever seen in your life.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He says, a motorcycle?

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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, yeah, what do you have to do to ride a motorcycle?

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Coach Jim Clayton: You have your hands on the throttle, you gotta pull your wrist back.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

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Coach Jim Clayton: And then the it takes off.

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Coach Jim Clayton: If your wrist is laying on top, it's an idle.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You're just sitting there not going nowhere.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So you gotta have your wrist back.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, if anybody has ever watched Shaq shoot, he never had his wristbutt.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So he never had that flip.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It was just more of a push.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He was high fiving the rim.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And the rim doesn't need anybody to high five him.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So again, that's the root problem.

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Coach Jim Clayton: People said, well, this is what you need to do.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well the question is, what's stopping you from doing it?

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Coach Jim Clayton: See, that's knowing how to get the results you want.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So it's not a general thing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's a specific thing.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And see, when you're talking about activities, you're talking about general stuff.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You walk in a room and you see it like basketball camp is the biggest.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, this is the biggest one.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You walk in a room, the gym, everybody's doing all kinds of stuff.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, this looks good.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Then everybody's blah blah blah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Then you start to dissect what's going on in there.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you got a bunch of people moving, just what you just said.

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Coach Jim Clayton: A bunch of activity.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Then you start to look at what happens.

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Coach Jim Clayton: There's nothing really going on.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's just a bunch of movement with no purpose.

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Coach Jim Clayton: No purpose does not produce productivity.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It was pr produces nothing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: A waste of

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's what I call it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you see it everywhere you go.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I'm going like, oh man.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, so my approach has always been the opposite.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Here's what we're doing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Got it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Here's why we're doing it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Gotcha.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And here's how it's going to improve your problem.

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Coach Jim Clayton: specifically, also known as root of the problem.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Not generalities specific

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Coach Jim Clayton: And see that's the key.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And basketball, I mean sports is huge.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's it's huge.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because you think about in sp basketball, for example, shooting.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's the number one practice skill in the game.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, if if if everybody's doing this more than any other thing, how come it's the worst killing the guy?

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, everybody goes, I'm not sure exactly why.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, generally speaking, shooting is a self-taught thing

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Coach Jim Clayton: You just get up there, grab the ball, and throw it up there, and hope it goes in.

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Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, hope's not a strategy.

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Exactly.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, you gotta have a plan

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Coach Jim Clayton: So here's the plan.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, like I told this today when I was working players out.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, the realm will give you the feedback to everything that you're doing wrong.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And they look at me like

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm not understanding what you're saying.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, let me break it down a step further.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You shoot the ball, it goes to the right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Which probably everybody's done.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Why'd it go right?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, my hand went over that way.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, that was the end result.

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Coach Jim Clayton: What caused the problem?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Your hand was on the side of the ball.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So if your hand's on the side of the ball, as you go to shoot, you twist it, which makes your right elbow go out at the right hand, and then you push it to the what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: You push it to the Ah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So where does your hand need to be?

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Coach Jim Clayton: In the middle of the ball

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well why is it on the side?

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Coach Jim Clayton: I don't know.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well let's figure it out.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you see that's specific stuff

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now we're fixing the problem.

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Coach Jim Clayton: We just go in the gym and do, okay, at this station we're going to do one dribble shot.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Everybody picks it up wrong, shoots it wrong, and everybody, they just go

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Coach Jim Clayton: Good job guys.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah, don't worry about it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah, oh yeah.

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Next next Because what what they were doing is they were being

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Active, not being productive.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's exactly right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And this happens every day.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I use another example.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, we're both educators.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You're current, I'm retired.

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Well I work in education.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm not in the classroom actively.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But I'm there.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So what happens is the old thing, sit and get.

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Oh yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So we we give you a piece of paper

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Coach Jim Clayton: Tell you to look up the answers and you just sit there like learning is taking place.

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Coach Jim Clayton: If there's no transfer from what you're learning to why you're learning and how you're going to use it

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Coach Jim Clayton: Learning is meaningless.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's just time.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You're wasting time.

Randy Black: 00:14:07

Coach Jim Clayton: That's just activity.

Randy Black: 00:14:08

Coach Jim Clayton: So if the principal walks in to do an evaluation and they see that everybody's doing something, they think that's a great class.

Randy Black: 00:14:14

Coach Jim Clayton: No, that's a fake man, I'm just faking you out.

Randy Black: 00:14:17

Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

Randy Black: 00:14:19

Coach Jim Clayton: That's all it is.

Randy Black: 00:14:20

Coach Jim Clayton: And that's not really what it's supposed to be.

Randy Black: 00:14:23

Coach Jim Clayton: And that's been going on for a long time.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's why we got kids that can't read, can't write, can't talk, can't do this, can't do that.

Randy Black: 00:14:32

Coach Jim Clayton: Because we've allowed it to go on.

Randy Black: 00:14:36

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, what you permit, you promote.

Randy Black: 00:14:38

Yes.

Randy Black: 00:14:39

Coach Jim Clayton: And that's at the highest level down.

Randy Black: 00:14:41

Mm-hmm.

Randy Black: 00:14:42

Coach Jim Clayton: Because it runs downhill.

Randy Black: 00:14:44

Coach Jim Clayton: It does.

Randy Black: 00:14:44

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.

Randy Black: 00:14:45

Coach Jim Clayton: And so, you know, I just see this all the time and I it just drives me crazy.

Randy Black: 00:14:51

Coach Jim Clayton: Because and here's another thing with this.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay

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Coach Jim Clayton: How do you know?

Randy Black: 00:14:56

Coach Jim Clayton: I said, what'd you shoot from the foul line last year?

Randy Black: 00:14:59

Coach Jim Clayton: I don't know.

Randy Black: 00:15:01

Coach Jim Clayton: I said, what'd you get last six weeks in history?

Randy Black: 00:15:04

Coach Jim Clayton: Got a hey.

Randy Black: 00:15:06

Coach Jim Clayton: What was the percent?

Randy Black: 00:15:07

Coach Jim Clayton: 100%.

Randy Black: 00:15:09

Coach Jim Clayton: That's why you remember that.

Randy Black: 00:15:11

Coach Jim Clayton: Because the teacher gave it to you.

Randy Black: 00:15:13

Coach Jim Clayton: So we'll give you feedback.

Randy Black: 00:15:15

Coach Jim Clayton: If you don't know what you did, how you ever gonna know what you need to beat?

Randy Black: 00:15:18

Right.

Randy Black: 00:15:18

Coach Jim Clayton: How you ever know if you're getting better?

Randy Black: 00:15:21

Coach Jim Clayton: You don't.

Randy Black: 00:15:22

Coach Jim Clayton: Exactly.

Randy Black: 00:15:23

Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, there's an old saying says people that don't get better, they get bitter.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's why the damn world's mad on them.

Randy Black: 00:15:32

Coach Jim Clayton: Because they ain't getting any better.

Randy Black: 00:15:34

Coach Jim Clayton: Because they're all stuck in activity.

Randy Black: 00:15:37

Coach Jim Clayton: Going through the motion.

Randy Black: 00:15:41

Coach Jim Clayton: Yep.

Randy Black: 00:15:41

Coach Jim Clayton: And that gives me motion sickness

Randy Black: 00:15:44

Coach Jim Clayton: Whew, pukeville man, I'm telling you.

Randy Black: 00:15:46

They are they are doing.

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They are not achieving.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, and then and then, you know, we're setting the bar way too what?

Randy Black: 00:15:54

Coach Jim Clayton: Way too low.

Randy Black: 00:15:55

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yes.

Randy Black: 00:15:56

Mm-hmm.

Randy Black: 00:15:56

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, you're getting it because it's too low.

Randy Black: 00:16:00

Coach Jim Clayton: I'd rather set it high and miss than get it low and get it.

Randy Black: 00:16:04

Right.

Randy Black: 00:16:04

Coach Jim Clayton: You know, the no one ever rises to low expectations

Randy Black: 00:16:07

Coach Jim Clayton: See, that's activity.

Randy Black: 00:16:10

Coach Jim Clayton: It's not productivity.

Randy Black: 00:16:11

Coach Jim Clayton: It's not results.

Randy Black: 00:16:14

Coach Jim Clayton: So what are you interested in

Randy Black: 00:16:16

Coach Jim Clayton: If you really ask people, they're interested in the results.

Randy Black: 00:16:19

Coach Jim Clayton: Then what's stopping you from getting?

Randy Black: 00:16:21

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

Randy Black: 00:16:22

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, I don't know is not going to fix anything.

Randy Black: 00:16:25

Right.

Randy Black: 00:16:26

Coach Jim Clayton: That's just gonna lead to frustration.

Randy Black: 00:16:29

Coach Jim Clayton: And then frustration leads to quitting.

Randy Black: 00:16:32

Like, well, you know, when I was active in the classroom and and kids would say, I don't know, my response to them is, okay.

Randy Black: 00:16:39

I don't know is not really an acceptable answer.

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What you should say is, I don't know, but I want to find out.

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Or I don't know or I will find out.

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Or I don't know, but I'm going to work to learn what the answer is.

Randy Black: 00:16:50

And the kids are like, Wow, like the light bulbs go off and it's that proverbial scene when you're a teacher and you're like, That kid just got it.

Randy Black: 00:16:56

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, that's a different mindset.

Randy Black: 00:16:58

Yeah.

Randy Black: 00:16:59

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Randy Black: 00:16:59

Coach Jim Clayton: He's thinking he's thinking long term.

Randy Black: 00:17:03

Coach Jim Clayton: But see, everything we do is like short term.

Randy Black: 00:17:05

Yes.

Randy Black: 00:17:05

Coach Jim Clayton: What can we get in the quick fix?

Randy Black: 00:17:07

Instant gratification.

Randy Black: 00:17:07

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh my God, I hate that word.

Randy Black: 00:17:10

Coach Jim Clayton: I hate instant gratification.

Randy Black: 00:17:12

Coach Jim Clayton: You know, everybody's entitled.

Randy Black: 00:17:14

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, I'm entitled to this because I'm the you're not entitled to anything.

Randy Black: 00:17:19

Coach Jim Clayton: You work to get it.

Randy Black: 00:17:21

Coach Jim Clayton: Right.

Randy Black: 00:17:22

Coach Jim Clayton: And then once you get it, here's the kicker.

Randy Black: 00:17:25

Coach Jim Clayton: Nobody can take it away from you.

Randy Black: 00:17:27

Coach Jim Clayton: They're not going to take it away from you.

Randy Black: 00:17:29

Coach Jim Clayton: Because you earned it.

Randy Black: 00:17:30

Right.

Randy Black: 00:17:31

Coach Jim Clayton: You earned it.

Randy Black: 00:17:32

Coach Jim Clayton: You got it.

Randy Black: 00:17:33

Coach Jim Clayton: They can say whatever they want about you.

Randy Black: 00:17:36

Coach Jim Clayton: Which most people do.

Randy Black: 00:17:38

Coach Jim Clayton: That's jealousy is earned.

Randy Black: 00:17:39

Coach Jim Clayton: I always say that.

Randy Black: 00:17:39

Coach Jim Clayton: Jealousy is earned.

Randy Black: 00:17:40

Coach Jim Clayton: It is.

Randy Black: 00:17:41

Coach Jim Clayton: But you can't worry.

Randy Black: 00:17:42

Coach Jim Clayton: People that are that successful, do you think they even worry about that?

Randy Black: 00:17:45

Not at all.

Randy Black: 00:17:46

Coach Jim Clayton: That like a

Randy Black: 00:17:48

Coach Jim Clayton: Nothing.

Randy Black: 00:17:49

Coach Jim Clayton: See you, not even gonna think about it.

Randy Black: 00:17:51

Coach Jim Clayton: Not even gonna waste my time thinking about things that steal my time.

Randy Black: 00:17:57

Coach Jim Clayton: And that's what activity does.

Randy Black: 00:17:59

Coach Jim Clayton: It's a time thief.

Randy Black: 00:18:01

Yeah.

Randy Black: 00:18:02

So, you know, like like we've defined here and we've talked about a little bit like the idea that busy does not equal productive.

Randy Black: 00:18:08

So here's my question, Jim.

Randy Black: 00:18:11

How do you personally, how do you tell the difference between just staying busy and actually being productive?

Randy Black: 00:18:18

What is it that gives you that signal in your life?

Randy Black: 00:18:21

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, you know, for me, um, well, I'm gonna tell you something.

Randy Black: 00:18:27

Coach Jim Clayton: For me, doing something I hate.

Randy Black: 00:18:30

Okay.

Randy Black: 00:18:31

Coach Jim Clayton: Because I'm not thinking about getting better at it.

Randy Black: 00:18:35

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Randy Black: 00:18:36

Coach Jim Clayton: I'm just saying about putting in a time.

Randy Black: 00:18:40

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Randy Black: 00:18:40

Coach Jim Clayton: I'm not making a time count.

Randy Black: 00:18:42

It's it yeah.

Randy Black: 00:18:42

Well here's an example here's you saying that, here's the example that pops in my head

Randy Black: 00:18:46

And I'm weird.

Randy Black: 00:18:47

Okay.

Randy Black: 00:18:48

I've I I was a weird individual in my younger day.

Randy Black: 00:18:50

I'm still weird.

Randy Black: 00:18:51

But I love to mow grass.

Randy Black: 00:18:54

Oh, you absolutely love to mow grass, but there's so many people who hate it.

Randy Black: 00:18:58

And they're out there just to get it done.

Randy Black: 00:19:01

I went out and cut grass.

Randy Black: 00:19:02

Like, and my dad will tell you the stories.

Randy Black: 00:19:04

I would find ways with the riding mower

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Or with a push mower to make sure that I went different directions so that it without having to buy the brush and stuff that these long care people use to make the lines look different, like in the baseball fields, the outfield and stuff and on then.

Randy Black: 00:19:20

I would try to make that happen in the yard.

Randy Black: 00:19:22

And my dad would come home and he's like, why do you keep doing that?

Randy Black: 00:19:25

I said, because I love doing this and I feel like I'm doing something good.

Randy Black: 00:19:29

It's the same idea.

Randy Black: 00:19:30

I was being productive in what I was doing.

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I wasn't just out there to get it done.

Randy Black: 00:19:34

My brother, he hated it so much, he's like, I don't care.

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I'm just gonna cut it

Randy Black: 00:19:38

And he'd go through and he'd trim the yard and it'd be s scalped in places and stuff 'cause he just wanted to get it done.

Randy Black: 00:19:44

It's he wasn't being productive, he was just being busy

Randy Black: 00:19:47

Coach Jim Clayton: So most people that like like I said, I I'm big on that.

Randy Black: 00:19:50

Coach Jim Clayton: So for me, here's as simple as it gets.

Randy Black: 00:19:54

Coach Jim Clayton: I get up, I'm gonna cut my grass

Randy Black: 00:19:56

Coach Jim Clayton: And it's striped.

Randy Black: 00:19:58

Coach Jim Clayton: It's got straight lines.

Randy Black: 00:19:59

Coach Jim Clayton: Just like our podcast, shooting it straight by God, I'm cutting it straight.

Randy Black: 00:20:03

Yep.

Randy Black: 00:20:04

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Randy Black: 00:20:04

Coach Jim Clayton: I get it done

Randy Black: 00:20:07

Coach Jim Clayton: T weed eat it.

Randy Black: 00:20:08

Coach Jim Clayton: I mean trim up the edges sometimes.

Randy Black: 00:20:10

Coach Jim Clayton: You may sometimes it doesn't need it.

Randy Black: 00:20:12

Coach Jim Clayton: Trim my bushes.

Randy Black: 00:20:13

Coach Jim Clayton: Make sure they're nice and round.

Randy Black: 00:20:15

Coach Jim Clayton: No wild hair sticking out.

Randy Black: 00:20:18

Coach Jim Clayton: Clean my hot tub.

Randy Black: 00:20:21

Coach Jim Clayton: Check my pool.

Randy Black: 00:20:23

Coach Jim Clayton: Clean my car

Randy Black: 00:20:25

Coach Jim Clayton: At the end of the day, I stopped.

Randy Black: 00:20:27

Coach Jim Clayton: What have I done?

Randy Black: 00:20:28

Coach Jim Clayton: Everything I accomplished.

Randy Black: 00:20:31

Coach Jim Clayton: Same principle.

Randy Black: 00:20:33

Coach Jim Clayton: I was doing things.

Randy Black: 00:20:35

Coach Jim Clayton: But I got done exactly what my goals were and my checklist was.

Randy Black: 00:20:39

Coach Jim Clayton: Right.

Randy Black: 00:20:40

Coach Jim Clayton: End of conversation.

Randy Black: 00:20:42

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Randy Black: 00:20:42

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Randy Black: 00:20:43

Coach Jim Clayton: I'm not using the yank method.

Randy Black: 00:20:45

Coach Jim Clayton: Uh well I'll get this and I'll go over here and get that.

Randy Black: 00:20:48

Coach Jim Clayton: There's no so there's no plan to what you're doing.

Randy Black: 00:20:52

Coach Jim Clayton: You're just like grabbing stuff on the fly.

Randy Black: 00:20:55

You know, you're

Randy Black: 00:20:57

You are you're getting things done, but there's no value in what you're getting done.

Randy Black: 00:21:03

Hundred percent.

Randy Black: 00:21:03

You know, you're like, oh, I've been so busy, but you know, what what did you really do?

Randy Black: 00:21:08

Eh, not much.

Randy Black: 00:21:09

So it's it's it's that same idea, you know, that um, you know, like you said, in in education, that set and get model and just, you know, the kids are like, eh, I turned in all my work.

Randy Black: 00:21:19

And don't be wrong.

Randy Black: 00:21:20

I taught that way for the longest time of my career.

Randy Black: 00:21:23

And it took me being out of a classroom in the coaching role with of to coaching people in technology and then working in technology and seeing all these other great things in classrooms to realize

Randy Black: 00:21:34

I was doing it wrong.

Randy Black: 00:21:36

That I was not doing it right all the time.

Randy Black: 00:21:38

And that I needed to if I got back in the classroom, I had to make a change.

Randy Black: 00:21:41

Coach Jim Clayton: And I saw it.

Randy Black: 00:21:42

Coach Jim Clayton: Ooh, that's that hard pill.

Randy Black: 00:21:43

Coach Jim Clayton: We talked about the word change.

Randy Black: 00:21:44

Coach Jim Clayton: Change is tough.

Randy Black: 00:21:45

Coach Jim Clayton: Woo!

Randy Black: 00:21:46

Coach Jim Clayton: But see, there's a better way to do it.

Randy Black: 00:21:47

Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

Randy Black: 00:21:48

Coach Jim Clayton: There's always a better way to do things.

Randy Black: 00:21:50

Coach Jim Clayton: And there's more than one way to do things.

Randy Black: 00:21:52

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, but what when you see what you had done, you checked off everything, it also gives you a sense of accomplishment.

Randy Black: 00:22:00

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Randy Black: 00:22:00

Coach Jim Clayton: Because you know exactly what you do.

Randy Black: 00:22:02

Coach Jim Clayton: So, you know, some of my friends have business and I go, how was it how you doing, man?

Randy Black: 00:22:06

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh I'm busy.

Randy Black: 00:22:07

Coach Jim Clayton: Well did you have a good day?

Randy Black: 00:22:08

Coach Jim Clayton: No, not really.

Randy Black: 00:22:09

Coach Jim Clayton: So if you're busy all day but you didn't have a good day, what's missing?

Randy Black: 00:22:13

Yeah.

Randy Black: 00:22:15

Coach Jim Clayton: Now you'd have said, man, I'm not very busy.

Randy Black: 00:22:18

Coach Jim Clayton: What kind of days you have?

Randy Black: 00:22:19

Coach Jim Clayton: Not very good.

Randy Black: 00:22:19

Coach Jim Clayton: Well that's because you weren't busy.

Randy Black: 00:22:21

Uh-huh.

Randy Black: 00:22:22

Coach Jim Clayton: You didn't have customers

Randy Black: 00:22:24

Right.

Randy Black: 00:22:24

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Randy Black: 00:22:24

Coach Jim Clayton: So if you're just sitting, so what are you figuring out?

Randy Black: 00:22:27

Coach Jim Clayton: Well how can I how can I get what?

Randy Black: 00:22:29

Coach Jim Clayton: How can I get more customers?

Randy Black: 00:22:30

Coach Jim Clayton: You can be like my the the guy there's a guy up there in Fairmont, West Virginia

Randy Black: 00:22:35

Coach Jim Clayton: It has a hot dog stamp, boy, it's one of the best ones called Yans.

Randy Black: 00:22:39

Oh, I've heard about it.

Randy Black: 00:22:40

Okay.

Randy Black: 00:22:41

I used to work with a gentleman at Putnam County Schools who told us all about it.

Randy Black: 00:22:44

Coach Jim Clayton: First time I went up there with a coach named Craig Harmon from Ripley

Randy Black: 00:22:48

Coach Jim Clayton: And he played at Fairmont State.

Randy Black: 00:22:49

Yeah.

Randy Black: 00:22:50

Coach Jim Clayton: So we were going to Pittsburgh to a Nike clinic.

Randy Black: 00:22:52

Coach Jim Clayton: That was when I was went and sat in the front row and took notes, not when I was behind the podium speaking.

Randy Black: 00:22:58

Okay.

Randy Black: 00:22:58

Coach Jim Clayton: And we says, I'm going to take you someplace.

Randy Black: 00:23:00

Coach Jim Clayton: You're going to like it

Randy Black: 00:23:01

Coach Jim Clayton: So I pulled up, we pulled up, look like a trailer, you know, type thing.

Randy Black: 00:23:04

Coach Jim Clayton: He goes, now watch what's gonna happen.

Randy Black: 00:23:06

Coach Jim Clayton: You're gonna see people go in there.

Randy Black: 00:23:08

Coach Jim Clayton: And you're gonna see what people come right out.

Randy Black: 00:23:10

Coach Jim Clayton: Now when we walk in there, you're gonna see people they're eating hot dog

Randy Black: 00:23:14

Coach Jim Clayton: But you gonna see him with a a big thing of chocolate milk or one of those orange crust, grape crust, in a in the big bottle.

Randy Black: 00:23:23

Yeah.

Randy Black: 00:23:23

Coach Jim Clayton: And I'm thinking, well, why don't they have that chocolate milk?

Randy Black: 00:23:26

Coach Jim Clayton: He goes, Oh, you'll know

Randy Black: 00:23:28

Coach Jim Clayton: So I go in there and eat the hot dogs.

Randy Black: 00:23:30

Coach Jim Clayton: Man, they were they were so good.

Randy Black: 00:23:32

Coach Jim Clayton: And they had there's one of them ones you bite into it and a couple seconds later

Randy Black: 00:23:38

Coach Jim Clayton: The spice hits you.

Randy Black: 00:23:39

Yeah.

Randy Black: 00:23:39

Coach Jim Clayton: But it doesn't knock you out.

Randy Black: 00:23:41

Coach Jim Clayton: It's just it's there.

Randy Black: 00:23:42

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Randy Black: 00:23:43

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, they drinking that chocolate milk to cover that spice.

Randy Black: 00:23:46

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, that guy's 80 plus years old.

Randy Black: 00:23:50

Coach Jim Clayton: To this day, he goes in.

Randy Black: 00:23:53

Coach Jim Clayton: 80 hot dogs, 100 hot dogs.

Randy Black: 00:23:56

Coach Jim Clayton: I'm selling 100 hot dogs.

Randy Black: 00:23:58

Coach Jim Clayton: As soon as 100 hot dogs are sold,

Randy Black: 00:24:01

Coach Jim Clayton: He's done.

Randy Black: 00:24:02

Coach Jim Clayton: I'm shutting the doors going home.

Randy Black: 00:24:04

Yeah.

Randy Black: 00:24:05

Coach Jim Clayton: I'm not gonna stand sh I'm not gonna sell 50 and sit around, you know me, but he's done this because he knows how many he's gonna sell.

Randy Black: 00:24:12

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah

Randy Black: 00:24:13

Coach Jim Clayton: And he closes it up.

Randy Black: 00:24:15

Coach Jim Clayton: He doesn't sit around and wait on things to happen.

Randy Black: 00:24:17

Coach Jim Clayton: He makes it happen.

Randy Black: 00:24:17

Coach Jim Clayton: This is my quota.

Randy Black: 00:24:18

Coach Jim Clayton: This is what I'm doing.

Randy Black: 00:24:19

Coach Jim Clayton: Guess what?

Randy Black: 00:24:20

Coach Jim Clayton: So I use that strategy.

Randy Black: 00:24:22

Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

Randy Black: 00:24:22

Coach Jim Clayton: And I got my guns, I got five of them, I'm working three hours.

Randy Black: 00:24:25

Coach Jim Clayton: You do the math.

Randy Black: 00:24:26

Coach Jim Clayton: That's 15 players.

Randy Black: 00:24:28

Coach Jim Clayton: Five an hour.

Randy Black: 00:24:29

Coach Jim Clayton: At the end, guess what?

Randy Black: 00:24:31

Coach Jim Clayton: I'm going home.

Randy Black: 00:24:32

Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

Randy Black: 00:24:33

Coach Jim Clayton: I know exactly I'm not waiting on somebody to walk in the door.

Randy Black: 00:24:36

Coach Jim Clayton: I've already got it what?

Randy Black: 00:24:38

Coach Jim Clayton: Set.

Randy Black: 00:24:38

Yep.

Randy Black: 00:24:39

Coach Jim Clayton: Now some businesses can do that better than other businesses.

Randy Black: 00:24:42

True.

Randy Black: 00:24:43

Coach Jim Clayton: But again, you have to be creative enough to now I couldn't do five individual people at one time if I unless I had five different people working for me.

Randy Black: 00:24:54

Coach Jim Clayton: But I got technology working for me.

Randy Black: 00:24:57

Yeah.

Randy Black: 00:24:58

Coach Jim Clayton: I don't have to go chase the ball very often.

Randy Black: 00:25:00

Right.

Randy Black: 00:25:01

Coach Jim Clayton: And I can evaluate and I can coast and I can video and I can show you after each drill.

Randy Black: 00:25:06

Coach Jim Clayton: Look, look, look, here's what you're doing wrong.

Randy Black: 00:25:08

Coach Jim Clayton: Here's the drill.

Randy Black: 00:25:09

Coach Jim Clayton: Here's why we're doing it.

Randy Black: 00:25:10

Coach Jim Clayton: Here's the correction we're going to make.

Randy Black: 00:25:11

Coach Jim Clayton: Here's what you made on this one.

Randy Black: 00:25:13

Coach Jim Clayton: Now guess what?

Randy Black: 00:25:14

Coach Jim Clayton: Let's make this correction and see if we can be better at what we were doing.

Randy Black: 00:25:17

Coach Jim Clayton: I got you, coach.

Randy Black: 00:25:18

Yeah.

Randy Black: 00:25:19

Coach Jim Clayton: See, that's productivity.

Randy Black: 00:25:21

Coach Jim Clayton: Because now they're trying to get they're trying to actually get an outcome based on a change that is made to correct the problem.

Randy Black: 00:25:29

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Randy Black: 00:25:30

Coach Jim Clayton: Not just shooting, hoping we figure this thing out.

Randy Black: 00:25:34

Coach Jim Clayton: No.

Randy Black: 00:25:35

Coach Jim Clayton: It's not going to work.

Randy Black: 00:25:37

Coach Jim Clayton: Wrong plus wrong, you spoke about that earlier, produces twice as wrong.

Randy Black: 00:25:42

Exactly.

Randy Black: 00:25:42

Coach Jim Clayton: And you can't do things wrong and get them right.

Randy Black: 00:25:45

Yeah.

Randy Black: 00:25:46

Coach Jim Clayton: And you'll never do what you don't know.

Randy Black: 00:25:50

Coach Jim Clayton: So knowledge is power if you know how to use it, okay, to get the results that you want.

Randy Black: 00:25:56

Coach Jim Clayton: But some people are very knowledgeable.

Randy Black: 00:25:58

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh my God, they're smart.

Randy Black: 00:26:00

Coach Jim Clayton: But they do not know how to translate that knowledge into business.

Randy Black: 00:26:05

Yeah.

Randy Black: 00:26:06

Coach Jim Clayton: They're not real smart when it comes to that.

Randy Black: 00:26:08

Yeah.

Randy Black: 00:26:09

You see it all the time.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And that's why they gotta hire so they gotta hire people, you know, specialists.

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Right.

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Somebody to help keep them on the track.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Keep them on the path.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's exactly right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That was the number one reason why I didn't have a podcast.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because I didn't have you.

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See because you probably could have made it work.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh no, I tried.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I hit the same barrier, stop, stop, end of the road, boom, every time.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So I'm thinking I'm not doing this again the same way I did it before.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I have to have the guy that knows how to do all the stuff

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Coach Jim Clayton: that you know how to do that I can't do.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And if not, here's the deal.

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Coach Jim Clayton: We're not having this conversation.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And that's the same principle.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now we have to do that.

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That has meaning, maybe not just to us, but to people who are listening as well.

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That we are working to share information.

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We're working to go through these discussions in a way that

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You know, not only, you know, helps me and helps you, because things we've talked about, I know that it's made you think and it's made me think, and it's helped made us both look at things and go

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Hey, maybe maybe he's got a point on that one.

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Maybe maybe he's coming from a different direction on this and it makes a lot more sense than what I was thinking.

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But I know we got people who are listening who think the same thing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh no question.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, it's like, you know, you're teaching somebody

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Coach Jim Clayton: Or you have an activity and eight out of ten of 'em get it.

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Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Two don't get it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: How do you know?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because they can't reproduce it, you know what I mean?

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Coach Jim Clayton: In a test or in action or whatever.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you're going, hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, do I just leave those two behind?

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Coach Jim Clayton: A lot of people do.

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Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm not one of those two people.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Somewhere along the line, they're not getting it

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Coach Jim Clayton: So I'm gotta come from another angle.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Then all of a sudden that guy can't say, but this guy don't get it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I gotta come from another angle

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Coach Jim Clayton: And see the great teachers out there of whatever leadership teachers, you know, the ones in in charge of the classroom, in charge of the of the of the uh the business, in charge of whatever that is.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They can figure it out.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They just have an ability to figure it out.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay

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Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, it's easy to accept that because it's e cause it's easy.

Randy Black: 00:28:40

Uh-huh.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Just let them two go behind.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's not what you're in this business for

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Coach Jim Clayton: You see, but we let that happen.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because they don't know what to do.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They don't know who to reach out to.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They don't know.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And they get they get frustrated.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And it happens to everybody.

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People oftentimes make the mistake in thinking that their activity is achievement.

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And it's not.

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It's a false sense of progress that they've developed

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Because it makes them feel good about what they've done.

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It doesn't mean they like they don't look at it and realize, I I really haven't been that productive, but I got a lot of stuff done.

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So I feel okay.

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And that's just not the way to be

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Coach Jim Clayton: No.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And that's exactly you hit it right on the head right there.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That makes them feel good about it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, let me tell you what's gonna make you feel great about it

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Coach Jim Clayton: is seeing the results that you work to get.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Not the drunk in between.

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Coach Jim Clayton: The end results.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I use this example all the time.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I go down the street to McCorn Walls.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I get a $15 car wash.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They run through, throw the water on it, you drive off, go home.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Then I call my go over here and I take it and get it detailed.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Ooh, $150.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Not $15.

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Coach Jim Clayton: What's the difference?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well everybody knows the difference.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And they cleaned out reception, they went and cleaned those masks, they cleaned this, they did this, they steamed clean

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Coach Jim Clayton: They did everything to clean the outside.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They got in between, got all the brake dust off.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Hand did the wheels.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Hand did this, that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you're going, man, that's the difference in the details.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's all in the details.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And guess what everybody leaves out?

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Coach Jim Clayton: They're more in terms of generalities, which is equals activity.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Not in details which produce productivity.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And see that's just simple stuff though.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well that makes sense.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well that's the kind of crap that goes on every day.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, because what most people are doing, they're watching the clock.

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Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They're not making they're watching time.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you ever notice when you watch time it never seems to go anywhere?

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Yep.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I don't watch time.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, I'm making the time count, not watching.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And then when you make the time count, you ever notice when you're really into it?

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Coach Jim Clayton: You look up and man

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Coach Jim Clayton: God, it's heavy today.

Randy Black: 00:31:07

I had that the other day.

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I was working on some stuff in my office, remotely working on computers and different things and looking into stuff and

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I got to work and I started doing this stuff, and then I look up and suddenly it's one o'clock and I haven't eaten lunch because I was so involved in what I was doing.

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And getting things done.

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Being productive in working on those things.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And plus it makes this exciting to do.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You're into it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You're loving it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It makes your job more exciting to go to.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Not just

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Coach Jim Clayton: The same old, same old hoping for a different result.

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Coach Jim Clayton: There's that word hope.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I hope all of you have also success in everything that you do, but the reality of it is it's not gonna happen.

Randy Black: 00:31:43

Right

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Coach Jim Clayton: And the reason it's not happening is because what you're doing produces what you're getting.

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So so let me ask you this question.

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Why do you think people so often fall into that trap of equating their busyness

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with success.

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Why do you think it happens?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well because it's easy.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I really think it's just easy.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's easy.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now the activity and success is not easy.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Nothing successful is easy.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You gotta work at it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you're gonna have those highs.

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And you and you you can be successful by being active.

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You you can you can earn a living, you can do things, you can get things done.

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But it doesn't necessarily mean that you've been productive in what you've done.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, oh, uh a hundred percent.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's like a classic example I heard this one the other day.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You can buy a big house, you can have a big car

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Coach Jim Clayton: That doesn't tell anybody how how rich you are.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That just tells people how much you spent.

Randy Black: 00:32:46

Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That doesn't tell people about what you got.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, are you wealthy?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because you got all that stuff.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now, you can't get that stuff unless you got a little bit of something.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But you see again, people look at you, they look at things one way, see this on the outside, and think it's all in.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But remember, on those success, we talked about this a while back.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You can have success every day.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Sometimes it's just in forms of little victory.

Randy Black: 00:33:13

Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Little successes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You don't got to hit the grand slam every time.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Every time you if you're in retail, every time a product moves out that door, you made some kind of money.

Randy Black: 00:33:26

Coach Jim Clayton: Yes

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, all that adds up to something.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Nothing from nothing adds up to nothing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

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Coach Jim Clayton: So I want something.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I gotta have those numbers to add up.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And again, you can give me every scenario of what a person does.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I can show you activity versus productivity.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I can show you going through the motions versus getting the results.

Randy Black: 00:33:54

And and and with productivity, you know, the results, and this is from

Randy Black: 00:33:58

Some of the notes and stuff you send me is that results are specific and results are effective.

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It's things that you have planned, things that you have put in place has brought those results to you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah, because it's it's a numbers game.

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Coach Jim Clayton: What are your numbers?

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Coach Jim Clayton: I don't know.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But how are you going to be effective?

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Coach Jim Clayton: How you gonna be specific?

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Coach Jim Clayton: What what is it that you need to adjust?

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Coach Jim Clayton: I don't know.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, I don't know is not an answer.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, that's not going to get you where you want.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, that's why people don't stay in things very long.

Randy Black: 00:34:29

Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because they're not getting the the results they want

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, and then they don't know how to what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: They don't they don't know how to change it.

Randy Black: 00:34:36

Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So what you want has to be in alignment.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well what your goals are.

Randy Black: 00:34:42

Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I mean it's like on a podcast.

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That's exactly what I was about to say.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Shooting it what?

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Straight.

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Coach Jim Clayton: The greatest shooters

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Coach Jim Clayton: All the straighter shoes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now, I grant you, all roads lead somewhere.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You can start, you know, some people just have better GPSs

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm gonna get there real quick.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I use this analogy tonight.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, do you like prime rib?

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Coach Jim Clayton: They go, yeah, I like prime rib.

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Coach Jim Clayton: A lot of fat on that baby.

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There is.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, well I'm not interested in fat.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Then guess what I'm going to?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Filet me.

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Coach Jim Clayton: No.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I want the steak.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I don't want the fat

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Coach Jim Clayton: See that's the accent.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now I like prime rib, don't get me wrong.

Randy Black: 00:35:29

Coach Jim Clayton: But filet is what?

Randy Black: 00:35:31

Coach Jim Clayton: Smaller, it's thicker, and it's way more tastier.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It is

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Coach Jim Clayton: And it costs more.

Randy Black: 00:35:37

It does.

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Definitely.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So if the price goes up, generally the Usually it's better quality.

Randy Black: 00:35:45

It's it's it's much it's a much much more uh

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I don't want to say better.

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I don't want to say quality.

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It's a more uh profound product.

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It's a it's it's something that has more value to it because it is that much better.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's the prime part of the deal.

Randy Black: 00:36:00

Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So, you know, it doesn't cost you much to get some at the bottom.

Randy Black: 00:36:05

Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But at the top, things are a little bit little bit higher end, okay?

Randy Black: 00:36:09

A sirloin costs a whole lot less than a fillet.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Ain't no doubt about it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now I like sirloin too.

Randy Black: 00:36:14

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah

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Coach Jim Clayton: But when I'm going to get me a real snow I'm going to Yeah, I'm a I'm a ribeye guy.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So I like those too.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Don't get me wrong.

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I I will take the ribeye over anything else most of the time.

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But it's But I understand.

Randy Black: 00:36:29

Yeah, I get I get the analogy.

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It makes perfect sense.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You're cutting all the waste off.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

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Coach Jim Clayton: You're cutting it down.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Cutting it down.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And in the course of a day, if people really stop and document it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: their waste of the day.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They'd realize, wow, you know, hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, man, I waste a lot of the day.

Randy Black: 00:36:54

Yeah

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It's it it this is this is another thing that's from your notes and in my notes that I put together and it's that time and effort do not equal results in value.

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No.

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Not in any way, shape, or form.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Not even close.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Not even close.

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Activity can be aimless.

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You can sit there and you can be as active as you want and get nothing accomplished.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Slide together.

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But pro but productivity is purpose-driven.

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There's something you're trying to accomplish, something you're working to do.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's like here's this ex simple analogy of exactly what you said.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Hey man, what did you do today?

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Coach Jim Clayton: I went to the weight room.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well what'd you do when you're in there?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Nothing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I just went to the weight room.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I looked at the weights.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well last time I checked, the weights don't lift themselves.

Randy Black: 00:37:42

Exactly.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, well they went to he did go to the weight room.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well what did he do?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Nothing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And that's what people do.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know?

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Coach Jim Clayton: A even sounds in there.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Why'd you do that's good?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well I'm willing weight.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Did you walk any?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Did you move any?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Did you get active or no

Randy Black: 00:38:04

Coach Jim Clayton: Well then what was that?

Randy Black: 00:38:06

Coach Jim Clayton: Something's missing here.

Randy Black: 00:38:08

You you're on the right track, but you're really not getting there.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And that's what happens to a lot of people.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They're on the right track, but you can get run over

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Coach Jim Clayton: Just as easy on the right track as you can falling off the track and having somebody hit you or the train fall on you.

Randy Black: 00:38:21

Coach Jim Clayton: You know, but see that's the thing they think, well, I'm on the right track.

Randy Black: 00:38:25

Coach Jim Clayton: Well again, what type of track?

Randy Black: 00:38:27

Coach Jim Clayton: Are you on a fast track, slow track, medium track?

Randy Black: 00:38:31

Coach Jim Clayton: Most of them are on the what.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Stay in one place track.

Randy Black: 00:38:35

Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And and you know that's not really where you want to be.

Randy Black: 00:38:39

Coach Jim Clayton: I mean that's just not that ain't getting it, not getting it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And see that comes in your practices.

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Coach Jim Clayton: What are you getting out of your practices?

Randy Black: 00:38:47

Coach Jim Clayton: Like when we practiced in the first part of the year, we practiced two hours.

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Coach Jim Clayton: As we got into the January, practiced an hour and a half.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Somebody said, why are you practicing an hour and a half?

Randy Black: 00:38:57

Coach Jim Clayton: I said, well, when we go to a varsity game and we start at 7.

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Coach Jim Clayton: 30, it's old by nine.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's an hour and a half.

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Coach Jim Clayton: If we can't get it done in an hour and a half, we can't get it done in an hour and a half.

Randy Black: 00:39:07

Yeah

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well that makes sense.

Randy Black: 00:39:09

Coach Jim Clayton: See, I said I never thought about it that way.

Randy Black: 00:39:11

Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well some people, they just they can't get it done in a house, so they go two hours.

Randy Black: 00:39:15

Coach Jim Clayton: Then they go two and a half hours, three hours.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You've lost.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You've lost.

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Coach Jim Clayton: If they're not into it in that amount of time, you're not going to get them into it by making it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But you see, you know what that does?

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Coach Jim Clayton: That pleases the cup.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Uh-huh.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm not I'm as a coach, I'm not I don't need pleasers, I need players.

Randy Black: 00:39:34

Yeah.

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It's it it's is the mindset of I've worked these kids hard

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And and I've worked them hard, I've prepared them.

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Well, no, you've worked them hard and you've made them tired, but you haven't necessarily prepared them.

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What have they got out of?

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Exactly.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, well I'm mad.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Everybody put the balls up.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's wrong.

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Coach Jim Clayton: We're gonna run ten suicides.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Hey coach, are you training a basketball team or a track team?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now runners, you know, running is okay, but why don't you put a ball in their hands?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Make them dribble.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And makes make them make moves while they're doing it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now they're running

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Coach Jim Clayton: But it's more game-like.

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Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Not see you take the ball out of their hands, it's not game-like.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And then I'm gonna see how tough you are.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Who can push through it?

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I know all the way to get out of the drill.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I know every way to get out of the drill.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because I gotta go to the bathroom.

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Coach Jim Clayton: No, you don't.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's like a kid in classroom is bored.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He wants to go what?

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He goes to the bathroom.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He wants to go to the bathroom

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And that kid will probably uh the the one the ones who really know how to do it, they'll go every class period.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, they're masters.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They're the masters.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Uh-uh, that ain't working.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Uh-uh, I already know that I already know that secret.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because I was one of them guys that did that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Cause I told you, man, I hated school.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But uh yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So if I'm gonna put the time in

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Coach Jim Clayton: I want to get the result.

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Coach Jim Clayton: If you really ask people, they would tell you that.

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I want the result.

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It's the idea of making the move from activity to productivity.

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It's making the steps in your life, in your game, in your preparation, and whatever it is you're doing to shift what you're doing, to be productive rather than being active.

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And I know that you listed in the notes seven practical steps for making that move.

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So we're we're up to that point.

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Let's start looking at them, see when we can we can break down here and maybe help somebody who's listening.

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to make that shift from just being active to actually being productive.

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So the first thing you put on that list, set clear goals

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Coach Jim Clayton: No question.

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Coach Jim Clayton: What do you hope to achieve out of this?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So we'll talk about foul shot.

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Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: One, you watch all these guys do all this stuff.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They dribble two or three times.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They flip the ball around, spin it, go down, do all this.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And it looks really cool.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And that's a smokescreen for bad habit.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because it looks cool.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Then you forget about the brick that comes after you shoot shot.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So I asked the kid the other day, I said

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Coach Jim Clayton: Show me what your routine is.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Gotta get a routine.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He does the thing, shoots it, misses it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, I've seen that routine before on a lot of players.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But here's the problem.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They all shoot about 45% from the foul line.

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Coach Jim Clayton: What's a 45% on your math test?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Uh that's a F.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You want to be a F shooter

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Coach Jim Clayton: No.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well let me show you the routine for a 90% shirt.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh

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Coach Jim Clayton: Dribble, one dribble.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Control one dribble, no spin.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Where you started in a V position with your arm, V stands for victory.

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Coach Jim Clayton: When you make more shots than the other team, you always win.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Or score more points, whatever, whatever it is you're playing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So let that ball come right back up to that spot

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now there's two shots.

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Coach Jim Clayton: The shot you push to the floor and the re-catch before you push it up to the rim.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yep.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And they need to be exactly the same.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And all of a sudden they make it, make it, make it, make it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It starts to click.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Click, click, click.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And all of a sudden, 'cause I ain't never made that man in my life.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah

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Okay.

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Oh and I've and I've seen it.

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I've seen it happen in here.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's amazing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Every day.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And then all of a sudden they think, well, I got it

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Coach Jim Clayton: They've mastered it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Then they go home.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know what happens?

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They revert back.

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Coach Jim Clayton: The old habit goes right back to that.

Randy Black: 00:43:43

Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And then they come back and they go, that ain't working.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'll watch him again.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Hold up.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Timeout.

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Coach Jim Clayton: When I don't when I oh, oh, oh, I forgot.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because there's no everyday reinforcement.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And it's going to take a little bit longer time to do that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But if my specific goal was I'm shooting 45 coaches, now I'm shooting 65.

Randy Black: 00:44:06

Coach Jim Clayton: Now I'm up to 80.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Woo!

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now I'm 85.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, man, you're close.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But so second place

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Coach Jim Clayton: Amen.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, now here's what I'm gonna tell him.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Once you get 90, you'll get 90 all the time

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Coach Jim Clayton: I've told them about so many every time they walk in the gym, I just hold my iPad like this.

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Coach Jim Clayton: If I'm outside going over some some some videos of what I just saw, coach comes and says, Coach, I need the iPad.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I know exactly where they're going

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Coach Jim Clayton: They're going to get a picture of that particular person that gets 90 every time.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They get them all the time.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, because they had their goal

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Coach Jim Clayton: They have specific things they know they need to do and they gotta do them.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you can start nine out of ten

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Coach Jim Clayton: Nineteen out of twenty and start build it instead of going ninety out of a hundred.

Randy Black: 00:44:59

Right

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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And I start them in at three feet.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Six feet?

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You start you start at that lower number because you're you're getting those little victories to move 'em up.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And building or what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I'm proving to them that what they're doing worked.

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Coach Jim Clayton: The proof's into pudding.

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Coach Jim Clayton: How do you know it works?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because the ball goes straight down the middle of the net.

Randy Black: 00:45:19

Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And when it hits the net, guess what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: It never comes out.

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Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now, those are your goals.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Are you going to get those all the time?

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Coach Jim Clayton: No.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But when you miss, here's the kicker

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know exactly how to get the next one.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yep.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Instead of getting mad, getting upset, losing your cool, having a pity part, showing all kinds of nonverbal language.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And that's what happens.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So you gotta set those clear goals.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You gotta make sure you know what those things are ahead of time.

Randy Black: 00:45:51

Yeah.

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So your next step on there is to prioritize tasks that deliver results.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, exactly again, exactly what we just talked about.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: The specific drills of where you catch the ball.

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Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You're already in shooting position.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yep.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Where you dribble the ball.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Where it comes what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Back to the same position.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I had a girl one time, way back when I first started, her name was Ann Atkins.

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Coach Jim Clayton: She was a great player at Hinton East High School.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And she didn't dribble the ball.

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Coach Jim Clayton: As she'd come up, I show her routine, she'd set her feet, ball be in her left hand, she's the right hand, she'd just take the ball and place it right over into the perfect position.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Which is where I'd want it where you start, even if you take a dribble.

Randy Black: 00:46:35

Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Boom, boom, 90% every time.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well that little turkey, that little turkey shot.

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Yeah

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Coach Jim Clayton: Got her all the way to Palo Alto, California, Stanford University on full scholarship.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Nice.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well she was a captain of a national champion Stanford Cardinal.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Out of the now she didn't dribble, but she had the same technique, same drill, did it the same way every time, correctly, wrong don't you do the same thing wrong, it's gonna be wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So again, you gotta do it what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: You gotta deliver it right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You gotta prioritize what you're doing, not a bunch of crap that is wasteless, timeless.

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Coach Jim Clayton: again and steals what you're after.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So it's a thief.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And do it till you can't get it wrong.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And that's what people aren't willing to do.

Randy Black: 00:47:29

Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's why mastering something takes so long.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm

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Coach Jim Clayton: And it's a never ending thing because you can always gotta what you you know you're the master of the computer.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well guess what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: New things are coming out.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, so when new things come out, you gotta go get retrained also constantly.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You forgot more than I know when it comes to this.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But that's thank good.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's why guess what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's what makes a great team.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You don't do what I do, I don't do what you do.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?

Randy Black: 00:48:02

Oh I I yeah I know I I could not do what you do, right?

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That's that's not my skill set.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I tried.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I tried.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I gave it to All America tried.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But I was smart enough to go, what's holding me back?

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm missing something here.

Randy Black: 00:48:18

Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And then lo and behold, you walk right in the gym.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I go, there's my that's what I'm missing.

Randy Black: 00:48:25

Yep.

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It's like we said before.

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There's something something pulled us together and we're making it work.

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So our next item on that list.

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for practical steps is to, and this one seems like it would be obvious, but for some people it's not, and that's to just eliminate distractions.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's another steal of time.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, now you see the big thing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: No cell phone has gold.

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Oh yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I never had no cell phone in my classroom from the time they've already said that law many times.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But

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Coach Jim Clayton: When the people in charge are the ones that are breaking the rules, what message does that send to the troops?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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So my big issue with this law that the state of West Virginia has passed and has caused all this uproar lately is that

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It has no like it says nothing about the teachers in the classroom.

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It says nothing about anybody who's working in the school.

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It's all about the kids.

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If we're setting a bad example and telling the kids they can't do it, we're ultimately gonna lose.

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We're gonna lose the battle.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, the speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

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Coach Jim Clayton: If the leader's breaking every rule

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Coach Jim Clayton: What do you think the packs are gonna do?

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Same thing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They're gonna do the same thing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah, it's a carbon copy.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, right there.

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Coach Jim Clayton: We're not talking about the problem.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm

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Coach Jim Clayton: We're talking about what's lead so it's the same thing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So distractions.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You spend all that time watching people looking at all this crap.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And then you look at the end of the day, your time's gone.

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Coach Jim Clayton: 24 hours.

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Coach Jim Clayton: All we got.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, your mom and dad going, hey, uh, Johnny, you need to get off the couch, go out there, work on them pre-throws.

Randy Black: 00:50:05

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, you know what that means?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Johnny don't want it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now if Johnny wants it, here's how the conversation would change.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Hey Johnny, come on in, son.

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Coach Jim Clayton: We gotta get ready for school tomorrow.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Bomb, one more let me get one more shot.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Let me get one more shot.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, so see there's two different scenarios.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yep

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Coach Jim Clayton: So the one that wants that one more shot, that Johnny's gonna get it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: The one that doesn't, uh, Johnny ain't gonna get it.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And see, those are things that you can't buy.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You have to earn

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Coach Jim Clayton: Can't buy a jump shot at Dick Sporting Goods.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They'll sell you a ball in a basket, but you gotta learn how to put it in there.

Randy Black: 00:50:40

Yep.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Which everybody's not willing to do it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, so

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, you gotta eliminate distractions.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You gotta be just in a distraction for something like today.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I went upstairs to lay down, to rest.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know what I thought to myself?

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Coach Jim Clayton: I want 60 minutes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Of no sound.

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Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Like this right here.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: My mind was clear

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Coach Jim Clayton: God, if you're gonna say something to me now, now's here's the time.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm waiting, I'm listening.

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You've eliminated every person.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I eliminated everything.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And then I didn't go to sleep.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I just la sat there in peace.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I felt like

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: All the stress, distractions, all the things, ta-da-da-da-da-da-da-da

Randy Black: 00:51:33

Coach Jim Clayton: You know?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Class example today.

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Coach Jim Clayton: My two grandkids were over my house.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Uh-huh.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They coming up here.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Papa, we're getting ready to leave.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, hold on a minute, Buster

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Coach Jim Clayton: Uh-uh.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know all that stuff that's in the family room?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Those those houses you made all that?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Are they still there?

Randy Black: 00:51:54

Coach Jim Clayton: Yep.

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Coach Jim Clayton: What about that stuff you were playing in the living room?

Randy Black: 00:51:59

Coach Jim Clayton: Yep.

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Coach Jim Clayton: What are you about to do?

Randy Black: 00:52:03

Coach Jim Clayton: I'm about to go down there and get all that put away.

Randy Black: 00:52:07

Coach Jim Clayton: Yep.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Then why you stand here looking at me?

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Coach Jim Clayton: There they go.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Tugo.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I can hear them down there.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They come flying back up about five minutes later

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Coach Jim Clayton: Got it done.

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Coach Jim Clayton: What did they do?

Randy Black: 00:52:21

Coach Jim Clayton: They achieved the goal.

Randy Black: 00:52:22

Coach Jim Clayton: Yep.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, oh, I guarantee I guarantee.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Come on down

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Coach Jim Clayton: So I went down.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Sure enough.

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They'd done it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, everything was back like it never happened.

Randy Black: 00:52:35

Coach Jim Clayton: I said, now you see, doesn't that make you feel good?

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Coach Jim Clayton: They just smile and go, yep.

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Coach Jim Clayton: See that's a lesson.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: In achieving a goal.

Randy Black: 00:52:47

Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Even if it was that basic.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But now they're four and six years old.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So when you teach them that kind of stuff, it has a tendency to what?

Randy Black: 00:52:57

Coach Jim Clayton: Stick.

Randy Black: 00:52:57

Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Stick.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It sticks.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So, you know, again, distraction.

Randy Black: 00:53:03

Coach Jim Clayton: No, nothing on the TV.

Randy Black: 00:53:05

Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

Randy Black: 00:53:06

Coach Jim Clayton: Nothing on that TV.

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Coach Jim Clayton: All that crap.

Randy Black: 00:53:10

The radio's on, turn it off.

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If silence the phone so it doesn't ring and bother you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.

Randy Black: 00:53:16

Coach Jim Clayton: You know, here's this funny thing about phone, since we're talking about phones.

Randy Black: 00:53:20

Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Back in my era, the phone would ring at the house.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And everybody just look at each other.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I ain't got no phone.

Randy Black: 00:53:32

Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I ain't got no phone.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And half the time, there wasn't no call waiting.

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Coach Jim Clayton: There wasn't voicemail.

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Coach Jim Clayton: There wasn't.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It just rang out

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Coach Jim Clayton: And everybody look at I guess we're not gonna get that call, are we?

Randy Black: 00:53:44

Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now the phone rings, the phone rings, and everybody's got the same ringtone.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Everybody starts reaching for their pockets.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh man, I missed a call.

Randy Black: 00:53:52

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh my god, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

Randy Black: 00:53:54

I'm going like, oh my.

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It's the fear of missing out.

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It's FOMO.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh my God.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I love it on FO Now because it says scam calls.

Randy Black: 00:54:03

Oh yeah, those are those are the fun ones.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Scam

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Coach Jim Clayton: Scam.

Randy Black: 00:54:07

I use I just let them go to voicemail, but like my uh my father-in-law loves to answer the phone and start talking to him.

Randy Black: 00:54:13

It's pretty entertaining.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Sometimes you do that, you know what I mean?

Randy Black: 00:54:16

Coach Jim Clayton: But uh

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Coach Jim Clayton: Eliminate those distractions.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you'll be way more productive.

Randy Black: 00:54:24

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because you can't focus on nothing.

Randy Black: 00:54:27

Coach Jim Clayton: Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Every time it's a distraction, it takes your mind off what's you ever done something and you get ready to talk, you go, I forgot what I was gonna say.

Randy Black: 00:54:33

Uh-huh.

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Distraction.

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Something distracted you from what you were doing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Allow that to enter

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Coach Jim Clayton: your peace, you know, your time your time.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's your time.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Not their time.

Randy Black: 00:54:46

Which leads us to the next one on our list here about practical steps, and that's to track results, not time.

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So, you know, I and I I read that and I'm thinking of it as, you know, people who go to work every day.

Randy Black: 00:54:59

And it's uh I'll put in my eight hours, but

Randy Black: 00:55:02

You know, what what what did you do in that eight hours?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, that's the whole key to everything.

Randy Black: 00:55:06

Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's not it's not the time.

Randy Black: 00:55:09

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's what you do in that time.

Randy Black: 00:55:11

Yeah.

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It's how it's it's the idea of how do you measure that your day was successful

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, here's how I measure.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Every day I put my if I'm in like today, I'm gonna go home.

Randy Black: 00:55:21

Coach Jim Clayton: I'm gonna look at this.

Randy Black: 00:55:22

Coach Jim Clayton: And here was my objective when I taught school.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Every day.

Randy Black: 00:55:25

Coach Jim Clayton: Here's my objective in the gym.

Randy Black: 00:55:27

Coach Jim Clayton: Every day.

Randy Black: 00:55:28

Coach Jim Clayton: Here's my objective.

Randy Black: 00:55:29

Coach Jim Clayton: On this podcast.

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Coach Jim Clayton: When you walk out that door, are you better walking out than you came in?

Randy Black: 00:55:38

Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Coach, I am.

Randy Black: 00:55:40

Coach Jim Clayton: Then you know what?

Randy Black: 00:55:41

Coach Jim Clayton: That's a successful day.

Randy Black: 00:55:42

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So at the end of the day, when I lay down and I put my head on that pillow and I reflect.

Randy Black: 00:55:49

Coach Jim Clayton: That's another thing I do.

Randy Black: 00:55:53

Coach Jim Clayton: We'll get to reflect.

Randy Black: 00:55:55

No, no.

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We'll tie it right in here.

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Reflect on your outcomes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's number five on the list.

Randy Black: 00:55:59

Coach Jim Clayton: I'm reflecting on my day.

Randy Black: 00:56:01

Coach Jim Clayton: Man, what day did I have?

Randy Black: 00:56:02

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, you know

Randy Black: 00:56:04

Coach Jim Clayton: This one little boy, man, he did so much better than eight because his left foot didn't go kick him back.

Randy Black: 00:56:09

Yeah.

Randy Black: 00:56:09

Coach Jim Clayton: We finally got that problem under control.

Randy Black: 00:56:11

Coach Jim Clayton: That boy over there, man, is he knows it.

Randy Black: 00:56:14

Coach Jim Clayton: He's got he's got this.

Randy Black: 00:56:15

Coach Jim Clayton: We've had a great time.

Randy Black: 00:56:16

Coach Jim Clayton: These kids did awesome.

Randy Black: 00:56:18

Coach Jim Clayton: And I always tell them, man, every one of y'all did some really great stuff today.

Randy Black: 00:56:23

Coach Jim Clayton: Now our objective is that we don't do some really great stuff, it's that we do a lot of really great stuff.

Randy Black: 00:56:30

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's gonna happen over time if you do it correctly and you value your time.

Randy Black: 00:56:38

Yeah.

Randy Black: 00:56:39

Coach Jim Clayton: So here's a classic example of that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Homeschool

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Coach Jim Clayton: Had a little girl in here the other day, very smart.

Randy Black: 00:56:46

Coach Jim Clayton: She's homeschooled.

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Coach Jim Clayton: She said, coach, I said, you like me at homeschooled?

Randy Black: 00:56:50

Coach Jim Clayton: She said, yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, why?

Randy Black: 00:56:53

Coach Jim Clayton: She says, I can get done in three hours when it takes eight hours to do.

Randy Black: 00:56:56

Coach Jim Clayton: Yep.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And then I can go do other things.

Randy Black: 00:56:58

Coach Jim Clayton: I hear it all the time.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I go, whoa, I love it.

Randy Black: 00:57:03

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Randy Black: 00:57:04

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah, you gotta look at it.

Randy Black: 00:57:05

It it ties in with what we're talking about here, you know.

Randy Black: 00:57:07

They're prioritizing what they're doing.

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They're eliminating their distractions.

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They're looking at the results, not the time they've spent on it.

Randy Black: 00:57:13

And at the end of the day, the kid looks at it and goes, I got a lot done today.

Randy Black: 00:57:16

So they've reflected.

Randy Black: 00:57:17

So it's it's exactly what these steps say.

Randy Black: 00:57:20

Yes.

Randy Black: 00:57:21

Coach Jim Clayton: And it works in every phase of life.

Randy Black: 00:57:24

Coach Jim Clayton: Every face.

Randy Black: 00:57:25

Coach Jim Clayton: You know, it's like that girl I saw a while back.

Randy Black: 00:57:28

Coach Jim Clayton: She's 12 years old.

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Coach Jim Clayton: She's getting ready to go to college.

Randy Black: 00:57:33

Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And they were interviewed.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And they said, this was an interesting question.

Randy Black: 00:57:38

Coach Jim Clayton: I know and she said the same thing, three hours.

Randy Black: 00:57:41

Coach Jim Clayton: I said, well then what do you do on the other five hours?

Randy Black: 00:57:45

Coach Jim Clayton: She goes, my dad and I we go out and we go do things.

Randy Black: 00:57:49

Coach Jim Clayton: And we interact with other people.

Randy Black: 00:57:51

Coach Jim Clayton: I said, because that's my next question.

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Coach Jim Clayton: If you're homeschooled all the time, you're by yourself, how are you going to interact with other people?

Randy Black: 00:57:57

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, the little girl I was talking to last night, she goes, I play sports

Randy Black: 00:58:02

Coach Jim Clayton: Well, that's interacting with people.

Randy Black: 00:58:04

Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

Randy Black: 00:58:06

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

Randy Black: 00:58:06

Coach Jim Clayton: And I said, well, that's a great answer.

Randy Black: 00:58:09

Coach Jim Clayton: She just smiled

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Coach Jim Clayton: That wasn't rehearsed.

Randy Black: 00:58:12

Coach Jim Clayton: That was right.

Randy Black: 00:58:12

Coach Jim Clayton: That was coming from the heart.

Randy Black: 00:58:14

Coach Jim Clayton: That was straight up.

Randy Black: 00:58:15

Coach Jim Clayton: You see.

Randy Black: 00:58:16

Coach Jim Clayton: But again, I'm thinking, man, that to me, of course, when I was going through school, there wasn't such a thing as homeschool.

Randy Black: 00:58:22

Coach Jim Clayton: That was called truancy.

Randy Black: 00:58:23

Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

Randy Black: 00:58:25

Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and and I'd have probably ate that up too.

Randy Black: 00:58:28

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Randy Black: 00:58:29

Coach Jim Clayton: Because I gotta get in, got done, got around, got out

Randy Black: 00:58:34

And now the state of West Virginia gives you back your tax money to homeschool your child.

Randy Black: 00:58:37

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.

Randy Black: 00:58:38

Coach Jim Clayton: If you apply.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So here's the crazy thing on that.

Randy Black: 00:58:40

That's why a lot of people are stepping up and doing it.

Randy Black: 00:58:41

Coach Jim Clayton: I said, how many shots you get tonight?

Randy Black: 00:58:43

Coach Jim Clayton: 550

Randy Black: 00:58:45

Coach Jim Clayton: I said, do you realize 550 shots is more shots than you're going to get in your entire

Randy Black: 00:58:54

Coach Jim Clayton: Career in middle school.

Randy Black: 00:58:57

Coach Jim Clayton: From sixth grade to eighth grade, practice, games, everything, you're not even gonna get close to 550 shots.

Randy Black: 00:59:05

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Randy Black: 00:59:06

Coach Jim Clayton: You're not gonna get 550 shots.

Randy Black: 00:59:09

Coach Jim Clayton: From ninth grade to 12th grade?

Randy Black: 00:59:11

Probably not.

Randy Black: 00:59:11

Coach Jim Clayton: You got more in an hour.

Randy Black: 00:59:14

Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And they look at you like you can see their little head spinning.

Randy Black: 00:59:17

Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

Randy Black: 00:59:17

Coach Jim Clayton: They go.

Randy Black: 00:59:18

Coach Jim Clayton: Wow.

Randy Black: 00:59:19

Coach Jim Clayton: I never thought about that.

Randy Black: 00:59:21

Coach Jim Clayton: Now what if you did that seven days a week, baby?

Randy Black: 00:59:23

Coach Jim Clayton: That's 35 horse shots.

Randy Black: 00:59:26

Coach Jim Clayton: How many guys on your team are taking 35 shots correctly the right way every week?

Randy Black: 00:59:31

Coach Jim Clayton: Nobody.

Randy Black: 00:59:31

Coach Jim Clayton: You want to separate yourself from everybody?

Randy Black: 00:59:34

Coach Jim Clayton: You want to stand out and not blend in, which is the way God made you

Randy Black: 00:59:39

Coach Jim Clayton: Then do the extra.

Randy Black: 00:59:41

Coach Jim Clayton: Because when you take that extra and you're doing it correctly, and you know what you're doing, and you have a plan, a clear set of goals, okay, prioritize exactly what you're doing.

Randy Black: 00:59:53

Coach Jim Clayton: Eliminate the distractions.

Randy Black: 00:59:55

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, you're gonna get what you want.

Randy Black: 00:59:57

Coach Jim Clayton: You're gonna be the best in the business.

Randy Black: 00:59:59

Yeah.

Randy Black: 01:00:00

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, that's what I want.

Randy Black: 01:00:02

Coach Jim Clayton: Woo!

Randy Black: 01:00:03

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, baby, let's go.

Randy Black: 01:00:04

Coach Jim Clayton: Let's get a plan.

Randy Black: 01:00:05

Coach Jim Clayton: There's that plan.

Randy Black: 01:00:08

Coach Jim Clayton: Plan.

Randy Black: 01:00:09

Coach Jim Clayton: In that goals?

Randy Black: 01:00:10

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Randy Black: 01:00:11

Coach Jim Clayton: A plan of action?

Randy Black: 01:00:12

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Randy Black: 01:00:12

Coach Jim Clayton: Or what they say all the time, what stops me?

Randy Black: 01:00:15

Coach Jim Clayton: There's no call to action.

Randy Black: 01:00:17

Coach Jim Clayton: Call to action.

Randy Black: 01:00:18

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Randy Black: 01:00:18

Coach Jim Clayton: It's a plan to action.

Randy Black: 01:00:21

We have a call to action at the end of every episode of this podcast.

Randy Black: 01:00:23

Something we want our listeners to do.

Randy Black: 01:00:25

Coach Jim Clayton: Exactly.

Randy Black: 01:00:26

Coach Jim Clayton: And they don't do it.

Randy Black: 01:00:27

Coach Jim Clayton: Because you know why a lot of them don't do it?

Randy Black: 01:00:28

Coach Jim Clayton: Same reason when at the end of camp when asking, has anybody got any questions?

Randy Black: 01:00:31

Coach Jim Clayton: No.

Randy Black: 01:00:32

Coach Jim Clayton: Because they're afraid what they're going to say.

Randy Black: 01:00:34

Coach Jim Clayton: Is revealing a weakness.

Randy Black: 01:00:36

Coach Jim Clayton: Though that what actually reveals it reveals your strengths.

Randy Black: 01:00:39

Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

Randy Black: 01:00:40

Coach Jim Clayton: Yep.

Randy Black: 01:00:41

Coach Jim Clayton: That means you're good in your skin.

Randy Black: 01:00:43

Coach Jim Clayton: Yep.

Randy Black: 01:00:43

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, you ain't worried about whatever who cares what anybody thinks.

Randy Black: 01:00:47

Coach Jim Clayton: What other people think is not gonna control your future unless you let it.

Randy Black: 01:00:51

Yes

Randy Black: 01:00:53

So number six on our list here was one that I thought was interesting because it kind of stuck out as well I didn't expect that in this list, but it was to take breaks.

Randy Black: 01:01:03

Yeah, you gotta get a break.

Randy Black: 01:01:05

Clear your brain.

Randy Black: 01:01:06

But and it it but it you know now that I think about it and hearing what you said just a few minutes ago, it ties right back into the eliminating of distractions.

Randy Black: 01:01:14

Coach Jim Clayton: Sure.

Randy Black: 01:01:14

Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

Randy Black: 01:01:14

Coach Jim Clayton: Because when you don't let when you don't let all that stuff distract you, you can focus in on exactly what you need to achieve and get it done.

Randy Black: 01:01:21

Coach Jim Clayton: And it's just that simple.

Randy Black: 01:01:23

Coach Jim Clayton: And then you can go do something else.

Randy Black: 01:01:24

Yeah.

Randy Black: 01:01:25

Coach Jim Clayton: What's something else you like to do?

Randy Black: 01:01:27

Coach Jim Clayton: Well it's a hobby.

Randy Black: 01:01:28

Coach Jim Clayton: I mean I like to fish.

Randy Black: 01:01:29

Coach Jim Clayton: Well then do what you gotta do and go fish.

Randy Black: 01:01:34

Coach Jim Clayton: You see go fish

Randy Black: 01:01:36

Yeah, so for me, like for me, my hobby, my escape, my way to take a break from everything is this is the podcast, is to to make content and put it out there.

Randy Black: 01:01:46

To me, it's it's not work.

Randy Black: 01:01:48

It's fun.

Randy Black: 01:01:49

Coach Jim Clayton: I enjoy it.

Randy Black: 01:01:50

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.

Randy Black: 01:01:50

Coach Jim Clayton: Mine is clean.

Randy Black: 01:01:51

Coach Jim Clayton: I like to clean stuff up.

Randy Black: 01:01:53

Coach Jim Clayton: Cause I know what it looks like when I start.

Randy Black: 01:01:55

Coach Jim Clayton: I know what it's gonna look like.

Randy Black: 01:01:57

Coach Jim Clayton: I know what it's gonna like before I even start.

Randy Black: 01:01:59

Coach Jim Clayton: Uh-huh

Randy Black: 01:02:00

Coach Jim Clayton: I know what it's gonna look like at the end.

Randy Black: 01:02:03

Coach Jim Clayton: And when I see the end result, guess what?

Randy Black: 01:02:06

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Randy Black: 01:02:07

I feel good.

Randy Black: 01:02:08

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, I'm I go into I accomplish something.

Randy Black: 01:02:10

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh man, your car looks nice.

Randy Black: 01:02:12

Coach Jim Clayton: Thank you, man.

Randy Black: 01:02:13

Coach Jim Clayton: Thanks.

Randy Black: 01:02:13

Coach Jim Clayton: Because it stands out.

Randy Black: 01:02:14

Yeah.

Randy Black: 01:02:15

Coach Jim Clayton: 'Cause everybody else is, I was driving up here today, and this real nice car goes by me and it it had so much dirt and crap on it, I looked down and go

Randy Black: 01:02:23

Coach Jim Clayton: Oh my gosh.

Randy Black: 01:02:24

Coach Jim Clayton: Had this same car thought.

Randy Black: 01:02:25

Coach Jim Clayton: I'm driving up the road up here and I see a dirty car drive by me.

Randy Black: 01:02:29

Coach Jim Clayton: Now most people wouldn't think that.

Randy Black: 01:02:30

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Randy Black: 01:02:31

Coach Jim Clayton: They wouldn't even pay attention.

Randy Black: 01:02:32

Coach Jim Clayton: Look at that car, go, man, that's a nice car.

Randy Black: 01:02:34

Coach Jim Clayton: You ought to try to keep it a little cleaner.

Randy Black: 01:02:37

Coach Jim Clayton: But you know what goes wrong with that.

Randy Black: 01:02:39

Coach Jim Clayton: See when I look at things like that, when cars and things look messy, people that are messes leave messes.

Randy Black: 01:02:46

Yes.

Randy Black: 01:02:47

Definitely.

Randy Black: 01:02:48

I will agree.

Randy Black: 01:02:50

So 100% agree.

Randy Black: 01:02:52

Coach Jim Clayton: They're a mess.

Randy Black: 01:02:53

Coach Jim Clayton: And and you know, because again, it comes back to all these things we just talked about today.

Randy Black: 01:02:58

Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

Randy Black: 01:03:00

Coach Jim Clayton: They never have time to do what they need to do because they don't value time.

Randy Black: 01:03:04

Coach Jim Clayton: Well there's gonna come a point in everybody's life.

Randy Black: 01:03:07

Coach Jim Clayton: Believe me, I'm there

Randy Black: 01:03:09

Coach Jim Clayton: Well you value every second of every day.

Randy Black: 01:03:12

Coach Jim Clayton: Every second of every day.

Randy Black: 01:03:14

Life life takes on a very different meaning when you finally realize

Randy Black: 01:03:18

That your time is limited.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know the old saying, the older you are, the faster it gets.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That is so true because I'm 70 years old, so I'm going 70 miles an hour.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So you're in your forties

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Coach Jim Clayton: You're only going forty.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So I'm way ahead of you.

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Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Somebody's 18.

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Coach Jim Clayton: See, they're going 18 miles an hour.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's Putt Puttville.

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That's my son.

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He's 17 right now.

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He's

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He's not he's not moving as fast as the rest of us.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I taught drivers A for a lot of years and my rule was rule number one, slow down.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Rule number two, remember rule number one.

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Yep.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And see, I'm not worried about the driving part for people now.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm worried about like what we talked about today in number three.

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The distractions.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

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Because it's it's so easy.

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I mean I still say it and I see it all the time.

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I'll be driving you know, I drive I drive Interstate 64 from Milton to Nitro every day for work.

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during the week and I see people phone in hand, phone up here on the dash, hitting the buttons and stuff on it and everything.

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And I'm thinking, how in the world can you possibly

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Watch the road and know what's going on so that you could react if something happens if your nose is stuck in that phone.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Hundred percent.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you can always tell when they're texted.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because if I'm behind them, they'll always drift to the right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yep

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Coach Jim Clayton: Drift to right 'cause they're texting with their right hand and their hands looking right, so the wheel automatically goes to the right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Who on the road.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Then they're back.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Then they're back.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I'm going like Do I want to get beside them or in front of them or do I'd rather stay behind them?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I think I'd rather stay back here where I am.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And see, but I I I just that's what bothers me about that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But I love taking breaks to just sit there and what do absolutely

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Coach Jim Clayton: Nothing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: In in that time frame, I just go.

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Just escape.

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Yep.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Just escape and let things just

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Coach Jim Clayton: Go on past.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I was doing I was down there in a couple weeks ago in Martin County, Kentucky, on top of this mountain where the school is.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I always like to get there before everybody.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So when I pulled up, there was like two cars in the parking lot.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Got out of the car.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now I'm on top of this mountain.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm looking over the mouse, not up at the mouse.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I walk after her and I just stop.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I look around and I'm thinking wow I don't hear any not a sound.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Maybe a bird.

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Coach Jim Clayton: There's no noise.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Nothing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: There's not a car driving by, cause it's I'm we're way up here.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: There's no interstates.

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Coach Jim Clayton: There's no nothing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I go.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Wow.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You don't it's been a long time since I've heard that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It was just great just to just to stand.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I stood there for about three or four minutes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, I'm over here something here in a minute.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Nothing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Just quiet, just like this.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm going.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm digging this

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Then all of a sudden here they come.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, that's over with.

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You had a moment.

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I had a moment.

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So our last one that you had on your list here for the practical steps is the one that really stuck out to me because it's it it just makes so much sense, but

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It's the one that people have the biggest problem with, the one they have the most trouble with.

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And that's to watch out for the misconceptions and what you know what this idea of productivity is.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And we talk about multitasking, you know, doing more things, getting more things done.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Whether you are you really concentrating on each one of those things, or are you just kind of

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Coach Jim Clayton: throwing it all together, you know what I mean, hoping it all comes to w works out.

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That's the Yank meth.

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Oh, like what we're like what we're doing right now.

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You and I are talking.

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We're having a conversation.

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I've got notes in front of me on one half of my computer screen.

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I've got a soundboard on the other half.

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I've got the live stream application.

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I'm doing all this stuff at once, trying to keep up.

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And I don't know if I'm necessarily great at all of it.

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Oh, you are.

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But I'm but I'm doing my best.

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I'm multitasking, but I don't feel like I'm being efficient in it.

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So you've you've nailed the

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You've hit the hand the the nail on the head with the hammer on that one with me.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well some people can do more than one thing at the same time.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But I didn't say do like fifty things at the same time.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I might be able to do a couple things at the same time.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

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Coach Jim Clayton: But it depends on the complexity of what those things are that we're doing

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Coach Jim Clayton: How tough are they?

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Coach Jim Clayton: How much focus I mean, you know, so you can't take your eyes off certain things.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You can't do multitasking things where your eyes are going off stuff when they need to be focused on what is on

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know again, I hate this.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Busy does not equate success.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

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Coach Jim Clayton: How many people do you know are busy every day that aren't very successful?

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Coach Jim Clayton: A lot.

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Coach Jim Clayton: 100%.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But they're busy

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Coach Jim Clayton: But again, you know what you're doing?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Go get in your car tonight on the driveway.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Turn the car on.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Put it in neutral.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And just gas it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Wow, them wheels are turning.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You'll smell smoke.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You'll smell burnt out.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Where you going?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Nowhere.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You ain't going though.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, it's tires up and draining your tank and pissing your neighbors off.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, basically that's what you're doing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, so sometimes, you know, when you do something a little

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Coach Jim Clayton: shorter it's better.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because because you know why?

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's the it's the it's the um prime rib mentality.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You cut the fat off the bone.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You're dealing with specifics, not generalities.

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Those shorter routines sometimes are the more powerful routines.

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Coach Jim Clayton: 100%.

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Coach Jim Clayton: 100%.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Pow!

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Coach Jim Clayton: Hit 'em, man.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Bam.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Just hit them right where you're gonna hit them.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Don't be sugarcoating it.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Tell 'em what you need, you know what I mean?

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Coach Jim Clayton: And and and and hit it with 'em.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Don't beat around the bush, you know.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I mean that's that's the big thing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Uh-huh.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And uh, you know, people do that all the time.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They beat the bush every day.

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Oh, I'm sure.

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I mean I know people that do it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And nothing good comes out of it.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know what else?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Most of the people that do that, they always underachieve what they could have been doing.

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Yes.

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Definitely.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Underachieve.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I agree with 1,000% on that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now when you're overachieving in business, what do people have a tendency to do?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Move up in the company.

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Coach Jim Clayton: When you're underachieving

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Coach Jim Clayton: You don't move up.

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You become complacent.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You stay right where you are.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And then somebody steps on you on their way up past you.

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Yep.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you're mad.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well I've been here longer today.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That didn't have anything to do with anything.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now I I do appreciate the loyalty of it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But again, you know, you're just showing up.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You're not excited about showing up because you know you're going to do the same thing every day and you're not excited about it.

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Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, so if you're not excited about what you're doing, uh last time I checked, that produces no excitement.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And then that shows in the way you approach things.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But if you go someplace that's electrifying every day, now I grant you, people like me, they drive people that are complacent nuts.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And vice versa.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, I don't even want to round them.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I just keep on going.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because they're the sound that brings you down.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm not interested in that

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Coach Jim Clayton: Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So you're just happy where you are.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now everybody's not r you know voisterous and all that kind of stuff.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They can do with things in different ways.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They can do things and more results.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Not necessarily the verbiage of it, you know, the excitement of it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But

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Coach Jim Clayton: They're doing things a different way.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Can produce the same result.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And they're into what they're doing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because they're doing it correctly and they're on top of their game

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Coach Jim Clayton: So when you're on top of your game, guess what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Things are happening well for you.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But when the game gets on top of you, uh-oh.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Not a good situation.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Not at all.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So again, you know, like I said, man, I I just see this every day.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I watch it every day, you know, in every phase of life.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And it's just the things that people don't think about.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I never thought about that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Man, I wish I had a penny for every time I heard somebody say that when I'm talking to.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Man, I'd be richer than Elon Musk.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, they just say that every day.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But again, it comes back to the old saying, you can't do what you don't know.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Exactly

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Coach Jim Clayton: 100%.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Can't do it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Just can't do it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And that's our that's our goal here is to what'd you get out of today?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Are you better today?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: The only thing that you want for tomorrow is I want a better version of me tomorrow.

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Agree.

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100%.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now, were when you so let me ask a question.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Were you, I'm asking the people of your list, are you a better version of you today than you were yesterday?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well you might go, well man, yesterday I was not good.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So then you were better today.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well when you're not good, my question is why?

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Coach Jim Clayton: If b if if if better

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Coach Jim Clayton: Is what you can deliver, then why aren't you doing better?

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Do you go as hard as you can?

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Coach Jim Clayton: No.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, there you go.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well then why do you go as hard as you can?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Even if there is such a thing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So I always tell people this: go as hard as you can or as long as you can.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Some people can just go longer.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They're just not physically going to be able to what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Do it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But they again they went as hard as and and if you're going as hard as you can, what else is there to ask for?

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Coach Jim Clayton: See, that's just a better way of saying it instead of saying, oh man, you gotta your lines, okay?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Let's do it again.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It don't matter how many times you do it, that guy's not gonna be able to get it.

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Uh-huh.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But don't give up on it

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Coach Jim Clayton: Encouraging.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Encouraging.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Little victories.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Every day.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Little victories every day.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Had a guy one time

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Coach Jim Clayton: We be running a a sprint thing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: We be starting the the new one.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He'd still be on the last one.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And he was just a ninth grader.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He was not big.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He was heavy.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But I looked at him and I know this guy's gonna go get big

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Coach Jim Clayton: So all of a sudden, you know, I said your goal is to just get here and get started.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, no, we're gonna work towards it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: If you're

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Coach Jim Clayton: If you're still doing it, just keep going pushing through it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Just just keep finishing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well then all of a sudden next you know, the guy's about five, eleven and a half, maybe six foot at the max.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Next year he comes back, he's six four

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now he's not as big as he was.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Woo, now he's moving.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Woo, now he's cooking.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Next year he comes back, 6'8

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Coach Jim Clayton: Woo woo now he's leaning to me.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now here's the moral to the story.

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Coach Jim Clayton: A lot of people would have gave up on him when he was six foot

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Coach Jim Clayton: Couldn't run.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Finishing two two two two two miles two miles behind where we were.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But here's the key thing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He finished

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I knew the sucker was going to be.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So it comes back to this.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm not looking at you the way you are.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm looking at you the way you could be.

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Coach Jim Clayton: See, that's what great leaders do.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's just something some people have that I'm not sure you can reproduce.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's one of your gifts that God has given.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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We all have gifts.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And everybody has different one.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But, you know, I look back and I say, man, just keep pushing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Keep going.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Keep going.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Keep going.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I know you're not as fast as you want to be right now, but guess what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's gonna be better.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I did a thing yesterday.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's not where you start.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's where you end.

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Yep

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Coach Jim Clayton: And when you look at the ending, what happened to all the people that started?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Well, they fell out.

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I saw that one yesterday, and I almost said, hey, I just found our wisdom of the week.

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But it didn't because I knew you'd have something else for it.

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So we're getting toward the end of the show here.

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We're we've actually run pretty long on this episode, longer than we normally do, but it's okay because the conversation has been has been that good and that enjoyable.

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But it is that time for our own Coach Clayton to share his wisdom of the week.

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Cheesy Announcer Guy: Now it's time for Jimmy's Wisdom of the Week.

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Cheesy Announcer Guy: This is where Jimmy shares one of his famous genieisms to inspire.

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Okay, coach.

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Here's what you gave me, and then I'm gonna let you explain it.

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It says, accept what is

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Let go of what was and have faith in what will be.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So how many people let the past control their future?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Let it go.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's dead.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's got no life.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So why am I going to focus on something that's not going to get me where I want to go?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because that steals you what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's that that's that time thief.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: What's the second part?

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Coach Jim Clayton: What was the second part of that?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh no, I scrolled sorry, I scrolled down.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I said the page.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Let go of what was.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Focus on

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Coach Jim Clayton: What is it?

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Coach Jim Clayton: What it's gonna be.

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Coach Jim Clayton: What is yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So what is it today that I need to set my goals on, be clear on, focus on, get done today?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because today is the only day we got

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Right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

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Coach Jim Clayton: And focus on because that's all we got.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: We're built on 24-hour schedule.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That's it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: 24 hours.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Next 24 hours.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Next 24 hours.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Next 24 hours.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So once that 24 hours is gone, that's the past.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now we're in the what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: We're in reality.

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Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

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Coach Jim Clayton: And then the last one is have faith on what could be.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That means guess what

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Coach Jim Clayton: I believe I can get this done.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Positive.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I got this, coach.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You got this.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I got this.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I got this.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Don't give up.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Had a temporary setback.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, sometimes that's just a better way to begin again more intelligently.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That means you're getting better.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You got a plan.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, so what's in the past?

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Coach Jim Clayton: What happened yesterday?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Don't let it control tomorrow.

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Coach Jim Clayton: What happened today, don't let it control tomorrow.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You see what I mean?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Don't let it, but it's going to for a lot of people

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Coach Jim Clayton: They're going to bed like this.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Like them old hillbilly bears mumbling and grumbling.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yep.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They're going to wake up tomorrow, mmm, mum, blum, mum, blum, rum, mm, same thing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They're going to have that same kind of day.

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Yep.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And guess what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's your fault.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's always your hey it's on you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It's always gonna be on you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Change is a hard pill to swallow.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And then, man, I got this, have faith.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You gotta believe in yourself when others don't.

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Coach Jim Clayton: If you don't believe in yourself, that's the first step of bam.

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Coach Jim Clayton: How you gonna expect somebody else to believe in you?

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Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, people can tell by watching you, by your body language, by your voice, if you believe in yourself and you got confidence in yourself.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, they can tell.

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Coach Jim Clayton: How do I always know?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Here's how I always knew

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Coach Jim Clayton: And teaching.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I say, hey Johnny, how you doing?

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Coach Jim Clayton: First I said that head would go what?

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Look at the floor.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I say, champions don't walk with your chin down, big boy.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Put their chin up, put their chest down, walk proud.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Loud.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They look up.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Confidence.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well you'd look at them and they do this.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They look away.

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Mm-hmm.

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They don't have the confidence.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They can't look at eyeball to eyeball.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So you know my always thought is if you ain't looking at me, you're not listening to me.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So, you know, if I was teaching a class and somebody was out there.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They just gone they're staring out into space, you know, you seen that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I would just walk right up to 'em and stop.

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Yep

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Proximity.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And then all of a sudden they'd go, Oh, I go, Are you back?

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm not sure where you went.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But I hope it was a cool place.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I'm glad you're back.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And then we kept on going.

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Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because see if I didn't I don't have go I was going to have to repeat myself.

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Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, so again, have faith that you're gonna get it done.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And then master that faith with a plan of action

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Coach Jim Clayton: Which will take you right down that trail, step by step by step.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And remember, everybody who has done this and been successful has done two things.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They went through the process and they paid the price.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That means invest in yourself.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And that's what I when I look at that, that's a daily thing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That can start your day every day on the right path.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Or it can start it on the wrong one.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Wrong one.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know what wrong is?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Wrong plus wrong, uh twice as wrong.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you can't do things wrong and get it right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Right.

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So as we've talked today on our episode here, you know, activity and productivity are not the same thing.

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Activity is motion.

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It keeps us busy.

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It fills our time and often makes us feel like we've accomplished something.

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But productivity is progress.

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It's the intentional actions that are tied directly to our goals and moves us closer to where we want to be.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Measured progress.

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Yes.

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And the real danger in confusing these two is that we can spend days or weeks or years running in circles being active

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but not advancing.

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Productivity requires us to stop and ask, Am I just doing or am I achieving?

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That simple question can shift our focus from filling time to making time count.

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So as you go through this next week, take an honest look at your schedule.

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Don't just celebrate the busyness of your day.

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Celebrate the results.

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Remember that activity may wear you out.

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But productivity builds you up and moves you forward.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Tough times don't feel character, they reveal.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And remember, keep shooting it straight.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Bam son.

Activity vs. Productivity: Are You Truly Achieving?

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