In this episode of “Shooting It Straight!,” hosts Randy Black and Jim Clayton delve into the core of productivity, emphasizing the importance of mindset over mere tools and strategies. They explore the concept of fixed versus growth mindsets, highlighting how a growth mindset can transform failures into learning opportunities. The discussion extends to the pitfalls of education systems that often promote a fixed mindset, and how real-world success requires thinking outside the box and embracing one’s unique strengths.
The conversation shifts to procrastination, debunking the myth that it’s a sign of laziness. Instead, they explain it as a stress-coping mechanism, offering insights on how to break the cycle by starting small and focusing on manageable tasks. The episode concludes with a comparison between working hard and working smart, advocating for strategic effort and the power of small, consistent habits to drive long-term success. Join Randy and Jim as they provide practical advice on building a productive mindset and overcoming common productivity challenges.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Bam son!
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Coach Jim Clayton: This is Shoot It Straight, the podcast where life blessings don’t come sugar-coated and excuses get bitched.
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Randy Black: I’m Randy Black, podcast guy, professional question asker, and apparently the only one here who doesn’t yell.
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Randy Black: Pam son in public.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Well we’re working on that, Randy.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I’m Jim Clayton, coach, mentor, motivator, and the guy who still thinks a whistle may be the best motivational tool known to man.
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Randy Black: Each week, we’re taking what Jim’s learned from
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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s right.
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Coach Jim Clayton: This ain’t just about basketball.
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Randy Black: Fluff, well, you might just want to ride the bench.
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Coach Jim Clayton: We’re here to help you believe bigger, achieve louder, and motivate strong.
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Randy Black: Welcome back to Shooting It Straight.
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Randy Black: I’m Randy Black, joined by my co-host,
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Randy Black: Now that we got the announcements out of the way, let’s dive in here, Jim.
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Randy Black: Most no, let’s go.
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Randy Black: Most of us think productivity is about getting more done in less time.
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Randy Black: by fighting the right app, the the perfect planner or the latest system to keep us organized.
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Randy Black: But here’s the truth
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Randy Black: before you ever open your calendar or you ever write your to-do list, the real work begins inside your head.
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Randy Black: Your mindset is either propelling you forward or it’s quietly holding you back.
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Randy Black: If you see failure as the end of the road, you’ll stop trying.
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Randy Black: If you believe that success only comes through grinding harder, you might burn out before you ever get there.
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Randy Black: But when you shift your mindset, you start to see challenges as opportunities.
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Randy Black: When you recognize that progress often comes from working smarter, not just harder
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Randy Black: Everything changes.
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Randy Black: Today, we’re going to shoot it straight about the productivity mindset.
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Randy Black: We’ll dig into why it matters, how procrastination sneaks in, and what it really means to work hard.
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Randy Black: versus working smart and how small daily habits can transform your results over time.
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Randy Black: So let’s get started.
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Randy Black: So when people talk about productivity, they they usually think about a strategy, what tools they’re using, how they’re organizing their time, but
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Randy Black: It actually starts with something very much deeper.
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Randy Black: It starts with your mindset.
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Randy Black: Psychologist Carol Dweck introduced the idea of fixed mindset versus growth mindset.
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Randy Black: And it has everything to do with how you approach challenges and setbacks.
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Carol Dweck: A growth mindset is when students believe that their abilities can be developed.
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Carol Dweck: A fixed mindset is when they think, I just have a certain amount and that’s it.
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Randy Black: That is a a powerful distinction.
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Randy Black: A fixed mindset, and Jim, you are familiar with both these terms because as a as a former educator, myself working education, we we talk about this all the time.
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Randy Black: A fixed mindset says
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Randy Black: And if I fail, that just proves I wasn’t cut out for it.
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Randy Black: But a growth mindset sees failure as part
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Randy Black: Does that sound a little familiar, Jim?
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Randy Black: It’s a chance for us to learn and to improve.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, as we talked about earlier, most people think that success and failure are opposites.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Actually, you can’t have one without the other.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And they run side by side in life parallel down the road that you’re on.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, but but but
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Coach Jim Clayton: When we talk about the fixed mindset, a lot of that we have created.
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Coach Jim Clayton: We’ve created this fixed mindset because everything’s based on perfection.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And we know that doesn’t exist.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Right.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So in education, for example
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, everybody’s gotta make the A’s.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Everybody has to be to have the house grade in the class.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Everybody’s gotta do this.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Now we also know
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Coach Jim Clayton: that the people that do that all the time, the ones that are that successful in the educational world, when they get outside those four walls of that classroom and they get attacked by the real world, some of them aren’t very successful.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Because you have to do a little bit of thinking outside the box.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And we created this mess.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, I’m not very smart.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I can’t do this.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I can No, that’s just not your gift.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And what we’ve done in the past, we try to treat everybody equal.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Well everybody’s not in.
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Randy Black: Exactly.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, so you know it’s like guys that are going to be automechanics and uh heating and air plumbers
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Coach Jim Clayton: They don’t need to be diagramming sentences in English class.
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Randy Black: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s a waste of time, effort, energy, and then they just turn it off.
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Randy Black: Yes.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, they get burned out on the whole thing and then they become a nightmare in your classroom.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, burnout occurs with students in education where two things happen.
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Coach Jim Clayton: One, they’re not learning anything that’s applying to them and they’re not having any fun.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And every day, so every day this week, I’ll give you a classic example.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Every kid has come in the gym.
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Coach Jim Clayton: How’s school go?
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Coach Jim Clayton: I say this, I said this to probably 25 students.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Tell me something cool that you learned this week.
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Randy Black: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I was old for twenty.
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Randy Black: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Not one kid.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So man, I learned you know not one.
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Randy Black: I know the I know the feeling.
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Coach Jim Clayton: If I ask my son, I get the same thing.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And and and as an educator
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Coach Jim Clayton: You see, that just breaks my heart.
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Randy Black: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I’m telling you, y’all said, let me get this right.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You just spent eight hours with somebody and you didn’t come up with one cool thing.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Because they teach by the book.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?
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Coach Jim Clayton: They don’t teach by stories, by circumstances, you know, things of of that nature.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, that mindset, man, I’m gonna tell you that’s the button that flips it on and flips it off.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And so for me personally, when I look at players, when I look at people
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Coach Jim Clayton: in general, or students, when, you know, in a classroom educational setting, I look at you totally different.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I look right through the the crap.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And I look at, man.
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Coach Jim Clayton: This person could be this if they knew they could.
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Coach Jim Clayton: But see, that takes a little extra effort.
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Coach Jim Clayton: That takes extra.
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Coach Jim Clayton: See that that’s that thing that some people just have that gift
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Coach Jim Clayton: where they can see it and then they know how to bring it out.
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Randy Black: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So it’s like I want I want the the fire lighter
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Coach Jim Clayton: I want the one that’s going to make that flame bigger.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t want the firefighter that’s going to put the flame out unless my house is on fire.
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Randy Black: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And then I definitely want that guy.
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Coach Jim Clayton: But see, we’ve got so many people that put that fire out.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, I’m kind of harping on education, but a couple weeks ago I went down to Martin County, Kentucky to speak to the to the all the staff
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Coach Jim Clayton: And I was talking about mindset.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?
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Coach Jim Clayton: And I said, I’ve been in a lot of these meetings.
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Coach Jim Clayton: First day back on the job.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Principal’s up there talking, you have a speaker, whatever.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And guys in the back going, man, I’ve been doing this for 39 years, 40 years, by God.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I know what I’m doing.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t give a body’s crap.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I’m gonna do it my way.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know who I feel sorry for?
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Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t feel sorry for the teacher.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I felt sorry for the students in that guy’s class or that woman’s class.
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Randy Black: Because he’s going to keep doing things the way he’s always done.
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Randy Black: He’s not trying to innovate.
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Coach Jim Clayton: That keeps people down.
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Randy Black: Yeah
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Coach Jim Clayton: And then when you keep holding people down like that, instead of being an overachiever, those people are always the underachievers of the world.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And then guess whose fault it is?
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Coach Jim Clayton: Not my fault, because I don’t teach like that.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t communicate like that.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t, you know, I don’t I don’t coach like that
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And it I mean it’s just it it’s enthusiasm is caught, it’s not taught.
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Randy Black: Excitement.
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Randy Black: It it reminds me of I don’t know if you remember this or not, there were many years ago
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Randy Black: All the teachers in Cabal Canyon Schools had to go to the auditorium at City Hall in Huntington.
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Randy Black: And we heard a gentleman speak.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I was there.
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Randy Black: Ion Jukes.
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Randy Black: Ayn Jukes s made he had a term he had coined, tatwati.
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Randy Black: That’s the way we’ve always done it.
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Randy Black: That’s a fixed mindset because you’re not trying to make a change.
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Randy Black: You’re not trying to push forward and use what’s there for you to make a better.
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Randy Black: And it was it was a powerful speech that he gave
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Randy Black: But I heard so many people coming out of there.
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Randy Black: Why do we waste our time with this?
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Randy Black: Why did we do this?
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Randy Black: And it’s it’s disheartening as as a young educator, because this was early.
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Randy Black: This is like
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Randy Black: Second maybe second or third if at the max year for me.
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Randy Black: So this was, you know, 20 years ago, 18 years ago.
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Randy Black: Um it had a it had a it had a powerful impact on me, but I saw so many people just
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Randy Black: Just dog on it and hate on it and there was no need for it.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You’re 100% right.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, how are you going to determine whether somebody has the ability because they can’t pass this test?
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Randy Black: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, when you went for a job interview or I went for a job, I’m having a said, uh, what you what was your score on your ACT and SAT?
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Coach Jim Clayton: They don’t care.
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Coach Jim Clayton: What you get in that class?
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Coach Jim Clayton: They don’t care.
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Coach Jim Clayton: But see, that’s how we teach them.
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Randy Black: It is.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And it’s all wrong.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s all backwards.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And then as a result, if you look at the situation we’re in now with the education in our country
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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s all off the charts back.
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Randy Black: No, it’s we spend more money per capita and have less results.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know the old saying, if you if you want to keep on getting what you’re getting, just keep on doing what you’re doing.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Things don’t happen by chance, they happen by the one word everybody hates.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Boy, I don’t want to change.
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Randy Black: Seems like we keep coming back to that a lot, James.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, it never’s going it’s never going to go away.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, no most people don’t even know they need to be on a growth journey
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Randy Black: Yeah, true.
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Coach Jim Clayton: They don’t even know what that is.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, they just think everything’s just gonna happen, it’s gonna happen.
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Coach Jim Clayton: We talked about this last week.
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Coach Jim Clayton: You don’t become great at anything accidentally.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It all has to be intentional.
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Randy Black: Yes.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, that doesn’t equal productivity.
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Randy Black: Exactly.
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Randy Black: You can you can be successful like I said last week.
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Randy Black: And you can be as busy as you want to be, but it doesn’t mean you’ve produced anything.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And if you’re successful, okay, you’re gonna get the results you want.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And you’re gonna get the people right along with it.
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Coach Jim Clayton: But see, most people don’t even know what people’s strengths are.
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Randy Black: Right.
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Coach Jim Clayton: They just they don’t allow them to do what they really could do because they don’t know.
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Coach Jim Clayton: They don’t even know what their strength is.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, what’s their goal for this year?
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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, you know, and again, a teacher can have the best vision.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Anybody, a boss, anybody knows this can have a great vision.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It might be phenomenal.
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Randy Black: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Forget it.
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Randy Black: Ain’t gonna work.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s not gonna work.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And people people don’t know how to flip that.
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Randy Black: Yes.
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Randy Black: They don’t know they don’t know how to they don’t it growth a growth mindset is not something that you just have.
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Randy Black: It’s not it’s it’s not something that’s just innate.
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Randy Black: It’s like we’ve talked about with resilience.
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Randy Black: Resilience isn’t innate.
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Randy Black: Nope.
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Randy Black: Growth mindset is the same thing.
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Coach Jim Clayton: 100%.
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Randy Black: Here’s an example I have in my notes to kind of illustrate it a little more for folks who are listening.
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Randy Black: Everyday life, you’re doing things, you’re working.
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Randy Black: So let’s say you’re doing a presentation at your job.
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Randy Black: So let’s say I’m I’m giving a presentation to teachers about something we’re doing in the technology department.
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Randy Black: And I botch it.
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Randy Black: I completely mess it up.
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Randy Black: If I had a fixed mindset about it, I’m gonna say, well, I’m just not a good speaker.
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Randy Black: That wasn’t my day.
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Randy Black: But if I have a growth mindset, I’m gonna say something like, that was rough, but now I know what to work on for the next time.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, that was a good one.
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Randy Black: Try to find the way to get better.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And everybody that’s great in the IT business is not necessarily good at speaking in front of people and doing presentations.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So you’re you’re again that might be out of their realm, okay?
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Coach Jim Clayton: But they they they still need to know how to communicate because the bottom line here is
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Coach Jim Clayton: Everything comes down to relationships with the people that you’re working with.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Whatever that is, whatever form that is.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And when you have a great relationship with everybody involved, it makes the it when you walk in, man, the energy is just what?
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Coach Jim Clayton: So I’ll give you a classic example.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Today I stopped in over at a place called the Bridge.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s right across the Chesapeake Bridge.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And it’s a little it’s it’s a physical therapy plus.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Well my I jacked up my shoulder a little bit a couple of weeks ago when I was avoiding a flood situation at my house and somewhere along that man my shoulders been bonding me.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So I said, man, I’m gonna go over here
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Coach Jim Clayton: And if I need to get in here, you know, man, I just want to find out where I need to go.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I walked in there
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Coach Jim Clayton: Man, that place was booming.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, it was booming.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Man, people were doing stuff excited.
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Coach Jim Clayton: They said, hey, Coach.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, hey, how you guys doing, man?
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Coach Jim Clayton: I missed you.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I see
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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and it was just you could tell they have gotten I mean, they have just exploded.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Everybody was pumped, you know what I mean?
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Coach Jim Clayton: Everybody I mean it was just the atmosphere was contagious.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Well no wonder they’re doing well.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Because it’s fun to go there.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Especially when you’re going to do something, to rehab something that you’ve injured, that ain’t really fun doing it.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And there’s going to be a little bit of pain involved, okay?
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Randy Black: I’ve been I’ve been there with a lot of people.
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Coach Jim Clayton: No, they’re go I’m gonna go through pain
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Coach Jim Clayton: But I’m going to have fun doing it with people I like and I’m around and the whole thing.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Man, that’s when you know you got it going on.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And I mean I just had the best time in there, so he gave me some stuff to do.
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Coach Jim Clayton: I’m going to go do it, see how it works.
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Coach Jim Clayton: If it does, I’m going to call my doctor and then I’ll go in there and let ’em work to help me fix fix it up.
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Coach Jim Clayton: But it was just the atmosphere now.
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Coach Jim Clayton: But it was jam-packed.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And everybody was doing stuff.
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Randy Black: But here and here’s here’s the way to tie this back in with this is that
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Randy Black: You’re wanting to see the success from it.
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Randy Black: You’re wanting the growth that comes from doing the work to get your shoulder back in place.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And they’re helping you do it.
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Randy Black: There’s people who would sit there and go, eh, I’ll just deal with it.
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Randy Black: Oh and it’s it that’s the kind of you know that’s it’s another perfect example of this idea of growth versus fixed mindsets.
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Randy Black: Do you want to achieve?
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Randy Black: Do you want to do better?
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Randy Black: Do you want to grow?
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Coach Jim Clayton: Yes, yes.
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Coach Jim Clayton: But unfortunately, uh I don’t want to do what it takes to do that.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Exactly.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So guess what?
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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, it’s not going to happen.
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Randy Black: Exactly.
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Randy Black: So for everybody who’s listening out there, either live or on the recording of this episode, here’s a quick kind of gut check for you.
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Randy Black: The last time you failed at something, how did you respond?
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Randy Black: Did you treat it like it was the end of the road or did you see it as part of the journey?
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Randy Black: Your answer will tell you a lot about your productivity mindset.
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Randy Black: Are you a fixed fixed mindset or are you of a growth mindset?
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Randy Black: But mindset is the foundation
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Randy Black: But even if you’re thinking with a growth mindset, there’s still another enemy that we’ve all got to face, and that’s procrastination.
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Randy Black: Here’s the thing.
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Randy Black: Procrastination is not laziness.
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Randy Black: It goes much deeper than that.
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Randy Black: In fact, author and speaker Mel Robbins, she explains that procrastination
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Randy Black: Uh and she explains it in a way that I think really gets to the heart of it.
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Randy Black: She says procrastination isn’t a character flaw.
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Randy Black: It’s actually a habit.
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Randy Black: And it’s one that we use to cope with stress.
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Randy Black: So here is a clip of Mel breaking that down, breaking down why procrastination.
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Randy Black: isn’t about being lazy at all, but really it’s all about how we respond to stress.
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Mel Robbins: Procrastination is a form of stress relief.
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Mel Robbins: Let me explain this.
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Mel Robbins: So let’s say that you’ve got some stuff going on in your life, and heck, who doesn’t have stuff going on in your life?
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Mel Robbins: Maybe you’re fighting with your significant other
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Mel Robbins: Maybe mom’s or dad’s health is failing and it’s really, really upsetting you.
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Mel Robbins: Maybe you’ve got some financial stuff.
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Mel Robbins: You put too much of your savings into Bitcoin and now that that’s crashed, you’re stressed out about it, right?
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Mel Robbins: And so you go into work, and when you get into work, you got stuff to do, you kind of walk in and you got this big stress ball that uh subconsciously is hanging over your head.
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Mel Robbins: And so you walk in
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Mel Robbins: And you sit down and you know you got 13 phone calls you need to make.
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Mel Robbins: And you also know that you’ve been chickening out, you’ve been making easy calls, and there’s a bunch of CIOs or other people that are higher level that you haven’t been calling
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Mel Robbins: And so as you sit down to do it, you got the stress on your shoulders, your brain the it starts to go, wait a minute, will you want me to make a call to somebody that I’m scared to make?
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Mel Robbins: Absolutely not.
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Mel Robbins: I’m so stressed out about my can we just watch some cat videos for a minute
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Mel Robbins: And next thing you know, an hour’s gone by.
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Mel Robbins: And then of course, what do you do?
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Mel Robbins: You beat yourself up.
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Mel Robbins: So the only way that you can break this habit
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Mel Robbins: And that’s an important word for you to hear.
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Mel Robbins: You’re not a procrastinator.
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Mel Robbins: You have a habit of procrastinating
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Mel Robbins: Big difference.
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Randy Black: I love how she frames that, Jim, because it it flips the way that most of us think about procrastination.
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Randy Black: It’s not that you’re lazy, it’s that your brain is trying to escape stress.
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Randy Black: But the problem is, instead of reducing stress, procrastination just piles on more of it right on top.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, excuse me, 100%.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s John Maxwell calls this the law of diminishing intent.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And what that says is the longer you put off doing something that you know you should do
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Coach Jim Clayton: the less likely is it’s ever gonna happen.
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Randy Black: Yes.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And boy, isn’t that true?
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Coach Jim Clayton: We’ve all done that.
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Randy Black: Mm-hmm.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s not that we don’t want to do it
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Coach Jim Clayton: We’re not comfortable doing it.
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Randy Black: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?
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Coach Jim Clayton: Because we’re out of our sometimes that puts you out of your comfort zone.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And it depends on how big that zone is.
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Randy Black: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: So you want one that’s what?
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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s big.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, it’s big.
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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s big.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, you find reasons sometimes with procrastination for me
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Coach Jim Clayton: If I put something off, I always ask myself, did I really want to do it?
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Coach Jim Clayton: Because, you know, if I really want to do something bad enough, oh, I’m gonna find a way to do it.
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Yeah
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Coach Jim Clayton: None’s gonna stop me.
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Coach Jim Clayton: But if I’m not 100% sure I want to do it, sometimes I’ll let it sit on the back burner a little bit.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And then something will come around that will reignite it.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah
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Coach Jim Clayton: And maybe I’ll think about it in a different way and then I’ll bring it back to the front.
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Coach Jim Clayton: But maybe, maybe not.
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Randy Black: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: But, you know, it’s just, you know, procrastination, when I when I
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Coach Jim Clayton: See, I think the word that goes with procrastination is preparation.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Because
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Coach Jim Clayton: When you procrastinate and you know you gotta do something, then all of a sudden the time is here and it’s on, and you haven’t done what you’re supposed to be doing, and you’re gonna use the Yank method to get up there and try to try to wing it.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
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00:21:23,200 –> 00:21:24,639
Coach Jim Clayton: You’re a nervous rick.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
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00:21:25,919 –> 00:21:34,240
Coach Jim Clayton: When you know what’s going to happen, and you know what you’re going to say, and you know how you’re going to say it, and in order you’re going to do it, guess what?
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Randy Black: Oh yeah.
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00:21:36,360 –> 00:21:44,440
Randy Black: I think I you know and I think about, you know, from a classroom perspective when I was teaching is you know, that that kid that you catch cheating.
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00:21:44,440 –> 00:21:47,639
Randy Black: He spent all this time, you know, preparing to cheat.
429
00:21:47,820 –> 00:21:52,540
Randy Black: when he could have spent all that same time studying to prepare to take the test.
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Randy Black: It’s the same idea.
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00:21:53,660 –> 00:21:57,260
Randy Black: He was procrastinating to studying, trying to find another way to do it.
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Randy Black: It’s like, you know, say you’re at work and you’ve got a report you got to write.
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Randy Black: Instead, you sit down, you scroll through your phone because you’re trying to keep from having to do it.
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00:22:05,640 –> 00:22:12,680
Randy Black: Or let’s say, you know, we’re both married individuals, and sometimes you have to have a tough conversation with your spouse.
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Randy Black: More so it’s probably the wife having the tough conversation with us.
436
00:22:16,880 –> 00:22:22,240
Randy Black: But y y it comes along and like suddenly that conversation needs to happen and you’re kind of like
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00:22:22,540 –> 00:22:27,980
Randy Black: Well uh um I really need to go clean the garage or I really need to go mow the grass.
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00:22:27,980 –> 00:22:34,540
Randy Black: You’re trying to find a way to get out of it, to procrastinate, dealing with it, because it’s not about the laziness.
439
00:22:34,260 –> 00:22:37,780
Randy Black: It’s about avoiding the stress that comes with the situation.
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00:22:37,780 –> 00:22:40,260
Coach Jim Clayton: And when the stress comes with it, what else comes?
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Coach Jim Clayton: Pressure.
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Randy Black: Yes.
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Coach Jim Clayton: See, the pressure cooker starts to start getting it’s about to bust.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
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00:22:46,919 –> 00:22:49,480
Coach Jim Clayton: because of the stress.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Alright?
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00:22:50,360 –> 00:22:58,039
Coach Jim Clayton: So for me, what de-stresses me the m the when I’m just totally in relaxed mode.
448
00:22:59,400 –> 00:23:01,240
Coach Jim Clayton: Everything’s done.
449
00:23:01,240 –> 00:23:03,320
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s all been done.
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00:23:03,320 –> 00:23:05,240
Coach Jim Clayton: See, it’s the preparation.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And then I just go into
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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
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Coach Jim Clayton: But when I’m not prepared, you know, I got this, do I have this right?
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Coach Jim Clayton: So you question yourself
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Coach Jim Clayton: And then when you start to question yourself, I mean no one’s no more qualified to be you than you.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Why should you be questioning yourself?
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Coach Jim Clayton: Then that’s when the pressure and the stress starts to mount.
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Randy Black: Yeah
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Coach Jim Clayton: And then that’s when we run from it.
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Randy Black: Yeah.
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00:23:29,280 –> 00:23:32,160
Randy Black: We we have to look for ways to break the cycle.
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00:23:32,160 –> 00:23:32,400
Randy Black: Yeah.
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Randy Black: You know, and it because it’s a stress-related thing, one of the ways you can do that is to just
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Randy Black: Take whatever it is that’s stressing you, whatever that task is, and start breaking it down into something that’s smaller.
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Randy Black: You know, um someone I can’t remember who because I don’t have it in my notes, but I read about the five-minute rule
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00:23:52,040 –> 00:23:58,040
Randy Black: Okay, the five-minute rule comes in and says tell yourself I’m just gonna do this for five minutes.
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00:23:58,040 –> 00:24:01,560
Randy Black: So starting small calms down the stress response
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Randy Black: And it once you’ve started, momentum usually will kick in and things will get rolling and you’ll be able to keep making your way through.
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Randy Black: Uh I remember setting in a in a training.
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Randy Black: It was a summer it was a summer training by a group called APL Associates.
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Randy Black: Uh they were based out of New York.
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Randy Black: Uh one of the guys who was there with him, I’m actually friends with him on Facebook now.
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Randy Black: His name is Jim Zelonis.
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Randy Black: Jim is from McKeesport, Pennsylvania.
475
00:24:26,039 –> 00:24:30,600
Randy Black: McKeesport, Pennsylvania is the home of the Little League World Series.
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Randy Black: And.
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Randy Black: Sorry, not Jim, John Zelonis.
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Randy Black: John Zelonas.
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Randy Black: John was a high school football coach uh in Pennsylvania.
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Randy Black: He’s well known, but he’s
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Randy Black: He prefers to be more well known for what he did as a teacher.
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00:24:43,820 –> 00:24:51,660
Randy Black: And he talked about using this rule, because I can I can recall, like he said, set a timer, buy a cheap little timer for your classroom.
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Randy Black: Set that timer.
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Randy Black: And when you’re first starting to do real instruction with your students, when you’re really diving in on content, set that timer for five minutes, let it go, and at the end of five minutes, take a break.
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00:25:04,419 –> 00:25:05,700
Randy Black: What’s that do?
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Randy Black: It gives your brain the chance to take a break and especially gives the kids chance, their brain the chance to take a break.
487
00:25:12,020 –> 00:25:16,580
Randy Black: And it breaks down because you may have to spend a whole bunch of time talking through this content.
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00:25:16,600 –> 00:25:20,200
Randy Black: And the longer you’re talking, the more likely you’re going to lose them.
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00:25:20,200 –> 00:25:22,440
Randy Black: So give them a chance to have that break.
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Randy Black: And it goes right along with this five-minute rule
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00:25:24,700 –> 00:25:27,100
Randy Black: And I learned that from John, uh, awesome guy.
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00:25:27,100 –> 00:25:29,500
Randy Black: Still, like I said, I’m friends with him on Facebook now.
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00:25:29,500 –> 00:25:34,700
Randy Black: Um, and he’s still still out there sharing some really good stuff with what he’s done in education.
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00:25:35,120 –> 00:25:42,320
Randy Black: But the next time you kind of catch yourself starting to procrastinate, this is for the listeners, don’t beat yourself up over it.
495
00:25:42,320 –> 00:25:43,200
Randy Black: It’s not worth it.
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Randy Black: It doesn’t do any good.
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Randy Black: Just ask yourself.
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00:25:46,679 –> 00:25:50,519
Randy Black: What stress am I trying to escape right now?
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Randy Black: That’s the trigger.
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00:25:52,039 –> 00:25:58,760
Randy Black: Something else that Mel Robbins said, and I didn’t I didn’t keep it in the recording, is that you’re never going to eliminate the trigger.
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00:25:58,760 –> 00:26:00,919
Randy Black: The trigger’s always gonna be there.
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00:26:00,820 –> 00:26:02,500
Randy Black: You have to recognize it.
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00:26:02,500 –> 00:26:04,420
Randy Black: You have to shrink down the task.
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00:26:04,420 –> 00:26:07,780
Randy Black: You’ll be surprised how quickly you can break the habit.
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00:26:07,780 –> 00:26:08,900
Randy Black: And that’s the key.
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00:26:08,900 –> 00:26:12,420
Randy Black: It is a habit, and habits can be changed.
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00:26:12,720 –> 00:26:16,080
Randy Black: Procrastination is not about being lazy.
508
00:26:16,080 –> 00:26:18,880
Randy Black: It’s a habit you’ve learned for whatever reason.
509
00:26:18,880 –> 00:26:21,520
Randy Black: And the cool thing is once we start moving.
510
00:26:22,120 –> 00:26:26,520
Randy Black: You know, once we start going on the task, it’s not just about putting in the hours.
511
00:26:26,520 –> 00:26:29,000
Randy Black: It’s about how we use them.
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00:26:29,000 –> 00:26:30,120
Randy Black: Think about it, Jim.
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00:26:30,120 –> 00:26:33,080
Randy Black: You’ve got kids here who come in and shoot for an hour.
514
00:26:33,080 –> 00:26:36,440
Randy Black: And in that hour, they may shoot 500 shots.
515
00:26:36,340 –> 00:26:37,700
Randy Black: That’s pretty good.
516
00:26:37,700 –> 00:26:44,260
Randy Black: But if they’re shooting 500 shots and not using the correct form and not doing it correctly, not gonna get your outcome.
517
00:26:44,260 –> 00:26:45,220
Randy Black: They’re wasting their time.
518
00:26:45,220 –> 00:26:46,740
Randy Black: They’re not gonna get the outcome
519
00:26:46,960 –> 00:26:51,360
Coach Jim Clayton: Well yeah, well, yeah, improvement requires commitment to growth and effort.
520
00:26:51,760 –> 00:26:54,320
Coach Jim Clayton: So you gotta want to get better and you gotta put the effort in.
521
00:26:54,800 –> 00:26:59,600
Coach Jim Clayton: And some people, I’m not sure they want to get better, and therefore, guess what?
522
00:26:58,860 –> 00:26:59,980
Coach Jim Clayton: The effort’s not there.
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00:27:00,460 –> 00:27:02,620
Coach Jim Clayton: Consequently, improvement does not happen.
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00:27:02,620 –> 00:27:03,179
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
525
00:27:03,179 –> 00:27:03,580
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
526
00:27:03,580 –> 00:27:04,860
Coach Jim Clayton: Those are underachievers.
527
00:27:05,340 –> 00:27:05,659
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?
528
00:27:05,740 –> 00:27:07,179
Coach Jim Clayton: Those are your average people.
529
00:27:07,179 –> 00:27:09,179
Coach Jim Clayton: And you know what average to me is, don’t you?
530
00:27:09,260 –> 00:27:11,340
Coach Jim Clayton: The best the best of the worst
531
00:27:11,260 –> 00:27:12,539
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, top or the bottom.
532
00:27:13,100 –> 00:27:14,140
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s average.
533
00:27:14,140 –> 00:27:14,780
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
534
00:27:16,220 –> 00:27:17,820
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, do you really want to be average?
535
00:27:17,820 –> 00:27:20,140
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t something tells me you don’t really want it.
536
00:27:20,140 –> 00:27:22,059
Coach Jim Clayton: They go, no, I don’t.
537
00:27:22,059 –> 00:27:23,900
Coach Jim Clayton: Then you can’t do what average people do
538
00:27:25,460 –> 00:27:26,340
Coach Jim Clayton: Can’t do it.
539
00:27:26,340 –> 00:27:26,820
Randy Black: Yeah.
540
00:27:26,820 –> 00:27:28,420
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, you can’t do it.
541
00:27:28,420 –> 00:27:32,820
Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, again, procrastination, you talk about smaller.
542
00:27:32,820 –> 00:27:34,340
Coach Jim Clayton: We’ve talked about this earlier.
543
00:27:34,340 –> 00:27:38,260
Coach Jim Clayton: Break it down into this, you know, nothing motivates people to like success.
544
00:27:38,260 –> 00:27:39,300
Randy Black: Mm-hmm.
545
00:27:39,320 –> 00:27:44,200
Coach Jim Clayton: So if you just have a little tidbit of success, those are your little victories.
546
00:27:44,200 –> 00:27:44,840
Randy Black: Yes.
547
00:27:44,840 –> 00:27:46,280
Coach Jim Clayton: Every day you get a little victory.
548
00:27:47,080 –> 00:27:48,840
Coach Jim Clayton: Then you start to gain a little what?
549
00:27:48,840 –> 00:27:49,240
Coach Jim Clayton: See?
550
00:27:49,240 –> 00:27:53,480
Coach Jim Clayton: I mean I know people that I’ve had businesses where they looked at me and said
551
00:27:53,919 –> 00:27:55,520
Coach Jim Clayton: Man, that’s awesome.
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00:27:55,520 –> 00:27:56,400
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.
553
00:27:56,400 –> 00:27:56,880
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
554
00:27:56,880 –> 00:27:58,799
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, I’m trying to reach this guy.
555
00:27:58,799 –> 00:28:00,080
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, I know that guy.
556
00:28:00,080 –> 00:28:01,919
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, can you call him for me?
557
00:28:01,919 –> 00:28:03,039
Coach Jim Clayton: They can’t call him
558
00:28:03,519 –> 00:28:04,559
Coach Jim Clayton: But they know him.
559
00:28:05,279 –> 00:28:06,480
Coach Jim Clayton: Can’t same reason.
560
00:28:06,480 –> 00:28:10,159
Coach Jim Clayton: Can’t call them because they don’t know what to say.
561
00:28:10,159 –> 00:28:12,159
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, well, it’s not a scripted thing.
562
00:28:12,159 –> 00:28:13,279
Coach Jim Clayton: He’s your buddy.
563
00:28:14,140 –> 00:28:15,660
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, break the ice.
564
00:28:15,660 –> 00:28:16,140
Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.
565
00:28:16,140 –> 00:28:16,940
Coach Jim Clayton: Can’t do it.
566
00:28:16,940 –> 00:28:17,580
Coach Jim Clayton: Pressure.
567
00:28:17,580 –> 00:28:19,980
Coach Jim Clayton: And then they just here it comes.
568
00:28:20,220 –> 00:28:21,020
Coach Jim Clayton: Put it what?
569
00:28:21,020 –> 00:28:22,380
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, have you talked to him today?
570
00:28:22,380 –> 00:28:23,020
Coach Jim Clayton: No, I haven’t.
571
00:28:23,020 –> 00:28:23,420
Coach Jim Clayton: I haven’t.
572
00:28:23,420 –> 00:28:25,020
Coach Jim Clayton: I haven’t had a chance to have been busy.
573
00:28:25,020 –> 00:28:27,260
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, here we go again with busyness
574
00:28:27,720 –> 00:28:29,080
Coach Jim Clayton: And then guess what?
575
00:28:29,080 –> 00:28:30,520
Coach Jim Clayton: It never happens.
576
00:28:30,520 –> 00:28:31,400
Randy Black: Yeah.
577
00:28:31,400 –> 00:28:33,080
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s not that they can’t.
578
00:28:33,080 –> 00:28:34,680
Coach Jim Clayton: They’re just stressed out over it.
579
00:28:34,680 –> 00:28:37,320
Coach Jim Clayton: And it’s and that’s exactly what you’re talking about right here.
580
00:28:37,960 –> 00:28:38,600
Randy Black: It’s
581
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Randy Black: It’s it’s kind of and it it leads us uh further into the conversation here, and it’s the difference between working hard and working smart, and it shows up in how you respond and how you do things.
582
00:28:49,460 –> 00:28:52,580
Randy Black: Because working hard is about effort.
583
00:28:52,580 –> 00:28:57,620
Randy Black: It’s about the long hours you put in, the late nights, the grind you have to go through.
584
00:28:57,720 –> 00:29:01,000
Randy Black: Working smart is about the strategy.
585
00:29:01,000 –> 00:29:08,280
Randy Black: It’s knowing where to focus your energy so that the work you do actually moves the needle.
586
00:29:08,900 –> 00:29:18,020
Randy Black: I did a podcast for quite a while for a while called EdTech Shorts, and I just took quick, simple tips dealing with educational technology to share with teachers.
587
00:29:17,660 –> 00:29:24,700
Randy Black: And in doing so, my tagline was about helping them find ways to work smarter, not work harder.
588
00:29:24,700 –> 00:29:26,700
Randy Black: And it was about finding ways to help them.
589
00:29:26,840 –> 00:29:34,039
Randy Black: Find a strategy, find a tool, find something that helps them to be more productive in what they’re doing in their classroom.
590
00:29:34,039 –> 00:29:35,160
Randy Black: So Jim, you know
591
00:29:35,279 –> 00:29:39,120
Randy Black: The whole idea, the whole concept of working harder versus working smarter.
592
00:29:39,120 –> 00:29:42,559
Randy Black: I know this is something you fully grasp and understand.
593
00:29:42,559 –> 00:29:43,600
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh gosh.
594
00:29:43,600 –> 00:29:47,200
Coach Jim Clayton: I go places and I see all kinds of things going on.
595
00:29:46,940 –> 00:29:49,500
Coach Jim Clayton: And everybody just looks at the the big picture.
596
00:29:49,500 –> 00:29:49,820
Randy Black: Mm-hmm.
597
00:29:49,820 –> 00:29:52,139
Coach Jim Clayton: And they go, oh, there’s a lot of stuff going on.
598
00:29:52,139 –> 00:29:57,260
Coach Jim Clayton: But then if you really start to dissect it a little bit and look down, there ain’t nothing going on.
599
00:29:57,899 –> 00:30:00,059
Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, again, busyness
600
00:30:00,980 –> 00:30:05,060
Coach Jim Clayton: Activity, busyness doesn’t guarantee results.
601
00:30:05,060 –> 00:30:05,780
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
602
00:30:05,780 –> 00:30:12,740
Coach Jim Clayton: Productivity of what you’re talking about right there comes from focused, intentional action rather than just being active.
603
00:30:12,740 –> 00:30:13,380
Randy Black: Yes.
604
00:30:13,380 –> 00:30:14,180
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?
605
00:30:14,180 –> 00:30:14,820
Coach Jim Clayton: Now
606
00:30:15,220 –> 00:30:21,380
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, again, effort, that’s I always tell people two things a coach should never have to coach.
607
00:30:21,380 –> 00:30:23,380
Coach Jim Clayton: Your effort and your attitude.
608
00:30:23,380 –> 00:30:26,180
Coach Jim Clayton: And most people that have lack of effort have a bad attitude.
609
00:30:27,120 –> 00:30:32,800
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, so if your effort’s not there, our question is, do you really want to do this?
610
00:30:33,680 –> 00:30:35,360
Coach Jim Clayton: Do you really want to do this
611
00:30:35,360 –> 00:30:39,760
Coach Jim Clayton: Now, somebody might want you to do this, but do you really want to do this?
612
00:30:39,760 –> 00:30:43,039
Coach Jim Clayton: Your mom and dad might want you to do it, but they’re not you.
613
00:30:43,039 –> 00:30:43,760
Randy Black: Right.
614
00:30:43,940 –> 00:30:45,299
Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s never going to work.
615
00:30:45,299 –> 00:30:47,139
Coach Jim Clayton: And then parents do this all the time.
616
00:30:47,139 –> 00:30:49,620
Coach Jim Clayton: They fork all this money out.
617
00:30:49,620 –> 00:30:52,580
Coach Jim Clayton: And then all of a sudden the kid gets about eighth or ninth grade and goes.
618
00:30:52,640 –> 00:30:53,840
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t want to do this anymore.
619
00:30:53,840 –> 00:30:54,480
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m done.
620
00:30:54,480 –> 00:30:55,680
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, hold on a minute.
621
00:30:56,800 –> 00:31:01,520
Coach Jim Clayton: We spent thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars and too bad.
622
00:31:01,520 –> 00:31:02,240
Coach Jim Clayton: They don’t care.
623
00:31:02,240 –> 00:31:02,880
Coach Jim Clayton: They’re done.
624
00:31:03,840 –> 00:31:05,280
Coach Jim Clayton: Not a good investment
625
00:31:05,720 –> 00:31:08,760
Coach Jim Clayton: Not a good return on your money.
626
00:31:08,760 –> 00:31:09,480
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?
627
00:31:09,800 –> 00:31:13,240
Coach Jim Clayton: Because again, you gotta work smart.
628
00:31:13,940 –> 00:31:17,539
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s not how how how much you’re doing it.
629
00:31:17,539 –> 00:31:19,220
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s are you doing it right?
630
00:31:19,220 –> 00:31:19,860
Randy Black: Yeah.
631
00:31:19,860 –> 00:31:22,340
Coach Jim Clayton: Wrong plus wrong produces twice as wrong.
632
00:31:22,340 –> 00:31:23,779
Randy Black: Yeah, here’s here’s an example.
633
00:31:23,779 –> 00:31:26,899
Randy Black: So let’s say you’re that let’s say that I’ve got to do a presentation
634
00:31:26,740 –> 00:31:34,180
Randy Black: And I spend hours formatting slides in PowerPoint and making them as perfect as I can.
635
00:31:34,180 –> 00:31:34,500
Randy Black: And
636
00:31:35,120 –> 00:31:44,000
Randy Black: I spend all this time just trying to be visually impressive when I could have spent 30 minutes outlining these are my key points.
637
00:31:43,940 –> 00:31:50,580
Randy Black: I can practice going through my delivery and I can I can make sure that what I’m doing is not busy work.
638
00:31:50,580 –> 00:31:53,620
Randy Black: It’s actually going to improve the outcome.
639
00:31:53,620 –> 00:31:55,220
Coach Jim Clayton: And the way 100%.
640
00:31:55,220 –> 00:31:56,100
Coach Jim Clayton: And the way
641
00:31:56,540 –> 00:32:02,060
Coach Jim Clayton: To change that working hard versus working smart is beat them at their own game.
642
00:32:02,780 –> 00:32:04,220
Coach Jim Clayton: Here’s what we’re learning.
643
00:32:05,260 –> 00:32:07,179
Coach Jim Clayton: Boom boom boom.
644
00:32:07,179 –> 00:32:08,139
Coach Jim Clayton: Three things.
645
00:32:08,139 –> 00:32:08,539
Randy Black: Yeah.
646
00:32:08,539 –> 00:32:09,980
Coach Jim Clayton: Here’s why we’re learning it.
647
00:32:09,980 –> 00:32:11,500
Coach Jim Clayton: Boom, boom, boom.
648
00:32:11,500 –> 00:32:13,580
Coach Jim Clayton: Here’s how you’re gonna use it in your life today.
649
00:32:13,580 –> 00:32:14,139
Randy Black: Yeah.
650
00:32:14,139 –> 00:32:14,779
Coach Jim Clayton: Got them
651
00:32:15,940 –> 00:32:16,820
Coach Jim Clayton: Got them.
652
00:32:16,820 –> 00:32:19,060
Coach Jim Clayton: No closed mindset, no progress.
653
00:32:19,540 –> 00:32:20,340
Coach Jim Clayton: I can’t wait.
654
00:32:21,140 –> 00:32:27,540
Coach Jim Clayton: Because you’re not, see, we everything’s judged in in their minds, people’s minds.
655
00:32:27,440 –> 00:32:31,760
Coach Jim Clayton: Starting at an early age all the way up, A, B, C, D, or F.
656
00:32:31,760 –> 00:32:32,960
Randy Black: Yeah.
657
00:32:33,200 –> 00:32:36,880
Randy Black: That I hate I hate the letter grading scale with a pageant.
658
00:32:36,880 –> 00:32:39,440
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh man, I was not a very good student.
659
00:32:39,440 –> 00:32:42,159
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, because I hated school where every day I went.
660
00:32:42,040 –> 00:32:43,080
Coach Jim Clayton: I just hated it.
661
00:32:43,480 –> 00:32:47,640
Coach Jim Clayton: Because I never knew what I was learning, why I was learning it, and how I was ever going to use.
662
00:32:47,640 –> 00:32:52,840
Coach Jim Clayton: So I I just decided when I become a teacher, after I finally figured out and went back and says
663
00:32:52,860 –> 00:32:54,380
Coach Jim Clayton: Was the teachers that bad?
664
00:32:54,380 –> 00:32:56,860
Coach Jim Clayton: Was I just the biggest dummy known to man?
665
00:32:57,100 –> 00:33:00,460
Coach Jim Clayton: Uh what was the real root problem of the
666
00:33:00,400 –> 00:33:02,000
Coach Jim Clayton: And that was the root problem.
667
00:33:02,240 –> 00:33:08,320
Coach Jim Clayton: So once I identified and went back, I said, I’ll be dead gone if I’m going to allow that to happen in anything I do the rest of my life.
668
00:33:08,320 –> 00:33:09,040
Randy Black: Yeah.
669
00:33:09,360 –> 00:33:11,920
Coach Jim Clayton: So here’s why we’re doing it.
670
00:33:11,780 –> 00:33:12,660
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?
671
00:33:12,660 –> 00:33:14,820
Coach Jim Clayton: Here’s how you’re going to use it.
672
00:33:14,820 –> 00:33:17,540
Coach Jim Clayton: And they go, oh, that’s simple.
673
00:33:17,540 –> 00:33:19,700
Coach Jim Clayton: Let’s just keep it simple.
674
00:33:20,020 –> 00:33:21,620
Coach Jim Clayton: I use the KISS method.
675
00:33:22,100 –> 00:33:23,220
Coach Jim Clayton: Keep it simple, stupid.
676
00:33:23,220 –> 00:33:23,540
Coach Jim Clayton: Yep.
677
00:33:23,700 –> 00:33:26,260
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m not calling you stupid.
678
00:33:25,620 –> 00:33:28,340
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, I’m just saying, let’s just keep it simple.
679
00:33:28,340 –> 00:33:40,100
Coach Jim Clayton: Don’t make it but see educators, some people, well j not just educators, but some people, they take the most common simple sense things and turn them into nightmare on Elm Street.
680
00:33:39,240 –> 00:33:39,960
Randy Black: Yes.
681
00:33:39,960 –> 00:33:41,000
Coach Jim Clayton: So complicated.
682
00:33:41,400 –> 00:33:42,280
Coach Jim Clayton: I can’t get it.
683
00:33:42,280 –> 00:33:43,560
Coach Jim Clayton: Well let me break it down for you.
684
00:33:43,560 –> 00:33:44,920
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, that’s what you’re saying?
685
00:33:45,160 –> 00:33:46,760
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s what I’m saying.
686
00:33:46,760 –> 00:33:48,760
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, I got it now then.
687
00:33:48,920 –> 00:33:50,200
Coach Jim Clayton: Just how you say it.
688
00:33:51,019 –> 00:34:00,460
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, and it’s how it’s and again, you know, coaches, uh, head coaches, sister coaches, um
689
00:34:01,500 –> 00:34:05,660
Coach Jim Clayton: Leaders of companies, school administrators.
690
00:34:05,660 –> 00:34:06,860
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.
691
00:34:06,860 –> 00:34:11,580
Coach Jim Clayton: They can see, they can tell by your actions.
692
00:34:11,580 –> 00:34:14,060
Coach Jim Clayton: How is your passion?
693
00:34:14,060 –> 00:34:14,859
Coach Jim Clayton: See, because
694
00:34:15,879 –> 00:34:20,760
Coach Jim Clayton: If you have a passion for what you’re doing, the energy’s coming with it.
695
00:34:20,760 –> 00:34:21,639
Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.
696
00:34:21,639 –> 00:34:23,000
Coach Jim Clayton: And the effort.
697
00:34:23,000 –> 00:34:28,279
Coach Jim Clayton: If you’re just, you know, you’re retired, but you ain’t just turned, you hadn’t just turned in your papers yet.
698
00:34:28,279 –> 00:34:28,760
Randy Black: Mm-hmm.
699
00:34:28,960 –> 00:34:30,320
Coach Jim Clayton: You’re going through the most.
700
00:34:30,320 –> 00:34:31,200
Randy Black: Exactly.
701
00:34:31,200 –> 00:34:33,440
Coach Jim Clayton: Cats Saw that a lot.
702
00:34:33,440 –> 00:34:34,960
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s working really dumb.
703
00:34:34,960 –> 00:34:35,360
Randy Black: Yeah.
704
00:34:35,360 –> 00:34:36,400
Coach Jim Clayton: But they don’t care
705
00:34:37,280 –> 00:34:40,000
Coach Jim Clayton: Because it never’s gonna come back on them.
706
00:34:40,000 –> 00:34:40,480
Randy Black: Yeah.
707
00:34:40,480 –> 00:34:46,480
Coach Jim Clayton: And see that’s what really burnt me up is you’re going above and beyond the call of duty
708
00:34:47,760 –> 00:34:51,520
Coach Jim Clayton: And the person next to you is doing nothing.
709
00:34:51,520 –> 00:34:53,280
Coach Jim Clayton: They get the same thing you get.
710
00:34:53,280 –> 00:34:54,240
Randy Black: Yeah.
711
00:34:55,560 –> 00:34:59,320
Randy Black: There’s there’s no incentive to to continue to improve.
712
00:34:59,320 –> 00:34:59,720
Randy Black: No.
713
00:34:59,720 –> 00:35:00,920
Randy Black: In a lot of ways.
714
00:35:00,920 –> 00:35:01,400
Coach Jim Clayton: No.
715
00:35:01,640 –> 00:35:04,920
Coach Jim Clayton: And so then they finally, after a while, they just go to heck with it.
716
00:35:04,920 –> 00:35:05,880
Coach Jim Clayton: Some people do.
717
00:35:05,880 –> 00:35:06,440
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
718
00:35:06,440 –> 00:35:08,680
Coach Jim Clayton: But if that person is still they you know
719
00:35:09,020 –> 00:35:15,980
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah, again, a lot of times when when I got into education, I started school and teaching in 1980.
720
00:35:16,220 –> 00:35:19,260
Coach Jim Clayton: My starting salary was 15,000 bucks.
721
00:35:19,520 –> 00:35:21,040
Coach Jim Clayton: That ain’t much money.
722
00:35:21,920 –> 00:35:27,040
Coach Jim Clayton: But anybody that goes into there’s certain jobs you go into, you know the
723
00:35:27,440 –> 00:35:29,760
Coach Jim Clayton: Income is not going to be outrageous.
724
00:35:29,760 –> 00:35:30,160
Coach Jim Clayton: Right.
725
00:35:30,160 –> 00:35:31,599
Coach Jim Clayton: But I figured out real quick.
726
00:35:31,599 –> 00:35:34,000
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t, I wasn’t doing it for the income.
727
00:35:34,560 –> 00:35:36,400
Coach Jim Clayton: I was doing it for the outcome.
728
00:35:36,640 –> 00:35:36,960
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
729
00:35:36,960 –> 00:35:38,400
Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s still to my day.
730
00:35:38,400 –> 00:35:49,279
Coach Jim Clayton: I I I like I said, when I walk out that door tonight, whether it be in up here in in the in in the lab or in the gym lab.
731
00:35:49,279 –> 00:35:50,960
Randy Black: Yep.
732
00:35:50,220 –> 00:35:56,539
Coach Jim Clayton: We’re we’re going out the door sharing things with people tonight that are going to help them be better tomorrow.
733
00:35:56,539 –> 00:35:56,940
Randy Black: Yes.
734
00:35:56,940 –> 00:35:59,020
Coach Jim Clayton: The kids that are on that floor with me
735
00:35:58,960 –> 00:36:01,440
Coach Jim Clayton: They’re going out that door better than they came in.
736
00:36:01,440 –> 00:36:01,920
Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.
737
00:36:01,920 –> 00:36:05,040
Coach Jim Clayton: And the parents are asking, well, well, I don’t know what to tell them.
738
00:36:05,040 –> 00:36:07,760
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t know what to great questions.
739
00:36:08,180 –> 00:36:11,700
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, here, if I was, this is what I tell them.
740
00:36:11,700 –> 00:36:14,020
Coach Jim Clayton: And this is they respond to it.
741
00:36:14,020 –> 00:36:16,020
Coach Jim Clayton: So don’t reinvent the wheel here.
742
00:36:16,020 –> 00:36:16,500
Randy Black: Right.
743
00:36:16,500 –> 00:36:18,099
Coach Jim Clayton: Tell them the same thing.
744
00:36:18,099 –> 00:36:18,740
Randy Black: Yeah.
745
00:36:19,020 –> 00:36:19,980
Randy Black: Reinforce it.
746
00:36:19,980 –> 00:36:20,619
Coach Jim Clayton: Yep.
747
00:36:21,099 –> 00:36:21,579
Coach Jim Clayton: They go.
748
00:36:21,579 –> 00:36:23,980
Coach Jim Clayton: They look at you like, oh gosh.
749
00:36:24,460 –> 00:36:27,740
Coach Jim Clayton: Like you just said something that’s like rocket science stuff.
750
00:36:27,740 –> 00:36:28,460
Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?
751
00:36:28,460 –> 00:36:30,060
Coach Jim Clayton: They just can’t figure it out
752
00:36:30,240 –> 00:36:33,600
Randy Black: Okay, so let me let me throw this at you real quick, Jim, and see what you think.
753
00:36:33,600 –> 00:36:38,240
Randy Black: So a simple habit that can help you to start working smarter.
754
00:36:38,240 –> 00:36:39,040
Randy Black: Okay?
755
00:36:39,040 –> 00:36:42,560
Randy Black: Ask yourself this question every day.
756
00:36:42,820 –> 00:36:47,700
Randy Black: What’s the one thing I can do today that will have the biggest impact?
757
00:36:47,700 –> 00:36:53,220
Randy Black: Focus on that first, and everything else should fall into place around it.
758
00:36:53,780 –> 00:36:54,500
Randy Black: 100%.
759
00:36:54,500 –> 00:36:54,900
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
760
00:36:54,900 –> 00:36:55,780
Coach Jim Clayton: 100%.
761
00:36:55,780 –> 00:36:56,180
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
762
00:36:56,180 –> 00:36:56,980
Coach Jim Clayton: What’s so
763
00:36:57,340 –> 00:37:01,180
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I like like I’m somewhere doing a doing a workout.
764
00:37:01,660 –> 00:37:05,180
Coach Jim Clayton: Whether it’s a speaking engagement or a training or whatever.
765
00:37:05,180 –> 00:37:08,940
Coach Jim Clayton: And for some reason I forgot to turn my phone off silent.
766
00:37:08,940 –> 00:37:09,340
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
767
00:37:09,340 –> 00:37:11,660
Coach Jim Clayton: And the phone rings.
768
00:37:11,900 –> 00:37:14,860
Coach Jim Clayton: And everybody’s listening to that phone, seeing what I’m gonna do.
769
00:37:14,860 –> 00:37:15,420
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
770
00:37:15,420 –> 00:37:18,060
Coach Jim Clayton: Here’s always my response to that.
771
00:37:18,060 –> 00:37:19,580
Coach Jim Clayton: Guess what?
772
00:37:19,580 –> 00:37:22,540
Coach Jim Clayton: That I’m so sorry I didn’t hit that button.
773
00:37:22,820 –> 00:37:24,500
Coach Jim Clayton: But you know what?
774
00:37:24,500 –> 00:37:31,300
Coach Jim Clayton: The main thing for today, okay, which is the biggest impact, the main thing
775
00:37:31,640 –> 00:37:33,799
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m looking at the main thing right here.
776
00:37:33,799 –> 00:37:34,200
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
777
00:37:34,200 –> 00:37:37,079
Coach Jim Clayton: And you see that whoever’s on the other end of that car?
778
00:37:37,079 –> 00:37:40,359
Coach Jim Clayton: They’re gonna wait because the main thing is the main thing.
779
00:37:40,359 –> 00:37:42,359
Coach Jim Clayton: And it makes them feel what?
780
00:37:42,359 –> 00:37:43,240
Coach Jim Clayton: Feel important.
781
00:37:43,240 –> 00:37:44,200
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yes
782
00:37:44,740 –> 00:37:48,420
Randy Black: Oh, it shows them that you value them and their time and what they’re there for.
783
00:37:48,420 –> 00:37:50,900
Coach Jim Clayton: And you see, back in the day, I heard this the other day.
784
00:37:50,900 –> 00:37:55,620
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, back in the day when I grew up, everybody had a porch.
785
00:37:56,339 –> 00:37:56,900
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
786
00:37:56,900 –> 00:38:00,740
Coach Jim Clayton: So after you ate as a family, everybody go sit on the porch.
787
00:38:00,740 –> 00:38:01,700
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
788
00:38:01,700 –> 00:38:04,339
Coach Jim Clayton: Talking, doing things, you know what I mean?
789
00:38:04,500 –> 00:38:07,700
Coach Jim Clayton: And all of a sudden we’d be out there on the porch talking.
790
00:38:07,700 –> 00:38:09,300
Coach Jim Clayton: And the phone rings.
791
00:38:12,240 –> 00:38:13,840
Coach Jim Clayton: Everybody just look at each other.
792
00:38:13,840 –> 00:38:15,120
Randy Black: Nobody gets up to go get it.
793
00:38:15,120 –> 00:38:15,520
Coach Jim Clayton: No.
794
00:38:15,520 –> 00:38:17,520
Coach Jim Clayton: And they go, well, do you hear that?
795
00:38:17,520 –> 00:38:19,920
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, I hear something in there.
796
00:38:20,940 –> 00:38:25,900
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, uh, and that conversation just keeps going on.
797
00:38:25,900 –> 00:38:26,380
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
798
00:38:26,380 –> 00:38:28,780
Coach Jim Clayton: So the play prioritized
799
00:38:29,400 –> 00:38:36,360
Coach Jim Clayton: The event with the family over a a could have been a today’s world a spam call.
800
00:38:36,360 –> 00:38:37,000
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah
801
00:38:37,040 –> 00:38:38,080
Coach Jim Clayton: Telemarketer or something.
802
00:38:38,320 –> 00:38:39,920
Coach Jim Clayton: Now the phone rings, what’s everybody do?
803
00:38:39,920 –> 00:38:40,960
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh my god, my phone, my phone.
804
00:38:42,080 –> 00:38:44,400
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m going like, man, you don’t got it all out of whack.
805
00:38:44,960 –> 00:38:47,440
Coach Jim Clayton: But you gotta keep the main thing, the main thing.
806
00:38:47,440 –> 00:38:51,120
Coach Jim Clayton: So whatever the biggest impact is today, what I go to do
807
00:38:51,340 –> 00:38:54,300
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s my main focus, and that’s what’s gonna happen.
808
00:38:54,700 –> 00:39:00,860
Coach Jim Clayton: And then you have little little turnoffs you know, little things that’ll bench you off of that, little veins that’ll come off of that.
809
00:39:00,860 –> 00:39:01,180
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
810
00:39:01,180 –> 00:39:03,420
Coach Jim Clayton: That’ll be right along the same lines
811
00:39:03,440 –> 00:39:11,040
Coach Jim Clayton: Just make sure that whatever you set out to be that biggest impact, that’s what it is that day.
812
00:39:11,040 –> 00:39:12,320
Coach Jim Clayton: And you can’t go wrong.
813
00:39:12,880 –> 00:39:14,000
Coach Jim Clayton: Can’t ever go wrong.
814
00:39:14,000 –> 00:39:14,320
Randy Black: Yeah
815
00:39:15,539 –> 00:39:22,020
Randy Black: So key takeaway out of this whole idea of working harder versus working smarter is that hard work is important.
816
00:39:23,220 –> 00:39:27,380
Randy Black: There is a time and a place for it, but it’s not enough.
817
00:39:27,520 –> 00:39:36,160
Randy Black: If you don’t pair it with strategy, with a clear plan to have an impact, you’re just spinning your wheels, you’re wasting your time.
818
00:39:36,160 –> 00:39:37,599
Randy Black: Work smart.
819
00:39:37,540 –> 00:39:40,900
Randy Black: And your hard work will actually count.
820
00:39:41,620 –> 00:39:43,300
Randy Black: I got chills when I typed that.
821
00:39:43,300 –> 00:39:48,660
Randy Black: Because I get when it as it came out of my brain, I was like, oh, that’s that’s a powerful statement.
822
00:39:49,180 –> 00:39:52,780
Randy Black: It really it really hit home with with the idea here.
823
00:39:52,780 –> 00:39:59,260
Randy Black: You know, the whole idea is to have a strategy, but one of the most powerful ways that we can work smart
824
00:39:59,740 –> 00:40:04,620
Randy Black: is through the small daily habits that we compound over time.
825
00:40:04,620 –> 00:40:06,620
Randy Black: And that’s what we’re going to dig into next.
826
00:40:06,620 –> 00:40:07,260
Randy Black: Okay.
827
00:40:07,260 –> 00:40:09,980
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, when you talk about daily habits, let me just say one thing.
828
00:40:09,980 –> 00:40:10,460
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
829
00:40:10,460 –> 00:40:13,340
Coach Jim Clayton: You can always tell the success of a
830
00:40:13,880 –> 00:40:16,599
Coach Jim Clayton: person by their daily agenda.
831
00:40:16,599 –> 00:40:17,400
Randy Black: Yes.
832
00:40:17,400 –> 00:40:22,039
Coach Jim Clayton: What they prioritize at the top, you know, all the way down.
833
00:40:21,760 –> 00:40:29,120
Coach Jim Clayton: And what a lot of people don’t understand is your day has actually started before you swivel those hips and those feet hit the floor.
834
00:40:29,120 –> 00:40:29,680
Coach Jim Clayton: Right
835
00:40:29,400 –> 00:40:32,599
Coach Jim Clayton: You got a few minutes to open your eyes, reflect.
836
00:40:33,000 –> 00:40:36,200
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, thank God you’re here for another day.
837
00:40:36,200 –> 00:40:38,359
Coach Jim Clayton: You got 24 hours.
838
00:40:38,000 –> 00:40:40,240
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, here’s what’s going to happen today.
839
00:40:40,240 –> 00:40:42,000
Coach Jim Clayton: Here’s my top priorities.
840
00:40:42,000 –> 00:40:44,400
Coach Jim Clayton: Here’s my list I’m going to go down through.
841
00:40:44,400 –> 00:40:48,880
Coach Jim Clayton: And I’m going to take care of everything, okay, before my feet hit the floor.
842
00:40:48,880 –> 00:40:51,040
Coach Jim Clayton: So when my feet hit the floor, I’m running
843
00:40:51,040 –> 00:40:51,680
Randy Black: Yeah.
844
00:40:51,680 –> 00:40:55,200
Coach Jim Clayton: Now that doesn’t happen accidentally.
845
00:40:55,200 –> 00:40:55,680
Randy Black: No.
846
00:40:55,680 –> 00:40:56,560
Randy Black: Not at all.
847
00:40:56,560 –> 00:40:58,000
Coach Jim Clayton: You have to have that set.
848
00:40:58,000 –> 00:41:00,800
Coach Jim Clayton: And then you never know when you have those days like that.
849
00:41:01,200 –> 00:41:02,960
Coach Jim Clayton: Man, the days just go what
850
00:41:02,900 –> 00:41:05,220
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s such a so much wonderful day.
851
00:41:05,220 –> 00:41:05,619
Randy Black: Oh yeah.
852
00:41:05,619 –> 00:41:09,059
Randy Black: You and you you feel like you’ve actually gotten something accomplished.
853
00:41:09,059 –> 00:41:09,779
Coach Jim Clayton: 100%.
854
00:41:09,779 –> 00:41:10,660
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh my God.
855
00:41:10,660 –> 00:41:10,980
Randy Black: Yeah.
856
00:41:10,980 –> 00:41:13,220
Randy Black: Like, you know, my my routine in the morning.
857
00:41:13,220 –> 00:41:17,220
Randy Black: Like my wife gets up at 4:45.
858
00:41:17,360 –> 00:41:18,960
Randy Black: Way too early for me.
859
00:41:18,960 –> 00:41:21,440
Randy Black: But she gets stuff done in the morning before she goes to work.
860
00:41:21,440 –> 00:41:24,880
Randy Black: And she has to be at work it before you know before I have to be at work
861
00:41:24,760 –> 00:41:27,080
Randy Black: You know, so she’s up and she’s moving around.
862
00:41:27,080 –> 00:41:33,160
Randy Black: And I’m usually by 5 30, I’m probably awake laying there because my alarm doesn’t go off till about 6 15.
863
00:41:33,160 –> 00:41:37,560
Randy Black: But when I wake up, the first thing I’m doing is I stop.
864
00:41:37,440 –> 00:41:38,640
Randy Black: I pray.
865
00:41:38,640 –> 00:41:39,839
Randy Black: Thank God for the day.
866
00:41:39,839 –> 00:41:41,359
Randy Black: I thank God for the chance.
867
00:41:41,359 –> 00:41:45,200
Randy Black: When I finish that prayer, I start thinking about what’s on my agenda today.
868
00:41:45,200 –> 00:41:46,720
Randy Black: What do I need to prioritize?
869
00:41:46,720 –> 00:41:49,520
Randy Black: What do I need to make sure happens?
870
00:41:49,200 –> 00:41:52,160
Randy Black: Before anything else, what do I need to do first?
871
00:41:52,160 –> 00:41:55,760
Randy Black: And I take that time to get myself focused, just like you talked about.
872
00:41:55,760 –> 00:41:58,400
Randy Black: I take that time to get myself focused for the day.
873
00:41:58,620 –> 00:42:04,700
Randy Black: My wife has no idea I do this, but that’s how I handle getting up in the morning.
874
00:42:05,340 –> 00:42:10,780
Randy Black: Once I’ve gone through that routine and everything, I just kind of lay there for a little bit when my alarm goes off.
875
00:42:10,820 –> 00:42:14,100
Randy Black: She’s usually fixing her hair for doing makeup, whatever she’s doing.
876
00:42:14,100 –> 00:42:18,340
Randy Black: So I just kind of chill, just relax, take that time to enjoy it.
877
00:42:18,340 –> 00:42:25,460
Randy Black: And then once I’m up, I’m up, I’m in the shower, I’m getting ready for work, and I’m out the door within thirty-five, forty minutes.
878
00:42:25,100 –> 00:42:26,380
Randy Black: And I’m on my way to work.
879
00:42:26,380 –> 00:42:29,500
Randy Black: And when I get to work, I dive right in and get started.
880
00:42:29,500 –> 00:42:35,020
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, I I’m gonna tell you what makes my day every day is right about the same time, six o’clock in the morning.
881
00:42:35,020 –> 00:42:38,060
Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, give or take a second or a minute
882
00:42:38,140 –> 00:42:42,619
Coach Jim Clayton: I hear this Here he comes.
883
00:42:42,619 –> 00:42:44,220
Coach Jim Clayton: Yep, he’s laying right here on the floor next to him.
884
00:42:44,380 –> 00:42:45,260
Coach Jim Clayton: He’s whining.
885
00:42:45,260 –> 00:42:48,059
Coach Jim Clayton: Now he’s not whining for me to get up and do anything.
886
00:42:48,140 –> 00:42:50,140
Coach Jim Clayton: He’s just telling me he’s there.
887
00:42:50,140 –> 00:42:50,539
Randy Black: Yeah.
888
00:42:50,700 –> 00:42:53,020
Coach Jim Clayton: I just reach my hand over the side of the bed.
889
00:42:53,339 –> 00:42:59,180
Coach Jim Clayton: He walks right up to it, puts his head right in my hand, and I just scratch his head between his ears
890
00:42:59,000 –> 00:43:00,760
Coach Jim Clayton: I say, I see you, buddy.
891
00:43:00,760 –> 00:43:02,040
Coach Jim Clayton: I know you’re here.
892
00:43:02,040 –> 00:43:03,720
Coach Jim Clayton: You’re looking out after me.
893
00:43:03,720 –> 00:43:05,560
Coach Jim Clayton: Then he just turns around and lays down.
894
00:43:05,560 –> 00:43:07,720
Coach Jim Clayton: And he won’t move till I get up.
895
00:43:08,040 –> 00:43:09,320
Coach Jim Clayton: It don’t matter.
896
00:43:09,340 –> 00:43:10,540
Coach Jim Clayton: But he’s talking to me.
897
00:43:10,540 –> 00:43:12,380
Coach Jim Clayton: And that sense my day.
898
00:43:12,380 –> 00:43:14,860
Coach Jim Clayton: Man, somebody’s what?
899
00:43:14,860 –> 00:43:16,220
Coach Jim Clayton: And it’s a dog.
900
00:43:16,220 –> 00:43:17,180
Randy Black: Yeah.
901
00:43:17,500 –> 00:43:18,780
Coach Jim Clayton: But it doesn’t matter.
902
00:43:19,100 –> 00:43:22,220
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and and and and that gets my brain on the right track.
903
00:43:22,460 –> 00:43:27,900
Randy Black: And it’s and it’s a matter of, you know, we can we can work smart all we want.
904
00:43:28,040 –> 00:43:36,440
Randy Black: But if we don’t have consistency in doing it, if we’re not going the right way, we’re keeping things going the same way, it’s those small daily habits
905
00:43:36,359 –> 00:43:37,640
Randy Black: Those small little things.
906
00:43:37,640 –> 00:43:45,880
Randy Black: The little tiny things that we do every single day may seem minor to us in the moment, but over time, they build the momentum.
907
00:43:45,880 –> 00:43:47,720
Randy Black: And that’s the things people overlook.
908
00:43:47,720 –> 00:43:48,599
Randy Black: Yes.
909
00:43:48,820 –> 00:43:50,420
Coach Jim Clayton: The m minute details.
910
00:43:50,420 –> 00:43:50,980
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
911
00:43:50,980 –> 00:43:54,740
Coach Jim Clayton: They overlook ’em because they’re looking at the bigger picture.
912
00:43:54,740 –> 00:43:55,940
Randy Black: Yeah.
913
00:43:55,940 –> 00:44:00,100
Coach Jim Clayton: And the bigger picture is really made up of all those little things.
914
00:43:59,960 –> 00:44:00,280
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
915
00:44:01,720 –> 00:44:02,600
Coach Jim Clayton: Can’t see it.
916
00:44:02,600 –> 00:44:03,960
Coach Jim Clayton: Some people never will.
917
00:44:03,960 –> 00:44:04,520
Randy Black: Yeah.
918
00:44:04,520 –> 00:44:05,880
Randy Black: Excuse me, no fortune.
919
00:44:06,120 –> 00:44:13,400
Randy Black: We we’ve we’ve talked about how that you know with with what I do in my day job, working in education and I in the IT side of education that
920
00:44:13,359 –> 00:44:17,599
Randy Black: You know, I’m constantly have to keep improving my skills and I have to keep learning.
921
00:44:17,599 –> 00:44:25,200
Randy Black: It’s the idea that I have to spend some time in my day looking at something that I don’t know anything about so that I can learn about it.
922
00:44:24,960 –> 00:44:28,240
Randy Black: And it doesn’t seem like much because I don’t do a lot.
923
00:44:28,240 –> 00:44:31,680
Randy Black: It may be 10 minutes, it may be 15 minutes, it may be five minutes.
924
00:44:31,680 –> 00:44:36,000
Randy Black: And it doesn’t seem like a lot, but over time, reading that
925
00:44:36,660 –> 00:44:39,700
Randy Black: Doing the research on something, it all adds up.
926
00:44:39,700 –> 00:44:44,820
Randy Black: And that knowledge built for me to enhance my skill set.
927
00:44:44,820 –> 00:44:48,340
Randy Black: And suddenly I’ve got this whole big library.
928
00:44:48,720 –> 00:44:52,000
Randy Black: Full of information that helps me in my job.
929
00:44:52,000 –> 00:44:54,880
Randy Black: I do the same thing with podcasting.
930
00:44:54,880 –> 00:44:59,039
Randy Black: I’m constantly looking at different ideas, different ways people are doing stuff.
931
00:44:58,760 –> 00:45:00,440
Randy Black: different tools that are out there.
932
00:45:00,440 –> 00:45:02,120
Randy Black: Like my friend, Daniel J.
933
00:45:02,120 –> 00:45:02,520
Randy Black: Lewis.
934
00:45:02,520 –> 00:45:03,960
Randy Black: Daniel lives over near Cincinnati.
935
00:45:03,960 –> 00:45:05,240
Randy Black: Daniel is working on a tool.
936
00:45:05,240 –> 00:45:10,680
Randy Black: I’m helping him beta test it right now that we can take an MP3 file, upload it.
937
00:45:10,660 –> 00:45:14,740
Randy Black: And then we can use that to build chapters in the MP3 MP3 file.
938
00:45:14,740 –> 00:45:21,380
Randy Black: So when it plays back in the podcast player, if somebody wants to go, you know, you know, they don’t want to listen to the chapter where we talked about
939
00:45:21,740 –> 00:45:28,540
Randy Black: Uh, you know, just earlier, working smarter versus working harder, but they want to hear about the habits, they can just fast forward and go to that next chapter.
940
00:45:28,540 –> 00:45:31,180
Randy Black: And he’s working on that tool to do that.
941
00:45:31,580 –> 00:45:36,700
Randy Black: And seeing that and what he’s doing with it, it helps me to see, oh, well, these are some great ideas people are doing.
942
00:45:36,700 –> 00:45:38,300
Randy Black: This is some great stuff.
943
00:45:38,780 –> 00:45:40,220
Randy Black: It it’s it’s constant learning.
944
00:45:40,220 –> 00:45:41,500
Randy Black: I know you do the same thing.
945
00:45:41,500 –> 00:45:45,420
Randy Black: It’s it’s constantly learning to improve the situation or improve the skill set.
946
00:45:45,420 –> 00:45:47,579
Coach Jim Clayton: Well learning is a lifelong skill.
947
00:45:47,579 –> 00:45:48,460
Randy Black: Yes.
948
00:45:48,420 –> 00:45:49,300
Coach Jim Clayton: Never stop.
949
00:45:49,620 –> 00:45:54,260
Coach Jim Clayton: You know what you’re gonna say it’s what you it’s what you learn after you think you know it all that counts.
950
00:45:54,260 –> 00:45:55,140
Randy Black: Yes.
951
00:45:57,620 –> 00:45:59,060
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t need to I was
952
00:45:58,960 –> 00:46:03,200
Randy Black: I was there, my dad let me know real quick that I did not know everything I thought I did.
953
00:46:03,200 –> 00:46:06,240
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, well you you’re gonna learn everybody knows that, you know what I mean?
954
00:46:06,240 –> 00:46:10,800
Coach Jim Clayton: I mean but it it uh uh you know, you’re you’re so right.
955
00:46:10,800 –> 00:46:12,160
Coach Jim Clayton: I mean you’re so right.
956
00:46:12,160 –> 00:46:13,120
Coach Jim Clayton: And for me
957
00:46:13,880 –> 00:46:21,960
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s like when I when I close out today and I’m reflecting on my day, I got everything done.
958
00:46:21,960 –> 00:46:24,760
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m looking right down through there my goals
959
00:46:25,040 –> 00:46:26,080
Coach Jim Clayton: What did they do?
960
00:46:26,080 –> 00:46:27,120
Coach Jim Clayton: I got them all.
961
00:46:27,120 –> 00:46:27,840
Randy Black: Yeah.
962
00:46:27,840 –> 00:46:28,560
Coach Jim Clayton: Got everyone.
963
00:46:28,560 –> 00:46:31,280
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, I take that about one I didn’t get because I couldn’t find it.
964
00:46:31,760 –> 00:46:34,240
Coach Jim Clayton: I was looking for this place, I couldn’t find it, and I just said
965
00:46:34,359 –> 00:46:35,320
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, I’ll get it tomorrow.
966
00:46:35,320 –> 00:46:36,200
Coach Jim Clayton: Tomorrow’s my day off.
967
00:46:36,200 –> 00:46:39,400
Coach Jim Clayton: So I’m still gonna get it, but it’s just gonna be at the end.
968
00:46:40,839 –> 00:46:42,119
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s no no no big thing.
969
00:46:42,680 –> 00:46:43,000
Coach Jim Clayton: But
970
00:46:43,059 –> 00:46:55,539
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, when I close out today and reflect on the day I’ve had, who I met for the first time, met some people today for the first time ever, and different things, I know when I end the day
971
00:46:55,720 –> 00:46:56,359
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?
972
00:46:56,920 –> 00:47:00,520
Coach Jim Clayton: The first thing as I start tomorrow, my thought is what?
973
00:47:00,520 –> 00:47:02,680
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m already planting a seed.
974
00:47:02,680 –> 00:47:04,760
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m thinking, so tomorrow
975
00:47:05,040 –> 00:47:07,440
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s gonna be an amazing day.
976
00:47:07,440 –> 00:47:08,880
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s what I say to myself.
977
00:47:08,880 –> 00:47:10,800
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s gonna be an amazing day.
978
00:47:10,800 –> 00:47:12,720
Coach Jim Clayton: Now I don’t know what tomorrow, you know what I mean?
979
00:47:12,720 –> 00:47:15,360
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t necessarily all know everything’s gonna happen tomorrow.
980
00:47:15,360 –> 00:47:17,600
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m not a fortune teller, you know what I mean?
981
00:47:17,600 –> 00:47:18,880
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m not the Lord.
982
00:47:18,880 –> 00:47:19,200
Coach Jim Clayton: But
983
00:47:19,440 –> 00:47:20,960
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s my attitude.
984
00:47:20,960 –> 00:47:21,440
Randy Black: Yeah.
985
00:47:21,440 –> 00:47:23,839
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s gonna be amazing.
986
00:47:23,839 –> 00:47:26,079
Coach Jim Clayton: Instead of oh God, here we go.
987
00:47:26,079 –> 00:47:26,400
Randy Black: Mm-hmm.
988
00:47:26,640 –> 00:47:30,720
Coach Jim Clayton: But tomorrow’s Friday, so everybody’s gonna be happy because you never notice how everybody’s happy on Friday.
989
00:47:30,720 –> 00:47:32,160
Randy Black: And it’s a long weekend
990
00:47:32,020 –> 00:47:33,220
Coach Jim Clayton: And it’s a long weekend.
991
00:47:33,220 –> 00:47:36,180
Randy Black: We’re recording this going into Labor Day, so it’s a long weekend this week.
992
00:47:36,339 –> 00:47:38,740
Coach Jim Clayton: So everybody but you know w it should be that way every day.
993
00:47:38,740 –> 00:47:39,220
Randy Black: Yeah.
994
00:47:39,220 –> 00:47:40,099
Randy Black: It should be.
995
00:47:40,180 –> 00:47:41,619
Coach Jim Clayton: It should be that way every day.
996
00:47:41,619 –> 00:47:46,020
Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, like I said, sometimes, you know, it takes
997
00:47:46,400 –> 00:47:50,480
Coach Jim Clayton: Unfortunate things to happen to make you realize it.
998
00:47:50,480 –> 00:47:51,360
Randy Black: Yeah.
999
00:47:51,680 –> 00:47:52,240
Coach Jim Clayton: It does.
1000
00:47:52,240 –> 00:47:53,840
Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s a lesson.
1001
00:47:53,840 –> 00:47:56,320
Coach Jim Clayton: See, everything we’re doing right here is a lesson.
1002
00:47:56,960 –> 00:47:59,040
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s a learning lesson.
1003
00:47:59,040 –> 00:48:00,560
Coach Jim Clayton: What can you learn from this?
1004
00:48:00,560 –> 00:48:02,000
Coach Jim Clayton: How can you use it?
1005
00:48:02,000 –> 00:48:07,680
Coach Jim Clayton: If you learn it and it’s not applicable, what good does it do to learn it?
1006
00:48:09,380 –> 00:48:11,540
Coach Jim Clayton: Got downstairs today, one little boy comes in.
1007
00:48:11,540 –> 00:48:14,260
Coach Jim Clayton: He says, Well, we took a test today in West Virginia history.
1008
00:48:14,260 –> 00:48:16,260
Coach Jim Clayton: I said to him, I said, Landon.
1009
00:48:16,260 –> 00:48:19,700
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, You know the best way to learn West Virginia history?
1010
00:48:19,700 –> 00:48:22,020
Coach Jim Clayton: He said, No, not really.
1011
00:48:22,020 –> 00:48:25,140
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, get in the car and go see things.
1012
00:48:25,140 –> 00:48:26,020
Randy Black: Yep.
1013
00:48:26,020 –> 00:48:28,900
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, West Virginia’s got some of the coolest things.
1014
00:48:28,900 –> 00:48:30,260
Coach Jim Clayton: I didn’t even know they had.
1015
00:48:30,420 –> 00:48:33,060
Coach Jim Clayton: I see that road tripping on WCHS.
1016
00:48:33,060 –> 00:48:34,980
Coach Jim Clayton: That guy goes out to these places and I see
1017
00:48:35,260 –> 00:48:39,500
Coach Jim Clayton: And I mean it’s just unreal some of the cool stuff.
1018
00:48:39,900 –> 00:48:42,860
Coach Jim Clayton: And when you go and you put yourself in the story
1019
00:48:43,420 –> 00:48:44,860
Coach Jim Clayton: And you got a memory?
1020
00:48:44,860 –> 00:48:45,500
Randy Black: Yeah.
1021
00:48:45,500 –> 00:48:46,460
Coach Jim Clayton: You’ll never forget it.
1022
00:48:46,460 –> 00:48:46,700
Randy Black: Yep.
1023
00:48:46,700 –> 00:48:47,420
Randy Black: It’s stick around.
1024
00:48:47,580 –> 00:48:48,380
Coach Jim Clayton: You’ll never forget those.
1025
00:48:48,380 –> 00:48:49,180
Coach Jim Clayton: You’ll never forget those.
1026
00:48:49,420 –> 00:48:52,860
Coach Jim Clayton: Not something you memorized to put out on a test.
1027
00:48:52,860 –> 00:48:53,340
Randy Black: Yeah.
1028
00:48:53,340 –> 00:48:54,860
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s sh that’s gone.
1029
00:48:56,020 –> 00:48:56,420
Randy Black: Yeah.
1030
00:48:56,420 –> 00:49:06,900
Randy Black: So let’s let’s close up here with these the idea of the small habits and get a little takeaway from it, and that’s to focus on one small high-leverage habit.
1031
00:49:06,740 –> 00:49:11,620
Randy Black: Do it consistently and watch the results you get grow over time.
1032
00:49:11,620 –> 00:49:14,900
Randy Black: This is the compounding power of daily action.
1033
00:49:14,600 –> 00:49:19,080
Randy Black: And it’s one of the most effective productivity strategies that are out there.
1034
00:49:19,080 –> 00:49:24,200
Randy Black: Start small, use the high leverage of the habit to make it better and be consistent.
1035
00:49:24,200 –> 00:49:26,440
Randy Black: And you will see the results.
1036
00:49:26,620 –> 00:49:37,420
Randy Black: But we also see results each and every week here on Shooting It Straight when we get from our own Coach Clayton his wisdom of the week.
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00:49:39,180 –> 00:49:42,700
Cheesy Announcer Guy: Now it’s time for Jimmy’s Wisdom of the Week.
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00:49:42,700 –> 00:49:48,540
Cheesy Announcer Guy: This is where Jimmy shares one of his famous genieisms to inspire the listener.
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00:49:48,780 –> 00:49:50,220
Randy Black: Okay, Jim.
1040
00:49:50,000 –> 00:49:56,880
Randy Black: Today’s wisdom of the week quote, we had two, and you said, let’s get, you know, you let me pick this one because it’s the one I found that I really liked.
1041
00:49:56,880 –> 00:50:00,720
Randy Black: And it’s the problem is not lack of time.
1042
00:50:00,900 –> 00:50:03,220
Randy Black: But lack of direction.
1043
00:50:03,220 –> 00:50:04,180
Randy Black: Break that down.
1044
00:50:04,180 –> 00:50:05,300
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, well, here’s the deal.
1045
00:50:05,300 –> 00:50:07,140
Coach Jim Clayton: We all got 24 hours in the day.
1046
00:50:07,140 –> 00:50:07,620
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.
1047
00:50:07,780 –> 00:50:08,580
Coach Jim Clayton: Every one of us.
1048
00:50:08,580 –> 00:50:11,300
Coach Jim Clayton: Our brain is set on 24 hour scales.
1049
00:50:11,480 –> 00:50:14,120
Coach Jim Clayton: Today, tomorrow, next day, 24 hours.
1050
00:50:14,120 –> 00:50:14,760
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
1051
00:50:14,760 –> 00:50:18,040
Coach Jim Clayton: So what are you going to get done in those 24 hours?
1052
00:50:18,040 –> 00:50:18,600
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?
1053
00:50:18,600 –> 00:50:20,680
Coach Jim Clayton: At 1201, today ends.
1054
00:50:21,160 –> 00:50:22,840
Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, it ends.
1055
00:50:23,560 –> 00:50:24,600
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, so
1056
00:50:25,539 –> 00:50:29,700
Coach Jim Clayton: It just, you know, everybody thinks, well I’ll get that tomorrow.
1057
00:50:29,700 –> 00:50:33,380
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, last time I checked, tomorrow’s not a day.
1058
00:50:33,380 –> 00:50:34,020
Coach Jim Clayton: Right.
1059
00:50:33,960 –> 00:50:35,320
Coach Jim Clayton: And then I’ll get that tomorrow.
1060
00:50:35,320 –> 00:50:35,960
Coach Jim Clayton: And tomorrow.
1061
00:50:35,960 –> 00:50:36,600
Coach Jim Clayton: And tomorrow.
1062
00:50:36,600 –> 00:50:37,400
Coach Jim Clayton: Then it comes back to what?
1063
00:50:37,560 –> 00:50:38,360
Coach Jim Clayton: They just keep pushing out.
1064
00:50:38,600 –> 00:50:40,920
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, there’s that then that thrift starts to build.
1065
00:50:40,920 –> 00:50:41,880
Coach Jim Clayton: There’s that program.
1066
00:50:42,040 –> 00:50:43,560
Coach Jim Clayton: We already talked about those things.
1067
00:50:43,560 –> 00:50:44,120
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
1068
00:50:44,120 –> 00:50:46,840
Coach Jim Clayton: So you know, I mean it’s it it’s just
1069
00:50:47,380 –> 00:50:52,260
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I look at that and that that is such a simple quote.
1070
00:50:53,619 –> 00:50:55,460
Coach Jim Clayton: Simple, simple
1071
00:50:56,539 –> 00:51:02,140
Coach Jim Clayton: idea, but for some reason everybody f it’s like a hurdle they just fall over.
1072
00:51:02,140 –> 00:51:03,020
Randy Black: Yeah.
1073
00:51:03,020 –> 00:51:04,619
Coach Jim Clayton: Why do you think that is?
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00:51:05,540 –> 00:51:06,260
Randy Black: I don’t know.
1075
00:51:06,260 –> 00:51:14,820
Randy Black: It’s it’s it amazes me because, you know, I’ve I’ve always had points in time where I thought I was going to do the exact same thing.
1076
00:51:14,660 –> 00:51:16,420
Randy Black: And I found ways to get around it.
1077
00:51:16,420 –> 00:51:18,020
Randy Black: I found ways to achieve.
1078
00:51:18,020 –> 00:51:19,700
Randy Black: I found ways to move forward.
1079
00:51:19,700 –> 00:51:24,100
Randy Black: So it’s like to me, like seeing someone fail all the time, seeing someone who’s
1080
00:51:24,180 –> 00:51:28,340
Randy Black: Who’s running out of time because they haven’t had the direction to keep themselves going?
1081
00:51:28,340 –> 00:51:29,460
Randy Black: I don’t I don’t get it.
1082
00:51:29,460 –> 00:51:30,900
Randy Black: I don’t understand it
1083
00:51:32,299 –> 00:51:37,660
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, some things in life you just can’t understand how they do.
1084
00:51:37,660 –> 00:51:39,339
Coach Jim Clayton: Because, you know, I’m not them.
1085
00:51:39,339 –> 00:51:42,859
Randy Black: I don’t know their circumstances, but we don’t know what’s going on in their head.
1086
00:51:42,859 –> 00:51:43,260
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.
1087
00:51:43,260 –> 00:51:45,339
Coach Jim Clayton: And everybody’s got issues
1088
00:51:45,140 –> 00:51:45,700
Randy Black: Mm-hmm.
1089
00:51:45,700 –> 00:51:47,460
Coach Jim Clayton: Something’s going on.
1090
00:51:47,460 –> 00:51:50,819
Coach Jim Clayton: Some more prevalent than others.
1091
00:51:50,819 –> 00:51:51,380
Randy Black: Right.
1092
00:51:51,380 –> 00:51:53,059
Coach Jim Clayton: But I ain’t judging on any of them.
1093
00:51:53,059 –> 00:51:53,460
Randy Black: No, no.
1094
00:51:54,900 –> 00:51:58,180
Coach Jim Clayton: But I mean, again, 24 hours is you know
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00:51:58,100 –> 00:52:06,180
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s one of them things that when you look back, when you get my age, you look back, you think about, man, I don’t want to waste any day.
1096
00:52:06,180 –> 00:52:08,340
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t want to waste days.
1097
00:52:08,340 –> 00:52:11,380
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I want to get the most out of today.
1098
00:52:12,119 –> 00:52:17,559
Coach Jim Clayton: And in order to do that, we’ve given you a plan today, you know, of things to do.
1099
00:52:18,520 –> 00:52:23,559
Coach Jim Clayton: All the things we talked about today, you know, those all add up to this
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00:52:23,920 –> 00:52:24,800
Randy Black: Yeah.
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00:52:24,800 –> 00:52:26,800
Coach Jim Clayton: And say it one more time for.
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00:52:26,800 –> 00:52:27,440
Randy Black: What was that?
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00:52:27,760 –> 00:52:30,720
Coach Jim Clayton: Say that say that quote one more time for.
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00:52:30,720 –> 00:52:35,520
Randy Black: Our wisdom of the week was the problem is not a lack of time.
1105
00:52:35,720 –> 00:52:38,279
Randy Black: But a lack of direction.
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00:52:38,279 –> 00:52:39,319
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
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00:52:39,319 –> 00:52:42,520
Coach Jim Clayton: And so we all got the same amount of time.
1108
00:52:42,520 –> 00:52:45,960
Coach Jim Clayton: But you know, back in the old days, I don’t think they have ’em now.
1109
00:52:45,960 –> 00:52:48,119
Coach Jim Clayton: On the playgrounds you had merry-go-rounds.
1110
00:52:48,119 –> 00:52:48,760
Randy Black: Yeah
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00:52:48,920 –> 00:52:50,200
Coach Jim Clayton: And you jump on there.
1112
00:52:50,360 –> 00:52:56,840
Coach Jim Clayton: And I remember breaking the uh one of a guy I graduated from high school with, he was a leading prosecutor in s in Huntington.
1113
00:52:57,320 –> 00:52:57,560
Coach Jim Clayton: And
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00:52:57,700 –> 00:53:00,740
Coach Jim Clayton: I was going round up so fast he threw him off and broke his arm.
1115
00:53:00,740 –> 00:53:01,140
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
1116
00:53:01,460 –> 00:53:04,020
Coach Jim Clayton: Of course he’s too good friend of mine, you know what I mean?
1117
00:53:04,099 –> 00:53:05,859
Coach Jim Clayton: But th they took it out
1118
00:53:06,140 –> 00:53:09,339
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, because it’s going around and around and around.
1119
00:53:09,339 –> 00:53:12,940
Coach Jim Clayton: And when you’re going around and around and around, here’s my question.
1120
00:53:12,940 –> 00:53:14,539
Coach Jim Clayton: Are you really going anywhere?
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00:53:14,539 –> 00:53:15,740
Randy Black: Exactly.
1122
00:53:15,720 –> 00:53:17,240
Coach Jim Clayton: Are you really going anywhere?
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00:53:17,240 –> 00:53:19,400
Coach Jim Clayton: Now you definitely you got movement.
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00:53:20,119 –> 00:53:21,559
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
1125
00:53:21,559 –> 00:53:26,920
Coach Jim Clayton: Kid said to me one time in class, or in gym, he says, because what’s the air conditioner?
1126
00:53:26,840 –> 00:53:28,040
Coach Jim Clayton: Where’s Eric Adidas?
1127
00:53:28,040 –> 00:53:30,520
Coach Jim Clayton: This is a long time ago before gyms were actually arrogantists.
1128
00:53:30,520 –> 00:53:31,080
Randy Black: Right.
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00:53:31,080 –> 00:53:34,200
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, I’m gonna tell you what the arrogance there is.
1130
00:53:34,200 –> 00:53:36,360
Coach Jim Clayton: It all depends on how fast you run.
1131
00:53:36,360 –> 00:53:40,040
Coach Jim Clayton: So when you run by me, I’m gonna fill the fan from you.
1132
00:53:40,040 –> 00:53:41,480
Coach Jim Clayton: Nice.
1133
00:53:40,780 –> 00:53:43,420
Coach Jim Clayton: He looked at me and goes, I ain’t liking that.
1134
00:53:43,420 –> 00:53:45,180
Coach Jim Clayton: I said I didn’t think you probably would.
1135
00:53:45,180 –> 00:53:48,060
Coach Jim Clayton: But if you’re running hard, I got a good fan on me.
1136
00:53:48,140 –> 00:53:48,460
Coach Jim Clayton: But
1137
00:53:48,380 –> 00:53:50,860
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, you gotta have direction, you gotta know where you’re going.
1138
00:53:50,860 –> 00:53:52,460
Coach Jim Clayton: I mean all roads lead somewhere.
1139
00:53:52,460 –> 00:53:52,940
Randy Black: Mm-hmm.
1140
00:53:52,940 –> 00:53:55,740
Coach Jim Clayton: Some people just have better roadmaps or GPSs.
1141
00:53:55,740 –> 00:53:56,220
Randy Black: Right.
1142
00:53:56,220 –> 00:53:58,060
Coach Jim Clayton: You’ll get there eventually
1143
00:53:58,140 –> 00:54:06,940
Coach Jim Clayton: But see, that’s the difference between what they call a trailblazer, okay, which actually there’s no road.
1144
00:54:06,600 –> 00:54:07,640
Coach Jim Clayton: They cut it.
1145
00:54:07,640 –> 00:54:08,120
Randy Black: Yeah.
1146
00:54:08,120 –> 00:54:08,600
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?
1147
00:54:08,600 –> 00:54:09,480
Coach Jim Clayton: They that okay?
1148
00:54:09,480 –> 00:54:12,920
Coach Jim Clayton: Or somebody just drives down the road after it’s already there.
1149
00:54:12,920 –> 00:54:13,480
Randy Black: Mm-hmm.
1150
00:54:13,480 –> 00:54:13,960
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.
1151
00:54:13,960 –> 00:54:15,640
Coach Jim Clayton: Like in my business.
1152
00:54:15,540 –> 00:54:18,100
Coach Jim Clayton: 35 years ago there was no such thing as what I’m doing.
1153
00:54:18,100 –> 00:54:18,340
Randy Black: Yeah.
1154
00:54:18,340 –> 00:54:19,140
Randy Black: You were the man.
1155
00:54:19,140 –> 00:54:20,980
Coach Jim Clayton: Now, now they’re everywhere.
1156
00:54:20,980 –> 00:54:22,020
Randy Black: Mm-hmm.
1157
00:54:22,340 –> 00:54:23,780
Coach Jim Clayton: So the fact that
1158
00:54:24,160 –> 00:54:25,840
Coach Jim Clayton: So would I be jealous of that?
1159
00:54:25,840 –> 00:54:26,800
Coach Jim Clayton: Heck no.
1160
00:54:26,800 –> 00:54:34,720
Coach Jim Clayton: The fact that people thought that that idea was cool enough that they could go do it and make a living and be successful at it must have meant
1161
00:54:35,480 –> 00:54:37,400
Coach Jim Clayton: That you were on to something good.
1162
00:54:37,400 –> 00:54:38,680
Coach Jim Clayton: I was on to something.
1163
00:54:38,680 –> 00:54:39,000
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
1164
00:54:39,000 –> 00:54:43,240
Coach Jim Clayton: But you know, according to my first grade teacher, I was not going to mount to a hill of bees.
1165
00:54:43,240 –> 00:54:43,880
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah
1166
00:54:44,120 –> 00:54:46,440
Coach Jim Clayton: Now how’s she gonna tell me that in first grade?
1167
00:54:46,440 –> 00:54:46,920
Coach Jim Clayton: Uh-huh.
1168
00:54:46,920 –> 00:54:48,360
Coach Jim Clayton: And you know how first graders are.
1169
00:54:48,440 –> 00:54:49,080
Randy Black: Oh yeah.
1170
00:54:49,080 –> 00:54:55,000
Coach Jim Clayton: Anybody teaches that out there, any anybody that teaches Oh my gosh, you got that right
1171
00:54:54,780 –> 00:54:55,579
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, they’re well.
1172
00:55:01,099 –> 00:55:04,700
Randy Black: And it is she’s had a she had a rough very first day last week.
1173
00:55:04,700 –> 00:55:05,020
Randy Black: So
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00:55:05,640 –> 00:55:07,640
Randy Black: I totally I totally understand it.
1175
00:55:07,640 –> 00:55:14,120
Coach Jim Clayton: And I mean I mean but that’s where the action is because you when you’re down there with those kids you never know everything is what off the cuff.
1176
00:55:14,600 –> 00:55:17,000
Coach Jim Clayton: They don’t have a bad bone in their body
1177
00:55:17,040 –> 00:55:20,160
Coach Jim Clayton: They’re just saying stuff like, where did that one come from?
1178
00:55:20,160 –> 00:55:20,480
Randy Black: Yeah.
1179
00:55:20,480 –> 00:55:22,800
Coach Jim Clayton: Well I don’t know, but that was a good one.
1180
00:55:22,800 –> 00:55:23,600
Randy Black: Yeah.
1181
00:55:23,600 –> 00:55:25,680
Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, but you gotta have direction.
1182
00:55:25,680 –> 00:55:28,320
Coach Jim Clayton: You gotta know where you’re going for you can go.
1183
00:55:28,420 –> 00:55:30,340
Coach Jim Clayton: Don’t just get in the car and go.
1184
00:55:30,340 –> 00:55:30,980
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.
1185
00:55:30,980 –> 00:55:31,540
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?
1186
00:55:31,540 –> 00:55:35,700
Coach Jim Clayton: And then when you get there, you’re gonna know why you’re there.
1187
00:55:35,700 –> 00:55:36,180
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah
1188
00:55:36,920 –> 00:55:46,280
Coach Jim Clayton: Because you got a plan, you got a purpose, you got a direction, you got the details, you got it all lined up, and the only thing you’re waiting on is
1189
00:55:46,460 –> 00:55:47,340
Coach Jim Clayton: Let’s go.
1190
00:55:47,660 –> 00:55:48,220
Coach Jim Clayton: Let’s go.
1191
00:55:48,220 –> 00:55:49,020
Coach Jim Clayton: You can’t wait.
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00:55:49,020 –> 00:55:49,420
Coach Jim Clayton: Awesome.
1193
00:55:49,580 –> 00:55:53,100
Coach Jim Clayton: You can’t wait because you know you’re ready.
1194
00:55:53,100 –> 00:55:55,820
Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, every great idea
1195
00:55:56,240 –> 00:55:59,280
Coach Jim Clayton: There’s a time that needs to come to fruit fruitation.
1196
00:55:59,280 –> 00:55:59,920
Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?
1197
00:56:00,000 –> 00:56:01,040
Coach Jim Clayton: It needs to come.
1198
00:56:01,040 –> 00:56:04,000
Coach Jim Clayton: And when you get to there, what a great family.
1199
00:56:04,080 –> 00:56:04,800
Randy Black: Oh yes.
1200
00:56:04,800 –> 00:56:05,600
Coach Jim Clayton: But it takes time.
1201
00:56:05,600 –> 00:56:08,880
Coach Jim Clayton: And that doesn’t mean look look at where you started.
1202
00:56:08,559 –> 00:56:09,920
Coach Jim Clayton: And look where I am.
1203
00:56:09,920 –> 00:56:14,000
Coach Jim Clayton: Now if I was still doing the exact same thing now that when I started, I ain’t grown in it.
1204
00:56:14,000 –> 00:56:14,559
Coach Jim Clayton: Right
1205
00:56:16,780 –> 00:56:19,020
Coach Jim Clayton: Why don’t you put those videos out you used to do?
1206
00:56:19,020 –> 00:56:20,220
Coach Jim Clayton: Are you kidding me?
1207
00:56:20,220 –> 00:56:23,980
Coach Jim Clayton: Those things would be biggest blooper tapes ever in America now.
1208
00:56:23,980 –> 00:56:24,860
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t do that.
1209
00:56:24,860 –> 00:56:26,300
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m not putting that out there.
1210
00:56:26,300 –> 00:56:26,940
Randy Black: Yeah.
1211
00:56:26,940 –> 00:56:28,860
Coach Jim Clayton: And that was good for that time.
1212
00:56:28,860 –> 00:56:29,500
Randy Black: Right
1213
00:56:29,540 –> 00:56:31,220
Coach Jim Clayton: Well that time is gone.
1214
00:56:31,700 –> 00:56:32,180
Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.
1215
00:56:32,180 –> 00:56:33,700
Coach Jim Clayton: And it ain’t coming back.
1216
00:56:33,700 –> 00:56:34,660
Coach Jim Clayton: Correct.
1217
00:56:34,660 –> 00:56:35,220
Randy Black: All right.
1218
00:56:35,220 –> 00:56:37,620
Randy Black: So thank you for that, Jim, for that wisdom of the week.
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00:56:37,620 –> 00:56:39,460
Randy Black: We appreciate it tremendously.
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00:56:39,420 –> 00:56:41,500
Randy Black: We have covered a lot today.
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00:56:41,500 –> 00:56:49,980
Randy Black: We’ve talked about how your mindset sets sets the stage for productivity, how to recognize and overcome procrastination and the triggers of it.
1222
00:56:49,980 –> 00:56:54,060
Randy Black: And we’ve talked about the difference between working harder and working smart.
1223
00:56:53,940 –> 00:56:59,780
Randy Black: and the power of small daily habits that compound over time.
1224
00:56:59,780 –> 00:57:03,540
Randy Black: If you take one thing from today, let it be this
1225
00:57:04,020 –> 00:57:05,859
Randy Black: Focus on your mindset first.
1226
00:57:05,859 –> 00:57:06,339
Coach Jim Clayton: Yep.
1227
00:57:06,339 –> 00:57:08,900
Randy Black: Pick one small habit to start consistently.
1228
00:57:08,900 –> 00:57:13,220
Randy Black: Pay attention to how you respond to stress and or challenges.
1229
00:57:13,340 –> 00:57:16,780
Randy Black: Those little shifts create momentum.
1230
00:57:16,780 –> 00:57:27,020
Randy Black: And that momentum will carry you forward more than any app or system or calendar or planner or anything you could have in your life.
1231
00:57:27,740 –> 00:57:30,940
Randy Black: So thanks for joining us on this episode of Shooting It Straight.
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00:57:30,940 –> 00:57:36,060
Randy Black: We hope the discussion gives you a new perspective on productivity, and we’re going to keep talking about productivity.
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00:57:36,060 –> 00:57:38,220
Randy Black: We’ve got several more episodes lined up here.
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00:57:38,140 –> 00:57:42,460
Randy Black: And hopefully you’ve gained a few practical steps that you can try this week.
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Randy Black: Remember, it’s not about doing more.
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00:57:45,020 –> 00:57:50,779
Randy Black: It’s about thinking differently, about acting consistently and working smart
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Randy Black: If you do make some of these practical steps this week, make these changes, let us know about it by leaving a comment on the post for this episode over at shooting itstraightpodcast.
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Randy Black: com slash zero one zero.
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Randy Black: Or there’s a contact form on our website.
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Randy Black: You can use that as well to send us an email.
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00:58:07,040 –> 00:58:12,080
Randy Black: And we’d love to hear about the impact that this has had on you this week.
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Randy Black: Next week on Shooting It Straight, we’re diving into a topic that trips up just about everyone, and that’s decision fatigue.
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Randy Black: From the moment you wake up, your day is filled with choices.
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Randy Black: And by the time evening rolls around, your brain is worn down
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Randy Black: But what if you could cut through the noise, save your energy for what really matters, and actually make better decisions.
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Randy Black: We’ll break down how small changes in routine can free up mental space, how successful people structure their days to avoid burnout, and what you can do to keep your focus sharp.
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Randy Black: It’s a practical, straight shooting conversation that you will not want to miss.
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Randy Black: Just some closing announcements, reminder that we
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Randy Black: Record these episodes every Thursday at approximately 8 30 p.
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Randy Black: Until next time, I’m Randy Black.
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Coach Jim Clayton: And I’m Coach Jim Clayton.
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Randy Black: Don’t just work hard, work smart.
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Randy Black: Let your mindset guide your actions.
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Randy Black: And always keep
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Coach Jim Clayton: shooting it straight.
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Coach Jim Clayton: Bam, son!
