#1470 - 2 Questions That Will Save You A Lot Of Time

For episode number one thousand four hundred and seventy , two questions that will save you a lot of time . I Remember Alan . I Was probably 2223 , 24 years old and I started this little side hustle and what I was gonna do is I was gonna buy these cell phone cases from Alibaba . Which is ? Is it a ? Is that a ? That's an Amazon kind of , but not Amazon .

You can overseas Amazon .

I will be a wealthy

man if I do this , but I crunch the numbers on that .

And then at one point we're talking about doing like solar Installation . This was long before solar was big , so we were on to something , but we never did it .

We never did any of those things and I'm convinced this is the reason why One of the questions or these are the two questions that I asked new clients that help them , hopefully , save a lot of time number one how much time , energy , effort and focus are you willing to put into your podcast ? That's question number one .

And then I always , I always make a little bit of a joke , a little bit of a joke when I say the second . I say this is gonna sound a little bit weird and potentially dirty . Just hear me out . What are the things that you're willing to do and what are the things that you're absolutely not willing to do to grow your show ?

The reason I Connected that first story is because I wasn't willing to put that much time , energy , focus or intention into growing my little cell phone Side hustle . I just wasn't willing to do it . Jeff's cell phone . Jeff's cell phone services conglomerate Is what I was gonna go with .

Imagine if I quit my job to do that Versus quitting my job to do the podcast

, where , if you asked me in the beginning , what are you willing to do , whatever it takes , within , within alignment , that I believe is morally and ethically Aligned for me , right , I'm not gonna pay for to get in Forbes or any of that stuff how much time , energy , effort and focus you willing to put in ? All of it , however much it takes ?

One of the reasons I'm convinced , one of the reasons that maybe people don't make the amount of progress they want , is because they're not actually doing the right thing . There is something out there for you where that answer would be the same for me most likely .

There is something out there for you where , if I said how much time , energy , effort and focus are you willing to put in , you might say all of it , whatever , however much it takes .

And if I said , what are you willing to do and what are you not willing to do , and you said I'm willing to do anything within alignment , maybe it's just not the thing that you started . The reason I think this can save you a lot of time is because I've been doing this with podcasters who will literally say no .

Honestly , I don't really want to grow it that much . I just want to add value . I'm not worried about the listens . Oh Okay , if I convinced you to put all of your time , energy and effort into this , you wouldn't be happy . You would not be interested in this . You'd probably leave me , because that's not why you're doing this in the first place .

I think this is a super powerful set of questions and my very early preemptive Well , it's not really , because we only have 10 minutes to this episode , so we have another five minutes . I Think that's a really powerful question because maybe it's not the amount of effort that's stopping you from accomplishing a result .

Maybe you're not willing to put in the amount of effort because of what you're doing , because not all things are the same . I'm I'm not gonna put the same amount of effort into Doing my laundry as I am doing a podcast episode . I'm just putting through doing my laundry . Let me just get this done . It's just not the same for me .

Most things I'm not going to be as focused on , but when it comes to podcasting , that's the thing that you and I decided all the time all the energy , all the effort , all the focus . We're gonna do whatever it takes within alignment . That's probably why we are where we are today and I don't have Jeff's cell phone case conglomerate . Well said , brother .

Thank you so much .

for a long time , and or the cell phone cases that they have on their phone .

I said , yeah , it's rock and roll , start cranking . For like probably a year we were rock and roll and track and habits success killing it . He started podcasts , all stuff . He got into a relationship that he now has told me it was misaligned and I kind of knew it when we were coaching . But I also don't tell anyone what to do .

You make your own choices . I honor your choices , even though I do think she is dimming your light . And he went off and he's like listen , I can't coach anymore . I said , okay , no worries , he went off , did his thing . They ended up breaking up . He comes back to the coaching and this time he says

this time I'm all in , I'm never messing this up again . And I was like awesome , because when someone comes back with that mentality , now I know I can push this person so much and they're gonna grow so much and they're gonna crush it .

This person has been tracking at least 17 habits For the past year and a half , maybe year , since they came back , and I just had that permission to really push him to really . I mean , yesterday we were on our session , our long session . He's cooked . He's like , dude , I'm burning out , I'm burning down , I'm struggle bus , I'm blah , blah , blah .

I said honestly , man , based on what you've told me you want to achieve , this is what it takes . If you want to pivot , let me know , but this is what it takes . I said , dude , trust me , same deal . Kevin and I are grinding to , okay , and this , this person , looks up to you and I a lot because we grind .

Now , if you don't really want the result and you really don't want to put that much effort in , it's very important To just be honest with yourself . Yes because I have a fitness goal that I am looking at .

That is genuinely alarming what it's gonna take for me to get there , and I've been contemplating am I actually gonna be able To put that level of dedication into fitness when what I really care about most is next-level University and these listeners and these clients and our business and our team ? Am I really gonna be able to get to that level ?

And that's something you have to consistently check in with . You're only gonna get level 10 results if you have level 10 commitment , and if you don't have level 10 commitment , just own that that's okay . I don't have level 10 commitment to make sure our house is perfectly clean . I Don't have level 10 commitment to make sure that the laundry is done properly .

Very , very grateful

that we have a housekeeper who does . Her standards are amazing . We're very grateful for that . But the point is is before we had a housekeeper , I put it through my laundry too ? I don't , it's not a big focus , I don't care .

And so as I got older and older and older in life I know I only have a minute as I got older and older and older in life , I realized that you only have so much time and effort . When I was young , I was so optimistic , I was so naive to this idea that I can achieve it all , I can do it all . I can blah , blah , blah .

And I know that that won't resonate with everyone . If you struggle with self-belief , it probably won't .

I was really optimistic and I had to learn and become wiser and realize that , listen , I'm only going to be able to have level 10 results in a couple areas of life health , wealth and love and I'm going to have to really dedicate a lot of time and effort into that , this podcast being one of those things in terms of wealth , impact , that kind of stuff .

But I do think you and I have gotten way more honest with ourselves , and I think that's what we're encouraging our listeners to do .

If you are aligned in what you're doing , I'm not saying it's kind of easy , but it might be a little bit easier . Okay , we have to go . It's weird just cutting it like that . It's very strange . I don't know what tomorrow's episode is because I haven't chosen it . We promise we're going to get back on track . It's been a heck of a week .

Audio stuff hopefully the audio sounds better . We figure out some setting . So we're always trying to improve and I promise next week we'll have the episodes and everything will be better . As always . We love you , we appreciate you , grateful for each and every one of you , and at NLU we throw in our fans . We have family . We'll talk to you all tomorrow .