Welcome back to another episode of the podcast. I know I always say this, but today is truly going to be a quick episode because I have 10 minutes and that's all we got, but I really wanted to record this episode. So I was listening to a podcast the other day with Stacey Bayman. She's actually a business coach that I followed for a long time and She talked about this concept of collapsing your timeline. Now she was talking within business.
She gave the specific example where people want to join her program. She has these six month masterminds think sort of accelerators for growing coaching businesses. So it's not really my jam right now, but, but she basically is helping people to grow in scale. And so you basically need to have proof of concept that you even have sold something to even get in the room. With her like to, to be able to be part of these masterminds.
The thing that she was talking about is how people will wanna join, but they'll say, well, I'm gonna join in six years. Or they'll say, three and a half years from now, that's when I'm gonna join And she sits there and she thinks to herself how? They're allowing the painful part of the process, like those initial first few sales, the starting a business, like anyone who's listening that has started something. And by the way, we can take this in any capacity.
Everyone has not started a business, but even let's say when you have a baby, like those first few months are extremely hard when you get a pet training them, not to go in the bathroom in the house, the first few months, like the beginning of most processes are very painful. And so when you allow, It's just this pain is just prolonged and protracted. And sometimes it never gets better, right?
Like if you don't properly train an animal right in the beginning, that, that's a disaster for life, right? We all kind of know that one person where it's like, your dog does what? And you just sort of in your mind, you're like, how, how. How is that working up to this point? And there's this really well known saying, I grew up my whole life hearing this, we take as much time as we give ourselves.
And I have often found in life that if I give myself just hours and hours and hours to get something done, I don't really get productive focused and, and do it. And sometimes the more I have going on, the more I get done. In fact, right now, I'm in June when I'm recording this, beginning of June.
I wanted to get all the podcasts done, recorded, edited everything and off to my copywriter through July because I have different vacations, different conferences, you know, different things going on where I didn't want to have to worry about this. And I know the end of July, all our kids go back to school and it's again, going to kind of be a reset time for me. And so I knew I have to get out many more in a shorter period of time.
So it's okay if some of them are 10 minute gems, by the way, you all tell me that you love that my podcast is not hours and hours because I can't handle listening to long podcasts I use the time that I'm given. And it always serves me well. You will take as much time as you give yourself. But what I really liked with her talking about collapsing the timeline, it's really looking at what is it that you want to achieve.
I can't tell you how often, let's just take a metabolic health thing here for a second. So a lot of people that I work with are working on fat loss because They know that it's standing in the way of their blood sugar and other things. A lot of the times, a slow pace is not a problem, and you hear me talk about this a lot, but then there will sometimes come a time when someone has been at a certain spot for a really long time and they're frustrated by it.
I'm a really big proponent of if you have a lot going on actually not making fat loss your top priority, because I just don't think that I think it's very hard if you're very stressed out and there's lots of things happening at work or like with me, I just, when we went through the move and all these things, I actually intentionally with my coach was We decided my goal was emotional regulation and it was not fat loss.
So we kind of put that on the back burner for a month or two and I just decided, let me maintain, let me focus on, can I get my walk in if I can? Can I do deep breathing exercise or whatever it takes so that in all of that schedule changing, different environment, new setup, all this kind of stuff, new school, all the things that I could stay regulated. So that was my goal. But when we talk about achieving, other things.
I can think about times when I've given myself all the time in the world and it hasn't worked out. So sometimes it's not the most loving thing to say, well, I'm just going to go, I'm just going to see what's possible. And I just go super slow and you just, nothing's ever happening. Like, you know, you need to get more protein, but you're like, well, I'll just see. And you, you, you don't ever really put pedal to the metal that really get it done mentality, get it done today mentality.
Like she was talking about in the episode and. I want to, for you to propose to yourself, what would it look like if I massively collapsed this timeline? So for example, I just had a visit today with a patient and One of the things that we talked about, this person, despite being on a max dose of a medicine, they are having the return of some urges and cravings. And my first question, my first question is always, what's going on with your water and your protein?
There's always a million other things and there's emotional regulation and other things. But the, so water, this person's going to be increasing. But number two, They did the audit, which of course is always annoying, but brings massive awareness and they were getting 50 grams of protein when their goal is closer to over a hundred. We actually have a goal of 120 for this person, grams of protein per day.
So you can imagine if your body needs for muscle maintenance in fat loss, if it needs 120 grams of protein, probably for it to, Optimally be holding on to your muscle and making you feel okay, suppressing ghrelin, doing all the hunger hormone things, all the things we talk about all the time. If you need that and you're getting 50, it's a miracle that, that, it's like you're running on empty. Of course your body is doing urges and cravings. It needs you to eat more.
It wants you to, it's like, it's, it's actually very lovingly trying to do anything possible to get you to have that intake, because. It doesn't know how to communicate that to you. So all it says is, hey, let's increase urges and cravings because we think if she's going to eat more food, maybe then she'll get some protein in. Part of collapsing the timeline, like a roadblock for this person was, but it's so much food.
And what I went over was, Okay, if we got one Premier or Fair Life drink, that's 30 grams of protein, this person already liked doing that. And then I said, okay, and if you get chicken, and if you get a Greek yogurt, those three things are already going to get you to 100. So, three ounces of chicken, that one protein drink, and one Greek yogurt, is that too much volume wise? And suddenly this person saw, oh my gosh, that's not it at all.
So part of collapsing the timeline is like, we're not going to take a hundred years to get to a hundred grams of protein. It does sound like it's doubling. It does sound like it's a big feat. But by the way, this person has the advantage of having worked with me for over a year at this point. So they understand all these things and they can quickly get there.
But what I want you to think about for yourself is, What if you stopped giving yourself all the time in the world and success was only an option, but you had to do it in less time? How would you troubleshoot it? What would you do today? What are the things that you just cannot tell yourself anymore, that you cannot allow, that you cannot, you can't have these excuses flailing around and not question yourself?
So, I want you to think about what is it where I'm allowing all the time in the world and it's not helping me. I'm frustrated. I'm angry. I'm in, I'm stuck. I'm in the same spot year after year. What is it? Does it actually matter to me? Do I want to solve it? How can I collapse down this timeline? And you end up sometimes getting much better results when you're really focused on things. It doesn't mean we need to take massive action. That's not what I'm talking about.
We don't need to take messy, dirty, unfocused action. But whatever it is that you actually want to achieve, collapsing the timeline might mean today I'm going to get 100 grams of protein no matter what. I'm going to sit down and calm in peace and figure out what's the math that could make this happen. Like if I get these three things in, I already know I'm at 100, done. Right? The rest of it is, is bonus.
You know you're even gonna get more protein based on other things you're gonna eat that day, but you, you dropped that drama moment in your mind of saying, it's gonna be so much volume, I can't get this done. You don't allow for all that extra noise because you're collapsing down your timeline. So that is what I want you to consider for yourself. This is not me suggesting rapid fat loss.
That's not what I'm talking about, but sometimes we need to get more focused on what is actually going to move the needle for me. If I had to get this done in a shorter amount of time, If I had to actually get the protein and if I had to actually get the water in, what strategies would I make today? Like if I stopped screwing around with this and I didn't say, Oh, every day I'm not getting my water. It's like, look, I'm going to fill up that water bottle in the morning.
I'm going to stick it in front of me. I'm going to make an alarm hourly. I'm going to put a post it note. I remember back in the day when I, when I was working in primary care for all those years, I had a habit of, I would come in with my coffee in a tumbler. I would come with some type of a zero calorie flavored something. And then the third thing I would fill up from the water cooler that we had a water for the day.
So I had three drinks every single morning and I actually didn't even physically sit down at my desk that first moment without doing that first. Like that was my one, two, three. I literally, I was the first one in, in the office. You know, I was coming in at like 6. 30 in the morning. I would put the lights on, I would get my drinks good to go, then I would log onto my computer and do all the other things.
That's why I've gotten to the place, I was at a conference the other day and someone was kind of joking that I'm the, that I'm the water, the hydration queen because, because they're just like, you always have your drinks. Like you just, you always do it. Yeah. Because it, it's, it's really worked for me. It's the bedrock of a lot of what works for me. Then I get the protein and all the other things, but it's because it's come out of like really building some, some habits out of that.
So I'm going to end this here today. I want you to think about how you can collapse your timeline, what that can look like for you, what is required and how can you actually spend a whole, a whole heck of a lot less time on what you're doing. All right. I'm going to leave it there. I hope you have a great rest of the week and we'll talk soon.