How To Make Time For The Things That Matter MOST

👇 SUBSCRIBE TO MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL - so this show can reach more people 👇 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIprGZAdzn3ZqgLmDuibYcw?sub_confirmation=1 Click Link Below to Subscribe to my email list to MAXOUT your life (all value, no fluff) https://konect.to/edmylett Are you running your life—or is your life running you? In this special mashup episode, I brought together two of my closest brothers—Brendon Burchard and Dave “Heavy D” Sparks—to unpack the real strategies high performers use to make time for the things that actually matter. And I’m not talking theory—I’m talking about what we’re doing right now in the middle of our own crazy schedules. Brendon and I are both in the thick of it—back-to-back talks, travel, building companies, families, friendships. You name it. But we still find a way to show up, stay in control, and protect what’s most important. We share the real stuff here: managing emotional bandwidth, setting expectations with your family, compressing time, and why you need to schedule your rest like it's a meeting with your biggest investor. Heavy D jumps in with a powerful reminder—not everything has to change overnight. Start with what resonates. One principle at a time. That’s how you build momentum without burning out. And we don’t shy away from the hard conversations—like learning how to say no, taking ruthless inventory of your schedule, and teaching people how to engage with your time. I also share one of the most life-changing ideas I’ve ever implemented: the six-hour day. Yeah, I run three days in one. If you're still operating on a 24-hour mindset, you're already behind. And we wrap this up by talking about how your energy, your faith, and your perspective are the most critical assets you have in a busy season. You don’t have to do this—you get to. Key takeaways from this episode: - How Brendon Burchard structures communication during intense seasons to protect relationships and energy - Why setting emotional expectations with your family and team is a leadership skill - Ed’s three-day method: shrinking a 24-hour day into three 6-hour blocks - How to create leverage by eliminating, delegating, and shortening tasks - The importance of scheduling rest and treating it like high-value time - How to stay spiritually grounded when life is moving fast - Why your mess might be the thing that qualifies you to change someone else’s life - The mindset shift from “I have to” to “I get to”—and how that changes everything - Fitness and hydration as non-negotiables for sustainable energy - How to be the power plant in every room you walk into This one’s packed with real talk, real strategy, and a whole lot of heart. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, this is the reset you didn’t know you needed. Let’s get after it. Thank you for watching this video—Please Share it and get the word out! 👇 SUBSCRIBE TO MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL👇 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIprGZAdzn3ZqgLmDuibYcw?sub_confirmation=1 ▶︎ Visit My WEBSITE | https://www. EdMylett.com #EdMylett #Motivation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:00Ed Mylett?

  So hey guys, listen, we're all trying to get more productive and the question is, how do you find a way to get an edge? I'm a big believer that if you're getting mentoring or you're in an environment that causes growth, a growth-based environment, that you're much more likely to grow and you're going to grow faster. And that's why I love Growth Day. Growth Day is an app that my friend Brendan Burchard has created that I'm a big fan of. Write this down, growthday.com/ed. So if you want to be more productive, by the way, he's asked me, I post videos in there every single Monday that gets your day off to the right start. He's got about $5,000, $10,000 worth of courses that are in there that come with the app. Also, some of the top influencers in the world are all posting content and they're on a regular basis, like having the Avengers of personal development and business in one app. And I'm honored that he asked me to be a part of it as well and contribute on a weekly basis, and I do.

• 0:45Ed Mylett?

  So go over there and get signed up. You're going to get a free, tuition-free voucher to go to an event with Brendan and myself and a bunch of other influencers as well. So you get a free event out of it also. So go to growthday.com/ed. That's growthday.com/ed. I hear so many small business owners say the exact same thing. They just never have enough time in the day. Well, I measure time differently. I've compressed, condensed, heck, I've bent time. My first day is 6:00 a.m. to noon. My second day starts at noon and goes till 6:00 p.m. And my third day, 6:00 p.m. to midnight. I now get 21 days a week. Stack that up over a month, over a year, over five years, and my life's completely different than it would have been otherwise. And if you want to win as an entrepreneur, you have to compress your time too.

• 1:30Ed Mylett?

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• 2:08Speaker 01

  This is the Ed Mylett Show.

• 2:13Ed Mylett?

  Hey, everyone. Welcome to my weekend special. I hope you enjoy the show. Be sure to follow the Ed Mylett Show on Apple and Spotify. Links are in the show notes. You'll never miss an episode that way. So I'm excited today. I've got Brendon Burchard here with me today. Brother, thank you so much for being here.

• 2:27Brendon Burchard?

  Honored.

• 2:28Ed Mylett?

  Everyone is so busy. You and I are out of our minds busy right now. We're both usually better at controlling our schedules than we have been lately.

• 2:35Brendon Burchard?

  Yes.

• 2:35Ed Mylett?

  But one of the things, probably like you, I'm getting asked so much about is everyone seems overwhelmed right now with how busy they are, their schedules, the demands of family, social media, what's going on in the world geopolitically, their careers, their finances, their body, their spirituality. Like, it never ends, the demands on people. And so, right now, this idea of just, how do we manage the busy season of our life is something I'd really like to get into today with you, brother.

• 3:03Brendon Burchard?

  Oh, huge topic. I'm beat up like a dog as we're recording this. In a very rare instance of time, I'm in that busy season. And it has tilted over and beyond what it usually is. And I'm the high-performance guy, right? I've taught, I've taught high-performance and harmony, you know, for 17 years. And this, I would say, is the most intense, to give a context, Ed and I were talking earlier. I'm on day 22 of travel. I've given over, you know, 27, 28 speeches during that time. So in some towns, multiple speeches at the same time. Ed does the same. They don't know that you do that morning talk to 5,000 people,

• 3:46Brendon Burchard?

  then you do the evening talk to 10,000, and they're like, wait, you did two in one day, different companies?

• 3:51Ed Mylett?

  Exactly.

• 3:51Brendon Burchard?

  So that's happening right now. At the same time, on this last trip, got a cold.

• 3:59Brendon Burchard?

  And I was at one event where they were suddenly afterwards, hey, you have a meet and greet with 200 people. We're going to take pictures. And it was one of those partnerships. I kind of needed to do it.

• 4:09Ed Mylett?

  Yep.

• 4:10Brendon Burchard?

  But as anyone who's listening knows, who has that intensity, when you're with 200 people, the, the energy you give them.

• 4:18Ed Mylett?

  Sure.

• 4:19Brendon Burchard?

  Then your voice is gone. So, lost my voice, got a cold, been on the road 22 days, very abnormal. And the funny thing is, I'm sharing this, I know you're going through the same thing. So, we're both in busy season. Tell them about your context.

• 4:31Ed Mylett?

  Well, same thing. And by the way, the other thing that people don't, I was with someone the other day and I showed them my phone. This is no joke. That day, I had 1,200 unanswered text messages on my phone. Now, that was a big day, but I want you to imagine 1,200 unanswered text messages by 10:00 PM that night. Now, that's a day that's crazy, but I do average a couple hundred a day.

• 4:54Brendon Burchard?

  Yes.

• 4:54Ed Mylett?

  Plus, in your case, you're building, you're building this brand new, unbelievable unicorn company called Growth Day. All your friendships, all your relationships, all your coaching clients. So, just like me, I've got, you know, 10, 12 different businesses that I'm actively growing. I've been on three continents the last three weeks. I'm going to Dubai next week. I think I've given 17 talks in 21 days. You and I actually connected. We were in Vegas at the same time. I was giving two talks. You were giving two talks. We're like, hey, let's squeeze in a U2 concert. So, you and I went over to see U2. So, we did find ways to work in breaks. But it's busy season and in our own ways, no matter what you do, you feel busy and probably overwhelmed right now. Maybe you don't have 1,200 contacts, but you've got to go get to soccer practice to pick your kids up. Plus, you've got to get to work.

• 5:36Ed Mylett?

  Then you've got to help them with their homework. Maybe you've got a side hustle. You'd like to get in a gym workout. You've got maybe church on Sunday. So, whatever your version of it is, I'd like today to spend some time with, you know, two of the top mindset people in the world, particularly in your case, Brendan. What are some of the strategies you deploy that you use to manage the busy season of your life? And I figured, well, let's just go back and forth and throw some strategies back out that'll serve everybody in the audience between the two of us. They can kind of listen in on you and I. Cause really, what was happening before this is you and I were talking about this and we're like, we should probably record this.

• 6:09Brendon Burchard?

  Yeah.

• 6:09Ed Mylett?

  We should probably record this because we're helping one another with it. So, let's just start out. I'll throw it to you first. Like, what's a strategy you'd recommend for someone who's just busy season, feeling maybe overwhelmed? Something you're doing right now to to manage that.

• 6:22Brendon Burchard?

  Uh, I'll give the first principle, but then I'll give something very practical. The first principle is avoid over scheduling.

• 6:30Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 6:30Brendon Burchard?

  But we're going to assume today that that didn't happen. You're in busy season. You got over scheduled. That's that's the context we're talking about. So the first practice is to absolutely over communicate and excel in family communication.

• 6:49Brendon Burchard?

  When you get in busy season, you'd better be really great about explaining to your spouse, to your partner, to the kids, what you are dealing with.

• 7:01Ed Mylett?

  Really good.

• 7:02Brendon Burchard?

  So for example, you know, my wife and I, we sit down on a Sunday. We look at the upcoming schedule. We talk through it and she's really great at this. By the way, don't forget on Wednesday, this is happening and this is happening and this is happening. This is happening. And you have to talk through that, but you have to do something very special. A lot of people talk through their agenda. They talk through their day, they talk through their week. Hey, the kids have this recital on Friday. Don't miss it. Lots of people talk through the agenda. What you need to talk through when you're in busy season is the intensity and the demand required of you to share with somebody, you know what? I'm probably be stressed this week. You know what? I'm getting destroyed this week. You know what? This is going to be so hard for me. You know what? Forgive me if I'm absent.

• 7:47Brendon Burchard?

  Actually talking about the emotional experience you're about to have. You know, it's like that conversation of going, honey, I'm going to war. This is going to be really hard for me. Uh, I could use any support, but I also want to let you know, I'm not going to throw that stress at you, but if it comes out in the house, just have that context that this thing is happening. And I think a lot of people never do that. So their stress bubbles up, their overwhelmed bubbles up and they smack their family with that energy. Or they do it with their team because your team has to do the same thing as a leader. When you're in an extremely intense period, you have to communicate that in advance. And the more you fail to communicate that in advance, the more you are punished later,

• 8:32Brendon Burchard?

  which adds to the overwhelm because now people are surprised. Why don't you just tell me? And you lose your cool. And if they knew the context, then they could support you more. They could understand more. They could have empathy more. It's so important to communicate and over communicate.

• 8:48Ed Mylett?

  Brother, uh, I'm thinking of how I don't do that. And then I'm actually recovering from a blow up or I'm recovering from missing something or being short or curt in my response because I am overwhelmed. Whereas if I had just laid that foundation and created a frame and some context around it, it would afford me the grace I'm probably worthy of that I'm not laying out. I don't get the grace that I deserve because I've not set the foundation. That's really, really. I would say you probably just hit on the thing I'm the worst at doing is to say, hey, no, here's a heads up. Here's a heads up. Here's what I've got coming. You know, because a lot of times when you're just in the season, you're just like, I'm putting my head down. I'm going.

• 9:29Ed Mylett?

  And we forget to manage the emotions and the expectations of the people around us.

• 9:36Brendon Burchard?

  Yes, it's kind of like you forget that other people are on the ride with you.

• 9:41Ed Mylett?

  Very true.

• 9:41Brendon Burchard?

  And you kind of don't realize you you're also hijacking their life. You don't tell them. It's kind of like if you borrow your wife's car, you take your wife's car on a Wednesday and you didn't tell her. Later on, she's like, I'm left stranded. Why didn't you tell me if you just told me? And then now you got to deal with the guilt for having not communicated. So now you're tired, you're overwhelmed, you're going. And you're dealing with the emotional stress of others because you didn't communicate. It's it's why I brought it up first. Having coached all these years, I see my leaders all the time. They fail on the family communication or the team communication. And then they don't get the empathy and support. Then they say, no one understands. I'm like, no one understands because you don't tell nobody.

• 10:22Ed Mylett?

  Brother, you know, it's funny that you say because this season, this last month, which is where mine got cranked up. Probably is the first time I have actually done that. I did gather my mom, I got my my wife, my kids to look, here's what's going on. To just give me some grace, just understand, please don't take this personally. I'm gonna be running a little bit ragged. I, you know, my text messages may be shorter, the phone call may not be quite as long, just know. And by the way, the other thing I think it's important to say, and it's going to end. And, and Thanksgiving's coming and right around Thanksgiving. I'm gonna be back for the holidays and it's not gonna be that bad around Christmas and New Year's. So I've actually let them know there's also a reprieve coming. Yes. My communication. So it's something I've never done very well. Stay on that. I'll give you one of mine. And mine is to go to your schedule.

• 11:07Ed Mylett?

  So, because that, you show me your schedule, I'm gonna show you your life. And one of the things that I always did for years that I think did tremendous harm was. I scheduled all my stuff. Business, you know, financial stuff, personal development, growth, whatever it was. And then I fit my family and friends into it. Hmm. And. That's really backwards. And you would think, well, that's just how it has to work because all these hours, not true. So now what I do, and I did even do this on this trip, like last night Bella was back from Clemson. I scheduled a night in advance with Bella. So this was non-negotiable. You show me your schedule, I'm gonna show you your priorities. So you can go to a busy season and still maintain some sense of control over your schedule. So now.

• 11:51Ed Mylett?

  I schedule my family things first. Bella's back from Clemson, right? Max has a golf tournament. Date night with honey, whatever it might be. And then I build the schedule around it. You think, oh, you're gonna lose all kinds of hours. You don't. And that way there is some sense of control. So that's one thing on the schedule. Second thing on the schedule is this. Not all meetings need to be an hour long. And one of the things that's happening in your schedule is, it's just a common thing go, hey, I'm available at one o'clock and you block from one to two o'clock. That's an entire hour. And one thing I've found is there's a lot of meetings I can have, if the expectations are communicated correctly, that are actually eight minute long meetings. They're 20 minute long meetings. They're 40 minute long meetings.

• 12:33Ed Mylett?

  And so you'll find lots of minutes and hours in your day if you don't just kind of carte blanche, schedule everything for a block for an hour. Some things can, and sometimes, by the way, I just did this. I had a call with Apple. I told you right before this. And Apple was working with me on something on my podcast and I thought it was really interesting. She scheduled a 28 minute long meeting with me from Apple. This just happened before what we're doing right now. And what that did was it got me on the call and I was kind of like leaning in and ready to go.

• 13:01Speaker 03

  Right.

• 13:01Ed Mylett?

  Immediately because I know we got 28 minutes. And it probably would have been normally, most people have scheduled an hour and we would have dragged it in. It would have taken minutes out of my day that weren't necessary. And so I think you should start looking at how long does a meeting need to be? How long? You're going to find lots of minutes in your schedule. And then there's another one, another one for you, just on scheduling. You should schedule rest.

• 13:26Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 13:27Ed Mylett?

  I don't do it and I don't, I mean, not just nighttime rest, but like, you ever have a day? I know you all relate to this. You're like, what happened here? I have an eight, a nine, a 10, an 11, a one, a three, a four. I want to be dead at 4:30. You've all had that day where you're like death by Zoom lately, right? You're like.

• 13:44Speaker 03

  You leaving your zumbi, you know, a zombie.

• 13:46Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, you're, yeah, you're a zumbi. And, and so for me now, it's like, I need, I need a mental break from one to three. Just let me collect. Let me, let me nap. Let me take a walk. Let me schedule my break and I, I'm gonna, and even maybe if you, if it's 11 straight, schedule the rest. Think about what you don't schedule. You don't schedule your kids' stuff. You don't schedule your family's stuff. You don't schedule your rest. And then every meeting's an hour long. And, and that's why we lose control of our time. And then one other little thing for me, and then I'll throw it back to you because we've got a bunch of strategies we'll share. When it comes to my scheduling, is I begin to really look at, do I need to be the one to do this or can this be leveraged?

• 14:29Ed Mylett?

  So many different things in my schedule I find myself doing. And I'm like, someone else should be doing this right now. And you may say to yourself. Well, that doesn't apply to me because I've got a job and a family. Well, you know, maybe you're still doing things you shouldn't be doing. Like, maybe it would be reasonable for you to pay somebody to cut your grass. Maybe it would be reasonable for you to schedule someone to come wash your cars. Maybe be reasonable. I mean, this may sound crazy, but maybe someone should be doing some of your shopping. Maybe you should be using these apps like DoorDash or, you know, Uber Eats, but things that will create leverage that afford you time. These may seem small, but what are things you're doing that maybe someone else could be doing for a very nominal expense or no expense?

• 15:12Ed Mylett?

  That you just ask people to handle for you that would free up the burden of not just the time, but let's just be honest. The mental and emotional demands of having to do so many things. It's taking up space in your mind and worse, it's taking up space in your spirit. And you become depleted and then you're no good to anybody and you're not on your A game. And then when you need the sale, you need the good meeting. You don't have the reserves or the juice left because you've depleted them in areas that you didn't need to. And so these are all things schedule wise to look at.

• 15:46Brendon Burchard?

  Well, this is related to schedule too. And I just want to everyone write this phrase down because I bet when you write this phrase down on a piece of paper, you feel great. And most people never do this and they never give themselves permission for this with their schedule. Ruthless removal.

• 16:08Brendon Burchard?

  When it's busy season, you've got to look at your current schedule, the next couple of weeks and you got to get ruthless. You got to start pulling things that were put on that schedule that seemed good at the time. But you're in like busy season, sometimes it, as much as you're trying to build and give and serve, you're also going to go at some point into survival mode. You're, you're at the low end of the gas tank because no human can do that schedule. That's, that's busy season's definition. It's really intense. So I look out and go, oh, wait, we're supposed to go meet with this couple who I don't even know on this date to have some wine or something. Uh, that's gotta go. Oh, you know, I'm supposed to go do this

• 16:50Brendon Burchard?

  thing over here that I promised, you know, a year ago to a friend. There'll still be a friend a year from now. I can't do that thing. There's a, it's like, cause most often busy season hits you. You didn't know was coming. Yes. You know, there's the busy seasons that you anticipate, you built and you scheduled. Those are great because you block out the time in advance. It's perfectly set up. Then there's other things, something, you know, life was kind of normally planned and then somebody got sick. Yes. Life was normally planned and then you lost the game. Life was normally planned and then you had employee quit. And now you're taking all this extra obligation on. Yes. That's when busy season, accidental busy season, it hurts. Mm hmm.

• 17:34Brendon Burchard?

  And so get ruthless, go like, oh, I'm in survival mode right now. I'm going to take out this obligation, remove this meeting.

• 17:42Brendon Burchard?

  This usual thing that I do, I'm going to remove that. And I think it has to be something that you genuinely do week by week. Agreed. You're just removing and removing and removing. I remove interviews. I remove, you know, calls and meetings. I don't even do the 28 minute one. I go, go delete, you know? It's just like, I complete ruthless removal. And then I also remove myself from what you're talking about, um, in terms of delegation. I remove myself from processes. So as an example, I remove myself from my inbox. I, on, in my, when I'm a week of travel as example, I put up this autoresponder. Here's what it says. Uh, thank you so much for reaching out to me. If

• 18:25Brendon Burchard?

  you've already coordinated or scheduled something, see you soon. If this is a new request, please understand that my plate is full. Most of the things I'm taking on in the next three months, I've planned years in advance. So I'm not able to handle new requests unless it's an emergency, please contact my assistant or please contact whoever. Also, please understand during this time, I probably won't reply to you for a week to 10 days. Just assume I won't even see the email. So if you're a friend or family, go ahead and text me.

• 18:55Ed Mylett?

  Very good.

• 18:56Brendon Burchard?

  I like it literally. It basically says, hey, this, I'm not going to hear, you're not going to hear from me.

• 19:01Ed Mylett?

  Very good.

• 19:02Brendon Burchard?

  Then I don't feel during busy season, oh my God, I can't go to bed. It's 11 o'clock at night until I check my email. It's like, no, I've already abdicated that. I've already said, I'm not here. And you probably won't hear for seven to 10 days.

• 19:15Ed Mylett?

  So good.

• 19:16Brendon Burchard?

  And it's just like, it removes that even because I don't even think when I'm in busy season, I don't even think about my inbox. Think about the freedom.

• 19:23Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 19:24Brendon Burchard?

  That has.

• 19:25Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 19:26Brendon Burchard?

  And I remove the idea that I have to reply to all the DMs and Instagram. I don't even check them when I'm in busy season.

• 19:32Ed Mylett?

  Me either. Me either.

• 19:33Brendon Burchard?

  And I just think that that is what can you remove yourself from entirely ruthlessly? So that you can not only survive, but you can deliver the service and the excellence or win the game. That narrow focus during that time is everything.

• 19:47Ed Mylett?

  By the way, it's funny that you say it because when I do do delete one of those deletes, it feels so good. All of you have done it before. You're like, look, I just can't do this meeting, right? And when you, it just feels so good. You're like, that just disappeared off my calendar. Oh my gosh, look at that gap on there. Yes, it's such a good, and that's an indicator you should do it more.

• 20:07Brendon Burchard?

  Yes.

• 20:08Ed Mylett?

  It's an indicator. That's so true.

• 20:09Brendon Burchard?

  I want to reflect something Ed said too, as you had earlier, buddy, is like, well, I had like 1500 messages on my friends completely. It's like, but you allow yourself to have those 1500 unanswered messages. I want everyone to know, I've never worked with a high performer.

• 20:30Brendon Burchard?

  Who had a lot of feeling or guilt to that. High performers know that's just part of it. There's people you can't get to. And if you have a people pleasing need that says you have to get to all of them, you will exhaust yourself. You have to know that everybody's request and everybody's agenda that's shoved into your agenda during busy season doesn't get a reply.

• 20:52Ed Mylett?

  Yes.

• 20:53Brendon Burchard?

  And you have to own that from an emotional level going, I'm okay not replying to everybody right now.

• 20:58Ed Mylett?

  You're on to my second point because you're great at this and I've learned some of this from you. And so some of these guys may sound a little bit cold, but it's the real, if you're going to become a high performer, an elite achiever, max out your life. Some of these things are either you're not doing with right now, but you're going to deal with when you get there. And one of the things I've learned, especially on this, this is my number two thing, is teaching people how I'm going to reply to them and respond. Meaning, there are people in my life that are going to get an immediate response from me, because they're in that close a proximity to me. My children, my wife, my mom, CEO of my companies, like, we need to be in rapid dialogue. But what I actually have learned this from you,

• 21:43Ed Mylett?

  and by the way, other really high performers, like, one thing, when you're a really high performer, you don't take it personally also when someone's not, you know what their world is like. Right? Yes. I'll just let you in on the inside, some has probably never been said on any podcast, what you and I are saying right now. But I have learned to teach people the rhythm and pattern in which they should have expectations to hear back from me. Meaning, I sometimes will get a message, and I am purposely going to delay the reply to that message a day or two, so that we get on a pattern and a habit of you knowing, I don't reply to you instantaneously. I'm not at your beck and call. Yes. It's amazing to me how many people will blow someone's phone up at 8:00 AM on Monday mornings.

• 22:27Ed Mylett?

  And I'm like, don't you know the whole world is doing this right now to me? You don't you know, the whole world is messaging me at 8:00 AM on Monday morning, like, wait to get into a spot where I might even see it. And I know some of you, I don't relate to being that busy. You will at some point, but maybe even other things in your life, like, this is a lesson, people say, how do I change the proximity? I need to change my associations. One of the ways you slowly change someone's association or proximity to you is the pace and timing with which you reply to them. And so, if you're trying to, number one, this is a time management and a busy season thing, but secondly, it's also an association technique that, if you've got that someone in your life that you're like, I think they're becoming more toxic, or they're not really making me grow, they're not bringing out the best in me,

• 23:11Ed Mylett?

  they deplete my energy reserves. Why are you replying to them instantaneously? Because guess what they expect? Now they're getting another one. And we all have that friend who doesn't know when the texting chain is over. Right. They don't know when it's over. This is most people, right? Because they have more time on their hands than you do. And by the way, there is some, some correlation to your ability to respond immediately to people not valuing you. Right. Like, this person's never busy. And I know there's that rare person that we all know, which I've been that person, like, this dude gets back to everybody that day immediately, he's amazing. Right? I'll give you an inside thing. Someone said to me the other day, they go, man, Tony Robbins had gotten back to me immediately on a text that I had sent. Does he do that with

• 23:54Ed Mylett?

  you? And I said, well, yeah, yes, but I've also known him for a very long time. But I said, can I just let you in on something? It wasn't just that you were important. It's what you were texting about had importance to him. And I wouldn't have that expectation. Do you know how many text messages he gets a day? Emails? How much he's on an airplane? How much speaking he does? All the companies he runs? So the other thing, I guess the lesson here is, you teach people how to be engaged with you. And you should be conscious of this. This is not, you're not at their beck and call. You are not always reacting to their whims. And because if you do, you've lost all control over your time in your life. If you're constantly at the different schedules and times of other people. So there are some times I wait several hours to get back to somebody. Sometimes

• 24:36Ed Mylett?

  it's a couple of days. Sometimes it's not at all. Sometimes it's an emoji or an acknowledgement. And I think that this is something all of you need to begin to take control of in your life, so that you have some control over your life. We're in an age where everybody can reach us now. And there's something to be said to insulating yourself for being so reachable all the time, and so accessible all the time. And like, think about this right now. If you're a Beyonce fan, let's say you love Beyonce, or you love LeBron James, or you love the president, whoever it might be. Can you get a hold of them right away? And you're like, well, no. Well, what if you could every second of every single day? Let's just think about this. Do you think maybe their value

• 25:20Ed Mylett?

  would be diminished to you to some extent, based on your access and proximity? Just their value alone. Sometimes their proximity and access point to you is diminished. Oftentimes, what you think you're doing by being courteous and professional, is diminishing your value.

• 25:36Brendon Burchard?

  Hmm.

• 25:37Ed Mylett?

  Diminishing your value, because what's rare is valuable. That's why a diamond is more valuable than paper, because it's more rare. I'm not saying take this to the extreme. I'm saying, consider the principle, as you're trying to navigate busy seasons of your life, keep the right people in your life, and keep some form of mental and emotional peace in your life.

• 25:57Brendon Burchard?

  Yes. Let me add a practice to this, and a little bit of science for those geeks out there like me.

• 26:02Ed Mylett?

  Okay.

• 26:03Brendon Burchard?

  The practice is, and this will stun people, how great this life, this makes your life. I want everyone to listen. You should always schedule when you check your email and when you check your DMs.

• 26:19Brendon Burchard?

  It should be scheduled. Very good. Not my opinion, but based on science. The science is that when you are busy, when you're trying to do important things and you randomly check something, they call this a lot of in productivity training or research, I'll just call it an interruption, generically, you get interrupted by something. You're doing one task, you get interrupted. On average, if it's a significant, like you're doing a two hour project as an example.

• 26:48Brendon Burchard?

  Every interruption takes on average 20 to 45 minutes to get back in the creative or the mental thinking flow of that project. Well, when you're in busy season, everything is a pro, like you're just in it. Yes. Every look, every check in, every DM that's random is actually taking away 30 to 40 minutes of your mental focus. Very good. So you're stealing your mental focus every check in. You always have to wait, a check in is stealing and depleting focus. You know, I've taught this since 2009, that your inbox, your email inbox, is nothing but a convenient organizing system of other people's agendas.

• 27:34Brendon Burchard?

  If you have a life agenda, if you have a day's agenda, randomly checking into your inbox is checking into other people's agendas. That means you're checking out of yours into theirs and now you're going to lose the mental focus for probably 40 minutes. Many people even longer if they're not high performers, underperformers, I'd say they'd lose two hours now. Completely derailed. Why did you derail? Because you randomly checked. I want everyone to write that down. I derail because I randomly check. Get completely out of the random check ins. And instead go, you know what? I do my email between eight and nine and then again at four and five. I've always said, I got it back to them the same day. I'm like, great. Get back to them at the end of the day.

• 28:17Ed Mylett?

  Yep.

• 28:18Brendon Burchard?

  You do your most important tasks throughout the day. Let the end of the day be the replies if you feel like you have to. But don't check in throughout the day. You'll completely steal your focus and your energy. And guess what? The more you check in and the more interruptions you get, here's what's fascinating about high performance. The more you check in. And the more you get those random, what's this needy friend? Why is this person reaching out to me? This is bad timing. You develop bitterness. You get bitter toward, there's a bitter energy.

• 28:53Ed Mylett?

  Yep.

• 28:54Brendon Burchard?

  You check it, damn her, why him, this and all of a sudden there's bitterness. And you take a high performer who has to joyfully serve throughout the day, who has to be in mental flow. And you add in these little sprinkles of bitterness or overwhelm. Their performance goes down.

• 29:11Ed Mylett?

  Brother, that's exactly right. I have to just acknowledge how absolutely right. And by the way, this principle of getting back to people by the end of the day is something I've absolutely lived by. Until I couldn't.

• 29:22Brendon Burchard?

  Yes.

• 29:22Ed Mylett?

  So I just couldn't. And this random check in idea is brilliant. I just, this is so good today, by the way.

• 29:28Brendon Burchard?

  I'm loving this.

• 29:30Ed Mylett?

  Because it's 100% true. And I, believe me. I understand that I'm going to give respect to everybody and get back to them by the end of the day mentality. I did that forever until I just can't anymore. And there needs to be some peace and winding down in your evening as well. It's why I like that four to five window. I don't want to do it at 10 to 11 o'clock at night because then I'm thinking about your problem while I'm trying to go to sleep.

• 29:51Brendon Burchard?

  Right.

• 29:51Ed Mylett?

  The other thing, one little tiny thing, and then I'll shift to another strategy and throw it back to you. Is I have told my friends, uh, voice notes are lazy. So if you're going to leave me a voice note on your phone, a lot of you that have iPhones, it has to be less than a minute or you need to type it. And the reason is, is that because what you're doing is you're burdening me with the time you didn't want to take to type me something. So you ever get these seven, eight long voice notes from people and you're like, my God, I, this is, this is insane. This is, this is, it's longer than if we would have just talked. So because you don't want to type out this long message, you're just blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And my phone, I don't know why it interrupts every 40 seconds and stops the message anyway. And I gotta go back to the beginning.

• 30:32Ed Mylett?

  So I've told people, they know this. If you send me a six minute long voice note, I say, listen, type it or send it back in one minute or less. I can't, think about this. What if someone got 10, five minute long voice notes an hour? That's the entire hour I'm listening to your messages. And so these are just courtesy things you do for one another, but also things like, you just manage your time. They gotta type it out. I can read that in 10 seconds. The same thing takes three or four minutes to listen to, and every minute counts when you're a high performer. Every minute counts in busy season and it's energy and it's focus. So none of that. All right. I'll give you another strategy for me.

• 31:07Brendon Burchard?

  I love that. And also I want everyone to hear, as you rewind this and listen to earlier, I want you to hear Ed and I's tone, because we are in busy season and we receive these things and we feel like we should check in. And the energy that you're hearing from us is going, it's an exasperation, right? It's like, oh, I can't believe I have to deal with this during busy season. And that's what I want you to hear. Internally, that's how you feel. There's an exasperation. When you didn't control how much you check in, or you didn't teach people how to communicate. In busy season, it can really derail you and mess your energy up.

• 31:41Ed Mylett?

  By the way, and you do end up sort of resenting people. Let me tell you why it's also important. About an hour ago, I got a text message, a long typed text message from a mutual friend of yours and mine, but someone I'm closer to than you just happens to be someone I know better than you, but you also know this person. And um,

• 31:59Ed Mylett?

  It was the fact that he loved me and was so grateful for me and also that his stepfather had just died. And he was thinking about my dad and the experience I had and the things I shared with him about that experience that made it more peaceful for him. Anyway, it was a beautiful message. Hmm. And of course, that's something I'm getting back to immediately as I checked it. But the point is, is what if I had 10 other messages that were voice notes in that hour and I missed this really important one? And so we all know this message I'm sending to someone is a level two importance. Every once in a while, there's a level 10 important message. And if you're overwhelming a busy person with the two and three level messages with

• 32:41Ed Mylett?

  voice notes, imagine what they're missing and who they can't give to. So it's really a selfish play. And if you really want to give, you really want to contribute, I would recommend that you evaluate how you're depleting other people's time as well. All right, I'm gonna give you one that's non-negotiable for me in busy season, and that's my physiology. Yes. It's my fitness. I actually triple down on my workouts. I triple down on my hydration. I triple down. What you were doing this weekend, you and I were talking and you were running around and I was running around and you're like, I'm in the gym right now, brother. I'm getting these guns. And I'm like, I'm in the gym too. It's something that because I'm making deposits and investments in my energy reserves by doing that.

• 33:22Ed Mylett?

  And so one thing, what most people let go, and I have in the past during busy season is, oh, I'm traveling, I'm at a hotel, or man, my first meeting's earlier than normal. I'll get around, I won't work out today. It's probably the number one mistake you could make is depleting your own vitality and energy and strength. And that's also something that you've committed to do. And when you can keep, one thing that happens in busy season, I think, is you feel a loss of sense of control sometimes. Hmm. Because there's so many things coming at you and that you've got going on. And working out and hydrating are two promises that you can keep to yourself. And part of self-confidence is a reputation with yourself that you keep the promises that you make to yourself.

• 34:04Ed Mylett?

  And when you can start a day, or at least some point in your day, keep that significant promise to your longevity, your vitality, your strength, your wellness, your fitness, your cosmetic appearance even.

• 34:17Ed Mylett?

  You've done something to make an investment in yourself that'll give you the confidence, the strength and the energy to persevere through the busy season. And that's the, it's an easy thing on that schedule where we go hardcore delete, right? Ruthless deleting. The easy one is like, take from myself, I just won't serve me, I won't work out today. And it's one of the biggest mistakes you can make. So right now I'm actually training harder. And by the way, maybe I won't be training longer during busy season, but I'm going to train every single day. So you know, when I'm not busy, maybe I do get 90 minutes in the gym, or maybe when I am busy, it's going to be 40, but I'm in there. I've made the commitment, I've gotten dressed, I've sweated, I've had my heart exerted, I've pushed some heavy things around and I feel a sense of accomplishment and energy

• 35:00Ed Mylett?

  and the endorphins and the dopamine and all this stuff I've done. It's the number one thing, other than my spirituality, which I'm going to talk about in a minute. It's the number one thing I can physically do is to maintain my strength and physiology during busy season and not let that go. Letting that go is like giving kryptonite to the Superman or superwoman that you are. Not working out, not hydrating is giving yourself a dose of kryptonite during the busy season of your life and you will get weaker and weaker and weaker, feel worse and worse about yourself. And so during busy season, be more disciplined with your nutrition. Right? Busy season, a lot of you that you travel, you're having out more restaurant dinners,

• 35:42Ed Mylett?

  if that's what you do, more just, nothing better than going out to a restaurant, a business dinner, let everybody else eat bad and you're like, I'll have the chicken or the fish, you know, or like, like, just like, and you just did something at that table, nobody, I, I'm nuts, but I get off on going, I worked out today and I know these other guys didn't. Yes. They're going to eat this butter cake at Mastro's afterwards and I am on the damn, I'm on the steak and broccoli thing over here. It may sound crazy, but it actually makes me feel like I've made an investment in myself. It makes me feel good and there's nothing like walking in a room and just feeling good. I got a good pump, I got a good workout in, I feel like I've done something. Man, that can carry you so far. And so it should be a non-negotiable for you during busy season is your physiology.

• 36:25Brendon Burchard?

  Okay, I'll add a phrase to that, that everyone can write down. The 72 hour energy rule.

• 36:35Brendon Burchard?

  Your energy right now is not a reflection of your morning routine. Your energy right now is not a reflection of your mindset. Your energy right now is not usually a reflection of even what happened today. We're biological specimens. Most of the physical energy we have right now, including our digestion, is a result of the last 72 hours. What did I eat three days ago? Is driving my energy just as much now as anything else? What did I work out like yesterday? Is impacting me right now just as much as anything else? We can in the moment do things, but the problem is, again, we're talking about busy season.

• 37:19Brendon Burchard?

  In busy season, if we wait every day for that good behavior, and I'll get back to it, we're screwed. And I'll give the example because, and I both work with athletes. If you're working with an Olympian, an NFL player, somebody who's got to be on the field and win, they don't get up and do good habits that morning. They're so obsessed about the three days leading into it. And most people don't even know they're, they're like, athletes just fall into that rhythm because they've learned it naturally. The best athletes I've ever worked with absolutely know it. The conditioning they do in the three days prior to the game is way more important to them. They just because they fall into that.

• 38:02Brendon Burchard?

  And so in busy season, what I always do is I look out three days. I'm like, what's the energy I need during that meeting on that day? And I literally start crafting my conditioning for that. I'll give you an example. In my busy season, I had a big negotiation last week. And I knew it was coming up and it was going to be really stressful. And so the more stress you have to have, the more you can imagine you have, it's weight, there's weight on your shoulders. And everything we know from mental health is if you will go do weight bearing activities, which of course everyone knows Ed does to the max, right? It's like you have to lift heavy objects to deal with the stress. And if you can do it in advance.

• 38:48Brendon Burchard?

  Literally the days in advance of stressful moment, you'll find like, wow, I feel better because that heavyweight bearing activity, that's loading up the good hormones in the gas tank, right? You're preparing and conditioning. So I want you to always think, what I eat today, what I drink today, how I move today, how I sleep today, I'm preparing for three days from now. It's why like if even my friends, everyone knows, like if Ed and I go out and we have some wine, we're only having wine because I know the next day I don't have to do anything. And I will never have wine if I have a busy next day. I can't do it. Like I'm not somebody, some people can do it. I cannot. I'm a mess. Last time we had wine, the next day I was like, man, I'm glad I didn't plan nothing.

• 39:32Brendon Burchard?

  It wasn't that long ago, by the way, it was about a week ago. I know that next morning too. Trust me. So I really want people to understand you are conditioned. Don't think about just today. Think about three days from now. That's important.

• 39:45Ed Mylett?

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• 42:20Ed Mylett?

  Very short intermission here, folks. I'm glad you're enjoying the show so far. Be sure to follow the Ed Mylett Show on Apple and Spotify. Links are in the show notes. You'll never miss an episode that way. By the way, one thing I've noticed with you lately, I mean, you've always been fit and lean, but you are taking lifting heavy things more seriously now. One thing about Brendan, I'll tell you guys this so that you know this personally. He has an amazing ability to bring an energy to an environment, actually like no one I've ever met. One thing he's very conscious of, and I think this is a key during busy season two, is to be monitoring the energy you're bringing. I would say you do a better job of that than me. I think once in a while with me.

• 43:02Ed Mylett?

  I think you can tell, you know, like I'm in a difficult season, as you know, in some areas of my life too. And I think sometimes you can tell, not often, but sometimes in your case, you cannot. Brendan brings an energy, um, he's very, and I believe you're conscious of it too. I'll let you speak to it, but there's an enthusiasm and an energy, not just when you go out on a stage, but like right when the zoom camera comes on. It's not like, hey, man, what's up? It's immediately energy. His, if, if, if he does leave you a video or a voice note, they're usually under a minute. And they're also, there's an energy to it. In other words, I think you're the best controller, you, you, user of energy that I've ever met in my life.

• 43:46Brendon Burchard?

  Wow.

• 43:46Ed Mylett?

  The way you reserve it for yourself and that you give it to other people. And I have to think for you that that's gotta be one of your keys as you navigate every season of your life. But are you even more conscious of your energy? I'm talking about not just how you feel, but what you're giving energetically to people during that season. Cause it's very easy to say the same words during busy season.

• 44:08Brendon Burchard?

  Right.

• 44:09Ed Mylett?

  But it just doesn't hit like it does when you're in the season that's not quite so chaotic. If that makes any sense.

• 44:15Brendon Burchard?

  Yes, I think it's for me, it's two things. One, the philosophy of joyful service. My schedule is busy. Thank God. God put all these opportunities in front of me. And you know, I was a poor kid from Montana and I get to work with this person. I get to be on this stage. I think that's amazing. I also think that our legacy is a function of how we make people feel. And so I don't want to make people feel bad. I want people, when they leave me, they feel lifted. They feel energized. They see, they feel like, wow, he saw me, he heard us.

• 44:54Brendon Burchard?

  And that honoring and respecting of them and their energy is like, I want to be an energy addition to people's lives, not a subtraction.

• 45:03Ed Mylett?

  You're, you're, you're the best ever at it, bro. Like I, I mean it, like I, we all know, we all know people that are great. And I'm just telling you the best at that. I think most people know Brendan would say this too. And one of my tips is what you just said, I was going to add it. So let's go back and forth on that.

• 45:15Brendon Burchard?

  Yeah.

• 45:16Ed Mylett?

  It's a perspective of the season.

• 45:18Brendon Burchard?

  Yeah.

• 45:19Ed Mylett?

  This took me many years, but man, this, this little phraseology difference, you've heard before perhaps, but I want you to all ponder this.

• 45:28Speaker 03

  I have to do this or I get to do this. Mm hmm. And I'm telling you, that seemed like I am not a corny, hokey, phrasy guy, right? I'm just not that guy. But I'm going to tell you, many, many days in this season I'm in right now, I'm like, I get to do this. What a privilege, what an honor it is. I remember when nobody wanted to meet with me. My biggest problem is I couldn't get a meeting, right? Yes. I get to do this and inside of that, I always kind of tell myself, and everything's going to be okay. And this may sound really subtle, but like, there's a pressure that builds up when you have a lot to do. And you actually start worrying and projecting about events and meetings that haven't even happened yet.

• 46:10Speaker 03

  So the two little things I do, sometimes, sometimes you just wake up because you're in that different brainwave state. What's like your worry state like, oh, my day. Yes. And I'll immediately just go, everything's going to be okay. Yeah. Okay, it's all going to work out and I get to do this. I get to do this and it seems small and subtle. But man, if you can begin to say like, our, like, right now, we were like, let's create some content today. Bro, we got to do, this is so freaking good. Like, this is going to be one of these master classes people listen to in four years. We didn't know we're going to have magic like this, right? But like, we get to do this, like, and so you get to be busy. You get to have this beautiful family.

• 46:51Speaker 03

  Even the challenges you have, you get to have these challenges because on the other side of them, you're going to learn so damn much. You're going to do so much data and information and understanding, so many breakthroughs. Even if the things feel like failures and they don't go the way you want, that will serve you. Do you know how many, you know, many hundreds of millions of dollars I've made in my life? From the knowledge extracted from massive failures during previous busy seasons? Nice. That like, they weren't failures, like, they felt like I didn't close the deal. I lost the account, I didn't get, and like, and I'm like, I'm busy and I lost. No, I actually extracted so much information. I didn't know it at the time, but now that I'm 52, I can tell you all this.

• 47:36Speaker 03

  It's all good, it's all gravy, it's all going to work out. It's just going to work out in this meeting, but you're going to get information or the win. You're going to get better or the win and you get to do it. And when you start to approach your life, like, I'm further down the lifeline than most of you, fortunately and unfortunately. I can just tell you, that's how it works. And the other thing is this season, if you're in it, no matter how chaotic it might feel, you're growing so damn much. It's unbelievable. The amount of growth you're going through right now, the amount of changing. And usually when you're really, really growing, I don't think it always feels like it. Sometimes it just feels like pain. Sometimes it just feels like chaos. Sometimes it just feels like you're out of control.

• 48:21Speaker 03

  Sometimes it feels like you're just spinning your wheels. You're just not making, you're just running in circles on the treadmill. That's not what's happening. You are growing in emotions, in knowledge, in data, in your ability to communicate, in your ability to deal with things, your emotional maturity is growing in ways you can't even measure right now. You get to do this and there's massive upside from what you're going through right now. And now you can embrace what's happening in a way that it's not so burdensome to you. It's,

• 48:51Brendon Burchard?

  Yes.

• 48:52Speaker 03

  It's not so, I think of Jesse Lee.

• 48:55Brendon Burchard?

  Hmm.

• 48:56Speaker 03

  Brendan, I do, maybe this is cryptic, but I do think of these things on days like this, like today's a busy day, busy day for me, busy day for you. And many of you know, I used to coach Jesse Lee Ward, who's recently passed away. She's been on my show. Brendan knew her as well. And um, and this may sound an odd thing to say, but I have thought this many days. Jesse Lee would love to have this day I have right now.

• 49:20Brendon Burchard?

  Exactly.

• 49:21Speaker 03

  She doesn't get to have another one of these days where I get to engage with you and see people. What a blessing it is that I'm here.

• 49:27Brendon Burchard?

  Right.

• 49:28Speaker 03

  What do you think Jesse Lee would give to have a meeting today with 10, 15 different people and 10, 15 different meetings? And another one tomorrow and another one tomorrow. And bless her heart, she's in heaven. She's in a better place than we are. But in the physical realm of things.

• 49:42Brendon Burchard?

  Yeah.

• 49:42Speaker 03

  What she would have been given that last day of her life when she was taking her final 30 breaths.

• 49:49Brendon Burchard?

  Yes.

• 49:49Speaker 03

  She have given for another day.

• 49:51Brendon Burchard?

  That preciousness.

• 49:52Speaker 03

  The preciousness, the blessing of it. And so perspective is everything on this season.

• 49:57Brendon Burchard?

  Oh my gosh, you complimented me earlier on my energy. And everyone's listening to this as I have a cold and I've been on the road and I'm like, oh, maybe not my best representation. And the philosophy that comes from, you know, the car accident that I was in that gave me that gift of I call it mortality motivation is like when, when you're motivated by the fact that you have life. You show up through that in a different way than when it feels like you have to carry the burdens of life, but rather you are lifted by life and the opportunity of it. And I teach people all this time, you have to create phrases in your own mind to get yourself in that place. Like the phrase I have is, you know, the power plant doesn't have energy.

• 50:42Brendon Burchard?

  It generates energy. It's my biggest dominant metaphor my entire life. The power plant, what it does is it takes energy from one utilization, one source. And then what it does is it transforms it into a higher utilization and it transmits it. So what I do is I recognize in most places I go in my life, including this event I was recently at where everyone was down, they were discouraged, they were disheartened, their business wasn't going great. I know I'm walking in there and the energy is low. I know that I can be the power plant. I can take that low energy. And I can build it and transform it and transmit it into a higher utilization. The power plant doesn't have energy, it generated it. I don't have energy today.

• 51:27Brendon Burchard?

  I'm tapping into something. And I'm generating a higher utilization. So good, Brendan. The other phrase I have is bring the joy. So if, if, if, if, you know, Ed calls me and says, Brendan, I'm coming to your house. What kind of wine do you want me to bring? What do you want me to bring? I go, Ed, bring the joy. That's all I want in my life is people show up with joy and happiness and authenticity and spontaneity. And so I teach myself that little, I have bracelets and shirts that say, bring the joy. That's like, I'm conditioning my mind all the time. Oh yeah, joy. And last thing I'll say this is Ed and I have coached everybody. And I can tell you, after a person has safety and sustenance and some success, no matter what that is, you know, in the US, call it 40 grand a year even.

• 52:14Brendon Burchard?

  Everything beyond that, when you actually get down to it, what do people want? What do they really desire? I can tell you the first thing that they always desire is more aliveness.

• 52:28Brendon Burchard?

  They want to feel life again. They want a sense of aliveness to it and a sense of spontaneity or pop or creativity or joy or passion, what would be called the positive range of emotions. And so, what if you knew what everybody on the planet wanted?

• 52:47Brendon Burchard?

  Would you live an abundant life? Would you be an abundant entrepreneur? I know what everybody in the world wants. They want more aliveness. They want more aliveness in their intimate relationships. They want more aliveness in their passion. They want more aliveness at work. And so, I try to bring life. And that's why I believe that the world is rewarded. So many of my actions is like, oh, this kid's bringing energy in. I'm bringing life into situations. And I believe that life is celebrated. God gave us life. Our promise is life. Our promise is ever after life, if you believe in that type of faith. And so, I go, oh, I knew I would be wealthy the rest of my life when I figured out what people want is aliveness. And I can bring a little bit of that. What a gift.

• 53:32Ed Mylett?

  So good. Brendan, that is absolutely awesome. And that would be my last point. And then I'll let you conclude things. For me, you hit on it, which was during that season of my life, my faith life needs to be at the forefront. And so, I know, without being personal, like, this is an area of life that you're growing tremendously in right now and exploring and loving about your life. And I am as well. But for me, the last time, the last point for me during the season would be to be connecting with your higher power, because that's where your power comes from. So, if you do want to plug into something that can give you supernatural energy.

• 54:09Brendon Burchard?

  Yes.

• 54:09Ed Mylett?

  Holy Spirit type discernment. If you believe in the quantum, which you and I both also believe in the quantum field, where you can vibrate at the highest possible frequency, you've got to give yourself the gift. For me, it's meditation. That's where I plug into the, the, the energy field. That's where I empty my mind. That's where I give myself, you know, the gift of stillness. And that's important. And then my prayer life as a Christian, in my case, me asking for discernment and wisdom and blessing and comfort. And I don't always ask God to make things better. I prayed most recently for him to help me be better. And so, and, and, and for me, that's the time where I get the most comfort. I draw on my faith during this time.

• 54:55Ed Mylett?

  I've found that my faith has grown the most during the most chaotic and busy seasons of my life, ironically. I think you find peace and stillness, but oftentimes we uncover the depths of our faith during chaos. Because for me, I've reached the conclusion in my life that I'm not capable just on my own. That I do need to rely on something greater than me. And that reliance becomes more and more important to me during times where I do feel overwhelmed. And where I feel like I don't, you can have every technique and tactic in the world, but at the end of the day, I need a blessing. I need grace. I need peace. And so for me, that's a, it's just easy when you're busy

• 55:38Ed Mylett?

  to let your schedule get away, to let your fitness and hydration, to let your energy, right? To let those things get away, to, to let your perspective, to let God get away. And these are times, I think what we're both saying is bring these things closer. And that's how you not only survive during this time, but you thrive. And your point, bro, like one of the things I love about you is, you know, I do try to, when I'm feeling helpless, I try to get helpful. And one of the great role models in my life for that is you, like you're just always giving to people. And one of the things you do, I want to say this last because we both did this today too, but like, you give to people with no expectation of anything in return. The law of reciprocity is a really powerful law, but at the same time,

• 56:21Ed Mylett?

  then there's people that almost rise above the law of reciprocity and they're like, I just give. I just give. And if it's reciprocated, that's wonderful, but that's not why I'm giving. And it's one of the things that I I admire most about you, brother. And I would be remiss if I didn't say that in in today. Like, this has been magic, bro. And we're just riffing today.

• 56:42Brendon Burchard?

  Yeah, this has been amazing.

• 56:43Ed Mylett?

  So I'll let you finish up with whatever your final thought was. But my final thought would be your faith in your your spiritual life.

• 56:48Brendon Burchard?

  Thank you. Well, I reflect back that exact same thing. I mean, my spiritual life began standing on the crumpled hood of a car, bleeding out in the Dominican Republic when I thought I was going to die at nineteen. And I felt God's grace and God's gift of a second chance at that moment, standing there. I I knew I would be okay. I felt that spirit enter and I was like, you're gonna be okay. And I looked up at the moon that night and I just thought, I want to earn this life.

• 57:19Brendon Burchard?

  I want to earn it. It wasn't just a thank you, God. It was like, gosh, I want to earn this. I want to do, thank you for this second chance. I want to do something good with it. And I know that I like to reflect back a gratitude towards you as well. That i- if I can bring a lot of energy to the world, I think that's great. You bring so much mentorship and wisdom. I don't think people realize how much you could go do other things, but you choose to, you know, give your message out for free on podcasts and Instagram. And you've made all this incredible success and discernment in your life that you share so openly. And as we're in busy season, my hope for you too is this last point I have, which is,

• 58:00Brendon Burchard?

  do daily, if not hourly, intensity checks. I'm gonna give some people language here. An intensity check is, you know, if if you've ever worked with the NFL and the quarterbacks in the huddle, there's an intensity of the tone that's about to happen. That is very important. The the pregame, you know, locker room talk, there's an intensity check that has to happen there. And throughout the days when we're busy and we're solopreneurs, we're solo out there, we forget to check in on our own intensity. And we get really fired up about something and then we're drained three hours later because we didn't check. Is that the intensity that's appropriate for that thing? And the way that high performers get over this is is in two ways. Number one is mastering the pit stop.

• 58:46Brendon Burchard?

  I always say this, the high-performance race car doesn't need the pit stop. It can actually do the entire race without a pit stop. It takes the pit stop to prevent the wreck and the burnout later. So that that high-performance race car coming into the pit stop where it's refueled, checked, calibrated, it gives the driver a second to calibrate, even the driver literally gets like seconds, but it's a recalibration for them. It's a recalibration of the car. So the car can go longer, faster and win more because it took the pit stop. When you're in busy season, you better find those pit stops.

• 59:25Brendon Burchard?

  And it's got to be daily. It can be your daily prayer, your daily meditation, your daily time in the gym, your daily time in the sauna, your daily time for a long walk at the end of the night, which I highly recommend for every high performer in the world. Go out, get some darkness on your body, just like in the morning, go out and get some sunlight on your body. At night, there's an end of the day. Go for a walk at the end of the day. Let that dark set on you, you'll sleep better and you'll calibrate to the time zone of the night and you'll downshift into a different time. It's like a little pit stop at the end of the day. But I take pit stops throughout the day. It's important for me to maintain. I might just, you know, at the top of every hour, you'll see me, I usually hit the floor and do some vinyasa flows to open my body, my flexibility, my

• 1:00:10Brendon Burchard?

  energy. So pit stop, find your pit stops throughout the day by checking on your intensity. And the last thing is, is you have to learn in busy season to master the downshift.

• 1:00:25Brendon Burchard?

  You got to learn to downshift your energy. You can't bring that intensity to dinner table. She won't like you. You can't bring that intensity to the kids. They'll freak out. You can't bring that intensity to the team. When you're in busy season, you're, you're, you're kind of keyed up. You're at a different level. You've got to downshift. So that you don't run over people. You've got to downshift so you can slow to their speed and not ever be bitter that they're not at the speed you're at. So a lot of people in busy season, they get really mad at their family. Well, she doesn't understand, he doesn't understand. It's like they're, they're on a different race than you are. You're in a different race right now. You got to downshift. So before you come into the house, sit in the car, close your eyes for three minutes,

• 1:01:10Brendon Burchard?

  do a release meditation or a prayer, set your intention for how you're going to go in the house. That's the downshift before you walk in the house. Go in the other room, lay on the ground, repeat the word, release to yourself, release all the tension before you go to dinner. You know, before you make that big business decision, take the 30 minutes before it and downshift your energy from the intensity and get in that place of wisdom, of peace, of spirit, of just higher intention. Because if you don't downshift, I promise you will just run over everybody and everything and you won't realize it because you're keyed up in busy season. It's something that's such an important practice for my high performers.

• 1:01:55Brendon Burchard?

  So I just want to give you that language to learn to master the downshift.

• 1:01:59Ed Mylett?

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• 1:04:00Speaker 03

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• 1:04:09Ed Mylett?

  Let me tell you one thing I've noticed about all the max out performers that I've interviewed on my program and that I've known throughout my life for the last 30 years, really, in business, sports, entertainment, politics, you name it. The elite performers look at time and use time completely differently than the people who perform at an average level. And so I want to talk to you about some tips and strategies today to begin to think about time and utilize time differently. So let's start out. The first thing I want to tell you about people who win, who max out, they are in a much bigger hurry than the people who are average. And I'm not kidding you when I say this. They're in a bigger hurry to get to their destination, to get to their outcome. Their pace is faster.

• 1:04:52Ed Mylett?

  They walk faster, they talk faster, and their expectation when they're going to arrive at their destination is sooner. This may seem like a very small, subtle thing, but I want you to evaluate, how big of a hurry are you in? Because there's something to be said about how close you think you are to a goal and how fast you will run to get to the finish line. Let me give an example of that. If you and I started out right now and we had a 26 mile marathon to run, right? In our minds, it was 26 miles. We were gonna race each other. We would pace ourselves at a certain speed in order to maintain that speed because of the duration of the run. So if it was a marathon, we'd jog, wouldn't we, pretty slowly? You certainly wouldn't sprint 26 miles.

• 1:05:34Ed Mylett?

  And so because the destination, because the finish line is so far away, our pace or our hurry is limited based on how far away we think we are or when we'll arrive there. But if you and I were to run a 100 yard dash, would the pace be the same? Because the finish line is so much closer, we'd run full speed from the minute we took off, wouldn't we? Because of the proximity of how close the finish line is. The people that win in life don't necessarily have more vision than you. See, it's not a lack of vision always that means that you are going to lose. It's a lack of a type of vision, which is depth perception. You think you're further away from the outcome and so you pace yourself like it and you jog all the time throughout your life.

• 1:06:17Ed Mylett?

  The people that win may have a bigger vision, but they have accurate depth perception. They understand how close their goals are, how close their outcome is, and they're constantly in a sprint to get there throughout their day. That means consequently, they get started earlier and they finish later. They get up earlier. Throughout the day, they're in a bigger hurry to get to the places they need to be because the finish line in their mind is so much closer. I cannot emphasize this enough to you is just the pace and the way time shrinks for elite performers compared to the average. I'm telling you, the average performer can say the same things, read the same books, have the same schedule, yet the person who is in a bigger hurry throughout the day ends up winning the day,

• 1:07:00Ed Mylett?

  winning the week, winning the month, winning the year, and winning the life. And so, please evaluate your pace. You should be in a so much bigger hurry than everybody around you. You almost have people telling you to slow down a little bit. So that's number one, is you've got to be in a bigger hurry. The second thing is the way we begin our day. I'm gonna tell you right now, either you're going to control your Or your time's gonna control you. Either you are gonna dictate the terms of your life, or you're gonna be somebody who reacts and responds throughout their life. This device right here can both speed up time in your life, or it can slow it down. It's not always a speed tool. So one of the tips that I've covered before, but not enough people implement that I promise you

• 1:07:44Ed Mylett?

  is a quality of max out performers that relates to their time, is they control it. They do not react and respond. They dictate the terms of their life most of the time. And that means this, when you wake up in the morning, the greatest thing you could do for yourself is not touch or look at this device for 30 minutes to an hour after awakening. So that when you wake up, you take control of your time. You control the time. You control the beginning of the day. You get clear, you meditate, you pray, you stretch, you think, you go through a gratitude exercise. You control the first 30 minutes of your day. It sets a tone that I'm in charge of my time, not what enters this. If the first thing you do is grab this, this now dictates the term of your day.

• 1:08:29Ed Mylett?

  This controls my day. What hits this, what email, what text, what call hits this? What Instagram post hit this? This controls me. It controls my time. But if you can stay away from it for the first 30 minutes to an hour, you send a message to your brain, to yourself, that you control time, that this day is on your terms. And again, you stack up a day, a week, a month, a year, five years of a lifetime of you controlling and dictating the terms of your life for just the first 30 minutes to an hour every day. It will revolutionize your life. It'll be very difficult to do for the first 30 days. But after 30 days, you'll never have the desire to do it again. You'll completely flip your life around. I'm not suggesting that all max out performers dictate every term.

• 1:09:14Ed Mylett?

  Of course I respond, of course I react throughout my day. It's not the syntax or context of my day. I control my day. There are things throughout every day where we react and respond. There are conversations where someone says something to us. We clearly react and respond. But I'm the assessor of my life, not the assessee. I assess my life. I dictate the terms of my life. I'm not being assessed and I'm not being dictated to by other people all the time in my life. That's a huge separator in how people look at time for max out performers. The third thing is this. Why is a day only 24 hours? I mean, if the average people in the world, or the majority of people in the world have a 24-hour day, why does that have to apply to you?

• 1:09:56Ed Mylett?

  Many years ago, I discovered, if you ever had a day where in four or five hours, you got more in the first four or five hours done or accomplished in your day than you had in a normal day? You ever have a four or five-hour window, a six-hour window, like you go, "I've got so much done in these six hours, it's more than I get done in an average day." And what I found out was, max-out elite performers, people that perform at the highest level, they get more done in a six-hour window than most people get done in a day, and here's why. Most people measure a day by 24 hours, so I started to think. I was young in business, I was in my early twenties, and one of the things that was held against me by other people is, "You're too young to win, you don't have enough experience, you just haven't had enough days of experience in your life, enough days in business to win." And I thought, "Well, how can I fix that? And here's how you can fix that."

• 1:10:41Ed Mylett?

  And I've adopted this now for almost 30 years. I want the average people I compete against to think they have a 24-hour day. My days are six days long. So I want to teach you the concept of running mini-days. My day, my first day is from 6:00 a.m. to noon every day, that's a full day for me. So I try to get done a full day's work from 6:00 a.m. to noon, because I no longer have a 24-hour day in my life. I have a six-hour day. And so a day to me is that measure of time. It altered the complete direction of my life, it transformed who I am. So now from 6:00 a.m. to noon is a day. That's my first day, every single week, 6:00 a.m. to noon, Monday morning.

• 1:11:23Ed Mylett?

  And what happens in that 6:00 a.m. to noon, I, see, there's a mental thing we have. I have a whole day to get all these things done. And so we stack and dictate and schedule our day over that 24-hour window of time. You'd be surprised if you shrunk the day to six hours, you can get the same things done in those six hours you used to get done in 24. From noon to 6:00 p.m. is my second day. And in that second day, I fill it up with a full day's worth of fun, memories, meetings, phone calls, you name it. Meetings with my relationships in my life. In that six-hour day, I pack out another From noon to 6pm, I fill that day up. And my third day is 6pm to midnight. And in that 6pm to midnight, same thing.

• 1:12:08Ed Mylett?

  My relationships, my meetings, my phone calls, my emails, the work I do is a third day. And so what happened was when I was in my early twenties, I went from having three days in the same window of time when the average person had one. And I started to accomplish triple what the average person was accomplishing. Now, once again, you stack up three days in 24 hours over a week, a month, a year. In just one year, I end up with over a thousand days. And I'm competing against people only have 365. Think about the mind-blowing difference could be in your life if you ran many days the rest of your life. I'm telling you right now that my days are six hours long. You'll be, the amount of work you could get done, the amount of compounding that'll take place in your life, it's gonna blow your mind.

• 1:12:53Ed Mylett?

  When you start looking at your schedule, day one is 6am to noon. Day two is noon to 6pm. Day three is 6pm to midnight. Your whole existence is going to change. It'll be kind of fun in the beginning, you'll mess it up. But you stack up a week or two, and you do that for a month. Imagine that, in one month, getting 90 days. Think about what would happen in your life if in a month you had 90 days. And the rest of the world, the average in your life, imagine that for a second. The rest of the world only had 30. And you stack that up over a year or three years. How different would your life be? And I'm telling you, I'm an example of how different your life would be. I'm an example of what that productivity and compounding in your life can look like.

• 1:13:37Ed Mylett?

  More fun, more memories, more meetings, more encounters, more relationships, more experiences, more money, more achievement, more joy, more bliss. I'm creating opportunities constantly. So what I do is I shrink the finish line. So there's sprints all the time. And so because I only have a six-hour day, I'm gonna hurry throughout that day. I'm not jogging, I'm not walking, I'm in a big hurry. And you're gonna be amazed at the transformation of your life. I may never give you a bigger gift. Than the concept of six-hour days. I think I'm one of the only people you'll ever hear explain this to you. But I can tell you, I started to study these successful mentors. My, my, my gosh, they get so much done before 9 o'clock in the morning. My gosh, by 1 o'clock, they've accomplished so much. And the average person's just stretching, getting out of bed, done their first appointment or two.

• 1:14:21Ed Mylett?

  Especially you entrepreneurs out there, how critical this is. Because when you're an employee, at least as an employee to some extent, they control your time. They dictate, you need to be here at 9 a.m., you can't leave until 5 p.m. And so although that's a nuisance, it helps you be more productive because they're paying you. They tell you when to be there. But what happens for most entrepreneurs, they don't realize, when you become an entrepreneur, you've taken on three jobs, four jobs. It requires more time, but people start to relax. Ah, my time's mine, my time's free. I love the freedom of being an entrepreneur. There's the greatest fallacy in the world is that you are free as an entrepreneur. And as a matter of fact, you have more responsibility, more obligations, more accountability when you're an entrepreneur, because there's no guaranteed money coming in.

• 1:15:03Ed Mylett?

  The biggest mistake, the biggest misnomer, the worst thinking you could have as an entrepreneur is that somehow you're free because you don't have a job. Just because you call yourself an entrepreneur, if you are one, doesn't make you free. In fact, it makes you less free. And so what will make you free is really being free, really getting financially independent, really having enough money that you would never need to work again. Really having enough money that if you didn't want to take a meeting, you didn't have to. So stop deluding yourself into this false sense of freedom because you call yourself an entrepreneur. It's hilarious, and it's why you're losing. You have this fallacy, this relaxed state of freedom where you're going to get around to doing things and you get to go to the gym anytime you want to. And you're wearing your sweats at 10:30 in the morning, right?

• 1:15:48Ed Mylett?

  You wouldn't do that if you work for someone else. You don't do that when you work for you. And so the greatest thing I can give you is the gift of many days. The next thing I want to share with you is that there needs to be an alarm clock. Where performance is measured, performance improves. Secondarily, the more you can shrink the timeframe where you measure performance, the better chance you can have to alter that performance and improve it. So what do most people do? They measure their performance. The average people in the world measure their performance at the end of every year. New Year's Eve, right? They take an account of, here's my life. Here's what I accomplished, here's what I didn't get done. And once a year, they take a look at themselves, they make an adjustment. And their performance improves. They measure their performance, they measure their results, and then they make an adjustment.

• 1:16:32Ed Mylett?

  So they adjust about once a year. Pretty good performers shrink the timeframe. At the end of every month, most companies kind of do an inventory, most people do an inventory. They look at their books, they look at the profit and loss. They look at their schedule, and they make an adjustment after they measure that performance at the end of the month. Really good people kind of get together on a Sunday night. If they're pretty good performers, once a week, they measure their performance, they make adjustments, and they move on, weekly. And then there's really top-level performers, and they do it at the end of every day, don't they? The end of every day, they sit back, they look at their calendar, they look at their results, and they measure the performance daily. Well, who do you think's gonna do better? The person who measures it once a year? Once a month?

• 1:17:17Ed Mylett?

  Once a week? Or once a day? We all know, the better adjustments, they've shrunk the timeframes down, they adjust, they get better, they improve daily. And then there's the max out, 1% of 1% performers. And they have a clock that goes off every hour. Every hour in their head, the alarm goes off in my mind. It's sort of weird, but it works. I'm addicted to it now. About every hour, the top of every hour, at 11:00 a.m. It's funny, my mind just knows, what did I do to move closer to my goals? What did I do to move closer to my outcomes? Have I achieved the things on my to-do list today? Have I achieved my biggest and baddest outcomes of the day? And every hour, did I move closer? Did I move closer? What adjustments do I need to make? What do I need to celebrate? What tweaks? What's been accomplished so far?

• 1:18:00Ed Mylett?

  An hourly alarm clock goes off in your head. If you can get to the point where you just begin to practice it, and maybe for now, you program this thing to go off every hour, just to remind you, what did you get accomplished? And maybe when that hour goes off, you know what flashes on the screen? Your outcomes and your goals. Hourly, the alarm goes off. Hourly, the alarm goes off. It'll begin to train you to begin to measure the timeframe of your performance every hour. Now let me ask you a question. There's a group of people that measure their performance, their race, their marathon. Once a year, then there's those that do it once a month and make adjustments. And measure where they are and increase effort. Then those that do it monthly, weekly, daily, hourly. I can tell you that I run many days and I measure for my performance hourly.

• 1:18:45Ed Mylett?

  It will transform your life. You will become more productive in your family, in your personal relationships, in your faith, in your business, in your fitness, in your nutrition, in your money, in every area. If just something goes off every, and by the way, it's a five second just reminder. Am I move closer to my outcome? If I move closer to my to do list today? What adjustments do I need to make? You'll be reminded at that time of someone you forgot to call, an email you didn't return, a meeting you haven't asked for yet, uh, but something you were supposed to eat, hydrate, whatever it is, if you can begin to have that alarm, just go, it's just five seconds. It's just every hour, it's just five seconds. And I'll tell you, it happens to me constantly now. And I know that one of the reasons my life has improved is because I've shrunk the timeframes down of where I measure my results, right?

• 1:19:30Ed Mylett?

  Where I recalibrate, where I course correct, where I make an adjustment, where I realize I'm behind, or I've made a mistake, and I improve a performance. And so, so far, can you imagine if you started just being a bigger hurry? And you had perception correct about how close you really are to your goal. The difference in winning and losing is this much, it's like a veil. And when you remove that veil, you see, my gosh, I'm so much closer. I promise you, one of the things that you suffer from isn't just like a lack of vision and clarity. I wish you more clarity and more specificity in your vision. And I wish you more proximity, that you knew how much closer you were to achievement than you think you are. In fact, it's the fact that you think you're so far away from achieving these things

• 1:20:12Ed Mylett?

  that's causing them to constantly stay that far away from you. Because you're not running fast enough towards them. You're not measuring them fast enough. You're killing your goals and your dreams by thinking they're so far away. It kills everything. If you knew how close you really were, you'd run so much faster. So if you altered that, if you altered the first 30 minutes to an hour of your day, and you just stopped letting yourself be a reactor, but you took control Became a dictator of your time. If you manipulated and bended time like I have, to where a day is six hours, let the rest of the world think a day is 24 hours. By the way, someone just made that crap up a long time ago. An hour of measurement, 24 hours is a day, 365 is a year.

• 1:20:56Ed Mylett?

  Someone just made that up and everybody's bought into it. Well, guess what, I've made mine up. My days are six hours long. I've just manipulated and changed time. It's a figment of our imagination is how time works. And what if an alarm could go off every hour? In that mind of yours, in that heart of yours, just checking. Just a wake up call, just a wake up, just an alarm. Hey, am I closer to my goals, am I closer to my outcome? What adjustments do I need to make? What course corrections? What was achieved, what am I grateful for? It's just a five to 10 second reminder and you're back off to the races again. If the earth spins around once, we call that a day. If the moon goes around us once, we call that a month. If we go around the sun once, we call that a year. It's just stuff people made up, right? And so, time is a figment of our imagination. And if you'd use your imagination,

• 1:21:41Ed Mylett?

  imagine what you could accomplish if you shrunk the timeframes down. The last thing I want to tell you about time is that the best people I know have a focus on the future and use their time in the present. They focus on the future and use their time in the present. Too many of you are focused in the past and are thinking all the time about the future, dreaming, and aren't taking advantage of the present. The present is a gift and we need to treat it as such. The past is literally gone forever. And in many cases, it's a figment and a manipulation of our imagination. The future is grand and powerful and we need to be focused there and thinking about it and dreaming about it because we are pulled towards it. But the best people can simultaneously be dreaming

• 1:22:25Ed Mylett?

  and optimistic about the future and take massive action right now. Most of the max out achievers I know in my life spend almost zero percent of their time on the past. And I'm talking about people who have pretty darn good past in some cases as well. It is wasted time. You are wasting time. You're stealing and robbing your future and your present by focusing any of your attention or thoughts on the past. The past, if it's negative and wasn't positive for you, is a place you should avoid forever. It's not coming back. It doesn't exist anymore. All we really, truly have is this moment, right now, and our dreams about the future. If the past was wonderful and you were a high school quarterback, or had a business victory,

• 1:23:06Ed Mylett?

  or got a college degree, or had an achievement there, those things aren't your present and aren't your future, and dwelling on them and focusing on what you've done previously is not going to produce for you a future. Here's the truth: your past does not equal your future. What will equal your future is what you do in the present. And so I want to encourage you to take these tips I've shared with you today, and I want you to know, if you would make a couple of these changes, I can assure you, your future is closer to you than you think it is if you'll take massive action right now in the present.

• 1:23:41Brendon Burchard?

  Here's a clip of Ed Mylett appearing on the Heavy Checklist Podcast.

• 1:23:45Speaker 06

  By the time we're done with this book, we have no excuse to not be at 99 degrees.

• 1:23:49Ed Mylett?

  And here's why: you'll be associating with me the whole time you read the book. Don't read this book like, "Ah, I'm reading the words this guy wrote." Pretend I'm talking to you.

• 1:23:57Speaker 06

  And that's one of my favorite parts about, I don't know if it's the first chapter or the foreword, but you say, "I'm gonna read it word for word." You were not born to be average or ordinary. You were born to do something great with your life. I know this about you.

• 1:24:09Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 1:24:10Speaker 06

  Those are Ed's exact words.

• 1:24:11Ed Mylett?

  Yep.

• 1:24:12Speaker 06

  Ed, how the hell do you know that about me? How the hell do you know that about the people reading this book?

• 1:24:19Ed Mylett?

  Because I have faith, and my faith informs me that we're all brothers and sisters of the same loving God. And so whatever DNA I have running through me, you can have running through you. And if one man can do something, another man can do it. And you're born with your own unique skills and giftedness, just like you described earlier, that are yours, combined with your life experience, makes you one of a kind. Here's one thing I want you to think about, bro. This is gonna blow your mind. It just occurred to me after I wrote the book. My dad got sober, and that one decision changed my family forever. If my dad doesn't get sober, I'm probably not talking to you. And then it occurred to me after I wrote the book, I want everyone to hear this, this is super important. I woke up the other night, and I woke my wife up. I woke Kristina. I go, "Babe..."

• 1:25:00Speaker 03

  Someone helped my dad. She goes, what honey? I said, someone helped my dad. I never thought about it before. Someone helped my dad get sober. She goes, oh my God. I said, I don't have no idea who they were. It's like an anonymous program. And I said, babe, do you know what qualified them to help my dad? She goes, no, I go, they were a drunk.

• 1:25:24Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:25:24Speaker 03

  They were a mess. They were an alcoholic. Their mess qualified them to help my dad. This average, everyday human being, whose life was a shambles at one point, helped my dad change his entire life, which helped me, which changed his grandkids.

• 1:25:41Speaker 06

  You know what we call that? Compounding interest.

• 1:25:42Speaker 03

  That's exactly what it is. It's exactly what it is.

• 1:25:44Speaker 06

  Because you are now the fruits of those single, small actions, those single one more steps that people took.

• 1:25:55Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 1:25:55Speaker 06

  One drunk helped another drunk.

• 1:25:57Speaker 03

  You got it.

• 1:25:57Speaker 06

  That drunk cleaned up his life.

• 1:25:58Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 1:25:59Speaker 06

  He inspired you, and now you inspire millions.

• 1:26:01Speaker 03

  And that's exactly right. And what I want everyone to know that, bro, is like, your mess doesn't disqualify you for helping other people or making your dreams come true. In fact, it's what qualifies you to make something great with your life. This thing you think that you fear about, or you're embarrassed by, or not confident about, or ashamed of, that may be the very thing that helps you change other people's lives. It may be one of your great gifts. And it sure was for my family. So I just had to tell you that because it's not in the book and it just occurred to me like a week ago.

• 1:26:29Speaker 06

  That's wild.

• 1:26:29Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's wild. Yeah.

• 1:26:31Speaker 06

  That's a, that's a wild middle of the night thought.

• 1:26:33Speaker 03

  It is, man.

• 1:26:34Speaker 06

  Because that's a heavy one.

• 1:26:35Speaker 03

  It's a heavy one.

• 1:26:35Speaker 06

  It's a big one.

• 1:26:35Speaker 03

  It's a real one. I know we're going heavy today. Whatever.

• 1:26:38Speaker 06

  That's what we're here for, man. I mean, the thing is,

• 1:26:43Speaker 06

  I gotta tell you, Ed, it's an honor to be able to turn the tables on you because you are one of the world's best interviewers.

• 1:26:49Speaker 03

  You're good, too.

• 1:26:50Speaker 06

  You, you, you could be, you could be on any broadcast network in the world and you could just, you could kick Larry King's ass. You could, you could just absolutely dominate because you have a way of reading people's body language. You don't step on people's words. You're able to feel what I'm saying, the empathy that you, I feel your empathy right now. It's like your heart is like, like shining at me. And even when I'm texting you. And so you have that ability and it's just incredible that you've been able to turn it into. Words that are easy to digest.

• 1:27:22Ed Mylett?

  Thank you.

• 1:27:22Speaker 06

  That anybody, I'm serious. This book is heavy, but I feel like my 10 year old daughter could probably start to chew through this.

• 1:27:30Ed Mylett?

  I hope so. I think so.

• 1:27:31Speaker 06

  And I'm gonna teach her these things because my 10 year old daughter is a miniature version of me.

• 1:27:34Ed Mylett?

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:27:35Speaker 06

  And she, if you think I'm doing great things.

• 1:27:37Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 1:27:38Speaker 06

  Just wait till you see what Charlie does. And you feel the same way about Max and Bella, right?

• 1:27:42Ed Mylett?

  I do.

• 1:27:42Speaker 06

  Is your daughter.

• 1:27:43Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 1:27:44Speaker 06

  So, there's another thing, and I think you actually, is there a chapter on the, on the 24 hour day?

• 1:27:50Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 1:27:51Speaker 06

  Was that in Max's out as well?

• 1:27:52Ed Mylett?

  A little touched on.

• 1:27:53Speaker 06

  A little touched on.

• 1:27:54Ed Mylett?

  There's no really detail.

• 1:27:54Speaker 06

  It's one of my favorite things that you've ever talked about because I want to dive into that a little bit because it changed the way that I view life.

• 1:28:02Ed Mylett?

  Me too.

• 1:28:02Speaker 06

  Because, how do we view life right now? 24/7, right?

• 1:28:06Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 1:28:06Speaker 06

  We got 24 hours in a day, seven days in a week, and usually the workdays, what? If you're, if you're, if you're working an average job, eight, nine hours a day.

• 1:28:13Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 1:28:14Speaker 06

  Guys that are, you know, entrepreneurs are usually working 14, 15 hours a day.

• 1:28:19Speaker 06

  You have learned how to turn one day into three days.

• 1:28:24Ed Mylett?

  That's right. Yeah.

• 1:28:25Speaker 06

  How did you do that?

• 1:28:26Ed Mylett?

  By the way, I'm just so proud of you. I'm just watching you, man. You're just so good. You just, you're gonna change the world, dude.

• 1:28:32Speaker 06

  Thank you.

• 1:28:32Ed Mylett?

  I told my wife that this morning, so, having said that, I'll help you a little bit here. So, the idea that there's 24 hours in a day is stupid, and it's antiquated and dated. So, a 24 hour day was created when there was no electricity, when there was no internet, when there was no nothing. Yet, most people still measure time the same way people did 250 years ago. How insane is that?

• 1:28:54Speaker 06

  That's wild.

• 1:28:54Ed Mylett?

  Right? And so, most of you beings are walking around oblivious to the fact that like, ah, we can compress timeframes now, information is faster, there's actually cars and like electricity and lights, and you don't have to send stuff by horse, and there's this thing called email now and.

• 1:29:09Speaker 06

  You know what's so funny? I'm sorry to cut you off. We were sitting downtown, we love tacos. I'm a, I'm a.

• 1:29:14Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, me too.

• 1:29:14Speaker 06

  I'm a connoisseur of tacos. And so, anytime we land in SoCal, I Google, you know, whoever's got the best reviews. So, we're sitting there eating tacos today, and I look up, and I look over my buddy Jason, and I say. How archaic are power lines? Power lines, you go downtown, anywhere in California, and there's just lines and wood poles everywhere. And we're stuck in these old, old ways that we're just stuck with, and nobody really knows why. I mean, maybe it's expensive to bury them and change them, but as you, as you move into these newer communities, I guarantee you some of the houses that you have don't have power lines.

• 1:29:50Ed Mylett?

  You bet they don't. And by the way, it's super interesting you say that because we've become so used to seeing them that they become invisible. And so if you were to ask somebody in Laguna Beach, who's got this incredible ocean to look at, you do realize there's power lines blocking your view. They would actually say, I don't see them anymore. We've become so oblivious to the dumb things that we do in life that we just unconsciously like zombies walk through them. And one of them is the way we manage time. So my days, my first day is from 6:00 a.m. to noon. That's a day. You ever have a morning where you're like, I got more done this morning than I get all day or all week? That's because you compress timeframes. So my first day is 6:00 a.m. to noon. That's a day. And in that day, I could have all fun. I could have faith. I could have family. I could have business. But it's a day. I measure the day in that window. What's important about that is around noon, this light bulb, this clock goes off in my head that goes, what did I just get done?

• 1:30:35Ed Mylett?

  What did I do? What do I need to be accountable for? What do I need to redouble my efforts on? What do I need to do more the second day? Second day is noon to 6:00 p.m. Some of those days, like Sundays, it's just straight faith and family for me. But in that day, I could do contacts, meetings, working out, you name it. But that's a day. And then the next day is from 6:00 p.m. to midnight. These days, now I got three days in a day. I got 21 in a week. I got 44 in a month or more. You tell me that you're going to compete against me when I get 44 days of, 44 days, by the way, let me do the math again for you. 21 days in a week, right? That's 84, by the way. 21 days in a week, I get. And you get seven? And we stacked that up over a year? Three years? Five years? 10 years?

• 1:31:20Ed Mylett?

  I'm going to smash you in fun, in happiness, in fitness, in success, in family, because I get more days than you. And there's one other thing that happens. Because you treat time more preciously, you've bended time and manipulated it. Other people take you more seriously.

• 1:31:36Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:31:37Ed Mylett?

  Other people look at you as moving faster, talking faster, more valuable. What there is less of is more valuable. What's precious is more valuable. That's why diamonds are worth more than paper. So, most people treat their days like paper instead of diamonds. But if you start having six hour days, all of a sudden, time becomes precious. It becomes valuable to you and everybody around you. Your entire life will change, sorry, my mouth was bad. Your entire life will change when you get 21 days a week. I promise you, it'll be a completely different existence. And by the way, after like about six real months of doing this, you're gonna tell me, man, you know what, about noon every day, this thing goes off in my head that goes, what did I get done? What do I need to do now? How much fun did I have? Did I make sure I said my prayers? Did I make enough money?

• 1:32:19Ed Mylett?

  And it starts calibrating time completely differently and you'll never go back to 24 hours.

• 1:32:23Speaker 06

  Ed, I don't know if you realize what you've done, but you've taken something that has been linear for hundreds of years, which is the 24 hour clock. And you made it three dimensional.

• 1:32:35Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, I know.

• 1:32:36Speaker 06

  You really did. Now, you have these, you have these blocks and these bubbles and you have these areas where you can, you can get in, dive in, do more. And you know the movie Groundhog's Day?

• 1:32:47Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 1:32:48Speaker 06

  That movie stresses me out so.

• 1:32:49Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 1:32:50Speaker 06

  So bad because it's, it's a reflection of what happens to.

• 1:32:56Ed Mylett?

  Humans.

• 1:32:56Speaker 06

  Middle aged men as they go to start to work or anybody. You get stuck in Groundhog's Day and you start doing the same thing over and over. And Groundhog's Day isn't exaggeration of it, but I think a lot of people do live Groundhog's Day because they're doing the same thing over and over and over again. And they don't find a way to, I love the way that you don't make it, okay, 6 a.m. to 12 a.m., I have to do this. It's no, 6 a.m. to 12 a.m. is a day for me and whatever I do in that day.

• 1:33:22Ed Mylett?

  Like any other day.

• 1:33:22Speaker 06

  It's you're gonna, you're gonna flip flop things, move them around. If you wanna go golf from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m., that's gonna be what you did in that day.

• 1:33:30Ed Mylett?

  And I do it.

• 1:33:30Speaker 06

  And that's the most.

• 1:33:32Ed Mylett?

  Here's what's nuts, I just, I had to move out of the storage unit. This is gonna date me like how old I am. But it's like an old storage unit, cuz I bought that island. I'm like, alright, I'll take all my old stuff and dump it on this island. I had a bunch of Encyclopedia Britannica's in there. And these old encyclopedias, most of your audience won't even know what they are. Google what that is and realize that when I used to try to research something for school, I would have to go to an encyclopedia or drive down to a freaking library, find the book, open the book, write it all down by hand. Now my kids go, how to build a fort? How to do whatever? How does science work? They Google it and have it like that. And I'm gonna measure time the same way now that I did back then.

• 1:34:09Speaker 06

  This is so funny you're saying.

• 1:34:10Ed Mylett?

  It's just ridiculous.

• 1:34:11Speaker 06

  Literally yesterday, we did a video where we bought a bunch of storage units sight unseen. And we got in them, opened them up and there were, you know, when you buy storage units, you find all kinds of wild stuff. And we found a whole volume of, you ever heard of what's called the Book of Knowledge?

• 1:34:26Ed Mylett?

  Yes.

• 1:34:27Speaker 06

  And it's like volume eight, B C. And you go in there and I opened one and it's like, here's how tractors work. And you go through, you know, later in the book and it's like, here's, here's how the tides in the ocean work. You used to have to go through page by page by page to find this information. And so if that's changed so quickly, if I can go to my phone now and figure out how tractors work in 30 seconds. Why can't I do that with time and productivity and my family and my relationships?

• 1:34:54Ed Mylett?

  You can and everything.

• 1:34:55Speaker 06

  And the best part about this is the people who are gonna benefit the most are the people who are closest to you. If you're a family man or you're, you're a single mom, doesn't matter who you are. I believe after going through your book, that if people start to do those one more things, those just that, that little inconvenience, that extra rep, whatever it is, that, and here's the thing, Ed. I'm not a big believer, this is why, you know, Andy Frisella, good friend of ours. His program 75 hard scares the living shit out of me. Because it's a lot at once. And some people need that shock to the system. I'm the type of person where I decided that if I wanna feel better, I'm gonna start drinking

• 1:35:39Speaker 06

  a little bit more water every day. And so I started easing into it and everybody has different personality types. And so what I, what I don't want people to think is, if you read this book, don't think I have to implement all 19 chapters at once. Take the principles that you're learning and say, that's one that really resonates with me, I'm gonna implement that one now.