Pod Insights Change Wired If your to-do list grew longer with more AI in your life - listen to this to claim back the life you want with 2 coaching exercises. If your to-do list grew longer with more AI in your life - listen to this to claim back the life you want with 2 coaching exercises. Change Wired
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About this episode AI keeps promising to save us time, but a funny thing happens when our tools get faster: our lives often get busier, not freer. We start with a simple idea: without intention, extra capacity doesn’t become rest, health, better relationships, or meaningful hobbies. It turns into more output and more complexity. The heart of sustainable success, fulfillment, and burnout prevention: designing your life on purpose instead of defaulting into what technology, culture, and convenience push you towa...
Transcript 0:09 Speaker 00 Hey guys and welcome back to another episode of Change Wired Podcast. My name is Angela Sharina, I'm your host, I'm your partner in change and transformation, your executive health and high performance coach 360. I'm just someone who is obsessed with doing our best, reaching for that potential that is in each of us, unlocking, using more of it. So together we get to live the most extraordinary life experience, creating more positive impact and wonder in the world.
0:46 Speaker 00 And today, guys, we're going to talk about more and that's not necessarily a good thing all the time. And we're going to talk about how to, most importantly, create the life or start investing into a life that you actually want to live. Things, so in that life, you always have time for the things that are your non-negotiables, your essentials to be creating and to be growing into and to be manifesting the vision of your life that you want to be a part of.
1:29 Speaker 00 And we're going to use a very good methodology that I use with all of my clients to help them to create more and more of life that they want to live, that is aligned with their why, with their values, with the vision of their lives, with the vision of themselves that they have. But before we jump into that, very simple, but not easy to do methodology and definitely not something that everyone just does naturally, before we jump into that, I want to talk about more. How many of you guys started working less because of AI?
2:09 Speaker 00 For ninety nine point nine point nine point nine point nine percent of the people, the opposite happened, right? We are talking about AI, how it's gonna steal our jobs and do all the work for us. But it seems to me, talking to a lot of people on all kinds of levels of leadership and just my friends and people around me, that AI adds to our to-do list, not subtracts from it. We started doing more, bragging about how much we can crank out now, watching our to-do list expand instead of shrink, being proud to show it off. Yesterday, I was hiking up a mountain with a group of friends, entrepreneurs and also
2:54 Speaker 00 strangers, but also entrepreneurs or into building their own thing or working on some cool projects. And somewhere between the rain, it was quite, well, not a lot of rain actually, some drizzle. So somewhere between the rain, mist, views and the summit, we started talking about this idea that unless we intentionally carve out time for the things that matter to us, like your health, your relationships, your spirituality or pursuit of things that feed your soul, your hobbies, the things that make you feel alive, like perhaps music or
3:34 Speaker 00 something else, surfing, like unless we intentionally carve out this time, AI isn't gonna give us, isn't gonna give this back to us or create more of it. The time won't magically appear just because there is AI doing stuff. The list of to-dos will just get longer. And hasn't it already? Let's talk about the story of humanity and abundance.
4:05 Speaker 00 There was a time, not that long ago, when getting enough food was a real problem. Your grandparents probably can tell you about that time. Production of food, storage, transportation of food, none of that had caught up yet. But then it did. And did people start eating just enough? Did we start thinking about investing the extra that we created, extra time or capacity into perhaps sustainability of the whole system? No, we kept eating well, kept eating and selling and producing well past the point of satisfaction,
4:48 Speaker 00 straight into the chronic disease, which by the way is still growing. We literally had to invent a drug to make it, to make us stop eating. One of the most popular drugs out there. People are not great at less. We are not great at subtraction and enough, not without intention. Some people will figure it out. They'll design beautiful lives, the same way some people figured out how to eat well in a world drawing in options and food abundance. And some people will keep running themselves into one burnout after another, adding and adding and adding to their to-do list,
5:32 Speaker 00 convinced that enough isn't an option. The grind is just what you have to do to keep up. Guys, I'm not a fortune teller, not even a futurist. And I'm not going to predict which camp of people you will land into or what will happen to the world. But as a coach with 18 years of experience, I can tell you that this without hesitation. If you're not intentional about designing the life, the health, the relationships, the work you want, it won't come out, come to you naturally. If it did, coaching wouldn't be one of the fastest growing industries in the world.
6:19 Speaker 00 I don't know about your part of the world, but here in South Africa, it's Easter weekend, some more days off, and you might have a sliver of extra time, but maybe not with all the AI and stuff, taking our jobs and our work.
6:36 Speaker 00 Take the time, sit down and write about what your best life could look like. Not the life that you are defaulting it into by food industry or AI, but the one that you intentionally choose to create. Alright, so write about that life. And now we are transitioning into the toolkit that will help you to create more of that life that you actually want to live, not the one that the world around you wants you to default into, buying more, eating more, increasing your to-do list as AI's capability to help you with that increase.
7:21 Speaker 00 With my clients, I do this exercise and the worksheet for this exercise is going to be attached or linked in the show notes. We do this exercise that I call time budgeting. When we write down the top of the page and it's going to be in the worksheet, 168 hours that all of you, all of us get weekly to spend on everything, everything that matters to us. We include sleep there, our health and fitness pursuits, our food, our family, our relationships, our work, all of the hobbies, all of the things that you want to develop in yourself or want to create in the world. 168 hours a week, that is your budget.
8:06 Speaker 00 It's not expendable, not returnable, not somehow savable. This is what you get every week. Everyone gets it and you get to decide, you get to choose what you're going to invest it into. So it's a very good grounding exercise to realize, hey, that is the budget. And unless I invest that and put some into things that matter to me, those things will not happen naturally just because they are in your head. There is no action, there is no creation. That is how it works, works in the real world we are living in.
8:44 Speaker 00 And if you have troubles figuring out like, what are the areas I wanna invest the time into? What do I wanna develop in myself? What I need to prioritize in my life? Then the next step might also be helpful. I call it the focus filter or your leverage in life to create the life you wanna live. Focus filter. It's the intersection of clearly defined why, values and the vision for your life.
9:21 Speaker 00 Why? It's your personal purpose. What I want your life to be about? Good question to ask yourself to figure out your why and your purpose. So start exploring, getting closer to that, which then will help you to figure out what it is that you wanna invest the time that you do. That you think about in time budgeting into, right? So figure out first why, values and vision. Why? What I want my life to be about? If I were to look back at the end of my life, onto my lived life, from that point at the end of my life, what would a good life look like?
10:03 Speaker 00 If I'm, let's say I'm one hundred years old right now and I'm looking back onto my life.
10:10 Speaker 00 If I were to say I lived a good life, what that life would look like? It's also really good writing journaling exercise. So that will help you to figure out what your life is is all about. What's your why?
10:26 Speaker 00 Values, that is the second circle in this Venn diagram that creates focus filter that then will help you to understand what you wanna invest your time into work wise and life wise and personal development wise. Your values, how do you figure out what your values are? What you can ask yourself, what is, what I want to stand for in this life? What I wanna create more of? What kind of values by living my life, the way I wanna live it?
11:01 Speaker 00 Who do I admire? What kind of people? And what qualities do people represent? That is a great window into what values you might also stand for. What makes me want to stand up and fight for it? Because I believe it's important in life and people. Right? So those are your questions. Journaling about that will help you to figure out your values. Those important things that you sort of boundaries or guides that will help you to shape your life and will help you to tell you what you want to invest your time more into. Your vision.
11:45 Speaker 00 What's the vision of my ideal life? Of my ideal self? What are my non-negotiables? Again, at the end of my life, I'm standing there and I'm looking back on to living a good life. What? What are those non-negotiables that I absolutely had to develop and invest into? Or at least make an honest attempt to develop and grow? So I, standing there at the end of my life, looking back on to my life, could say, I lived a good life. Maybe I haven't achieved everything. You know, it's not everything is up to you. But I invested everything that I had.
12:28 Speaker 00 Your time specifically, the one that you defined in the time budgeting exercise. How? How? What would make me feel proud about how I invested my time? The thing is, nothing in life is guaranteed. All of us have their circumstances, our circumstances and our chances and opportunities that come to us or don't come to us. But that is not the question. How do I get more opportunities? The question is, what are you going to do with the opportunities? And the chances and the resources that you have? And that is the most important thing. What you're going to do with what you have?
13:09 Speaker 00 Not what you could be doing in some potential future if you got all the opportunities. That is a not very useful question, but a useful question can be.
13:23 Speaker 00 What do I have? Resources, talents, all kinds of circumstances that I'm in? And how can I invest all of that into something I truly care about? Something that represents vision of my life, my values, my why, my purpose, right? And then you get back to your time budgeting and start every week investing that 168 hours you get into things that you wanna stand for, that contribute to the ideal version of your life and ideal version of you. That's it for today, guys. Don't forget to share this podcast episode or perhaps bring it to some group gathering
14:08 Speaker 00 of like-minded people to journal and discuss, perhaps even to your coaching session to reflect on that together with someone, maybe a family member, a friend. And before you jump off, let's again recap or let's come back to this idea that more is the default for human brain. And naturally, you're not gonna get the health and wealth and fitness and relationships that you want. You kinda have to be very intentional about investing your time and energy and resources into what you want. And AI will not magically solve it and give you more time and all the resources you need.
14:53 Speaker 00 If anything, it's gonna make your life even more, even busier, complex with more to-do list and more chances to burn out and overdo it, doubling down on things that don't actually matter to you. So don't wait for the world to change to help you live your best life, but instead, just like always, figure out your why, your values, your vision, what you wanna stand for, and then take those 168 hours and invest them with intention and wisely. Thank you, guys, for tuning in. Thank you for listening. Have an amazing rest of the day.
15:33 Speaker 00 And till next time, keep thinking and keep growing and keep investing those hours in the things that matter to you.
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