Julie Jones Shares How To Get More Shit Done In Less Time!

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Imagine getting up every day full of energy is

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if you were in your 20s. Again, what would that be? Like? What

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would that be worth to you? What is your health worth to you?

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it, everything else is nothing. And yet too many of us are

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health for today and all your tomorrow's don't wait for your

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wakeup call.

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Welcome back to the don't wait for your wake up call podcast. I

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am Melissa dealey your host and super excited to bring you yet

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another amazing guest today. Julie Jones of The Adventures of

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Julie Jones. Welcome, Julie.

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Oh my gosh, I am so excited to be here. Thank you so

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much, Melissa, for having me here today.

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It is my pleasure. And you're such a

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perfect person to have on the show during the month of January

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when you know everybody is thinking about what their goals

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are for the year, how they're going to get it all done. And

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you know, trying to set priorities, et cetera, and time

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management. What is that? Right? So I just want to introduce you

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to the audience. And then we're going to dive right in with your

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story. But Julie Jones is an award winning international

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speaker, International Best Selling Author and intuitive

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coach of the get shit done platform, and a master connector

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of people who is passionate about supporting purpose driven

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entrepreneurs to live the best their best life now without

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regrets. And as a former police officer and SWAT member, Julie

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knows that there is no promise of tomorrow. And coaches

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individuals to face the fear and live in the moment, which I

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absolutely love. So that's just a tiny, tiny little introduction

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of who you are Julie and your journey and how you came to

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being this amazing person today. I love the name of your program,

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they get shit done program, please just introduce yourself

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to the audience. How you came to be where you're at today.

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Oh my gosh, well, how much time do we have? Melissa?

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Be a long time. So, you know, like, like everybody, you know,

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you have these these dreams and aspirations. Right. And I have

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to say, growing up, I was strong in the math and science field.

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And so I thought I was gonna go into some type of medical field.

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And about the ninth hour when I was deciding on college and what

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I wanted to major in, I decided on criminal justice. So I have a

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Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice and a minor in

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psychology. Now knowing what I know about people while I should

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have done a major key, right. And so I went ahead and

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initially, I have to say I wanted to be secret service or

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FBI. And I found out what secret service you have to have almost

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perfect vision uncorrected. And I didn't. And so I'm like, Okay,

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what am I going to do, and I really wanted to be on patrol.

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And you know, as I look back, and I'll share a few things, but

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from early on, it's always been about serving people like really

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wanting to help and serve people. So I thought I could do

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that with law enforcement. And I loved my career. I really did. I

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mean, I was a police officer for 10 years. SWAT team member for a

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somewhere between two and three years that I was a SWAT team

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member. I haven't been a police officer for 21 years. So it's

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like, it's kind of hard sometimes to remember, that was

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part of my journey. And it was an exciting part of my journey

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because it gave me so many skill sets that I applied today. And

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then from that point, I'm just gonna, you know, like run down

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the spectrum of everything that I've done, because I'm very

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passionate about health like you. So I've been a chiropractic

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assistant taught some lifestyle, you know, classes, that kind of

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thing. I've been a property manager. I've been a makeup

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artist, you know, but deep down in my heart again, always

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serving people but what I love best is I love being an

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entrepreneur. So in the last 15 years in some capacity, I've

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always been speaking and coaching individuals and back

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during the pandemic, I said enough is enough and decided to

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full bore launch My speaking coaching business and so I

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started in November of 2020. formed my LLC, I had been

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branded as the adventures of Julie Jones for a long, long

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time, but opened up my LLC and then started to get shit done

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coaching platform, which I just love, I just love what I do. I'm

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so passionate about helping people to live their best life.

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Because as a police officer, I just saw how quickly life can

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change, you know, here today gone tomorrow, and everybody

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thinks they have forever, I'm here to tell you, they don't.

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But there's so much that you can do in order to

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extend what you have to write. Absolutely living your best life

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now is so important. You don't want to put everything off for

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the future and then find out there isn't that future. So it

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is finding that balance and making the most of every day.

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Right?

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Absolutely. Because when you wake up in the morning,

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and I do gratitudes in the morning, so when I wake up and

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you know, almost every single day is some form of I'm grateful

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to be alive, I'm grateful to have woken up, I'm grateful to

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see the sunrise, right. Because of course, this is a podcast and

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you don't visually see, but I'm six feet tall. So I always say

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that I'm grateful to be you know, six feet above ground. You

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know, kind of thing. So, and you know, we can joke around about

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it. However, again, it's one of those things where I just look

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at and I say, oh my gosh, you know, if if today is all I have?

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How am I gonna make the best of it. And you know, like, even

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when you walk out to your car and you find you have a flat

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tire, is it like a bad day or a bad moment, right? And it's

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always, like, I look at it as a bad moment. Because if you turn

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it as a bad day, every other bad thing is going to come your way,

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like you will just attract all this negativity that you weren't

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planning on because you just deem that, oh my gosh, I'm

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having a bad day. And I'm not a Pollyanna by any, you know,

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means like, my life is not full of sunshine, rainbows and

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unicorns. So, you know, sometimes I'm, you know, you

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look at something like that. And it's like, oh, okay, well, you

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know, to you know, it's a bad, you know, it's a bad day. Well,

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it's a bad moment, usually.

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Yeah, I really, I really like that attitude.

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Because you're absolutely right, you know, where you lay your

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focus, you attract more of. So if you've just got it's a bad

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day, it's a bad day, it's about day running through your head,

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of course, you're going to get more of that bad day. But if you

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accept, okay, I've got a flat tire it sucks is gonna make me

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late, I got to deal with it. But it's a bad moment. So you can

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deal with it and move beyond it. And the rest of the day doesn't

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have to be ruined,

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right? Because maybe, just maybe, and again, this is

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probably that Pollyanna thinking, but it's really not.

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Maybe having that flat tire prevented you from being in that

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spot where there was a massive accident that just happened. And

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so you could have been there instead, the flat tire prevented

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you from being you know, at that moment. So

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there's 100%. And you might think that, you

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know, say it's that Pollyanna moment, and some people don't

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buy into it. But it's so true. I am a big believer that

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everything happens for a reason. And we don't always understand

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it in the moment. But often with that 2020 hindsight, we do and

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is a flat tire really big enough to be you know, researching

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that, but it's it's so interesting, because, you know,

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my journey to coming here was through my daughter's

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concussions. And I remember the day my oldest daughter got her

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concussion that that happened right in the second half of the

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game at the beginning of the second half, like five minutes

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in. We weren't even meant to be there for that second half, I

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was meant to be taking her out of the game and going to

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Vancouver. But she didn't want to leave. And so we stayed and

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then we have the concussion. And so there was that part of me

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that was like, only I'd left if only I'd made her leave, we

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wouldn't have had that. And I had a neighbor say to me stop

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thinking that because you could have driven down the highway and

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got in an accident. And she could have still had a

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concussion. Right? Right. So you know, there is a piece of that.

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And so if you just accept the moment for what it is deal with

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it and then let it go. That allows us to, you know,

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obviously release the bad day, but also release the stress that

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we carry with us through these moments, right, and the

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overwhelm, and the frustration, etc, etc. And it ties in

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beautifully to, you know, this whole conversation that I want

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to be having with the audience in January, and this theme of

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slowing down and we get more done. When we slow down, right?

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Because we can get ourselves out of that stress state. So I know

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that one of the areas that you specialize in and there's many,

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but one of them is, you know about getting things done, get

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shit done. Right? And you've got some tips for the audience on

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how people can do that more effectively.

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Well, yes, I do. And actually, one of the things that

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as you were, you were talking that come to mind, is this whole

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idea of like, you know, when you're reducing your stress

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levels, is the idea of like a morning routine. And I know

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you're a big proponent of a morning routine, right? Because

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we, we've talked about this before. And it really does set

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the day for, you know, this idea of slowing down, right. Because

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if you jump out of bed, and you start running like a chicken

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with your head cut off, like your whole day is like that

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hectic, frantic, you know, issues are coming up. Like you

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just feel like you're always behind the eight ball that

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you're not getting anything done.

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You can earth the day and reactionary mode.

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Right,

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right. And so but like, even if it's just a simple 15

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minutes that you take for yourself first thing in the

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morning, to really set the pace of how your day is going to be.

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Because like, here's one of my tips that kind of goes along

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with this idea of slowing down. Is Believe it or not people we

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are not designed to be multitaskers Whoa, tip number

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one multitasking, right? Because here's the the truth about it.

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And sometimes it's even been like a badge of honor. You know,

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like, especially for women, oh, my gosh, I got so much done. And

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I was doing this and doing that and multitasking all day long,

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right? The brain can only focus in on one thing. So as much as

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you think that you're getting done, you're really not. It's in

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the slowing down that you find that you're more productive.

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See, we can be Whoo, busy as I call it, I love Ooh, busy,

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right? We're we're busy doing this and doing that. And we're

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running around all over the place. And again, we get to the

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end of our day, and we look back and we think oh my God, what did

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I really get done. And so productive time productive

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moments, is so much more important. So really taking that

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time to be focused in on one thing. And that's going to be

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like leading into my tip. So a lot of times we have this idea

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when we if we do calendar blocking. I know I know, not

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everybody does it. That's like a whole separate topic that we

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could talk about for hours. But if you are doing calendar

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blocking, a lot of times people will set two, three hours aside

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for, you know, some kind of like task or project or during these

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next three hours, this is what I'm going to get done. And we

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find that we have a million distractions that come at us.

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And then all of a sudden, you got nothing done during those

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three hours, right? So if you really just set a timer, or you

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know, some and don't use a timer on your phone, because your

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phone is one of your biggest distractions. I'm just here to

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tell you very good point. Yes, yes. So because we can get lost

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in all those apps and social media and like scrolling

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through, and then all of a sudden it's like, well, how did

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five hours pass?

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Okay, because, and all of which are

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deliberately designed to addict you and keep you on them?

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Yes, yes, it's an addiction of people. So yeah,

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because just as a side note, I just recently discovered that

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one of the new addictions that are out there, we think of

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alcohol, we think of drugs, we think of all this stuff, it's

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social media, that's a new, that's a new addiction that is

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out there that they are now having to address is, you know,

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being so tied to our technology and our phone. Anyway, I

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digress. So the the the 15 minute increments. So what that

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looks like is that you eliminate all distractions, you you know,

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shut off your phone, put it on, do not disturb. If your computer

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dings at you, make sure it's not dinging at you or be in a place

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where your computer is not going to distract you. And the

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subconscious is so unique and like when it knows you're going

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to get serious about something, all of a sudden you feel like

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it's time to clean the refrigerator. I don't know why

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but you do. And so then or like you have to go to the bathroom,

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all of a sudden you're extremely thirsty. Okay, whatever it

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takes, just eliminate the distractions and all I'm saying

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is do 15 minutes. Ideally, if you can do it first thing in the

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morning because that's when a lot of people are most

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productive. And put your head down and work for 15 minutes.

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When the timer goes off. I want you to celebrate like I'm

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serious, like do a little dance, celebrate Whatever it looks like

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and don't cooperate To find or qualify what you got done, you

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showed up for yourself, you took action. And if that's all you

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get done, but you worked on, like, for 15 minutes, whatever

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it was it, maybe you normally set two or three hours for you

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do this five, six days a week, you're so much further ahead and

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setting up those huge chunks of time. Trust me, it works.

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Well, I love that. And, you know, it sounds I'm listening to

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you talk and I did my workout this morning. And it actually

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sounds really similar to you know, I did it at home, I got

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the mirror, the Lululemon mirror, which is very cool at

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Christmas time, my daughter's work there. And the trainer is

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saying, you know, you showed up for yourself, whatever you do

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here, you're winner, because you're here and you've done

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this, right. And so I love the idea of not quantifying it. Just

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give yourself that 15 minutes and focus and get it done. And

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over the course of time, you will find you're just getting so

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much more done, than if you allow all of those intrusions on

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your time. And then that creates more time in your day for other

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things. And one of those might be self care, because so often I

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hear people go, I don't have time to exercise. But guess

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what, what if we were able to focus on getting those, you

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know, three tasks that we need to get done during the day done

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at work first thing in the morning, and it's taking us 15

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minutes, as opposed to three hours, we've just bought all of

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this extra time in our day.

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Right? Because here's the thing, like when when you're

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so focused in, you're focused in your being Uber productive. See,

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because when you are working on a task, and let's say you've

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been in it in it for five minutes, and then you allow like

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that text message that you look at, or you look at that email

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that just flashed across your computer right? Now you just got

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distracted, you may or may not look at that. But even if you

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don't respond to it, the brain has gone off in that direction

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and starts this whole like spin cycle of thinking about what

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what was that about? What do I do, I need to do that right now.

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And yada yada yada, and it takes you a good 10 minutes to refocus

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back in on what your you know, your original priority was. And

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so think about how much you do that during the day. You know,

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we are we are constantly distracted, you know, with a

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million different things at any given time. And so if the brain

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has to continue to refocus, that's why it's such a

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challenge. And you find like, sometimes you just don't get as

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much done, because you didn't set up that you know that that

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increment of time. And people don't think that 15 minutes as

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possible, I do the 15 minutes, because it's a it's a short

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time, but you really can be productive. And again, like if

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after the first 15 minutes, like you're ready to set up another

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15 minutes and set up another 15 minutes and maybe do an hour's

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worth of increments, you know, for 15 minutes, whatever works

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for you. It's you know, it's it's figuring it out, but then

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being consistent with it. because consistency is the key

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in order to then to make it a new habit. Because 95% of all we

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operate our habits. And so like if you don't like a habit, you

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think it's a bad habit, and you want to incorporate something

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else. Well now you've got to still spend that amount of time

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to you know, to implement a new habit.

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Exactly, and then implementing that new habit

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anytime we want to get rid of a bad habit, we have to replace it

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with a good habit. Right. And that's where habit stacking

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comes in and triggers that remind us of the new habit. So

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is that an area that you work on as well?

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While I work on a lot and you know, it's it's about

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productivity, because if we want to live our best life now, you

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know, we really need to know how to maximize our time without

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losing our sanity. And you know, like a lot of times people talk

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about this whole like work life balance well, again, hate to be

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you know, like the party crasher. Our there is no such

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thing as a balanced I like to call it like balance, sometimes

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counterbalance because sometimes we're going to be really focused

Unknown: 00:20:02

in on work. And then you know, and then we still want to have a

Unknown: 00:20:06

life, right? Well, the key around that is like boundaries.

Unknown: 00:20:11

So like, what are your working hours going to be our, you know,

Unknown: 00:20:14

our, like Saturdays, Sundays, non negotiables? Like maybe

Unknown: 00:20:17

you'll work Saturday don't want to work Sunday, what does it

Unknown: 00:20:20

what does it look like, but really sticking with your your

Unknown: 00:20:24

boundaries and you know your commitments around those kinds

Unknown: 00:20:27

of things. And again, that focus comes into play when you're when

Unknown: 00:20:30

you're with your family, be with your family, or whatever you're

Unknown: 00:20:34

doing at that moment, give it 100% Put away the technology,

Unknown: 00:20:38

you know, don't be like you know, because it's not fair to

Unknown: 00:20:41

the other, the other person if you're with them, but you're

Unknown: 00:20:46

really not, because you're focusing on what's happening on

Unknown: 00:20:49

your phone and your work and everything else. Work, work,

Unknown: 00:20:53

family, or personal life or self care. It's, you know, you're in

Unknown: 00:20:58

that moment, as well. And then everything goes hand in hand.

Unknown: 00:21:03

And I believe how you do one thing is how you do everything.

Unknown: 00:21:06

So that's where, you know, I do coaching around life and

Unknown: 00:21:09

business and blowing up the box, like, let's like, like, not even

Unknown: 00:21:13

think about the box, like, let's just blow up the box and get

Unknown: 00:21:16

right

Melissa Deally: 00:21:17

outside. Right. That's, I love that. And it's

Melissa Deally: 00:21:21

definitely something that I practice and I'm more productive

Melissa Deally: 00:21:24

in the morning. And what I find that, you know, I need to do is

Melissa Deally: 00:21:29

I really do shut off all those notifications. And if I can, and

Melissa Deally: 00:21:35

I'm not working in email, I just close it. Because then I'm not

Melissa Deally: 00:21:41

getting those notifications. And you're right, if they're, if

Melissa Deally: 00:21:44

it's open, it does pull you just that little bit, even if you

Melissa Deally: 00:21:47

don't act on replying to that email, the brain is alerted to

Melissa Deally: 00:21:52

something else, and it pulls you out of that zone of focus. And

Melissa Deally: 00:21:56

so I love how productive I can be when I set myself up to not

Melissa Deally: 00:22:02

have any notifications come in. And then yeah, the celebration

Melissa Deally: 00:22:06

at the end of that is important to right. It's we have to, as

Melissa Deally: 00:22:12

part of creating the habit take that time to celebrate,

Unknown: 00:22:16

right, because as human beings, we have a tendency to go

Unknown: 00:22:21

to, if you want to say the negative. I really heard this

Unknown: 00:22:24

very interesting. Presentation not too long ago by a friend of

Unknown: 00:22:29

mine, who's a hypnotherapist, and she talks about the

Unknown: 00:22:31

subconscious. And you know, we're talking to ourselves and

Unknown: 00:22:34

giving ourselves like messages all day long, right? And she

Unknown: 00:22:38

said that for most people. Now I say most because like I know,

Unknown: 00:22:43

I've worked on this and have that positive attitude. But for

Unknown: 00:22:47

most people in the subconscious 70% of the messages that we're

Unknown: 00:22:51

telling ourselves are negative. And so that is I like I thought

Unknown: 00:22:57

about that. And I was like, wow, you know, so no wonder sometimes

Unknown: 00:23:01

it's like, oh, my gosh, I didn't, you know, I didn't get

Unknown: 00:23:04

anything done. Because we look at we go to the negative, we

Unknown: 00:23:09

look at what didn't get done, instead of celebrating what did.

Unknown: 00:23:14

Because I've been and I know you're doing this in the month

Unknown: 00:23:18

of January. And we I've been really talking to people about

Unknown: 00:23:24

doing their urine review. And you know, and I, you know, of

Unknown: 00:23:27

course, what I what I what I preach, I'm practicing and like

Unknown: 00:23:31

I started going through, you know, my 2021 and seeing

Unknown: 00:23:34

everything and I have a huge list of things that I have

Unknown: 00:23:38

accomplished and that I was able to do in 2021. And I think that

Unknown: 00:23:41

that's really key, again, to celebrate and look at what we

Unknown: 00:23:46

did get done, because sometimes we're so quick to be like, okay,

Unknown: 00:23:50

yeah, that's done, you know, Next, Next Next, instead of just

Unknown: 00:23:56

being, I always say we're human beings, not human doings. I

Melissa Deally: 00:24:00

love that. I absolutely love that. And you're

Melissa Deally: 00:24:04

so right, you know, we finish something and move on to the

Melissa Deally: 00:24:06

next but then, you know, maybe we haven't reached that big

Melissa Deally: 00:24:10

lofty goal. And then we beat ourselves up because we didn't

Melissa Deally: 00:24:13

achieve that without taking the time to recognize everything

Melissa Deally: 00:24:17

that we did do along the way. Right. So that was talking about

Melissa Deally: 00:24:23

the your year in review, which I love the idea of doing that. But

Melissa Deally: 00:24:28

I know you're also a proponent of success lists.

Unknown: 00:24:32

Yeah.

Melissa Deally: 00:24:35

Let's talk about success lists.

Unknown: 00:24:38

Well, this is this will probably be the topic that like

Unknown: 00:24:40

throws everybody off and they're like, What the heck is that?

Unknown: 00:24:44

Julie Jones talking about? Right? So we've all heard about

Unknown: 00:24:47

the to do list. Okay. And so, let me just tell you what a to

Unknown: 00:24:51

do list is it's, you know, it's a scattery category. Okay,

Unknown: 00:24:56

that's what I'm going to talk about. So What it looks like is

Unknown: 00:25:02

that on a to do list goes everything. Like everything that

Unknown: 00:25:07

pops into your brain, there's no priority behind it. The list is

Unknown: 00:25:11

usually like, you know, 500 things long, because it's all

Unknown: 00:25:15

these things that just popped into the brain. So the

Unknown: 00:25:18

difference between that and a success list is really taking a

Unknown: 00:25:22

look at kind of like, what is it that most people have an

Unknown: 00:25:26

overriding target overriding goal, if you want to say, of

Unknown: 00:25:32

what they want to accomplish in any given year, or maybe in the

Unknown: 00:25:35

next quarter. Sometimes for people, that's another thing

Unknown: 00:25:39

like shortening up how we look at stuff, SAP looking at the

Unknown: 00:25:43

whole year, and maybe just break it down into quarters, like 12

Unknown: 00:25:46

weeks. Okay, what is it that I really want to get done in the

Unknown: 00:25:48

next 12 weeks? And so what the success list, you're going to

Unknown: 00:25:53

put things on the success lists that are going to bring you

Unknown: 00:25:56

closer towards that. And so like every time you're doing

Unknown: 00:26:00

something, it's important to ask yourself, is this taking me

Unknown: 00:26:04

towards what I'm working for? Or is it taking me away from what

Unknown: 00:26:09

I'm working towards? And so the success list is very short. It's

Unknown: 00:26:14

a priority list of like, this is taking me closer to what I'm

Unknown: 00:26:20

looking to achieve. And again, I know for a lot of people, it's

Unknown: 00:26:25

hard to get away from the to do list and there are so many

Unknown: 00:26:28

people who I tell this to and they love making the lists and

Unknown: 00:26:32

they love making the checkoff, right. It's it's a visual type

Unknown: 00:26:36

of thing, because so many people will add stuff to their to do

Unknown: 00:26:40

list and then be able to check it off because it was something

Unknown: 00:26:43

that they got done, right? Like no, no, no, no, no. So I get it.

Unknown: 00:26:47

So like I tell people take a very small post it note not like

Unknown: 00:26:50

not something huge, take a small post it note if that's going to

Unknown: 00:26:53

help you and write down like three or four things for your to

Unknown: 00:26:57

do list. Or put them if you do electronic calendaring, you

Unknown: 00:27:01

know, put them on like, you know, maybe you've got an hour

Unknown: 00:27:04

blocked off that you're going to do to do things, put it in

Unknown: 00:27:07

there. Because then and then crumble it up, especially a post

Unknown: 00:27:10

it note, throw it away. Because basically, when you look at that

Unknown: 00:27:15

to do list to me, when you see all the things, again, that you

Unknown: 00:27:19

didn't get done, it chips away at your self esteem. And again,

Unknown: 00:27:23

it's so easy for the brain to go to oh my gosh, look at what I

Unknown: 00:27:27

didn't get done, versus what I did get done success list. But

Unknown: 00:27:32

no, you're being successful, because you're working on that

Unknown: 00:27:35

priority activity, that's going to be result producing, that's

Unknown: 00:27:39

really what it is, what do you want to you know, accomplish?

Unknown: 00:27:44

With, you know, your success list?

Melissa Deally: 00:27:47

So I have a question for you there. Can you

Melissa Deally: 00:27:50

have a to do list and a success list, because the to do list is

Melissa Deally: 00:27:54

kind of the things that you're just writing down because you

Melissa Deally: 00:27:56

don't want to forget to do them. Right, they're gonna get done at

Melissa Deally: 00:27:59

some point. And the success list are the things that that's

Melissa Deally: 00:28:03

what's moving you forward, that's what you need to focus

Melissa Deally: 00:28:05

on. And potentially, those are the things that you're doing in

Melissa Deally: 00:28:09

15 minute increments of Uber focus,

Unknown: 00:28:13

right? Does that say Use caution, like, cuz like I

Unknown: 00:28:17

hear and I see where you're going, you know, with that. It's

Unknown: 00:28:21

just that you're like you don't want to mix up. So let's just

Unknown: 00:28:25

say that the to do list could be chores, errands and things you

Unknown: 00:28:30

don't want to forget, that are not like maybe such a big

Unknown: 00:28:33

priority. So like your success list is what is my priority. The

Unknown: 00:28:38

To Do List is I got to pick up dog food, dry cleaning, you

Unknown: 00:28:41

know, those kinds of right like tasking things that may not be

Unknown: 00:28:45

necessarily driving you towards? What are some of the things that

Unknown: 00:28:50

you're looking to achieve? And you know, we'll just say 2022,

Unknown: 00:28:54

right? Because it's, again, like to do lists usually combine the

Unknown: 00:29:00

two, like, you've got some priority things, you've got some

Unknown: 00:29:04

non priority things. And then because you're staring at that,

Unknown: 00:29:08

chances are that you're going to be going through that list and

Unknown: 00:29:12

be focused possibly on the non priority because they're easy to

Unknown: 00:29:17

do. It's, you know, again, because you have to be self

Unknown: 00:29:20

disciplined to be working on those things that are on your

Unknown: 00:29:24

success list. Right.

Melissa Deally: 00:29:27

So it's interesting, because part of

Melissa Deally: 00:29:30

that is also the habit change, right? Because I have a notebook

Melissa Deally: 00:29:33

where I just write everything down to your point. But then I

Melissa Deally: 00:29:37

will go through and be like, Okay, what are the three things

Melissa Deally: 00:29:40

I have to get done today? And so that's my success list.

Unknown: 00:29:45

Yes. Are the three things I get to do? I get

Melissa Deally: 00:29:49

to do I got to the three things I get to do

Melissa Deally: 00:29:52

today, right because and I have my sticky notes here. So see my

Melissa Deally: 00:29:57

sticky notes and have them right here. and celebrate the faith

Melissa Deally: 00:30:02

three things I get to do today.

Unknown: 00:30:04

And really, and that is that, you know, people are like,

Unknown: 00:30:07

Oh my gosh, what do you mean? Celebrate? I'm like, I'm

Unknown: 00:30:09

serious. And celebrate doesn't mean like you're throwing a big

Unknown: 00:30:12

party, I'm like, just celebrate, and what is it then that you

Unknown: 00:30:15

like to do? So then take 15 minutes as you wrap up the end

Unknown: 00:30:19

of your day on something that really fuels your fire for the

Unknown: 00:30:23

next day? You know, like, I mean, we're all so a lot of us

Unknown: 00:30:27

are, you know, reward driven. And it should be more pleasure

Unknown: 00:30:31

than pain, you know, kind of things. So, I think that that's

Unknown: 00:30:34

really important and key to, you know, to take a look at.

Melissa Deally: 00:30:39

Definitely, and I know, I am personally, one who

Melissa Deally: 00:30:43

is learning to celebrate the things along the way and

Melissa Deally: 00:30:48

recognize that journey, as opposed to just keep pushing,

Melissa Deally: 00:30:52

keep pushing, keep pushing. So we were talking about

Melissa Deally: 00:30:56

boundaries. Earlier, we've been talking about the to the success

Melissa Deally: 00:31:01

list, somewhere in there is setting priorities. Do you have

Melissa Deally: 00:31:07

suggestions on how people can set the priority to get that

Melissa Deally: 00:31:12

success was done to have their focus time and work within

Melissa Deally: 00:31:15

boundaries? How do we pull it all together?

Unknown: 00:31:18

Well, it's a lot, and then this isn't going to happen

Unknown: 00:31:20

overnight. So for people who are listening, again, my suggestion

Unknown: 00:31:26

is to take one thing that really resonates with you, and

Unknown: 00:31:29

implement it, some people say, you know, there's books on 21,

Unknown: 00:31:34

you know, 21 days, 30 days to a new habit. Average is 66 days.

Unknown: 00:31:40

And I really believe that's why I like the 12 weeks the

Unknown: 00:31:43

quarterly, because I really believe it's about 90 days to

Unknown: 00:31:46

implement something new. So take one thing and decide what it is.

Unknown: 00:31:50

And so when it comes to priorities, again, that goes to

Unknown: 00:31:53

the idea of the success list, what is taking you towards what

Unknown: 00:31:58

you're working towards, you know, for, versus what you know,

Unknown: 00:32:02

what is going to D track you from, you know, what it is that

Unknown: 00:32:06

your end result, called, like life goals, dreams, designing

Unknown: 00:32:10

the life that you know, you desire. And when it comes to

Unknown: 00:32:14

priorities, this is always something that I say, and you

Unknown: 00:32:17

kind of alluded to it before self care is not selfish. So you

Unknown: 00:32:22

really want to take a look at your life. And for everybody

Unknown: 00:32:26

this is, you know, unique and individual put into your

Unknown: 00:32:30

calendar, what are your non negotiables? Like, you know, you

Unknown: 00:32:33

don't work Sundays, you go to church on Sundays, you know,

Unknown: 00:32:36

what is it that for some people it's working out, you know, that

Unknown: 00:32:41

those kinds of things go in, because you know, that if you're

Unknown: 00:32:45

not working out, or you know, your whatever, like, you're

Unknown: 00:32:48

going to be a basket case, and you're going to be angry all

Unknown: 00:32:51

day, whatever it is. And then whether you do paper, that stuff

Unknown: 00:32:56

goes in and pattern. Like there, there is no changing and it's an

Unknown: 00:33:00

appointment with yourself. If it's in your calendar, there's

Unknown: 00:33:03

no like negotiating. Well, I'll, you know, take this out, because

Unknown: 00:33:06

here's what happens, you take it out once, and all of a sudden,

Unknown: 00:33:09

before you know it, it's like two weeks. And gosh, I haven't

Unknown: 00:33:12

been to the gym in two weeks. Right? It's a it's a priority

Unknown: 00:33:16

for you. And like the biggest way that I look at priorities,

Unknown: 00:33:20

and how I'm going to do things, is the order of importance, you

Unknown: 00:33:25

know, for what's taking me towards my big picture, my big

Unknown: 00:33:29

picture dreams, you know, for for 2022. So, again, best

Unknown: 00:33:35

question to ask yourself, I love this question, taking me towards

Unknown: 00:33:38

taking me away, you know, it's it is that will help you a lot

Unknown: 00:33:42

of times to decide, is this a priority at this moment or not?

Unknown: 00:33:46

And priorities can change in the given moment. You know, but

Unknown: 00:33:50

again, here's another tip, somebody else's, you know,

Unknown: 00:33:53

emergency is not your crisis. So like, there is no point in

Unknown: 00:33:58

dropping everything, you know, for somebody else, you know,

Unknown: 00:34:02

it's like, really, again, just take a look at can this be

Unknown: 00:34:06

addressed? At a later point, of course, we're all going to have

Unknown: 00:34:09

things that happened, like when your daughter got the

Unknown: 00:34:11

concussion? Well, that took priority over everything else

Unknown: 00:34:15

that was happening. But for sometimes we just have to look

Unknown: 00:34:18

at it like, well, you know, you didn't, you know, plan or

Unknown: 00:34:21

prepare, you know, like somebody else, that doesn't mean that I

Unknown: 00:34:24

have to drop everything to you know, help or support you.

Melissa Deally: 00:34:29

Exactly. So when one of my daughter's suddenly

Melissa Deally: 00:34:32

decides that, oh, can I drive them somewhere right now?

Melissa Deally: 00:34:35

Because that's when that's their emergency. It's not my crisis,

Melissa Deally: 00:34:41

right?

Unknown: 00:34:42

Absolutely. Absolutely.

Melissa Deally: 00:34:44

That's what I'm trying to teach them if they

Melissa Deally: 00:34:46

want me to drive them anywhere I need 24 hours advance notice.

Melissa Deally: 00:34:50

And it has to fit in my schedule that I've already prioritized,

Melissa Deally: 00:34:54

right? Right. So yeah. So coming back to weight. Well, first of

Melissa Deally: 00:34:59

all, I was there I totally agree with, you know, all that you've

Melissa Deally: 00:35:02

said, I love it and that self care is not selfish. And I just

Melissa Deally: 00:35:06

want to highlight that when you're creating that success

Melissa Deally: 00:35:10

list to build that self care in, that's not something for later,

Melissa Deally: 00:35:15

you can only be your best self, if you're first looking after

Melissa Deally: 00:35:20

yourself. Right? Right. listeners that have been

Melissa Deally: 00:35:24

listening to the podcast for a while will have heard my one of

Melissa Deally: 00:35:27

my favorite quotes, which is that self care is the most

Melissa Deally: 00:35:29

selfless act because it allows you to show up and give the

Melissa Deally: 00:35:32

world the best of you instead of what's left of you. So that's on

Melissa Deally: 00:35:36

my success list. And I really think that should be on

Melissa Deally: 00:35:38

everybody's success list in some way, shape, or form, because it

Melissa Deally: 00:35:41

is very individual. And once you've looked after you, then

Melissa Deally: 00:35:46

what else is on your success list for the rest of that day.

Melissa Deally: 00:35:51

But I just want to loop back to what you had talked about

Melissa Deally: 00:35:54

earlier. And that was the morning routine. And I know that

Melissa Deally: 00:35:59

we've been working together and you let me know today that

Melissa Deally: 00:36:03

you've got your morning routine in place, which is awesome. So I

Melissa Deally: 00:36:08

would love for you to share what that is, if you would like to

Melissa Deally: 00:36:12

and then how that's been benefiting you over the last

Melissa Deally: 00:36:15

month or so.

Unknown: 00:36:18

Yeah, so thank you, because it's, um, if anybody has

Unknown: 00:36:21

ever read the book, The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod, and I have

Unknown: 00:36:25

taken, you know, taking a guess a page out of his book to

Unknown: 00:36:29

establish my morning routine. So right now my morning routine is,

Unknown: 00:36:35

you know, getting up and one of the first things I always have

Unknown: 00:36:39

to do, which is not part of my morning routine is feed my dogs,

Unknown: 00:36:41

because if I don't see myself away, they're like, what, what

Unknown: 00:36:45

you're up and you know, it's like five minutes in and we

Unknown: 00:36:48

haven't eaten yet, right? But I'm serious. No. So it looks

Unknown: 00:36:53

like I'm in the process of reading the book to think

Unknown: 00:36:56

thinking grow rich. And so there's like a desired

Unknown: 00:37:00

statement. So it's basically my desired plan, what I'm working

Unknown: 00:37:04

on this year, so I read that out loud, you know, it's almost like

Unknown: 00:37:07

an affirmation that I'm reading out loud, and that I'm doing

Unknown: 00:37:11

that I do a little bit of reading, either thinking grow

Unknown: 00:37:14

rich, I'm also in the process of some other things. And I do the

Unknown: 00:37:19

reading, the big thing for me is some journaling. So I do my list

Unknown: 00:37:24

of gratitudes, I have a list of like 10 gratitudes, that I do

Unknown: 00:37:28

every morning, as well as a little visualization around

Unknown: 00:37:33

that. I also have another journal that has these

Unknown: 00:37:38

questions. And so like, I just randomly open it to a page and I

Unknown: 00:37:43

journal and I answer, you know, I answer my questions. And then

Unknown: 00:37:48

I also, I do a little exercise right away. Okay, so I have one

Unknown: 00:37:52

of these. I don't know exactly the appropriate like, like the

Unknown: 00:37:56

term to use, but it's like a vibrating machine. So you stand

Unknown: 00:37:59

on it for 10 minutes, and you edit vibrates your entire body.

Unknown: 00:38:03

And it's like supposed to be equivalent to working out for

Unknown: 00:38:06

about 45 minutes, it's really good for the joints. I'm not

Unknown: 00:38:10

saying that like replaces cardio or anything like that. But it

Unknown: 00:38:13

really is, like I like it, because I noticed a difference.

Unknown: 00:38:16

Like I have a little knee issue and stuff like that. So I always

Unknown: 00:38:18

feel better. And I can feel it. Like you can actually do like

Unknown: 00:38:22

squats on it and, you know, lunges and all those kinds of

Unknown: 00:38:25

things. But I usually just stand there, you know, for 10 minutes

Unknown: 00:38:28

and let it vibrate? Well, I think I

Melissa Deally: 00:38:30

really I haven't heard of that before. But I'm

Melissa Deally: 00:38:32

thinking that is really cool in the morning. Because of course

Melissa Deally: 00:38:35

the body's detoxing overnight, and then that vibration is

Melissa Deally: 00:38:40

getting your lymphatic tissue moving first thing in the

Melissa Deally: 00:38:44

morning to help you know, get those toxins that the body's

Melissa Deally: 00:38:48

tried to clean up overnight, flushed down to be removed from

Melissa Deally: 00:38:51

the body.

Unknown: 00:38:52

Absolutely. That's it, you know, and if you want

Unknown: 00:38:56

because if you do show notes or something, I can get the name of

Unknown: 00:38:59

it, like, you know, and put it in there because it's actually

Unknown: 00:39:01

it's actually, you know, it's a pretty cool machine. So all in

Unknown: 00:39:06

all, like right now because, you know, people are like, Why don't

Unknown: 00:39:09

have any extra time in the morning. Right? Like, all in

Unknown: 00:39:12

all, like everything that I'm doing right now for myself is

Unknown: 00:39:14

taking about 30 minutes. 30 minutes. Yeah, you know, to to

Unknown: 00:39:18

set myself up for the day. And, and I just because it doesn't

Unknown: 00:39:25

always have to, like Hal Elrod talks about it being like an

Unknown: 00:39:29

hour 10 minutes on like six different things, right. But

Unknown: 00:39:32

then he also has like the abbreviated version, which is

Unknown: 00:39:35

like 10 minutes, you know, like a minute and a half on like

Unknown: 00:39:39

certain things and then a minute on one thing, right just as long

Unknown: 00:39:41

as you're getting yourself into your routine. Whatever your

Unknown: 00:39:44

routine looks like for you is the importance and the key that

Unknown: 00:39:50

you know you're not right away again, going into that frantic

Unknown: 00:39:54

hectic state. Like you said reacting instead of okay, this

Unknown: 00:39:58

is how I'm going to set you know My day up, usually, like, you

Unknown: 00:40:01

know, closing my eyes and a little meditation, you know,

Unknown: 00:40:04

that kind of thing. You know, imagining how I want my day to

Unknown: 00:40:07

unfold and look is really important as well, too. So,

Melissa Deally: 00:40:11

yeah, and I love all of that. And when I, what I

Melissa Deally: 00:40:16

hear from so many people is that they use their phone as their

Melissa Deally: 00:40:21

alarm clock. So a the phone is in the bedroom. And which I

Melissa Deally: 00:40:25

don't love from the EMF perspective, and Bluetooth and

Melissa Deally: 00:40:29

Wi Fi, and all of that, that we know that can cause harm to the

Melissa Deally: 00:40:33

body. And some people are quite sensitive to it, and I'm one of

Melissa Deally: 00:40:36

them. But because it's your alarm clock, that's what's

Melissa Deally: 00:40:40

waking you up, and then you pick it up, to turn off the alarm,

Melissa Deally: 00:40:44

right. And then boom, you can see all your notifications that

Melissa Deally: 00:40:48

have come in overnight. And now all of a sudden, you're looking

Melissa Deally: 00:40:51

at those emails, and you're starting to scroll Facebook, and

Melissa Deally: 00:40:54

you just end up in that, you know, overwhelmed state, and

Melissa Deally: 00:40:59

you've the alarm went off 30 seconds ago,

Unknown: 00:41:02

right. And so

Melissa Deally: 00:41:04

many people are doing that. And it's just the

Melissa Deally: 00:41:06

way we've been programmed is well, the phone does everything.

Melissa Deally: 00:41:09

So I'm going to have it with me 24/7, right. And I really

Melissa Deally: 00:41:13

encourage people to go and buy like that $10 alarm clock that's

Melissa Deally: 00:41:18

either battery run or plugs into the wall. And you know, when I

Melissa Deally: 00:41:23

do my sleep course, I go into a lot more on that. But use that

Melissa Deally: 00:41:27

to get the phone out of the room. Because the alarm wakes

Melissa Deally: 00:41:31

you up, maybe you can choose you know, wake up to the radio or

Melissa Deally: 00:41:34

whatever, you can turn it off, and then start your morning

Melissa Deally: 00:41:37

routine. Or if you don't mind the music in the background

Melissa Deally: 00:41:40

during your morning routine, you can you know, continue listening

Melissa Deally: 00:41:43

to that. But that right away is a huge shift in habit for people

Melissa Deally: 00:41:50

that allows them to not immediately go into that

Melissa Deally: 00:41:53

reactionary state. It's just right.

Unknown: 00:41:56

And I will say I'm a work in progress. And so like

Unknown: 00:41:58

here has what I've been doing because I I am I'm a bad girl,

Unknown: 00:42:03

Melissa like I that bad habit, bad habit, I do use my phone as

Unknown: 00:42:08

an alarm clock. But here's what I do when I shut it off. It's in

Unknown: 00:42:12

like a Do Not Disturb mode. So show me all my notifications.

Unknown: 00:42:17

And so what I do is I leave the bedroom, and I leave the phone

Unknown: 00:42:21

in the bedroom, because I do my morning routine outside of the

Unknown: 00:42:25

bedroom. So right, like I'm in my living room, that kind of

Unknown: 00:42:29

thing. So then the phone isn't even anywhere near me to

Unknown: 00:42:32

distract me with anything with anything else. And so that's

Unknown: 00:42:35

worked really well. And honestly, like that I've been

Unknown: 00:42:40

getting into this morning routine, I haven't really had

Unknown: 00:42:45

the need to like be checking my phone because I'm so into what

Unknown: 00:42:49

I'm doing that that's become my new skill. Right? Right, right

Unknown: 00:42:54

social media for myself. Right?

Melissa Deally: 00:42:56

And that sounds like you're in that zone of

Melissa Deally: 00:42:59

focus. Right? Right. As you're doing something for yourself,

Melissa Deally: 00:43:04

that's bringing you joy, that, you know, makes you feel better

Melissa Deally: 00:43:09

as you go into the rest of your day. So I love it, you're

Melissa Deally: 00:43:13

starting your day out slowing down in order to be more

Melissa Deally: 00:43:18

productive, right? And I know that so counterintuitive to

Melissa Deally: 00:43:21

people, right? We're just trained, do more, do more, do

Melissa Deally: 00:43:24

more, work harder, get more done. But the reality is, is we

Melissa Deally: 00:43:28

have a plan and we slow down. So the tortoise and the hare,

Melissa Deally: 00:43:31

right? Instead, he gets the job done. So awesome, awesome. So I

Melissa Deally: 00:43:39

love your morning routine that you've set up and that you're

Melissa Deally: 00:43:44

working on that. And I've really enjoyed working with you through

Melissa Deally: 00:43:47

our program that we've done together. And you're someone as

Melissa Deally: 00:43:50

you said that you've been focused on your health for a

Melissa Deally: 00:43:53

long time you prioritize it. And I love that. As someone who's

Melissa Deally: 00:43:59

prioritize it for a long time, you still want to do more in

Melissa Deally: 00:44:03

order to be ensuring that you stay healthy. And because you're

Melissa Deally: 00:44:09

an entrepreneur, and how do you build your business if you don't

Melissa Deally: 00:44:13

have your health. So I really appreciate that about you. And

Melissa Deally: 00:44:19

that's part of my message that I want to be sharing with the

Melissa Deally: 00:44:23

world is that if you have your health, everything else else can

Melissa Deally: 00:44:27

flow. And if you don't have your health, then you're struggling

Melissa Deally: 00:44:32

to get it all done. So between slowing down, creating your

Melissa Deally: 00:44:36

morning routine, focusing on self care, focusing on health,

Melissa Deally: 00:44:40

that's how people can have an amazing 2022 And if they need

Melissa Deally: 00:44:46

help with time management, time blocking success lists getting

Melissa Deally: 00:44:52

shit done, then they need to reach out to you. So has someone

Melissa Deally: 00:44:58

how would someone do that?

Unknown: 00:45:00

Well, the probably the easiest way that you can go to

Unknown: 00:45:02

my website, which is simply Julie Jones dot biz. So you can,

Unknown: 00:45:07

you know, find out all the information about me and email

Unknown: 00:45:11

me connect with me. And you know, I'd love, love, love, love

Unknown: 00:45:16

making new friends and having conversations.

Melissa Deally: 00:45:19

And I love that. And I know that there are, you

Melissa Deally: 00:45:23

know, some people that this comes really naturally to. And

Melissa Deally: 00:45:27

there's so many people that struggle with this. And so

Melissa Deally: 00:45:31

though for those people that struggle with this, don't beat

Melissa Deally: 00:45:36

yourself up, don't think that you can never do it. Truly reach

Melissa Deally: 00:45:40

out to Julie because she will give you the tools and the

Melissa Deally: 00:45:43

support to for you to be able to implement so that you can turn a

Melissa Deally: 00:45:47

new leaf and be really productive and get shipped.

Unknown: 00:45:53

Absolutely. And so yes. So please come to the website.

Unknown: 00:45:57

You can book a 30 minute complimentary call with me, I

Unknown: 00:46:00

promise you I'm a lot of fun. And you know,

Melissa Deally: 00:46:03

maybe even wear a costume or googly eyes. No, I.

Unknown: 00:46:07

Yes. So 30 minutes with me. And then as a special offer.

Unknown: 00:46:11

I just recently wrote a book. And so if you come on and you

Unknown: 00:46:16

know, you say during our call that you heard about me through

Unknown: 00:46:20

Melissa, I will send you a free copy of my book. Oh,

Melissa Deally: 00:46:24

thank you that's so generous of you. And I know,

Melissa Deally: 00:46:27

I know that you sent also a free download on productivity that

Melissa Deally: 00:46:32

I've put into the show notes as well.

Unknown: 00:46:34

Yes, yes. So that is an offer there as well. So I'm just

Unknown: 00:46:39

not feeling all kinds of generous today. Because I just

Unknown: 00:46:41

love Melissa. And I've loved working with her. You know, I

Unknown: 00:46:45

mean, she's helped me with some of my health. And one of the

Unknown: 00:46:47

reasons why I have a morning routine is because I did work

Unknown: 00:46:51

with her and realize the importance because of some of my

Unknown: 00:46:55

cortisol levels being off kilter first thing in the morning. So

Unknown: 00:46:58

that was really key to helping me, you know, get my mind

Unknown: 00:47:02

wrapped around my health. And thanks to Melissa, I'm right on

Unknown: 00:47:06

track.

Melissa Deally: 00:47:08

Well, thank you, it's been awesome working with

Melissa Deally: 00:47:11

you. And just you know, the different skill sets that we all

Melissa Deally: 00:47:14

have that we can bring to the table to support other people

Melissa Deally: 00:47:17

is, is really powerful. So thank you. Thank you. So before I let

Melissa Deally: 00:47:21

you go, though, I have two questions. I love to ask my

Melissa Deally: 00:47:23

guests before we wrap up. And that first one is what is don't

Melissa Deally: 00:47:27

wait for your wake up call mean to you.

Unknown: 00:47:30

Oh my gosh, again, life happens. And so it can turn on a

Unknown: 00:47:37

dime, like, don't wait until you're 95. And you're on your

Unknown: 00:47:42

deathbed. And you're you have these regrets of what you didn't

Unknown: 00:47:46

do, versus what you did do. And so that's what it means to me.

Unknown: 00:47:50

It's like live each and every moment. But live in gratitude

Unknown: 00:47:55

and live in health and live your best life. That's really what it

Unknown: 00:47:59

means to me.

Melissa Deally: 00:48:01

I love that and living in that higher vibration

Melissa Deally: 00:48:03

to that vibration of joy, love happiness. Right? Absolutely.

Melissa Deally: 00:48:07

And that comes when you're living in gratitude. So and then

Melissa Deally: 00:48:11

my other question is, what message would you like to leave

Melissa Deally: 00:48:15

with the audience to inspire them to take action today? After

Melissa Deally: 00:48:20

all, we've talked about how do we inspire them to slow down so

Melissa Deally: 00:48:24

they can get more done?

Unknown: 00:48:27

You know, it's, I see it in the background for you in

Unknown: 00:48:31

the background for me. And I just love to tell people that

Unknown: 00:48:34

you are enough, you know, it's really not about going to a

Unknown: 00:48:39

point of beat up mode. Like, again, we always talk about

Unknown: 00:48:43

Hindsight is 2020 Because now all of a sudden, we have all

Unknown: 00:48:46

this information that we didn't have before when we made a

Unknown: 00:48:48

decision, right. And so just knowing that you have all the

Unknown: 00:48:53

tools that you need to be anything that you want. And so

Unknown: 00:48:59

just remember like that is like that is such a big message is

Unknown: 00:49:04

step going to beat up mode and know that everything that you

Unknown: 00:49:07

offer this world that you are enough and sometimes it just

Unknown: 00:49:12

takes a little tweaking and a couple of little things to make

Unknown: 00:49:17

all the difference in the world.

Melissa Deally: 00:49:19

I love them. Thank you so so much. So thanks

Melissa Deally: 00:49:23

for being here. Julie Jones. This was a powerful episode. I

Melissa Deally: 00:49:26

look forward to coming out and to all of my listeners thank you

Melissa Deally: 00:49:29

so much. And please share this episode with others that you

Melissa Deally: 00:49:33

think might benefit from hearing from Julie all of her wisdom,

Melissa Deally: 00:49:37

all of her expertise and potentially working with her if

Melissa Deally: 00:49:41

they need some help in slowing down to get more done. get shit

Melissa Deally: 00:49:44

done. Thank you Julie Jones. Thank you. Until next time

Melissa Deally: 00:49:53

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Melissa Deally: 00:49:55

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Melissa Deally: 00:50:23

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