April 27, 2023

Being A Conduit Of Learning – A System

Being A Conduit Of Learning – A System

In this episode John and Kelly talk about the importance of having a “system” for growing. A weekly system that is both consistent as well as strategic relative to what you want to accomplish. When you have such a system, you become what they call a “conduit of learning”. Kelly talks about how every Sunday she figures out what she’s going to listen to during the coming week. And then sets it up so she can listen to the content. John then explains his system. He sources three different podcast hosts. And every Monday morning he looks at the latest podcast from those three hosts. He then decides the two specific episodes he wants to listen to during the coming week and downloads them. And then he listens to them why he is exercising or driving. So it takes no additional time out of his busy schedule. John also notes that he takes notes on what he learns. And then at the start of each new quarter, he reviews his notes from the prior quarter. John mentions that the two biggest things he learned last quarter is the critical importance regarding tuning into reality. What is reality telling him regarding what he’s doing. He also talks about learning the power of doing what you say you’re going to do.

About the Hosts:

John Mitchell

John’s story is pretty amazing. After spending 20 years as an entrepreneur, John was 50 years old but wasn’t as successful as he thought he should be. To rectify that, he decided to find the “top book in the world” on SUCCESS and apply that book literally Word for Word to his life. That Book is Think & Grow Rich. The book says there’s a SECRET for success, but the author only gives you half the secret. John figured out the full secret and a 12 minute a day technique to apply it.

When John applied his 12 minute a day technique to his life, he saw his yearly income go to over $5 million a year, after 20 years of $200k - 300k per year. The 25 times increase happened because John LEVERAGED himself by applying science to his life.

His daily technique works because it focuses you ONLY on what moves the needle, triples your discipline, and consistently generates new business ideas every week. This happens because of 3 key aspects of the leveraging process.

John’s technique was profiled on the cover of Time Magazine. He teaches it at the University of Texas’ McCombs School of Business, which is one the TOP 5 business schools in the country. He is also the “mental coach” for the head athletic coaches at the University of Texas as well.

Reach out to John at john@thinkitbeit.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-mitchell-76483654/

Kelly Hatfield

Kelly Hatfield is an entrepreneur at heart. She believes wholeheartedly in the power of the ripple effect and has built several successful companies aimed at helping others make a greater impact in their businesses and lives.

She has been in the recruiting, HR, and leadership development space for over 25 years and loves serving others. Kelly, along with her amazing business partners and teams, has built four successful businesses aimed at matching exceptional talent with top organizations and developing their leadership. Her work coaching and consulting with companies to develop their leadership teams, design recruiting and retention strategies, AND her work as host of Absolute Advantage podcast (where she talks with successful entrepreneurs, executives, and thought leaders across a variety of industries), give her a unique perspective covering the hiring experience and leadership from all angles.

As a Partner in her most recent venture, Think It Be It, Kelly has made the natural transition into the success and human achievement field, helping entrepreneurs break through to the next level in their businesses. Further expanding the impact she’s making in this world. Truly living into the power of the ripple effect.

Reach out to Kelly at kelly@thinkitbeit.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelly-hatfield-2a2610a/

Learn more about Think It Be It at https://thinkitbeit.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/think-it-be-it-llc

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thinkitbeitcompany

 


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Transcript
Kelly Hatfield:

We believe life is precious. This is it. We've

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got one shot at this. It's on us to live life to the fullest to

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maximize what we've been given and play the game of life at our

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full potential.

John Mitchell:

Are you living up to your potential? Are you

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frustrated that despite your best intentions, you just can't

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seem to make the changes needed to take things to the next

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level. So you can impact your career relationships and health.

Kelly Hatfield:

If this is hitting home, you're in the

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right place. Our mission is to open the door to the exceptional

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life by showing you how to play the game of life at a higher

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level. So you're playing at your full potential, rather than at a

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fraction as most people do. We'll share the one thing that

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once we learned it, our lives were transformed. And once you

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learn it, watch what happens. Welcome to think Be it the

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podcast. I'm Kelly Hatfield.

John Mitchell:

And I'm John Michell. So today, we've got a

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topic that I think you guys will find interesting. You know, life

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is all about growing, and, and evolving intellectually. And so

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my, the topic today is really, do you have a system for

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growing? And do you have a system for reviewing what you've

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learned in the past. And with that, as the subject I'll share

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with you, sort of my system, and Kelly, then utilise yours, but

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you know, so I have a system where I pick basically three,

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three podcasts that I follow, you know, that are relative to

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entrepreneurs and, and to sports coaches. And so I have three

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different podcasts that I follow. And every Monday, I look

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and see what episodes what new episodes are there. And I pick

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two specific episodes out of those three different podcasts.

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And I listen to the episodes during the week. But, and that's

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how it evolves every week for me. And I, I send myself an

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email, those episodes that I'm going to listen to on Monday, so

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that I really start listing, Monday at lunch, and then

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through the end of the week. But the other thing I am big on is,

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is recording what I'm learning. And I have a place that when I

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like read a book, I'll take notes, and then I'll record the

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notes in this particular file that I have. And so I'm tracking

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what I'm learning. And, and lately, I've been tracking what

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I've been learning every week by looking at what I'm writing in

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my thinking tablet, which is this technique of thinking two

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times a week. But that's how I do it. And so Kelly, tell us how

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you do it. And then I want to talk a little deeper about why,

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you know, reviewing what you're learning is important. So how do

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you how do you do it.

Kelly Hatfield:

So I've got part of what I do each week. So I

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have a review that I do each week, and it's part of my

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planning session for the following week. So um, whatever

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I listened to, as far as the you know, whether it's a podcast, or

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whether it was a specific training that I did, or, you

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know, we've got a monthly learning team learning growth

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session that we do. And so it could be the download from that.

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But basically, I'll use voice notes while I'm listening to it.

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Because a lot of the time I'm doing something like getting

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ready in the morning, or I'm on the treadmill. So something

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really like jumps out at me. I'm like, Okay, I need to, I need to

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be thinking about that more deeply. I'm using I'm putting it

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into my thinking session, you know, it might even be an

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episode that I will go back. And because I'll timestamp it like,

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Okay, I need to come back to 10 minutes and 30 seconds, because

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everything from there for the next five minutes was like

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really the essence of what I want to be thinking more deeply

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about. Right? And so I go through that process during the

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week and then on Sunday, I'm looking at okay, when I did my

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thinking session, were there any like what action items were

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there? You know, what were my takeaways do any of those need

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to go on to my calendar for the next week, as far as planning is

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concerned? Or so I'm looking at it. I haven't been looking at it

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specifically in terms of what did I learn? It's more so okay,

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like what were my key takeaways? And then if there were any

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action items as a result of this thinking sessions, am I moving

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this project forward or what I learned forward? Or how do I

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move it forward by getting it on Mike? calendar and making the

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space for the following week. So that's kind of my process.

John Mitchell:

Right? You know, I think probably when people

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hear how we do it, they're like, whoa, that's, that's way too

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complicated for me. And but it doesn't have to be, you know,

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you're listening to two people that are serious growers, you

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know, but you do have to have a simple system, quote, unquote,

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system to grow. Such as, you know, setting up what you're

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gonna grow, what you're gonna listen to, at the start of the

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week, and then listen to it. By the way, that's pretty simple.

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And that's powerful. But one of the things I've sort of see,

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though, is that once you learn something, oftentimes you'll

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forget it unless you go back, and, and read it again. And so

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that's the next iteration to growing is, is capturing those

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really powerful things you're learning and review them. And,

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and it sticks in my head, this idea that, that it's better to

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read one great book 10 times than 10, good books. And, and

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I'm big believer in that. And so along that lines, you have to,

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you have to record those things that you're learning so that,

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you know, like I do it once a quarter, the first week of the

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new quarter, I'm gonna go back and review all the notes I had

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for the past quarter, and probably for the past year. And,

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and it's pretty powerful. And I was and as we launched into this

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whole idea I was this week looking at what I learned last

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quarter, and I think the most powerful thing I learned was

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what we had a podcast episode on this a while back, where you

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have to tune in to reality. Because reality is the the most

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efficient way things work. And so if you, you know, don't tuned

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in or reality, let's, let's say you're in a business, and you're

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sort of going along, but you're oblivious to are we getting more

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sales are? Are more and more leads coming in? Or is the

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opposite having happening, fewer leads are coming in, you know,

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you've got to tune in to reality, and see, what is it

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telling you, you may not like it. But the sooner you tune in

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to reality, and adjust your behavior so that the results

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that reality is giving you are more favorable, you're always

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going to struggle, and I never, I never really got this as deep

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as I do today. What do you think was this past? Say, since the

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start of the year? What do you think, is the biggest lesson

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you've gotten?

Kelly Hatfield:

I would think and listen, I know, I knew this,

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you know, but common sense isn't always common practice. Right?

Kelly Hatfield:

So, um, you know, one of the key things for me, is really, I've

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been able to exponentially change and I've got a great

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mindset. But you know, honestly, um, you know, with everything

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that's been going on in the world, and with, you know, just

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all of this uncertainty, and, you know, we know that our, we

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naturally are fearful, you know, our brains are geared for that.

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And so, for me, it was, I got rid of every news, social media,

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app, anything on my phone, I limit my intake of the news,

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because I want to stay informed, doesn't need to be on in the

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office, it doesn't need to be on in the background, filling my

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brain with anxiety and everything, even though maybe

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I'm not really listening to it, your brain is yeah, there. You

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know. So I think turning that off, being very intentional

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about how I consume those things, and at what time of day,

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and like really dialing that in, because the life, the role of an

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entrepreneur, of a business owner of it, like it's all a bit

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what's happening in your mind, in your mindset. And so really

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protecting that protecting what you're allowing the input that

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you're allowing into your life and into your, you know, your

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brain. And so, and I again, I knew these things, but you just

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fall into some old patterns. And, you know, so back into my

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visualization it went so that I could correct some of that

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behavior that was just fine on autopilot. And it made a huge

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difference.

John Mitchell:

Yeah, that's, that's great. I completely agree

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with you. I mean, it goes back to what we were talking about a

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while ago, you know, life is a state of mind. Yep. And so how

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are you controlling your state of mind? Yep. You know, the

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other thing that I noticed that was a big one for me last

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quarter was that just the pure power of doing what you say

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you're going to do, and how, as you and I have learned, and

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coaching people, you know, everybody says they do what they

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say they're going to do. And then when they when you really

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sort of dig a little deeper, oftentimes, you see that they're

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doing it, maybe 40% of the time. And, and this is such an aha

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moment with people. And it's sort of a good or a bad thing,

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you know, they discover that they're not doing it, and they

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feel bad about it. But then, you know, you teach them how that if

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now you're conscious of doing what you say you're going to do,

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it'll make them way more conscious about what they say

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they will, they will do, and then they'll actually do it.

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And, and, of course, it's easy to articulate this in our life

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GPS template, and that, you know, I do what I say, I'm going

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to do both with myself and other people. But I see that when

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people really embrace this, they typically get twice as much done

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from just that mindset shift. Right?

Kelly Hatfield:

Absolutely. Well, you know, we talk about

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how precious life is, you know, and, you know, so when you're

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very intentional, you know, about and having a sense of

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urgency about life, about what you say yes to, and this goes

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back to what you were just talking about the things that

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you commit to doing and following through and doing them

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the thing, you know, you begin to filter everything through

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that, like, Hey, listen, is this aligned with you? No, no, can I

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really get this done in the time limit? No. So So you start

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editing, the things you're saying yes to, and then watch

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what happens as far as momentum, if you're really have a lot of

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clarity around what your goals are, what you want, you know,

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what you want to achieve, how you want to show up, you know,

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and then you start planning and acting in alignment with that,

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and then keeping your word to yourself, the momentum, you

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know, it just happens so quickly, and you get so much

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more done. Because you're not doing all that fluffy stuff that

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you shouldn't have said yes to to begin with. And then you're

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not diluting any of your energy by being stressed about the fact

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you've committed to something that you really aren't going to

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do, you know, or you haven't done and you've let somebody

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down, and there's this whole cascade that happens that just

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shifts your energy and slows everything down. And so when you

Kelly Hatfield:

do this, the way you just get on with that keeping your word to

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yourself, oh my gosh, right. It's just everything.

John Mitchell:

Right? You know, using our technique, one of the

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things I noticed is, is, of course, I feel big time guilt.

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If I don't do something I say I'm gonna do, which is great.

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You know that guilt is a powerful thing. And so I'm glad

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it's there. But if if I actually see that I didn't do something I

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said, I'm going to do, I'm going to by God do it the next time.

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And if I see that I it doesn't happen again. I'm going to

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change the wording in my visualization in terms of what

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I'm how I'm saying it, because evidently, my subconscious mind

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doesn't like how I'm saying it or doesn't appreciate the

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importance of whatever it is.

Kelly Hatfield:

It's John, it's so interesting that you say that

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because in my life, GPS or visualization, I change the

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wording to be I'm deliberate. And intentional about what I say

Kelly Hatfield:

yes. And what I say no to. Yeah. So like, now I've trained myself

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that in the moment, I rarely will give somebody an answer. I

Kelly Hatfield:

slow down because my, my autopilot that 95% subconscious

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happens subconsciously would be to just right in the moment.

Kelly Hatfield:

Right? Well, that gets me nowhere. So by saving that

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space, then I'm able to slow down and say, okay, here are my

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goals. Here's really let me get a realistic picture. Is this

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aligned? Does this make sense for me to, to commit to this?

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And then I can circle back with the person and say no,

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graciously, you know, I agree to do it. But I'm deliberate and

Kelly Hatfield:

intentional. And by using those specific words, those words work

Kelly Hatfield:

for me. You know, so I love that just again, those little nuances

Kelly Hatfield:

where you can shift something and it makes all the difference

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in the world.

John Mitchell:

Right. You know, one final thing that that that

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that's interesting that I observed about life is how

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beneficial, the wisdom of other people can be relative to your

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life. And I was thinking I was watching this new show on on

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Apple TV about Boris Becker remember, Boris Becker, the

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tennis player, you know, he ended up, you know, when he won

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Wimbledon a couple of times, and he, but he ended up going to

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jail for tax fraud. And, and it's an interesting story. But I

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remember and I don't know if I've ever told you this. But,

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you know, my claim to fame in high school was, I won the

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district's singles title in tennis, three years in a row,

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which nobody, nobody had had, of course, this is for Texas,

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Catholic high schools, which you know, means, you know, probably

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any public school school kid could beat me, but, you know, I

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wanted three years in a row the district and was second in the

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state. And, and, you know, I never really took tennis at all

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that serious, I was naturally good at it. Because when I was

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in seventh and eighth grade, a friend of mine, and I just

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played all the time, and we were just, we just got good. And my

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main sport was football. But I'm watching this Boris Becker

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thing. And I'm like, Boy, I tell you, you know, I would have

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loved or somebody in my life to come to me and say, Now, John,

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how it first of all, how important is tennis to you. Let

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me point out something to you, you're going to be as good as

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you make yourself good is not going to be how talented you

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are. It's how hard you work to be good at tennis. That's what's

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gonna determine it. And I know if if I heard that I would like,

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well, I thought, I just thought some people more gifted. Know

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that, that is generally not the case. It's who's working the

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hardest. And, and, you know, I also would have probably told

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myself, that, look who your coach is, he's the algebra

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teacher. And he's Tom, really, you're not really a, you know,

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tennis coach, if you're serious about this, get a real coach.

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And, and I see how transformative sort of those two

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little piece of his pieces of advice would have been. And I

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would have been a much better tennis player than I was, but

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also see how that plays out in people's lives. Like what you

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and I teach people. And we've, we've seen it, you know, once

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they get it, it's like, Whoa, it's a whole new perspective, a

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whole new level of, of happiness and success from doing this

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thing that somebody teaches them to do, that they had to learn

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from the top book in the world on success. But you know, the

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point of it, is that the wisdom of other people can change your

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life. So,

Kelly Hatfield:

absolutely, no, I think it's so important.

Kelly Hatfield:

There's no and there's no need to reinvent the wheel. And the

Kelly Hatfield:

cool thing is, is that we live in a time now, where you got

Kelly Hatfield:

access to like, anything you want to learn. And, like, you

Kelly Hatfield:

can get advice from the people at the top of their game, you

Kelly Hatfield:

know, by Googling, you know, and doing some search searches and

Kelly Hatfield:

starting to get that input of, you know, mentorships and

Kelly Hatfield:

mentorship from afar and again, the wisdom of others. So no, I

Kelly Hatfield:

love this, John, it's such a great, it's so important to, you

Kelly Hatfield:

know, understand that.

John Mitchell:

And I'll also say chat GPT is going to change the

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world. I say that with 100% confidence. I just had been

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learning about chat GPT through Darren Hardy, and I'm giving it

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to the 17 head coaches at the University of Texas. And

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justice, just what you said, you know, you can Google it. Well,

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the next evolution of googling it is using chat GPT to learn

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things. So buckle up, because it's, it's coming on strong.

John Mitchell:

With that said, we'll see you next time.

Kelly Hatfield:

Thanks for listening today. If you've had

Kelly Hatfield:

your own aha moment from today's episode, send me or John an

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email. We'd love to share your epiphany with our audience. So

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email us at Kelly@thinkitbeit.com or

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John@thinkitbeit.com. In the meantime, live the exceptional