- Good morning, good life friends, it's time to actually get things done. Like important things. (laughing) What? I'm totally working. Sure. You think about your goals all the time, but success? Not exactly stacking
up the way you'd hoped. No big deal. You just don't have a map yet.
(car door opens) - [GPS] When possible, make a U-turn. - Ugh. No, not that kind of map. A MAP. A Massive Action Plan. Something that makes
you jump at the chance to choose results over "Real Housewives". - How do you know what's good for me? - That's my opinion! - [Coach] This is the plan of all plans. This holds the key to everything, your desires, your direction, and most importantly, your deliverables. There's only one way
to create an effective Massive Action Plan. That's to tell it the truth. The truth about what you want, the truth about what
it takes to get there, and the truth about
where you are right now and where you're trying to go. And the more honest you are
with your Massive Action Plan, the more likely it
could actually help you. So, let's map it out. The first step is to create clarity. You can't figure out the
map to where you're going if you don't know where you're going. You wouldn't need a map. You could just wander around. And if you've been wandering around, that's probably why you're here. (laughs) Let's be honest. So, at the top of the page, it's very simple. Just write, "Desires". And I want you to have fun here and even pause the video so you can let your
mind be super creative. But create a list of 10, 20, 30, a hundred, if you can
come up with that many, just things that you would like
to see happen for yourself. Desires, goals, whatever
it is, write it down. Get it out of your head. Don't call it "stupid", don't judge it. Just get it on paper. (jazz music) Now, everything here probably
sounds really lovely, otherwise you wouldn't
have come up with it. There's something in you that's like, "yes" about all of these things, but now we need to get
very, very particular. What are the top three things on this list that you really, really, really want? You need to decide. Circle, underline, highlight. I don't care. You have to pick your top three right now because three is a lot, (chuckles) okay, for you to focus on. So, that's the absolute max
that I'm gonna give you. Highlight your three top picks right now. You've got your top three. So, what do you do with
the rest of the list? Cross them out. That's right, they're dead. (laughs) I'm just kidding, they're not dead. But the reality is that you can't have it
all at the same time. There are going to be some things here that are still going to happen for you because you did the hard part of choosing what you're gonna focus on and becoming the version of that person that's able to make those things happen and therefore is able to
make a lot of things happen. Next, we need to set a deadline. So, up here at the top, big focal point. What is the deadline for making
these three things happen? I do really like one
of these, like, a lot. There's one of these that is true for me right now and it's 1 million YouTube subscribers. So, I have thought about that one a lot. It is on my map, okay? It is something that
gets me kind of excited. It's always gotten me excited 'cause I've been a YouTuber
for a very long time. If I'm thinking, like, "When
do I want that to happen?" and "When would I want all of these things to be in place?" so that I
have a reasonable timeline, I can feel motivated by it and not freaked out and
stressed and anxious about every single day. Let's just say I would
like to have completed all of these three things by my 40th birthday, which is a lot sooner
than many of you think. So, love you for that. But not so soon that I am going to be unreasonable with how much expectation I put on myself. So, look at these three top things and really ask yourself. Let's do these things in a space of time that motivates you, not debilitates you. All right, we have our
desires, we have our goals, we have our deadline, and
now we need to do a dump. That's right. The third D is a brain dump. I'm gonna just draw a line here to give myself the nice
little break in the page. "Brain Dump". When you look at your top three, you need to dump onto this page everything you can possibly think of that you will need to do to
not only achieve those things, but really be the person
who steps into the role of being an individual who
fulfills these desires. And I want to help you out a little bit because you're not gonna know everything, but there are a lot of things
top of mind for you right now that may or may not contribute
to the direct cause, but help you a ton from
a mindset standpoint. So, we're going to separate
this list into two columns and the first column is
going to be "Proactive Tasks" and the other is "Reactive Tasks". The reason why I am putting this down is because I want to revert back to what I said at the beginning. You need to be honest with yourself. And there are so many things
up here that are bugging you on a daily basis that you know if you were going to step into the role of somebody who does these things, that you would have to
straighten out some other things in your life for the person
you are in this moment. So, whether it's certain distractions, cutting certain people out of your life, maybe there's some habits
that you have on a daily basis that keep you from making progress. Those things are going in "Reactive". One of my biggest desires in
my actual real life right now is getting Bianca to a place where she's
in full-time daycare. We've been doing part-time. It's not my favorite,
it's not her favorite. It's hard to get into a routine. Shocker. It's not like I didn't
write a book about that. One of my reactive tasks is so that we are not out of routine and freaking out all the time, Bianca needs to be in full-time daycare. And if I do that, that is not only going to give me time, it's gonna make her better and we as a family are
gonna function better, which is what allows me to be able to do the big things
that I want in my life. So, you can see where this
might have a lot more to do with your individual scenario. The worst thing you can do
is write out an action plan and not feel as though you
can see the low hanging fruit, the quick wins, and the real version of you
that needs to be worked on. Other than that tangent, write everything down. And if this helps you, make sure you cover all your bases. This is why I separate
it out into two columns. (jazz music) So, we've got a whole bunch
of stuff that we need to do. We've probably got even
more stuff than this that we haven't thought about yet. We need to figure out
how to handle this list. Just the way that it looks
right now is very overwhelming. It's not gonna make you take action, it's not gonna make you
want to do anything, but you're taking massive action, so at least you've begun the process of starting to grasp
what it's going to take. We need to go through an organization
method that is going to help you prioritize what makes sense for you to focus on in the now. So, I skipped ahead a little on the page that we
need here to prioritize. This is the Eisenhower Matrix. We are just going to
create a cross section, a little grid, here. Section one is the urgent and important. Section two is not urgent but important. Section three is the
urgent, not important, and section four is not
urgent, not important. Why do these matter? Because they're gonna tell us what to do with the tasks that we come up with, whether they're on this list, whether somebody comes into the room and tells you something you need to do, it's gonna go somewhere on this grid. All you need to know
about urgent and important is you need to do it. So, a good example of this would be if there is a bill that you
owe today, that's urgent, and because you owe the
money, that's important. So, that would go in urgent and important. In the second box for
not urgent but important, we're gonna write, "schedule" and this is going to- Oh, I'm gonna, I'm gonna
write it properly. (laughs) You know how to read
my writing now, right? We're catching on? "Schedule" is the second box. And this is going to be very important for many, many, many, many, many reasons, but I'll leave it at that for now. Section three, we have
urgent but not important. So, it's not important to you, but it is urgently a matter
that needs tended to, which is something
that, in an ideal world, and won't always work out, but in an ideal world
we're going to delegate. And for something that is not urgent and not important, we delete. So, this is really, really,
really, really important that we write this here first because when we start to allocate where these things are going to go, we need to grapple with how
they're going to get done. In some cases, they may not get done. So, now, go through your brain dump list and start assigning different
categories for these tasks with the best information
that you have right now. What are the urgent and important things? Because those are gonna
be top of the list. Those are probably the frogs you have not bothered to eat yet that need to get done ASAP so that your mind is a
little bit more clear and you can move on to the
things that are very important. Okay, so I've started to
move some of these tasks over to the prioritization matrix and now you know exactly
where your focus should be, what you've put in urgent and important, and review it a couple times. Is everything supposed to be there? Does everything have
a reason to be urgent? Like, timely needs to be done or there will be negative consequences. And does it also have a
reason to be important? Ties directly to your top three desires. And then in the next section, maybe it's not urgent, but you can see why there's a ton of value toward your goals in the long term. Then you have the everyday stuff. It's super urgent because it's required for what we gotta do in life, but it's not very important to you because it doesn't make or break you. So, maybe that's
something you can delegate or maybe that's something that just needs to be compartmentalized at a different point in time for you. And then there's just
stuff that's on your radar and you're like, "I think about this a lot, but it's not actually important and it's definitely not urgent." So, it's just gonna go
in the delete section. And it can just stay there and we're paying it no attention until it becomes a real factor. I often get the question, "What do you do when
things don't go your way?" As soon as you've got
a curve ball coming in, write it under "Reactive". So, today for me, the reactive thing was
"drive then to pick up car". So, that was something that
was absolutely not on my radar. It was a curve ball. I was not factoring in the hour that it was going to take to
commute there and commute back. And so, that's now urgent and important. But if it was something
that's a curve ball that's urgent and not important, put it where it actually goes. That had to happen today for
all things to work out well and so it got bumped up. Maybe another curve
ball comes in and goes, "Oh my gosh, that's actually so important
and I didn't think of it." Put it in the scheduling box. Do not take the tasks that come at you and then freak out about them
and keep them in your brain. This is here for a reason. We keep adding to this list and then we keep vetting it over here so that every week, when we analyze what we have to do, we know what we need to do. Box number two is where not
a lot of people spend time. These are the things that
are not only important to your goals, but they might be important
to your wellbeing. Things that make you feel good, things that make you feel like yourself. Things like just having quiet time where I don't have to do anything might go in the second box. So, in order for me to get that, it's not urgent, no one's gonna make sure
that I have it happen 'cause it's not going to
base anyone else's day in terms of success. It's only going to be me that needs that. So, it's important and
I have to schedule it and I have to make it happen. So, please remember that box number two is where that stuff is that you know you wish you spent more time. But now, when you need to go focus, and when we're trying to
figure out the next step, which is what am I going
to plan for myself, this week, this month, today, we know where our focus should be and it's easier for you to know that you're not wasting
time doing other things because you have a list
telling you exactly what you should be doing. (jazz music) So, how do you get the
important stuff done? Have a list that actually matters to you. And you've got it here. You're gonna go into weekly planning like it's the ritual it is. You're gonna make a
list of 10 to 15 things that sit in quadrant one or two for you to get done this week
that are gonna inch you closer to the vision that is
your goals, your desire, and the life that you want. And now, you've got that weekly priority list, so you can figure out what
your daily priorities are. Maybe pick one, two, probably three, things, that are your priorities of the day. Some of those priorities
are gonna repeat themselves throughout the week. Some of those things are gonna be things
you're not going to enjoy, but if you can't get them all done, you still teach yourself what it means to focus on what's important and do the tough stuff so that you get better and better. And then maybe you didn't
get 15 things done, but you got 10 or you got five and that's way more
than you did last week, more on your list of what
matters to you than ever before. It's still going to be hard. You're still gonna need some motivation. You're gonna need to add
this video to a playlist so that you can refer back to it when you're like, "I know I'm supposed to be doing something
important right now." Highly recommend it. Set that weekly ritual of planning from a place of what you want for yourself and you'll do much more
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