Gino (00:00):
Hello and welcome back. This episode I call Swap Dollars for Hertz. So Swap Dollars for Hertz. What we're talking about here is one of the 10 Disciplines is don't do $25 an hour work. And we've all made great progress in shedding and delegating $25 an hour work. Some of us still have some work to do. But this is all about a shift in the thinking from maybe let's look at it as not so much dollars, just a different way of coming at this, but let's think about it as hertz in terms of frequency, in terms of vibration, in terms of energy. So how about the thought of don't do low energy work.
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So we're going to play with this. I'm going to take you through an exercise. My goal and objective by the end of this episode is that you will shed, delegate, remove, eliminate one low energy activity from your life and replace it with a high energy activity, I.E. swap dollars for hertz, let's think about it as energy.
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So with that, I'm going to make a statement. And the statement is, the higher your energy, the higher you vibrate. See David Hawkins' Map of Consciousness in the book Shine to understand that. But the higher you vibrate, the higher your frequency and the higher your frequency, the more you shine. And I assume you want to maximize your energy.
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So here goes the exercise. So what I'm going to do is take you through a few different aspects of your life. I want you to play along. Hopefully you're somewhere where you can sit and write. If you're driving, maybe pull over if you can. Worst case, obviously just picture it in your mind. But we're going to look at your low energy activities in your life. My goal as I take you through this is for you to ultimately pick one, I'd love to see you pick one in each category, and then I want you to pick the best one of the four categories.
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So we're going to start with work, and I want you to think about what goes on in work all day, every day for you. And so it could be things like meetings, administrative work, travel, dealing with people issues, whatever it is. I just want you to think about, start to write, hit pause, just give yourself 30 to 60 seconds to think about all of your low energy activities at work. And so an example for me as you're pondering and writing, email and opening my laptop are two things that absolutely drain my energy. So the idea here is just listen to your body, read your energy, think about these activities and which is the one that really drains your energy and go ahead and jot that down.
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Onto category number two. We're going to go into your personal life now, and we're going to just look at your personal time. So just you spending time with you, doing things with you. And again, let's start to look at the low energy activities. So it might be chores around the house, it might be working out or exercising, some form of that that's less energy building than some other forms of exercise, errands, running errands, booking travel, repairs around the house, cutting the lawn, shoveling snow, charitable endeavors even, maybe there's some that truly drain your energy and some that lift you up. But give some thought to those things. Again, 30 to 60 seconds. Hit pause if you need to. For me, it's cutting the lawn. Thank God I figured it out at 26 years old, roughly, that I get no joy out of cutting the lawn. And to pay somebody 25 bucks to do it and free up that hour is heaven. So go ahead and pick something around your personal time.
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The third category is family time. And so think about interaction with all family members, parents, brothers, sisters, kids, spouse, all aspects of your family. And this could be various family events, visiting, commitments you have, all interaction. And are there any of those activities that really stand out when you're doing it? It just absolutely drains you. And so for me on this one, it's the amount of time, I can only sit at a family party so long. So what I've learned is my energy's very high for an hour or two, maybe three. But when we start closing in on the sixth, seventh, and eighth hour, I start to lose energy. So again, that's just me. So go ahead and jot something down there.
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And then we're going to go to friend time. So this is in your personal life when you interact and spend time with friends, I want you to think about certain friends, certain types of events with friends. So again, take that 30, 60 seconds, hit pause if you need to. But just think about all interactions with all friends. And are there any interactions that just kind of drain your energy? And so for me here, same thing, it's amount of time. It's like the first hour or two, the energy is through the roof, but then it starts to wane. So I've learned to just kind of cut that time down.
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And so assuming you've written something down there, you've now written four things down in all aspects of your life that are energy draining activities. I now want you to pick one, the most important one, the highest gain that you see that if you stopped doing that, that's the one that zaps your energy the most and if you replaced that time with something that's energy building, oh, what a difference that would make. And so I want you to pick that one thing. And as you've now identified it, sometimes that low energy activity is $100 an hour work. And so remember, we're doing the switch here from $25 an hour work to low energy work. You may have a real aha here that says, well, I get paid pretty well for this. It's still drains my energy. Great reason to stop doing it and replace it with something else.
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So now shifting to high energy activity, I'm going to move a little faster through this with you because these answers should come quick. But I'm going to take you through the same four categories. So, work. What are some work related high energy activities that when you do them they just light you up? You could do it all day every day. What are the things that come to mind for you? In your personal life, personal time. What are things you just love doing by yourself and with yourself? What gives you energy? With your family, and then with friends, what activities with friends just absolutely light you up.
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And assuming you've listed at least one for each category, now I want you... You can certainly correlate to each one because here's an example, when I learned that cutting my lawn drained my energy, the aha was that I could take that one hour of cutting the lawn, pay somebody $25 an hour, go work that extra hour and make 50, 100, 200, 300, whatever I was making at the time, that much more money. So it was an easy trade-off. I would get rid of that low energy, low compensation activity and replace it with high energy, high activity. And so it was a no-brainer to pay that $25 because I was making a lot more on the other side.
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So it's not always a perfect trade-off, work for work, personal for personal, family for family. So that's why I want you to look at both sides. And then just again, now that you've lopped off something that's low energy of the four categories on the low energy side, now look at something on the high energy side to replace it with. And worst case, do a direct correlation between work, personal, family, friends.
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So assuming you've done that, I ask you now to please in the next seven days, make that change, make that swap. And assuming you do that this week, I then urge you to do it again the following week with something else. And then the following week, worst case every quarter lop something off. But ideally, every month. Utopia, every week. But ultimately to where you've gotten all low energy activity out of your life and replaced it with high energy activity. I.E. don't do low energy work.
