Your Weekly Battle Plan on Elevate Springfield

Summary

In this episode, Robert reflects on the previous week's discussions, emphasizing the importance of time control and the parallels between time and money. He shares insights from various guests, highlighting the significance of building relationships in business, empowering youth to take risks, and understanding finance as a universal necessity. Robert also provides practical time management strategies, encouraging listeners to audit their time, prioritize clarity, and build systems for success.

Takeaways

• Time is a non-renewable resource; manage it wisely.
• Youth should embrace failure as a learning opportunity.
• Audit your time to identify unproductive habits.
• Clarity in goals enhances effective time management.
• Remove unnecessary tasks to reveal your potential.
• Systems are more reliable than willpower for success.

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Welcome to Elevate Springfield, where we will dive into strategies and stories that help you rise to your full potential. Each episode, we'll talk about how you can take intentional steps to elevate your life and your business while making a meaningful impact on those around you. Along the way, we're gonna bring in the change makers from our community that are already elevating. We'll bring the actionable strategies, you bring the discipline and follow through, and together we can elevate Springfield. Alright, let's go, Springfield. Time to 10X your day, 10X your life, 10X all of it. And that includes Springfield, y'all. You are listening to the Elevate Springfield Podcast. Robert Farrell here, certified 10x coach, speaker, and mentor, here to bring you actionable strategies. You bring the discipline and follow through. And together, we're gonna Elevate Springfield. You are listening to your weekly battle plan here on Elevate Springfield, where every Sunday we're gonna give you ways to control time, ways to create time, and some things that we encourage you add to that battle plan. We're gonna get right to it after the break. Looking for expert tree care with hometown integrity, look no further than Sangamon Tree Service. They're your trusted local pros, delivering quality workmanship, exceptional customer service, and fair, honest pricing every time. Whether it's trimming, removal, or storm cleanup, their team brings professionalism and care to every job, big or small. Call the name your neighbors trust, Sangman Tree Service, or visit them today at SangmanTreeService.com. Sangman Tree Service, rooted in quality, built on trust. Alright, and we are back on your weekly battle plan. Hey, thanks for joining us on a Sunday. Hey, got a lot of great stuff this week. But before we talk about that, let's talk a little bit about what happened last week on Elevate Springfield. Hey, it was a great week, but you know it's always a great week on Elevate Springfield. Hey, I talked early in the week on last week's weekly battle plan about the bank account that only takes withdrawals and you can never make a deposit. Remember, that is your time. Money you can earn back, time you cannot. So, what I want to do today, as we go through last week's episodes together, I want to draw some parallels to between what some of the guests said and how that can relate to time. Now, before we get started, we do have three guests this past week that are in the finals for the Local First Springfield grant. There, two of those five are going to receive $2,500 apiece at this week's Local First Springfield Fall Soiree. That's Thursday, October 1st, 5 30 to 7 30 p.m. over at the View at Jane Hay Sales and Staging. That's out on the west side of town, back behind Harvest Market. Hope to see y'all there. There are a few tickets left you could go pick up today at localfirstspringfield.com slash events. Tickets are $25 a piece. They include two drink tickets, food. We're gonna have a talk from Representative Mike Coffey. Of course, he's a state representative, but also a business owner here in town. And uh we also have live music, and we're gonna be giving away those two $2,500 grants and maybe a couple of surprises. So hope to see y'all there. So again, last Sunday we talked about the parallels between money and time and how time is the only account that uh you can only withdraw, no deposits in the time account. Unless, of course, you start buying some time. It wouldn't be your own time, but you can buy some time through employees and delegation. So, next up, we had Sam Montanic from Monkey Wrench Auto. Newer business here in town. One of the cool stories there, they were they're not originally from Springfield, they're from the Midwest here. They've been in other areas around here, but they're figuring out where they wanted to go, and they found a house that they wanted to look at down in Glenarm, and that brought them to the Springfield area, and they end up moving here. You know, he said in that one too, and we've said it before on the show, that Springfield is the biggest small town you're ever gonna find, right? We've talked about that. His business is built on relationships and on educating customers in an industry that's changing every single day. One thing that uh I really enjoyed about what he talked about was he and his family really fell in love with the people here. He talked about how we look out for each other and how that's his whole growth strategy when it comes to local relationships and building those. And again, he's one of those finalists for the small business grant. Then on Tuesday, I had a solo episode, called it 10X 14s. So this was directly toward teenagers listening and to their parents. You know, two things I want every young person in Springfield to hear. One, you will never again in your life be able to fail this cheaply. You know, when you're 16, a failed idea costs you a weekend, a week, a month, whatever. When you're in your 40s, it can cost you a lot because you have people counting on you, you've got maybe a mortgage, you've got bills, all this different thing. So it could be a little more dramatic a failure at that point. But so take some swings now. Now, I would say take some swings throughout your life, but it is so cheap to fail when you're a teenager. Other point from that show I want to bring back is the time when it comes to phones. You know, we talked a little bit about the difference between the kid that is spending four hours a day on their phone just scrolling and watching everybody else's content compared to the one that is creating their own content, building a brand, building an audience, and building a future for themselves. Same device, same amount of time. What they are doing with it is the difference. Then on Wednesday on the Communities Grow Together segment, we had Serkan Carratas from UIS College of Business and Management. You know, Serkan grew up in a village in Turkey and ended up teaching finance right here in Springfield at UIS. One analogy that he said that's pretty powerful for a lot of different areas, really. He said, Some of us drive for a living, but we all drive. Finance is the same way. You don't have to be a professional, but you need to understand it. We all use it. He's also putting high schoolers into trading competitions, which is a really cool way to build that next generation of Springfield business owners like we are talking about on this segment. Really shows what's possible based on his path and some of the things he is doing. Then on Thursday, we brought in another one of the finalists for the small business grant. That was Sam Ernst from Fallen and Found Wood Design. Sam builds one-of-a-kind pieces, and a lot of times from local trees. You know, he had a really cool thing and I put it out as a mic drop yesterday. You know, he looks at a walnut log and says, hey, the table is in there. I just got to take everything off of it so it will show itself. That's really a sculptor's mindset, but it's also a business mindset. The tree he told us about only traveled 65 miles from where it stood for 150 years to a coffee shop in Gillespie. Sustainability, supporting local, and craftsmanship all in one story. So come out and meet him and Evan on Thursday. Check them out at the False Ware. Then on Friday, we brought in our third finalist from the week. Now, this person, you know well, if you're a fan of Elevate Springfield and you've been listening to us for a while, she has been on, I don't know, probably more than anyone. Maybe only one other guest has been on more than her. But she said one of my favorite quotes she's ever had is she said, You can't run from your fork. She said it before, but I think that is a great way to put it. You can train, you can supplement, you can sleep nine hours, but it always comes back to nutrition. So hey, come and see all three of them on Thursday. Then on Saturday, of course, we had our separation Saturday with my business partner, Chris Heartsooked. We talked about the sales process. So if you missed any of those episodes, go back and check them out. A lot of great content. But what I'd like to do, I'd like to give you five time strategies based on some of the things that we discussed with some of our guests over this week. And these are all things you can start right now. So strategy number one, run a three-day withdrawal audit. Here's what I mean by that. You cannot control an account you don't look at. For the next three days, every time you switch tasks, write down what you just did and how long it took. We've talked about time studies before, right? This is just a shortened version of it. Let's do it over three days. How many withdrawals are you making out of that time account? Put it on your phone notes, on a legal pad. It doesn't really matter. Don't change anything on it. Just record, just put it on there, what you did. At the end of day three, go through the list and put one of two letters next to each entry. D, if it moved your mission forward, whatever your mission is leading you to your why, right? Did it move it forward? Or W if it was a pure withdrawal. Most people who do this honestly find that 30 to 40 percent of their working hours are Ws, just straight withdrawals with no clear mission directive. That's a leak in your week. So let's plug that up now that you know about it. Strategy number two, clarity before calendar. You know, a few weeks ago I said on the show that time isn't missing, clarity is, right? We all have the same amount of time, but you have to get clear on how you use that. So before you open your calendar on Monday, write one sentence. Try this for me. Say, hey, the one thing that has to be true by Friday is blank. One thing, not five, then and only then open the calendar and ask of every block. Does it serve that sentence? And this that sentence that should be done this week should lead you to your longer term goals and of course fulfilling your why. If it doesn't, it needs to get moved or get delegated or get cut. When your mission is clear, your time should align around it. When it's not, everybody else's mission fills that space. We've talked about that before in another way. So if you are not intentional with your time, your time will get filled with everybody else's intentions. Same way to put it. Strategy three, carve the log. So this is Sam's line here. We're bringing it back to Sam Ernst from Fallen and Found. The table is in there. You just have to take everything off of it. Same thing. Your week already has a great version of itself inside it. Your job is to make sure you get all the extra stuff off of it before you start adding. So this week, make a stop doing list of three things. Not a to-do list, a stop list. The recurring meeting that could be an email, the client who takes 10 hours and pays for two, the notification you check 40 times a day. Three things. Cut them. So let's do that first. Let's clear all the extra stuff and find that big, beautiful table that's in there. Strategy four, fail cheap, fail early, and fail on a timer. You know, from Tuesday's next gen segment, I said that as a teenager, you're never going to be able to fail this cheaply. That's true for teenagers and is true for you. The most expensive withdrawal from your time account is the decision you keep reopening, that thing that keeps on coming back. So put a timer on it. Give a new idea, a new hire, a new marketing channel, a defined test window, whether that's two weeks, 30 days, and decide up front what working is, what success looks like. When the window closes, you keep it or you kill it. If you continue opening it with no clear direction and no clear end and no clear look at what success looks like, your time will be completely wasted. So strategy five, build the system, not the willpower. Kylie says you can't run from your fork. You also can't run from your calendar. So if your time plan constantly depends on you feeling like it, feeling like doing it, it's not gonna work. So build the system that runs all the time. Build the system that runs whether you feel like it or not. Make sure your calendar is full, no white space. That way you are running through with discipline and don't have to worry about if you feel like it or not. So here's the thread through all five of those based on kind of what we talked about with our guests this week. The audit tells you what you're doing right now. Clarity tells you where it should go. Carving removes what's in the way, and timers stop the bleeding on decisions. And then finally, systems make it hold even when you don't feel like it. So you can do those five and you can start controlling time. Maybe add these in with some of the others that we talked about in previous weeks, and you should be controlling that time like a 10X champ by now. So hey, hope to see you guys all on Thursday at the View, Jane Hayes Sales and Staging. Grab that ticket over at localfirstspringfield.com slash events. And it's gonna be another great week on Elevate Springfield. 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