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So I was reading the book, thick face black heart this morning and a passage stood out to me, I thought it was really interesting. It goes along the
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lines of a lot of things that I hear people talk about. One of them is, you know, how you do one thing is how you do everything or mastering the
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mundane or, or things like that. So the story, she told the author of the story was volunteering, the author of the book was volunteering at a
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church event for Thanksgiving. And they had to fold, I don't know, hundreds of these napkins. And she specifically said that the task was very easy. They she
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said that a fifth grader could do it well. But they had special instructions to wrap them tightly. So that so that the presentation look neat, and they
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had to wrap a plastic fork and a plastic spoon. So it's simple job. You know, there's a ton of them, there's hundreds of them. So they're spending hours doing
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this, there's several volunteers doing this. So the story goes that there is a woman across from the author of the book. And she is not really putting any
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effort into the work. And all of her napkins were folded loosely. And so the the host of the event, had had tried to correct her and said, Hey, can you wrap
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these tightly, and the author of the book specifically said, you know, even that special instruction was not difficult at all. Anybody could do it, if
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they chose to do it. And so she watched this woman as she was sort of half assing, wrapping these napkins. And when people would pass by the the lady that
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was wrapping them loosely, people would pass by and she would people that she knew, like, you know, they would have a little banter. And she would
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try to get them to book a massage, because this lady was like a professional and pursues. And she did that a bunch of times. And nobody, nobody was
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willing to book a massage with her. And so the woman started talking to the author of the book and, and asked her if she wanted a massage. And of course,
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the author was like, No, I feel great. I don't need a massage. And then she said, sort of out of nowhere that the lady asked her how do I how do I earn money
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without being greedy? And the answer was, learn to wrap the napkins tightly. And she said that the woman was really puzzled by this. And I totally
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understood exactly what she was talking about. It's like, if you're not willing to do that job, well, you're probably not willing to do another job well.
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And so it's sort of getting me thinking about all these different scenarios where this kind of thought process could apply. So I mean, one of the
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thoughts that that I was thinking about, you know, as a business owner, anybody that has a job is sort of faced with, I mean, not anybody I mean, if
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you're like a high level executive, well, I don't know, I'm not. I don't know. So I mean, anybody that's in in a work environment, you know,
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especially entry level, employees, a lot of times you get tasks with things that are, you know, mundane, and you don't think they're very important.
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You know, like, it is sweeping the floor or taking out the trash, you know, wiping the counters down or, or whatever, we're whatever that may be, I've
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had a lot of not a lot, but I've had these kinds of jobs, like my first job was at a gas station. And my second job was working at a bowling alley. And the job
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that I had at the bowling alley was like the lowest job on the totem pole, we were called a porter. And basically, we just, were there to like clean up
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messes, and like we carry a bucket with some spray shit around, pick up after bowlers and shit, it was a very entry level job, you know, the high
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school student kind of job. And so I don't have any examples from that job. But like, for example, I mean, if you think about it, any kind of job like
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that, you have to think of what the perception is, on how you treat those tasks that you feel like aren't important. So it's like, yeah, this is an entry
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level job, I'm in high school, I don't give a fuck, I'm just going to kind of do the bare minimum. I'm not going to, I'm not going to try very hard. And
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so what that looks like a route to the people around you is that you don't, you know, give a shit. And maybe you don't. But the thing is, is you're not
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going to get anywhere that way. So it's like, and I'll get to all these other examples because this could apply all all over the place even to like how you
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perceive things about yourself in your own mind. So back to the sort of workplace thing like as a as a business owner. If I hire somebody and they're not willing
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to do the mundane tasks, well, then there's no way that I'm going to trust them to do the the important tasks well, like if you can't properly ship a
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package like how am I going to have you run a team, stuff like that it's, it's, I think a lot of people don't think about it, I think a lot of people think,
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like, Okay, well, I'm making this amount of money and I have this kind of shit job, and I'm doing these kind of little tasks that don't really matter that
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much. And then once, once I'm here for a certain amount of time, then I'll get to move up and do more important things. And then I'll try harder at
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those things. And it's like, that's not the way that's not the way the world works. If somebody observes you, half assing, a, you know, a mundane
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tasks, they're not going to trust you with a more important task. And so I started thinking about other things like, like, 75 hard, for example. You know,
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all of the tasks make a lot of sense, except for the progress photo. So like, you have 75 days, you got two workouts a day, you got to drink a gallon
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of water, you got to read 10 pages. So like, all that stuff, makes sense, you know, working out, you're gonna get fit, you know, Oh, you gotta follow a
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diet, you know, that makes sense. Drinking more water, that makes sense. Most of us don't drink enough water, all that makes sense. And then when you
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have, you have to take a photo of yourself every single day, it's like, you know, I get the idea that, you know, you have to take a photo at the beginning,
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and then one at the end to see what kind of progress you made. But that's not why the photos in there and he talks about that he's, it's, it's keeping the
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promises to yourself, it's like, that's just a task that you have to do. And when you start thinking about tasks, as if, you know, this isn't that important,
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obviously, like, my workouts are important. Eating healthy is important. Taking a picture of myself, I don't give a shit about that. It's not important.
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But that's the thing that fucks most people up, that's the thing that fucked me up. Most of the time, every well actually, every single time I failed the
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program, which was quite a few times, it was because I forgot to take the progress photo, and I even failed it on day 74. Once I finished all my shit on day
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75, and I opened the app. And I noticed that I didn't take the progress picture the next day. So I failed the program, because of that stupid picture. But
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that's the whole point. It's like mastering the mundane, that's a task that you have committed to doing. So you got to do it. And so it got me
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thinking about all kinds of other things. And I was kind of thinking about, you know, it's one thing, like, in the workplace environment, it's one
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thing like when people see how you treat the mundane tasks, you know, whether or not they're going to trust you to do more important tasks, or, you know,
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like, personally, if I, if I see somebody that's not willing to put in the effort on the mundane tasks, they're never gonna get promoted, and they're probably
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never gonna, they're probably not going to make it in my business. Because, you know, we're trying to do big things. And I need to know that the
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people that I have there, are willing to, to do a good job. Think about it from a customer's perspective. Like, one of the more mundane tasks is popping
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the stickers out of the sheet. So this is like kind of the job that people start out with, then when we hire somebody, for the sticker printing side of the
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business, you know, so like, a lot of times, we all pop stickers, I still pop stickers, I'm not saying that anybody's above it. But it's one of those
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like, kind of simple tasks is like, here's how you pop them. This is kind of the most efficient way to do it. This is where they go when you're done,
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they put up put them on the packing slip, etc. But there's one thing that's important is, well, there's many things that that's that are important, but
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there's one mundane task, and it's to wash your fucking hands. Because if you don't, you're gonna leave fingerprints on the stickers, right? So we're
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constantly having to remind people to wash their hands. I'm not shitting on my team, I'm just saying it's a task that we forget. And so if you don't wash
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your hands, you're gonna leave fingerprints on the sticker. So if me as an employer sees that somebody refuses to pay attention and look at the
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stickers and see if they're leaving fingerprints on them. I'm gonna have a hard time trusting them with other tasks. And then if you look at it from
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the customer's perspective, let's say they ordered, you know, the smallest stickers, the lowest quantity that we have available.
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And they received their order, and they open it up. And the first sticker they see has a big ol greasy fucking thumbprint on it. Are they going to trust us
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with a 5000 sticker order? If they see a thumbprint on one of their stickers like Did we not care enough to make sure our hands are clean or that we wore
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gloves? That's it option, you can either wear gloves or you got to wash your hands. I mean, those are the two ways that you keep things from getting. I
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personally don't wear the gloves, I just keep my hands clean, and I never leave fingerprints on shit. And so from the customer's perspective,
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if you got if you got your order of custom stickers, and you're all excited about it, and the first sticker, you see, has a big greasy thumbprint on it.
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Yeah, I would imagine that you're not going to trust us to do the big tasks, the mundane tasks, the small little order, that for me, every fucking
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order, if you order one cap from us, a fucking 30 fives, I don't even know what we sell them for 30 cents or whatever, we treat that order the same as any other
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order. But I can see from a customer's perspective that they may see like, Oh, I'm gonna do this little small order just to test these guys out and see what
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their see what they're about. And then they get that, I would imagine they're not going to trust us. And that's just one example. If let's say we, we
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sent the box and it was taped up, all fucked up, and it wasn't all you know, the shipping label was on crooked, and it was like kind of mangled, you know, it
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looks like we didn't really put any carrot to it. You might think like, oh, it's just a box, like you're gonna ship it, it's probably gonna get banged up
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anyway, if we didn't treat that mundane task, with the same level of importance of every other task, the perception of the customer may not be, you
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know, very trusting in terms of you know, whether or not they're gonna give us more business, I kind of got back into the business thing I was talking
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about other ship. So thinking about all of these things, you know, like what the 75 hard, you're, if you don't take that one task, seriously, the taking
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the photo, which I hardly almost never do. That's the one that I fuck up all the time. Like, the last time I finished 75 hard. I barely made it, because like, I
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think I had gone to bed and realized I'd forgot the thing and got back up, took the picture and went went to sleep. So it's the mundane tasks that
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if you think they're less important than you're kind of programming your mind to believe that they're not as important. And then it's not going to
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remember, it's not going to remind you to do that shit. And so along the lines of like, how your mind perceives this shit, I was also thinking about, you
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know, what happens when you don't keep your promises to yourself. And I had talked about this in an episode before. You know, the big promises, the
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small promises, you know, I'm going to change my ways and certain in whatever area you think you need to change, you're going to get in better health,
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you're going to start that business, you're going to, you know, open this nonprofit, you're going to do this, you're going to do that and you keep
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kicking the can down the road. I feel like that's kind of a similar thing. You're sort of programming your subconscious mind, to not really believe what
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you're saying. So if you had to apply that to like, the mundane tasks, like something like taking a photo of yourself to complete this program, you're
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you've already told your brain that you don't care about that task, and that it's not important and your brains like alright, well, then we're not
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going to worry about it. And that's, I believe, that's why it's easy to forget. And so I'm also wondering if that affects the way that you think about
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yourself, like I know, I talked about this all the time, but it's it's easy to talk about when it comes to things like this, like, my level of fitness
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is like just just below where I want to be and I feel like I I feel like I don't really put in like I'm putting in a lot of effort, but I I just have to do
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just, I don't know, it's almost like I just have to do a tiny bit more like it's totally stupid, but it's like I just have to change some small things
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and like I keep kind of like fucking that up. And so what I was thinking about when I was thinking about this whole thing is like maybe I have sort of
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programmed my subconscious mind that that level of fitness that I want to be at isn't that important? Because if it was that important, wouldn't I have
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done it by now? Like, wouldn't I have gotten to that point, like I'm talking about just like, a few percent of body fat left that aisle I think I'll be
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perfectly perfectly happy. That's what I picture in my mind. And so now like when I think about that, I don't think about like, oh, it's gonna be
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cool when I get there. I think about more like if I if I'm gonna get there and that which is kind of stupid because it's like all I have to do is like
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specific things and I absolutely will get to that point. But I think it's like I've kind of programmed my subconscious mind that these little mundane tasks
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that I have to do like watch a certain amount of calories eaten amount, a certain amount of protein and shit like that. Because I I've constantly sort
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of like not completely followed them. Those are the mundane tasks that I think I'm sending into my subconscious mind that it's like, yeah, I think about
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this stuff all the time, but it's not that important. So I don't know if that makes sense. But I also think there's also another, I don't know if
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metaphysical is the word or fucking whatever, I don't know, like, I believe in that whole shit, where you're like, kind of putting these things out into
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the universe. And it could also be like, if you're religious, you're kind of like telling God what's important to you? Or, or, or if you don't believe in any
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of that, and you believe maybe there's an order to things are kind of like, I don't know, I don't quite have a belief system around this stuff. Like, I kind
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of believe that you're putting out these orders into the sort of universal order of things, whatever that means. I don't, I don't really know. So I don't
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not believe in things like God and religion and all that stuff. But I also don't know that I believe in it. Like, I don't know, agnostic is probably the
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word. But But I do believe there's some shit. And so if you're const, constantly, just fucking off and half assing all of the mundane stuff, then
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you're putting that out into whatever that is, whether that's the universe, whether that's letting God know whether whether that's programming your
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subconscious mind, whatever it is, your sort of telling something, that that shit is not important. And I think then you don't get what you're trying to
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get. You don't get moved up in the job because everybody around you sees you not doing that thing is important. But also the order of all this shit. If you
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put in you get back, you know? And it's like, if you're not putting in on the on the simple, mundane ship, then you're probably not going to get back
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what you want. And when you really think about it, like Isn't life like just a series of tackling the mundane shit? Like I mean, how many days in a row?
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Do you have these like spectacular fucking things happen every day? You wake up at a certain time you got certain things you got to get done, you
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got to eat, you got to take a shower. You got to do these like little things. You know, maintain your relationships, maintain your business, do all
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these kind of like things that they're important, but they're like, you know, they're not all these groundbreaking crazy fucking things. It's just shit
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that you got to do. And so mastering the mundane shit, that's, I believe that's how you fucking win
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all right, I appreciate each and every one of you guys who are supporting the cause and continue to spread the love and yeah, stay up.