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Gary Keller

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“Appreciate it If you mentioned sending people to some places, so I just started, Jay and I started our new podcast called Think Like a CEO. And so yeah, telling people to come and check us out and see if that's a cool place to go learn would be awesome.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, because I really like and respect you, to be honest with you, and you do a lot of good, you know, when your first book came out, I'll be honest with you. I looked at the title and went, that guy's full of it. Then I read the book and then went, oh my gosh, this is a significant book. This is not a trivial book. He has a cool title. But to be honest with you, what you wrote, everyone should read. And I firmly believe that. And so to be honest with you, I'm just here to honor you. It's an honor that you would ask. It's an honor that you would ask me, but more importantly, just the ability for you and I just to talk for a couple hours.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And again, she cooked for them and she couldn't help herself. She had to taste it and then she had to eat it and given her body type and the way she was. For him, it didn't affect him. For her, it completely blew her up. And once you realize that, you go, my gosh, your environment has to support your goal. So to me, the habit hack is go find somebody or a group of people that will support you and then build that support mechanism. Make sure that your spouse or significant other or best friend or whoever. Make sure that they're in alignment, right? Tell them what your goal is. Don't hide it. I want to do this and I need your help. Give me permission. I give you permission to help support me to do that. It's the secret.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, the skinny guy. So Jack Spratt knew no fat, right? Yeah, there's a skinny, skinny, skinny man. And his thing was, you know, dear, you can go pursue anything you want around health as long as the kids and I Have three square meals and ready for us, and they have to be different meals.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Other people write your support system. It's the phrase that I use earlier, and that is your environment has to support your goal. So your environment has to support your habit, too. So you literally, if you want to form a new habit, you're going to have to have your environment support that. You're going to have to have the people around you cheering for you and supporting you to do that, right? I had, Mary had an aunt who passed away a few years ago, wonderful, wonderful woman, but she was the size of, I don't know how to say it, she was massive. And she's massive. And in her husband, by the way, was Jack Sprat. And in getting to know that family, what I came to understand.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“One of the things that I ultimately developed was the habit of being able to develop a habit. Because in the end, that singular skill becomes like your superpower, right? The ability to just call it the habit hack, if you will. But it's the ability to form a habit. And it's hard. It's not easy. It's really hard. I'm 62 years old. It takes time to develop the ability to say, I want that. And I now see the singular habit that will get me there. I'm now going to develop that habit.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But what you and I both know is that if you don't choose your life, if you don't choose the direction of your life, you'll go in any direction. You'll end up in places that you didn't want to be at because you didn't choose where you wanted to be. So think big aim height. I'd put that on the billboard.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What's your choice, right? Yeah, I mean, it's kind of like the joke I tell the kids. I say, so think of it this way. So you fall in love with someone and you want to ask them to marry you. And you go, will you marry me? I've dreamed of our life together, and it's going to be average. We're going to live an average life and live in an average home, drive an average car, eat average food, take average vacations, read average books, go to average movies. We'll have average friends. We'll have average parties. And if we have kids, we'll have average kids. We'll teach them the virtues of being average. Let's get married. It's going to be awesome Anybody does that, do they? Not purposely”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Very average or below average habits. They end up developing, right? Your thinking leads to action, action over time becomes a habit. So if I'm thinking small, then I'm forming small habits. And here's the problem, like Warren Buffett said. Now I'm a person of small habits. And all of a sudden I look up and I go, wow, I really do want more of my life. And then you have to go break these habits. And that's really hard to do whether they're eating habits or exercising habits or you name it work habits or relationship habits. It doesn't really matter that at the end of the day if you have a choice, think big. If you have a choice, aim high and then ask yourself, what do I need to do to do that? And what are the habits or what's the one habit I need to develop such that by doing it everything else is zero and necessary and go get that habit. But if you don't think big.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Warren Buffett said it really well when he said that the habits of our life are like chains that are too loose to be noticed until they're too tight to break. And when you think about our life being built upon habits, you realize that most people accrue habits instead of form good ones. And so when you think big and you aim high and you start running towards that, you have to develop big habits, scalable habits in order to implement that plan. So if you didn't say think big and aim high, what would you say think small? Would you think think low? Would you say think average? If you didn't say think big, what are the other choices? And most people, by default, because they don't think big, they don't aim high, they end up developing.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Apparently, yeah. Oh, wow. So I've heard this more than once where they'll come off the stage and the person, whoever they were with goes, I'm going to get a proxy next time. That was awesome.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, that's exactly right. That's the line. And it says, sorry, his schedule conflicts with your date, so he will not be able to attend. Now, we then offer up somebody else if they want to go. So for Entrepreneur of the Year, one of my partners went, and it was so funny because I think that was the same year that John Mackey of Whole Foods was recognized. He and I were co-recognized. And after, so she got up and she spoke about me, right? It's really hard for, you know, if you win an award to go in and say, I'm awesome, I'm great. I'm terrific. I'm all these things because that would look stupid, right? But if you send a proxy, the proxy stands up and says, I want to tell you about my dear friend Gary Keller. He's the most amazing guy I've ever met. I want to tell you a story that exemplifies just a wonderful guy he is, right?”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So the other line that I give, and it's totally true, by the way, and that is I plan my time months, even years in advance. Now understand I can always erase. I'm not a rigid person at all about that. But one of my standard scripts is I'm so sorry I can't do that. I plan my time years, a year in advance, years in advance. And unfortunately, I'm unbooked then. Oh, yeah. Remember, I'm the guy that when they recognized me as the. When I graduated from college, I just drove out of town. I didn't even go to the graduation when they named me the most, what was the most influential person of the year Two years ago, I didn't go to the convention to get my award. When Austin recognized me as the entrepreneur of the year, I didn't go to the ceremony.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'll definitely, you know, if there's someone else. But that's kind of a standard line for me. My line is you were looking for a script and the underlying script would be, I can't say yes to everybody, so I'm going to have to say no. Because I get those requests. I get them every day. They just fly at me. Same with you. I mean, we get it. Absolutely.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm fairly direct about it, but I believe in the love, tough love sandwich approach, right? So, you know, I say, hey, Tim, typically this is in a text or an email, right? Because I don't allow people to talk to me, get to me via a phone or standing in front of me because that then becomes awkward. And now I have to deal with it on their time schedule instead of mine, which throws my schedule out, throws my focus off or my standard line is, you know, hey, Tim, this is me typing at something. And it says, hey, Tim, I really appreciate you thinking about me. To be honest with you, I would love to say yes. But the problem is, and I have several scripts after this, problem is if I say yes to you, I say yes to other people. And because I don't have time to say yes to everybody, I have to say no to everybody.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because I say no to everyone. This is the only one I've done. And I just say no to everybody categorically no. And the reason is because when I woke up this morning talking to that individual was not on my game plan. So at the end of the day, if talking to that person, if I have a spare moment and it's a kindness I can do, loves to do that. Loves to do that. But given my life and how big it is, there aren't many of those moments. Because I look up and I go, hold on, I have a spare minute. I need to go hug my wife again. I mean, that's the way I think about it. I need to go hang out with my dog more, right? I need to go do whatever that is within my list or at least within my focus categories of the things that matter most to me. So I'm a very much a no man. I just say it over and over and over and over and over again.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Pretty much everything. No, I know. I know. That sounds a little weird to say that. But if the people around me would probably confirm that. That essentially anything that's a distraction or anything that interferes with what I deem is my path or my relationships or whatever, I just say no. I mean, I literally am a definite no person, right? Time is a big issue for me. And we have limited amount of it. And so saying no to talking to people is right. I have this saying in my head that says that people that work with me are more important than people that don't. And so the fact that you and I are talking right now, my team will tell you, you must really love Tim.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, that's it. I couldn't have said it better. That is exactly right. And people tend to not understand that that actually is life-affirming. It's life expanding. It's really the, if you want to live the biggest life possible, then ask big questions of yourself, right? And go find individuals who, in fact, have, they're doing that thing that matters to you. Not that I know what Jacqueline Lane's morals were or anything like that. I don't need to know because I'm not saying he's my prophet in morals. I'm simply saying he's my prophet around health.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, if you don't ask the focusing question around the people in your life, you'll end up following too many people. So again, how many profits do you need around health? If you just follow Jack Lelane, whose goal was to live to 100, what a loser. He died at 96, right? But Clarence Bass has the same goal. So if you wanted to live to 100, let's just pick that as a target. I want to live to at least 100, then what's the one thing you could do? Would make that easier, or everything else easier or not necessary. In my mind, it would be go follow that exemplifies that better than anyone else and make that one person your true north. What's fun, you can even go dive into the Jack Lane approach or the Clarence Bass approach or whoever is your prophet for health. And you could then distill down what they do into one thing, believe it or not.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, yeah So let's ask that question. So, who's the one person that you could follow for your health, such that by doing that, following anyone else would be easier or unnecessary?”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah. And most people tend to think of that as religion only, but you could have a prophet, or you can call that a mentor or role model. I just call it a prophet, right? But you can everyone should have the individual that is kind of their guru for those things, right? Who's your health guru? Who do you listen to? Who's lived before you, right? And Jack Lillain, just as an example, Jack Lelane and Clarence Bass are two perfect examples. Gentlemen that started bodybuilding or taking care, just taking care of their body at a very young age when the thinking was one way. And as the thinking has changed over time, both of those men changed the way they thought, right?”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I would always think to myself, Well, that's his one thing, by the way, right? He was a health and fitness. He still is a health and fitness journalist, but he used his body as proof that what he was writing and talking about actually worked. But I only use this example that I believe that we have the opportunity in life to choose our prophets. And most prophets”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Your artery is contracting, expanding, contracting, expanding. So when I get up, I go right in there and I do my 20 to 30 minutes and my target heart rate zone. And then I move to weights. And so we have a very specific schedule. Clarence Bass is kind of like my physical hero. Do you know Clarence?”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I exercise five days a week. I exercise in the morning. So I get up and by 6.30 at the latest, my goal is to be in the gym. And so I do my cardio right in my 20 to 30 minutes, in my target heart rate zone. But I do four minutes on and one minute slow, four minutes on, one minute slow, right? And I do that because if you exercise at a steady pace instead of doing the high intensity interval training hit, right, HIIT, that the arteries, if you go at the same speed, you're training your artery to be more brittle and rigid. But if you train your artery through high intensity interval training with cardio and weights, you're going fast, then slow, fast, and slow.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So the thing is, like after I exercise, I ask the question, what's the one thing I could eat or drink such that by doing it, right? Everything else is easier unnecessary. And I play that game.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. And then after I did that, that went so well. I said, okay, now what's the one thing I could do, right? What's the next domino? And mother loved basketball. So I bought her the NBA channel every year and made sure that she had the printed, laminated copy of the game schedule with her right there by her easy chair. And then we made basketball, the thing that we talked about. Because if we didn't talk about basketball, Tim, we were talking about my sisters or my spouse, her sisters in a negative, derogatory, gossipy way. Just very destructive. And I just kept away from that with mom because I just played the game. What's the one thing I can do? What's the thing? What's the one activity? It's dominoes. What's the one thing we could talk about basketball, right? So that's kind of that's, and to me, that's just another way of thinking about it.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, by the way, I played that game with my mom. She was a pistol after dad died. And I kind of became the man in her life. And she was a pistol. She was difficult at times. Mom, if you're hearing this, you were difficult. But I loved her dearly. But she was difficult. And so I had to play the game. I had to say, what's the one thing I can do with my mom assisted by doing and everything else is unnecessary? Because my mom would, I don't want to go into the details of all that, but she could go off on tangents and do things and say things that could be hurtful and harmful. So I asked that question. And the one thing was play dominoes with my mother. So, for the rest of her life, with few exception,”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's a great question. I kind of order it this way. I lump in there spiritual, physical, right, mental. I lump those into this category and my personal relationships. And I lump all of that into one category. And my goal in the morning is to make sure that that works. In other words, that I get those things done. That's what matters most to me. Because if you don't take care of your health, that's like a glass ball that shatters. It's hard to recover from that. Ignore your family too long and you'll lose your family. So, right. And so I kind of see spiritual, mental, physical, and key relationships as the most important things that matter to me in the morning so that I live by kind of a mantra that says, I don't want to die of regret, right? I want to say on my deathbed, if I'm even coherent, that I'm glad I did, not I wish I had.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Would be horrible. I mean, that would be, I don't even know how anybody would do that. I mean, it would be a horrible life. So the point is that We don't want to be this is just me talking for me. But my life is better when I'm spontaneous after I've done my most important thing. That being spontaneous before that, that's where it becomes a distraction and does me harm. So I'm free to pursue all kind of trivial pursuits after I've done what matters most because it just doesn't matter, right? If you like it and you want to do it, do it. It's not going to harm you because tomorrow morning you're going to wake back up and you're going to be focused again from the time you get up until about noon or whatever it is, whatever time you get up, that six hours, that five and a half hours, whatever that is. That's your power time. That's where you take over the world. Be great for that length of time.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then the other issue is do you always have to do that? Do you always have to fight off distraction? And my response to that is, heck no, what you need to do is protect yourself. So, you know, I put forth this idea that the morning is the best time for you to deal with your energy. So I just recommend that people get up and have pretty much a set routine when they get up in the morning to ensure that they get the key things in their personal life nailed, that you then go to work and you just do that work. What is the thing that's most important today and do that? And in the afternoon, if you still want to pursue lesser goals or other things, who cares? It's not going to impact your success. So you don't have to be this 100% always on focus.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So that's all it is. And the way Jay and I described it in our book, we're just saying that the one thing is the 80-20 principle on steroids. It's on, it's a nuclear way of looking at prioritizing. And just distilling it in. And the other side of that is that it all comes down to the fact that you have to live in the moment. So the question is Are you living appropriately or not?”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think so. I think that one of the things that I... I think it surprises people when they find out that I'm not focused all day long. That, in other words, my goal is to have a really great day by noon. And then if I want to be distracted or can be distracted, that's fine. It doesn't really matter. I've already done everything that mattered. I've done the thing that mattered the most, which is going to the cousin of the 80-20 rule, right?”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Same with technology, right? In moving the organization from being a company that buys technology to a company that builds its technology, which is the distinction between being a tech company and not, right? You can't be a we're a tech company and we buy all our tech. You're not a tech company. Tech company builds tech, right? So then the question becomes, what's the one tech product you can build? So it's by building it, everything else is easier unnecessary. And we played the game.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, in 1994, I answered it by firing myself and hiring a CEO. I'm asking the question what's the one thing I can do right now such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary in growing the company and the answer was fire myself and hire somebody better suited right now at that moment in history to do that and then I asked the question okay so I understand hiring now is my one thing then the question becomes who's the one person I can hire instead of hiring them everything else becomes easier or necessary So then I go on a hunt for that person who when I hire them, I believe they can fulfill what I just said. Becomes the one higher, if that makes sense.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, in business, it would go a good example of using this would be in my business, who's the one person I could hire assisted by hiring them, hiring other people would be unnecessary or easier.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so, the one thing I can do is that by doing it my weekend is better, is to make that list and go knock it out. That's the right thing, right? My dog, what's the one thing I can do with my dog in the morning so that by doing it, everything else is easy or unnecessary. By the way, the answer with our dog, Millie, is always the same. Get on the floor and hug her, right? That's what she wants. And as long as I do that, life is great. If I don't do that, well, everything else is irrelevant to the dog. She just wants me to love her. So I'm just giving you a variety of different ways, right? What's the one thing I could do with my diet such that by doing it, everything else would be easier unnecessary? What's the one thing I can do that affects my cholesterol, affects my heart, affects everything about me, right? And for me is the one thing is eat vegetarian.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's the answer, and it's actually that simple on a weekend. What's the one thing I can do such that by doing it, everything else would be easier or unnecessary. So the one thing is I wake up in the morning and make a quick list of things I need to do around the house. And I do that because I know that my wife is going to make a list for me.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The next moment you have not set up to succeed. So you're behind, right? And so we have to be appropriate in our moments. And I think I understand, have always understood that naturally, to be honest. But I think at some point, and I couldn't pinpoint it, I grabbed it as an idea and began to aim my life around that. And so simple ways to think about it is I come home, I pull in the garage. What's the one thing I can do with my wife when I walk in the door says that by doing it, everything else for the rest of the night will be easier or unnecessary. And the answer is go find her and kiss her.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, remember, and we said it in the title of the book, and that is The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results. So this is, in my mind, the concept of the one thing is like adult Plato. This is a nuclear idea. an extraordinary idea in order to get extraordinary results if you're inappropriate in the moment”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What they should do, they're most likely going to take the wrong step. And then another wrong step and another wrong step. And over time, they are worlds apart. So everything that we talk about from calendars to setting goals to creating plans, all of that is so that you get one thing, and that is in the moment right now, you're doing the thing that matters most, such that by doing it, what you're fixing to do next will either be easier or could turn out to be unnecessary.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Now, you don't do this every day minute by minute where you say, Well, what's the most important thing I could do right now? What's the one thing I could do right now? What's the one thing I could do right now? But it is kind of a way of life, meaning that if you make your moments matter, right, matter as in you're appropriate in the right moment. Everything falls into place for you. So the whole idea behind the focusing question was to keep when it matters, when it's important to you, making sure that you're doing the priority right now that will lever your life, grow your life, expand your life. And it's the idea that if you are standing in the same spot and one has a clear focus and understands the thing they need to be doing right now in order to get where they want to go, their next step is an appropriate step for the individual who doesn't know.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, so if we just talk for a second about the focusing question, right, which is what's the one thing I can do such that by doing it everything else is either easier or unnecessary, it's an understanding that you can't do two important things at the same time. You could definitely multitask, but the second that something really matters to you. A lot, you don't multitask. You hone in on that and you do that thing. So the idea of the focusing question is are you present?”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Pre planning your time. Because if you needed to exercise, and that's what you want to do, you're going to have to find the time to do it. And then you're going to have to block that out. The movie analogy was this idea that you don't really need to time a lot more than two or three hours a day around your core activity for your business, whatever that is. You're not equally effective all day long. So what you want to do is you want to find that you want to make sure that the world doesn't infringe on the time that you know you need to give. For whatever it is is the key that makes your professional life run. And so I just time block. And I encourage it. Go ahead”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, that one is about time blocking. I'll just speak for myself. It is very hard to have a perfect day every day. And as the research will tell you that willpower is on will call, right? You don't have a steady stream of willpower. When you wake up in the morning and it doesn't matter what time if you got up at six, if you got up at noon, When you wake up, these are your power hours. And I used to tell people, look, the goal is to have a great day by noon. In other words, get everything that matters that is important to you. Get it done. Don't put it off. Get it done. And then let the events of the morning drive your afternoon. And so time blocking is just this idea of you.”
2019-12-12 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #401: Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's actually all. The speed was just a funny joke that happened. But it really is more about my ability to see everything at a glance. And it's easy for me then to see how many times in the last 30 days or looking forward to the next 30 days, I have planned to back in the day to go to lunch with my son. I can actually see it. I can add it up and show you quickly at a glance. I can say, well, we did that three times last month. This month looks like we have it planned for five, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So for me personally, it gives me great vision, if you will. And so I can manage my energy. And I can always make sure that I have enough time set aside for the things that really matter. And I can see that better at a glance when I'm looking at a bigger picture. And that's the value. That's the only value.”
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“But I create a day. I created kind of a daily worksheet. So as the day is going on, I don't actually need my calendar per se, right? Because I'm working off of that. But the second that I need to do planning, I got to get back to the month. And I can flip easily and look at the other months, right? And for me, when I'm planning out time off and vacations and other things, it really helps for me to see the spacing of my life, to see the things that I'm doing that give me energy, to see the things that take energy away from me so that I can always be fine-tuning my life, quickly at a glance. So anyway, it's just a really good way to do it. It does fly in the face of the way that other people look at time and using electronics or digital time management systems. But I just can't get rid of it because It makes me so aware of my life.”
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“No, no, I carry it with me. You carry it with me. I carry it with me. At all times, everywhere. It never leaves my side, actually. It's in my backpack.”
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“Just looked at me and I said, let's do it. Let's see what happens so. He says, okay. So I go one, two, three, go. I just pick up my calendar, pull it open, and go, there it is. And he's still trying to get into his phone, right? And then I said, and oh, by the way, I can tell you what I'm doing tomorrow at 3 o'clock. I can tell you what I'm doing two weeks from now. I can tell you what I did, everything I did last week. And I'm just peppering him with my vision for my life. And he's still fumbling trying to get to the to see if he could even go to the concert, which he did, by the way, and it was awesome. And he and Kenny hung out afterwards.”
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“And in a venue that we love and support. Somehow I came out. And Larry used to had sung with Kenny Loggins and loved him. And he said, man, I'd love to catch that show. My family's still there. And I said, well, I can get you in. He said, well, what date is that? And I knew the date off the top of my head. And I said it. And then he pulls out his electronic calendar and starts going through it. And I went, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold it. You've gone to the dark side, and he's laughing. He's going, What do you mean? I said, okay, let's have a gunfight at the OK corral. You put your phone back down and I'll lay my calendar out here. And when I say go and I'll go one, two, three, go. When I say go, we both reach for our guns and see who's the first one who can shoot.”
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“For that reason only, I'll tell you a funny story. There's a guy by the name of Larry Bragg, and he was a lead singer for Tower Power. And I didn't know him personally, but I was coming back from Vegas on a trip, and I'd gotten to the Southwest Airlines gate early. And there was only one guy in front of me. And I recognized him as the lead singer of Tower Power. And I looked down and he had a briefcase, and it had a tag that said Tower Power on it, right? And I went, okay, I'm pretty sure this is Larry, right? So I say, excuse me, I just introduced myself. And we had a great talk because I just seen them perform a year earlier in Austin. And so we had a great conversation. Somehow we turned to Kenny Loggins was coming to Austin to a conference.”
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