This module is paramount in mastering your time and talent. We fill our life with work that eats up time and the leftovers go to family and unfulfilled dreams. Let’s flip this upside down! In the blueprint below I want to help you discover strategies to gain more life and less work. Then, we will shift where what you love becomes your job.
Questions: (you can download and print these below)
1.Start at the end of the year and fill calendar with events that pertain to family and vacations. Then fill work around the blank spots. What are your dream memories you’d like to live that creates value? What are they?
2.What are your dream memories you’d like to live that creates value? What are the dream vacations or outings that you’d love to live? It’s hard to work when we don’t have a goal in mind or something to look forward to. Sometimes it’s a small overnight getaway for alone solitude at a local hotel. Sometimes it’s going to Paris.
3.If you have children, take a day each quarter and have a “best” day. These are days I take my kids out and they get whatever they want to eat and anywhere they want to go for the day. No t.v. and no movies. Put it on the calendar also, don’t take them out the same day. Has to be each kid by themselves.
4.Your spouse: Do you have a weekly date night? If not, I HIGHLY suggest you make it a standing night. Trade off with another couple and alternate weeks to provide free baby sitting. When you go on a date with your spouse it’s not for free time. It’s for intentional focus time. Ask each other the question: “How are you feeling about the marriage and what can I do to make it better?” This weekly exercise transformed our marriage and the kids notice. What are some ideas you have for date night? Keep it cheap! We sometimes do Chipotle and then grab a coffee and then other times we go all out for a steak at Ruths Chris. During your date night ask and dream ideas for the “dream life”. Force yourselves to being in the business of building memories.
5.Here’s a TOUGH test: Tell me your top 3 memories from last year. Tell me your top 3 memories from last month. Trust me. I know. We can live lives in busy and not produce any lasting memories or fruit. Let’s change this!! We are meant for more than “work”.
6.Imagine you retire today. How will you spend your time? This is what you should be doing NOW! Not THEN. Get in on your life worth and self stock early. Grab all you can now and have big payouts as you go and thrive all the way to death. Get aggressive with your dreams and ideas. List below the life you would live if I put five million on your account. Notice: Significance is different than success. I’m not here to help make more money. Money doesn’t buy or guaranty value. That said, invest time and simplify life to allow margin for doing what lights up your heart. List those below.
I’m glad to be walking life with you. Go big!!
