Albert Nichols albertcnichols.com April 7th 2015

Spending Time

Why are you here?

39 Days 13 Hrs 49 Min

410 Days 13 Hrs 47 Min

0 Days 0 Hrs 46 Min

👦 👧

💏 😘

🚘 🎫

🎉 🙌

🎓 🙇

💼 ↗ ️

👰 💍

👶 🍼

👦 👧 Teenager

💏 😘 First Kiss

🚘 🎫 Driver’s License

🎉 🙌 21st Birthday

🎓 🙇 Graduation

💼 ↗ ️Promotion

👰 💍 Marriage

👶 🍼 First child

How do you choose to spend your time?

Do what “The Man” says Go with the Flow Dreams (be an olympian) Lead others Follow others Comfort Push the limits Change the world

Why should you choose how to spend your time?

No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training.

What a disgrace it is for a person to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength which their body is

capable

No citizen has a right to be an amateur.

What a disgrace it is for a person to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which they are capable

“You are vulnerable to those who will be more than happy to define you, and to direct that fraudulent self they created, toward their fraudulent ends.”

i.e. If you don’t choose, someone else will for you

“It is always darkest just before the day dawneth"

- Thomas Fuller

Time spent

Quality of what you’re doing

But Remember… Your actions predict the future

“The night is darkest just

before dawn”

- The Dark Night

Time spent

Quality of what you’re doing

But Remember… Your actions predict the future

How should you choose to spend your time?

The

“Bottom

Line”

The

“Bottom

Line”

3 Examples

Patagonia1% Revenue -> NGOs

TOMs# of Shoe Donations

Tesla# of Reduced emissions

What is your Bottom Line?

Feel the Rhythm

Chasing the ‘Bottom Line’

There is no destination

Ignorance, is productivity

Brick walls are there for a reason. Brick walls give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough.

They’re there to stop the other people.

Days are not for counting

How’s the water?

What the hell is water?

Do the

Mirror Test

Feel the Rhythm

Exercises

Read Converse

Listen

Think Meditate Be Aware

Write Speak

Exercise

Guess and Check Every Month

•What key decisions am I about to make?•What outcomes do I expect?•What patterns do I see?•What do I need to enhance in order to get what I want?

•What bad habits are preventing me from getting the outcomes I desire?•What are my strengths?•What do I value?Review your results from last month

ASK:Tip: Make a monthly recurring calendar reminder with these questions and the next slide as the description

Habit Check

Habits speed time Habits deaden anxiety

Some Habits•Brush teeth•Shower•Laundry•Have a drink•Socialize•Chipotle

•Exercise•Surf YouTube•Check Facebook/insta, etc•Read•Pick your nose

Exercise: 1.Write down your daily,

weekly, Monthly Habits2.Which ones would you keep?3.Create action plan to eliminate

bad habits and build new ones

Ride the PLB Continuum

PLB

Look for the Dishwashers

If you leave with nothing else:

Actively choose how to spend your time

Determine what your “Bottom Line” is

When in doubt, do what feels good (right)

Look in the proverbial mirror and ask “do I like what I see, where I’m going?”

If yes? Scale the Brick Walls

If no? Feel the Rhythm

What You’ll Encounter Salary Negotiations

Quitting

Transitioning Jobs

Saying No

Dealing with the office a**hole

Being a serious commuter

Being a 9-5er

Being taken advantage of

Being called a millennial

Unknown Expectations

Tools Meditation and Mindfulnessheadspace.com

Pen and paper — Burn after reading (writing)

Readingmedium.com

getpocket.com

The people next to you

twitter.com

ProductivityClear realmacsoftware.com/clear

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Albert C. Nichols