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It’s now Sunday, and I’ve decided to chronicle another post about my life since I wasn’t really able to write as much as I wanted when I was at Starbucks. Besides, I don’t and or haven’t yet been working hard enough at explaining things that I do concerning routines/habits that I have and or use/implement to help me get to my millions. So today’s/tonight’s post will be about my Sunday before Monday…Hmmmmmm. That just might be the title for this post…..Hmmmm We’ll see.

So It’s Sunday night and I’m here at work. and as I’m sitting behind two computer monitors writing this post. Behind the monitors I can see in my blurry peripheral vision, about 10 feet in front of me, the outline of beautiful woman that is sexually dancing to entice men to give her money. A beautiful scene that I can only assume for most of us men (and for some women) is worth looking at and spending money on, but for me this is a scene or event that I have seen more times than is currently necessary. And not to mention that I probably have more stories about it than those men that have stories about being great woman magnets or the boasting of the notches on their bed post. ie: nothing spectacular. But it is what it is. nuff said.

So Sundays…… The last or first day of the week depending on how you look at it, these days I try my best, which is sadly not enough but currently probably only about 60 percent of the time, I try to use my Sundays to prepare for Monday. Now why do I do this on Sunday? First of all Sunday is a bit less hectic than Friday and Saturday. You see I have done this job for the better part of 20 years, so I can do most of this job in my sleep. Which is probably why I now get irritated when people my age or people younger than me who are higher in the clubs food chain come to me and decide to tell me how to do my job. I don’t blame them, they are only doing what they believe is their job. But me, I look at the “managing of people” from a different perspective, a different lens, a different method to grow and inspire a fun atmosphere for all who work here. That’s all we will say about that until I can feel a bit more of an inner freedom and strength to speak those personal thoughts about “the managing of people” while here at work.

What do I now normally try to get done while at work on Sunday? Well, besides changing music every three minutes or so, promoting and advertising the club before, after, or between songs, interacting with and promoting the girls and anything else that others want or expect from me, besides changing light settings, besides dealing with or consulting with any one that needs my attention at the drop of a dime……Besides all that, whenever I can, I use my free minutes or moments to think about and arrange what best I can get done on that coming Monday and try to set in place events that should get done throughout the coming week.

I typically sit and go thru my todo list and reevaluate what is important and what can wait. I then rewrite the list and add things from other small scattered notes that I have written down during the week or notes that have become suddenly imperative. I’ll make this list as long as it needs to be to satisfy all that I can remember that is important to my business and personal life. It can be anything from visiting people at the City’s District 3 office to making sure that I do laundry. You’d be surprised how easily I can forget to do laundry until I have no socks to use for that day.

So what does my list look like tonight? So far it looks like I have about 19 things on my list. I’m not done with the list yet, but I wanted to stop for a minute and get a quick post in. I figured I should stop to remember to blog more than once a week. This seems like a great time to do that and give a bit more transparency to what I do.

Now some of the things on this list are things like….

Meet with Mike (My blog and web designer), meet with Heather (to help me understand how to use quickbooks properly for my real estate), remember to go to the gym, make letter to people that I hired to help me find my father’s side of the family, set up camera to do video logs, meet with my welder, call electrician, look up book Fred Factor, Call Aurora from City’s Parking Division, Find Eloy, Have tenant renew lease, Connect with Daryl for some type of mentorship help, Connect with Greg for some type of mentorship help, check outside light at the 4plex, Call water company about water leak, hair appointment in Mexico. District 3 meeting, ……. and the list goes on. Luckily I still have socks, So the laundry is not on this weeks list.

Then I add these things with the recent events that are needing to be done or attempted to be done on Monday. What type of things specifically do I need to do this Monday? Well, things like…. go to bank, meet with my motorcycle mechanic, meet with a new prospective contractor to haul trash from one of my properties, Cut a check for the plumber, text one of my tenants about broken car on property, oh…. and go to Walmart.

From here I then rewrite the list, then I pick out the top 3 things that I would like to see get accomplished on Monday. Anything else after those top 3 things are gravy. I used to try and get everything done on my list, but without knowing I would just run myself ragged trying to get everything done, not to mention the self inflicted agony that it gave to my ego from never ever, ever, truly getting everything on my list finished. I remember during one of my times watching Tony Robbins, that he was talking about what he went thru with his own personal strife with his todo list and how he was able to take this negative mountain and turn it into a positive movement. He went on to say that what someone should do with their list is to pick out the top 3 things that they “feel” is the most important for them at that moment. What does this do for me when I take this approach to my todo list?

What this does is to allow me to feel like I have more wins than loses. And what I am coming to learn is that I need to mentally always find ways to “create” as many small wins as possible. Small wins eventually snowball, they eventually add up, they eventually make big wins. Now when I think about it, what I used to do in the past was to unknowingly set myself up for failure. I would tell myself that my goal was not just to accomplish everything in one day but that I HAD to try and accomplish everything on the list otherwise I would not be worthy of my own personal self as a person. I was really shogun about it for a while. I really tried my best. And in the end, what would happen when I tried to do that???? Besides the fact that I just couldn’t accomplish the list in one day, besides the fact that I had setbacks like…. People didn’t answer my call, people didn’t return my call in time, a store or office was closed, someone was out to lunch, or the best part of all….. Other unexpected shit just came up. Yay! It got worse. It got to the point where I hated to do the list, I would find ways to put the list off until I really, really had to do it, or beter yet…. when something went horribly wrong.. I disliked it so much to the point that I even tried to make a smaller list or pretend that things were not yet worthy of being on the list….Lol….. Boy that was a bad idea.

And after many months, hell, actually and truthfully, it was probably a few years of this happening, I would just get mad and angry after every time I got that proverbial door slammed in my face from things not getting checked off and accomplished. I got to the point where I felt like I could NEVER EVER get anything done. I felt like my day was wasted and a total waste of my time. I even got to the point where it would make me want to compulsively overeat or drive me to drink and get hammered. It was just one disappointment after disappointment. Now in retrospect I could easily see how this would not allow me to get the best out of my day. This would not let me stay in creative mode. (Which is a state that is something that I am trying really hard to understand and accomplish on a daily basis) And instead it didn’t just keep me, but more so it locked me into competition mode. Worry mode! It would get to the point where I would dread having to do this list. Luckily now a days I don’t dread it. But sadly I still don’t love it, however, I can at least now use it as a means to an end. And better yet, as a measuring stick to see if I am really looking at what is important to the direction that I am trying to go in life.

Well I just wanted to stop in an give a quick post about my Sunday. I could write all night, but then I would not get things done on my list that are needed. Until next time. Breathe Creative.

Max.