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Max here ….. The date. April 1st. The time 1:50am…. The place, The club.

It’s Sunday into Monday morning and I thought I would do a little more writing on how things have been.

Last time, I left off on talking about organization and discipline, and I am now really trying to ramp up on getting this discipline of organizing down to a habit that is irreversible. Currently I have not yet gotten enough good habits disciplined. For example, I recently reworked a weekly planner. Joan had made me a weekly planner to help me begin to see how I am structuring my days and my time. And truthfully it was a good thing. One of my biggest challenges is taking time to write things down. Somewhere in life I never learned the importance of writing things down in order to see or chart my activities. And to be quite honest, I am just now beginning to see the power of what writing down the times of what and when I do things can do for me. It’s like charting my life from a micro level and being able to then ask myself if what I am doing everyday is moving me in the direction of where I am trying to go.

And where am I trying to go?  Well… Happiness and millions of course. So many videos and books just keep pounding the concept or their version of how fruitless the millions are if you also don’t find happiness. And so for me internal happiness is imperative. I am already moving out of youth and into death. I don’t say it in a dark way but in the reality of the fact that the moment that we are conceived, we are destined to only live this life for a moment in time. And so for me because I can see this concept in and of life, I believe that I should be happy as much as possible while moving into the next life. The difficulty is that I have not been happy most of my life. My life sucked and was just shit. One of the best things is that I have a mother that loves me. She herself didn’t have a great life and so showing love was not always easy or possible, but as of this writing, I am still lucky to have my mom here in my life. (Thank you mom for loving me).

But yeah, happiness and millions, that’s where I am trying to go. And the weekly planner will hopefully help me to see the path that I am walking. I am sure that it will not shine the light to everything, but it will at least allow me to learn from it and superimpose its effects onto other parts of my life and goals that will help me to dial in to the path, and the thinking that will get me to my goals.

So on top of my normal to do lists, my weekly planner, my tasks of finding people to work for me, the daily work at having discipline to get proper sleep, meditation, meeting people, time for personal growth, and all other things that I am trying to do in life…. I recently (and I can’t remember where I made the decision or exactly what I was listening to that prompted me to think about it)

But I recently thought about things that I repeatedly seem to think about. But on a macro level. I think about a lot of things, and because I think about so many things, it all becomes like a bowl of chili. (In a bowl of chili you have multiple ingredients and then those ingredients are in different amounts and even then at the end when you look at the bowl of chili you can see that the only consistent item that looks somewhat the same is the beans, while the meat is in different sizes and the spices are all almost invisible in the water) so yeah, all my thoughts get squished into a bowl of chili, And so one day as I was listening to a book or a video, I thought to myself, what are the major items that I think about, but in that macro, chunking up way of thinking, And so far I came up with 5 items. (Now I can always chunk up to 2 items…. Time and Money) but that’s to high of a chunk up and does not allow me to look at things in a good form.

So 5 things that I wrote down. Now I could be wrong about these 5 things and will need to have some time to really drill on this and try and work them into something that will help me…. So what are these 5 things….. “My 8 doors, Love, Health, Family, Personal growth”

These 5 things seem to be very repetitive in my daily thoughts. And within each of these 5 items are subsequent items/thoughts. And somehow I just think that if I can understand my thinking, how I am connecting my thoughts, then somehow I can clean the clutter of thoughts in my mind to find the daily focus that I am looking for. The human mind was not created to multitask, so I now know that I must instead compartmentalize/box my thoughts (in a form that allows all of the same thoughts to flow together) and also have a master list that will allow me to switch between thoughts, tasks, ideas, etc. And the less time I spend on switching thoughts, ideas etc, then the more efficient that I can do things. But again, this is just a thought that I am currently having and I will need to do personal guinea pig research on it.

Now what else am I doing…. Well let’s see,

I have finally somewhat understood Dan Sullivan’s idea of the (3 types of days….. focus, buffer, and free.) When I was reworking the weekly planner that Joan made for me I realized that she had pretty much the same basic foundation for how my week should be. The biggest part of my weekly planner (the first version that Joan made for me) was to have an “inspirtation” day, Dan Sullivan call’s it “free day”. And on this inspiration day I was skydiving and sometimes doing the blog. The point of the inspiration day was to not do anything that I considered to be “work”. And oddly enough, I was almost locked into this schedule before Joan made the weekly planner, but when she made the weekly planner for me, it allowed me to see a very basic idea of what I was doing, she then said,”Max, this is just a template and can be changed at anytime, this will be to allow you to see what you are doing and then you can alter it as needed”. (I love you Joan!!! Thank you!) And so now I have made a revised weekly planner. But this time my goal is to write on my weekly planner daily and try to log specific trigger events that should help me build the makings of a powerful day…. Now what are things that will help me to build a powerful day? (And remember if I can build a powerful day, then I can build a powerful life) So powerful day…. From what I learned it starts with what so many say is “Win the morning” And in winning the morning starts before the morning…. It starts with sleep. And SOLID sleep. not eratic sleep (like what I typically get) It also starts with preparing my to do list for the upcoming day, and also writing in my small wins diary (before sleep). It then requires some form of meditation and gratitude to mentally arm your mind for all of the hills and obstacles that will attack your mind throughout the day. Then it requires plant food, along with certain fats, and a small amount of meat and plenty of water with very little sugar consumed thru the day. (just my opinion) But beyond that, I can see that if I can do those things then I can mentally win the day. But eventhough I will have mentally won the day, I must still have visual progress from the day. And this visual progress will come from the planning of my day, and doing that daily journaling of what I have done at different times of the day. The couple this with the “Focus” “Buffer” and “Free” days that Dan talks about, and if I can do this for at least one month, but preferably 2 months, then I just know that I will be able to see if I am mentally doing things at the right time, which will allow me to move in the overall right direction to my goals and dreams, then all I have to do is to work on the execution of the things that I am doing within each day. But first I must get the macro chunks cemented in my life. Then I can chunk down to a micro level.

What else have I done or doing? Well I went skydiving last week. I got to jump twice. And the oddest part about it….. Marcus, (the guy who packs my parachute) said….”Now Max, you know that the butterflies stay on the plane” And to be honest, for a moment, I didn’t know he was talking about, then the light bulb in my head turned on and I said to myself “Oh he talking about me being nervous because I haven’t jumped in over 5 months” And then after I did a class with the instructor, I suited up and then…… after suiting up and preparing the gear, that’s when I felt the butterflies. And I hadn’t even stepped into the plane. I told Marcus about the feeling after suiting up, and he then repeated… “Don’t worry just remember that the butterflies stay on the plane” Then as we boarded the plane, the oddest thing happened, the butterflies went away. (Or atleast almost completely went away) When I boarded the plane, I could feel them exiting the plane, then somehow I only felt them (and faintly felt them at about 8000 feet, but then they went away. I later asked myself….. “Wow, why didn’t I have more butterflies? Especially why didn’t I have more butterflies on the plane? Why?” As I thought about it, I realized/remembered, that I use that flight time as my meditation time, to give thanks to every good and more importantly EVERY “BAD” thing or people that has happened in my life. Remember you can’t feel fear and joy at the same time. Luckily it is just not humanly possible. So yeah, it was uber cool to mentally see how I am begining to look at things in my life. But somehow I must cement these thoughts/ways of thinking into every facet of my life. Especially here at work in Austin. This is where the majority of my stress comes from….  Which got me to think recently…. “Is the money I make at work equal to the amount of stress that I have at work?” For example, For the girls, managers, dj’s, or anyone at any job, ….. If someone makes 300 dollars a day/night, does there stress level rise with the amount of money that they make? So if someone makes $100 a day, then in the future they make $300 a day does their stress rise at the same exponential rate of their income? And if so, does it have to be like that? I think I will be asking Joan and the hypnotist this question. My basic knowledge will say that it does happen, but that it doesn’t have to be that way. Well find out in the future…

Now this past Thursday I didn’t go skydiving, instead I worked on my BBQ pit, if I didn’t mention it, I am welding myself a BBQ pit/smoker. It is taking me a VERY long time to get it done, ( I actually started on it back in January) but I have always wanted to learn how to weld, and oddly enough by the end of day Thursday, I stumbled upon what I should be doing to make better and faster welds. This was a good thing, A very good thing actually. And for me the company picnic is just 2 months away, and I need to get this BBQ pit up and working, and I also need to weld together a pig roaster (with a working motor for a 100 to 200 pound pig). Last year the pig roaster with motor I made didn’t work (or didn’t work well) and so this year I must do a better job of getting something to work.

OK time is running out here, girls are already leaving and the night is almost over…. And I still have morning traffic to contend to from Austin to San Antonio.

Wishing each of you an amazing day……

Max.