Don't Put This Off! - 7 Days to Eliminate Procrastination | Part 3

Someday the sun will rise anew, its golden rays painting skies so blue. Dreams unfurl like petals in the morn, whispering secrets that time has borne. But someday is a phantom, a fleeting wisp, a promise deferred, a hopeful twist, for in the calendar's dance, it remains unseen, a distant echo of. Of what might have been, to seize the present. Embrace the now, let your heart unfurl, let your spirit. Wow. For tomorrow's canvas is blank and meek, and someday is not a day of the week. I'm Curtis, the poet. That guy right over there, he's Joe. And we are dudes in progress.

Hey, Joe. Hello, my renaissance friend. Wow, look at you.

Is that what?

Didn't know it?

Is that what the spirit of that poem was, the Renaissance? I guess so.

I didn't know just what I mean by you being a renaissance man, a man of many talents and experiences and artistic.

I'm bohemian.

Yeah.

Look at you today, man.

I maybe should, you know, we're not seeing your video. I'm seeing you on video here, but maybe you should grow a goatee and put a beanie on. What do you think about that? I like it, man. Did you write that?

I'm willing to try anything. Well, let's see. I prompted that.

That's what we all do it now, right?

I like, this is the way of the world, right? I liked it, though. I took a quote. That's gonna be my quote for the week. It's in there. I'll share what that is at the end of the show, but I just prompted chatgbt to use that quote to build a poem, and that's the first thing it can't spit out.

We've used chat GPT a lot as a resource. There's one tip of the week or resource that I want to use for chat GPT that I discovered a couple weeks ago, but I'm just going to share it right now. Do you mind? Since we brought up chat GPT? Yeah, you can take chat GPT and tell it to look at a website and give it the website and ask it to do a complete analysis of this website and give me a 100 word synopsis of the site with bullet points.

Wow.

And it will do it.

That's fun.

It'll tell you exactly what that site is all about.

Ooh, I should do that on my podcast site with all the. It's basically just the podcast with my show notes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It does a great job of that. I know, that's awesome.

It is cool.

Well, I've been having fun? Have you been procrastinating last couple weeks, Joe?

Man, I've put so much off I can. I'm so busy putting stuff off, Kirk, I sit down and I make my checklist of all the same things I'm not going to do.

We were just chatting before we hit record. We talk about this stuff. We ought to do it.

There's some. There's certainly some stuff that I need work on, right? We all do. But there's. I'll speak for myself. We were talking about checking calendars and looking at your lists and looking at your inbox and waving the banner of David Allen's getting things done. And I guess we're just. We need to give ourselves some grace, but also we need to hold ourselves accountable to the stuff we talk about.

Yeah, I love doing this podcast for that very reason. It's. My motivation is just to stay motivated in my personal adventures. We've been reviewing the last couple episodes, the book, immediate action, a seven day plan to overcome procrastination and regain your motivation. I can't say the author's name. I wish I could hear a video or something.

I think his first name is pronounced Tebow. I know that Tebow.

Tebow Maurice is my best guess, but he's got a series of books in the Amazon book club that I got with my Amazon fire, and I've been digging in even further into that. But we're going to finish up. We did. The first five days of the seven day plan, which included day one is declutter your mind. Day two, review why you procrastinate. Day three was deepen your understanding of procrastination. Day four, gain clarity. Day five was develop laser sharp focus. And I think the last two really are the meat and potatoes for me of this plan. Release your fear and implement a daily routine and build consistency.

This has been a great subject, man. This has been a really good subject. And some of the stuff we know, some of the stuff we've read in other self improvement books and personal development books, some of it is a good reminder. But there's some very straightforward strategies through this book and through these past few days that we've spent on this book that I'm really sinking my teeth into. Some of it I want to, and some of them I'm going to. We'll see the results. Hey, on an unrelated item, I do want to say this. While it's on the top of my mind, Kurt is I took advantage of one of your resources that you mentioned over the past couple weeks, and that is the. That is the big sale that Amazon had on their products, their readers, and their fire and stuff like that. My, I bought my wife the ten inch Kindle fire that was on sale and found out, unbeknownst to me, that we had a couple old Kindle fires laying around here. One was abandoned by my daughter, and one I bought for my wife. It's like a generation three or something like that, that ended up saving me about $40.

Yeah.

On this purchase. So, yeah, practice what you preach and follow our tips and tricks and our resources. This is, this really paid off for me.

I'm starting to think they give you a certain amount of time to send the old ones back. And guess what I did, Joe. I procrastinated on that. I was just about to look, I'm. Where is that date? I had the box downstairs and ready to go. It was the box that the Kindle came in. I got the same one, the ten inch, and I had everything there. I just hadn't printed the label. But I did it the day of, and it all worked out. Matter of fact, I got the $40 credit. And if you're Joe's watching my video, I bought some things that's gonna be part of my YouTube adventures, the ring light and some cords.

Awesome.

Yeah. Well, day six is release your fear, Joe, do you think fear has ever caused you to procrastinate?

It has. I know for a fact it has. There's been. There have been large presentations that I've given. I can think of one many years that was in front of, I don't know, I would say a few hundred people, maybe even several hundred people that I knew about for a long time. I'm talking six months. I know. I knew that I was going to.

Have to do this.

And the idea of doing it now, I do a decent job at public speaking, and I normally don't fear it in the truest sense. What my fear was in this situation was these are people who knew more than I knew, significantly more than I knew about the subject matter I was presenting. And so I kept putting it all. I kept putting off the preparation and kept putting off the preparation, kept putting off the preparation. And finally, two weeks to go. Now I knew about it for six months, but I just had this gut wrenching fear in me that was like, gosh, I was somehow hoping some natural disaster would come and tear down the whole, tear down the whole facility that we were presenting in, and we'd have to reschedule for next year, you know.

A weather event like back in school test you didn't study for hope it snows.

Hopefully it snows. Or down here in the midwest there's a tornado. But honestly, I was putting it off, thinking maybe they'll reschedule or something like that. This was many years ago. Or was it last week? And I eventually gave the presentation, but I could have done it. Two things. I would have calmed my nerves much more had I prepared in advance and I started it earlier.

Right.

And I would have done a better job. I didn't do a bad job, but it wasn't my best moment. And it was a big show that it was connected to a trade show that we were attending. Yeah. Yeah, dude. I have let fear lock me up.

Didn't you find once you started taking action, though, the fear starts to dissipate? I think the biggest thing from this seven days that we've been looking at, biggest thing I've learned is action creates motivation.

It certainly does.

And I'm finding that right now I'm going to use, in my example, my side hustle to create a YouTube channel. I'm going to practice these seven days coming up for sure. I'm going to take a deeper look over the next week at all of these things. And in my pursuit of YouTube, fear is absolutely playing a role in my pursuit. I've even noticed being a podcaster for ten years, just talking to a microphone myself without an interview has always been a little bit of a challenge. But multiply that with putting a video camera on me. Now that's an extra. There's lots of extra things that are fearful in creating a YouTube channel compared to a podcast.

And even weird things that, that maybe us as guys, we shouldn't think about. Okay. You think about, okay, well, how do I look? What are my aesthetics? Is my. Do I need to take off about 20 pounds before I even start this? Right? Do I need to, do I need to make sure I get my hair cut and shave and all that stuff? And what does my background look like? All this stuff that as guys, maybe I'm being a little stereotypical, that as guys, you don't really think a lot about. We like, sometimes we like to say, hey, take me or leave me, man, I am what I am, right?

Absolutely.

But then you start thinking about, man, these possibly thousands and thousands of people are going to see my face. I sure hope I don't have a booger.

Maybe I can edit that out, that part. But yes, the camera puts on 20 pounds, Joe, it's so funny you said that. The very first it looked like in the online meetings, you're afraid of not being good enough. The book had this quote from Jodie Foster, famous actor. She said, when I won the Oscar, I thought it was a fluke. I thought everybody would find out and they'd take it back. Like, she was an imposter. They'd come to my house, knocking on the door. You have these nightmares sometimes, don't you two? Excuse me. We meant to give that to someone else. That was going to Meryl Streep. That was a quote from Jodie Foster.

No kidding.

Yeah.

And Jodie Foster's a heck of an actor.

You would never. She's. Yeah. Renowned for her skill, especially as an actress. And isn't that interesting, though? Famous people have those same fears, but they get past them, apparently.

The question is, do they get past the fear? Or. And maybe we're saying the same thing, do they get past the fear or they do it in spite of the fear.

That's right.

Right.

That's right.

Do you ever get. There may be some things that you never get past, right? There may be. And I think I've read stories about public speakers or even mountain climbers that never get past the fear, but they do it in spite of the fear, because of the whole idea of conquering the moment.

I don't know if I came up with this saying. You've probably heard me say this. This is one of my favorite sayings of all time. I have this feeling like I. This is mine. But you have to have courage before you have confidence.

Yeah.

You gotta be courageous.

You got that for me? You got that for me? I'm kidding. I'm kidding. That's a great saying, dude.

Yeah.

You have to have courage before even encourage. Seems like this big, this great big dramatic thing, the word courage, right. But courage is just one step, right? Yeah, it's just one step.

I'm not talking about. Right. Great dramatic hero courage. Some things get over to get over, like your public speaking, you really gotta get the. And once you get it out there and you start doing it and practice it, it does get easier. And you know that from experience. So have some self compassion, Joe. Just recognize that you might have this fear and that you've proven before that you can get over it. See yourself as a lifelong learner. Right. If you just know. And I'm getting. I'm taking my YouTube experience here. Hey, I'm going to just figure it out. I'm not going to get it right the first time. You're watching all of these people that are so polished, their video editing skills. And of course, you go to some of the biggest youtubers out there, they've been doing this for ten years, and they'll tell you it takes ten years practicing this skill to get it to where you can't expect yourself to be at that level when you're starting out.

And to piggyback on that, we're also in a demographic that traditionally doesn't lend itself to learning new technological things, learning new things where many people at our age think it's time to wind down or I'm too old for that. And I do resist that. I never want to be too old for anything. Man, we have our POW clay. That is a model for that. And yeah, it does take some courage to even defeat that little mindset.

I love that we share that. Maybe that's why we're good palsy. I guess I would. I don't know if I've heard you say that out loud, but it doesn't surprise me. And I feel the same way. And I've had that fear doing this YouTube thing. Hey, me. All these people doing YouTube are youngsters with all this energy. I don't know if there's a style that they're doing. I don't need to be that person. I don't have to be. I'm just going to be me, right? And that'll be, and there will be.

As we know, in this world, in this creative world, there will, there are people that will be attracted to Curt Stone because Curt Stone is Curt Stone. And that's clear. I mean, you've already proven that.

So stop making a big deal out of your tasks. That's just simple advice. Don't make it a big deal. The more you think about thinking about it, it's going to ruminate and it's not going to move you forward. Most of what people do, you can do, too. It was interesting that right in this book, as I'm talking about this YouTube, use an example. For example, many people believe they'll never go on tv or create a YouTube channel because they're afraid of showing their face on camera writing a book.

That's so funny.

And the truth is, this was, this little quote I put here is from watching YouTube about creating YouTube videos. The truth is, nobody cares. They only care about themselves.

Right?

I mean, that's a little harsh. The truth is, even everyone makes a flipped comment, or especially on YouTube, they, you get some of the real critics, they're hiding behind a fake name. They say nasty things. The trolls, they say these things, and you could learn from some of those. You can take part of that and try to improve. You might already know that you made a mistake, but they don't really care.

Yeah. I mean, if somebody says, hey, hey, Kurt, could barely hear your audio. Two stars. Cause I can't hardly hear you. You can take that. Hey, Kurt, I hate your eyebrows. What are you doing on video with those eyebrows?

I have a two star podcast review right now that's up high, and it's annoying me, and it's criticizing the audio on one of my shows. And I've been podcasting for ten years, and he reviewed one show that had the bad audio, which I knew. I've taken a lot of steps to fix that bad on me, but I worked so hard to try to fix. But anyways, that's unfair, and I can't. There's nothing I can do about it. Right. I actually did change my workflow, and I'm really. I could share that with people now. What I'm doing now, that is really, I think, improving the quality. And I've learned some things. When you talk and you're interviewing. One of the things I do, our friend Cliff Ravenscroft mentioned this recently, too, and he has an uncanny thing that he does where he'll be talking about something on his podcast, and it's so relevant to something I'm doing right now. But he was talking about, when you're interviewing someone, and usually when you're active listening, you're saying, yeah, I'm doing it while we're talking. But he says, try to cut down those little noises you make when you're interviewing someone. And now in my podcast, audio editing, ten years into this, I'm going through and editing most of my. Those little noises out that I make.

Huh? And. Oh, yeah. Yes. Oh, yeah. Oh, I agree with that. Yeah.

Because nobody needs to hear that.

Right.

I always felt that it made the conversation with someone else comfortable, that they. You're acknowledging, and it does listening, but you have to.

I do agree you have to edit some of those out if. Especially if they're distracting. But also, now we're talking about technique and stuff, like. And we'll get back to our subject matter. But also, it does give the listener a little feel of, hey, I'm listening in on a conversation here. So I think you leave some of those in. But, yeah, go ahead.

Yeah, you don't have to take them all out. So the bottom line is this, Joe, you often struggle to complete a task because the story you tell yourself about it and how you visualize it, you make it a big deal. So the best option might be to just see yourself as an unstoppable learner, excited about the job, journey ahead. Enjoy the process.

Yeah. The lesson is in the action. The lesson is in the experience. And you'll never learn the lesson if you look at yourself as a lifelong learner. But you never do anything to learn because you're locked up by procrastination. And maybe just get rid of the label. Procrastination. Right. And just say, I'm no, and I don't own that. Don't own that label. There's a mindset thing here, and I don't know if we've talked about it, but there is a mindset thing here, that when you start calling yourself a procrastinator and that we label ourselves so much with everything that we do, and then that label becomes a reality. Let's replace procrastinator with learner.

Yeah. So action steps. Completely accept your fear of not being good enough. Write down all the things you could accomplish in the future by doing what you need to do, regardless of how you feel or the story you're telling yourself. I like that one. I'm thinking of my YouTube. Why? What would it be like if I was a YouTube star? I got a lot of interesting dreams around that. Chunk down those tasks into smaller ones, make them as easy to work on as possible. That's so true. Get started. See yourself as a lifetime learner, like we said, and just learn to enjoy that process.

You know, that second bullet point, Kurt. Write down all the things you could accomplish in the future by doing what you need to do, regardless of how you feel, instead of procrastinating. I heard a quote by Michael Hyatt one time, and it's a very short, tiny quote. It's more of a question about your life and who you are. It wasn't Michael Hyatt. It was John Acuff. Doesn't matter. Both respected authors and creators and very popular in the entrepreneurial world said, what would you do if you are brave? I love how that sounds.

Right?

That just rings true to me, Joe, what would you do if you were brave?

That's great. That's very similar to my quote. Get that courage before you're going to have the confidence.

Yep.

All right. Day seven. Really, Joe? And I love these things of a daily routine and consistency. What's your daily routine, Joe, that you're doing when you're really successful accomplishing something important?

I can. I can tell you this much. About my work routine. I have a morning routine. We've talked a lot about our morning routines, but I have a work routine as well, where the first thing that I do when I show up to work is I do that settling in stuff. You get a cup of coffee, fill your water bottle, unpack your laptop. I have, and I have a list of all of this stuff that I've created. Now, do I look at it every day? No, because I've created a habit around it. And then I move straight into my calendar to see what, or my email to see what I need to. What I need to take care of that's happened overnight, any emergencies or things like that. And then as I'm looking through my day, I put in all the big rocks and I block out my calendar immediately because I don't want anybody controlling my calendar. I want to control my calendar. And then I set up breakpoints throughout the day. I work for about 50 minutes, 45, 50 minutes, and I get up and take a break. And I write those in to my day. When I do that, when I do that first thing in the morning. And there's some other few things here, but when I do that, when I do that first thing in the morning, my day goes amazing. It just goes nearly flawless.

Yeah. You just introduced that concept. You talked about it before. And I wanted to clarify, if people don't know, I don't know where this comes from because our friend clay talks about it. The big rocks isn't a story about a jar. Yeah.

There's a story of a professor standing in front of the students with a bag of rock, with rocks and gravel and sand and water all around on this desk. And he has an empty container, and he says, what's the best way to fill this? And he puts all these big rocks in. Right, right. All these big rocks in. And he says, is it full? Well, yep, it's full. Then he puts in, then he puts in the sand. Or then he puts in the gravel. Is it full? Well, there it is. It's full. Then he puts in the sand, shakes it a little bit, and puts in the sand. Is it full? Completely full. And then he puts in the water. And then now it's full. Your day is full.

Right.

But you could have never done that. You could have never fit all of that in there had you not put in the big rocks first.

Yeah. The most important tasks.

The most important tasks.

It's great. This is a fantastic quote from the book. I think you probably know this author, John Maxwell. You will never change your life. Until you change something you do daily, the secret of your success is found in your daily routine. Yeah, get those big rocks done. First, I was thinking something. I've been really successful with my ten years of podcast thing. Joe, reflecting back on that, how in the world did I create and produce a weekly podcast for ten years when a lot of people can't get past seven episodes, right? And let's. I'm not tooting my horn, or I am, but it was the daily routine, and we've been talking and teaching people about podcasting, and I've had these conversations with many people. If you want to be consistent, you got to do something every single day for that podcast. And it's a side hustle. It's not my day job. I'm doing this with all that energy that's left after. And for me, my gosh, I got to do it in the morning. And I know there's people that will say I'm not a morning person, but the thing is, especially if you've got kids, but you've got other people. I'm fortunate now my kids are all grown up, which is, I've always said I probably would never have done this successfully if my kids weren't all grown up. But you can get a lot done, and people are going to steal your time after 08:00 a.m. Into the evening.

They certainly are.

And I'm just exhausted after work and all the other things going on.

That's why I take control of my calendar. It's part of my daily routine to take control of my calendar. Similarly, this is podcast related as well. I did a podcast every day for a whole year. Every single day. I didn't miss a single day. I didn't even batch podcasts to know that, okay, I'm. Well, I'm going on vacation this week, so I'm going to do five in advance. I didn't do that. I podcast it. I released, I record it, produced and released a podcast every single day for a year. Now. Some of them were good, some of them were not so good. Some of them were five or ten minutes, and some of them were over an hour. But the only way that I could have done that was to have a structure and a routine to my show into what I was going to talk about and how I was in the things I was going to say.

Yeah, I know. So some of the steps to do this is you got to decide when and where you're going to do this daily routine. And I think even during that's a great example, your one year of, because you got to create the content, you got to find the content. There's a whole process over the workflow to get that thing out there. You got to decide exactly what you're going to be doing. You got to get started and then you got to work without interruption on that thing.

I got some feedback from, from a listener of that podcast.

It's.

I haven't done it in a long time. I, it's one of my favorite things I've ever done. And because of that, I don't do it. But I did get some feedback that, where somebody came in mid, mid way through the year, about halfway through the year, and they said, hey, Joe, just wanted to let you know I've started listening to the Simple Joe podcast. And so I went back and listened to some of that, some of your early episodes. Boy, did you get better.

Which you used to say every episode, I'm just doing this to get better.

Exactly. Exactly. Boy, did you get better. And so I took that as the compliment it was intended. Somebody could also have taken that in a way of criticism to say. The point is, had we not done these routines early and established some routines and worked on those routines, we would have never gotten better, even in this show.

Well, yeah, we just had a conversation before we started to do some things to stay consistent, like using our calendars a little better. So here's your action steps. Decide when you'll do your routine, preferably in the morning. I highly recommend that. It's what's worked for me. Decide what you'll be doing and just get started. Yeah, consistency every single day. So it just takes little, small steps, and you'll accomplish great things if you just stay consistent every single day. And just to conclude this whole seven days, Joe, there is nothing more enjoyable than seeing yourself learning new things, gathering new insights, and making progress towards your dreams. That's the whole thing we're trying to accomplish here.

This was an awesome seven day review of this book. Well, we did it over three podcasts, but I really like what this book has to offer, Curt. And thanks for. Thanks for bringing it to the table. What I like about this book and the way this guy writes is he's very direct and to the point. They're short reads, his books are short reads. But this was good. This was good. Many of the stuff we think we knew already, and we know we knew if that's the way of saying it. But also, there was some new stuff in here. There was some new stuff in here. Some nothing's new under the sun. I say that a lot, but there were some new reminders, I guess you would say, of some established principles.

And I'm starting to read another one in this series. It's called do the impossible for him. And I'm going to relate this procrastination seven days and review this back. And I'm currently reading the do the impossible. And for me, creating a successful YouTube channel is the impossible. It's a moonshot project a little bit for me and it takes a lot of consistency. It takes a long time to gather listeners, but I'm going to take all these principles and use that in my pursuit of YouTube. So Joe, thank you for that. Yeah, this is fun. I'm just going to continue, like we were saying before, try to learn from our what we preach.

The nice thing about this book particularly is it's a book that you can pick up if you feel yourself needing a little reminder of these principles. It's a book that you can pick up and read in a couple hours.

Oh yeah, these are really short. That's, yeah, that was something that's really fun. And it's part of my daily routine is to do some reading. It's not the most important thing for me. The most important thing for me is doing that work. I talk about whether it's for this podcast or my other podcast and now YouTube, that's the important work to get done. But I try to fit reading in there also. Perfect. What's your win for the week, Joe?

Well, I had a couple different options for my win for the week this week, and I'm going to use the one that's nearest and dearest to my heart, the one that I'm not using. I'll just tell you a little bit about it. I've been working on a big sales campaign with my work, I guess you would say, on a big sales campaign, and that had several levels of executive approval that was required. And finally after a few months, I got approval to move forward with the sales campaign. But that's not it. That's not it. The one nearest and dearest to my heart is my middle daughter was inducted last night into a very selective international honor society for psychology students. And I'm really proud of this kid and how hard she works and she has a lot of me in her and she sometimes she can struggle with focus a bit and very creative and that creativity sometimes causes a lack of focus. But wow, she has figured out processes and systems in her life and we talked about this just last night about learning and what she does to learn. And so just one of a dozen select it globally to be inducted into this international honor society. So awfully proud of that kid. So we went there last night.

She's got all your good qualities without any of the bad. That's right.

That's right. Easy, big fella.

I wrote down something for my win for the week, but you just inspired me for something different, which was my son. My youngest son, Ben, called and told me he got a little promotion at work. And.

Oh, cool.

Yeah, he's going to be doing something a little bit different. He's. He told me his process, too, of how he spoke to his manager, how he wanted to move into a different position, and they encourage advancement. He's definitely in a. What's the word? Beginner job.

Entry level.

He's in an entry level job, so it's encouraged to pursue other things and. Which I really love about the company. And he also shadowed a few people in this particular job. I really loved this process. I was like, wow, I hope you learned that from me.

That's funny. I was thinking about that, Kurt, as I was talking about my daughter, and you were talking about your son, and these aren't necessarily our wins. Right? And this was this. My. I did zero work in this certain circumstance for my daughter to be selected to this group, and you did zero work in the moment for your son's promotion.

Right.

But we can't discount the influence that we had, and this is hard for me. Sometimes. We can't discount the influence we had into setting disciplines and encouraging and helping them move forward and those tiny lessons that we try to teach as fathers. And so that's why I picked my win for the week, because. So I can accept whatever tiny role I had in this. That tiny role. Small hinges swing big doors. Right? That tiny role had an impact.

Yeah. And in this case, I think it's teaching by example. And he was telling me how he was the first person in this interview process. They reached out to say, we want you to take this job. This is another stepping stone for him. And I think one thing that I'm proud of teaching my kids, and I'm going to say it probably by example, is to grind it out. And their generation is not celebrated for grinding it out. That's true. And I think. And he's shown this capability. I can remember when he went out for the baseball team in college as a freshman, and he was not selected and was extremely disappointed. Very few people will go back and try out the next year. There are a lot of distractions in college that you could do more than playing baseball. Not the least of your studies, and let's just say extracurricular activities. But I was so proud of him when he went back the. The next year in his sophomore year, and made the team awesome. So I know he's got this and all my kids do, and that's something I'm really proud of.

This grit.

Exactly.

Good job, dad.

What's your resource tip or hack this week? Joe?

I've been doing a lot of travel for work recently, and I can't believe how long it took me to sign up for this. And I just signed up for it last year, so I've been using it for a while now. But even for the casual travel traveler, this is a. This is an awesome thing to. To do. And there's a part of me that feels that maybe I've talked about it in the past. If I have, let's just act like I haven't. Okay.

Hey, I forget things quickly. Don't worry.

Yeah, I do. Always the quote of the week. I. Sometimes I worry. Have I used this before?

Right?

That's okay.

I have that feeling all the time.

That's okay. TSA pre check.

Okay.

For. Even for the casual traveler. Now, what the TSA precheck does is it you fill out some paperwork and you do some stuff, and they. They do. It's just what it sounds like. It. They. The TSA pre checks you for a certain level of security, so that way you can go through the line faster. You have general boarding, you have TSA, and they have another one where you have to look into it with your eyes. I forget what that's called. But you have these levels of security clearance, and TSA is awesome, man. This TSA pre check is awesome.

Oh, good.

I can't tell you how many times I've been traveling over the past couple years since I've signed up for it, that the line I've shown up to the airport later than I probably should have. The line is. Looks to be an hour long, and I get through TSA pre check in five minutes.

Oh, good.

And now, there have been those tiny few occasions, Kurt, where the general boarding line is actually shorter than the TSA line.

That's what I was just going to ask you, actually, because that was my experience on the last trip to Florida.

Yeah. And maybe it's destination related or whatever, but for the most part, the vast majority of time, TSA Precheck has saved me a ton of time and just made the whole process more relaxing. You don't have to take off your shoes. You don't have to take off your belt. There's. At some airports, you don't have to. Well. Well, you don't even have to take out your computer or laptop or any of that stuff. You just throw your.

That's even more bags up there. I like that. That motivates me even more to do this.

And I think now, that's not 100% of the time, because sometimes I've had to take it out. I think that depending on the equipment that they have is how they judge that. But it's under $100 for five years.

Okay.

It's like a $100 for five years. It's almost silly not to, even if you're a casual traveler.

I like that I know of it, and I forcrastinated in doing that. I really should get after that.

What is your fear behind that, Kurt? Spending a not getting, still having to stand in line.

That's probably. I have a fear or I procrastinate. It's not necessarily a fear. Anything administrative. I am not a fan of administrative work.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's my biggest.

I'm like that.

Yeah. I've got some administration work I'm doing today, as a matter of fact, right after we get off this call. I'll tell you more about that, because I sent you a very cryptic message of a tip. It might be my resource or tip for next week.

Well, you know what? I'm going to tell you right now. And this is really me reading my. My professional mail out loud, and I get in trouble for this. I am terrible at filling out, filling out expense reports.

Oh, I was terrible at it. Yes, I think we've had terrible. I think. I know.

I just delay and I get it. I got to put together all these receipts and. Yes, pictures of the receipts and fill it out and tell them. Tell them why these people were at this, at this dinner that I paid for and all this stuff. And I just don't want to do that. But the truth is. Let's talk about procrastination for a minute. The truth is, had I done those little things as I went along, like, as soon as I'm done with the dinner, take a picture of the receipt and quickly type in who was there and why they were there and done that all along, instead of coming back with this wad of receipts in my hand and not remembering who I went to see and all this and who I ate dinner with and their last names and all that stuff. If I had I done that in the moment, it would have been. It's a stress free process. But nope, I'm two months behind on my expense reports. There we go. I hope that I work with three.

Years, hope they're not listening. Great example. My resource is how to make a YouTube video for beginners. Start to finish. It's done by. I'm enjoying this. I'm subscribing to an account called think media. This is about almost 2 hours, step by step. Definitely built over the course of a long time. Just like it says, you can just go from idea and lots of tips in there too and really break down how you become a good youtuber. So that's one of my, that is really where I'm at right now. I'm trying to learn lifelong learner in starting this process. And it's, there's no surprise, there's great content on YouTube to learn how to.

Be a youtuber, no doubt.

But you got to find something that you really relate to and enjoy and has what you need and keeps you interested. And this is doing it for me. Let's finish up with our quote for the week.

So this comes from, my quote comes from Dale Carnegie, prolific writer on business and personal development and so forth. Not to be confused with Andrew Carnegie, who is the, I guess, steel magnet or whatever it was that he did. But Daniel Dale Carnegie is the author of how to win Friends and influence people and some other stuff, really good old wise stuff. He wrote back in I think the early 19 hundreds or even the 18 hundreds, I'm not sure. But I love this quote from him, from Dale Carnegie. Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Well, you gotta break that down about that. It's too early in the morning, Joe, for me to. Yeah, do that one again.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. So here you are. You like, here you are sitting in today, here it is. Here's the day that, here's all the stuff that you said that you were going to do today. And you were worried about it and you thought about it and you ruminated about it. And so here we are today. You thought about all this stuff yesterday, and now here you are. It's time to take action. It's time to move forward. You worried about it yesterday. Today is here and it's time to do something.

I had this experience this week again in studying this YouTube. I got my equipment, I got my light. Lindsey, my daughter said, I'm trying to do this on a real shoestring budget too, to get started. There's no reason to have all this really expensive quit to get started. It was one of the tips and I got a ring light and I'm really ruminating and going through my head and worrying about where is going to be the place. And we'll be talking about this tomorrow, Joe on Saturday. Awesome weekly. Like what is. And we talked a little bit about last week too, and I just could not. I got the light and I started practicing and I just felt so frustrated. I couldn't figure out where I started. Walking around my house. I just, I finally had to drop and I almost feel like quitting already. The funny thing about all that worry was the next day I sat down, clean slate. And I think I figured it out just as quick, like right away.

Awesome. Awesome.

I did some practicing and I haven't gotten it all figured out, but I was pleased with the progress I made. Perfect. Yeah.

I'm really looking forward to this new adventure.

Thank you.

I am.

And I know you're quote, you're working on some things, too. We didn't spend a lot of time today talking about it, but that's okay. Your coaching is very similar to what I'm doing.

Yeah.

My quote was the inspiration for the intro today. If you were listening carefully, it finished with this quote. Someday is not a day of the week. Janet Daley, a novelist.

Hmm.

Or as John Fogerty once said, someday never comes.

That's true.

Unless you get after it.

Joe in tomorrow really is not reality, is it?

No.

If you say you're going to do that tomorrow, when tomorrow comes, it's today. Because we only have right now, right?

For sure.

I love this, man. Janet Daley, Sunday is not a day of the week.

You like the short quotes?

I do.

I like bringing them to you.

Awesome show, man.

Thank you. Take it out, Joe.

Good show. Well, our website, of course, is dudes in progress.com. Dudes in progress.com dot. If you want to reach out to Kurt or me or both of us at the same time, dudes in progress.com is our website. As Kurt kindly mentioned, I'm offering coaching services and Kurt and I are actually offering coaching services when it comes to podcasting as well. But I'm going some, I have some plans to do some other things and that certainly is taking a good direction. So dudes in progress.com is our email address. Remember, Kurt, we've gone through three episodes of talking about procrastination, right?

Absolutely.

Let's do it ugly, right?

Just do it.

Have to be. We don't have to be perfect. We. But we can certainly move forward, because progress is better than perfection. So we have to keep moving forward.

Or as my dad once said, do something, even if it's wrong.

Amen. That'll preach. Talk to you later.