I don't know what parenthood is like for you, but I used to need 48 hrs in the day to just keep my head above water! I was always chasing my own tail! I then came across a really simple principle that blew my mind AND IT WORKS!!! It is the 80/20 rule. For the people listening at home that may not be familiar, the 80/20 rule or Pareto Principle, is a concept by Vilfredo Pareto from the 1800s. In simple terms, 80% input, gives 20% output and vice verse, 20% input gives 80% output. He noticed this when looking at hundreds of things from daily life. So if you have 100 clients, 20% create 80% of your revenue, 80% of your household spending is on 20% of the bills, 20% of your to-do list will generate 80% of the benefit and so on. Now the ratio might not be exact and could be 75/20 or 85/15, especially if there are only a small amount of inputs available, but in the mean, it is around 80/20. Whatever dude, math sucks! Okay, okay, it sounds cool and all, but what does this mean in practical terms? Focusing on the 20% will give you 80% of your outcomes. Doing it that way means you are 16x more efficient! You can work one day and get 4 days of output! Pair this principle with a VA/EA..... 🔥 If you really want to go extreme, you can 80/20 the 80/20! That means 4% input gives 64% output. So 2 hrs input equates to 3 days output 🤯 If you do another round of 80/20. 0.8% input equates to 51% output. This works out at 20 mins input is 2.5 days output..... If you look at your list of stuff to do in a day, see what will give you the biggest gain for the least amount of input and do that first. Then the next, and the next and so on. This means some minor stuff won't always get done straight away, but more will get done overall. This is why people like Elon Musk can run 7 companies and is the richest man in the world. He has the same 24 hrs as everybody else, he just homes in on the 80/20 for EVERY process or problem. Hopefully this helps?

During a pretty exhausting deployment in 2007 I was looking for ways to calm my brain that was wired 24/7, Google said meditation was the answer. Easy.... 😎 It was IMPOSSIBLE!! I lay on my bed and tried to breathe and empty my mind. I could manage about 15 seconds before the monkey with cymbals was back making a ton of noise in my brain. I tried again, and again, and again. Not once could I manage, even after a few days of trying. So I filed meditation in my "dumb shit that doesn't work" section of my brain and left it for 15 yrs. I declared to my soon to be wife, "meditation is for hippies!" 😡 After 10 deployments, marriage, 2 children, several friends being killed and seeing a lot of battlefield trauma... I was close to breaking point. To speed the story up, I paid $5,000 to attend a veterans retreat in Mexico that used physician supervised psychedelic therapy. THE single most important part of my treatment post-retreat was meditation. It has been a game-changer! I have missed literally two or three days of meditation since then and can easily go for an hour. It turns out I was doing it wrong. In Mexico, I learned to meditate properly. I was doing the typical Dave thing and overthinking it. It is waaaay easier than I thought and helps to completely calm my body and the ADHD monkey with the cymbals in my head. 🐒 Try it! Here are the steps: 1. Breathe in through your nose whilst counting to 4, hold for 4, Breathe out through your mouth for 4, hold for 4. 2. Repeat #1 Thats it! If your mind wanders, THAT IS NORMAL! Just bring it back to counting.... rinse, repeat. Don't beat yourself up about it. The magic is the breathing as it regulates and calms your central nervous system. It's free. It's easy. You kind of have to breathe anyway. It has no side-effects. It can be done anywhere. It can be done with your children. It demonstrates to your child how to regulate emotions. Sitting cross-legged in a leotard while listening to whale farting music is entirely optional.... 😂