Cornelia my actual job is boring and I don't have uh much to do need to be present
it's uh aggravating to spend all that time unproductively knowing I could use it so much
better uh but can't I'm assuming it's that you would like to get more out of what you're doing
all right every single thing uh that I do in my life and I've taught about this in the willpower
session so inside the leadership coaching program in the library for those of you that have access
to it on any basis so whether you're a monthly member a lifetime member an annual man or whatever
there is a willpower session and uh willpower is something that I I use whenever I'm in a situation
for really for anything because I want to constantly develop my commitment to follow through
and complete things but it's not just about completing things or abstaining from things so
when when you want to develop willpower and this is one Element to getting more out of your job and
then I'm going to give you some other samples because I think this is a fantastic question
the first thing is in anything that I do any anything literally anything like wash the dishes
fold the clothes put the coffee pot together anything you I I finish what you start that's
the first thing second thing is do a little uh do it a little better than you thought you would
and do a little more of it okay so with the coffee pot and it sounds silly but if I'm gonna clean the
coffee pot there's the coffee pot itself there's the contraption where the because we have a we
have a grinder that sits on the coffee pot and so every morning we can either hit the button or we
could schedule it and it'll grind the fresh coffee in there it drips for me and Mrs La Savita well I
gotta clean all this so I'm going to take it out I gotta wash it all and I gotta wash the pot now
I could I could wash all the stuff and dump it on the little pad that we have on the on the on the
countertop by the sink or I could do that and I could dry everything put it together and put it
back and that would be pretty good except I could wipe the coffee pot down I could wipe
all the grounds out or whatever and the follow through activities on all the things that you
do not only are you developing your willpower but you're also building your ability to focus
now when I'm doing a job that's mundane okay so like let's say heaven forbid I ever considered
writing an email to you on a Tuesday as a mundane activity or an obligation I don't because I think
it's a privilege and somebody's going to read it and benefit from it I think about what can I say
how can I say it is there a way I can improve my copywriting um did I teach him one way is there a
different way I can teach them I'm constantly looking at ways to improve what I'm doing
and trying different things we're trying this productivity challenge this is free we've never
done that before this is five days in a row haven't done that before every time it's been
Monday to Monday you might have heard me say that right like we're doing it the first week
of January we've never done that like all these things I'm constantly thinking about
is there ways and even if I what I was doing was mundane if you're doing something that's mundane
how can you make it better how can you do it in a manner that would enable you to learn more I
guarantee you if you told me exactly what you did and I sat with you for 30 minutes or an
hour I can show you seven or eight different ways to get more out of what you're doing and end the
process grow your skills at a minimum can you say well I can make it better for the company
but I can make it better for me right what can I learn out of this how can I learn more
is there a different way I could do this is there a different approach so I that's the way I that's
the way I roll and I did that even when I was working as a corporate uh professional and I
didn't necessarily love everything that I was doing and I would imagine a lot of us falling
in that bucket but I'm constantly looking at how can I get the most out of it out of it and
and I I I've taught this many times before maybe you've heard me say this but every
single situation I'm encountered can encounter I encounter what can I do with this right now
what can I do with this right now and and the words are the rhetoric's important because what
can I do with this right now is about taking ownership of making this the best experience
for yourself that's your life right and and for whatever reason you're you're in that job
and you obviously have choices because you could leave and you could change careers and you could
change companies and you could do all these other things but I also appreciate that there's other
uh forces that cause you to stay in a job you're unhappy with but if you're gonna be there then I
would at least want you to get the most out of it and that's how I that's how I approach that
so if you're if you're interested again I mean I I showed you you know kind of a real high quick
overview of the leadership program but there's a lot of lessons in there that will also help you
with these kinds of things I mentioned you know focus and willpower those are a couple
those are on the producer level right those are like foundational uh skill sets that you
need to build there's like 12 of them that I that I put at the producer level like that and
self-awareness and other things of organization and things of that nature hope that helped