- This third accelerator,
for all of us that are running our own businesses,
on our own, whether we have a job at the same time,
but if you have your own business,
it takes a lot energy, yes?
For sure it takes energy to be successful in your business.
So just take a moment, close your eyes.
Think about your life.
And I want you to think about all of the things
that you have that are unfinished.
Think about the pile of papers on your desk,
the files that are waiting to get to you.
Think about all those e-mails waiting to be answered.
Think about that other pile of books
that haven't been read and magazines.
All of the crap that's up in the closet, the garage.
All of the unfinished projects,
the things that you've promised people,
the phone calls that you haven't returned.
How's your energy doing right now?
Going up or down?
It's going down.
It's a bummer when you start thinking about
all those incomplete things, why?
Because every one of them is a cycle.
It's like a circle that,
so when somebody phones and you say,
I'll send you some information,
it's like it opens a door, right?
And until you send that information, it doesn't close.
So the interview leaks out,
and you start, it sucks your energy.
And the vast majority of people,
because our lives have so much going on these days,
especially when we're entrepreneurs.
We've got so many open cycles,
that our energy is completely sucked right away.
And then we wonder why we can't get up earlier,
have the energy to get out and make that call
or do whatever.
And so, our lives are kind of like that.
Right, how many of you have a desk that looks like that?
Yeah.
Or you know, somewhere in the house,
there's piles and so on.
So this principle I'm gonna teach you now,
it's absolutely crucial to your success.
And that is accelerator number three,
it's called clean-ups, completions, and deletions.
Get rid of the clutter.
So let's talk about them separately
and that'll boost your energy.
Let's talk about them separately.
So a clean-up, there could be both at the same time,
but in general, a clean-up is a mess.
It's a closet that needs to be cleaned out.
It's, you know, you look out the windows
and you see the windows are streaked
or the floor needs to be washed
or the carpets need to be cleaned or your,
okay, how many people need to clean out your car?
For those that work in your cars, for surely,
driving around and so on.
There's all sorts of clean-ups that need to be done.
And think of what it's like, when you go into the kitchen
and it's just a disaster and you clean it all up.
What happens to your energy?
It goes up, right?
Every time you close one of those cycles, you get energy.
This principle will bring you energy.
The same with your completions.
So completions are things that you've started
that you haven't finished.
Things you've opened and haven't closed.
They're books that are sitting there
waiting for you to be read.
They're income taxes that need to be done.
They're all sorts of unfinished projects
that are sitting there.
The e-mails that are sitting in your inbox.
I would call those completions.
Right?
Everywhere you look, there's in-conpletions in your life.
And they're dragging you down.
And the third one is deletions.
And this has become increasingly important
as we get into this consumer society
where we just get stuff coming in.
How many have new stuff coming into your house all the time?
Especially if you have kids, right?
Guess what?
If it's not going out at the same rate,
if you're not getting rid of stuff
at the same rate it's coming in,
then it's starting to back up like a dam
and you're gonna get flooded and drowned by all the crap.
You know, I live over in Deep Cove.
We've got a fantastic home
and a beautiful street looking over the water.
On every, every house on our street has a two-car garage.
You know what's interesting?
Nobody parks in their garage.
Why is that?
Because they're full of crap.
That's why.
They got their kid's skates from when they were 14
and their kid's graduated from university.
Because they've got bags of hockey gear
and tons and tons of stuff.
So you need to get rid of these things
and clean them all up.
You know, around the completions,
I remember being in a, presenting this concept one time,
and we were trying to do a contest
to see who had the longest standing completion.
And this woman goes, I do, and I said, what is it?
And she said, the kitchen renovation.
And I went, really?
What's going on?
She said, well, I'm still
living in a kitchen with a plywood floor.
I went, how long's it been?
She went, 18 years.
It's like, okay, you win.
You can have it, right?
So you want to start getting rid of these things
and tidying things up.
And when we have new members come into our program,
it's one of the things we emphasize.
It's really simple, but we actually,
we give them some tools and show them
how to get on top of their clutter
and how to reclaim that energy.
And you'd be stunned.
They become different people as they start to get out
from under all that clutter.
And you can, too.
It takes a bit of a strategy, but I'll tell you what,
decluttering is crucially, crucially important
to your success.
And when you get it, oh,
isn't that like a breath of fresh air
to have everything in place?
You'll never, ever build momentum
and have peace in your life
if you don't take care of the deal.
And again, surprise surprise,
a lot about saying no to things.
A lot about getting rid of things.
So to wrap it up,
give yourself a high five,
I am a clean-up and completion machine!
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