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I might be,
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I might be buying into this mic, but I'm going to stay leery for
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now. Skeptical Joe is skeptical. Yeah.
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I'll put this to, I've got a list of tasks and this, man, we're good at jumping back and forth. So Chris Bailey talks about the importance of a maintenance day, but I use, so just to define that maintenance day. He batches all of his, I guess, household, keep it up to neutral, if you will, tasks. So empty the dishwasher. I think he had like trim beard and shave or something once a week, but he's got Sunday morning is his time to go through and do a lot of these maintenance, like household maintenance tasks. And I understand the idea here. I've been using what I call a neutralize perspective and Omni focus that does something similar to this. It has some things like take out the trash and water the plants, refill business cards. Like I have that type of thing in that perspective. I'm trying to remember where I got the name. That might have been Kuroshini that I got the name of that from, but it's just a, I've got, it's a project in Omni focus that maintains all those. And if I get something that's a one off, like check out doodle, like I'll, I'll take something like that and throw it in there just temporarily just so I can like, okay, these are just some things I need to research just to kind of bring myself up to neutral. And I know Asian efficiency talks about this clear to neutral concept. And that's a lot of what this is is just bring myself up to where I'm not behind. And I think Chris has some good points and batch all this together and do it all at once. I know for me, I don't necessarily like to batch all in one day, but I work through my daily task list. And if and when I get through that whole list, then I move on to this neutralize perspective and then that clears everything out and I'm good to go from there. But I try to get through that at least once every couple of days. Otherwise I have plants that die Mike and that's not a good thing. Right. Yeah. The watering your plants would not
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be a good idea for a maintenance day, but there's a lot of things that I think the maintenance day makes a lot of sense. And my experience, there's a lot of things that if I just put them on a list and trust that in the margin of my day, I'm going to get to those things, it's not going to happen. Even if I were to put defer dates or even due dates on them inside of Omni focus. And so this was one of my takeaways is I want to actually try this. I want to actually implement a maintenance day ritual. And I don't think it necessarily needs to be every week, but I want to take all of the things that I know I'm supposed to do and get those scheduled where they all fall on one of those days because I think that being able to completely shift from I got to get this project done or at least move this project forward to just having the being in the mindset that okay, we're just going to make sure that everything is working, everything is functional. That makes a lot of sense to me. Once you're in that mindset, it's a lot easier to think of the other things that maybe need to be in that that are part of that same project, things that you would be doing in the same mindset. So one of the things for example would be like changing the batteries on the smoke detectors, like that to in my opinion would fall into a that's a perfect type of task for a maintenance day type ritual, whether it's every other week or every month or whatever. And I haven't actually identified all the tasks that need to fall into this, but that's one of the things that I'm have done for my action items is to do that because in my experience, I would typically put these things into Omni focus and then if there's like those bi yearly tasks like schedule, dentist appointment, for example, and I know a lot of times like the schedule at your next visit ahead of time, but that type of activity where if I see that come up as like, okay, now it's time to do this, my tendency is to say, oh, I don't need to do that right now. It just means that I should be doing that soon and I'll kick the can down the road. No, right defer it till next week or whatever. And then next week I'll defer it again and again and again. So I think if I actually had a space on my calendar where that stuff it like that's the place where that stuff's going to get done, then there's a much greater chance that I follow through on that. I think it
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was Patrick Roan who I think maybe
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it was a Mike Vardy's podcast talks about how everything that you need to get done happens within the context of time. And those maintenance type tasks, those are the things that if I don't create the time to do them, they never get done.

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