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Welcome back to Success with Srini. Happy Saturday morning to you. Today is April 30, 2020, the last day of the month of April. And today, this podcast was completed for months, I had a goal, at the start of this year that I’m going to do this podcast every day, for the next 365 days, the entire year of the year 2022. And I’ll tell you, this, is probably one of the hardest things that I have ever done. This is turning out to be very hard. It’s hard because you do you start something you commit to a process, and then you are looking for some kind of gratification. You’re looking at the stats, you see the stats go up, go down, go up, go down. And you see for a long amount of time, the starts are not going up. When I say stats, I mean, people downloading and listening to this podcast, I see the stickiness going down, I see overall downloads going down. I look at those. And I’m like the first couple of months, I was like what is going on now, I have learned to not look at stats. And I am doing this podcast thinking now this mindset that, you know the whole world is listening to me. And I’m not worried about who’s listening who’s not listening. Maybe somebody is listening, who knows, right? Even one person listens to this. It’s great. So four months have gone by a lot of lessons along the way. And is one lesson I want to highlight today as a part of the podcast, which is my lack of time, lack of time to do this podcast. You know, there’s so much I’m under pressure because this is a public commitment. I can miss a few private things, but I cannot miss this podcast. And I don’t want to go out meet people and have interactions with this thing in the back of my mind that I have not recorded today’s podcast, I have to publish today’s podcast, it is just such a worry. And everything has taken a backseat in the face of this forecast. So that’s how I’m trying to push myself. And again, thank you for your questions. Thank you for your feedback. Thank you for being with me through the journey. And so kind of taking this as a point of success or a milestone. four-month milestone, I never thought I would survive till four months honestly, the last time I attempted a daily podcast, I was done in the second week of February, last year, this year, it has come till the end of the month, which is absolutely unbelievable to me.
You know, I look back and I look at all these podcasts. And I look at every day, every podcast episode, and I have a whole particular trail or dashboard I see in all these. And I’m like wow. Okay, that is a long journey, honestly, four months. And somehow I feel that I can complete the whole year. I feel very comfortable now where it stands as it stands. So one of the challenges is many challenges along the way. But one of the challenges was how do I find the time? Where do I find time? And for a 10 or 15 minutes podcast, I was initially planning like an hour’s worth of time. And as I went along with this, I started to tweak kind of make it tight and have better standard operating procedures to record and edit and produce and upload. And you know, all that I started realizing is that every element has a time slot of its own. So I don’t need to spend an hour recording a 15-minute podcast. If I do that, then a whole hour is gone from the day. Then when will I think about the podcast? How do I conceive? How do I develop the idea in my mind? How do you bring it out in words? So all the thinking will take an hour recording will take an hour, the whole day is gone. If you take two hours from your Prime Day, the whole day is gone. So it was hard initially to kind of find time and then once I found the time it was hard to kind of juggle everything around this. So this is for you. If you are struggling to find time I see people tell me they don’t have time to do things. I’m like, Really, you don’t. It’s just about finding the time. You just need to look at it just with you. You see.
Peter Drucker said, Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed, nothing can be managed. You don’t manage time. You can’t manage people, you can’t manage projects. You can’t manage resources, resources other than people you can’t manage money, you can’t manage anything that’s performed. You can’t manage time can’t manage anything. The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words I do not have time. I hear this all the time. I do not have time. One hour to the gym, I don’t have time. Can’t wait for the morning and good afternoon. Good evening. Where do you find time? I want to share a few strategies with you today. And hopefully, this helps. Okay. And nothing, nothing new people. Other people have already talked about this. And I’m not I’m just trying to. I’m a sound as if I’m, like a broken record, like everybody has said this. So every success guru, every philosopher said this, what’s new, I’m saying nothing new. Maybe there is something new, I don’t know. TV, Internet, YouTube, Netflix, gone, you can pull some time out of it, you can pull some time out of your screen time, browsing scrolling time, internet time. You can steal some time from sleep, people sleep 910 12 hours, I don’t know why. Seven to eight. I think that’s the optimal time for sleep. If somebody needs it. Most people don’t sleep, they know they’re like, constantly getting the gets to keep stimulating their eyes with their phones anyway. So you’re sleeping less, and they’re spending more time on the devices. They give us some time from sleep. You can take some time away from unwanted meetings, unwanted road trips, going to multiple places at once, rather than going multiple times to multiple places, things like that. And you can also look into your entire day and see what other play tanks you have got going. Playtime is a time that you know what you play, you play somewhere, I don’t know what game you play. Maybe you just go around with your chit-chat you talk you just while ever the time looks into that. And that’s your playtime. You can take some time away, I’m not saying stop. That’s you. And you have every right to use your time the way you want to. But you can take some time out of it.
Now, what do you do once you get the time you’re not doing? Let’s say you’re not doing a podcast, you’re doing a radio show. You’re not creating a coaching program, let’s say let’s what I think you should do. But then I’m saying let’s say you have you know, what will you do once you have some time? What will a success-minded individual do if they get the time? Now, according to my understanding, if I somehow Could I get a little bit more time, the first thing I will do is spend the time understanding my goals. I look at my goals, I understand my goals, I relate to my goals, I attach more meaning to my goals, a little more time into my goals. If I get some more time, family, money, children, all. All of that all of them, they’re all part of those goals. Think a little bit more trouble for them and about them. The second thing I would do is I will do I would retrospect on everything that I’m doing. And I also do it backward. But I do backward so that I can build the forward which is I look into my vision also can kind of strengthen my vision a bit more and a vision board this better retrospective to create a better vision board, sprint some time on that one. Then I would meditate, do yoga or do some hypnosis, things like that. That kind of brings overall performance to the next level of self-development and then I would write so so as you This is one of the elements of my podcast recording this podcast is everything that I’m saying here I wrote down the clicker keynotes not necessarily writing the whole thing down but just some notes so that I stay in the context. So I don’t ramble. I don’t just go off track and talk about some other things and completely lose the point which I do, because I’ve too many things going on my mind. I stay honest to the point precise on your face, as I’m doing this driving appointment.
So, multiple times I have insisted here that you should write a journal that’s the best way to heal your emotion. That’s the best way to get back in your game and play the game at a higher level at a specific time when you have a lot of resentment or rejection coming at you write a journal. So these are some ideas to use. Maybe you can take it away. I’m saying I’m looking for 60 minutes but you can look for 30 minutes, or 20 minutes, all of this can be done in 20 minutes or any of one of these, any one of these can be done in 30 minutes or 20 minutes or 15 minutes. But this is about the quality of the time, you know, when somebody is looking for time, you know how constrained they are? Have, how the value of time at what, at what level, they value time. So amazing.
I want to stop here, hopefully, this is helpful. Hopefully, this gives you a frame to think to look at life look at, you know, understand this time is a man-made construct. And yet it is the only resource. It’s not about whether you know, it’s a bad time or a good time. It’s time that said, given how did use the time, that’s it, it comes down to that. Nothing more, nothing less. Okay. Again, as I wrap this up, thank you for your support and for making this podcast a four-month official four-month podcast. I will continue to push this and do my job coach, everybody, any listener, every listener who listens to this podcast or to my radio show which I call the daily coaching podcast. I don’t call this the information-sharing podcast. I don’t think anybody’s here looking for information. I think everybody’s here to attach a new and better meaning to everything that’s happening in their life and this podcast’s goal, at least my intent is to do that. To kind of get everybody to that level. And sometimes I do fall short. I think it’s okay. But I’m making an attempt to you know that.
Okay, that’s it. I’ll wrap this up the month of April 2022 over tomorrow, I want to see you and I have no idea how to raise the bar you know started the month or the raise the bar a little bit and bring in some new stuff. We’ll see. Okay, stay tuned. Appreciate your support. If you like and you love this podcast and do me a favor, just like the reviews, share it in you know, gear rating, all that okay, that’s all they get me now.