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Jonathan Swanson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
606 total appearances

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Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

God and nature has granted me with a certain amount of those things.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

And so...

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

I have to use that limited willpower and limited agency in the best way possible.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

And I don't want to be using my limited willpower on my passport renewal.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

That is just not the highest order thing in my life.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

I would rather be using that to help a friend solve a problem or accomplish something in my business or something else.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

And so I think you can unlock more willpower

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

into higher order things, the more you unload these more monotonous things.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

Yeah, so step one is start with chat GPT or in person or whatever it is.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

And the beginner way to delegate is offload pain.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

So make a list of all the things that you don't like doing that reduce your willpower that make you unhappy and start there.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

And this is kind of monotonous stuff.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

It's like your inbox, your calendar, paying bills, passport renewal.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

etc.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

This might take a year to offload all these things.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

Yeah, look, my recommendation is you do this as a new way of living.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

I think that's the right way to do anything, exercise, meditation, or whatever.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

If you're doing it for a week or a month, kind of worthless.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

But if you can do this for the rest of your life, then it will compound.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

And yeah, you start with pain, unload all these monotonous things.