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Stephen Collar

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The Home Service Expert Podcast
Achieving 500% Productivity Through Flow States

When I'm training customers, if you don't come out the other end with more flow in your life, I did not do my job at all. So that, I got no wiggle room on that one. I gotta deliver that 100% of the time, right? But there are certain things where like, if I'm putting out a video, no, I can actually, I can do it at 70% because it's going to be pretty effective.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Achieving 500% Productivity Through Flow States

When I'm training customers, if you don't come out the other end with more flow in your life, I did not do my job at all. So that, I got no wiggle room on that one. I gotta deliver that 100% of the time, right? But there are certain things where like, if I'm putting out a video, no, I can actually, I can do it at 70% because it's going to be pretty effective.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Achieving 500% Productivity Through Flow States

And that 30% of perfectionism isn't actually going to make that much of a difference because it's a piece of marketing copy and it's still deadly effective. Now, yes, I'll A, B test it and figure out how to get it better. But there are certain things that you have to go

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Achieving 500% Productivity Through Flow States

And that 30% of perfectionism isn't actually going to make that much of a difference because it's a piece of marketing copy and it's still deadly effective. Now, yes, I'll A, B test it and figure out how to get it better. But there are certain things that you have to go

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Achieving 500% Productivity Through Flow States

oh, I can trust my employees to do this because it doesn't have to be 100% out of go because we can test our way, our iterator way, our learner way, or have an adventure together. And sometimes I do this with the people I get to work with. I'm like, look, there is no possible way we're going to get it right out of the gate. We're just not going to get it right out of the gate. That's rare.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Achieving 500% Productivity Through Flow States

oh, I can trust my employees to do this because it doesn't have to be 100% out of go because we can test our way, our iterator way, our learner way, or have an adventure together. And sometimes I do this with the people I get to work with. I'm like, look, there is no possible way we're going to get it right out of the gate. We're just not going to get it right out of the gate. That's rare.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Achieving 500% Productivity Through Flow States

What is that quote?

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Achieving 500% Productivity Through Flow States

What is that quote?

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Achieving 500% Productivity Through Flow States

By the way, the other thing is, why do I want to go bed to desk that quickly? Because I got to do the hardest thing. And if I start thinking about what I have to do, right, I could get into my head. I could like paralysis by analysis.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Achieving 500% Productivity Through Flow States

By the way, the other thing is, why do I want to go bed to desk that quickly? Because I got to do the hardest thing. And if I start thinking about what I have to do, right, I could get into my head. I could like paralysis by analysis.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Achieving 500% Productivity Through Flow States

Exactly. So like one of the reasons is, I mean, look, one of the reasons I'm going bed to desk is I'm a creative and I want to be in flow. You wake up with your brain in alpha and flow is at the alpha theta borderline. It's a slower brainwave. So when you wake up, it goes up to beta. It's a fast moving brainwave. So like you're actually more flow prone first thing in the morning.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Achieving 500% Productivity Through Flow States

Exactly. So like one of the reasons is, I mean, look, one of the reasons I'm going bed to desk is I'm a creative and I want to be in flow. You wake up with your brain in alpha and flow is at the alpha theta borderline. It's a slower brainwave. So when you wake up, it goes up to beta. It's a fast moving brainwave. So like you're actually more flow prone first thing in the morning.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Achieving 500% Productivity Through Flow States

Most people, it's totally killed because the minute they look at their phone, the minute that dopamine, that anticipation, that curiosity, that fear, You've just blown it. It's just gone. Right. So like, I'll do it sometimes too. This is the classic Steven fuck up. I'll put something on the Insta Google tweet face. That's getting a lot of attention yesterday.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Achieving 500% Productivity Through Flow States

Most people, it's totally killed because the minute they look at their phone, the minute that dopamine, that anticipation, that curiosity, that fear, You've just blown it. It's just gone. Right. So like, I'll do it sometimes too. This is the classic Steven fuck up. I'll put something on the Insta Google tweet face. That's getting a lot of attention yesterday.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Achieving 500% Productivity Through Flow States

So I'll wake up in the morning and while my coffee is brewing, I'll be like, Oh, let's check the post. Cause I've got like two minutes. Right. And that's,

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Achieving 500% Productivity Through Flow States

So I'll wake up in the morning and while my coffee is brewing, I'll be like, Oh, let's check the post. Cause I've got like two minutes. Right. And that's,

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Achieving 500% Productivity Through Flow States

if yesterday's good fortune will lure me back that's the one where that's the trap i'll get caught on um because i want the good feeling i want that like i want that little bit of a rush that's what i'm going after and it's it's a it's false hope but i've you know i've learned not to do it at all but that's the one that'll that'll screw me up i was uh we'll close out here soon i was reading an article about elon musk and it said a guy that works really really close to him for a

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Achieving 500% Productivity Through Flow States

if yesterday's good fortune will lure me back that's the one where that's the trap i'll get caught on um because i want the good feeling i want that like i want that little bit of a rush that's what i'm going after and it's it's a it's false hope but i've you know i've learned not to do it at all but that's the one that'll that'll screw me up i was uh we'll close out here soon i was reading an article about elon musk and it said a guy that works really really close to him for a

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Achieving 500% Productivity Through Flow States

Well, that's the flow. I always tell the people this with, so in our country, right? In our country is a diary essentially, right? It's I took on an impossible challenge at age 53. I decided I was going to teach myself how to park ski. with train park scheme, which is supposed to be impossible for a bunch of different reasons over the age of 25, 30.

The Home Service Expert Podcast
Achieving 500% Productivity Through Flow States

Well, that's the flow. I always tell the people this with, so in our country, right? In our country is a diary essentially, right? It's I took on an impossible challenge at age 53. I decided I was going to teach myself how to park ski. with train park scheme, which is supposed to be impossible for a bunch of different reasons over the age of 25, 30.