MFM Mini - Stop Living Hour-to-Hour

**Shaan** (0:00)
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but for somebody, this is going to be a bit of a game changer. I know it was for me. The other day, I was talking to my trainer. I was running late to our session, and I get there and I'm slipping on my shoe, like kind of like, you know, trying to get it over my heel. And I'm like, oh, man, sorry. I had to do lunch for my daughter, but then she spilled it everywhere. And then we're cleaning it up. And then she blah, blah, blah. And then, you know, and then I had a podcast this morning, and you know, I ran a little bit over. So then I had this call with my boss, blah, blah, blah. And I'm telling him all my excuses, right, of why I'm, I'm just trying to say why I'm late.
And he goes, bro, I don't care if you're late, but I don't want you to have a day like that. I said, oh, well, you know, you can't control all these things. He goes, well, you can.
I go, what do you mean? He goes, well, you can't control that your daughter's gonna spill the food or that your podcast is gonna go over, but you can control how you experience it. And I go, oh man, here we go. What's the lesson? And I was like, you know, I wasn't ready to hear it, but he gave me some gold. He goes, let's just like, listen to the way you were talking. He goes, forget the words, just listen to the rhythm of it. It was da, this and then that, this and then that.
That's living like an itinerary, like an agenda.
And when you do that, it sucks the fun out of life. You're doing this and then that and then this and then that. Well, you're just rushing from one thing to the next. And in doing so, you're not really enjoying all these different experiences you're having. This is a life you crafted. Look at where we are, look at your backyard, look at the workout we're about to do. You're talking about what you're doing with your daughter, you have a podcast, you have all these amazing things you created.
But then look at how you're treating them. You're treating them like a job, you're treating them like a task, you're treating it like an agenda. I said, well, what do I do instead? He goes, stop living hour to hour and start living experience to experience.
What does that mean? He's like, so don't think about life like, okay, at nine, I gotta do this call, and then 10, I have to go here, and then 11, I have to do this meeting, and 12, we gotta record, and 1 p.m. I'm gonna do this. Because what happens is, you're gonna start running late, and then you're feeling like you're losing time. You're just gonna constantly be focused on the time you don't have. Instead, when you focus on experience to experience, you say, all right, what's this experience right now? Right now, I'm recording this podcast. I'm putting out some wisdom into the world, and I can just imagine people on the other side are gonna be hearing this and thinking, you know what? That's so true, so true, I'm gonna try that, right?
You know, it sounds like work for him, I'm gonna try it for me. And then after I'm done with this experience, I'm gonna click stop, and instead of thinking about, what's the next thing I have to do? What's the next thing I get to do? What am I gonna, hmm, I'm hungry.
What am I gonna eat? I can eat leftovers in the fridge. Is that the experience I want?
Maybe I'll cook something. Maybe I'll go try that place I saw yesterday. Yeah, let me hop in the car. I wanna go have that experience. And then when I'm in the car, am I gonna focus on the traffic?