Mar 30, 2020
Have you ever asked yourself why you are working too many hours? And why do you sometimes still end up feeling you’re not getting the job done?
Well, you might want to take a closer look at how you’re spending your time and energy because it’s actually possible to get things done without spending all your resources.
You want to know how? In this episode, Dean talks about the value of using your energy in the best possible way, and how it inspired a lot of his clients to use their energy efficiently.
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Hey, this is Dean Soto founder of freedom in five minutes calm and
prosulum.com. P R O S U L U M .com. And we're here again with
another freedom in five minutes podcast episode. Today's topic is
this using more energy doesn't mean you're more productive. That
and more coming up. Well, good morning. Man, it is getting a little
warmer here in Central California and that is that is not
necessarily a good thing. I love the cold and so it's a little bit
of a downer that things are getting warmer I want to I want to see
more rain more cold. However, however, All of the seeds and stuff
that I've planted. With all that being said and done, that means
that we will be having more of a crop. Because the winter is
bringing spring, right? I'm looking at that I'm actually looking at
one area that I planted right now see if anything's popping up. So
I created these food forests. So try at least I'm trying to start
creating food forests, so that in different places where we're at
there, there's there. It's not just it's not just a normal
homestead, not just normal farm, but actually, you know, an actual
food force that I can go walk to and go pick out some lettuce, go
pick out whatever. So anyway,takes a lot less energy to do that.
But you have to have the right conditions. You have to have the
system that's already set up around trees. So on and so forth, and
it kind of leads me on to what we're going to be talking about
today. So yesterday was really cool. This. I was. So yesterday I
went and did some jujitsu. So some Brazilian jujitsu, which if
you've been listening for a while, you know that I've been doing it
almost almost a year now. I love it. It's such a good way to
exercise a good way to also learn more about yourself and, and
develop skills of self defense. One of the best it just I was so
hesitant at first, when I first started doing the whole jujitsu
thing, but now I'm like, Oh my gosh, this is great. Why did I ever
not do this before? So So it's interesting because the It's New
Year's right? And so with New Year's comes a whole mess of people
who have new year's resolutions, and they want to get into shape or
they want to learn something new. They want to start doing
something new, right? And And that leads to bigger class sizes. Not
even just bigger class size and not only just bigger class sizes,
but it also leads to the idea that the it also leads to new people
who who are brand new to the sport but might be totally fit, they
might be muscular and fit and wrestle or do whatever, they come to
the sport and it it's a great way and a great time to test what you
actually know. Okay, so.So after class,every after every class that
we have on Tuesdays and Thursdays, we do a bit of rolling we do
about maybe a half hour of what we call rolling, it's sparring.
It's, it's it's actually doing jujitsu with each other and trying
to submit each other, right and so there This one guy not gonna say
his name, but he is a he's definitely fit. And you can tell that he
does something like CrossFit. or something of that nature. And the
guy is, I want to say is probably about the same age as me maybe
between 30 and 40 around that, that and when I when I see it, like
the initial reaction is like oh crap this guy's good at this guy's
gonna destroy me right this guy's going to absolutely destroy me
because he's all fit and and he also I think wrestles and all that
stuff so so it's after class we finished class I went and said hi
to him and stuff like that and asked him you know, Hey, have you
done any martial arts at all? Have you done Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at
all and he did. I think one time, one class before and so it was
interesting. So my like I said, My initial reaction was, oh my
gosh, this guy's because he was definitely ripped. He definitely
was a is a let me turn on airplane mode real quick Hold on one
second just had a telemarketers to try and call me. So and so he.
So anyway, we I'm like hey, well let's roll and internally I'm like
ah crap is gonna suck and you know all of my year of trading is
gonna go for nothing. And so we start and he's a wrestler so he
knows how to do clinching and stuff, stuff like that. So we start
and we clinch and the cool thing is that that he, I kind of got to
feel them out a little bit. And right away I ended up getting them
in my guard, which in jujitsu is a dominant position. It might not
look like a dominant position. But it is a dominant position. It's
basically where I have my back on the ground which for wrestlers in
wrestling you don't want to do that's the whole point of You know,
you want to pin someone to the ground, right? But in jujitsu,
having your back on the ground is totally fine. So it's when you
have your back and your ground on the ground and your legs are
wrapped around the person. Okay? That might not look like a
dominant position, but it's actually a dominant position in
jujitsu. So, so we're going, and it's cool because he's trying to
get he's trying to get out of my guard and I'm constantly putting
him off balance this way and that way, and then I was able to then
sweep him over and get into mount which is a very dominant
position. It's one of the best positions where you have a lot of
different opportunities to do different arm locks, armbars chokes,
and all that other jazz. So when I get into mount, the first thing
that he does, is he wraps his arms around me so mount is basically
just so you have an idea of what mount is full mount. It's where my
so I'm, I'm on top of him and my legs are headed want to say it I'm
on I'm, I'm on top of him, I'm in a position where if I wanted to
pound on his face with punches, he can barely do anything. So my
legs are kind of North, kind of in the area around his abdominal
around his abdomen, right? And then my legs come, I try and wrap
them around his legs so that he can't really so I can't really
throw me off or anything like that. If you Google Brazilian Jiu
Jitsu mount position or something like that, you'll see what it is.
But anyway, so he's there, but the first thing he does is he is he
goes and wraps his arms around me to hold me close to him, which is
sort of what you can do. If someone's punching you you definitely
want to do that because now I can't get any strength. I can't get
any space to I can't get any space to start start landing punches
or anything like that. So he's pulling me close. And the thing was
that he's squeezing at the same time he's like her, and it feels to
him like he is making a difference. He is constricting. He's a boa
constrictor constricting all of my oxygen and making it to where.
I'm just going to pass out and give up right?Well, that's what he
might be thinking. But in my head, all I'm thinking at that point
is yes, yes, young Skywalker. Please keep doing that for the energy
is leaving your body. So as he's doing that on thinking as a as
literally, yes, yes, yes, keep doing that. Keep doing that because
you're going to get very tired You're expending all that energy
trying to squeeze me in a position that is in a position that is
not going to do anything for you or for me, it is very easy to it's
very, it just you're making it easy for me to win later on, because
that squeezing is not going to choke me. It's not going to
constrict my airflow or anything like that. And so he keeps doing
he keeps doing that keeps doing that keeps doing that I just wait
and wait it out and I can tell you starting to get tired. So now I
move in for different submissions. And ultimately, ultimately, I
submit the guy and one of the first tips I gave him was.Don't try
to escape don't try Don't try to squeeze don't try it like if
you're in a position where you're not. If you're in a position
where you are not The dominant one, the person really cannot submit
you cannot do anything unless they move first. Okay, so say I got
you into mount. Well, now I got you locked in and you're not going
to go anywhere. However, if I actually want to do anything to you,
if I want to make it to where you, I armbar you or do some kind of
submission, hold on you, I have to move first, which means I have
to start creating space, I have to start creating the, the, the in
setting the tempo of everything. And as soon as that happens, now,
I can if I was on the bottom, if I was if I was the one that was in
the non dominant position, I can start doing things that take
advantage of that space that you just created. But if I try and
escape, I try and do all this stuff. I try and move around. I try
and squeeze, I try and do all this stuff. Get me out of here, get
me out of this. I don't like it. I don't like it, I don't like it.
Then I'm using all of that energy and wasting it. And while it
might seem like I'm being productive, it might seem like I'm like
I'm squeezing and choking, and I'm doing all this other stuff. It
is not I'm actually losing energy in the long run. So why is this
important? It's important because we do this a lot in business.
Right? We do this a lot in business. We all know whether it's you
or whether it's somebody else. We all know those workaholics right.
We all know those people who are so proud that they pulled an all
nighter that they're so proud that they were up till two o'clock in
the morning working on something and finally got it done. Right. We
know those people that that stay you know if you're in your normal
in a Normal nine to five job. We know those people who stayed till
910 11 at night trying to finish things up and then they come back
and they're like, yo, yeah, I was here till 910 or 11. And then
they make you feel bad for from working normal hours. They make you
feel bad for working eight to five or nine to five or whatever it
is. Right? Well, those people are those are just like those people
who are spending energy and getting nothing done. They're spending
energy and, and that energy that's being spent is actually being
wasted. The fact that they even have to stay that long is an
indicator that there's something wrong in the system. There's
something wrong in the process. Okay. Just because you work hard on
something, doesn't mean you're doing more doesn't mean you're
produced. More, it means that it simply means that you're working
hard on something that's it doesn't mean anything else. And so,
what's more, one of the things I love about jujitsu, Brazilian Jiu
Jitsu, is that everything is strategic. Everything is built on
leverage, everything is built on a system of techniques, a system
of if you move just one inch in this direction, because of how you
have your body, their their body will flip over, or their body will
board or you can choke them or you can do all of these different
things. Right. So the the big thing in business is to pay attention
if you're working hard Something if you're working on something in
something that's done over and over and over again, especially,
it's a big indicator that you're wasting a lot of energy. If you
have a team, you should have a standard operating procedure that
your team can then use to do that thing, so you're not doing it. So
now you can step back, be more strategic, find points of leverage,
and have your business grow and excel in so many different ways. If
you're working hard, and I'm not saying hard work is not it. Trust
me hard work is great when it is necessary. Hard work is great when
it's necessary. But if you're just working, if you're the boss, and
you're working, working, working, working 12 hours a day, every day
on the same thing and it's stuff that your team can do or you are
stuff that That you're doing over and over and over again and you
think your team can do it. More than likely you're wasting energy.
More than likely you're wasting you're wasting all that time. But
if you just step back, created a process for it, a documented
process, step by step. You could offload that that in many, many
other things. So that every ounce of energy that you're spending
every single ounce of energy you are spending is spent in an
efficient and beautiful and amazing way. So right now what are you
doing? Where you are just you are constantly constantly spinning
energy. You're constantly doing, doing doing doing right. What what
are you doing right now? That Oh, over and over and over again. And
you use it as an excuse over and over and over again. You're doing
these few things that's keeping you in the office for 12 hours.
take a hard look and really truly see especially if you're the one
if you've learned how to do this thing over time, more than likely
somebody else can do it. What what are you doing right now? That if
you simply handed it off created a process for it. That energy that
you're spending can be best used for something else. This is Dean
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