Mar 2, 2019
This podcast was never meant to have guests. It was an outlet to tell stories and to help others make life-changing decisions quickly and effectively. Well... that's all gone out the window. Today we have a guest, Oliver Kelso, who is a systems consultant and a very good friend. Today he shares some 5-minute decisions he's made that have changed his life.
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Hey this is Dean Soto founder of prosulum.com and
freedominfiveminutes.com and we're here with another freedom in
five minutes episode Today's topic is this we have our first guest
that and more coming up
all right good morning we have a very special freedom in five minutes episode today because despite me
kind of coming into this podcast thinking that I would not have any guests on whatsoever because I didn't want to I made the decision to five minute decision to have a guest on and I might even have some more later on if you're lucky. Well
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See, I'm not sure but the very first guest is actually a very very
special one. And he is joining me on from the Soto compound in
beautiful Central California and his name is Mr. Oliver Kelso.
Hello everyone. Man. So Oliver give you a brief introduction of
Oliver so you might not know more than likely you won't know.
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But Oliver
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at one point in time was one of my consulting clients and he
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he utilized the virtual assistants the five minute assistance that
I have at pro salon.com and did some just absolutely amazing things
he took he took these guys to the next level he doubled his
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Income me like cut his time in half from a daily on a daily basis
and the beautiful thing is we've become very very very good friends
and we've even done some cool types of work together and so all
that being said Mr. Oliver I wanted to have you on the podcast one
to introduce you and to to kind of give a little anecdotal five
minute decision that might have changed your life something that
that made your life absolutely 100% different than it would have
been had you just done nothing so no pressure
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but I wanted to do that but the first kind of kind of you can you
can kind of get the group going by by just kind of introducing
yourself a little bit as well everybody I'm this is all over here.
I Dean is correct. I am in beautiful emphasis on view.
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Full Southern Cal I mean central Central California with on his
amazing property which is amazing
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um yeah little background on me I
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didn't have a lot of focus in my work life for a long time
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had a decent job didn't pay that well met Dean
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found out what incredible things he does and as a result I have not
actually doubled he's incorrect I've
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this point quadrupled
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monthly income
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so my I got Can I told you five minute decisions I made okay so the
first five minute decision is big the second one small the first
five minute decision was the day I met Dean and he goes hey man the
current client I'm working with isn't really
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cutting it but I really need to get this thing done so can we just
have lunch together and I said okay
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It was a 32nd decision or less that decision changed my life Dean
has probably been my most influential friend or one of them to date
besides my wife
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she's number one and you know that that decision enabled me to
start a whole new business I now do business development consulting
as a result of it
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I know he's he's he's really really good at it too man he's he's
like extremely good at it better than me
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not true.
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I exclusively though use Dean's VA is because it it makes the whole
machine work.
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However, the I think the this morning the more impactful five
minute decision was when I got a text from Dean while I was in bed
half asleep, planning on going back to sleep for another hour that
said, Hey, man, you want to come downstairs for my morning walk? I
said
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okay. Give me five minutes. I literally said that
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and you know why let me
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tell you why. Because life isn't comprised of it is comprised of
big decisions. And I know that's the point of your podcast, Dean.
So sorry. But life is really comprised of lots of small five minute
decisions also. And the entire quality of my day would have been
different. If I didn't get up this morning and go on this walk.
It's gorgeous out here. It's refreshing. It puts me in the right
mindset for the day it's meditative. It's wonderful. So to start
one's day off that way, instead of, you know,
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doing the usual lounging in bed, waiting for the alarm to jar me
out of sleep, and then stumbling around I've got out and it's
incredible, so that's fine. Let's take this five minute decision. I
love it, man. And it's funny because, you know, a lot of people
would say, you know, oh, well, that's not that big of a deal,
right? I mean, if you woke up an hour earlier, or whatever, but
yeah, I mean, we're out here enjoying this. It's this is a very
particular time of day because at least when we're here, it's not
too cold. It's not too
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Warm you still have like the you you can hear the sounds of the
waterfall. You don't hear any cars, especially on a weekend like
this. Oh, by the way, he got up on a weekend which makes it even
harder. Yeah, Saturday,
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but they even with this is that now we have an hour to to walk. We
haven't had my dog here but we have an hour to walk and talk. And
usually at least from our past experience when we're doing this
type of stuff, we have ideas pop up that actually
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actually manifest later on in our life. And I mean,
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there's there's been tons of different times where we've been
talking or we've been at lunch, we come up with an idea and it's
made us a lot of money, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah. So I think we came
up with one over that bonfire last night. Yeah, I'm pretty sure
yeah.
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So, so so the here's the here's the big important thing with this
is that that that the big big thing is to make a decision just like
I've been saying in this podcast is that that it's it's way better
to make a decision and move than to not make a decision decision.
In fact, we were just talking last night about some investment
decisions. Oliver is extremely good with numbers and with with
investments and things like that, and the the thing with with that
is that I decided at that point I'm like, know what I'm going to
become the student here and I'm going to learn what he knows about
this stuff. I'm going to show him my numbers and see where it takes
where it takes us. And in fact, at that point in time, we were we
were at we were at Cool Hand Luke which is the
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A restaurant and here I am making it moving, moving 50 you know,
plus thousand dollars from one environment to another. So
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that was a five minute decision that that that wouldn't have
happened another way from a ton of money is what it's going to do
is see i love it i love it if you didn't hear that he said he's
gonna saved me a ton of money. So but the biggest thing one more
note, five minute decision. Five Minute decisions that challenge
your the status quo I find are often the most impactful. Yeah, for
me any five minute decision where I'm like, I don't want to do this
thing and I get up and do it. Yeah, something in me tells me I
should do it. Those are the ones I love. It was the ones that are
like I love it. It's my life. I love it. So what can you do today
as always action step right. What is one thing that you can do
today or or tomorrow maybe it might be waking up
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Early maybe it might be just looking at your numbers. It might be
looking at your expenses and saying hey I don't need this thing
anymore or might be looking at
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something else and actually taking action on it What's that one
thing that you can do
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that even if it seems small you make the decision to do it and over
time it brings tremendous amount of value to your life. right
there's Dean Soto with freedom in five minutes. Go to pro Suan calm
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and then you never have to do it again. They'll do it forever for
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Go check that out prosulum.com and go check out
freedominfiveminutes.com as well and I will catch you in the next
freedom in five minutes episode.