Hey guys, and welcome back to another episode of Change Wired Podcast. My name is Angela Shorina. I'm your host. I'm your partner in change and transformation, your executive health and high performance coach 360, and just someone who is obsessed with doing our best, reaching for that potential that is in each of us, unlocking, using more of us, more of it. So together we get to live the most extraordinary life experience, creating more positive impact and wonder in the world. And today, guys, we're gonna talk about more, and that's not necessarily a good thing all the time. And we're gonna talk about how to most importantly create the life or start investing into life that you actually want to live. Thanks. So in that life, you always have time for the things that are your non-negotiables, your essentials to be creating and to be growing into and to be manifesting the vision of your life that you want to be a part of. And we're gonna use a very good methodology that I use with all of my clients to help them to create more and more of life that they want to live, that is aligned with their why, with their values, with the vision of their lives, with the vision of their of themselves that they have. But before we jump into that, very simple but not easy to do methodology, and definitely not something that everyone just does naturally. Before we jump into that, I want to talk about more. How many of you guys started working less because of the AI? For 99.9.9.9.9% of the people, the opposite happened, right? We are talking about AI, how it's gonna steal our jobs and do all the work for us. But it seems to me, talking to a lot of people on all kinds of levels of leadership and just my friends and people around me, that AI adds to our to-do list, not subtracts from it. We started doing more, bragging about how much we can crank out now, watching our to-do list expand instead of shrinking, being proud to show it off. Yesterday I was hiking up a mountain with a group of friends, entrepreneurs and also strangers, but also entrepreneurs or into building their own thing or working on some cool projects. And somewhere between the rain, it was quite well, not a lot of rain, actually, some drizzle. So somewhere between the rain, missed views and the summit, we started talking about this idea that unless we intentionally carve out time for the things that matter to us, like your health, your relationships, your spirituality or pursuit of things that feed your soul, your hobbies, the things that make you feel alive, like perhaps music or something else, surfing. Like unless we intentionally carve out this time, AI isn't gonna give us give isn't gonna give this back to us or create more of it. The time won't magically appear just because there is AI doing stuff. The list of to-dos will just get longer. And hasn't it already? Let's talk about the story of humanity and abundance. There was a time, not that long ago, when getting enough food was a real problem. Your grandparents probably can tell you about that time. Production of food, storage, transportation of food, none of that had caught up yet. But then it did. And did people uh start eating just enough? Did we start thinking about investing the extra that we created extra time or capacity into perhaps sustainability of the whole system? No, we kept eating well, kept eating and selling and producing well past the point of satisfaction, straight into the chronic disease, which by the way is still growing. We literally had to invent a drug to make it to make us stop eating. One of the most popular drugs out there. People are not great at less. We are not great at subtraction and enough. Not without intention. Some people will figure it out, they'll design beautiful lives the same way some people figured out how to eat well in a world drawing in options and food abundance. And some people will keep running themselves into one burnout after another, adding and adding and adding to their to-do list, convinced that enough isn't an option. The grind is just what you have to do to keep up. Guys, I'm not a fortune teller, not even a futurist, and I'm not gonna predict which camp of people you will land into, or what will happen to the world. But as a coach with 18 years of experience, I can tell you that this without hesitation if you're not intentional about designing the life, the health, uh, the relationships, the work you want, it won't come out, come to you naturally. If it did, coaching wouldn't be one of the fastest growing industries in the world. I don't know about your part of the world, but here in South Africa, it's Easter weekend, some more days off, and you might have a sliver of extra time, but maybe not with all the AI and stuff. Taking our jobs and our work. Take the time, sit down, and write about what your best life could look like. Not the life that you are defaulting it into by food industry or AI, but the one that you'd intentionally choose to create. So write about that life. And now we are transitioning into the toolkit that will help you to create more of that life that you actually want to live, not the one that the world around you wants you to default into, buying more, eating more, increasing your to-do list as AI's capability to help you with that increase. With my clients, I do this exercise, and the worksheet for this exercise is gonna be attached or linked in the show notes. We do this exercise that I call time budgeting. When we write down the top of the page, and it's gonna be in the worksheet, 168 hours that all of you, all of us get weekly to spend on everything, everything that matters to us. We include sleep there, our health and fitness pursuits, our food, our family, our relationships, our work, all of the hobbies, all of the things that you want to develop in yourself or want to create in the world. 168 hours a week. That is your budget. It's not expendable, not uh returnable, not somehow savable. This is what you get every week. Everyone gets it, and you get to decide, you get to choose what you're gonna invest it into. So it's a very good grounding exercise to realize hey, that is the budget, and unless I invest that and put some into things that matter to me, those things will not happen naturally just because they are in your head. There is no action, there is no creation. That is how it works, works in the real world we are living in. And if you have troubles figuring out like what are the areas I want to invest the time into, what do I want to develop in myself? What do I need to prioritize in my life? Then the next step might also be helpful. I call it the focus filter or your leverage in life to create the life you want to lead. Focus filter. It's the intersection of clearly defined why, values, and the vision for your life. Why it's your personal purpose. What do you want your life to be about? Good question to ask yourself to figure out your why and your purpose or start exploring, getting closer to that, which then will help you to figure out what it is that you want to invest the time that you do in that you think about in time budgeting into, right? So figure out first why values and vision. Why? What do I want my life to be about? If I were to look back at the end of my life, onto my lived life, from that point at the end of my life, what would a good life look like? If I'm, let's say, I'm 100 years old right now and I'm looking back onto my life. If I were to say I lived a good life, what that life would look like. It's also a really good writing journaling exercise. So that will help you to figure out what your life is is all about, what's your why? Values, that is the second circle in this Venn diagram that creates focus filter that then will help you to understand what you want to invest your time into, work-wise and life-wise and personal development-wise. Your values. How do you figure out what your values are? What you can ask yourself, what is what do I want to stand for in this life? What do I want to create more of? What kind of values by living my life the way I want to live it? Who do I admire? What kind of people and what qualities do people represent? That is a great window into what values you might also stand for. What makes me want to stand up and fight for it? Because I believe it's important in life and people, right? So, those are few questions, journaling about that will help you to figure out your values, those important things that you sort of boundaries or guides that will help you to shape your life and will help you to tell you what you want to invest your time more into. Your vision. What's the vision of my ideal life? Of my ideal self? What are my non-negotiables? Again, at the end of my life, I'm standing there and I'm looking back onto living a good life. What are those non-negotiables that I absolutely had to develop and invest into, or at least make an honest attempt to develop and grow? So I, standing there at the end of my life, looking back onto my life, could say, I lived a good life. Maybe I haven't achieved everything. You know, it's not everything is up to you, but I invested everything that I had, your time specifically, the one that you define in the time budgeting exercise. How, how, what would make me feel proud about how I invested my time? The thing is, nothing in life is guaranteed. All of us have their circumstances, our circumstances and our chances and opportunities that come to us or don't come to us. But that is not the question. How do I get more opportunities? The question is, what are you gonna do with the opportunities and the chances and the resources that you have? And that is the most important thing. What you're gonna do with what you have, not what you could be doing in some potential future if you got all the opportunities. That is a not very useful question, but a useful question can be what I have resources, talents, uh, all kinds of circumstances that I'm in. And how can I invest all of that into something I truly care about? Something that represents a vision of my life, my values, my why, my purpose, right? And then you get back to your time budgeting and start every week investing that 168 hours you get into things that you want to stand for, that contribute to the ideal version of your life, an ideal version of you. That's it for today, guys. Don't forget to share this podcast episode, or perhaps bring it to some group gathering of like-minded people to journal and discuss, perhaps even to your coaching session, to reflect on that together with someone, maybe a family member, a friend. And before you jump off, let's again recap, or let's come back to this idea that more is the default for human brain. And naturally, you're not gonna get the health and wealth and fitness and relationships that you want. You kind of have to be very intentional about investing your time and energy and resources into what you want. AI will not magically solve it and give you more time and all the resources you need. If anything, it's gonna make your life even more, even busier, complex, with more to-do lists and more chances to burn out and overdo it, doubling down on things that don't actually matter to you. So don't wait for the world to change to help you live your best life, but instead, just like always, figure out your why, your values, your vision, what you want to stand for, and then take those 168 hours and invest them with intention and wisely. Thank you guys for tuning in. Thank you for listening. Have an amazing rest of the day. And till next time, keep thinking and keep growing, and keep investing those hours in the in the things that matter to you.