Kevin Palmieri
(0:00) Do not tell me you don't have an hour to go to the gym. (0:05) If you open up your phone, you go to settings, and you've realized that you are spending five hours and 42 minutes on Instagram every day, my friend, you have an hour to go to the gym.
Alan Lazaros
(0:16) A time audit. (0:18) Kevin and I did this seven years ago in the studio. (0:22) It changed our life forever.
Kevin Palmieri
(0:24) Welcome to Next Level University. (0:27) I'm your host, Kevin Palmieri. (0:29) And I'm your co-host, Alan Lazaros.(0:32) At NLU, we believe in a heart-driven, but no-BS approach to holistic self-improvement for dream chasers.
Alan Lazaros
(0:38) Our goal with every episode is to help you level up your life, love, health, and wealth.
Kevin Palmieri
(0:45) We bring you a new episode every single day on topics like confidence, self-belief, self-worth, self-awareness, relationships, boundaries, consistency, habits, and defining your own unique version of success.
Alan Lazaros
(1:01) Self-improvement in your pocket, every day, from anywhere, completely free. (1:07) Welcome to Next Level University.
Kevin Palmieri
(1:13) Next Level Nation today for episode number 2,545. (1:18) One simple task that will 100% change your future. (1:22) This isn't an infomercial.(1:24) This actually will change your future.
Alan Lazaros
(1:26) For sure.
Kevin Palmieri
(1:27) Do you remember that day? (1:28) I do remember that day. (1:31) Huge whiteboard.
Alan Lazaros
(1:32) It's still in my basement, by the way. (1:34) That whiteboard. (1:34) It's still in my basement.(1:35) Yeah? (1:35) Yeah, it's a big one. (1:36) And we were in the studio.(1:38) You tell it. (1:38) Yeah, go ahead.
Kevin Palmieri
(1:39) We were in the studio. (1:41) We actually did two time audits, I believe. (1:43) Okay.
Alan Lazaros
(1:44) This is the big one. (1:44) The one where the whiteboard was completely covered? (1:46) Yeah, so essentially it was like...
Kevin Palmieri
(1:49) I bet you I could find that photo. (1:51) For sure. (1:53) I don't know who started it.(1:55) I don't know if it was like, hey, it was probably me. (1:56) I was probably like, dude, I'm fucking burning down, man. (1:59) I don't know.
Alan Lazaros
(2:00) Because at that point you were audio and video editing everything. (2:04) That was before we had any team members, basically. (2:07) Then this wasn't at the studio.
Kevin Palmieri
(2:10) This wasn't at the studio. (2:11) No? (2:11) No.(2:12) The studio was like 400, 500 episodes in, right? (2:15) So I wasn't doing it at that point. (2:17) Maybe we only had a couple team members.(2:20) I don't know. (2:20) I don't know.
Alan Lazaros
(2:21) But I remember... (2:21) We were still doing video for YouTube, maybe?
Kevin Palmieri
(2:23) Maybe. (2:24) Maybe. (2:24) I don't know.(2:25) I remember we had a conversation and I was like, dude, I don't...
Alan Lazaros
(2:28) This was like 2019, right? (2:30) 2018? (2:30) 2019?
Kevin Palmieri
(2:31) I don't know. (2:33) We didn't have the studio in 2018. (2:34) I'm going to find the photo after this.(2:35) I'm going to find the photo. (2:36) Sorry, we should have locked these details up, but this is how it goes. (2:39) We're having a conversation in real time.(2:40) Regardless of where it was, it had to go along the lines of, hey, man, I am tapped out. (2:45) I can't get anything done. (2:47) I'm not getting nearly enough sleep.(2:49) I'm struggling to get my workouts done and I just need more time. (2:55) Which then led into, all right, let's between the two of us, because I'm sure you were probably like, yeah, man, I feel I'm freaking tapped out too. (3:01) Between the two of us, let's try to account for every single hour that we have and figure out where it's going to the best of our ability and then we'll figure out how much time we have and what we can do to adjust it.
Alan Lazaros
(3:12) I remember the photo is of the whiteboard and the whole thing was taken up. (3:16) The whole thing was taken up. (3:18) So let me give the math here.(3:20) I do this with clients. (3:21) You have 168 hours a week, which is 24 times 7. (3:29) 168 hours a week.(3:30) All of us have that. (3:32) Now, if you sleep 8, there's 112 waking hours left. (3:36) Now, a lot of people, time in bed is more than that.(3:39) So I would call it 100. (3:41) Okay? (3:43) So 100 hours a week.(3:45) If you work 40, you still have 60 hours left. (3:49) People think that they don't have time. (3:52) That's 60 hours outside of work, even if you work a full-time job.(3:55) Now, some people do overtime, I get it, but even if you work a 60-hour week, you still have 40 hours where you're doing things. (4:02) So the idea here is you take out a piece of paper. (4:05) You actually have to do this.(4:07) Not with me, not with Kev. (4:08) Go in a dark room by yourself, put on a lamp, and just be in the silence and the darkness. (4:14) Dude, it's sensory deprivation.(4:16) Just the way you said it.
Kevin Palmieri
(4:17) Go into a dark room and light your favorite candle lamp? (4:21) You know it. (4:22) And take out your, what is the old-school feather pen?(4:27) Yeah, your quill. (4:29) Take out your quill and then get to work. (4:30) That would actually be very nice.
Alan Lazaros
(4:32) It sounds like a nice little Saturday night.
Kevin Palmieri
(4:33) It does, yeah.
Alan Lazaros
(4:34) So real quick, sensory deprivation. (4:40) Remember when we went to a float tank?
Kevin Palmieri
(4:42) Of course. (4:42) I need it again. (4:44) You did do it again?(4:45) No, I need to again. (4:46) I was too anxious at the time, brother. (4:47) I couldn't get there.(4:48) Really? (4:48) I can get there now. (4:49) I'm more transcendent than I used to be.(4:52) Of course. (4:53) You're kidding me? (4:54) You want to go do it again?(4:55) I would love to do it.
Alan Lazaros
(4:55) Yeah, absolutely. (4:56) You and Taryn should do one. (4:57) I'm still into weird.(4:58) You brought me to one a year or two ago. (5:01) Dude, it was great. (5:03) It was definitely, I got the same message, the same thing.(5:07) I didn't realize you did this without consulting with me. (5:10) Yeah, I did. (5:12) And we both were like, all right, we could just do that at home.(5:15) You know, it's like, just maybe sit in a dark room, think about your life, you know? (5:21) Earplugs, you know the deal. (5:22) Anyways, the point of this is the time audit.(5:24) So you've got to take out a piece of paper, go in solitude. (5:28) Yes, dim the lights, just get into your brain. (5:31) Okay, and then write on a piece of paper everything you do week to week.(5:35) Now, some things are going to be once a month. (5:37) Some things are going to be once a year. (5:39) Like, I get that.(5:41) Try your best to do a weekly time audit where you figure out and account for all 168 hours. (5:47) And then you do your best guess for each thing. (5:50) And then you go into each one, just like when you're tracking calories, it's like, okay, I tracked that for 90.(5:55) It was actually 110. (5:56) You go back and you check. (5:58) And one of my clients, shout out to Rafaela, she audioed me the next day and said, this changed my freaking life.(6:05) I thought I had no time. (6:07) It turns out I have a lot more time than I thought. (6:09) That's exactly it.(6:10) I actually shared that on my Instagram. (6:12) My Instagram has a video. (6:14) I asked her for permission to share it.(6:15) And it has her audio to me. (6:18) She literally swears in it. (6:19) She's like, I have so much more fucking time than I thought.(6:20) I reshared it because I thought it was so valuable. (6:24) Time audit. (6:24) I have a timer right here.(6:26) Look at that. (6:28) Little timer. (6:29) It's been three seconds since I clicked that.(6:31) No. (6:33) Nice. (6:34) So the point of this episode, though, is you have 168 hours in a week.(6:38) If you sleep eight, you got 56. (6:40) That's 112 waking hours. (6:41) I do 100 because I'm definitely in bed more than eight hours a night.(6:46) And out of those 100 hours, if you work a full-time job, that's 40 hours. (6:49) You have 60 hours to work with on the conservative end. (6:54) 60 hours.(6:55) What are you doing with your time? (6:57) Look at your goals and then track the amount of percent of those hours that are going towards your goals. (7:02) I'm telling you.(7:03) It's like humbling. (7:05) You might find out that 30% of those 100 hours that are free are going to your goals. (7:12) And then you can't complain anymore.(7:14) How many people use not having enough time as an excuse? (7:17) That's got to be the biggest. (7:18) It's got to be one of the biggest.(7:20) I don't have the time. (7:21) I don't have the money. (7:22) Those two things are connected.(7:27) They're connected. (7:28) If you use your time better, you'll make more money.
Kevin Palmieri
(7:31) For sure. (7:31) I, for the longest time, I was like, yeah, my gym's like three minutes down the road. (7:35) It's like 12 minutes.(7:36) For sure. (7:37) For sure.
Alan Lazaros
(7:38) Now, what's 12? (7:39) Watch this. (7:40) Let's do this.(7:40) This is so good. (7:42) How many minutes is it per year?
Kevin Palmieri
(7:44) Well, it's eight per, so it's 16 minutes more than I thought. (7:49) Why'd you say 12? (7:51) I thought it was three.(7:53) It was 12. (7:55) That's. (7:56) Okay.(7:56) Oh, shit. (7:56) That's not the right math.
Alan Lazaros
(7:57) I'm going to do 12 times. (7:58) So it's going to be 24 minutes per day? (8:01) No, no, no, no, no.(8:02) Okay. (8:02) So it's six. (8:03) So it's 12.(8:04) Yeah. (8:05) 12 more per day. (8:06) Total.(8:07) Just, yeah, run that.
Kevin Palmieri
(8:08) Brother, how long does it take you to get to and from the gym? (8:10) It takes me 12 minutes to 12 minutes fro. (8:15) That's 12 minutes.(8:17) Yeah, yeah. (8:17) But I thought it was three. (8:19) I know.(8:19) Which is a delta of 18 minutes. (8:20) Don't care about what you thought.
Alan Lazaros
(8:21) Doesn't care about the delta. (8:22) Don't care about that. (8:23) Okay.(8:23) So is it true? (8:25) Kevin Palmieri, is it true? (8:26) Yeah.(8:27) Mr. Plum in the billiards room with the candlestick, for sure. (8:30) Is it true? (8:30) All right, real quick.(8:31) If you've never played Clue, that joke is going to make no sense to anyone who's like 20 or less, probably 27 or less.
Kevin Palmieri
(8:37) All right, real quick.
Alan Lazaros
(8:39) Is it true, Kevin?
Kevin Palmieri
(8:40) Yes.
Alan Lazaros
(8:41) That you have a 12 minute commute to the gym and 12 minutes back? (8:45) More true than not true, yes. (8:47) Okay.(8:47) Okay. (8:48) How many times a week do you go? (8:50) You could put me down for six times.(8:52) Okay. (8:52) Okay. (8:53) 24 minutes times six.(8:55) Yeah. (8:55) Okay. (8:56) Times 52 weeks.
Kevin Palmieri
(8:58) That's going to be many, many, going to be about 60 hours.
Alan Lazaros
(9:02) 125 hours. (9:04) What? (9:05) Yeah.(9:05) 124.8. So if... (9:10) That's wild. (9:11) Now, this is the point.(9:12) What if you listen to a book? (9:14) That's 125 more hours of learning per year.
Kevin Palmieri
(9:18) That's what I do.
Alan Lazaros
(9:19) Per year, that's what you do. (9:20) That's what I do. (9:20) That's why music, you know, I'm just saying.(9:24) Okay. (9:25) I have a client who just bought a desk. (9:29) And I'm going to read this to everybody.(9:35) This week. (9:35) Hold on, hold on, hold on. (9:36) That's wild.(9:36) Okay, here we go. (9:37) That's wild. (9:38) Yeah, see?(9:40) She said, How do you make the numbers make sense, though, without trying to rationalize it to yourself, so we come up with the number 60 days? (9:51) How do I know with certainty that it makes sense and it's a good idea, as opposed to just something that I want and I'm convincing myself of? (9:59) I said, it's the scientific method over time.(10:01) Did it actually ROI? (10:02) Or in hindsight, were you off? (10:05) There's a whole bunch of other stuff.(10:07) Okay, real quick. (10:08) Real quick. (10:08) Real quick.(10:10) Okay, cool. (10:13) The desk is $177. (10:16) Okay.(10:18) Now, her average hourly rate is $35 an hour. (10:22) When she's working, she believes that it will save her five minutes a day. (10:28) That's her calculation.(10:30) Okay. (10:31) We did the math. (10:32) 177 divided by 35 equals 5.(10:35) 5 times 60 equals 300 minutes. (10:37) 300 divided by 5 is 60. (10:39) It'll pay itself off in 60 days.(10:41) I said, buy it. (10:42) This is called return on investment. (10:46) If you, I call this tools for success, if something's going to save you 10 minutes a day, there's a return on investment point where it pays you back.(10:57) I know we're getting off time on it. (10:59) The point of this whole thing is that there's a consumer and there's an investor. (11:04) A consumer thinks, I want a new desk.(11:06) It's going to make me happier. (11:09) An investor says, this new desk is going to make me more productive and it's going to save me five minutes a day and it's going to ROI $177 desk. (11:17) I don't know what kind of piece of shit desk she's buying.(11:19) I'm kidding. (11:20) I'm joking. (11:21) But it ROIs in 60 days.(11:23) In 60 days, she makes her money back. (11:26) The difference, I don't even care if it's the same desk. (11:28) It's the reason why you buy it that matters.(11:32) It's the reason why you buy it. (11:34) Dude, if I could go back in time, I would throw this fucking Zen book out the window and I would get something better. (11:39) Do you want to know why?(11:41) I didn't know the Wi-Fi card was going to blow. (11:43) Okay? (11:44) Now, it's still been a good purchase, but now I have different circumstances.(11:48) I have much more money now and it's not like I didn't have money before. (11:51) I did the ROI calculation not knowing the Wi-Fi card blew. (11:56) Now, it's not terrible, but it's not optimal.(11:59) Would it save me five minutes a day when traveling to have a nicer laptop? (12:04) Abso-freaking-lutely. (12:06) Now, there will come a point where that's the case.(12:09) Now, I could sell this, I can give this to somebody, I can use it as a backup, whatever. (12:13) The point that I'm making though is that every decision I make is predicated on time and money and effort. (12:18) The only three resources human beings have are time, effort, and money.(12:21) And where you invest that time, effort, and money despite people thinking I'm lucky, that's what matters. (12:26) If you invest your time, effort, and money poorly, you will not be successful. (12:31) If you invest your time, effort, and money optimally, you will be more and more successful forever.
Kevin Palmieri
(12:36) One, I vote that we launch the... (12:40) What is it called? (12:41) Zen book?(12:42) Zen book. (12:42) Off of your roof. (12:43) Because I've always hated that thing.(12:45) Since the day you got it, I said, that ain't it, son. (12:48) And what is a Wi-Fi card? (12:51) It's...(12:52) I thought it's just like... (12:53) Yeah, brother, I thought you just like connected to... (12:55) I thought just everything got it.
Alan Lazaros
(12:57) Okay, so you remember back in the day when Wi-Fi was new?
Kevin Palmieri
(13:02) No, man, I must have slept through that year or something. (13:05) Dude, I don't remember that at all. (13:07) I don't remember that at all.
Alan Lazaros
(13:08) You and I lived very different childhoods. (13:11) So every... (13:12) Seriously.(13:13) Every laptop, every computer, every device has a Wi-Fi card in it, which is just a... (13:19) It's like your ability to... (13:22) It's like a mini antenna that takes in a signal.(13:24) Yeah.
Kevin Palmieri
(13:25) And the better the card, the better your Wi-Fi connection.
Alan Lazaros
(13:27) Yeah, of course.
Kevin Palmieri
(13:28) Didn't know that was a thing. (13:29) And honestly, the Zenbook's really good, but the Wi-Fi card sucks. (13:34) Whatever, let me know what your vote is.(13:35) I vote we throw it off of the roof. (13:37) I think number one vote would be give it to somebody, of course. (13:39) Donate it.(13:40) Yeah, yeah, yeah. (13:40) And it's not that bad.
Alan Lazaros
(13:41) My standards are outrageous.
Kevin Palmieri
(13:43) Like, you can't find a good suitor for it. (13:45) I think we launch it off of your fucking roof. (13:47) No, we definitely not.(13:49) The content.
Alan Lazaros
(13:50) But it is basically... (13:52) Without good Wi-Fi, the laptop's fairly useless to me, running online business.
Kevin Palmieri
(13:55) Unless you want to use Notepad.
Alan Lazaros
(13:57) That's what I'm saying.
Kevin Palmieri
(13:57) You can use Notepad anywhere.
Alan Lazaros
(13:59) But I do also want to make it clear that this all depends on your goals. (14:04) What I'm trying to do with this thing when I travel, compared to my desktop computer, my desktop computer is probably 20 times more powerful than this Zenbook. (14:17) But I'm not going to take this giant tower with me, right?
Kevin Palmieri
(14:21) Were people freaking out when Wi-Fi came out? (14:23) People must have been mind-blown. (14:25) Of course.(14:26) Dude, absolutely. (14:26) Jesus, I missed it. (14:28) What an L from me.
Alan Lazaros
(14:30) Dude, I run with my phone. (14:31) How do you think Strava knows exactly where you are? (14:34) I assumed it was the Bluetooth.
Kevin Palmieri
(14:39) Satellites and shit. (14:40) I don't know, man. (14:40) Definitely satellites.(14:41) Nice job. (14:43) Wi-Fi? (14:43) You don't need Wi-Fi.(14:44) It's called triangulation. (14:47) Yeah, what is it triangulating to? (14:50) Satellite and...(14:51) Two other spots. (14:53) It has to go to the internet?
Alan Lazaros
(14:54) Yes. (14:55) That's why LTE. (14:56) That's why you pay Verizon as much as you pay them.(14:59) You're Verizon, right? (15:00) Yeah. (15:00) Yeah, same.
Kevin Palmieri
(15:01) Well, look, you learned about firmware last week. (15:04) You learned about Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi cards today. (15:06) You never know what you're going to get at NLU.(15:08) That's facts. (15:09) You learned that I don't know any of that, so please don't ask me about that. (15:12) We got to teach you the basics of computing.(15:15) It's very important. (15:15) I have clients all the time that are like, hey, I need a new laptop. (15:18) What do you suggest?(15:19) It's like, I suggest you text Alan. (15:21) Let me text Alan for you because I have no clue. (15:23) I don't know.
Alan Lazaros
(15:24) Well, for them, the ZenBook might be more than good enough. (15:28) It also depends on their budget, but it's a whole other conversation.
Kevin Palmieri
(15:30) I can't in good faith recommend it to them.
Alan Lazaros
(15:32) Well, it depends how much they're willing to spend. (15:35) That's true. (15:35) Because I can get them, I mean, your MacBook was $1,800.
Kevin Palmieri
(15:39) I said, look, my first laptop, I had a gaming laptop, an Asus laptop.
Alan Lazaros
(15:43) That thing was awesome.
Kevin Palmieri
(15:44) I love that thing. (15:45) That was like amazing. (15:47) All right, we're going to stop talking about that.(15:48) If you want to learn more about motherboards and circuit boards and server boards, reach out to Alan. (15:54) He's your guy. (15:55) If you want to get successful, though, definitely reach out to Alan because he's your guy.(15:59) Hell of a call to action there at the end. (16:01) Next level, fitness accountability group. (16:03) If you're looking to be more accountable when it comes to your fitness goals.(16:06) Again, fitness is hard because, yeah, some people around you might root for you, but there's this weird thing when you start doing better than the people around you, they kind of start tearing you down, unfortunately. (16:16) That will never happen in the fitness accountability group. (16:18) We love you making progress.(16:20) And honestly, I want you to crush it. (16:23) Even if it means crushing it more than me. (16:26) I love that for you.(16:26) Love it. (16:27) The whole community loves that. (16:29) If you're looking for cool people to do cool fitness things with, reach out.(16:32) We'll let you in. (16:33) As always, we love you, appreciate you, grateful for each and every one of you. (16:36) If you are as committed as you say you are to getting to the next level, make sure you listen in tomorrow because we'll be here every single day to help you get there.(16:42) Keep leveling up to reach your full potential. (16:45) Thanks for joining us for another episode of Next Level University. (16:49) We love connecting with the Next Level family.
Alan Lazaros
(16:51) We mean it when we say family. (16:54) If you ever need anything, please reach out to us directly. (16:57) Everything you need to get a hold of us is in the show notes.
Kevin Palmieri
(17:01) Thank you again and we will talk to you tomorrow.