Balancing Executive Health and Business For a Rich Life with Wade Galt

In the high-paced world of entrepreneurship, the elusive dream of work-life balance often feels like an unattainable goal. Business demands can leave entrepreneurs stretched thin, affecting both personal and professional aspects of life.

This blog post explores the concept of executive health—a crucial, yet often overlooked, aspect of entrepreneurial success. Executive health isn’t just a physical concept, it’s a way of life. It’s about being the CEO of not only your health but your life.

We'll delve into how nurturing executive health is not only a prerequisite for personal and professional fulfillment but also the gateway to a richer, more holistic life that extends far beyond mere financial success.

With that said, my most recent guest, Wade Galt, offered a fresh perspective on this. Here are some key takeaways.

Leverage the Value of Your Time for Optimal Executive Health

Achieving optimal executive health begins with a fundamental understanding: the distinction between $10 an hour and $10,000 an hour work. To maintain optimal executive health, entrepreneurs must discern which tasks offer the most value and direct their focus accordingly.

This not only improves productivity but also contributes to a balanced life, where executive health plays a pivotal role. By investing your most precious asset—time—wisely, you pave the way for a life enriched with personal growth, more meaningful connections, and ultimately, a deeper sense of fulfillment.

Wade Galt

Wade is an entrepreneur, author, podcast host, and life coach who believes in maintaining a healthy work-life balance. He has committed his life to the three-day weekend lifestyle, where he maximizes his productivity while also making time for family, friends, and fun.

Embracing Feedback for Improved Executive Health

A cornerstone of holistic executive health is the ability to embrace feedback, not as a personal affront, but as an invaluable tool for improvement.

Constructive criticism isn't solely a catalyst for business growth but also a critical component of executive health. The grace with which feedback is received and incorporated distinguishes successful entrepreneurs. This not only bolsters their businesses but also contributes to their overall executive health, creating a more rewarding and balanced life journey.

Knowing Your Strengths and Weaknesses for Enhanced Executive Health

Understanding your strengths and weaknesses is essential for executive health. Self-awareness isn't confined to the boardroom; it permeates every facet of life. Recognizing your abilities and areas for growth enhances your ability to build effective teams and form meaningful relationships.

This self-awareness, vital for both your business and personal life, enriches your executive health and is a cornerstone of a fulfilling life journey.

Prioritizing Self-Care for Optimal Executive Health

The pursuit of executive health encompasses self-care and the ability to enjoy the fruits of your labor. The relentless grind of entrepreneurship can often overshadow personal well-being.

Yet, to lead a richer, more fulfilling life, it's imperative to indulge in self-care. After all, what's the point of all the hard work if you can't savor a well-deserved three-day weekend?

Executive health, as a concept, reminds us that personal well-being is not a luxury but a necessity for a balanced and prosperous life journey.

Highlighting the Richness of Life

A rich life isn't confined to wealth and business success; it encompasses personal growth, meaningful relationships, and overall well-being.

Executive health is the thread that weaves through these components, ensuring that your entrepreneurial voyage is not just financially rewarding but personally fulfilling. The richness of life extends beyond the boardroom and financial statements to the myriad experiences, connections, and accomplishments that make life truly meaningful.

Conclusion

Wade Galt's insights on executive health offer a compelling reminder that entrepreneurship need not come at the expense of personal well-being. By integrating these four key lessons: understanding the value of your time, embracing feedback, recognizing your strengths and weaknesses, and prioritizing self-care - you pave the way for optimal executive health and a more balanced and rewarding entrepreneurial journey.

Remember, the ultimate goal of entrepreneurship is not solely about business success; it's about leading a fulfilling life. As you navigate this journey, allow Wade Galt's lessons to guide you toward optimal executive health, prosperity, and an enriched life, not just financially but holistically.

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Transcript (Not exact wording + may contain a few errors)

00:02 - Julian Hayes II (Host)

Welcome everyone to another episode of Executive Health and Life. I'm your host, julian Hayes II. Today I got to thinking and this is a very timely episode that we're recording here because I just had this conversation with a friend at the gym about work, life, and identity and separating with that. Before I even get into that more, I think about this thing through the lens of we have renewable and non-renewable resources. Money is a valuable resource. It's an essential tool. We need it. How much? Well, that can be determined by a lot of things. It's far from being a non-renewable resource, as you can literally print it with the flick of a wrist. Now time. On the other hand, this is our greatest non-renewable resource. You can't get it back once it's gone.

00:52

My guest today is someone who, when he's not playing beach volleyball, he's a great player. He's helping people get more of their time back while simultaneously creating greater impact and income. And, best of all, my guest is someone who has committed to a lifestyle of three-day weekends so he can enjoy his time with family and friends a little bit more. I'm speaking with none other than Wade Galt. He's an entrepreneur, author, life coach and creator of the three-day weekend club. So, without further ado Wade. How's it going today?

01:24 - Wade Galt (Guest)

Doing great man. Julian, thank you so much for having me. I know you and I did an interview for my show Gosh, quite a while back and you and I were just laughing about how both of us are so into so many things that we're not always on top of every single moment of production. Yet we've enjoyed the ride with this passion project and I'm just happy to be here, man. Thank you so much. I love what you're doing. I love what you do for people. I've already picked up stuff from working with you, so I'm looking to even though I'm the guest, I'm still always looking to learn from you as well.

01:51 - Julian Hayes II (Host)

Today, Well, I appreciate that, and so I have to ask first thing, the styles choices. I like the style choices and it's become what's the background behind that?

02:03 - Wade Galt (Guest)

So you mean the shirt and all that stuff? Yes, yeah, so okay. So my family, my dad's side they're considered a little bit vain. So what am I sounding to? Sound vain? Because probably it is.

02:18

My dad and my mom are from an island, trinidad and Tobago, just off South America, and dad grew up big fish, little pond. He was the first guy in the entire island had a fiberglass boat. He played water pole from this and that. And so there's this. First of all, there's this island, just what I've grown up with. There's a mindset that they have that life is still way more important than work. Like you can flex all you want, you can pretend, you can talk about your house and stuff, but at the end of the day it's who plays the best at sports or who can dance the best or who sings the best. Like they're so much more into life than that. So I've always had that in the back.

02:54

But the vain side is the Galt family. We're known for having a hard time walking past a mirror and when I see myself in this, actually it just makes me happy. I love, I've always liked bright clothing, so in my office I have lots of other shirts up, that kind of Mr Rogers. I have them hanging up, so it's part of the decor in the area and I recently added this guy behind me, kind of just something to remind me as well.

03:22

But I just find, when I'm in this place, unlike what some people say let's say, the downside of a dress down Friday, where sometimes people say, well, you know, then employees don't take things seriously, and I happen to work with financial people where you actually probably don't want to dress down on a Friday because people are like, whoa, you're not serious about my money today, so some places you almost can't do a dress down Friday with a hurt in you. In my case, I'm an entrepreneur, I work with entrepreneurs and this is actually does speak out to, yes, what I am doing. I'm enjoying life. I'm making more time for family, for friends, for fun still very focused on living life and helping my customers, but making sure that there's so much more time for life Because, as you said, it's definitely a non renewable resource.

04:01 - Julian Hayes II (Host)

Yeah. So yeah, I appreciate hearing that and there's a lot of intentionality behind that. And you know, speaking of intentionality, I know we got this podcast booked months ago because you took the summer off with family and friends. So where did this intentionality come from?

04:21 - Wade Galt (Guest)

So if someone were to ask me what's the difference between my life when I was not living what I would call three day weekend lifestyle which, by the way, is not tied to three days and in fact I'm already finding mine shifting a little, as our kids are 17 and 14. They're senior and freshman in high school, so they'll, you know, as they start reaching that age, you, as much as you hate to admit it, whenever they say, hey, you want to do something like, sure, no, I don't have work, who cares? Because they're in their world, they're doing their thing. And so, randomly, certainly during the summer, on a Tuesday morning at 10, daughter will be like hey, you want to go play volleyball? Okay, great. So what can I move, what can I shift, what can I? You know what? How can I make sure I'm fully present for this time of life where, especially as parents, they'll be out of the house soon? They're not, hopefully, they're not dying, but it's still a different level of quality of attention.

05:12

And so one of the things that I found very quickly was I can still do far better work when they're in school and I'm just doing my work and do my absolute best work.

05:23

And then there's certain types of work that I've done for years, like coaching and stuff, I can do an auto pilot.

05:28

It doesn't mean I'm not good at it, I'm actually. I've done it so long that, at least for, however, whatever my level is, I'm as good as I'm going to get and, overall, just realizing that there is this sort of ebb and flow in life, as far as when I have more energy, and in pro sports other than, let's say, golf or tennis or some of those types of sports, there's a preseason, there's a season, there's a postseason, there's an off season, there's seasons and there isn't. You know, there's seasons in nature. So for me it's about being able to enjoy each season, because I do have a lot of type A in me. I want to go and push hard and hustle at things. Sometimes. In fact I recently I'm going to dork out a little bit here because I'm getting garb, I'm so like I said the vanity thing, but I'm just. It's not printed the way I want you, but I just. Finally, this is something I've been telling people.

06:13 - Julian Hayes II (Host)

Oh, I played three days hustle, for I like that. I played three days.

06:16 - Wade Galt (Guest)

I like that. So I tell people like, dude, I still hustle, I just I'm not always hustling, you know, because you're not going to just be like, oh, you're just lazy, no, you're just. You know, you're hoping that everybody's going to pay for your ride, oh heck, no. But having time to be present with things and so for me. I also just realized my quality of attention just isn't as good for my customers over the summer, whereas if I'm writing or creating or building courses, I can pop in and pop out of that and there's not a big drop off.

06:44

When I really want to be present with my customers, like when I do my group coaching, I'll have a 12 week thing, basically in fall, when the kids are kind of in school for the most part, and then spring when the kids. So there is very much intentionality. Also as far as when am I going to most likely be my best, as opposed to not just what's all about weight and I want to do this, I want to do that. I know if I delivered a certain time after about 10, 12 weeks working with customers, that's great. They usually need a break. I need a break. So that allows me to have a certain pace. Hmm.

07:16 - Julian Hayes II (Host)

That's a lot of pace, is it the pace is?

07:17 - Wade Galt (Guest)

it. So sorry for that. I mean that was a lot of words of saying it. A buddy, mine, has a thing called a book, called space makers, and he talks about the difference in space and pace. And pace is getting stuff done and pace space is making room. But overall if I have a certain rhythm, a certain cadence, sort of like music, like beats per minute, I can. I can marathon forever, I can. I can reggae it forever. Now, if you're going to ask me that I can't do that forever, so part of it is that that there's times when I'll have a little bit of crazy pace, but for the most part at a certain pace I can. I can kind of do this all day.

07:52 - Julian Hayes II (Host)

I like that because, um, and I'm going to, that's going to really stick out in my head because when you're just constantly going, going and going and going, it's hard for you to really reflect and see are you, is this ship still going in the same direction that it needs to go? You can look at this from a business perspective, a health perspective, relationship standpoint, and just to have time to breathe and really look at things and evaluate. It's such an important thing and it's something that probably a lot of entrepreneurs have struggled with, because as an entrepreneur, it's all on you, especially with the early times, and nobody really wants to go back to those times, if they have them. So maybe they're scared to go back to there, so they're always thinking I can't afford to stop. So you know, that leads me into the thing of we talked about it a little bit but what is like the ethos of Three Day Weekend Club? What would you say is the ethos?

08:45 - Wade Galt (Guest)

The first thing is that life comes before work and it goes right back to and I don't think it was well Stephen Covey in his book did the big rocks, the big rocks, first. If you have your water, a jug of water, you put in in rocks, you have big rocks, little rocks, sand and pebbles or pebbles and sand, and if you put in all the small stuff first, you can't fit the big rocks, the most important things, whereas if you put the big rocks in first, everything kind of wiggle around it. For me, the big rocks are faith. Although that doesn't take up a lot of time For me, I meditate and pray and I try to connect here and there with God. I do my meditating, but that really is an asset for me. It's not a time commitment thing. If that makes sense. There's time involved, but I always get more than I put into it.

09:35

Family, just because I've seen so much of the entrepreneurs I've worked with people that have come back and said wait, I missed the window. And usually the main window they're talking about is when my kids were between a certain age, and it's not even till age 16, it's till age about 10, when they're like okay, they're 11, 12, 13,. They're already now starting to look outside the house for wisdom, for role models. But from till about basically fifth grade in the US, or about 11, 12, that's what Maria Montessori said that they're still looking inside the house and mom and dad or whoever is inside the house for their role modeling, those sort of things. So that's very important to me. Those come first. But then also, as an entrepreneur, my customers still have to come first, enough that I delivered an extremely high level for them. And what's happened over time to your point?

10:23

When I first started, it was just what do I do? I need to pay bills, because my first escape and I think for most entrepreneurs the first sort of escape is and for some people and for me, escape was a word I was running from something I wasn't yet fully running to something. It was escaping from corporate regulations on my time. I loved the work that I did Awesome company. I asked them if they could be more flexible. This is like 23 years ago. They're like sorry, we can't right now there's so many of us. If we make an exception for you, we're not going to have to make it for everybody else. They can't do necessarily what you can do Now, maybe they were just being flattering me or whatever.

But so the first thing was okay, how do I still at least make the same income and now have more time, flexibility, not even less time working, but flexibility. I want to go do this at this time, I want to do those pieces and then, as I started doing that, then I would have these micro decisions to decide well, am I going to really work hard and worry about this project, or am I going to be fully present while my kids around the house? Am I going to continue to work from home? So when he walks our first born boy that I'll be there? And those are decisions I made.

11:28

And I can certainly point to financial costs. Where, had I been brick and mortar the whole time, I'd have made more money, but we wouldn't have spent with my wife, who's from Peru. For years living back and forth between the US and Peru. We wouldn't have been able to enjoy family, which was such a huge part of the ethos for me. Where my parents leave their island, not go back and watching at time, my mom and my dad miss their island, even though they could go back. Trinidad's not so politically stable and safe at times, so that would sort of impact how much we went back and forth and so realizing well, I was realizing. It assumes it's true, but at least for me and for my wife that our family is more important than our work and that's not a knock in any way in our customers. We love our customers and some of them almost as much as family. But there's still that sense of that comes first and eventually. For me, trying to do that in seven days was very difficult to put a pause on the button. So the three-day weekends was for me, I needed that thing.

12:24

So there's a gentleman, dan Sullivan. He's sort of more making himself known. He's been around as long as Tony Robbins. He's a phenomenal coach. But whereas Tony Robbins is more known by everybody, dan Sullivan only recently has put out books like the Gap and the Gain, Who Not How, 10X is Easier Than 2X. And in his coaching program he talks about if you're going to have a day off, what he calls a free day. It's 24 hours, midnight to midnight. You don't do squat. That's work, because otherwise you never really recharge. And he's very much more than just a believer. He's proven. You need the rest and recovery to come back and perform the same way. An athlete does the same way. Marathon runner does the same way. Any high-level professional athlete, singer, performer.

13:02

We acknowledge that if there's physical involved, but for some reason we've told ourselves, if it's all mental, that no, we can just work 80 hours a week and there's no impact. Well, there is, and it's like when you're stupid or dead, you don't know it, but everybody else does, or when you're a jerk. So for me, that balance, and then finally, looking at the feedback of the people around me, of who am I when I become a little bit of an a-hole, when I haven't gotten my rest, and then I'm snapping at my wife and I'm not talking to the way I want to, I'm snapping at my kids and it's like whoa, whoa, no, gotta fix something, gotta get out. That person with everything's got a shift. I'm not going to be that guy. I mean I've made all them, pretty much all the mistakes. We've never hit our kids, that sort of stuff, but I've made a lot of mistakes. See, everything that puts a lot on the table.

13:49

I've made a lot of mistakes not all the mistakes, but people are like oh my God. But at the same time there's ones that you make where you're like, okay, kids are paying the button. There's other ones who are like, oh wow. I always kind of either A committed I'd never be that person or B never thought that would come out of me. I need to take a step back.

14:09

And so for me, when my pace is a certain level, if you look at yoga, breathing music, the space in between the notes, the space in between the breaths and my personality just happens to be as much as I love basketball, I can't do cardio very long. I can play volleyball on the beach in 90 degree weather for six hours. Why? Because there's a point, there's a breath, there's in between. So for me it happens to resonate even with my personality, or just my rhythms. I've never been accused of being fast twitch. I've very often. The word slow twitch has been used many times.

14:43

I'm six foot three, I play volleyball, but in all of that I think the commonality for most people is, even if you like the fast twitch and the excitement of it, which I do there's a point where your body's like it's like 10 things of ice cream. At what point is the ice cream no longer tasty? At what time is your stomach starting to hurt, whatever it happens to be, and so the ethos really is looking around, not for validation and approval so much, but for hey, are we all on the same page? We're family, we're still. I'm supporting you as best you can. You're going to have your moments, I'm going to have my moments, but is this the vibe, is this the pace that we committed to and want? And that's probably of all the things I do.

15:26

Sometimes you help your customers and your clients and you help them with something that's not on your SEO or in your website, and it's not that you're trying to sneak attack and it's just, it's something that extra. Then later people will say, oh, that's what we did. I help people with perspective. I've been blessed. I've seen a lot of people rethink their life, do different things. I've, in my psychology work, worked with kids with addictions and a lot of issues and stuff. So I think that for me, I've been blessed to understand what's really important and so I'm not going to sacrifice that for certainly not for the pain in the butt. Client.

16:01 - Julian Hayes II (Host)

Why do you think so many of us entrepreneurs and even high level execs and others in high leadership roles struggle with just failing to be there for their family, their friends, and use it their personal life as well, and they know it's important, but it's just for some reason it doesn't happen.

16:20 - Wade Galt (Guest)

Because if the last people to read your book write you a podcast, if you listen to your podcast, know you have a podcast, even sometimes give an F if you have a podcast which keeps you humble so you hear all the people talk about. I mean, what's in the Bible a prophet's not recognized in his own town. You know, in your own house people humble you. I mean everyone I've listened to, from Brennen burchard or all these different people like, yeah, in my own house they're like no, you and I are weighing diaries. Like, yeah, my kids are like they pay you to talk. And so I think there's that piece where, jokes aside, it is intoxicating when somebody tells you you're brilliant. It is awesome when somebody says, wow, relieves that review.

16:55

Or I have a gentleman who I'm now friends with and the first time we talked he's like dude, your podcast is so awesome, I listen to it every day and he's my age and he's a very talented entrepreneur. And it freaked me out because I almost thought is he coming from an angle? Is he trying to sell me something? What's his? And then at the same time I realized I'm like this particular message for him makes a resonance. Now I have more than one subscriber, but he also verbalized it back to me.

He's also a podcaster, so we understand what it means to then share it and it was like wow, dude, that's intoxicating, and I don't mean that in a more than intoxicating, because it is intoxicating, but it's also extremely fulfilling Because when we do stuff like this you and I talked about this you and I could both monetize things a lot quicker. I mean so anybody who listens to podcasts. Podcasts is not a fast monetization path. It is a long-term service thing. You will eventually make money.

Basically, you meet a lot of awesome people, great relationships and you might make some money off of it, depending on how you approach it, and there's certain people that you know. You can do it different ways, but overall the quality that comes out of that, I think, is huge. It's longer game stuff, but when you're an exec and you're seeing the quarterly reports, when you're an entrepreneur or you're a salesperson, you see the monthly reports and you're comparing with each other, and especially if there's a leaderboard and there's pins, points and plaques and trophies and goodies involved, everybody wants those.

18:16

In our family, anybody gets tired of anybody after a while or takes people for granted, whether they try to or not. I could tell you I don't ever take my wife for granted. That would be a crock. I'm a human. I've lived on the beach. The first week you live on the beach. You're there at the beach. Every single day You're in the water, you're swimming. Week two you're there six days, then four days.

18:36

And it doesn't mean you're ungrateful, it doesn't mean you don't, it's just that your body has gotten acclimatized to it and so I think you really have to bring that for yourself. You have to meet that own need. Because the executive world then I don't think it's necessarily inherently evil. Now there are some people that try to manipulate people and whatnot. In that as in any other situation, but inherently, when you're getting that feedback, it can be difficult and this is wow.

19:05

This is gonna sound really shallow, but I should say you know, when you find the guy at the office who cheats with the girl and you're like his wife is so much hotter than the girl he cheated on, how the heck. But he was getting feedback, he was getting validation, he was being told he's brilliant, and maybe that's something the wife didn't even know was needed. And it's not necessarily her fault, it's not her job to fulfill every single need he has. So I think it's one of those things where, if you can understand that you're not gonna get all your needs met in one place and you can be more likely to meet your sports need with your sports group and your family needs with your family group, and then you can reach a point because even after a while, when you're making money, there are points I assume you've experienced this and the entrepreneurs also had the highs, so high.

19:51

But eventually you're like, oh, another check. And you're like, whereas three months earlier you're like, oh my God, if I could just have one of those checks. And then all of a sudden, you know, sun starts shining, you get some. Hey, another check, another check. And you can tell your spouse or your girlfriend or whoever it is Wow, I'm so tired, I want the checks to keep coming, I want them to keep coming, but man, I'm tired. And so I think it's just balancing that and having a sense of day and night and natural flow, and because there's gonna be ups and downs, but if you chase any one of them for too long, we're not built to do that.

20:24 - Julian Hayes II (Host)

Yeah, man, I can totally relate to that, especially when it comes to just the physical performance sports world. I remember when I first started I just didn't want to be invisible, feel like I'm invisible anymore. And then so the smallest compliment oh man, you like you're getting bigger. Oh man, your shoulders are it means the world to you. Now someone can say that I'm still going to be courteous and say thank you and all that. But oh, wow, you run that. Oh, okay, cool, that's cool.

20:49

Whatever, I'm thankful for it and grateful for it, but it's just second nature to me now, so I don't even think about it.

20:57

So, even when I maybe blurred out some absurd distance to most people, it's just second nature to me and we have these kinds of things in all our life, but we put a lot of our identity on those things, which kind of can be.

21:11

I know, for me, when I got injured once and I couldn't, I think I had to take 10 days off 10 days to me is like a year or two years to some people and I just felt lost. I think I even ate, I started eating junk food and stuff just because I didn't have nothing to do, it's just so. I didn't realize that a lot of my identity was tied up into my sports performance, and so the reason why I say this is a lot of us have our hard time shaping or separating our identity from our work. And so what if you seen some of the best tools to kind of help separate that? Because, as an entrepreneur, a lot of times when you're building and building, you might not see results for a very long time, and, if I can speak to this personally, that if you put your self-worth on seeing the results that are going to take time, there's going to be a lot of days consecutively that you're not going to feel good going to bed.

22:11 - Wade Galt (Guest)

Yeah, there's a lot of things around perspective. So on the street I live there's a kid, neighborhood kid. He does prank YouTube videos. He does them really well. The guy's got at least a hundred to a thousand times more TikTok and YouTube followers than I am. He's 17, kicking my ass, wow. And so you're like okay. So every time I see him in a family neighborhood kid, he's like you're not there yet. I'm like yeah, okay.

22:35

So first of all, there's that sense of but I know where I'm going, what I'm doing, and on one hand I could analyze and say, well, you know, he's doing gag videos, so, of course, but at the end of the day, he's doing his thing, I'm doing mine. Second thing for me is something that I was blessed to learn. I don't know how I learned it, but I definitely was given it by somebody because I didn't know. It was when I was working on my master's degree in psychology and it was the idea that I didn't heal you and I didn't break you. So when you come to me as a customer or coach, a client, a fitness trainer, whatever it is my child, I'm not going to fix you and I'm not going to take 100% credit for the win, because if that happens when the loss comes, that's really tough.

23:19

So, for example, there was a kid I was working with who was what 15 at the time. He had had some not so nice things happened. He had been cutting and less physically dangerous to him, but it's still never a great sign. So it wasn't the intense like oh my gosh, you're literally in thread of dying, but it's there's. That's never good. Anyway, you look at it and I worked with him for about maybe three months and during that time we're doing individual counseling, some some group stuff, anger management, addiction stuff and whatnot and he had stopped cutting for three months. So I keep getting these oh wait, that's so awesome, this and that you did that. And I'm just thinking myself Nope, didn't do this, and I think I got all of this from Wayne Dyer too. You didn't do this. And then, finally, enough, when I'm funny enough, as normally happens, eventually something triggered something and he started cutting again.

24:10 - Julian Hayes II (Host)

Wait, what did you?

24:11 - Wade Galt (Guest)

do Like whoa, sorry, you're not understanding the gig here. I don't have the power to stop him, I don't have the power to make him. And so, if I take credit, athletics, if I, if the win is all about me, I'm the greatest ever, as opposed to a team. Got me here, a village, got here me here, my coach, my people, my team, and if you, you know the stuff, the platitudes, the thing you're supposed to say, but if you really believe that, then when you lose, you can be Dan Marino, never having won a Super Bowl, and say I was still pretty damn good, as opposed to saying well, you know, joe Montana is infinitely better than me. He's got four rings and you could argue those, but is Joe four times better than probably not did never running back in the mid-elefants? These are my pains from my childhood, but there's. So there's things where I think you can say, okay, I'm going to do my best and I'm going to give what I can give.

25:02

And there's a line one of my coaches, mentors, she passed a few years back, quite a few years back, debbie Ford talked about a line in the Talmud and I might say it wrong which you said. If you can understand that there are two truths that you are simultaneously an insignificant sand of dust or grain of sand, and that the entire universe was created just for you, and that both of those have truth to them. And if you can realize so, you're nothing and you're everything. So and again, it's a belief, it's an idea. Maybe it's empirically true. Not, I don't know, I'm not that smart, but it's one of those things to say okay, let's keep it in perspective.

25:38

And or, as I like to joke with my volleyball buddies because we fancy ourself good at what we do, and it's like to joke to my city get a member in the US if you're the best, even if you're the best beach volleyball player. This, this might tick off some of my volleyball players, but you're still not the best athlete in the country. If you're in Brazil and you're the best soccer player in Brazil, you might be one of the best athletes, because everybody's going towards soccer and even then they still diversify a little bit. If you're in Argentina and you're the best soccer, you are the best athlete. Period, everybody wants America. Well, there's a lot of guys playing football, baseball. So you know, in our sport we're not the absolute cream of the crop.

26:12

And so I tell them look, our world athletic ranking has at least six or seven zeros after it. Even our world beach volleyball ranking Now me and my early fifties has a good three to four zeros after it. So it's like, in other words, this one game isn't going to define you, this one loss isn't going to define you. And I remember hearing one of the greats in volleyball, randy Stoclos. He was being interviewed and some guy in the middle of the interview goes up I know you, I beat you, blah, blah, blah. This tournament, this, that. And he goes you probably did. He says I've lost everybody. He says, and I'm sure it's like beating everybody a lot of times.

26:44 - Julian Hayes II (Host)

It's like okay, I needed that perspective because I didn't handle losing that well.

26:51 - Wade Galt (Guest)

I still don't. I rationalize. It's a little more involved. Rationalize excuses yeah.

26:57 - Julian Hayes II (Host)

Yeah, you know, when I was going through your book, I highlighted a sentence I really liked. It said obedience to the mission is not the same as commitment to a mission, and so I really love that and it's a lot of nuance in that. So what exactly does that mean and what inspired that sentence?

27:12 - Wade Galt (Guest)

So there's a. My mom has introduced me to so many different writers and it's funny, this is the first time I've never experienced. Now I remember that line. I don't remember writing that line, but I know where I would have gotten it from.

There's a gentleman by the name of Jidu Krishnamurti and he's one of those thinkers. His last name Krishnamurti, and he's like one of those thinkers, like at a Ken Wilber level, like you read one of their books and you read like a paragraph and you're like, okay, well, slow down, brother, there's like so much in this. And one of his sort of concepts was and he's sorry, he was somebody that in his tradition he was considered to be this huge prophet and all this stuff. And he's like whoa, no, no, it's like I don't, don't come to me to be a prophet, so I have some ideas. He says you go to yourself, you find your own truth. And he'd always say don't trust me, find out, don't believe what I'm telling, you, find out. Like, take the idea.

Like you know, listen to what I'm saying. He was. But he's like don't believe me, experiment. So he was. He was sort of the non guru guru like I don't want to be your guru, I'm going to share with you some ideas, but you go figure them out because it might not be the truth and what I didn't. One of the things he talked about is he's, he just, and I I needed to hear this I'm not a very disciplined person. I took the strengths finders like number 32 out of 34. I'm a very committed and motivated and hardworking person, but I'm not disciplined. But I realized later I don't want to be disciplined and I realized this thing of he's like well, disciplined, what's discipline? It's just repeating something over and over. You're not sure if it's where you're taking you. And again, there's, there's, there's so many words ways to nuance discipline.

So I'm not like I do yoga every day, just about. I do meditation just about every day, but some days I don't. That's okay and I know that if I do yoga five out of seven days a week or if I do meditate five out of seven days a week, I'm not going to punish myself over the one or two days. So there's an overall trend and I am putting the work and I 1000% believe in work but use, to use a very practical example for an entrepreneur, I heard about podcasting about 14 years ago and the first seven years I took the same course that Pat Flynn, the same group, did 14 years ago.

29:22

He took action, I did, he took action right away. He's also been one of my awesome guy. Seven years later, I still had not done an episode oh wow, so for seven years. But because I was so it had to be perfected. My in my OCD, ish, disciplined mind, it had to be perfect. Well then, seven, roughly seven years ago I think, it's maybe six, seven years ago I started. So by now I should, on a weekly podcast, have 360 episodes. I have 209. 209 is a truck load better than zero and way better than most. So I'll still take that.

29:58

But it's that sense of really being passionate about stuff but then also being open enough. It's, I believe. You know, every anytime you talk about humility it's a vicious circle. It's like the devil's advocate at the end where he goes gotcha, where you think like you're being on me so humble. Then now you sound like a, like a jackass, because you're trying to say that I'm being so humble and you don't sound very humble, but I think I've gotten my butt kicked enough that it's like dude, I don't know the answer, so I'm always looking for around. I do believe there's a God, maybe there is, maybe there's a, but I look around, I listen for answers. So for me, discipline and obedience can reach a part where it's like.

30:32

To me, obedience is where you've turned off your brain, and that's some of the most dangerous acts in our history have been done in what I would call obedience as opposed to commitment, to something that realized whoa, we're committed to this, but now you're saying we need to do this. Uh-uh, that's not of the spirit of what we set out to do. So don't hell. No, I'm not obeying, I'm still committed, have not lost my commitment, and so, from that perspective, that's that little bit of I want to make sure that this is still working, that the chip, that there's not a chip in there, that nobody puts a chip in, and everybody, we all have somewhat of a chip in there, some beliefs, whether they're good or not. So good, they were put in there. But so obedience to me is that obedience is a scary thing for me.

31:19 - Julian Hayes II (Host)

So I, um, I was looking while you were talking. I took the uh strength finder as well. So discipline is number 24 for me. So do you remember your dominant things, like your top?

31:30 - Wade Galt (Guest)

My dominant. My first one is ideation. So I got a lot of ideas. I've never met an idea I didn't like. Okay, I have Relator and woo in my top three. Relator means I'd like to meet new people. Who means I like to get to know people deeply and I'm Happily married. So I need podcast and reason. You need to get to know people. I need to talk to him for at least 45 minutes, Otherwise I'm lose my mind. And then I have strategic and I have Maximizer. Maximizer, which is I like to work with people and get them from good to great. I don't always as much love getting them from zero to good. Don't involve. I love all of it.

32:08 - Julian Hayes II (Host)

So yeah, who is number 31 for me?

32:11 - Wade Galt (Guest)

Okay, what are your top five?

32:13 - Julian Hayes II (Host)

my top five for a number one was futuristic, then strategic, then competition focus and intellect awesome. So and um, this made sense when I when I did this and I even had someone kind of Worked through like what is this, what does this stuff mean? And it's a very good thing to actually develop relationships. So I did think, when it, when a time comes and I'm getting serious about getting married, that I think I'm gonna have her take this as well, so we can learn how to communicate better with each other.

32:43

Absolutely so, and it's a great team builder thing as well, you know. And so, speaking of teams, entrepreneurs are gonna have teams, but first of all, when an entrepreneur is looking to go about doing this and Creating this type of lifestyle, one of the first objections Maybe is how can I do this without you know, I'm gonna lose income or I'm gonna risk things in my business, or even before that, I would imagine, because I even thought about this myself is it's almost like a feeling of guilt Deserving to do something like this. It just feels because, you know, as entrepreneurs and stuff, we're we're supposed to charge hard, you know, supposed to work all the time. We that's who we see on social media, that's who we see on TV, that's who gets all the accolades. Is that the heart chargers and all that stuff. So a couple things.

33:31 - Wade Galt (Guest)

I encourage you to Note the behavior of the influencers you're watching, because some of them will do anything for attention and some of them are specifically following an ethos or a code or a theme. The ones that are finding ethos or code or a theme might still be very consistent, but you're not gonna usually see them do outlandish stuff for attention's sake. The other ones, and those ones usually have another business other than their influencer business. So I don't like to. Well, yeah, if the person you're you're Following for life advice is only an influencer, be very careful, because an influencer needs likes and they need the dopamine hits and they need to get you to have dopamine hits. They need to make you feel good and either BSU or put you down or flatter you or whatever it might be.

Versus if somebody's, let's say, a coach or a teacher or a realtor any any business where, like, majority of their income is not coming from influence, they can afford to tell you the truth or their truth without worrying if they're gonna pay their bills or not. And so For me, I think, when you're building a team, one of the first things again is to go back to this athlete example again. If you were about to play in the Super Bowl and then you're gonna have to go back to the Super Bowl. And it's three days before the Super Bowl. Are you gonna do three days Workouts before the Super Bowl?

No, you're gonna rest because literally it's not a linear thing. If you've been in marketing or business, you know there's a thing called diminishing returns. There's a point at which you're no longer effective. Most work studies on entrepreneurs and or Workers in the workforce suggest that most people can do their peak, best work for about at most four to six hours per day. So Then you start looking, thinking about what does someone like a Taylor Swift Sting from the police, bono from you to what are they cranking out 12-hour days?

No, when they reach the point of, they might still be working hard in the studio different times, but when they start performing, they actually now have to preserve their ability and they make their most money, most of them on tour. So they've got to be able to deliver. They've got deliver. Live there's no, okay, I wasn't feeling good. They got to deliver, do it. So they're nurturing, they're getting rest. If they're not, go back to the ethos of, let's say, the 70s and 80s bands. They're just and this is not all of them, so definitely not making this as a blanket statement, but many of them just threw uppers at it.

36:05

I like stimulants and drugs. Well, I mean hey, and so I'm going to keep going. And you see people, and you look at the way different musicians you now see hear more and more musicians that will say no, I don't drink, I don't do drugs. And people that are high, high level, they're like no, I can't cloud my brand. I hear a lot of rappers say that, but they're lyrics and so like no, I can't afford to. If I want to be at this next level, I have to cut that out. The same way an athlete would say I can't have, you know, junk food.

36:31

So to me, if you realize that not all the hours in your day are even close to equal, you know, if you talk to a programmer, programmers there's a saying in programming that a good programmer, a great programmer, is worth anywhere from 10 to 100 program bad, you know average programmers.

And if you look at, like some of Perry Marshall's work, the book 80, 20, sales and marketing, and he talks about and there's different ways you can do, but he does this so well. I try not to reinvent what people said, bill. And he says look, are you doing a $10 a hour work, $100 a hour work, $1,000 a hour work or $10,000 an hour work? It says some of the things you do like. For example, he uses an example in his book. He's, like you know, tweaking your website. That's $10 an hour work, ish, and again, maybe now it's 15 because of inflation, but it's the concept, you know, whereas creating a new sales offer that might have a course that generates huge amounts, that's $1,000 to $10,000 an hour work.

37:24

So it's not how many hours you're putting in, how many hours of work that's actually getting results. Are you putting in and can you maximize those? And for most people it's their first working hours of the day. Not necessarily the first hours of the day, some people are more early morning or late morning people or whatever it might be, but your first hours. It's like if you said what's you know, if I'm going to work out, if I had to work out today, if I'm a professional athlete, I'm working out earlier in the day, not later. Something might come up, I might feel tired of this and that.

So, as a knowledge worker, our brain is not focused. It can operate, but it's not focused for eight to 10 to 12 hours. So when you look at this idea of believing falsely that all of your hours are worth the same, that's not even close. You get on a good introductory call with a customer a strategy session, whatever you want to call it and you book that customer to a 10,000-hour coaching relationship. That is worth way more than the next hour where you're tweaking your website or replying some emails. So then how do you get more of that first hour? How do you do things that are directly related to that? And so that's that piece of.

38:31

As you start delegating, you have an option that many of us did not have 20 years ago. 20 years ago, when my software business started exploding, I had to hire somebody full time. So I had to wait until my income was enough At that point for our family. I waited until my income was about 180,000 because I knew I was going to have to drop like 60,000 to get a decent person. So here I was. You know I want to just like chill at about 120, but no, the business was growing. Well, you can't tell people go away my product, no, I don't want your business. And then it's now growing at these two seasonal times of the year.

39:01

And now I'm hiring and then later, when that business took a hit and dropped about 40%, I'm like, great, well, there's enough for me. Oh wait, I now have this employee and this is pre-upwork, pre-fiver, pre-these different things to where now I now need to go hustle and sell just to pay this person's salary. So that I can. It was way harder. Today you can just say look on Upwork, which is a site for hiring freelancers. There's other sites like it. I need somebody for five hours a week to edit my podcast, or to do my email, or to be my personal assistant or screen my emails or filter my emails or different things. But overall, if you're looking for the absolute, most likely suspect, get the heck off your social media until you're making enough money.

Even if you have no social media and that somebody might say, wait, that's nonsense. Well, if your social media influencer, perhaps if you're a coach, if you're not at least making close income you need, or if you can't afford the freelancer, yes, do a couple posts here and there, do your podcast, whatever it gets the message out there. But other than that, be mute on there, because otherwise, again, what if you were?

Even you know this whole dollars for hours thing. Wait, I don't trade dollars for hours. I don't want to be an employee. Leonel Messi and LeBron James are employees. Yes, they're doing, okay, yeah, so how much you make in per hour? What are you doing when you're doing those things? So, if you can, you know this whole rugged entrepreneur thing of I'm not taking anybody's money, I'm never going to work for somebody coming straight out of high school and I'm just going to go till I make it. You're either going to compromise in money or more of these things your integrity, your lifestyle, your hairline, your relationships, all sorts of things Instead of just realizing you know what most people, in order to get somewhere, had to mentor under somebody.

And guess what, when you're mentoring, you're being paid. So you pay your bills, you get paid and as you get better, even with customers. I have customers. I have huge customers that are investing huge amounts. I have customers I've had for years that have billed me at a lower dollar amount, but I have a consistent, steady income. So it's this, this sort of balance. But to all of that, when I know I can make it sometimes $100 an hour yes, all of my $10 an hour work needs to go away, even if it means I need to hustle up one more hour per week. I can hustle one more hour and then give away 10 hours.

41:15

And when you first commit because most most good freelancers one at least a five to 10 hour a week commitment so initially you're not going to know what the heck to give them You're first going to dump a bunch of stuff and then sometimes you're going to give them horrible instructions and you're going to it's going to be garbage in, garbage out, and then you need to go back and say, oops, you need to blame them and fire them or say, well, hold on, what did you understand?

Let me get. So. It takes you a while to get used to that and you will. You'll burn a little bit of money, but not as much money when you drop $10,000 on that course that you thought would save you, or $1,000 and you didn't never implemented it. You know it, never implemented it. So we we most of us have done that at some point. I've done that plenty of times.

But as you start realizing then number one, you learn how to then delegate somehing in a way in a sort of SOP, a standard operating procedure type of way, where when you ask for something that anybody could do it not because the freelance is so talented but because your instructions are so clear and you get that back. And then, yes, you do need to hustle some more.

42:11

But if you're currently working, for example usually I'm talking to an entrepreneur they're working about 50 hours a week. Usually we can get them to about 30 hours a week, at least the strategy. It might take them six months to make this happen. But if we just look at like where you invest in your time in 30 hours a week, they could be making usually 20% more money by letting go of those either crutch activities or activities that you show up on a Friday. And if you, you know why do people work Fridays as entrepreneurs?

42:38

Well, wade was kind of tired, I mean, yeah, I didn't know what to do, but I could either pick my nose, which isn't going to make me any money, or I could do something. So I did something. What did you do? Well, I moved around this, okay, so you did nothing.

42:52

You would have been better off going out doing something you love, and even if you came back later that day and did two hours of work, even if you don't even you know, but just done something exciting. As opposed to showing up like it's a job, obeying the 40 hour work week because, while I'm just what, a hundred plus years ago, henry Ford did it as a downgrade from the six day work week, because somewhere somebody said it as opposed to you know what's going to create the hugest impact for my customers.

So, if you want to take the self criticism of on being so greedy, what's going to create that huge impact for your customer, do that, even if it doesn't get you paid, if you have the extra time. But any of the 10 down our work the editing stuff editing a podcast, different things like those editing your show notes, different things some combination of personal assistant and AI can do a lot of that stuff. So so, yeah, yeah.

43:42 - Julian Hayes II (Host)

And another good thing is also to keep in mind is that you know when you are. You know, with this attitude of I'm never going to take a paycheck from somebody else, that paycheck is still money that you can invest, and so it's about what you do with the money. You know, I've read a lot of stories of people who have made maybe only $20,000 as a salary their whole year and they become multi-millionaires Compared to somebody who's making six figures and doesn't have any type of discipline with their money. So that's a key thing as well, but that as well, and so that's something I had to. I had to learn as well, and so I really liked all that right there.

44:17

And, if you think about it, the PayPal mafia they don't call them that for a reason. Go look up the PayPal mafia. Go look at, I believe, the first five or six people at Facebook and they were. Some of them were quote unquote employees and didn't see what happened, and also they had pretty good payouts too, as well. So I think there's a lot of ways to skin it, and I had this conversation.

44:40

A kid asked me I just want to be an entrepreneur, all that and I was like why do you want to be an entrepreneur, and it was a lot of the talking points that you would see on social media be your own boss, live a life of freedom and all of that and I was like, well, those things can probably happen, but it's probably going to take longer than you think and it's going to be a little more difficult.

45:01

I can tell you I've been doing this for a few years and I'm still an adolescence at this and I'm not even at that stage that those people talk about. So I think you're thinking about guys typically that are probably 45, 50 years old, who have been doing this for a good amount of time. That can do that, but for the rest of us, we are still very much hustling or whatever you're trying not to do. So you've got to be very mindful and you brought that point up earlier about social media and what you're consuming. We talk about a food diet, a nutritional diet, but we oftentimes do not talk about a informational diet.

45:39 - Wade Galt (Guest)

Yeah, and to your point, there's that whole joke. As an entrepreneur, I get to work part-time any 12 hours of the day that I want. It's not a short fix. Some people are infinitely happier working 40 hours a week, living at 501. And that's better for them.

45:58 - Julian Hayes II (Host)

And that's it.

45:59 - Wade Galt (Guest)

Yeah, and that's not bad. There's no shame being an entrepreneur. It's become trendy and it's like no, no, hold on. Look at the whole picture. It's like, ok, it's like being a professional and NBA athlete. Yes, the dunks look nice. Do you know how hard those guys are working? Even the ones you think that aren't working hard? They're like on the seventh, eighth or 10th on the bench. I love the thing. Oh gosh, the white mamba. I love what he's doing. Have you seen this? I'm forgetting his name Scalabrini, brian Scalabrini. I don't know if you saw this.

46:27

So Brian Scalabrini played for a few other teams, but mainly the Celtics, and they called him the white mamba. So he's a ginger guy on the Celtics, which is perfect, and I think he averaged, let's say, with six to seven points a game through his career. So some guy in some post or some Facebook thing called him out and said, oh, he sucks, he this, he that.

So he decided and he might still be doing it, he's like he's got to be in his mid 50s by now he's roughly my age he decided to start just going out and taking guys on one on one in games to 11, destroying them, absolutely destroying them, and so there was a reference that somebody made and people looked look, you think, because Brian Scalabrini or a guy on the NBA bench is here, compared to LeBron's and the Duane Ways, you think.

He says but you're like, you're not even on the screen, man, and that's still how hard they're working. Even the lazy ones are working so hard. So, yeah, entrepreneurship is definitely not for everybody. In fact, worldwide, it's roughly one out of 10 people that is an entrepreneur. Now, it's a little more than that. But you have a lot of people who are inside hustles so they can go back something. There's nothing wrong with that. That's a great, actual way to get started.

47:41

But I've been doing this over 20 years. I'm still. I have pretty much the lifestyle I want. I would like to triple, the quadruple my income and because I'm more focused on lifestyle and I'm not saying you can't do both, but it's very few and far between the ones who are making seven figures and enjoying the lifestyle and having time for family and are happy and I'm not saying that as a challenger. I hope to. I want to learn more to how to do that. I'm trying to help people do that. I can do that at six figure levels, not yet at seven. But it's work and there's pieces to it. I think people don't realize and it sounds great. But again, when you then say, well to be Kobe Bryant, here's how many hours you're going to be in the gym you say you know what, I'll just play some pickup games. Because his whatever word you want to put on his relationship with basketball there's something.

48:29

A gentleman by the name of Bo Eason, who has just coaching for entrepreneurs. He played in the NFL for a while. Then he developed, he did a Broadway play after he had this career ending injury phenomenal dude. And he was doing the study once where he was noticing these hotbeds of athletic activity that were just doing really well and one of them or sorry, he read the study of a gentleman who did this and one of there's a swimming, some sort of high school I think it was, or university or an academy that they just were producing ridiculously disproportionate numbers of like Olympic level athletes.

Then he started finding that in a couple other sports and what he found in most of those places, specifically the swimming places, when they asked him what is it that's different? And they said are athletes have a different relationship to practice than others do. They love practice and I remember I interviewed Holly McPeak she's one of the best female beach volleyball and indoor volleyball players of all time and I asked her why did you get great? Because she is. She's very well balanced but very aggressive in the sense as an athlete and has done really well.

She's like wait. I realized that when I put in the practice, I made the connection that I was getting better and I could see, I had the vision to see that I was earning the medal in practice, not in the game, and we hear that sometimes and so that level of understanding to me, if you don't have that for entrepreneurship, if you don't love doing the podcast yes, sometimes editing the podcast, sometimes putting in 60 hours and getting paid like you worked 20.

50:09

And one of the simplest ways to be able to love that is to actually deal with your expenses in a way that you don't have to do that. You and I both know that If you overinvest in your personal life expenses or your business expenses, then you're going to have to just work harder. Every time I waste 500 bucks, I wasted the time it took me to earn that. Now, when I was working at 25 bucks an hour, that was 20 hours when I can book one of my top coaching clients, that's not even in that.

That's like less than an hour of my time, but I don't always have. So just like people say, oh, you make 250 an hour, 500 an hour like no, no when, or 1,000 an hour when I have one of my top clients, when I don't, I make them this per hour zero, nothing, nada. So you start averaging out a couple zeros with 1,000 or 250 or 500, oh, ok, this stuff averages out, and so just understanding the model.

50:56

But if you want to be an entrepreneur, the same way, I would tell most athletes that well, at least why I've? Actually, because my opinion means nothing on this, because I'm not a professional basketball player. I'm not one of those most professional basketball players that I've said or said, other than your exceptions of Kevin Garnett, kobe LeBron most of you all would be better off staying four years in college, even if I'm at risk in gaining the. You'll come out a better player, and Duke and Chapel Hill demonstrate that all the time with so many of their athletes that at least go two to three years versus others. So if you're that committed, put in the time. If you really want to be an entrepreneur.

51:32

If you're not willing to take the ego hit to say yes, for three to five to seven years I'll be an employee, eventually grows into a business, then you're not ready to be an entrepreneur. Because if, then it's about your ego and yet if you do it that way, it's so much smoother. You just, you just transition from I'm working 40 hours a week in my main job and 10 hours a week in my side hustle and eventually I start making, you know, a thousand bucks a month, 2,000 a month, and then eventually somebody like oh, I just, you just evolve out of it.

Rather than this dramatic F the boss, f them. If, if any word, the word F comes out of your mouth when you're like ready to quit, to become an entrepreneur, that's basically like saying F dating Suzy. I went on one date with Suzy F her, I'm gonna go get married to somebody I've never met before. That'll show Suzy. Well done Zod. But that was not well played.

52:18 - Julian Hayes II (Host)

Yeah, it's very few personalities can can handle the burn the boats, can handle the burn the boats. And because when you have those lean months and you start seeing your nest egg start shrinking down, a lot of people cannot psychologically handle that, you know. And so for me, one of the first things was I had to. I was presented of what entrepreneurship is and all those things. So it's almost like Mission Impossible is one of my favorite franchises. So it's like, should you choose to accept this mission? Right? And it was like it's uncertain.

52:52

I don't know in 10 to 15 years, what's what things are going to be like. It could be exciting, you can have some lows, but it's not going to be certain. If you're okay with that, the, the mental effects and all that, just know what you're getting into, that by all means go for it. And I was like, okay, cool, I'll go for it. And I think I still knew. But even then there were still some things that came up, that are still coming up, and I'm like, man, this is tough, maybe I should have stayed in school or something.

53:19 - Wade Galt (Guest)

I was like, my goodness, well, you know the interesting thing is, though, you're, you're real quick, you're, you're taking the risk, whether an employee I mean if you think you have no risks as an employee that's the flip side to you. You have risk. You might get fired like that because of something you didn't do.

53:34 - Julian Hayes II (Host)

So there's that too yeah, it's a paradox, right? You know, everything's a risk. It's this different risk that you're taking, and so that's that's the cool thing about it. But, and even then, no matter which direction you choose, you could learn to play that game, and so come out on top and use it to your advantage. So so really good stuff. I want to kind of close this out here, and one of the last questions is if someone comes up to you on the beach you just got done playing a game, your team won, so you're in a good mood, you're resting up for the next one and they say what are, what are one of three things that I could do, starting today, to start creating a more fulfilling and abundant life and and integrate more family life and business into one nice, beautiful boat sure.

54:21 - Wade Galt (Guest)

So the first thing is today you can make the most out of your free time, whether you're an employee, a freelancer, an entrepreneur, whatever it is. So there is a. There are times where we might watch Netflix to veg out or this and that, but if the majority of your time outside of work is you consuming content and not moving towards your goals and dreams and not spending time with the people you enjoy most and or the hobbies you enjoy most, getting more times not gonna fix that any more than if you make $40,000 a year and you're spending above your memes when you make 50 years, you're gonna spend money above your movies again. So to me, you need to make the most of the time you already have because you again, you might be fine. You might just realize wow, I've not managed my time. Well, I love my job, I love my 401k, I love my boss, I love my co-workers, I love the social of my environment. You know I talk about this difference between working from home versus being able to. You know, see people a lot and those sort of things. So so, number one literally start making changes today, without changing jobs, without touching your income.

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Second, same thing goes with your money. Live within your means, live well within your means and really be intentional about what are you investing money in? Anything from as simple as if you're going clubbing. You know, when we're in college we'd have a couple beers at home first, before we bought 10 and 12 dollar beers out. So I even judging drinking now. I don't drink even close to like I used to. I'd rather put my money into other things.

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But just being more intentional with your money and looking at if I can have so our family has 300 CRVs because they friggin work, and there are cars that cost three times as much, that look nice, so the cost shoot around Naples it costs five to ten times as much. But are they five to ten times more utilitarian? Well, for what I need them for? No, I'm getting from point of A to point B, so for me that's not thing. Now, somebody who sells cars or somebody's in high-end real estate, that might be a brilliant investment. But so understanding, when is it?

Are you really over investing? And then the simplest way to get started working towards a three-day weekend specifically is start planning well, first on your Saturday, since Sunday's, but eventually start planning things on Friday as an entrepreneur. I'm speaking to the entrepreneur specifically, who have control over your time start planning awesome things to do on Fridays that have nothing to do with work, and you'll figure how to get stuff done Monday through Thursday but if you don't.

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But if you don't plan something, you'll just show up because you should, because you will be scared. What if I sit here? We don't like I mean none of us, no entrepreneur likes literally just like, okay, I'm just gonna just sit here, stuff, I don't care how much you make, we're still kind of like I gotta do something yeah, it's a sense of paranoia.

57:03 - Julian Hayes II (Host)

It's at the book only the pair north survive. It's literally it so but I really enjoyed this conversation. Wait, and I think the listeners are going to get a lot of benefit out of this as well. Where can they keep up with you?

57:17 - Wade Galt (Guest)

absolutely so. You can go to three-day weekend entrepreneur.com. So that's the number three day weekend entrepreneur comm that will have links to the podcast. You can check out Julian's episode on there. It links to their coaching and other resources we have. You could also just look me up, wade galt. There's other stuff. I have personal growth books and stuff, but the best place is three-day weekend entrepreneur awesome to hear.

57:37 - Julian Hayes II (Host)

I will have all of that in the show notes and thank you once again and to listeners out there stay awesome, be limitless and, as always, go be the CEO of your health in your life peace.