WEBVTT 1 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:20.760 Welcome to Destiny. Now here's your host, Cliff Dunning. Hey, 2 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:24.320 it's a little late, but happy Autumn Equinox. We are 3 00:00:24.359 --> 00:00:30.320 now officially into the Actually we're in autumn, and that 4 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:33.200 means that the days are going to start getting shorter, 5 00:00:33.799 --> 00:00:36.880 and it's also a time for me to do my 6 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:40.520 week long fast. I do a I try to do 7 00:00:40.759 --> 00:00:45.240 five day fast four times a year, and I was 8 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:48.640 able to do four or yeah, I did four days 9 00:00:49.079 --> 00:00:53.679 last for the beginning of summer, and then the beginning 10 00:00:53.679 --> 00:00:56.840 of spring I did. I think I did five days, 11 00:00:56.840 --> 00:00:59.520 So it's getting easier. You know, it's not easy to 12 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:05.719 just drink fluids for especially when you're working for a 13 00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:08.920 week and you have For those of you who haven't fasted, 14 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:12.040 one day is not a problem. When you start getting 15 00:01:12.040 --> 00:01:15.079 into three and four days, your body's like, okay, we're 16 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:18.280 going to shut down and we are going to start 17 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:24.280 eliminating problem cells and disease processes that are going on, 18 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:29.920 and your body actually goes into a healing mode. And 19 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:34.359 I've had days where I have a fever because my 20 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:38.200 body's heating up and burning things out. And you know, 21 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:42.239 we're going to have for our Biohacking Basic series we're 22 00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:46.519 going to have an authority on fasting for wellness. In fact, 23 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:51.120 this gentleman has a clinic in Santa Rosa, which is 24 00:01:51.159 --> 00:01:53.200 north of me. I'm here in the San Francisco Bay area. 25 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:57.640 Santa Rosa is about forty five miles north of me, 26 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:01.560 and this is a healing clinic where they actually take 27 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:05.799 people who want to regain their health. Some people want 28 00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:09.080 to regain their immune system. Some people may be ill, 29 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:13.280 and if they have a real hip doctor, they're going 30 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:19.960 to a fasting clinic to be supervised for a wellness. Now, 31 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:25.039 our ancestors use fasting quite regularly, and the indigenous people 32 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:29.800 used it quite regularly when they weren't feeling well, and 33 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:34.080 it was a form of repair, body repair and a 34 00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:36.680 way to boost the immunity. And we're going to learn 35 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:38.560 all about this, like I said, when we have this 36 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:42.800 expert on in October, fasting expert. And by the way, 37 00:02:43.520 --> 00:02:46.960 I mentioned the biohacking basics. We also have a functioning 38 00:02:47.080 --> 00:02:52.680 medicine allopath and an aging person. And for those of 39 00:02:52.680 --> 00:02:55.000 you who are not familiar with functioning medicine, this is 40 00:02:55.039 --> 00:03:00.560 a new brand of allopathy which I hope begins to 41 00:03:00.599 --> 00:03:04.199 take over the system. Because allopathy is all about dosing 42 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:09.240 you with medicine, surgical procedures, and then when they just 43 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:13.039 can't figure it out, they're going to irradiate you. All 44 00:03:13.199 --> 00:03:17.719 very toxic forms of treatment, all very disconnected from the 45 00:03:17.759 --> 00:03:22.080 healing body itself. And I have to say what I 46 00:03:22.120 --> 00:03:27.439 hear from those of you who are practicing functional medicine. Yes, Barbara, 47 00:03:27.479 --> 00:03:31.680 I'm talking about you. Ha ha. My friend Barbara is a 48 00:03:32.120 --> 00:03:39.240 functional medicine doctor. This is a branch of healing that 49 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:47.800 I'm really hoping that more establishments HMOs here in San Francisco. 50 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:52.360 I'm with Kaiser. Kaiser is so disconnected from healing. I 51 00:03:52.479 --> 00:03:55.280 basically fired my doctor because all they had to do. 52 00:03:55.639 --> 00:03:59.120 All they could provide me with is medicines. Oh, Cliff, 53 00:03:59.159 --> 00:04:01.360 you have a cholester, Well we're going to give you 54 00:04:01.400 --> 00:04:05.280 some statins. Well your blood pressure is a little high, 55 00:04:05.319 --> 00:04:07.560 Well we're going to give you some blood thinners. You know, 56 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:11.199 and it's just not a solution, it's a problem. It 57 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:15.599 causes problems. I lost the use of my arm in 58 00:04:15.639 --> 00:04:19.680 Mexico last year because I was on stands and I 59 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:22.920 talked to my cardiologists and she's like, well, that's what 60 00:04:22.959 --> 00:04:24.879 we got that's what we got for you. And I'm like, well, 61 00:04:24.920 --> 00:04:28.040 is there any other solution? Well, no, no, we don't 62 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:29.839 have a solution for it, you know, and they don't. 63 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:35.839 It's people are are are stampeding out of their doctor's 64 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:40.240 offices because they're sick of being medicated. This is not healing. 65 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:45.399 By the way, they just had a survey of the 66 00:04:45.439 --> 00:04:51.560 industrial nations and the United States fell last number ten 67 00:04:52.560 --> 00:04:58.279 on the healthcare It's pathetic. The United States healthcare system 68 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:02.439 is pathetic. Going off on a tangent anyhow, getting back 69 00:05:02.439 --> 00:05:07.959 to getting back to fasting. So I'm on my second day, 70 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:15.439 really almost the third day, because I started late in Sunday, 71 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:18.600 and I feel fine. First two days are fine. Now 72 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:20.920 it's the third day and the fourth day where the 73 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:27.920 body begins dumping toxins, cells and problems into the bloodstream 74 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:30.000 to get rid of it. And this is why you 75 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:33.439 need to drink lots of water, lots of fluids and 76 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:39.600 stay hydrated. And I tend to get very moody on 77 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:43.560 the third and fourth day because the body's getting rid 78 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:46.879 of toxes. But I have to say this, and again 79 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:49.399 this is not for everybody because you're not eating any food. 80 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:51.959 But you can do it. You can really do it, 81 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:55.000 and these supervised clinics can help. But you know you 82 00:05:55.040 --> 00:05:57.160 start off easy. You don't do five days right off 83 00:05:57.199 --> 00:05:59.879 the bat. If you want to fast, try twenty four 84 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:03.920 hours and then breaking the fast. You know you have 85 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:06.160 vegetables and so you don't eat a lot of heavy 86 00:06:06.199 --> 00:06:12.199 proteins or sugar or gluten, and you'd be surprised how 87 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:15.839 great you feel. And we do this before you know, 88 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:19.560 first of all, as each season changes, but also when 89 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:24.079 you're not feeling great, and the benefits are just amazing. 90 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:28.079 Now I've been fasting for probably thirty plus years. I 91 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:31.800 go back to Bernard Jensen, who was a doctor of 92 00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:37.279 chiropractor who had a sanitarium in Temechila, which is a 93 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:40.879 county down in the San Diego region of California. He 94 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:43.519 and I think I've mentioned this before, he would take 95 00:06:43.560 --> 00:06:49.199 people who were extremely ill. They had cancers, they had 96 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:56.759 degenerative arthritis, they had multiple sclerosis, other really degenerative types 97 00:06:56.800 --> 00:07:01.639 of illnesses, and he would take them on long fasts 98 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:07.639 and also calonics. Now I don't advocate colonics, but a 99 00:07:07.639 --> 00:07:10.560 lot of people do them. This is where you're you're 100 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:15.319 not eating and then you're flushing the large intestine with 101 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:23.079 water through colonic irrigation. This is putting a hose up 102 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:26.680 the rectum and then you flush the system well. He 103 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:33.839 documented people passing tumors and waste products, not feces, but 104 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:41.519 problems of the upper and lower colon. And you know, 105 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:44.800 and you know, the medicals establisher just doesn't get this. 106 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:48.040 They just don't get it. This is why we're the 107 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:53.319 last place of industrial countries for healthcare. We just don't 108 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:57.800 know what to do. We're so stupid, and we're dosing 109 00:07:57.839 --> 00:08:01.519 everybody with medicines. It's just causing more problem. So when 110 00:08:01.560 --> 00:08:04.399 we have our functional medicine doctor on, she is great. 111 00:08:04.839 --> 00:08:07.079 I've read her book and we're going to hear all 112 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:10.600 about this. And this is something that is being forced 113 00:08:10.600 --> 00:08:16.879 on allopaths to change their system of wellness, change their 114 00:08:17.160 --> 00:08:24.079 prescription methods, and to look at alternative nutrition, exercise, meditation, 115 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:29.160 and other wellness practices that are much more beneficial to people. 116 00:08:29.279 --> 00:08:33.759 So anyhow, I'll let you know how my fast ends 117 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:37.320 next week. And I'm looking forward to a positive outcome, 118 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:41.759 which always happens. It always is a much positive outcome 119 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:45.600 because I'm much clearer, i feel better, I'm processing, I'm digesting, 120 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:50.279 and just feeling much much better across the board. So 121 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:54.200 that's part of the biohacking basics. The program today is 122 00:08:54.720 --> 00:08:59.120 more for the tools for transformation theme. The title of 123 00:08:59.159 --> 00:09:01.759 the book is that we're talking about is the fifteen 124 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:06.279 minute Method, the surprisingly simple art of getting it done. 125 00:09:06.399 --> 00:09:09.279 And my guest is Sam Bennett, and I'll tell you 126 00:09:10.039 --> 00:09:14.360 this book is wonderful. The interview was very very enlightening 127 00:09:14.360 --> 00:09:17.559 because we're all bogged down into our nine to five existence, 128 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:20.840 trying to get ahead of the joneses, trying to survive, 129 00:09:21.759 --> 00:09:25.559 and we're not taking enough time for ourselves. What do 130 00:09:25.639 --> 00:09:32.080 we really want individually? What do we really want to accomplish? 131 00:09:32.120 --> 00:09:35.120 Do we want? I mean? And I like this because 132 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:38.720 you know, we're not thinking about our family, our kids, 133 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:44.240 our relatives, our friends. It's about us and you might 134 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:47.840 think that's selfish, but it's not. And when you hear 135 00:09:48.440 --> 00:09:51.960 the techniques that we're going to present today and what's 136 00:09:52.240 --> 00:09:54.679 featured in this book, it just came out the fifteen 137 00:09:54.679 --> 00:09:57.679 minute method, you're going to love it. And this is 138 00:09:57.720 --> 00:10:02.559 not about meditating, it's not about journaling. It's about sitting 139 00:10:02.600 --> 00:10:09.320 down one day a week and considering yourself. So again. 140 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:12.759 Today's program is the fifteen Minute Method and my guest 141 00:10:12.879 --> 00:10:15.679 is Sam Bennett. I think you're gonna enjoy this show. 142 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:22.120 You probably hear about all these amazing locations, these ancient 143 00:10:22.159 --> 00:10:25.240 sites we visit on Earth, ancient Sand, here on Destiny, 144 00:10:25.759 --> 00:10:27.799 but I got to tell you there's nothing like being 145 00:10:27.799 --> 00:10:30.840 there in person. And we have a number of tours 146 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:34.480 that we schedule every year, some in far lands like 147 00:10:34.519 --> 00:10:38.080 Turkey and Egypt, but some are closer to home, like Mexico. 148 00:10:38.960 --> 00:10:41.120 And we have a great tour coming up in November, 149 00:10:41.240 --> 00:10:45.000 the Sacred Mayan Temples of the Yucatan. It's November eighth 150 00:10:45.039 --> 00:10:50.600 through the seventeenth of this year, one week of intense exploration. 151 00:10:51.679 --> 00:10:54.000 This tour is designed for those of you who really 152 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:57.519 want to connect with these ancient places, feel an affinity 153 00:10:57.600 --> 00:11:00.480 to the Maya, and just want to see ye close 154 00:11:00.519 --> 00:11:04.000 and personal, what a pyramid looks like, what it feels like, 155 00:11:04.559 --> 00:11:07.840 how you connect with them and the tolleric energy. For 156 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:11.559 more information on our upcoming tour, go to Earth Ancients 157 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:15.360 dot com, forward slash Tours and look for the banner 158 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:17.840 to Mexico. I gotta tell you this is gonna be 159 00:11:17.879 --> 00:11:23.320 a good one. We're going to be going to Ushmol, Ticheniza, Lobna, 160 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:26.759 Sail and every place we go to. You can connect 161 00:11:27.159 --> 00:11:32.679 by sitting, by meditating, by connecting with these sacred locations. 162 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:36.440 And there's nothing like climbing a Mayan pyramid and sitting 163 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:40.600 at the very top and getting bathed in this wonderful energy. Again, 164 00:11:40.679 --> 00:11:42.639 come out and join us. It's November eight through the 165 00:11:42.679 --> 00:11:46.440 seventeenth of this year. Go to Earth Ancients dot com, 166 00:11:46.480 --> 00:12:28.519 forward slash tours and get all the information. How do 167 00:12:28.600 --> 00:12:31.840 we live our life and be as successful as possible 168 00:12:32.159 --> 00:12:36.120 without getting stuck. That's a big question I've always wondering about. 169 00:12:36.919 --> 00:12:39.519 And my author, my guest today, is an author of 170 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:43.159 a really an interesting book. Not only is it provocative 171 00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:47.279 in terms of guidance, and we all need guidance. You know, 172 00:12:47.320 --> 00:12:50.360 it's not all about meditating and hoping it happens the 173 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:54.000 way you are planning. But this is a way too. 174 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:57.480 In this new book, this is a a way to 175 00:12:57.720 --> 00:13:03.000 go beyond the stress, strife, the problems that we all face. 176 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:05.480 And would you believe the title of this book is 177 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:10.039 the fifteen minute Method, the surprisingly simple art of getting 178 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:13.039 it done. And we're going to find out today what 179 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:16.360 that means. My guest today is Sam Bennett. She is 180 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:20.879 the author of Get It Done, Start right where you 181 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:24.120 are in this new book. She's a writer, speaker, actor, 182 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:29.279 creativity productivity specialists, and she is the founder of the 183 00:13:30.200 --> 00:13:33.879 Real Sam Bennett dot Com, a company committed to helping 184 00:13:34.600 --> 00:13:42.200 overwhelmed creatives and frustrated overachievers get unstuck. And she's coming 185 00:13:42.200 --> 00:13:47.600 to us today from Connectiquette. Sam, I really like this book, 186 00:13:47.639 --> 00:13:51.279 and I typically don't have a lot of time because 187 00:13:51.320 --> 00:13:53.559 I have to go through a lot of different books. 188 00:13:53.600 --> 00:13:57.879 But were you was this book kind of a next 189 00:13:57.960 --> 00:14:00.679 step from your last book, or were you seeing people 190 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:04.080 and hearing from people that are like Sam, I just 191 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:07.960 don't get it. I'm just I'm in the muck, I'm 192 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:10.919 in the manure, and I can't get out of this. 193 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:14.960 Talk about the inception of this book. 194 00:14:15.639 --> 00:14:17.919 Yes, thank you so much, Cliff, thank you for having me. 195 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:20.720 Hi everybody, I'm so glad you're here. And yeah, let's 196 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:23.240 see if we can't change your life in fifteen minutes 197 00:14:23.279 --> 00:14:28.320 a day, how about that. Yeah. The impetus for this book, 198 00:14:29.320 --> 00:14:32.320 it's a little bit of some some from colum and 199 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:35.360 some from columb I was definitely hearing more and more 200 00:14:35.399 --> 00:14:38.600 from people, I'm so overwhelmed, I'm so stressed out. I 201 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:40.679 feel like I'm working as hard as I can, as 202 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:43.200 much as I can, and I'm still not getting anywhere. 203 00:14:44.320 --> 00:14:46.960 There's too much input, I don't know where to look, 204 00:14:47.240 --> 00:14:49.919 you know, all these versions of I'm so busy, I'm 205 00:14:49.919 --> 00:14:54.840 so overwhelmed. And then my editor over at New World 206 00:14:54.879 --> 00:14:57.279 Library actually asked me if I would consider writing a 207 00:14:57.279 --> 00:14:59.759 book on overwhelmed, and I immediately said yes, because again 208 00:14:59.799 --> 00:15:02.320 that's the word that I kept hearing over and over 209 00:15:02.360 --> 00:15:06.919 and over again, and I knew I had a really simple, 210 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:11.279 like almost subversively simple key to help people get over. 211 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:15.120 This amazing I want to mention real quickly, and I'd 212 00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:17.639 like you to just talk about this. You've gotten over 213 00:15:19.600 --> 00:15:24.519 long COVID, and I have friends and I never really 214 00:15:24.679 --> 00:15:28.639 had a problem with COVID, but when you have long COVID, 215 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:32.720 you're fatigued for much of the day. Talk a little 216 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:37.720 bit about applying your own techniques into that, because you 217 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:40.759 must have to kind of lay your day out in 218 00:15:40.799 --> 00:15:44.000 such a way where Okay, I wake up, I feel great, 219 00:15:44.799 --> 00:15:46.559 but what do I want to achieve today? And then 220 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:49.399 as you're working, you'll probably have a drop in energy, 221 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:51.159 and then it'll go up and down, up and down. 222 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:54.759 Talk a bit about that because a lot of people 223 00:15:54.759 --> 00:15:55.759 are still dealing with that. 224 00:15:56.120 --> 00:15:56.720 Oh my gosh. 225 00:15:56.840 --> 00:15:57.000 Yeah. 226 00:15:57.000 --> 00:15:59.080 And I would not say I'm actually over long haul COVID. 227 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:02.039 I am infinitely better than I was. Okay, But I 228 00:16:02.039 --> 00:16:03.720 want to shout out to all my brothers and sisters 229 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:08.519 out there living with long haul and any other long term, debilitating, 230 00:16:09.759 --> 00:16:16.200 essentially untreatable disease. These invisible illnesses are so hard, so 231 00:16:16.240 --> 00:16:17.840 hard to live with, so hard for you, so hard 232 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:20.159 for your families, so hard for everyone. So I just 233 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:24.919 big hug to everybody, because man, it's hard. Yeah, And 234 00:16:24.960 --> 00:16:27.080 with long all you do not wake up feeling great 235 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:30.679 you wake up, I mean it's yeah. The main symptom 236 00:16:30.759 --> 00:16:34.440 is exhaustion, when I started referred to as clinical fatigue, 237 00:16:34.879 --> 00:16:36.440 because if you just say fatigue, it sounds like, well, 238 00:16:36.440 --> 00:16:39.080 you're tired, take a nap. But no, this is different. 239 00:16:39.840 --> 00:16:42.039 This is like your body's made out of concrete and 240 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:46.000 someone is holding you down. Like, not only did getting 241 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:50.039 out of bed many times seem impossible, but rolling over 242 00:16:50.200 --> 00:16:53.840 in bed seemed really ambitious, you know, like when you 243 00:16:53.879 --> 00:16:55.799 are so fatigue you cannot watch TV. 244 00:16:57.279 --> 00:16:59.519 Oh my god, I can't imagine that, I know. 245 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:04.000 And for me it was reading like I could read anywhere, anytime, anything, 246 00:17:04.119 --> 00:17:06.480 all the time, and all of a sudden I couldn't 247 00:17:06.519 --> 00:17:07.240 really read. 248 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:10.279 Because you just can't take any data in. You're just 249 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:13.559 your body is just like, leave me alone. I want 250 00:17:13.559 --> 00:17:14.119 to rest. 251 00:17:14.480 --> 00:17:17.640 You got to imagine like the worst jet lag you've 252 00:17:17.640 --> 00:17:23.079 ever had combined with the worst flu you've ever had, Like, yeah, 253 00:17:23.160 --> 00:17:26.880 your body's just like no, no, nothing, thank you. Nothing 254 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:32.720 is what we want. So yes, So a great deal 255 00:17:32.759 --> 00:17:35.359 of this book was in fact written in fifteen minute 256 00:17:35.359 --> 00:17:39.440 increments and edited in fifteen minute increments because that would 257 00:17:39.480 --> 00:17:40.160 be all I could do. 258 00:17:40.839 --> 00:17:46.200 Wow, talk about the reason for this book and how 259 00:17:46.240 --> 00:17:51.160 people can get fifteen minute increments into their day. And 260 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:53.079 then at the end of that, I'm going to give 261 00:17:53.079 --> 00:17:56.039 you a three part why it's such a great benefit 262 00:17:56.200 --> 00:17:59.880 to have the satisfaction that you are achieving something that 263 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:00.759 is for you. 264 00:18:01.599 --> 00:18:04.400 Yes. Yeah, So let's lay it out. So here's the 265 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:06.640 fifteen minute method. If you everybody wants to know, here 266 00:18:06.640 --> 00:18:09.599 it is, pens clicked, let's go. Fifteen minute method. Is 267 00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:13.920 I want you to spend fifteen minutes a day, every 268 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:19.680 single day, on something that matters to you. To Nah, 269 00:18:19.920 --> 00:18:22.759 that's it, that's the whole thing. I turned that into 270 00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:27.440 a whole book. But here's the kicker. I mean, here's 271 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:30.000 what I noticed is that most of us, most of you, 272 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:35.079 are running around all day getting everything for everybody, and 273 00:18:35.160 --> 00:18:38.640 the stuff that really matters to you, that would really 274 00:18:38.640 --> 00:18:41.920 make a difference to you, your heart, your body, your 275 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:48.720 family doesn't even make it onto the list, right. So, 276 00:18:50.720 --> 00:18:53.079 and you know we psych ourselves out of things sometimes 277 00:18:53.160 --> 00:18:55.240 we think, you know, well, I mean, Sam, I really 278 00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:56.759 what I really want is to write a book. But 279 00:18:57.039 --> 00:18:59.200 you know I need two months in promise. You know, 280 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:01.559 I need a whole summer. I need all this time, 281 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:04.599 and I am all for two months in provoms. Please 282 00:19:04.599 --> 00:19:09.880 call me, we'll go together. But I noticed that that 283 00:19:09.960 --> 00:19:15.839 time is not always immediately available. However, everyone has fifteen minutes. 284 00:19:16.680 --> 00:19:19.079 I don't care how busy you are or how unwell 285 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:22.640 you are. Really, I mean, there are certain degrees of unwell, 286 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:25.400 but you know what I'm saying, For the vast majority 287 00:19:25.400 --> 00:19:28.799 of us, we can find fifteen minutes a day. And 288 00:19:30.599 --> 00:19:32.319 if you take writing a book for an example, in 289 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:35.920 fifteen minutes, you can write two hundred and fifty words, 290 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:40.200 and in two hundred days that's fifty thousand words. That's 291 00:19:40.240 --> 00:19:40.640 a book. 292 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:45.759 You know. I was looking at the fifteen minutes and going, 293 00:19:45.920 --> 00:19:49.200 I can't do shit in fifteen minutes because I'm all 294 00:19:49.240 --> 00:19:54.640 over the place. But you're right if you focus down 295 00:19:54.400 --> 00:19:58.200 and you think of it as this is my creative time, 296 00:19:58.240 --> 00:20:02.359 this is my juicy time, this is my personal time. 297 00:20:02.519 --> 00:20:06.640 If you have kids, if you have obligations, it's almost 298 00:20:06.880 --> 00:20:09.000 like it's magic, isn't it. 299 00:20:09.000 --> 00:20:12.079 It is one hundred percent magic, and it's actually sort 300 00:20:12.079 --> 00:20:14.559 of three tiered magic because first of all, there is 301 00:20:14.559 --> 00:20:16.440 the magic of how much you can get done in 302 00:20:16.440 --> 00:20:20.640 fifteen minutes. It's shocking. Everyone is shocked. I am often shocked. 303 00:20:20.799 --> 00:20:22.480 I mean I do it in almost every one of 304 00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:24.200 my workshops where I say, okay, I'm going to set 305 00:20:24.200 --> 00:20:26.759 their timer for fifteen minutes. You all put your pens 306 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:28.960 on paper and do XYZ for fifteen minutes. 307 00:20:29.079 --> 00:20:30.559 So great, and almost. 308 00:20:30.279 --> 00:20:34.799 Every time they are like amazing, Like I know. The 309 00:20:34.839 --> 00:20:39.200 second part of the magic is every day, when you 310 00:20:39.240 --> 00:20:41.680 are touching your project, every day, when you are making 311 00:20:41.720 --> 00:20:46.400 incremental progress every day, you start to see exponential effects, 312 00:20:47.359 --> 00:20:50.519 and we sort of get that logically. Like, you know, 313 00:20:50.519 --> 00:20:52.920 if I practice my ukulele for fifteen minutes a day 314 00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:55.039 and not very long of a time, I would be 315 00:20:55.119 --> 00:20:59.000 a better ukulele player. Right, Does the world need a 316 00:20:59.000 --> 00:21:02.480 better ukulele player? I don't know. But in the course 317 00:21:02.519 --> 00:21:05.000 of a week or a month, or a year or 318 00:21:05.160 --> 00:21:09.319 six years or sixty six years, the thing I do 319 00:21:09.400 --> 00:21:11.559 every day, not only am I going to get good at, 320 00:21:12.599 --> 00:21:15.359 but it's sort of let see angels know I'm serious. 321 00:21:15.640 --> 00:21:15.880 Right. 322 00:21:16.920 --> 00:21:18.960 The brain is really good at finding what it's looking for. 323 00:21:19.039 --> 00:21:21.359 So if you are putting a project right in front 324 00:21:21.400 --> 00:21:23.480 of it every single day for fifteen minutes, whether that's 325 00:21:23.480 --> 00:21:25.920 writing a book or playing ukulele or learning a language, 326 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:30.759 or decluttering your closet or you know, growing your business 327 00:21:30.799 --> 00:21:32.920 or paying attention to your finances, whatever it is that's 328 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:37.400 up for you, there's a real magic to that, that 329 00:21:37.559 --> 00:21:44.720 everyday commitment. And then finally there's this fabulous spillover effect, right, 330 00:21:44.759 --> 00:21:46.240 And the same way that when you are grumpy and 331 00:21:46.279 --> 00:21:48.200 stressed out and then you just get sort of increasingly 332 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:51.240 grumpy and stressed out when you start out with fifteen 333 00:21:51.279 --> 00:21:53.759 minutes of giving you the gift of something that matters 334 00:21:53.759 --> 00:21:58.279 to you. Oh my gosh, we love that version of you. 335 00:21:58.279 --> 00:22:01.599 You're calmer, you're less reactive, You've got a little light 336 00:22:01.640 --> 00:22:04.960 in your eyes, you're a better listener. Like it's the 337 00:22:05.039 --> 00:22:07.119 same sort of I don't know, I wish there was 338 00:22:07.160 --> 00:22:10.359 a word for like positive smugness, like the positive smugness 339 00:22:10.359 --> 00:22:12.319 that you get when you, you know, hit the gym first 340 00:22:12.319 --> 00:22:13.920 thing in the morning, or you have sex first thing 341 00:22:13.920 --> 00:22:15.319 in the morning and you've been all day being like 342 00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:17.279 that's right, I'm awesome. How are you? 343 00:22:18.359 --> 00:22:21.359 But you're when you're you're we're feeding ourselves with those 344 00:22:22.119 --> 00:22:26.920 where magic. Where the magic is is what you're telling 345 00:22:27.039 --> 00:22:30.880 us in this book is that you need this to 346 00:22:30.960 --> 00:22:31.960 be your best self. 347 00:22:32.559 --> 00:22:39.799 Yes, yes, and stop expecting some magical day you know 348 00:22:39.960 --> 00:22:41.839 when you're going to wake up with all the confidence 349 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:43.880 and free time and extra money in the world, Like 350 00:22:44.279 --> 00:22:48.000 it's not happening, and this constant pushing out of your 351 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:50.119 goals and dreams to like, well, I'll do it, you 352 00:22:50.160 --> 00:22:51.759 know after the holidays, I'll do it when I get 353 00:22:51.799 --> 00:22:54.240 that promotion. I'll do it when the kids X Y Z. 354 00:22:54.400 --> 00:22:59.119 It's like, no, today, the future is not guaranteed to 355 00:22:59.240 --> 00:23:03.279 any of us do it today, And even stuff that 356 00:23:03.359 --> 00:23:07.279 people really I think sometimes struggle with, like you're getting enough, 357 00:23:07.839 --> 00:23:12.240 you know, exercise and movement. Every single health and medical 358 00:23:12.279 --> 00:23:14.960 professional in the universe will tell you that fifteen minutes 359 00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:17.680 of you moving your body in any way, shape or 360 00:23:17.799 --> 00:23:21.640 form is going to have an exponentially positive effect on 361 00:23:21.720 --> 00:23:22.440 your health and well being. 362 00:23:23.000 --> 00:23:28.839 Yeah. What if someone's listening and they go, Sam, I 363 00:23:28.880 --> 00:23:31.160 don't know what I need to do for fifteen minutes. 364 00:23:31.200 --> 00:23:37.680 How do I reach out and grab that one thing 365 00:23:38.279 --> 00:23:40.279 that's going to make me feel good about my nine 366 00:23:40.319 --> 00:23:43.079 to five existence and screaming kids and I don't have 367 00:23:43.240 --> 00:23:44.960 enough time for myself existence. 368 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:50.240 Yeah. I love that question because it reminds me of 369 00:23:50.319 --> 00:23:52.319 times in my life when I've really been neglecting my 370 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:54.799 own self, Like when I can't even answer the question 371 00:23:54.920 --> 00:23:56.759 what do I want? It's like, what do I want? 372 00:23:57.160 --> 00:23:58.799 I don't know? What do you want? What do you 373 00:23:58.839 --> 00:24:00.640 want for me? What can I do for you? Let's 374 00:24:00.680 --> 00:24:03.839 talk about that, all right? So that tells me there 375 00:24:03.960 --> 00:24:07.960 is a lot of room for you to discover. And 376 00:24:08.079 --> 00:24:10.079 that's what I would invite you into, is I would 377 00:24:10.079 --> 00:24:12.160 go ahead and make a list of a bunch of 378 00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:15.680 fifteen minute tasks that you just think, Well, I could doodle, 379 00:24:16.039 --> 00:24:19.680 I could you know, plan a trip to Paris. I 380 00:24:19.799 --> 00:24:22.200 could take a look at that stock investment. I could 381 00:24:23.000 --> 00:24:26.000 research the work of Eleanor Duza, I could you know, 382 00:24:26.119 --> 00:24:28.519 Like whatever it is that bubbles up for you, go 383 00:24:28.599 --> 00:24:31.319 ahead and write it down, and then maybe you pick 384 00:24:31.359 --> 00:24:35.279 a different one every day. Maybe you find one that 385 00:24:35.319 --> 00:24:37.039 you really like and you stick with it for a while. 386 00:24:37.680 --> 00:24:41.079 It's really meant to It's really an infinitely flexible thing. 387 00:24:41.160 --> 00:24:43.240 There is there's no right or wrong way to do it. 388 00:24:43.799 --> 00:24:45.839 I am not your mom. This is not school. You're 389 00:24:45.880 --> 00:24:48.480 not getting graded like it's really the object of the 390 00:24:48.519 --> 00:24:50.960 game is just the doing of it. And I'll tell 391 00:24:51.000 --> 00:24:53.960 you for me. My fifteen minutes I do before I 392 00:24:54.160 --> 00:24:57.880 even open my eyes. Almost in the morning, I do 393 00:24:58.000 --> 00:25:00.279 it right away, well, even while I'm still sort of 394 00:25:00.319 --> 00:25:04.960 half asleep. And I have this little sort of prayer, meditation, 395 00:25:05.640 --> 00:25:09.799 breathing journaling process that I invented for myself over time, 396 00:25:10.559 --> 00:25:15.920 and it's so lovely, you know. Sort of in the morning, 397 00:25:16.240 --> 00:25:17.640 I write a letter to God, or God writes a 398 00:25:17.720 --> 00:25:19.759 letter to me, depending on who needs to say what 399 00:25:19.880 --> 00:25:26.240 to whom, and it doesn't take very much time. And 400 00:25:26.359 --> 00:25:30.279 yet I notice that when I don't do it, things 401 00:25:30.359 --> 00:25:34.039