Speaker 1: Hey, if you're anything like me, your mood's change when
it comes to podcasts listening. I want to have the
right podcast for the right mood, which is the reason
why I created the Errow dot net network. It's an
opportunity for you to explore, to get into areas that
you go. I don't know, Okay, I'll give it a shot.
A Roe dot net, seventeen podcasts to choose from, and growing.
I'm serious when I say enjoy the exploration.
Speaker 2: Hey, zero, And this is vocal DFRAG. I vocal d
frag while I'm out here on this path. It's running
through South Charlotte. The forest is called Rainbow Forest. It
involves Heartbreak Hill and so many other different beautiful things.
But I come out here to this forest to receive.
And so when I come out here to d frag,
it's asking myself the questions and then questioning the answers.
I do it in a journal as well as I
do it on a digital device such as this. And
the reason why you do it on the digital device
is because pitch, volume, and tone don't lie to you
when you're using a writing instrument and you're doing everything
humanly possible to get those words out there. What happens
is is that when you go back to it a
different day, it's a completely different interpretation. Whereas pitch, volume
and tone on your digital device gives you the opportunity
to hear where your mindset was and where everything that
you're going to do is going to grow from or
maybe pass through and never come back to again. Ask
yourself the questions and then question the answers. This is
vocal d frag a subject today that always comes up,
and really, in all honesty, people are going to say,
you're such an old man for bringing this up. Nobody
thinks like that anymore. Well maybe they don't, but they
sure bitch about it a lot. Time management. Time management
is making sure that you've got a keen sense of
balance in your day, documenting who want, where, why, when
and how, and making sure that you stay accountable for
everything that's on that map. You can't put something on
your Google calendar and say, yeah, well, if I get
around to it. That's the problem. We are all living
this life of well if I get around to it,
and then the honeydew list and everything else that you
wanted to do continues to add up, add up, add up,
and you find yourself bitching about life. I never get
what I want. I missed out on another opportunity. Well,
it's because you don't believe in a physical act and
sustainability of time management. There was one thing that I
picked up a couple of weeks ago. I've been podcasting
since twenty twelve. I've been a radio broadcaster since nineteen
seventy nine, so I've got a few chapters inside this
system of choices. But something that came up to me.
It was this, I get out of the studio let's
say at ten forty five am or maybe eleven o'clock,
my normal podcast time. I allow myself seven am to
twelve thirty pm nothing after that. That's the discipline. Otherwise
I would stay in that room all day and I
wouldn't see anybody in the world. So if I'm getting
out at ten forty five to eleven o'clock, what am
I going to do next? Here's the thing that I
had to train myself, train the creative person. If I
am scheduled to be in that podcast studio until twelve
thirty PM, then it's podcast time that I cannot waste.
So once again, if I'm getting out at ten forty
five to eleven o'clock, I still have an hour and
a half time on that time clock that's called podcast
time clock. And I think so many times we get
wrapped in that when it comes to the careers that
we have or the side hustles that we're doing, we think, oh,
I'm going to hurry up and get done, and then
the next day, when the job is a little bit
more and it's expecting more, you want to complain about
it because you didn't get finished as early as you
did the day or the days before, and so therefore
you're messing up your schedule, your time management. Yourself a
certain window every day and stick to that window. And
if you get done with something early, figure out better
ways that you can make that side hustle or that
job even greater than what it was today. Otherwise you're
gonna sit around going, I don't have the time, man,
they want me to do this. I don't have the
effort to do this.
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 2: It's available every day. That is your window, that is
your Google calendar. And so if you really go into
it with a clear head, realizing that you are several
different levels of transitions throughout one single day, you're gonna
learn more about yourself and you're gonna get control of
your dedication, loyalty, determination and perseverance. So treat yourself like
the manager that you are and take care of yourself
like the employee you are. When it comes to anything,
you are forever that person on the totem pole that
has to work for what you've got as yourself, the
questions and question the answers. I call it vocal defragging,
or do it in a journal. Just remember that when
you come back a different day, it's going to be
a different interpretation. I'm Meryl