12 Minutes to Success | DFS 369

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Welcome to Destin for success. I'm your

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host, Jennifer Takagi, and I want to continue this

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conversation that I had last week with Peter kalonda about

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key habits and key habits that have led to his success. Great

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interview. If you haven't caught it, go back and get the last

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episode today, I want to put my spin on it, my world, and that

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is my best selling book. 12 minutes to success. Reach Your

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Goals in 12 minute increments. You can get it on the Amazon.

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It's there and paperback and in Kindle version, whatever you

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prefer, it's

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there. Go get it. 12 minutes to success. Number one. How did I

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get to this? Like, why do I know about 12 minutes to success?

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Guess what? I created. It's mine. It's mine. It's 100%

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mine. I took the course the success principles to be a

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trainer for the success principles. And this book was

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compiled by Dr Jack Canfield. He was the founder, co founder, of

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the Chicken Soup for the Souls series. And the number one

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principle that all successful people follow is taking 100%

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responsibility for every aspect of their lives, 100%

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responsibility if 100% is too much, take 5% more. I became

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obsessed with, what's 5% more? What is it? Well, my day is kind

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of broken in to three categories of time, three chunks of time,

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if you will, eight to noon, one to five, six to 10. I am not a

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math wizard, but I can use a calculator. Four hours is 240

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minutes. 5% of 240 is 12 minutes. So I started

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brainstorming, what can I do in 12 minute increments to move my

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life forward, my goals forward? What can I do? And as it turns

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out, I have got a really good knack for helping people break

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their goals down into smaller 12 minute increments. So let's look

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at a couple of possibilities here. One possibility is your

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health. Let's start with the health, because that's often a

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big one. Either get healthier, lose weight. I'm sure there are

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people out there who need to gain weight, but I don't know

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them personally. It's typically lose weight, get healthier, get

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stronger. So what can you do in 12 minute increments? The first

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12 minutes could literally, if you want to start exercising,

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getting your clothes together. Get your exercise clothes

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together. Where are your tennis shoes? Where are your socks? If

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you're a woman, where is that sports bra to hold the girls up?

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Where are your shorts? Where's the shirt? Get the clothes

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together and put them in a place where they're easily accessible.

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If you run out the door every morning, make sure they're in a

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bag that you can get to and take them with you. So the first 12

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minutes is getting your clothes together. I had a friend who

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called me from the gym one Saturday and said, I didn't want

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to come to the gym, but I did what you said. I got in my

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clothes together a couple days ago, and then I was like, Okay,

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I'm going to the gym. And I put my clothes on, I got in the car

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and drove to the gym. Depending on how far your gym is, it might

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take more than 12 minutes. I don't know. I'm not counting

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that people don't hold me to that. She got to the gym, she

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parked and she literally sat in her car and thought, I don't

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want to go in. I don't. I don't want to do this. I don't. And

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then she thought, I can do 12 minutes. I'm going to walk in

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there and I am going to do the elliptical, stair master, or

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whatever machine she liked, for 12 minutes. As soon as it flips

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over to 12, I am getting off and going home. And when she called

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me, she was about 18 minutes in, because once she got started,

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she kept going. It's that law of momentum. Is it that body in

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motion stays in motion. Once you're in action, you stay in

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action. Once she got there and got going, she stayed but she

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was completely, 100% committed that at the end of 12 minutes,

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if she didn't want to be anymore, she was gonna leave.

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There is somebody listening to this saying, What is 12 minutes

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gonna do? That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever

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heard. I hear ya. I totally hear you. But guess what? I have an

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exercise bike. I'm gonna say it's five feet away from where

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I'm sitting right now in my home office. Is after my knee

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replacement surgery, getting on that bike and riding it was so

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incredibly hard and painful because of the angle I could do,

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the one at physical therapy office, but not at home, that

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once I was able to do it, doing it for 12 minutes was like

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climbing Mount Everest. For me, it literally was like climbing

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Mount Everest. If I ride that bike every day for 12 minutes,

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for 365, days, that will be 73 hours of exercise. I cannot tell

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you, the last time I got in 73 hours of exercise in a year, it

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adds up. It adds up. I do that for 12 minutes, at the lowest

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setting, for three or four days. And guess what? I have two

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choices. I can up the tension so it's harder to pedal pedal. Or I

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can ride faster and get more rotations in, but I can still do

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it in 12 minute increments. Let's talk about food. Let's

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talk about eating. You want a new eating plan? What can I do?

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What can I do? All right, well, the first thing is you could

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spend 12 minutes on the internet looking for whatever kind of

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eating plan you're interested in, you could go into chat. GPT,

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I love AI, if you haven't embraced it yet, catch up. Like

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catch up. I'm just telling you, catch up. You can literally go

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into chat GPT, and say, I am this old. I am a man. I'm a

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woman. I want to lose this much weight, and I want a diet that

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is lower in fat, higher in protein, more vegetables, a

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vegetarian, vegan, whatever. Can you please give me a seven day

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meal plan? I've done this, and it works. It gives it to you,

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and then the nice little AI boxes. Would you like me to put

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together a grocery list so you could spend 12 minutes just make

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a decision. If you decide to go vegetarian, great. Do it if it

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doesn't work, switch. If you decide to do this new carnivore

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diet. Do it for a while. If it didn't work for you switch. You

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are not married to anything for life. You're not switch that

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diet up. But since spend 12 minutes deciding, then spend 12

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minutes putting together your grocery list, I don't know how

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long it takes you to drive to the grocery store, so let's not

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count that. But if you're eating more whole foods, things that

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would be more you know, appropriate for an eating plan,

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chances are, did you know this? This could be your like, really

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enlightening for somebody. If you shop on the outer aisles of

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the grocery store. That's typically where the whole foods

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are. That's where the vegetables are, the meats are, the dairy

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products are, what the center aisles are full of, all the pre

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packaged food. So if you only stick to the outer aisles

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gathering up your groceries, guess what? You can get it all

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thrown in there in 12 minutes. You might have to stand in the

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line longer. I can't account for everything, but you can get it

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done in 12 minutes. Also, I pick up my groceries 90% of the time,

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okay, let's go 99% of the time. I get the little app. I decide

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what I'm going to cook, and I get the ingredients, and then I

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go pick them up. And I typically can leave my house. The store is

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very close to my house. Get to the store and get back home in

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12 minutes. Okay, 15 maybe. Do you get the idea you can start

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really accomplishing great things in small increments, if

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you're working on cleaning out a room, literally start with one

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corner. A book I read years ago said you should work in a

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counter, no in a clockwise position, pick a starting point

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and then go clockwise around. The other thing I heard was get

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everything off the floor. If you can get every single thing off

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the floor that doesn't belong there, like furniture, get

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everything off the floor, sweep, mop, vacuum, whatever you have

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to do to have that floor clean, then you can move on to

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organizing the rest of the stuff. I saw a video one day,

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and the guy literally took everything off the floor that

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shouldn't be there, there were a lot of kids, toys, clothes,

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whatever, and threw it all in the middle of the bed in the

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bedroom, and cleaned the floors top to bottom. And then he went

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through and pulled all the clothes out and put them in a

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laundry basket and took them to the utility room. And then he

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got all the shoes and organized them in the closet. And. And

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before you knew it, he had that whole room cleaned up. You have

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to have a plan. If it's overwhelming, do it in shorter

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increments. You will get there. You will make headway. You need

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to get out a string of emails. Guess what? I can sit here and

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stare at this computer screen all day long, I can and I don't

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get anything done. But if I set my timer, and I do for 12

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minutes, and I have the intention, intention is so

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important. If I have the intention that I'm going to get

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those five emails written in that 12 minutes, I'm going to

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use a little AI to help me out, because I like the emojis it

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will add to my text. I can get those emails written, and then I

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can spend the next 12 minutes and get them loaded into my

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email, auto, you know, sender out or thing, whatever that's

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called, CRM. I can do that. I can do it in 12 minutes.

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That book The Four Hour Work Week for entrepreneurs. At first

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I thought, Oh, that is just a whole bunch of hooey. But guess

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what? If you highly focus in 12 minute increments, you can

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accomplish a lot. You can accomplish a lot. I would love

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for you to leave me a review, and in the review, tell me what

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is one thing that you're going to start doing, and you're going

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to break it down into 12 minute increments so you can start

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creating the life of your dreams. You are destined for way

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more success than you ever considered possible, and I look

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forward to seeing what you create, because you can do it

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one little bit at a time. I'm Jennifer Takagi, and I look

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forward to connecting with you soon.