The first time manager. Pt. 5

Welcome, and thank you for tuning into the Leadership Sovereignty Podcast. I'm your host, Ralph Owens, along with Terry Baylor. In today's episode, we'll answer questions such as why your routine is crucial to your success and longevity. How do you get more performance out of yourself, how to prevent your conscious mind from interfering with your subconscious mind, and what is the point of diminishing returns? Enjoy the show.

So one other thing Ralph I wanted to I wanted to hit on for that new manager because man, when you get in that role, you're gonna feel like you are running a marathon at a 100 miles an hour. And so Ralph, you hit on something a few episodes back and I think it's very important that we kinda circle back around to it. And I'm gonna add a couple other things to it. You were telling a story about an individual who was having a challenge and you were relating that you don't see how if someone doesn't have a connection or spiritual type influence in their life, how do they make it? So, and this is gonna be pretty broad.

We're not gonna prescribe for you what that is, so there's a book that I've been reading Ralph and we've talked about it, it's called The Next Level. Now this is for executive leadership. But again, these principles apply at every level of leadership rather because again, there's levels to this leadership. Hence this book called The Next Level. So I just wanna read this.

It says that, let's see here. So the topic is routines of renewal. Routines of renewal. And I'm just gonna read this. It says life, I'm gonna exchange out executive for just leader.

Life as a leader is demanding and it requires your best. To succeed over a long run as a leader, you will need to pick up routines of renewal in the physical, mental, relational and spiritual domains of your life.

That's good.

Let me say that again. Physical, mental, relational and spiritual domains of your life.

It's good, it's rich.

And so basically man, what it's talking about, hey, we gotta take care of ourselves. There's an element of, hey, I need to have the right diet. There's an element of, I need to get the right amount of rest. Because all those things go into your mental health and your mental capacity. How do you get up?

Are you refreshed each morning or not? And then of course I think the physical one is pretty straightforward. A walk, gym time, granted, I'm kinda just hitting on these and because Ralph, I definitely wanna hear from you. And then on the spiritual aspect, right? Here's the deal, man.

At the end of the day, look, you are a body that has a soul which is driven by your spirit, that's the life within you. So again, I don't wanna prescribe what that looks like. I've heard people say, get ten minutes of meditation time in, have some I've had different leaders, some people do yoga, but you have to do something that kinda rejuvenates your inner core of who you are.

Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely. Your routine is the key to your success. It really is. I mean like Terry got the willpower of Ironman. Terry be swimming at 05:30 in the morning.

I'll be Man,

got to do it doc, I'll tell you. I get up in the mornings, I'd be like, if I don't do this, it's become that core. Man, I can tell a difference when I don't, that's what I'm telling you. I don't produce the same way when I don't have my quiet times, when I don't get that gym time. It's to the point where I tell my wife, I said, babe, look, if it's some serious you wanna talk about, can it wait till after I get my time?

Because the ability to handle the days, demands require feeding. I had to learn that, I had to learn, I had to feed myself, I had to learn that.

Absolutely. I mean, can take that to the Bible. The Bible say, the race is not given to the swift nor the struggle but to he that endureth to the end. You have to have routines in your life. Me, myself personally, I'm up at five in the shower, by 06:00 I'm at the table before God.

Right? You know, I got to see before the day. I got my devotion. I go through a period of just giving thanksgiving. Just recognizing all those things that I'm grateful for in my life.

I get some spiritual nourishment. I journal every day. These are the things that it's gonna take for me to be successful today. These are my focuses for the day. You remember this, the creator, coach and the challenger.

You remember that? That's from the dreaded drama triangle. Remember that?

Oh, I do. I do remember that. Yeah.

I still write I still write that in my journal every morning. I am meant to be a coach, a challenger, and a creator. I'm gonna create my situations. I'm gonna challenge people to do what's right and I'm gonna coach people to become better. Right?

I remind myself of that every day. Right?

That's good.

And so and then I have daily declarations that I say, just like you do. Right? We're gonna declare what the day is gonna be. But you have to I I remember reading a book called Millionaire Mornings. So it was the some people decided to talk to all these different millionaires and talk about what routines they actually do in the mornings.

And that I kind of derived a lot of my stuff from there. Like with them, obviously they have the time, right? But they go through a series of thankfulness. Right? They do some meditation.

They do oh, there's another one that I don't get a chance to do as much as I would like to, visualization. I'm a believer in that.

Yes.

You gotta take some time to sit still. And you gotta think about where you wanna see yourself. Because your mind's eye will follow where you're thinking. You do your confessions, you do your daily journaling, these kind of things. These are the things I kind of call them like little life hacks that you do against yourself to drive more productivity out of you.

Kind of like an engine on a car, you put those turbo boosters on them and all that kind of stuff to drive more productivity and more performance out of them. You gotta have routines to help you do that for yourself.

Oh man, that is good. I tend to like to do my visualization before I go to sleep because I'm like subconscious go to work.

That's good.

Go to work subconscious. Because here's the deal right now, I'm giving y'all Now this is levels to it now because I don't want my conscious mind to get in the way. I want the subconscious working.

That's good, that's good, that's good. That is good. You know what I'm

saying, man? Because I know me, right? And Ralph, you've worked with me long enough. The way I work is I am like to the if degree on what's the plan? How do we mitigate this risk?

What's coming next? Well, sometimes that level of planning it can get in the way because you wanna be too exact. And I think you're gonna love this. And this guy helped me. He said, don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

Do you remember that? Yeah, I do.

I love that guy, man. Because at the end of it, we had all come around. We was on the same right. But I take that right. And that's one of the things I have to tell myself to help me because again, as an athlete, five'seven, one hundred and fifteen pounds, I couldn't rely solely on my talent.

I had to rely on my skill. So the skill was about preparation, hours and hours of work. So I could compete with the six'two guy. So even with how I work today is I want my skill level to be so high, but with that, it takes hours of time to get that skill level up because you got to practice it and practice, practice it. So in that kind of execution, you can kind of wear yourself out a little bit.

Yeah, that's good, man. That is so good, man. Mean, that's rich. Yeah, that's wisdom. Is wisdom from years of experience and seeing those guys who didn't make it this lot this far.

I remember I remember I remember. Right? We have one of them upgrades back at back at I was called to come back at WashU.

Oh yeah.

And you told me, it took me probably another five years to get it. But you said, Terry, you can't continue. You was like, man, I'm going to sleep. You can't continue to work like this. It's gonna be there when we get up.

Yes. And

you said, T, if you keep working like this, man, you're not gonna last.

Yeah. It's I mean, you get to a point to where so remember when we first learned this term, a point of diminishing return.

Yes.

Right? So it's just me and Terry, we'd be working, we work together and we'd be working on this problem that we got an outage or an upgrade or whatever and we would get stuck and we couldn't figure things out. Right? And we learned this term, the point of diminishing return, which basically talks about there will come a time, especially for our technical people out there, there'll become a time where you'll go so far that every action that you do after that is really not going to pay you anything back. Like you've gotten to a point to where you're so mentally tired that you can't focus anymore.

So every action that you do after that, really you're putting yourself at risk. So we had to learn that, right? We had to learn what that point of diminishing return was to be able to say, you know what, that's it. We kind of hit the line, right? We're gonna let it go for right now.

And then the other term we used to always say this, there is an answer. There is an answer. There is an answer to this problem. We don't know what it is, right? But we acknowledge the fact that there is an answer.

So we're gonna walk away and let your subconscious work on it. And if every time

We get up the next one, we'll like,

rebound it. There it is.

But I'm telling you, Ralph, I don't think we were really understanding the power of what was happening in that moment. Right? That was a type of visualizing the outcome. We didn't know what it was but we were telling ourselves it's there. And two, as we get into this, maybe next episode we can dig into a little more, but it talks about in these routines, when you do step away from it, you allow your subconscious to actually go to work for you.

That's right. That's right. Yes, sir.

You're your consciousness a break but your subconscious is still working on it.

Still working on it. Still work we had a friend, his name is James. He used to tell me all the time because at one point I was working really close with him. He would say, yeah. Yeah.

I'm focusing on this right now, but my subconscious is working on that. I was like, what? James

is brilliant too. He was Brilliant. Light years away, man. I I thought I'd have a conversation with him now just to see what he you know, see what he's talking about.

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