It's time to actually get things done.

Like, important things.

What?

I'm totally working.

Sure, you think about your goals all the time.

But success?

Not exactly stacking up the way you'd hoped.

No big deal.

You just don't have a map yet.

When possible, make a U-turn.

No, not that kind of map.

A map.

A massive action plan.

Something that makes you jump at the chance to choose results over real housewives.

How do you know what's good for me?

That's my opinion!

This is the plan of all plans.

This holds the key to everything.

Your desires, your direction, and most importantly, your deliverables.

There's only one way to create an effective, massive action plan.

That's to tell it the truth.

The truth about what you want.

The truth about what it takes to get there.

And the truth about where you are right now and where you're trying to go.

The more honest you are with your massive action plan, the more likely it could actually help you.

So let's map it out.

The first step is to create clarity.

You can't figure out the map to where you're going if you don't know where you're going.

You wouldn't need a map.

You could just wander around.

And if you've been wandering around, that's probably why you're here.

Let's be honest.

So at the top of the page, it's very simple.

Just write desires.

And I want you to have fun here and even pause the video so you can let your mind be super creative.

But create a list of 10, 20, 30, 100, if you can come up with that many.

Just things that you would like to see happen for yourself.

Desires, goals, whatever it is, write it down.

Get it out of your head.

Don't call it stupid.

Don't judge it.

Just get it on paper.

Now, everything here probably sounds really lovely.

Otherwise, you wouldn't have come up with it.

There's something in you that's like, yes, about all of these things.

But now we need to get very, very particular.

What are the top three things on this list that you really, really, really want?

You need to decide.

Circle, underline, highlight.

I don't care.

You have to pick your top three right now.

Because three is a lot for you to focus on.

So that's the absolute max that I'm going to give you.

Highlight your three top picks right now.

You've got your top three.

So what do you do with the rest of the list?

Cross them out.

That's right.

They're dead.

I'm just kidding.

They're not dead.

But the reality is that you can't have it all at the same time.

There are going to be some things here that are still going to happen for you because you did the hard part of choosing what you're going to focus on and becoming the version of that person that's able to make those things happen and therefore is able to make a lot of things happen.

Next, we need to set a deadline.

So up here at the top, big focal point.

What is the deadline for making these three things happen?

I do really like one of these, like a lot.

There's one of these that is true for me right now.

And it's one million YouTube subscribers.

So I have thought about that one a lot.

It is on my map, okay?

It is something that gets me kind of excited.

It's always gotten me excited because I've been a YouTuber for a very long time.

If I'm thinking like, when do I want that to happen?

And when would I want all of these things to be in place so that I have a reasonable timeline I can feel motivated by and not freaked out and stressed and anxious about every single day?

Let's just say I would like to have completed all of these three things by my 40th birthday, which is a lot sooner than many of you think.

So love you for that.

But not so soon that I am going to be unreasonable with how much expectation I put on myself.

So look at these three top things and really ask yourself, let's do these things in a space of time that motivates you, not debilitates you.

All right, we have our desires.

We have our goals.

We have our deadline.

And now we need to do a dump.

That's right.

The third D is a brain dump.

I'm going to just draw a line here to give myself the nice little break in the page.

Brain dump.

When you look at your top three, you need to dump onto this page everything you can possibly think of that you will need to do to not only achieve those things, but really be the person who steps into the role of being an individual who fulfills these desires.

And I want to help you out a little bit because you're not going to know everything.

But there are a lot of things top of mind for you right now that may or may not contribute to the direct cause, but help you a ton from a mindset standpoint.

So we're going to separate this list into two columns.

And the first column is going to be proactive tasks.

And the other is reactive tasks.

The reason why I am putting this down is because I want to revert back to what I said at the beginning.

You need to be honest with yourself.

And there are so many things up here that are bugging you on a daily basis that you know if you were going to step into the role of somebody who does these things, that you would have to straighten out some other things in your life for the person you are in this moment.

So whether it's certain distractions, cutting certain people out of your life, maybe there's some habits that you have on a daily basis that keep you from making progress.

Those things are going in reactive.

One of my biggest desires in my actual real life right now is getting Bianca to a place where she's in full-time daycare.

We've been doing part-time.

It's not my favorite.

It's not her favorite.

It's hard to get into a routine.

Shocker.

It's not like I didn't write a book about that.

One of my reactive tasks is so that we're not out of routine and freaking out all the time, Bianca needs to be in full-time daycare.

And if I do that, that is not only going to give me time, it's going to make her better and we as a family are going to function better, which is what allows me to be able to do the big things that I want in my life.

So you can see where this might have a lot more to do with your individual scenario.

The worst thing you can do is write out an action plan and not feel as though you can see the low-hanging fruit, the quick wins, and the real version of you that needs to be worked on.

Other than that tangent, write everything down.

And if this helps you make sure you cover all your bases, this is why I separate it out into two columns.

So we've got a whole bunch of stuff that we need to do.

We've probably got even more stuff than this that we haven't thought about yet.

We need to figure out how to handle this list.

Just the way that it looks right now is very overwhelming and it's not going to make you take action.

It's not going to make you want to do anything, but you're taking massive action.

So at least you've begun the process of starting to grasp what it's going to take.

We need to go through an organization method that is going to help you prioritize what makes sense for you to focus on in the now.

So I skipped ahead a little on the page that we need here to prioritize.

This is the Eisenhower matrix.

We are just going to create a cross section, a little grid here.

Section one is the urgent and important.

Section two is not urgent, but important.

Section three is the urgent, not important.

And section four is not urgent, not important.

Why do these matter?

Because they're going to tell us what to do with the tasks that we come up with, whether they're on this list, whether somebody comes into the room and tells you something you need to do.

It's going to go somewhere on this grid.

All you need to know about urgent and important is you need to do it.

So a good example of this would be if there is a bill that you owe today, that's urgent.

And because you owe the money, that's important.

So that would go in urgent and important.

In the second box for not urgent, but important, we're going to write schedule.

And this is going to...

Oh, I'm going to write it properly.

You know how to read my writing now, right?

We're catching on.

Schedule is the second box.

And this is going to be very important for many, many, many, many, many reasons.

But I'll leave it at that for now.

Section three, we have urgent, but not important.

So it's not important to you, but it is urgently a matter that needs tended to, which is something that in an ideal world and won't always work out, but in an ideal world, we're going to delegate.

And for something that is not urgent and not important, we delete.

So this is really, really, really, really important that we write this here first, because when we start to allocate where these things are going to go, we need to grapple with how they're going to get done.

In some cases, they may not get done.

So now go through your brain dump list and start assigning different categories for these tasks.

With the best information that you have right now, what are the urgent and important things?

Because those are going to be top of the list.

Those are probably the frogs you have not bothered to eat yet that need to get done ASAP so that your mind is a little bit more clear and you can move on to the things that are very important.

Okay, so I've started to move some of these tasks over to the prioritization matrix.

And now you know exactly where your focus should be, what you've put in urgent and important, and review it a couple times.

Is everything supposed to be there?

Does everything have a reason to be urgent, like timely needs to be done or there will be negative consequences?

And does it also have a reason to be important?

Ties directly to your top three desires.

And then in the next section, maybe it's not urgent, but you can see why there's a ton of value toward your goals in the long term.

Then you have the everyday stuff.

It's super urgent because it's required for what we got to do in life, but it's not very important to you because it doesn't make or break you.

So maybe that's something you can delegate, or maybe that's something that just needs to be compartmentalized at a different point in time for you.

And then there's just stuff that's on your radar and you're like, I think about this a lot, but it's not actually important and it's definitely not urgent.

So it's just going to go in the delete section and it can just stay there.

And we're paying it no attention until it becomes a real factor.

I often get the question, what do you do when things don't go your way?

As soon as you've got a curveball coming in, write it under reactive.

So today for me, the reactive thing was drive then to pick up car.

So that was something that was absolutely not on my radar.

It was a curveball.

I was not factoring in the hour that it was going to take to commute there and commute back.

And so that's now urgent and important.

But if it was something that's a curveball, that's urgent and not important, put it where it actually goes.

That had to happen today for all things to work out well.

And so it got bumped up.

Maybe another curveball comes in and goes, oh my gosh, that's actually so important and I didn't think of it.

Put it in the scheduling box.

Do not take the tasks that come at you and then freak out about them and keep them in your brain.

This is here for a reason.

We keep adding to this list and then we keep vetting it over here so that every week when we analyze what we have to do, we know what we need to do.

Box number two is where not a lot of people spend time.

These are the things that are not only important to your goals, but they might be important to your well-being.

Things that make you feel good.

Things that make you feel like yourself.

Things like just having quiet time where I don't have to do anything might go in the second box.

So in order for me to get that, it's not urgent.

No one's going to make sure that I have it happen because it's not going to base anyone else's day in terms of success.

It's only going to be me that needs that.

So it's important and I have to schedule it and I have to make it happen.

So please remember that box number two is where that stuff is that you know you wish you spent more time.