So my first question is, when did you start rushing?
Because when I think about rushing, I have been rushing as long as I've been an entrepreneur, you know, and I'm coming up on 18 years of being an entrepreneur.
And there was always this desire to be somewhere else. And I always kind of know that there are certain people out there, and I work with a lot of people out there like this, like myself. You can either call it blessed or cursed with the ability to see things better than they are. Because when we can see things that could be better than they are, we want to make them better. And it's one of the core traits I've experienced working with entrepreneurs over the past 13 years.
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And it can be a gift, right? Because you could go out and create things. And it can also be a curse because we get so focused on what could be that we end up missing the present. We end up missing the present reality. I can't tell you how many years of my life I spent living in the future.
And with this world that has been really poisoned by social media, it's surprising what impact on our culture a couple different companies have. I think the average person's attention span is down to about six seconds now, right? Six seconds? So we're in this world that's overloaded with information.
We're bombarded with stuff, struggling to stay present.
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And at the same time, we've got more work than we've ever had before. We've got more information than we've ever had before. And the world is in overload. So it's easy to get into this pattern of perpetual motion, nonstop rushing, with the addiction to our phones and the addiction to the dopamine buzz, like it is a challenge. And there is a shortcut.
to what you want. There is a shortcut. Because the challenge with the constant rushing and the constant evolution and the constant information and the constant perpetual motion machine, the problem with that is that we're living in our minds. We're living in our heads. And our heads is a part of you.
Not all of you, it's a part of you. And we end up getting disconnected from our power source, our heart, our intuition.
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And let's take today's session as a quick little reminder that you're more than your mind, you're more than these goals, you're more than this work, you're more than the money you need to earn to live.
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Take a deep breath. did you feel that? I felt the room start to settle there for a minute.
Felt good, didn't it, to take a deep breath.
Because when you are in constant motion, perpetual running, you miss the shortcuts. Because if you're running as fast as you can down the road, you're not gonna see that shortcut behind that little bush right there or the turn to the left. It may look like it's going backwards, but if you actually take a moment, you can see it's a shortcut to the destination.
So let me ask you this, like think about this, like how...
Like, are you rushing? Like, let's just assess. From zero to 10, I'm completely present. I have no hurry at all. And 10 is like, am running as fast as I can. Where are you right now from zero to 10?
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And where have you been operating for say the past year?
Because there's a perception that rushing will get you there faster.
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Now if we were walking down a road, accelerating down the path would make you go faster. But the problem with rushing is we're actually trying to skip part of the process.
and you cannot skip part of the process. The analogy I like to use is like, we are climbing a staircase. When we live our life, when we're growing through this life, you are climbing a staircase that never ends. And you may say, Jason, wait a second, this body will end one day. Well, it will, but you're just gonna continue climbing that staircase in another body. So we are climbing a perpetual staircase that never ends. And we have this perception that running or rushing
will get us to a better part of the staircase we don't like, because maybe we're at a part of the staircase where it's a metal staircase, there's no handrail, and the steps are iced over.
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Have you ever felt like that or been through a period like that where you try to rush and you just literally fall down and you get back to where you started?
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Rushing is actually the slowest way. And if we take it, if we think about this like, when does time fly?
time flies when we're doing something we enjoy or we love, right? Time flies when we're on vacation. So when we're savoring it,
It life moves faster.
So what if you're in a challenging phase of that staircase? You're a challenging section of life.
you started savoring it.
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because savoring the difficult parts is how you make them move faster.
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And I also want to help liberate you here.
But I also know that part of the rushing that's going on is running from something.
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Could be running from your home life, could be running from a job you don't like, could be running from a financial situation.
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But if you're running from that pain, from that obstacle, from that growth, you're literally just kicking that can down the road.
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Because what you're missing?
in the present moment where
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the three.
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Gotta love these Texas allergies. In the present moment is where the magic happens. Like in that present moment is where you start to tune into life, momentum, magic, energy, connections. That's where you start to like literally evolve and become connected with all that is.
so you can start moving faster because most of the time we're running around with our mind saying, I got this, don't, life, you stand aside, I know what I'm doing, I'm gonna take ownership of this. And that works to a certain extent. But when you connect and get yourself in tune with your life and your present life situation and your future life situation, that's when you start to get the breakthroughs, the shortcuts, the accelerators.
the expressways, but you've gotta slow down to do it. And I've been telling clients to do this for years, and it was probably December 24 when I finally took my own advice, and I'm like, Jason, you gotta stop rushing, you gotta start slowing down. So I decided I'm gonna start slowing down, because I found myself in a business situation where the market, where the business was struggling.
where it was difficult because this market has been challenging the past couple years. So I was literally chasing action to action. see myself at my desk nonstop just frantically doing one thing after the other. And I came to realize, I'm like, this is not getting you, because I realized I've been operating that way for months, maybe six months, maybe a year, and it didn't get me any closer to the target. So I finally stopped. And I said, you know what? I'm going to stop doing this crazy nonstop motion, this scattered nonsense.
And as I stopped, I felt my nervous system still running. Like those little cars that you could wind up and then the engine runs, like that. And what ended up happening is that.
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I had to go through all of these fears started coming up. Jason, if you stop running, you're going to become a failure. What are you thinking to think if you stop running? Like all of these, the identity are built around the entrepreneur who believed he had to rush and take nonstop action was dying. And as I sat with that identity, I felt like a failure. So this was December 24. When I get a few, few weeks into December 24, two or three weeks in.
I had literally done 50 % of the work that I had done in the previous month. And when I looked at my results, my sales had doubled.
And I was like, what? And I was a thank you life for validating what I've been preaching. Is that we have so much potential. We are creating our life, creating our reality. But what you can't see is that your subconscious invisible structure in your mindset is recreating the same place you're at over and over again, because you're
survive your mammalian survival mechanism doesn't like radical change. Yet at the same time, if you're listening to this, you probably have goals that are aimed at radical growth and change. So your obstacle is your nervous system. Your obstacle is your survival mechanism. Your obstacle is the old patterns you've been operating in. And let me ask you this. How much time have you spent
What percentage of your time have you spent trying to change those patterns? And what percentage of your time have you spent taking pure volume of action and trying to take more action to get the result? I guarantee the set, the ladder there is the majority of your time. So to get to this place of like stasis in the present moment of balance, you have to get off the perpetual motion machine and you have to sit still.
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Now this isn't sit at your desk for a week. This means sit at your desk for five to ten minutes.
And one of the most surprising things that I've experienced as a professional coach is that the vast majority of the people I speak to, like over 90%, are not planning their time on a weekly basis. They're not. Because what you don't realize is that your life will scale to your ability to manage it.
And when you max out and your ability to manage your life, it will stop growing. And then you're gonna start thinking, I need to work harder. So then you start working harder and you're literally chasing your tail, trying to fit more and more action in. And the answer isn't action.
Think about this for a second. If your income was currently had an extra zero behind it.
Would you be spending more of your time in weekly strategic planning? Monthly strategic planning. And if your income had two zeros behind it compared to right now, would you have even more time in strategic planning? And my guess is it absolutely would be.
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And just notice what comes up when I advise you to take two hours a week to plan your time. Look at the resistance. wait, I can't. I got to start running. No, you don't. You got to start planning. Because if you're not oriented correctly, you're literally running in the wrong direction. That's like you're driving from wherever you live to visit me in Austin, Texas. You realize the address is wrong.
And instead of correcting the address, you just keep driving because it feels good to drive. Now that's just silly, it's just nonsense. We wouldn't do that when we're taking directions.
So.
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What's coming up right now as I'm talking about rushing? What's coming up right now as I'm talking about getting out of the perpetual motion machine and taking a moment to step back and like dive into your life.
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Because there's some magical things that happen when you slow down.
colors will seem brighter, right? You'll start to hear things you didn't hear before. Because the most powerful voice inside you is also the most subtle voice inside you. And when we're in nonstop motion or nonstop input, we can never hear that, the powerful voice inside of us.
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Like I talked about in last week's episode, the two voices.
Getting dialed in takes presence. It takes awareness.
And when you start to slow down and start to prioritize alignment and orientation over volume of action, your life will radically transform. Because what I'm starting to experience now is there's this flow. There's a flow of life. But you've gotta like tune into it.
And what has happened to me in the past seven days as I've tuned into this, as I have literally uncovered the evolution of my business that I've been chasing forever. I'm launching a new program in 30 days.
And this new program is a radical departure from what I've been doing before. And it's also a radical different model. It's like, because before I was like, I got to get as I was the typical entrepreneur. got to get as many clients as I need as I can. Now I'm like, I just need 100 clients. And I've got over 2000 people on my list and not just a cold list. I've got a warm list of 2000 people. And I had been thinking, I got to do this social media. I got to grow my Instagram. It's like.
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No, you don't, Jason. You just got to get 100 clients dialed in. 100 clients. And all of sudden, I took a deep breath and I relaxed and I was like, my God.
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I can stop obsessing how to put more people into the top of my funnel and I can start obsessing about how transforming the lives of 100 people. And that's what I'm doing and I'm launching it next month. So I'm excited and for the past two days I've literally been doing nothing because my body needed extra care this month. I don't know, I'm sleeping, I needed a lot of sleep. So I'm sleeping and resting. Am I working out? No, my body wanted more sleep so I didn't work out.
And yet I feel more in tune with myself and my future than I ever have been in my entire life.
because I'm starting to pay attention to what life wants me to do.
And it's kind of the pattern we're in. But in order to pay attention to what life wants you to do, you have to hear that subtle voice inside you. And the only way you can hear that subtle voice inside you is to listen to
And most people I talk to are so disconnected from that subtle voice because the subtle voice scares them. It wants them to do something that is radically different, a radical departure than anything they've ever done before. And now I'm just wired differently than everyone else is because I don't fear radical change. That's my nature.
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So when I saw this opportunity to shift into this new direction, it was like the biggest breakthrough I've had in years. And it's not just impacting me in the business side, it's impacting me in my financial mindset, it's impacting me as a dad, it's impacting me as a human being.
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and I'm appreciating all that I've done and I'm appreciating what I've been through, feeling a sense of wholeness and completeness that I haven't felt before.
And what's actually happening is that I realized I had been running from myself for more years than I can count because I've always been told that I'm too much and I need to tone it down. And I said, well, what about that Dilbert cartoon that says there's no kill switch on Awesome?
when his boss asked him to tone it down a bit. But I realized I'd been running for myself. I'd been running for my full power. And the honest truth is most of you haven't even seen my full power yet. Some of you have seen glimpses of it.
But what's come out now in these last two years as I've been ripped to shreds and rebuilt from the ground up, there is a solid foundation that never existed before. And there is a power, there's literally a voltage running through me that is the most satisfying.
welcoming, intoxicating feeling I've ever felt, embodying myself.
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And like the more I start to embody that, the more my worries start to go away. The more truth of reality I start to see, the more certainty starts to come up.
And I know that it hit me yesterday that this new program, I'm gonna enroll it in groups of 25. I do that four times and I'm And I realized this is gonna be the easiest thing I've ever enrolled in my entire life. It's the most authentic thing I've ever done. The value these people are gonna get for this package is ridiculous.
And what this really is is a departure from me doing and chasing what I'm supposed to do to the game I'm supposed to play, to doing the game, playing the game that I want to play.
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And I'm looking at a trajectory that has the potential and the runway to get my business back to the operating revenue levels that I like, that I haven't been at for past couple years. But not only getting back to the revenue numbers and the financial stability that I've been in absence of in the past couple years. It's doing it in far less time than ever before to the point where I'm just like.
I could do this part time? Wow.
You know, it's funny, I think back to when I got my first job when I was 15 and a half, got the job, freshman year in high school, got a job at the golf course as a cart golf range boy. My dad's like, congratulations son. Now you can be like me, you can work till you're 65 and retire. And I was like, you want me to do something I don't wanna do for 50 years? It was the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of. I thought that was insane.
And now I realized I finally reached the point at 52 years of age where I can live life fully on my terms.
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And the thing that I, the sad part that I see with a lot of my clients is they already have this ability to do that, but they're so locked into the way they're supposed to do it. They're terrified of taking that step.
It just surprises me because I just, now I'm wired in a way that I cannot not take that stuff.
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but there is a...
a path of greater success and happiness and challenge.
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So if you want to live life on your terms, you got to listen to that voice inside you.
and listening to that voice inside you is gonna make your life difficult. It is, it absolutely is. Yeah, it's much easier to just get a basic job, work 40 hours a week, watch TV and sit on the couch. That is far easier. It's far easier to be average than it is to be great. Not everyone is meant to be great.
Well, let me rephrase that. Not everyone will become great. Everyone is born to be great. But we are wired to be averaged. Why do we say that? Because we have this survival mechanism that wants to keep you safe and doesn't like risk and pain and obstacles and struggle.
I can't tell you how many clients I've spoken to who were in so much internal mental conflict over just deciding to become great. Did those sign up for coaching? No, they ran away.
I can only open the door, As cliche as it sounds. You gotta walk through it. So maybe, maybe it's time to stop and face what you've been running from. Maybe it's time to put down the phone and get more present. Maybe it's time to start listening to that voice inside you. There are things you've been putting off, desires you've been putting off.
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and dreams you've been constantly lowering and settling because the traction has not been there or the momentum has not been there.
We gotta wake up that dreamer inside of us. We gotta wake up that champion. Now I talked about this on two calls ago, a fragmentation call.
We gotta make sure the right parts of you are in charge and have control. And have control over the things they should be controlling.
because your capacity is far greater than this. And you could say, well, Jason, I'm already working 60 hours a week. I never said your capacity means you need to work more hours. I said your capacity is to drive more through you.
But in order to do that, you have to continue to evolve until the next version of you. And then evolution of the next version of you requires dealing with the obstacles that are preventing the evolution, which is namely your past mindset and fears and obstacles. It's always the old patterns, the old safety of that old version of you that's always the biggest obstacle into becoming the next version of
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but doors open constantly. Now certain doors will be open for a while and if you don't walk through them you miss them. But the door to your evolution is always open.
Maybe there's that part of you. So let's see if we could just like get a sense of that part of you that likes to rush and avoid things. And let's also get a sense of the version of you that likes to play safe and is afraid of going big. And let's just pull that version, those parts of you out in front of you. Stand in front of you like it's a version of you standing there.
and let that version that's standing in front of you pull all the additional energy out around scarcity, safety, rushing, avoidance, mind-based living, escapism, numbing, and just have it pull into that version in front of you, and then say to that version in front of you, thank you for serving me. Thank you for doing everything in your power this part of me.
but I want you to know the truth is that your job is complete, mission accomplished. Then reach over, take the flag at that version of you, that part of you you've been carrying. Give that part of you a hug. Imagine there's a little door on your heart. Open that door on your heart. Let that version come inside of you, inside your heart, and let that piece you just pulled out dissolve into a million, infinite number of pieces into all of the cells of your being. Close that little door on your heart and just feel that part of you.
that was carrying that old flag.
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Feel that part integrated in the rest of you. And repeat after me, I take full ownership of my life and everything in it. I understand the truth, that my greatest power is in this present moment.
The worst thing I could ever do is rush. Because rushing slows the process. Savoring the process makes it go faster.
I choose to believe this 100%.
Take a deep breath.
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Also, have ever noticed that your physical body probably has a response to all this rushing too? High blood pressure? Think that has anything to do with rushing nonstop? Maybe it does, but anyway.
Let's just notice what hit today.
Let's just notice what breakthrough happened today or what breakthrough is happening.
Let's notice the part of you that was awoken today that may have been dormant for a while.
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Let's just notice what false ideas and truths you've been operating by.
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Just let those go. And if you were to come up with one new truth, new thought, new statement from today, what would it be?
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Write that down right now, let it flow from you.
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Thank you for joining me today. My name is Jason Dries. This is the orientation project. We are gonna have.
Two more sessions of this.
and starting June 16th is the new program coming soon. Stay tuned. Thank you for listening. If this was of value, share it with somebody who needs to hear this. I hope you have an amazing day. Signing off everybody, bye bye.