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Welcome, new Inner Circle people. I know there are some new members. Welcome to the new members. Good morning, good afternoon, good whatever it is, wherever you happen to be around the world. My name is Tad Shinki. I'm Tony Robbins' head trainer, and I am here to help you move along and continue on your journey to master RPM, Results-Focused, Purpose-Driven, Massive Action Planning.
Now, let's start with the rules of the road. First thing: state is everything. And as long as we're saying state is everything, let's go to a peak state to get this thing started right. On the count of three, we're going to blow the roof off this place. Here we go. Ready? One, two, three.
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Yes! Two virtual high fives and grab a seat. Two virtual high fives and grab a seat. So, state is everything. You want to come to this training in a peak state. Move your body around during the training if you need to. Drink some water. Whatever you've got to do, do it so you can stay focused. And that's number two: Give this your total focus. Give this your total focus. Close the door. If you're in an office or a room and you want to be by yourself, close the door. Turn off the sound on your computer or your phone so you don't get interrupted by, you know, these dings going when you get, uh, Skype messages or Facebook messages.
Number three: You want to take notes. Take notes like you're going to teach this to somebody because you're gonna want to. This is some unbelievably powerful training, and you want to be taking notes so that you can capture all of it. There have been scientific studies done that actually taking handwritten notes puts the information into a different part of your brain that makes it easier to retrieve and keeps it there longer.
And last but not least: Do it. Do it. You've got to follow through. Just talking about it isn't going to help you. You've got to do it.
Now, today we are going to have some fun because what we're going to do, we are going to talk about the weekly planning process and how to do this in a way that gives you energy and focus and helps you stay focused on the things that are most important to you in life. And so, we're going to continue to practice the mechanics of RPM. We've been talking about it, and you've heard Tony say it over and over again: Repetition is the mother of skill. We're going to seek to repeat. So, we're going to review a number of things again because we're building a muscle here. We're building a muscle, and we're doing it over and over until it sticks.
Number two: We're going to learn and implement a simple habit of planning, the weekly planning process. We're going to go through that in some detail. And when we do it, you are going to get an opportunity to get started on it so that when you sit down for your first weekly planning session, whenever you schedule that for, you've actually got a head start.
And last but not least, we're going to continue to put the building blocks of RPM together. And we want to start with a few celebrations. And, uh, we're going to check to see if we have anybody in the rooms that would like to share a celebration, an aha, a breakthrough, something they learned that has really made a difference. The fact that they share how much of a difference RPM has made in their life. Do you have anybody there in, uh, in the studio to share? And if not, we will just move on to the Facebook shares.
Let's, let's take a look at some of the Facebook celebrations that have been on there. Um, we have, uh, Petra. "I block time for outcomes. I plan during weekly review. I leave white space, but I also test myself. How much is enough?" So on and so forth. And they said, "You've got to stay focused. And when you're planning your day and your week, don't get off track. Stay on track because focus is just as important when you're doing your planning, when you're using RPM, as it is right now."
We've got Janine, who I'm guessing is a lawyer, and she's saying, "You know, I'm still working on this whole RPM thing, but I just realized that I'm naturally outcome-focused." And she gave an example of how when somebody talks to her about a law, if it's just, you know, "Here's this law that you should learn," she doesn't get, you know, get motivated to do it. But when the law is tied to something that is important to her, she's able to get laser-focused, go through the law, do research, and really own it. And her point was that RPM is really helping her be able to do this purposefully, as opposed to the way it was happening in the past, which was just based on chance.
Um, Rebecca shared, "You know, happy weekend, you lovely RPMs." She talked about Steve Gill's recent Life Force training. And then she talked about this week, when you're doing your weekly RPM ritual, "Let's be sure to schedule our morning and evening game-winning rituals." And the whole point there is you've got to schedule things. And, and she actually came up with a category for this in her life. And that's exactly the kind of thing you want to do. This is a personal process. It's personal. And so you need to do whatever you need to do to make it personal and to get in, jump into the deep end of the pool, or dip your toe in the pool, whichever analogy you'd like to use.
And then last but not least, uh, Sari said, "The session with Tab is so awesome. I love the triad to do for our own state very much, too." And then she laid out what the components of her triad. And as you recall, we're going to review that today as well. As you recall, I suggested that you do an ultimate U triad, the best you triad, because that way you can use it for everything. And you definitely want to use it when you're getting ready to do your RPM training.
Now, I mentioned before, Tony says, and you've heard him say it many times, "Repetition is the mother of skill." Recently, he's been, you know, using this phrase, "Seek to repeat." And what he means by that is if something is important, you want to seek out opportunities to do it so that you can again build that muscle. And there's this great quote, uh, by Horace Mann: "Habit is a cable. We weave a thread each day, and at last, we cannot break it." You have to do this regularly to create a habit. You have to do it regularly to create that cable of strength that it just becomes a part of who you are.
So, let's take a quick review of RPM. We're going to run through this fast, so I would encourage you to fasten your seat belts because we're going to zip through these slides pretty quickly. First of all, as a reminder, it's a system of thinking. It's a system of thinking. It's a way to maximize your results in minimum, uh, time and have maximum fulfillment. That's all that really RPM is. And we talked a lot about creating an RPM block. And we want to just do a quick review right now. And, and as I did last time, I'm going to encourage you to grab a piece of paper and create a little RPM block right now as we go through it. Again, it's an opportunity to build these muscles, to strengthen these RPM muscles that you're using.
As you recall, the first thing is result. What's your result? And we use the SMART acronym: Specific, Measurable, Action-Oriented, Realistic, and Time-defined. And the time-defined is vitally important. And as I've shared before, I encourage you to keep it to 30 days or less. Outcomes that are further in the future, it can be so far out there that it's hard to stay associated to it. So, the first thing is always, always, always your result. In fact, that's just part of the mindset. What's my result that I'm after? Because that'll help you stay on track and on target.
The second thing is to create your purpose. This is the emotional juice. This is the emotional juice. And, uh, I encouraged you to actually see yourself having accomplished your result. And from that fully associated place, where you're celebrating the success that you've had, see it as already done. From that place, ask yourself these three questions: What does it mean? How do I feel now that I've made this result happen? How does it make me feel? Makes me feel proud, honored, you know, kick-ass, whatever the emotions are. Then the second question is: What does this mean to me that I've made this result happen to me in my life? And again, you're doing this from the place of having already accomplished it, seeing it done, seeing yourself celebrating your success. And the third question to ask is: Who have I become in the process of making this result a reality? That's the emotional juice. The purpose is the emotional juice.
The next piece, the last piece of the, the big chunks anyway, the three big chunks is the Massive Action Plan column, or what we often refer to as Massive Action Plan, or MAP. And here, when you're doing this from that fully associated place, having seen yourself accomplish this result, you celebrating that result, feeling all those great feelings, seeing what it means to you, and seeing who you become, having made this happen, brainstorm all the things that you did or thought about doing that got you the result that you're after.
All right, so those are the three big chunks. And then we talked about five additional things to take your RPM block to the next level. The first thing there that you see on the slide is priority. So you take the MAP, Massive Action Plan items, and you number them in terms of their priority, one through whatever. And this is where we're actually going to apply the 80/20 rule. The fact that 80% of the value typically comes from 20% of the effort. And so what we do is you number those items and then you pick two or three to put asterisks by that are the must items that you must do. The must items that you must do.
And then we've got, uh, the delegate or delegation or duration column. Definitely not delegate. We have the duration column. And this is where you estimate how long is it going to take me to accomplish this. And my encouragement here is don't get too, you know, in the weeds. Just come up with an estimate, put it down, and move on. 20 minutes, an hour, an hour and a half, two hours, whatever the case might be. Put that down in the duration column.
The last column there is the leverage column. And as we talked about this, this is one of the many real powers of doing RPM and doing it the way Tony talks about it because when we talk about leverage, it's different than delegating. Delegating is just dumping something on somebody else's plate and telling them, "Hey, you've got to take care of this." Not really being there to support them, not really being there to explain to them what is going on, but just kind of dumping it on them. This is the leverage column. And, and, and this is why RPM and creating RPM blocks is so powerful because if you've created, when you've created an RPM block, you can pass it off, give it to somebody else, and they can see the result, they can feel some of the emotion, and they can know how that task that you're asking them to do fits in with the overall plan.
Then the other thing you want to do is to add up the total time it's going to take in that duration column and then add up just what we refer to as the must time. And this is the time of the items that are asterisks. All right. And last but not least, you always, we always put a big circle around the result and we put a big box around the entire RPM block because RPM, again, is a visual chunking device.
The next thing we've talked about at some depth last time is the five master steps to planning. And we're going to run through this really quick as well, but you know that the five steps: One, capture. Two, create. Three, commit and schedule. Four, complete and achieve. And five, celebrate. Let's take a look at each one of them very quickly.
Step number one, capture and chunk. This is where you just do a brain dump. You get everything in your head, out of your head, so that you can get it down on a piece of paper and not have it bouncing around and distracting you in your head. These are ideas. These are results. These are tasks. These are calls you need to make. These are meetings you need to have. Anything and everything, you get it down into capture. And then we use chunking to be able to group things together. Chunking is just a kind of a fancy term for taking a lot of things and boiling it down into smaller, smaller chunks. And you see an example here of, uh, on the next slide, you see an example of how a bunch of these activities or a bunch of these items that were on a capture list relate to completing a project. All right.
And step two, create your RPM plan. Create your RPM blocks. We went through this in, you know, great detail. We're not going to cover it again here. Step two is showing what this really looks like in an RPM block. All right.
Then step three is to commit and schedule. Commit and schedule. This is where you have to commit time and put it on your schedule. First of all, you have to commit to taking action on your RPM blocks. And it sounds like an obvious thing, but some people never actually commit to taking action on the RPM blocks that they've created. Once you've done that, then you must schedule it. Then you must schedule it. And then we talked about block time and white space. Block time are those blocks of time where you say, "Okay, I'm going to work on this category of improvement and this result that I came up for this category of improvement." The white space is just to ensure that you do not overschedule yourself because it is an easy thing to do. If you make the mistake of filling your whole day with appointments and commitments and results that you're going to work on, you're likely going to have some challenges because inevitably unexpected things show up that you have to do and take care of. So, you need to make sure you leave some white space, open blocks of time that you can use to do these things that come up that are really important for you to get done.
Number four is complete and achieve. This is where you have to follow through and make it happen. This is where you follow through and you, you know, get the result that you said you were after. And two things we talked about: One, reschedule. If you scheduled from 1 to 2 o'clock on Tuesday, and at 12:45 you got a call from your son's school that, you know, he fell off the merry-go-round and he needs to go to the emergency room, you're going to go and take him to the emergency room, as you should. And what some people do, they get so irritated with themselves. You know, "I had to schedule from 1 to 2 and I didn't get it done," and they just leave it there. What I suggested, what Tony suggests, is that if you have scheduled a block of time on your calendar, something comes up like the example I just gave you, reschedule it. Handle it like you would handle any other appointment that you had with somebody else that something came up and you couldn't make it, you would simply reschedule it. As long as you reschedule it, you're good to go.
Secondly, sometimes people say, "Oh, I've lost focus on this result." That's the beauty of the RPM block because the RPM block serves as a tool to be able to remind us very, very quickly what's the result I'm after in a specific language and why is it important to me? The purpose, the emotional juice. So you can reconnect to it very, very quickly, and before you know it, you will be back in the flow.
And then last but not least, we have step five. Step five is celebrate. Step five is celebrate. And, and this is an often overlooked item because people forget to celebrate. In fact, I know many of you who are on this call. I know many of you who are in the Inner Circle. You're hard-charging people, committed to taking your life to the next level, and you're always looking about what's next? What am I going to do next? This is important because nothing builds momentum like building on success. When you do something and it works well, you need to make sure that you celebrate your success.
Another bit of review was the feedback model. We talked about this. It's what we often refer to as the feedback sandwich. You start with one specific thing that is great. Second, you share one or at most two things that have a potential for constant and never-ending improvement, something that could make the result even better. And you always, always complete the sandwich with something that's great.
And let's take a look at an RPM block here. And if I was reviewing this RPM block, the first thing that I would take note of is what was great is the Massive Action Plan items. These are a great list of items that are clearly defined that you, I mean, you know what they mean, and they will clearly move you towards the result. And they've, this individual has put asterisks by the three items that they believe are most important, the 80% that is going to the 20% that it's going to get them 80% of the value. The one thing that I would suggest, if you look at the number, that's the item that's number two, it says, "Ask him what he wants help with or my feedback on." But then she, uh, continued to build out this, this Massive Action Plan column, not really allowing for the fact that their son may not want the help that they want to provide. All I would do here is just, you know, keep this item there, but then adjust the plan once I talk to my son.
And then another thing that is absolutely fantastic about this is the purpose. The purpose has got some real emotional juice. You can tell that there's some real emotional juice there. That's the feedback model. And you want to make sure you always start with what's great and you always end with what's great because that will keep you moving forward. When you're giving yourself feedback, and also when you give others feedback, it opens them up to hear your feedback. When you give them the first great thing, and then it closes it off in a positive, great way.
Now, we spoke a couple of sessions ago about the triad. The triad is an unbelievably powerful tool. Simple definition is it's a recipe to recreate any emotion or state that you have ever felt in your entire life. Now, if you were with us, uh, during that session, you already have your triad, a version of your triad created. And we've been giving you as homework to refine it and build it out as you think of other things, make other distinctions. And I know many of you have just recently joined Inner Circle, so you may not have a triad. You can create one right now. This is super easy and it's fun. I'm going to walk you through a really simple little closed-eye process where you can feel and see and know that you have the best within you. All right?
So, if you're not already standing up, go ahead and stand up right now. Stand up right now and close your eyes and think of a time when you were just on fire. You were so on track. Everything that you wanted to do, you got it done. You knew what you were focused on. You knew what you needed to accomplish. And you had some great momentum. Maybe it was a feeling of excitement. Maybe it was a feeling of concentration. Maybe it was a feeling of power. Or maybe it could even be a feeling of love. But whatever it is, see yourself stepping into this situation. You at your absolute best. And stand the way you stand when you're at your absolute best. Breathe the way you breathe when you're at your absolute best. Picture in your mind's eye whatever you're seeing when you're at your absolute best. That's it. That's it. Intensify that feeling. Feel even more powerful, grounded, peaceful, loving, caring, compassionate, joy-filled, whatever it is when you are at your absolute best. And just make a mental note. Make a mental note of what you're doing with your body. How are you standing? You're standing straight up. Are you bent over? Is your body, is your weight evenly distributed between your feet? Do you feel tension or relaxation in any particular part of your body? Is your head up?
Now, from this place, keeping yourself in this place, feeling, seeing yourself at your absolute best. What are you focused on right now? What are you focused on right now? Are you focused on what's possible? Are you focused on what you can do? Are you focused on how you break through barriers? What beliefs do you have? This is the second piece of the triad. What beliefs do you have? "I am unstoppable. There's no barrier that will ever stop me. Once I set my mind on a task or a result or an outcome, it is done." Whatever those beliefs are, feel it. Again, standing where you stood, back where you stand when you're in your ultimate triad, when you are at your absolute best. That's it. That's it.
And now, as you see yourself in your absolute best triad, your ultimate triad, you at your absolute best, think of the language that you use. Are there any phrases that you use when you were at your absolute best? "I kick ass and take names." "I'm unstoppable." Whatever it is, intensify that feeling of being at your absolute best. Feel it in every cell of your body. That last piece was the language. So the first piece was physiology. The second piece, focus and beliefs. That last piece was language. That's it. It's super simple. Feel how great you feel. And in fact, let's get 30 seconds and celebrate your greatness. Celebrate like crazy. And when you celebrate, lock that triad in. Lock that triad in. On the count of three, here we go. Ready? One, two, three.
Yes! Come on! Celebrate your greatness! Celebrate your ultimate triad! Yes! You got this! Fantastic! Yes! Yes!
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Yes! All right. Well, now we are going to move on to the weekly planning process. And man, I am super excited and stoked for you because this is where it all comes together. This is where it all comes together. In fact, it seems like some of you maybe don't have as much focus as I know you're going to want to have. So, if you've got some water, which you definitely should have, grab some water. Take a big drink of water.
Now, as I said, I am super excited because this is where it all comes together. The weekly planning process: only four steps. It's easy. It's fun. It's powerful. It's meaningful. It's life-changing. When you get into the mode of doing this weekly planning process, everything in your life will change because this is the process that helps ensure you are focused on the things that are most important to you, the things that are most important to you. And that's really, if you, if you think about it, what the foundation of RPM is all about. It's what the foundation of RPM is all about. And so, we're going to go through each of these four steps because this is the way to manage your entire life. To manage your entire life. And the great thing is it's just a once-a-week process. You definitely have the time in your schedule to do this process. Again, it is the foundation, the foundation of the weekly planning process. It's really the foundation of RPM because you have to plan, or you're going to find yourself just being sucked into other people's goals, other people's results, other people's outcomes. You want to be focused on what's most important to you.
Now, the highest chunk, the highest chunk, and I know this is probably not going to surprise any of you that have been around for the previous four sessions, you must schedule time to do it. It's the biggest secret and it's like the big elephant in the room simultaneously because if you don't schedule it, you'll never do it. One of the things we're going to do today before we finish and leave this session is you're going to put a time on your calendar that you're going to do your first RPM weekly planning process. And in addition to scheduling it, you have to commit and resolve to doing it. You have to commit and resolve to doing it because without really committing and resolving, it's not going to happen.
Now, Tony has talked a lot over time about what's the best time to do your weekly RPM planning. And what he says is it's best to do it in your zone of energy. Your zone of energy. And you might ask, "What's my zone of energy?" Well, your zone of energy is a time that is going to where your energy is going to be great, where you have the ability to focus, where you're going to be able to clear your calendar, where you're going to be able to have a longer-term vision, and it's critical that it be done before you start your new week.
Now, there's all kinds of different schools of thought, uh, on this process, and in all honesty, it's an individual decision. Tony suggests either do it Friday in the afternoon, kind of when you're finishing out your work week. You can, you know, you can do a, and we're going to go through this process, but you kind of take a look at the past week. You're in a good place to do that. You're also in a good place to think about the coming week. So, Friday afternoon is typically a good time, and Sunday afternoon is typically a good time. In fact, Sunday afternoon is when Tony does it. And I would recommend, and Tony recommends, staying away from, uh, Friday evening or Sunday evening because once we get into the evening, typically we have other things that we often like to do. Particularly for Tony, Sunday evening is a time for family. And if you, if you try to, you know, negotiate time that has typically been used for other things, it often doesn't work out well, and you end up not doing it. That's why he suggests Friday afternoon or Sunday afternoon. Sunday afternoon, again, is when Tony does it. It sets him up for an unbelievably powerful week because he does his planning. He now goes spend time with his family. He can really focus on his family because he knows he's done his planning for the week and things are already in play to accomplish what he wants to accomplish, and he can move on and really enjoy the time with his family.
Are you interested in seeing the four steps to the weekly RPM planning process? Can you say yes? Yes! Wonderful. All right.
Step one. Step one: Connect to what matters most. Connect to what matters most. And this is where we're going to, you're going to look at your driving force, your driving force, your ultimate vision, your ultimate purpose, your passions, what you're driven by, who you're about, what's most important to you in life, who you love, or what you love, what you're committed to, what you will not stand for in your life. This is like this high chunk of who you are at your core. Any of you ever, uh, listen to any of Stephen Covey's stuff or read any of his books? Uh, Dr. Covey referred to this as true north. This is who you are. And it's so, so important to start by getting yourself reoriented. If your life is like mine, and any of the thousands and thousands of people that I've worked with over time, life is busy. Life is busy. And left to our own devices, we will find ourselves focusing on the little minutia, all of the stuff that really isn't important. And this helps us get re-calibrated, reoriented. Oh yes, this is who I am. This is what I'm about. This is my vision for myself for the future. This is my ultimate purpose. This is why I do what I do. And you want to take time to make this connection. It's vitally important.
Now, you don't have to do it for long. Two, two, three, four, five minutes max. All right? And you want to make sure that you are doing it in as emotional a way as you possibly can. So, when you read through your ultimate purpose or your ultimate vision statement, see it as though it's already happened. You have done it. You've accomplished it. When you read through and connect with your purpose, your ultimate purpose, feel those feelings. Seeing yourself having accomplished, having accomplished that ultimate vision, feel all the great feelings that you have.
Now, again, I know some of you have just recently joined Inner Circle. If you don't have this done, and, uh, and in fairness, there's some of you that have been in Inner Circle and have seen the session that we did on driving force and haven't gotten it done yet. That's fine. Right now, we're just going to have you give thought to, if you have it done, read through it. Read through your ultimate purpose, your ultimate vision, you know, your passions, all those things. If you haven't, just use these questions on the slide to tap in. To tap in. Okay.
Now, as I said, we're going to do this, and we're not going to do it like the entire process, but we're going to do this so you can start to get it in your body. So it's not just some intellectual thing that some guy that you don't know was talking about for an hour and a half, but it's something that you've actually put pen to paper, or pencil to paper, or keyboard to computer file, whatever works for you, and you can begin to get it in your body. I'm going to give you two, maybe three minutes to connect to your driving force. Connect to your ultimate vision for yourself, your ultimate purpose, your passions, who you are. Just have fun with this. Put a big smile on your face. Again, if you haven't written out your driving force, just start thinking about, "What is my ultimate vision for my life? What is, why is this important to me? What's the ultimate purpose?" Have fun. Enjoy. Put a smile on your face.
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Give yourself a round of applause. Acknowledge that you have finished step one of the weekly planning process. Come on, give yourselves a hand. Come on. There you go. Hopefully, this has served as a reminder to you that you need to get your driving force done if you don't have it done already. And again, if you just joined, uh, Inner Circle, that's totally cool. You remember that all these sessions, all the workbooks are in the portal, so you can go through them and get yourself caught up. But get it done. This is the foundation. The stronger the vision you have, the more emotion you create. The more emotion you create, the easier this process is because we do things based on emotion, not based on decisions of the intellect.
Let's move on to step two. Step two: And this is to focus each vital area of your work and life. And this is where we're going to be drilling down. We were at that high level, most important to you in life, your ultimate vision, your ultimate purpose. This is to drill it down and to look at your categories of improvement for both your personal life and your professional life. And then within each of those categories, to look at your Magnificent Sevens. If you think about it, this, we've said this over and over again, and hopefully now you're really starting to get an appreciation for it. It's a top-down system. It starts at the highest level about who you are at your core, and then it takes us to the categories of improvement and the Magnificent Sevens, which are really about getting you connected to these big chunks of your life in your personal life and in your professional life that are most important to you. And you know this is where RPM, as you know, is about creating a plan for your life. And we start from the top down so that we stay connected to what's important to you. Most people live their life based on other people's priorities, based on other people's outcomes and results. The RPM, there's so many beautiful things about it. One of the most beautiful is that it puts you back in control of your life and your time.
So, you're going to review your categories of improvement. You're going to review your Magnificent Sevens. And, and this is going to take, you know, maybe, uh, you know, five, ten minutes. Now, in fairness, when you first get started with this, it may take a little bit longer. It may take a little bit longer, but you want to, you want to, you know, give yourself some time frame and shoot for doing it in 10 minutes or less. This isn't about reading through in excruciating detail every single line of your Magnificent Sevens for all your categories. This is about just reconnecting with them. About reconnecting with them. And as you read through these, you're going to jot down, do some capture about results that relate to your categories that you say to yourself as you're reading through this, "I need and I want to spend time on working on this particular result." Now, you can't, you know, if you've got 10 categories, you're not going to be able to pick a result in most cases in each one of those. So, you want to be, you know, judicious. Pick two or three things, no more than five, as you go through, results that you want to accomplish as it relates to your categories of improvement. And that's where you're going to be going through those Magnificent Sevens.
As I said, this is an experiential process. This isn't just sit there on the sofa or in your desk chair and listen to somebody. You're going to do this now. We're going to give you a few minutes to go back and look through your categories of improvement and your Magnificent Sevens. For those of you that are new, categories of improvement are just the big chunks of your life that are important. There's personal categories and professional categories. Personal categories are often things like spirituality, physical health, relationships. Those are the kinds of things that we're talking about. So, give it some thought. You got them, review them. If not, start to think about them. And if you look in your workbook, there's actually some pages that go into an example of a category of improvement and a Magnificent Seven. This is fun. People remember to smile and enjoy. This is about you.
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As you continue to work through this, you're doing a great job. If you have questions, we have people in chat who are monitoring the chat. Type your question in the chat box, and someone will get back to you with an answer. Doing great. Again, you're just thinking about the big chunks of your life, both your personal life and your professional life. Thinking about the things in this coming week you would like to accomplish that would move you forward in some of these big chunks of your life. Again, if you've got the categories, to make this done, review those. Don't go ahead and think about it. Jot down some notes as you think through it. Got this. Enjoy. Heat. Heat. N.
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Give yourself a round of applause. Give yourself a round of applause. You have finished step two of the weekly planning process. Come on, celebrate your greatness. You got this. Nicely done. Nicely done.
On to step three. On to step three. And this is really the heart of the weekly planning process. The heart of the weekly planning process. You're going to use the five master steps of planning to create your amazing week. And let's just take a step back and think about this for a second. Let's think about this for a second because what you've done is you have oriented yourself on what's most important to you. You've connected with these big pieces of your life that are important to you, and you've looked through them, and you've identified a few results that you would like to focus on as it relates to those categories of improvement and those Magnificent Sevens. And now you're at the place where we're actually going to dig in and go through the five-step weekly planning process. Remember, we've got three parts to this. We've chunked this into three parts.
The first part, the first part is to review your previous week. Review your previous week. Now, if you've been following along and working on the RPM training as we've been going through this and you created RPM blocks for last week, go ahead, pull those out and take a look at those. If you haven't, and even if you have, just think back to the last week and think about the things that you said when you wanted to get started that week. What is it that I want to accomplish? And one, take a couple of minutes to acknowledge your successes because I'm sure you've had some. And also take a couple of minutes to acknowledge the things that didn't get done that you had said you wanted to get done. This is an opportunity for you to make a decision because sometimes when things don't get done, it turns out they really didn't need to get done. They really weren't important. You figured out some way other way to accomplish the result that you were after, or you decided that this really wasn't something that you wanted to get accomplished. So take that, the first chunk, the first part is to take a look at your previous week. What did you do that you felt good about that you can celebrate? And are there any other things that you didn't get done and you want to carry over into this week? And when you think about the things that you did accomplish, think about what allowed you to get those things accomplished because those things might be helpful as you begin your planning for the coming week. That's part one.
Part two is to decide on two, three, four, five key results that you want to accomplish in this coming week. And what you're going to do is you're going to take a look at the notes that you took when you looked through your categories of improvement and your Magnificent Sevens. Because remember I said when you're doing that, jot down some notes. "Hey, in my physical category, um, I said I wanted to get an annual physical. I'm now 60 days into this process and I still haven't done that. I want to make that a must for this week." And you jot it down on your list: "Get my annual physical." You want to identify what are those three to five things. And we're going to call those three to five key results for the week. Your three to five, your three to five key results for the week. And that's step number two, or part number two for this weekly planning process.
And the last piece is to use the five master steps of planning to go through, do your capture, create your RPM blocks, so on and so forth. Those are the three parts. Part one: Review your past week. Part two: Decide on your three to five to thrive for a great week coming up. And part three: Use the five master steps of planning to do your capture, create your RPM block, schedule, so on and so forth.
What I'm going to do, again, we wanted to make this experiential. Stay engaged. Stay engaged. This is where you're building some muscle. This is where you're building some muscle. And let go of the desire or the thought that I've got to do this right. Who knows what that is, or perfectly. That's even worse. Just do it. Just get started. Dip your foot in the water, or stick your whole leg in the water. Or if you're really adventurous, dive in. Just don't dive in head first because the water might not be that deep. You want to be careful. All right.
I'm going to give you about 10 minutes. About 10 minutes, maybe a couple more, to do this process. And I'm going to check in and say, "Okay, you should be on, you know, you should be finishing up part one. You should be on to part two." So on and so forth. Again, have fun. Enjoy.
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You should be finishing up your previous week review and you should be getting started, probably already in process with having decided what your three to five thrive for an amazing week are going to be for you. You want to use the, uh, the workbook on page 30. There's a place for you to do capture, and then on page 31 are some blank RPM blocks so that you can create some RPM blocks when you get to that part. Again, smile, breathe, maybe drink some water to hydrate your brain, and have fun. Enjoy.
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You should be working on RPM blocks right now. And again, if you finished one or two, create a third one. Again, you're building muscle. You're building muscle. Have fun. Enjoy. You got this.
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Got about 2 minutes to finish up this section. Again, the intent here is that you're not going to finish all five steps of the weekly planning process. Just get to the place where you're starting to create some RPM blocks, or create a couple of RPM blocks, and you will be absolutely 100% on track. Smile. Enjoy. You got this.
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All right, give yourself a round of applause. Come on, give yourself a round of applause. Celebrate your completion of step three of the weekly planning process. You got this. Keep it going. Yes.
On to step four. On to step four. Step four is to set up your life to win. Set up your life to win. And this is where you're going to schedule your musts and anticipate challenges. This is where you're going to schedule your musts and anticipate challenges. So once you have your RPM blocks for the week, what you want to do is you want to select three to five of the most important results. And let's call this the three to thrive for an amazing week. The three to thrive for an amazing week. You want to anticipate challenges. You want to anticipate challenges. This is why this planning process is so valuable. I'll give you a somewhat off-the-wall example. Let's say you have out-of-town guests that are going to be with you next week. Well, what's the likelihood that having out-of-town guests are going to alter your plans? Probably be pretty good. What can you do to anticipate challenges? You could reach out to them and say, "Hey, I would like to, I really want to spend time with you, but I've got a number of things that I'm working on. I'd love to do dinner with you on Monday night and have a lunch with you on Wednesday. Will that work for you?" That way, you've already planned some things, and you've let them know that, hey, I've got a number of things that I'm working on, and that you're going to be doing things that you need to do as well. Anticipate challenges. Anticipate challenges.
And again, this is why we said that we want to, you know, when we're starting to schedule, you want to make sure that not only do you schedule block time, but that you actually leave white space on your calendar because that way, here's another example, and this is not really one that you could anticipate. Uh, you get a call from your daughter's school and she's, you know, feeling sick, and they want you to come and pick her up from school. There's really no way to anticipate that. And as long as you've left white space on your calendar, you're going to be able to adjust. And so, in many respects, leaving the white space on your calendar is
anticipating your daughter getting sick. What this uh, what this exercise for you is going to be is you're gonna you're going to come up with your three to five to thrive for the week. You're going to look at your RPM blocks and select the the key the key things that you absolutely are going to commit to getting done. And then you're going to begin to think about the challenges that could present themselves during the course of the coming week. Again, have fun. Enjoy. You got this.
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So, there you have it. All four steps. Got them. You know them. And we're going to give you an opportunity during this uh, you know, time between now and when we have our next session, practice them to practice them.
Now, there's five keys uh for successful weekly planning. Five keys for successful weekly planning. Number one is to commit and schedule time to do it. I started I started this whole thing by saying that you got to schedule time and you should schedule 45 minutes to an hour. Initially, I would encourage you to schedule an hour so you don't have to feel rushed. But you got to get it on your calendar. Friday afternoon, Sunday afternoon typically are ideal times. Whatever it is, make it so, make sure it's in your zone of energy.
Number two, you got to design the environment that you're doing this in to support you. You want to make sure that you, you know, that you've got water to hydrate yourself. You want to make sure that you have some music that you find exciting or motivational. You want to do whatever you got to do to put yourself in a great state. And here's a little helpful hint. You know that that ultimate triad that you created? That would be a great thing to use.
And in fact, not surprisingly, number three is your state. It's your state. You got to be in a great state. Said it over and over. Tony said it over and over. When you're in a beautiful state, when you're in your ultimate triad state, everything will be easier for you. That includes your RPM planning. You'll be more focused. You'll be more motivated. All of those things will come to bear and this will make this process that much easier.
Number four, keep going until you're done. Keep going until you're done. Which means you got to get to your yourself to the place where you finish the process. You've identified your three to five to thrive for the coming week and you've scheduled it. Put out on your calendar for block time. You got to get to that place. So, keep going until you're done.
And last but not least, keep in mind you want to focus on progress versus perfection. Story for another time. I was a perfectionist when I first met Tony and uh, he cured me of that. Let's just leave it at that. Perfection is no standards at all. And for the purposes of this, you you know, this is this is there's a a number of things going on here. Don't expect that you're going to get it all the first time or even the second time through. Focus on the progress. Hey, I did this. I got this done. I got this done. Use the feedback model. Start with three, four, five specific things that you can acknowledge yourself for as you implemented this weekly planning process. And then maybe identify one or two. No more than two. I know some of you people, in fact, I know how most of you are wired. We don't want 27 things about what you could do better. One or two key things that if you did these things differently in a different way, you'd get a better result. Canai opportunities, constant and never-ending improvement opportunities. And then end with the celebration. End with the celebration.
Well, let's go ahead and crank the energy for just 15 seconds to celebrate you having completed the weekly planning process. Here we go. Ready? One, two, three.
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Number one, RPM. It's a way of thinking and you want to do it from a fully associated state. RPM is an emotional process. You must remember to bring emotion to it. And you saw that even in our weekly planning process to start with the ultimate purpose, the ultimate vision to get you associated in an emotional way to what's most important to you. And as said, it's a system of thinking. And there's three primary questions. What's the result you want to accomplish? Why is this important to you? Why is this an absolute must? Your purpose. And last but not least, your massive action plan. What are the actions that are going to close the gap from where you're at to where you want to be?
Number three, remember this is a top-down process. It's a top-down process. It starts with your driving force and then it continues on with your categories of improvement and magnificent sevens and then it continues on with RPM blocks. You want to make sure if you didn't get your driving force completed, now would be the time to do it. In fact, last week, last month would have been the time to do it. I know some of you are new. You have a grace period, but get it done because that's the foundation of everything.
Remember the importance of language. Remember the importance of language. Language brings emotion to what you do. And as I said a number of times, start with just getting things down that are basic. For instance, your category of improvement, physical power could be your starting point. You know, Adonis could be your next level because that has meaning for you of being powerful and strong. Whatever it is, but just get get something down on paper and you can juice up the language as you go along because your mind is going to be starting to think of things, but language, remember, language is phenomenally important and use language that serves you.
Number five, the triad. We did a little review of it. Exercise that triad at least 60 seconds, ideally, you know, for two or three minutes a couple times a day. Get it in your body. It is like emotional exercise. You're emotionally exercising your body. Getting yourself in that mindset. Master the five master steps of planning. Master the five master steps of planning. We went through them last week. You got to know them. You got to use them. It it is the foundation. And then really the true foundation is what we covered today, the weekly planning process. This is where it all comes together. This is where it all comes together.
Let's take a look at your homework, your assignment. Number one, continue to embrace RPM thinking. Always focus on results. Always focus on results. If you stay focused on results, everything else will fall into place. And use RPM thinking. So, not just think about results. When you think about a result, why why is this important? And what I tell clients that I've worked with, the thousands of clients that I've worked with time, if you can't come up with an emotionally juicy purpose statement, then let go of the result. It obviously isn't important to you.
Number two, create some more magnificent sevens for your categories of improvement. If you've done all your categories of improvement, you have a magnificent seven for every one of them. Go back and and juice them up. Use some more emotional language. And again, remember, language is specific to you. The language is specific to you.
Schedule some consistent time when you are going to do your weekly planning process. Schedule a specific time when you're going to do your weekly planning process. In fact, right now, take 15 seconds, decide whether you're going to do it Friday afternoon, whether you're going to do it Sunday afternoon, or whether you're going to do it some other time, but put it down on the piece of paper on your calendar. You got 15 seconds. Do it. I'm just going to wait here. I'm watching you. Do it.
Number five, use the weekly planning process. It's great to schedule it. It's vitally important to schedule it, but you got to use it. Do it. Do it. Do it. It is the foundation of everything and it brings all of these beautiful pieces of the RPM puzzle together for you. Do it again. Get in the game. Schedule it. Do it and learn from it. Progress is what you're focused on. Hey, I did my first weekly planning process. I got, you know, I got my capture done. I got my I you know I reviewed my uh, my driving force. Whatever it is, note no. Take note of your progress. Take note of your progress and let go of what you may not have done as well as you will be doing it. Let go of it and have fun. Have fun. Enjoy the fruits of your labor. Enjoy the fruits of your labor because the reason to do RPM is to give you a life of true fulfillment. A life that has got you connected to what's important to you. Staying connected to the things that are important to you, not somebody else's priorities.
We have one more session. One more session. And that's going to be on August 11th. August 11th at 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time in the US, what we love to refer to as Pony Standard Time because that's the time we do all our events on August 11th. Be there. Be there. It's going to be amazing. Remember, you go to your portal. All these sessions are there. All the workbooks are there. If you want to get yourself caught up, if you missed something, you want to go back and review it, you have the ability to do it.
And you know the deal, we are we're actually finishing a couple minutes early. I'm gifting I'm gifting you two or three minutes. You should write this down. Might be the first Tony event that's ever occurred in the history of the world that's finished early. All right, we're going to celebrate your greatness. Gonna end on a peak state because we never ever ever ever never ever ever ever never ever ever ever leave without being in a peak state. So on the count of three, go crazy. Shake the lights, rattle the windows, scare the dogs, the cats, wake up the baby. If it's the middle of the night where you are, wake up the neighbors. Have the neighbors call the police because you're making such a ruckus. Here we go. Ready? One, two, three.
[Applause] Yes, I love you. Thank you. See you on August 11th. Post in the Facebook group if you got questions.
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