975. Me Time. Money Time. Meaning Time. | Be Rested, Fit, & All Around Rich

There’s no sense in being successful if you’re too burned out to enjoy it — or if there’s no one left to enjoy it with.

In this episode, I’m breaking down how to get three days out of one using a simple framework: Me Time, Money Time, and Meaning Time.

It’s not about cramming more into your day — it’s about bringing awareness, intention, and purpose to the time you already have. You’ll learn how to take care of yourself first, focus on what really moves the needle, and make space for the people and moments that matter most.

By the end, you’ll stop just surviving your days and start living them on purpose.

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All right. 3, 2, 1. Let's get it. You know, there's no sense in being successful if you're too burned out to enjoy it, or there's no one to enjoy it with. See, being productive doesn't mean that you have to be beat up, burned out, or alone. And that's what I wanna unpack today. I wanna help you become more productive which means that you'll be more successful, but also not all beat up where you can't enjoy it with anybody. I mean, what's, what's, what's the point of all that and all hands raised on this man? Like the things I share with you are the things that I'm sharing with me, because sometimes, man, I just, I get busy. I get spread thin, I get pissed off. I get isolated and it's just like, this is what, it's so important in me sharing these episodes because these are like confessions on my part where I gotta like get re-centered. And so I wanna share this with you because whatever I share with you, I leave it behind because I'm dealing with. And maybe you are too. And so this morning on my random reading, I was reading out of Ed Mylett's book, the Power of One More, and he's specifically talking about time management, but he looks at time management, not in the traditional way. He actually looks at time management in getting more out of a day. I mean, he admits that the high performers, they, they don't manage time. They actually manipulate it, because think about it, we all have 24 hours in a day, but what separates the average from the exceptional is how they use those hours. Time doesn't slip by the high performers, the high achievers. They're purposeful. They're intentional. Yet they enjoy it. They bring people alone with them for the ride as well. I love how Ed breaks it down. You get a three for one coupon. You get three days out of each day, and it's cool because instead of looking at everything in a block of 24 hours, he breaks it down into three blocks, so he says, I get three days out of each day, and because of that, I'm way more productive. I get more done, and I feel great. And I get to enjoy it with the people that I love most. And as I was reading this, 'cause that's what I try to do, man. I try to read for ideas As I was reading this, you know, I was like, I do, I do a similar thing to this. I just never really contextualize it until I read this. when it comes to time, it's not about. Grinding away and cramming more into your day. It's about bringing a sense of awareness and urgency to what you're doing, and so you're being very intentional with your time so that way it doesn't slip away from you ever had that, I mean, damn where? Where the time go? Man, the week flew by or the day is dragging on, you know, you, because you're just, you're just treading water. You're just busy putting out a bunch of fires, but you're not productive. And so you get to the end of the week, the end of a quarter, end of the year, and you're like, fuck, man. I ain't get anything done. I'm telling you this year's my year. And then a week later, the wheels come off the bus again. And I, I wanna try to eliminate that for you or minimize it. And it's really about bringing an awareness and urgency, but then segmenting it into a me time, a money time, and a meaning time. And I wanna break all these down for you. Okay. The me time is where you put yourself first. I come first. You come first, it sounds selfish from the outside. When you tell people, look, lemme tell you something, man. I come first. From , the optics of it sounds selfish. It is, but in a productive way, it's productive selfishness. You gotta put yourself first because when you take care of yourself, then your loved ones get the best version of you. I mean, you bring your best version to the world. Because lemme tell you something, if you try to satisfy the world, it, it's unquenchable, it's insatiable, and it's going to drain you, eat you up, beat you up, and step over your dead body and keep moving. It'll pick the next person, right? And I don't want that to happen. So you gotta put yourself first. The me time is sacred for me, so I get up early enough so that way I don't have any distractions. Like I'm recording this with you right now, and my family is right outside the door. They're all asleep, including the dogs. They're asleep, so they're not pulling, and my time, I'm not distracted and I'm not taken away from them because I do this early in the morning. This is very important for me. So the me time is where you put yourself first. So. I get up early, I read for 15 minutes. Like this morning I was actually thinking about time and I was like, man, how, how can I get more productive? Sometimes I just thi this, I just get busy. Things just get away from me, and I just picked a random book off the shelf, open up the table of contents, which happened to be Ed Mylett's book, opened up the table of contents, and there in that section, lo and behold, says something about time management. I'm like, Hmm. Lemme read that, and it triggered the, the, the thought of, I do a similar thing. I just sometimes blur the lines and get away from it and don't have an intention and a focus and an urgency about blocking these times off. So the me time, get up early. Like I said, I read for 15 minutes, then I write. I have to write, write at least one page. That's the trick I tell my, just write one page today, like, what's your take on what you just read? How do you interpret it? How do you see it? That's what I do. I unpack those thoughts. It's the only time you're alone with yourself. So segment 15 minutes to write long form what's on your soul and that writing long form. Causes you to pause, reflect, because you're not just gonna babble with the pen, you'll babble. If you record yourself, you'll babble if you just talk out loud, which has its time. But this is sacred time where you're gonna write these things out and then I go work out. Go bust a sweat, get some movement in, you'll feel accomplished. So here's the thing, the me time, I get all those things done, dude. I've already won the day. So no matter how hellish the day gets. Boop, I've already won. Okay. My mind is primed. Now. I roll into the money time. The money time is just that. This is the block of time where I wanna build wealth, where I wanna make progress and I've gotta caution myself. It's just happened yesterday. Had a lot going on yesterday. Wasn't very productive. I was busy. Boy, lemme tell you something, man. I'm busy. We were busy. I get to the end of the day, I am like, well, fuck, what did I do? Hmm. And so I bring this to you because it's, I I did, you know, it's not a wrong thing, it's just, it's an awareness. So when I, when I get to work, man, that money time, you gotta focus on the one thing I'm reading outta Gary Keller's book. The one thing I'll be sharing some takes on those. Again, it's just, these are just primers. And the one thing is just that, like what's the thing that drives your success? Like when you get to work, you do that one thing. That everything else becomes easier or unnecessary to do. That's the premise of the one thing. You should read that book. So what's the one thing that drives success? I can work through my salespeople instead of for my salespeople. I have 20 salespeople. I work through them. They call 30 leads. That's 600 opportunities to sell a car today. Boom. Alright. That's the one thing. Now obviously there's other positioning. With the pricing and the merchandising and all that, but the biggest lever, what's the one thing? Push that button. That's the thing. Okay, so the money time is where you're building that thing. And dude, because I rolled into the day with my mind Prime and I didn't just grab a bagel and head out. Okay. I read this morning, 15 minutes, I contextualized it, I wrote on it. Then I worked out, I got some movement in ready, so I roll into work and that money time, I'm already primed, okay? I am not trying to get the wheels going. These wheels, this bus is already rolling. Okay? Then you go into that money time and you're more impactful. You're more effective.'cause everybody else trying to wake up, everybody else is trying to recover from last night. Stayed up late. No. Get your rest. Let's roll me. Time, money, time. Then when it's done or roll into the meaning time, this is why you do what you do, bro. There's, like I said at the beginning, there's no sense in amassing all these accolades. Fuck a title. Forget all that. Like there's no sense in getting all the trappings of success, and you ain't got nobody. You're just a dick to be around. Nobody wants that. So that, that, that me time, that money time and I get home, man. And that meaning time, get home to the wife, to the kids, to the dogs, to the Guinea pigs. I have two. One's an asshole. The other one's is lovable. I can just put her down in the yard. The other one's just, she's a bitch. But anyway, so that's the thing, man. But you get home, man. It's just what it, this is what it's all about. Okay? This is where you, you enjoy that time. It's why you do what you do. And so you could take that, that pause and it's a reminder. To stay connected. Again, I, I'm not perfect at this. There are days, man, I'm just cramm myself in the office. There's days I just get Mr. Caveman and don't wanna talk. Okay, I'm just beat up 'cause I, I just, I got out there man. I got too far out there and just got busy and just got drained and I'm exhausted and I'm pissed off 'cause I didn't get anything done, but I was busy. And where's time go? I mean, if I had an extra two hours in day. It's Parkinson's law, man. Whatever time you have, you're gonna fill it. Okay. So that brings that awareness and that intentionality. I don't believe you should just beat yourself into oblivion. Because trust me, me and my wife were you're just talking about this the other day, like a generation or two from now, ain't anybody gonna know who I am? They're gonna be like, who? Marsh the hell kind of name is that? Okay? So yes, be impactful when you're here, but also man, enjoy it too. Okay. Incorporate your family with it. And it sounds like. When, when I say the meaning time, it sounds like they, they come last actually, they're part of the first two. The me time and the money time because the me time, because I took care of myself first. So I'm spiritually, mentally, physically fit that me time. Then the money time, I'm financially fit. I'm working on getting stronger, better, not putting my family in a vulnerable position. As I talked this out, I realized that, okay, the me time is mentally, physically, spiritually fit. The money, time is financially fit. The meaning time is relationally fit. You wanna be fit in all areas, right? Don't be just chiseled yet, you know? You don't have anybody'cause you live at the gym. Okay? I don't wanna be a big slob either. The wife gets the, the hungry eye for somebody else. Somebody's got washboard abs. I don't wanna be that guy, right? I wanna be that guy, but I don't wanna be the, the big slob. Okay? But also, I don't wanna be just broke as hell, man. That'll bust a relationship up too. I wanna be able to, when my daughter needs something, like, Hey, this is what I need. Our car breaks down. I wanna be able to fix it. Okay. She's about to go to college, wanna be able to pay for it so she doesn't have any debt. See, it's all these, all these kind of different things. So see, they're sprinkled the meaning. Time is just how you segment it, but they're all a part of the day. But the meaning like call during the day. Touch base with 'em, check their pulses, tell 'em you love'em, shoot a text, whatever. Those kind of different things. And so the meaning time. Yeah. You, you guys, like, every Thursday we like to go eat out. I always end up at a Mexican restaurant. I love Mexican, so we eat out this time we just, we talk about what's going on with my wife's gym and we catch up, but also my, then my daughter gets off work. She comes and joins us and we sit down and we talk. We clown a little bit. Sometimes we just watch a movie together. Sometimes we, we play cards, we play Uno, and I get all the draw fours on me. I mean, I mean that, but that you get the point. So it's, it's that meaning time, man. I mean, look, everything I'm telling you here, none of it is revolutionary. You all know this stuff. I know this stuff. I just get away from it, and this is why I share it. I share it. It's very selfish of me. I share it because when I share it with you, not only am I leaving it for you because it may help you, but also when I, when I talk these things out. It deepens the meaning. I have a better understanding. It centers me. So that way it's why the episodes aren't very long that way. I go live it. So none of this, like I said, all of this, like you hear all this, you're like, yeah, uh uh, I get it. None of this is, is eye-opening. None of this is, is new. You've heard all this before. It's just things slip, things erode. The days get away from us, and time is not a renewable resource. We can get more money, can't get more time. It's non-renewable. So let's bring an awareness to it and enjoy it. Okay? It doesn't have to be super rigid, and you don't have to sacrifice one thing for the other. You can get your rest. You can work out, you can make a boatload of money. You can enjoy it with others. That's what it's all about, right? I just don't want you to drift anymore. And so when you do this, when you bring in awareness, you get three days for the price of one. Everybody else is looking at just one day, today. okay, I am recording this on a Saturday. Everybody's looking at Saturday. What if I got a Sunday, Monday, Tuesday for the price of a Saturday? So I get all that in. I got the me time, I got the money time. I got the meaning time, even on your days off. You could, you could work this. The money time is like professional and creative fulfillment segment, a few hours just to work on these things. Like I gotta work today, but that's what I'm gonna do tomorrow on Sunday. You know, some things that I can work on with the podcast. And some things I can work on in the car business.'cause I've been, this, my 28th going into my 28th year. It's what it is. This is what I love about doing the podcast. Is is something I just, I refuse. I will never let go because it's just, it, it, it really contextualizes and brings everything into an awareness. Again, I'm not perfect on this. I'm trying to make progress just like you. And so the three problems we all face, adversity, uncertainty, and complacency. We gotta, we gotta equip ourselves. And the way we equip ourselves is through the five life skills, communication, curiosity, creativity, continuous learning and action, productive confrontation, sprinkled on the three segments of the day, me, time, money, time. Meaning time. All right, let's get outta here. Please share this episode with someone who needs it. Someone needs it, man. Somebody's just frazzled. You're just drained. A little pissed off. Ain't making no progress. Listen to this one, man. All right, let's get outta here. Keep it simple. Keep it moving. Never settle. Stay tough. Peace.