The Best of MOJO Minutes #56 - Schedule Scaffolding

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Welcome to the Theory to Action podcast, where we examine the timeless treasures of wisdom from the great books in less time, to help you take action immediately and ultimately to create and lead a flourishing life.

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Now here's your host, david Kaiser flourishing life.

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Now here's your host, david Kaiser.

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Hello, I am David, and welcome back to the Theory to Action podcast.

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This week I am on vacation, a restful vacation, and so, because we want to continue to deliver those hard-hitting and ever-popular episodes to you, we have gone back in the archives and we are giving you the very best of the Mojo Minutes For today's show.

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I'm very excited to announce it is Mojo Minute 56.

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Schedule scaffolding fantastic episode, tons of nuggets of wisdom.

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And with that, please enjoy.

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And on to the show of wisdom.

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And with that, please enjoy.

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And on to the show.

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Hello, I am David, and welcome back to another Mojo Minute.

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I find it hard to believe that we have completed some 50 or so of these Mojo Minutes and I have yet to talk about one of my favorite books of all time, the Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod.

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But, sure enough, over the weekend I looked back and did some quick research and, lo and behold, nothing Crickets.

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I could not believe it.

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Well, shame on me.

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And because the Miracle Morning is such a fantastic book and yet a super practical book, let me today share some of the goodness from the Miracle Morning and we will combine it with some other goodness to make a super recipe of some simple, practical wisdom.

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So first, in the Miracle Morning, how teaches us to break down our morning into segments, or super savers as he calls them.

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And when I mean savers, let's break down what that actually means.

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Going from the miracle morning book, from the Miracle Morning book, s is for silence, a is for affirmations, v is for visualization, e is for exercise, r is for reading and S is for scribing, so that acronym, first letter of each one of those words, gives you the word SAVERS as the acronym.

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So you break down.

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The premise of the book is you break down your morning into these segments and you do them every day and that gives you a ton of information, motivation, inspiration every morning.

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And that is the foundation of the miracle morning.

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It's why it can change your life and it's really been foundational to my personal growth and my development.

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But anyhow, getting back to how it applies for this mojo minute and you can check out the details of all of those different segments or super savers in the Academy review we touch on each of them, we break each of them down.

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But then, second picture in your mind your day isn't going right.

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Let's say, for example, you couldn't sleep.

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You had a lot on your mind and then you woke up late and you slept through your alarm and you're running some 45 minutes late.

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And then you start ruminating about you won't be able to complete your scheduled miracle morning which, let's say, for the last I don't know seven days you've been crushing it and it's really been fulfilling for you.

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You really look forward to that time in the morning where you can spend it on yourself, before you have to go to a job or wake the kids up and provide for the family.

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So now you're feeling unfulfilled, you're running 45 minutes late and those commitments you made to yourself you're not able to keep them.

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And here comes the beauty of the miracle morning.

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You can revise your schedule in the Miracle Morning and, for example, some of those segments like my example, I read for 30 minutes a day in the morning.

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Well, each of those segments have an allotted time.

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He gives you some prescriptions and some suggestions, but usually over time everybody devotes certain segments with more time than others.

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But here's the beauty at the very end of the miracle morning, subconsciously, you should still keep your schedule and your commitment to those super savers.

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So check this out If you and this is actually one of the most requested and often asked questions to how L rod is what happens when our when our schedules doesn't work.

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So you can segment down each of those super savers.

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Segment down each of those super savers silence, affirmations, reading, exercise.

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You know the deal.

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You can segment them down to one minute.

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So let's say you woke up 45 minutes late and you only have 15 minutes to squeeze all those miracle morning super savers or segments into that 15 minutes.

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You can keep yourself to your own commitments and not break your habits.

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You simply just cut down the time you exercise.

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I might not be able to get to the gym and spend an hour going through my whole workout, but I do have one minute and maybe I do jumping jacks for a whole minute.

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You've kept your commitment.

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It's not ideal, we get that, but you're still keeping your commitment.

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You don't know how many times that I have something happened and my schedule was all messed up and I literally only read for one minute, or I wrote for one minute, or I just prayed for one minute, but just keeping that commitment, because you can do all the super savers in in uh about six minutes, seven minutes by doing that and and subconsciously keeping yourself to that one minute it is, it is just super helpful.

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You can't imagine the uh, when you get to the end of your day and you look back, you're so glad you kept the one minute.

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It wasn't ideal but you're like, hey, I did the very best I could in the situation I was presented with.

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Now you might object and say, david, reading or writing for just one minute, that doesn't do anything, that's just a waste of time.

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And, like I said, you might object and say, david, you know, reading or writing for just one minute, that doesn't do anything, that's just a waste of time.

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And, like I said, you'd be surprised for just keeping that one.

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That one minute commitment in your brain subconsciously makes a big difference.

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Doesn't nag you the whole day that you didn't keep the commitment.

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Um, and that gives me.

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That brings me to the larger point that what I've what I have termed this as is schedule scaffolding.

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Schedule scaffolding is when you're able to reduce your day into keeping your commitments but still um, still making do with whatever time you're presented.

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We all have crazy schedules.

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We all get off track.

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Meetings run long, conversations over the phone run long uh, traffic, all these things kids, kids, you know, can mess up the whole schedule.

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But if you think of it like a skyscraper, um, you know, as you build a skyscraper and you build that scaffolding up the skyscraper, that way, if things happen, you have the scaffolding so you're not falling all the way down and crashing and burning.

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So if you think of that picture that's that super high skyscraper you're building that scaffolding up the skyscraper to make sure that, no matter what happens, you're going to be able to.

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You might fall down four or five stories, but you're not going to fall down all the way to the bottom.

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So how about you?

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Have you ever gotten off track and didn't know how to get back on track as easily?

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If so, think about schedule scaffolding as a way to help you to reconstruct your schedule so that you can keep all your commitments subconsciously to yourselves.

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And as a little bonus mojo minute, you might remember this nugget of wisdom from our Mojo Minute number 18, where Stephen Guys helps us in the trick of creating mini habits that truly work.

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You might remember we talked about being too small to fail and he says many habits are just a pretty simple brain trick at the core, but also a life philosophy that values starting and letting action precede motivation and believing the small steps can accumulate into a giant leap forward.

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And you can make rescheduling and restructuring your commitments to yourself a mini habit and making too small to fail.

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You can reschedule that for one minute, for two minutes, be able to keep your commitments to yourself, no matter if they're in the miracle morning or if they're in your business life or your personal life, or no matter where it's at.

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You can use schedule scaffolding your spiritual life, even.

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You can use schedule scaffolding across your life, and it's so vital when it's a little mini hack, a little mini trick.

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So in today's mojo minute, when the things aren't going right in your schedules, completely messed up, try using the schedule scaffolding to keep your commitments to yourself.

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This trick and this workaround has helped me many times as I've tried to lead a flourishing life, and I know it will work for you too.

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So here's to creating your own schedule scaffolding for those days when it just doesn't go right.

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Thank you for joining us for those days when it just doesn't go right.

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Until next time, keep getting your mojo on.

The Best of MOJO Minutes #56 - Schedule Scaffolding

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