[Music] [Music] let me ask you something when was the last time that you felt truly free like really free know for a long time the answer to that question question it really stumped me I think so many of us spend so much time so much money trying to achieve the same state of being of happiness peace and Tranquility I'm talking about being free only to find ourselves completely miserable stressed and burnt out I know because I've been there it was December 2017 and I was running a business I started that made me all the money
that I thought I needed and for most of the Journey of it I had no idea if it was even going to work out the company I started was putting about a million dollars in my pocket every year I was making the money a lot of us think will buy us freedom but I found myself working night and day on a business that slowly felt like it was just complet completely draining my energy I was also sitting on the floor of my office every night at 2:00 a.m. burnt out depressed unhealthy and all this while
I thought I had to do everything CEO to me stood for chief everything officer and that's exactly what I was doing for months I was trapped in the state without any light to chase out of the tunnel and if I had continued I probably wouldn't be here today I was in a really really tough spot and I found myself one day cooped up in a hotel room and had a panic attack I was balling crying didn't know what was going on could hardly catch my breath I needed to take a step back I needed to
take care of myself so I could take care of business and take care of those around me I meet a mentor his name's Ryan and he gives me this piece of advice he goes Matt know you seem to be on this constant pursuit of more consider this now Freedom isn't about doing more Matt it's about doing less but better now when I first heard this I was like what the hell does that even mean it didn't really get any more clear to be honest with you he introduced me to the concept of systems automating delegating
and eliminating the noise of my life and by systems Ryan meant Frameworks around thoughts mindsets habits a way of being that all of us can use in our lives to live up to our fullest potential I come from a community of people who believe that building a business is the right tool to build their freedom but I don't really want to talk about that business stuff today today I want to talk about the universal concept of [Music] freedom I think it's one of the most important things to us as humans but we don't actually dissect
what it is why it's important and how we can even get there my goal with this video is to move you closer to freedom I want you to be able to achieve time Freedom location Freedom Financial Freedom you know mental and spirit spiritual [Music] freedom in order to gain energy you need to see energy the issue that so many of us struggle with though is we have no idea where all of our energy is even going you need to identify where your energy your time your money and feelings are going before pointing the finger at
yourself when we feel drained or burnt out it's often because we feel frustrated and we're not sure what to blame for that and you find your life just slowly spiraling downwards and with it your hopes your dreams your faith in a better day all just go down the drain you need to figure out where your energy is going and the key thing there is to track every task that you're working on every meeting you're in every little thing you're doing whether it's the meals you're having the activities you find yourself in dayto day the people
you're around inevitably when you stack up every 30 minutes of your day and where your time is going and you develop an awareness of where your time is being spent you can quickly glean the causes of your unhappiness you can understand what is actually draining your energy and this is exactly what I did I took a look at my to-do list from the previous 30 days and I put them all into a Google sheet so I could start tracking these things I took a look at my calendar over the previous couple months and I made
note of every single meeting I had been in it made sense I was drained because I was spending so much time on stuff that I hated spending hours prioritizing my schedule and not scheduling my priorities consuming content mindlessly and not creating art that shared my story spending money on vices that damaged my body and not funding experiences with the people that I loved and when you stack up hour after hour working on stuff that you don't want to be doing all you can expect is to be pretty miserable and that's exactly why I built a
Time audit system you're going to go and measure the time that each task takes and then you're going to go automate the tasks that are mundane eliminate the tasks that are unnecessary and delegate the tasks that someone else could do much better than you the result I reclaimed 15 hours of my week back I was able to to focus on myself take care of my health spend time with friends that I had missed not been able to catch up with in so long I was able to focus on the task that brought me joy get
back to being more of an artist and not feeling so run down all the time I finally felt more like myself I felt more like Matt I found myself building a life that I was proud of versus being a participant in a life that I hated you know you don't have to be managing a team running some business or building a brand to take advantage of this advice this can work for anyone know if you desire to have a life that is yours if you desire to be able to control your time and to reclaim
your freedom this system is worth implementing today wherever you're at right now you can achieve true Freedom go and eliminate those tasks you don't need to be doing delegate stuff to other people automate the stuff that's mundane and go and get back your time your joy because you deserve it I was out of the depths of Despair and more importantly I was off the office floor at 2: a.m. [Music] but there was still one problem I was a lonely entrepreneur now I think entrepreneurship is one of the loneliest paths a human can go on you
know in the depths of Despair sometimes it feels like you have no one there to support you no one to help it's just you your business and a vision fortunately my battles with Mr loneliness gave me a lot of systems support and accountability and you can actually go and steal the exact system via the link in the description it's called my personal board meeting every single month I sit down and I reflect on what's working what's not working and what I need to learn the next month and I ask myself the hard questions the kind
of questions that oftentimes we don't want others to ask of us what's working what's not working what went well this month and what's not going so well what made me cry what made me laugh what brought me Despair and what are the things that brought me joy all of these patterns they leave Clues these feelings they give you an understanding of the path that you want to take and also those aspects of life that you probably need to avoid you my belief is that pain plus reflection equals progress the board meeting gives me this opportunity
to be accountable to myself public companies they go and have board of directors that keep the CEO accountable but often times as entrepreneurs in our own lives and in our bootstrap companies there's no one there to make sure that we're on the right path so my personal board meeting allows me to go and get clear on my vision my 10-year goals three-year goals and one-year goals from there I go and I set what I need to get done every 30 days in my personal life and then do the same thing for my business this allows
me to get a clear picture of what I need to work on right now to actually make everything worth it and to get to the vision that I'm really after and don't worry you know the personal board meeting allows you to take all these crazy existential questions and put them all into an easy simple framework that you can use right now and I'm not talking about some intimidating checklists that become some existential measure of your success I'm just talking about a simple framework that allows you to understand exactly what you need to do over the
next 30 days to build your dream life inevitably getting to a life that you're really looking to live comes down from just putting in the Reps there is no easy way to get to freedom but if you can go and learn from your mistakes you can double down on your wins and at the end of the day too just be kind to yourself you're going to get to where you're looking to go by now we can agree how important freedom is and it's not something you should just continue waiting for it's time to get after
it today we've covered a bunch of good systems they're going to help you focus on what's most important help you go and reclaim your time figure out the things that are draining your energy so you can focus on building a life that fires you up you've got the time audit system you've got my personal board meeting and you've likely got the clarity now to go and make Freedom a reality in your own life freedom is an art it's not for sale freedom is something you deserve it's not something you should keep putting off welcome to
the founder Freedom Movement we're a global community of Legends looking to go and build freedom in our lives like And subscribe welcome and I can't wait to see the life that you build for yourself
