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"Approach to productivity. Of course, those strategies were mentioned and were discussed. But there were a lot more dedicated to what's health and your own ability to perform. Peak performance, really. And so what I realized is that we don't really know how productive we are. We get a sense of it, but it's nice when we see numbers on a screen that we can kind of go, yes, and let's say you're shooting hoops and you got 30 balls, you shoot them and you got 20. You're like, whoo. I got 20. But now you've got a benchmark. Now you know, next time you go to you want to go for 21, 22, or when you're at the gym, if you've got your weights, you can just say, okay, I can go 60 kilograms, 65 kilograms. That number tells us something. And it's something we can see visual. But when it comes to productivity, where's the visuality? There's nothing. It's just kind of, we know we were more productive. We know we got more done. But it's nice to kind of have a little thing in front of us that we can see. And so I came up with something. And the first, the productivity formulas broken down to a few parts. And the first part, of course, is your body your health. Okay. And that includes sleep that includes diet that includes water and hydrating yourself. Then you have the mental state, how do you feel? Your mindset are you positive or negative, things like that, then you have the strategies, which I already mentioned. Then you have the environment, the environment that you're in is it productive? Is it conducive to your success or is it distracting you and pulling you away from that? And then you have your own skill set, of course, the better your skill set gets, the faster you can get work done in whatever you're doing. And then there's a few other miscellaneous things like personal development and things like that. But it's in my new ebook that I created and if you go through there, you'll get points assigned to what you're doing. And you could just see how productive you really are on a scale. I think the maximum is 35 points, 33 points I forget. It's been changed a few times. That's why. But you can then go, okay, I met 14. Okay, how can I get that number up? And you just try to work on moving it up every week or every month. And you can start seeing, okay, yeah, I'm up to 17. And yeah, you'll see the results in your life, you know, change as you improve that number, your life will be more productive, both work and family and everything. So it's just a way to really visualize what you're really doing. And so I think it's a simple thing, but it's very effective. What I like about that is you've almost gamified productivity, in a sense. I don't know if you have any, you can get contact any app developers out there, but it sounds like that would be a make a great app. I have talked to some people. And we're making ideas here on that devotionals, you know, come on. Okay, so we're about to wrap up here, Adrian, but you know, you mentioned in one of our conversations that you're working on some new stuff. You got a new book, some new reports. Is there anything that you can share with us here before we close out? Well, as I think you're going to mention to your subscribers later. But I created a new gumroad account where I share some of my stuff. It's also on my website. I succeed book dot com. I put a few different things so you should check out both places. I've got a few free reports. So just pick them up, might as well. But you can also check out the new Uber productivity blueprint, which is where I talk about the productivity formula and all sorts of things. It's a combination. It's kind of a different way of looking at productivity that I think most people really appreciate. It's really easy, really simple, and it's about a hundred pages, but it's a really quick read. So I think people will fly right through that. I've also got the tiny book of success. Oh, and my newest ebook is how to write like a pro. As you mentioned earlier, I've been, I've appeared in entrepreneur and insider Business Insider thrive global, having to post numerous publications. And that took me quite a long time to achieve, but maybe some of your listeners would want to know how I did it. And it's a great little thing to pick up. So you might want to check that as well. Awesome. And that's I succeed book dot com. Any other way we can get in touch with you besides that? Well, of course, you can check me out on Instagram. It's I succeed book, Twitter, I succeed book. But as I said, you should also check out gumroad, Adrian shepherd gumroad, and I think you've got me covered. I also got covered. Adrian shepherd dot com as well. Well, we will be sharing your stuff where like I told you before we're coming out with an affiliate shop on the website, we'll be putting that out on Pinterest and Instagram, other outlets will be mentioning it on the show. So we're going to be sure to add all your information there and help us be more productive because that's what us dads need. Let's be honest. Time management episode number one for a reason. Adrian, well, you know, I know your time, you gotta get going. You gotta get some dinner and go to bed and put the kids to bed and all that fun stuff. And I hang out with your wife, of course. But we want to thank you so much for joining me. This was awesome. And I think, you know, I didn't think you could top yourself. I mean, I thought it was gonna be tight. I mean, I had a good feeling about it, but you topped yourself. I mean, you know, it's just awesome stuff, man. I mean, I'm excited for this one to come out 'cause I think folks are gonna love it. So thank you.
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"We have to find time for our children. We have to spend time for our wife or spouse, our partner, whoever we with, but we have to dedicate certain amount of time to each of them. And by doing that, then you're not wasting time because you know what you have to do every morning. It's not like what will I do next? And if you have that, what will I do next? Mentality. That's time spent thinking about what you're going to do. So I just finished my job. What should I do now? Um, let me think about it. That's going to take 5 minutes. That's poof. 5 minutes gone, right? Gone. Instead, I finished my work. Okay, I'm going to spend time with my son. Okay, boom, I'm going to have dinner. I'm going to make dinner. Boom, I'm going to do this. But so regimented that actually things will get done much faster. And now you don't have to you can have freedom within that. You can leave space open saying from one to two, I have nothing. I'll keep it open. Whatever time you choose, I mean, my schedule is kind of all over the place because of the international times and things like that. But for me, I usually have one to two VM in the afternoon free. Every day. And sometimes I read a book, sometimes I play a video game, sometimes I watch Netflix, whatever, but it's just time I could use for anything. I could write, I could jump on Clubhouse if I feel like it. But I have that time set aside for whatever I feel like that day. That's my freedom hour. Whereas the other hours are regimented. And so you have the balance between the two. But the last thing you want to do is just have kind of no real plan because failing to plan means you're planning to fail, right? That's Brian Tracy and it absolutely true. No, no, it is. And what I like about what you mentioned there is structuring and almost scheduling time with your kids. You know, because let's be honest, guys, I mean, that's one of the first things that's gonna fall by the wayside of something big comes up in your job or in your business or whatever, you know, you're gonna neglect your family. And especially in this environment when things can take over, it even just 15 minutes dedicated time, put this darn thing away and just focus. Because, you know, that way, that's how those memories are built. That's really why we're doing all this. That's why, you know, this podcast exists. That's why, you know, we go to work, you know, for the family. So let's not lose that priority in our lives. I mean, and also a Christian podcast today, if you're neglecting in your, we're heading into lent here. If this is recording at least, if you're neglecting your prayer life, you gotta schedule that too. I actually, I actually learned this thing on Twitter. There's an Orthodox Christian and one of the things that we were taught to do is pray according to certain hours of the day. So I said that in my phone for 6, 9, 12 and three. And so my alarm goes off and I remember to at least do the sign of the cross. I mean, so I'm almost automating my prayer life in a sense. But it's one of those things that gets neglected if I don't, if I don't do it. So just something I wanted to mention there, guys. Yeah, fabulous. I'd like to add one little thing that many people are actually not aware of. I assume using the iPhone. But I assume androids will be the same as well. But when you set up the iPhone a lot, alerts, you can actually name the alerts, so you set it, for example, 6 o'clock, pilatus, most people just set the alarm, like 5 ten. I'm going to wake up or whatever. But you can actually label it. There we go. There we go. There we go. Yeah. And so you don't just get the sound to remind you what to do, but you actually see your phone when you turn it off like, oh, right, that's what I've got to do. And you see it a hundred times. And after you've seen it about the 75th time, you're like, yep, you get the point. Right. Yep. Okay, so now that we're already talking about productivity tips, let's talk about your productivity formula. How can we use that Adrian and apply it? Okay, well, when I first started studying productivity a few years ago, I dug up nearly everything I could on the subject. I mean, I studied here and there from Tony Robbins and other personal development speakers, but they don't really focus on time management. It's just part of their lectures and speeches and programs. However, I pick up more dedicated programs towards that. One thing I noticed is most of them were really focused on strategies. A paradox principle, Parkinson's law, the 80 I said part of the principle, 80 20 rule is the same thing. So for those people who aren't aware, chunking, saying no, things like that. These are simple strategies you can implement into your life and they work like gangbusters. However, I noticed with Brandon Bouchard's high performance academy when I attended that, that he was talking more
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"That they do is they just connect you with someone randomly throughout the company because they're a team all they were already going to be remote all over all over the world or at least all over the U.S. and they just connected with somebody and you just have like a chat for a half an hour, get to know you, hey, what do you do with the company, how can we work together? That kind of thing. So it might be a little bit of pressure at first, but once you've done a couple of those, you start getting used to having that conversation breaking the ice. And then you feel connected to that person because you're going to be working with them anyway on something. It's a smaller company. So that was something to your point earlier. I think I like these creative ways. We have to figure out, you know, how can we still have that connection? I mean, I think that's what it comes down to. We're human beings. We got to have that connection. Like you and I, we're having that chat. You're in Japan. I'm in the U.S.. I mean, it's a beautiful thing. We can have that rapport. But I think we still need to keep figuring out little ways to do it to have that personal touch that, you know, we can't just, we can't get 'cause we're not in person. Yeah. And, you know, because everything is been done online now. I mean, there's so much more data being tracked that way. So it's easier to keep track of all your employees and databases and things like that. So yeah, companies that really understand their employees will thrive. So since this is mainly a podcast directed at dad's directed parents, let's talk about those who are working full time at home. How do we set up those boundaries? You mentioned your wife in the beginning. But both in terms of blocking out those interruptions. And then also something I don't think we've touched on yet, not letting work take over. Because, you know, if you have everything in your home office or at your disposal with your phone, I mean, the tendency is maybe to work longer into the night to get that productivity, but then you don't get that relationship time that I think is also the point of this. So can you speak to that for a moment? Sure. Well, you said the key word right there is the concept of time, right? I mean, so many people don't really use their time wisely. They just kind of, you know, it slips to their fingers here and there. You've heard the expression, where did the time go? Where did it all go? And the thing is, no, it didn't just go. You did something. But the thing is you don't even you're not even aware of it, which shows you really didn't set it up properly. So one of the best things you can really do is just be almost like a military run machine where you're very regimented, you know, you wake up, but this time you start this time, you have to live your life, even though we're at home, or we were at home. Like you're in an office, you go to work at 8 o'clock, you finish at 5 30. There are some things you need to do differently in the sense that because you're usually at home sitting all the time in the walking, the movement, you really need to take more breaks. And because you don't have a boss there, it's easier for you to stand up and take a 5 minute break every 20 minutes or every 25 minutes or something like that. The key is that if you did an office and you kept standing up the boss would be like, what are you doing? What keeps standing up? As your house, you could do that and get away with that. Oh, it takes is just standing up, you know, stretching, you know, a little here and there. It makes all the difference. But as I said, the key word is regiment. You really need to have a very disciplined life by and people think they think by disciplining your life that it's constraining me. Oh my gosh, I like to be spontaneous and free whaling and oh yeah, but the problem with that is your time will disappear and you won't know where it goes. Yes. Because you're like, well, how many how long did I spend doing that? I have no idea. And of course, you know, the rule is with nearly anything, is that when you don't have a limit on how much time you set, you just tend to just take it easy. I think it's Parkinson's law. It's going to allow us. A work will expand for the amount of time that's set for it. So if you set yourself two hours, it basically be done in two hours. But if you set it like X amount, unlimited, it's just going to keep on going. It'll never get finished. So. I'm always reminded of the example when you have a bit when you have like the day before your vacation, when you're going to go on vacation with the family, how productive are you? It's like you're most productive day ever, right? Right. You are motivated. Because you don't want anything to go wrong and have to come back, right? I got a good thing done, right? But exactly. That's the point, you know? The thing is is that we need to create these limits and say, okay, we will only spend this much time doing this. But we also need to dedicate time to our families as well. So any dedicated time for ourselves, whatever keeps you stress free and relaxed, whether that's doing VR or playing golf, although some things we couldn't do during the pandemic, we have to find ways to
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"Now the big problem though, the companies are having is finding a way to really keep that, as you said, you were looking forward to the networking part. Of the NBA. And that's unfortunately something that's been taken away the past two years for children, as well as businesses. And so that kind of the negative, of course, is idle chit chat at the water cooling loop. That's the downside. But there is a positive where you can talk to your coworkers and learn from the ask questions directly and even just kind of peek over their shoulder and see what they're doing. Just a quick question, hey, how did you do this? That thing is been missing. And so companies really need to tap into that, how to do it virtually. And that is a real challenge. I think the best companies really trying to find ways to kind of replicate the networking atmosphere. I mean, Clubhouse was a big boom during the during the pandemic simply because we were isolated and so people wanted a way to talk to others. And it paid off for many people online that way. I personally found Clubhouse great. And I met some great contacts that way. And the same thing can be done kind of through your company, but it has to be more casual where you just kind of, like, here in Japan, they like to have virtual drinking parties. People just in their house and just relaxing, you know, forget that I'm your boss and you're the employee. Just get together like you were like we would have done previously after work. You go for a couple of drinks. The thing is, it's being at home. It's easy for you to just step out anytime because you're like, oh, my wife's calling me. There's no real pressure of having to stay at the restaurant or drinking too much. You don't feel the pressure. So that's the good thing. So I think zoom parties are a nice way to show that management are real. They're just like you they're in the same situation. The other thing is is that companies have to try and be more find more ways to show people's employees, what do you quite satisfaction has as kind of changed in the sense that before it was really. Extrinsic is that the word I'm not saying correctly, I can't even think of myself. External, is that what you're thinking? No, I'm thinking that the intrinsic and extrinsic I'm crazy. I know you're talking about it. Well, monetary rewards are what was usual, usually given. But today's people, today, employees really want more than that. They really want the kind of personal touch. And so what companies really need to do or managers really need to know is what their employees want on the individual basis. Money is a great thing, of course. But there's a limit to how much effectiveness that can have. People want time off. People want something that showed that they're special to them. The company or the manager is the representative of the company, right? But they want to feel that their appreciate and their understood. So managers who kind of keep tabs on what their employees like, their hobbies and their interests can find interesting rewards to help motivate them. So for example, maybe you're into fishing, then maybe, you know, maybe you could offer them a new rod as kind of a bonus for their efforts. These kind of things that maybe you couldn't really didn't care about before because you were just in the office now. It's online. You've got to do things a little bit different. And this is one way. You focus more on the intrinsic rewards and rather than just the simple monetary rewards. So that's a good way. No, I like that. And that way it shows that you're listening to the person. If you're doing something that's a hobby that they like or something like that, I mean, you have that personal personal element there that, you know, it's something you wouldn't have probably wouldn't have done beforehand, but because of this environment, it's a way for teams across the globe to connect. You can just get on Amazon and ship that thing. So something else that keyed me, my brother actually works as a lawyer for a blockchain company and something that they just, he just started that
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"Ultimate potential, I guess. And companies need to do more trading for people who really don't know how to use those programs. So that's really the trend for the future. So I think the companies that will thrive have really understood that and are implementing that. And the companies that will struggle the ones who aren't really using all these great devices to their potential. Yeah, that makes sense. You touched on a couple of things there. I mean, in terms of schooling, my wife and I were already thinking about homeschooling, but the pandemic kind of just made it easier, just to plug into that. And my kids now are my wife's into which used to be a grade school teacher. So I mean, it was kind of already a natural thing for her. And they're thriving. And I know that was another trend I guess you could say they kind of took off as a result. Folks decided, hey, you know what? Maybe I could actually stay home with my kids at home school. You're very flexible and your ability to do it. You can even have a job and then do it, do it at night or in the evening because, hey, you don't need that. The kids don't need as much time because a lot of time, just like an office work when you're there, it's a lot of fluff, you're around the water cooler, you're now you're changing periods and things like that. So, I mean, that was something interesting too that I found, especially here in the states, and then just conversations we had. And then another thing, I mean, I actually experienced not just the work, but I had a, I got an MBA during the pandemic. Yeah, thank you. I only had one class actually in person. It was like January to the beginning of March 2020, and then everything else was online, and I finished in July. So I got to experience that, you know, everything exclusively online. I even did a GA for the school. So everything was online. I mean, you talk about zoom fatigue. I can't imagine, I mean, you know, it was interesting classes, it's gonna be a work, so you're having more of a discussion. But if you just had so many talk at you all day, you know? I mean, I get on how the kids do it. So it was just that it was interesting to kind of experience everything in the pandemic as a result from behind the screen. And just not being not being there. In terms of the GA and getting the degree, I really wanted to be in person. I was actually really excited about seeing that. And just being able to meet new people and things like that, you just didn't get that. So that was unfortunate. But I don't know how I would have I don't think I've been able to get it all done. To be able to do everything without being online and not having a commute. I mean, I couldn't imagine leaving work going to school and it would have just been a nightmare, especially on my relationship with my family. So that, that, I am actually very thankful for it was a true blessing. So I just wanted to interject that there. I thought that was interesting. You're absolutely right. Absolutely right. I mean, I think the best thing that's really come out of the pandemic is just that families have grown closer really for the most part. Definitely. And people understand more about what their kids are doing. And the less the learning that they're going through and what's good and what's bad. So yeah. Well, let's talk about someone who's more of a leadership role. You are a leadership expert, you can companies on how to do it best. When it comes to leading a remote business or leading remote teams, how do the best ones stay productive? Yeah, again, this is something that companies are still trying to figure out, really. There's a lot of learning going on. As I said, I think the thing is that it kind of goes back to the four minute manager by Kenneth Blanchard in the concept that everybody's at a different stage in their life and with their ability and their knowledge. And a know how. So companies need to learn how to get the right person in the right position in their companies. That's really the real challenge I think of leadership today. There's no shortage of people, companies are companies struggling to find people, but they're out there. And they just need to be given the right training to be able to be in the right position. So that they can get the most done for their company.
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"The benefits of that is you get things done much faster. Absolutely. That makes sense. I mean, I like that I want to touch on that stack that 13%. What other trends are you seeing in addition to that? You say we were 13% more productive. Obviously, you know, a case by case basis might be a little bit different depending on your situation there in Japan. What trends are you seeing overall though? Is there anything else that you can touch on in the work from home space? Does anything stand out to you? That's an interesting thing. From what I hear is that at first the productivity suffered, of course, there was a lot of fear two years ago with what was going on in the world. And being locked at home, that was not good for most people. Most people were used to going out, spending time with their friends, and it was a big shift, but after people started to realize that there were benefits that could be taken from this, and especially this is Christian podcast. Family comes first. And now you get to at least parents got to see what their kids were learning at school. And some good and some bad. Now that was not a they did not know that before. So now they can make the adjustments necessary to benefit their children's future, whether that's getting into a new school or changing their study habits. The sad truth is, unfortunately, zoom, lessons don't really work, not nearly well enough. Compared to in class learning. But the thing is for office workers, it really depends on your position in the company and really if you are experienced, you've got all the knowledge and you don't really need hand holding. This is the ideal situation because autonomy is what most people really value. They don't need to have someone looking up at the shoulder, breathing down their necks, that really just the stress level goes up. You feel fear. And anxiety and things like that. But because of this situation, people were kind of left to their own devices. And most people really benefited from that. However, the people who are not experienced, the people who are just just graduated from college so people who are just leaving high school or entering new job, they don't have the know how. So they are actually ones who are a little bit slightly struggling to keep up with the productivity, they're supposed to actually kind of gun down compared to previously. So companies are really trying to tap into that. How can they get these people better trained? And training overall, there has been, you know, because we've turned into this zoom society now, or at least we've understood the benefits of zoom. Meetings that were done face to face before. Now just 70% of kind of moved into zoom or not that's not the right statistic I don't have a number, unfortunately, but it feels like that to me anyway. Maybe even higher. It could be. But yeah, there's just physical, there's times to be you want to be in front of people to shake the hand. But not during the pandemic diaper. But companies have to understand that they need to tap into how to get these people who are kind of inexperienced at the workplace and how they can get their level up. So companies really need to deal with that. And one of the ways they're doing that is they're kind of looking at the way we work is really in front of a screen. And it hasn't really changed for 30 years. Really? It's the beautiful resolution, nicer mouse, better keyboard. But it's pretty much the same. So companies really need to kind of learn how to use, I don't know if you've noticed, but apps have become a lot cleaner, a lot more beautiful, a lot more maybe seductive. I don't know, they want to get you to use them more. But that's a good thing because they've often made it easier. The interface has become more intuitive. And so you'll see a lot of programs online that have really tried to make things a lot easier to use asana, teams, all these programs that are really trying to find ways to be able to use their technology
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"Best. Companies will learn to value the financial benefits that that can offer. They don't need as bigger office space. They don't need as much electricity as a result of that. And unfortunately, we will have to bear that burden, but at the same time, we don't have to use waste of time in the commute and also we can save the gas costs to work and things like that. So there's a lot of positive things, but we have to be careful when we're working at home. And that is that we have to learn to separate our work life from our family life. This is a problem for some people. Like when my wife's first started doing it, I'll use her as an example. She set up her office on our dining room table. I live in Japan. There's not much space. We only have two rooms upstairs, and basically a living room dining room downstairs. It's not like America, we can just kind of separate things more easily. But it was great because we were both there together and I could talk to her and she could ask me to do things and it worked out. How it works, right? The wife asks you to do something. Always look away, always away. But after about a year, she decided to make the move of taking her so called office upstairs. And the reason for that is because she felt that she was distracted with me being down there and me being around, just moving around, get her out of the zone. And so she moved into my son's room because of course he's at school. Here in Japan, they didn't have any lockdowns for the school really, except for two months in the beginning, so no problems there. Yeah. So we were lucky in that sense. So she just took over his room and turned that into her little office during the day. And her productivity increased probably 20% because she could just really focus without any distractions. And that's the key word, really, what we're talking about, working from a distractions. We have to learn to limit our stretches like what you want to really be doing is ideally as having your desk facing a wall. You don't want a window where you can kind of look out and see things, oh, look at that, you know, oh, shiny new object, right? Although it's great for fresh air and things like that. But if you have a view where it's busy, you don't really want that. Also, by having a wall, you just in front of you, you just focus on your screen or your laptop, whatever. And you just get the work done. The thing is we, as human beings, get distracted so, so easily. I believe we get distracted. Yeah, there we go, the phone, the phone. That's number one killer right there. Exactly. Every four minutes on average, you see we're distracted and if you think about how many hours you're at work, 8 hours, you can do the math right there, right? So it's a constant distractions. And the problem is I mentioned this on a previous podcast, I believe, and that is that, unfortunately, once you get out of the flow, it takes about 12 minutes to get back into it. So you're never in the state of flow. For most people, anyway, because they're constantly looking at their phone, looking at their iPad, looking at the thing. And also, of course, if they're downstairs like my wife was, is my son would come home. We're moving around. Again, all distractions. You want to try and really find a way to create your own little bubble. And just really limit your. Environment to make it really conducive
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"He's based in Japan where he lives with his family, Adrian, thanks so much for coming to dad devotionals. It's great to have you back. Thank you so much. It's a pleasure to be here again, David. Absolutely. Like I said, your number one, man. You know, there's still a lot of people gunning for your spot, but I mean, you got it solidified. I hope I can bring the thunder like I did last time. Absolutely. I have no doubt you will. So really quick, is there anything that you want to mention first before we dive in? You know, it's been a trying time in the past two years for most people. A lot of things have changed. Some things for the better, actually. But whether you're out there struggling or whether you've got it made, the good news is the future looks bright. Now that things are opening up and we've learned a lot from what we had during the Corona where the pandemic, I should say. So don't give up hope. Things are going to get better from now on. And I hope that the information I share with you today will help you to take the next step. Excellent. Thanks so much for that to kick us off on that note. Now let's talk about working. Talk to us about working from home. You know, people have been doing this really, I mean, you're talking almost two and a half years now, I think. Some are heading back to the office. Others are now maybe working full time from home for the foreseeable future. You know, depending on what their office is reentry plans are. How can we stay productive and manage our time in this work from home environment? That's a great question. It's not the same as working in office, not at all. As I'm sure many of you are listening to have found out over the past two years, working from home, there's all sorts of new challenges. And there's also this good parts to it. And there's a negative side as well. Of course, the good part is that actually for most people, productivity has gone up, especially for people who are experienced in their job because there's no commute. So that's two hours or maybe an hour depending on where you live in relation to your office. But that's time that you could use elsewhere. So people were able to put that into their health into their family into their business. Get things done earlier. Get be done with work earlier and spend more time with their families. So that's the good news. But what we are finding now is that, of course, as I'm sure you're aware is mental health is becoming an issue for some people. Sadly, some people couldn't handle the isolation that the pandemic brought with it. Nowadays, it's like now I should say with everything opening up that is not going to be as big as issue as it was. But I think we're going to have to look towards the concept of being at home almost 24/7 for many people. That's going to have its own challenges. Right now, the signs are good. A productivity is up about 13% across the spectrum. You've got a lot more people being involved with their children and their family life. Also, a lot of people bought pets over that time period and that helped to release stress. So that's a really good thing. And more and more people now are actually demanding work from home or at least a form of it. The hybrid, I think, is here to stay. And I think that's
Dad Devotionals: Advice for Christian Fathers, Husbands and Men of Faith
"adrian shepherd" Discussed on Dad Devotionals: Advice for Christian Fathers, Husbands and Men of Faith
"Dave: This is the Dad Devotionals podcast with Dave Domzalski. Each week, I'll bring you compelling interviews that'll educate, inspire, and motivate you to become the father and husband our Lord called you to be. We're a community of devoted dads who want to strengthen our faith and family and live out our true purpose in this life. Please, why don't you join us? Just text me at 717-913-5671 and you'll be welcomed into my Devoted Dads Community. And if you want to support the podcast, we invite you to purchase a product, a book, or a course in our affiliate shop on Dad D evotionals dot com. You can also contribute monthly at Patreon dot com slash dad devotionals. Now, here's today's show. God bless. Hey guys, are you in a leadership role in your current job? If so, I have a course for you. It's called heroic leadership. There is only one thing that's certain in that is there will be uncertainty. But you don't have to wait around for things to happen. You can take charge of your life, your people, and your career. Instead of being reactive, you can be proactive. You can pivot when things go awry, which they inevitably will. Instead of operating from a fixed mindset, you can operate from a growth mindset. You can see opportunity not lack. Instead of focusing on only yourself, you can come from a place of empathy. You can be that rising tide that lifts other boats. It's time you forge ahead with an inspired plan and the motivation to execute it. You see the caliber of people you'll be spending time with here, as Jim Rome said, you're the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with. Well, you're spending time with Jeffrey hazlet, who will guide you through what it's like to answer the call as a C suite executive. You're listening to Sarah staley, who is dealt with many crises in her own time at Stanford University medical center. You'll also hear from Sean maroney, who has suffered from obesity and other issues his entire life. Yet all these people are stronger for their experience and will teach you how to overcome anything. Now is the time to be extraordinary. Now is the time to step up. Now is the time to be your best when things are at their worst. It's time to answer the call. Join us today. Go to dead devotionals dot com slash leader right now. That's dead devotionals dot com slash leader to get instant access to this course. Now, let's get to today's episode. Welcome to the ad devotionals. I'm David Gonzalez. Today's guest is Adrian shepherd. You might recognize that name because he was an episode 54 of the show called time management for dads, still the most popular episode of dead devotionals by far. Adrian is a productivity culture and leadership expert. He's a consultant and author as well. You can find his writing on Business Insider, entrepreneur, and dot com, the good men project,
Dad Devotionals: Advice for Christian Fathers, Husbands and Men of Faith
"adrian shepherd" Discussed on Dad Devotionals: Advice for Christian Fathers, Husbands and Men of Faith
"Now, let's get to today's episode. Hey guys, how you doing? Welcome to dad devotionals and welcome, of course, to man up Monday. Since we're talking about leadership with the last episode, last interview episode last week with John gi, and we'll be talking about leadership actually in the next couple of episodes with Adrian shepherd, who's going to appear later this week again, second time on the podcast and also Matt ham next week on the 30th. So 23rd will be Adrian and the 30th who we've met. Since we're talking about leadership in general over the next few weeks in this leadership series, I wanted to just bring a couple of poll quotes into today's man up Monday and talk to you about leading like Jesus. There's a great book. It's more for, I would say for the business element. But I think there's a lot to be said as well from a leadership perspective for us dads. So it's good for your job, but it's also good for your family, you know, kids and wife. So this is lead like Jesus lessons from the greatest leadership role model of all time. And it's by Ken Blanchard who's, if you know anything about management and leadership, he's been in the game for years as an author and also Phil Hodges. So I have a couple of quotes here that just want to share with you and I'll let you get back to your week. So his first one comes to us from talking about the heart of a servant leader on page 67 and the authors say this humility is realizing and emphasizing the importance of others. It is not putting yourself down and it's lifting others up. It is also saying to yourself and others, I am precious in God's sight and so are you. And then on the next page..