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0:00hey what's going on everyone at Sam
0:02Evans here and I just wanted to make
0:04this quick video for you today from st.
0:07Lucia so you can see you know out there
0:10the view and pole and everything so
0:12right now I'm over here
0:15taking a vacation Steven day break and
0:18what happened last year is I was able to
0:21retire my parents and you know they were
0:23able to quit their jobs and I was able
0:26to you know get this place for them out
0:28here in the Caribbean in st. Lucia and
0:30you know they're now fully retired and
0:33living the dream out here at this
0:35awesome place and you know that's one of
0:38the that's probably one of the best
0:39things I've been able to do from
0:41starting my own business and having some
0:43success with it is you know if being
0:45able to help my parents and retire them
0:48and you know and give back to them for
0:50helping me when I was younger so that's
0:52definitely been you know one of the most
0:54rewarding things but the reason why I
0:57wanted to film this video for you today
0:58is to talk about the importance of your
1:02quarterly review so the you know the way
1:06the world works is you know we have
1:09years and then within years we've got
1:12months and then quarters and a quarter
1:14is pretty much like every 90 days so
1:18every three months that's like a quarter
1:20and the business world works like this
1:23you've got you know q1 q2 q3 q4 and also
1:27seasons and everything work like this -
1:30you've got the equinoxes and all of that
1:31so I've found like sometimes annual
1:34goals but they're great most people see
1:37it annual goals at the at the start of
1:39each year and they're like oh this is
1:40what I want to achieve this year but
1:42most people kind of forget about what
1:44they are and they don't think about them
1:47until the end of the year comes and by
1:49then it's pretty much too late
1:51and so what I've found is one of the
1:53best things you can do is quarterly
1:56reviews and what that basically is is
1:59every 90 days is taking a break so I
2:02found that a really good schedule to
2:04stick to for vacations and breaks is 90
2:08days on and then seven days off so you
2:11know you work for three months I just
2:13take Sundays off so I work Monday to
2:15Saturday and I pretty much work 12 hours
2:18a day six days a week take all of Sunday
2:20off and then I do that for 90 days
2:24straight three months and then at the
2:27end of that I'll go away and do no work
2:29at all for a full seven days and that's
2:31what I'm on right now I'm on my my first
2:34my q1 break in st. Lucia here for seven
2:38days with my parents and my wife and my
2:41trainer and you know why it's so
2:44important to take these breaks as number
2:46one you need you need to get some rest
2:48you know the secret to really staying in
2:51the zone and getting into the zone is to
2:53spend time out of the zone and so you
2:55know if you're not taking breaks and
2:57you're not resting then you know chances
2:59are you'll you're way less productive
3:01than you think and I definitely
3:02recommend that you take breaks every 90
3:05days but but more than that it's
3:07important to kind of get away from the
3:10chaos of day-to-day life you know when
3:13you're working day to day and working on
3:15your business or whatever you'll caught
3:17up in so much noise you're in the chaos
3:19you're in the thick of it and you can't
3:21really see you know the forest from the
3:24trees like you know you're stuck just
3:26staring at these things up close like
3:28the trees and these tasks and things and
3:30you can't really rise above it and see
3:33you know the big picture and we are
3:35really trying to go long-term and I've
3:37found that it's very hard to to be
3:40objective and to really see the truth
3:44and things when you're in the thick of
3:45it and in the chaos and I found that one
3:48of the best ways to really get a good
3:49clear view of things is to take a break
3:51because once you relax you catch up on
3:54sleep and you're away from all the noise
3:56and you're away from all the
3:57conversations and emails and all those
3:59things then things get a bit clearer and
4:01you can really see like ways that you
4:04can improve so that you can course
4:06correct early on in the year so that you
4:08can achieve those you know those annual
4:10goals that you probably see it for
4:12yourself so what I wanted what I wanted
4:15to make this video for was not only to
4:18tell you about you know quarterly
4:20reviews and the importance of them but
4:22also tell you how you can do them so
4:25what I've found is the best way to do
4:27them is to just first of all get away
4:30from the noise but you're not going to
4:32be able to do any clear-thinking
4:33unless you get completely away from the
4:36noise that's step one and step two is to
4:39give yourself some time you know you
4:40can't sit down in one hour and really do
4:42it you know you need a few days to
4:44really unwind and then you'll start to
4:46see things clearer and you'll start
4:49things will start popping up into your
4:50brain that you need to address and think
4:53about and so that's what I recommend
4:56doing step one really and then step two
4:59is really going back and looking at the
5:01goals that you set for yourself at the
5:03beginning of the year so looking at them
5:05and then honestly being completely
5:07honest with yourself think have I been
5:09working towards those things the best I
5:12possibly could and if the answer is yes
5:14then you're pretty much lying to
5:16yourself because you know even if you do
5:19even if you've been really productive
5:20and being working really hard you can
5:22always work ten times harder you know a
5:24lot of people say that exam you work
5:26really hard and you're really productive
5:27and stuff but I laugh because I reckon
5:30eighty percent of my time is still
5:32wasted and you know I definitely don't
5:34waste as much time as most people I'm
5:36sure but I still waste a ton and it's
5:38still so much room for improvement and
5:40so you know don't think like that you've
5:44done the best you possibly can think
5:45about how you can do it better because
5:47there's always room for improvement so
5:50you want to sit down really look at
5:52those goals that you see at the
5:53beginning of the year and then be honest
5:55with yourself have you been working as
5:57hard as you possibly can and then
5:59thinking how you can do things better
6:01and one thing I like to do which is kind
6:04of counterintuitive and a lot of a lot
6:07of people do it the opposite of this but
6:10what I like to do is correct errors more
6:14than set more goals so you know a lot of
6:17people there they are addicted to
6:19positivity and so when they come to make
6:21goals and when they come to review their
6:23performance and things they pretty much
6:25just look at what other things can I
6:27strive for and they forget about the
6:31negative things the things they don't
6:32really want to look at because you know
6:34it's painful but what I like to do is I
6:36like to look at the things that I do
6:38wrong
6:38I like to think about the areas where I
6:41make mistakes in Arras and where I'm not
6:44performing well and I like to fix errors
6:46more than I like to you know to strive
6:49for more goals because really it's the
6:52downside you've got to watch out for
6:53more than the upside and so to get more
6:57performance out of myself and to you
6:59know out of my business and my
7:00financials and all of that I spend a lot
7:02of my time trying to correct errors so
7:05give you some examples since I've been
7:07in st. Lucia here I thought you know one
7:10of the things that's really the main
7:13driver of my performance is my mood and
7:15you know I'm sure that's the same for
7:17everyone if you're not in a good mood
7:18you're not really going to be able to
7:20perform very well and so my mood is a
7:23huge driver of that and then if we look
7:25at what drives that it's things like how
7:27Fitness rest exercise food and all of
7:31that and so really when I was doing my
7:34quarterly review just just today and
7:36yesterday I thought you know I'm
7:38definitely I'm going to be it a bit too
7:40late at the moment I'm not getting as
7:42much sleep as I want to that's having an
7:44effect on my business also my diet is
7:47pretty damn clean but I still have the
7:51odd thing here in there which you know
7:54processed foods or some bread or a
7:56burger or something like that and you
7:59know there's nothing wrong with that
8:00but what it does to me is it makes me
8:02feel slower and sluggish and there has
8:05an impact on my performance my mood and
8:08my business and all of that so I've
8:09decided coming into q2 I'm going to
8:13completely I'm gonna set a really strict
8:17rule on myself to be in bed every single
8:19night at like 10 o'clock and be asleep
8:22by 11:00 and I gotta have a lot of
8:24discipline to really do that because I
8:26want to make sure I get at least eight
8:28hours of sleep every night and if I do
8:31that then I know you know things
8:32downstream like my productivity my
8:35performance and all that will increase
8:36my mood will increase and you know it's
8:38it's a simple thing right just focusing
8:40on getting sleep but those things have a
8:43huge impact on your performance and your
8:46business's results and all of that
8:47another one is you know making sure my
8:51diet is really clean
8:52being completely strict about everything
8:54that I put in my mouth like really
8:56strict about it and you know those are
8:58two big things and they're mostly to do
9:01with you know health and fitness and
9:04well-being and all that but one for
9:06business that I've got my third you know
9:08real goal and area to work on in q2 is
9:11distractions so you know one the biggest
9:15enemy of productivity is distractions
9:18and you know if anything can be a
9:20distraction so social media I've started
9:24doing more posts and I've started you
9:26know using Instagram and things like
9:28that more because that's really what my
9:30audience wanted and what I found is that
9:33you know that's a distraction and it's
9:35hurt my productivity quite a lot even
9:37though I want to be doing social media I
9:39don't want to be getting distracted so
9:41you know I've got to have more
9:42discipline there I've got to make sure
9:44that I block out like 30 minutes each
9:47day to do that to do the social media
9:49stuff and then outside of those 30
9:51minutes
9:52I don't even touch it I don't check
9:53anything don't read any comments don't
9:55read anything at all it's just off and
9:58you know that sort of discipline is is
10:00really necessary to get where I want to
10:03go and so you know from taking this
10:06break in q1 those are really the three
10:07things that I've learned that I need to
10:09work on I need to get to sleep I mean on
10:12time I need to make sure I get eight
10:13hours I need to really watch my diet and
10:16be really strict with it to make sure
10:18everything is clean not a single meal
10:20out of alignment and the third one is
10:24distractions especially social media
10:26really making sure that that's capped to
10:2830 minutes each day and you know there's
10:31obviously some other goals as well that
10:33are more you know specific to my
10:35business and things that I want to work
10:36on but those are the main three that I'm
10:39gonna be trying to work on and you can
10:41probably tell that they're pretty simple
10:42and that's the best way to keep things
10:45you want to keep things simple so that
10:47you know it's you can remember it and
10:49you can consciously work on it every
10:50single day and I know that if I improve
10:53those three things everything else
10:54downstream will improve too so that's
10:57pretty much it for this video today I
10:59just wanted to show you my appearance
11:02place in st. Lucia
11:04and give you an update from my vacation
11:06here and really stress the importance of
11:09your own quarterly reviews so what I
11:12recommend you do is you know schedule a
11:14time right now to go on a little break
11:16even if it's two or three days even if
11:18it's somewhere you know that somewhere
11:20close somewhere nearby just get take a
11:22break get away from the chaos be honest
11:25with yourself really criticize yourself
11:27and find areas where you can improve and
11:31if you do that then you know things can
11:34only get better so that's it for this
11:36video thanks for watching and I'll see
11:38you in the next one soon