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0:00everyone in Sam Evans here and today I
0:03wanted to introduce you to something
0:06that's helped me in my life and in my in
0:08in my business you know a huge amount
0:10and that is something called chunking so
0:13you're probably thinking what is
0:14chunking what's it all about
0:16well chunking is really the secret to
0:18achieving massive tasks it's the secret
0:21to achieving monumental things and I'll
0:24give you an example like there is
0:26actually humans who have eaten like
0:29entire aeroplanes like an entire
0:31airplane or a train
0:32I'm not joking there as humans who have
0:35eaten trains and airplanes now you're
0:37probably thinking how on earth do they
0:39do that how do you fit that in you it's
0:41impossible well what they do is they
0:43actually grind it down and they turn it
0:46into fine powder and it's like you know
0:48it's kind of like it's like the
0:50thickness of ground pepper and then on
0:54every single meal they have they just
0:56grabbed out a container and they just
0:58sprinkle some of this some of the metal
1:00shavings or the metal dust onto their
1:02meal and then they just eat it and the
1:05digestive system doesn't really you know
1:07panic or go crazy eating a little bit of
1:09this stuff every single day and over
1:12time a human being is act is able to eat
1:15an entire airplane or an entire train
1:18and I'm not joking you can look this
1:19stuff up so what's my point with all of
1:21this like you know because I'm sure a
1:23lot of you don't want to eat a plane or
1:25an airplane or if you do you know how
1:26but why what what this is is it's
1:31chunking and what chunking is is it's
1:33basically a way of taking a big task or
1:35a big goal and then just breaking it
1:38down into smaller and smaller pieces
1:40until they become the size that you can
1:44cope with on a day-to-day basis because
1:46I see people make this classic mistake
1:49all the time they seem to think like if
1:51it can't be fully achieved from start to
1:54finish in like the space of a day or a
1:56week or a month then they don't even
1:58bother trying to do it and it's stupid
2:01because most things that are actually
2:02worthwhile and most things that are
2:04worth actually doing they take a long
2:07period of time you know they're long
2:09term
2:09missions their long-term objectives and
2:12I see this in the business world all the
2:13time you know especially these days
2:15people are so hooked on social media and
2:18this so Wyatt to instant gratification
2:21that they expect if they expect
2:24everything to be done like now and they
2:26expect to get the results and reap the
2:28rewards now because when you do
2:30something on social media you do a post
2:32and then you get your likes and you get
2:34your comments and it's instant and
2:35people are so wired to this instant
2:37gratification hook that when they go to
2:41do something that's slightly longer term
2:43they just can't their brain spasms out
2:46and they can't contain themselves their
2:48arms almost start twitching because you
2:50know they're working on something and
2:51they can't see the payback of it
2:53immediately and I see this everywhere
2:56throughout society these days you know
2:58probably the the main thing that's
3:00plaguing people these days like a
3:02disease is this instant gratification
3:04thing which comes from social media and
3:06you know if you really want to achieve
3:08something big well it's gonna take time
3:10it's going to be long term so really the
3:13secret is to chunk it and to really
3:15drive this point home oh I'll give you
3:17an example so in my you know in my
3:21business I teach people how to start
3:23their own consulting businesses I teach
3:25a complete stranger who knows nothing
3:28about business to start their own
3:30consulting business and actually get
3:32clients help their clients and get paid
3:35money and make a profit now that's a
3:37huge transformation for somebody to make
3:39you know this person has no idea how to
3:41how to even do business that they don't
3:43know how to do sales they don't know how
3:45accounting works they don't know how any
3:47of this stuff works and they don't even
3:48know what their niche is gonna be who
3:50their clients gonna be they don't know
3:51any of this so a lot of people would
3:53look at their task and say impossible
3:55but I know it's not impossible because I
3:58did it myself and what I had to do to
4:01figure out how to create the training
4:03and teach other people how to do it too
4:04was I had to chunk it down into
4:06bite-sized pieces I had to really study
4:09and analyze the whole journey that I
4:11made myself and break it down into small
4:14pieces small palatable bite-sized pieces
4:17that you know people could consume and
4:19when I did that I was able to give the
4:22people small tasks that they can
4:24complete in an hour two hours and they
4:26can work on day to day and over a period
4:29of time you know things start to
4:31compound and things start to accrue and
4:33build up and momentum is made and when
4:36you get that momentum things start
4:37happening and so through the process of
4:40chunking I've been able to not only
4:43start my own consulting business from
4:45scratch out of my parents carriage and
4:46grow it to the point now where it's
4:48making 20 million a year and move into
4:51this place here in Manhattan here you
4:53know I was able to achieve that through
4:55chunking myself I looked at this journey
4:58I was like I want to start a business
4:59but instead of trying to start a
5:01business and make 20 million on day one
5:03or week one which is what I swear most
5:05people think that they're gonna do when
5:06they start a business that doesn't
5:09happen you have to chunk it down what do
5:11I need to learn today break it down all
5:14right what would be if I want to be
5:17there in five years or 10 years all
5:19right what do I need to achieve this
5:21year you know start from the big-picture
5:23view where do you want to go in 5-10
5:25years then reverse-engineer it backwards
5:27you know start at the end work from the
5:31big picture to the small where do you
5:33want to be in five to ten years to find
5:35that figure it out because you know what
5:38gets measured gets done and if you don't
5:40have a goal and if you're not measuring
5:42your progress towards that goal then I
5:45can tell you that you'll be floundering
5:46around in a labyrinth of confusion and
5:49frustration not knowing what to do each
5:52day and feeling guilty of it which is
5:54messed up because there's no reason to
5:55really feel guilt because you don't even
5:57know what you want anyway so it's a
5:58state of perpetual confusion and it's a
6:01straight it's a it's a place that I wish
6:04no one being because it's horrible you
6:06know because you're not making any
6:07progress and you feel bad about it and
6:08there's no way to really fix it so the
6:11way to fix it is to define your goal
6:14what do you want where do you want to be
6:16five years from now ten years from now
6:18make it specific write it down once
6:20you've got it down reverse-engineer it
6:23where do you need to be at the end of
6:25this year you know 12 months that's a
6:27good time frame to work in once you know
6:29where you need to be at the end of the
6:30year
6:31now reverse engineer it back to the
6:33months what do you need to achieve this
6:35month
6:35once you know where you want to be this
6:38month now reverse-engineer it into the
6:40weeks what do you need to do week to
6:42week to achieve where you need to be at
6:44the end of the month all right now we
6:46know what we're doing in the weeks all
6:47right now let's break it down into days
6:49what do we need to do each day in order
6:52to achieve what we want to achieve this
6:54week now we've got it in two days all
6:57right now let's chunk it into hours
6:58what do I need to do hour by hour from
7:01when I wake up to when I go to be it to
7:02achieve this thing today then break it
7:05out then when you approach each hour you
7:09know what to do you just look at your
7:10list you look at your to-do list and you
7:12execute you do it
7:13that is how progress is made that's how
7:15things are done you know a lot of people
7:17I swear they think it's like black magic
7:19or something like oh man how did that
7:21guy start a business and make money and
7:23do all of that
7:24they're like maybe he summoned some like
7:26some weird thing or did some voodoo
7:30stuff or like maybe he got struck by
7:32lightning or some weird crap like that
7:34that's not how it works that's how
7:37people who don't understand things like
7:39rationalize things and that's messed up
7:42you know the way anyone achieves
7:44anything is by figuring out what they
7:47want reverse engineering it chunking it
7:49into small bite-sized pieces writing it
7:52down committing it to paper and then
7:54executing on it day to day and I'll give
7:58you a tip one of the best things you can
8:00do in your life once you know your goals
8:02and all of that is to live in day sized
8:05compartments and what I mean by that is
8:08you know a lot of people I swear they
8:11they live like month-to-month or they
8:13live year-to-year and you know they only
8:15think really about the month but the way
8:17any of us ever get something done that
8:19is right now it's by focusing on right
8:22now and what I like to do and this is a
8:25principle and a habit that I installed
8:28in myself to be able to get things done
8:30and that's living in day tight
8:32compartments so how do you do that well
8:35instead of thinking about the week the
8:37month of the year just think about the
8:38day just think about that day as if it's
8:41isolated like at the end when you go to
8:43sleep in at the start when you wake up
8:44what are you gonna get done today
8:47to find that that's the
8:48most important thing more so really than
8:51your yearly goals and things like that I
8:52mean don't get me wrong those are
8:54important but those are just big picture
8:57things they're targets and targets are
9:00useless unless you're shooting and
9:01that's what your day tight compartments
9:04are for therefore executing on what you
9:06know needs to be done so that you can
9:07get to that target and hit it and so
9:11what you should try and do is try to
9:13live in day tight compartments as well
9:15instead of worrying about months and
9:17weeks today what are you going to get
9:19done today
9:20and you know this brings up another
9:23interesting point so like yesterday I
9:27think it was yesterday or two days ago
9:29Amazon just released its latest letters
9:32to shareholders if you haven't read
9:33these things then you need to read them
9:35it's honestly some of the best content
9:37I've ever read in my entire life and
9:39I've read quite a lot of stuff and
9:40they're free and I'll include a link
9:42beneath this video to to the leaders to
9:45shareholders I compiled all of them into
9:46one PDF and I even did a video where I
9:49shoot a quick analysis of them and give
9:51you my feedback my top 5 lessons so
9:53that'll be in a link beneath this video
9:55but I read their latest letters to
9:57shareholders and in their Jeff Bezos
10:00talks about doing a handstand and he
10:03says that one of his executives what
10:07really wanted to do good handstands and
10:09she was so obsessed with doing good
10:11handstands that she actually joined a
10:14class to try and figure out how to do
10:17them and sure in this class she she
10:22still wasn't able to really do a perfect
10:24handstand and she was a little bit upset
10:25about it and then saw what she does she
10:28hired a coach a coach on how to teach
10:30you how to do professional handstands
10:32perfect and stands and the first thing
10:35the coach said to her when he started
10:37working with her was most people think
10:40that you can do a perfect handstand in
10:42like two weeks but the reality of it is
10:45is that it actually takes six months of
10:49daily practice every day there was the
10:53first thing he said to it and Jeff Bezos
10:56said that you know one of the most
10:58important things that you can have when
10:59you're trying to achieve a goal
11:01realistic expectations and that was the
11:05point he was trying to make in this
11:06leaders to shareholders and what he's
11:08trying to say is that you know if you
11:11want to achieve something big you've got
11:12to have realistic expectations so when
11:15you get into business if you're starting
11:17your first business don't expect to make
11:19twenty million dollars in the first week
11:20doesn't happen and you know you can
11:24expect to get some clients and make some
11:26money but I mean you're not going to be
11:27making a lot of money for a while and
11:29the best thing you can really do for
11:31yourself is set some realistic
11:33expectations and when you set realistic
11:36expectations
11:37it just becomes normal you know what you
11:39need to do day-to-day and you know what
11:42you need to do week to week month to
11:43month and all of that to get to where
11:45you want to go because one of the most
11:47disheartening things is having
11:49unrealistic expectations because then of
11:52course what's going to happen is they're
11:54not going to come true
11:55and then you're going to feel real bad
11:56about it so that was the point Bezos was
11:59trying to make with that and I think
12:00it's a good one because in this in this
12:02modern-day world I see a lot of people
12:04shouting on Facebook and YouTube and
12:06stuff like start a business and make
12:08millions of dollars by doing nothing and
12:10you know in really learning nothing and
12:13you can do it now and I've never seen
12:16that happen and you know I'd pay someone
12:19to see that happen because I know it
12:21can't and if it did all I'd be doing
12:23that but it doesn't exist so it's you
12:26know you're choosing to believe in an
12:28illusion and if you choose to believe in
12:31an illusion then you're just fooling
12:33yourself you're believing a lie
12:34and the truth is you know to achieve
12:37anything big to achieve any task that's
12:40worthwhile it's going to take time and
12:42it's going to take daily practice every
12:45day and that's really what it takes and
12:48the secret to achieving that goal is
12:51through chunking breaking it down into
12:54small pieces small pieces that you can
12:57bite off you know like you don't even
12:59try and eat a steak in one bite it just
13:01doesn't work you have to cut it into
13:03pieces and work on it and when you bite
13:05it into small pieces chew them off one
13:07at a time you get the steak heat and you
13:09get the job done just like that guy will
13:12multiple guys have eaten ear
13:14planes and trains that's how you can
13:16achieve the task that you want to
13:18achieve that's how you can start your
13:19business and get to where you want to go
13:21in life and I want to leave you with you
13:25know one final point here which is which
13:27is one that I like always like to
13:29remember and that is that you never
13:33steer at the summit and this is this is
13:37something which I learned from watching
13:38a lot of mountaineering movies and I
13:40love watching those movies because I
13:41kind of consider myself
13:43similar to those guys like I'm trying to
13:45reach a pinnacle I'm trying to climb a
13:47mountain and you know it's not an actual
13:50mountain I'm trying to you know start a
13:52business and grow it to a particular
13:53point but it's really no different from
13:56a mountaineering person who's trying to
13:57climb a summit he's trying to reach a
14:01pinnacle and there's a saying in the
14:03among Mountaineers there in climbers
14:06that is don't stare at the summit that
14:10is how you get disheartened because
14:12you're just staring at it and you just
14:14keep going and you don't get there and
14:15you get worn out and that's how people
14:17give up and that's how people don't get
14:19to the summit by fixating on the summit
14:22and obsessing over the summit you don't
14:24get there so release your attachment to
14:28the goal stops fixating your eyes on
14:30like Lamborghinis and things in these
14:32flashy lifestyles and fixate instead
14:36your eyes what they do in mountaineering
14:38instead of fixating on the summit you
14:41stare at your boots that's what you do
14:44because when you stare at your boots you
14:46just focus on making another step one
14:49more step one more step one more step
14:52just look at your boots every now and
14:55then you can look up and look at the
14:56summit but then you get get eyes back
14:58down on the boots so in the business
15:00world you know stop fixating on the goal
15:02and you know waiting for it to happen
15:05because it's not going to happen it's
15:07only going to happen if you stare at
15:09your boots focus on what you can do
15:10today chunk it down into bite-sized
15:13pieces what is the step that you can
15:15take today or right now to get to where
15:18you want to go to get to the summit so
15:20that's it for this video I wanted to
15:23tell you you know if you want if you
15:25want to achieve
15:26big things in life we want to start your
15:28own business or whatever define that
15:30goal make it clear write it down figure
15:33out where you want to be five ten years
15:34from now reverse-engineer it back go
15:37from the year into the months into the
15:40weeks into the days into the hours write
15:42it down and then execute and keep your
15:45eyes on your boots make one step at a
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