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In Episode 275 of the Further Your Lifestyle podcast, host Chris shares a quick post-run conversation inspired by the question, “Which specific hour from your past seven days would you rewrite and what would you do instead?” He uses it to explore how regrets and mistakes can be leveraged for growth by improving how you spend your time moving forward. Chris challenges listeners to weigh the value of continuing annoying tasks versus delegating, outsourcing, automating, batching, or stopping them altogether, using examples like dishes, cooking, meal prep, and even small life automations. He also notes that distractions like doom scrolling can steal attention and time, and reminds listeners that “productive” time is personal. He ends by prompting listeners to reflect on what they’d change from the last week using three lenses: improve, delegate/automate, or stop.
00:00 Welcome Back Intro 00:35 The Rewrite Question 01:26 Regrets And Growth 01:47 Time Cost Tradeoffs 02:53 Dishes Automation Example 03:28 Cooking And Meal Prep 04:35 Life Hacks And Distractions 05:47 Three Options Framework 06:27 Wrap Up And Subscribe
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Yo, yo, yo, welcome back to the Feather Your Lifestyle Podcast Conversations on Lifestyle Passions and Hustles. My name's Chris. I am your host, and I'm super excited to be back here having the conversation with you. Episode 275. Sorry if it looks like I'm just about to go robbed somewhere. I just got back from a run and I wanted to jump on here and just have a very, very fun quick chat with you. Because it's it's always fun doing these conversations, right? And every so often I like to spice it up, change it up, and keep keep it fresh for me as well. Because I want to be consistent with this, but I also want to make sure I'm bringing different types of content. And before before we get into that, I'm going to give you a little bit of context of today's
episode. So this will be a short one, but there was this this, I don't know if it was a comment or a or a topic or just I just read it somewhere and it went like this which specific hour from your past seven days would you rewrite and what would you do instead? Now, we're not necessarily going to dig straight into that in detail, but it made me think about that, like, okay, so if there was a moment here that you wanted to redo, how do we then actually leverage that to then make going forward so much better? If you don't understand what I'm talking about, we're gonna roll the intro and let's get into it.
So my thought about all of this was like we go through life and we have regrets. Maybe, maybe you do, maybe don't. But there might be a moment where it's like, oh, I wish I didn't do that. We wouldn't, I wouldn't have made that mistake, we'll be further along. But at the same time, mistakes that we make are going to enable us to actually grow. We're gonna come out better from that if we learn from those mistakes. So it's important to learn from those mistakes. But I was just thinking about like, oh, last week, I was just like with this, I was thinking about okay, in the last week, I wish I didn't have to do these things because they just take up so much time,
right? And then I thought, well, like, why do we do these things? If there's things that you didn't want to do, if there's things that you could have done, save more time on, or things that you could have outsourced, why don't we do that? And that is because we we look at maybe okay, what is the cost to outla outsource it? What's the cost to automate it, or what's the cost to get rid of it? And maybe we see, oh, it's gonna take two days to to build something, or it's going to cost me $200 a week, or it's going to whatever it may be. And then we realize, nah, I'll I'll happily keep doing that small little thing that even though it annoys me, I'll keep doing it anyway. And I think this is a really important moment where we need to actually kind of really weigh up the benefits and the value of actually whether it's continue to do something versus delegate something or outsource something or automate something versus stop doing something. Is the thing that you're doing even necessary in the first place? Now, of course, there's some level of elements here that you could break it down to, which is like, okay, if you're thinking about in the kitchen and you don't want to do the
dishes, well, do you have a dishwasher? You could automate the dishwasher, right? Put the dishes in the dishwasher and it's done. You could go one step further and you can have someone that comes and does the cleaning for you. Or you could just stop doing the dishes altogether. Now, stopping doing all the dishes altogether is not going to work, but putting in a dishwasher or having someone else do the dishes for you could make sense. How much time is it going to save you? That's going to be up to you, the size of your family, your situation. And how much is that going to cost you? So there's an element there. The other thing is it's like, what about cooking, right? Do you have the time to cook? Do you even have the energy to cook? Do you want to cook? All those different things. Same thing. You could outsource it, you could buy it, you could conveniently buy it, which costs more. You could have someone do prepping for you. You could do prepping yourself. So there's again all these different things that can give you back time. Of course, you have to trade it for an expense or trade it for an effort to batch it to give you back time later, right? If it's going to take you two hours, if it's going to take you two hours to cook food anyway, why not cook as much food as possible in that two hours so that you can maximize the return for the rest of the week? So leveraging your time or maximizing those opportunities. And I think I think this is a really important thing that we forget, we forget to do these things, but we get in the moment and you have to go do a task or you have to go do something and you realize, okay, I'm going to do this. It's like, oh, I don't want to do this. This is annoying. It's like I really should automate it. But if you can't spend the time automating it then because you need to get the task done. So you have to find the time when to do it. And I want to I wanted to kind of like just bring this up and challenge people on it because I feel like it's a very like, I'm not clearly the only one thinking about this. And it doesn't even have to be business related. It can be life related. It can be life hacks. I see little TikToks of people putting little automations in their life that when they open their fridge or you take something out of it, it's it's able to read what's missing, and then it sends them a little note and updates their shopping list and things like that. Just cool little things, right? Of course, it takes effort and time and la-da-da-da-da. But a lot of the time we we can probably be getting a lot more out of our time.
And also, I mean, what we do waste a lot of time probably scrolling and doing things where our attention is stolen from us. That too could probably save us time. So if we didn't spend our time doom scrolling or didn't spend our time distracted or our attention being sucked up from something else, we could probably be more productive with our time. Productive is obviously to your choice of words. If you want to play video games and that's your productivity, that's fine. But if you want to come home and you want to spend time in the garden and be productive in the garden, that's your productive time. So there's no bright or realm of terms of what is productive time for you because you get to spend how you want to spend your time. But if you're lacking what you want to like the time to be able to spend doing what you want to do, what are you doing to remove that? It's not never going to change unless you make a change.
So this was just a quick little reminder, little tap tap, stump stump to say, hey, have you thought about doing some of these things? And I'd ask you the same question. What in the last seven days, what's something that you wish you didn't have to do or you had done differently or would have done differently if you could? Bringing in the lens of could I keep doing it, but just in a better way? Can I delegate it or outsource it or automate it? Or three, can I stop doing it all together? What what difference will it actually make? I think if you bring those three three things together and unpack them, I think you'll find that you probably, you probably can actually give yourself a lot more time and benefit. So that's my two cents
for today. Appreciate you being here. If you enjoyed this, hit subscribe, hit like. You can continue the conversation, jump down with the comments below, and we'll do it all again next week. I'll see you then.
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