5 Things to Launch in 2024 P.3

The David Alliance

 

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How to make 2024 a better launch… a better life.

 

Honesty

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Systems

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Systems….

What are my daily systems… well first I rewrite my systems every year. 

This year I have some really exciting things happening and some opportunities ahead of me. I will be helping create, run and promote a security class for churches nationwide… can’t say much yet, but its exciting. I also have just recently accepted a position with another major company speaking to churches… it is a secular company but wants me to come in and help develop some strategies for churches along dealing with generations etc…

So I always have a lot going on. I am also getting ready to  launch my own app that I have been working on for about 3 years and of course I own a personal gym, I pastor a church that is growing and of course I am a husband, father and grandpa.

 

What you have to do is realize first that systems are always under critique. I am always tweaking my routine and my calendar or lets just call it what it is. Systems.

So what are my systems in place.

First here are the hard and fast systems that will not change.

Every Monday I hang out with my wife in bed for a few hours. We talk, we pray, we laugh, we goof off… 

Mondays are not days off, but rather prep days. I use Mondays to reflect the past week, and plan the current week. Mondays are my cardio day, so I go into the gym mid morning for cardio. Monday days are prep, prayer and run errands. Monday nights are supper with the family. Monday nights are family time from 5-8 then I read and study.

Tuesdays: up at 5am. Early morning training people. Mid morning is writing, recording. Mid day is counseling, I read and pray from 1-3 then I got the gym. Supper at 5:30. Nights are studying reading and its usually on things out side of church. 

Wednesday morning hang out with my wife till 8. Then I go to a coffee shop and write for 3 hours. Just about to finish my 13 book. Then to church. I read, pray. Office work, study for my sermon. Record my podcast. Work out 3-5. Skip supper, train clients from 5:30- 7:30. Night time from 8-11 is working on other jobs and projects.

Thursday morning up at 5. Training people till 9. Sermon all day long. Prayer at 1-3. Work out from 3-5. Supper at 5:30. 8-11 work on projects… maybe Bidjones, maybe the gun workshop, maybe the speaking engagements….

Friday up at 5am. Train people till 8. Friday is sermon prep. Read and pray from 1-3, Work out from 3-5. 5:30 Date night. 

Saturday morning up early, train clients till 10am. Sermon prep, read and pray. Use Saturday for family, personal time or just catch up. Saturday night, study.

Sunday up at 4am. Train clients from 5-7am… yes on a Sunday. From 7:45 till 2 is church work. Work out 3—5 on Sunday. Sunday night hang with the family and do nothing. 

In all of these systems I am constantly reading, constantly listening to books on my phone, Always listening to great podcasts. 

Right now these systems work. Last year I was reading and praying from 4:30am till 6. But my kids moved in with us… so it was not a good system. So I changed. 

 

 

Goals are great, but build systems in place and fit the goals into the systems. If you focus on goals only… you will sacrifice the natural rhythm that will give you the greatest productivity and speed to your end in mind. 

*think of it this way… systems create who you are… goals only create what you are about.

Systems are lifestyles, goals are life lessons.

As James Clear says in his book Atomic Habits… great book by the way. You don to rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. 

 

One system I have talked about and you would miss it in my weekly systems.. but I read a book a week. But the system I use makes it simple. I take a book divide it by 7 for the days of the week. Then I divide that number by three. A book of 200 pages divided by 7 is 29 pages. Then divide that by 3 is 9.5. So If basically if I read 9 pages at breakfast, lunch and supper I kill a book in a week. And the kicker is that these 9 pages are front and back so it is really just 4 pages… front and back. 

Systems take time to build, but the save you years in the long run.