Erin Coupe | Are You Looking to Find More Time to Get Things Done? Erin Is a former FORTUNE 200 Speaker, Coach, and Author of the Forthcoming I Can Fit That In: How Routines and Rituals Transform Your Life

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Some shows don’t need a celebrity narrator to introduce the show, but this show does. In a world filled with endless opportunities, why would two men who have built 13 multi -million dollar businesses altruistically invest five hours per day to teach you the best practice business systems and moves that you can use? Because they believe in you, and they have a lot of time on their hands. They started from the bottom, now they’re here. It’s the Thrive Time Show, starring the former U .

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Small Business Administration’s Entrepreneur of the Year, Clay Clark, and the entrepreneur trapped inside an optometrist’s body, Dr. Robert Zilner. Two men, eight kids, co -created by two different women, 13 multi -million dollar businesses.

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We started from the bottom and now we’re at the top. Teaching you the systems to get what we got. Colton Dixon’s on the hooks. I break down the books. He’s bringing some stump and the good looks. As the father, that’s why I’m a zoe.

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If you see my wife and kids, please, it’s the CNC up on your radio.

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And now, let’s go.

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Ladies and gentlemen, on today’s show, I’m super excited to be joined here with you because I think a lot of people can really dial in and connect with this message. The idea is, can I fit that in? Do I have time? Can I schedule time for family and faith and friendship and fitness and fun, or can I just have fun? Or can I schedule time for faith and family, fitness, or can I just get in shape? Can I schedule time for faith and

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and do I need to become poor in the process? Today’s guest, today’s author, she believes that you do have time to fit it all in. We will see if it is possible. Erin Koop, welcome to The Thrive Time Show, how are you?

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I am good, thanks Clay, it’s good to be here.

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Okay, so you’re a lot of fun, you have good energy, I like this already. What’s your background? If people aren’t familiar with you, tell us about your background.

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Yeah, so, I mean, going way back, I was born and raised in the St. Louis area in a very poor family. My dad was terminally ill since I was five. He passed away 13 years later when I was in college. I’m the first in my family and, you know, the extended family, aunts, uncles, you name it, to actually go earn a four -year degree. With that, I moved to New York City. I worked on Wall Street at Goldman Sachs for many years in my 20s.

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I stayed in corporate for a long time. I always loved corporate. The thing is, I realized the one thing that made corporate not very sustainable was the people in it at times. And so I was one of those. I worked on myself to be a better leader, a better mother, a better partner. And it’s what led me to do the work I’ve been doing for the last eight years and in my own business for six years, which is really to help people develop self -awareness and emotional maturity and a level of groundedness and reflection that keeps them motivated and keeps them energized.

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Now, I got to ask you, because so many young whippersnappers want to go work for Goldman Sachs. They want the hustle, the bustle. They want that. You’ve lived that life. You’ve done it. Can you tell us what that life was like out of college working for Goldman Sachs?

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What was that kind of energy like?

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Yeah, you know, what’s really interesting is the time that I was in it, you know, this is pre -2008, 2009 when the economy exploded, right, when it was really not well. So in that time frame, money seemed like it was just growing on trees. I mean, not in my own life, because I was not making the crazy amounts of money as some of the people around me. But I felt like money was just being printed everywhere I looked. And that was not something I was used to. That was a very, very different environment for me to be in.

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Like I said, I grew up quite poor. So all of a sudden, I’m surrounded by Ivy League people and this crazy amount of money on the trading floor at Goldman. That pressure and that environment was definitely very high stage. It was very cutthroat. It was very competitive, as you can imagine. And I had to learn to either sink or swim.

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I didn’t have a fallback plan. So my goal was to just conform as much as I could and to try to be like the people around me. What that ultimately did is I was created this level of inauthenticity within me that I almost resented over time. And it’s ultimately what made me leave that industry is just I resigned at 30 years old. I was burned out. I dealt with really, really terrible managers who were micromanagers and didn’t believe in giving people autonomy to do their jobs well, but wanted to manage their every move.

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And I realized it was just not for me in the long run. It didn’t mean that the whole firm was like that or the whole industry was like that, but it was no longer aligned with who I was becoming.

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Did you have an apartment? Were you living in an apartment in like New York or something? And how big was this dwelling for you?

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485 square feet. Really? Yes. Yes, it was. It was a hotel room, basically. It was a studio apartment on 22nd and 2nd.

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So it was in the Gramercy Park neighborhood. And my first son, who’s 11, his name is Gramercy. It was a very special place. I did live with a roommate initially when I first moved to New York, and I realized I’m spending $20 on cab rides late night going home. as a woman in her early 20s that went out after work. So why am I going to spend $20 five nights a week when I could just put that money into my own rent?

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Wow, wow.

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Okay, so that’s where you started. Now, at a certain point, you started kind of maybe journaling or taking notes and started thinking about how you would go from there to here. Can you walk us through your migration patterns? How did you get from there to here?

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Yeah, so from Goldman, I went into commercial real estate and I spent most of my 30s in commercial real estate. And, you know, I was at a firm called CBRE, so a global organization, and I was a vice president. So I was in leadership and was also a producer in that company. And one of the things that I started to notice about myself is that I didn’t really like who I was in my life any longer. And I started to question things about why did I actually feel that way? What was it that was coming up within me that was giving me this sense of misalignment and this sense of wanting something different?

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I was very good at checking all the boxes that society laid out. I had checked them all. So on paper, my life looked and sounded great. I was grateful for the opportunities I had, grateful for the life I built. And at the same time, I just felt like there had to be more to life. And what over time, through journaling, through meditation, through reflection, through courses that I took, through books that I read, I got to this point of understanding about myself.

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It was how I was approaching all of it that was the issue. It wasn’t the job. It wasn’t the place. It wasn’t my husband. It wasn’t motherhood. It was my mindset and my approach to how I navigate my everyday life, how I treat myself.

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within my everyday life, and how I actually look at the bigger picture of what it means to be alive, to be vibrant, to be whole. That was what I needed to shift. And so the work on me, that inner work, became transformational in my own existence, and it became my North Star.

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I’m going to pull up your book real quick here. I’m going to pull up your book. I’m pulling it up.

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That’s what I’m doing.

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I’m looking at the book. I got the book pulled up here.

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Here we go.

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So Aaron Coupe. Now I want to say Aaron Coupe.

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Coupe.

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I want to say coupe. That’s what I want to say. I shouldn’t say it. Do people say that? Can we say that? Can we say Aaron Coupe or is it coupe?

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I mean, it is coupe like the car, but it sounds French when you say coupe, which is very pretty.

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Yeah, I like that idea. We’re interviewing Aaron Coupe.

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He is.

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Now, in your book here, it says, I can fit that in. First off, the cover’s great. Look at that cover. You can’t judge a book by its cover, but what a beautiful cover. It says, When Achievement Stops Feeling Like Success. If you were to explain this to somebody, you’re trapped in an elevator, one of those New York elevators.

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You’re trapped. You’re stuck in the elevator for maybe 95 seconds. And someone says, oh, what’s your book about? Can you give us kind of a high level? Then we’ll get into some detail. What is your book about?

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Yeah, my book is about helping people understand that their life sometimes feels like it no longer fits them. And that’s OK. It doesn’t mean that you’ve taken the wrong path. It doesn’t mean that things are not going to work out for you. What it means is that you’ve got to change your approach. And a lot of times, that has to do with your mindset.

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So I can fit that in is not a mantra.

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It is a literal mindset shift to fitting in the things that matter most to you so that you remain aligned and you remain Full of energy and you have a capacity to sustain yourself over time now in your in your in your book you tackle some myths And I’m gonna get into these five myths and there’s probably five thousand seven hundred and two myths in the book as well But I would just get into the five that I have I’ve taken notes up here So myth number one, time management equals success. Talk about this myth, time management equals success. Why are you saying that’s a myth?

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Yeah, because, you know, None of us get more than 24 hours a day or seven days a week. No one is more special than the next. We’re all humans. And on planet Earth, we have those parameters that we live by. So instead, what we have to do is understand it’s not about how many productivity hacks or routines we can cram into our days to try to do it all and multitask in a million and one ways. There’s no sustainability in that.

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We all know how exhausting and draining it eventually becomes, even if we’ve made 250, consecutive days of the same routine happen. What I talk about is the truth is reality is energy leadership or energy stewardship, as I say in the book, not calendar hacks. It’s about stewarding your energy in a way that you’re fueling your own achievement. You’re fueling your own alignment and what makes you feel you, what makes you feel whole in the life that you’re living. This is energy stewardship. It’s what allows you to choose moment to moment what you want to think, what you want to feel, what you want to work on, where you want to give your energy and attention.

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Where do people get this wrong by default? Like, where do you see people going, you know, where do you look at it and say, look, this is being done wrong? Can you maybe give us an example of where somebody is doing this wrong by default?

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Well, I’ll tell you, you know, the reason I subtitled this, how rituals, not routines, you know, on the cover, it’s a strikethrough of routines, transform your life. Rituals transform your life because what they are, rituals are about being able to say intentionally, I’m choosing this because it adds value to my life. I am choosing this because it uplifts me. I am choosing this because it energizes me. I’m choosing this this because I know that it is meaningful to me. Whereas a routine is a lot of times something done on autopilot. Time management is done on autopilot.

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And a lot of people do it poorly, right? Like you think you’re managing your way through your day, you’re managing your way through time, when in reality you’re squandering so much of it away. How much time does your cell phone tell you you spent on it each day or each week? When you go into your apps and you realize, oh my gosh, I was on Facebook or Instagram or TikTok or whatever for an hour and a half. 90 minutes that were squandered away because it wasn’t intentional. You didn’t intentionally choose it.

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Now, none of this is about perfection. It’s not about how often am I making the right choice. That’s not what we’re doing here. We’re not saying you’re a failure if you’re not choosing things that always fuel you. But what you are doing is saying, I’m not just going to manage my way through the day and just go through the motions. I’m going to actually intentionally choose what fuels me throughout my day so that I feel at the end of the day, I can look back on it and go, I feel really great about the choices I made because they fueled who I am or they aligned with who I am, with my values.

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What fuels you throughout the day? Is it listening to Michael Bolton’s greatest hits consecutively over and over and over? Is it listening to Abdul? Are you a big NSYNC fan? Are you a big fan of… Are you kind of newer?

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Are you going with newer stuff? Do you like newer music? What fuels you?

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I love all the music. I mean, those are some really, really, really awesome choices there. I would say there’s a lot of things that fuel me and I make different choices every day. That’s the fun thing about rituals. They’re not about routines. They’re not about the same time, the same thing every single day.

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They’re about in the moment, what do I want to choose because it’s going to do what I need it to do. so Exercise taking a walk being in nature putting my feet on the earth when it’s not freezing cold in Chicago You know meditation journaling reading. I love to read You know writing Just sometimes writing an article or just writing my own thoughts is enough for me. Spending time with my family, spending time with my kids, my husband, cooking, dancing, listening to music, listening to podcasts. I mean, there’s so many different things that I choose at different points of every single day.

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So myth number two coming in hot. Productivity means doing more. Productivity means doing more. Why is that a myth?

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Because for so long, we have said that output is what equals success and output is what equals more productivity. But what we all know, especially in the world of business, is that sometimes productivity for the sake of it is not good. meaningful and it’s not moving the needle. I mean, I remember some of those years at Goldman, especially where FaceTime was not an app at the time because we didn’t have cell phones that were smart. FaceTime was how many hours were you in the office? And if I had to be there 14 hours, I could find a few ways to squander away my time and to make it look like I was productive, even though I wasn’t, because I was out of juice.

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I didn’t have energy to be productive anymore. So what I say is that your alignment with with your values is what actually makes you more productive. Being aligned with who you are, being aligned with your authentic self, with the values that you hold true to yourself at any given moment, because they change over time, but being aligned with those will help you produce more than you could imagine when you’re just trying to be productive for the sake of it, but you’re burning the candle at both ends, and you’re not ultimately being focused on what matters.

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Folks, there’s some good stuff in here, good stuff in here. I know that when I, for me, in my life and what I do, I like to work on stuff that I’m a hundred percent excited about. To me, it’s a, it’s a hell yes or a no. And so if there’s something I’m working on that I’m fired up about, I’m going to go do it. But if there’s something that bothers me, that causes me perpetual cognitive dissonance, I’m not going to do it.

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going to do it.

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We’re moving on to myth number three, coming in hot. Burnout is the price of ambition. Are you trying to say that you don’t have to burn out and be one of these celebrity behind the music’s crash and burn stories to become successful?

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I’m definitely saying that. Absolutely. I mean, look, someone asked me recently at a talk I gave. They said, do you find that since you left corporate after 17 and a half years, in running your own business, you actually notice that you work less. And I said, no, gosh, that’s the furthest from the truth. I work so much more.

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However, I feel like I am so grounded in the work that I do that I am not burnt out by it. Now, here’s the thing. No job is perfect. So when I have to do things like it’s tax season or I’ve got to do accounting monthly and I’m on the phone or on Zoom with my accountant, I know that those are days where I’m not going to have a whole lot left in the tank. So I’ve got to make other choices for the rest of that day. I’ve got to clear my schedule.

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I make sure that I’m making those choices. But exhaustion is not a badge of honor. Exhaustion is not going to get you to that level of success or achievement that you’re hoping for. It’s just a sign that you are off track. Why burn yourself out if it means that you are going to do so at the expense of your own well -being, let alone your relationship? I’ve seen so many clients do this.

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Their relationships suffer at home, at work, in their communities because they’re so exhausted. They’re so burnt out that they’re not managing who they are anymore. They’re not navigating their emotions. They’re not navigating stress and anxiety. seeping into their lives.

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Folks, there’s a lot that can be learned so far. Myth number four coming in hot. Routines are enough. Are you trying to say that routines are not enough?

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I am. I am. I’m saying rituals are what you need to insert into your life. The thing about this book, this is not prescriptive narrative. What I am not doing to say, take two of these and call me in the morning. You’re going to be better.

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What I’m saying is if you Insert some rituals into your life, which you design. I give you some ideas, I give you the framework on how to develop them, but I do not tell you what to do because you have to decide for you what are the rituals that actually fuel you and when do you use them? When do you insert them? That is up to you. There are different rhythms, different cadences, but routines are a structure and they can be very helpful. but over time they can become numbing because they become autopilot or they make you feel like a failure and you get stuck because why you end up missing the routine one day, and you think, oh man, I don’t feel good about myself now.

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And then that’s a cycle of going down the tubes emotionally, and then your thoughts match those negative emotions. We don’t want that to happen. Rituals fuel clarity, they fuel growth, and they are what will help you stay in alignment with who you are, with where you’re going, with what your goals are.

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At what point in the day do you start being happy like you are right now. Do you start off the day like Smeagol and you know Lord of the Rings character where you’re kind of like not doing well with light and you’re just just frustrated and your voice is kind of cracky and you just getting people near you is a problem and I mean do you do are you an early riser does it take you till about noon till you what’s your routine for that when do you get do you go wake up early do you go to bed early walk us through that stuff I want to know what how do you become the high octane Aaron Coupe that we know, the Aaron Coupe that we know today?

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Yeah, well, my voice doesn’t always sound like this. It’s a little, a little raspy right now. I’m getting over something and I’ve got two young kids. So you know how that goes. Yeah, I will say, I used to be a person who would wake up in the morning and think, oh, crap, I’ve got to do all this all over again every day. Right?

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It felt like my life, my life felt like Groundhog’s Day. Same thing. Every single day, I was on that hamster wheel. And it just felt like, I couldn’t wait for a vacation so I could actually live my life. That is the exact reason that I decided to change my life, because that was not fun. And I believe that we’re not here to live life that way.

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But we are here to actually take ownership of how we feel in our own lives. Now, my routine, I don’t have one. I have a ritual. I do go to bed early. I like to read before bed. Sometimes I do watch Netflix with my husband.

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I got away from doing that every night because it’s so mindless and it adds no value to my life. So I try not to do that every night, but I read some nights. I love to take a good hot shower or a salt bath before bed. It just really relaxes me. I’m big on supplements. So taking my magnesium and my vitamin D, vitamin C, all of those things. Mornings, they change.

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For a while, I got up at 5 .15 every morning, and I used that Monday through Thursday as time to meditate, to journal, and to do things that were actually fueling me. Now, I’m not an early morning workout person. I fit that in throughout my day. It just depends on when. Some days, it’s just a nice walk when I can fit it in. Other days, it’s a scheduled class around lunchtime.

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It just depends on what I do when, but I always get movement in my day. Another thing is, I will say, Some days I don’t wake up with a lot of energy. And on those days, I literally close my eyes and I say, I am excited to be alive. And I want you to try this, everyone that’s listening. if you feel like you’re just, you’re not yourself one morning, close your eyes and say, I’m excited to be alive. And notice how much you feel yourself immediately shift.

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It does something to your brain. I mean, your brain is neuroplastic, so there’s a lot to it from a science perspective. But being able to just reset your brain in the moment is really an incredible trick. So I want people to try it because it works for me.

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You’re saying, repeat what you said to say.

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What are you supposed to say?

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Say, I’m excited to be alive.

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OK. For anybody out there who’s taking notes, she didn’t say, scream at the sun and say, why do I have to live another day? That’s not what she’s saying. That’s not what you say. That’s not what she said. Someone is saying, it cut out for a minute.

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What do I say? One more time. Can you tell the listeners out there what you say? One more time.

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I am excited to be alive.

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Okay. All right.

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There it is, folks. You heard it. Okay. We’re moving on to myth number five. Myth number five. Rest is indulgent.

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You’re saying that’s a myth. You’re saying it’s not a good idea.

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What?

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Because I think most people think that rest is indulgent.

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What are you saying?

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Well, most people think that they have to save rest for weekends or for, you know, two vacations or maybe three vacations a year. Yeah. That is, again, what leads us into that burnout mentality, right? Just keep going through the motions every day and wait for something to arrive. Then you get to live or then you get to rest. And what I’m saying is that rest is something that has to do with renewal.

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It has to do with restoration. And it is something that we need to build into our daily lives. And if we can’t build it into daily life, we at least need to build it into our weekly life. Now, for me, on days where maybe I’ve had so many meetings and I feel a little more exhausted than normal, I’m going to get into bed earlier. And my husband’s going to know that. My children are going to know that.

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I’m going to communicate with them and just say, hey, you know, it’s been a while. been a little bit of a long day, and I feel like 8 p .m. m. is my bedtime tonight. And that’s OK. I’m not going to go to sleep at 8, but I’m going to get in bed and read and just give myself an hour to, like, calm down and wind down from the day. Other times, it might mean that I’ve got to sleep a little later in the morning, and that’s OK, too.

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So if it’s snoozing and it’s, you know, sleeping through what I would normally do in meditation or I would do a journaling, session or anything like that, I can fit those things in other times of my day. They’re not going to take me an hour. Maybe they take me 20 minutes, and I’ll find other times I want to do them. Or maybe I don’t, and that’s OK, too, because they’re not rigid activities. Rest is not indulgent. We have to listen to our bodies.

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Our bodies have far more information than our minds do. I think it’s like our minds have like 0 .001 % of the information our bodies have. We have to listen to that and actually take it to heart and give ourselves what we need. I’m going to pull up your website here real quick.

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Who’s that guy?

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Who’s the guy?

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Who’s this guy right here?

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That’s the Hubs.

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Craig.

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Craig.

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OK. How long have you and Craig been married? Oh, uh, 14 and a half years together for 18 and a half. Well, okay. That’s Craig. That’s you.

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It’s you as Craig. Uh, okay. And it says here on your website, which I’m on right now, the Aaron coupe . com I’m on the about this button. Yes.

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It says, uh, this profound shift for, uh, happened for me until twin 2017 near my 36th birthday, despite being a successful corporate executive, happily married with two young children and an excellent health.

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I felt in an implex, inimplexible, inimplexible, in a plexible.

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You read that word to me? Inexplicable. Inexplicable. Void. Inexplicable. I had achieved everything society told me would bring fulfillment and a sense of peace, yet something essential was missing.

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I haven’t said inexplicable. I don’t think ever. And then I haven’t said it today. So I’m really learning a new thing. Inexplicable. One night with my children asleep and over a glass of wine, I voiced my feelings to my husband.

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And so that’s when it happened.

(Speaker 1)
That’s when you kind of made this shift. What did he say to you? Did he say, what’s your problem? Get serious. What was that interaction like? You know, it was the questions.

(Speaker 1)
I write about this in the introduction of the book, because it’s such a profound story. And it was the night that everything started to change. What I said to him was, how can this be it? Like, what’s the meaning of all of this that we do to ourselves? We go through life, and we think that we’re going to just work our butts off and make it to 65, and then we’re going to live. The problem isn’t the working.

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Work is our livelihood.

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It’s an important part of our lives. The problem is that we believe that at 65 is when we get to finally live. No, we need to live now. So that profound shift in asking those questions was the start of my work on myself. It was the start of me taking ownership and starting to make some changes that I otherwise didn’t see coming. Now, here’s the deal.

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You have been doing interviews to the point that you’ve kind of lost your voice a little bit. You got a great family. You got two kids. You’re going to look back. You’re going to reflect on this interview. You might say to yourself, geez, that guy was odd, man.

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He was so pale. What’s wrong with him? That was a terrible interview. Whatever the inner dialogue is, I’m OK with it. I can handle it. But what I can’t handle is a person like you, a great person like you, sacrificing your voice and your time.

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Time is your most important asset.

(Speaker 1)
And focusing on just giving us your voice, your time. And then you leaving and feeling like I didn’t ask you the one question that you wanted to be asked.

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So I’m asking you right now, what is the one thing that you want to communicate or maybe the one question that you wish I would have asked?

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Because I don’t want this show to be a swing and a miss.

(Speaker 1)
So what is the question you wish I would have asked you today? I would say, if you could ask me, how do we really fit in what matters most? That would be a good one. OK, here we go. How do we really fit in what matters most? We cut out what doesn’t.

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We cut out the noise. We cut out the distractions.

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We start to say no to the things that drain us and really take stock. Because the thing is, you’re not going to get more time. You can only fit so much into a day. So the key isn’t cramming it all in. The key is removing the crap that doesn’t actually serve you and then putting in what does. Folks, I’m putting a link right now.

(Speaker 2)
I’m pulling up the website right now. I’m putting a link on the show notes.

(Speaker 8)
I’ll put a link right there.

(Speaker 2)
Everybody, you can check out that book. I can fit that in. I can fit that in. It’s Erin Coupe. Yes. She’s joining us on the show today.

(Speaker 1)
You can check out her website there. I’ll put a link to it. Erin, I really do appreciate you. And because you are the guest who’s the best, I’m going to give you the final word. What do you want to say to our listeners out there who are eagerly taking notes? I would say, please order the book.

(Speaker 1)
You can get it, like he said, on the website. It is also available on Amazon and via all retailers as of November 5th when it officially releases. So currently on the website, you get a beautiful bookmark that my creative director designed.

(Speaker 2)
And I’ll also sign the book for you. And yeah, and reach out. I love to hear messages from people who the book resonates with, my content resonates with.

(Speaker 1)
And that’s what fills me up and keeps me going. So reach out any time.

(Speaker 2)
Hey, thank you so much for carving out time.

(Speaker 4)
I really do appreciate you.

(Speaker 7)
Say hello to your husband, and I hope you have a great night. You too.

(Speaker 4)
Thank you. Bye -bye. But Clay Clark, man, he is one character. That’s a good word for him, character. Yeah, that is it. Good, driven, smart, and I’ve never met a guy who was so hyper all the time.

(Speaker 7)
He’s doing so much good. And then I met his mother, and she just says, she just lets him be Clay Clark.

(Speaker 4)
I mean, so, you know, he’s endorsed by his mother and he’s doing magnificent work. So it was a great meeting you out there and all the people that he surrounds himself with. His Clay Clark starts his days at five o ‘clock in the morning. Oh, it’s incredible. Yeah. He’s, he’s like, he’s, he’s a machine.

(Speaker 3)
He’s a machine, but his, you know, I got, I have problems with my company starting at nine o ‘clock. Yes. About hundreds of people showing up at 5 a . m. in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Man, he’s a leader of a leader.

(Speaker 2)
He’s a fantastic young man. No, he is. That’s where you want to be. For the Tim Tebow, it’s goes a lot For the Erikson, the draw, it’s a mastermind For the Robert Kiyosaki, it’s game time For the first -time attendees, it’s oh my For the Oklahomies, it’s a sweet home of mine For the real business people, it’s so nice For the people going places, it’s a green light For you and your crew, it’s a change vibe For this rendezvous, you can name your price For the VIP, ticks 105 times For me, it’s what I do, it’s my vibe Because the Thrive Time Nation is my tribe That’s where you wanna be, uh -huh, uh -huh, yeah Business growth is what you wanna see, uh -huh, uh -huh, yeah That’s where you wanna be, uh -huh, uh -huh, yeah ♪ ♪ Where you wanna be, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ You’ve got the big goals to achieve, yeah ♪ ♪ You got to achieve it all ♪ ♪ It’s time to thrive, what a time to be alive ♪ ♪ Breath in my lungs, thank you, Jesus Christ ♪ ♪ You got a chance to cause change upon the land ♪ ♪ So beat that clock while you still got chance ♪ ♪ So to you, who do you prefer to keep making the wrong turns? ♪ ♪ I wanna turn it on until you take the time Can we kick it?

(Speaker 2)
Yes, we can. If you come with business problems, you leave with plans.

(Speaker 6)
At this prime time, shall we make wealth? Expand, can start implementation.

(Speaker 3)
We teach marketing and improving your brand. How to build the systems and finance. We teach how to hire people and manage them. How to bring your dreams into reality land Since 05 I’ve been doing it, cause that’s my jam Helping goal pursuers do it, putting cash in their hands Now that Eric Trump has joined us, he has joined the band Kiyosaki’s coming too, cause he’s in the rhythm But can he kick it? Yeah, yes he can Kiyosaki’s in the dojo of self -discipline So get your tickets now at Plata Show End I’d find them now, while they’re still on hand Top show that’s where you wanna be. Uh -huh.

Uh -huh. Yeah business code is what you wanna see Top show that’s where you wanna be where you wanna be. Yeah, you’ve got the big goals to achieve. Yeah, you got to achieve it Got a show that’s where you wanna be, uh -huh, uh -huh, yeah Business called this, what you wanna see, uh -huh, what you wanna see Got a show that’s where you wanna be, where you wanna be, yeah, yeah You’ve got the big goals to achieve, yeah, you got to achieve it all

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