As The Leader Grows with Ken Joslin

Coaching with Ken | The Power of the Five R's on Sundays

Ken Joslin

Ever wondered how a simple Sunday could revolutionize your entrepreneurial journey? Join us as we uncover the immense power of the five R's: Rest, Relax, Replenish, Review, and Refocus. Discover how dedicating just one day to intentional breaks and reflection can recharge your spirit and sharpen your focus for the entire week. We'll dive into the significance of structuring Sundays to maximize your potential and set the stage for a week filled with energy and clarity.

Get ready to elevate your daily routine with actionable strategies inspired by the success methods of Grant Cardone. We'll discuss the transformative impact of daily goal setting, gratitude, and affirmations, including the practice of writing down goals twice a day. Learn how small, disciplined actions can lead to monumental changes and how tools like the GrowthStack Drive Planner can help you track and celebrate your progress. Prepare to optimize your personal and professional growth by planning for success the night before and waking up with a purpose that drives exponential results.

Welcome to the ATLG podcast I am your host Ken Joslin, former pastor turned coach & host of CREATE, the #1 Faith-based Entrepreneur conference in America. My mission is to help faith-based entrepreneurs become the best version of themselves by growing in our Core 5: Faith, Health, Relationships, Business & Finances. You can get more information as well as join our FREE Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/676347099851525

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Hey guys, welcome to another episode of as the Leader Grows. I am your host, ken Jocelyn, super stoked to be with you guys today. I want to share for the next few minutes about what I believe is a system that, if you implement, this system, will create the greatest opportunity you could have to thrive Monday through Saturday. Some of you guys may have seen this before. Some of you guys may have seen these five R's that I want to talk to you about. Some of you guys may be familiar with my GSD planner that I created, which is my system for being able to, what I would say, squeeze every ounce of potential out of every single day, and I do believe that Sunday is the most important day of the week. Let me say that again. I believe that Sunday is the most important day of the week, not only for people of faith like myself. Is it what we would call the Sabbath where we rest? Only for people of faith like myself? Is that what we would call the Sabbath where we rest? We don't do anything that has to do with what we do to earn a living or what we do for a vocation, whatever makes us money. We say God, we're going to take 24 hours. We're going to give that day to you, and so I created this a few years ago and I really believe this is, and can be, a game changer for you and for your life. So I want to walk through the five R's with you right now. Number one and I'll go through the five, then we'll jump back in and I'll kind of unpack each of those Rest, relax, replenish, review and then refocus. Rest, relax, replenish, review and then refocus. And I believe again, if you put these five things into practice, I'm telling you you will experience more fulfillment. You'll get more done in the next five to six days than you would without these five hours. Because what it does. And you've heard the old saying they ask Abraham Lincoln if you had four hours to chop the tree down, what would you do? And Abraham Lincoln said I'd. Abraham Lincoln, if you had four hours to chop the tree down, what would you do? And Abe Lincoln said I'd spend the first three sharpening the ax. And if there's ever a time for us entrepreneurs that we need to be able to sharpen the ax, to rest, relax, replenish, review and refocus, it's Sunday. It's a great opportunity to do that. So grab your pen, grab your paper. I want to jump right into it. Number one rest. You're like dude, I'm an entrepreneur, I don't know how to rest. What does that mean? Rest? It's funny.

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This year at our Create Conference, I stood up in front of the whole room. There's several hundred people there and I'm like okay, this year, guys, I want to talk about these 4610 moments that we're going to implement during our conference in between each of our five core, of each of our core five areas faith, health, relationships, business and finances. And I asked this question. I said how many of you guys love to be still? Love to be still Crickets? There's no entrepreneur that loves to be still. Why? It's because God created us with that extra drive, with that extra motor. There's something on the inside of us that causes us to go a hundred miles an hour. Literally.

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My friends make fun of me when my alarm clock. I woke up this morning at three and some change, it wasn't even quite 3.30 yet. But when my alarm clock goes off and my feet hit the floor 100 miles an hour and my friends will laugh at me. I was actually with a friend last week having a conversation. I fell asleep on them in the middle of the conversation. It's about 9.15, 9.30. My friends are hilarious.

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I got another friend who lives here locally and then my executive director who lives in Vegas. We're having a three-way conversation. He's like hey, dude, I'd love to go out Friday. I said hey, why don't you come over, man, I'll fire the green egg up, I'll cook us a steak. He goes, I can probably come over about 8.30 or 9. Joseph laughed at it. He said 8.30 or 9, ken will be in the bed already. And I was like you're in line Even on Friday night I'll be getting close and ready for bed. I try to take a shower and I try to be in the bed by about 8.15, 8.30 every night, especially during the week when I'm getting up at 4 am in the morning.

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And so rest is the number one thing, and God gives us Sunday or Saturday, whatever your day off is Now, don't get hung up on days of the week. It's really about the principle of the first God. Am I willing to give you my first? Am I willing to set aside my work and am I willing to rest and trust you Again? I go 100 miles an hour and the moment my feet hit the ground till, literally, and I can be having a conversation with you and in five minutes I'm asleep. It's quick, it does not take long at all. So rest number one relax.

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What do you need to do to relax Now? Rest and relax two totally different things. Now you can relax while you're resting, but relaxing really has to do with your mind. Now, I don't know, never slows down, like literally once it gets going. Like if I wake up in the middle of the night and have to go to the bathroom and I have to force don't look at your phone, don't look at your phone. If I ever look at my phone, it's over because my mind just goes and goes, and goes, and goes and goes. So rest is number one, relax is number two. What do you need to do to put yourself in position to be able to relax, just like when you exhale or you do breath work? When I say relax, I mean peace. What do you need to do to let your mind unwind? What do you need to do to relax at such a level that your whole physical body, your mind, your will, your emotions are just? For me it's super easy.

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Some people like reading books. Some people like to go for a walk. I love the pool. Now, the pool is one great way for me to relax on Sunday. I love to go to the pool. I love getting sun. I tan pretty good, I love the sun. Another way for me and I did this yesterday, I think I watched. I don't do this every Sunday, I'll try to at least do one. I think yesterday we watched three movies. I just hit all three of my top five favorite movies. And you say, ken, why movies? Because when I watch a movie it shuts my brain down. I'm not thinking about all the stuff that I've got going on Again.

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Reference back to when I asked all the entrepreneurs at my Create Conference how many of you guys love to be still. Nobody raised their hand because they're like I don't know love to be still. Nobody raised their hand because they're like I don't know how to be still, I'm an entrepreneur. God, you put this dream and this vision on the inside of me. How do you expect me to be still? So? Rest your body, relax your mind. What do you need to do to relax your mind every single week On Sunday? Take time, I'm going to relax my mind today. Movie, book, pool, walk, whatever that. Go fishing, whatever it is that relaxes your mind. Try that.

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The third thing is replenish. Replenish your spirit or your heart. What does that look like For me? I set a goal about a year and a half to two years ago that if I'm in town home, today it's Alpharetta. For the last five years it's been Birmingham. If I'm in Birmingham, I'm at Church of the Highlands. I'm not watching church online, I'm not checking out on my phone. My butt is sitting in a seat at one of the services at one of the campuses. Same thing here in a seat at one of the services at one of the campuses. Same thing here. If I'm home and I'm in Alpharetta in Atlanta, basically I'm at church. I'm either going to be at Free Chapel, alpharetta, watching my good friend Jensen Franklin, or I'm going to be down at Live Church, like I was yesterday with my good friend Pastor Mayo Sowell, who dropped bombs yesterday. I'm going to be there. Why? Because it's how I replenish my spirit.

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So what are the things that you need to do to replenish your heart? Maybe it's write a letter. Maybe it's have coffee with your partner or your spouse. Maybe it's take, as a matter of fact, josh Porter, who's one of the guys families, josh and his wife, lauren, lauren, are in my mastermind. Josh took one of his sons to Jackson Hole, wyoming, to trout fish. He's like and this is one of the things that came out of our mastermind he goes I want to spend some one-on-one time with my children, and so he took his son to Jackson Hole and he sends a picture catching a big trout, just having a blast, like it replenished and filled his spirit. So what do you have to do to replenish and it's going to look different for everybody If you're a person of faith and we have thousands of faith-based entrepreneurs who follow this podcast, thousands of faith-based entrepreneurs who are connected in our collective, connected at our Create Conference that we do every year right here in Atlanta with friends like John Maxwell and Ed Milet and Brendan Burchard and Gary Brekka I mean all the guys right but if you're a faith-based entrepreneur, how do you replenish your heart?

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Fourth thing review Every single day. In my planner you have three things to do in the morning, three things to do in the evening Goals, gratitude affirmations top three every single morning. So goals, gratitude, affirmations top three every single morning. Second half of the day this is super important. Wins where did I win? How can I get 1% better Goals a second time.

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You're like Ken, why do you write goals down twice a day? If there's one thing that I learned from Grant Cardone, who's been unbelievably good to me over the past four years, if there's one thing that I learned from Uncle G, it was this, and I'll never forget when he said this I write my goals down twice a day. So I may get it, ken, how many days, literally, out of the year do you write your goals down twice a day? I probably. I would say I don't miss a couple of days a month. So let's say, let's just take, let's knock it down from 365 days, let's knock it down to 300 times a year, that I write my goals down twice a year.

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If I pulled everybody listening to this podcast today and I said how many times do you write your goals down throughout the year? One time a year, there'd be a lot of hands go up. Okay, everybody's hands raised. Everybody writes their goals down at the beginning of the year and it has, and I've done this before in an audience with hundreds of people. How many of you guys write your goals down once a month? About half the room goes down. How many of you guys write your goals down more than once a month. Almost the rest of the hands go down. How many of you guys write your goals down at least twice a day, at least 300 times a year? Usually there's one, maybe two people in the room and I'll never forget when I heard Grant explain this the very first time. This is what he said.

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Pardon my language because I'm quoting Uncle G. He said if I write my goals down 300 times a year, twice a day, that's 600 times, and I do In both of my businesses and in my personal life. I can tell you what my goals are. Just like that. For my real estate company, one person is a team lead. 12 personal deals, 15 FLQAs. For GSD super easy. 75 people in our elite mastermind. 25 people a month added to our GSD collective 500 people that create 12, create one days around the country. Personal goals lose 106 pounds. I'm over 100 right now. Time with my girls, me healed and whole, and then my code that I live by. I am aware of my thoughts, my language, which create my energy, my money and my sexual desires. Those are the things. If I'm doing that 300 times, twice a day, I'm writing my goals down 600 times a year, as Uncle G says. I'm going to kick your ass every single time. You are not going to outdo me because I am so laser focused on what I'm going after.

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Ken, what does this have to do with review? You look back through your planner through the week and go okay, where did I win, where do I need to get 1% better? And in my top three, every single day did I move the needle in my top three. That's review. You're going to review your week and go how successful was I? And at the bottom of every single page and you can. This is actually a brand new planner. But at the bottom of every single page I put in a scoreboard. There's literally a scoreboard at the bottom of every single. Listen, if you don't have this planner, I'm telling you to change your life. Growstackdrivecom forward slash planner. Growstackdrivecom forward slash Grosstackdrivecom. They're $30. It's two months and there's a QR code in the very beginning where I walk through all of this stuff how to lean on this planner. But there's a scoreboard right there. Every single day you keep track of how you lived that day on a scale of one to 10, with 10 being the best. Ken Wise scoreboard.

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How many of you guys ever been to a t-ball game? Everybody's been to t-ball game, right Like. There's 30 kids on the field, half of them are chasing butterflies, picking their nose, picking flowers in the ground. Little Johnny hits the ball. He takes off running to third base. The coach has to grab him and go. No, no, no, no this way. So he points it towards first and the coach is down there waving the dad's, waving Grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings. They're all going, nuts screaming. Energy's insane. And in one hour everybody leaves and goes home, but no one knows who won, why. Because we don't keep score. And that's exactly what most of our business lives are like. And that's exactly what most of our business lives are like A lot of energy, a lot of fanfare, A lot of celebrating, a lot of whoo come on, johnny we're cheering each other on A lot of family, a lot of excitement, but at the end of the day in our business, we don't know if we've won because we don't keep score. You've got to keep score.

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I'm telling you game changer, review the week. Keep score throughout the week. I think I've given myself like six tens and I created this planner over three years ago. It's been three years. January was three or June was three years. It's been a little bit over three years. It's been a little bit over three years.

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Are you keeping score every single day? And when you keep score every single day, what it does is it kicks in the principle that's actually watermarked in this page right here Incremental, not monumental. Small, daily discipline decisions over time, always equal monumental results. Let me say that one more time for you Incremental, not monumental. Small, daily, disciplined decisions over time, always, always, always, always equal monumental results. Success cannot escape you when you do the right things every single day and when you review your week on Sunday and you look back and go okay, what did I win, how can I get better and what did I score? How did I take care of Ken this week? How did I move the needle? The last one is refocus. So every Sunday night I grab my planner and I go through and I write the date. Monday, I flip it over. I write the dates already in here Eight six, tuesday I flip it over. Eight, seven Wednesday I flip it over and I go all the way through.

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Saturday I go on my Google calendar and I use four calendar code color codes for my Google calendar Um blue, green, yellow, red. Blue is my personal time, anything that has to do with Kim becoming a better version of himself, it's blue. It's my quiet time in the morning, my time I spend in worship in the morning. It's my gym time. It's my therapy time. It's my podcast listening time, my audible book listening time Anything that has to do with me becoming a better version of myself. If I go get a massage, it's in there. It's blue in my calendar.

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Green probably can guess already is where I make money. You need focused time on your calendar for you to go after revenue, and that green better be the majority of what your time looks like throughout the day. So blue, green, yellow, yellow is what I describe working in the business and not on the business. Working in the business, working on the business, I'm sorry, and not in the business. So yellow work on the business, not in the business, not the day-to-day or as my friend Ron Luce used to call Friday's payroll, but working on the business. How are you improving your SOPs? How are you improving your systems? How are you improving your team? How are you improving what's going on in the guts of your company? How are you improving your culture? Are you having one-on-ones, are you pouring into the people that work for you. So that's what that looks like there. So we're going to do that.

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So rest, relax, replenish, review and then refocus. So everything throughout the week I'm writing all of my calendar items that are already calendar, everything that's already scheduled. I'm writing them in there. Scheduling my gym time, I'm If I have any time that I have. I said the blue, green, yellow, red, red is where I spend time with people that I love. So if I'm spending time with my daughters, it's going in there as red. If I happen to have a date, it's going in there as red. So that's what I do inside my planner every Sunday.

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That is the part of refocus. Refocus helps you every Sunday night. Get locked back in to what am I going to do Monday through Saturday and I know my good friend Ben Newman says Friday distance and champions are created on Fridays. Listen, saturday is not a day off. If you are like me and you're driven to impact people and help people and influence people and bring change into people's lives, four hours on a Saturday think about it this way. Four hours on a Saturday. Four Saturdays a month is eight. No, it's 16 extra hours. You get every single month two extra work days. So if you're getting two extra work days per month, times 12, that's 24 days more a year that I'm working than you are. That's an entire month out of an entire month, more in my work and in my performance than my next competition is going to get. So rest, relax, replenish, review and refocus. Those are Sunday's five R's.

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And guys, I promise you, if you do that and couple that with this GSD planner right here, it will. I tell you what if you order a planner and you do it every day for 60 days and it doesn't change your life, you text me. I'll send you double your money back, like it's 30 bucks. I promise you we don't make any money off the planners. I love hearing the stories of people who have organized their day and then every night, sunday night, and then every night through the week before I go to bed, I pre-plan my day for the next day. So my entire calendar is full. I may leave myself a little space for some wiggle room, but my entire calendar is full. I may leave myself a little space for some wiggle room, but my entire calendar is full.

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When your alarm clock goes off is not when your workday starts, your workday better start the night before, because when you do and your feet hit the floor and I've said it a million times if you need an alarm clock to get out of bed your goals are not big enough. And when you handle your day and you steward your time well, you watch how God breathes on your day and on your time and you just don't go. From addition to multiplication, you go and it becomes exponential. Anyway, guys, thanks for joining me on this episode of as the Leader Grows. I am your host, ken Zosson. This is the five R's. This is the GrowthStack Drive Planner that I created three years ago. It has changed hundreds and thousands of entrepreneurs' lives GrowthStackDrivecom forward slash planner. I'll see you next week on as the Leader Grows.