When we become ultra-diligent with time management, we can achieve every dream.  We should aim to weed out anything that doesn’t optimally advance our wildest dreams.  To illustrate, I started documenting everything I do on my breaks throughout the day.  The goal is to replace the least productive downtime activities with actions that lead to the most favorable consequences.

In his audiobook Goals, Brian Tracy says that successful people focus on activities of high value; unsuccessful people focus on low-value activities.  So, he advises us to ask ourselves, “What can I do to get two extra hours of productive time each day?” Then, write out twenty solutions or obstacles (while flipping the obstacles to the positive, where “I need a half hour sleep during the day” becomes “I don’t need a half hour sleep,” and then find solutions for how we can achieve that state.) When we weed out the unnecessary activities, passion gains frenzied momentum.

I spend too much time reading the same “Five Traits of Introverts,” “The Value Introverts Bring to the Workplace,” and anything else with the word “introverts” and taking ten-minute naps during the day.  However, I discovered that napping for ten minutes makes me more likely to grow tired, creating an environment for chronic fatigue to resurge.  I get more energy if I do a ten-minute stationary bicycle interval sprint instead.  As another alternative to naps, I’ve watched so many YouTube shorts on track-and-field sprinting recently that I’ve grown amazed at my newfound sprinting form, although I’m still amateur.  So, instead of napping, I cycle for ten minutes on the bike or run track and field sprint drills up and down the hallway.  The key is to ask ourselves, “What does an ultra-healthy, happy, and successful person with my dream mostly do throughout the day?” In my case, is it nap or exercise?  Clearly, exercise comes first.

Once I eliminate less beneficial and less essential tasks, I’ll replace them with more beneficial ones, even if the less beneficial ones contribute to advancing the goal.  It’s best to prioritize activities with the most impact, especially when two choices of activities move the needle.

For example, I may have a second side hustle that could bring in an extra $5000 to $10,000 a year.  I’m a strong candidate; if chosen, I’ll be privy to top executive strategies.  So, today, I walked through the oil and gas towers thinking, “One day, after I’ve made my employer a multi-millionaire retiree, I’m going to be the CMO of one of these towers.” Although I was wearing jeans and a t-shirt and everyone else was in a suit, I felt a swagger and confidence but also ambivalence toward the spiritual need to let go of ego.

However, I’ll need to learn futures stocks and options oil trading if I’m going to succeed as a Chief Marketing Officer at an oil and gas firm, so I need to continue my free education from the Chicago Board of Options Exchange (CBOE).  We can all take the CBOE course should we want to learn how to invest options, although stock investing courses on Udemy might be an even better starting point.  A skill in investing is essential, I believe, for us to become billionaires.  And, yes, that’s a goal.

I have a five-year vision to take my company to the top globally in our niche.  So, I took the bull by the horns, devised the vision, and created an exciting campaign.  I’ll personally give online tutorial demos globally to increase sales conversions by up to 50%.  I made a SMART goal for this campaign and designed the platform.

I also researched and discovered that I brought in more revenue for my company this first quarter than most professional consultants bring in during a year.  I’ve just got to prove the viability of our product to move onto the grand prize: our global leadership vision.  That’s where the fun is: the vision that wakes us up early, excited, ready to bust and move.  And then my employer can retire in style.  We gain passion and direction if we spend our less productive downtime working on our five-year superhero visions.

I must also learn how to create virtual reality environments to ensure my company aspires to be a global leader in five years.  I started learning C# programming to create virtual reality products for my company.  That way, my company will thrive in the Web 3.0 environment.  The free version of ChatGPT structured a virtual reality learning path for me through inexpensive online courses.  Sweet ChatGPT can give us all a learning path for our dreams.  ChatGPT advised me to spend half an hour learning the basics of C# in a two-week course and move on to the next course, and the C# course so far is brilliant.  So, whatever goals excite us, we need to make time for them by weeding out the less consequential stuff to make consistent waves toward our dream destinations.

I’m also starting to iron out the documentary film story structure about unconditional love for everyone.  One interviewee went silent, so I need to provide results for the interviewee to re-engage.  Another interviewee wants insights into the process, but I must draft the story to give that detail.  I’ve approached a director who had a near-death experience and a once relatively big-name producer who is considering medically assisted suicide.  I haven’t asserted anything yet, as I must get basic documentary filmmaking knowledge first.  However, I need to move fast, so I’m taking courses on how to draft the story.  The clock is ticking.  Fitting our dreams into deadlines is why we must weed out activities that don’t critically advance our dreams.

Those are some of my goals, and they all rev the engine.  All our goals should make our jaws drop to the floor when crafted with the view that we have unlimited potential.  But, to dream big, we must maximize every fraction of a second, even in thought.  And if we can tie every goal to a motivation of love for all, we win not just the idols of the earth but the praises of heaven.