What Would You Give Up to Get More?

It's a daily boost from motivation to move. Happy Friday, I think. I sat down this week and did the show a little bit differently. I've been wanting to do this for a long time.

Kind of a conversation with you, if I will. Kind of wanting to do this. And sometimes when I do the opening of the show and do the close of the show and I put all the stuff in the show, it's like, maybe it's better for you. I guess so.

It's built into me to be able to do stuff like that. Being a radio guy and a producer all my life. It's like, oh, put the fancy thing on. It sounds big.

All that stuff, right? But at the end of the day, I just got stuff to say. I got stuff to share with you. I kind of want to do that. So I really kind of want to do this.

I just didn't know how to do it. And ultimately, what it came down to is this. Take a few minutes. Jot down a couple of notes that I was thinking about at the gym this morning.

Mostly what I've been thinking about for the past week or two. Just kind of bring it together and walk in the studio and turn the microphone on and go.

And when I get to a place that I stop, hopefully it'll be around nine minutes, I'll just stop it. I took away the stuff. Because if you listen to me at all, if you pay attention, if you join one of my coaching groups, if you work with me directly, you're going to find something. You're going to find that I am really big on taking things away.

Don't take away my toy. I will. I'll take away your toy. Because what happens is you look at everything you're doing. And in life, we accumulate things.

If you've been around for a while, if you're, say, you're mid-40s, right? And you've got the stuff right now. You get so much stuff. We need to have a garage sale, right?

That kind of stuff. Or maybe you just have really good stuff in your life. You don't want to get rid of it. You want to keep it. It's there. It happens, right?

But I would contend that many times that stuff is what's holding you back. And so when I get you to take an inventory, and I take it myself all the time. I took it two weeks ago myself. I don't teach you what I don't do.

I literally took an inventory of my life in the last week of June and said, this sucks. That doesn't. Do the thing that doesn't suck. Kind of what I came up to, right?

Which is the whole rule of taking inventory. Do the thing that doesn't suck. And so I did that. And what I found is when you take an inventory and you kind of pay attention to it, then the next thing you have to do is, you know, kind of, you know, kind of pull up your big boy pants, your big girl pants and start cutting stuff.

Because here's a line, you can write this down if you've never heard me say this. And this is one of the truest lines I've ever heard, ever made up, ever coined, whatever it is. But it's so true.

More is on the other side of less. Whatever you want in your life, Whatever more is to you, the satisfaction you want, the happiness in you, the money, whatever, whatever it is, it's going to come on the other side of less. Now, if you put that in typical personal development growth kind of stuff, it's get focused, get down.

It's the one thing, right? It's that. It's elimination of all the stuff. It's working on your 20% instead of your 80%. It's all that stuff. I know all that stuff.

And I believe it. It's so hard to do, isn't it? If it were easy to do, you would all do it. We'd all have everything we wanted. And when I say this, more is on the other side of less.

I'm not saying that you give up the stuff you really love, but I will contend that a lot of the stuff you have in your life, you don't really love, you just got it. You're just doing it because you've been doing it for a while and you don't know what to do after it. But once you kind of go down this road of thinking, well, wait a second, if more is on the other side of less and I'm okay getting rid of some things, whatever that happens to be, your life changes pretty fast.

So let me give you an illustration of this, something I don't think I've talked about on this podcast. When I started doing serving as an audio tech at the church I've been attending, which I just left that position. I just kind of decided it was time to do something else.

But I did it for two and a half years. And when I walked in, I would do audio for a live band, the worship service. And I've never really done that. I've done a lot of audio in the past.

I've done, you know, disc jockey audio, but I've never done a live band, which is pretty complicated. So I learned a few things, but I kind of knew what to do and I was good at doing it. It was mixing board with stuff and I could do my thing, but I had to learn something.

And one day I was in the room and everything was, it just wasn't sounding great. It was, yes, given it was a cafeteria, it wouldn't sound great anyway, but it really sounded bad that day.

And the lead tech came up to me and said, you know what you need to do? You need to get some stuff out of there. I said, what do you mean get some stuff out of there? He said, you need to subtract some of the audio.

I said, what do you mean subtract it? He said, well, take away some of what you're hearing. Let me show you. And he showed me. I'll explain it to you here in a second.

But he started taking away part of the music, part of the frequency that was coming from the stage. Now, fundamentally, I got it right away. I've actually done it thousands of times in my history. When I'm in a studio, when I'm doing whatever I'm doing over the years, I've produced about

tens of thousands of things. I instinctively do it because as my ear clicks in, as I'm playing with the stuff, I'm noticing, well, I need to get that out of the way. I need to make space for this. I need to do something here.

I just move it around. Never really thought about it, which you'll find in my life. Scott thinks about the craziest things, but what's more amazing is the things I never thought about it.

That's kind of that little naivety that I'll never let go away. I always want to be surprised in my life. Spends all the time thinking and studying and goes, really? How?

Like, I don't know how soccer works. I just don't know. I don't get it. I didn't watch one World Cup game. I knew I should have. People are yelling at me, oh, it's the best thing in the world.

I said, I don't get it. It's okay. Next thing I said is, do they have beer? He said, they got a lot of beer. Too bad I'm not drinking beer. Drinking beer is going to get in the way of my goal, though.

run the stair climber for an hour at level 12. My friend Croy running across Death Valley, he's not drinking beer right now either. Although both of us are planning to have a beer after we cross. Yes, that's motivation.

So subtractive audio. So imagine this, the human ear, because you're not a dog, you're a human. And if you're a human, you can hear approximately from 20 hertz, the low stuff, to 20,000 hertz, the very high stuff. And that's a very bad rendition of either one of those.

But if you look at it on a On a scale or a chart, you'll see that 20 hertz to the left and 20,000 hertz to the right. And it's a straight line across the middle of it. And then in between it is what you've probably seen a thousand times, that waveform that bounces around the spectrum analyzer.

Basically, you're seeing the visual version of what's happening on stage. So here's what's really happening. Imagine it this way. And this happens in your life a lot.

all these people are singing on stage and all these instruments are playing and they all have kind of the same voice, right? And the bass guitar might be a little more heavy on the lower side, the left side of your graph. And maybe your lead guitar is more in the middle of it. And maybe your soprano singer, she's more on the right of it.

And all of us have a place about 2,600 Hertz where our voice kind of hurts. It's the devil's frequency. And you have to kind of know it there so you can cut it out because it'll hurt your ears. There's a lot going on the audio here, but what you do is this.

If you have that graph that goes left to right, The decibel level is zero, meaning everything is equal. It's just there. Everybody sounds the same. So how do you fix it?

More is on the other side of less. So you start going into the frequencies, the first thing you cut is the devil's frequency at 2600-ish. And everything else, so I choose the lead singer and the lead guitar. Now, fundamentally, they're probably going to be in the same range a little bit.

They're going to share some of the same frequencies. The guitar player might share some with the bass player, too, but not as many. The lead singer and the lead guitar player, they'll share a lot of the same, but not exactly.

So the trick is to remove the audio that they share. So if the guitar player has audio that is better and sounds better and really carries a song better, you leave that in, but you take the lead singer out a little bit.

You just kind of remove parts of it. And when you remove parts of it, you remove the mud and you add clarity to the mix. Then you go to your bass player. The bass player might share a little bit of frequency with the keyboard.

You kind of slice and dice that a little bit. You say, hey, let the bass have the low and let the keyboard have a little bit above that. And then you say, well, what's got the lowest in the whole band? Well, that's going to be your kick drum.

the most problematic instrument on the entire stage. Way down at the bottom. But if you go too far down at the bottom, you get this crazy reverb that just messes up everything. So you actually remove some of that stuff at the bottom.

It's called a high pass or a low cut. You do the same thing with the right, the high side. Because you put too much high in the room, it gets really screechy. Nobody likes to hear it.

The bottom line is you're cutting and cutting and cutting. You're literally taking out the asset that you have. You're looking at maybe 10 people and 10 instruments on the stage. All of them on the surface, it seems like it would be fine just the way they are.

But it's not because they're all trying to play the same thing at the same time and they wonder why they can't sound good. You're trying to give your life the same way at the same time. You're bringing everything in. You're not cutting anything out.

And the bottom line is it's just mud. Nobody can hear it. Nobody can see it. And neither can you. And you're swooning around every single day trying to figure it out.

You come to me, Scott, motivate me. Show me how to do this. I'm going to get rid of some crap. Just get rid of it. What am I going to get rid of? I love everything I have.

I have news for you. You start trimming the frequencies of your life a little bit. Either get rid of it or just turn it down a little bit. And you don't have to turn anything else up.

You just have to get rid of the stuff that's dragging you and let the stuff that's not dragging you stay there. And suddenly you are exactly the person you want to be. And you feel freedom that you have not felt before.

I know it. I've lived my life in this world. I've lived my life trying to get that feeling, that freedom. If you ever wonder what drives me every single day, and when I get out of bed, why I speak the way I do, I'm figuring crap out.

This is a laboratory for me. And every single day, I'm looking for that feeling you're looking for. How do I just kind of remove all the friction of life? How do I get back an innate motivation we started talking about back on Monday?

How do I bring that back? How do I do that? We got pretty close today, I think. What do you think? Huh. That's a good place to say, have a good weekend.