The Real Goal Was Never Productivity — It Was Standards

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Man really truly genuinely appreciate you all being here. If I had a million tons, I could not tell it. I'll grab your coffee or your morning beverage. Man, I want to clear something up, honestly, because I think a lot of people misunderstand what this entire conversation about structure, focused discipline, and the system is really about you know what I mean. This week we've really been trying to drive home the point I have really been intentional with promoting the system and really tap dancing on these pain points that we haven't and I think we're really truly misunderstanding. It was never about becoming a productivity machine. It's never about becoming a productivity machine. Never never never never never never never never never never about becoming just this absolute, just gargantuan of a product tiam machine. I'm a straight animal. It was never about that, homie. Never never, yeah, never. And I know we had a conversation the other day and you would think that it was it's about just becoming this productivity machine, and it's not. It's not. Yeah, yeah, It's never about becoming a productivity a productivity machine. That was never the goal. The goal was never doing more, filling every hour, maximizing every second, becoming obsessed with output. No, the real goal was is and will always be. I feel like I'm about to I feel like I'm solving a riddle for you. I feel like I'm about to you understand what I'm saying. I feel like when I tell you this, You're not gonna need me anymore, Like this is the end of the movie and you just gonna turn it off. So I'm gonna say it again before I you know, let's get to grand finale. The goal was never about doing more. It was never about filling every hour. Never. It's never about filling every hour. It's never about maximizing every second. It was never about becoming obsessed with output. It was never that. No, the real goal was, is, and always will be standards. Standards, standards. My sister Nella, the great in the building, she says, self mastery, the goal is standards. That's the conversation this morning. Because eventually I realized productivity without standards can still create a chaotic life. Man, I've been productive as hell without standards. You feel me produced a lot in my life without standards. Productivity without standards will still create a chaotic life. You can be busy and still disconnected. You can be productive and still mentally exhausted. You can accomplish things and still feel out of alignment with yourself. That's a dangerous place. And that realization changed everything for me To go out and to set goals and accomplish these goals and to kill shit and then look up and be disconnected from your dog gas self. Yeah. Yeah, to be productive, to produce, to be to be shit black history, and to be connected from yourself. That changed everything. I stop asking how do I become moreductive? Because I used to holler from the top of my lung, from the top of my my uhh, loud as I can you know what I mean the top of my voice. I'm a machine, you feel me? And I just said, man, what kind of life am I actually trying to build? That's that's different, That's much deeper, and honestly, that question is where real intentional living begins. You understand what I'm saying, not cannot, not how I can be more productive? No, what kind of life am I actually trying to build? Let's get it one. So I'm hustled harder than the most. I'm a feast on these streets. Got a revolver. I talk for these niggas trying to take me off the block where I pointed up daily sip Bailey's out the bottles smoke. Yep. Hey man, it's a cold game. It's a cold, cold gang. It's a cold game. Let's start here. A lot of people chase productivity because we think that productivity automatically creates peace, right, But it doesn't. You can become highly efficient at living a life you don't even enjoy. Did y'all hear what I said? Like? You can become highly efficient at living a life you don't even enjoy. That's dangerous, man, because eventually you realize that you've been producing constantly but not living intentionally. And that's why standards matter. Standards ask different questions, not how much did I get done today? But did I protect my peace? Did I stay aligned? Did I protect my focused? I said focused? Did I protect my focus? Did I honor my priorities? Did I live intentionally? Did I show up how I said I? Would you feel me? Did I show up how I said I would? And watch this? Did I show up how I said I would? For those that matter the most? That's a completely different mindset, man, Because productivity focuses on output, standards focus on identity, and identity is your lifestyle. Identity determines your lifestyle. Identity totally shapes your lifestyle, and that's why people can achieve goals and still feel disconnected. Like I'm talking to you, like That's why you can achieve goals. You can knot shit out the park and still feel disconnected. No, listen, I'm about to throw my phone already boxing a barbecue. What's up with you, Homie? Phelix neon a is, what's up with you? Homi? Salute to you, Supreme Beast Boxing talk. What's good with your homie? Salute to everybody catching the live stream man, Salute to y'all. Shout out to everybody on on the replay, Replay Gang and full Effect. Salute to you all, and shout out to the podcast family hashtag Junior Mafia and me Lie for me Lee and my first love. Thank you all so much. I really truly genuinely appreciate you no matter how you're getting the content, though, hit that like button for me. Please share the content if you feel so inclined. You can support the stream and perstand what is that money sign Junior the truth? You can support it there or you can really support it by going and getting the simple Truth Minute Manyo system Man www dot Minimayo dot com. But you can support it there. You can go over to the Black Gentleman Groom of Company www dot blackgen dot com you can go over there any of those ways. Man will support the show definitely, Man, salute to the family. People achieve goals man and still feel disconnected. You know, people be killing their life, man, They be literally killing it professionally. You feel me. They be killing shit professionally and and be disconnected, come home and have absolutely no idea where they are. You feel me? Yeah, because achievement without alignment creates emptiness. Achievement without alignment creates emptiness. Motherfuckers beat killing goals, you feel me. Don't know the people in their house, don't know what's going on, you understand what I'm saying, don't know what's going on with family. Hell, don't even know what's going on with themselves. Like, you can literally talk to a motherfucker and ask them what they like to do, and they can't tell you. Outside of work or outside of business or outside of whatever, outside of achieving their goals, they have absolutely no idea. Yeah. Yeah, Achievement without alignment creates emptiness. I think that's the barnella. Achievement without alignment creates emptiness, and honestly, man, to keep it a cold brick. A lot of people are exhausted from trying to optimize lives that lack intentional standards. We're exhausted. You're exhausted from trying to optimize your life that lacks internal standards or excuse me, intentional internal standards. You feel me? What are your intentional internal standards? You can't tell me. Salute the big Days. What's up with you, homie? Salute to my sister Nella. Saluting my sister Nella, the great man in the super chat Man, Thank you so much. I really appreciate younella. Yeah, achievement without alignment creates emptiness. Yeah, you're exhausted for I'm trying to optimize, optimize a life that lacks intentional internal standards. Yeah, man, that's a cold game. It wouldn't be me if I ain't talk about alignment. Let's talk about alignment. Alignment will change your life. Standards create alignment. Standards create alignment. They create alignment between what you value and what you prioritize and how you actually live. You understand what I'm saying. Alignment, man, that integrity that we speak of. What do you value, what do you prioritize, and how do you actually live? You feel me if you tell me you value your If you tell me you value your family, why is your family not. A priority? You feel me. If you tell me you value your family, why is your family not a priority. You tell me you value your health, Why is your health not a priority? You feel me. Standards create alignment between what you value, what you prioritize, and how you actually live. That matters because many people say they value peace, but then they protect chaos. They say they value focus, but they protect distractions. They say they value family, but give everything else their attention. First, you understand what I'm saying. You say you value your family, and then I look at you and your punk ass is at this social event, that social event you ad for my Greek people. You got this chapter meet, and you got this this event, that social event. You feel me. You got the paying hell barbecue, You got all of this shit. But you value family, but everything else is first. You value the things that support this lifestyle that you are trying to I'll say, perpetrate that you're trying to present to the world. You feel me. You say you value your family, but you. Come home late, you disconnected, You don't even talk to your kids, watch TV, so on and so forth. Man, you say you value family, but you give everything else your attention first, and that contradiction creates tension. And this is the crazy part. The tension is internal too. It creates it'll create external tension for sure, but it's internal tension. And eventually you feel disconnected from yourself. And that's why standards matter. Standards force alignment. A standard says, this matters enough for me to structure my life around it. That's powerful. No matter what I got going on, this matters to me. So for me, like I pick up my kids from school, that matters to me. That matters to me every day. I call it the letout. Every day I tell my kids, I see y'all at the letout. I see I see y'all at the letout. Phoenix New New says, So achieving your goals isn't enough. Damn bro, hey man, what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his own soul? Or whatever they said? So, yeah, bro, accomplishment, goals ain't enough. It ain't enough. No matter what, this matters to me. My daughter is hell bent on getting better at basketball on her and her little brother is following her. You know what I'm saying. So taking them to the gym to work out matters to me, you feel me, So we get them. I'm also. The greatest post secondary educator in the world, so I understand that we're dealing in the foundational, the foundational stages of their education because they're they're in elementary school. My daughter's in the fifth grade going to the sixth. Son is in the fourth or third going to the fourth, right, or excuse me, second, going to the third. So I'm be on that. So we straight from school, straight to the school work, sitting here working, and we go from there. We got a mean game of Monopoly going on. We play Monopoly with. Replica money, so real money, but it's prop money is replica like movie screen money. So because my kids got to know how to count, they fuse and they toose and fuse. You feel me. They got to be on they one too when they count, they bread. You understand what I'm saying. And I'm and I'm you know, and I'm teaching my daughter, my daughter, my son got it, you feel me. My daughter she a little she a little sloppy with the posts with her money. Money be all over the place. My son, he got the dope boy magic he ready to be the rubber band man. You feel me, got your money, big bills on the inside. All the presidents turned the same way, facing the same way. You feel me ones on the outside. You fold it, motherfucker, don't never really know what you got. He ready to be the rubber band. He ready to be rubber band man. My daughter just really be all over the place where her money should be. It just be piles of money when she got it. When you hit a lock on her, she gotta spread her money out on the floor and show you how to get it. It's just she just an easy look, an easy look. It'd be good and good and easy to rob her. That matters to me, though, so I make time for it. You feel me this matters enough for me to structure my life around it. That's powerful. Standards removed, cousion. Now your decisions become clearer, your boundaries become become stronger, your priorities become visible, your life becomes more intentional and honestly, that's what the simple truth, men and man, your system help me create. And that's what it's gonna help you create, not just productivity, but alignment and alignment through awareness, through intentional structure, a better relationship with your own life. That's the deeper conversation. Motherfuckers want these relationships, motherfuckers want to get won't romance and want you know, loving marriage and all that bullshit or all that shit? Right, what about a better relationship with your own life? Did you hear what I said? The pursuit should be a better relationship with your own life first, And that's really the deeper conversation. What's up with your relationship with your own life? Motherfucker? You don't even like you? You don't even like you, so how you expect somebody else to come along and like you and you don't even like you. A better relationship with your own life a standard you should hold yourself. You should be holding yourself to a standard that enables you to actually like yourself. You feel me, I love me some me because I'm a man of standard, Like I am really truly a man of standard. Love me some me. I have not always been a man of standard. I have not always loved some I have not always not always loved me some me, And that's just the truth. Yeah, a better relationship with. Your own life? Ooh y'all? Quiet, y'all are quiet. Yeah, all right, this part is important. Let me go on, get out, y'all way, you feel me, We get out, you'all way. I felt like I might have stepped on somebody's foot or something, so let me let me get out. I'm on your property, on your front porch. You feel me. This is important because people think peace comes from escaping responsibility. Saluted Joe. Joe. Joe gave me my theme emoji. Thank you, Joe. I thought I was up here talking, but I wasn't for sure. King Vonnie said, I'm soaking it up, bro, soaking it up. Lola D said, not you getting an attitude? Yeah, I got an attitude. I'm on your property. You feel me. I got an attitude. Everybody quiet, You feel me when you don't have nothing to say. You know the old church ladies, we ain't had nothing to say, y'all grew up with Big Mammy. You know what. She ain't had nothing to say. She just hum. You feel me. She don't have a word, She just hummed. Well goddamn it. Just hum and give me my thing, give me my theme emoji something. Salute the my our brother Supreme. All right, this is the important part. People think peace comes from escaping responsibility. It doesn't you understand what I'm saying. Peace often comes from living in alignment with your standards. That's where peace comes from. I said often, I don't mean often. Peace comes from always living in alignment with your standards. That's why structure created peace for me, not pressure, Peace because structure reduce mental clutter, confusion, emotional chaos. Old, let me stop, because I'm talking in past tense. So that's not good because that would indicate that I've arrived and I haven't You understand what I'm saying. I'm laboring like a motherfucker to get here, which is why I come in here and talk to y'all every day, because I'm laboring to get there. You feel me. This is a I am field in the plane while I'm flying as some motherfucker, So let me go back. That's why structure creates peace for me, not pressure, but peace because structure reduces mental clutter, confusion, emotional chaos that reactive living, and constant decision fatigue. You feel me because I just sit there and I'll be like, man, fuck, I don't want to make no decisions. If I got to make one more decision. But you're the man. You a husband, you're a father, You're a leader. You feel me. You gotta make decisions, motherfucker wake up making decisions. Man, If I make one more motherfucking decision, but structure reduces that decision fatigue. You feel me. And when I have structure, I know what matters. I know what deserves my attention, I know what needs boundaries, know what needs protection. And that changes my mental state day in and day out. And that's how I'm able to cope and to focus, and I'm able to walk through this life. And I don't slap motherfuckers. You feel me. I'm not in the county. You see what I'm saying because I'm able to maintain my mental state because standards simplify my life and for me. I'm not speaking for nobody else. But if you have not understood anything else about me, simplicity is godly with me. Everything is simple. It's simplicity. Everything you see for me. Simplicity is simple. You understand what I'm saying. Simple. I even changed the cover of the Planner and the book for the second edition because I needed that motherfucker to be more simple. Simplicity with me, man, simplicity is beautiful. Yeah, I'm all about simplicity. Standards simplify my life, and simplicity keeps me calm, excuse me. And that's why the system is so meaningful to me personally. That's why I've made it one of my life's missions. And it's not because it makes me more productive. It's because it makes me more intentional, It makes me more aware, it makes me more a present, makes me more aligned, and honestly, that improves my quality of life more than productivity ever could. Did I hear what I said? It makes me more intentional, like more aware, more present, more aligned, and that has and improves and will continue to improve my life and the quality of my life more than any productivity could. I could accomplish everything that I have on my vision board, everything, and if it is not with structure, and it is not with standards, I don't even want it, to be honest with you, I don't even want it. Shit sound crazy, you feel me, But that's no different than you see everybody doing everything for money. That's nasty work. If you do anything for money, you do anything for money, that's nasty. Where's your standard? Not gonna do anything for money? You feel me, not gonna do anything for popularity. I'm not gonna do anything for likes, not gonna do anything for clicks, not gonna do anything for recognition. If you on your job doing any and everything for recognition, going against your own standards or operating without standard, that's nasty work. Yeah, my brother boxing and barbecue. Hey, bro, you about to make me get missed ad. I ain't gonna hold you, he said. I'm still trying to wrap my brain around. Achievement without alignment creates emptiness. Man. That's on my soul. Bro, that's on my soul. Achievement without alignment creates emptiness. Man. We didn't been there. Some of the most of some of your most high achieving times are some of the most loneliests, you feel me, And we like to pass it off and say no, I had to go into grand mode. So you know, everybody ain't around. Everybody can't come circle, get smaller, everybody can't go that's cool. Where's your standard? It's a lonely time because if you are with standard, then you would at least have yourself and that would be enough. You feel me, You would at least have yourself and that would. Be enough achievement without alignment, man creates emptiness. All right, man, I gotta go. Let me say this. Let me say this honestly. The Simple Truth Minute manual, the system, the book, and the planner. That shit was never built for hustle culture. And I am a person who I am out of the hustle culture. I come from the hustle culture, like the hustle culture, but then like the hustle culture, you feel me. I had a podcast that was called the All Hustle, No Luck. We used to do a broadcast called the All Hustle No Luck Thursday's nine o'clock PM, just standard time. I had to stop, so I realized I was cultivating something that was not for the hustle culture. It's not it was not built for the hustle culture. The Simple Truth men and male system was not built for the hustle culture. It wasn't built for fake productivity, you feel me. It wasn't built for performance. It was built for real life. It's why when you go in there, it's bar after bar after bar about your real life. None of the grace that I make tremendous achievements in my district, but I'm no longer aligned to participating in the system, because participating in that system was out of alignment with yourself. Mom, participating in that system makes you out of alignment with yourself. And you gotta think about it. Would you rather be at peace with yourself and at war with the world or at peace with the world and at war with yourself. I'm gonna choose peace with me, every truck, every trick, simple true, mini male system. It wasn't about performance. Man was built for your real life. Was built for overwhelmed people, distracted people, mentally overloaded people, people trying to reconnect with focus, with peace, with clarity and intentional living. And I said reconnect. That's assuming you was ever connected to the motherfuckers in the first place, because you might not have ever been connected to them. I just spit on my camera. Nah, So we can say it was meant to connect you with your focus, with peace, with clarity, with intentional living. And that is why for everybody, shout out to everybody that has the system. Let me bring the image of the system back up. Shout out to everybody has a system. But that is why the system focuses on. That's why the simple Truth Minute manual and when I say minute manual, I mean the book. I mean the Planner, because the Planner is is just a it's just accompanies the book. But it focuses on awareness, structure, review, reflection, priorities, focus, focus, protection, your life roles. It's sustainable routines because the real goal was never to become a machine. The real goal was to become more intentional with your life. And that's why standards matter more than motivation, and honestly, it matters more than productivity too. And I know I just came on here and talked to you about being a man and producing. And you're judged by what you're you're produced, but you know what you're you're judged by more than what you produce. You're gonna be judged by your standards. And that's why standards matter more than motivation than than motivation and productivity too, because think about these people that are producing, and you wouldn't change places with them for any amount of money because of their standards are lack thereof. And I don't have to name, No, I don't have to name not Nan name did he? I don't have to name not Nan name. You look at things that people have produced, and you look at the lack of standard in their life, and you wouldn't switch, You wouldn't swap places with them. And that's why standards matter more than motivation, and they matter more than productivity because standards shape how you think, They shape how you move, they shape how you respond, they shape shape how you protect your peace, and standards shape how you live. Coach says, the many manual pertains to real life, but it also closely aligned with my job. I was definitely overwhelmed at my job. Salute to you, bro. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. But the thing is that we can't. We can't make that miscon that that because you're you're And the thing that we got to realize is, I'm sorry, but you're job is a part of your real life. You understand what I'm saying. The problem is when your job becomes your life. And that's where we suffer because we can't. We have a hard time differentiating. But when you're dealing with the system and you plug into the system, you realize that everything has to be compartmentalized. That's the order, and the order becomes a part of your standard. So my standard, you know, for me, like my standard was work was at work, home was home. You feel me. When I left work, I left work at work, home was at home. When I leave home to go to work, I'm at work. Work is work, you feel me. And if I'm at work dealing with home shit, that's a distraction. If I'm at home dealing with workshit, that's a distraction. So now something that needs my attention at home is not getting my attention at home because I'm dealing with workshit. So now I have to deal with whatever comes with that. You understand what I'm saying. If you're at work and you're at work dealing with home shit, that means the work that you need to be working on is not getting the attention that it needs. So you have to deal with that whatever comes with that. Yeah, those are principal, principal bars in the book and the well the system in general. Man, some badass standards man will protect your peace and protect how you live. All right, Man, I gotta go, I gotta go, I gotta go. Let's make this shit practical. Forget trying to optimize everything, forget trying to become perfect. Somebody said perfect. I think it was Coach sixty seven it's ports TV. He said, perfection is unsustainable. It's not possible, So forget trying to be Ask yourself, what standard would improve my quality of life immediately? What standard would improve my quality of life immediately? Maybe protecting your mornings, reducing distractions, going to sleep earlier, maybe protecting your focus, spending intentional time with family, maybe reviewing your week honestly, maybe previewing your week honestly. Maybe creating stronger boundaries. Simple standards, not fantasy, simple standards, real standards. When I say simple standards, I mean simple. I don't mean easy. I mean simple, simple standards, real standards, because small standards, repeated consistently will reshape your life, and over time those standards become your identity. Period many y'all have to run that back because I ain't saying that shit no more. Let's close this out, because this conversation matters deeply, Like this matters to me, It matters extremely deeply. Yeah, King Vonney said, boundaries them badass boundaries. Dad says, playing the next day better? Ooh less is more? Yes, Lord, yeah them days man them days, bro them days, playing them days out them boundaries, King finding them boundaries bro them boundaries, the boundaries. But this, this conversation matters deeply. Man. The real goal was never more productivity. It was never productivity. The real goal was never productivity. The real goal is peace alignment, you feel me, It's intentionality, it's self respect, structure, awareness, and it's sustainable living. That's the that's the truth, and honestly, that's what changes my life the most. That's what changes most, not becoming busier, becoming clearer. Yeah, so here's the real question this morning. The real question is what standards would completely change your quality of life if you actually lived by by it? Or excuse me, what standard? The one would completely change your lot, your quality of life if you live by it consistently, Dad said, Playing the next day better King Vonnie said, boundaries. You gotta sit with that, honestly. 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