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>> Pete Williams: D to the G, how are you mate?
>> Dom Goucher: Greeting and solicitations, Mr. Williams.
>> Pete: Oh, hello. >> Dom: You did the jazzy start last time,
I thought I would do one this time. >> Pete: We should take it in turns, we'll
schedule it in. >> Dom: I think not.
>> Pete: How's the week been? >> Dom: Good, good, good, I had a little bit
of a challenge with the local infrastructure here otherwise known as my internet dropping
out in the middle of the night last night. >> Pete: That's not fun.
>> Dom: It's never fun but I learned my lesson. I learned my lesson, this time I've moved
to the alternate location and got the hardware wired up and I'm back on line. Now, I'm going
to go talk to the internet service provider. Last time, I made the mistake of talking to
the internet service provider first and believing them. I was offline for a week.
>> Pete: Very naive, rookie mistake right there, absolute rookie mistake.
>> Dom: Indeed, indeed. As we were saying in a recent podcast, always have a back-up.
>> Pete: Absolutely. >> Dom: Alright, speaking of recent podcasts
and I'm keeping the trend of getting right into this. In the last one, you mentioned
in a slightly off hand way, a pretty major topic… positive constraints. Now, I'm kind
of getting into positive constraints but I'm finding it difficult, so I'm hoping that one,
you have a bit of time to talk to us about what positive constraints are and why they
are a good idea and also some tips to get good, get going, get using them.
>> Pete: Sure, you sounded like you had a positive constraint thrust upon you today,
with the no internet. >> Dom: Yeah, I'd like to call that a positive
constraint but most of the words that came out of my mouth last night weren't positive
so… >> Pete: Fair enough, too. I guess, as we
do quite often on PreneurCast is set the context up front and give the people a frame of reference
when it comes to positive constraints and define what that term is. If you go and Google
positive constraints a whole bunch of scientific mumbo jumbo actually comes up. There's nothing
coming up on Google in terms of positive constraints from a success or theoretical or productivity
perspective, which I found very, very interesting. So that was something I wasn't aware of and
would have thought there would be a lot more conversation being had around the topic of
positive constraints because I think it is really, really important to be aware of.
So, let's define it. Positive constraints, is obviously something positive, something
good for us and it can strain, I guess is typically something that confines us and restricts
us from doing certain things so, when you hear the term constraint, it is normally in
a perceived with a negative connotation where are the 'pre' or the positive in positive
constraints flips it on its head a little bit. So, to try to define it, a positive constraint
is something that can constrain you in a positive way, how is that for deep?
>> Dom: I'm in awe of your language skills at the moment Mr. Williams.
>> Pete: Let's give some examples, a positive constraint can actually be turning off your
internet. Let'*** that right now because a lot of people, when they sit down to produce
something, be it writing an article for their blog, create and design new proposals templates
for their quoting, maybe they are trying to sit down and work out the best copy they should
put into the yellow pages advert or something like that.
So, you sit down with a goal in mind and fifteen minutes later, they are on Facebook watching
a YouTube video of a cat playing on Twitter. They just get distracted so easily. So, a
positive constraint, in that manner, can actually be to physically unplug your internet router
so you can't have that distraction. That is a positive constraint because you have restricted
the ability to go on the internet. So it is a positive constraint in that manner.
And there are a lot of different things you can do to help you get more productive by
using positive constraints. To give you another really analog example is, if you want to get
fit and you need to run 10 kilometers today, an easy, positive constraint would be to get
your partner to drop you 10K's from home without keys and a phone. The only way to get home
is to actually move your butt and get home. So, that is a very analog version of a positive
constraint, you've got no other choice. >> Dom: Ok, I like that one.
>> Pete: In terms of positive constraints, what stuff have you been playing with? Obviously
you're aware of the practice of positive constraints, what is your experience been?
>> Dom: The first one for me, we talked about this right at the very beginning, when we
first started recording this show, we talked about my wish to have Friday afternoon's off.
That was one of my goals and what was I going to do, and so on. We haven't really revisited
that. So maybe, it is time to revisit it. And, one of the things that I've done is,
and it is very simplistic, I've just said, 'look, I am not working between these hours
of these days' and what I actually did was cut out the middle of the day and before anybody
else makes a joke about me taking siestas, it is actually the tradition in Spain to take
that middle period of the day, during the summer because of the heat, and stop work.
So people knock off for a couple of hours and then they work later on in the day, later
than a lot of other countries do. So, I picked that up but I made it a positive
constraint by saying, I really need to focus and get a block of work done by say, 1:00.
So I start at my normal time but I absolutely cut off, no internet, no phone calls, no nothing
between, say, 1 and 4. And that focused me completely into getting that work done by
trying to cram it into that space. Because what I've been doing and a lot of people do
this, this is spreading out a little bit, but what I know a lot of people do is because
they, say, work from home or because they have constant internet access, then they are
always working, just a little bit. Oh, I'll just check my email, because it is there.
I'm connected, I'll just check in to see what is happening here, I'll just read a news story.
And it ends up that their entire day fills up, from the second they wake up with some
Facebook message on their phone, to right before they go to bed, with maybe a Twitter
or more Facebook or whatever. And, because we can work all day, sometimes
we do. It doesn't necessarily make us effective and I was finding this, I was allowing things
to creep in to my spare time but was also allowing jobs to expand to fill what was perceived
as the available space. So I blocked out that space and said, look absolutely no. And a
couple of positive results of that, one was I'm focusing on getting work done so I'm being
more productive during that space of time. But also certainly I have all this free time
in the middle of the day. Yesterday, I went out for a proper menu del dia, menu of the
day, which is a very traditional thing again, over here.
>> Pete: You are embracing that lifestyle young man.
>> Dom: I am embracing the lifestyle which was the whole reason of me moving here. And
there was the danger of me not doing that at one point. So, yes, me and my partner,
she came home for lunch yesterday and instead of us sitting down and eating the usual lunch
indoors, I said hey, let's go out for lunch. And we did because I blocked that time out,
I knew it was available and I refused to work. It is not one of the deeper examples of a
positive constraint but it is one that I'm working with right now. It is definitely having
positive results for me. >> Pete: Fantastic, absolutely fantastic.
That is what it is all about, putting rules and things in place to actually keep you focused
on what you need to do. We spoke about the Pomodoro Technique on the podcast previously.
For those who are new, welcome to the podcast. And the Pomodoro Technique is all about getting
a timer for 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 15 minutes, whatever you can invest and say, 'I'm going
to do this one task until this timer goes off.'
And you can get the good old egg timer or a timer to sit on your desk and there are
plenty of applications. Focus Booster is a great little application that I think is multi
platform. So it will work on your Mac and your PC. And you can turn it on with a 20
minute timeframe. It will countdown and then once 20 minutes is up, it will send you a
little bell so you can then go off and spend five minutes of YouTube time before you come
back and do another Pomodoro. There are applications as well that you can
put on your Windows operating system or your Mac as well, that will disconnect your internet
browsing for a certain period of time. So you can say 'I don't want to visit any internet
based site for 20 minutes' and it will disable that until that time is completed. You can
do things with various software that allows you to say, ok, for the next 20 minutes, I'm
only going to be doing, let's say, forum posting as an idea, if you are doing online marketing.
Or you might be reviewing job applications so you can say, I only want, for the next
20 minutes to be able to access these three website domains. You put it in the software,
hit 'start' and it will restrict everything else. There are those positive constraints
to keep you on target, to keep you running in your lanes. It is basically the blinkers
they put on horses for horse racing to keep them focused so they don't get distracted.
You've got to have those personal blinkers, is a good mental picture to make.
>> Dom: Yeah, there are some good examples there. Let's just go back to the time ones
because I would like to investigate the more esoteric positive constraints if you've got
any of those in a little bit. But let's look at the time stuff. There are lots of different
ways you can add positive constraints to your time as far as I can do, as well as to the
task. So let's break that one out. The time constraints, the most famous one,
the ones we talk about, like you said the Pomodoro Technique. This idea that you focus
on working to 25 minutes and you work on one job, one task, to achieve one goal in for
that period of 25 minutes. And that is good for two reasons. One, if you are short of
time, or it is hard to allocate time, allocating 25 minutes or even two 25 minute slots in
a day can be done, anybody can do it, no matter how busy you are, by the say 'busy' is a bad
word. No matter how full your day is, you should
be able to find at least one 25 minute slot. So if you put that positive constraint in,
like I've put a positive constraint in and said I won't work in this period of time,
you can put that constraint into your day that I won't do something else, I will work
for 25 minutes at, let's say, 7 a.m. if you are a morning person, or 11:30 p.m. if you
are a night person, depending on who you are. So you can get something done by putting that
kind of constraint. Again, it is a kind of constraint for the rest of the world. It is
a bit like when I record my podcast, I put a positive constraint on that. I close the
door to the office and that's a less than subtle indication to the cats that they can
no longer come and walk over my keyboard. And also it is a clear indication to anyone
else in the house or the office or wherever that there is something going in there.
Basically I don't need to walk around the entire building telling everybody that I'm
recording, if that door is closed everybody knows there is a reason for it and that reason
is I need the sound to be done. I'm constraining other people from interrupting me. But task
constraint is a really big thing, I got very interested in the concept of flow, which I'm
sure we'll do a podcast on at some point. >> Pete: One of my virtual assistants?
>> Dom: Not Flo, not Fleur, flow the concept of it as in being in the flow or as you called
it, staying in your lane. One of the most important things I discovered through reading
a few books, one the book Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi I believe, it is a very long polish name,
very long polish name. >> Pete: Can you pronounce that surname again
because I… >> Dom: No, I'm only doing it once, anyone
who wants to hear it again you can re-wind. And, there's a number of other books on the
topic similar to this book but it is all about what disruption does to your concentration.
If you are disrupted and you actually lose your concentration and this, a big point of
this is in the book we talked for Pragmatic Thinking and Learning, there's a big section
on this, about holding focus. It can take anything up to 20 minutes to re-gain focus
once you are fully disrupted. >> Pete: Absolutely.
>> Dom: This is like scientifically proven; they have done all kinds of studies. That's
absolutely dreadful. If you are working for an hour, if you've given yourself an hour
and you allow any kind of disruption in there, it only takes two disruptions and you've basically
got no time left to do anything. So one of the big things for me about positive constraints
from both a time blocking point of view and a blocking out disruptions point of view is
exactly that. I can very easily and quickly get into a flow
state, get into the zone is another way of calling it, where I'm doing something probably
repetitive or something that is focused within one application, like my favorite application
ScreenFlow or maybe it is sorting through your inbox in Omni Focus or any other capture
tool you are using for your tasks. And by just getting on with it, you get into a rhythm,
you get into that flow, that zone. But if somebody disrupts you and everything
goes, you can't remember what you were doing, you can't remember the last thing you'd done,
it can be a technical thing like you can't remember what you last typed and how many
'undos' you need to do. But it could just be a concentration thing; that is one of the
big things I'm working on for a positive constraints point of view, focusing that task mind and
holding that focus for a period of time just to help me keep that flow, being in the zone.
>> Pete: Perfect, that is definitely great summary and definition of a positive constraint,
that I think is the key, the most successful people that I come across they have that habit
and that habit when you really look into it is the habit of consistently putting in positive
constraints around their time, around their actions to get the results needed. I think
to give you more of an esoteric example as you mentioned Dom, is a good positive constraint
can be announcing to the world what you are going to do, because you have constrained
yourself by that outward promise. So, you state your goals on various levels
or even having a goal partner, it is a big of a *** sort of term but I know this has
been used to great success in various places and I definitely use it myself and it is something
that is getting me through the Ironman. And that goal partner fundamentally is someone
who you trust; who is going to keep you accountable to your own actions and having that jewel
conversation like, let me give you the Ironman example.
Obviously I've got an Ironman coach who is helping me with the training for the triathlon
and all that sort of stuff, he is actually a good personal friend of mine as well. So
I want to look good to him, because he is a friend of mine. I don't want to look slack.
I don't want to miss any sessions. I don't want to come across as whatever term I want
to use. I want to be seen as someone who actually gets through it and works hard at training
sessions. So that is a positive constraint having him be my coach.
Another good positive constraint could be a mastermind group. If you've got a group
of people that you are going to be accountable to every week by showing up on time and saying
this is what I promised I would be doing by today, this is what I've done, here's my results.
You're being accountable for those actions to someone else. Being accountable to yourself
is so easy to get out of, so easy to sort of continually change your own deadlines if
you are only accountable to yourself. But by having someone around you whether it
is daily email, I've had coaching clients where I suggested to them that they partner
up with somebody and they do the similar sort of emails that I require my outsource team
to send me just to each other from a goal achievement perspective. A positive constraints
is that at the end of every day they have to email each other what their plan for the
day was, what they achieved, what they didn't achieve and why and what they will be doing
tomorrow. And just that little act of that positive
constraint to make sure they are going to do that task every day, clearly define what
their objectives are for the following day but more importantly send that and make that
public to somebody else just starts to put that positive constraint into place and ensure
you actually follow through with your promises. It is that commitment and consistency, fact
that Robert Cialdini speaks about in his great book Influence applied in a very controlled
way. >> Dom: I notice you sneaked Influence in
there as your little favorite book. I don't mention mine yet; I'll squeeze it in somewhere.
They are great examples. I like the mastermind as a composite of both an accountability constraint
and a time constraint because I know you really, really, really do live this with your mastermind.
We've talked about this before where you all turn up, that's your first point, you all
turn up at the same place, same time, same day as an absolute set in stone that everybody
turns up and takes it seriously. Then you have that time constraint, where
everyone has a window of time to talk about their issues, what they want from the group,
how people can help them. And then, on top of those constraints there's the accountability
where they've told everybody and everybody in that group is a successful business person
so there is that accountability to this group of people, your peers, where you are not accountable
to yourself anymore. You can't slight it. If you haven't done it by next week, there's
a bunch of really successful guys going to stare at you with at least one eyebrow raised.
>> Pete: I think a good way to define that is, you're accountable to your ego. If your
ego is on the line, you are going to do a lot more to protect your ego than you are
to protect the person looking back at you in the mirror. What you want to do when you
are setting goals is make it accountable to your ego, not to yourself. There is a very
big difference. >> Dom: That is a bit deep.
>> Pete: It is a bit deep but I think every now and again we can go deep on the PreneurCast
here and really get very; needless to say we'll get very deep.
>> Dom: I'll just move along. The accountability thing, I think is a big thing. I wouldn't
have come up with that as a constraint, as a positive constraint. But it is in a way
because it is one of those things where a lot of people work better to deadlines or
to some form of accountability. Otherwise, all tasks expand to fill the available time.
Homework takes the entire three week allotted period of time, back to school days right,
the way assignments take up until the client actually wanted delivery. And that's almost
human nature. And it takes a lot to break out of that. And one of the things I think
self employed people have, is managing that. People who have nine to five jobs turn up
in offices, have bosses and have somebody that they are just naturally accountable to.
They probably still struggle with it. They probably still work up till the wire but they
still have that person setting that deadline. I think to me, the most valuable thing I get
from positive constraints is a really simplistic implementation of it but it is that, the creation
of accountability. That's some description, yeah? Whether it is announcing to the world
or to a particular person that I'm going to do this and asking people to keep an eye on
me or if it is putting this thing in stone that I'm not working after 1:00 or between
one and four. Or no internet access after 11 at night or whatever that thing is, just
to make my lifestyle better. >> Pete: Absolutely, it can be as simple as
using a distraction free writing application. The thing that has blown my mind, in my little
community there has been a lot of conversation over the recent months about distraction free
writing. And the wave has kind of passed but it is a perfect conversation to have around
positive constraints going to the nth degree in that there's been an absolute influx of
software applications defined as distraction free writing.
What that is, if you think about Microsoft Word as a writing tool, you've obviously got
the toolbar and the bold icons and then you've got insert images and it sits there in your
software, in your window with your Skype messages popping up and your Twitter feed pinging away
and all that sort of stuff. So you have all these distraction coming around your writing
environment in Microsoft Word. And applications like WriteRoom on the Mac and I think Word
has a distraction-free writing sort of setting so what you do is turn that on and it makes
just the text you are writing appear on the screen with everything else taken away.
So your Skype won't pop up over the top. You don't have any sort of bold, underline options
and buttons and tabs available to you. It is just the text on the screen with no distractions
and it is a great positive constraint when you have something to write. To do that, to
keep you on target because it is so easy in this current world of social media to get
distracted by so much other random irrelevant stuff. It doesn't help you achieve the task
at hand. So, these sort of things are fantastic. But it is a tool that will help you do that.
But it is also self discipline that you have to have, because without self discipline,
you can internalize those positive constraints anyway and flick that mental switch on and
you should be able to get your work done just with Microsoft Word. A simple positive constraint
is turn Skype off for a little bit as one example, if you miss one conversation on Twitter,
it is going to be ok guys. It's going to be ok if you don't get re-tweeted or you don't
re-tweet that funny joke that someone said. >> Dom: Definitely, and the distraction free
tool was something that popped into my mind when we started talking about positive constraints.
And you are absolutely right, there are always tools to help you do anything. It doesn't
matter what it is out there in the world now. There are so many people able to write programs
and make things and they all are tools to help you or enhance your ability to do it.
But at the bottom of it, it comes down to it's still you. You've got to choose to use
that tool. There are people out there who can, for example,
manage to just, the example of distraction free writing. There are two real problems
with writing. One of them is if you've got your Twitter, your Skype, your email binging,
all of these things coming on, that is a distraction that stops you from the actual task of creating
something, some content. But the real thing with the distraction free writing tools is
beyond that. It is that you can't even add bold or italic or you can't make something
a heading. You literally can concentrate only on the
words, the terminology that is going on that page, which is a really, very, very tight
positive constraint. It makes you think about the words rather than messing around with
the font and things like that. So, that's a really good detailed example. But at the
end of the day, it is still down to you. You could write just as well in Microsoft Word
and, ironically, you could do it with your email binging and your Skype, but you would
have to be some type of Zen master of concentration. >> Pete: Positive constraints are really,
really good when you are actually at that, I call it, that conscious incompetence stage
of any sort of task. If you are consciously aware that you are incompetent of doing it
well, such as sitting down and writing a 300 word blog post or an email you are going to
send out to your database or whatever it might be. You want to put as many positive constraints
in place as you can so you can focus on the task at hand. As you move from that conscious
incompetent right through the four stages to unconscious competence then you can remove
those positive constraints because you've internalized them.
>> Dom: That is a really, really good way to put it, I like that. Where is that conscious
incompetence to unconscious competence from? >> Pete: I have not idea; I'm going to say
it from 1972. I don't know who was the person who coined it and came up with it but basically,
for those that aren't aware of it, there are four stages you go through in your learning,
I think it might be NLP terminology, I know that is where I first became aware of it and
first got exposure to it. When you learn to do a skill, you are consciously incompetent;
you know you don't know how to do it. I know I don't know how to fly a plane.
And then you become consciously competent, I'm trying to think is this the right way?
Then you go to conscious competence because you know you are doing it, you are thinking
it through. And then you become which way it is, I always get the order mixed up and
then you become unconsciously competent. When you drive home, how many times have you driven
home without knowing how you got home? You think how did I just get home, I don't remember
seeing those last three traffic lights. You just unconsciously arrived.
Riding a bike, for most people you are just unconsciously competent, you just know how
to ride a bike without even thinking about it, pedal, brake and balance and looking for
the cars and stuff like that. But when you first started, you knew you didn't know what
to do. But I guess, there is even a stage before that which is unconsciously incompetent;
that is the very first stage that you don't know that you don't know something. I don't
know, I don't even know what I don't know but there are plenty of things out there that
I'm sure I don't know even exist let alone how to do it.
So you start out with unconscious incompetence, then you become consciously incompetent, you
know you don't know it. Then you become consciously competent, because you have to think about
it, you have to physically say when I'm going to drive this car, I'm going to put my foot
on the brake, I'm going to put my foot on the clutch, I've got to undo from first, I've
got to double clutch to get into second, it is very consciously the process.
Then after driving for a few months or a few years, you become unconsciously competent
and you just change gears and talk to the passenger in the back seats, you can change
lanes and indicate all at the same time without thinking. That is the process you go through
and the positive constraints actually come with you through that all, they will actually
disappear as you become more competent at something.
>> Dom: That is a really good example actually, I remember when my very, very, very driving
lesson which was ridiculous amount of time ago and I got in the car with the driving
instructor and the first thing he did when I got in the car was turn the radio off. Now
obviously we all drive with the radio on and possibly making hands free telephone calls.
But when you are first starting, when you are in that conscious incompetent stage. I
like this, this is a great summary of what we are talking about, it really brings it
home. When you are in this conscious incompetent stage, you need all the help you can get.
So, if you're trying to write a blog post, why not write it in a text editor rather than
trying to work out how to get WordPress to make it look the way you want it to look?
For example: I think, we can we like bounce, lets just bounce some of these around, let's
just think of different positive constraints that can help people in different scenarios
and let's just bounce them out for a few minutes as a way to kind of round this episode out?
>> Pete: Absolutely, I think the first thing is, turning your internet off, get some software
or some sort of application to constrain you from doing that, from actually allowing access
to your internet services so that way, if you have some stuff, if you really break it
down for most people in their business whether you are an online marketer or you own a retail
clothing store, there is a lot of stuff you can do in your business that doesn't need
the internet. Most of it, really, can be done without the internet.
So doing stuff like having some sort of tool to actually constrain you is very, very positive
in that regard, of internet usage. Ideally, you don't want to look at your email until
you knock off your first three action points of your day. How to actually constrain that?
I actually, awhile ago, had some projects to do; I removed the auto email check off
of my mail client. I was using Mac Mail which is similar to Outlook, I disabled the auto
collection of email so it didn't check your email every 15 minutes or ping you when an
email comes in every two minutes. And I also removed the send and receive button
from the menu bar. So I couldn't quickly just go and hit send and receive, so those were
two positive constraints I did, this is a while ago and I had some projects I needed
to get done, for whatever reason I was going through a phase that I wanted to see an email
every two minutes. Everyone has a failing, that was my failing for a period of time don't
know why it was but it became my addiction for some weird reason so actually positive
constraining myself by removing those two features.
So for me to check my email, I had to grab the mouse, move it to the top of the window,
hit tools and then click send and receive. So there was a couple of motions and hopefully
I caught myself going through that process and stopped myself and said, no, it's not
email time. And so I broke that habit. Creating your breaking habits it is important to have
positive constraints in place to train you as well.
>> Dom: That's quite scarily advanced, much more simplistic. Ok, I'll be less polite…
you're a nerd. Looking at the machine at the moment, being really simplistic up at the
menu bar at the top or maybe in the toolbar at the bottom if you are on Windows, I'm on
a wifi network, all I need to do is go to the top of the screen, click the little icon
with the wifi on it and click 'switch off the wifi'. That's it, I'm offline. It can
be that simple and that is kind of what I'm hanging on with this one. It can be that simple.
You said a good point; there are a lot of things you can do in business that don't require
the internet. They don't even require a computer. One of the great positive constraints that
I have is I have a pad of paper, a little A5 pad and a pencil. I also carry some note
cards if I have that big of bag to carry with me, a little 3x5 note cards and I do a lot
of my thinking onto pieces of paper or note cards, or my life scribe pad and pen, but
to make sure it is something I will want to digitize later I will skip that step and use
the life scribe pen. And I will also physically relocate myself
which is a great thing to do. The positive constrains, how to get away from using a computer
and checking into that, go on, sit on a park bench; that will do it. And put your iPad,
iPhone, whatever that is in flight mode, so you can't get all those various signal. Here's
one from that book Pragmatic Thinking and Learning where they say if you make really
hard to stop doing what you are doing, you're more likely to stick at it. Those are very
extreme examples. They basically say, go put move the furniture around in your office so
that it is hard to get away from your desk. It takes you an actual, if you are one of
those people who wonders away from your desk to avoid doing some work, then put something,
move a rolling set of drawers or something so that you have to move them again to get
away from your desk. And just like you said, by making checking an email an extra step,
a manual step, it makes you stop and think that you're distracting yourself and maybe
you should carry on and get on with it. >> Pete: That is exactly the sort of constraints
you want to put yourself into so you get the outcomes you are after. There are so many
levels of constraint. You want to get fit? Then get your partner to drop you five kilometers
from home every Saturday morning after breakfast. >> Dom: I'm just really hoping that my partner
doesn't listen to this episode because I have a funny feeling that might accidently happen.
>> Pete: That is the sort of constraint, like you know, go to sleep the night before in
your exercise gear, eliminate the friction a little bit, it is a slight different take
on positive constraints but it is basically a whole other podcast about removing the friction
which is a simple sort of concept where you want to remove any of the friction between
where you are and where you want to be so going to sleep the night before with your
fitness gear on, or at least have your fitness gear laid out the night before because it
is about… ah, I don't know where my running shoes are,
I won't run tomorrow. Actually make sure you get all that stuff out beforehand so the friction
is actually removed. It is a different type of positive constraint you can put in place
for yourself. >> Dom: Yeah, I'll stick with just laying
the clothes out, again, I'm not sure my partner will be too impressed by me…yeah, going
to sleep in a track suit, with my trainers on.
>> Pete: Well, ok, we're not talking about trainers on; we're talking about a pair of
running shorts. There's a line, there is a line.
>> Dom: Before you tell us you have already crossed it, let's just move on.
>> Pete: Well look, I think that is probably a good summary of what positive constraints
are for everybody out there. Support@preneurgroup.com, send us some examples of some positive constraints
you have implemented in your life, we may mention them in future episodes of the show,
share some laughs. >> Dom: Absolutely, and if you have implemented
anything that we have mentioned and it has done any positive, you have gotten any positive
results from it, let us know. Drop us a line on support@preneurgroup.com or give us a comment
in the iTunes store, let us know what you think about the topics we are covering and
if there's something that you want us to cover. We do keep track of whatever asks us about
and we do try to talk about those topics as we go through. We have our own things that
we want to talk about, that we think are important. But you, the audience, are important to us
and we want to know what you think. So drop us a note on iTunes comments, on the iTunes
store. It only takes a minute as long as you have your iTunes account which hopefully,
well most of you listening through iTunes I think. Then drop us a note.
>> Pete: Absolutely, and don't forget PreneurMedia.tv is the new home of the PreneurCast podcast
so on there we've got the transcripts, the show notes, the back catalog are all available
over at PreneurMedia.tv so check that out. Subscribe to the RSS feed and keep in touch
over there too because you can get everything you need from PreneurMedia.tv.
>> Dom: Nicely done sir, and on that, I think we will wrap it up with a little bow as you
say. >> Pete: See you guys next week.