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Jimbo Paris Show #67- Master your Relationship with Time. (Les Watson)
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“There’s so much seriousness in the world, Time Management doesn’t have to be that serious.
It can be fun. It can be something that you engage with the way you want to create it”
-Les Watson
Welcome to The Jimbo Paris Show #67- Master your Relationship with Time. (Les Watson)
Les Watson has worked extensively throughout Australia and South East Asia running dynamic training programs that have produced measurable results for large corporations, small businesses and individuals.
Les’ depth of knowledge and skill come from over 30years experience as a trainer, speaker and facilitator in self-management, motivation and communication techniques.
Because of his passion and expertise in time management, Les has earned the nickname “Time Lord”.
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Introduction and Welcome
00:00:06
Speaker
I am Jimbo Paris and you're listening to the Jimbo Paris show. All right. I am Jimbo Paris and welcome to the Jimbo Paris show. Today we've got Mr. Watson. Let's see what he has to say.
Expertise in Time Management Coaching
00:00:25
Speaker
All right. The master of time. How's it going? Very good indeed. It's nice to be here.
00:00:32
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, really a privilege. I see you have a lot going on in the back there. I have a lot going on in the back. It's a couple of my models that I work with people on and I'll explain those a little bit later on if you like. Excellent, so I should probably begin with the first question. Can you tell me a bit of who you are, what you're about and what your message is?
Benefits of Mastering Time Management
00:00:55
Speaker
Hi, Les Watson. Get more time and creating success coaching. I work with people.
00:01:01
Speaker
on getting back an hour a day because most people have too much to do and not enough time to do it in. So I can give you back an hour a day. I can take some of that anxiety off your life and be able to bring some focus in some peace and allow you to create the life that you want.
00:01:22
Speaker
Wow, well, that's a powerful statement. Create the life that you want. And what gives you this confidence that you can create the life that most people would want?
Relationship with Time and Life Control
00:01:34
Speaker
It comes down to the individual wanting what they want. And we all, I have a saying that says, if you're breathing, you need time management. We all have this interrelation with time, and some of us get stuck with it.
00:01:49
Speaker
Some of us are underneath it, some of us are on top of it, some of us just go with it and don't care. However, if you can master your relationship with time, you have the ability to be in control and therefore not at the beck and call of it, but you actually go, here's what I want to create in the time that I've got and purpose to create it.
Mindset's Role in Time Management
00:02:15
Speaker
So it depends on what you're saying to yourself. If you're saying you're always late, you're always late, you're always late, you'll probably always be late. Just a small facet, but if you're actually speaking it out of your mouth that you're always gonna be late, you'll always be late. I'm actually never late.
00:02:32
Speaker
And it came about from many, many years of just focusing on, I can do this, I can do this, I can do this. And now I can have an alarm set like this morning at half past four and my internal body clock goes off at 25 past four and I wake up before the alarm.
Enjoyable Time Management
00:02:56
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So if you can get in touch with what it is that you want to create, then you can actually purpose towards making it so.
00:03:05
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So I'll be real with you. When I first came on here and I was expecting interview, I was expecting a very logical, very kind of anal, super structured person, but you come across more of as, you know, time is a mindset. You know, time is just kind of who you are. You know, it's, it's very different from what I was expecting to see. Yeah.
00:03:28
Speaker
There are a lot of time management productivity gurus that go ABC, XYZ, get this, do prioritization, handle your inbox, those sorts of things. There are hard skills and there are soft skills. And I'm able to combine the both of them. I was able to really get in touch with who I was and.
00:03:53
Speaker
and what worked for me and what didn't work for me. And one of the first couple of seminars was on time management and productivity. And it changed my life. It really did. I went from someone that drifted in life to someone that had purpose, that someone that didn't have any systems, a person that had systems that worked for me that were fun, that I loved, that I, this is awesome.
00:04:18
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So another saying of mine is if it's not fun, I'm not doing it. And there's so much seriousness in the world. It's like, come on, time management doesn't have to be that serious. It can be fun. It can be something that you engage with and create the way you want to create it as opposed to
00:04:37
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I still don't have enough time. I still haven't got that thing I want done. And why are these papers building up or these emails building up or I don't have time to meet my friends or I don't have time to exercise.
Making Time Management Engaging
00:04:51
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You said something very interesting. You actually can make time fun. How is that possible? Again, it's a matter of your mindset. So if you get on the wave of time,
00:05:08
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in other words, on the front foot, on the front end of time, rather than being behind it, you tend to go, oh, I've got a blank canvas. And one of the ways that I've been able to do that in my life and what I teach others is the ability to take everything out of your head and dump it down on paper. It's what I call a data dump. So what it is is the incompletions that are in your life, things that you've had as an idea,
00:05:39
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and not started. Things that you've started and not continued. Things you've continued and not completed and stuff that you've completed and not acknowledged. There are four things you can do with those. There are the things you can delete. There are things that are single action items. There are
00:06:02
Speaker
things that are projects and things that for some day maybe. So you can actually separate them and go, I'm going to get some of these done right now. Bang. And you get things done. You go, oh, there's a two minute job. There's a two minute job. There's a two minute job. And you get them done. And what happens is your productivity goes up. Your self-esteem goes up because you're getting things done.
00:06:26
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How would a person get a project done? Is there a certain productivity spectrum you have to go through? How does that work?
Key Questions for Project Planning
00:06:34
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It's a lot of things on the market for project planning, but the simple part of projects is a two-part question. The first question is, what are you trying to achieve? What's the end result? What could you do? What is it that you could then get to and go tick? That one's done.
00:06:56
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the end result. So as soon as you can clarify what it is you're after, you then go, okay, now I know where I'm headed. The second part of the question is, what's the immediate next step? And there's always the next step, always the next step. That's quite interesting, because I don't think a lot of people even consider the end result when they set a goal.
00:07:23
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let alone, you know, a next step. Yeah, I've got this. I've got these dreams. I've got these, these aspirations. And when I work with people, I go nail it. What is it specifically? And we've all heard of smart goals, specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timeframe. So you can put it in a smart framework of those things.
00:07:48
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But you can just say, what am I trying to achieve? Can I see it? Can I taste it? Can I feel it? What would it be when I achieve that? And then from there, come back to, ha, next step. So I want to buy a car. What's the car you want to achieve?
00:08:06
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Okay, I wanna buy a Jaguar, or I wanna buy a BMW, or I wanna buy the latest car in the one that I like. And you go, great, what's the model? What's the color? What's the trim? What are the wheels? Those sorts of things. You name it, like be really specific. And then from there, you go, if that's what you're after, what's something that you can do right here, right now to move that along?
00:08:32
Speaker
So there's always some practical next steps that you can do to create the momentum to get on the road to creating it. Can you kind of give some examples of what kind of goals did you set to projects and how did you develop that momentum to get through your own obstacles?
Personal Journey and Sacrifices
00:08:51
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Very good, very good question.
00:08:53
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We'll go back many, many, many years ago, I was being an Australian and I was doing a seminar series and the seminar series in Australia had a culmination of a seminar in America.
00:09:09
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And at that particular time, I wasn't earning very much money at all, and I didn't have very much money. And this particular seminar required me to not only pay the tuition, but also the flights and the accommodation.
00:09:25
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And it was a very large sum of money. And I've gone, I don't know how I'm going to do this. So I knew what I wanted to create. And I knew my starting point was near zero. So I said to myself, what's the first thing I need to do? What can I do? Well, the near zero, how much money is that? And can I put that aside as money for the goal? And what assets have I got?
00:09:49
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Like, what am I really prepared to do with this? Well, I'm prepared to sell everything I have to get over to America to create this goal. And it was very interesting because I got very close to the amount.
00:10:03
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And I got stuck and someone said, where are you at? And I said, well, I've done everything I can think of towards getting the money to go. And they said everything. And I said, yeah, everything. They've said everything. I said, yeah, the only thing that's left is my bike, my push bike, my bicycle.
00:10:23
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And they said, well, that's not everything. And I went, oh, but selling my bike? Really? You want me to sell my bike? So how committed are you to getting to America? And I went, really committed. So sell your bike. And in that moment, when I sold the bike, I had the money from the bike and somebody else gave me the rest of the money for the trip. And I was heading to the States. So the momentum of doing the little bits created
00:10:51
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the opportunity to do a little bit more and a little bit more. You definitely had that person that gave you that hard piece of advice. Would you consider yourself that same person for every other client that comes to work with you? Great question. And yes, there are times when you need people in your life to ask the hard questions. A good friend of mine, by the name of Jen Harwood, she wrote the book called The Greatness Principle.
00:11:20
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And the greatness principle looks at who have you got in your life that align with your vision, support you in creating that vision that can actually hold different roles in your life. They will play different roles in helping you attain what it is that you're after in your life. You cannot do it alone. There's a quote that says, ma'am was not born to be alone.
00:11:49
Speaker
You hit a very interesting point there because I think especially in America where I live, it's always about being that self-made individual, doing everything yourself. It's been instilled in us for a long time that we should be, stand on your own two feet, do it yourself. It's like, I've now stopped helping you. You need to stand up. You're a man now, you're a woman now. Do it yourself, do it yourself, do it yourself.
00:12:16
Speaker
I think I want to go more deeper into this by taking a quick look at your website. I want to kind of market your business too. Okay, so you offer online training. How does that work?
Online Training Sessions Structure
00:12:27
Speaker
So whether it's in person or on a Zoom, it really is ability for the individual to say, I would like to get back an hour a day and therefore it's a 90 minute exercise. I do them on a regular basis. In fact, that one was from a January one. So that needs, there'll be another one coming up soon and it gives the individual
00:12:50
Speaker
a chance to do 90 minutes to get back that hour a day. They learn skills and tools and practical tips to get them along the way. So that's my brand promise. I can give you back an hour a day. It's all about simple and easy stuff that you can implement, the strategies to get you more organized and efficient and effective with the time.
00:13:12
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And then the About Us page. That's the background on me. It's saying that my passion and expertise in time management has earned me the nickname, The
Origin of 'The Time Lord' Nickname
00:13:21
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Time Lord. And it came about because I was doing business cards and I went, anyone can be a manager, anyone can be an owner, anyone can be a managing director. And being a Christian, we were talking to God about it and we were putting a head on the pillow, about to go to sleep. And it's got to have something to do with time.
00:13:39
Speaker
Lorde, and we laughed ourselves silly because it was like Time Lorde, Doctor Who, yep, thank you very much, it's Time Lorde. There's the Time Lorde Watson, so that gives you a bit of an indication about where that came from. Talking about experience, you know, the training options. What types of training options do you offer?
00:14:00
Speaker
Again, it's all designed for the individual or for the specific business. So if that's an hour online, we can do an hour. If it's two hours, we can do two. Three, we can do a half day. We can do a full day. We can do leadership training, which takes place over several months. Don't think you would say that I'm boring, Jimbo. Would you agree with that? Yeah, you're boring.
00:14:28
Speaker
No. So I can do in-house. You can fly me over. I'm happy to do in-house. I can do one-to-one. I can do mentoring and coaching. Excellent. And next up, your store. So I'm assuming on the store you're going to sell your
00:14:44
Speaker
your book there for easy access for a lot of your clients. That's it. The book Get Back an Hour Every Day is there. If you just scroll down a little bit, it's got the two options. You can actually purchase the fully fledged book.
00:14:59
Speaker
as a paperback, and I'm happy to ship that to you there, but for some people that want instant access, you can get the digital version straight away, and that's available on the website as well. It's really good to get a visual of, oh yeah, I can see that, and this particular one's not gonna load on me today, but that's okay. I'll invite all the listeners to go to Instagram and check it out, and it's at Timelord Lez.
00:15:26
Speaker
And it's at Time Lord Lez. It's not at Time Lordals, but that's exactly the way you'd spell it. Time Lord Lez. There it is. At Time Lord Lez. So next one, the blog.
00:15:41
Speaker
Wow, so you have a full blog as well. So do you regularly write on this? Do you talk about your meeting with Steve Wozniak as well?
Meeting Steve Wozniak
00:15:52
Speaker
That was a great opportunity where I was helping out a good friend run a conference and he invited the co-founder of Apple
00:16:03
Speaker
And Steve arrived with his entourage and we rushed him into the green room and I was in the background. And the security go, no, no, no, you're coming in. And I'm going, I am nobody. Why would I be? No, no, you're coming in. So I got to be in the room. And my good friend introduced me to Steve. Oh, this is Les. Oh, nice to meet you. And he got to shake his hand and then he turned and he said, we need to do some photos. Les, come and join us.
00:16:32
Speaker
So I was able to be in a photo with Steve Wozniak and he's just such an amazingly brilliant man and what he's done to help change the world is truly phenomenal. So this has been an amazing interview and I kind of would like to end it off here.
Conclusion and Offers
00:16:54
Speaker
Are there any final words you would like to say to the audience? It was such a privilege to have you here today.
00:17:00
Speaker
It's great, and you've been very gracious, Jimbo, and allowed me to speak a lot, and good, good interviewers do that. Just let people, let people go. It's like you've got the reins, let's go right ahead. So I really appreciate that. I would like to offer something from me for free.
00:17:17
Speaker
And that is if you go to my website and get more time.com.au forward slash podcast, which is not my podcast, but it's for the opportunity for you to go to that link and pick up some of my freebies. So as you get there, you'll see that there are a couple of things you can get for free. You can even get 15 minutes of free consulting with me.
00:17:41
Speaker
and there may be another freebie on there, but you need to go. There's a couple of freebies on there that I go, oh, you just have to check it out. So get more time.com.au forward slash podcast and see what freebies that are there that I can give you. One of them is if you want to talk to me more about coaching, more about
00:18:05
Speaker
If you like me, if you go, I like this guy, I want to work with him, then just tick the box, get in touch. Happy for me to, to create a time and of our calendars and make something work between the two of us. Excellent. Excellent. That's a great offer. So listen up guys. That's a great offer. All right. I'm Jimbo Paris and this is the Jimbo Parish show. Again, great talk, sir. And also support us on Patreon if you need to.
00:18:34
Speaker
Excellent. Wonderful. Thanks, Jimbo. All right. Make sure you also buy Alison Roberts book. It's a great book focused on motivation, self-improvement and discovering yourself both spiritually and also in the real life goals that you have as well. Thank you again. This is the Jimbo Paris show. Thank you for listening to the Jimbo Paris show.