In this episode, Tiffany discusses 16 powerful ways to make progress in life, drawing inspiration from a list she found on LinkedIn. From waking up early to automating tasks and delegating responsibilities, Tiffany shares her personal experiences and practical tips to help you implement these strategies in your own life.

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Timestamps

[00:00] Waking up early provides time for productivity.

[04:54] Limit judging to avoid negative impact.

[09:29] Discover your purpose through others’ needs and actions.

[10:18] Find inspiration in day-to-day life experiences.

[14:16] Automate tasks, delegate using Eisenhower matrix.

[16:44] Forgetting time, efficient cleaning, future podcast plans.

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• The Eisenhower Matrix: How to prioritize your to-do list
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• My Goodreads Profile: Tiffany Grant - The United States (88 books)
• Tiffany’s Take: Goal Setting | Ep. 187
• Tiffany’s Take: Smart Goals | Ep. 190
• Planning For Short-Term Goals Without Sacrificing Long-Term Savings | Ep. 262

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Copyright 2024 Tiffany Grant

You know what it is. That's right. It's time to talk money with your

money nerd and financial coach. Now tighten those purse

strings and open those ears. It's the money talk with Tiff

podcast. Hey, hey,

and welcome to another episode of Tiffany's Take, where I answer your

questions right here on the podcast. So if you would like your question answered, go

to

comxtiffany. I would love to hear from

you. If you heard my 300th episode, you heard all of those

wonderful voice notes. You can actually leave me one as well with your

question, if you prefer. I would love to hear your voice. All

right, so for this episode, I wanted to go over 32

ways to make progress. Now, I was scrolling on LinkedIn one morning,

and I came across this post, and it had 32 different

items that they say you can make progress by

doing. And when I read through these items, I said, oh, this is pretty much

how I live my life. So let me share them on the

podcast, but also add just some things that I do in

order to stick to these things. So add a little color to it. All right,

so let's just hop right in because this might be a little lengthy. Number one,

wake up early. Now, I typically wake up at like 06:00

every morning because I have to get the kids on the bus. Now, some days

I do end up laying back down and going back to sleep. But on the

days where I actually stay up, I use that time. So

after they get on the bus, usually around 07:00 I

use that time to work out,

do a meditation, take a shower, and

just ease into my day. If I end up going back to

sleep, I feel like I have to rush once I do wake up again

to try to get some things accomplished. So waking up early actually

gives you, of course, more time. But also, you'll

realize usually when I stay up, it's like

00 and I'm like, oh, wow, I got so much accomplished.

So that is something that I plan on doing a little more.

It's just getting up early and staying up. Okay, number two,

read daily. This is something that I always do. You will never find

me not reading. Okay, I know that was bad grammar,

but it's true. And one thing that I use to keep

up with what I read and when I read is an app called

Goodreads. So if you are on Goodreads or if you're not

and you're interested in what I'm reading, definitely check me out over there.

But I also use audible. So I do

listen to audiobooks as well. I count that as reading.

So there are many different ways to get this read daily

in, but it's super easy to do. And another

thing is reading blog posts. So go over to the money talk with

TIFF website and just read a blog post a day. You

will learn so much. But then also you'll be getting that daily

reading in. Number three, eat well. Now, let me

be real. This is one thing that I do struggle with because I love

the food. But I will say back a few

years ago, back in 2011, 2012, I used to be

pescatarian, mainly vegetarian, with a little bit of fish

occasionally, and I felt so much better and I want to get

back to that. So that is one thing that I will be working on, is

the eating well. And actually, I might do a little

fun challenge with you all because that will help hold me accountable

and probably you as well. Number four, love

yourself. Now, this is so important because what

is on the inside is usually what reflects on the outside.

And so loving yourself allows you

to love others. So how do I make sure

that I love myself? Well, first and foremost, I make

sure that I feel it right. Because you can always

say, oh, yeah, do affirmations. Oh, yeah, make sure you eat right. Da

da da da. But if you don't feel the love within

yourself, then it's going to be really hard. You can say all the affirmations and

stuff you want, but it's not going to change what's on the

inside. So that's the first thing I do. But also adding affirmations

keeps it top of mind. And then also, I have

self care days. I mean, just not too long ago,

I went to the chiropractor. I got some acupuncture done. I

have a gift card for a massage that I need to

use. So that's how you show love to yourself. And what

you do could be completely different. Maybe it looks like just

having a quiet night in. Maybe it looks like digging into a book.

Whatever it is that you need to do to show yourself some love, make

sure you do it. Number five, judge

less. Have you ever heard of the saying, comparison

is the thief of joy? It is so true. Whenever

you are judging others or comparing yourself to others,

it does take away your joy. It does have a

negative impact on how you feel, not only about yourself,

but about others. And so I always keep

that top of mind whenever I have a thought, because it

is human nature. Okay? We do

judge a lot. And take, for instance, the Super

bowl. Everybody's like, why did JD wear that outfit? I

said the same thing, like, what is going on? But it's

okay to have those thoughts occasionally, but don't let

it run your entire existence. So

judge a little less. And that's why it doesn't say

don't judge, because it's going to be impossible to do that, to be honest.

It's an unrealistic expectation for yourself. But

you can judge just a little bit less. All right,

number six, be yourself. Oh, my gosh. I love being

me. Okay? And I will say that

takes a certain level of loving yourself, going back to

number four. But being yourself brings you so

much authenticity, so much joy that you don't have to

put on a front or a fake face just

to deal with people. That steals your energy. And so

how do I be myself? I show up as I

am. I have been in board meetings where I'm wearing jeans and a t

shirt. I have been in

company meetings where I'm wearing my

african print skirts and things like that. I will always

be myself. And if anyone has an issue with

that, then that is not my issue,

because I don't do anything to be malicious to anyone

or with ill intent. I'm just being who I am. And

especially in the case of black and brown people, we are conditioned to

not be ourselves because being ourselves is wrong. But

quote unquote wrong. And I'm doing air quotes, you all. But I

take a completely different approach. I embrace who I am and I

show that on a regular basis, there's nothing wrong with that. So,

number six, be yourself. I'm going to try to speed up a little bit. Number

seven, set goals. I talk about goal setting all the time.

And so I won't harbor on this too much, but make sure that you

have your overall life goal. Where are you trying to go with

life? But then also you have ten years, five years,

three years, one year. What do you want to do

in six months? Three months by the end of the day?

Always set goals for yourself. When I woke up this morning, I wrote a list

of all the things that I needed to accomplish today. That's the level of goal

setting. Which leads me into number eight, plan your day.

So one time I was at a summit

and I was listening to this millionaire talk, and he was saying that

he plans his days two weeks in advance. I said, whoa,

that is ambitious. But I can absolutely

understand where he's coming from. When he says that. He was like,

if you plan your days ahead of time, you can't fail.

It's literally impossible because you are constantly

working on what it is you're supposed to be working on. And so

I do do a level of this, and I use an app called

motion, so I'll put a link in the show notes for that. But motion

helps me plan out my day, and so I'll put in

what I need to get accomplished, what the

priority is on it, what's the due date, so on and so forth. And it

plans my day for me. Highly recommend. But that is one thing

that I do. Number nine, have a positive attitude. So this is

where affirmations come in, because it is so easy, especially in the

world we live in today, to go into negative autopilot. And

so I have an app on my phone called I am. Feel

free to download it, but it allows me

to have affirmations at my fingertips. And I have the

widget set up because I have an iPhone where it shows on my lock

screen, it shows on my watch, it shows on my

first page of apps. And so that way I always have an

affirmation ready to go to look at.

Number ten, have purpose. So go back to

what is your purpose here? Right?

What do you feel you were put on this earth to do?

Everybody has a purpose. And usually when

people aren't able to figure out what their purpose is, one

thing that I tell them is, look at what other people come

to you for all the time. What is something that other people are like,

hey, such and such? Do you know this? Or hey, such and such? What do

you think about this? That could be a really good indicator

of what your purpose is. So really think about that. And

anytime somebody asks you something, jot it down. What did they ask you

about? How did they ask you about it? So on and so forth. And you

might see what your purpose is. Also look at things

that have repeated throughout your life. So

what is something that maybe you used to do as a kid that

you now find yourself doing now subconsciously?

So think about that and you could figure out what your

purpose is. Number eleven, find inspiration.

Inspiration is all around you, but if you're so

into the day to day grind, you'll miss it.

So take time to find that inspiration. What makes you

go? What makes you feel the best?

And I know for me, my inspiration comes from you all.

So whenever you all let me know, oh, Tiffany, this was really

helpful, or this episode or this blog post, or this social

media post, whatever, had a profound impact on my

life. That's my inspiration to keep going. Whenever I

feel like, oh, my gosh, why am I doing this? I know

I have purpose. I know this is what I was put here to do, but

it gets so hard sometimes that inspiration kicks in

and it really helps. Which leads me to number twelve. Help

others. Always help others first. I love

helping people. And that's one thing that I do pretty much on a

daily basis, is I'm helping people in many different ways.

And so think about how you can help someone. I

can tell you, the more I help people, the more I

receive. And it's not that that's why I'm helping

people, but it's just the law of attraction.

If you help people, you will get help. And it could be from

other people. It can be your kids. Get help with something. There's so

many different ways that that help can come back to you or the others that

you love. So that's why I always have the help others first.

It's funny when people do a consultation call

or they're like, hey, Tiffany, can you answer this

question? Or whatever? And I'm like, sure,

I want to help as many people as possible. And sometimes it's

not all about the money. Now, I do have bills,

unfortunately, but it's not about the money

all the time. There's so much stuff that you can do that is

second nature for you and doesn't take much time, but can

significantly impact someone else. So anyway, all right, number

13, to also think about building your

network. It is so helpful when you are a blessing

to others and genuinely mean to be a

blessing. That person is now in your network. My

network is huge. There are so many people. I can

send an email or send a social media dm

or call or text or whatever that will be there for

me like that. And that was because I was there for them. And so

that's why number twelve and number 13 are kind of intertwined. But

also, outside of helping others to build that network, find

people that are where you would like to go.

That is super important when it comes to building a network as well,

because they can add value. They could say, well, you know what,

Tiffany, have you thought about this? This just happened to me

last night I got an email from one of my colleagues because I asked

for some feedback, and the feedback they gave was super

helpful. And so make sure that you're building your network.

And like I said, that can look many different ways. Number

14, save money. I don't care how much money

you make, I don't care what the

investment gurus told you, but always

save some money. Always have some money saved up.

That's liquid because it does a few things. It gives you peace

of mind. It also allows you to make progress. If you have

the money saved and an opportunity comes up, you

can jump on it. If you don't have the money sitting there for you,

then you're not going to be able to jump on an opportunity. And what if

that opportunity is the difference between you

going to the next level or not? So that's why it's so important

to have some money saved up, so that way you can jump on

opportunities when you need to. Number 15,

automate, y'all. I love me some

automation, and if you are a business owner and you struggle with automating

things, please reach out to me because I can probably give you some tips

on how to do it with whatever tech stack you're using. But

definitely automate, automate savings, automate

investing, automate how you interact with

your day. Like I said, with the calendar, the motion app that I

use that automates putting things on my

schedule so I don't have to sit there and do it. So

it's super helpful and super important to do that.

And next, delegate.

So one thing that I use is called the Eisenhower

matrix, and I will put a link in the show notes for

it, but it allows you to see what you need to

be doing, what you don't need to be doing, what you need to be

delegating. Okay? And so breaks your

tasks out into do now, do later,

delegate, and don't do. Okay. And so once

you go through that process of putting all those things in the

matrix, it's four squares. Then you realize,

oh, these are the things that I can delegate to other

people and so highly recommend going through that process

so that way you can see what you can delegate. And also, I would urge

you and say delegate things that you don't

enjoy doing. Start there. If you don't like doing

something and it needs to be done, but

it drains you every time you do it. Delegate that thing and see how

you feel. I had this conversation with my classmates because we

were talking about, oh, my gosh, school is being so demanding, whatever. And

I was like, I have a housekeeper, and I've had a housekeeper for quite some

time, but it really helps. And so one

of my classmates, she said, you know what, I'm a hire a housekeeper. The next

class, she said, oh, my gosh, Tiffany, this is a life hack in of

itself. And I said, see, I told you so. Delegate

those things that you don't have time for, you don't enjoy. And

there's someone out there that does enjoy it and would love to do it

and can do it faster than you. My housekeeper comes for 2

hours once a week and she can clean the entire house.

Sometimes for me it takes 2 hours just to do the bathroom because I

have to put my cleaner in the tub and let it soak. And then

I sit on the couch and then I forget about it and then it's 2

hours later. I'm like, oh, the bathroom. So with her,

she's in, she comes in, she does both bathrooms, the living

room, my office, the kitchen, everything in

2 hours. And so there might be someone that's more efficient with

what you need to get accomplished. So think about that. Now, I know I said

I was going to go over 32 ways, but I think we only have time

for 16. So next episode I'll go over

the next 16 ways to make progress from

the list and if you would like your question answered on the podcast,

go to www. Dot moneytalkwitht.

Comxtiffany. I'll be more than happy to

answer next week. Catch the continuation of this

32 ways to make progress list and I'll see you next

time. Bye. Thank you for listening,

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