Different Life

Episode Summary

Time is the one resource that every person shares, yet it is also the one we often waste the most without realizing it. In this episode, Gary and Peter explore the idea of “buying back your time” and why sometimes spending money is actually the smartest way to reclaim hours of your life.

The conversation explores everyday examples, from outsourcing lawn care and home cleaning to using grocery pickup and airport services that eliminate unnecessary frustration and wasted time. These small decisions can add up to hours saved every week.

But reclaiming time is only the first step. The real value comes from how you choose to spend it. Whether it is investing more energy into family, physical health, or meaningful work, the goal is to align your time with what truly matters in your life.

Ultimately, this episode challenges listeners to audit how they spend their time, identify activities that drain it, and intentionally replace those activities with things that add meaning and fulfillment.

Key Topics Discussed
  • Why time is the most valuable currency in life
  • The mindset shift from saving money to buying back time
  • Everyday examples of outsourcing tasks to reclaim time
  • The relationship between productivity, money, and happiness
  • How businesses are essentially systems for buying back time
  • The importance of intentionally using reclaimed time
  • Auditing activities and commitments in your life
  • Replacing low value activities with meaningful experiences
Chapters with Timestamps
00:00 Introduction and opening conversation
 02:00 Why time is the most valuable currency
 05:30 The mindset shift around spending money
 08:45 Outsourcing everyday tasks like lawn care
 13:10 How businesses buy back time through delegation
 16:30 Hiring cleaning services and home support
 20:10 Grocery pickup and eliminating wasted time
 23:30 The caveat of needing financial resources
 26:10 Auditing relationships and commitments
 30:15 What to do with the time you reclaim
 35:00 Work, family, and physical health priorities
 39:30 The danger of wasting reclaimed time
 43:00 Practical examples of reclaiming time

Notable Quotes

“Time is the greatest currency that we have available. It’s finite.”
“If you spend hours every week doing things you hate just to save a few dollars, you might actually be losing the most valuable resource you have.”
“Buying back time only works if you replace it with something meaningful.”
“A business is essentially a system for buying back your time.”

Resources Mentioned

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Creators and Guests

Host
Gary Donia
Gary Donia, MSPT is a physical therapist and Chief Operations Officer at Whole Health Solutions and Sports Performance. With more than 20 years of experience, he helps individuals and athletes recover from injury, build strength, and improve long-term physical capability. Gary focuses on identifying root causes, creating practical plans, and guiding people toward sustainable health and performance. In addition to his clinical work, he coaches high school and Legion baseball, applying movement principles to develop resilient, confident athletes. He lives in Townsend, Massachusetts, with his wife Jessica and their two sons, and is passionate about helping people build healthier, more capable lives both on and off the field.
Host
Peter Brouillard
Peter Brouillard, DPT is the Founder and CEO of Whole Health Solutions and Sports Performance. As a physical therapist and strength coach, he works with individuals and athletes to recover from injury, build strength, and develop long-term resilience. Peter takes a whole-body approach to health, integrating exercise, lifestyle habits, and performance principles to help people exceed their goals and unlock their potential. His focus is on practical strategies that create lasting change, not quick fixes. He is passionate about empowering people to take ownership of their health and build lives defined by capability, confidence, and meaningful progress.

What is Different Life?

Most people don’t need more motivation. They need a different approach. Hosted by Gary Donia and Peter Brouillard, Different Life draws on years of experience helping people navigate pain, movement, recovery, and performance — but the conversation goes far beyond health alone.

We talk about:
• Strength training as a life skill
• Back pain, mobility, and injury recovery
• Pelvic floor health and durability
• Sleep, stress, hormones, and energy
• Performance and longevity over 40
• Discipline, habits, and identity shifts
• Parenting and modeling health
• Relationship-based healthcare

We discuss these not as isolated topics, but as part of a bigger question: What does it look like to live differently, not just try to live better?
If you feel stuck in patterns that no longer fit who you want to become, this show is for you. Because better often keeps you in the same cycles. Different changes your trajectory.

Gary (00:00)
And we are back back again back again. We don't have really good like intro on our old podcast. We used have like a nice little intro. So I'm wondering, should we do that? No, no. so therefore I guess we're done. What if what if we what if you and I were just talking? And then you just like press the thing and then we just we're just talking and then what if they like what if they miss something good? What if the people miss something good? Well, then we'll have to tune in for next time. What if we forget we won't?

to talk about it. We'll try that. You know, just talk and then press the button. And then they'll come in mid sentence. Hopefully it's like an appropriate comment. Cause usually what happens off the camera is usually something inappropriate. And then we turn it on and we behave mostly. we should start not doing that. Whatever. We'll see. ⁓

Anyway, today what I want to talk about is actually I'm curious to notice if you noticed any kind of shifts that we've known each other for how long? 10 years. 10 years. And we did a podcast back in the day. It was a lot to do with money and

health and wellness and whatever, but there was definitely like a skew, like there was like a half and half more to money, unlike this one, which is mostly gonna be around topics like that. But this one, this topic today, I think pertains to sort of health and wellness in many ways, but have you noticed a shift in the way that I spend money over the last 10 years? Yeah, your last Doc McScroug on your mountain of gold. I don't have a mountain of gold. I do not.

Yeah, you will do a better job of releasing it to the ether and just being happy to spend your money. Before there would be a lot of know, pucker butt. Yeah. I'm not sure if I ever thought of it that way. I Nor do I want to visualize that. I mean, is that accurate? So I'd say it's true. Yes, that is true. But specifically around one area and that's sort of what I want to talk about today. So if you had to name

your the most valuable commodity or resource we have in life, what would you say that is? God, it's like so easily time. Time is the greatest currency that we have available. It's finite. You don't get to choose more. It is what it is. every day you lose some no matter what. So if you don't allocate that time right and budget it appropriately, it happens to you.

I was saying this the other day, if you let people choose your life for you, your time just floats away. Floats away. Right? Right. So this is where the pivot has come from me, I think, like over the last, like especially the last like five years or so, right? Where I started to put more thought around like, man, I'm spending a lot of time like doing things that I don't really enjoy. When to save a few dollars here and there, where I could just have somebody else just do it. You know, like what am I doing? Like, you know, I would have like these, but it,

but it's hard for me because my inclination, my natural state is to be pretty frugal and to think like, okay, well I can just do that thing and it saves me $30. Or I can do that thing and it saves me $100 or whatever. But at the cost of time. But at the cost of time. And so I was giving away lots and lots and lots of time. And so I've been looking for areas in my life where I was like, okay, if I just do the math equation in my head of like what this is worth, right? In terms of my time, how much is my time worth, blah, blah, ⁓

or just my happiness, right? It doesn't have to even be a dollar amount. Do I like doing this? Yeah. Do I like doing this thing or not? And is there a way I can do this that's like not financially dumb? know, I don't want to be like, you know, for instance, I'm not going to start flying private jets all of a sudden, even though that's going to save me a lot of time at the airport. Although I do do something at the airport now that's different, but, you know, I'm not, I'm not.

gonna do that because that would probably just bankrupt me very quickly. Like I started like, you know, doing that. So, so I've been putting a lot of thought and so I made a lot of changes. Have you done anything like this in your own life around like spending money? Cause you're kind of frugal too. you and I have very similar things with that. And I, me too, like I'll just, I'll just do it because I also want to like, well, I will do something to learn from it where, you know, which I guess in that sense it's fine. But if you're, if I'm finding myself loathing,

what it is that I'm spending my time on. Yeah, so I tried to think about, okay, well either can I get rid of this or can I spend money to have somebody else do this for me? And like I'm happy to do, which is weird. I'm actually happy to do it. I'm like, Oh my God, thank God. Like I'm so happy that this thing is now being done. The money mindset for you is changing a little bit. Right. So give me an example in your own life or where you've done this. Yeah. The greatest money I've ever spent is $60 a week during the times in which the lawn grows. My neighbor who's a landscaper.

He said, I'll do it for 60. It was like the fastest yes that ever came out of my mouth. Like he cuts, he cuts the grass. He cuts the lawn. Dude, it took, I had a push mower. Yeah. I still have a push mower. Was it the electric one? Yes. So great. I can't get You got that thing at the time where like electric mowers didn't really actually work. I think now they're kind of better. Yeah. I think, I think there was a head of the curve with the electric shit. You were, yeah. You never want to be first to something like that. I was. You know what I mean? Because you got like the thing that like, you know, would take me two and a around with an extension cord attached to you.

So instead of having two and a half hours of my weekend, like my Saturday, taken from me every single week, like during the height of the summer, you know, when it's growing or the spring, now it's done for $60. You probably had so much reason that meant around every time you had to do it. probably let it go. The family's complaining, the grass is too long. And you're like, you know, and what it robbed me of is it robbed me of spending time with the people that I cared about the most because I had to do the stupid thing. Right. And so

So in the end, when we talked about it and he offered it to me, was like, my goodness, like, of course, like, yes. Jesus. Yeah, please do that. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Now we're to mow again. What about with the business? Have you done anything like that with the business? So we do it, don't we do it literally all I think we do it all the time. all of the time. Right. So it's like, isn't that what every single person that comes in here that we pay, I was thinking about this the other day, every service like that we pay for is technically just like,

it's an employee that you're choosing to like be like a 1099. So you're just, buying the service that, I don't want to do myself because I don't have the expertise. So I'm going to pay this person. they typically do it better. Of course they do it better because they're experts at it. So in my opinion, a business is literally the king of buying your time back with everything around you. We had that feeling this morning when we walked into work this morning and the people we'd recently hired to clean here a couple of times a week, like at night, they were here the night before.

I don't think the place has ever looked better. It looked like we just moved in. smelled good. The floors looked perfect. There was no sand and salt everywhere. The equipment all looked clean. I don't know if they cleaned the equipment last night, but just looked clean. Maybe it's because everything around it was like so much more clean. But prior to that, you were doing it a lot. That's time that you could be spending or like running a business or helping a client. know, rest of us. staff do it. The are doing it and that's not what they are. went to... Parting my daughter in to do it. Right. I mean, they went to school to be physical therapists. They didn't go to school.

to be clean, not that they weren't willing to do it, but that's not what they want to do with their the job just wasn't done as well as like a professional. Yeah, they do it enough. They would just do it enough. And so we're hiring out. So that's an example. In my own life, I'll give you an example. My list continues to grow because the more I do it, I'm like, my God, this is like the greatest thing. And then we'll talk about like, I think the biggest.

Take away. Yeah, it's a takeaway, but it's also sort of like there's like a caveat here, right? Like there's like, there's an important second piece to this whole thing. So in my old way, right, I've done, ⁓ I've also do the lawn thing, but I actually cut it myself. I actually enjoy that. I actually love it. It's almost like meditative. tractor. I have like a lawn tractor I drive around. Yeah, just you just want to make sure people know I'm not pushing it.

Just so we're clear, you're on it. I'm basically like, the old guy with his beer going around. I don't actually do that, but I usually have a drink. I usually have an iced coffee and I'm just kind of cruising around out there. It's nice, a beautiful day. I usually do it in the morning when the sun's coming up, not that early so I had to know my neighbors, but early enough. It's nice out. It's just a nice way. I usually listen to a podcast or something. For me, it's actually an enjoyable Great. That's a good use of your time. Yeah. I enjoy it. I'm actually not looking. I actually did get rid of that at one point and I missed it.

and we brought it back. ⁓ But what I do have them do is all the fertilizing and stuff. That, I hate it. I hated it. know, like The aerating too? Yeah, aerating, fertilizing, they do like a top soil thing, they're doing all kinds of different things and it's great and the lawn looks awesome and it's done on time, it's done on schedule. I'm not stressing about like getting it done because I do value like a lot my lawn. Like I'd like to have a nice lawn. That's important to me. The kids are older now, but when the kids were younger, I wanted a place for them to play. We have a dog, I want a nice place for them to play that is like, you know,

comfortable, we host people I wanted to look nice, you know, that type of thing. And so it's important, but I found myself like, oh God, and then what would happen is I'd miss like applications or whatever, right? So instead of doing like the slow work, yeah, like I'd miss it by like a month and now I'm late. Now I'm now the lawn doesn't look as good and now I'm like dreading it. And then I actually figured out recently, I was like the math of having somebody do it.

versus me going just to buy it. really wasn't a whole lot different. terms of the total cost, it was like a little bit more, I forget, it was like a 10 % premium or something like that. It was very little. Because they buy it at this bulk pricing. So their actual cost of product is way less than my cost of product. So now I'm paying for the cost of product and their time, but the total cost really wasn't a lot different than if I just did it when I was doing it myself.

And every time I did that, so it was where I get my stuff from, it was a 30 minute drive, about like 25 to get the stuff, another 25 back, plus an hour plus to do all the application. So every time I do it, so it's like six times a year, something like that. You know what I mean? So you do that like 12 hours or more that I got back in my life. So that's one. ⁓ I mentioned the airport. So we got this thing called Clear, which is like,

kind of like TSA pre-check, but it's a private company who does it. And so when I go to the airport and there's this really long line that you're going to stand in to get through security, I literally go through my little secret, like clear line and I cut like the whole line and I go right to the very front and I get through. So my son asked me this. My son asked me this. goes, don't you kind of feel like an asshole? Like because all these people are waiting. And I was like,

Yeah, but I don't care. Because when I'm standing there being herded like cattle, and I'm wasting like an hour of my life and getting aggravated and stressed and hating every second of it and thinking there has to be a better way and right behind me is a better way, I want the better way. I'm happy to spend the money on the better way, right? So I do. And it wasn't even that, it's a couple hundred dollars for the year. I know maybe not possible for every single person, but like probably feasible for many people.

and it saves me all that time and aggravation and we travel. We travel a for you. it would be. It probably would be not appropriate because I do it like once. I can't imagine you standing in the security line. It sucks like you would get like arrested like instantly because you're so like like wiggly and like you get annoyed and like you know whatever. But anyway so that saves me a ton of time and it also saves like so we have it for the whole family. And so every time Ashton has my son has to come home from college he uses it and whatever. So it's like just so that's another example for me.

⁓ the most recent example, is, as we hired, ⁓ like we have somebody that comes every two weeks to clean the house. ⁓ the house one has never looked. This was like a revelation for you. This is like the greatest thing. Just like here, you know, it's never looked better, but like my wife is so happy because this is the type of cleaning that she typically would do. Like we share responsibilities around the house. I'm not like the jerk husband that makes just makes his wife clean. ⁓

But like I do kind of, I'm more the organizer of the clutter, you know, I'm kind of that guy. But she was more the cleaner of things. And now she doesn't have that. And it's like one less thing. She still works and she's, you know, she's still busy, but she also wants time to do things that she enjoys. Does she appreciate it? Yes. my God. She like loves it. It's like the greatest thing that we've ever done. And I put that off for a long, long time, probably because it wasn't affecting me.

Do you know what mean? that can wait. Meanwhile, she's scrubbing the toilets. You're doing great, honey. So I was like, whatever. I probably should have done it a long, long time ago. Just seeing how happy it makes her alone makes it worth it. But it's giving her back time. She's reading more. She has more time to do things. And she has peace of mind. It's done. It's done well. And she really likes it, because that's important to her, right?

So that's one. And then the last one for me, like, or at least big one is like, we do grocery pickup. We don't do delivery a lot. I don't think we've ever had our groceries delivered. Not that I wouldn't. I think part of that is there's a little element of, you know, being around when it actually shows up. So it's not just sitting outside, you know, that kind of thing. But we have a store close to us. And so we do the whole pickup thing where we order it online and then we show up and they bring it to your car and then you leave. And like, I love that. Does that cost you something? It's minimal. It's like a couple of dollars.

Like literally a couple of dollars. mean, that's the most like three. Yes. It's so great. Like you press, you do all the thing. Plus just from a health and wellness perspective, you typically, because you're not walking around the store, you're not like impulse buying. is like the greatest service ever. Right. So you're not overspending and you're not buying things you shouldn't. You're literally just going down like what your list is for that day. You pick the things you put in your cart, you press, okay. And then you pick a time window to go pick it up. When you get there, you press a button that tells them that you're there and then they bring it out to you and then you drive home.

Yeah, any grocery store that has that service, it does both things. It saves you a bunch of time and it allows you that if you're a health conscious human being, you just literally can't impulse buy it because when you're on the app, it's a totally different thing. It's like going down the list of your groceries. You're done and there's no other thoughts. Right. That's great. And then you're saving all the time to do what you want. Now, here's the caveat. Can you guess what it is? The fact that you have to have money to do these things.

So that's one. Yeah, sure. So again, the grocery store thing, like two or $3. Yeah. Like the delivery is more because they over, charge you more for the actual items, but the pickup, the item cost is exactly the same. At least for my grocery store. They just charge you a couple of dollars for the convenience of somebody bringing it to your car. For some of the other things. Yeah, there's a money component. I think it, depending on the thing, like for most people, like I said, if you're buying fertilizer anyway, and you're doing your own yard, you're probably not going to spend a whole lot more to have somebody else just apply it.

because they're buying it at bulk. So it's not really that big of a deal. The house cleaner thing can be a little pricey. So yeah, so the money to do it, I get it. Like not everybody can do it, but there's probably some areas of everybody's life where they could look to find like either a better way. That's not a money version of how to scrape back time, right? Like either who to delegate it to, right? Or like, is this something in my life that is even necessary? Or is this just like a habit that I've been doing? Yeah, eliminating something can be like very long time. Like I look at this, when I think of,

this topic, I think of friends, right? So people who are in our lives that we actually like spend time with. you should do an audit on your friendships and be honest with yourself. Are these friendships that I just have now because I just have them? Like have I outgrown my friends? to be honest, like be honest with yourself, do they serve you in your life at this time or are they a negative influence? And man, if that's the case, you have one life, like you should probably make a choice if you've given them enough chances and it's just not the person that feeds your soul.

You should probably move on. And those people typically are wanting of your time. And they're asking you to do things or do things for them. And you dread the interaction. And you dread it and whatever. And so if you're not enjoying it, remove it. I would say that the same for most activities in your life. Like look at each activity that you're committed to. Maybe you're on a certain committee in your town or you're like I coach baseball. Like every year I reassess, do I still love doing this?

And do I want to give this much time? I give like almost 30 hours a week to coaching baseball for a local high school. You better love it if you it for free. So I think about it every year. It's a process for me. I go through a process. Do I still love it? Do I still? Yes, I do. So I'm going to do it again. But if the answer is ever, I mean, I don't know, then I'm out because that's 30 hours I'm taking away from something. It's got to come from somewhere. It's a of hours. Mostly it comes away from Jess and the family. So there's that. So yeah. there's that Kyle. Yeah. There's one.

There's one that I think is actually even bigger. It's what do you do with it? What do you do with the time you've saved? Yeah, because like. More of the things that you love? For instance, well, but are you? That's what I'm saying. So like if say I save, you know, 10 hours a week like so this is so I listen to Alex Hermosie sometimes. He's a business podcaster and he did a show once and he explained all the things that he does to that he recently does.

to give himself more time, but for him it's more time to work on the business. And so he has a math equation basically. He's like, yeah, he's like, I door dash every meal. Is it financial or responsible? He's like, you would say no. And I'm gonna tell you why it is. And he went through the math of it. He's like, it cost me whatever, $100 to get my lunch delivered today. But during the three hours, it would have taken me to normally like do this. He's like, I did this, boom, boom, boom, boom, these things. That made me $3,000 or something in his particular business, right? So he's like, which was more valuable?

the 3,000 I made or the $100 I spent. So for him, he does stuff around the business all the time that is just a math equation. His hourly rate, so to speak. Right? And so for somebody like him, he has a very unbalanced version of life, right? Like for him, his life is business. Yeah. Right? And so for other people, so I consider myself as to somebody that I want a more balanced life. Like I want to work really hard at this, enjoy this a lot, and also have another part of my life. Yeah.

It has nothing to do with this. Right. And so, so I've always just thought like anything that I extract from my life that's negative. I will just add more of the things that I enjoy. Can I give you the three things that I tend to think about like as categories? It's like, it's like, it's this, it's work, right? Me specifically, but yeah. You only, right? else. Gary. So work slash Gary. My family and friends. That's one category in and of itself. Right. So the people that I choose to spend my time with.

and then my physical health and wellbeing, because I put a lot of emphasis on it and I spent a lot of time on those, on the categories around my health and wellbeing. And so those are the three things that I genuinely enjoy. And so I have to do audits of those three things too. And are there other things inside of those three categories that I don't enjoy spending my time on? And then if I identify them, well, I'm just gonna, I'm gonna offload them in some way, whether it be financially or delegation.

or get rid of it entirely, and then I'm gonna spend more time on the things in those three categories. I don't have anything else on that. I those three things. Right. So you're pretty good about that stuff. That's just the way you're wired. think for a lot of people, would be this, there's a potential that you spend the time poorly. At least, again, not for me to judge, but I'll give an example of myself. If I gain back an hour today from somebody fertilizing my lawn, right?

And I spent that time, me personally, on like Instagram. That wasn't, that's not, I don't really enjoy Instagram. Now you just spent money. Yeah. Like I just spent money and I didn't do something So you're saying being mindful about the time that you gain back. Yeah. So I think you have to kind of have a plan. Like I'm gaining back the time, but to do what? It's, it's convenient and nice to say, well, I'm going to do the things I love, but what is that? You know, like not everyone knows what that is. So what are the things that you love? Yeah. So I love to read. Like I love to work, believe it or not.

Like, it's weird. And I don't mean work, like show up in this building and work. I love to work on like new projects and tasks like outside of here that involve like doing stuff for here. But it's like, for me it's learning. guess learning is probably the real answer. I love to learn. And you use work as an outlet. I use work as like a medium to learn, you know, to learn more things. so as I- you're constantly building new skills along this end, like the digital marketplace that you're working in right

podcast, the marketing, social media, all that stuff. Yeah, yeah. Like it's a challenge. I'm trying to figure out the algorithms. trying to like, I learn more stuff about like how to like, I've actually used code on our website recently. I learned, like I didn't learn how to write code, but I learned how to tell a robot to write code and the code created the thing that I wanted on our website. It was like a player for this thing actually. ⁓ yeah. You me about that. You embedded a video player.

Yeah, like I wanted like a better, a different version than what I was able to get through thing. And so I had the code do it and I was like, crap, that actually worked. You know, thank God for like smart robots, but, but I learned like there's always like, that's what I, the more things I get into, but I like to use my time, you know, for that. Obviously there's always time to spend with Justin to whatever. I probably need to find like some hobbies and things that I do really love. Cause I don't have a lot that in my life. I can't point to one hobby other than reading.

that I'm like, ⁓ I really love to do that. It's never been who I am. I feel like your work is your hobby at this point. It is. It's a thing that you enjoy to do. I do. Does it have to be different than that? It doesn't have to be. What would a hobby be? Because I struggle with this too, to be clear.

Like I'm, I'm fairly Like you like the jet ski for instance. You like in the summertime, like you like to go swimming a lot. You know why though? Cause it's physical. It's physically active. Yeah. It all comes back to being physically It just comes back to that. My hobbies are physically active. So going back to the lazy episode, like my instinct is to not do those things, right? Like it's almost like I fight to. It's so hard. I want to get you jet skiing so bad you resist. Like, yeah, that's cause I have to leave my house. I don't want to do that. could be doing something at home. So.

So anyway, so I think for everybody that's like, as you're listening to this and you're thinking of ways like, how do I buy back time? I think that's step one, right? Step one is like buying it back or eliminate, know, giving yourself back time. Buying is like a loose term. Like sometimes it involves money, right? Sometimes it involves just saying no, right? Sometimes it involves like, it to somebody else, delegating it, whatever. But then really put a lot of thought into it, before you actually do that.

Well, what am I going to do? So say it's the lawn on Saturday. So instead of doing that on Saturdays for you or on Sunday, right? You gave back a few hours. Like what do you think you did more of last year after saying yes to that guy? What would you say like the one thing you did more? So afternoons are more like time with the kids in the pool or the yard because I'm not doing the lawn. Right. Am I like after work? So it was like family. You gave more to your family most likely. Right. Yeah. So that's great. you had a plan. know if that was...

a plan going into it, but my guess is in your head you were like, absolutely, I can swim more. I can pull my son to the pool with me. Yeah, right, so that's a great way to do it. I guess the fear is that some people would do it without that thought and then it turns destructive. Yeah, that's absolutely a thing too. Yeah, I agree. So you're just saying find the time for the things or find the things that are taking your time maybe unknowingly or against your will, things that you don't value and then.

replace them, but have a plan, replace them with something that is far more valuable to you in your life with your time. Right. That makes sense. So that being said, is there anything in your current life that you think you should replace or find somebody else to do it that you are currently not enjoying or that you feel could be delegated or purchased back?

Yeah, that's interesting. I think I haven't done an audit on this in a while, but it does require some actual thoughtful, like, because you can kind of just like trudge through things that are annoying without thinking about it. I don't know. There's nothing that jumps out at me. What about you? So I think the next one for me. So, as you know, I've historically like changed my own oil. Correct. And I will speak to it like it's a value to it. You enjoy it. So part of me enjoys working on like a car, right? Because it makes me feel manly.

I don't do a lot of Is like the one place in your life? It's kind of like the only place in my life, right? I have a wrench in my I kind of feel mail. Yes. But when I go to do it, I'm like, can I really, like, what am doing? Is that your current state? Yeah, sort of like I've been putting it off. All three of them right now need like three of our four cars. That's your car. The Donia, the Donia like parking lot.

Yeah, and I'm just like, I keep putting it off and clearly if I'm putting it off that much, I clearly just don't want to do it, which means I no longer enjoy it. I don't need to feel me on the apparently. So I'm just like, you know what? Like I'm just so, so my son is leaving for a few weeks coming up and I said to Jesse, I just, I'm just going to make an appointment because when he's away, we have an extra car, right? Cause he won't have it with him. And so I said, I'm just going to make appointments for all the cars to go in while he's gone. So we get, so Jess and I always have a car we don't have to share, right? So just going to rotate through these cars and just to have them done.

And I just feel like I don't need to do that anymore. I wonder if there's a service that you could hire for somebody to come into the house and do it. That would be even better. So you don't have to go anywhere. Maybe we should start that service. I do love the idea of anybody coming to that. bet you somebody would show up and do all three. tools, right? No, nothing. It's like the easiest of all the things. the oil. Correct. Yeah. I bet you there's There's gotta be somebody. We're gonna look into that. If anybody knows, please reach out and let us know. But that's probably next for me. I think that's something I can like add into that. Cause it's really, again,

It's not even that much more money. It cost me like 20 to $30 to do that and I don't know what it's currently at, like a Jiffy Lube or something, but it's probably maybe double. Yeah, like 60. It's just like, you know, whatever. But I now find myself scanning for that and I also scan for things that I feel like maybe are considered a little bit luxurious. I was actually talking to a client this morning about this morning. We both are in the same boat. We're both tall.

And he says, yeah, he's like, I were at the point where he's like, I used to like buy a plane ticket in the back of the plane, in the regular seats. And I was like, so uncomfortable for like a five hour flight because I refused to pay like an extra $30 for like extra leg room. And he's like, I finally had enough. And I said to my wife, cause she's the one who was like, books the tickets. He's like, just don't even ask me, just get me like a seat where I fit.

And I don't even want to know about the price and just please do the thing. And he's like, for the last couple of years, that's what she does. So enjoyable. And he's like, I'm so happy. Like the flights are so enjoyable. And he's like, I don't think about the money. It's a little bit extra money. He's like, but my instinct is just to save every nickel. He's like, and what is it? He's like, he's like $30 or whatever to like for five hours of comfort. He's like, and happiness. So I don't start my vacation in a bad mood. He's like, it was, it's worth every penny, but I couldn't get myself to do it. So now I just tell my wife, it. Don't, don't ask me questions.

Cause they used, and and I've been doing this with Jess lately because she'll go through the, like she gets so mad at the airlines. She's like, Oh my God, it's like another $20 for a bag and then $30 for this and like whatever. we happened to have to fly a lot. I said, Jeff, I said, just do the thing. We have to go. It's not that we can't go. Like we have to go to do this. We should be comfortable why we do it. So just, don't buy like first class or anything, but buy the seats towards the front of the plane. So we're not waiting an hour to get off when we just want to be done with like the flight.

Like get me like the ones where my legs actually fit. I'm six four and our son is six six. Like and our other son is six five. Like please like just get the things that are comfortable. So it's spending a little bit more money for like happiness, you know, and making those decisions. And then also making the decision permanently. Like I'm no longer thinking about this all the time. It just happens every time. that's what I like. So that's where I'm at with that part of my life. okay. And that is it. See you next time.