1) Time: Your Asset. Mini-series

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Imagine you have a bank and every single morning this bank deposits

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into your account $86,400 every

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day. But there is one rule. At the end of the day,

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whatever you don't spend, disappears.

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Gone. So what would you do?

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You'd probably use every cent. I would do it.

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I would make a plan, I would invest it, I would use

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it for my goals, whatever. What about you?

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Well, that bank really in a kind of sense

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exists. It's called time. Listen to me. Every morning you

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get 86,400 seconds,

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a lot of seconds. And every night,

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whatever you didn't invest is gone forever. You can go back,

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it's just gone. So the good news is that each morning

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you get a brand new deposit. A fresh start, a new chance.

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And it is half up to you how you will use it. Welcome back.

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I'm Barbara, your Italian family and mental coach with all my mistakes.

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And this is another episode of let's Go Mental, the podcast where we

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make mental training a lifestyle. Integrating mindset work into your daily

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routine so you can consistently progress and perform with

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confidence in sport and in life. So we were talking about this

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deposit. Every day we have the same deposit. And as an athlete

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is your choice. This could be your edge. You already train your body,

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body, your skills, your mindset. You are already ahead, you are disciplined.

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It will be easier for you to attach another skill. Imagine if

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you invest in training how you use your time with the same mindset.

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And that's what this mini series is all about. Time as an asset.

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Time is an equalizer. Messi, Ronaldo, Simone Biles.

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Your coach, your teacher, your best friend, your mom, your dad.

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Everyone gets the same amount of seconds. The 86,400.

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But not everyone is using it in the same way. Are you

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spending your time doing homework, playing games, scrolling on social

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media, reading, sleeping, extra training. Everyone is different.

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Let me ask you a weird question. What is time

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for you? Is it just a clock? Ticking hours, minutes,

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seconds, Boring? Is it the past, present and future all line up

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in a row so you know, yesterday, today and tomorrow? Is it money? Or maybe

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it's something you only realize when it's too late. Like late homework,

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practice that starts in five minutes and you are still home.

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That birthday you have been counting down to, most of you would

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probably say I don't have time to answer this right now.

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And I get it. Time sounds really not the coolest

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things to talk about. But time management, schedule, being on time,

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it is like adult stuff, mom's kind of

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stuff, mom telling you what is your Schedule for today. Did you

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do your plan? Yeah, I know it is. But you are not an ordinary teenager.

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Maybe it is boring for everybody, but you have to

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transform that boring and ordinary in something

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that can really be your asset. You can

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fill that gap. This means that you can get better every day

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because you want to close that gap from where you are right now to

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where you want to go. You want to perform with confidence in sport and life.

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And time is your best friend. And if it is not yet

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your best friend, think about it. No matter how good you are, if you don't

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learn how to manage your life and your schedule, there will come a moment

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when your sports skills won't be enough. Master your time and you'll have an

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advantage that nobody else your age has. Second question.

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Now that you know, what time is it for you, how do you spend it?

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I'm not talking about the obvious stuff. So, school, practice. I mean the hours in

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between. The one between school and practice. When you

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come home, what do you do? You scroll. You do your homework, your shower,

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you sleep. Do you have an idea of where your time goes?

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Time is tricky. It hides in some way.

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And sometimes the perception of where you spend your time is

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not the real one. You think you scroll for 10 minutes and it was 40.

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You think you shower for 10 minutes and

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it was 25. You think you study for an hour and it was only 30

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minutes. For me, it's the same. It's not any different for adult, teen,

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young, kid. But we are here to improve this.

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I'm here to make you aware, not to play the guilty game.

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I don't want you to feel guilty, but I want you to be aware and

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think of what you can do in your future to close the gap. If you

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cannot see where time is going, you can't control it, even if

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you think you are in control. So let's do a quick test here. Be honest

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with yourself. Are you a distractor? So you sit down to work,

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but then TikTok Instagram call you just five minutes and it

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becomes more. Or are you an overbooker? You're always busy, but the important

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things never get done. The procrastinator. You delay, delay,

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delay until the last second, then stress and panic.

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Are you the perfectionist planner? You love making plans,

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but when something changes, you get frustrated. Which one are you?

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Or maybe you are a mix of all of this and this is your starting

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point, your awareness. Once you know your type, or once you

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know where you put your time, you can really start building the system that

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works for you. So here is the challenge for today. If you

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avoid managing your time, you live in chaos and you don't want cows.

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I don't want cows. I know that. I don't want cows. Maybe you still get

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things done, but with stress, late night, missed alarms,

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frustration, parent yelling. How many times feeling like

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you always have something unfinished. This is like a loop. And your brain doesn't like

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unfinished stuff, stuff at all. If you train your time, it gives

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you freedom, focus, energy and chance to

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enjoy really what you are doing in that moment. Without thinking,

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I still have to do this and this and this. Because you already done it.

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So here is the job for this week. Write down what time means to you,

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then think about time. Personality quiz. Four types that I mentioned

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before and if you want to go deeper, track your time for one week

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for when you go back to home, out of school, till you go to sleep,

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track what you are doing. And remember, we have to go mental together in order

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to control your controllable cows. Bye for now.