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Ever felt like time is slipping through your fingers, yet somehow you're expected to juggle multiple roles seamlessly? Join me as I navigate the ups and downs of a jam-packed Monday that demanded all my skills, from orchestrating the first of many instructor training evenings to tackling my day-to-day challenges in data analytics. Despite a smaller-than-hoped-for turnout at the training, the commitment of those who showed up was nothing short of inspiring. I'll share insights on managing transitions from kickboxing to strength training, all while underscoring the value of community and teamwork in keeping the classes running smoothly.

Meanwhile, in the world of data, I've embarked on a journey towards greater efficiency and decisiveness. By refining my approach to data pipelines, I've discovered ways to enhance productivity and free up more time for my passion projects. Through stories of tight deadlines and rapid problem-solving, I'll explore how a mindset shift can drive better outcomes, both professionally and personally. Whether you're balancing a hectic schedule or looking to optimize your workflow, this episode promises valuable takeaways on making each moment count.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:32

Alright, well, I'm going to take another chance at recording this, because every time I try to record this episode it keeps deleting. So here we go. So it's Monday, happy Monday, here we are, and tonight is the first night of eight instructor training evenings. So for the next eight weeks we're spending about an hour and a half a night training instructors or training folks how to do strength training classes, and so folks that are brand new to instructing or folks that have done kickboxing, want to know how to do strength classes. We're now teaching them, and I was bummed tonight like we had six or seven people interested. Only two showed up for the first night, so I was really hoping that more people would show, and so we'll have to be more intentional and reminder-ish about the trainings because we're getting tight. Like there's just it's just tight. It's hard to get enough hands to run the classes and do it all, and I'm, for the folks that are here that are doing it, so grateful, so appreciative of it. It just really means a lot.

Speaker 1: 1:37

Had a good day at the day job. I've learned I need to be more quick and decisive. Here's an example Some of the stuff you may get, some you may not. I do data analytics, I have to write my own data pipelines. That means I need to write some semi-computer code to pull data from our systems and make it tangible. And pulling from tons and tons of data like a couple hundred terabytes worth of data and, for reference, that's like 50 iPhones, like we'll just say it's 50 iPhones worth of data you to pull it and you can't just, you have to pull it really smartly so that you don't spend a lot of computer power pulling it. But anyhow, you pull it and I've learned like, instead of just having one massive data pull or lots of sub pulls, lots of temp tables, I need to have very systemized, decisive ways to pull it. And so for the longest while like something I I've been, you know, I'll try to make this a little more relatable because I can tell right now I'm already boring myself telling you about it because you probably don't care about data analytics. But we'll say I have one way of doing code. I'll then try a completely different way of pulling code, then I'll try a third, completely different way of pulling code and if those don't work, then I'll try like a slight modification to the first way or a slight modification to the second or a slight third way of pulling it to the first one, and I'll have lots of like testing ways of pulling data and I'll try something multiple times over to get a certain result.

Speaker 1: 3:11

And I'm realizing the way I've gone about work is not very efficient and it's not decisive and rather than trying it with slight changes, slight adjustments, I need to just go straight for efficiency at the very beginning. So I need to opt instead of pulling from source one and source two and source three, I need to pull in an optimized way from source one, then pull in an optimized way from source two, then in an optimized way from source one, then pull in an optimized way from source two, then in an optimized way from source three, and then merge everything together. Ultimately, I need to be a lot more efficient and intentional with how I do my work and when I have a time crunch, I'm faster at it, I'm quicker, I get better results, it's more effective and I spend less time tampering. It's more effective and I spend less time tampering and hopefully you didn't turn off the podcast by now, because this is very theoretical, all I have to say. When I'm on a time crunch with my day job, it not only yields more time with the studio. But I'm also thinking about my role differently and I'm handling myself differently because I act like I have less time in the day for my job, and so that's helping me be a lot more efficient, a lot more proactive.

Speaker 1: 4:24

Try and break something quicker. Let me say break nothing's, no one's getting impacted, but I'm getting to solutions a lot faster. Rather than test and wait, test and wait, I'm now going to try three tests and whatever's the most effective, I take the best one and I run with it right away, and so my day job is benefiting from this. Um, I'll have to say what else? What else? What else? Um, yeah, this past week has been very much like a rest and recover mentality for me.

Speaker 1: 4:56

I've been letting myself like go to bed at 10, wake up at like 6 or 7 and getting a lot more sleep. I think I've been on the edge of like getting like some sort of like something in my system. I just need rest. But I've also like don't like how I miss out on a lot of early morning things, and so that's something that I don't like. I need to get back into the 5am shifts. I need to be, I want to be on site more. I want to be present a lot more. I want to be a lot more, engaged more.

Speaker 1: 5:29

And so, instead of just getting like my solid eight hours of sleep, I want to figure out how I can get my six hours of sleep and somehow get two hours out of the day more and still be productive and get like 10% more out of life than I otherwise was. And gosh darn it. I can just tell if the studio is going to thrive, I want to see that I did my best at it, and if the studio is going to struggle and bounce, I want to know like I gave it my. I want to give it my all. I don't want to look back and realize, yeah, I gave it a pretty good shot, I gave it a very good shot. I don't be able to say I gave it my best shot.

Speaker 1: 6:09

I really pushed myself. I didn't burn myself out, but, man, I really put in some time. I really invested in people. I really really got creative with how I'm going to find the funds to keep the studio open. I really networked and did side hustles and gigs and did what I could. If I couldn't fix the studio directly, how can I fix it indirectly. What side hustles and side quests can I do to bring value to the studio and and to show that I really cared and so doing these strength training classes are helpful. Being present and on site is helpful. Uh, doing side hustles and side quests will be helpful. Keeping my day job going will be helpful. Keeping my day job going will be helpful. And, yeah, that's where we're at right now. So we're going to go home, hang out with the wife for a little bit, go to bed, get a good amount of sleep and then tomorrow I'm aiming to start the day proactively and thoroughly. So that's where we're at, that's where we're going. That's rock and roll.