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Speaker: [00:00:00] Hey, what's up guys? Gene Ty back at you with another episode of the All Access Podcast from Dent Repair. Now this is episode 51, happy New Year. It's our first show of 2026. Uh, I am really excited to record this again because you guys didn't see it, uh, but I was just about wrapping up the meat of the episode and.
For some reason my hard drive card or my SD card that I was recording to decided to eject itself and the software didn't write to it, and it's all gone. And I talked to myself for the last 20 minutes or something and, uh, we didn't have any recording. So welcome to Fort Fetty. We are live in the game room tonight.
Uh, I've got my trusty old pool table. Back there. If you're ever in town and at the house, I would love to rack 'em up with you and, uh, you know, knock 'em around [00:01:00] a little bit. Play some, uh, play some pool. Anyways, it is 2026. Uh, I promise this is gonna be a much shorter episode, uh, than I hit you with last show episode 52 hours long.
I think that was my longest episode ever on here. Um. Lots of great feedback. Uh, if you didn't get to check it out and you were looking for tools, I've got some, uh, list of, or, uh, talk about quite a few new tools that were, you know, new to 25 into 26. And if you are newer or you're building out your tool, set a whole list, a whole bunch of absolute must have, like old faithful tools.
So go check that out. That's episode 50, just the previous episode. So. For episode 51, for this episode, I wanna talk to you about goals, right? It's the beginning of the year. Everybody does their New Year's resolutions [00:02:00] and then falls off. I'm just not a new year's resolution guy. In fact, when I quit smoking however many years ago that was, I waited until January 2nd to quit so that it wasn't some just New Year's resolution that like gave me an out.
Didn't want to do that. I wanted that to be a decision outside of making a goal because everybody else was making goals. If you haven't set goals, you need to be setting goals. If you're not, uh, not just setting goals, but writing 'em down. Be it on a notepad on your phone and notebook. If you're just typing 'em out on your computer, set your goals for the year.
Type 'em out, write 'em out, scribble 'em out. Whatever it is, commit them to paper, which helps to embed them and imprint them into your brain. It will help you work through achieving your goals. So today's show, I wanna talk about some [00:03:00] of the things that, that have worked for me over the years. Some philosophies and a tactic, uh, that I used to use.
And for whatever reason, I guess just life got in the way. I got away from that. We are, that I am diving right back into this year and going hard with, so first, one of the things we do in the 20 group is we will do our goals for the year, but we don't wait till the end of the year to see how everybody did.
We will normally have several check-ins throughout the year, uh, at least a couple of, Hey. You know, you said early in the year you wanted to do this. How's it going? What's going on? Did you have a hailstorm? Have you lost employees? Um, so on and so forth. Do you need to adjust your goals? Have things been going awesome?
You landed some new accounts and you need to adjust. What I like to [00:04:00] do at a minimum, when you're checking in on those big goals, is to do it quarterly. So I do keep a separate list. Of my expenses on here, and note that I do quarterly when the new quarter changes. That's like a trigger in my brain to, Hey, go check out and see what you're doing.
How's your year going? What are you working on? Um, has there been a storm? Uh, are you down people? Right? All things that have happened to me over the last couple of years, check in, adjust. Re regain that target and or reset the target and continue to go after it. It's just an absolute must. And even like looking at at people inside of the 20 group, almost everybody, if not everybody, has to make adjustments as we stop in for those check-ins.
So don't jump on the bandwagon of the rest of the world of [00:05:00] like, Hey, it's a new year, new year, new me. Set your goals. But go back and revisit them. Which leads me into, uh, one of the, the thoughts that I want to talk about tonight. So, uh, a marketer, uh, business guy that, that I used to follow, that I even mentored with for a little while, uh, did some masterminding with him in Orlando, is a guy named Dean Jackson.
So him and another guy named Joe Polish. I think you can probably still find this, did the I Love Marketing podcast years ago. Fantastic podcast. Uh, still tons of relevant information. If you're a podcast junkie, after you listen to the show while you're waiting for the next show to come out, head over and check out that I love marketing podcasts.
They have lots of really great info and, uh, uh, insight as they go on and get way deeper into the show. Uh, it's sort of tailed off, but certainly, you know, the first probably 50 shows are, are fantastic [00:06:00] anyways. One of the things that Dean always said. Is people, human nature. We underestimate what we can do in a day and we weigh, overestimate, uh, what we can do in a year.
So when, you know, we say, Hey, I wanna make a million dollars this year, that'll be easy. That's only, you know, a hundred thousand a month. We can make that happen. It sounds easy because it's often the future and you're sort of dreaming about it. If you actually want to do that, what you need to do is work every day and chip away at how to get there.
What do we need to do today to get closer to making that a hundred thousand this month, which is whatever the 3000 today, uh, 3,333 today, right? And boom, boom, boom,
you likely will. Underestimate what you can do in a day and overestimate [00:07:00] what you can do in a year. Right? Again, just human nature, which brings me to the process, um, that I'm gonna follow this year, right? Hopefully follow for the rest of my life. Again, I guess just being human. I fell off the, uh, fell off the mix and that is, uh, no, I don't care where you fall politically.
Uh, his web, his, his. Podcast has gotten fairly political. Uh, but he brought back or is bringing back, uh, this project. Where did my podcast window go? There it is. There we go. Perfect. Uh, there we go. I think you guys can see that. So, Andy Fra, uh, originally had a podcast called the M-F-C-E-O project. Uh, Andy has now, I think his brand's valued it over a billion dollars.
Uh, really [00:08:00] built it from nothing. Pretty inspiring business guy for sure. Um, but in doing that, right, like how do you do it? And, and learning some of his secrets. This episode talks about his power list. Uh, it's called Winning the Day. So Google this. I will try to put this link in the show notes provided I don't have any more technical hiccups today.
Um, what it boils down to is winning your day. So let's get rid of this. Let's get back to me. There we go. Come on.
This is awesome. New software. There it is. And what are we doing now? We're freezing. Alright, so hopefully we didn't lose there because that was a whole freeze. Oh, [00:09:00] this freaking software is driving me nuts. So the power list, what is the power list? It boils down to this, right? And it really, I think why it originally spoke to me when I heard it was.
It went back to like what Dean had planted in my head years ago. The underestimating a day, overestimating a year. We're not necessarily working on a 365 day program, right? We're really all working on a 24 hour cycle. What can you do every single day to make forward progress on whatever you're working on?
The power list? Super simple. Three to five actionable things that you can do or that you need to do, that you need to accomplish to win your day, to get done, to make forward progress on whatever goal or goals you are working on, if like so today and if we can get through this podcast without this software blowing up on [00:10:00] me again.
So today. I had three things that I wanted to do first. Spent some good time with Melissa. It's the last day before, you know, the grind of getting back to work, uh, after the new year, so I wanted to spend some time with her. Go out to lunch, chill out. I am writing an article for a magazine. I needed to get half of that done today, at least the majority of my thoughts out on paper.
Rough draft, needed to get that done today. And this podcast, I need to record it, edit it, publish it. Upload it, put it on YouTube, all that fun stuff. So on my power list today, I've already checked off two things, got to hang out with Melissa, went out, had lunch, chilled out, worked on my article. Made great progress there more than I was hoping to get done, win there and again, provided no more technical hiccups.
Uh, this podcast will be recorded and saved and published and uploaded. Right. So check, check, [00:11:00] check. With that, I get to put a W for a win on my day. If tomorrow I can get my three to five actionable items done, I get to put another W on that day. If at the bare minimum I can win four of my seven days of the week, I've won that week, right?
So each day is a challenge. Each week is a challenge. Each month is a challenge. Inside of your year, right? And I guess you could even break it down into quarter and half a year. In year, if I win four days, I win the week. If I win four days out of the week, three weeks out of my month, four weeks, I win my month.
Right? So I get a W on my days. I get a W on my weeks. I get a W on my month. If I can win two out of three months, I win my quarter. If I can win. Seven out of 12 months, I win the year. So it's all about [00:12:00] right this whole, it's so simple, but it's like, that's the genius of it. Go listen to that episode. I've listened to it like five times.
I may even re-listened to it this week. Um, it's, it's 1 0 7 on the M-F-C-E-O, which is the Relay F Podcast. Just Google win the day. I'll try to put the Apple link for you. It's so simple. It's genius, but it works. Uh, we even, uh, for one of the seasons of the 20 group, uh, ran a power list program for the year.
Um, the members that stayed on it as always, like crushed it and accomplished all kinds of things, all of their goals, all, and it, and it doesn't have to be just business, right? It could be, I wanna read more books, right? So do, do you read. 10 pages today. Did you read 20 pages today? I'm not a reader. Like they would be like, did I listen to an hour of audiobook today?
That could be one of the things you wanna work on. It can be, again, not just business, [00:13:00] Hey, I wanna start walking again. Uh, and I want to do, um, 20 miles a week, which would be roughly three miles a day. If I want to go for a three mile walk every day, I put that on the power list. When I accomplish that, I check it off.
It helps you be accountable. It helps you take, you know, your elephant sized goal or your elephant sized problem, and break it down into how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. So it breaks it down to there. If there are parts of your life that you want to get better at reading, uh, exercise, uh, diet, things like that, you can make them part of your power list.
Your competitive juices will kick in. You will want to win the day. You want that w uh, and you work that until it becomes a habit, right? So for those things that you're trying to make a habit, once you're on autopilot and you're like, well, I read every day now, like [00:14:00] Melissa's a huge reader, she reads almost every single day.
Putting read on her power list would not make any sense at all, because it's a habit for her. Once you develop that new habit that you want. You know that you're using to win, get after it and put that off your power list. It's just part of your life now, right? You've now effectively used this powerless, this goal chasing tool to actually change your life, to affect the change that you're trying to get after.
It's really a, it's so simple. It's so dumb, but it works. And I can tell you the times in the past when I've used it to get through different projects. When you put that, when I, when I put like, I must do these things, dude, I am like on it. Go, go, go. You gotta get it done. So I guess that's really the lesson here.
And I said it's gonna be a shorter [00:15:00] show and we're not done talking yet. But that's the premise of it is set your goals, get 'em written on paper. Be it digital paper or physical paper. Uh, side note. And, uh, I'm confusing things in my head because I already recorded the show and then the recording was gone.
So I'm rerecording the show. Uh, but I'm a very, I'm a tactile person when it comes to this. I love my yellow pads, my yellow legal pads. Uh, my favorite brand is Docket Gold, and I've got a nice cross pen, uh, that I write with on it, like it's just when I pull out the yellow pad. In my cross pen, uh, it's like a trigger in my brain that like, we're here to do some work and we're ready to go after it.
I was super bummed that that was not in my bag today. Uh, when I went out to work on my, um, article and I had to write on the iPad, which doesn't quite feel the same as my yellow pad, but I did get an app and had a yellow pad to write with on my pen.[00:16:00]
Set your goals. Check in on your goals. Turn your goals into your small, actionable items that you can do every single day, and then execute, right? Get after it. Get it done. Go listen to that M-F-C-E-O 1 0 7, uh, podcast from Andy. Uh, it's a little broadish, uh, but the meat of the, the conversation, the meat of how to get shit done.
Is in there. Uh, and it's really a whole operating system. Like if you can do that, you can conquer the world. Alright? And that's my goal. Well, I don't wanna conquer the world this year. I'm gonna save that for next year. Uh, but I've got a lot of stuff that I wanna get done this year, right? You guys can already see changes coming in with, uh, the end of last year and how we were moving to, um, simplify right to pull into [00:17:00] dent repair.
Now to focus here. Uh, to be able to accomplish more by simplifying life, right? It's all part of my master plan of, uh, getting after it. What are your goals for you regular listeners? Uh, you know, like maybe we'll even do a goal check-in, uh, episode, uh, at the end of quarter one. I like that. In fact, Hey, Siri.
Set a. Mm-hmm. Set a reminder for the end of quarter one. Do a podcast episode goals, check in with everybody. Okay. I added it. Perfect. So Siri's got it on the books now. So she's gonna remind me that I need to do an episode at the end of Q1 to, uh. I check in with you guys and see where you're at, what goals are you working on?
And, and I don't care whether it's [00:18:00] business, like what are your life goals? What are you trying to accomplish in your life? Are you trying to be in better shape? Are you trying to lose weight? Are you trying to run a marathon? Hit me up. I would love to know and hear and see what you all are doing, uh, and what you're working on, right?
So I will paint my goals. Out. Uh, in fact, you'll see my goals play out, uh, and I wanna see what you guys are doing and we'll check in back at the end of quarter one and see what's up. So another throwback to Dean. Uh, Dean Jackson, the marketer, he
focus session power focus. I'm drawing a blank on his exact name for what he calls these. Here's the premise when you're sitting down to get some work done. Um, it's like a focus session, I think is what he calls it, what he does. Uh, and, and I sort [00:19:00] of, I guess I didn't build up to it. I sort of jumped right in when you need to get something done.
In fact, I did it today, uh, working on my article, right? I set a timer for 50 minutes, focus finder. That's it. 50 minute focus finder session. Yes. Uh, so one of the things that Dean teaches or taught is focus finder sessions. So he does 50 minutes. I later came to find out that he built up to 50 minutes. I didn't know any better, so I just jumped in and I was like, well, I'll do 50 minutes.
The premise there is pick one thing to work on, whatever, whatever you're gonna work on. So today for me, it's writing this article, set a timer for 50 minutes, and for those 50 minutes, no texting. No surfing the web unless you are surfing the web for information, uh, directly related to what you're working on.
Uh, no social media, nothing, right? So for me, I put on my music, [00:20:00] zoned out to my music, turned the, uh, noise canceling on my headphones on, and I was deep diving for 50 minutes dive in, and I did not come up for air for those 50 minutes. When my 50 minute timer goes off, you get a break. Five minutes, 10 minutes.
Either one is fine. Do whatever you wanna do. So for me, 10 minutes, right? Working in one hour blocks, I give myself a 10 minute break. If I want to go check out TikTok, I wanna check my email, give Melissa a call, use the bathroom, whatever it is, I get 10 minutes. And then if I'm not done with what I'm working on, locked back in for another 50 minutes.
Work straight through till that 10 minute break at the end when you combine. Power list or like your, your get shit done list. Three to five things. That's it. Three to five things for today, and you lock in with some focus finder sessions. Dude, you can, like, it is [00:21:00] amazing what intense focus can take care of for you.
Now, if 50 minutes sounds like a really long time for you to lock in, do 20 minutes, right? Do 20 minutes in. Five minutes out, 20 minutes in, five minutes out, 20 minutes in, five minutes out you'll be in an hour and 15 minutes where I would be in an hour, but pure, focused accomplishment in that time. Right.
It's just a little hack that years ago I started doing that at, I think it was like 2016 when I went and masterminded with Dean. It was either 2016 or early 17. Um, and that was one of the things I picked up from those, those coaching sessions, and I came back and when I need to lock in, I do it when, not so much now because I can still sneak away, but when it was just me and Jennifer back in the day and Louie, I would text [00:22:00] Louie and Jen and Melissa say, Hey guys, I'm going focus finder.
I'm dark for the next 50 minutes. Do not call me unless it isn't a true absolute emergency. Right? And not once. Did any of them call me with an emergency in my, like when I go dark and I'm locked in at doing the work? Amazing what you can do when you wipe out those distractions, right? So I literally put my phone in a do not disturb computer to do not disturb or right, shut it all down, get my yellow notepad out and go to town with my pen.
It's an amazing little again. Super simple hack. Of course, if you focus on something, you're gonna get it done. But when you lock in and you set that timer, in fact, at work, I even keep a little digital twisty timer that I just click my minutes up that I want to hit and hit start, and I don't stop, excuse me, until that's done.
Like that's where it's at. Pretty cool stuff, actually. Very cool [00:23:00] stuff. There's another question for you. Do you have any cool productivity hacks like that that I don't know. I love things like that. Share 'em with me, hit me up with some dms, shoot me a text, shoot me an email, reach out to me. I'm curious of what some of your best, uh, productivity hacks are.
I dig it. So there's our meat of our episode coming up this Wednesday, so that would be 5, 6, 7. On the seventh, I wanna make sure I got the right date right for you. Yep. This Wednesday, January 7th. Uh, we, me, Doug, Andy, Amanda and Matt. I believe the five of us, uh, will all be on the Ginger Bros Dent Show. Uh, talking.
Shop owners roundtable at mt. Get on there, check it out. I'm excited to be on the show. Andy [00:24:00] and Brandon, thanks for throwing the invitation out there to have us on. Um, obviously we'll have some discussion. Hop in and listen. We want to hear, we've got a whole list of questions that we're gonna talk about, but if you have specific business slash shop owner questions that you want to hear from some of this panel.
Hop on that show, drop some in the comments. Uh, we want to know what you want to know so we can tell you what we know. Um, also, of course, right, I mentioned it earlier on Wednesday the 28th, uh, at I think one 30. I think at one 30 if memory serves right. Uh, beginner's day at MTE, oh, excuse me. Beginner's day at MTE.
I'm talking Glue Pool 1 0 1. I'm gonna give you all of the information you need to make stronger, effective pulls. Every single time we're gonna pull back all the secrets. There's not really many secrets. Uh, lay out the entire process. You [00:25:00] need to make great glue pull repairs. So if you are new to the industry, new to glue pull, uh, and you want to dive into that, it's a long show.
It's, I think it's an hour and a half. Um, stop in beginner's day, MTE 2020. Sixth, the 25th anniversary. Uh, and check that out. Uh, shop Owner's Roundtable is Thursday afternoon and I'm super excited to put that Kiko shirt back on and talk unlocking and staying unlocked with your repairs. I know there's some new tools coming out.
I will be unveiling those at the talk as well. Um, for Kiko, uh, I can't wait to see you guys at MTE 2026 and. I think that's it. I do, yeah, that's it. And this is already the second time I did this tonight, so I'm out. Thank you guys so much for listening. Here [00:26:00] is to, I don't have a drink or like I'll cheers you with my mic holder.
Here is to an amazing 2026. Check out that episode. Start your power list, start kicking ass and taking names. Do some focus finder. Uh, sessions. Let me know how it's working out for you. Let me know what you guys are working on. Uh, go give us a follow on social media. We are at Dent Repair now everywhere that we are, I guess everywhere we're active.
I don't tweet and I'm not on LinkedIn, but I should get on LinkedIn, but go check that out. Um, teaser for you, beginners. Or if you all know somebody who is looking to get into the trade, starting to get into the trade. I've got some stuff up my sleeve. It's definitely on my goal list for the year. It's definitely on the power list.
Keep an eye out right here on Dent Repair now for some new beginner media coming out. Uh, I'm excited to see where we can go with that. [00:27:00] Oh, and don't forget if you were thinking about Level Up. I think we are green light. If we're not a green light yet, we're at the staging line and we're at the tree and the motors are running and we're sitting there and waiting for that green light to drop.
We are right there. Uh, it is going to be as long as we turn it on. Uh, 26th February 26th, 27th, 28th in Pittsburgh at my shop, myself and Jean Vidich. Vites, I think is the right way. I don't care. I'm calling you Vich. Anyways, John, um, it's gonna be a three day event. A little different than we've done the last couple of years.
Uh, super excited for it. And that is a Thursday, Friday, Saturday, right? So for those of you traveling, you've got one less business day to give up, trying to make things easier, and we're giving you a Sunday travel day back. Uh, and it will be more affordable than it was last year. So keep an eye out. That [00:28:00] launch will be coming soon.
Uh, more details to follow. I'm sure we'll start driving some information here. Uh, in fact, we'll probably hop on a podcast with John and we will talk about it and give you all the details and start opening up registration. So if you're thinking about it, DM me. Uh, we are only gonna have a maximum of eight students in the class.
Uh, that's all I can handle at the shop. It's all we want to handle, uh, and we want to deliver tons of great information to you, the student. So get after it. All right, uh, I think that is it. I will see you on the next episode. Guys, again, thanks so much for listening. Thanks for reaching out. Send in the messages.
It means so much. It makes me wanna hop in front of this camera and talk more and bring some more knowledge to you guys. Until next week, please.
