The secret I learned from an old course I found on eBay. On this episode Russell talks about loving the work you do can make it hard to get what you wanted in the first place and that’s why having a set schedule is so important. Here are some interesting things you will hear on this episode: Why loving what you do and getting addicted to work can actually keep you from other enjoyable things. And why having a set schedule will help you not overdo work so you can enjoy the other parts of life. So listen below to find out why having a set schedule will help you avoid becoming a workaholic. ---Transcript--- Hey, everybody. This is Russell and I want to welcome you to Marketing in Your Car. Hey, everyone. So I was in the office today for two hours and about 27 minutes getting some stuff done as quickly as I could and then racing back to the house to go play some more. We were playing and goofing off and having so much fun last night. My kids are there swimming and I’m not. I’ve just got to get home because I’m going crazy. I don’t want to be working today. I’m driving home and I started thinking like, I don’t know about you, but I really, really enjoy what I do. Like too much so I think. Like when I’m at home I’m thinking about going to work and things like that. And on my vacations I just want to get back to work. It’s kind of this obsession. Hopefully you guys as entrepreneurs feel that. It’s funny, I was listening to podcast from Jason Moffat the other day and he was talking about how if he sold his business he would be done. He’d never work again. He’d just do cool stuff. I was like, “Not me, man. I just want to keep working and working.” And for the last two or three days I’ve been like, “That’s kind of sad.” It’s like a means to an end. What are we trying to do? Most of us get into this business because we’re trying to accomplish something or do something and then when we get there we have so much fun in the process that we just keep doing it. Which is good. It’s good that we enjoy what we do. But it’s also like, if you’re not careful it will consume your entire existence. I don’t know about you guys, but I love eBay. I only go to eBay about once every five or six months, because every time I do I end up blowing a couple thousand bucks. I do the same thing when I go to eBay. All I do is I search like every old guru’s name I can think of. Like Jay Conrad Levinson, Jay Abraham, Dan Kennedy, Chet Holmes, Tony Robbins. Old school direct mail boot camps. I try to buy old courses on eBay because you can always find the good old stuff there, like tons of stuff. One time I found this tape set, and it was Jay Conrad Levinson and Jay Abraham and Chet Holmes. It was called Guerilla Vs Gorilla. Anyway, I bought the tape set. I tried to find it online like a digital version. They don’t have it anywhere. So I bought this tape set and I bought this thing on Amazon where you can put a tape in and it will record to an MP3. So I had my brother go take all the tapes and record all the MP3 and then change it to an audiobook format. That’s the format I like listening to my stuff in. I was going to put it on my phone so I could listen to it for however long it took me to listen to it. So I was listening to it and it was really cool, just these two guys’ different teaching strategies. Jay Conrad Levinson is like boom, boom, boom! Dropping bombs of gold, thing after thing after thing. Just rapid-fire insane bombs of gold. And then Jay Abraham is more like the strategic stuff. Anyway, Chet Holmes came with a practical application. It was amazing. In fact, I should go find whoever owns the rights to that and beg them and buy it from them. Because it was one of the best products I’ve ever gone through. It was insane. So anyway, going through this whole training, one of the things I remember, one of the bombs of gold that Jay Conrad dropped that was just so valuable, he was talking about our habits. He said a lot of times entrepreneurs get into busin