Human Bandwidth: Expanding Your Life with Leon LaBrecque

Burnout, stress, and anxiety are increasingly common in our society. With a never-ending plateful of things to get through, it can often feel like you are just trying to make it through each day. By merely surviving, we are not living up to our full potential. One way to change this and expand our lives is to work on our human bandwidth, and today’s guest, Leon LaBrecque, is here to provide insights on how to do just that. As the Chief Growth Officer at Sequoia Financial Group, Leon has seen firsthand what it takes for people to flourish. In this episode, he shares his theory on the parallels between electronic bandwidth and its human counterpart. Through critical inquiry, Leon has found that four components make up human bandwidth — time, money, happiness, and love. We learn more about what he discovered when he played around with the formula and how an increase of one component leads to nine times more volume! Noise adversely affects electronic bandwidth, and it’s no different with human bandwidth. Leon sheds light on how we can distance ourselves from the mental clutter to see what’s important. We also discuss how to reframe our time-money relationship and the importance of delegation. Outsourcing draining work has cascading effects, increasing your time and money, which in turn grows your capacity to love. We hear some incredible tips on altering your bandwidth inputs too. What Leon ultimately wants us to remember that as overwhelmed as you may feel, making small, consistent changes is what gets the needle moving, so just start. Don't miss out on this great conversation!

Key Points From This Episode:

•  What Leon means by ‘personal bandwidth’ and the four components it’s comprised of.
• Leon’s fascinating discovery about the bandwidth formula and tweaking the inputs.
• The interrelationship between time and money and ways to optimize money and time actions.
• The signal-to-noise ratio is as important in human bandwidth as it is in regular bandwidth.
• How to step back from the noise and focus on what is actually important.
• What construal is and how it impacts our perception of the world around us.
• Rethinking our time-money relationship and looking for opportunities to save on both.
• Increasing our own bandwidth increases everyone’s bandwidth, through network connectivity
• Leon’s tips on how to prioritize activities so that your bandwidth inputs are optimal.
• Why you should try to figure out a way to not sell your time.
• The cumulative effect of small, positive changes and why they end in big results.

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