Part 6, of our seven-part interview with Bob Regnerus of Feedstories.

Topics covered in this episode

* Staying Mentally Sharp for the Long-Haul* Golfing, Exercise and Relationships

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm-eYhZPir4

Transcription

Intro Brian: Bob Regnerus of Feedstories, part 6.

This is the final piece of our interview with Bob Regnerus.

I'll have a wrap up afterwards tomorrow. But in the meantime, watch this piece and check out the rest of it.

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And now here is Bob Regnerus.

Brian: Is there anything that you're reading right now or listening to or watching that's really captivated you, and it'd be something you'd be interested in sharing with us?

Bob: Interesting.

So I can answer this a couple ways.

Number one is, I have been a casual golfer for two decades, I really started kind of in my 20s.

I turned 50 last year, but my wife also picked it up. And the parallel here is this is that I'm not going to be in my business seven days a week. Not possible, right?

I really feel like you need to feed multiple parts of your body and your soul to like really be effective. I've gotten to the point and COVID kind of like accelerated this for me, I keep using that word, I should find a different word.

But I set up my week so that I'm working hard Monday to Thursday.

Fridays are a day where I kind of do catch up, I do some reading, I do some learning. And then especially during the warmer months, I'm out on the golf courses with my wife on Fridays, okay, and Saturdays and Sundays, you know, maybe I'll pick up another round or whatever.

But I find that I can stay mentally sharp about what I'm doing in my business if I'm forcing my mind to be mentally sharp about something else, so it's diversifying.

Kind of what it is kind of like if you're working out and all you do is like benchpress you get really big packs, but like your biceps, and your back, like, you're out of kilter.

I think that happens with people, they're going to work on their business seven days a week, but everything else kind of shrivels up. So their relationships fail.

For me golf is like, I'm a competitive person, obviously, you can probably get that for me. I'm competitive. My wife is competitive.

It's a great way to get exercise some exercise in my body, I'm outside, I'm with my wife, we're working on relationship. Like there's a lot of things there.

So my advice is, yeah, you want to kind of keep up with what's going on in your industry and things like that. But there needs to be this whole idea of, I need to get away and force my body and my mind to do something else.

I think that's the thing that I really learned is, I've done the six, seven days a week thing, and you just get to a point where it's like, it's not worth it anymore. What am I really doing here?

So I work on my golf game, I'm working on relationships, like three days a week and working on my business four days a week, I'm really happy I've been able to structure it that way.

Brian: Oh, that's brilliant.