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3 Cocktails In
Addicting conversations between friends who have been there, done that and still want more.
We are 3 friends who got this crazy idea to start a podcast based on our friendships, family lives, professional lives and experiences! This idea kept coming up in our conversations, especially after a cocktail or two or maybe three, and we finally decided to ACT on it!
We don't claim to be experts on too many things, but friendship? Well, we've got that down. We're making our way through major life changes, searching for work that excites us, busting myths associated with 'old' people, and keeping a sense of humor about it all.
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Amy, Kitty & Stacey
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3 Cocktails In
Calm or Chaos. Is it Possible to Master Time Management?
Ever found yourself caught off guard by a critical deadline or overwhelmed by your to-do list? We share our recent struggles with Memorial Day scheduling mishaps and discuss the role of preparation in both personal and professional realms. Listen as we take you on a nostalgic journey through our days of managing busy family lives with massive calendars and written notes, and the unique challenges of staying organized now that it's just us to care for. Discover how the concept of a Daily Method of Operation (DMO) from the business world can revolutionize your time management, even when creativity is hard to schedule.
In today's conversation, Stacey and Amy liken time blocking to school periods while Kitty shares her secret weapon—a serene early morning routine that jumpstarts her side hustle productivity. We tackle the evolution of our calendar usage, from traditional physical planners to chic journals, and the dual purpose they serve in not just managing time but documenting life's precious moments. Balancing priorities and managing anxiety with structured thought processes becomes easier when you learn to sit with your feelings and let go of over-preparation.
Join us as we brainstorm together, inviting you to share your favorite tools and strategies for staying organized. We highlight the indispensable value of family traditions like holiday menu notebooks and the struggle to keep recipes intact. Plus, get a sneak peek into our future plans and our commitment to enhancing our online presence. Celebrate with us as we embrace new ideas and build stronger connections within our community.
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Amy, Kitty & Stacey
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Speaker 2:Hello, ladies Cheers.
Speaker 3:Good evening.
Speaker 2:Cheers. I don't have anything, your glass is very see-through. Yes, and I'm already parched.
Speaker 4:Uh-oh.
Speaker 2:Do you need to get up and go get a drink? Yeah, maybe Were you not very organized ahead of this Were you coming in hot.
Speaker 4:Coming in very hot. Okay, I'll do that, it's right over here.
Speaker 2:You guys go watch, alright, we'll cover, we'll cover you.
Speaker 3:Go get a beverage.
Speaker 2:If you're wondering what's going on, this is Three Cocktails In and we're fully admitting on this episode that we need to get more organized because we've had a rash of things lately. We all get on to describe kind of what happens. We all get on this site that we use to record our podcast, and tonight we all got on and I said what's our topic for tonight? And Kitty says I don't know. And Amy threw something out we've been talking about for I don't know how long, and so we honestly I think this one is about organization.
Speaker 2:And we hopefully, between the three of us have some good advice to each other. Yeah, because from a lack thereof.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's been bubbling up lately. It's, it's a common theme because we, we all, and it's not just the three of us, but I think you know we hear from we're. We are all overextended in most areas of our life. We're all overscheduled at most time, during most days, and so you know, we just had Memorial Day weekend where none of us knew what day of the week it was. Right, I didn't know.
Speaker 4:I had vacation on Monday. Last week. Stacey thought Wednesday was Thursday. Yeah, we were all planning to record Sunday. And Kitty says on Sunday morning can we record Monday?
Speaker 2:And then we still thought it was Sunday yeah.
Speaker 3:I know yeah.
Speaker 4:Oh my gosh. So, guys, I feel like I should be way more organized now. I only have to take care of me.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:That's it, yeah, and I can't seem to get it done, yeah.
Speaker 2:How did we do it with? You know, all kids at home. Well, you see.
Speaker 4:I think, like a lot of things, you take care of your kids first, you take care of your kids last. So juggling three kids in multiple different things. I had a massive calendar. I had a massive calendar. I wrote things on a big chalkboard so we always knew who was going where, who was driving what. Now that it's just me, I still have a written, I still keep a calendar, a handwritten one. I mean, I have to put work stuff in my CRM, but my life stuff I write down in part, because if I don't write it down I forget it. But then I find myself with the things oh, I'll remember that that memory is not quite as much as I'd like to think it is.
Speaker 3:It's not quite as good as it used to be. Yes, yeah, I agree. Okay, so there's that. So there's that side of this conversation about just keeping ourselves organized as far as what we have planned for the week or the few weeks or the month or whatever. It is Okay, so let's talk about that. And then we also need to talk about how do we carve out time for the things that we want to do, and I feel like that's where I'm falling short lately, because there are, you know, because there are, you know, priorities, there are goals, and so there are things that I need to make sure I'm doing to hit those goals and if I don't carve out the time for them and protect time for those things on my calendar, they don't get done, and that's a discipline that I feel like I need to build into my daily activity. So I had shared this came up in conversation, amy, you and I were having when we were in Vegas.
Speaker 3:So I've been listening to these other paparazzi consultants and listening to their how they function, how their businesses function, and these are elite consultants. These are six figure earners and some of them are seven figure earners and they have what they refer to as a DMO, a daily method of operation. Oh, okay, yeah, daily method of operation, and I think you can manage this sort of thing in different formats. Many of them build a spreadsheet for it, so it's, you know, it's an Excel spreadsheet or a Google sheet or whatever it is, and so you lay out the seven days and then you time block for specific things, and so I've started to do that and I'm going to give it a whirl. I'm going to, I'm going to see if that, and I'm going to give it a whirl, I'm going to, I'm going to see if it, I'm going to see if it works. Do you guys have any experience with that? Have you done that?
Speaker 4:Um, my last, uh, when I was selling real estate on a team strongly recommended we time block. We set aside time to do certain things every day. Um, I, I don't do a particularly good job of it, um, especially because in Kitty we hit on this a little bit and it and it's something that I need to do better, with three cocktails in, because I'm supposed to be really kind of leading the charge on the social media and and I don't I'm last at it, but I find that it is really hard to schedule creativity.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, to sit to say well, from eight to nine every morning, I'm going to write social media posts, I'm going to X, y, z. My brain doesn't work that way. Yeah, I don't know, maybe I need to work on training my brain to do it.
Speaker 2:So is it because you think of your good ideas at 11 PM, Not at 80? I mean, you know, all through the day maybe.
Speaker 4:Yes, I see something and I'm like oh or I think of something and I go go with it Because I will tell you. Those days when I have posted something early in the morning because I felt like I needed to, I look at that post at two o'clock in the afternoon and go now I know what I wanted to say, what I should have said. So that's me. I will tell you that one of the people on the team was religious about her time blocking and in a work setting, I found it a bit I'll just be honest. I found it a bit frustrating, because there were times when she was the only person that could answer my question and that wasn't part of her time block and that wasn't part of her time block and so she was unavailable, or she would answer email late in the day and say, well, I'll get back to you tomorrow on this, between 10 and 10,. You know, 10 and 11. And I'm like, well, that's not going to work.
Speaker 2:I that seems very inflexible. I mean seems very inflexible.
Speaker 2:I mean, you know, I feel like I feel like if I set aside time at work, you know like specific time could do nothing else. You know stuff comes up all day long. You know our schedule at work is more, you know, between you know my buyer and I. We have something to do at eight o'clock, we have something to do at 10 o'clock, we have something to do at noon, we have something to do at 1 45, at 3 PM and at 4 PM. You know specific things.
Speaker 2:The rest of the time in the middle, you know, is all. You know making cold calls, answering the phone. You know completing projects, doing all the other things you have to do every day. You know what I mean. So to say that you know and it's just a time, it's not a from eight to you know, from eight to 830, we're only doing this. And from you know what I mean. I just we have so much that you know that you can't plan for. But you know a time block thing I don't know. Like I said, I feel like that's pretty inflexible.
Speaker 3:It seems like from a team perspective, it would be smart for the whole team's needs to be considered if there's going to be time blocking going on. So that situation if this person was in support of what you were doing, amy, then you need to have that support when you need it. So that was very rigid and just didn't work. Or for what you just described, stacey, you guys know what all needs to be done in the day. So if know what all needs to be done in the day, so if there needs, you know, if you need to carve out time for you know, a specific thing that's unique to your business, or, amy, that's unique to your business, that's fine. It's almost like when we were in school there'd be reading time. Yes, right, it's fine to have blocks, you know, but it's like homeroom is your block where you get done what you need to get done.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:And it's probably this to.
Speaker 2:It is probably the scenario that if you didn't carve out time for reading or homeroom, you wouldn't do it. You know what I mean. You would find other things, other things to do. So, yes, going towards, you know your work day, that's probably, for some things, probably a good idea.
Speaker 4:The only thing I really am. I won't even say rigid, but I have mentally in my head every week at work and I know we're not really talking about work, but again, in many ways my work is like your side hustle, kitty. I don't. Yes, I have to answer the phone whenever it rings, but I don't have specific things that have to be done at a specific time. But I send out this weekly newsletter. Realtors that I'm sending it to. They show homes Friday, saturday, sunday. I always try and make sure I get my email out to them on Thursday, so so, as they're planning their weekend, they know exactly what's new and what's going on Other than that. Yeah, you know that's the rest of my day is up to me to challenge, but but still leave work at work. It's the stuff at home that I'm that is starting to go. Yeah, so, kitty, how have you? Have you put any of this time blocking into action?
Speaker 3:Yes, and I'm sort of easing into it, and I find that the easiest time of the day to protect is early morning. I have always been a morning person. I think it goes all the way back to the fact that from middle school on I had a paper out at 5 o'clock in the morning. So I've always been a morning person. Now the thing is with my side hustle I am usually up until at least midnight on the nights. That I do shows. So it is hard for me to get up at 5 am when I've been up to midnight. That's a problem that needs to be addressed. But I'm starting with that early morning hour a problem that needs to be addressed. But I'm starting with that early morning hour. So our alarm goes off at 530. I'm trying to get up. I'm somewhat successful. Get up, make coffee, go to the kitchen island with my laptop.
Speaker 3:And I do that social media work that I need to do in the morning and I'm liking it. It's peaceful, I don't feel rushed, you know I don't feel rushed by realizing crap. I let myself sleep until seven or 730. Now I have to hurry to, you know, get ready and out the door. I don't like that feeling. So by making myself get up earlier I'm able to use those, use those hour, those early. You know these two hours in the morning. So I'm starting with that and then I'm going to try to continue to tack on to that as I go through the day. So that's working, that's good.
Speaker 4:Yeah, do you guys keep a calendar? Do you it mean? Is it all on your phone? Is it handwritten?
Speaker 2:Is it a Google calendar? I keep a Google calendar, yeah.
Speaker 3:I every year I do this. I go so that week between Christmas and new Year's I toddle off to Barnes and Noble and I pour over the New Year calendars. You know, cool notebook style. You know this is going to be my Bible this year and I pick a really great one every year.
Speaker 4:I hear a butt coming.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I haven't written in it since February 17th.
Speaker 4:When we were in Houston. Madeline's wedding was beautiful.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so I love the idea of one. So, amy, tell us how you use yours, because I know that that's meaningful to you and that works.
Speaker 4:Well, it, it does, um, it does work. And I found a stack of mine because I keep them, and what I have kind of realized is they are in some ways a diary, as well as to what is journaling my life Are you journaling? I don't really journal, but in my current job and by the way, I've skipped now going to the store I've gone down the rabbit hole of online custom journal ordering.
Speaker 4:Okay, I don't want to talk about giddy and joy. It's almost like a new box of crayons and a brand new, you know, it's just makes me so happy to do it and custom colors and what do I want? Pages, whatever. Um, first of all I make sure it's big enough only big enough for my purse. So I do get a bigger one, cause I write kind of big and I like to write all sorts of stuff out. Um, but I have goals for work and so I, at the beginning of every month, I have my. You know how many homes do I need to sell? Um, and then, as I sell them, I go back to that page and write the name in, who's who it was, you know what house number it was. So that'll be really interesting, I think to to go back. Who was the first sale, who was this, who was that? Go back, who was the first sale? Who was this, who was that?
Speaker 4:I write down every person that comes in. You know, even if they don't want to give me their name because that happens quite a bit in a model home, people will come in and they don't want to give me their name, but I would write down husband and wife, daughter in army being discharged March 2024. Some little note about them, because sometimes they do come back and just having written that part down, it lodges, it stays better. So I do that sort of thing. I write down when the hair appointments are, when the nail appointments are, when, um, when dates are and you know who it was with, this year is turning out to be a lot of first dates. I'll just say that I'd like to keep track, which I could. I'm also toying with the idea of writing a book of my year on match. We'll just I don't know that it'll be quite successful by the end of the year, but you know, I have a question.
Speaker 3:So that would be a cool thing for match to offer to people your year in match. So, just like in Facebook, at the end of the year it gives us all how long you've been friends, you and Chad matched.
Speaker 2:Well, I think it would be. It would be like your face in the middle and all these guys you've dated their profile pics right around you. Oh, you remember him.
Speaker 4:If only there was some sort of rating system that you could go back in and say you know, you missed on these things.
Speaker 2:There's not you can't rate them on your end.
Speaker 4:No, there's no feedback.
Speaker 2:Oh shoot, yeah, right, there should be. Yeah, you know kind of like those beer apps and the wine apps. You know, you tried this one. You give it a four star. You tried this one. It's only a one star.
Speaker 4:Yeah, on the Wine Enthusiast 100 scale this was a 78. Yeah, wine Enthusiast 100 scale this was a 78. Something like that. Yes, yeah. So I write down stuff like that. I don't I don't track like too much more than that in there, but it helps me. I keep it open on my desk. It helps me to have a visual reference as to who was in yesterday, or sometimes I need to go back a couple days like who was that, especially if I don't get all their information. It's just that I can't put in a CRM. You know they don't want to give me an email, I can't put them in a CRM, but I have notes about them. So I try and do that I don't know.
Speaker 2:So then I have a question Don't you feel like that's a double entry keeping your business contact information and don't you go put it in the CRM anyway.
Speaker 4:If they give me all the information, I have a form that they've filled out and that I put in the CRM. So in my notebook it would just say Kitty and Bill.
Speaker 4:You know, on Tuesday in the CRM would have the detail gave me their information, I would have them in as a lead and I would update that. But if it's Kitty and she doesn't want to give me any of her info and she says my husband constantly, I can't put her in the CRM. Yeah, you know, I wouldn't know her last name. I wouldn't you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm only asking because we feel like we enter the same thing over and over and over and over, you know, between our different platforms at work.
Speaker 4:Well, I only have to enter it once and then I can make updates if I want. Well, I should be making. I do make updates to it, but again, you've got that's. That's different. All leads are not the same. All prospects are not the same. Yeah, the people that you put in are a little bit more detailed, whereas it it would be like Kitty, where it says social media. You know, I don't know if you've gotten it broken it down on Tuesdays I'm going to do, you know, um, uh, instagram story. On Wednesday I'm going to do a post. On Thursday I'm doing a video. Sometimes you just don't get that quite into the weeds, especially, I would think, if you're just beginning some of that stuff. I think I think you will find a flow to it, or at least I do. Sometimes you get a lot of really good ideas and you just I use the notes app on my phone quite a bit for jotting down ideas.
Speaker 2:The hard part is trying to remember what I saved the note under yes, yes, or I have a ton of notes that I just never go back to read. You know what I mean to notes that I just never go back to read, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4:All the stuff that's saved in my Instagram, all those posts that I save and never remember to go back and find, go back and look at. Yeah, so it comes back to organization. It does.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it does. Yeah, there are so many things that we could talk about on the topic of organization, the many things that we could talk about on the topic of organization, the um, something that just popped into my mind and when you were talking about journaling versus not journaling. So my mom doesn't journal but she has always kept a notebook of every holiday that we've had and what she's served. Oh, I have that. I do have that, that's, and I wish I had done that. But you know what we don't? We don't entertain like they do. I mean, you know we, we don't have any family here, so we're never hosting Christmas, we're rarely. You know we're never hosting Thanksgiving. They are, and so that she's loved having that record of you know in 1986 we had, you know, whatever. I'm not sure how far it goes back, but she's been doing it for a long time and, yeah, that's pretty cool and that'll be cool to pass to pass on.
Speaker 4:That's the only thing my girls want that I know of. Madeline has already called dibs that she gets the menu notebook, the holiday and menu notebook.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a good idea, because doesn't your mom put the recipes and everything with it? So she just has to go back and yeah, look at that.
Speaker 4:I can tell you which which dessert were served at Thanksgiving and 2021. What you know, because they're family favorites, yeah, and sometimes a recipe looks really good and you try it and you got to write that note down, yeah.
Speaker 4:And also do a no or what, how you want to change it? Yeah, too much nutmeg, that's that pops up in a lot of the things that I make. I don't like nutmeg too much, yeah, so this is just a total aside, but it does come back to organization, generally speaking Recipes Do you have a cookbook? Are you tagging and saving things online? Where do you store them? Our dear friend Christine, I don't even remember off hand what recipe it is, but every time she wants the recipe she sends me a text and asks for it. It is like annually, I'm like, could you save it this time? It is like annually, I'm like could you save it this time, because I got to dig through and find it sort of thing. How about you guys? How do you organize the rest of your stuff?
Speaker 3:Yeah, my recipes are a disaster, so not a good example here at all.
Speaker 4:Well, you can hear what not to do.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 2:A while ago. So Madison was probably I don't know early high school, maybe even junior high. I took like a three ring binder and put the clear sheets in it and she made a pretty cover, you know inside on it. You know I don't know what, I can't even remember what's written on it or whatever, but it's my recipe. I don't know which, I can't even remember what's written on it or whatever, but it's my recipes. So I even take, like the recipe cards. You know that I've had that and it'll. It's just the favorites, so it's just the ones that I make all the time.
Speaker 2:You know I have another recipe box that has some I might think of oh, let's have a new idea and go through, you know. And then, of course, various recipe books that I know what is in a recipe book. But here's going to be the challenge, because my 85 year old mother can not remember what cookbook she has recipes. She's made things forever and now she can't find the recipes. Things forever, and now she can't find the recipes. So before we get to that point we need to really figure out how to organize it. So she does the same thing. She'll call me and say, hey, do you still have the recipe for this and this and whatever, whatever, and yes, and then I'll tell it to her, because she can't remember anymore what book it was in or where she put it, or you know what I mean.
Speaker 3:So there's our challenge.
Speaker 2:Yes, there's our challenge for the next 30 years. We got to get that figured out.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it really does seem like that should have been something our children should have been required to do for like a badge. Yeah, yeah, it's a good idea yeah, organize my organization. I, our kids, are either going to have to organize us early or late. Yes, when there's an option that we could opt in and could have followed a path, or at the end, when I'm wheeled out. And now they got to sort through. Everything seems to me like they should have taken it upon themselves to act sooner.
Speaker 2:Sooner right. That's the buck. We'll see when my kids listen to this. We'll see which one volunteers. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Probably not, Amy. Random question how are your coaching sessions?
Speaker 4:going with with miss shannon. I've had two. I need to schedule a third. A third, I need to schedule it in june. Um, it's good, I've got a sheet here that um, with some notes that I had written down and something was circumstance, thought, feeling, action, result. When I'm faced with anxiety or something uncomfortable, you know, I need to think about the circumstances. You know, just so I I've taken some notes and put some stuff into action.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, are you supposed to be working on those things? I assume, I mean, that's what your thought process is supposed to go to those things, and then Right.
Speaker 4:To try and break them down. The last time that we talked was really focusing on learning how to sit with your feelings, to identify feelings. I think we talked about that a little bit, that you know, I had no idea that feelings could be crunchy or smooth or blue or you know, or whatever. Um, I have been trying to identify how, how different feelings manifest themselves in my body. Yeah, and there's been a lot of this the relaxation of the shoulders, the deep breath. So, yeah, it's good, it's, it's really interesting. I'm liking it a lot.
Speaker 1:Good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, can that help with your organization? Because you're not spending so much time worrying about this and getting anxious on this, and you know what I mean. I'm in full circle.
Speaker 4:Um, interestingly, part of that is very true. Um, default is to have had, when I'm not looking forward to a situation, to imagine every possible outcome or circumstance and prep for every single one, which logically sounds like a good thing, but in reality you're just dwelling on stuff that you have no control over. You have no control how the other person is going to react and that's not your responsibility how they handle whatever it is you're going to say or present. So, yes, part of what we're talking about is you know. Yes, Part of what we're talking about is you know you got to let that part go and just accept that, this feeling. You know what's the circumstance, what are you thinking about it, what are you feeling about what? What can you do, what's your action that you can do, and then what's the result that you can do, and then what's the result? Um, so, so a little less organization on my part and a little bit more of you know, trying not to control the outcome.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah there's. There's an old saying that you, if you want something done, you should give it to the busiest person, because they'll find the time to do it. Did you know that? Wow, I noticed that nobody's ever heard that.
Speaker 4:I I've noticed it actually in action. Um, and I used to point it out when asking for girl scout volunteers yep, if you looked around the room at the beginning of the year, girl scout get together and people are are um, trying to put their daughters into, um, a troop, but the troop needs volunteers. At one meeting I actually said, okay, I would like everybody to stand up and stay standing until one of these things does not apply to you, and it was. You volunteer in schools, you volunteer at your church, you coach a baseball team, you organize, and all of the existing Girl Scout leaders did everything, all of the things, all of the things. Yep. So, yeah, I believe that. Yeah, I do too. But what do we do when, when we don't have anybody else to do it, we can't offload, yeah, you can't?
Speaker 4:you know? Kitty can't get somebody else to to do her stuff for her. Can you, can you train Bo to do some of your tasks and add him to the payroll?
Speaker 3:Yes, I can. Is he interested in it? He is, he's interested in it until I say okay, tomorrow let's sit down so I can, you know, train you on this specific task that you can do every day. And then it ends up, specific tasks that you could do every day. And then it ends up. You know his, his availability doesn't seem to line up with mine, so then it doesn't happen, then you don't really want to to do this if you're not going to make time for it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. On the opposite of you know, giving it to the busiest people, I think, is also your priorities, you know. So, like if you ask, you ask somebody, can you, can you do this? And they'll say, oh, I just don't have the time. No, I can't do that, I don't have the time. You know you hear that a lot and I always think, well, you know what's wrong with from 10 to 1030,. You know you can't like block a time or stay up a half hour later. You know, people, that it goes back to your mom, I'm sure, when she's getting ready to host a holiday, she's, you know, finding all the time she can to get ready right. Yeah, and you just do it. You find the time because it's a priority for you to get it done right. So I think that's some of the problem. You know you might think it should be his, you know, at the top of his priority list, but you know, for whatever reason, he doesn't.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah. What else do they suggest you do?
Speaker 3:Um in, in what? In the DMO or what else?
Speaker 4:do they do every day. I'm just curious.
Speaker 3:Yeah. So you know there's a lot of, there's a lot of focus on revenue generating activities. So what are the things that are going to make you money? And so you know there'll be a lot of people who will say I worked in my jewelry room all day today. Well, you know what, organizing your jewelry, like moving this stuff over here and this stuff, you know, or whatever that's not necessarily going to make you money, so it's just focusing on. So, if you are building a team, you're spending time coaching your team, you're spending time on social media, so there's a whole bunch of work that can be done to boost your algorithm. So there's all of this stuff messaging people and interacting with people. So there's that. There's, of course, you know, selling going live. There's free time.
Speaker 4:Are you scheduling free time?
Speaker 3:Well, so when I laid my time out, so it's not free time, it's family time. So it shows up on or it shows up as family time, and I have not shown this to Bill the spreadsheet and everything is color blocked and so out of the seven days, the amount of time that's family time, it's literally when we eat dinner, yeah and that's it.
Speaker 2:That doesn't surprise us. I don't think, kitty, you're so busy I often wonder how you fit in any extra time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't know, um, so I mean, the things are just very, very specific to the business, yeah, but Ooh, you guys, I just got my photography back today. Was it good you loving it? I just took a real quick look and then I sent the link to Bill. So, yeah, I went and had some professional photography done because I have to send one in to Paparazzi for a convention and I'm very excited I'll share them with you soon. Cool, yeah, very cool.
Speaker 2:But yeah, You're not going to use your AI-generated pet shop.
Speaker 3:No, because AI doesn't pull in jewelry. I mean it does.
Speaker 1:You know, I guess it does, yeah it pulls in a little bit of jewelry.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but I needed to have.
Speaker 2:yeah, I needed to have big, bold jewelry. Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 3:Yes, we do need to have a conversation about AI.
Speaker 4:Yeah, we should I met a woman.
Speaker 4:I met a woman at a networking thing that actually has her own AI company and how to use it for the benefit of your work. Okay, she was very delightful and I felt like an absolute idiot. After talking to her and then Googling her, I'm like, holy shit, what was she doing? Talking to me, I don't know what the hell. You know, she's award winning TV producer. She's, you know, on some different stuff and got a cool thing. I don't know. We could possibly pull her in and help her. You know, pick her brain a little bit.
Speaker 1:Yeah that.
Speaker 3:That would be great. I, I use chat GPT every single day, multiple times a day. Yeah, yeah, love it, and I'd like to know more from someone like that Because, more than just like for me, I'll say make me a list of you know if I'm going to go interview somebody.
Speaker 3:Create an interview list for you know, put the person in and this is what we're going to talk about and boom, there's my. There are my interview questions. That stuff is really easy, but I know that there are more strategic things that can be done as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Strategic inputs into it, you know. So you get out what you want.
Speaker 4:And then to make sure you get the tone right. The tone that reflects your personality right, so it doesn't read as AI generated.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so since we should probably make that a whole show because I think we could, so that's a future topic, because we could go into that pretty deep. Not that we're you know experts by all means, but I bet there's people that have no idea what we were just talking about. I'm guessing, agree.
Speaker 4:Can you imagine how awesome our Christmas cards could have been if we would have had chat, gpt, or how ridiculous they could have been. Funny though they could have been, I appreciate the humor and stuff.
Speaker 3:I'm curious on dropping this topic that we were just talking about into chat GPT and maybe I'll do that before we, before we have our next conversation.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I would like to know really, how are other people keeping themselves organized? Really, how are other people keeping themselves organized? Yes, give us some ideas and it you don't have to have a side hustle to have to be organized. I mean we're active people. Just because we don't have kids in the house does not mean I still, like I said, I'm my, I only have to take care of one person and I didn't know I had Monday off.
Speaker 4:So you know, clearly, my notebook isn't. I mean, that might have to do with paying attention, but nevertheless, I can't believe I'm the only one who gets confused. And I've heard people say you know they're retired. Well, every day is Saturday to me, yeah, and I think to myself okay, I'm confused enough as to what day it is. I don't know every day to be Saturday. What do you? And and also, when people say they're going to retire at our age, I'm like what are you going to do with all this time? Yep, all this time, yep. How are you going to question? Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Everybody thinks having a whole bunch of free time and nobody to have to worry about is a grand old thing, but I can't believe that that's quite that way, maybe the first few months. That would seem delightful, mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but then what? But then what? Then what Got to do something?
Speaker 4:Imagine how confused I could get with a whole bunch of volunteer opportunities.
Speaker 2:Which day you're doing what.
Speaker 4:Yeah, where am I supposed to be?
Speaker 2:today.
Speaker 4:Yeah, If found return to. I can imagine that's how that's going to go at some point.
Speaker 3:All right, we'll keep working on this topic. Yeah, send us your ideas. You have things, tools, tactics, strategies, that that work for you or listeners and watchers, viewers. We would love the input.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 4:And hopefully look for more social media posts from Three Cocktails In.
Speaker 2:Yes, we'll try to get more organized at that.
Speaker 3:Yes, we're going to block some time to get through that yes we will All right, all right, we'll see you later, guys. Bye, cheers.
Speaker 2:Cheers.
Speaker 1:All right, we'll see you later. Bye, cheers. You're wondering how I got that. Wow, here I go. Here I go, coming. I can't ever stop. I'm a tour de force running. Get me to the top. I don't need a invitation. I'm about to start a celebration. Let me in. Brought a good time for some friends. Turn it up loud past 10.
