Sobering thought

Start Every day with gratitude… some days it’s big things some days it’s small blessings… for me today it’s The Sun rising over my home… it just makes me feel good 🙏

From Birth to death You've got about 4,000 weeks.... How many have you got left and How are you going to use them? I worked out how many I'd already spent. I wish I hadn't. That's the premise of this week's book review: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman. It is an anti-productivity book, and it will annoy anyone who has built their life on output. Which is most of us. Three things in it that stopped me: There is no bottom to the inbox. Clear things faster and more arrives. Build capacity and demand fills it. The reward for keeping up is more to keep up with. That "one big push and I'll finally be on top of it" weekend you keep planning? It does not exist in nature. Everyone settles. The only question is whether you settled on purpose or by drift. Decide what you are deliberately going to fail at, and write it down. A priority you have not protected isn't one. Stay on the bus. Every bus out of Helsinki shares the same first few stops. Get off because your work looks derivative, start again on a different route, and you'll spend your life at the station. Mastery lives past the boring stops. Almost nothing compounds inside eighteen months. I retired at 46. Within what felt like a fortnight every one of those freed-up weeks had quietly refilled. In the review I'm honest about why, and about which years of my life were actually the worst ones. They were not the years I was sofa-surfing and delivering pizzas. Full review is in the classroom, all 14 lessons plus my take 👇 Then do the maths on your own weeks, and look at next week's diary and ask whether it deserves them. https://www.skool.com/theboard/classroom/84055912?md=2b53984e82c74472a92fd3a6592cd8f6

Monday morning, it's going to be a long week I guess, already people trying to throw you off course! Just watched a video from Mike, now all hell going to break loose!! 😁

How much is your time worth? I see this all the time - Good people - Smart people - Hardworking people Doing everything themselves: - Driving everywhere - Answering everything - Fixing everything And then wondering why the business isn’t moving This week I spoke to one of my mentees On track for £500k EBITDA Let’s break that down → £10,000 a week EBITDA → £2,000 a day → Roughly £250 an hour → Around £4 a minute So here’s the question: Why are you doing £15 an hour jobs? Why are you doing £20 an hour tasks? Even £30 an hour work is almost 10x below your value Every hour you spend there Is an hour you’re NOT spending: → Growing the business → Building systems → Creating opportunities → Increasing that £250 an hour And here’s the uncomfortable truth: If you’re not hitting the numbers you want yet It’s probably because You’re stuck doing £13, £15, £20 an hour work ....F'ing around word-smithing an email or reading through post etc... ....Instead of doing the work that actually moves the dial “Do what only you can do” Things that will actually generate growth, profit or new business... That’s where the value is Everything else - Delegate it - Systemise it - Remove it Work out your number Based on your EBITDA Or where it should be Break it down - Hourly - Per minute Then look at your diary: Be honest How much of your time is being spent below your pay grade? Stop undervaluing yourself Start acting like your time matters Because it does And when you treat it that way Everything changes If you’re serious about growth Start buying your time back That’s where the real leverage is 👍