My Formula For Good Days
Summary
- I studied my good and bad days over three to four years to find common patterns.
- I minimize activities that led to bad days and maximize those leading to good ones.
- The simplest formula for a good day is doing things you enjoy with people you like.
- I spend as much time as I can on activities I love and work with people I enjoy.
- For everything else, I try to minimize, delegate, or outsource.
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How To Take Action
I would suggest implementing these steps to improve your business or personal growth using my insights:
Study Your Days:
Start by keeping a journal of your good and bad days for a month. Write down activities, people you interacted with, and how you felt at the end of each day. Look for common patterns to identify what leads to positive outcomes and what drags you down.
Maximize Enjoyable Activities:
Identify the tasks and activities you truly enjoy and try to do more of them. If you love talking to customers or creating new products, make those a bigger part of your day.
Work with People You Like:
Surround yourself with people you enjoy working with. This might mean teaming up on projects with favorite colleagues or hiring like-minded individuals. Collaboration becomes easier when you’re working with people you enjoy.
Delegate or Outsource:
For activities that don’t bring you joy, look for ways to delegate or outsource them. Maybe you dislike bookkeeping or handling customer complaints. Find someone who excels at these tasks and let them take over. This frees you up to focus on high-value activities.
Minimize Overhead Tasks:
List out the essential but mundane tasks that consume your time, like paperwork or routine emails. Set specific times to handle these in bulk or see if there are software tools to automate them.
Keep Adjusting:
Finally, periodically review your journal and adjust. As you grow, what constitutes a good day might change. Keep refining to ensure you’re always maximizing your time doing what you love.
By implementing these low-cost, high-value strategies, you’ll spend more time being productive and happy, leading to better personal and business growth.
Full Transcript
over probably a three or four year period I just looked at the good days and the bad days and I looked at what the good days had in common I looked at what the bad days had in common I've just over time minimize the things that happen on the bad days and maximize the things that happen on the good days the single simplest formula is doing things you like with people you like and trying to maximize as much time as I can on that bucket and then everything else I try and minimizes overhead or Outsource
