Saturday Success: simple things, earn a CEO salary & productivity ?s
Making life & money work for you.
Welcome back to the Saturday Success Series email!
This week we have:
Master Yourself: Do this simple thing to have a great life
Master Your Money: Earn a CEO salary using these 3 skills
The Weekly Special: A mathematician’s 2 productivity questions
The goal here is maximum value, so let’s get to it.
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Master Yourself
We live in a crazy ass ‘hustle culture is king’ type of society.
This system was created by our economy lords. And the rest of us fell in line.
We spend so much time working on the next thing we forget to enjoy life right now.
So here’s the simple thing to do:
Slow down.
This past year I spent a lot of time slowing down. I realized there were ways to have everything I wanted right now.
I wanted to write, so I did. Now I make nice side money.
I wanted more freedom, so I stayed remote in my 9–5. My days are more flexible.
I wanted peace so I spend mornings outside in nature. I’m calmer and happier.
We all want happiness & peace, and it doesn’t come from things.
Find ways to have what you want now: freedom, options, experiences, generosity.
Slow down and enjoy the life you have right now.
Master Your Money
I’m going to talk about 3 concepts which you’ve heard of, but probably haven’t used to their fullest potential.
I also want to state “the catch” up front.
Don’t go into this expecting results in 2 months. Prepare to put in 2 years of work.
People need to work 80 hour weeks long before they can work 20 hour weeks.
Organization
Start each day knowing exactly what you need to do.
I have a monthly calendar of my obligations. I have a weekly schedule for content and business.
Then I handwrite a notecard each night with my plan for the next day.
It’s a simple set up. Which is how I know it’ll work long term. The more complicated you make your system, the easier it’ll be to stop doing it.
Discipline
I spend my first 3 hours of the day working on my notecard.
6–9am is my time.
You need to find the time that’s yours. When can you work on your darlings (your personal projects)?
This gets tough when you have a family and a full time 9–5, I know.
But you can either make progress or make excuses. Get up earlier, stay up later.
Do what you must until you can do what you want.
Leverage
Write a good article once and it can earn forever.
Learn skills like copywriting and you can create for a client in a few hours something that earns you thousands of dollars.
Invest your excess income so your money starts making you money.
These are all forms of leverage.
Leverage is basically figuring out how to make things work for you.
Weekly Special
A Mathematician Will Make You More Productive in 2 Questions
Richard Hamming was a mathematician whose work ended up guiding many toward practical applications in computer engineering and telecommunications.
He also worked on the Manhattan Project. Folks still remember that project right?
Among his many achievements, the best one for productivity is 2 questions he directed at people.
His suggestion, ask these of yourself (or your employees). Answer with brutal honesty.
“What are the most important problems in your field?”
Well? What are they?
If you’re in personal finance, it may be getting people to understand investing is the only way to make your money grow.
If you’re a personal trainer, it may be getting people to follow their workout and diet plans.
“Why aren’t you working on them?”
So many people skip the obvious to start working on what doesn’t matter.
We’ll go back to our examples above.
Personal finance managers who focus on which savings accounts that have the highest interest rate. Spoiler alert- they’re all way too low.
The biggest problem facing personal finance managers? Getting people to understand that savings account are riskier, long term, than investing accounts.
Personal trainers who focus on supplements or intricate workout plans instead of providing basics. Instead, make it easy for exercise to become a habit.
The biggest problem facing personal trainers? People don’t apply consistency because we default to what’s easy. Figure out ways to make your plan easy to lower resistance barriers.
Thanks for reading! If you found this valuable, please share with someone who could use it. See you next Saturday!
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