Win with consistency. Be consistent on your free day. Be consistent on your catch up day. Be consistent on your get ahead day, even when doing something fun or easy is more alluring. There will always be time for that later.
Be consistent on your difficult day. Be consistent on your make time anyway day. Be consistent on your sacrifice something else to make time for this day. Be consistent on your don't fall behind today day.
Win with consistency. It's hardest to be consistent on the really good and really bad days. Be consistent when you are pulled out of your groove! Get back in as soon as you begin to be pulled out. Consistency wins the day.
Shane MeLaugh training. Stay in your area of expertise. If you are going to add a task or priority, you need to decide what you are going to take out of your day or routine.
Make a list of priorities. Put half of them on the "I'm not going to get this done this year" list. Work like a bandit on the list that is left.
When bed time comes, don't change your priorities. Say "NO!" to reshuffling your priorities at the moment when they become relevant. Go to bed. Or consciously change your priorities and realize this is not important to me. If you have your priorities straight, it will be clear that sleep really is more important than whatever "priority" it is that you are trying to replace it with.
Be consistent. Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, decade-ly, life-ly. If you have truly prioritized, why would you let anything take you away from your plan!?
Be consistent...or be non-relevant and inept....
Be consistent!
Friday, December 28, 2018
No More Rabbit Holes
I ran down a rabbit hole to save ~$150 this week. I'm sure I lost out on much more cash. As my brother says, I was "tripping over nickles to pick up pennies".
My phone power button broke off from the circuit board. I thought I'm sure I can just solder that thing back on! So I borrowed Norman's (my father-in-law) soldering iron on Christmas and wasted 2 days shopping for the proper tools (which are surprisingly difficult to find) and attempting to solder the button back on. I'm sure for a pro, this is a 20 minute or less job. But the button is so close to the processors that I just couldn't get it to go right. 2 days missing from my online course prep.
I was going to try to launch the course by the end of the year and probably could have made several thousand dollars in the time I wasted. I was talking with Kaylee (an employee) about doing the things you are passionate about and delegating the rest when it became instantly clear that I should have been working on the course and ordered a new phone right away (the old one is 4 years old already anyway). I can learn to solder better and order the proper tools online later when I have a little more free time. Maybe the kids will get a 4 year old smart phone one day.
This is such an alluring rabbit hole for me. "I'll just try welding it on for a few minutes" I say to myself. Then I pop the back and don't have the right Torx bit. So off to the store (one of my least favorite things). I get everything opened and try to solder and make a mess of it, decide I'll use solder paste instead. Off to the store the next day (I don't want to take a few days to order the right stuff online...I need this fixed now, right!?). Unfortunately the store doesn't carry de-solder wicks. So I come home with a bag full of stuff I can't use yet: flux, butane, solder paste. Do I order the wicks, now I'm in $40 in equipment and several hours of time...a new phone is only $120. It's not like I have a super nice one.
Alas, when I upgrade the phone, they will auto-update my plan and I will pay $5 more each month. An increase from $10 to $15. Whatever will I do. That's another $60 per year! Ack. I'll make more than the cost of the phone and increase in plan if I just get the course "shipped" and sell a single copy. Let alone the recurring $20/month subscription. So focussed on the wrong thing. I probably shouldn't mess with it even if it only did take an hour. But this is a rabbit hole, my friend. It starts with 5 minutes, then never ends!
The Million Dollar Lesson to be learned here: Stay on task! Even when there is an intriguing rascally rabbit that just jumped down a whole. The phone is inconvenient. Don't let it ruin the whole week. Get back to your area of expertise!
My phone power button broke off from the circuit board. I thought I'm sure I can just solder that thing back on! So I borrowed Norman's (my father-in-law) soldering iron on Christmas and wasted 2 days shopping for the proper tools (which are surprisingly difficult to find) and attempting to solder the button back on. I'm sure for a pro, this is a 20 minute or less job. But the button is so close to the processors that I just couldn't get it to go right. 2 days missing from my online course prep.
I was going to try to launch the course by the end of the year and probably could have made several thousand dollars in the time I wasted. I was talking with Kaylee (an employee) about doing the things you are passionate about and delegating the rest when it became instantly clear that I should have been working on the course and ordered a new phone right away (the old one is 4 years old already anyway). I can learn to solder better and order the proper tools online later when I have a little more free time. Maybe the kids will get a 4 year old smart phone one day.
This is such an alluring rabbit hole for me. "I'll just try welding it on for a few minutes" I say to myself. Then I pop the back and don't have the right Torx bit. So off to the store (one of my least favorite things). I get everything opened and try to solder and make a mess of it, decide I'll use solder paste instead. Off to the store the next day (I don't want to take a few days to order the right stuff online...I need this fixed now, right!?). Unfortunately the store doesn't carry de-solder wicks. So I come home with a bag full of stuff I can't use yet: flux, butane, solder paste. Do I order the wicks, now I'm in $40 in equipment and several hours of time...a new phone is only $120. It's not like I have a super nice one.
Alas, when I upgrade the phone, they will auto-update my plan and I will pay $5 more each month. An increase from $10 to $15. Whatever will I do. That's another $60 per year! Ack. I'll make more than the cost of the phone and increase in plan if I just get the course "shipped" and sell a single copy. Let alone the recurring $20/month subscription. So focussed on the wrong thing. I probably shouldn't mess with it even if it only did take an hour. But this is a rabbit hole, my friend. It starts with 5 minutes, then never ends!
The Million Dollar Lesson to be learned here: Stay on task! Even when there is an intriguing rascally rabbit that just jumped down a whole. The phone is inconvenient. Don't let it ruin the whole week. Get back to your area of expertise!
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