James Schramko Podcast

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Every day is a new chance to be productive

In the episode:

01:27 - Do what energizes

02:19 - Are you really a morning person?

05:43 - Break workaholism by knowing THIS

07:02 - Take things off your plate

08:14 - The most-ignored, easiest thing to do

09:15 - Releasing the overwhelm

11:05 - Spend a lot less time HERE

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Transcription:

James Schramko here. Welcome back to SuperFastBusiness.com. Today's episode, 552, I'm sharing with you seven tips to make sure you are being productive and never feeling guilty about taking time off. As I've been writing my book, which is coming out later this year, 2017, or early 2018, I’m just putting the finishing touches to some chapters. And recently, I had a podcast, episode 550, called Perhaps You're Measuring Success Wrong, which really resonated with people around me. I got a lot of emails, and shares, and comments, and people said, "Yes, you're speaking to me."

So I wanted to just continue on this theme and help you reduce some of this overload and overwhelm and guilt that comes around from the idea of being a workaholic. The hustle, grind, pushing the limits. So I want to give you seven useful tips to make sure that you're being productive but not feeling guilty. So let's get straight into this.

1 - Choose projects that energize you

Tip number one is choose projects that energize you, and be realistic about how much can be achieved by you in a month. Remember, you've got about 160 productive hours and when those hours are gone, you get blunt. Choosing shorter, easier projects can definitely boost your sense of momentum. You should expect and really want whatever result you're doing all this work for.

So whatever goals you've set, whatever your mission is, should mean something to you. If you don't want it or you're not prepared to pay the price for it, you're just a dreamer heading for disappointment. So choose these projects well. I've also done an episode on Which Project You Should Work On. So you could look up that episode as well. That episode was 545 - Which Product or Service Should You Focus On? I think that will help you.

2 - Work at the prime productivity parts of the day

Tip number two, work at the prime productivity parts of the day. Often this will be the first thing in the day or you hear plenty of people talking about doing things very early in the morning. I used to think I was a PM person, like a nighttime person. I did most of my business building between 9:30 and 3:00 in the morning, 9:30 p.m.

Discover how to be more productive while taking more time off.

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Podcast highlights:

00:36 - The eight-figure goal

03:29 - Just what is growth?

06:33 - Are you having enough of THIS?

08:24 - Look at these three areas

11:59 - What’s your Ikigai?

15:27 - Stop competing, start cooperating

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Transcription:

Hey, James Schramko here, and welcome back to SuperFastBusiness.com. I really appreciate you listening to this podcast. And I'm going to get straight into today's topic, which is perhaps you're measuring success wrong.

What is the goal?

So I was on a coaching call with a new client recently and this is a high level group for businesses who are already doing well. I call this SilverCircle. And as I always do for the first call, I ask, what is the goal? What are we aiming for? I'm really seeking to identify what this is because I want to know how we're going to measure success. If I can achieve that goal for a client, then we all agree that this was a success. But the answer that I got was depressingly predictable. To date, I've had no less than 17 clients state their goal as being a 10-million-dollar revenue. So why is this 10-million-dollar revenue the goal? I mean really? Is that really the goal?

Where do we get these ideas from, it made me think. I'm just wondering, is this really the number that we need in order to feel accomplished? Because in theory, I could actually answer that question. After all, when I quit my job to pursue my online business full time, 10 million dollars in revenue was my goal too. But that was a decade ago. And in the end, I had to change my goal. But why did I change my goal? I changed it because it's the wrong goal. It was the wrong goal for me. And it's probably the wrong goal for you.

Now you might be the exception, and that's OK if it is. But let's take a moment to deconstruct this idea of what success is and see if success really is 10 million dollars in revenue. By the way, that's called an eight-figure business. So when people talk about six, seven, eight-figure business, six-figure business means $100,000 or more. Usually, it's not a mid six-figure business. That would be a four, five, six-hundred-thousand-dollar business. A seven-figure business is usually somewhere around a million dollars. If it's a mid seven-figure business then you might be talking about five or six million. And if it's an eight-figure business then you're probably talking about 10 million dollars. OK. So is that really the goal?

Now, if you're already reasonably successful in your business and eight figures is your ultimate next goal, then you need to ask yourself this perhaps, would having a lot more money in your bank account make you significantly better off than you are right now? You see, the chances are the answer is no. When I apply this to myself, I don't think having a few extra million dollars in my bank account would change my life much at all. I already live where I want to live. I already surf every day. I do business with people I like. I enjoy my business model, and I'm travelling enough, I'm healthy and I've got good relationships.

Prepare to redefine your concept and measures of success, finding your purpose and ikigai.

Clint Paddison

Episode highlights:

03:15 - The meeting that started everything

06:25 - A caution about affiliates

10:30 - Delivering the message and helping people

14:05 - The steps that built the Paddison Program

18:23 - DO THIS

26:28 - From overwhelm to enjoyment

32:07 - A look at the payoffs

37:27 - If you’d like to magnify what you have…

39:09 - Members helping the community

42:06 - A couple of key points

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Transcription:

James: James Schramko here. Welcome back to SuperFastBusiness.com. Today, I have a very special guest. Actually I do say that on every episode but I do mean it even more so in this case. Super special guest, I'm going to upgrade that with this episode. We're doing a case study with a friend of mine. He's become a friend first and then a business person second in my life. And welcome to this call, Clint Paddison. Good to have you here, mate.

Clint: Good day. How are you, James?

James: We first met through a mutual friend. And you came along and visited us at one of our live events, I think, might have been sort of an intro into the world and at the time, you were transitioning from a former career into this new passion of yours, which is a super admirable passion and that is, you had through a journey of self-discovery managed to fix some of the health issues that you had been experiencing and you wanted to share these solutions with the broader community. Is that right?

Clint: Yeah, and that's true. When I was going through terrible, crippling rheumatoid arthritis, which was affecting what felt like about 80 percent of the joints of my body, at that time all I cared about was getting myself well and being able to still perform standup comedy, which has been my day job, in inverted commas, for 17 years. And you mentioned our mutual friend, Joel Ozborn, he saw me at the worst of times, had to help me sometimes to get along the street, and all I cared about was getting well.

But then once my wife and I worked out what worked for me, she said, "We really need to be sharing this to the world and coming up with a way of sort of helping other people, because if we can just help one person with the information that we've put together then it'll be worth it." So we just started out with an e-book because I didn't want to go through the publishing process because what if it doesn't work for other people? But sure enough, the first ebook we put online, I think it sold that same day and I forget how that happened because obviously Google doesn't act that quick. But I think I'd put up a little bit of a sort of an awareness page first and then lo and behold, when we put the book up, someone bought it straight away. And that person to this day I still know and has done well and that was about five years ago when we first started with a simple e-book online.

James: So I think we've met quite a few years ago now.