In this episode the goal is to help you avoid burnout and hopefully get more done at work!
Other Episodes
In the past we have covered some similar topics that may help.
LeadershipMental health
Tools
We talked about a number of tools to help you with time and task management.
GetHarvestFreshbooksThere are many others but these were just the ones we mentioned.
Full Transcript
Matt Siltala: [00:00:00]
Hey guys, good to be with you. How's it going, Dave?
Dave Rohrer: [00:00:15]
It is going, sir. It is another day, another podcast, another
Matt Siltala: [00:00:18]
episode. See what we do for you guys. Um, you know what? This one's going to be
an interesting one to talk about. Like. You know, you were just sharing with me
a lot of information about just kind of just how things go and as far as like
the day to day busy-ness and you know, the feast or famine.
And it's really just a topic that I kind of wanted to get
into and, and help people understand. But I guess the official thing that we're
going to call this as personal time management and, uh, the ability to say no.
And this is something that I've had or lack there of. Yeah. Very, very, very
true. Um, it was just interesting talking with you and hearing about like all
of the stuff that had going on.
And [00:01:00] there's so many factors, you know, like a lot
of times we want to just put all the blame on ourselves and like, I didn't get
that done, or this is my problem, or that's my fault, or whatever. And the
reality is in a lot of these situations, like with what you were sharing with
me. Um, the reason that you didn't get half of what you wanted done, what you
were talking about earlier was because of someone else, um, because you were
waiting on something else.
And so I think we have to learn to take all that in. But I
guess the, the, the real thing that I wanted to, to jump into, and I'll just
kinda give you a little bit of a, of a background about myself and how I
started to get into the trap of, of, you know, not being able to say no was,
well. You know, when I first started getting into this industry, I mean, I
think my very first client was, um, $300 a month.
And, uh, you know, I was, I was very grateful for it and,
you know, I was doing other things. Obviously. We're in corporate America, but
I just started taking on little projects here and there [00:02:00] cause I was
doing my own thing. And you know, people started asking me, Hey, how, you know,
how's this going and how are you learning this?
And again, this was, you know, early, early two thousands.
Um, and so. You know, I would just take on a project here or there and then I'd
get, you know, I'd do some really good work for this guy. And he's like, Hey,
my buddy just started this site, or so-and-so just started this site and I told
them about you, and they want to work for you as well, or, or they want you to,
or they want to hire you as well.
And so, okay. You know, take that on. And depending on the
project, you know, I didn't, you know, my, my projects at that time were
anywhere between, you know, 300 and. 300 to 750 a month. I mean, if I got a
$2,500 a month plan, I thought I was big time. Um, but most of them were, you
know, in the hundreds. And, but I got into this pattern of, you know, like I
would, someone would come and say, Hey, you know, this is the project that I
need, or this is a, this is what I'm needing from you.
[00:03:00] And in many cases there would be, um, you know,
it'd be a project that I wasn't really. Sure of, or it would be a specific task
that I didn't know exactly how to do. And I would always say yes, because, you
know, I didn't want to leave that money on the table and then I would figure it
out. I would spend time figuring out, okay, this is the things that they needed
from me.
Um. You know, I'm gonna, I'm going to go and learn how to do
this. And then this is where, you know, the networking comes in and this is
where, you know
