How do you live the 4 hour workweek?
You learn to say “NO”.
I say “No” to most things that come my way.
– Business opportunities
– Feature requests
– Bug fixes
– Content to create
– “We could do this…”
– Customers
– Requests
– Phone calls
– Ways to grow the business
– The latest magical marketing technique
– Facebook
– Instagram
– Extended family group chat
The answer is almost always “NO”
Here’s my reasoning.
There’s only so much time in the day
and
There’s only so much mental bandwidth available for most of us.
Even if there’s time in the day, the mental bandwidth it takes to add on one more thing is costly.
It makes you less productive at the things you’re currently doing.
I’ve found that customers, employees, clients, social media, group chats…will endlessly take your time and mental energy.
Learn to say NO.
It works.
John
Thanks for a thought-provoking list! But on the flipside, what do you say “yes” to? You mention focusing on the “things you’re currently doing” but those things involve customers and interactions with others, don’t they?
From John: I only say yes to things that build relationships with my family or friends.
In business, I only say yes to things that don’t require my time.
Tysm John! I needed this! I’ve been making a run of shorts and full length YouTube episodes about boundaries! This helps! It’s a sign from God to make one specifically like this about my business to explain why! (Energy) and legacy ! And helping my family! Do you have a YouTube episode for this? I thought I watched it before and was hoping to revisit it! Appreciate you! —Liberty V Justice CEO I’m worth it inc
Hi Liberty!
Yes, John has an episode lined up about this. It’ll be posted in a few weeks.
Thank great advise. I think everyone needs to take this into consideration.