Time Management: Automation vs. Delegation

I'm always trying to automate. Automate. How can I automate a process that matters to me? So for many of you know, books matter to me. So we automated the process of selling books. Just all day long, we're just selling hundreds or thousands of books. I'm here. Hundreds of thousands of books are gonna be sold all around the world. I don't have to do anything. We set it up. I automated that process with online tools, with team. And so you gotta figure out what are the processes that matter the most, and can you set them up to just run versus you maintaining it, someone else maintain or a system to automate it? So high performers are always automating those things. My yoga friend who said, oh, my gosh, I'm so busy and underwater. I said, what do you do? Well, you know, I got to do this and this and this. Turned out she was going to Costco every Saturday, spending 2, 3 hours at Costco because you got to go up every aisle. If you did not know, I'm not allowed there anymore. My wife took me one time, and she was like, never again. I went up every aisle. I need to know what's in there, man. Oh, my God. What's in. I got to go up every single aisle. I'm the worst. You want to go to shop with me to get blueberries? Oh, no. I'm going to go look up and everything. Look at the packaging on this. Oh, my gosh. I told you I'm easy to distract. Lisa, like, you are not going. I walked in there, I said, look at all these things we need. She goes, we don't need any of those. I said, but look at that tv. It's bigger than ours. But our TV is fine. I'm like, but they have one. I'm a terrible shopper. I'm totally not allowed to do that. My staff, when we went down to Puerto Rico, took me to Costco in Puerto Rico. Oh. They didn't know it'd be the whole day. They had no idea. I had to look at all of it. Just, I'm terrible about it. You can't have me do it. So I've always got to say, oh, what's the best use of my time? And get the support and the team and the tools to automate things and not be a browser on these other things. It's so important for you to decide what matters. I can't tell you what it is, but you already know. And how can you automate things that they're running and running and running back to the story of the woman at Costco. She's there every Saturday. I said, what are you doing there? She said, well, I have to go buy all the supplies for my four yoga studios. I go, do you own the four yoga studios? She goes, yeah. I go, do other people work there? She goes, yeah. I say, well, why do you have to go get the supplies? Why don't you send somebody? I can't ask people to do that. Do you pay them well? Yes, I do. Well, what's going on with you? Why do you have to control what you are controlling? Maybe write it down. Why do I have to control what I'm controlling? Look at all the things you're controlling in your life. Why does that have to be you? Why does that have to be you? It's one of the most profound questions in all of achievement. Why does that have to be you? Who said that had to be you? Why does she have to go to Costco? Because she said she had to control it. But does she have to control it? Yes or no? No. No. Oh, but think of all the excuse. She said, but if I give my credit card to them, they'll go buy everything in that store. I said, no, I would, but most people were responsible. The people you're paying probably aren't going to do that. And they give you a receipt too, so that's good. And it shows up on your card. You'd know right away, right? Well, yeah, I would know right away. And if they take advantage of it, you fire them, right? Well, yeah. Okay, so we're good. Bases are covered. Bases are covered. You need to look at all the things you're controlling and ask, what if I removed automated or delegated that? What if I removed automated or delegated? What if I removed automated or delegated? What if I removed automated or delegated? And the second question then. What if I removed automated or delegated that? You get to ask yourself, okay, if I removed automated or delegated, like that trick, what's the worst that could happen? What are they going to do in her situation? They're going to buy too much toilet paper. What's the worst that's going to happen? They're going to buy some, you know, one of those things, the buckets of things that last seven months. What's gonna happen? What's the worst that happens if you let go of some control? Who's ever quit a job in this room before? Ever quit a job? Like a job with other team members on it? Who's ever quit a job? Raise your hand. Did Any of you ever, who's ever been fired from a job? Okay, you ever notice the fired people make a different sound? There's that weird laugh. They're kind of happy it happened, but kind of like, should I raise my hand about this? I don't know what this says about me. You got fired. What does that say about you? They always make a different noise. So if you've ever been fired or you've ever quit, has anyone in the room ever, and be honest, ever been, ever quit and left and everything ran fine without you, and you were hurt by that, raise your hand nice and tall. Look around the room. You quit and everything went just fine. The organization like you hope the. You say, this place is gonna burn, this place is gonna collapse without me. You go in a week later. Hey, what are you doing? Hey, how's it been? They didn't even know you quit. They didn't even know you showed up. They're like, I didn't even notice you were gone. Isn't that the worst? They don't even know you were gone. It's ego that feels. It has to control it's ego. You need to find the things the only. Listen to this. Here's a crazy idea for your productivity, and I hope you guys are all with me on this because I know I'm being a little silly, but here's a crazy thing about my life. Everything that I control is my art, and I love it. See new team members come in sometimes. Brendan, why you still write in your email to all the people every week? I love the people every week. And I'm a writer. I like it. Well, sometimes you're not on schedule. I love the people and I'm a writer. Well, but somebody else could do it. Yes, but I like this part. And I should get to do what I like. Entrepreneurs can I get. Yes, but how many entrepreneurs in the room are doing stuff you don't like? Say, oh, no, see, we want more yeses and less oh, nos. Way less oh nos. So everything I could. I have control in lots of things that I really enjoy and I really love and everything else I hand over here. I really think that could change your life. That question. What are all these things I control and why do I think I have to control them? What if I could automate that, delegate that, or remove that so that I could focus more on the things that really move the needle? I will tell you. It's how I got promoted faster than everyone else in corporate America. It's how by the end of my third year, my third year in the industry. By the end of my third year, I had created more online instruction than any of my peers combined. Now you go what? How is that possible? Because that's all I did because I loved it. I knew that was a pqo. The second or third peer after me might have like at our, you know, at our levels, if you will, in our industries I play in, they might have one, two. On average, maybe five online courses. That might be pretty short. I've got 35 week online courses. People like what the number of our millions of online students around the world. What? How? What was so special about Brendan? Well 1, 2, 3 and 4. That was what mattered. Hey y'. All, I hope you enjoyed this episode. If you did, would you please smash that subscribe button and also post any questions you have down below? 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