Dean GraziosiCofounder @ Mastermind & AI Advantage | Serial Entrepreneur

What Is The Real Value Of Your Time? #motivation #viral #entrepreneurtips #goalsetting

9 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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A short motivational anecdote from Dean Graziosi in which he explains the economic value of delegating low-value tasks. He recounts telling his mother that he hires people for chores (garbage, light bulbs, gas, lawn) so he can spend hours producing high-value work (writing books, sales letters, courses) that can earn him substantially more per hour; the story is used to illustrate why focusing on high-value activities and outsourcing the rest increases income.

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I gotta tell you a quick story is my. My mom came to visit me, and she's there for a couple days, and she said, babe, I realized your garbage bins are filled. When do you drag them out to the street? I said, I don't just pay somebody to take my garbage out. I pay people to change my light bulbs, to go fill up my gas in my car. And I named those things. She goes, oh, my God, I think you got too big for your britches, honey. And I said, sit down, Mom. You've never made more than $30,000 in your whole life. Let me tell you how it really works. When someone's getting gas in my car, changing a light bulb, mowing my yard, taking out my garbage, picking up my dry clean, I'm in there writing my book, or I'm writing a sales letter, or I'm building a new course, or I'm doing new training. And when I'm in that computer working, I might make $10,000 an hour. They mow my lawn for 60 bucks in that hour. Which one should I do? And I remember my mom. She got it immediately. She goes, this is why I'm always broke. I always was broke like she got it. I mean, no one ever just taught her that simple philosophy.