Don't Let Your Biz Become A Monster - FDDTC #3

Hey there. Welcome to another episode of the From Delivery Driver to CEO podcast. This is your host, Devin Zander. And these are tales, methods and strategies that took me from a high school dropout in Jimmy John's Delivery Driver to being the CEO of an eight figure software company with over 50,000 customers around the world. So if you're ready to improve your marketing and skyrocket your business, you've come to the right place. Now let's hop in today's episode. What's up, guys? We finally have a name for the podcast. We are the From Delivery Driver to CEO podcast. And this is your host, Devin Zander. On this podcast, you will hear tales and lessons about how I went from a high school dropout. I dropped out my senior year, okay? Got a job at Jimmy John's, and Now I'm the CEO of an eight figure software company with over 50,000 customers. And we did all of this in less than eight years. So that's what you'll be hearing about on this podcast. Tune in daily for tales. So stories, business lessons, and an overall good time. And today we will be talking about how you need to keep your business from becoming a monster that consumes you and your life. So there's something that we all do, and this isn't just related to entrepreneurs. This is a condition that affects every single person on this planet. And this condition is called Pro Crasty Nation. It's awful. We've got it, okay? We all do. You know, we'd rather sit around, watch YouTube. That's what I like to do. Or play games, hang out with our loved ones, read a book, than do the work or the tasks that we really need to do. Okay? Now here's what I found over the past few years. And what happens when you put something off is it becomes a monster. Okay, and what does that mean? So every single day that you put off a task, because, you know, we keep saying, oh, I'll do it tomorrow, right? And at first, that first day when you're supposed to do it, it probably wasn't even a huge task. It was something simple like, oh, I have to do this. It's gonna be really quick, really easy. But you put it off a day, right? And then you put it off another day, oh, I'm busy. I'll get to it the next day. Why not? I'm gonna go hang out with my grandma. I'm gonna get her some French fries. Her and I can eat Cheetos, watch movies, hang out, and avoid work, right? Yeah. And then you put it off another day. You put this task off another day and what I found happens, and I've asked around about this, I'm pretty sure this happens to every single person. But the longer you put off a task, the more anxiety it gives you and the less likely you are to get it done, right? So if you put something off for one day, it's like, oh, yeah, not a big deal, right? Put it off for five days, you're like, I should probably get that done. And then once you hit like that 10 day mark, oh man, you've been putting this off for 10 days now. It's like, shit, dude, I really do not want to do this. I have anxiety just thinking about it. And what you've done is you've let that task become a monster that controls your life, that controls your emotion. You're totally afraid of doing it. It could be something as simple as like responding to a letter that the IRS sent you. And it wasn't a big deal, right? You could have just got back to it, but you put it off. Oh shit, I'm scared. You know, what if it's something bad and you put it off and you put it off and then eventually you're so crippled in fear from responding to that that you just don't do it at all and it comes back to bite you in the ass five years later. Now let's talk about a little work example, okay? Because recently I had some fears with work related tasks and I, I gave myself three weeks to complete a project and every single day I was putting it off, I would go to the office, I would be there alone so I could get it done. But all I ended up doing was watching like YouTube and messing around and stuff like that. So, you know, two weeks go by and I'm like, oh, you know, I can just get it done tomorrow. And then I realized like, wow, I have five days left to get this done. And I was so stressed out, I was losing sleep. This task, this simple task that I could get done rather quickly and I know I could have got it done rather quickly because I eventually did. But this little task, I'd put it off for weeks, for weeks, for no reason, just because I was being lazy. I was being a procrastinator, right? And it really like screwed my life up. I'll be honest, for like a few days, I was so stressful. I was so stressed out over this and I couldn't sleep. Like I said, I thought that the world was going to end. It seemed like it was an unmovable object. Because that's what happens when you keep putting something off, is you make this task seem bigger and bigger and more, you know, impossible than it actually is. You build it into that monster. So I finally, you know, it came the day that this project was due, and guess what? I still was procrastinating because I had built it into that monster, and I thought I couldn't do it. I didn't have confidence in myself. I didn't have confidence in my ability to get it done. And I thought I was going to do a terrible job. But here's what happened. I sat down at the coffee shop right across from my. My house. There's a little coffee shop right across the street. And the reason I went there was because I wanted to. No distractions, essentially. So I don't know anybody there. I have coffee, some caffeine, maybe that'll help me get work done. And most importantly, there's like, this social stigma. Obviously, I can't be goofing around watching YouTube videos at the coffee shop. Cause, you know, I'm human, and I think people will judge me, right? But I sit there, I just get it done. It took me like, five hours. And I had built up this huge monster in my head over the past few days that it seemed like it was impossible to overcome. And if I would have just gotten the work done on that first day, it would have saved me so much stress. I would have gotten to money quicker, and my overall life would have been better. You can't let these tasks become monsters, because monsters will rule you. Just get your work done instead. It's so important because it's something that we all struggle with. We're all procrastinators in some aspect of our lives. And if we just get the work done, it would save us so much unneeded stress and just allow us to live not only more successful lives because we're doing the things we need to do, but less stressful lives because we don't have that monster bearing down on us, making us feel like we are incapable of doing these things right. And that project went on to make us over $100,000 in pure profit over the last month. And I was stressed out for no reason, right? I told myself I couldn't do it, but it was fine. It was easy. And I guess the moral of the story is don't put things off until the last minute. Don't let these projects that are actually simple grow and grow and grow and bear down on you in your life, because it's just going to stress you out. It's going to make you take things out on loved ones. It's going to make you feel like a failure. Just get things done when you need to get them done because if you put them off, it messes your life up anyways. So that's it, guys. Just wanted to get that out there. It's something that I've been thinking of a lot. If I didn't put that off, you know, we've made $100,000 in profit from that in the past month. If I didn't put it off for three weeks, probably could have quite a bit more money by now. And, you know, obviously I would have felt a lot better about this whole thing and I never would have went through all those stressful weeks either. Clearly, I could have got the work done in hours. So that's it for this episode of the From Delivery Driver to CEO podcast. Make sure you give us that five star rating. Make sure you subscribe. Stay tuned. I'm going to try to pump out a few episodes a week, maybe two to three, four if we're lucky, and zero if my grandma comes into town because she'll make me spend all my time with her. Anyways, thank you guys so much for your time. This is Devin Zander, your host, and I hope you enjoy the rest of your day.