In this Lunch & Earn episode, Evan Carmichael discusses the need to balance chaos and order in business and personal life. He argues that excessive order leads to boredom and stifles creativity, while excessive chaos causes overwhelm and mediocrity. Evan shares his own habit of constantly changing his schedule to avoid monotony, and describes a recent period where he felt stretched thin handling multiple projects—YouTube, brand deals, a book, an acquired company’s website, and a team member’s injuries. After discussing the overload with his teammate Jason, they decided to introduce more order to regain focus and happiness. Evan invites viewers to reflect on where they sit on the chaos‑order spectrum and to comment on their experiences, hoping the discussion will help others manage similar challenges.
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In today's episode of Lunch and Earn, we're going to talk about chaos versus order. If you have too much order in your business and in your life, you're going to get bored. And if you have too much chaos in your life and your business, you're going to start to go crazy. And for every person, there's this line that you have to figure out. How much chaos and how much order do I need in order to be happy, to be productive, to be creative, and live my best life possible. I'm constantly changing up my schedule and my routine because I get bored easily. I don't know if I have ADD or if that's just something being an entrepreneur, you like to have variety and creativity. But what I found is that when I feel like I have, I'm doing the same thing for too long, too many days in a row, I crave variety. I need to add something new into it. And if I stop doing that, then I'll be unhappy. I feel like I won't be creative, and I crave that. And I think too many people, and this is most of the world, I don't think it's so much Believe Nation, 'cause you guys are entrepreneurs and you're watching this channel for a reason, but most of the world, they're stuck in a pattern of too much order, of too much boredom, and they go and they work these jobs for their entire life, and they're living for the weekends and the evenings, 'cause that's the only time they get to be creative. And so if you find yourself in that kind of rut, where there's too much order and you're bored, you have to find a way to do something different to add a little bit more chaos into your business and your life so you will be happier. At the same time, you can have too much chaos in your life and that makes you wanna go crazy and you're not getting any of your projects done and you feel like you're just being mediocre at everything instead of focusing your efforts. And I went through this recently where my team created a whole bunch of different templates for what I can do with the website, new landing pages, new homepage design, all these various types of pages for the website, and I just felt overwhelmed. And if all I was doing was the website, that would be fine, I could handle it. But I'm doing the YouTube channel and answering your comments and working on brand deals and writing my book, and I acquired a company, and now I'm working on their website and working with their team. There's a lot that's on my plate, there's a lot on my head right now. I'm feeling more stretched than I've ever felt in my life. And, and looking at that list of all the different things to do with the website, I just felt too overwhelmed. And I connected with Jason, who's on my team, and we went out for crepes to talk about it, because like, I gotta figure this out. And even though his back was severely injured and he could barely sit down properly, and I was suffering from insane allergies, and we're both operating at like 50% capacity, we struck out a way to make it make sense. Add more order. There was too much chaos, I needed more order, and now I'm happy again. So chaos versus order, where's the line for you? I'm really curious to find out. Leave in the comments when you feel overwhelmed with chaos or bored by too much order. Let me know, and I think it could help inspire others as well who are kind of facing those same challenges. I look forward to seeing your discussions. Thank you so much for watching. Continue to believe, and I'll see you soon.
