Jim Johnson says solopreneurs need 30 minutes daily to master selling, creating opportunities, and bookkeeping before hiring. Build competency first, then confidence, then scale.
At least 30 minutes a day.
Five.
Now what does that mean to train yourself? That means to be disciplined about taking time every day to get better at what you do. If you're the construction guy, you're spending time in learning how to sell, you're spending time in learning how to create opportunities, you're spending time in learning how to run your books. Those things are where you're going to set a great foundation and so you have to be disciplined about it. You need to set aside at least 30 minutes a day, in my opinion, to scale faster. It sounds like you're going to scale slower because you're taking this time, but if you don't take that time, you're setting just a terrible foundation for everything else that's going to happen in your business. Now, when it comes to being the operator or solopreneur, this is where you start to have self mastery. In other words, my focus is to master these things that I need to know. And I said there was five things that a startup needs to know. You have to master those before you start to decide, hey, I'm going to bring somebody else on and move up a level. So we're going to master the things that we do and that's going to bring competency. When we're competent with the thing that we need to know, we start to become confident. And nobody trains very well without being confident. If you're not confident on the things that you're teaching about, it's going to come off flat, guarantee it.
