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How I am able to get a full days worth of work done in just four hours #shorts

24 Sept 2021 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue by Mark Simpson describing the emotional roller-coaster of running a business (specifically property bookings) and recommending simple practices—jotting gratitude and making a brief plan—to stay grounded during anxious moments and maintain productivity. The speaker contrasts highs (full properties, big bookings) with lows (calendar problems, uncertainty) and attributes stability to gratitude and planning.

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Especially when you get started, it's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, very, woo, very, all those things. But again, it is very important to take stock because again, life as a business owner, as an entrepreneur, whatever you want to call it, is very much like a roller coaster. One minute, like, amazing, all my properties are full. You know, I've just got a really big six grand booking what coming in. I've got all these properties about to come on board and then the next minute it's like, oh, shit, I've got all these properties coming on board. My calendar is not looking the best. I literally haven't got a clue on X, Y and Z and it's like it's up. The roller coaster journey is really important and I had that myself. I had a very anxious moment just a couple of days ago. But by taking a minute to jot down a gratitude, put a little plan together, it does help definitely keep you grounded so you don't just literally go off the rails.