The Effort Graph That Transformed My Business: You Won't Believe the Drop! #leadership #entrepreneur

you know, if I wanna treat my business as a world-class client, I wanna still track time. So, so maybe the next chapter I won't do that, but I'm still doing that. So I've been doing that for 7.5 years since I left Accenture. So I track time. So I track time like this is a project in my work plan. SIM is, and I track Su Su Fu. Setup time, okay, go-up time, and follow-up time. And I tracked that. So, so I tracked it over, you know, for years over time. And, and you didn't experience this in the beginning, but when I started doing this, um, I had it on YouTube as a, um, a live experience people could dial in, you know, and then as you can guess, the technologies didn't always work, the way you wanted to. And then that was stressful for me. And then I was building the curriculum. And back in the old days, it used to be when I first started at Accenture, it was 70 hours of design and developing training for 1 hour of delivery. So I started going like, all right, let's just put these training things together. And I was spending an enormous amount of time putting together the training materials and was getting stressed, so much so that I was actually getting sick almost every month, you know, where I was leading up to it. And I, you know, you can identify with this. It's like leading up to it, I was like, Maybe I shouldn't do it this week. I've got a cough. I shouldn't do it. Like, maybe, and it happened every month. I was like, you know, the only thing that's common in this is that it's my monthly program. That's, I'm, I'm not a sickly human being. The thing is the monthly program. So I started looking at that and I was like, look, I need to simplify this thing, right? So, as I was preparing for this session, since I have all this time tracked in an Excel spreadsheet, as you can imagine, for many, many years now. And I've been running SIM since October 2018. I looked at how much time it took to set up, show up, and follow up for my SIM. And I have a graph. Here's my graph. Ready for this? This is so good. And let's do it. So here it is. That's my graph.

All right. What, what, what's on the, the y-axis?

The y-axis is time. And the x-axis is by month.

Okay. So, yeah, so it looks like you've definitely gotten the— looks like the energy curve, just, you could see it in there.

It dropped like a rock.

Right, right.

So then I put those two red bars on there and said, what happened to those two red bars? That's where— dude, this is so good. It's like literally a graph. That's where I got over the hump. Uh, I literally have a, a effort track to getting over the hump. All that energy dropped to a new energy level.