Scott Perry walks through the 168-hour exercise, where you audit a full week to see where your time actually goes. He shares a story about an entrepreneur who prioritized travel and networking instead of fundraising, then explains how to sort activities into green (energizing), yellow (neutral), and red (draining) to make better choices.
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If you want to know what you're committed to, look at what you have. Something I always take my own coaching clients through, I work with a handful of executives at any given time, is something called the 168-hour exercise that one of my teachers taught me, which we all have 168 hours in a week. That's our time from sleeping to eating to podcasting, whatever it is. That's how much time you literally have to invest in a week. And if I'm being very candid with you, we have OptiMatch. It's great. It's been, you know, we have clients and things are going well. And we've been fundraising on Knopf. We had somebody who wanted to potentially acquire us. That was all great, but we didn't close capital yet. We had somebody who was gonna be our lead. And I was feeling frustrated about it. I was like, "Oh, this isn't fair. Why is it this way? We should've closed capital. It's 'cause women only get 2% of the capital," right? Like shame, blame, justify, complain about it, right, as an entrepreneur. And then one day I thought of this quote and I looked at, I did the 168-hour exercise myself and I was like, Wait a second, look at what I am committed to. I've been to Necker Island twice in the last 6 months. I get to travel the world. I get to meet amazing people. I've been to Dubai. What I've been committed to is traveling the world and connecting people. What I haven't been committed to is fundraising. And that hit me like a ton of bricks. If I had been committed to fundraising, and if I put as much time, money, and energy into fundraising as I did into traveling and flitting around and meeting interesting people and connecting people, I would have fundraised this company 3 times over. But it's in those moments where if you look and you see, if you wanna know what you're committed to, look at what you have. Start with yourself, do the 168-hour exercise, and you get bonus points if afterwards you look at that exercise and you highlight all the things in green that give you energy, all the things in yellow that are neutral, and all the things in red that drain your energy and make different choices.
