Everything is Awesome! When You’re Part of A Team!

One of my biggest problems is asking for help. I have a mindset that I can accomplish everything and do everything by myself. When I think about this concept, truly think about it, I know it’s stupid. The reason I know it’s stupid is because I can not possibly do everything that I want to do. There literally isn’t enough time in the day. I looked.

Now, if you read my blog or listen to the Age of Jeremy podcast you know that I am focusing on a specific project called the Elon Musk Project. The Elon Musk Project is my attempt to work 100 hours in a week. I am going to redirect my train of thought for a moment. I am currently on my third week of doing this, and with family affairs, Thanksgiving, and drive time I have only made it to about 70 hours. The good news is that I found three inefficiencies that I have fixed. The first was to reduce my sleep down to about 6 hours and 15 minutes. I go to bed at 11:15 and get up at 5:30 to get to work by 7:00. My drive time in the morning is between 45 minutes to 1 hour and 15 minutes depending on traffic. In 6 months I will focus on getting a different position for the company where I work. A position that will reduce my drive down to 30 minutes. Remember, my goal is to be a Director for the company. I just need the experience in different roles to understand the revenue drivers of the corporation and the culture.

The second inefficiency was to get more productive work done during my lunch hour at work. My mother invested $3,000 in October Revolution Corporation which I invested into laptops for our Board Members. The laptop gives me the ability to edit the JV Impacts and Blended Families Podcasts during lunch at work. It gives me the opportunity to type more effectively then using my phone which is what I was using before. For instance, I am writing this at lunch right now.

The third inefficiency was to hold my twice weekly meeting conference call for JV Impacts in my car driving home. My drive home takes 1 hour to 1 hour and 30 minutes. The only problem with the conference call is that I can’t take notes which is giving me a problem because I can’t remember all the details of the conversation. However, I am working on a way to record the conversation and add notes when I get home.

Correcting these inefficiencies I have been able to increase my daily work time to 4.5 hours a day. This means that my day looks like this:

Sleep: 6 Hours
Dress: .25 Hours
Morning Drive: 1 Hour
Day Grind: 8 Hours
Lunch Grind: 1 Hour
Evening Drive Time: 1.25 Hours
Walk Dogs/Run: .58 Hours
Shower Time: .33 Hours
Dinner: 1 Hour (usually work while I eat)
Evening Grind. 3.5 hours

My total schedule encompasses 22.91 Hours. For purposes of this post we will call it 23 hours. The other hour I am either wasting or it is used up with my wife or housework. For the time being I am not going to use that hour to focus on anything. I will use it as a buffer. Pretty tight schedule. I was so focused this week that I forgot to call my Mother for her birthday. Which she was okay with because I sent her a quick text in the morning, and we are going out to eat this weekend.

Alright, what was the point of all this? The point is that I don’t have enough time in the day to do everything that I would like to. I need to make sure that I am doing the most high impact activities, and then outsourcing the rest. For example, when I started JV Impacts I was excited to do the audio engineering and the web design. Now, I am focused on strategic thought of growing JV Impacts and innovating new business solutions with clients . I am writing a business page for Age of Radio, October Revolution, and One Home One Human. I am also trying to figure out how to make our engineering better. The audio engineering and the web design I have made as efficient as possible to reduce the time it takes me to do these tasks. The only option left is to hire a team. Which of course I will when I can, but it brings me to me the point of the lesson I learned this week.

Everyone needs help! You can not do it on your own! It is one of the core principles of Buddhism. We are all connected! We all experience similar events in our lives, but we react to them differently. We all need to work together, and sometimes that means getting other people involved. JV (Name Drop!) reached out to me, and asked me my thoughts on hiring a sales consultant of sorts. Of course I said yes, but in my heart I thought doesn’t he think I can solve the problem we are having? Doesn’t he think I can teach him what we need to do? I thought about it some more, and of course he knew that we could do it ourselves, but we need to be focusing on the activities that are going to have the most impact to the business.

A leaders job is to is to build relationships. Build relationships with their community, their team, other brands, their competitors. Through those relationships they get better. Leaders find how other people are doing something. Now one of the core principles of October Revolution, our parent company, is First Principles, but it doesn’t mean we can’t try what other people are doing. If we learn how other people are doing things, we can create new technologies to make the processes better. We always focus on innovation, and although there are two “I”s in Innovation it really is a team endeavor. Why? Because we are better as a community. We are better when we hire consultants, when we find mentors, when we build relationships!