Owning Your Time: 5 Sure-Fire Tactics
Don't let time slip away! Discover 5 sure-fire tactics to owning your time, so you can be a great parent/spouse, earn lots of money, have a social life, and be in shape.
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Barrett O'Neill
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Imagine you're 99 years old on your deathbed...
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Will you regret how you're using your time today?
5 sure-fire tactics to owning your time: -
Everyone can relate to this:
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We want to be a great parent/spouse, earn lots of money, have a social life, and be in shape.
We're told there will be tradeoffs - we can't have it all.
But we can have more than we think if we control our time. -
SCHEDULE OPTIMIZATION
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I got this trick from Kayak Founder Paul English ($1.8B exit to Priceline in 2012).
Paul says (and I agree) that happiness is a function of balance.
Try a color-coded calendar to quickly identify priorities and time breakdowns. -
Create a list of core priorities and assign them a color. For me:
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1. Time with wife/son
2. Business activities
3. Creative exercises
4. Physical exercise
5. Social activities
As life changes, so will allocations. But this is a bulletproof way to manage each bucket. -
MAKE TIME TO THINK
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Being busy is comforting because society equates "busyness" with productivity or hard work, which gets glamorized.
Remember - washing machines work hard, but they go in circles.
The real secret is working hard on things worth executing. -
As the wealthiest man in US history, John D. Rockefeller said:
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"Those who work all day have no time to make money."
Use your greatest asset, your MIND, to free up time for the things that truly matter while still earning tons of money. -
UNCOVER LEVERAGE
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We all get 24 hours a day... but doesn't it seem like some people have more?
They use leverage to get more done in the same amount of time.
The most common types are:
- Labor
- Capital
- Code (Technology)
- Audience (Earned Media) -
Leverage (in all forms) amplifies returns on inputs.
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The goal is to use leverage in your business to disassociate time from income.
Priorities like family and exercise CANNOT be outsourced, so if you value them, your presence is required.
To have it all, you need leverage. -
FASTER DECISIONS
— Barrett O'Neill (@barrettjoneill) March 8, 2023
We're faced with thousands of decisions daily. Thinking through every angle of each decision would be exhausting.
To combat this, I developed a framework called:
"The Person I Want to Be"
I create a detailed description of exactly who I'm striving to be. -
I write down how this version of me shows up for his family, makes money, and even what house he lives in.
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Then I ask:
"Would the person I want to be, do this?"
This prevents short-term/convenient decisions that don't align with my priorities. -
LEARN TO SAY NO
— Barrett O'Neill (@barrettjoneill) March 8, 2023
I'm convinced the most incredible luxury in life is the ability to say "no thank you."
As you become more successful, opportunities (professional/social) become abundant.
It's easy to get trapped into saying "yes" to everything ("no" is surprisingly hard!) -
But every "yes" takes away time from priorities, including:
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Ventures you've committed to, or even worse, family and health.
Politely saying "no" is critical to owning your time. The inability to do so is the fast track to over-commitment and misery.
Double down on priorities -
Life has many competing priorities.
— Barrett O'Neill (@barrettjoneill) March 8, 2023
But the most successful people create schedules and processes to get more done with less.
You can't have everything, but you can have more.
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