What To Do If You Don't Have Enough Time ...

by Jonathan 2.0 Banned
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Something I learned from John Assaraf is the "value" of an hour. Put simply, if you invest just 1 hour (every day) to making your Entrepreneurial dreams a reality, you will accumulate the equivalent of nine 40-hour weeks over the course of a year.

(That's some great time invested into your success.)

Considering that the average American watches something like 4.3 hours of TV/Day that's more than enough to make your IM dreams a reality.

(HTH)
Jonathan
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  • Profile picture of the author cynthiaSEL
    You're right. Being consistent and persistent compounds over time. It's difficult to do... but simple.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jonathan 2.0
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      Originally Posted by cynthiaSEL View Post

      You're right. Being consistent and persistent compounds over time. It's difficult to do... but simple.
      Exactly. Thanks Cynthia.
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      "Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity."―Joseph Sugarman
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  • Profile picture of the author Odahh
    not say his information is bad .. i just do not like the vibe i get from asseraf .. it does not resonate with me ..

    basically time does not exist .. you create time .. i gallon of water or an ounce of gold is the same no mater where on the surface of the earth it is . but how we measure time the time we use changes .. so even though it is the same moment it is 5 pm her and 5 or 6 am on the other side of the planet .

    time is not a currency so you can't really spend or invest it .. you can only use it o exchange it .. you create it to use to have an experience you want you exchange it when you think you have to work to get real currency .

    let me reference Steve jobs in his famous passion speech one of the most important things he did was take the font /text editing course ..which seemed like fun to him at the time and no real investment until years latter having those skills .. got incorporated in the mac editing software for desk top publishing which got copied by Microsoft and changed the world .

    personally i don't know anyone who just watches the tv 4-5 hours at a time or a day anymore ..the tv might be on but they are on their cell phone or their laptop ...

    there are probably a dozen sexy chick who are bad a playing games but making more money online streaming as they play video games than 97 percent of people trying to be imers ..and that is the sexy bad video game players there are a good amount of people making there living playing video games or making you tubr videos about playing video games .

    forget the tv example ..most people spend more on their car payment/insurance/maintenance /gas
    every month and that is in after tax money ..than they will spend on themselves or invest in themselves to have a healthy body or functional valuable skills ..

    right now an investment of my time would be to post on facebook threatening to remover everyton ..(but they are all family members ) who want to vomit out there political beliefs on my facebook from my page ..
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  • Profile picture of the author laurencewins
    If you don't have enough time but you do have money, you can pay somebody to do parts of your work for you. Examples include: website design and creation, writing, editing & proofreading, marketing, social media and much more.
    By outsourcing some of your work, you get more time to spend on the work that you MUST do.
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    • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
      Originally Posted by laurencewins View Post

      If you don't have enough time but you do have money, you can pay somebody to do parts of your work for you. Examples include: website design and creation, writing, editing & proofreading, marketing, social media and much more.
      By outsourcing some of your work, you get more time to spend on the work that you MUST do.
      Yes, give up an hour each day so you have just over a month every year to get ahead, novel, but useless. Just seems like a novel angle to flog a book?

      As others are saying you cannot bottle time.

      Besides the fact that online success takes time to sort out, and usually requires so much of it, that the average person working in a job, and trying to get ahead online, is limited.

      If you work full time online, you could do it within 5 to 10 years. Do 2 hours a night and a 10 hour day, is 20% of that or 5 to 10, goes to 20 to 40 years.

      Yep 5 years plus online to crack it, then automate the tedious part, so you can work on the crucial part or work on another way to make more money.

      A job has a ceiling and a limit, time wise, but this, virtually no limit and no ceiling, but only if you are prepared to put in the effort, and ignore the inept.

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      • Profile picture of the author Odahh
        Originally Posted by tagiscom View Post

        Yes, give up an hour each day so you have just over a month every year to get ahead, novel, but useless. Just seems like a novel angle to flog a book?

        As others are saying you cannot bottle time.

        Besides the fact that online success takes time to sort out, and usually requires so much of it, that the average person working in a job, and trying to get ahead online, is limited.

        If you work full time online, you could do it within 5 to 10 years. Do 2 hours a night and a 10 hour day, is 20% of that or 5 to 10, goes to 20 to 40 years.

        Yep 5 years plus online to crack it, then automate the tedious part, so you can work on the crucial part or work on another way to make more money.

        A job has a ceiling and a limit, time wise, but this, virtually no limit and no ceiling, but only if you are prepared to put in the effort, and ignore the inept.

        the best use/investment in time is building and improving skills . i have a bias against thinking only in terms of the internet or information marketing .

        I am old enough to remember the disaster of the dot com boom . As i study people building or advancing their career using you tube or social media marketing . many not doing it to get rich but to support themselves .without a job .

        doing what i do now to make money offline i see a path to bild an online income with Youtube over time . just right now i don't have the gear to shoot videos and my apartment does not have the proper space .

        what i am doing on a daily basis when not working is studying how people grow you tube channels and what tends to have the most interest ..by june when It is 110 degrees in the day in vegas and i can't be out working until six at night . I should have have the equipment to at least start making crappy youtube videos ..

        And i just set the goal to move to hawii in November . because i learned there are places i can do what i do there ..

        Let the details work out ..if how you make your living offline provides you with not tranferable skills to online .. 1 hour is no where near enough
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      • Profile picture of the author hardraysnight
        Originally Posted by tagiscom View Post

        As others are saying you cannot bottle time.

        i can bottle time

        its called an egg timer

        like sands through the hourglass of time....
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  • Profile picture of the author Ron Lafuddy
    Simple solution. I keep a quantity of the ingredients nearby. Then, when I need to, I make some time.
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  • Profile picture of the author Courage
    The best way is to do more things in less time.

    Continually increase your productivity every
    day and do more, more, more in less time.
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    • Profile picture of the author Odahh
      Originally Posted by Courage View Post

      The best way is to do more things in less time.

      Continually increase your productivity every
      day and do more, more, more in less time.
      and every day or almost every day something new is available to increase productivity .
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  • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
    Originally Posted by Odahh View Post

    the best use/investment in time is building and improving skills . i have a bias against thinking only in terms of the internet or information marketing .

    I am old enough to remember the disaster of the dot com boom . As i study people building or advancing their career using you tube or social media marketing . many not doing it to get rich but to support themselves .without a job .

    doing what i do now to make money offline i see a path to bild an online income with Youtube over time . just right now i don't have the gear to shoot videos and my apartment does not have the proper space .

    what i am doing on a daily basis when not working is studying how people grow you tube channels and what tends to have the most interest ..by june when It is 110 degrees in the day in vegas and i can't be out working until six at night . I should have have the equipment to at least start making crappy youtube videos ..

    And i just set the goal to move to hawii in November . because i learned there are places i can do what i do there ..

    Let the details work out ..if how you make your living offline provides you with not tranferable skills to online .. 1 hour is no where near enough
    Hawaii, lucky duck.

    If you are talking about shooting video while doing your show, maybe a drone type camera hovering around you might work?

    Yep, 1 hour, only leads to frustration that you can't do much in that time period. And that usually leads to staying up to all hours of the night, (or all night) then going to work.

    I read about someone who did that, and got fired eventually, but thankfully the online business took up the loss of income slack.


    Originally Posted by Courage View Post

    The best way is to do more things in less time.

    Continually increase your productivity every
    day and do more, more, more in less time.
    Yes, have done that, l could do a flyer in a few days, years ago, and now l can do it in 1.5 hours, which is good but still to slow to make real money from it.I am looking into outsourcing that part, so l can do enough to rely on it as a real income, instead of pocket money.

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    • Profile picture of the author Odahh
      Originally Posted by tagiscom View Post

      Hawaii, lucky duck.

      If you are talking about shooting video while doing your show, maybe a drone type camera hovering around you might work?

      Yep, 1 hour, only leads to frustration that you can't do much in that time period. And that usually leads to staying up to all hours of the night, (or all night) then going to work.

      I read about someone who did that, and got fired eventually, but thankfully the online business took up the loss of income slack.


      Hawii is the goal after being here in Vegas ,

      I don't punch a clock now so i don't fear job loss and soon work hours will put my out past midnight to make the good money . but when it 110 degrees out with the sun up june july and august i can't really go out and work until after 6pm..

      when i work is based of when the best weather and best crowds will be out .. can work when ever i want ..so i want to work the most when i have the best chance to make the most money .

      I have two business ideas tht i can roll out in a few months when i have money to get them going .. both online but not information marketing ..the the you tube stuff might be entertaining and informative ...

      now i know in my case i never did much online because until now i didn't develop the personality to be comfortable with people and i didn't know what content i wanted to create

      now The more i develop my persona while i make money offline i see ways to tranfer that to an online media like youtube ..but it can take years to build an income from youtube unless you put some studying in before hand . so i watch what those making the content i want to make are doing
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  • Profile picture of the author Ellen Chedid
    you make a great point.
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  • Profile picture of the author writeaway
    Here's what works for me.

    Break it up into chunks and impose a TIGHT deadline on yourself

    You'd be surprised at how quick you work
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  • Profile picture of the author AL Hummel
    Thanks for sharing this... it's truly inspirational. Makes every minute here worth that much more effort to continue. Blessings to you!
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  • Profile picture of the author Pat H
    I found a short article by Forbes writer Kevin Kruse intersting. In it he states that he has interviewed over 200 billionaires, Olympians, straight-A students and entrepreneurs and none of them have ever mentioned a to-do list. He then states 3 problems with lists: First, a to-do list does not account for time. Second, a to-do list does not distinguish between urgent and important. Third, to-do lists contribute to stress. He concludes there is one consistent theme that keeps coming up. Ultra-productive people do not work from a to-do list, but they do live and work from their calendar.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrew Hurst
    Someone told me that you'll make time for whatever is important to you. I also think about TR talking about must's vs shoulds.
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  • Profile picture of the author Master Blake
    Time is the most valuable asset.

    However if you are productive even 1% of your capacity, you can achieve anything.

    Yes I said 1%.

    Just have to be imaginative.

    Folks take "massive" action and miss the boat.

    That's why visualization is powerful. But...

    You have to *steer* your directions to a certain level.

    Perhaps, you haven't switched gear yet.

    It takes just a glimpse of light to dissipate darkness.

    That glimpse is the 1% potential.

    I won't go out and tell nutty tales about how I virtually MAGNETIZED this and that.

    So 99% is spiritual. People use super powers everyday to make things bind, together.

    If you're 99% spiritual, the 1% will take care of itself.

    Then everyday becomes a blissful harmony of unfounded joy.

    Then you get confounded by the possibilities and...

    GO OUT AND GET IT.

    OR

    CHILL OUT AND LET IT COME.

    Anything is possible if there's a resolute will.
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  • Profile picture of the author trevord92
    Time is fluid: it goes faster when you're enjoying yourself than when you find something boring. Or at least it gives that impression.

    One trick that works well is to use a spreadsheet to note down what you're doing every 30 minutes - do this at the time, don't rely on your memory at the end of the day. And be honest, so if the last 30 minutes was 25 minutes refreshing Facebook and 5 minutes on your main business, the task gets identified as Facebook. Your time sinks will soon leap out at you - if they don't, colour code them red/amber/green and that will help.

    Next, be ruthless applying the 80/20 rule. Aim for 95/5 so that 95% of what needs to happen gets done in 5% of the time. Coupled with the important/not important/urgent/not urgent method of deciding on which tasks to do, this can make you hyper productive.

    Shoot that video, render it, upload it rather than spend hours editing it. Publish and be damned

    Unless your project is critical (launching the next Space-X rocket, that kind of thing) most of the small details can stay pending and not affect anything much.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kingten
    Time is much more valuable in our life, someone can take my money, my house & so on , but i can get those back.
    But if you take my time, i will never get it back, so is very important to spend your time wisely.

    Invest your time on your self improvement, rather than wasting it doing unnecessary stuff.
    We all have 24hrs, the difference between successful and unsuccessful people is, successful people spend their time doing productive things as oppose to the unsuccessful people.
    You just have to start to look at the way you spend your time,and make some adjustments if needed.
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  • Profile picture of the author Master Blake
    Reality is scripted, have your pen handy...

    Time as a meaning sounds absurd.

    Fillet for thought.
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