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0:00

So, yeah, a common issue is the self doubt of not knowing what you should be doing any particular time of any any day. As a solopreneur, you don't have a boss. No one's telling you. 3 PM, you gotta do this. 9 AM, you gotta do that.

0:13

So you have to decide that for yourself. And because you doubt yourself, and maybe maybe reasonably so because up to now, you you haven't those of you, you haven't been as successful in your business as you would like to be. So naturally, it makes sense to doubt yourself like, well, what I'm doing hasn't been working, so why should I trust that what I said at 3 PM, I should do at 3 PM, you know, because I shouldn't trust myself. It hasn't worked thus far. Right?

0:39

Hasn't worked as well as I thought, which is why I have given you the system that's worked well for me and worked well for other people that seem to have been following it. The 111 formula, which is the the a series of actions that we just have to put that into our calendar. Right? It's like that's what I do. I like to know exactly what I'm doing at 9 AM versus 3 PM versus 5 PM versus 10 AM or whatever on any given day.

1:04

It's in my calendar. And I know that if I follow the one of them formula and not just I trust it'll work out. I've seen it work out again and again and again and again. So, now you don't have to follow the one of them. You can follow whatever system you really trust.

1:17

That's the point. You gotta find the system that you trust and then follow it consistently and notice that it's working. Or if it's not working, then you've got to adjust the system. Now you gotta keep it long enough to work. That's part of it, which is why I hope that we can talk on these q and a calls about well, if you don't think your system's working or you don't trust your system, why not?

1:40

Why don't you trust your system? Why not? Okay. Okay. If you don't have a system, why don't why don't you take on the one eleven formula?

1:47

Why not? Give it a try or modify it. Let's modify it to your your purposes, and why don't you trust it? Okay. Now one of the common issues is, well, one 11 formula or whatever system, there's so much to do.

2:02

Yeah. That's why I calendar things in. I I agree. If there's a lot to do, the to me, the the the rational response to that is everything can be done step by step. We just need enough time for it.

2:23

That's why the calendar is our friend. It's our tool to say, well, everything can be done. I just have to find the time for it. Then that we need to talk about why if there's if we need to carve out boundaries to find more time in your calendar, yes, we need to work on that. But, and then part of the reason is like, well, I said I was gonna take an hour, but it took me 4 hours to do it.

2:45

That's a separate issue. We also need to work on that, which is working lightly and also, first of all, being realistic about how much time things take and then carving out the realistic time, but not carving out too much time either because I think a a big problem for a lot of us, heart based, visionary, solpreneurs, is that we expect we have a high standard that we are not yet capable of activating. We're not capable of fulfilling that high standard yet. We will be after a year or 5 years, but right now, you can't take 4 hours to write a blog post. You just can't.

3:23

I mean, you can, but it's it's too long. Like, a blog post should take no more than 2 hours, ideally 1 hour to write a blog post. I just up to 1 hour. That's it. Even now, you can do it.

3:34

And I know it's possible because every time I teach a writing class and they give you 7 minutes to write, the stuff you come up with, I'm like, that's better than I could do in 7 minutes. So I already know that you're a better writer than me. No. I'm not I'm I'm not being humble here. All of you.

3:50

I I can see this. All of you are I've I have not yet seen a single student in my writing classes who was not a better writer than me. And you know why? Because English is my second language. I know a lot of you don't know this.

4:03

English is my second dang language, and I always struggle with writing. I I mean, and really ever since from from, since I was born to, to, like, age 44 or whatever. You know? Now I'm, what am I this year? 48.

4:19

So, like, I feel like I'd struggle to write until I was, like, 44. Like, it was it's taken I still think my writing sucks, to be honest with you. Like, you you see some of my better writing because I keep recycling the best stuff, but you don't see the other 80% that sucks that I think it sucks that anyway. So all of you are better writers than me. You should not be taking more than 7 minutes to write a blog post because I see you do it.

4:41

Now 7 minutes exercise, you don't write a whole blog post. But you write a section. I'm like, it's pretty damn good. What are you talking about taking 4 hours to write a blog post? What's going on?

4:49

You're brilliant. You just need a timer. I gave you 7 minutes, and look what you did. Now give yourself 60 minutes, and look imagine what you could do. If you could do that in 7 minutes, what could you do in 60 minutes?

5:00

It's all about timers. Right? Like, this is why joyful productivity is part of it. We would work with timers joyfully. And so, yeah, it's like things should not take so much time.

5:12

1 is because you have this high standard. Good good for you. But that high standard takes 5 years to fulfill to be able to have that capacity to, like, write that great in 1 hour. You don't have to write that great in 1 hour. You just have to write whatever you write in 1 hour.

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It's good enough. Right? That's an example. I mean, whatever. You apply this to everything.

5:31

Editing your web page, creating your offer, editing your video. Whatever it is, your standard is 5 years from now. You'll get that good. Not right now. Right now, you do whatever you can in half an hour or 1 hour.

5:45

And so this is basically my my my system for how do I know what I'm gonna do in any given 1 11 formula. Take the 1 11 formula. Calendar that in. Now we can talk, hopefully, on a q and a to for you to figure out how to do that, but do your best right now, do your best, but don't carve out too much time for anything. Carve out a reasonable amount of time for your current level of skill, knowing that your standard for what's great for your website, for your content, for your offers is 5 years out because you have a high standard.

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I get it. Okay. But whatever you can do in an hour right now or 2 hours, whatever is it seems reasonable, and we should talk maybe on the q and a what's is a reasonable amount of time to do something. And I'll time you, and you'll be shocked that you how much you can do in 15 minutes. Right?

6:35

It's like, it's never it's it's always the the timer dispels the self doubt because you don't have time for self doubt anymore. It's like overthinking is solved by having a timer go, oh my god, 15 minutes. Overthinking awake. I don't have time to overthink right now. I have enough time to do.

6:51

So, anyway, I hope this is helpful, and I look forward to your comments below. And and for the person here who said, I wanna contribute with quality, not just quantity. Exactly. Good. Yes.

7:01

And yet what's qual what is quality? If you are trying to determine quality yourself, you probably are judging your your work based on a standard from your capacity 5 years in the into the future. Right? All you can do right now is to contribute quantity first. Yes.

7:21

Quality, yes. But quantity first. And then you look back at the quantity and to notice what was quality based on the audience's reaction, and you do more of that. And yes. So you you you need to do both.

7:33

You need to you need to contribute a lot of quantity first, both content and offers, and then you go back and look on a on an occasional basis. Okay. Based on all the quantity I did in the past month or in the past quarter or in the past year, What was the quality based on the audience's reaction, not based on my own judging of my own standard that is what I'm not capable of yet? You know? It's like, okay.

7:58

Based on the audience, they said this is quality. They said that was quality. Good. I'm gonna I'm gonna study those. What are the commonalities between my highest quality things versus my lowest quality things according to the audience?

8:11

And let me use that insight, those insights to adjust my energy towards the quality direction. Again, only in an hour. Okay? Knowing that all of this quality development is really step by step over years. So hope that helps.