July 3, 2024 • 16 mins
In this episode, Aaron Henriques, a former police officer and experienced entrepreneur from London, shares his journey of becoming comfortable with not being constantly busy. He reflects on his habit of starting multiple businesses without seeing them through and discusses how he learned to value downtime.
Aaron talks about shifting his focus from social media’s 'busy' culture to strategic thinking, setting new rules to avoid being essential to daily operations, and his new interest in investing. He shares the principles he's adopted to maximise efficiency and success, aiming for long-term personal and professional growth.
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00:00 Introduction: Embracing a Less Busy Life
00:50 Background: My Journey and Realisations
01:37 Breaking the Cycle: Shutting Down Startups
02:22 Learning to Be Okay with Not Being Busy
03:15 Filling Time Productively: Reading and Learning
04:44 Discovering My Strengths: Strategic Advice
05:30 Setting New Rules: Not Being Pivotal
08:42 The Importance of Principles Over How-Tos
12:38 Conclusion: Protecting My Time and Future Goals
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(00:00):
I'm going to talk about how I trainmyself to start being okay with not
being busy and filling my time constantlywith a million different things to do.
I'm Aaron Henriques fromLondon, former police officer.
I've had businesses in the UK and onein Dubai over the last 15 years or so.
I'm currently in Dubai in my last fewweeks after being here a couple of months.
(00:22):
I'm just been thinking about somethingthat has been, it's been top of
mind for quite a while becausewhen people ask me a question about
what have you been doing today?
And a lot of the time, I haven'tbeen doing stuff that they would
consider to be work as such.
And so sometimes I feel I feelsomething in me like, Oh, you
(00:43):
need to make something up.
And if you like this episode, pleaselike it, share it and all that jazz.
So that other people can find it.
So let me get into this.
not that long ago, it wasa couple of years ago.
Now my accountant came to me and we hada call and he was what are you doing?
And it was because I had, I think it waslike four or five brand new companies that
I was meant to be starting and itwas just crazy, and I wasn't really
(01:07):
doing anything with those startups.
it didn't take me long to realizethat, I wasn't actually doing anything
and it was a repeating pattern.
Where I was just, get a new idea.
I'd start a new business.
do all the initial businessdevelopment side of things.
then I would get another ideaand then I'd start on that
and neglect the previous idea.
And that was just likea repeating pattern.
(01:28):
And I realized what it was really, isthat I needed to fill my time with stuff.
I needed to fill my time withsomething new all the time.
and I told myself at that point that,I need to shut down these companies
because it's absolutely insane.
I need to go back to the absolutezero drawing board, the company that
I'd had for a long time, the cleaningcompany, let's keep that in play.
(01:52):
I needed to just reset basicallyand get to a stage of where I'm
not just filling my time with busystuff, like busy work, just random
shit that will fill up my time.
And I had to get okaywith just not being busy.
And that was one thing that Ireally struggled with that sort
of concept of being, just notreally doing anything with my day.
(02:14):
and I know it soundscrazy cause it's like.
It's calling people lazy and all thisstuff, but I needed to find a way to
try and be lazy if that makes sense.
And I think it's becausethe likes of social media.
we watch all these entrepreneurialgurus and all that stuff.
And we think that we need to be,copying them because they're like,
work 18 hours out of 24 and sleepunder your desk and, do this, do that.
(02:37):
And all the time.
And they always look likethey're busy doing stuff.
And I'm not doubting that many ofthem are, but I just think that at
that point I was at a stage where Ineeded to sit down focus on what I
really wanted to do, have a real thinkabout what did I really want to do.
And that process took a really long time.
(02:57):
This isn't something that was certainlyfor me that I could just do it overnight
and just decide, Hey, I'm, no longerdoing anything and I'm busy and I'm lazy.
I'm just going to watch Netflix.
And I think in more recent years, thisis the thing that has required the most
self discipline on my part for sure.
So I took a lot of time out, I'mtalking about months and during that
(03:20):
time out of not doing stuff, I startedto think about how can I fill my
time in other ways that are probablymore productive for the longterm and
will have more benefit to me in thelongterm and help me, develop myself.
So I really started hammering in onlike reading more, Audio books are great
because I read physical books reallyslow, some audio books I listen to,
(03:43):
if they're really great audio books.
I will then go back and read the physicalbook because I always get more out of
it, even though it takes more time.
I'd listen to podcasts, a lot,whether they're YouTube or audio
podcasts Just developing certainskill sets and during that period,
also thinking about what directiondo I really want to go in because I.
probably knew already then thatme being the forefront of a
(04:08):
startup isn't the right thing.
I don't think I'm very good at it.
And by that, I don't mean likewith the ideas and stuff like that.
It's more the implementationand I get really bored.
So I'm not one of those startupfounders that can then do all
the work for the next year.
(04:29):
If I did a startup, I need tobe able to do something where
I can pass that on to someone.
Now I'll get onto that in a bit, butI really filled my time with learning,
developing myself and thinkingabout what do I really want to do?
And I realized that for meis really about investing.
Investing in small businesses, butinitially, I was thinking about
(04:50):
buying entire companies rather thaninvesting in existing companies.
But I now think that actuallyinvesting is more my thing.
And also during that time,I set new rules for myself.
One of the things I did set, set tomyself, very early on in this, was that
I had a look at my companies that I had.
(05:11):
The one that was, the most successfulcontinuously, although it wasn't making me
huge sums of money, it paid for my life.
But I wasn't running it day to day.
In fact, I wasn't running it at all.
My involvement is pretty muchuploading a couple of bank statements,
two or three times a month.
And then that's it.
I only have input occasionally.
And that's if there's like a specificproblem that needs to be solved.
(05:33):
And I wanted to make sure that anyideas that I was coming up with, if
I was going to do a new startup oranything like that, or be involved in
a company, I cannot be so importantto the company that it requires me
for the end service or end product orwhatever it is that the clients buy.
I wanted to make myself Disposable,really, to the business, not important.
(05:58):
Now, I know for a lot of you, whenyou're particularly in your own
business if you're just starting upyour own company, you want to be the
main figure, the main person in thebusiness, a bit of ego stuff, really,
if you're really honest with yourself.
I realized that isactually not what I want.
It's the complete opposite of what I want.
And actually, if you really thinkabout it, if you are so important to
(06:18):
the business and if your goal is tocreate, a business that in the future
you might one day be able to sellyou being so important and pivotal
to the business is going to make thatvery difficult, if not impossible.
And often I find that people will ask me,they'll call me up on the phone and be
like, Oh, what have you been doing today?
And, it's just, I'm now twoyears along the line and I'm just
(06:42):
like, a lot of the time I haven'treally been doing that much.
I might have, Sent a few emailsfirst thing this morning, and
I might have planned a podcastepisode like this occasionally.
I might have uploaded my bank statements.
What else might I have done?
I might have actually spenttwo or three hours listening
to an audiobook that morning.
(07:03):
Or a YouTube podcast that morning.
But when they asked me sometimes,even now, I've had quite a long
period of time, a couple of yearsof learning to not be busy.
I still get that feeling of dreadeven now where I feel like I have
(07:23):
to, really rack my brain to justifymyself to the person that's called
me, to a friend that's called me toexplain what I've been doing that day.
And make it sound like I've been doing.
Maybe more than I have been.
And sometimes I think my, these peoplemust think I'm doing something dodgy
because obviously I make money justbeing honest, most of my friends,
(07:46):
I make more than them and theyprobably wonder you do fuck all day.
What are you doing?
And I realized it's not, I'm doingfuck all what I just mentioned there
is about, I might've done two, three,four hours of learning that day.
Now I've discovered that my strengthsreally are around providing like
strategic advice and problem solving.
(08:06):
And that has come about assomething that has been in my
nature for a very long time.
I don't think I've ever really beenthat great at the implementation
side, but the thoughts that go behindthe thing is what I am good at.
And it's then finding the personto implement the thoughts.
(08:26):
Does that make sense?
What I've discovered is thateven though it sounds like I
don't actually do much work.
Yes, because I'm notphysically doing the thing.
I'm not doing the end bit forthe end client or whatever.
What I've realized is that my learning,the amount of knowledge that I've
(08:47):
been gaining from different sources,on different topics like money
investing, really around, mergersand acquisitions and stuff like that.
But it's more aroundprinciples rather than how tos.
That's something that I think hasbeen a massive change in my mindset
in terms of how I take informationfrom books and stuff that I read.
(09:10):
I'm not taking the how todo this specific thing.
I don't really care aboutthe how to for an individual.
One individual's got a different wayof doing things something to another
individual that's got a different wayof doing it, another individual, and
they can all come to the same outcome.
What I've been taking from the books andaudio books and podcasts that I listen
to, and also part of, I've got businessmentors as well that are paid, mentors.
(09:35):
So what I also do is I take the principlesfrom those and sometimes, I might listen
to an audio book 10 hours long, butI've taken Maybe literally two or three
lines of yeah, let's take this and addthat to the principles box like in here.
And also I've got things written down.
(09:56):
But what I'm saying is that a lotof people focus on the how to.
They want to know how doI do this specific thing.
And for me, I've realizedthat's not the right question.
It is the principles around it,which then enables me to think out
of the box and be able to come upwith creative solutions to problems.
(10:18):
this is what I've been implementing thatmore now with my business partner in
finance company that I have, that I'm,part owner of, is being able to help the
director of that to be able to, solvecertain issues, solve certain problems.
And that's really where I'vestarted to realize my strength is.
So to most people, it doesn'tlook like I'm doing work.
(10:40):
To me, it doesn't feel like I'm doingwork, but that work that I have been
doing has been making changes, verypositive changes in my businesses.
And that is what is important for me.
Listen, if you feel like you are thatperson, perhaps it might be time for
(11:02):
you to also change and think abouthow do I cut out all of this noise?
How do I cut out all ofthis stuff that I'm doing?
How do I create a fewnew rules for myself?
So like my new rules around, not beingimportant to the business, no new
startups, although I did have a slip.
(11:22):
I set up the company in Dubai afterhaving that rule, but that was
because I was pissed off with the UKgovernment, to be honest with you, with
the amount of tax that they charge.
Whatever.
I have the company now.
and any other rules that mightmake sense to you, and use that
extra time in a positive way, ina way that's going to move your
life forward further down the line.
(11:43):
And that might be through learning.
That might be through reading more.
That might be through, learning moreprinciples that you can implement.
But I would say that for a lot ofpeople, if you're in the position where
you're just starting out, you don't havebusiness knowledge behind you, You're
going to need to do more of the howtos first to understand how to apply
(12:05):
those principles in the future whenyou strategize and maybe speak to your
own business partners and stuff to beable to come up with creative solutions
and ways to solve certain problems.
Hopefully that makes some sense.
I think I'm going to probably do amore planned, deliberately planned,
episode another day about this if it'ssomething that you're interested in
(12:26):
because I find it still very difficultto really make it make sense in my brain
exactly what has changed over that time.
That is the biggest change is not beingbusy with just random shit, but it's
all the stuff that I did with that extratime which has led to a result which
(12:48):
has had a massively positive impact onhow I think about things, how much time
I have, how much money I earn for ouractual hours work that most people would
consider hours worked is substantial.
And I'm really protective over mytime now, as anyone who dealt with
(13:08):
me asked me for Oh, "Can I just have30 minutes of your time on a call".
No is normally my answer.
And it's not to be a dick.
It's because I'm justprotective over my time.
That 30 minutes I might've readAnother few chapters of a book
or something that have, made mestart thinking about other things.
And that's what happens with theprinciples is you then start thinking
(13:29):
about all these other things.
But if you're just so focused, laserfocused on the how to, Yeah, you don't,
because you're thinking, oh, it'sonly done in this really rigid way.
This is how that person does it, andyou do it in this really rigid way,
rather than these are the principlesbehind what this person does, and this
is how I can, use the principles fromthis thing to apply it to my thing.
(13:53):
I don't know if that really makes muchsense, but if it does make sense and
it's something that you want to hearmore about and maybe get me to spend
probably a bit more focused thought timeplanning out another episode like this,
but more focused on that specific point.
let me know in the comments if youyourself have found yourself in a
similar position where you've got thatentrepreneurial mind, Ideas buzzing around
(14:17):
you all the time and then you're like,You start a company and then after a few
months don't really do anything with thatbecause you've got another idea over here
And you're thinking about that over thereas well I think entrepreneurs just have
chaotic minds and you need to find whereyour skill set is I feel like i'm only
just starting to really understand Whatmy skill set is and to get comfortable
(14:38):
With Not fitting the mold of what, socialmedia tells you that you have to do
and having my own way of working thatmay differ to 90%, 95%, 99% of other
people, but actually for results, it isshowing me results and I'm starting to
see the trend, which is what I actuallyreally wanted, not the ego boost of,
(15:01):
Oh, I'm this great entrepreneur that'screated all this I don't give a shit.
what I care about is the endresult that the client gets.
And the end result that theclient gets is important because
that will define whether or not yourbusiness is successful financially.
And for me, I'm not setting up a businessjust because, people can say all the
shit they want, they wanna cure theworld of all this other stuff whatever
(15:24):
you're talking shit, for most people,you want it because it's gonna make your
life better in some way down the line.
And for me, The things that I dowant to achieve, I haven't achieved.
I'm not even 1% towardswhere my goals are.
But, as I progress throughout the next5, 10, 15, 20 years of my working life,
I know I will get closer to those goals.
(15:46):
And I see each new business thatI either own or, partially owned,
invested in some way as a steppingstone to reach those goals.
But I've got to do the work first.
the work for me is currently not involvedaround the physical implementation part.
It's very strategic.
(16:07):
It's about applying principlesand problem solving.
And that's it.
So that's the end of this.
I'm going to go cause I've actuallygot a meeting very soon that I need
to prepare for very important meeting.
I'll probably talk about another day.
it's not going to be great newsfor someone who's going to be at
the other end of this meeting,but whatever this is business.
(16:29):
It's one of those hard thingsthat entrepreneurs and business
owners have to do occasionally.
I'm not leading the meeting.
I'm just sitting in on it.
Yeah, so let me know in thecomments what you thought
remember to subscribe, share thisepisode if you feel like it was useful
to you in some way, leave commentsbecause I do want to make it better
for you and watch this video here.
Bye.
I'm going to talk about how I trainmyself to start being okay with not
being busy and filling my time constantlywith a million different things to do.
I'm Aaron Henriques fromLondon, former police officer.
I've had businesses in the UK and onein Dubai over the last 15 years or so.
I'm currently in Dubai in my last fewweeks after being here a couple of months.
(00:22):
I'm just been thinking about somethingthat has been, it's been top of
mind for quite a while becausewhen people ask me a question about
what have you been doing today?
And a lot of the time, I haven'tbeen doing stuff that they would
consider to be work as such.
And so sometimes I feel I feelsomething in me like, Oh, you
(00:43):
need to make something up.
And if you like this episode, pleaselike it, share it and all that jazz.
So that other people can find it.
So let me get into this.
not that long ago, it wasa couple of years ago.
Now my accountant came to me and we hada call and he was what are you doing?
And it was because I had, I think it waslike four or five brand new companies that
I was meant to be starting and itwas just crazy, and I wasn't really
(01:07):
doing anything with those startups.
it didn't take me long to realizethat, I wasn't actually doing anything
and it was a repeating pattern.
Where I was just, get a new idea.
I'd start a new business.
do all the initial businessdevelopment side of things.
then I would get another ideaand then I'd start on that
and neglect the previous idea.
And that was just likea repeating pattern.
(01:28):
And I realized what it was really, isthat I needed to fill my time with stuff.
I needed to fill my time withsomething new all the time.
and I told myself at that point that,I need to shut down these companies
because it's absolutely insane.
I need to go back to the absolutezero drawing board, the company that
I'd had for a long time, the cleaningcompany, let's keep that in play.
(01:52):
I needed to just reset basicallyand get to a stage of where I'm
not just filling my time with busystuff, like busy work, just random
shit that will fill up my time.
And I had to get okaywith just not being busy.
And that was one thing that Ireally struggled with that sort
of concept of being, just notreally doing anything with my day.
(02:14):
and I know it soundscrazy cause it's like.
It's calling people lazy and all thisstuff, but I needed to find a way to
try and be lazy if that makes sense.
And I think it's becausethe likes of social media.
we watch all these entrepreneurialgurus and all that stuff.
And we think that we need to be,copying them because they're like,
work 18 hours out of 24 and sleepunder your desk and, do this, do that.
(02:37):
And all the time.
And they always look likethey're busy doing stuff.
And I'm not doubting that many ofthem are, but I just think that at
that point I was at a stage where Ineeded to sit down focus on what I
really wanted to do, have a real thinkabout what did I really want to do.
And that process took a really long time.
(02:57):
This isn't something that was certainlyfor me that I could just do it overnight
and just decide, Hey, I'm, no longerdoing anything and I'm busy and I'm lazy.
I'm just going to watch Netflix.
And I think in more recent years, thisis the thing that has required the most
self discipline on my part for sure.
So I took a lot of time out, I'mtalking about months and during that
(03:20):
time out of not doing stuff, I startedto think about how can I fill my
time in other ways that are probablymore productive for the longterm and
will have more benefit to me in thelongterm and help me, develop myself.
So I really started hammering in onlike reading more, Audio books are great
because I read physical books reallyslow, some audio books I listen to,
(03:43):
if they're really great audio books.
I will then go back and read the physicalbook because I always get more out of
it, even though it takes more time.
I'd listen to podcasts, a lot,whether they're YouTube or audio
podcasts Just developing certainskill sets and during that period,
also thinking about what directiondo I really want to go in because I.
probably knew already then thatme being the forefront of a
(04:08):
startup isn't the right thing.
I don't think I'm very good at it.
And by that, I don't mean likewith the ideas and stuff like that.
It's more the implementationand I get really bored.
So I'm not one of those startupfounders that can then do all
the work for the next year.
(04:29):
If I did a startup, I need tobe able to do something where
I can pass that on to someone.
Now I'll get onto that in a bit, butI really filled my time with learning,
developing myself and thinkingabout what do I really want to do?
And I realized that for meis really about investing.
Investing in small businesses, butinitially, I was thinking about
(04:50):
buying entire companies rather thaninvesting in existing companies.
But I now think that actuallyinvesting is more my thing.
And also during that time,I set new rules for myself.
One of the things I did set, set tomyself, very early on in this, was that
I had a look at my companies that I had.
(05:11):
The one that was, the most successfulcontinuously, although it wasn't making me
huge sums of money, it paid for my life.
But I wasn't running it day to day.
In fact, I wasn't running it at all.
My involvement is pretty muchuploading a couple of bank statements,
two or three times a month.
And then that's it.
I only have input occasionally.
And that's if there's like a specificproblem that needs to be solved.
(05:33):
And I wanted to make sure that anyideas that I was coming up with, if
I was going to do a new startup oranything like that, or be involved in
a company, I cannot be so importantto the company that it requires me
for the end service or end product orwhatever it is that the clients buy.
I wanted to make myself Disposable,really, to the business, not important.
(05:58):
Now, I know for a lot of you, whenyou're particularly in your own
business if you're just starting upyour own company, you want to be the
main figure, the main person in thebusiness, a bit of ego stuff, really,
if you're really honest with yourself.
I realized that isactually not what I want.
It's the complete opposite of what I want.
And actually, if you really thinkabout it, if you are so important to
(06:18):
the business and if your goal is tocreate, a business that in the future
you might one day be able to sellyou being so important and pivotal
to the business is going to make thatvery difficult, if not impossible.
And often I find that people will ask me,they'll call me up on the phone and be
like, Oh, what have you been doing today?
And, it's just, I'm now twoyears along the line and I'm just
(06:42):
like, a lot of the time I haven'treally been doing that much.
I might have, Sent a few emailsfirst thing this morning, and
I might have planned a podcastepisode like this occasionally.
I might have uploaded my bank statements.
What else might I have done?
I might have actually spenttwo or three hours listening
to an audiobook that morning.
(07:03):
Or a YouTube podcast that morning.
But when they asked me sometimes,even now, I've had quite a long
period of time, a couple of yearsof learning to not be busy.
I still get that feeling of dreadeven now where I feel like I have
(07:23):
to, really rack my brain to justifymyself to the person that's called
me, to a friend that's called me toexplain what I've been doing that day.
And make it sound like I've been doing.
Maybe more than I have been.
And sometimes I think my, these peoplemust think I'm doing something dodgy
because obviously I make money justbeing honest, most of my friends,
(07:46):
I make more than them and theyprobably wonder you do fuck all day.
What are you doing?
And I realized it's not, I'm doingfuck all what I just mentioned there
is about, I might've done two, three,four hours of learning that day.
Now I've discovered that my strengthsreally are around providing like
strategic advice and problem solving.
(08:06):
And that has come about assomething that has been in my
nature for a very long time.
I don't think I've ever really beenthat great at the implementation
side, but the thoughts that go behindthe thing is what I am good at.
And it's then finding the personto implement the thoughts.
(08:26):
Does that make sense?
What I've discovered is thateven though it sounds like I
don't actually do much work.
Yes, because I'm notphysically doing the thing.
I'm not doing the end bit forthe end client or whatever.
What I've realized is that my learning,the amount of knowledge that I've
(08:47):
been gaining from different sources,on different topics like money
investing, really around, mergersand acquisitions and stuff like that.
But it's more aroundprinciples rather than how tos.
That's something that I think hasbeen a massive change in my mindset
in terms of how I take informationfrom books and stuff that I read.
(09:10):
I'm not taking the how todo this specific thing.
I don't really care aboutthe how to for an individual.
One individual's got a different wayof doing things something to another
individual that's got a different wayof doing it, another individual, and
they can all come to the same outcome.
What I've been taking from the books andaudio books and podcasts that I listen
to, and also part of, I've got businessmentors as well that are paid, mentors.
(09:35):
So what I also do is I take the principlesfrom those and sometimes, I might listen
to an audio book 10 hours long, butI've taken Maybe literally two or three
lines of yeah, let's take this and addthat to the principles box like in here.
And also I've got things written down.
(09:56):
But what I'm saying is that a lotof people focus on the how to.
They want to know how doI do this specific thing.
And for me, I've realizedthat's not the right question.
It is the principles around it,which then enables me to think out
of the box and be able to come upwith creative solutions to problems.
(10:18):
this is what I've been implementing thatmore now with my business partner in
finance company that I have, that I'm,part owner of, is being able to help the
director of that to be able to, solvecertain issues, solve certain problems.
And that's really where I'vestarted to realize my strength is.
So to most people, it doesn'tlook like I'm doing work.
(10:40):
To me, it doesn't feel like I'm doingwork, but that work that I have been
doing has been making changes, verypositive changes in my businesses.
And that is what is important for me.
Listen, if you feel like you are thatperson, perhaps it might be time for
(11:02):
you to also change and think abouthow do I cut out all of this noise?
How do I cut out all ofthis stuff that I'm doing?
How do I create a fewnew rules for myself?
So like my new rules around, not beingimportant to the business, no new
startups, although I did have a slip.
(11:22):
I set up the company in Dubai afterhaving that rule, but that was
because I was pissed off with the UKgovernment, to be honest with you, with
the amount of tax that they charge.
Whatever.
I have the company now.
and any other rules that mightmake sense to you, and use that
extra time in a positive way, ina way that's going to move your
life forward further down the line.
(11:43):
And that might be through learning.
That might be through reading more.
That might be through, learning moreprinciples that you can implement.
But I would say that for a lot ofpeople, if you're in the position where
you're just starting out, you don't havebusiness knowledge behind you, You're
going to need to do more of the howtos first to understand how to apply
(12:05):
those principles in the future whenyou strategize and maybe speak to your
own business partners and stuff to beable to come up with creative solutions
and ways to solve certain problems.
Hopefully that makes some sense.
I think I'm going to probably do amore planned, deliberately planned,
episode another day about this if it'ssomething that you're interested in
(12:26):
because I find it still very difficultto really make it make sense in my brain
exactly what has changed over that time.
That is the biggest change is not beingbusy with just random shit, but it's
all the stuff that I did with that extratime which has led to a result which
(12:48):
has had a massively positive impact onhow I think about things, how much time
I have, how much money I earn for ouractual hours work that most people would
consider hours worked is substantial.
And I'm really protective over mytime now, as anyone who dealt with
(13:08):
me asked me for Oh, "Can I just have30 minutes of your time on a call".
No is normally my answer.
And it's not to be a dick.
It's because I'm justprotective over my time.
That 30 minutes I might've readAnother few chapters of a book
or something that have, made mestart thinking about other things.
And that's what happens with theprinciples is you then start thinking
(13:29):
about all these other things.
But if you're just so focused, laserfocused on the how to, Yeah, you don't,
because you're thinking, oh, it'sonly done in this really rigid way.
This is how that person does it, andyou do it in this really rigid way,
rather than these are the principlesbehind what this person does, and this
is how I can, use the principles fromthis thing to apply it to my thing.
(13:53):
I don't know if that really makes muchsense, but if it does make sense and
it's something that you want to hearmore about and maybe get me to spend
probably a bit more focused thought timeplanning out another episode like this,
but more focused on that specific point.
let me know in the comments if youyourself have found yourself in a
similar position where you've got thatentrepreneurial mind, Ideas buzzing around
(14:17):
you all the time and then you're like,You start a company and then after a few
months don't really do anything with thatbecause you've got another idea over here
And you're thinking about that over thereas well I think entrepreneurs just have
chaotic minds and you need to find whereyour skill set is I feel like i'm only
just starting to really understand Whatmy skill set is and to get comfortable
(14:38):
With Not fitting the mold of what, socialmedia tells you that you have to do
and having my own way of working thatmay differ to 90%, 95%, 99% of other
people, but actually for results, it isshowing me results and I'm starting to
see the trend, which is what I actuallyreally wanted, not the ego boost of,
(15:01):
Oh, I'm this great entrepreneur that'screated all this I don't give a shit.
what I care about is the endresult that the client gets.
And the end result that theclient gets is important because
that will define whether or not yourbusiness is successful financially.
And for me, I'm not setting up a businessjust because, people can say all the
shit they want, they wanna cure theworld of all this other stuff whatever
(15:24):
you're talking shit, for most people,you want it because it's gonna make your
life better in some way down the line.
And for me, The things that I dowant to achieve, I haven't achieved.
I'm not even 1% towardswhere my goals are.
But, as I progress throughout the next5, 10, 15, 20 years of my working life,
I know I will get closer to those goals.
(15:46):
And I see each new business thatI either own or, partially owned,
invested in some way as a steppingstone to reach those goals.
But I've got to do the work first.
the work for me is currently not involvedaround the physical implementation part.
It's very strategic.
(16:07):
It's about applying principlesand problem solving.
And that's it.
So that's the end of this.
I'm going to go cause I've actuallygot a meeting very soon that I need
to prepare for very important meeting.
I'll probably talk about another day.
it's not going to be great newsfor someone who's going to be at
the other end of this meeting,but whatever this is business.
(16:29):
It's one of those hard thingsthat entrepreneurs and business
owners have to do occasionally.
I'm not leading the meeting.
I'm just sitting in on it.
Yeah, so let me know in thecomments what you thought
remember to subscribe, share thisepisode if you feel like it was useful
to you in some way, leave commentsbecause I do want to make it better
for you and watch this video here.
Bye.
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