How well do you spend time your time?
On 124 days left in the year, on doing enough work, and on investments that cost $0.
Hi friends & new subscribers,
How are you all?
I can't believe it is September in the next few days.
You still have 124 days left to take advantage of the year. The past week has been productive for me. Juggling my life between planning a wedding and working with new clients, all without compromising my physical and mental health.
I'm in a good place. I hope that you are too.
I know that as a society, we're obsessed with efficiency and achieving everything we want right now, but I'm really hoping to shift away from that.
As I become more mindful, I notice a higher quality of the tasks that I work on.
This week, I wanted to talk about the quality of your time expenditure.
🕒 How well do you spend time your time?
I managed to go to the gym four times last week.
As I build a habit of going to the gym 5x/week (currently going 4 times), I noticed something about my behaviour. I felt that by scrolling on social media during my workout, the quality of my time at the gym deteriorates.
But those times where I go in and have a podcast episode ready and follow my workout program with no interruptions, I feel so so much better.
In a podcast episode with Jason Fried, author of Rework, he talked about the idea of "enough."
Friedman's company doesn't use data or metrics to know how well they're doing. When his team finishes a project, they don't use metrics like, "how many users did we capture this time? How fast did we do this? Did we hit our revenue goal?."
But instead, they use metrics like, "how did doing that project feel?"
In a data-driven society, this was a very refreshing insight. As we try to juggle the multiple projects in our lives, used to chasing data to tell us our next move, here's Jason, who uses instinct to run his $7.9 million dollar company by knowing what's enough.
He explained that even if his team delivered a polished product, but the cost of it was that their team burnt out, he would consider that project unsuccessful.
But if the team had fun and made enough money doing the project, then that was a success.
He argues that you shouldn't have to work so hard on things you don't need to when you know what's enough.
As creators, we're prone to want to do everything, but I wanted to share that it's okay if you don't get to everything you want to do if you know what's enough for you.
✍️ Writing Journey
A lot of my colleagues at work don't invest, the ones I talk to anyways.
Whenever that topic comes up, I always encourage them to start investing, even passively. And these days, because of the results that I've been achieving in my journey, I thought it's a good idea to share things you can invest in without money.
So I wrote an article about why:
working on leverage through code or media
understanding your relationship with money
connecting with people outside your bubble
learning the highest version of yourself
...are all forms of investments.
An investment is something that compounds over time, so the time you spent today will determine how your future will look like.
🤔 A question for you this week:
Where are you spending your time that drains your energy, and how can you do less of that?
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With love 💌 ,
Jerine