Protect Your Time From Careless People

Entrepreneurs have something extremely valuable, and most people don’t understand it until it’s too late: your time is your gold. Your focus is your best asset. Your energy is your future. And if you don’t protect these things, your business, your goals, and your dreams will slowly get stolen without you even realizing it.

I speak from personal experience about a trap that so many entrepreneurs fall into. There are people in this world who live very differently. Some people don’t have goals. Some people don’t have dreams. Some people don’t follow a schedule. Some people are always available, always hanging out, always spending hours in unnecessary places, and they don’t care where their time is going. And the problem is, those kinds of people often don’t care about your time either.

As an entrepreneur, you are building something bigger than entertainment. You are working toward a vision. You are creating a future for yourself and your family. But careless people can easily pull you into their lifestyle, their habits, their routines, and their distractions. They will message you constantly, call you during work hours, invite you to meaningless activities, and if you keep saying yes, you will look back and realize you lost days, months, even years of progress.

This is not about being rude. This is about being aware. This is about boundaries. This is about understanding that some people will respect your goals, support your journey, and care about your focus, while others will only use your availability for their own needs.My best advice for every entrepreneur out there protect your time, protect your energy, protect your focus, and learn to stay away from people who don’t value the life you are trying to build. Because no one will do the hard work for you. No one will build your business for you. And your dreams are too important to be sacrificed for distractions.

Your time is your gold. Guard it like your future depends on it… because it does.

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Transcript

 (0:08) Hey everyone, welcome to the Breakthrough Entrepreneurs Show, where we empower entrepreneurs (0:12) to overcome the challenge of work-life balance, burnout, break bad, old, unhealthy natures, (0:19) habits, behaviors, build new habits, create new rituals, new routines. I'm your host Mohamed (0:25) Faraj and today our topic is protect your time from careless people. You see, as entrepreneurs, (0:35) I think maybe you have similar people also in your life because I've had those people in my own life (0:45) and I learned something interesting from my own personal experience that (0:51) people are different groups, you know, we're different and everyone is different and (1:00) in your circle area or among your friends, there are people that to be honest with you, (1:09) they don't care about time, they don't care so much about availability, they don't have goals, (1:17) they don't have dreams, they are not working on exciting projects, on tasks, some people (1:26) maybe they don't even have a to-do list, some people they are not working on doing something (1:34) great or creating something big in their lives, so people are different and I see all kinds of people (1:44) outside when I go out, when I attend events or activities or meetups, so I see people are (1:53) different, so some people they don't care so much about where their time is being consumed, (2:02) some people they have bad habits, they have habits where they keep repeating their habits (2:11) and they are wasting, consuming a big chunk of their lives and they are not aware of it, (2:19) they don't realize that they're spending more time in their lives on irrelevant, on unnecessary (2:28) things in their lives, but they don't care, this is the problem, so some people they just want to (2:36) live an average life or ordinary life, some people they are working jobs and they are not (2:44) business owners, they don't own any companies, they are not entrepreneurs, they are not ambitious, (2:53) they are not very passionate, they are not working on something big or exciting in their lives, (3:02) but we as entrepreneurs, it's super important that we need to watch out of this trap, (3:10) that we need to be careful of this trap, because unfortunately so many entrepreneurs they fall (3:16) into this trap and we fall into this trap when we are not aware of it, when we don't realize that (3:23) this trap is avoiding us from making progress, from working on accomplishing big goals in our (3:33) future, this trap is impactful for our business, for our growth, for our relationships, for our (3:42) future, because I think there are people, there are entrepreneurs who are spending so much time (3:50) on distractions, on irrelevant things with people, with careless people, than they are spending on (3:59) their businesses, on their entrepreneurship journey or with their families, so I learned that people (4:07) are different and we as entrepreneurs, it's super important that we need to learn to protect our (4:15) time, our energy, our focus, our clarity, our mindset, our goals, our dreams, because they are (4:23) important, because they matter, because they are so relevant for our future, for our families, (4:33) for our lives, I mean some people I noticed that they're always available, they're available (4:42) in all events, activities, I see some people they're spending so much time on unnecessary, (4:53) irrelevant places or activities or events and they don't seem like they're working on something big (5:01) in their lives, they seem like they don't care about their time, even sometimes they don't care (5:08) about their relationships, because sometimes when I go to the grocery store, I would see some (5:15) people, they are just walking around and talking to others and they are just spending their times (5:21) and it feels like it's a meet-up place, even at the gym, sometimes when I go to the gym, (5:28) I would see people are spending hours for a workout, for a single training, I mean who needs (5:36) to spend hours for a single workout or training, unless you are, you have a big athletic goal, (5:45) maybe you are working on a goal that you want to compete on triathlon or maybe you want to do (5:55) a full marathon or maybe someone wants to do Ironman, but average people don't need to spend (6:04) hours at the gym doing a single workout or training and I see some people they're there (6:11) just for spending time or some people they're just there for meet-ups, they just want to meet (6:18) up with other people, talking and just enjoying and just spending their time, so I noticed that (6:27) it seems to me that their time is not very efficient, their time is not so important, (6:34) so relevant to them and they don't realize that their time is the best asset in their lives, (6:42) some of those people they're hanging out or meeting up or spending time at the gym, (6:47) seems like they are not working towards something big or they are not working on their future or (6:55) they're spending time or at the gym, they're spending too much time at the gym, but they're (7:00) not spending as much as time on a business or on their goals or with their families or with (7:10) their relationships, so they're there just for hanging out, they're there just for entertainment, (7:17) same thing with the restaurants, I see people they go to restaurants, I mean one of the days (7:23) I went to a hockey game, coincidentally I had not been in a hockey game for a long time ago, (7:30) so I was invited by a family friend and I went there during the weekend, I saw some people they (7:37) were sitting in the restaurants, they weren't even watching the hockey game itself, they were (7:44) there just for hanging out, spending time and talking and drinking and they were spending so (7:51) much time, so much money on drinks, on alcohol, on beer, on unhealthy meals and food, so I promise (8:05) you there are some people that can be impactful for your goals, for your dreams, for your (8:12) entrepreneurial life as a journal in general, some of those people they will drag you down (8:20) to their habits or to their type of their lifestyle, so it's super important that we need (8:28) to learn to watch out, to be careful, to protect our mindset, our goals, our dreams, our focus, our time, (8:37) our energy, our best assets from those people, because those people are careless, just so you know (8:45) they don't care about your time, they don't even care about their own time, how the hell would they (8:53) care about your time, if they don't care about their relationships so much, their families, (9:01) how they are going to care about your goals, about your dreams, about your time, (9:09) so they are careless people, this is the type of people they are, they don't care whether you're (9:17) working on something big or not, they don't care about your growth, about your business, (9:23) about your entrepreneurial journey, they don't care about your time, about your focus, so they (9:31) will try to drag you down into their lifestyle, into their habits, into their routines, into their (9:37) behaviors, they will try to prevent you from making progress, from working on something big, (9:46) I've had some friends, some people unfortunately in my own life and those people they kept reaching (9:52) out to me via social media like whatsapp, messenger, all that and they were constantly distracting me, (10:02) they were preventing me from making progress, from working on something big (10:08) and to be honest with you, I made a mistake, I kept saying yes to them, I kept reacting to their (10:15) messages, to their emails, to their phone calls, I kept skipping hard work, I kept escaping from being (10:25) lonely in entrepreneurship, from working on my business, I went out and I wasted hours, (10:34) countless of hours and days with those people and I came back home, I felt sad, I felt disappointed, (10:45) I had wasted so much time, I had not worked on my business, on my goals, on my dreams, (10:53) I left so much work stacked, projects, tasks that were not completed, they were undone and (11:04) it took months, sometimes a year to complete those projects, so if you're an entrepreneur, (11:14) my friend, this is something that you need to learn, that there are groups of people (11:22) around you or in your circle area, some people will support you, some people will stand for you, (11:31) some people will care about your time, about your focus, about your goals, some people they know (11:37) what they're working, what you are working towards, some people they understand you, (11:43) they understand how busy you are, they understand that you are working on building a better future (11:49) for you and for your family, some people they will understand that you have goals, (11:56) that you have dreams, that you have a business, that you're working on building and growing and (12:01) scaling, some people will show respect to your time, some people will not distract you, some (12:11) people will talk shortly with you, some people they will care about your time, about your (12:18) relationships, about your goals, about your family, about your business, but some people (12:24) they don't and I've had both kinds of people in my own personal life, you see they care about (12:33) their families, they care about their lives, about their job, but they don't care about yours, (12:42) so people, some people don't understand that, they need to respect your time, respect your energy (12:52) and show care about your time, about your focus, they should understand that you're an entrepreneur (13:03) and you have a business, that you are working, that you are building and if they don't care (13:10) about that, you shouldn't care about them either, so it's super super important that we don't fall (13:20) into bad habits and that we need to learn to protect our time, our energy, our focus from (13:30) careless people, from people who want to live an average life, from people who don't care about (13:39) a vision, they don't care about a mission, they don't care about goals, they don't care about (13:47) dreams, they just want to live normally and that's it, that's their life, but we're not the same, (13:59) I am not like those people, I sometimes even tell my friends or the people around me, I tell them (14:08) for me, I am a type of person and this is my identity, I love success, I work towards success (14:16) every day, I love succeeding in relationships, I love succeeding in love, in care, in serving others, (14:26) I love working on a business, I love creating a business, I love being an entrepreneur, I enjoy it (14:33) a lot, it makes me feel so happy, I feel so happy when I serve a client, I feel so happy when I share (14:44) tips, strategies, personal experiences with my audience on social media, in my podcast, (14:54) on my Instagram, I love this, why? Because I care, because I care about my audience, because I care (15:04) about my clients, because I care about the family that I'm working on building a better life for (15:12) them, because I care about the people in my circle, around me, I care about them, I love them, (15:22) I show them how much I care about them, so what I do, I don't go and distract others, I don't go (15:30) and prevent other people from making progress, from working, from raising their families, (15:40) I don't distract them, I don't grab my phone and call people all the time and talk for hours, (15:47) I don't ask for help if people they're busy or they're working on something important, (15:56) I don't annoy or interrupt other people, why? Because I care, because I care about their (16:06) families, I care about their businesses, I care about their jobs, I care about their work, (16:12) I care about their time, I care about their energy, I have friends who are working jobs, (16:20) but I know I should not call them during a work time, because they're working, because they need (16:26) to focus, because that's their job, that's their future, they're raising families, so if I keep (16:33) distracting them and if they keep answering me and using their mobile phone, sometimes they can (16:41) risk on losing their jobs, because we all know that you're not allowed to use mobile phone (16:49) or get distracted during work hours, I mean if it's exceptional then that's okay, but otherwise (16:57) you're not allowed, so I don't call somebody while working, I don't distract them, I don't (17:07) do something negative for their work, for their families, (17:13) because I care about their focus, I care about their jobs, (17:20) I care about their families, I care about other people's businesses, their goals, their dreams, (17:30) so we need to think logically and we need to be careful of people who are careless, (17:40) if they don't care about your time, if they don't care about your focus, if they don't care about (17:48) your business, if they don't care about your family, if they don't care about your future, (17:52) why would you even have them in your life, because some of those people are just hanging out, (17:59) chilling, watching tv, consuming unnecessary, stupid, irrelevant content on social media, (18:06) they're just checking their mobile phones all the time, constantly and wasting countless hours, (18:14) they're laying down on their couch watching stupid program or stupid film or show in their (18:24) living area, so that's their life, that's what they want to do in their lives, but you're not (18:33) like them, I am not like them as an entrepreneur, as an entrepreneur you have work days, you have (18:42) work hours, your focus matter, your energy matter, your family matter, your time matter, (18:54) once you lose one hour that's it, you can't get it back, you can't return it, you can't buy it, (19:03) so it's super important that we need to avoid those people from our lives, (19:10) cut your contact with them, do not get in touch with them so often, do not let them distract you, (19:18) do not let them call you in the middle of the work, do not let them steal your energy, your (19:25) time, your focus, I promise you if you take these tips and this advice and apply this into your (19:35) entrepreneurial life, I promise you, you would find yourself making so much progress, feeling so (19:42) happy, so excited and you would find yourself most importantly that you are laser focused (19:50) on your business, on your growth, on your goals, on your dreams, because those people are not taking (19:58) a big chunk of your time, because those people are not preventing you from completing those (20:04) tasks, those projects on your to-do list, that's enemy, that's a trap that we need to be careful, (20:15) I mean few years, I lost days, even months because of those people, but I learned later on, (20:26) those mistakes, those failures, they were lessons for me, they taught me something that I need to (20:34) learn to protect my time, my energy, my focus, my goals, my dreams from careless people, from people (20:43) who don't care about their lives and sure they won't care about my life, so this is something I (20:54) really wanted to talk about in this episode from the bottom of my heart, because I know so many (21:01) entrepreneurs, they get distracted, because I know so many entrepreneurs, they have this group of (21:07) people in their lives, in their circle area, because I know so many entrepreneurs, when they are listening (21:14) to this episode, they say, oh my god, I've had those people in my life and I've done the same mistake, (21:23) so do not let this be you, learn to avoid those people, learn to protect your time, your energy, (21:34) your focus, no one will donate their time, their focus, their energy for you, no one will tell you, (21:43) okay, you can go sit, chill, relax, watch Netflix, I'm gonna do the work for you, I'm gonna work on (21:52) your business, I'm gonna work on your goals, on your dreams, no one will, no one will work on your (21:59) goals, on your dreams, except for you, you are in charge of your life, you are responsible of your life, (22:08) of that family that you are raising, that they are watching you, it's your mission, those goals, those (22:17) dreams are yours, it's your business, no one will do it for you, no one is coming to save you and those (22:25) people who are careless, who tries to distract you, reach out to you, prevent you from making progress, (22:34) from doing the hard work or from accomplishing your goals, your dreams, I promise you, those people, (22:42) you would find them, some of them, they will disappear, some of them, they will walk away, (22:50) they will be gone, some of those people, they will not apologize, some of those people, they will (23:01) go back to their lives, they will work on their families, on their goals, on their lives, (23:09) they will leave you, because they came to your life, because they are careless people and they (23:16) came, they come to you to prevent you, from use your time for their own needs, they will come to (23:25) you to use your time, your energy, your focus for their own goals, for their own needs, because your (23:34) time serves their needs, because your energy, your effort serves their needs, so they come to you (23:44) just to get those assets, your time, your energy, your effort and they would walk away, they want to (23:53) borrow your time and you become kind, you become nice to them, you donate your energy, your effort, (24:02) your time to those people, but you don't realize that this is impactful for your business, for your (24:09) goals, for your growth, for your family, so learn to stay away from those people, cut your contact, (24:19) do not get in touch with them, do not let them distract you or reach out to you, this is how (24:25) you're going to build, grow and scale your business, this is how you're going to break (24:32) through in your entrepreneurial life, this is how you're going to become a very successful entrepreneur, (24:39) your time is your gold, your energy, your focus is like a gold and learn to protect that gold, (24:51) that's it, that's what I got for you, I hope you enjoyed and learned something from my personal (24:59) experience and this is something that so many entrepreneurs, they need to learn, especially (25:05) the ones who are at the early stages of their business, so this is my best advice for you, (25:14) so you can break through in your entrepreneurial life, please don't forget to follow me on iTunes (25:21) or Spotify and follow me on my social media, 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