Your Weekly Battle Plan on Elevate Springfield

Summary

In this segment of Your Weekly Battle Plan, Robert Ferriell discusses the importance of time management, emphasizing that most people struggle not with time itself, but with prioritization. He explores various strategies for creating and controlling time, including efficiency, urgency, and leveraging people to buy back time. The discussion highlights the significance of making intentional choices, cutting comfort, and focusing on high-value activities to maximize productivity and achieve personal and professional goals.

Takeaways

• Most people don't have a time problem; they have a priority problem.
• Balance is a myth; focus on what truly matters.
• Speed creates clarity and helps in decision-making.
• Wasted energy leads to wasted time; create non-negotiable routines.
• Cutting comfort can enhance urgency and efficiency.
• You can buy back time by delegating low-value tasks.
• Identify high-value activities to focus on for maximum impact.
• Every no can protect your time; be intentional with your calendar.
• Act with speed and obsession to create time for yourself.
• True success is about being free, not just busy.

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Welcome to Elevate Springfield, where we will dive into strategies and stories that help you rise to your full potential. Each episode, we'll talk about how you can take intentional steps to elevate your life and your business while making a meaningful impact on those around you. Along the way, we're gonna bring in the change makers from our community that are already elevating. We'll bring the actionable strategies, you bring the discipline and follow through, and together we can elevate Springfield. Alright, let's go, Springfield. Time to 10X your day, 10X your life, 10X all of it. And that includes Springfield, y'all. You are listening to the Elevate Springfield Podcast. Robert Farrell here, certified 10x coach, speaker, and mentor, here to bring you actionable strategies. You bring the discipline and follow through. And together, we're gonna Elevate Springfield. You are listening to your weekly battle plan here on Elevate Springfield, where every Sunday we're gonna give you ways to control time, ways to create time, and some things that we encourage you add to that battle plan. We're gonna get right to it after the break. Looking for expert tree care with hometown integrity, look no further than Sangamon Tree Service. They're your trusted local pros, delivering quality workmanship, exceptional customer service, and fair, honest pricing. Every time. Whether it's trimming, removal, or storm cleanup, their team brings professionalism and care to every job, big or small. Call the name your neighbor's trust, Sangman Tree Service, or visit them today at SangamonTreeService.com. Sangamin Tree Service, rooted in quality, built on trust. Hey everybody, welcome into your weekly battle plan brought to you by our friends over at Sangamon Tree Service, your local tree experts. Hey, anything you need tree wise, give Chad and his team a shout. They will take great care of you. So, as always on this segment, we're talking about time, how we can create time, how we can control time. You know, in 10x we talk about controlling and creating time and dominating time rather than simply trying to manage it. So as we've talked before, most people don't have a time problem. You know, we all have the same amount of time in each and every day, the same 24 hours. It's what we do with it that matters. Most people don't have a time problem. They have a priority problem. Remember, we've talked about a typically when somebody says they don't have enough time for it, the more truthful answer would be it is not a priority right now, right? Because if something's a priority, we will create time for it. We've talked about how balance is really a lie. We've talked about how we can create and control time to be obsessed in all areas of our life. And we've talked about how urgency can create time for you by compressing time. We've talked about your daily battle plan and turning that into a weekly battle plan. Hopefully, everybody is doing that. It is a great tool for you to help control time. We've talked about doing a time study, tracking that time every second of the day for a full day and full week, really, for that matter, to see where you are spending your time, where we can cut some of the fluff, right? Some of those distractions that are preventing you from reaching your goals. So today let's dig in a little bit more. We want to talk here in a few minutes about creating time via people. See, most people dilute their time. And by diluting their time, I mean multitasking without intention, letting distractions kind of masquerade as breaks, saying yes to things that don't move the needle, and confusing activity with productivity. See, in 10x, we want to compress time. We want to do in an hour what other people would stretch into four. Because when you compress time, you create that pressure. There's no drifting, there's no half commitment, there's no I'll circle back later. Because speed creates clarity. Like we've talked before, weighting doesn't make decisions better, it can make them heavier, right? So make decisions quickly and try to compress as much as you can into a short amount of time. We've talked about that, oh, the first or second segment we did this uh weekly battle plan. That when you do that, it creates this pressure. You'd be surprised how much you can do in an hour, and quite frankly, it becomes a little bit of a game to you, too, because you want to beat what you did uh last time. So speed creates clarity. Try to jam as much as you can in to short amounts of time. So let's talk for a just for a minute about efficiency, right? That's one way to control time. We can become more efficient using better tools. There's a lot of technology out there to help us become more efficient to take away some of those low value activities, right? But outside of tools you can use, you can become more efficient by having fewer choices, having clear standards. Repetition creates efficiency and having non-negotiable schedules. That's why my morning routine is non-negotiable. It creates an efficient morning for me and gets everything done that I need to get done every single morning. So some of those non-negotiable schedules could include, you know, same wake up time every day, regardless of whether you're working that day or not, or what you have going that day, same workout window, similar work blocks, same priorities, things like that, right? Because wasted energy equals wasted time. So if you can create some clear standards, repetition, some non-negotiable schedules, you're not gonna waste that energy. And therefore, you're not gonna waste time. See, a lot of times people aren't inefficient just because they're being lazy. Sometimes that's the case. We're all lazy at some point, but a lot of times they're inefficient because they're constantly renegotiating their own commitments. You know, what should I do today? Do I really feel like working? Do I really feel like doing this today? Hey, maybe I'll do it later. If you have a non-negotiable schedule, if you have clear standards, that's not a question. Those are already decided, and you already know you're gonna do it. And don't forget we can create time by cutting comfort, because comfort slows urgency. Urgency creates momentum and momentum creates efficiency. So cutting the comfort is another way to create time. You know, some of those comfort things might look like hey, you're leaving a little bit early, saying, I'll do it tomorrow, making sure you're protecting your weekends at all costs and not working, right? Avoiding difficult conversations, stopping what you're doing just because you're tired instead of the job actually being done. Comfort creates time scarcity because again, comfort slows urgency, but urgency creates momentum and momentum creates efficiency. So in 10x, you know, we talk a lot about you're gonna have to be obsessed and uncomfortable for seasons at least if you want to get to the other side of that goal, right? So it's a lot better to work, you know, 12 to 15 highly focused hours for a short season than spreading that out over months and months and months and taking much longer than you should have on it. So second over talking about compressing time. Another way to compress time, like we've mentioned before, is through massive action. Most people underestimate how long things take, how hard success actually is, and how much action is required to actually get anything done. So they move slowly, carefully, and this wastes time. So take the 10x action, shorten the timeline, overcommit, figure it out, and move before you feel ready. These are all ways that you can compress time because it eliminates overthinking, speed exposes problems quicker, and volume creates efficiency. You don't become efficient by being perfect, you become efficient by doing enough reps to eliminate the friction. So get into that 10x massive action mode. And don't forget, like we've talked before, do the most important thing first. A lot of times this could be the hardest thing. Do it with intensity, do it until it's done, then move immediately to the next priority. No drifting, no waiting for motivation, no protecting mediocre goals. Act with speed, act with obsession, and create some time for yourselves, y'all. So another thing I want to talk about today, just briefly, is one great way to create time is through people. We've talked a lot about how when you scale a business, you scale a business through people. In 10x we talk about buying your time back. That's a way to control time through people. Time is more valuable than money. Remember, time's the only thing we do not get back. Money is cheap, time is not. We can always make more money. So, how do we buy time back? Unfortunately, many of us uh like to do everything ourselves in an effort to save money. This is on the personal side, and a lot of us business owners do that, especially early on, because we try to save as much as we can and do every little thing we can ourselves. But to really move the needle, you should spend money to remove yourself from low value tasks. Instead of asking, how can I save money? Start asking, how can I buy my time back? So an example of this, and it might be a little bit on the extreme side, but hey, if you could make five thousand dollars an hour doing a high dollar activity, right, a high value activity, why would you be doing something that you could pay somebody twenty bucks an hour to do? Right? Now that's an extreme example, but maybe you take it into, hey, if you could be making in your business by you doing your high value activities a hundred bucks an hour or two hundred bucks an hour, why would you be doing the tasks that you could pay somebody fifteen to twenty-five dollars an hour to do? That mind shit mindset shift alone can be pretty powerful. Again, how can instead of how can I save money, it's how can I buy my time back? So to do this, you have to really obsess over what your high value activities are. What are the ways that you're gonna be able to make money, make an impact, multiply, reach, create, leverage, those things that really move the needle for you personally or professionally. Then everything else, let's delegate, let's automate or eliminate. Now, when we're talking about delegating, that could be to a person, automating, that could be through tools. That could there's a lot of AI tools out there right now that would help with this, or just completely eliminate it. So this might mean you are buying capability and speed through assistants, maybe sales teams, managers, marketing folks, legal and financial experts, stuff like that, right? Because when you have other people taking care of that stuff, you can be multiple places at once, right? And eventually you get to the point because when you're scaling your business, you know, small operations require constant attention from you. But once you have large systems, large systems run whether you are there or not. And this is through scaling through people. Now, what this also means, we talk a lot in 10x about saying yes. This is the flip side of that. You have to be able to say no to things that don't move the needle. This is another way you can buy back some of your time. Saying no to low impact meetings, saying no to draining conversations, and saying no to distractions disguised as opportunities. Because yes, we want to say yes to a lot of stuff, but yeses cost time. Every no can protect time. So fill your calendar intentionally and not reactively. So, how are you treating your time? Remember, you can buy time back by spending money strategically through people. You can delegate aggressively, you can scale intentionally, and focus only on what really moves the needle. So the question you should ask today and the question I would encourage you to ask instead of hey, how do I how do I manage my time better? It's what can I eliminate, delegate, or buy so I can get my time back? Because true success in the long run isn't about being busy, it's about being free. Well, hope that helps y'all. Whether you own a business or not, we all need to control our time. So another great week on Elevate Springfield coming up, and we've got a couple of things you could add to that weekly battle plan as well. So, hey, tomorrow we're dropping an episode with Eddie Lowen, lead guy over at Westside Christian Church. Really great conversation there. Check that one out first thing tomorrow morning. Then we'll have Ellie back in for our next gin segment. Wednesday, we've got the Women's Entrepreneurs of Central Illinois. They've got a cool event, their uh showcase event coming up here in the next few weeks. We're talking all about that. So you can get all the info on either being a vendor at that event or going out and being a participant, actually showing up for that event. So a lot of great stuff this week. Check out Elevate Springfield each and every morning, where you can start your morning with Elevate Springfield. So a couple of events you could put on your battle plan this week. You missed a good one last week. We had our March Madness event that was a collaborative event with Local First Springfield and Central Illinois Customer Service Association out at Motorheads. But this week, first thing on Thursday, we have our Elevate Springfield Insider. If you're not part of that group, we would love to have you go a little deeper with our podcast, get guests, get some training from experts in their field and really start networking with more folks that are really striving to 10x their life and their business. This Thursday, 11 o'clock via Zoom. We're gonna have Brandon Wellman from Navigator Wealth Strategies. Last time we had State Representative Mike Coffey. We've had so many great folks on this call, allows you to have QA with them as well. So Brandon, of course, is in financial services, so that's what his training is gonna focus on. But hope to see you on Thursday at 11 via Zoom. If you want more information on that, check out the show notes or just head over to bigdogbc.com slash elevate to get enrolled and into that group. On the 25th, uh agility security solutions. You may know agility around town. They opened up their security division and they have a chamber ribbon cutting. That's the Chatham Chamber on March 25th at 4 p.m. You can go over to 1209 South Fourth Street, suite B for that ribbon cutting and support Corey out there and his entire team. Springfield Chamber, also on the 25th. They have their Rise and Shine out at Hospital Sisters Mission Outreach. That's the Rise group through the chamber. Go check them out if you're a young professional out there. That's 7:30 to 845 over at the HS Mission Outreach. And as always, I want to talk about Local First Springfield and Landolin Professional Networking Group. If you're not part of either of those, hey, I'd recommend you get involved. Head on over to LLPNG.org or localfirstspringfield.com. So many great opportunities for you to level up, network. And in the case of Local First Springfield, we have some new advertising opportunities that you could take advantage of if you are a member, really low cost, low barrier to entry to get your name out in the community more, in addition to your typical member benefits that you get through localfirst. So check out both of those and check out all the organizations and add those things to your battle plan. Hope to see you on Thursday at 11 o'clock via Zoom for our Elevate Springfield Insider. But until then, we'll see you. Hey Springfield, when it comes to reliable, high-quality roofing, you don't want to leave things to chance. That's why you should reach out to Acosta Angeli Roughing, your local roughing expert serving Springfield and surrounding communities, from quick dependable repairs to full replacement, from residential to commercial, they are your trusted pros. Call them today at 217-993-2748 or visit their website to book your free quote and inspection. Don't wait. A little leak now could lead to major damage later. Trust the local experts, protect your home, and get peace of mind with Acosta Angeli Roofing. Well, thank you for joining us today, everybody. Appreciate you making us a part of your day. Hey, don't forget while you're out on social, check ours out. You can check my personal one out at RobertFarrell at everywhere. Check out those Elevate Springfield pages, those big dog business coaching pages as well. Check us out over on YouTube. Give us a subscribe, give us a like or a follow on any of those channels. We would certainly appreciate it. So, hey, take what you learned today. You bring the discipline and follow-through and together. That's right, y'all. We're gonna Elevate Springfield. Be great.

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