“What gets measured gets managed.” ~Peter F. Drucker
Before you can manage and own your time, you must first measure it.
In the same way that you can’t effectively pay off your credit card debt if you don’t know exactly how much debt you have, what interest rates you’re paying, and when the payments are due…
As an entrepreneur or high-performer, not only are you a master of your craft, but you gain a massive sense of meaning, purpose, and fulfillment from your work.
And this is great.
In a society where an estimated 87% of people are “actively disengaged” with their work (source), it’s no small feat to love what you do.
Most entrepreneurs I know don’t struggle with time management so much as task management.
It’s not that they don’t have enough time to do the things they need to do. It’s that they are doing too much and creating unnecessary overwhelm by believing the lie that they have to “do it all.”
One of the greatest threats to your success, fulfillment, and ability to own your time is the negative approval of others.
I call this concept the “Price of Gold” and it goes like this…
As human beings, we are all hard wired to seek validation. Our 200,000 year old brains learned a long time ago that validation and approval equals safety and disapproval means death.
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