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Entrepreneurs love to move fast, getting things done and checking
Speaker:off boxes is what fuels us.
Speaker:This is also what drives a lot of us to burnout.
Speaker:What if I told you that to speed up, you actually have
Speaker:to slow down in this episode.
Speaker:We're going to explore the idea that moving too fast,
Speaker:actually hinders your progress.
Speaker:I'm Amin Ahmed.
Speaker:Welcome to be.
Speaker:Well, do well.
Speaker:I wanna start with a quick story.
Speaker:About my nine year old son, as with most young boys, he likes
Speaker:to play with his trains and toys.
Speaker:He enjoys video games.
Speaker:He loves YouTube and he's a bit of a techie himself, but he puts up a
Speaker:lot of resistance when it comes to practicing his music or doing homework.
Speaker:He's a really good piano player, but he just doesn't like to practice.
Speaker:In about a month.
Speaker:He's going to be playing in a music competition and he has
Speaker:to play two different songs.
Speaker:For his first song, he learned all the notes.
Speaker:First.
Speaker:He picked up some bad habits and mistakes, but he learned
Speaker:the whole song very quickly.
Speaker:Then he went back and started to iron out any kinks or mistakes in his performance.
Speaker:This led to a lot of frustration as he had already developed these bad habits.
Speaker:And it took a lot longer than expected.
Speaker:For the second song, we tried something a little bit different
Speaker:instead of just ripping through the song and learning all of the notes.
Speaker:Roughly we spent more time front and learned each line perfectly.
Speaker:The first time it took a lot longer, but the result was that in one
Speaker:week he had learned the entire song perfectly and was ready to perform.
Speaker:However, the first song hadn't even been refined enough for him to perform.
Speaker:using this example.
Speaker:You can see that in business, we see the same thing.
Speaker:We often rush to get things done, and then we find that it wasn't
Speaker:done complete, or it could have been done a lot better moving too
Speaker:quickly results in errors, which then takes time to fix and move forward.
Speaker:each time you go back to fix these issues, you lose momentum.
Speaker:And if you're like most business owners, if you lose momentum, it's
Speaker:really hard to catch up again.
Speaker:Momentum fuels our progress.
Speaker:One of the things that we do in our business is that all our staff
Speaker:members use a planner that we created.
Speaker:It's called a be well do well planner.
Speaker:Now this planner helps you planning your tasks, but it also
Speaker:has a long-term component to it.
Speaker:So you plan out what your goal is or your vision is for the next six months.
Speaker:And then you work towards that every single day.
Speaker:We encourage all of our team members not to rush through it.
Speaker:Spend time, focus, get into deep work and really execute with perfection.
Speaker:This is probably one of the most important things that has helped us grow our
Speaker:business is to remember to plan before you execute, when you don't plan, you
Speaker:often just end up making busy work planning will force you to get organized
Speaker:before you rush into the doing phase.
Speaker:I know personally, when I rush to get things done, the end goal wasn't as
Speaker:rewarding as I thought it would be.
Speaker:The journey itself is so fulfilling sometimes that when you get to the end,
Speaker:if you missed it because you were rushing, it actually makes you feel quite empty.
Speaker:So the next time you're starting a new project or learning a new.
Speaker:Think about starting slow, very, very slow so that you can move fast.
Speaker:If you wanna go deeper on this topic, check out the links in the show notes
Speaker:below with some book recommendations.
Speaker:I hope this has been helpful.
Speaker:Join me tomorrow where I'll be talking about active rest.
Speaker:It's a concept that I'm fascinated with, and I think you will be too.
Speaker:Thanks again for making the be well do well podcast a part of your day.