So strukturiere ich meinen Tag für mehr Produktivität

0:00Uh, following a lot of kind of what you're doing building a personal brand and I know that you don't spend a lot of time on meetings. And it feels like you've become kind of a full-time content creator. So, I'm wondering how much of your week is kind of split up. You're You're big on time leverage, too. >> Mhm. Into creating content, writing your book versus the back end stuff, operations, hiring. Like how What does your week look like? So, uh, I will I'll just set the record straight that I'm definitely not a full-time content creator.

0:28But, uh, I have a very large content team and so that can give the appearance of doing that full-time. That being said, um, I spend my mornings on maker stuff and typically that's going to either be models and research around big decisions that have to do with the portfolio, but that doesn't really require a lot of other people. That's me basically looking at spreadsheets, looking at the data that's there, and then coming up with, you know, potential solutions that, uh, might might move the company forward. Uh, on the content side, the maker stuff is what you would imagine.

0:55So, that would be coming up with the concept, coming up with ideas, um, and kind of usually just outlining bullets of like things that I want to cover or talk about. That's more or less it from the from the the maker side. That's pretty much what I do. It's either it's a decision or I'm making a thing. That's it. Uh, the second half of my day is what's dedicated to meetings. And I would say this is much more fluid than anything can appear. And so, a lot of you guys are probably like, I have to model this exact thing. Like I have seasons just like everybody else does.

1:22And so, um, at my most extreme, like kind of uh, creation season, like when I'm in book writing mode, like the next book's already written, it's already done, it's already like shipped and printed, like it's done. Um, but when I was in that mode, then it was like Mondays were my, uh, all meetings all day and then I usually had a Thursday afternoon and the rest of my time was driven towards the book edits, things like that. Um, with of course some interruptions that occur naturally.

1:48Uh, in the season that I'm in right now, um, it's probably 50/50 in terms of how my time is. Mondays are still shot. I still pretty much reserve my mornings until I try to go as late as I can. Um, the big key is in terms of if you have somebody else who manages your calendar. So, we have three now, about to have four EAs just for Leila and I, uh, to give you an idea. >> Damn. Um, is that we book things back to front. And so, for me, if I am going to have, let's say, Thursday, I'm going to have some meetings, the first meeting they're going to book is 4:00 to 5:00.

2:16And the next one's going to be, uh, 3:30 to 4:00. The next one's going to be 3:00 to 3:30. So, that way I still have the largest uninterrupted block prior to that. That may sound simple. It took 10 years to figure that out. And so, hopefully I'm sharing that with you cuz before this, I said, "Don't block any meetings until 1:00." And so, then they would just start meetings at 1:00, but then I'd have a 1:00, a 2:00, and then I'd end at 3:30 or something and I'm like, "Well, I don't want to get back into maker mode." So, uh, we end at 5:00 and then usually for me, I'll work out, um, and then we'll eat and then we'll call it. And so, I usually get here around between 5:00 to 7:00. It just kind of depends how late I, uh, wake up. I don't use an alarm. I just try and sleep as long as I possibly can. Um, and I usually work pretty much like 6:00 to 6:00. And I think the big difference is, um, Leila and I work 7 days a week. And so, um, if I work 7 12s for like four, five weeks in a row, I'll usually want to take a day off. And so, I just kind of let that happen as I as I want to take off. Um, but the most common for me is like Sunday second half, like I'll end at 2:00 or something. And that's usually when I take off. And if you're like, "Oh, he obviously doesn't have kids."

3:22Duh. >> [snorts] >> Um, but yeah, that's how I organize my life cuz that's what I like doing. Who works harder, you or Leila? Different. We both work probably about the same amount of hours. She does more stuff than me. Yeah. Uh, she I mean, Leila has 15 meetings a day. Jeez. >> Um, and hers is kind of reversed. So, she'll have like one, maybe two days where she'll prioritize making content and the rest of it, uh, or when I say making content, like she's prepping for quarterly's next week because we not only have quarterly's for our team, we have quarterly's for all the portfolio companies. So, we have to look at each of those things, prepare what we're going to talk about with their leadership teams, etc. So, like that's work. Um, and so, she does a lot of that stuff, too. All right. Thank you. Yeah, you bet. If you're a business owner and you are not growing as fast as you'd like, I'd like to give you a free gift.

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