Warum ich im Dreischicht-Rhythmus arbeite

0:00Another one from you that I absolutely adore. It just takes work. Shitloads and shitloads of work. Every time I try and dress it up or cut a corner, I get brutally reminded the work just needs doing. The work doesn't care who you are. It just cares that it gets done. I'm actually going to reverse quote David Gogggins on this one, but uh I love this quote that he has which he says, "There's no shortcuts for you, David." Or, "There's no shortcuts for you, Gogggins." I heard him say that and I just love that as a refrain which is that a lot of people look for a shortcut. But the idea that you say like they're not for you. You don't get to use them. You are immune to shortcuts. I just love it because then it it just further shortcuts the path to the work that needs to get done. And I wrote that tweet on my I don't know 11th run of this presentation that I'm doing because that's a recent one. And so I was it was like 11:00 at night. And so right now I'm working triple shifts which is not common for me. I usually do 2 not 3. Um so for me a normal workday is like I wake up uh I start working at you know 6 or 7 and then I go until about 6ish. So it's like 10 to 12 really concentrated hours work and that I can do six and a half days a week. I usually take Saturday afternoons off. Um, and it's really just because at that point I c I can't work anymore and my brain's stew and then I I get my one half day and then I'm good to go and I'm rearing to kick on, you know, to work on Sundays.

1:26My triple shift is I get I go to dinner and I come back at 7:30 and then I work from 7:30 until 11:30 or 1 or whatever, right? And when I'm putting in triple shifts is when I know I'm like really gassing it. Um, and that's that's when I'm like repeatedly doing 16 17 a day of actual productive work. And I I hear the same thoughts that everyone does, which is like it's not going to matter. Like it's fine. You've like it's good enough.

1:52Like I hate that. Like it it makes me sick to even say that, right? Because the thing that I like David Gogggins, right? He's got like there's no shortcuts for you. I would say the one that I have two that are like my internal ones. One that is probably the most common is I will do what is required and this work needs doing. and there's just no way around it. And it's just it's just looking at the face of the work and it's like smiling back at me like no one else is going to do it. [laughter] Um, and like I love that one. Like when we're recording content in the early days, we're doing like a hundred shorts every time we did it and it was direct to camera and it was the only time I could fit it in with all the portfolio stuff that we're doing. And so I was it was always like I will do what's required. And that's been a really helpful refrain for me when I'm confronted with especially when you know what needs to get done. And the second one is but I'll know.

2:51And so like even if it does go well and even if everyone else says it's great but I'll know. And it'll then rob me of all of the joy of all of those moments in that experience because I'll know that I could have done better. And the thing is is like to to quote myself from earlier like I've never regretted working harder ever, not once. And some people are like on your deathbed you're going to like no cuz I lived every moment of my day doing what I wanted to do. And I remember I had a boss when I um my first boss after college. She said this thing. I had had a a particularly good weekend. And she said, "I'm pretty sure happiness is stringing as many of those days in a row as you possibly can." And although I hated the job, that piece of advice has actually been probably what I has been my blueprint for how to live, which is like my birthday looks the same as my Tuesdays, which looks the same as my Sundays. Real quick, 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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