Too
many thought leaders, change-makers, and creatives have a lot of ideas and a lot
on their plates, and think that they don’t have time to write a book or get to
their dream life. But, as Don Cote mentioned in this week’s podcast, it’s all
about lifestyle management. And if you want to write that book, reach your
goals, and live your dream, you must check each activity that you put on your
calendar against these four things:
“Is
this something that gets me closer to my dreams?”
And
if not, “Can I eliminate it?”
If
it does get you closer to your dreams, ask yourself, “Can I automate it?”
If
you can't automate it, ask yourself, “Can I potentially delegate it?”
And
if you can't delegate it, can you collaborate about it?
And
if you do this, you will find that you can get a couple more hours in the day to
get it done. Remember, everyone has the same 24 hours in a day.
Take
me, for example, I have written 9 books, co-written in two of them , created
several courses, and coached hundreds of students and clients personally, and I
have done hundreds of trainings and interviews over the years. I also take care
of my husband and the household and have suffered from an immune disorder for
about 20 years.. Is it easy? Hell no. But it can be done!
As
Don tells people,” if you've ever said, ‘Yeah, if I just had a couple more hours
in the day,’ you do, you're just spending them on doing things that somebody
else could do. Or, it could be automated. If you had two extra hours in your
day, 365 days a year, and you divide that by forty, as in a forty-hour work
week, that's over eighteen weeks of vacation a year.
And
most people couldn't tell you if you held a gun to their head…where that
eighteen weeks went. It just goes away in five minutes here, fifteen minutes
there, and it's gone. That's the juice. That's where you can write the book”
(and create your dream lifestyle).
To
listen to the entire podcast, The Secret to Getting Rich That Most People Ignore, go to: Episode
47: The Secret to Getting Rich That Most People Ignore
Ellen
Violette helps busy creative visionaries, leaders and change-makers, write,
publish, launch to #1 bestseller, and market their book to get more clients,
make more money, make a bigger impact, and leave a legacy.
She
is an award-winning book and business coach, podcast host, CEO of Create a
Splash Marketing & Grammy-nominated songwriter.