https://businesscollective.com/4-ways-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-day/ Entrepreneurship advice and mentorship from the most successful young entrepreneurs. Thu, 18 Aug 2016 17:10:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.5 https://businesscollective.com/4-ways-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-day/#comment-62 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 20:24:27 +0000 http://theyec.org/?p=32016#comment-62 Personally, I plan my day the NIGHT before. Why waste time in the morning? I am up and working at my computer sometimes by 3 am but no later than 5 am. I have a to do list that I do the night before and it is sitting right there on my desktop… in notepad (I used to do it in outlook calendar, but notepad works just as well). I ‘could’ do in an app on my smartphone, but, eh, I don’t bother.
But this site seems to be for kids who don’t know how to run a business and insist on calling their business ‘a startup’. True, I DID just sell my latest business and I called it a ‘startup’ because it was bought by another ‘startup’ but 40 years ago when I sold my FIRST business, we just called it a BUSINESS. Of course back THEN the purpose of a business was to provide employment to other people, and to build lasting relationships with clients, and thus make some money, but this need to make megabucks was not there. I never have understood that… what do you think happens if you make 100Million in your first year? Do you think it guarantees you’ll have a good life, live longer, be happier, do more good deeds? Or perhaps you’ll just get a lot of time-wasting ‘toys’. hmmm. I have a 14 year old truck that I love because it has a couple hundred thou miles and has yet to need a TUNEUP and it has a dent so I don’t have to worry about getting a dent, huh. (That really does reduce stress). I have lots of time to work on my other businesses, and build/mentor my teams AND watch how happy my clients are with the work that my team members provide for them. That’s the important thing: the people.
But the other thing that is important is not buying into bullshit that you need to hire people who can ‘melt’ into the team structure. Now that is ‘bogus’, it CLEARLY indicates BAD management. I also would not make some candidate jump through ‘prove your worth before I hire you’ hoops. Write better job descriptions, interview candidates more thoughtfully, and use the old-fashioned 90 to 120 day trial period. But I’ll add that if you have a lot of people being booted out before completing that trial period, it’s NOT THEM IT’S THE MANAGER. FIGURE IT OUT PEOPLE. Life is going to end one day for each of us and if you spend your time spending your future because you are in love with money and not with your family other people, society, God (actually GOD first) and you are in love with money or the trappings of ‘success’, you are lost. Totally lost, and one day that will hammer you in the head and in the gut as you realize you spent your life on MONEY. As to working with people who ‘melt’ into the team structure. Baloney. I hire people who can do the WORK, who will contribute to the success of the team, the projects, the CORPORATION and the CLIENTS. I don’t leave that to some h.r. person or to team interviewers who have individual (unspoken) agendas, and I definitely don’t leave it to an algorithmic bot. WE ARE SPIRIT BEINGS. Our GUT instincts supersede a BOT any day. The problem is that middle managers are often vastly under-appreciated and sometimes working ineffectively or below what they could be doing. Why? Because they lose THEIR mentors, at a time in their career when they need that mentoring more than it is acknowledged. I could go on, and I will, but in my blog or maybe in my next book.

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