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