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Remove Your Sacred Cow
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(0:00 – 1:31)
I remember back in the day, this is going back, I was mentored by a gentleman and he kind of got in my space a little bit and he said, you know, what do you think your sacred cow is? And I said, what do you mean my sacred cow? He goes, what in your personal life do you spend a lot of time on that doesn’t help your business, doesn’t help your family? It’s a complete waste of time. You know it. No, it’s great for downtime.
It’s not a negative. And I’m like, you know, I don’t know. Give me some examples.
He goes, do you fish every day? Do you watch TV every day? You know, do you do this? Do you do? And I’m like, well, I kind of watch TV. And he challenged me to add up the time that I spend watching TV and to see if I could carve out a percentage of it or even the whole thing. And so we were talking and he goes, you know, as much as there are time sucks, there are energy sucks.
And I’m like, well, what are you talking about? He’s like, well, you know, how much time do you think about X? How much time do you spend strategizing or tightening your to-do list or just little things that don’t have to be done, but they definitely take up your energy? Well that one, I mean, I had a laundry list there too. And so the bottom line is this gentleman challenged me and I went a period of four years where I actually convinced my wife to get the TV out of our house. That today would be the same thing as a husband convincing his wife to never open Facebook for some of the people that love Facebook.
(1:31 – 1:49)
And I know there’s a lot of guys that love Facebook just as much as ladies, but I’m just trying to make a point here. A sacred cow is what you do in the dark time, in the dark space when nobody’s watching. That just is a vacuum sucking your time and your energy.
(1:49 – 2:28)
So the bottom line is this gentleman challenged me and I can tell you right now, four years later our business was so on fire because I replaced what I had removed with other stuff that was still not business,
(0:00 – 1:31)
I remember back in the day, this is going back, I was mentored by a gentleman and he kind of got in my space a little bit and he said, you know, what do you think your sacred cow is? And I said, what do you mean my sacred cow? He goes, what in your personal life do you spend a lot of time on that doesn’t help your business, doesn’t help your family? It’s a complete waste of time. You know it. No, it’s great for downtime.
It’s not a negative. And I’m like, you know, I don’t know. Give me some examples.
He goes, do you fish every day? Do you watch TV every day? You know, do you do this? Do you do? And I’m like, well, I kind of watch TV. And he challenged me to add up the time that I spend watching TV and to see if I could carve out a percentage of it or even the whole thing. And so we were talking and he goes, you know, as much as there are time sucks, there are energy sucks.
And I’m like, well, what are you talking about? He’s like, well, you know, how much time do you think about X? How much time do you spend strategizing or tightening your to-do list or just little things that don’t have to be done, but they definitely take up your energy? Well that one, I mean, I had a laundry list there too. And so the bottom line is this gentleman challenged me and I went a period of four years where I actually convinced my wife to get the TV out of our house. That today would be the same thing as a husband convincing his wife to never open Facebook for some of the people that love Facebook.
(1:31 – 1:49)
And I know there’s a lot of guys that love Facebook just as much as ladies, but I’m just trying to make a point here. A sacred cow is what you do in the dark time, in the dark space when nobody’s watching. That just is a vacuum sucking your time and your energy.
(1:49 – 2:28)
So the bottom line is this gentleman challenged me and I can tell you right now, four years later our business was so on fire because I replaced what I had removed with other stuff that was still not business,
