Tag: Time Management

Happiness

Do a Calendar Audit

Chris Labs

What’s a calendar audit? For one week, you keep track of each hour. And then what you do, the next week you just go back and pull up last week’s calendar and you take 3 colored markers. Green, red, and yellow marker. Which block gave me energy? Mark them in green. Which things sucked the energy out of me? I was drained after doing it? Mark them in red. Which block were neutral? Mark them in yellow. You look at the painting and you try to do less of the red stuff. Literally just by avoiding it, automating it or … Continue reading Do a Calendar Audit

Learnings

Clear mind results in better judgement which results in better outcome

Chris Labs

If you want to be effective in business, you need a clear, calm, cool mind. Warren Buffet spends his days playing bridge, taking walks, not constantly feeding his mind with information. If you want to operate at peak performance, you have to learn how to tame your mind, the same way you have to learn to tame your body. Naval Ravikant, Joe Rogan Experience #1309, 19mins Continue reading Clear mind results in better judgement which results in better outcome

Learnings

Am I playing a stupid game?

Chris Labs

Play a stupid game, get a stupid prize. A stupid game is to try to win an argument on twitter. To convince somebody you’re right. Ex: You’re at the carnival and you pull up at the water squirt game. And you play that game. 40mins later you’ve put in $80 and you win. You’re the big winner and you get the giant stuffed animal. You’ve just won a $6 stuffed animal. Shaan Puri, MFM Mini, A guide to asking better questions, 9min Continue reading Am I playing a stupid game?

Being CEO

Make sure your team is proactive with their time

Chris Labs

One of the best ways to do this is to present a real-world example of someone on your team who does this well. Walk everyone through an example week on their calendar and point out exactly how they are spending their time. Then have everyone pull out their own calendar and have them go through the same process on their own calendar. Are they batching tasks? Which of the events are high leverage activities? Are there more efficient patterns to create? You should go through this process with your entire team at least once a quarter. Lessons from Keith Rabois Continue reading Make sure your team is proactive with their time

Being CEO

Don’t slip into reactive mode -> determine your top 3 priorities for the week and spend 80%+ of your time on those

Chris Labs

Most executives are entirely reactive to requests for their time and typically let anyone in the organization put meetings wherever they want on the calendar. You should instead view your calendar as something you proactively manage and design. Each Sunday afternoon, write down your top 3 priorities for the week and design your calendar to spend 80%+ of your time on those priorities. You can leave some “leftover” time on your calendar to fill with the reactive requests. You need to constantly check back in every week to not let yourself slip into a reactive mode and perform calendar audits … Continue reading Don’t slip into reactive mode -> determine your top 3 priorities for the week and spend 80%+ of your time on those

Happiness, Learnings

How much is your time really worth?

Chris Labs

“At this point, I was worth 125$/hour. Then I made the decision, if there’s anything I’ve been doing with my time, that could be done by spending less than 125$ an hour, then I’d be an idiot by doing it. If I enjoy it, it’s a different story, but if I’m not, it’s just stupid. So I paired that kind of idea, what kind of value would I place on my time? Even if I paid a premium, if I paid someone 75$ an hour for someone to mow my lawn, it would be worth it. Most people don’t value … Continue reading How much is your time really worth?

Learnings

Set your hourly rate at a 1000$ an hour

Chris Labs

You can’t penny pinch your way to wealth You can spend your life however you want. But if you want to get rich, it has to be your top priority. It has to come before anything else, which means you can’t penny-pinch. This is what people don’t understand. My aspirational rate was $5,000/hr Fast-forward to your wealthy self and pick an intermediate hourly rate. Before I had any real money and you could hire me, I set an aspirational rate of $5,000 an hour. Of course, I still ended up doing stupid things like arguing with the electrician or returning … Continue reading Set your hourly rate at a 1000$ an hour