Day 19 — You don’t have the time. So stop looking for it.
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. JFK
You don’t have time. So stop asking for it.
It took me 50 scuba dives to learn how to breath properly.
It took me 120 to feel okay underwater
It took me 500 scuba dives to be able to teach diving.
It took me 1500 scuba dives to stop thinking that I had to breath…
and was only after teaching more than 300 students how to scuba dive .. that I learned to stop thinking and finally start diving.
Took me over 2000 hours underwater to learn that to scuba dive you just need to do one thing: DIVE .
It has been 19 days since I started Goanna Social and the more I write … the more I receive messages of support… I love the positive vibe.. I love to help people…
but lately I have started to receive other type of comments, comments that usually claim something like
Gab, You are lucky , you have time …
OKAY OKAY OKAY
Let me clarify something boys and girls :
I don’t have time
Every hour is like trying to find black gold from an dry and old oil field.
I have to milk it.
I had to push hard…. to get one extra drop of time… one extra second..
That’s why I’m writing this today from a plane and I’m writing this, drinking the worst possible airline instant-coffee at 7 pm thinking :
I should quit this sh*t.
Because to be honest..
I don’t want to blog
I don’t want to send proposals when I arrive home late and night,
I don’t want try to explain AGAIN … to another “marketing consultant” that Marketing it’s about humans and not about metrics.
But even more important, today… I don’t want to inspire you.
If you need inspiration… go watch Oprah… because today, the inspiration ATM it’s out of order.
Yes.
~~~ Sorry ~~~
Today I’m not going to tell you that I time expands if you try hard… that you are the master of your destiny , and that eventually you will find that “perfect week” to write THAT book you want to write.
You will never have that perfect week. Wake up.
Writing a book it’s like surviving your teens years → it’s hurts.
Starting a business it’s not a glorious process → it’s messy.
So screw the joy of creativity . Screw the from zero to hero. It’s a struggle… it’s a strange mix of emotions, fear, nerves, stress and exhaustion.
Yes. Sorry to disappoint , but it is what it is….
You will not find the time if you keep searching for it.
Time is all around you.
Like water when you go scuba diving.
You just need to stop trying to find it… trying to fight time against itself. You will never win.
We are so obsessed with time that it becomes impossible to control.
So here is a weird proposition:
Let go of time, and just remember that you are going to die and regardless how much you tick on that stupid checklist it’s never going to be enough.
YOU WILL NEVER FINISH THE CHECKLIST.
The checklist is eternal in the same way today you are older than yesterday and you will never be as young as you were the day before.
The dreams that you didn’t achieve last year, you didn’t achieve them last year, and you can only do them now or repeat the process you keep doing over and over.
Planning … hoping … not doing… looking back … wondering why .. planning….hoping… not doing… looking back…
The past is not revenant and the future hasn’t arrive just yet.
So trying to control variables that are not in your arena… makes very little sense.
That’s why you need to stop thinking and documenting
you need to write and stop looking for readers
you need to trow the spear and charge without fear.
Because regardless what you do… “the most productive week of your life “ will never be here.
What it matters is what you do now. In this exact moment. Just after you finish reading THIS POST — regardless if you have the time or not.
Day #19 Stats Goanna Social
Day #19 Hours worked: 10 (2 planes)
Overal Hours worked: 116
Funds: $18455.25 AUD
Spent : $550 Staff
Overall Income : $7500
Clients Pending : 1
Invoiced total
$11.200 AUD ;
Phone calls: 2
Emails sent: 2
FB / Lead generation interaction: 0
Active Leads: 5
Proposals sent: -
Feeling: So tired …
74 days to go
