I’m having an introspective new years. No parties. Just me and my girlfriend alone reviewing the last year and planning for the next one, introspecting, manifesting, journalling, and having a getaway.
Here’s a note from my journal. Posting it because it really shows the level of wealth-thinking that Ascended Mogul Qv2, then MogulZP, then EMP ZP has elevated ke to.
Billions’ (my name’s) billion-dollar personal productivity system, the key to working 60 hour work weeks happily, consistently, and with energy.
1) Acknowledge that 60 hour work weeks are nothing. Lawyers, doctors, and engineers routinely put in 80-100+ hour work weeks. 60 hours is merely 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, 8am-6pm, with every morning and evening dedicated to personal time and balance.
2) Acknowledge that an entrepreneur’s 60-hour work week is harder than a Lawyer’s 100 hour work week. Lawyers spend time paper pushing, reading, in meetings reviewing minute details, waiting, looking busy, and taking orders from their boss. They’re effectively highly-paid clerks, more often than not, with moments of innovation.
Meanwhile, entrepreneurs are innovating and persuading every second. If an entrepreneur is not innovating on a product or selling a product, he should be either sleeping, playing, or training his team. His job is to innovate on how to delegate and automate the parts of his job that can be assigned to someone, so he can focus on innovating.
Because of this, energy is paramount, and the discipline an entrepreneur has about sleep, meditation, and a healthy diet are as important as his discipline around his work tasks.
Therefore, do not compare an entrepreneur’s 60 hour work week to any other longer-hour profession. Every second of an entrepreneur’s day is self-directed and spent innovating, when done right, and that makes reflection important to ensure you both have the brain power to innovate and have the level of reflection required to continually point your actions in the best direction.
In major corporations, there is a CEO solely responsible for directing the action of others. As an entrepreneur, you are the one that directs others to act AND the one responsible for taking those actions. It’s a hard job, but that’s why it scales the most."