If you could add hours to your week, would you?
A while back I had a client decline additional services (totaling $75). This saddened me, but not why you’d think. It saddened me because I was witnessing an extremely bright individual who was already overloaded CHOOSE to take on (pretty much) mindless tasks (that I could easily do, anytime). For no reason.
We get stuck in this “do it all” mentality. I lived that way too… until it made me INSANE. To prove my point, I made a chart. I performed similar tasks and compared it to her performing the tasks. Around the chart had pictures of the things she’ll talk about sometimes- her passions & hopes. Turns out, letting go of the “do it all and do it cheap” mentality, would have given her SIX hours to do the important things (or do nothing, for a change). That’s 9-12 hours if you count the time it takes to switch from task to task, regain focus, any negative feelings associated with the tasks, or lost productivity. I, very happily, did it in 3.
Sound like a no-brainer? It was. She’s been a client ever since.