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Some thoughts on outsourcing from Tim Ferriss’s book, 4-Hour Workweek

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What isn’t getting done?

Hi I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I was sitting down taking another look at this book. If you haven’t ever read this, it’s a good one to go read. I’ve mentioned before, they’ve got a great audio book. The first time I read it was listening to it.

And then I went and got the book because it’s got some fabulous diagrams and other pictures in it that are worth having this plus so many great quotes and other things that he sources in this book. And this book is really all over the place.

So that if you’ve never never heard of this one before Timothy Ferriss, 4 Hour Work Week. Or if you’ve never sat down with it, it’s worth going into the so the subtitle is, escape the nine to five, live anywhere and join the new rich.

It’s really how to go from step one of not having anything to having the dream lifestyle, the four hour workweek, right. And it’s gotten a lot of flack because the title is so in your face, and so artificial on a lot of levels, but but artificial in an idealist way.

So it’s an ideal scenario. It’s not necessarily whatever, what people want to do is just sit around and just work four hours a day, or four hours a week. But it’s the idea that if I could do that, if I have enough income, and I had enough freedom to be able to do that, that’s what people are after.

That’s why the title was so powerful and he talks about in these later editions, how he came up with the title and so forth. So that’s cool.

But it all comes back to system. That’s really what it all comes back to if you’re wanting some form of automated business, if you want your business to be more automated, depend less on you or at least those parts of your business that you don’t like doing, having that be handled is really a major part.

So how do you get there?

I hear this over and over and over again, from people talking about how you need to outsource. And you outsource the things you’re not good at, or that you don’t like doing.

First, you get those out of your hair so that you can focus on those areas that you do best.

More than likely the areas you do best are the areas that you’re best at and that you enjoy doing, you enjoy doing those areas. So if you start focusing more on that your whole life feels better too, because you’re not working on all the all the stuff you don’t like.

And the assumption is well, I don’t like doing it. Nobody likes doing it but trust me, there’s someone that likes doing everything or they would prefer doing that over other things.

It’s not that they absolutely adore cleaning the toilets, but they’d rather clean the toilets and go hungry, they’d rather clean the toilets. In many cases, they’d rather clean the toilets than getting a welfare check or something else. It’s not a bad thing to offer work, even if it is less glamorous, or in your mind less glamorous.

There’s always somebody that would like to do it and so you got to find those people put them into put them to work. But here’s the real issue that I’ve seen with large businesses. It’s not the things that are already getting done that need to get outsourced the most oftentimes, oftentimes, it’s the things that need to happen that are not happening.

They’re not happening because you don’t like doing it or you don’t know how to do it. But or, and everyone else that you’re working with don’t know how to do it. If you’re a solopreneur, this really plays to you.

But more than likely, there’s pieces in your business that are falling by the wayside. And it’s the reason why your business might be stagnant or not growing as quickly as you want. It’s because you don’t have someone focusing full time on marketing.

You don’t have someone focusing on sales. You don’t have someone really focusing in a systematic manner, to where get the money coming in on a regular basis. Most of the time. That’s what it comes down to most of the time.

Beyond that there’s other pieces of the puzzle that need to get solved, your customer service, everything else that depending on your specific scenario, but more than likely, it’s something that nobody is doing right now.

You got to think about what needs to get done and find someone that already has experience or already has the cognitive ability to go in that direction. If you want to find out more about that you got to go check out Kathy Kolbe’s work at Kolbe.com. Really good stuff.

And like I said, if you’re just wanting to get inspired to kind of move a little faster and build kind of a financial freedom for yourself, this is a great place to start. He doesn’t have all the answers in that book.

But it’s a great place to start kind of digging those ideas out of your mind. But if you are already a business owner, if you’re already an executive, what the real thing you have to focus on, is what is my ideal scenario?

If I woke up tomorrow and had the ideal scenario with my business, that maybe that means that you’re speaking all over the world. And if you’re watching this in early 2021, it’s it’s not as likely to happen right off the bat, okay, there’s things opening up, but there’s still a lot of things shut down.

Maybe that’s a scenario that isn’t ideal, but what are the other things that are keeping you from doing that, get those things lined up, so that when the other circumstances make themselves available, you can jump on it, right?

It’s all about designing the perfect situation. And I talk about this a lot in my book, nine ways to Amazon-Proof your business.

In fact, Chapter Two is all about how to build a consistent system. And in the very end of that book, I give a free offer on to be able to bring me on to help you build a consistent system.

So go check out that book, you go get a copy at Amazon.com or BarnesandNoble.com. If you want a free digital copy, you can go to AmazonProofBook.com.

Get your own free copy of this book, go check it out, and go directly to chapter two. It’s a it’s a great chapter on consistent system building. It’s one of the main three pillars of my company is all about being system based.

You need to be system based in your company, and you’ll be happier with the results guaranteed. Hey, that’s all I’ve got for tonight. We’ll be back here tomorrow night. In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.