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Value of having activities scheduled to help you get projects done.

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Schedule growth activities.

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

I got a haircut, okay. It’s a funny story about my haircut.

And I’ve discussed it before I cut my own hair. So not only do I cut my hair, but I also cut my two sons’ hair, I cut their hair also, okay.

And then it’s funny how I ended up doing this, it was one of those things where I never liked having to schedule my time to go into town, to find an open barber to go in to go through the whole hassle of sitting there waiting in line to get your haircut.

Sit there, make chit-chat with the person go through this whole rigmarole. It’s just I never liked it.

I never liked it ever since I was a kid. Well, when I was a kid we had a lot of really decent barbers for very little, they didn’t cost much.

And so I liked doing that but I’ve never been able to find a barber in this area that I was really super fond on. So I started cutting my own hair years ago, and have kept it up. Another thing is I figured because I was a cheapskate, I would cut my hair more often.

If I didn’t have to pay for it, I could just you know, once a week, every other week, whatever, I’ll just go through cut my hair, well, it’s a little bit more difficult to cut your hair than that in most cases, at least with my hair, my hair is like wire.

So it’s not the most manageable and you got to cut it just right otherwise it doesn’t work. And even then I it oftentimes does not look that great after I’m done. It grows in and it works out fine. But it’s not the best.

And so it’s one of these things where I don’t cut my hair. As often as I would probably if I had someone else cut it if I found somebody that I liked and could go back over and over again.

But I still keep doing it and but it really comes down to being lazy.

When it comes down to is I don’t…because it’s all available, you know, I’ll do it when I do it. And I put it off and put it off and put it off.

So what’s this have to do with business?

What’s this have to do with all the things that we talk about here on a nightly basis?

Well, here it is, I find that I don’t do things that I don’t want to do and will put them off indefinitely as long as I possibly can. Except on two occasions.

Number one, that I schedule it.

The second piece of that is if someone else is depending on me if I’ve scheduled it with a second person if I have someone else tied to it. The only other way that that happens is if I build that daily habit, well, I’m not daily going to cut my hair.

Then most things you don’t do daily, you don’t, you can’t necessarily make a daily habit out of everything. It’s a great thing to do. And we’ve discussed that here before, but you can’t do it out of everything.

So when it comes to cutting my hair, really, it would be helpful if I just pay someone to come to my house and do it. And it’s all in the schedule. And it’s done. And it happens every two weeks or every month. And it’s just like clockwork, it just happens, I would do it, it would get done. It wouldn’t be something that I would enjoy as much as doing it myself.

But on the same end at the person was good. And they were quick. I’d be a-okay with it. And it’s like that with everything I’ve ever done in my life. And to this day, the pieces of business that I don’t want to do or are more difficult for me, it’s easier to either make it a habit or schedule it.

If I can schedule it in and tie it in with another person to where they’re, they’re gonna hold me to it. That’s when the magic happens. And so if you find that there’s a huge block in your business if you can’t outsource that activity if it has to be done by you, schedule it and have someone hold you to it. So a little tip made all the difference in the world to me when I’ve stuck to it. When I’ve done that things get done when I have it. They don’t get done. So hopefully that’s helpful to you.

I wrote a book, nine ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business. It’s all about how to make your business competition-proof. It’s a really simple read. You can get a free copy of it. AmazonProofBook.com. AmazonProofBook.com we’ll be back here tomorrow.

In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.