Do you ever find yourself mentally drained and scrolling social media, wondering how on Pluto some people have the time to do actual fun things in their lives like tube on the river, hike in Europe, yoga on rooftops, and craft the day away – while you’re the sucker just trying to survive till 5 and maybe eat a protein, a green, and a carb before 8pm?
It’s never-ending: all the stuff that needs to get done (work and personal) to live your life, right?
If we look at ratio of stuff to do and time to do it – we’re talking at least 7:1 (things to do: hour of time).
There are the work obligations:
Stand up meetings
Status meetings
Status reports
Summaries after the meetings
Follow-ups
Brainstorms
De-briefs
All of that in addition to your actual work that needs to get done
Then there are the home obligations:
Cleaning all the things
Dinner
Dishes
Laundry
Cleaning the vessel that carries your brain around
Trying to not kill your plants – by leaving them alone or watering them
Gassing up the car
Groceries
Figuring out why the toilet sounds like its still running
Lawn stuff
Kid stuff (deserves its own column honestly, but stays here for brevity)
Pets (also deserves its own column honestly, but stays here for brevity)
How the heck can we possibly fit allllllllllllll of that into a day?
Here’s how: we take the few precious things that are vital to our mental and physical health (but get labeled as “non-productive”, “inefficient”, or “time off” by society at large) and we chuck them over the fence (while promising that we will come back to these things when there’s more time, ok?) – stuff like: enjoying a long walk, doing nothing at all, reading a book that isn’t for work, taking a long bubble bath, or hitting the driving range and knocking balls around for the sheer fun of it.
We fill our days with expected and exhausting hustle and grind to cross things off our to-do lists while delaying the very things we desperately need to recharge and feel whole again.
I call BS on that.
I don’t think it’s a time problem. I think it’s a tools problem.
We don’t have the tools to balance all the things we need to get done in a given day and take care of ourselves and each other.
I mean, let’s think about this for a second. How much more could you get done in a day (work, home, and vital recharge stuff included) if you had access to tools like these:
- A robot that picks up and puts away all the mess that people make in your home and work (we can call it the mess-inator 2000)
- A magic dinner maker that handles dinner according to your nutritional needs and taste (let’s call this home chef 2000)
- A virtual hologram attending all your pointless meetings and can nod along, laugh at dad jokes, and answer basic questions on your behalf – so that you can focus on the real meetings that matter for your business
- An email answering bot that knows exactly what to say and when to forward along the important ones, so you can focus on answering priority emails quickly
- A washing system that sorts, loads, washes, dries, and folds – while you live your best life. (all in one laundry 2000?
If we had access to incredible tools, we could get soooooo much more done in a given day, holy cow!!
We would have the time and vitality to focus on work with impact – on changing the world. We could take care of ourselves. We could take care of each other.
Where in your life are incredible tools, heck, even mediocre tools missing? Where do you need some help? Where can you find more tools to help you?
While we wait on hold for all of the astounding tools above to become a reality (please please please soon), let’s talk about one pretty epic tool you can use right now to get back tangible time in your day: Data Dashboards.
- 1 dashboard can do the work of 20 reports
- 1 dashboard can give you the visual clarity in 2 minutes that takes you 2 hours right now, or maybe not at all.
- 1 dashboard can give you confidence that all is well – so you can focus on what needs doing.
- 1 dashboard can help you answer “why” with objectivity, not past stories that are so easy to keep telling and re-telling (even though they may not be true).
- 1 dashboard can show you the best and worst (of just about anything: customers, revenue months, vendors, classes, products, time periods for your business)
- 1 dashboard can tell you what’s not working – in pictures instead of words
- 1 dashboard can answer bigger and better questions than your current tools can answer today.
1 dashboard can give you back hours, days, months of your life. Right in one place – you can see a comprehensive view of what’s important to your business – instead of spending time trying to piece it all together like a 1000 piece puzzle (that you swear is missing some pieces).
And the best part? YOU can learn how to build them!!!
Learning to build dashboards can open the door to time and energy back to focus on what really matters to you in a given day and I can help you!!
I built a course just for you, my friend! It’s designed to teach valuable, game changing, life changing data skills to total data newbies, and I am SO dang excited about it!
If you give me 7 days – I will show you how to build dashboards on your own!
You don’t need any tech skills, a reporting tool, or even data. I will show you how to get all of these things and teach you how to build dashboards with fun and ease!!
Learning valuable skills and gaining access to amazing tools to help you get it all done (and still have time for you) doesn’t have to suck. It can be easy, interesting, and fun!
