Tag: Productivity
4 hours a week?
4 hours a week
80 to 90 hours per week.
That’s the typical workload of a Doctor…and a huge factor in the on-going 21+ day-strike of all government Doctors in Kenya since 5th December 2016.
Overworked, underpaid, and unappreciated work, as the Doctor nobly fights to save each patient he or she comes across.
But what if instead of 90 hours a week…The Doctor worked only 4hours?
4 hours a week?
What would happen if that were the case?
What would the world look like where every Doctor only worked 4 hours per week in practising the craft of Medicine?
What would the implications be? Economically, socially, culturally, politically…personally?
How can a Doctor work fewer hours and achieve a much greater impact?
Just some of the questions I’ll be exploring in my new Medium.com publication: The 4-Hour Medic
I’m importing the Tim Ferriss 4-Hour Work Week meme into the world of medicine to see what breakthroughs it can help unlock.
Maybe nothing. After all, this might not work.
Or maybe it will spark just a single conversation…a single idea…that leads to a breakthrough that changes the face of Medicine and health care for the next 2,000 years.
That’s the goal. Let’s see what happens.
How to get paid a ridiculous amount
3 words.
Become ridiculously valuable.
The amount you get paid per hour or per week or per month is NOT a reflection of the time you spend…but of the value you provide within that time.
And the amount you get paid is seen as a great bargain by the person paying you.
So when Henry Ford more than doubled the daily rate to $5 a day in 1913…it’s because the system he created turned a $5 investment in wages into a $30 return in value.
In other words, he was handing out one $5 bill and being given back six $5 bills in return.
Similarly, the $20/hour you get is because your perceived value is probably $120 for each hour you spend working.
So if you want to be paid significantly more than you are right now, you need to become significantly more valuable than you are right now.
Become more valuable…get paid much more.
Here are 2 simple ways to get started.
#1 Change your context
Maybe you’re doing the right thing in the wrong location.
Teach guitar classes at the local high school?
What if you taught the same class at the local nursing home? Or to busy executives.
Or what if you took what you’re already doing online? Platforms like Udemy, Skillshare and others make it extremely easy to make a living sharing what you know.
And that’s just if you’re looking to leverage the power of teaching what you know…an opportunity available to all of us.
#2 Change your content
This might mean simply switching from what you want to offer to providing what the marketplace wants to pay you for.
That’s how Nine Inch Nails got started.
They knew they wanted to make a living playing music that others wanted to pay for…but they weren’t completely precious about what that music needed to be.
So they released several different types of music, and the one that the market place resonated with became their music.
You can replicate the same model by figuring out what your core desire is…and then testing out different ways of providing this to the marketplace. When you find one that resonates, then run with it.
Another way of changing your content is to simply go to the edges of what you already know.
Don’t just be specific… be super-specific.
Obsess over one tiny corner of your area of expertise and deliver information, products and services that cater to just that one area.
Sound ridiculous? It will to those who watch you laugh your way up the value chain.
Success is something you attract by the person you become. — Jim Rohn
The key to being paid more is becoming more valuable.
You create value out of who you really are. And as you invest more in becoming more, you will be paid more.
More money, more attention, more consideration, more help, more friendliness…at work, in your marriage, with your kids, in your fitness, in your finance, and every area of your life.
So…want to get paid a ridiculous amount in every area of your life?
Become ridiculously valuable.
If Success is a numbers game…what are your numbers?
“Success is a numbers game. And you’ve got to check your numbers.” — Jim Rohn
That’s the punchline of this article, and the number one thing you need to check going into this new year.
What are your numbers in the 7 key areas of your life?
From Zig Ziglar:
- Spiritual
- Family
- Finance
- Health and Fitness
- Work and Career
- Intellectual
- Personal and Social
In each area, you need to ask questions where the answer can be a specific number.
For example:
Spirit: how much time do you spend each day in prayer/meditation? How many chapters of Scripture do you read each day?
Family: How much time do you spend uninterrupted with your Spouse each day? How many weekends do you spend simply doing something fun? How many times did you “do it” this week? How many minutes a week/day do you spend in focused time with each of your children?
Finance: How much money have you got saved in the bank? How much do you get paid per hour? What is your net monthly cash flow? What assets do you own and how much money do they each generate for you? How much money do you owe? If you stopped working today, how long would you and your family be able to survive for?
Health and Fitness: How many pushup do you do each morning? How many minutes of aerobic exercise do you do each day? How many pieces of fruit do you eat each day? What is your cholesterol level? What is your potassium level? What is your blood pressure? How much water do you drink each day?
Work and Career: How much time do you spend developing your career? How much time do you spend creating and publishing content around your area of expertise? How many engaged subscribers do you have on your email list? How many testimonials do you have in your Testimonial Book? How much is an hour of your time worth? How many words of fiction do you write each day?
Intellectual: How many books have you read in the last 90 days? How many new things have you learned this week? How much money have you set aside for courses in personal development?
Personal and Social: How many hours of sleep do get each night? How much time do you spend each day/week doing something fun? How many close personal friends do you have whom you could confide in? How many cities around the world have people who would happily put you up for the night? How many people would show up to your funeral if you died tomorrow? How much time are you spending each day working on and reviewing your personal goals?
What gets measured gets done…and also, the numbers don’t lie.
The great news is that if your answers to all of these questions are “zero”, then success in each area is simply a matter of improving the numbers by even a tiny bit.
Get 4 hours of sleep each night? Set a goal of going to bed 10-minutes earlier each month. By the end of a year you’ll be up to 6 hours of sleep.
Get paid $20/hour? Set a goal of increasing this to $30/hour…and you’d have just increased your gross income by $20,000.
Spent “zero minutes” with your kids each week? Set a goal of spending just 20 minutes of focused time with each child per week. That’s 80 minutes a month, or 17+ hours by the end of the year.
And so on.
The beauty of having numbers for each of the 7 areas, is that simply focusing on making the numbers go up will make your whole life rise as well.
Success is a numbers game. Check your numbers.