Speed Wealth Zone Catalyst #3: Implementation With Speed and Accuracy…continued
Following on from last week….here’s how I get a lot of things done.
5. Create the Right Environment. Figure out how you work best, what you need to do and what you need to surround yourself with to achieve extraordinary results. In my case, I like to isolate myself and have uninterrupted time to work on getting important things done.
That means I take no unscheduled phone calls, I set blocks of time aside for particular tasks whether that be for clients or myself, I have complete days dedicated to clients and other days dedicated solely to advancing my own needs. I never read an email. That task is assigned to my PA. I most certainly don’t allow emails to control my life like some do, I simply wouldn’t allow someone to hijack my day and make their problems mine by pressing send receive.
I do however get to the emails in my time. They’re run off and placed in a file and time is allocated to the task of dealing with them. Generally that’s 2 or 3 days later. If people are time vampires, stealing your day through email and if you’re allowing yourself to be a victim by constantly checking your email you’re underachieving.
Here’s a case study that may be instructional for you… About 5 years ago before I created my high end coaching programme, I made a decision on a Tuesday to fly to America to attend a costly seminar on the subject of coaching that started on the Friday. I’d packed and left by the Thursday, travelled for 36 hours, and finished up arriving in Phoenix Arizona on a Thursday again.
The seminar commenced the next day. I struggled through it but got what I wanted and left at 3pm on the Sunday finally arriving back in Perth to be met by my wife at the airport. The car was already packed and ready to take me down to Margaret River, 3 hours South of Perth, to create the programme and write the sales material for my coaching business.
My wife spent the week shopping and eating in nice restaurants, and I worked away diligently on creating what has now become possibly the largest high-end coaching programme of its kind in the world. All of this was achieved, at most, 2 weeks. For the record, I spent the evenings at some of the nicest restaurants on the planet drinking some great wine so I also got to play, but it was the isolation that allowed me to get things done. The uninterrupted environment.
It’s much the same in my office. I surround myself with things I love like French antique furniture, Chinese artifacts and a couple of pieces of aboriginal art which I adore. My office itself is a re-developed 1920’s brick and tile tuck-pointed home converted into an office with high ceilings, jarrah floor boards and meticulously maintained gardens including my favourite roses which I can often be seen enjoying, sipping on a cup of coffee.
I love my office, and everything about it! I despise those clinical offices where you share toilets and kitchens. No amount of money would interest me in owning one. I’m not that kind of guy. I drive a Lexus SC430 V8 sports, it’s always bright and shiny and red and I’ve never driven anything that comes close to it…and that includes a Ferrari and a Porsche, to me it’s nurturing. I love to drive it.
Figure out what environment nurtures you.
This list is to be continued, look out for Speed Wealth Zone Catalyst #3 – Implementation with Speed and Accuracy continued next week,
Best Regards,
Mal Emery
Committed to Elevating the Financial Wealth and Wellbeing of Society Through Entrepreneurial Excellence and Guilty of Conspiracy to Create Capitalism
P.S….My office door is not a revolving door. I surround myself with people who do what they do much better than I’ll ever do it and as a consequence I empower them to make their own decisions and they know to come to me with solutions not problems.
