a QUESTION to challenge your productivity... | EP. 275 | Further Your Lifestyle Podcast

So my thought about all of this was like, we go through life and we have regrets.

Maybe you do, maybe you don't.

But there might be a moment where it's like, oh, I wish I didn't do that.

I wouldn't have made that mistake.

We'll be further along.

But at the same time, mistakes that we make are going to enable us to actually grow.

We're going to come out better from that if we learn from those mistakes.

So it's important to learn from those mistakes.

But I was just thinking about like, oh, last week, I was just like with this, I was thinking about, okay, in the last week, I wish I didn't have to do these things because they just take up so much time.

And then I thought, well, why do we do these things? If there's things that you didn't want to do, if there's things that you could have done, saved more time on, or things that you could have outsourced, why don't we do that? And that is because we look at maybe, okay, what is the cost to outsource it? What's the cost to automate it? Or what's the cost to get rid of it? And maybe we see, oh, it's going to take two days to build something, or it's going to cost me $200 a week, or it's going to whatever it may be.

And then we realize, nah, I'll happily keep doing that small little thing that even though it annoys me, I'll keep doing it anyway.

And I think this is a really important moment where we need to actually kind of really weigh up the benefits and the value of actually, whether it's continue to do something versus delegate something or outsource something or automate something versus stop doing something.

Is the thing that you're doing even necessary in the first place? Now, of course, there's some level of elements here that you could break it down to, which is like, okay, if you're thinking about in the kitchen, and you don't want to do the dishes.

Well, do you have a dishwasher? You could automate the dishwasher, right? Put the dishes in the dishwasher and it's done.

You could go one step further and you could have someone that comes and does the cleaning for you.

Or you could just stop doing the dishes altogether.

Now, stopping doing all the dishes altogether is not going to work, but putting in a dishwasher or having someone else do the dishes for you could make sense.

How much time is it going to save you? That's going to be up to you, the size of your family, your situation.

And how much is that going to cost you? So there's an element there.

The other thing is, is like, what about cooking, right? Do you have the time to cook? Do you even have the energy to cook? Do you want to cook? All those different things.

Same thing.

You could outsource it.

You could buy it.

You could conveniently buy it, which costs more.

You could have someone do prepping for you.