Dan Martell - October 21, 2023


Your first hire needs to buy back YOUR time


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Length

47 seconds

Words per minute

249.26192

Word count

197

Sentence count

14

Harmful content

Toxicity

2

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Hate speech

1

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I used to be the guy that would go to my office every Sunday to process all the physical mail that would come into my PO box. It would take me like 6 hours. Today, my assistant does it in 20 minutes.

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00:00:00.000 I used to be the guy that would go to my office every Sunday and process all the physical mail
00:00:05.740 that would come into my PO box. It would take me like six hours. The CEO of the insurance company
00:00:10.480 in our hometown. And I just emailed them. How do you manage your mail? He's like, I don't,
00:00:14.420 my assistant does. And my head exploded. Cause I was like, I don't have an assistant. I said,
00:00:18.720 okay, I'm going to hire somebody. Her name was Lisa. Now is Lisa going to get a hundred percent
00:00:22.620 of it right now? But guess what? 80% done by somebody else is a hundred percent freaking
00:00:26.180 awesome. The perfectionist listening to this, you got to lower your standard to assume anybody else
00:00:31.280 without the context and experience in life you've lived is going to be able to do it just like you.
00:00:35.200 It doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Nobody can do it like you and that's okay. At the end of the
00:00:40.420 day, if you are an entrepreneur and you have a business and you don't have an executive assistant, 1.00
00:00:44.560 you are one and you're overpaid and you probably suck. 1.00