Adam Stark old success advice used to be to put all your time into only one
thing now it's to focus on multiple streams of income what do you think
is best also how do you balance all your Ventures
I love this question um actually I think I want to try to pull this up
um Adam thank you for this and beautiful okay so uh number one uh I do subscribe to uh the
I only you know do one thing and do it really well now everything that I do is a contributing medium
to the one thing that I want to be and the one thing that I want to be even though it looks like
I have many different things going is I want to be your One Stop Shop for everything career related
does that make sense hold on so somebody could say well Andy if you just focused on job searching
that's right or Andy if you just focused on resume writing that's right right or if you just
focused on coaching senior level Executives in the United States that's right except that's not what
I want to be I want to be the world's best career resource period step that means I have to help you
find your job and thrive in it that means there's two Vantage points from which I need to do that
so I have a job search coaching program and a leadership coaching program and then what I have
a whole bunch of other point solutions that are all many products that are related to these two
things and then the other Ventures like the book I'm writing the fourth book which I write every
morning and draft one is just about done almost there and that book is a contributor to what
of a different medium to teach you some of the things I taught you today the booklet that the
free booklet imagine a whole book like that that's what my book is right the book that's
going to come out in 2024 right all of that feeds what my goal of my number one thing which is
right your One-Stop shop for anything career related anything career related
okay so now now what now you say okay uh well what do I think about so I I am focused I'm
I'm focused on only this thing and there are a number of things that go along with doing it now
how do you manage your time and balance all your Ventures okay so let's just say sake of argument
that uh let's just take three separate things because they're very easy to illustrate and I've
already sort of talked about them I have a job search coaching program that's a primary vehicle
for me to coach individuals who want to find their job I have a leadership coaching program
which you just got a taste of which is my ongoing monthly subscription and monthly get together
with my leaders where I build a big leadership library for anything they would need in their
career to develop their career in the mechanics of how to do things build their skills and so on
I have books that I write okay so these are all part of my everyday so every day
I schedule long-term midterm and short-term things what do I mean well I have a book that
isn't going to be that the manuscript isn't due till June 30th that's three months plus from now
the book won't come out for another year right that's another that's 16 months from now right
okay so I have to balance a little bit every day in order to complete the manuscript right
to turn it in so that it meets its time frame deadlines and all that other stuff
I have Micro deadlines every four weeks almost like clockwork it's pretty much every four weeks
I have a leadership coaching session right okay well there are different deliverables that I have
for my leadership session that I'm delivering tomorrow the delivery of Tomorrow started four
weeks ago and I have a schedule that I actually share with you how I do all this in the leadership
program but there's a schedule that says week one outline main points week two add meat to
the main points fill in week three for that for that delivery and on the fourth week week three
write the workbook talk it out once pace through it look for emotion look for stories look for
whatever week four button everything up prep the workbook finalize it load their product do this
and that get them ready and so on right there's deliverables that are paced every single week
I'm I'm writing in my in this booklet right here on this page right here it's a blank page I create
three columns that inventory everything I do every week so every week there are things that
go on there there's a Tuesday digest that you get there's a Thursday live office hour show that has
its own clock Monday starts something Tuesday Wednesday Thursday so I Work It That Way each
eat and then eat each day there was a slot on my calendar that said write out the talking points
for Thursday make sure you got the meat and the bones Wednesday or whatever make sure the
stories are in order write your note cards for them and whatever right kind of thing
so I see an inventory of all activities related to all projects that are all contributing to the same
common goal and then what happens is I plan the week and then I schedule the time slots there are
people who have coaching sessions with me every afternoon at 2 45 and 4 o'clock I'm talking to
somebody I know those blocks are taken with people that we get scheduled in I knew that at 11 o'clock
today I had a thing with you except it's it's six o'clock this morning I was writing a book
right and at seven o'clock I was doing something else and at eight o'clock I was doing something
else and at nine o'clock I was doing something else and all those things were for one was for
later today one was for tomorrow one was for next Tuesday one was for two weeks from now one
was for three months from now all in one day all in one morning right so I want you to think about
what kind of organizational skills does it take to expedite things that are not immediately due
and then right and how does that how do you manage all that you manage it by a calendar
wait this has got to resonate the only way I'm able to keep all of those things in order is
because there says right there on the date next Tuesday morning at 6 30 the digest has to go out
that means we work backwards and Cara has to have it by a certain date and then I need to
review it and then we do checks on Friday and then we make sure the social is in order the
email is loaded the video is updated the podcast is in order like all they're every there's a clock
the clock tells us what to do and when to do it what don't we use a list
why not the list gives you no concept of time why do you think you can't get all your things on
your daily to-do list checked off because you're not managing to time you're managing to things
who gets me who gets me who's feeling me right now it's like hey you're a nut job
Adam that was awesome awesome question and if you like just what I was saying
March 27th Monday video will be available to you at 7am
so that's that's really great stuff every it's by the clock managed by the clock