My 10 year goal is to achieve professional ikigai.
This is a thread on how I will achieve that and how you can too using a process described at the end of the thread.
This is a thread on how I will achieve that and how you can too using a process described at the end of the thread.
First I must describe my destination. After achieving my goal, my professional life will be:
- no deadlines/stress
- thinking & problem solving all day
- no busywork, eg I'm not doing anything that I don't love that someone else can do
- big-picture oriented, minimal details
- no deadlines/stress
- thinking & problem solving all day
- no busywork, eg I'm not doing anything that I don't love that someone else can do
- big-picture oriented, minimal details
- I will have access to financials and a databoard that lets me check the health of our businesses
- my work will be mostly creative
- I'm not talking to anybody with whom I feel the need to slow down to get my point across
- I'm not doing one-on-one non-repeatable training
- my work will be mostly creative
- I'm not talking to anybody with whom I feel the need to slow down to get my point across
- I'm not doing one-on-one non-repeatable training
That's in 10 years - what do I need to do to make that a reality? Basically I need to take these jobs on my ikigai board and apply the following:
- start
- sell
- stop
- automate
- contract out
- hire
- systematize
- start
- sell
- stop
- automate
- contract out
- hire
- systematize
Starting, selling, stopping just take courage. I got that down, but automating contracting out, hiring, and systematizing are skills that I need to improve. So here is my concrete list of actions I need to make that improvement a reality:
1. We’re the biggest seller of kickboards on Amazon. I’m not into kickboards at all, we’re not good at selling kickboards, the world does not need us to make kickboards. Let’s sell this product line ASAP.
2. I need to get better at automation, so I’m going to hire a developer and learn how to better manager developers.
3. I need to get better at hiring generally:
3. I need to get better at hiring generally:
I see hiring as 4 things: appraising their abilities, proclivities, options, and firing them fast when you err.
a. I'm going to pay for or hack culture index to get better at proclivities
b. I'm going to administer better tests or tricky questions in interviews to appraise
a. I'm going to pay for or hack culture index to get better at proclivities
b. I'm going to administer better tests or tricky questions in interviews to appraise
c. I need to get more nosy in interviews to figure out what their options are (no one takes a worse job)
d. I need to be fair but push myself to be unsentimental about firing people who are not working out.
d. I need to be fair but push myself to be unsentimental about firing people who are not working out.
4. I need to organize our systems and create a training program that allows me and my team to bring on good people and make them as effective as possible with minimum work/cost.
5. I need to implement a bonus and employee retention system to keep my best people
5. I need to implement a bonus and employee retention system to keep my best people
6. I need to finish reading traction and implement as much of it as I can bring myself to.
7. i've got to scale the business profitably so I can attract better and better talent
7. i've got to scale the business profitably so I can attract better and better talent
This process came from this thread, which I highly recommend.
Do you want to be looking back on your life in 10 years, asking yourself why you didn't make long-term goals when you were younger?
No, so read the thread. One of the best on Twitter.
Do you want to be looking back on your life in 10 years, asking yourself why you didn't make long-term goals when you were younger?
No, so read the thread. One of the best on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/girdley/status/1414899091407003649
Please give me constructive criticism!
What did I get right? Wrong? What am I missing?
What's your 10 year goal and how do you plan on achieving it?
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What did I get right? Wrong? What am I missing?
What's your 10 year goal and how do you plan on achieving it?
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