How I'm Getting More Done By Taking A Full Month Off (For Real This Time)
Capitalism.com with Ryan Daniel Moran
Capitalism.com
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🗓️ 4 May 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
After years of burnout as an entrepreneur Ryan is finally taking a month off.
And if you follow his work closely, you may not have even noticed. That's because planning for this hiatus required putting the systems in place and delegating others to schedule emails, content, and everything necessary to keep the businesses running.
It is possible to get even more done by scheduling these kind of sabbaticals in work and by listening to this podcast you'll see how you too can create time and space for yourself and come back recharged with fresh ideas.
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| 0:00.0 | For most of my life and my career, I believe this idea that one day things will smooth out. |
| 0:09.8 | One day my life will get to the point where I don't have to work so much. |
| 0:13.0 | I'll get to a point where I can ease off the gas and have a really cushy, cozy life. |
| 0:17.6 | I think I even viewed my future as that when I was a kid. I'll make a bunch of money |
| 0:22.3 | and I'll kill it and then I won't work as much. And for some reason, that just never happened. |
| 0:29.4 | Even when I sold my company in 2017, I took one week off. And that week off looked like me |
| 0:37.1 | sitting in my house reading books, |
| 0:38.6 | wondering what the heck I was going to do with my time until I finally just decided, I guess |
| 0:42.7 | I'll just get back to work. I've never really taken real time off or even known what that |
| 0:49.3 | would look like. And I know that if you're watching and you're an entrepreneur, you can relate |
| 0:53.7 | to this. |
| 0:54.5 | We think about work, we dream about work, we think about it all the time with the idea that one day we're going to have freedom. |
| 1:01.5 | And I've gone through several periods in which I really burnt out. |
| 1:05.5 | And my M.O. for that time was to just burn everything to the ground. |
| 1:10.6 | It was just like stop it. It was just to |
| 1:13.2 | cut back and sometimes shut down companies or projects are back away from them. And I came |
| 1:20.1 | really close to doing that about four months ago. Four months ago, I hit a real point of burnout where I just didn't have it anymore |
| 1:31.1 | where I felt like I just couldn't bring it to the projects that I was working on anymore. |
| 1:36.8 | And my body was even just sort of slowing down. And it got to the point where I said, I have to give myself a real break. |
| 1:46.7 | Now, life has tried to give me this lesson in the past. For example, I got COVID in 2021, |
| 1:52.2 | which forced me to slow down. And when I finally slowed down, I started getting all these |
| 1:57.8 | great ideas. And every time I go on vacation, you know, for like three days, I get great ideas and |
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