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Disruptors

RANT: How Many Hours do You REALLY Need to Work? [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Disruptors

Rob Moore

Careers, How To, Business, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Marketing, Investing, Education, Entrepreneurship

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

How many hours a day do you actually spend doing deep-dive, productive work? Join Rob today as he details how many hours you actually need to work and how you can stop yourself getting distracted. Learn today how whilst you may think you are working for 8 hours a day, you are probably working far less than that, how entrepreneurs can productively work just 3-5 hours a day and how to stop yourself giving in to the urge of distraction.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Being a workaholic can be characterised as working for the sake of working or feeling like you have always got to and want to work. Workaholism can cause friendships, family connections and doing things that make you happy that aren’t reliant on external validation or progress to be sacrificed.   If you are usually at work for eight hours a day but are only doing deep-dive work for 20% of that time then this is called active procrastination. You are essentially convincing yourself that you are working when you’re not. This is as dangerous as passive procrastination.   If you are an entrepreneur you should aim to do between 3-5 hours of work a day. Make sure these hours are high quality where you are focused, not distracted and all your unnecessary devices are switched off. Push through your desires to become distracted so that you can train your mind to concentrate.   Many people think that meditation is emptying your thoughts when actually it is learning the ability to control the thoughts that you have. It is mastering the ability to think about nothing and is essentially the technique of intense concentration.   Good, meaningful, deep work trains you to concentrate and resist all the urges you have to give in to distraction. Taking time away from social media will open your eyes to how many urges you have given into previously. Sitting still for 15 minutes and counting how many urges you have to check your phone or social media is likely to shock you.   BEST MOMENTS “I don’t really fear the unknown as much as other people, I quite enjoy it, it excites me.” “If you work eight hours a day, how many of those are productive?” “Meditation is the power of concentration.”   [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979 disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

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0:00.0

Welcome to the disruptive entrepreneur podcast.

0:05.0

What does the word disruptive mean to you?

0:07.0

It means going beyond the ordinary, going beyond the status quo.

0:10.0

Not thinking in the conventional way, not just sort of following the herd

0:13.8

disruptive means taking things up you know

0:16.2

Disruptive entrepreneur is somebody who sees the problem and embraces the problem with a new way

0:21.8

Shake up an awakening.

0:23.0

Quality will take care of itself

0:25.0

and you'll go for being disruptive but also profitable.

0:28.0

When you use your reservoir of talent,

0:30.0

when you love what you do, then you disrupt.

0:32.0

Mix it up, change it up and dominate and now your

0:35.0

host eight times best-selling author and double world record holder

0:39.5

Rob Moore. Hi Rob here and I've been thinking a lot recently, how many hours do you actually need to work

0:51.0

to fulfill your roles responsibilities key result areas, your vision, your mission

0:58.8

and to get enough done to feel fulfilled and progressing but maybe not so that you're obsessing about

1:06.2

work. And I think I have the answer. I like to go for walks in the woods. I have this little place which I come and sit in sometimes on my own and reflect on things.

1:23.0

And one of the things I've been reflecting on recently is workaholism.

1:30.0

And I admit it, I say it publicly I definitely can get lured into working for the sake of

1:42.0

working or feeling like I've always got to work or feeling like I always want to work or feeling like if I don't, I'll miss out or fall behind.

1:56.1

Or feeling like work is great therapy

1:59.4

for covering, papering over cracks maybe in my personal life.

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