Yesterday I decided that I’d like to spend 9-10 hours a day working single-mindedly on one task.
I’ve been wondering what single task I’d like to spend my working hours on. I think the first thing I need to do is create a systemized instructor training program. After that, I think I’d like to alternate my focus between recruiting (hiring and training new instructors) and marketing (finding students for the new instructors to teach.)
I have my doubts.
I’m stuck in indecision mode. To get myself out of it, I’ve decided to spend 8 hours tomorrow (Wednesday) on the above-mentioned plan and 1 hour afterward in reflection to see how it feels. I’ll decide from there what to do next.
Here’s why I have doubts.
While it’s difficult to have a significant positive impact on “the world,” I feel it is realistic for you to have a significant positive impact on “your world.” I’d define “your world” as everyone you know and everything in your direct sphere of impact. I believe that if you act properly, you can have a significant positive impact on “your world.”
I have thought a lot about this, especially in recent years.
I’ve wondered if my time is best spent on solving a serious problem in “my world.” For instance, I have had personal experience recently with incredibly long emergency room wait times in Calgary. I know someone else who also experienced this herself just the other day too. Were these just one-off instances or is it a real problem in my city?
Let’s assume, for the moment, that it is a serious problem.
What if I spent 15 years, working 9-10 hours a day, trying to find a solution? Couldn’t I do something about that? Isn’t that a better use of my time than growing my current business? I’d, likely, find that just as fulfilling as running the Calgary Language Nerds. Maybe more.
I feel there are serious problems that I could be spending my time on.
Isn’t that what I should be doing instead of marketing my business? I don’t know. Maybe upon further research I’d find that the emergency room wait times problem is not something that I actually can do much about. Maybe it isn’t even a big problem. Who knows.
But isn’t there another problem I could solve then that’s more meaningful and impactful than simply growing the Calgary Language Nerds?
I just don’t know right now.
Thank you for reading this. Here are some topics I plan to cover in future posts.
Continued updates on my business
Same goes for how I’m helping Gujarati learners
What hobbies will I pursue in my free time? Probably becoming fit will be the first one, but we’ll see
Dating - am I going on 1 date a week? Is that the plan here?
Just how weird am I? If I truly am a pretty unusual person, can I use this to my advantage?