Yesterday I told you that I would be spending 8 hours today on recruiting.
Read yesterday’s post here. Initially, I planned on making materials to onboard and train new instructors faster, allowing for faster growth at the CLN. I need that prepared before I focus heavily on hiring new people.
After spending 8 hours on creating those materials, I was going to write a blog post to share my progress.
I jumped the gun a little bit.
First of all, I forgot to take into account that:
I’m looking after my sister all evening today
I had three classes and one meeting scheduled
Since I limit my working time to 9-10 hours a day and 50 hours per week, I wasn’t able to spend 8 hours on that one task.
Furthermore, when I sat down to work on recruiting the creative part of me took over.
I wrote non-stop. I don’t know exactly how many pages I ended up writing as I deleted what I wrote after I finished. I didn’t really have any intentions of sharing or keeping what I wrote. I did, however, record a podcast, which I did post.
I was able to spend about 3 hours or so today single-mindedly on the task of writing podcasting.
Here’s what I learned from today.
Lesson #1: I don’t think it’s time to try tackling a societal problem.
I mentioned yesterday that I was considering spending my working hours solving a societal problem. The reason is explained by looking at lesson #2.
Lesson #2: I’m more convinced that I’d like to spend time growing the CLN.
Let’s say I can 5x my business in terms of revenue. I would learn a lot in the process. I’d then have more money and skills at my disposal to apply to solving a societal problem. If I play my cards right, I might also have a better network in place to help me do so.
Lesson #3: The ability to grow and run a business might just be the best skill for me to further develop.
If I develop this skill, I can start, grow, and run an organization that aims to ameliorate a societal problem. Therefore, the more success I have at my current business the more it stands to reason that I could apply those same skills to run an equally large, if not larger, organization in the future with the aim of solving or improving a societal problem.
I’ll spend more time mulling over this at a later date.
Lesson #4: My single-minded focus, perhaps, should be on writing and podcasting.
Here’s why. I can use (and already do use) writing and podcasting as ways to clarify my thinking. Therefore, I think I could use blogs and podcasts to hash out exactly what my next steps should be to grow the CLN. I can then work with my team, or hire others as needed, to help bring my ideas to life.
Lesson #5: I might just need to spend time in the Inner World and the Outer World
After spending hours writing and podcasting today, I was tired of being in my own head. I actually looked forward to tasks I usually don’t want to do such as administrative work. I also had more fun than usual teaching. It was a break from being in my head and…maybe a cathartic relief to do something in the Outer World instead of in my head (i.e., the Inner World.)
Lesson #6: Life doesn’t care about your plans.
I can think, think, think, and plan, plan, plan all day. Life doesn’t care. Everything I am currently working on or plan on doing in the future may change on a dime.
Let’s see where tomorrow leads me!
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?