1528: Getting Huge Chunks of Work Done by Tynan on Adopting an Iterative Approach

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[00:01:19] No work, except für writing this post before I go to sleep.

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[00:01:30] done in short periods of time. We all get work done. It's easy to find time to send an email,

[00:01:35] do a couple errands, and make some progress on a project. But how do you do the big things like

[00:01:40] write a book, start a new site, or find and purchase a property? You're going to be disappointed

[00:01:45] when I tell you the answer because it's obvious and it's not a hack. One of my coaching clients

[00:01:51] had a goal of writing a book within two years. He'd been working on it for a while, had a great

[00:01:56] idea for the plot and had made some progress. But he wasn't sure he was on track to finish it in two

[00:02:01] years. Three months later, the first draft was done and he had begun editing. I used the same process

[00:02:07] with him that I used for myself. Last month, I left on a 15-day cruise on which I wanted to write my

[00:02:13] next book. Two weeks later, it's just about done. It turned out it needs to be longer than I planned,

[00:02:19] so I'll repeat the process on a shorter scale to finish. First, I figured out how long the book

[00:02:24] was going to be. Usually, my books are 30,000 words, so I used that as a goal. I then added 10%

[00:02:31] because I'd rather overshoot by a little bit. With 15 days on the cruise, that meant that I had

[00:02:36] to write 2,200 words per day. That's a lot, but not an insane amount. On an average day,

[00:02:42] it would take 90 to 120 minutes. It's an intense 90 to 120 minutes, but it's also the only work I really

[00:02:49] needed to do. If my goal every day was to write a book, I'd probably be daunted by the scale and

[00:02:55] would procrastinate and find reasons to stop early. In fact, that's how I tried to write Life Nomadic,

[00:03:01] and it took forever and was stressful. The trick here is that you can mentally equate writing 2,200

[00:03:07] words with having a completed book. That always feels like it's worth it, so it's easy to just bang

[00:03:12] out the words even if there's something I'd rather be doing. As soon as I don't write my 2,200 words,

[00:03:17] I know the book won't get done. If I only write 1,000 instead of 2,200 today, then I know I

[00:03:23] definitely can't trust myself to make it up and write 3,400 tomorrow. So by that logic,

[00:03:28] I can pin the entire completion of the book on whether or not I complete my modest daily task.

[00:03:33] When you have that sort of leverage, you just do it. It's not a close enough call to think about it

[00:03:38] and rationalize and weasel. You just do it. Back when I would go out and was scared to talk to girls,

[00:03:44] I'd hand my car keys to my friend and tell him he keeps my car if I don't talk to X more girls.

[00:03:50] Then there's no fear left because there's no thought on whether or not I'm going to do it.

[00:03:54] I like setting up systems where the easiest thing to do is succeed. If I come up with a plan and it's

[00:03:59] going to require everything going right and daily willpower and making the correct choice over and

[00:04:04] over again, I'm probably going to fail. But if I come up with a task that I am 100% confident I'm

[00:04:10] capable of and I structure it such that the path of least mental anguish is to complete the task,

[00:04:16] how will I fail? If you don't have a defined period of time like a cruise and lots of experience

[00:04:22] writing thousands of words a day, then you can just pick your daily rate and make sure the math works

[00:04:26] out. Almost anyone can write a thousand words a day, so anyone can write a book in one to two months.

[00:04:32] You still have to edit, but that's pretty easy because, again, it's easier to edit than not to.

[00:04:37] You've written the book. All you have to do to unlock the value to yourself and others is to edit it.

[00:04:43] What about if the project can't be so easily quantified? Estimate how many hours it will take

[00:04:49] to complete, add 10 to 20%, and just allocate those hours. Even if you finish, you'll be close enough

[00:04:55] that it's easy to put in the extra few hours. This sounds simple and obvious, but if that's so,

[00:05:01] why does no one do it? I don't have the answer, but you can do it. What's the big chunk of work

[00:05:07] that you need to get done? Break it up into small blocks, understand that if you don't complete one

[00:05:12] of the small blocks, you can't be trusted to complete the others, and thus that the benefit

[00:05:17] of completing each block is having the entire thing done. If you can do those things, it becomes

[00:05:22] fairly easy to do huge projects in short amounts of time.

[00:05:30] You just listened to the post titled, Getting Huge Chunks of Work Done, by Tynan of Tynan.com.

[00:05:37] And thank you to Tynan. He is an author, a coach, and a speaker who uses his unique set of experiences

[00:05:44] and skills to help people build habits and systems to reach their goals. And when I say unique,

[00:05:50] I really mean unique. He sold everything he owned to go on an extended world trip,

[00:05:55] then started a cruise agency, and lived in an RV for 10 years. His blog has a wide range of topics

[00:06:02] and stories, so that is definitely worth checking out. And as you can imagine, he likes to learn new

[00:06:07] things, build habits, explore the world, connect with awesome people, and create good work.

[00:06:13] His books are bestsellers on Amazon, and he was even named a top blogger by Time Magazine in 2013.

[00:06:19] You can check out his work and experiences at Tynan.com. That's T-Y-N-A-N.com,

[00:06:27] and I have that linked in this episode's description for you.

[00:06:30] And that's going to do it for today. Thank you so much for being here on this Friday edition of the

[00:06:34] show. Have a great rest of your day and start to your weekend, and I will be back with you tomorrow

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