This week I’ve been promoting my Time Conqueror Challenge. And this is the last email I'll send about it.
If you’re on the fence, let me tell you more
about why I created the challenge:
The other day I overheard a conversation between two hoity-toity types. And one of
the fellows was talking about why he’d decided to leave his job.
In his own words: “so I can see my friends at 6pm on a Friday”.
He went on to say that he was fed up of late night toil and grafting just to put money in the pocket of his head
honchos.
His companion responded: “but why will your friends be free at 6pm on a Friday? Won’t they be working too?”.
As the back-and-forth continued, it became obvious the second guy just couldn’t wrap his head around the fact that some people would rather not be working until midnight every day.
Of course, there are people who love their jobs so much that they’d chain themselves to their desks if they could.
They’re the kind who chirp about “sleeping when
I’m dead”.
Good for them.
But that’s not the life for me.
Sure, there were lots of Fridays where
I’d work late into the night. And Tuesday and Wednesday evenings when Lauren would literally have to drag me from my laptop to bed.
(not like that!)
But here’s the difference:
I was very clear in my head that I DID NOT WANT TO BE WORKING.
I wasn’t
working late for some misguided reason about how being busy meant I was important. Or so I could brag about how much work I had.
It was the complete opposite. Working late into the evening for years on end was a gut-wrenching, chastening experience.
It gave me a knot in my stomach and a feeling of nausea that never quite went away. It felt like my life spirit was actually being sucked out of me, drip by drip.
But I didn’t have the tools to manage my workload better and faster. Or to stay on an even keel when my inbox was lighting up like a Christmas
Tree.
This is why I created Time Conqueror.
In some respects, the challenge is written for the “me” of 2, 5 or 10 years ago.
It’s full of the things I wish I’d known then, but only know
now.
And if you’re the sort of person who doesn’t enjoy being overworked, you might want to take the lessons I’ve learnt and save some hours, days or weeks of your own.
Interested?
I’m only making Time Conqueror available to people who are
signed up to my emails.
So if you’d like to join, here’s the link.