Intro

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 Hey everybody, it's Scott. Welcome to. The TL DL episode from my conversation with Andrew Hartman, founder of Time Boss Fractional, COO, who learned the devastating cost of grinding without boundaries. Tl dl, of course, short for too long, didn't listen. So I encourage you when you get a second to go back, and this is the full episode, but certainly this quick summary.

In terms of his remarkable 15 year journey, starting from when his sense of smell was taken away from him for six months to what he now has as his highest sustainable pace, and his time boss framework proves that you don't need to choose between. Professional excellence and personal wellbeing. So let's dig into a couple of the takeaways from my conversation with him.

The Grind Works Until It Doesn't

First, he came to a realization that grinding actually does work in the short term because if you just care about results, the grind is actually a pretty good strategy in his opinion. But. It is going to cause crash and burn if you continue to hit that grind button. And has he explained how he lost his sense of smell for six months?

He could feel his senses all being baked from the stress. Hot flashes, all of the physiological warning signs were there. But there was just this consistent mantra of stay with the grind, stay with the grind, stay with the grind. And it really resonates with our Corvus principle that true success cannot come from well, I'm just going to invest more and more and more of my time and energy.

That's not sustainable over time. So we have to make sure that we don't pretend that we have unlimited capacity.

Time as Cash Philosophy

The second is Andrew's breakthrough concept that. To treat time like cash, not credit. And as he's observed, most people treat time like credit. Stuff comes at them, they say yes, and they swipe a card and they don't evaluate, can actually pay that credit card off.

And his analogy is brilliant because it forces us to put constraints against our creativity. And because we've put Chris. Constraints against our creativity, it actually produces solutions that are even more ingenious. So as he explained, when he limited himself to 50 hours of income generating opportunities for Time Boss, it asks him.

What does he need? What does his price need to be? How do I increase the value of what I'm offering? It can find you to solutions that can actually be executed in the real world and achieve excellence through those constraints, not through endless expansion of resources, which again, very key concept here in the six degrees of liberation that we have

Presence Through Systems

Finally. His game changing insight on the presence at home in terms of commitment plans, and one of the biggest things that he talks about is that. You have to make sure that your brain has checked out from work when you are ready to be at home. As he explained the undone work in the brain, it feels like the next room over and it's on fire, and we want to go and put out that fire and check things off, but that's always gonna be a perpetual cycle because you're always gonna have another room that's on fire.

He explains that things exist for him in a system, not in his head. And when he offloads that at the end of the day and he closes his laptop, he has the trust in himself that there's enough time. The system will continue to operate and that he can just be a father. He can just be a husband. He doesn't have to think about the million things on his list because he can just focus on being present.

And I think that that. Really played into his marathon analogy in terms of finding your highest sustainable pace. Look, if you are one of those people who goes out too fast, I know this from my former marathon days, and then you are dogging it at the end, you really aren't doing it right. You gotta find the pace which suits you, irrespective of all the runners around you.

In order for you to have a successful run, and that was Andrew's main message, which is take the pace, which is gonna be best for you, that's gonna produce the most impact and most sustainable pace for you. Over the long run, so I encourage you to check out the full episode. I also encourage you to check out Andrew's company.

It is Time Boss Us. That is Time Boss Us. Also check out his 90 minute masterclass there and remember. He concluded with this,

as leaders, we are going to get the life that we choose, or we are going to get the life that we tolerate. And most people are just tolerating their life.

You know where I stand? And you know what? CORVUS stands?

Don't have a life that you tolerate. Have a life that you choose that gives you the freedom that you are looking for. Until next time, take care.  

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