Tactical Speed.
Do every task faster than you normally do.
It takes you 35 minutes to write an article? Get it done in 20 minutes.
You go to the gym for an hour? Finish your workouts in 30 minutes.
This is the moment-by-moment, hour-by-hour speed that most people are referring to when they talk about moving faster.
Tactical speed is useful — as a full day of its application can shave a few hours off of your workflows; hours that you can use for other things.
The challenge with Tactical speed is that you’re still doing the same stuff — just faster. What if your activities are simply the WRONG activities?
We have a fix for that…
Strategic Speed.
This is a change in plans and in the applications of said plans.
For example, during my basketball career, I applied many of the strategies of Tim Ferriss’ “Four Hour Body” to my weight room workouts. I got bigger and stronger with 20-minute workouts than what I’d gotten from 90-minute workouts.
Strategic speed requires new information and new applications for achieving goals. My goal was still to lift weights and have muscles; I just found a more efficient way to do it.
In business, making money is always the goal.
But, you can make money by selling $4.99 programs to young basketball players (this is where I started), or selling $15 books to readers (many thought leaders begin here), or selling $10,000+ coaching & mastermind programs, speaking and consulting jobs (where I reside currently).
They all make money. Just in different ways and at different levels of velocity.
Tim Ferriss created an entire genre (through his “Four-Hour” book series) around these first two levels.
Strategic speed requires abandoning your old ways of thinking — which is MUCH more a mindset challenge than a skill challenge.
There is an even higher level…
Wholesale Speed.
This is when you completely toss out your old habits, ideas and actions and adopt a whole new approach.
Not gradually, though. Immediately.
In 2015, I stopped playing basketball cold turkey and jumped feet-first into entrepreneurship. I spent my first year cold-calling and cold-selling myself as a professional speaker while pushing my books and courses and basketball programs.
Yesterday morning, I was listening to a business training program where the speaker dropped an off-hand idea that caught my attention. I wrote it down and talked to my assistant about it. Yesterday afternoon, I created a pipeline process for it, and created a 28-minute “explainer” video for my staff to implement their part of the process.
We will begin reaching out to our target people TODAY.
That’s wholesale speed.
Wholesale speed requires mental and emotional openness. A willingness to try new things while the thought is still alive in your head, and to kill the “sacred cows” that are no longer providing milk.
Most people can’t and won’t do this. Which is why people don’t change or grow much beyond who they were when you met them.
The speed of change scares them.
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You might think that Wholesale speed is the best of the three. On the contrary, ALL THREE in unison is the best thing to do.
Move faster.
Be agile in adjusting your plans.
Drop everything when it’s clear something is not working, and use a novel approach.
All three make for serious speed and urgency. This is a pace that we usually apply only when we “need” it.
The best time to need it then is, “all the time.”
This starts as a conscious thought. Then it becomes a habit and a lifestyle.
This is what you’ll learn — along with the implementations of each — when working with me in Work On Your Game University.
Join here so you can implement with speed, reach your goals MUCH faster, and stop watching days go by without significant progress.
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