I recently read about a woman, named Joanna, who has the condition M.E. which prevents her from enjoying a ‘normal’ life.
Being wracked with pain and constantly being tired and fatigued, she struggles to do in a day what most people can do in a couple of hours.
M.E. robs people of their lives and leaves them with very little energy.
The Scottish doctor, Darrel Ho-Yen, first coined the concept that if energy was money, healthy people would have $100 to spend each day, and those with M.E. would have only $10.
M.E. affects people differently.
People who have it bad may only have $10 worth of energy per day, less severe sufferers may have a few dollars more to spend, but they will still have a lot less than a normal healthy person.
To this day, specialists do not know what actually causes M.E. although it has long been thought that it was a condition left over after a viral infection.
Long Covid is similar to M.E. and with it being a condition born from having the Coronavirus, it is adding credibility to the idea that M.E. is a hangover after a virus.
The reason I am telling you this is that Joanna manages her day by using a system called ‘pacing’.
Pacing is a way sufferers get the most out of their days by doing a little bit, then resting before their M.E. symptoms get too bad and take over.
They use the symptoms as a warning sign letting them know when it is time to stop and rest. If they don’t stop and rest, they can wipe themselves out and become laid up for days.
In the article she spoke about how it took four days to wash and scrub clean the balcony at her home.
Anyone without M.E. might have come home from a day’s work and done it in a couple of hours before sitting down for their evening meal.
The balcony floor was six tiles wide and quite long.
Because of her aches, pains and energy levels, she was unable to do the whole balcony in one go and so she focused on cleaning the floor in two tile strips which took her three days to complete.
She started by spending one day cleaning the low balcony wall, before moving onto the floor.
It took her four days to clean the whole balcony.
Getting it cleaned was a fantastic achievement for her and left her feeling good about herself for getting it done.
She’d rather not have M.E. and would prefer to be able to do the job in a couple of hours like other people, however, it is what it is and she has to manage the condition as best as she can.
What is important here, and the reason why I am sharing this story with you today, is that she gets things done by breaking them down into easier manageable tasks.
She doesn’t throw herself into a task and try to do it all at once, and then hit burn-out resulting in it not being finished.
She paces herself and takes necessary breaks to ensure that she has the mental and physical energy to complete the job, even if it takes days to do.
This is something that we can all learn from, even those of us who are healthy and have an abundance of energy, stamina, and mental clarity.
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Recently, we have published several new products which will make several thousand pounds in sales, possibly tens of thousands of pounds.
Those products are pretty simple to create and can change the financial situations of those who created them, but… very few people who start to create similar products actually finish them.
The reason for that is most people jump in and fail to pace themselves accordingly.
They start off strong with a fast sprint, but then they start to wane and eventually hit burn-out.
People start with a good intention of creating a product they can sell which could make them a lot of money, but because they have been at work, or busy with family or other commitments, they fail to consider that they need to have a plan to follow which will allow them to rest when necessary.
When people become tired and don’t get the necessary rest, they crash and then… they quit.
We all love to hear stories of people who worked a long 14 hour shift at work, then hit the gym for an hour, went home and had meal time with the family before reading a bedtime story to their children… and then… work until 2am writing a book or creating a product that eventually gives them financial freedom.
Those are powerful stories.
They are very inspirational and motivational.
However…
They are also exceptionally rare.
They are more the exception than the rule.
The rule is that most people start something and then stop because they tried to do too much too soon.
There are loads of unfinished products and projects that could have been life changing, but because a plan was not followed, people hit burn-out and stopped.
Had they followed a plan and ‘paced’ themselves like Joanna, they would have finished their products.
If you have a product idea, break it down into easy-to-manage chunks, such as chapters in a book, and plan to work on those chunks or chapters over a set period of time.
I recall talking to a guy who had an idea for a product which he thought would require a small PDF guide, and around ten short videos.
Several years later, he still hadn’t finished it because he threw himself into it; he tried to do too much at once, hit burn-out, stopped, and never went back to it.
Had he made a plan that he would write a page or two of the PDF guide a day until it was finished, and then record one video per day/every other day until the whole project was finished, he could have enjoyed a lot of extra money over the last few years.
But he didn’t…
He had the idea, created a list of what the product needed, and then threw himself all in hoping to ‘knock it all out’ within a few days.
Had he not tried to ‘knock it all out’ fast, and instead decided to do it at a more of a dawdle pace, he would have completed it and banked the money he was hoping for.
Sometimes it pays to pace yourself and not rush.
As the saying goes, less haste, more speed.
This is a perfect example of the tortoise and the hare.
With there being 365 days in each year and it being at least three years since he had the product idea, he has had around 1,095 days to get the product finished.
But instead he wanted it done in five days or less which resulted in it not being done and him not earning a penny extra.
It’s ridiculous.
I often talk to people who tell me that they have had a great idea for a product or a project and then years later I ask if they ever finished it only to be told that they haven’t.
Either I am told that they didn’t have enough time, of that they started it but got distracted somehow.
When you take into consideration how many years have passed, they have had more than enough time to get it finished.
Pacing yourself by using a realistic plan will ensure that you get things done.
It’s better to take three months to do something even though you’d rather do it within a week, than look back several years later and wonder why you didn’t finish it.
If you cannot achieve things fast, be like Joanna, achieve them slowly. It’s better to achieve what you want than to not achieve it and be left with feelings of regret and frustration.
Kind regards.
John Harrison.
PS. Pacing yourself is vital when it comes to making money. Making smaller regular amounts will grow into larger amounts.
Far too many people want ‘the big fast win’ but soon become disappointed and despondent when they don’t get it.
And while they are bemoaning their luck and feeling sorry for themselves, those people who are constantly making regular small amounts of money are flying past them and growing their wealth.
And they do it by pacing themselves, and that is exactly what Dan Edwards does with his Z15 Profit System.
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