Welcome welcome you find folk to Episode 12 of the view from the crow's nest with me. The Crow, Romeo crow. Today's little episode. Takes a form of some thoughts that I had on speaking to my mother earlier today. I had a video call with my mom, and she is a counsellor, and she has recently taken or recently studied harder and invested into becoming accredited in a certain way I'm not entirely sure why it is, forgive me. But the net result is that she's now able to take on clients through insurance, and as it transpires she's now starting to get quite a lot of clients coming to her through insurance and it seems that there's a lot of work there. And she said to me that she, you know she's taken on a few clients but she's going to, you know, have to sort of turn down some work because she's just too busy. And I said well what too busy with what kind of stuff means she is busy but I wanted to get to the kind of the crux of it. And she's like well you know between doing the housework and they moved house last year and the garden isn't sorted in the garden it's pride and joy, you know, getting the garden sorted and walking the dogs every day. And she works three days a week. In another office, and x y Zed blah blah blah. And I said, So, and this is the point of today's podcast is. She's kind of thinking about it the wrong way around because if she's turning down work which is very well paid work because it's a very professional job. She's turning down work so that she can do chores like you know mowing the grass and taking the dogs for a walk, which she enjoys but she does find very tiring, you know, especially the dogs every day take them out for an hour, and she's got lots of other bits and bobs to do. And I said, if you think about how much you earn for the hour to do an hour of counselling, and then compare that to paying somebody else to do some of the chores that you currently do that maybe take you out for example, paying someone a few nights a week to take the dogs for a walk. would be one, you know one example of it. And she was well yeah so you mean did it. Sit but the the important part of this idea is not thinking of it as you are shirking doing stuff you don't like. But it's actually, you are. You kind of owe it to yourself to, to, to get as much from your time as possible with everybody that's the one resource that we all have the same amount of. per day. And we never know how many days we're going to have, and you're never going to get it back time is the most precious resource that we can have. So, if you have two hours of chores that you do in a week. And you have the opportunity to work. One more hour to earn enough money, simply to pay even if it's just simply to pay less let's say for ease of mass, you can hire somebody to do these two hours of chores per week, and it will cost you 20 pounds 10 pounds per hour for each of those hours, and you're able to do something out to do your own work and bring in 20 pounds for one hour of your own work, then you're far better to do the extra hour of work get paid 20 pounds, and then spend exactly that 20 pounds on paying somebody else to do two hours of chores, or other work for you, so that the net result is, you're working one hour. Instead of working two hours. So you've claimed one more hour backfill life, and obviously I'm simplifying it here. But this is an absolutely key fundamental idea, and certainly one which I've really held front and centre in my mind, and I've referenced this quite a lot in different ways. But one of the ways is that I've said it before, is to get the same or better results for less resource, particularly time. So, I'm always looking at how I can leverage my time how I can be more efficient with my time and sometimes that might be paying somebody else or bringing somebody else into the team to take on some work. So the amplify the amount that you can get done in the same amount of hours. Sometimes it might be very often it's finding a new proc
