Good holidays and welcome to Episode 13 of the view from the crow's nest unlucky for some But lucky for all of us that we're in this place here right now. Today's episode is going to be a kind of a secondary part yesterday potentially a little caveat or a different way of looking at things. And I think that the, and I'm sure I'm not alone, that there is so much opportunity in the world there's opportunity to do so much and the problem is having enough time to take full advantage of all these wonderful opportunities that we have personal opportunities business opportunities growth learning opportunities travel opportunities. All of these things. And I'm going to focus a little bit more about business opportunities today, in the sense of how it can be quite overwhelming, with all of these opportunities for people, especially people who aren't so experienced or ofay with business or certainly have a mindset which is maybe a little bit more challenged by all these things that can be done so Case in point A few days ago I was talking on the podcast about speaking about limited mindsets and victim mentality. And I was speaking somebody particular, and they were saying yeah well I'd love to be able to do this with my business but I can't because you know it's just all beyond me and blah blah blah. And that person is very typical of I think a lot of people particularly people who have maybe given themselves a professional skill, and they're leveraging that skill for, you know, a bit of a higher salary. So an example would be my mom, this was talking about yesterday. She's a counsellor, and she's got professional qualifications she's trained herself up and she works and I was talking yesterday about leveraging your time. So, if just a quick recap on yesterday, if you couldn't get another client. And let's say your finger in the air. It gets you 50 pounds for an hour. Then, much better to have that climb at 50 pounds an hour and spend 40 pounds. Paying other people to do other things that you don't have the time to do might be just chores like cleaning the house or walking the dogs or whatever it might be. But if you can pay somebody or pay a few people 40 pounds to do a bunch of jobs that would normally take you two hours. And in that one hour, you can make 50 pounds. By using your professional skills in whatever capacity, they're not only have you made 10 pounds overall but more importantly you've saved an hour of your time. So you've actually almost doubled your hourly rate, in a sense, and it's all about increasing your hourly rate. So, don't think about how much you make overall think about what you're worth per hour if you work for an employer and you get paid annually. Work out your hourly rate it's a really good exercise, and then look at ways that you can increase your hourly rate by leveraging your time and getting other people to join the team and do things on your behalf, or increasing your skill set so you can get paid more etc etc. So listen to yesterday's episode if you want to hear more about that. But the kind of Flipside to that is, well that's all well and good, in theory, but it's a bit. It's a bit overwhelming if you haven't kind of gone down that road before about well okay how do I start getting paid for these professional skills that I've got How do I leverage my time How do I do all these things. And the first thing a lot of people will tell you will be okay well you've got to get a website together, and you've got to get them, you know, funnels and mailing lists and client prospects of leads and deliver and all of this stuff and blah blah blah. And this is really overwhelming for a lot of people I got friends who have started businesses where a lot of people do. They have a profession, they're working for others. They've grown their experience of growing their skill set, possibly even growing client base on behalf of their employer, and then they decide to start their own business doing more or less the same th
