Episode Transcript

What’s Up Everybody? Welcome back to THE a.m guys, welcome back to five minute rants.

So today, guys, I want to talk about two miles. I’m talking about running distance. I want to talk about two miles. And I want to talk about it for this reason. It’s the same distance with multiple levels of difficulty in between. And I use this a lot, Andrew and I talk, actually a lot about this in the company, and we talk about where we’re at.

So when I talk about two miles, think of it this way. The end of the two miles, the finish line for running two miles is the goal. This is where we want to be. This is what we want to be like. However, how fast I run that two miles determines the difficulty of the journey. So, for instance, a lot of people who want to get to the end quickly, right? The difficulty increases with speed. So the more speed you have, the harder things get. Now I’m not talking about efficiency in a company moving along, because it’s built an engine that you can drive on a car or with a car to the end of that two miles. We’re talking about how most people start, which is just feet and legs, walking and running.

So if you think about that two miles like a goal, and then how fast do you want to accomplish that speed’s going to determine difficulty, pretty hard. Okay? And if you run at a slow pace slash walk, that’s going to be a lot easier to get to the two miles, then full on sprint for Hey, I’m trying to run five minute miles, okay, or six minute miles for the two miles, it’s going to be radically different, and it’s going to require two totally different levels of discipline.

It’s interesting, because the reason why I bring this up is if you pre work and you pre determine the work that’s needed to create the processes, the infrastructure and all the things you need within a company. You can normally run that two mile pace at a manageable pace. However, if you don’t run that up front, and now you’re on a time crunch, I have to run that two miles within 11 minutes in order to make it, or I’m going to fail, man, you’ve put yourself in a bad spot. Now here’s the other thing about the two miles. Have you done prep work to actually increase your turns before running? Have you actually done the upfront work to train for the two mile race? And did you get to the start line on time? Or are you late? When you’re late at the start line, your finish time goes up.

And so you have all these factors which eventually lead you to cool I’m running on hard mode. I’m running where the difficulty level is extreme and high. And I may or may not make this Now it’s interesting, because Andrew and I actually talk a lot about how slow, smooth and smooth is fast when you’re building in time and in rhythm. When you’re building in step with where you should be and you’re doing the work that you should be along the way, the journey is a lot easier, and you’d normally end up at the same location is if you are procrastinating, or even if you did it earlier. And so you’ll always end up at the end of that two miles. It’s just determining the difficulty of how to get there and when you want to get there.

So for instance, if you’re building a company from the ground up, and your main focus wasn’t infrastructure, all you did was focus on marketing, sales, and then you didn’t put infrastructure in place. You didn’t put processes. You don’t have culture and all this stuff. Man, the life that you’re going to live while putting that stuff in is going to be on fire versus how do we do all three at the same time and do it in a sustainable way to where we’re growing at a pace that’s not going to destroy us from the inside out because of our lack of infrastructure, and is not going to actually hurt the company, but will actually facilitate growth. And so when you have that, all of a sudden, the journey becomes radically smoother, better and easier, but I’m still ending up at the same place at the end of that two miles that everybody else did who did it differently, they may have gotten to the end quicker, but it doesn’t mean they actually survived what they should have or passed their time wise.

And so I’m saying all of this because there are certain things that hurt you in the journey. Procrastination hurts you right now. There’s something to be said for you’re way too early in what you’re building, and it’s not needed, and what you’re building doesn’t work because you’re too early. I’m guilty of that. However, there’s the other side where, cool, you didn’t build anything, and that’s hurting you badly, too. And so the point is, is there’s a balance to running this.

And so the two mile analogy is, don’t procrastinate, where all of a sudden you’re out of time to run the race, and don’t be so early that it doesn’t even matter when you finish right you need to really just be in time. And timing is a big thing for leadership. Being in the right time, in the right place is even betterBetter than being prepared to fight the battle.

And so all that being said, timing is huge, and see where you are at the race, see where you are at in the two miles, and how hard things are going to get or how easy things are going to be.

Anyways, guys, I’ll catch you later. Peace.