Ep. 4 – How Do I Find My Work
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Ep. 4 – How Do I Find My Work
Not all work is the same.
Life is made up of boxes and boundaries.
Health
Finances
Property
Relationships
Work
Questions:
How do I find my work?
How do I manage the work?
How do I execute the work?
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Not all work is the same. Life is made up of boxes and boundaries. Health Finances Property Relationships […]
June 17, 2023
Episode Transcript
Michael Abernathy 0:00
Hey what’s up everybody? How are you? I hope you’re doing well. And I hope you’re doing good. Welcome to the am welcome to today’s episode.
So last week, we talked about the three types of work. Well, last week, listen to me. Last episode, we talked about the three types of work. Today’s episode, we’re going to talk about how do I actually find my work?
Great. We know about the three types of work Rhythm, Process, Technical, right, those three where they are, again, Just to reiterate Real quick. Rhythm is the vision, the flow, how everything moves and ebbs, right? Processes, is the management, the oversight in the franchisement things. Technical is the execution of the work, and the actual doing of what’s been processed out, following the blueprint.
So the question is, how do I find my work? Okay. So, when you are working, whether at a job, home, wherever you’re at, whenever you’re executing against something, the way that you find your work, is to stop and ask yourself, what job position am I in? Am I being an entrepreneur? Am I in that Rhythm stage? Am I being a manager right now actually leading directing kind of guiding in that Process stage? Or am I actually putting the nuts and bolts together, of the thing that I’m trying to assemble, makes sense?
So to go over a few things to help you find your work. So life in general, and I think business, and business always reflects life. So whoever people are, however people are, that’s how business is reflected. So this applies to business too.
We’ve got boxes and boundaries we’ve got, in my opinion, we have five areas of work, we have our Health, our physical health, our spiritual health, our emotional health, so just health, we have our finances. We have Property, the things under our care, our assets, cars, houses, whatever clothes, we have Relationships, right? Whether you’re married or not, wether you have friends or not, boyfriend, girlfriend, whatever is happening. And then we have Work, right? Work, what am I executing on?
And so when you’re doing work when you’re at home, and or when you’re trying to build something, because this was revolutionary for me, alright, it was revolutionary for me, in business, in my home life, realizing to pause and stop and simply ask myself, what box am I working in? Am I working in the health box, the finance box, the property box, the relationship box, or my work box?
And then also, what type of work am I doing in that box? Rhythm? Am I actually putting together a vision for my health? What is my health look like for y’all? I’m currently on the get un fat program. So I’m counting my calories, I’m exercising, I’m working out, I’m really trying to take care of myself, the rhythm for that the vision for that, I want to see my grandkids, I would like to go to my granddaughter’s wedding, that would be amazing. I don’t have a granddaughter yet. But what I’m saying is in the future, that’s where I want to get. The process, what am I going to do? Okay, what am I going to do, here’s my processes, my tactics, I’m going to count my calories. Right, and this is all in the Health Box, I’m going to count my calories, I’m going to put them in an app and take care of everything. And then the technical. Well, guess what? I’m actually after I eat my meal, going to input those numbers into that app. And that’s the execution.
So again, those boxes, how do you find your work, you got to know what box you’re working in. And then you got to know what job position you’re working in Rhythm, Process or Technical. So the boxes Health, Finances, Property, Relationships, Work, those are the boxes, and then the types of work our Rhythm, Process and Technical. Make sense?
And so how do you find your work? How do you manage work? How do you execute it? You’ve got to know where you’re doing, where you’re working, if you’ve ever worked in a factory or manufacturing plant, everything’s arranged by workstation. And that’s how we need to arrange our lives. And oftentimes, we go on autopilot, because the job’s has done this for us. It’s hey, it’s time to go to work nine to five, and that’s when check my work box. But the problem is, nobody else is doing that for our health. Nobody else is doing that for our finances. Nobody else is doing that for our property or relationships. Those are on me to take care of most of work is taken care of like I have a work schedule. Work takes care of work that box, don’t want to think about but I do need to think about health. I do need to think about finances, property and relationships. You know, I’m married, so I would rather not have to sleep on the couch and I’d rather you know, stay in the same bed if you understand what I’m saying.
Anyways, guys. Thanks for joining. I hope you’ll have a great day we’re a couple seconds over and I’ll talk to you soon. Peace!