Ep. 47 – Planned vs Unplanned Work
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Ep. 47 – Planned vs Unplanned Work
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Antiwork = Unplanned Work – Looking at the factory model. One of my purposes in life is removing […]
July 30, 2023
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Hey what’s up, everybody? Welcome back to THE a.m. guys. Welcome back to 5 Minute Rants. Welcome back to the tribe, guys. Thanks for tuning in everyone, I hope you all are doing well.
So today, everybody, I want to talk about planned versus unplanned work. And I’m going to start off with a little definition of what unplanned work is. So unplanned work, is any type of work in my life that pops up and starts a fire or begins a fire or exposes itself as a fire. So, something that immediately needs to be dealt with, that was not planned for. And as a result, it just starts losing chaos into my life, whether that’s at home, whether it’s at business, whether it’s like, during a date with my wife, and I get a phone call, and it’s like, oh, man, I’ve got to take care of problems. That’s unplanned work. And I really want to talk about this, because unplanned work is very, very, very expensive work, no matter what you’re doing.
So in the factory model, any work that has to be recalled or redone, or any problems, it floats back upstream down the factory line and it’s actually way more costly to bring the product back up the factory line. That’s often why a lot of retailers, if you ever buy from Amazon, they’ll actually tell you to keep the product because it costs them more in labor, more in work to actually restock and get the product that you ordered or bought, put back into the supply chain, then it would just make a whole entire new product. And that’s because it is unplanned work.
Unplanned work is very expensive, across the board. And I really believe one of my purposes in life. And if really agree with this or not, I think as people one of our purposes in life, is to remove chaos, and really create planned to work. And we like to do this by the way, we like to remove chaos. We like to remove and have things in order, like think about all the dads out there on Saturday morning, who loves cut their grass. And it’s a competition with a dad down the street for who’s got the nicest looking yard. Right? That’s removing chaos. And chaos is something that continually creeps into our lives and continually grows in our lives and one of our purposes is to combat that. To battle that. And the best way to do that is actually have planned work.
And when I say a plan, and when you’re planning out work I’m not talking about you have to have this elaborate, expansive, you know, Gantt chart, and all these timelines and milestones and tasks, all these things, it’s like, no, we have a plan for what is going to happen. If this event occurs in our life, this is what we’ll do. Right? This is what’s going to happen here.
So for instance, I’ll give you a really simple analogy of this. Having planned to work is this. I drive older cars, do it, it saves a lot of money. And so as a result, I know that they’re going to break down. And so What I’ve done is planned out the work. Planned out the money and set a fund aside. And this is taking something that’s chaotic, right? I don’t know when the car is going to have a problem. I don’t know when the car is gonna break down. It’s taking something that is unplanned. And that is actually anti-work. I want to take that. And it’s actually being planned for to remove that chaos because now I’ve created a fund that saves up over time because on average, I know about how much per year my car costs and maintenance and that fund is met. and that maintenance is met. And then guess what? Now it’s planned to work when the car has a problem. Oh, yep, we already have that set aside. Here we go. Let’s just go ahead and pay for that and fix that. Here we go. Done. Next move on, and then all the chaos is removed from our lives. Oh, if this if a car breaks down, this is what we do. This is the shop we take it to this is how we navigate work. This is how my wife navigates needing a vehicle and I do if we’re out of one vehicle, and so on and so forth. And it’s simple.
The biggest thing that I find when trying to plan things or build things, we tend to overcomplicate everything, it’s got to be this massive, flashy thing. Versus let me just take a piece of paper. And let me just scribble down some things. Because those few items about how we’re going to execute against and is really often all it takes in order for us to really move forward in life.
And so like it was just interesting talking with a good friend of mine, we were just talking about, you know, raising kids. And then how like, it’s really part of our job is to teach the kids how to be self sufficient, how to find their work, how to see their work, and then how to plan for the work and that’s really how a lot of this came up.
So I’m just throwing it out there. Unplanned work and fires are anti-work they cost you more in labor. They cost you more in finances and so many other things even in your household you don’t even know. And if you can just eliminate a few things like that it will be world changing.
Anyways guys, I’m running over so I will catch you all later peace!