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Entrepreneurs love to move fast,
getting things done and checking

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off boxes is what fuels us.

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This is also what drives
a lot of us to burnout.

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What if I told you that to
speed up, you actually have

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to slow down in this episode.

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We're going to explore the
idea that moving too fast,

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actually hinders your progress.

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I'm Amin Ahmed.

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Welcome to be.

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Well, do well.

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I wanna start with a quick story.

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About my nine year old son, as
with most young boys, he likes

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to play with his trains and toys.

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He enjoys video games.

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He loves YouTube and he's a bit of
a techie himself, but he puts up a

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lot of resistance when it comes to
practicing his music or doing homework.

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He's a really good piano player, but
he just doesn't like to practice.

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In about a month.

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He's going to be playing in a
music competition and he has

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to play two different songs.

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For his first song, he
learned all the notes.

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First.

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He picked up some bad habits
and mistakes, but he learned

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the whole song very quickly.

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Then he went back and started to iron out
any kinks or mistakes in his performance.

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This led to a lot of frustration as he
had already developed these bad habits.

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And it took a lot longer than expected.

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For the second song, we tried
something a little bit different

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instead of just ripping through the
song and learning all of the notes.

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Roughly we spent more time front
and learned each line perfectly.

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The first time it took a lot longer,
but the result was that in one

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week he had learned the entire song
perfectly and was ready to perform.

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However, the first song hadn't even
been refined enough for him to perform.

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using this example.

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You can see that in business,
we see the same thing.

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We often rush to get things done,
and then we find that it wasn't

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done complete, or it could have
been done a lot better moving too

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quickly results in errors, which then
takes time to fix and move forward.

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each time you go back to fix
these issues, you lose momentum.

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And if you're like most business
owners, if you lose momentum, it's

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really hard to catch up again.

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Momentum fuels our progress.

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One of the things that we do in
our business is that all our staff

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members use a planner that we created.

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It's called a be well do well planner.

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Now this planner helps you
planning your tasks, but it also

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has a long-term component to it.

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So you plan out what your goal is or
your vision is for the next six months.

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And then you work towards
that every single day.

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We encourage all of our team
members not to rush through it.

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Spend time, focus, get into deep work
and really execute with perfection.

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This is probably one of the most important
things that has helped us grow our

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business is to remember to plan before
you execute, when you don't plan, you

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often just end up making busy work
planning will force you to get organized

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before you rush into the doing phase.

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I know personally, when I rush to get
things done, the end goal wasn't as

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rewarding as I thought it would be.

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The journey itself is so fulfilling
sometimes that when you get to the end,

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if you missed it because you were rushing,
it actually makes you feel quite empty.

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So the next time you're starting
a new project or learning a new.

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Think about starting slow, very,
very slow so that you can move fast.

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If you wanna go deeper on this topic,
check out the links in the show notes

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below with some book recommendations.

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I hope this has been helpful.

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Join me tomorrow where I'll
be talking about active rest.

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It's a concept that I'm fascinated
with, and I think you will be too.

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Thanks again for making the be well
do well podcast a part of your day.

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Take care and see you tomorrow.