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Speaker: Welcome to the Solarpreneur Podcast where we teach you to take your solar business to the next level.
Speaker: My name is Taylor Armstrong.
Speaker: I went from $50 in my bank account and struggling for groceries to closing 150 deals in the year and cracking the code on why sales reps fell.
Speaker: I teach you to avoid the mistakes I made and bring in the top solar dogs of the industry to let you in on the secrets of generating more leads, falling up like a pro and closing more deals.
Speaker: What is a Solarpreneur you might ask?
Speaker: A Solarpreneur is a new breed of Solar Pro that is willing to do whatever it takes to achieve mastery and you are about to become one.
Speaker: Hey, what's going on, solopreneurs?
Speaker: Taylor Armstrong with another episode.
Speaker: Today, we're going to talk about a secret time hack that's going to allow you to buy back hours probably every day.
Speaker: It's something you're probably not expecting, so tune in.
Speaker: We're going to be jamming on that.
Speaker: Before we get into that, though, welcome to today's podcast.
Speaker: We're here to help you close more deals, generate more leads and referrals, and have a much better time in the solar industry.
Speaker: And thanks for making this the first listen of every Tuesday and Friday.
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Speaker: So shoot me an email, taylorsolarpreneurs.com.
Speaker: When you've got your ticket, we're going to shoot you some sweet bonuses for using our coupon code.
Speaker: And yeah, so let's see.
Speaker: Today's episode, we're talking about time, the big T word.
Speaker: And got thinking about this really just over the weekend.
Speaker: I was at Danny Pesce's Set or Closer Tour.
Speaker: Great event.
Speaker: Another event that you should go to.
Speaker: He's doing it in multiple cities across the country in the U.S.,
Speaker: But I heard some great feedback from speakers.
Speaker: You had Jeff Mendez who came, w as a VP of sales, former VP of sales over at Vivint.
Speaker: Dude knows so much and hopefully coming on the podcast soon.
Speaker: If you know him, you can shoot him a little encouragement.
Speaker: But we heard from guys like him.
Speaker: We heard from Danny Pesce, of course.
Speaker: We heard from some guys that have been on the podcast, Ricardo Ritchie and a lot of other just top setters and closers in California.
Speaker: So I might do another episode on just some takeaways I had from that event.
Speaker: But the reason I'm talking about time today is because what I noticed these top producers, these legends of the industry, guys like Jeff Mendes, they are super respectful of their time or super conscious of where their time is going.
Speaker: And you look at guys like Ricardo Richie who had over 400 closes last year.
Speaker: Do you think he is wasting time throughout the day?
Speaker: Not really.
Speaker: In order to close that many deals, you're maximizing your time.
Speaker: And so it reminded me of an exercise that I've done myself a few times and I recently just started again.
Speaker: So I want to share it with everyone on the show and I want to challenge you to do this exercise.
Speaker: And I'll preface it by saying it is pretty tough to do.
Speaker: It's not an easy thing to do.
Speaker: It's a commitment and it's going to take time ironically.
Speaker: But if you do it, I promise you, you're going to notice hours and hours, probably a day,
Speaker: that you are wasting, that you're giving up.
Speaker: Okay, and so here's what you're going to do.
Speaker: And I'm going to explain why after and some of the thoughts behind it.
Speaker: But what it is, it's called a time study.
Speaker: And I have mentioned this in the podcast before.
Speaker: It's been a long time though.
Speaker: So what it is every day, you got 24 hours in your day, you document every 15 minutes, what did you do?
Speaker: What happened in the last 15 minutes?
Speaker: And
Speaker: You print off a sheet of paper, you document it, you write down every single hour of the day, every 15 minute interval, what did you do?
Speaker: What did you accomplish?
Speaker: And what happens when you do this, you start to notice, okay, this 15 minutes I wasted, I was playing too much chess on my phone, I was playing too much clash of clans, whatever you do on your phone.
Speaker: You notice things like that and you notice just ways you're not being effective with your time.
Speaker: and so the challenge is if you do that for two weeks 24 hours a day okay obviously you're not waking up every 15 minutes in at two in the morning to do this but when you get up you write down on that sheet of paper what you did okay and hit me up if you do want a example of this um we are going to create a sheet for our solopreneurs hit me up if you want access to that okay um
Speaker: You shoot me an email, shoot me a DM by next episode.
Speaker: If we have enough interest, we will create a little link to it for a website if you want to download it too.
Speaker: But for now, shoot me a message.
Speaker: Um, but as you do this, you'll notice holes in your day where you are wasting crucial time.
Speaker: And this really goes back to a dude named Peter Drucker.
Speaker: If you've not heard of this guy, he is the godfather of time management of business.
Speaker: And just to quote him, he says, time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed.
Speaker: The analysis of one's time, moreover, is the one easily accessible and yet systematic way to analyze one's work and to think through what really matters in it.
Speaker: So this guy knows the stuff.
Speaker: This idea, I think, first came from Peter Drucker.
Speaker: I learned it from a guy named Alex Charfin.
Speaker: But if you do this exercise for two weeks, you're going to have a good understanding of how you can improve it, what you need to do.
Speaker: And then the second key, as you do this time study, you break down exactly, you classify the categories where your time went.
Speaker: See, there are other reasons.
Speaker: Some of us think that we're spending time with family.
Speaker: Some of us think that we're being present with friends, whatever.
Speaker: But if you go back and really classify it,
Speaker: Sometimes we see that we're wasting, even though we think we're being present with our loved ones, with family, friends, we start to realize, okay, I was on my phone this amount of time.
Speaker: And another key with this, print off the page.
Speaker: Okay, I was just doing it in my phone, but it's better if you print off an actual page and write down exactly what went down for those 15 minute intervals.
Speaker: Hey, so that's the challenge.
Speaker: If you want to join me in it, I recently challenged one of our coaching students in our Soul Society program to do this.
Speaker: He's gaining a massive understanding of where his time is going and I'm getting a massive wake up call myself.
Speaker: And the key is if you can do this every quarter.
Speaker: It's going to keep you on track.
Speaker: It's going to make sure you're using your time more effectively with your team, with your family, with your loved ones.
Speaker: And it's going to make you a much better manager, much better sales rep.
Speaker: I can promise you that.
Speaker: So that's the challenge.
Speaker: Short podcast today.
Speaker: Hit me up before anyone if you want to join in in that.
Speaker: Shoot me a DM if you want access to the sheet.
Speaker: And I would love to hear if that helped you.
Speaker: Love to hear all the holes you saw in your business.
Speaker: And once you see it, you can improve it.
Speaker: But if you don't know where your time is being wasted, it makes it super tough to improve it.
Speaker: So I hope that helps.
Speaker: Send this to someone that's wasting a ton of time.
Speaker: It's going to help them get on track as well.
Speaker: And grab your tickets to SolarCon.
Speaker: Go to the Cider Closer Tour.
Speaker: We'll see you guys at some of these events.
Speaker: And keep crushing those solar deals.
Speaker: Peace out.
Speaker: What's up, solarpreneurs?
Speaker: Hope you enjoyed the episode.
Speaker: Before you run out and start selling more solar yourself, wanted to let you know about an exciting new cheat sheet we created specifically for you in mind.
Speaker: One of the top questions I get asked on Instagram, on Facebook, by our listeners is, Taylor, where should I start?
Speaker: What episodes should I listen to in the podcast?
Speaker: You got too many podcasts, man, because now we have over 200 episodes.
Speaker: So what we've done, we created the top 10 most downloaded, most listened to, and I would say widely accepted, most useful podcasts that we've done here on Solopreneur.
Speaker: We put them together all in one sheet so you can go, you can hit the ground running, especially if you're new, you do not want to not have this sheet.
Speaker: So go download it right now.
Speaker: It's going to be at top10.solarpreneurs.com.
Speaker: Again, that's top10, the number 10,.solarpreneurs.com.
Speaker: Don't forget the S on solarpreneurs.
Speaker: We will have that in the show notes.
Speaker: Go download it right now.
Speaker: And especially if you have not listened to them, go listen to them and you can re-listen to them.
Speaker: That's going to show you how.
Speaker: So go download it and we'll see you on the other side.
