Entrepreneurs love to move fast, getting things done and checking off boxes is what fuels us. This is also what drives a lot of us to burnout. What if I told you that to speed up, you actually have to slow down in this episode. We're going to explore the idea that moving too fast, actually hinders your progress. I'm Amin Ahmed. Welcome to be. Well, do well. I wanna start with a quick story. About my nine year old son, as with most young boys, he likes to play with his trains and toys.
He enjoys video games. He loves YouTube and he's a bit of a techie himself, but he puts up a lot of resistance when it comes to practicing his music or doing homework. He's a really good piano player, but he just doesn't like to practice. In about a month. He's going to be playing in a music competition and he has to play two different songs. For his first song, he learned all the notes. First. He picked up some bad habits and mistakes, but he learned the whole song very quickly.
Then he went back and started to iron out any kinks or mistakes in his performance. This led to a lot of frustration as he had already developed these bad habits. And it took a lot longer than expected. For the second song, we tried something a little bit different instead of just ripping through the song and learning all of the notes. Roughly we spent more time front and learned each line perfectly.
The first time it took a lot longer, but the result was that in one week he had learned the entire song perfectly and was ready to perform. However, the first song hadn't even been refined enough for him to perform. using this example. You can see that in business, we see the same thing. We often rush to get things done, and then we find that it wasn't done complete, or it could have been done a lot better moving too quickly results in errors, which then takes time to fix and move forward.
each time you go back to fix these issues, you lose momentum. And if you're like most business owners, if you lose momentum, it's really hard to catch up again. Momentum fuels our progress. One of the things that we do in our business is that all our staff members use a planner that we created. It's called a be well do well planner. Now this planner helps you planning your tasks, but it also has a long-term component to it.
So you plan out what your goal is or your vision is for the next six months. And then you work towards that every single day. We encourage all of our team members not to rush through it. Spend time, focus, get into deep work and really execute with perfection.
This is probably one of the most important things that has helped us grow our business is to remember to plan before you execute, when you don't plan, you often just end up making busy work planning will force you to get organized before you rush into the doing phase. I know personally, when I rush to get things done, the end goal wasn't as rewarding as I thought it would be.
The journey itself is so fulfilling sometimes that when you get to the end, if you missed it because you were rushing, it actually makes you feel quite empty. So the next time you're starting a new project or learning a new. Think about starting slow, very, very slow so that you can move fast. If you wanna go deeper on this topic, check out the links in the show notes below with some book recommendations. I hope this has been helpful. Join me tomorrow where I'll be talking about active rest.
It's a concept that I'm fascinated with, and I think you will be too. Thanks again for making the be well do well podcast a part of your day. Take care and see you tomorrow.