TWO SECONDS #02: Working At Speed, A Potential For Success

TL;DR

• Successful people work don't work at speed, they work efficiently as possible that cascade as speed.
• Read my very first unpublished article on potential, here.

Hey Guys,

It's been a while since the first newsletter, since then my attention has been focused on getting my finances in check from my freelancing gigs.

It can be a minefield if you don't know what you're doing and you don't want the taxman breathing down your neck for any undeclared income.

If you want a free budget template that I've pulled together, go ahead and make a copy here.

I've also started swimming again after an 11-year hiatus and in doing so realised why people say to work at speed.

I've heard countless times that successful people work at speed but for me, I've always worked and thought slowly.

It's like my brain has a slower processor, and whilst it doesn't impact the quality of the end result, it does mean my output suffers.

So whilst I know it must be true, I've never been able to appreciate what it meant until now - the penny had dropped.

Swimming in lanes you are made to choose between the slow lane and the fast lane. Whilst this forces you to choose between either side of the spectrum, this also opens the door for potentially bigger miss matches. Naturally being a swimmer I was in the latter.

It was when I found myself having to slow down because of the person in front of me that my front crawl technique started to fall apart and in the end resorting to breaststroke.

This made me think about how having the correct form is vital in creating the most efficient strokes that cascade as speed. - Click to Tweet

So what they're really saying is to be efficient as possible to get the most out of your effort, which in turn, will result in success.

NEW BLOG POST

It's been a minute but this was a quick win for me as it was my first (unpublished) article from way back in 2015, needless to say, it still holds value, hence why I've posted it 6 years later.

A Potential For Success

Potential isn’t real, it’s a concept based on what could happen as opposed to what will. As there is nothing of substance that warrants appraisal if the words “fulfilled” or “realised” don’t follow.

Andrew FeeneyAndrew Feeney

LIFE HACKS

#02

Invest your time where other's have invested theirs.

This is why I don't particularly like using YouTube as a source of information, as the time typically taken that's put into a video is far less than the equivalent time put into a course or a book that you can consume in the same amount of time.

#03

Bit of a basic one to many folk but if you're like me and struggle with physical books, yet can read articles online with ease, then a Kindle is for you - it's been life changing.

You can take a look at my whole collection of life hacks, here.

MY FAVOURITES

Book: Behind the Mask by Tyson Fury - ★★★★

Taking you up until the point before becoming the heavyweight champion of the world again, it's a fascinating insight into how someone who had achieved it all, in the end, didn't want any of it and was prepared to throw it all away.

If you're not a boxing fan, you may be skipping parts of the book that details the fights and at times there is probably a bias towards the fights, but if you love the man, you'll love this book.

Article: How to Get More Followers on Instagram (A Step-by-Step Guide) by Foundr - ★★★★★

There are a billion and one articles like this, but as a person who's grown social media accounts and knows what it takes, just read this one. Until I do my own comprehensive guide that is...

Have you come across anything interesting recently? If so, send it my way and I’ll check it out.

STANDOUT SOCIAL

Seriously though, is there anything educational or inspirational, or is it just mindless entertainment?

There is nothing of value to be had from opening TikTok

— Feeney (@andrewafeeney) July 31, 2021

I loved this one from David Perell as I feel as though I'm a constant stream of incomplete thoughts. My hope is that with this blog, I can sharpen and confront my choice of words to become more concise and complete in my everyday thinking.

Writing every day is scary because you have to confront the sloppiness of your thinking.

But the only thing scarier is not recognizing the limits of your knowledge in the first place.

— David Perell (@david_perell) August 12, 2021

Until next time,
Andrew.

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