Greetings from Colombia!
I’m spending some time now in Bogota after spending the first part of the week with the Pencils of Promise team in Guatemala, checking out the brand new dedicated Impossible school we built during the first part of the year! I’ll have more updates (and a lot of photos) on that soon but, as I’ve been traveling the past week or so, I want to talk about a great question that Jeff Sarris of the ever-talented Spyr Media brought up, that’s made me stop and think.
The more you do it, the better you get. The decision: Continue to produce the same it in less time or go bigger & better (spend more time)?
— Jeff Sarris⚡️ (@jeffSARRIS) May 28, 2013
The more you do “it”, the better you get. The decision: Continue to produce the same “it” in less time or go bigger & better (spend more time)? – Jeff Sarris
I’ve been working out this question myself, but I’m interested in your thoughts, so I asked Jeff if I could continue the discussion here on the site and he was all game.
So what do you think?
Do you focus on building “it” faster, or on re-adjusting your sights and aiming even higher?
Leave your comment below.
I go for the bigger & better. I prefer to expand than to maintain ( waste size not included).
I go with a «T» skills model: be able to do a lot of stuff and choose a single thing to be awesome at.
Bigger! The term auto pilot is not in my DNA 🙂
Interesting one, but for me I feel that going bigger and better would keep pushing my creativity which for me is key, doing ‘it’ in less time would become more in the realms of methodology and holds less excitement for me.
Why not both?
If you’re freelancing and figured out how to put 40 hours of work into 30 (stronger and faster), then you now have 10 hours to add to growing bigger and better. But if you can cut back to 20 hours, even if you’re not faster, and still survive, then you can have 20 hours to move into growing bigger and better (and maybe stronger and faster, too). Or you can choose to focus on each in their own season. 30 days of B & B. 30 days of S & F. Either way you’re growing and learning.
After all, your podcast is called “Bigger Better Stronger Faster” and not “Bigger OR Better OR Stronger OR Faster”.
Taylor M, couldn’t have said it better!
I would add: It depends on what the “it” is and how excited it keeps you. If it keeps you pumped, then go with Taylor M and add the growth in the spare time created. If it it becomes ho-hum then do less of it (maybe not drop completely) and leverage yourself with more of the “Bigger.”
The answer depends on how you view big and better. Like Taylor M said, more “FREE” time could lead to incredible BIGGER things in your life (personal and/or professional). Go bigger could lead to more stress and NOT doing what you actually love. Even if you succeed in those cases, often the satisfaction isn’t there in those cases. You just keep needing to go bigger and never getting “BIG” enough.
build it faster.
for me, with a goal like giving 10,000 hats to 10,000 people in my lifetime, i’m not looking for more difficult hats to knit every time. i’m looking for a hat that will keep someone warm, that someone will want to wear. more and more often i’m learning the simpler the better in this instance, so for me, the faster i can make hats, the more people will be kept warm, safe, and loved a little bit more thanks to hand knits.
I would say it depends on the nature of the task, if it is an artistic pursuit it is often the case that the deeper you go, the more personal and meaningful your craft is. Not everything in life is like that though, some things are about sheer production, or accomplishing tasks. Knowing what requires what is the game.