Other people sending you deals

Dec 19, 2024

2 inches of snow taught me a lesson about leverage.

It’s James:-)

I woke up to a couple fluffy inches here in Minne-snow-ta this morning.

As soon as I made my kids' lunches for school?

I went out and started shoveling.

At 6:30 AM it was cold, windy, and I didn't wanna be outside but I reframed the task as a workout.

And thinking it's a "good for me" workout helped for the first few hours...

...I say hours because that's what the frozen wind cracking like a whip on my face felt like…

…In reality it was 5-10 minutes.

After those long, frozen to the bone, minutes (and maybe a quarter of my driveway cleared)?

I said "When I want to work out I'll go to the gym!"... and got out my snow blower.

With the snow blower?

The job that would've taken me 20-30 freezing minutes was done in 5.

Now

You could ask "James why didn't you just use the snow blower from the start?"

And I could tell you some belief that there wasn't that much snow, the blower would be overkill, and the work out would be good for me.

None of the reasons matter.

The important bit is I realized my mistake and made changes immediately.

Now...

Maybe I'm making too big a leap with this analogy?

But

My shoveling seems a lot like people sending cold DMs to pull in partners.

It can work. However...

You're wasting a lot of time and energy you can't get back.

Instead?

What if you leveraged your energy to get the same (or better) results in a fraction of the time of cold DMs?

The snow blower of getting deals is a referral machine.

...So other people use their time and energy to send you close-to-the-hole deals.

You just have to tap them in.

Set for Life in 6 Months by Travis Sago