Create a YOUser Manual

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Create a YOUser Manual

The Amplified Impact Podcast
April 8th, 2023

Ever heard of a personal user manual? Picture this: a concise handbook about yourself, your quirks, preferences, and work style. It’s like a cheat sheet for understanding and collaborating with you better. Think: “Don’t hit me up before noon unless it’s urgent” or “I’m a bit flaky with time, so gentle reminders are gold.” Creating one of these guides isn’t just for the big shots too. Whether you’re a CEO, an artist, or a freelancer, this manual may be just what you need for self-awareness and smoother teamwork.

 

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So I met a guy a couple years ago who told me that he has this document he created that he shares with new employees, with friends, with loved ones. And it’s a document. It’s like a handbook of him. It’s a user manual for how to work with him, how to communicate with him, where his strengths, his weaknesses are, things that he likes, things that he doesn’t. And it’s not a long document. It’s only, like, two or three pages. But within it, he outlines, hey, if we. If you want to, you know, really get along with me, if you want to be able to work, well, then here’s what you need to know about me.

Anthony Vicino00:00:34 – 00:00:51

Right. I like this. I like that. I like this other thing. And that’s not to say I like the color blue. I like lollipops and candy. It’s more like, I don’t like to be disrupted in the mornings right between when I wake up until one in the afternoon. I like to use that as deep work time.

Anthony Vicino00:00:51 – 00:01:20
And so one of the very first things I would put on my document is, don’t call me or text me before noon unless it’s really, really important. And just know that if you do text me or message me during that period of time, it’s unlikely I’m gonna respond to you until later in the day. It doesn’t mean I’m ignoring you or that I’m upset with you or anything like that. It’s just that my phone’s probably not on, and I’m focused on this other thing. Another example of this is that I can be very, very flaky sometimes. It’s not intentional. It’s because I have a very. I have a hard time with time management.
Anthony Vicino00:01:20 – 00:01:59
My brain doesn’t register time in the same way as other people. And so the way this manifests a lot is that I will believe it’s. It’s okay for me to leave the house at, say, you know, 145 to get to a meeting at two, when I know that it takes 30 minutes to drive there, and I know that there’s no chance in hell I’ll ever make it. But at that moment, my reality is that I believe I can get there. And so I sometimes come off as flaky. And so what can be very helpful, if you’re working with me in any kind of way, is to remind me. And I know that’s not something that you shouldn’t have to do, like, a reminder, but, like, it can be very, very helpful. And I like the idea of creating one of these documents.
Anthony Vicino00:01:59 – 00:02:45
I think it’s something everybody should do. Whether you’re an executive, you’re an entrepreneur, or whether you don’t even have any direct reports, I think it’s important to put together a document like this. For one, the internal clarity that you get from going through this exercise, you will start to learn some things about yourself and realize, oh, this is how I. If I could design my perfect environment or if I wanted people to be aware of, like, what my strengths and my weaknesses are, here’s what they are. And just going through that exercise is a powerful journaling prompt, but it’s useful, I think, for. For you to realize later, as things maybe go right or wrong, you can look back at this document and reflect and say, oh, again, I think I’m a time wizard. Jamie, my girlfriend, she always gives me crap. Not crap, but she, like, we likes to poke fun at this, that I think I’m a time wizard, right.
Anthony Vicino00:02:45 – 00:03:44

It’s one of the things that manifests itself as a result of my inability to see time, right, which I just talked about a second ago, but I couldn’t have seen that if I hadn’t, you know, first sat down and reflected on it with Jamie and then, like, documented it. And that can save a whole lot of pain and suffering. If you’re in a work environment, if you’re an entrepreneur or a founder and you have people underneath of you, it’s very important that you train them how you expect them to interact and work with you. In the same way, they should have a document for you to understand what’s the best way to work with them? Are they very detail oriented? Are they a little bit more scatter shot? Do they like to be probed and be pushed in a meeting with feedback? Are they open to feedback? But they prefer it in one on one situations. Getting it clear about that stuff can help you and your team work more cohesively together. So I wanted to share this idea of the user manual of you or the user manual. That’s your pun for the day. It wasn’t very good, but it is all you get.

Anthony Vicino00:03:44 – 00:03:51

And I appreciate you guys taking a little bit of time out of your day to be with me. I’ll catch you in the next episode. Until then, though, stay hyper focused, my friend.

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