Think Big, Act Small
The Amplified Impact Podcast
July 5th, 2023
Today, I want to delve into an intriguing tension that all entrepreneurs must grapple with: the need for both patience and impatience.
It may seem contradictory, but we require audacious goals and consistent daily actions.
How can we reconcile these seemingly opposing forces?
Some individuals are patient but sluggish in the moment, while others are energetic but expect instant results.
Striking a balance is crucial. Naval Ravikant advises us to be impatient with actions and patient with results, while Gary Vaynerchuk advocates for micro speed and macro patience.
It’s about thinking big while acting small, focusing on the immediate tasks that inch us closer to our larger goals.
I call this approach “five to thrive” and “three to free.” The former represents our quarterly objectives, while the latter symbolizes the three crucial tasks we tackle each day.
By mastering prioritization, we make remarkable progress.
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“I believe that if we let time do the heavy lifting that we can be successful in real estate or in our businesses, whatever, if we let time and compounding interest do its part. But that requires a lot of energy to be injected into the system in the short term.”- Anthony Vicino
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Episode Transcript:
Anthony Vicino [00:00:00]:
Yeah. What’s up, everybody? Welcome back to the podcast. Today I want to talk about one of the interesting tensions that we have to resolve as entrepreneurs, which is we simultaneously need to be patient and impatient. We simultaneously need to have big, hairy, audacious, ambitious goals that we strive for, but that we also need to take small day, daily consistent actions. And how do you resolve these two things which on the surface they seem contradicting, right? Like we need to have impatience in the short term in waking up with a sense of urgency and moving towards our goals and knowing that we only have a finite amount of time to make our dreams a reality, and yet being patient with the fact that it could take decades, that we’re playing a long game. And those two things I’ve always found really interesting, that some people will have the ability to be patient, but they’re also a little bit slow in the moment, or they are very good at executing in the moment. They move with a lot of energy and ambition, but then they also have a shortened, abbreviated timeline upon which they expect results. And if you cannot thread that needle of bringing energy and speed in the short term while also remaining patient for results in the long term, you’re going to really struggle in entrepreneurship.
Anthony Vicino [00:01:25]:
You’re going to struggle building a business of any size and of any value. Because you’re always going to be either moving too slowly to keep pace with the ever evolving marketplace and the demands thereof, or you’re going to be moving too quickly or expecting too quick of results. And you’re going to get shiny object syndrome, you’re going to get bored, or you’re going to get to the point where you’re not seeing the results on the timeline, which you expect. And therefore you start to look elsewhere at more extreme strategies or different avenues and you’re not sticking consistently with the task that’s necessary to be able to achieve success on a long enough time frame. And so I think one of the best ways I’ve heard this spoken about is from Naval Ravicant, who says that we need to be impatient with actions but patient with results. I think that’s a really, really helpful framework. Gary Vaynerchuk says that we need to have micro speed, macro patience. That’s another way of saying the same exact thing.
Anthony Vicino [00:02:19]:
But it’s important just to think about this daily, is that we need to have this long time frame because I believe that if we let time do the heavy lifting that we can be successful in real estate or in our businesses, whatever, if we let time and compounding interest do its part. But that requires a lot of energy to be injected into the system in the short term. So I want to share that with you because it’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot the last couple of days in terms of how to think big but act small. How to dream big and have those big goals that we’re moving the company towards, but then working backwards from that desired outcome to what is the daily actionable, things that we can do to move us towards that. Another way of thinking about this, a friend, Sean Puree, mentioned in his podcast, my First Million, is the idea of focusing on, what’s, six inches in front of your face. I think it was the founder of Peak Design as a company that makes these camera bags, and Sean was interviewing him and says, okay, so how do you balance this equation of all the things that need to get done? There were about a $70 million company at the time. How do you balance all this and how do you prioritize your day and all that stuff? It’s always a question that’s really interesting to ask other entrepreneurs. And the guy, I don’t remember his name, unfortunately, he said, I focus on the tasks that are six inches in front of my face.
Anthony Vicino [00:03:42]:
So it’s things that are really obvious that if we do these things, they will lead to like 1% improvements over time. And I just try and keep hyper focused on what’s right in front of my face, put the blinders on and just run at that. And I thought that was a really interesting way of framing it. So the takeaway here and how we can implement this into our own daily lives is what I call my five to thrive. My three to do I’m sorry? My three to free, my two to do. So the five to thrive for me are those quarterly things. They’re a little bit further out than six inches. Perhaps they’re more like a couple of feet away.
Anthony Vicino [00:04:17]:
They’re where we’re trying to get to by the end of the quarter or 90 day period or maybe even the end of the month. But it’s a longer period than something that’s just a week out there. And these are typically the five things that matter the most in pursuit of whatever your goals are for the year. I don’t really set a rule around how many goals to set in a year. Sometimes it’s three, sometimes it’s twelve. It kind of depends on the year and what I’m trying to accomplish. But those five to thrive are, I would say, the guiding lights for what then needs to become the three to free on a day to day basis. And the three to three are just another way of saying, what are those things that are six inches in front of my face? What are those three things on any given day that if I do them, they’re going to move me towards my goal faster than any other three things that I could do with my time.
Anthony Vicino [00:05:01]:
And when you get really crystal clear on your prioritization and saying, this is the most important thing that’s going to move the needle and you get really good at that, then you start making incredible progress towards these five to thrive or those bigger goals. If you’re interested in learning more about that framework that is part of my hyper focus productivity system, you can learn about it@beyondthapex.com. Hyperfocus, I’ve taken pretty much my entire last decade of learnings around human psychology, peak performance, productivity, personal development, focus. I put it all into a bundle and shared all the systems and frameworks, routines, everything that I use, all the resources and tools that have helped me turn ADHD into a superpower. So if that’s something that’s interesting to you, go check that out. Beyond theapex.com hyperfocus, it’s pretty much just the productivity system in a box ready to go for you to implement and turn your ability to focus into a weapon of mass accomplishment rather than a weapon of mass distraction. So that is today’s thought. How do we think big but act small? How do we have macro patience but micro speed? If we can, if we can resolve those seemingly disparate concepts, then I think we can succeed.
Anthony Vicino [00:06:21]:
So hope this serves you guys. Hope it brings you a little bit of value. Thank you, as always, for being here. I appreciate it. Looking forward to seeing you back around here tomorrow, but until then, stay after. Focus, my friend.
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