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In Their Own Words…
Leverage every dime you have to outsource and buy other people's time. That is the key. Organize your
168 hours, then BUY hours from others to grow.
–Shane & Jocelyn Sams built a high six-figure business selling digital products and started
FlippedLifestyle.com to help other families "flip their lives" with online businesses.
Tony Robbins Was a Teen When He Hired an Assistant
I can remember being 25 years old and mowing my lawn on a hot Saturday in
August. I was the CEO of a startup, working over 80 hours per week, barely
getting any sleep, getting no exercise, and I had no social life, and yet there I
was spending a couple hours mowing and edging my lawn.
Sweat dripping off my chin, face baking in the sun, straining up the grassy
hill, pushing the mower through a cloud of dirt and grass pollen, all the time
thinking about the slide deck I needed to create before Monday, the hundreds of

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emails I needed to respond to, not to mention painting a bedroom, doing the
laundry, and going grocery shopping.
So why didn’t I just hire some kid to mow my lawn for me? Because I had no
money. I should say I thought I had no money.
I recently watched an interview with Tony Robbins. He tells a similar story
of starting out—still just a teenager—and realizing that as broke as he was, he
was going to hire help, initially for just two hours a day. He tells his story:
I think in the very beginning the hard thing is you think you can only do it
yourself and then there’s only so many hours and you’ve got kids and family
and friends and how do I do it all?
The answer is you hire someone. You trade with someone. You trade them for 2
hours. That’s what I did in the beginning. Because I remember, I remember, I’ll
never forget, I was just really young in my career, very in the early days, and I
was running to get to the dry cleaners so I could get my only two suits because
if I didn't get them, you know, then the place closes and I can’t get on the plane.
And I was running to the airport sweating like crazy, and I’m a sweater
anyway. Sweating like this, trying to get in the door, and it was like, what is
wrong with this picture?
I could be doing something that’s so productive and I’m standing in line at the
dry cleaning place. This is just nuts. And so I was really… I was like 17, 18, 19,
I don't know what I was, and I said, “I’m gonna hire somebody.” Two hours a
day, that’s what I need to start with. And then it was 4 hours.
And so my view is I don't do anything that someone else can do better, and I
don't do anything that isn’t the highest and best use of my time.
You need to start paying other people to do stuff for you even before you feel
you are ready. What would it cost to hire the kid down the street to mow your
lawn each week?
Are you a stay-at-home dad? What would it cost to hire an unemployed
college grad to watch your kids for an hour each afternoon to let you have some
alone time?