Navigating Chaos: A Practical Guide to Entrepreneurial Focus

Ladies and gentlemen, hold on to your hats because we’re about to dive into the list building lifestyle show with your host Igor Kheifets. And before we get into the juicy details, a little disclaimer, what you’re about to hear isn’t the real Morgan Freeman. It’s our trusty, AI generated voice. Now, in this episode, Igor gets down to business, unraveling the secrets of compartmentalization that every entrepreneur should know. Picture yourself juggling tasks like a pro. All while having the superpower to mentally pause some and laser focus on the most important one, Igor let us in on how top achievers do it, aligning priorities, conquering deadlines, and safeguarding their agendas for a sweeter slice of life. But that’s not all. Folks, you also serve up a hefty side of wisdom on setting goals that go beyond the zeros in your bank account, preventing you from just coasting through life aimlessly. Let’s get ready to soak in egos and sights on the list building lifestyle show, buckle up and enjoy the ride.

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I’m Igor Kheifets. And this is the list building lifestyle. The podcast for anyone who wants to build a wildly profitable email list working from home. If you’d like to make six figures travel the world and help people improve their lives in the process. This podcast is for you. I also invite you to claim a free copy of my best-selling book, the list building lifestyle Confessions of an email millionaire at www.igorsbook.com. Get the free book plus $3,000 bonus package that includes my best capture page templates, email swipe files, and traffic blueprints, visit www.igorsbook.com for details. And now it’s time to claim your list building lifestyle.

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One skill that the only person that I’ve ever heard talked about was Dan Kennedy ever, which I think is a crazy important skill to have for an entrepreneur. And it’s basically compartmentalizing, it allows you to juggle lots of balls at the same time. Because you know, what you’re basically doing is you’re saying, while I’m juggling these 15 things right now, you know I can, I can mentally put them on pause. And I can focus on this one thing that’s most important right now. And that’s really the secret for in my opinion anyone who’s a top performer, top achiever, highly productive and highly efficient person. So not just somebody who has lots of activity going on, right, but somebody who has lots of activity, and that activity is really productive. As well as of course, people who appear like they don’t really work all that hard, but they do get a lot done. So, what happens is, these people are able to work with deadlines. And they can clearly align the priorities and say, Okay, so this project is priority number one right now or for the next three days. And they’re able to compartmentalize everything else and say, yes, I know, I have a seminar to prepare for, I got a trip to prepare for, I got this important meeting and got this, this, this this. But that’s like on Thursday, today or Monday. And I know that I have a big deadline for Tuesday for this webinar. So, webinars become the most important thing.

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So, you know, even though I do think about the trip, and I think about the preparation, and you know, the plan of what’s going to be happening in the trip and how we’re going to go there, and we’re going to meet and whatever. Or when it comes to, you know, putting emphasis on my dream vision or my goals. Right, I now understand how important it is especially in my position. Because when I was just starting out, I just wanted to make money. So, there was no such thing as me sitting down and writing out my goals and stuff, right, it was just a number. The goal was a number that I was supposed to hit. But these days, it’s not as simple as that. Because once the bills are paid, and once you get to a couple of cars in the driveway, you get to the house you got everything, you know, you can’t, you can no longer drift. Like he can’t be driven by just adding an extra zero, or, you know, buying the next car or going to the next vacation. It’s not fulfilling enough. There’s no juice in it. There’s no squeezing it. So therefore, it becomes very important to sit down and invest a few hours of thinking time into identifying what you want and where you want to be. Because if you don’t you just end up moving forward by default. And oftentimes what that means is just kind of not really moving forward but sort of just almost running on the treadmill where you’re actually running, you’re like really, really trying hard but you’re not really moving anywhere you

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like staying exactly where you are, or worse, you’re actually, you know, backtracking a little bit. So, for me, that becomes very important because for some, for a person in my position, I can’t afford to spend the next year working on goals that aren’t productive for me that aren’t fulfilling for me. Because if I do, I’ll just waste a year for nothing, right, because it just becomes a little bit more complex. Otherwise, you know, by default, what will happen is my life will take over. And my, you know, the vacuum here, will get filled with all the different things that aren’t necessarily my agenda, but someone else’s agenda. And that’s, I mean, that’s really not So, what I want. Like, for example, I had a message from our tech team about we Google Analytics, for some reason, stop working. And recently, Google switched to Google Analytics 4 just So, recently. And for some reason, it kind of broke our tracking. So, we went from tracking sales to not tracking any sales at all. And that’s a big issue, because now we have to pause the ads, we have to go fix the tracking, you know, could I just drop everything and say, I’m gonna go and handle that issue? I could have. And so, sometimes I did in the past, depending on how big the issue was, I literally was willing to like cancel trips and cut trips short and go back home and things like that. These days. However, having experienced enough challenges along the wait, it’s like, okay, well, that’s not a thing, what we’re doing now to mitigate it. Okay, we turned off the ads. So, we’re not spending money on the ads. Okay. Is the team getting with the right consultants or whatever to fix the issue? Okay, yeah. Will it take time? Yes, it’s gonna take 48 to 72 hours? Yeah. Okay, well, that’s done. That’s how long it’s gonna take. You know, at this point, I’m not willing to let something like that. Kick me out of the of what’s my agenda, you know, I have to be very protective of my agenda. And that actually leads to better quality of life that leads to better quality of outcomes for the whole enterprise, the whole business, it leads to better quality of life for my family. And overall, I just found that that’s the right way to go about it. Because, again, you’ll always have problems. The problems never go away. In fact, you’d be you might be surprised, but every week, you’ll bump into a different one, you know, you’ll be going and be doing this for many years, and then be like, Yeah, I made it, you know, and then there’s like another curveball and another curveball and another curveball. But so, that’s such a life, you know, it’s just that’s how it works. You get to a new level of awareness, you get to a new level of mastery, and you start facing a different set of problems you didn’t face before. And that’s part of growth.

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