Understanding What It Takessomeone else do your dirty work. I hope this
makes sense to you.
Here’s another example. Let’s say that you are
debating on whether to wash your car yourself by
hand or go to a car wash. Well, if washing your
car yourself would take an hour out of your work
day, it is costing you $47 (using the hourly figure
from above). If you were to bring your car to the
car wash it would cost you $10. Well, I know
which option is less costly, how about you? If you
do the math you’ll notice that washing your car
will save you about $37. To keep things simple I
did not factor in the time at the car wash, which
is a variable.
This is the mentality that is necessary in order
to be the most productive and efficient in working
the numbers to your advantage. Now I don’t ex-
pect people to over-analyze every decision in these
terms, but these are just examples of how to use
this in your everyday life. All of these little time-
and money-saving decisions add up in the long
run. You won’t realize it in the short term because
you can’t actually see the money that you’re im-
plicitly saving, but when you look at your bank
account at the end of the year it should be a pleas-
ant surprise.2.Shake things up.Organization is very important.
When you get into a slump, which will happen
once in a while, shake things up. Rearrange your