Lessons - Why Working Hard is Making You Poor

So today I want to talk about paradox of scaling through an action. This is a topic that I spoke about a few weeks ago in a newsletter and it really hit home and a lot of people loved it so I thought it'd be good to just put it into words and do a little bit of a video podcast about it but ultimately it was about why smart people build systems. I want to paint a picture for you. Let me know if this sounds familiar. You wake up in the morning, you're alarms blaring but when you wake up in the morning you already feel like a little bit behind. So you rush to gulp down your coffee, you do a cold plunge, you sauna, you gym, you meditate, you journal, you rush to work, you dive into this never ending to do list. And this is how even if you feel like you have control of your life and you feel like you're this productivity guru and you've listened to all the YouTube videos and you've listened to all the podcasts. It feels like you're still running behind. So this scenario that I just described, it sounds familiar, I'm guessing to a lot of people, especially people that follow me on this podcast and follow me on YouTube because everybody here is about self improvement. But what I just described is this productivity cult and if this resonates with you, you are a card carrying member of this productivity cult. Here's a news flash. If you are doing all of this, you are not actually being productive. You're just being busy and busy is the enemy of truly scaling your impact. Some of the things I just mentioned, it's okay to do those. But ultimately, if you feel like everything's a rush and you never actually have time to do the things that you actually enjoyed because there's another list of things that you have to take care of, you hopefully, after listening to this, will become aware of the dark side of always hustling, of always on. The rise in grind mentality isn't just unhealthy, it's downright dangerous. It's this modern day cult that has convinced you that your worth is tied to how many hours you work, how many emails you send, how little sleep you got, how much that you've compressed into this finite amount of time. But guess what, while you're busy, patting yourself on the back for pulling another all-nighter or only sleeping four hours, the truly successful people are getting eight hours of sleep and they're letting their systems do the heavy lifting. Think about it. Elon Musk, he might tweet about working a hundred hour weeks, but he's not the one building the Teslas or launching the rockets. He's built systems that do that for him. Warren Buffett spends 80% of his day reading and thinking, this is not exactly what you'd call hustling. Jeff Bezos makes a few high-level decisions a day, but he lets Amazon's vast systems handle the rest. Of course, these people are all mission critical, they're all figureheads, they all work a lot, but they've built systems to allow themselves to scale their impact. The hustle mentality is keeping you small, it's keeping you focused on tasks instead of impact, and honestly, it is time to break free. Let's talk about this productivity cult, which is really just modern, indentured servitude. Here's a very harsh truth. Your obsession with productivity is making you a really efficient cog in someone else's machine. You are not maximizing your output, you are maximizing your exploitation. Every time you pride yourself on inbox zero or staying late at the office, you're essentially saying, please, sir, may I have another task. You're volunteering to be a hamster on a wheel running faster and faster, but going nowhere. Real freedom, real success comes from building systems that work for you, not the other way around. Here's an example. Look at your to-do list, and go ahead, I'll wait. Take it out. Now, let me tell you what that list really is. It is a monument to your failures. It is a constant reminder of all the things you haven't done yet, and the worst part in never ends. You cross off three items and add five more. I know people who have finished items and tasks, and they add it to their to-do list just so they can cross it off. Where's the meaning in this? Your to-do list isn't a productivity tool. It is an anxiety generating machine. The most successful people in the world don't have long to-do lists. They have short, high impact, priority lists or time blocks and systems that handle the rest. So, how do you escape this cycle of busyness, masquerading this productivity? It starts with a mindset shift. First, you have to stop glorifying busyness. Being busy isn't a badge of honor. It's a sign that you don't know how to prioritize or delegate. Two, you have to focus on impact, not activity. Ask yourself, is this task actually moving the needle? Or am I just staying busy? Three, embrace strategic laziness. Sometimes, the most productive thing you can do is nothing. Give yourself permission to think, to strategize, to let your systems work for you. Four, build systems, not to-do lists. Instead of writing down tasks, start thinking about how you can create a system that eliminates the need for that task altogether. Remember, the goal isn't to do more. It's to achieve more. And that happens when you step off the hamster wheel and start building systems that were harder than you ever could. Let's dive into an even deeper concept. Let's go deeper into the counterintuitive world of true productivity. It's time to talk about leverage. And why your understanding of it is probably all wrong. So let's unpack leverage. When most people hear the word leverage, they think of financial leverage. Or maybe using a tool to move a heavy object. It's kind of like the dictionary definition of leverage. But in the world of scalable success, leverage is something far more powerful and far more misunderstood. True leverage is about creating systems where your input is minimal, but your output is maximal. It's about building machines that work for you 24-7, even when you're sleeping, vacationing, or doing absolutely nothing. The most powerful forms of leverage often look like inaction to the untrained eye. So let's get a little bit nerdy for a second to go a little bit deeper. Most people, and we're going to talk about leverage and impact. And let's talk about it from the lens of linear impact versus exponential impact and obviously to achieve exponential impact. This is where you're going to include leverage. But let's get a little nerdy for a second. Most people operate on a linear scale. Work one hour, get one hours worth of results, write one email, get one person's attention, get one sales call, maybe get one sale for lucky. But the real players, the people who are achieving massive things, they're operating exponentially. You spend one hour building a system, you get a thousand hours of work done automatically. You write one blog post, it reaches millions of people over years. You create one product, you sell it infinitely with minimal additional effort. This is why Jeff Bezos can make a few key decisions a day while Amazon generates billions. It's why a software developer can write code once and have itself problems for thousands of users continuously. You're not playing the same game as these people. You're not even in the same league, but you could be. So let's look at some examples that'll sort of make your hustle look like child's play. Let's talk about passive income pioneers, Pat Flynn, a smart passive income. He built systems that generate hundreds of thousands of dollars monthly, mostly through affiliate marketing and digital products. And his primary quote-unquote work right now, it's thinking of new ideas and occasionally updating his systems. Software. Mark has frined, famously ran plenty of fish, one of the largest dating sites in the world, working only a few hours a week. How? By building robust algorithms and systems that ran themselves. Like creators, Mr. Beast, one of YouTube's biggest stars, spends months planning videos to take days to film, but generates millions in revenue for years. And his leverage, its creative systems that turn ideas into viral content machines. Investors, Warren Buffett's greatest skill is in picking stocks. It's building a system, birks your half away, that automatically and autonomously allocates capital and compounds wealth. His primary job is reading and thinking. You notice a pattern here, none of these people are working 80 hour weeks. They're not hustling in the traditional sense. They're thinking, they're planning, they're letting their systems do the heavy lifting. And you can spend 80 hours a week reading, strategizing, that's okay if you enjoy it. But it's not hustling in the sense of they're the ones that are doing all the activities associated with their business. Here's where it gets a little bit mind bending and a little bit more counterintuitive or contrarian. Often when you are building a business, when you're trying to scale your impact, even in your job, the most impactful thing you can do is nothing, what do I mean by that? By not immediately responding to every email, you train people to respect your time and solve problems independently. By not jumping on every opportunity, you leave room for truly golden chances to come your way. And by not constantly tinkering with your systems, you allow them to run at full efficiency and gather meaningful data. This isn't laziness, it's strategic in action. It's understanding that sometimes the void you create by doing less is filled by opportunities and efficiencies you would have never discovered otherwise. So this plus systems thinking plus leverage, now you can see how it's all coming together to make you the most efficient version of yourself. So how do you start leveraging this paradox? How do we start including all these sort of counterintuitive, contrarian ideas? It starts with a fundamental shift in how you view your role in your company or your business. The first thing, the first thing you have to rethink is that you have to stop being a doer and you have to start being a designer. Your job isn't to do tasks, it's to design systems that do tasks. The second thing you have to do is invest time in thinking and planning. The most valuable work often looks like staring at a window lost in thought. The third thing you have to do is automate ruthlessly. If a task can be done by a machine or an algorithm, it should be. The fourth thing, build once, benefit infinitely. Focus on creating assets and systems that can be used repeatedly without additional effort. Fifth thing, embrace strategic procrastination. Sometimes problems solve themselves if you wait long enough, give space for this to happen. Remember, the goal isn't to fill your time with productive tasks, it's to create systems of such leverage that you become nearly irrelevant to their ongoing operation. Now, let's talk about systems thinking, sort of the art of lazy success. Because if you made it this far, congratulations. You're ready to leave this hamster wheel behind and enter the world of systems thinking. This is truly where the magic happens. I've touched on this briefly, but I'll go a little bit deeper. Systems thinking is where real scalability and leverage are born. But a little bit of a warning, this can make you look a little bit lazy to the uninitiated. But that's the goal, right? We want to remove ourselves from the process. So why do systems and systems thinking beat, for example, goals? Because in our business, we've all been taught to set goals, smart goals, stretch goals, five-year plans. The self-help industry is built on this stuff. But here's a dirty secret they don't want you to know. Goals are for amateurs, systems are for pros. Here's why. If you are going to build anything meaningful, if you're going to adopt all the ideas we've just discussed, goals are not going to get you there. Goals are finite, systems are infinite. When you achieve a goal, you're done. But a good system keeps producing results indefinitely. That's why you have to think systems, not goals. Goals rely on willpower, systems become habits. Willpower is a finite resource. Systems once established, they run on autopilot. Goals are about the destination. Systems are about the journey. And guess what? The journey never ends if you're truly scaling. Goals create a yo-yo effect. Systems create consistent progress. If you miss a goal and you're quote-unquote behind, well, it's going to go up, you're going to go down. A good system keeps turning out results. Good days, bad days, it doesn't matter. Scott Adams, he's the creator of Dilbert, has a great quote on this. The way that he says it is, losers have goals, winners have systems. Very straightforward. Now, great, we figured out systems thinking. Now let's talk about exponential growth. I alluded to this before as well. This is where systems really shine. So a well-designed system in your life, in your business, it doesn't just work, it improves itself over time. Think about it. A workout routine doesn't just keep you fit. It makes each subsequent workout more effective. Easier. A content creation system doesn't just produce great content, it builds an audience that makes future content more impactful. A learning system doesn't just add knowledge, it improves your ability to learn, making future learning faster and more efficient. So this is the real secret of the ultra-successful. They're not just working harder than you. In fact, they aren't working harder than you at all. This is the real secret of the ultra-successful. They're not working harder than you. Their systems are just compounding faster than yours. So how do you start thinking in systems so you can achieve this exponential growth? It is a true paradigm shift, but here are some key principles. When you think in systems, you're going to look for patterns, not isolated events. If you find yourself doing something more than once, that's a system waiting to be optimized. You're going to focus on inputs, not outputs. So you can control outputs and outcomes directly, but you can control the systems that lead to those outcomes. You're going to start to embrace feedback loops. So a good system has built-in mechanisms for improvement, and it learns from its own performance. You're going to think long-term. A task is about today, but a system is about forever. You're going to seek scalability. You're going to always ask yourself this thing that I'm doing. How can this work without my direct involvement? So let's take a look at some examples to really drive this home. And let's call it task thinking versus systems thinking. Task thinking is what most people do right now, where they're just looking at achieving a goal or accomplishing a thing. Systems thinking is obviously what we just described. So task thinking. An example of task thinking would be, I need to post on social media today. Systems thinking would be, I need a content calendar and a scheduling tool that ensures that I'm consistently engaging with my audience. Task thinking would be, I need to make 20 calls today. I need to close some deals. Systems thinking would be, I need a lead generation and nurturing system that consistently fills my pipeline with qualified prospects. Task thinking would be, I need to learn this new skill from my job. Systems thinking would be, I need a personal knowledge management system that continuously expands my skill set and makes learning a habitual part of my workflow. There's a very big difference. It's very obvious to see. Systems thinkers aren't focused on today's to-do list. They're focused on creating machines that make the to-do list obsolete. Now, let's get meta for a second. The ultimate form of systems thinking is creating systems that create other systems. This is where true scalability lies. This is where true exponential growth lies. For a second, I want you to imagine a business system that not only generates profit, but also identifies new market opportunities and spins up new businesses to capture them, or a learning system that not only helps you acquire knowledge, but also generates new learning techniques tailored to your evolving cognitive style, or a networking system that not only connects with valuable contacts, but also trains those contacts to become nodes, or a networking system that not only connects you with valuable contacts, but also trains those contacts to become nodes in their own networking systems exponentially expanding your reach. This is thinking at a level that most people never reach. It's not about just building a machine. It's about building a machine that builds machines. This is where we would eventually like to go to, however, baby steps. So at this point, you might be thinking this all sounds great, but it could also sound kind of lazy. You're trying to remove yourself and you're right. It is lazy, strategically lazy. All of this is strategically lazy. The most successful people in the world look lazy to be uninitiated. They're not running around putting out fires. They're not drowning in busy work. You look at Elon, he's playing video games and going on press tours and he's speaking, he was speaking at Trump's conference in the middle of the day, on a whatever day of the week in Pennsylvania. So he has a lot of free time. How do you think he has free time? Well, rewind and play from the beginning. That's how he has free time. The people that look the most successful and are the most successful, they're often found thinking, reading or seemingly doing nothing at all because they have time. They've built systems that use leverage to get their time back, their life back. But don't get it, don't get it twisted. Their systems are working tirelessly, even when they're not. This is the art of lazy success. It's about front loading your effort into building systems so robust and efficient that they don't need your constant attention to function. It's about being the laziest hard worker, you know. All right, so at this point, you're sold on the idea of system thinking, you're ready to become this strategic sloth, a lazy genius, a productivity paradox, but how do you actually do it? All right, so you're sold on the idea of systems thinking if you're still listening at this point, you're ready to become this strategic sloth, this lazy genius, basically a productivity paradox. But how do you actually do it? How do you start building these magical systems that work harder than you ever could? So this is the actual playbook. First up, you identify your current time sucks and energy drains. So before you can build efficient systems, you need to know where you're wasting time and energy. But here's a twist. You're not just looking for obvious time wasteers like scrolling social media. We're looking for sneaky productivity traps that masquerade as important work. So I want you to ask yourself, what tasks do I repeat often? What decisions am I constantly making? Where do I feel like I'm always playing ketchup? What quote unquote urgent issues keep derailing my day? These are your system opportunities. Each repetitive task, each recurring decision is a chance to build a system that works for you. Step two, the art of strategic procrastination. Now, here's where we flip the script on traditional productivity advice. Sometimes the best thing you can do is nothing. Strategic procrastination isn't about being lazy. It's about giving problems time to solve themselves or for better solutions to emerge. Here's how to procrastinate strategically. When a non-urgent request comes in, wait 24 to 48 hours before responding. Often the issue resolves itself. For complex problems, sleep on it. Your subconscious often solves problems while you rest. And before starting a new project, you also want to ask yourself, what would happen if I didn't do this at all? Remember, every task you eliminate is better than any task you optimize. I'm gonna say that one more time. Every task you eliminate is better than just optimizing it. If you don't have to do it, don't do it. Step three, designing feedback loops that improve your systems without your intervention. So this holy grail of systems thinking is creating systems that improve themselves. This is what we spoke about before. Here's how to actually start doing it. One, you want to build measurement in your system so you can improve what you don't measure. Two, create automated triggers. So when certain conditions are met, your system should automatically adjust. So for, I'll give you a real example. If you're posting on social or if your team is posting on social, and you notice a certain type of content is doing better, they should create more of that content. It's very simple. But have that KPI or that metric built into your system. Three, use A, B testing. Have your systems randomly tried different approaches and stick with what works best. It's another way to improve it. And then four, implement machine learning if possible. Little bit more advanced, but AI tools can really optimize systems way better than humans can and much quicker in many cases. I'll give you a couple more examples. An email marketing system that automatically adjusts send times based on open rights. A content creation system that uses AI to generate multiple headlines and automatically selects the best performing one, a personal finance system that automatically adjusts your budget based on spending patterns and financial goals. So just a few ideas. The fourth step is to leverage other people's time and skills, of course, ethically. So true leverage, which is a key component in systems thinking, often comes from other people because there are actually four kinds of leverage. This will not be a conversation for today's podcast and video. But the four kinds of leverage are people, finance, technology, and media. So people are one of those four kinds of leverage. So true leverage can come from other people. But we're not talking about traditional delegation here. We're talking about creating systems that allow others to contribute to your goals while pursuing their own. So what do I mean by that? Here's a few ideas. Create a knowledge base that allows your team to solve problems without your input. Build a community around your product or service where users help each other. They can also evangelize your product. You can use platforms like Fiverr, Mechanical Turk, Upwork, to create systems for tasks that require human input. The key is to create win-win systems where others are incentivized to contribute to your goals. The fifth step, creating, set it, and forget it processes that scale. So the ultimate lazy system is one that once set up requires minimal ongoing input from you. Here's how to create a lazy system. You're going to automate ruthlessly. So you're going to use tools like Zapier, IFTTT, or even custom scripts to connect different parts of your workflow. You're going to create decision trees. So for any process that requires decisions, you want to create a flow chart that others or algorithms can follow so you don't have to be involved in the decisions. You're going to build redundancies. Your system should have backup plans for when things go wrong. And then you're going to use the if-then frameworks. You want to set up automatic responses to common situations. For example, if website traffic drops below X, then automatically increase add spend by Y. If customer has an engagement 30 days, then trigger a re-engagement email sequence. If project is 20% over budget, then alert management and pause non-essential spending. So you get it. This is again, all part of the game. And then ultimately, I mean, we're in the age of AI right now and the ultimate lazy system is your own AI assistant where you're honestly just replicating you because we are living in the age of AI and not leveraging it is like trying to chop down a forest with the butter knife when you have a chainsaw right next to you. Doesn't make any sense. So out of all the things we've talked about, you should also consider creating your own AI assistant. Using GPT models or some other AI tools and the assistant can draft emails and responses based on your communication style. It can generate content ideas, even rough drafts. It can analyze data, provide some insights and it can help with coding and problem solving. But the key is to create prompts and workflows that allows the AI to operate as an extension of your own thinking process. So even your thinking is augmented to a degree. Now, let's put this all together because there's a lot of concepts here. So a very simple playbook for this because we've gone through all the different reasons why you should develop systems, systems thinking, use leverage. I've spoken about the five steps to actually do this. But if we're gonna put it together and sort of summarize it in a nice concise blueprint, immediate steps that you should take right after listening to this podcast or if you're watching it on YouTube, this is what you would do. So, and this is what you would do in your business. You could also do it in your job to a degree. Obviously you wanna make sure that what you're doing is compliant with what your organization says, but you can also deploy these strategies and use these strategies in your job. For sure, so you can get more done and focus on work that matters. So step one, this is what you're gonna immediately do. You're gonna map out your current workflows and you're gonna identify system opportunities. Step two, for each opportunity you're gonna ask how can I make this happen without my direct involvement. Step three, you're gonna build measurement and feedback loops into each system. Step four, you're gonna automate what you can, delegate what you can. Step five, you're gonna create decision trees and then frameworks for complex processes. Step six, you're gonna leverage AI and other people's skills to extend your capabilities. Step seven, you're gonna continuously refine and optimize based on feedback and results. Remember, the goal isn't to work hard. It's a set up systems that make hard work unnecessary. There is one last thing that I do have to address. Sudo systems. Okay, so I have to give you congratulations. You've made it to the final stretch. You are armed. By this point, you're armed with the knowledge of systems thinking you are ready to go build your lazy empire, but before you go off and start quote unquote optimizing everything in sight, I need to talk about the dark side of systems, which are pseudo systems. So these are kind of like wolves and sheep's clothing. The busy work masquerading as productivity. The time sucks. They promise efficiency, but deliver complexity. So let's pull back the curtain on these imposters and really learn how to differentiate and ultimately avoid them. So the one thing I wanna talk about is why a lot of productivity systems that you may know before you watch this or listen to this are just glorified to-do lists. The issue with the productivity industry is that it's worth billions of dollars and it's built on a lie. That being busy equals being productive. Let's dissect some popular quote unquote systems that are actually keeping you trapped in a hamster wheel. So the first one I hesitated to put this in, but I think it's important to speak about because so many people fall into a trap. So the first thing that I've an issue with is the Pomodoro Technique. And I've even spoken about it before, but the Pomodoro Technique is only meant to help you focus, but people use it as this productivity tool. It's not a productivity tool. It does not eliminate work. It just chops it into these little tomato shaped bite-sized pieces. People are using it as productivity. It's a focus tool. Second thing, inbox zero. Congratulations, you achieved inbox zero. What is inbox zero if you don't know it means at the end of every night, you've basically opened or answered or replied to or archived or deleted every single email. So when you wake up in the morning, you have nothing in your inbox, inbox zero. If you try and achieve this and I've done this myself for many years, congratulations, you have just spent hours organizing emails instead of actually doing meaningful work. And then the third issue that I have is can-band boards and can-band boards like a Trello or an Asana, they are well-intentioned, but moving digital sticky notes around feels productive. But are you actually creating value or are you just shuffling tasks? These aren't real systems. These are task management tools and they do have their place, but they're not gonna create the leverage that we're after. Real systems eliminate or automate work, they don't just organize it. And here's a really hard truth. You can spend years optimizing a process that shouldn't exist in the first place. This is the productivity equivalent of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. You're so focused on doing things right, you forget to ask if you're even doing the right things. Here's some examples of misguided optimization. Spending hours crafting the perfect email template for emails that don't need to be sent at all. Optimizing your filing system for documents you'll never reference again. Creating elaborate project management workflows for projects that don't even align with your core goals. Before you optimize, ask yourself, should this process exist at all? Does it directly contribute to my most important goals? And if the answer is no, your best optimization is elimination. See, systems should simplify your life, not complicated, but it's easy to fall into the trap of creating systems so complex that maintaining them becomes a job in itself. So here's some other signs you fall into the complexity trap. So you can optimize things that don't matter. And you can also create systems that are so complex that they create more work for you anyway, which is again, not the goal of what we're trying to do here. So here's signs that you fall into a complexity trap by creating some well-intentioned systems. You spend more time managing your system than doing actual work. Your system requires extensive documentation to use. You need multiple tools and platforms to keep your system running. And then onboarding somebody new to your system takes longer than teaching them the task itself. Remember, the goal is strategic laziness. If your system isn't making your life easier, it's not a system, it's a burden. There is something else. There is a note that I have to include into this piece, a note to remember. We're talking about optimizing, we're talking about systems. Automation is powerful. There are times when it's not always the answer. Sometimes the human touch is irreplaceable. And there are dangers included in over automation, where you can start to lose the personal connection with clients or team members, or you miss important nuances that an AI or an algorithm might overlook, or you create a rigid system that can't adapt to unique situations. So before you automate, before you deploy any of the ideas that you've got from today, you wanna ask yourself, does this task also require human judgment or creativity? Will automation remove a very valuable personal touch and is the cost and complexity of automation worth the time saved? So it is the case that sometimes the most efficient system is a well-trained human with good judgment, but you have to at least ask yourself these questions. And I found in my experience that by asking yourself these questions, more often than not, you're gonna have a good judgment as to should this be something that I should build a system around? Should there be something I should eliminate or should there be something that should stay human? And at the end of the day, everybody who's listening to this is on a quest for the perfect system, on a quest to build the thing that makes their whole life easier, and I get it. It's so easy to fall into the trap of constantly chasing the newest tools, and technologies, and optimizing. Remember, good line, a fool with a tool is still a fool. New tech can't fix bad systems thinking and fact it often obscures the real issues. And before adopting any new tool, ask yourself, does this solve a real problem in my current system? Can I achieve the same result with the tools I already have and will the time invested in learning and implementing this new tool pay off? The best systems, honestly, they're the simplest ones that gets the job done. Again, if we're going to include systems, I don't need to give you more headache by figuring out new tools and technology. So there is a dance, there's a balance, but you have to be aware of all the different things and all the potential pitfalls. So how do you avoid pitfalls when you want to incorporate systems thinking, when you want to incorporate leverage, when you want to optimize? So to make sure you're creating real value generating systems and not just sophisticated busy work, you can run your ideas through a checklist. So this is my checklist and you can steal it. First, elimination. Can this process be eliminated entirely? If so, get rid of it. Second, automation. If it can't be eliminated, can it be automated? Third, delegation. If it can't be automated, can it be delegated? Fourth, simplification. How can this process be simpler? Five, value alignment. Does this system directly contribute to my most important goals? Six, scalability. Can the system handle 10X? The current load without breaking? Seven, self improvement. Does this system have built in mechanisms for learning and optimization? Eight, time ROI. Does the time saved by the system significantly outweigh the time invested in creating and maintaining it? And if your system checks all those boxes, congratulations, you are truly on your way to building a lazy empire. See, building effective systems isn't easy. It requires upfront effort. It requires constant refinement and the courage to challenge conventional productivity with them. But the payoff is enormous. Payoff is a life where you're no longer a slave to your to-do list, where your impact far exceeds your input, where you have the freedom to focus on what truly matters. Remember, the goal isn't to do more. It's to accomplish more by doing less. So, go out there, be systematically lazy and your future self will thank you for it. And who knows? One day, you'll build a system so effective, you can take a permanent vacation while your empire goes and runs itself. And that's what I call productivity.