An excellent question that came in a while back:
“Quick question (feel free to use for future content): how do you get so much done on your walks? Are you reading/responding to emails on your phone while walking? Taking voice notes? I know you do some great content creation while walking (as per your awesome YouTube vids) but wanted to get an idea for what else you do to make those walks more productive.”
The short answer?
Yes.
The longer, more detailed answer:
Some of my walks are 3-3.5 hours long — while others are maybe 20-45 minutes long. But long or short I never let the opportunity go to waste. That time is a pure, uncut, and unadulterated example of what the great Dan Kennedy teaches about:
“Unused Capacity”
i.e., time that can be used to grow my business.
Thus, depending on the day and situation that time consists of things like:
* Doing a Twitter Spaces call with Email Player subscriber and BerserkerMail co-owner John Wood — which has obvious immediate benefits, but that he then also uses as content on the BerserkerMail YouTube channel that he runs, and that we could put up as a BerserkerMail podcast, and probably be cut up and used for other things too.
* Back-and-forthing with my various biz partners on other matters — whether it’s with John & Troy Broussard about our BerserkerMail biz, or Troy with Low Stress Trading biz, or with Stefania about life/business/scheduling/whatever… and the list goes on. I have filled entire 3+ hour walks just doing this, barely noticing the time going by.
* Listening to audio books, podcasts, courses, or recorded conversations about business I want to review, dig deeper into, think about, etc
* And, of course…
Creating content.
I’ve “written” entire Email Players issues, for example, on walks with my phone’s recorder. I’ve also co-created a course or two on walks. Not to mention belting out content for bonuses, premiums, and that sort of thing. I’ve also gotten ideas and built the outlines of books while on walks — stopping whenever an idea pops in my mind to jot the idea down, email it to myself, catalog & organize it later when I get home.
And the above is just for starters.
I’m not even getting into the health benefits of all that walking/jogging/running.
i.e., Road work as Gary Halbert taught in his Boron Letters.
People like ‘hacks’ — well in my business walking is the most profitable hack of them all.
Highly recommend.
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Ben Settle
