This is going to sound strange…
But it’s becoming harder and harder for me to be a productive writer.
Getting into flow is more challenging.
My mental bandwidth is stretched like taffy.
And I’m finding it nearly impossible to carve out time to sit in silence and execute my most celebrated skill.
The reason?
I just TALK so damn much these days.
As our team grows, my time is increasingly spent in meetings.
And that’s not a bad thing.
Meetings are where I delegate tasks, make decisions, clear bottlenecks, plan our operations, and provide feedback.
They’re muy importante.
And they allow me to leverage my time effectively.
But meetings also involve a lot of speaking on my part and require a similar amount of mental focus, creativity, and energy — especially as an introvert by nature.
In fact, nearly 6 hours of my day today was dedicated to meetings alone.
And that’s why I’d go as far as to say that speaking is ruining my writing practice.
The solution?
I need to scale my writing ability.
Which means:
Outsourcing more to members of my team…
Training up staff to my level of expertise. And…
Spending more time reviewing and editing copy instead of writing it from scratch.
Point being:
If you too are managing the day-to-day operations of your business — while also creating assets that require hours of deep work — then at some point, something’s gotta give.
What roles you move off your plate is your choice.
But you better choose wisely.
Your pen pal,
Matt Rizvi