See, many people who are worth $50 per per hour are actually spending lots of time every week on stuff that they could pay somebody $3 per hour for.

I recently talked with a friend who wanted me to help him upload pictures to a Joomla site, and my response was: Dude, I love to help you, and the best way I can think of to help you is by telling you: pay somebody to do it for you!

He was the third day into uploading pictures on that freaking Joomla site, this was the state he was in when he came to me, his eyes were red, his fingers almost swollen from all the mouseclicking (ok, I’m going a little over the top, but you get my point)… And he told me: “No, I can use the money for better stuff.” Now, this friend is not stupid, but something about that was not so smart… because I know when he worked on his other business (selling financial services) he could make a couple of Benjamins a day just like that. And here he was, telling me: “No, I can use the money for better stuff. I’d much rather spend a week doing stuff that I could outsource for $3/hour than making a couple of Benjamins in a day.” Funny thing is, even after I pointed it out, he did not agree with me. Anyway, I told him I’m gonna outsource it for him, paying out of my own pocket - and that’s when he all of the sudden decided that outsourcing wasn’t so bad and he actually did it himself.

Funny, right?

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