E110: How to Optimize Your Day the Right Way with Trevor Lohrbeer

<p><strong>Trevor Lohrbeer is a serial entrepreneur and Founder of Day Optimizer, a time management web app that helps you convert your daily to-do's into a daily schedule through a 3-step process so you can get more of the important stuff done.</strong></p> <p><strong>Here are some power takeaways from today’s conversation:</strong></p> <ul> <li>The concept of grit<br> </li> <li>How to manage a remote workforce<br> </li> <li>How mergers and acquisitions work<br> </li> <li>Why is it harder to sell a company than to start one?<br> </li> <li>Some things you need to know when you’re thinking of acquiring or selling a business<br> </li> <li>The concept of done today vs. done forever<br> </li> <li>The difference between task management and time management<br> </li> <li>Day Optimizer’s 3-step process<br> </li> </ul> <p><strong>Episode Highlights:</strong></p> <p><strong>The Concept of Grit</strong></p> <p>Grit is perseverance through difficulty. A lot of people view failure as a stopping point, rather than a waypoint. And if you view failure as a stopping point, you give up because you're at the end. But if you view failure as a waypoint, where you just stop to rest and then keep living past it, it changes your perspective around failure. It's no longer this devastating thing. It's a learning opportunity.</p> <p><strong>Managing a Remote Workforce</strong></p> <p>When managing a remote team, you don't manage their time, you manage their output. Focus on what your team is producing. By shifting the mindset of how you approach managing employees in a remote work scenario, you're shifting into a more productive way to manage your employees.</p> <p><strong>Selling a Company vs. Starting a Company</strong></p> <p>It's easy when you're a visionary and you can start to build and create something. It’s fun! On the other hand, oftentimes, when people sell a company they're focused on their top-line revenue. They aren't thinking through the fact that it's your net revenue.</p> <p><strong>Done Today vs. Done Forever</