Facebook vs. 10x Growth - Or How I decided not to drink Mai Tais at the Tiki Hut

I have diagnosed ADD. 

If you have read previous posts of Juggling Wolverines, you already know this. 

You may also know, both from Facebook, and this blog, that I see ADD as both a blessing and a curse.

People with ADD are often creative and pretty visionary.

At the same time, we have this knack for creating utter chaos and destruction.

When I was diagnosed back in 2004, I began taking a med - Strattera - which was hugely helpful in allowing me to focus.

Coaching was another big help. I had an executive coach work with me for three years, giving me a good start.

In 2008, I started with a comprehensive coaching program for entrepreneurs - The Strategic Coach. 

"Coach" as members refer to it, was founded by Dan Sullivan and his wife Babs Smith. 

Coach has been hugely helpful to me in providing tools I desperately needed, and use.

A great concept Dan Sullivan has laid out is called 10x Growth.

The idea is that rather than trying to grow, say to a point that is twice where you are now, you can actually grow ten times in the exact same period, using the same size of staff, or less, with the same energy or less.

My reading Dan's thoughts, and listening to audio on the idea, came at about the same time as I was hitting brick walls this year because of my ADD. 

Dan himself has ADD. He wound up inspiring me to find an ADD coach in addition to what I am getting out of Strategic Coach.

Enter the incomparable Nancy Snell - a kind yet blunt Yankee. In the course of working with her, we reached a conclusion - one corroborated My Reason for Living, and two friends of mine - Jon and Phil.
I was addicted to Facebook. 

No, wait, I was intoxicated with Facebook, like a guy in a leisure suit at the Tiki Hut bar at a Howard Johnson Hotel in Toledo - asking for just one more.

At this realization, I heard the voice of another friend, Julia Waller, who spent seven hours with me at the Strategic Coach HQ in Toronto helping identify and define the things I should focus on as my Unique Ability.

She pointed out that I was spending too much time on Facebook.

All five, over the last two years,  were separately telling me that Facebook was eating up my time.

And, I was hearing my hero, Dan Sullivan, mentioning that once you adopt a mindset for 10x Growth, you see things you are doing that are not "1ox" in quality. 

I realized at once that using the same amount of time or less to grow 10x as opposed to 2x was practical and real.

I also realized that Julia, Coach Nancy, Wife Nancy, and friends Jon and Phil were pointing me to the treasure trove of time I could invest - 
 in 10x Growth.

So where does that leave you and me? 

Well, for one, you made it to Juggling Wolverines, and you are giving me an audience for some fun I have writing.

You also give me the chance to say that interacting with you on FB is great fun, and sometimes profound as I get to share in relationships with a pretty diverse bunch.

But, I want to grow, and GROW 10X, not just monetarily, but in the entirety of my life  - whether that is in creation of value for entrepreneurial and estate planning clients, helping other business owners in an outside venture I recently became involved in - or growing 10x as a husband, father, friend, racing driver, whatever.

So much of that rides on my investment of time.

I have been riding Facebook like a Weight Watcher's refugee at an all-you-can-eat Chinese super buffet.

So, I am faced with a choice.

1. Continue on FB as I am now, and not just fail to hit 10x Growth, but move backwards- Or 
2. Put my FB account on ice.

I want to grow 10x.

My FB account goes on ice.

A big part of my problem with Facebook is the stimulation I get from seeing posts I just have to respond to.

My blog gives me the opportunity to write, just for the joy of it, and sometimes someone responds.

It is just not as convenient for me to find out - not as easy as logging on to FB.

So, off of Facebook I go - off to reallocated time for 10x Growth - and still writing my blog, perhaps more than I have, but as an outlet that is itself an investment in my sanity. 

Not a Mai Tai marathon at the Tiki Hut.