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What if one simple habit could make you win every week, every day, forever, without spending a dime or learning a new skill?
In this episode, Sharran shares the ultimate “cheat code” for winning consistently in both business and life. He breaks down the single most powerful practice that costs nothing but transforms everything, helping you accomplish your goals, keep your promises, and stack wins every week.
Sharran helps you discover how to shift from reactive to intentional action through practical tactics. He also explains why accountability alone isn’t enough and how true results can be accomplished with this one powerful strategy.
If you’re ready to finally take control of your time, focus, and results, this episode will equip you with the tools to start winning today.
“You don’t need to go pay somebody to be accountable. If you ever have to do that, that just means you don’t have enough care and responsibility with yourself.”
– Sharran Srivatsaa
Timestamps:
01:07 – Overcoming distractions and prioritizing effectively
01:56 – Reporting first: running your business with the right tools
04:01 – Calendar blocking: building your week around key appointments
06:28 – Pre-logging meals and commitments for alignment and integrity
08:23 – Writing your end-of-week report at the start of the week
10:11 – Why accountability fails and how to fix the root cause
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Transcript:
[00:00:00] Hey, this is Sharran Srivatsaa. Welcome back to the Business School Podcast, and in this episode I’m giving you the cheat code to win forever. It is the single most important thing that if you can take and install in your life and in your business, you’ll be able to accomplish anything anytime. Forever. It doesn’t cost you any money.
[00:00:16] It doesn’t cost you any skill. It only costs you one simple practice that if you can install this in your life, everything will change forever. I break it down for you step by step. Starting right now.
[00:00:33] One thing is for certain, just because it’s tried and true doesn’t mean it’s working right now. So the big question is this. Where can you learn what is working right now? The strategies, the tactics, the psychology, and the exact how to. How to grow your business, how to blow up your personal brand and supercharge your personal growth.
[00:00:55] That is the question, and this podcast will give you the answer. My name is Sharran Srivatsaa and Welcome to Business School.
[00:01:07] So we live in a world where we have massive, massive distraction, right? There’s 14,000 commercial messages being fired at us every single day. So the question, it really is for you, for me, is to figure out how to prioritize, how to focus, how to do all of those things that get us to the result that we want.
[00:01:23] I’m gonna give you three examples on what you can do to get. You, the result that you want to help you win every single week, because how you stack your weeks is how you stack your gear, right? Let me frame this for you because I, this is not fufu and it’s super tactical, but what I want you to realize is the number one question that I get asked both.
[00:01:42] Uh, from myself and by people around me. It’s like, well, how do you prioritize things? How do you decide what to say yes to and what to say no to? And I actually think that’s a very hard thing to do. In fact, the way you prioritize is super, super hard. So I, I’ll give you an example of something. In the first, when I ran my first company, I had a board of directors and investor group, right.
[00:02:04] And we’d meet with the board. Well, I had never done one of these meetings. This was 20 plus years ago, and I called the chairman of my board and I said, Hey, Joe, I. I know this meeting is coming up. What would you like me to prepare for this meeting? I’ve never done one of these before. And he responded with something pretty amazing and he said, Sharran, don’t prepare anything for the board.
[00:02:22] Don’t prepare any extra materials. Don’t prepare any slides. Don’t prepare any of those. And I was like, what are you talking about? He says, don’t prepare any of those things. Don’t do any extra work for the board. I go, okay. He goes, I want you to bring to the board. The same exact tools that you use to run your business.
[00:02:42] So if you are watching a certain set of stats, if you have a certain dashboard, if you have a certain set of reporting, if you have a certain set of priorities, if you have a certain set of meeting, agenda schedules, whatever you do on a day-to-day basis to actually run the business, I want you to bring that to the board so that the board can give you feedback on that because we want a second pair of eyes, a better perspective on the things that you already do to operate your business well.
[00:03:07] I think that was great advice and that was the day everything changed for me because I will tell you this, I had no dashboard. I had no tools. I had, I was running it on pure gut, and that’s what a lot of first time entrepreneurs do. I’m telling you this because I used to do this. I used to just run the business on what the modern day, my 13-year-old son would call vibes, right?
[00:03:28] I used to just run my business based on like, oh yeah, if I got more money in the bank, it would work. I literally have. Portfolio companies that we’ve invested in that literally say to me, Hey, if we have more money in the bank today than yesterday, it’s a good day. That is wrong. That is false. That’s not how you actually run your business.
[00:03:44] That’s nothing will ever grow or scale that way. And the crazy part where I’m telling you this is I never had a. A dashboard, a set of controls, a reporting mechanism that would allow me to do the thing. And that was the day every single, everything changed for me. That is big idea number one. And let me give you big idea number two is the same thing happened when I started talking to a sales coach, when I was a banker at Goldman Sachs.
[00:04:06] And uh, he said to me, he’s like, Sean, what would actually make you win? And I said, having five potential client appointments a week would make me win. And he goes, okay, so your job is to get five client appointments a week, right? And I’m like, yes. He goes, no, that is not the job. And I said, wait, what do you mean?
[00:04:25] He goes, every single person who is mediocre in sales. Tries to track how many appointments they get a week. They have a goal for their number of appointments that week, and they go to try and be like, oh, I need to get five appointments this week. And they try to try to hit that goal. He’s like, Sharran, that’s not what you should do.
[00:04:42] You should change the way you think about the world. And I said, okay, what should I do? He says, I want you to put five of these appointments on your calendar, as in sales call number one, sales call number two, sales call number three, sales. Call number four, sales. Call number five. He says, put the five appointments on your calendar.
[00:04:59] Monday morning, Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday morning, Thursday afternoon, Friday morning, whatever. He’s like, I don’t care. And your job is to build your week around that, and the entire job of this week is for you to work hard to fill those slots. He goes, otherwise, you’re tracking one out of four, two out of four.
[00:05:17] Don’t wanna do that. These are already on your calendar. You already have Monday morning at 10 30 a slot on your calendar. So your job is to fill that slot. I will tell you, I was pretty good at managing my metrics. I was pretty good at selling stuff. I was pretty good at following process. I was pretty darn focused in what I was doing.
[00:05:35] However, this was a big change for me. It was a big change for me because it made a reporting first. The idea, just like reporting first on the board making became the idea. This made reporting first. The idea I had to go out and fill. Five appointment slots. My goal was not to get five appointment slots.
[00:05:54] Just doing that allowed me to then manage the rest of the things on my calendar so that I could then go build it. Otherwise, I would just be a slave to saying, oh yeah, I’ll take the meeting whenever you give it to me. Now, it’s not the fact that you don’t take the meeting and you move stuff around. It’s not that it’s way easier to move the slide on your calendar than to put the slide on your calendar, and that’s big idea number two is to, that is how you win, or you go and fill something that you’ve.
[00:06:16] Already premeditated that you’re going to accomplish. Then you know where you lost it, then you know where you broke down. Then you know. That you didn’t hit the five slot, you only hit two. Of course you’re not gonna hit your targets. Lemme give you a big idea. Number three, which is when I was first working with one of my health coaches and he said something amazing to me.
[00:06:34] He, you know, he said, Hey Sharran, we’re gonna start tracking the food that you eat on your app. And what did I do? Every time I ate a good meal, I would take a picture, I would fill out it in my app, I would send him the picture. He wanted me to text my picture of my food every before every meal. So I would take a picture of the meal that I did well and I would send it to him.
[00:06:49] And if I didn’t do great, I’d be like, eh, I’m not gonna send him the text. It’s very normal. I would also try to log everything that I ate, right. He wanted me to do that, which made perfect sense. But the issue was this. The issue is not the logging of the food. He gave me a better idea. He says, Sharran, I want you to pre log everything in the app.
[00:07:09] I said, what do you mean? He says, I wanna pre log tomorrow. For tomorrow what you’re gonna eat. He’s like, I want you to pre log what you’re gonna get at Starbucks in the morning. I want you to pre log what you’re gonna eat for lunch. I want you to pre log what you’re gonna eat for a snack. I want you to pre log when you’re gonna drink your water.
[00:07:25] I wanna pre log when you’re gonna work out. I want to pre log what you’re gonna eat for dinner. He’s like, I want you to pre log your food because then you’re just in agreement in integrity with the log that you already made. I don’t want you to log what you did. I want you to log what you’re going to do.
[00:07:41] I will tell you that was the biggest shift for me because it gave me a sense of doing what I say I was gonna do, keeping my promises to myself. That was the big idea. That’s what changed everything. You saw it in the first example that I told you about creating reporting first and the, the materials that, the dashboards that I run, I take to the board meeting, or number two, uh, putting the calendar blocks on the calendar so that your job is to go fill those calendar blocks, not to set the ones that you want to go do, or here is to pre log the food you’re going to eat because now you’re in alignment and you are in, in integrity with the promises that you made to yourself.
[00:08:18] Right. That’s what’s important. Now, I’ll give you the blast, but not at least the big idea that I think would be really helpful to you, which is every single person, no matter who you are, you should do a end of week report. All our, all my key, you know, leaders that report into me do an end of week report.
[00:08:31] They tell me what they did this past week. I do an end of like, we all do an end of week report to our entire executive team. Like I want everybody to know what I worked on that week. What, what most. Most people do is they look back at their week and see what they did, and they write the end of week report on the thing that they actually accomplished.
[00:08:47] That’s a really bad way of doing it because you don’t understand how to design the priorities of that in the beginning of the week. You don’t understand what is negotiable and what is not negotiable. You don’t understand what you’re actually gonna get done, and you’re leaving what you’re gonna get done to chance The fires that may happen, the, the, the, the stuff that may break the, the non-negotiables that may not actually get done.
[00:09:08] So here’s what I do every single week. Before I start the week, I write my end of week report before I start my week. If I were to write my end of week report at the beginning of my week, now I know exactly what my priorities are for the week. I have to schedule, I have to manage, I have to focus, I have to prioritize, I have to redo the things on my calendar, on my agenda, on my thinking, on my focus, on my fo, you know, kind of things that I need to accomplish.
[00:09:34] Because if I don’t do that, then my end of week report, I have to rewrite it. I’ll feel like a failure doing that, and it’s gonna be like a crappy end-of-week reports and I have to like, make excuses. So at the beginning of the week, I just realized what does my good end-of-the-week report looks like? And I write that.
[00:09:51] I actually write my end of week report on what I, I. Already did that week. Now I take that end of week report and I say, okay, cool, for all of this to be true, what needs to happen during my week? And then I just schedule and prioritize and figure out what are the most important tasks the MITs that need to get done that week for me to hit that end of week report.
[00:10:11] This is what most people miss. You can go hire a coach or a consultant or whatever to keep you accountable. I’ll tell you right now, you don’t need to go pay somebody to be accountable if you ever have to do that. That just means that you don’t have enough care and responsibility with yourself. Most of the times somebody needs to pay for accountability is for three big reasons.
[00:10:30] Number one, they don’t know how to do the thing. Number two, they don’t have the desire to actually do the thing. And number three, they don’t have the belief to do the thing. Why do you hire an accountability partner to go to the gym? Do you not know what to do? Do you not have the desire to do it, or do you not have the belief that doing this is actually gonna help you?
[00:10:47] That’s why to make your sales calls. The number one reason why people need accountability to make their sales calls is because they don’t know how to do the thing, and so they force themselves with peer pressure and peer shame to go do the thing. Accountability is dumb, like you have to realize, like, I understand accountability.
[00:11:05] I’m not bashing it, but paying for accountability to make you do something that you don’t wanna do is dumb. You have to figure out why you don’t want to do it. Why? Figuring out why you don’t want to do it is the reason for the coach not paying for accountability to do the thing, ’cause once you figure out why you don’t wanna do it, you will just do it naturally.
[00:11:22] Because if someone told me that I had to wake up in the morning at 5:00 AM and actually walk for three miles, if not that, I would die. Now I know that I need to do the thing. I don’t need accountability to do the thing because I know what I need to do to do the thing. I know why I’m doing it. I know they have the belief and the desire and the how to.
[00:11:37] So instead of investing in a coach or a consultant or a group or mastermind or whatever to teach you, to give you accountability where you’re paying for accountability for, for peer based shame, what you should do. You just learn why you don’t wanna do the thing. Be honest with yourself about not doing the thing, and then fix that thing.
[00:11:55] Because when you do that, everything gets better. And the way to fix the thing is to just write out your end of week report or pre log your food. Pre-fill your calendar, or write, you know, work from a reporting based mechanism. When you do that, you start to win every single week. You start to win every single year.
[00:12:10] You start to win every single day, and you start to keep your promises to yourself. I could give you so many more things, but if there’s any piece of advice that I give you right now, this is probably the best one because this is how you win. Every single week. I hope this was helpful to you. If it was, you know, just screenshot this and share it.
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[00:12:38] All right. If you like this, screenshot this and tag me and I’ll make more like this for you. Catch up the next more.
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