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Busy Isn't a Badge: The 5 Habits That Are Keeping You Stuck

Busy Isn't a Badge: The 5 Habits That Are Keeping You Stuck

Season 3 Episode 79 Published 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Description

Forty hours. Fifty. Sixty. Somewhere along the way, "busy" became something to brag about. But what if the busyness isn't a sign of hard work or it's a sign of the wrong habits? In this episode of Roots of Success, host Kevin Keim sits down with Dauphin Ewart, a McFarlin Stanford PACE facilitator and second-generation owner of BugMaster, an 80-person pest control company in Texas, to break down the five most common mistakes that keep driven people perpetually overwhelmed. These aren't theories. They're lessons Dauphin learned the hard way running his own company for over 20 years, and every one of them will sound familiar.

THE BIG IDEA:  

Busyness Is a Choice and So Is the Way Out 

KEY MOMENTS: 

[02:30] Running an 80-Person, Four-Market Pest Control Company — and Why This Topic Is Personal
[07:30] How Making the Box Smaller Forces You to Put the Right Things In It
[09:00] Dauphin's Defining Moment: When He Decided to Start Managing His Time Intentionally

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