Read Sean D’Souza’s latest ‘PsychoTactics’ article titled “The Plate-Spinning System: How To Run Several Projects Simultaneously”. [Article Reprint]


D’Souza’s ‘Psychotactics’ article is reprinted here.

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The Plate-Spinning System: How To Run Several Projects Simultaneously


How to Manage
Your Business

You’ve see spinning plates, haven’t you?
And you’ve seen how a plate-spinner goes about spinning plates.

First, they spin one plate

Then as that plate gets momentum, they spin another. Again, the second plate has to whirr round in circles before the next one plate is added. And then the fourth plate. And the fifth.

Which brings us to the sixth and seventh plate? But is there a sixth and seventh plate at all? Do you notice that the plate-spinner stops adding plates at the top? Yes, I know that you know why.

It’s because the first plate has begun to lose momentum. The first plate needs some spinning. And as the first plate whizzes back into tight, rapid concentric circles, the second plate needs attention-and so on.

Your business projects are a lot like spinning plates

Most small businesses start on one project, and stick to that one project. Which is all very fine and dandy, but hey, are you adding momentum to that one project at all? Have you increased your speed in turning out the projects? Are the projects richer and more powerful-and yet being turned around in shorter time frames?

Or are you spinning the same plate at the same speed as you did the month or the year before?

Momentum is the key to spinning plates

When we first started out in Psychotactics, I used to write a newsletter every month. Yes, I couldn’t bring myself to write more than once a month. Writing was tedious; laborious-often spanning two or more days for a single article.

To try to spin another plate at that point in time, would have sent both plates crashing down. So I added momentum to the first plate. I started writing articles every fortnight. And then in a few months, to my utter surprise, I was writing an article a week. Heck, now I had real momentum.

But isn’t writing an article a week way too much?

It would appear so. But look at a jogger. Wouldn’t five miles seem like a lot of ground to cover on the first day that jogger decided to jog? But about five months later, those very same miles wouldn’t be more tedious than a stroll in the park.

The same concept of momentum applies to your plate. Once you’ve got the plate up to a certain speed, it’s best to increase the speed.

So how did I increase the speed?

I started writing five articles a week for 5000bc. Gulp. Yes indeed, a lot of gulp. And at first, writing five articles (on top of the Psychotactics article) seemed like way too much. But hey, momentum kicks in, if you allow it to kick in. And today, those two plates of ‘articles’ amount to over 300+ articles a year.

Of course, once you learn to spin plates, spinning becomes easy. We added the year-long Protege Program; the Inner Circle; the Next Step; A yearly live session in Campbell, California. All plates, added one by one, by one.

What’s fascinating is that we didn’t set out to spin these plates

We just set out to run our business. But as each plate gained momentum, we found that all we ever had to do, was make sure the existing plates kept spinning.

And suddenly, we were not just creating powerful and effective projects, but were doing it at a rapid pace.

Can you spin plates?

Are you really gaining momentum? Or are you doing each project at exactly the same pace as you did before? Are you adding plates? Or are you simply continuing to play around with one plate?

When you look at others and you wonder how they’ve started to achieve so much in so little time, you’re not looking at just talent. What you’re actually seeing is plates.

Plates spinning away.

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