Why You Need to Buy Back Your Time If You Want to Scale Past a Couple Hundred Thousand a Month

Why You Need to Buy Back Your Time If You Want to Scale Past a Couple Hundred Thousand a Month

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Author: Jeremy Haynes | founder of Megalodon Marketing.

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Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Jeremy Haynes. For all those who don’t know, all we talk about around here is cracking million-dollar months.

Whether it’s your first million or next million month, we just sit here and talk about lessons from people who have been there, done that, and hand them down to you.

There’s no earnings claims, no income potential. All we do is again just hand down lessons. We don’t know who you are and whether you have literally any probability to go out there and make any money with the things that we’re sitting here and talking to you about.

There’s a 0.1% probability according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics that you ever hit $10 million a year.

So there’s obviously an even smaller probability than that that you’re ever going to clear a million a month and obviously an even smaller one that you’ll ever hit a couple million bucks a month.

But anyway, these are still great business lessons that we want to hand out to you from the people that have been there, done that.

So welcome in.

I realized most recently that one of the number one things that people that are stuck in like the couple hundred grand a month range typically struggle with the most – sometimes though, I also surprisingly see it after people ramped up aggressively.

And you can even see it – I’ve seen this happen literally this week with a guy at $1.7 million a month.

So apparently it can happen up in that range too.

Anyway, moral of the story – as you scale up, one of the number one things that you can consistently invest into is consistency, stability, and predictability.

Today, 25+ members are doing over $1M per month, and two have crossed $5M+. If you’re ready to join them, this is your invitation: start the conversation at My Inner Circle.

Why Buying Back Your Time Creates Stability, Consistency, and Predictability in Revenue

Stability, consistency, and predictability are one of the number one variables that you are going to have a higher probability to actually have some consistency, stability and predictability in the revenue coming in every month rather than like one and done months where you hit a million a month and these catastrophically drop the next month. 

According to Gallup research, CEOs who excel at delegating generate 33% higher revenue than those who remain stuck in day-to-day operations, proving that buying back your time directly translates to financial performance.

Sure, recurring revenue is a huge part of that. But even that requires you to be thinking with stability, consistency, and predictability.

A lot of it though, and this is where this lesson really foundationally exists, comes from you doing a bunch of menial tasks.

Why Menial Tasks Like Cleaning and Cooking Drain Your Focus From Revenue-Driven Actions

And menial tasks when you first get started, they’re the basic things that you already got people for.

Like I pray to God you have maids that come a few times a week rather than just once.

I’ll give you a good example. Look at my floors right here. Last night we had a comedy show here at the office and some of my staff moved the couch forward and we scuffed these floors that I recently paid for.

But I don’t really care. It’s like I care but it’s like I know it’s going to get handled.

Why? Because my maids come here like I don’t know three, four times a week. I’m not even certain of their exact schedules. They go over to the penthouse. They go to the jungle house. And they do that multiple times a week.

And then they come here again like three, four times a week.

I don’t have to think about the floors as a result of that because I know it’s going to get cleaned.

How Delegating Cleaning and Maintenance Frees Up Mental Bandwidth for High-Level Work

I’ll give you another really good one.

So recently we bought out a personal trainer’s business. He’s been a longtime guy that I’ve worked remotely with. His name’s Nick. I’ve introduced him over on our vlog channel if you haven’t seen that yet.

And this is Nick’s desk right here.

Every day I don’t have to think about food. Nick orders all our food for the entire staff. He sits right here. He uses that golf cart over there and he goes out because he doesn’t want to rely on the Uber drivers, picks up all our food for us and gets us right.

Thinking about macros, thinking about calories – I’ve clearly been pretty bad at it because I’ve gotten fatter.

How Hiring a Trainer to Handle Food and Fitness Frees Mental Bandwidth for Revenue Actions

So moral of the story, comparatively to me being the one that needs to pay attention to that, I hired somebody else to pay attention to it, which does what?

Frees up mental bandwidth.

Every day I come in, I pop off the shoes, I pop off the socks, pop off the jewels, and take everything out of my pockets. He weighs me.

This is one of those scales that does a little BMI thing and it’s got an app that tracks it all.

Now, this specific thing, I don’t even know what I weigh right now. I just know for sure I’ve been looking skinnier and I know he keeps track of it and I know I’ve been losing weight because guess what?

He would adjust my calories. He would adjust my macros. He would adjust my routine because he’s responsible for it.

I literally took what some people spend so long doing and gave it to him.

And I want to be clear, I just started that like 3 weeks ago. Don’t judge it right now. Give me a little bit of time. But you’ll see the effects too as you continue following along more.

But my point is most people, they choose to take on that knowledge. They choose to take on the responsibility of figuring all that out. They choose to also take the responsibility to spend the daily time and effort to track all that.

And I know, listen, I totally get it. Some of you gym bros reading this are like, Jeremy’s not smart about this. It’s so easy to do.

That’s great. I don’t view this easy to do. I don’t know how to do it. You understand?

And it’s like, this is a great example of something I view as a menial task.

So as a result of that, like you can see, look at this. This guy’s got books I’ll never read. This guy’s got books I didn’t know exist.

You know what’s in these books? I don’t know.

But here’s some of the things I do know. I’m gonna have better posture. I’m gonna be more fit.

Why Having an On-Site Gym and Trainer Eliminates Time Wasted Driving and Thinking About Workouts

And here’s another example of that.

Rather than having to go and drive somewhere, even if it’s a couple minutes, it’s a couple minutes there. It’s a couple minutes back. It’s a couple minutes I got to think about going to the gym.

Not around here.

I didn’t intentionally pick this place for this specific benefit, by the way. But nonetheless, I’m a benefactor of it regardless.

All I got to do to go to the gym, this is it. Bam. I’m here. Look at this. This is the weight gym. And then this door over here, this is the boxing gym.

Look at that.

You see, all I got to do is walk from there to there. Or look around here. We also do stuff out here in this physical area.

And then guess what? Look over in that corner over there by the money and the ping pong table. There’s a foam roller, some yoga mats, and that’s where I get my posture right.

Look at this. Look at this neck. You see this? I’m going to be standing up straight. I’m probably going to be 6’6″ by the time I get done with this.

But here’s the point of this.

When I’m in the middle of doing stuff, which is all the time, my trainer’s physically here in person and just is like, “Hey man, you got 10 minutes to do this. You got 15 minutes to do that. You got 30 minutes to do this.”

He just pulls me aside and makes me do it.

I go over here in my office. I’m on calls a lot. Not all the time, but a good amount of the time. And obviously the other parts of the time, as you can tell from my neck, I’m working at a desk.

You see this treadmill desk down here? I’m sitting there walking on that thing.

Why? First of all, I think about that proactively. But guess what? He’ll come up to me and I got my little step counter right here. You see that?

Today I’ve only got 451 steps. I’m going to need to step it up.

How Buying Back Time Through Delegation Lets You Focus on Revenue-Driven Actions

He comes and he literally checks and he’s like, “No, you got to walk for this next call.”

Or, “No, I need you to hit another 3,000 steps before this specific time. Like, jump on there.”

This guy will come in while I’m in the middle of a call, sitting at my desk, and he’ll be like, “Can you walk?” And I’ll be like, “Yeah, you know, I’ll get up and I’ll walk. I’ll hit my steps.”

And guess what? The benefactors of that, by the way, are everybody else who works here in the office. It’s not just me.

But again, I tell you this, not to just tell you it. I tell you it as an example of things that I’ve taken out of my brain that I’ve bought somebody else’s brain to think about instead.

And what that allows me to do is free up time, energy, and attention.

It allows me to have more consistency, predictability, and stability.

Because guess what my attention goes towards? It goes towards revenue-driven actions.

When you’re looking for consistency, predictability, and stability, you’re likely going to have to think about what you need to do to actually buy it.

And if you don’t have a lot of time to be able to think about it, and the rest of your day is just hijacked by random actions you’re having to take, well, you can probably see why you don’t have it.

Moral of the story, there’s all kinds of random things that get done around here. Obviously, we got our IT guys that install all this stuff. I don’t have to think about it. I just have to be like, “This is the outcome I want. Money goes to somebody and the outcome gets bought.”

You get what I’m saying? That’s what it’s all about.

See this little corner over here with these two chairs? That’s where John the Barber comes every week. That guy’s cut my hair for like a decade now. Comes to me weekly.

No matter where I am, no matter what house I’m at, whether I’m here at the office or at one of the other two cribs – cuts my hair every week.

All my staff get the same thing. You all get weekly cuts.

These are examples of menial tasks. The maids, the trainer, John the barber, the food, the macros, all this stuff.

Why Living Four Minutes From Your Office Creates Efficiency and Saves Hours Per Week

But another example, come outside for this one.

So right down the road from where we are right now is where my main residence is. I have this lease on a penthouse. It’s been a three-year lease now.

And you can’t see it. It’s blocked by one of the 11 residences that’s being built right now. But you’ll get a good idea about how truly close it is.

It’s about a 4-minute drive from where I’m standing talking to you right now.

You see that tall building that’s unfinished down there towards the end?

You see that? So that specific building over there, right behind the pole, that tall one, there’s two of them. That specific building, that’s called the 11 residences.

And guess what? Right on the other side of that, that’s where the penthouse is.

It’s a 4-minute drive.

And look what kind of car I drive to get here. And again, I’m not trying to flex on you. This thing goes fast. I get to go to where I need to go pretty quick.

And guess what kind of company cars we give the staff? So they can get here quick.

You understand? It’s like everything that you do should be from the perspective of efficiency.

I can’t stress it enough. When you think with efficiency, and that’s the foundational lesson to getting stability, consistency, and predictability – you buy back your time so you can actively think with the next highest revenue driven thing.

What Slightly More Sophisticated Delegation Looks Like Beyond Maids and Barbers

So that’s kind of the foundation of it. You get all the little stuff like that out of the way. You understand?

Then there’s the slightly more sophisticated layer above that.

Introducing Will. So again, Will’s not physically here, but you see his desk. Will knocks out all kinds of random things. We call him the office manager.

Just recently, as an example, we had our fifth cohort for our Master Internet Marketing class. Link for that down below if you want to become a part of it.

We do a seven-week live class. Extensive levels of information. Each class is about 3 to 5 hours. Each week covers a different topic. Big homework library in between.

And at the end of the seventh week, in this particular class, we had a 109 question exam. 101 of those were multiple choice questions. And then the remaining eight questions were long form answers that they needed to provide that were actually judged by Jeremy Haynes.

And then if they passed that exam, they got the opportunity to get a physical certificate.

Well, guess who printed the physical certificates? Guess who typed all the names onto the physical certificates? Guess who put those certificates into the frames, right?

All I did was get a set of cards that congratulated people on passing. Said, “Hey, excited to see what you do with this information. Time to get richer.” Signed them all.

Guess who went and then shipped all that out.

Now, to be fair to Will, he did mess up once, you know, and we had to ship that person. He gave him a blank card, you know, instead of giving him one of the cards. But again, there’s a lot of people that graduated.

So again, that’s an example. One of the random things that’s slightly more sophisticated than like a maid or a barber, you see, or like living close by to where you work.

Slightly more sophisticated.

Takes my mind off of that so I don’t have to think about it.

How Wearing the Same Outfit Every Day Reduces Decision Fatigue and Saves Mental Energy

I would also peg in this same category as a great example of this – my daily attire.

If you follow along regularly, you’ll notice I wear the same outfit every single time.

I have, without exaggeration, 70 of these t-shirts. Research shows that adults make approximately 35,000 decisions daily, and this constant decision-making depletes mental energy—which is exactly why successful leaders like Mark Zuckerberg and Barack Obama wear the same outfit every day to eliminate unnecessary choices and preserve cognitive resources for revenue-driven actions.

Shout out to Mr. Daniel Patrick. Again, I don’t even know how many of these shorts I’ve got.

This has been my daily outfit for arguably like four years.

And guess what? I have three pairs of these shoes. The OnCloud lows. And I took out the laces that come with it. And I threw some Yeezy laces into all three of them.

The only thing I swap are my watches and my little jewels. That’s the only difference in my daily attire that I have.

I view that as slightly more sophisticated because I’m sure you recognize this, too – there’s a certain set of clothes you put on that maybe it’s a little too loose that day or the arm length is a little too long or something’s a little too tight or it just you just don’t feel the same.

One example of this is the fact that you’ll just feel the same every day literally wearing the exact same outfit which over a long duration of time like four years as I just articulated to you does a profound amount to how often you get to notice feeling slightly off and less productive because of what you chose to wear that day.

But in addition to that, it reduces your morning decision-making fatigue.

Rather than you having to pay attention to things like what you’re going to wear that morning and spending all that time on that, you don’t have to do that because you already know exactly what you’re going to wear. 

Studies confirm that decision fatigue causes deteriorating judgment quality throughout the day, with professionals making progressively worse choices as their cognitive resources deplete—which is why eliminating trivial decisions preserves mental bandwidth for the high-stakes calls that actually make you money.

You just got to pick a watch. You got to pick a matching little bracelet for it. You know, that’s all you got to do.

Why Hiring Specialized Labor Is Required for Next Level Growth Past Couple Hundred Grand

And then you go up one more layer than that.

And when you get to that next layer and you go to that slightly more sophisticated bracket, this is typically where you get into specialized labor.

So this is where you have to understand the most important part typically is – this is where a lot of guys in the couple hundred grand range get stuck.

And again, this is where I saw that guy at $1.7 million a month that got stuck just recently this week.

They grind themselves into a certain routine, a certain habit, a certain behavior pattern. And what they don’t realize is like, you know, they’re getting productivity from that behavior pattern. That’s why they repeat it. This is why they habitualize it.

But they’re preventing themselves. They’re inhibiting themselves from taking that next higher level action that’s more revenue driven than whatever they’ve habitualized and put into a routine.

Routines are where the money is. I completely agree to that. Routines are one of the most beneficial things you could possibly do and pay attention to.

However, you got to be willing to augment and adjust your routine as demands come for getting richer.

Typically, what getting richer actually means is you found a specific set of actions that you’re going to be able to repeat. Because at the end of the day, like we don’t want to teach a million dollar month. It’s plural.

You know, we want months. We want it to be like month in and month out. You know, consistency, stability, and predictability.

How to Escape the Routine That’s Holding You Back From Scaling Higher

So from that same perspective, the point I’m trying to make to you is generally you have to start the process of adding an A player specialized talent that can produce a specific outcome or set of outcomes.

Ideally, ideally they do more than one thing. And the thing that they choose to do is the thing that you’re currently locked into doing that you consistently try to convince yourself nobody else can do.

But in reality, like think about you – you’re not that special.

You deeply believe and likely are characterized in a way where you’ve got beneficial characteristics, beneficial personality traits, the right type of mindset, maybe even the right combination of trauma that perpetually makes you want to get richer.

But again, to be real – you’re a little bit stuck, you know, you just haven’t gone up into the right as fast as what you think you should.

And you recognize exactly what I’m saying to be true. You know that you’re stuck in a specific routine and there’s not a lot of new things that you’re actively doing consistently that works and adds to the predictability, consistency, and stability that you’re after.

And so what you end up trying to convince yourself of is – well, to keep, you know, the current amount that I’m making coming in, but I’m not really expanding, I’ve got to stay locked into this thing that I’m doing now. Nobody else could really do it.

That’s what you try to convince yourself of.

It’s such a limiting thing to think.

You, just as you figured it out, could easily pay somebody. Most of the time, it’s above whatever amount you’re generally comfortable paying people, right?

You’re probably paying people like $5K, maybe like $10K a month. Research shows that only 25% of entrepreneurs have high delegation talent, but those who master it experience significantly faster growth—Inc. 500 CEOs with strong delegation skills achieved 1,751% three-year growth rates compared to those who stayed trapped doing everything themselves.

Maybe you got some commission only sales reps, to be clear, that are getting a little more than that.

But like, dude, you’re not swinging $20K to upwards of $50K a month payroll positions. I highly doubt that you’re swinging that.

Why You Need to Hire A Players at $20K to $50K Per Month to Take Over High-Level Tasks

And that’s my point is like there’s a totally different caliber of individual who doesn’t want the risks of entrepreneurship, who doesn’t want the risks and the inconsistency and the volatility and just the pressure that you feel being an entrepreneur.

They don’t want that.

They love $20K to $50K a month, though. They’d love for somebody to actually give a financial care about them and truly take care of them.

And that’s where you can come in.

A players are very open to work in that range. I’ll tell you that right now because we do it.

And we get people who do all kinds of random things in that range.

And here’s my point. These people are in roles and doing things in those roles that I previously, just like you, was saying, “Oh, I’m the only person that can do that. Nobody else is going to do it as good as me.”

That’s a limiting belief. It didn’t make any sense. It wasn’t true.

I was able to get somebody to do it. And to be honest with you, I was then able, like I’m telling you now, to take that same time, effort, and attention and put it onto other things that made me more money as a result.

And then I made more money. You understand?

That’s the game. It’s so easy. It’s not tough.

But on the path to million-dollar months, what is easy is it’s really easy to just stay stuck, to habitualize a certain behavior, to justify having to do whatever it is that you consistently do all the time and never actually try to take those risks in routine to do new things and hand off the things that you’re currently attached to.

That’s the most important part of that specific part of that little foundational part. It’s smaller. It’s more like a pyramid, right?

It’s like it’s smaller, but you got to do it in order for you to be at the top of the pyramid.

You being at the top of the pyramid makes the entire pyramid bigger as time continues to go on. You understand how that works.

It’s like more people will come in, more specialized talent comes in, more laborers to do all the menial tasks at the base of a pyramid for things that you don’t even necessarily know that happen, but you’re paying for.

And the people who have small little tiny pyramids – people who don’t even get past layer one of it, you know, and like stay cleaning their apartments and cooking food, going to grocery stores.

I have this lady, she’s awesome. Her name’s Anna. She works with MC Customs down here in Miami, Florida. And I haven’t seen Anna in honestly I think a decade now.

But I talk to Anna whenever something’s wrong with my car. And I have a tow guy. His name’s Adonis. And Adonis comes over, picks up whichever car, wherever it’s at, and takes it right over to Anna.

I’ve done a lot of deals with Adonis and Anna, but I’ve never actually taken those cars to something like a mechanic, to something like picking up a car from a dealer.

You know, it’s like these aren’t things that you do because you need to buy back your time if you want to get way richer than you are right now and use it for things that actually get you way richer.

Why Your Job Is to Find What Makes Money, Habitualize It, Then Delegate It to Someone Else

And then your goal, your intention with everything I’m sitting here communicating is to have enough time, effort, and attention in a day that you can successfully take and put into something specifically that has a very high probability to buy you the stability, consistency, and predictability and large revenue numbers that you’re after.

You need the thinking time for that. You need the intentional effort to go towards finding what those new behaviors that you can habitualize are that you prove out.

That’s the thing. It’s like your job is to get good at something that makes a ton more money for you and the organization, habitualize it, find out all those little nuances about it, take that action, and throw it down to specialized labor at one point in that pyramid to get somebody else to do it instead.

So then you can go and perpetually repeat that process.

When you find people that can also – that’s a big part of the people at the top of the specialized pyramid that are right underneath you. A player talent in that $20K to $50K a month range.

They’re not just doing some job that pays for itself. In addition to that, they’re actively participating in the same game as what I just described.

They’re actively trying to find what it is that they could do that they’re not doing now, what the organization could benefit from, bringing ideas, bringing new behaviors that they’ve habitualized that they might now need to hire somebody else in a supporting role to go accomplish.

It’s a fun game. It’s a very profitable game. It’s a revenue-driven game at that, but not a lot of people play it, you know, unfortunately.

A lot of people just get caught in, you know, behaviors that pay them a lot less.

How Jeremy’s Inner Circle and Live Events Help Rich People Get Richer Four Times a Year

So listen, if you’re new here, again, all we talk about around here is crafting million-dollar months. Thank you so much for being here with us. We appreciate you.

Subscribe if you haven’t done so already.

In this very environment, look at this room. We have upwards of 200 people that come here once a quarter. We do it in January, April, July, and October.

And we built a little stage up here in the front. Got a great microphone speaker system, incredibly comfortable chairs, great networking. We all hang out, awesome food.

And long story short, we just talk about getting richer.

That’s my Jeremy’s Inner Circle product that we have for that. It’s really good.

And to be clear, beyond that, we have one-on-one calls, weekly group calls. We do a tremendous amount in terms of our course vault that we have in there. We have Jeremy AI. There’s so much great stuff and we have a really active group chat full of rich people trying to get richer.

It’s a great group to be a part of.

There’s a link for that down below if you’d love the opportunity to apply. There are very strict qualification criteria to be a part of that, but you know, we’d love the opportunity to have you if you’re the right fit.

In addition to all that, we got the Master Internet Marketing group that I told you a little bit about earlier that Will was using when he was going to ship out.

And moral of the story, there’s a link for that below, too. And you can actually get week one of that 7-week live class from I believe it’s our fourth cohort recording, if I remember correctly, that you can check out and preview to see if it’s something that you’d appreciate and learn from.

What Programs Jeremy Offers to Help You Buy Back Time and Scale to Million-Dollar Months

Everything that I talk about here is about 10 to 20% of what I actually know that I talk about inside of my paid programs.

And I always disclose that to just let you know whenever you do decide to finally give me some money. I promise you this, we’re real good at our job.

We help rich people get richer for a living. And again, we’re quite good at it and I would love the opportunity for you to be that next one.

Check out those links down below. At the very least, subscribe. Thank you so much for being here.

What I can teach you isn’t theory. It’s the exact playbook my team has used to build multi-million-dollar businesses. With Master Internet Marketing, you get lifetime access to live cohorts, dozens of SOPs, and an 80+ question certification exam to prove you know your stuff.

I’m going to go do some other, you know, revenue driven action.

Talk soon.


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About the author:
Owner and CEO of Megalodon Marketing

Jeremy Haynes is the founder of Megalodon Marketing. He is considered one of the top digital marketers and has the results to back it up. Jeremy has consistently demonstrated his expertise whether it be through his content advertising “propaganda” strategies that are originated by him, as well as his funnel and direct response marketing strategies. He’s trusted by the biggest names in the industries his agency works in and by over 4,000+ paid students that learn how to become better digital marketers and agency owners through his education products.

Jeremy Haynes is the founder of Megalodon Marketing. He is considered one of the top digital marketers and has the results to back it up. Jeremy has consistently demonstrated his expertise whether it be through his content advertising “propaganda” strategies that are originated by him, as well as his funnel and direct response marketing strategies. He’s trusted by the biggest names in the industries his agency works in and by over 4,000+ paid students that learn how to become better digital marketers and agency owners through his education products.