“Who vs how…”

 

Shared by Breanne Smedley

A couple years ago, I started trying online grocery shopping and curbside pickup.

It was amazing.

Do all the grocery shopping from my phone.

Schedule a pick-up time.

Drive up, get the groceries, and off!

It was a solution to a problem I had been facing.

Trying to fit in grocery shopping among all the other things I was doing.

It seemed like a waste of time to me to always figure out.

“How am I going to fit this in?”

“How am I going to have time to drive to the store, hunt around the aisles, stand in line, then drive home?”

How can I fit it in?

The “how” became paralyzing to figure out.

I can only drive so fast.

I can only navigate my cart through the aisles so fast without getting caught behind people staring and comparing cans of beans right in front of where I need to grab something.

I can only check-out so fast, and am subject to the number of items in everyone else’s cart.

Plus the quickness of the cashier.

I had to switch up my game.

No longer focus on the “how.”

But instead, the “who.”

The “who” in this case were the Fred Meyer Clicklist shoppers that did it for me.

They know the stores like none other. Navigating the aisles like seasoned racecar drivers.
They were much more efficient. Saved me tons of time.

Solved the “how” of my problem to fit in grocery shopping.

Since then, I’ve looked for ways that I can apply this to other areas of my life.

Because I used to get caught up in the “how.”

I thought I needed to do it all, know it all.

As a young volleyball coach, trying to figure out how to do everything.

The “who” is more valuable though.

Who already knows how to book travel and create transportation schedules?

Who is an expert on nutrition for female volleyball players?

Who can teach the mechanics of setting?

Who is an expert on optimal recovery, self-care, and self-love? (Karis M. Cooper!)

Who has figured out how to build a program of high trust and culture?

So, I found those people.

I hired those people.

I don’t claim to know it all.

It would take me years and years and years to become experts in all of these areas, and more.

I do my athletes a disservice by focusing on the “how” over the “who”, actually.

Years of time lost as I try to figure it out.

So, I seek to partner with the “whos” in order to make the “hows” much easier, and faster.

I learn through them.

So, instead of focusing on the “how”…

How can I get in better shape?

How can I learn to build my business?
How can I improve my confidence?

Focus, rather on the “who”.

Partner with them.

It’s then that you’ll find the “how” comes naturally.

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