Automation Doesn’t Need to be Complicated

Sometimes we know the first step for something is an absolutely huge deal.

We know the first signer of the Declaration of Independence was John Hancock because the Second Continental Congress knew how important it was.

We know Neil Armstrong was the first person to step foot on the moon, which he marked with the eternal words, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”

There are other times where we don’t know the impact of that first step until later.

We don’t really know the text of the first email. It was some keyboard-mashed thing sent by a computer engineer in 1971. 

None of the guys who threw a Perfect Game knew from the first pitch how huge and rare that game would be (there have only been 24 perfect games in the approx. 235,000 games played).

When I created my first automation, I didn’t know how transformative automation would be for me.

In fact, when I decided to put an appreciable amount of time into automation back in 2018, it was well after the first time I created an automation.

• I automated parts of my home
• I had notifications on my phone
• I set up auto-responders and automatic bill-pay
• I used to be a programmer, and wrote lots of code to help me automate things

I’ve been automating in some way, shape, or form for over 20 years.

The point being this: automation doesn’t need to be a huge deal when you start (or at all).

It’s about simplifying your life…not more complicated.

And it can be a slow burn. It doesn’t need to be a complicated mess.

It doesn’t even need to be for multiple tools. Here’s a 2-step automation I have for Notion:

Here’s what it does:

When a Lead is marked as “won” in my CRM database in Notion, add that Lead to my Clients database.

So now it’s your turn: what’s one thing you can simplify?

Comment and let me know. And if you’re struggling, let me know that too.