You're earning decent coin but working 60-hour weeks. Congratulations, you've built yourself the world's most expensive job.
Here's the brutal truth: You're not scaling. You're just throwing your body at every problem like some sort of business kamikaze pilot. And that "body" is the most expensive resource you've got.
Time to stop the madness.
🔗 Stuff Worth Clicking
The Calendar Audit Tool - Because budgeting your time is like budgeting your money. If you're not tracking where it goes, you're pissing it away. Free download that'll make you question every hour of your week.
The E-Myth by Michael Gerber - Still the best book on why you started a business (hint: it wasn't to work 70-hour weeks). Gerber's "primary aim" concept will slap you awake.
Obsidian for Process Documentation - Where I keep my process maps. Simple, doesn't try to be everything to everyone. Unlike most business software that thinks it's solving world hunger.
Custom GPT Creation Guide - Stop copy-pasting into ChatGPT like a mug. Train it once, use it forever. One client saved 4.5 hours a week just fixing their social media process.
Australia's Right to Disconnect Laws - Because logging in after hours to check social media isn't "passion," it's poor planning.
💸 One Worthy Tactic
The 20-Minute Process Map That Saves 4 Hours a Week
Pick your biggest time-sink process. Client delivery, content creation, whatever's eating your soul.
List every step from start to finish. Everything. Even the bit where you stress-eat Tim Tams between tasks.
Mark who does it (spoiler: it's you for everything).
Note the tools and documents you use for each step.
Time each activity roughly. We're not building NASA here.
Ask the killer question: What am I doing that's not on this list?
Anything not on the list either gets added (if it's valuable) or axed (if it's just busy work you tell yourself matters).
I walked one client through this. Turned their 2-hour social media torture session into 30 minutes. That's 4.5 hours back per week.
What would you do with an extra 4.5 hours? Sleep? Golf? Actually talk to your family?
🐺 The Wolf's Rant
I started working with a General Manager in 2023. 24 staff, $6.5M revenue, working herself into the ground.
"I'm the only one who can do the sales properly," she says.
Classic solopreneur thinking in a team environment. Sound familiar?
After project for mapping the business processes, we found she was doing three people's jobs badly instead of one person's job brilliantly. Got to know what the company actually needed, set her team up for success, and delegated management activities that someone else could handle.
Fast forward: She's now got 2 extra hours daily. Used them for more sales. Hit $8.7M this year.
The kicker? She didn't hire new people. Didn't buy fancy software. Just stopped hoarding tasks that others could do.
Now, you're solo - you don't have a team to delegate to. But you've got options. Contractors for the admin grunt work. Outsourcing for the stuff that doesn't need your magic touch. The principle's the same: stop doing everything just because you can.
Your business isn't that unique, mate. The problems you think only you can solve? Someone's already cracked them. You're just too busy being a hero to notice.
Listen to the full episode here where I walk through exactly how to do this process audit. Including the bit about my dirty dishes on the desk (because authenticity matters, apparently).
📣 The Plug
Speaking of process maps - I've got that calendar audit tool I mentioned. Takes 10 minutes to fill out, saves you hours of wondering where your week disappeared.
It's free because I'm not trying to sell you a $2000 course on "productivity optimization synergy." Just a simple tool that works.
Use it. Thank me later.
Switch Off Sooner. Live Larger.
Lone Wolf Unleashed
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