Your Business Tastes Like Burnt Coffee (And You Know It)

Everyone's obsessed with premium beans and fancy machines. Meanwhile, you're pulling shots on equipment that hasn't been cleaned since you bought it.

Your business runs the same way. Shiny website, polished LinkedIn posts, but when did you last update your invoice templates? Clean your email filters? Check what subscriptions you're bleeding money on?

The boring maintenance you skip is why everything feels harder than it should.

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This Week's Podcast: Your Business is Exactly Like Coffee
Why good coffee isn't about fancy beans, and why your business systems matter more than your CRM. Plus kids in the background calling coffee "beef" because apparently that's my life now.

Coffee has golden ratios (1:15 for pour over, 1:2 for espresso). Your business needs ratios too.

Track these three for one week:

Don't obsess. Just measure consistently. Most solo operators eyeball everything and wonder why some months they're drowning while others they're scraping by.

"Feels about right" isn't a business strategy.

Early in my business journey, I spent too much money on a new project management tool. Felt productive as hell setting it up.

Two weeks later, realized I was still using three different systems for the same tasks because I never cleaned house first. New software on top of messy processes just creates expensive confusion.

Now I have a rule: before buying any new business tool, I audit what's already there. Half the time, I don't need the shiny new thing. I just need to use what I've got properly.

Your business machine needs descaling more than it needs upgrades.

Speaking of maintenance - when did you last audit how you spend your time?

The Time Flux Method breaks down your calendar into three buckets: what only you can do, what someone else could do, and what shouldn't be done at all.

Most solo operators are shocked to discover they're spending 40% of their time on stuff that falls into bucket three.

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Mike
Lone Wolf Unleashed

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