Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business

the time and opportunity costs of chasing initiatives that would not pay well, projects that distracted and detracted from work the company could perform better, faster, and with healthier margins.

Remaining at the center of everything, with all the most important knowledge only in your mind, puts your business at risk.

revamped my sales process for corporate clients, and documented every step and talking point so someone else could help land new business, something I previously felt would be impossible.

Business coach Jerry Colonna asks the powerful question, “How are you complicit in creating the conditions you say you don’t want?”

avoid chasing the hungry ghosts of money, fame, power, and control, what I call the Four Horsemen of the Business Ambition Apocalypse.

Only 40 percent of small businesses are profitable. Of the remaining 60 percent, half break even, and half are losing money.

my weekly(ish) newsletter, and writing this book.

Start by creating a two-hour Founder Time block on your calendar that recurs weekly, during a time of day when you are most energetic. As they say in personal finance, “pay yourself first.” Do not look for small segments sandwiched between others’ requests; reserve windows that suit you best. During that window, you can tackle strategies from this

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of the seminal book Flow, describes this state as effortless