12 Time saving tips so you can focus on building a legendary business

THIS WEEK’S LESSON

12 Time saving tips for Former Educator Founders

Building and growing your business is going to take all of your focus, energy, and more. Distractions are the enemy of excellence and it’s easy to waste time. I should know … I spent way too long on last week’s newsletter 🤦‍♂️

I want to overdeliver for you, but I also want the newsletter easy to consume.

So this week I’m writing the newsletter to myself and you.

⏰ My 30 minute timer is set, so let’s go 🏴‍☠️

1. Timers

As I mentioned I spent a ton of time on last week’s newsletter. Maybe even you thought it was overwhelming. So I set a 30 minute timer this week with the goal as delivering as much value as possible.

Constraints are a beautiful thing. Lots of people LOVE the pomodoro technique.

2. Templates

A great way to ship anything (and save time) is to use templates.

I use templates for:

• Podcast intro calls/interviews

• Sales/exploration calls

• Case study interviews

• Writing this newsletter

• To-do lists in Basecamp

• Writing proposals

• Creating presentations

• And more …

If you can “templatize” something, you will save time.

3. Prioritize money making activities

You run a business. The majority of your energy should be reserved for actions that you can tie revenue to.

If it doesn’t make you money, reduce your time investment or eliminate it if you can.

This doesn’t mean you can’t be generous or do things that are fun. It means avoid easy tasks or things you do to avoid the more difficult work.

4. No notifications

Turn off the sounds and notifications on your phone. Check when you want to. It’s your life.

5. Kill the feed

I use News Feed Eradicator to save time and protect focus working from a computer. I post and bounce.

If I want to comment on posts (important for nurturing relationships), I turn off the eradicator for X minutes — a chosen block of time to comment and not scroll.

6. Use apps (like Text Expander)

I mentioned this one last week in my app review. I have created 100s of codes to type stuff faster. Worth the $4/month.

7. Time blocking

I try not to jump from thing to thing in tasks, although I am a Kolbe A “Quickstart.” So I have learned to embrace following my interest and energy.

When major projects need to be completed I knock out the tasks in a deep work block — like when I made the micro-trainings available when you share this newsletter. I did the first five in 90 minutes or so.

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• Strategy secrets teach you the 3 types of strategy available to you and why only one works for legendary businesses.

8. Delegation

Hire people to do everything that is not in your “zone of genius.” Believe me, there are people smarter and better than you who also love to do things you hate. Weird, I know.

9. Automation

When you subscribed to this newsletter, you saw:

• a survey

• and a thank you page

I wrote those once and automated the process. The beauty of automation in a digital world is that it scales to infinity.

I also hope you’ve been playing with AI to automate, delegate, and create …

10. Learn to say No

Saying NO saves time. Allows you to say YES to what is most important.

Easy thing to say NO to: “can I pick your brain” requests from people you don’t know.

11. Good enough effort

Progress > perfection. Ship most things “good enough” and improve from there.

12. Investing in programs

• If someone has done something you want to do …

• And has a course or program teaching you how to do it …

• With a proven track-record of results …

Invest in it and get a result faster!

I don’t have anything to sell you. This is a rule I live by.

I’m about to join a 6-month mastermind. $4.5K. Teaches you to tell better stories.

I think I’m a pretty good story teller (my pod ranks in the TOP 0.5% of all shows worldwide and I get paid to speak).

But if I learn to be a great storyteller, I believe:

• my pod will grow

• my content will be shared

• I will get even more paid speaking opportunities (without asking or marketing)

• Business will grow, mostly by word-of-mouth

The course will pay for itself and I will become an even better speaker.