027: How to Free Time to Work on Your Business

<p class="ql-align-justify">You can try to have this perfect picture of how you want to spend your day, but have it blown up in seconds – and you’ll running all over the place. But you don’t have to operate this way. The path can be a bit tricky, especially for entrepreneurs and start-up CEOs, but not totally impossible!</p><p class="ql-align-justify">Jenny Blake is a podcaster, host, speaker and author. She helps organizations and business owners – young or old- organize their plans through smarter systems. She joins the podcast to talk about managing time, Specifically establishing systems that would skyrocket your way to success while maintaining a work-life balance.</p><h3>Founder Time</h3><p><br></p><p class="ql-align-justify">Founder time is time that's just for you, and it's protected. And whether you work for yourself currently or you work for someone else. It is the time to be strategic and creative about your life and your business about the projects you're working on. As Michael Gerber would say, work on the business, not in the business. Like really asking, what is the one thing you can work on in this block of time that will free up your time or move the business forward?</p><p><br></p><p class="ql-align-justify">Start with creative ways of asking, how can I afford this? And not with, can I afford this? With that, you're asking how and not with something that ends with a yes or no kind of answer. And in doing that, you're generating creative ideas. For example, hiring a team that would free you most of your time so you can build more products and services in your business. It could be expensive, but the free time dashboard has earned you back the cost of hiring this team. It just came from a slightly different channel.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><h3 class="ql-align-justify">Flow and Friction</h3><p><br></p><p class="ql-align-justify">The first thing you can do is create a delegation task tracker and observe over the next few weeks but have this open in front of you. You can use a pen and paper at your desk,