Five Easy Ways to Win Back your Time as a Business Owner

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People want to sell businesses for three main reasons:

• 💸 Cash out

• 😵‍💫 Reduce stress

• 🕰 Free up time

But what if there are ways to free up your time while keeping control of your company? Today we’ll be diving into how to win back potentially hours each day.

1. Automate your calls with an AI Notetaker

   • Ever had a really productive call but then forgot about a key point and had to either call back to go over it or let it slip? Well, attaching an AI notetaker gives both a complete transcript and a summary with action points, so you never have to write notes or memorize details on a call again. We use fathom.ai for this which easily integrates with Zoom.

2. Split your strategy days and meeting days

   • Travelling takes a massive amount of productive time, and most great ideas only occur after a time spent in focused deep work. Batch your work that doesn’t involve any travelling into a ‘focus day’ and your mental momentum will make you far more productive.

3. Focus on bottlenecks present and future

   • As a business owner it’s your role to focus on a strategy for growth, and have your team work on the maintenance. Placing your key time on opening up production, service and time bottlenecks with your staff and delegating the rest is the best return on your time. Eventually these problems will need to be sorted anyway so it will save you time to fix them immediately rather than in the future.

4. Get an assistant to fill in your low skills tasks or blind spots

   • Find the gaps in your work style where you’re not passionate or productive (for me it’s filling in my expenses/accounts) and hire someone else to do that role. As the leader you should only be focused on top level strategy.

5. Review into your phone on the way back from work

   • Simply create a voice note for yourself on what you achieved in the day, week, month, or quarter and AI can instantly summarize it and give you action points. It is much quicker than doing a formal performance review and the morning after you will have a clear written list of what to tackle in the day.

The best case scenario is a big beautiful lump sum cash out, but in the meantime try out these five and use your new time to pursue your passions.

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How to Turn Your Business Into a Sellable Asset — Even If You Don’t Plan to Sell

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