Life is too short

“Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire” reminds me of “10x Is Easier Than 2x: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less” and “Who Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork”.

Busy fools

Stephen Covey once said, “The key is not spending time but investing it.” Simple busyness can’t be the secret ingredient to business success. Even efficiently staying busy isn’t the answer. Most entrepreneurs are extremely efficient. The secret to reaching the next stage of your business is spending your time on only the tasks that:

(a) you excel at,

(b) you truly enjoy

© add the highest value (usually in revenue) to your business.

You can always get more money, but you can never get more time. So, you need to ensure that the stuff you spend your time on makes the most significant impact.

Your most finite asset

Know how to optimise your business’s most finite asset: the founder’s time. Rethink how you see your business. Time is the currency, the vehicle allowing you to purchase what you love or avoid what you hate. The Pareto Effect suggests that 80% of all results come from 20% of activity. The accepted 95:5 rule makes the numbers even more dramatic for entrepreneurs…