Growing a business around a 9-to-5 job is a constant juggle. I am making it work by protecting a non-negotiable time slot each day and treating it like a work commitment because the same principle applies - if I don’t work I don’t get paid either in my business or my 9-to-5! My time is 8:30pm. Everyone's in bed, the house is quiet, and this is the time I know I can work on my business. I do have a trick to actually get me started because it is an effort at times, I get up at 4:45am to exercise before work (and the kids wake up) then go to work and come home and spend time with the kids, there isn’t a whole lot of brain power left! So to trick myself into thinking I’m not ‘working’ I put on a movie, it makes it feel like down time even though I often have no clue what is going on in it so have started rewatching movies I have already seen as then I don’t care 😂 (yes, I know this sounds nuts but it works for me!) The structure works for me, it is not often that I don’t use this slot of time each day. It doesn’t have to be long, I have my dashboard to keep me on track with what I’m doing and it’s kept me consistent. What's your version of this? Do you have a set time that's just yours? Or are you still figuring out when to fit it all in? 👇

Recently I decided to take a risk on AI and hand over my completely unmanageable personal inbox to Claude. I was getting about 100 emails a day because I signed up for far too much stuff and then spending my time on the treadmill each morning frantically trying to read them all in case I missed a deadline or a school payment for my kids or a genius business idea 🙄. I had a great system - skim read every email so I was at zero each morning (for about a second) and star all the things I needed to go back to... then I decided to host my first bundle, launch a new product and start a new skool membership and I was done 🤯 I realised I couldn't keep up this ridiculous routine of trying to read over 100 emails every morning half of which were just garbage. I decided to hand it over to Claude cowork and see what it could do, I was at the point where if things got 'lost', I didn't care anymore, I could barely see what I had and the time was just sucking the life out of me. When Claude was finished, I had over 1000 'star' items in a folder 🤣🤣🤣 all that stuff I was tagging because I HAD to read it later... seriously 🙄 I'll probably never use the star again... But I also had all my business newsletters filtering to a specific folder, all my notifications to another one and the best system - A morning email digest in Claude that I can scan in 5 minutes and decide what needs action today without going through 100 emails to get there. I need to refine it but far out its been awesome (and if it has deleted some stuff, well, I don't care 🤣) What's the one thing eating your time every day that you keep tolerating? 👇

One of the questions I ask when you join this group is "What's your biggest challenge building a business while still employed?" and there have been a lot of 'time' responses. For me too. I'm building this business in the gaps. Before work. After the kids are in bed. In the short gaps grabbing coffee. So here's what I do to check in with myself and support taking action on my business even when I have no time, no energy, and no idea where to start. I ask: 1. Can I do one growth action today? Something that puts me in front of a new person. A post. A comment in a community. Showing up somewhere I haven't been before. Just one. 2. Can I do one sales action today? Not a pitch. Just mention an offer exists. A PS in an email. A reply to a DM. A post that references what I do. One mention. That's it. 3. Can I start or continue one conversation today? A genuine reply to someone. A comment that added something real. A DM that wasn't about selling. Just one human exchange. That's the system: Growth. Sales. Conversation. One of each. It can take less time than making a coffee. ☕ No dashboard required (though it helps 😂). No perfect morning routine. No two-hour strategy session. Just three checks across the day. Done. The weeks where I answered yes to questions 1 and 2 consistently, even just 4 out of 7 days, are the weeks my numbers moved. I can see it clearly now that I'm tracking. Time isn't the problem most of us think it is. Clarity about what one small thing to do today is the problem. What's your one thing today? Drop it below 👇 even if it's tiny. Especially if it's tiny.