Aug 2 • Classroom
How to Build a Business ( that you like and doesn’t kill you
Ever feel like you're working all day?
Drowning in tasks?
putting out fires
crossing off to-do's, but still wondering why your business isn't growing as fast as it should?
It's because you're playing the wrong game. Most entrepreneurs think growth comes from doing more. But the truth? Growth comes from building systems for both your business and how you operate Here's how;
Stop letting your business run you and start building your business around you.
Begin by asking a question most never ask: "What do I actually want my life to look like?"
Because if you don't define that your business will define it for you. And it won't be pretty. You'll end up stuck in a calendar you hate, with responsibilities you never chose, running a business you resent.
So set constraints by mapping out your ideal week.
What time you start?
What time you finish?
What your non-negotiables are?
Whether that's doing deep work till 12 daily. Or no meetings on Wednesdays. Or golf every Friday. It doesn't matter what the constraint is. What matters is that it's yours.
Because without clear constraints, there's no structure. Without structure, there's no way to improve.
Next bring order to your time.
By doing 2 thing;
1) Creating your standard week. This is recurring blueprint that shows you what happens and when. No more doing tasks "when you find time." You take every single task you have to do in your business and decide when it gets done.
Team meetings every Monday or Tuesdays
What day is dedicated to content.
Some tasks get done daily. Some weekly
Whatever it is for you.
This doesn't just clear your head, but it makes sure nothing important slips through the cracks.
2) Plan tomorrow.
Bring that task structure down to the daily level, because if it's not scheduled, it won't happen.
You'll delay it or replace it with something
"urgent." And suddenly, another day passes and the work that actually grows the business didn't get touched.
So stop winging it.
Plan your days, in order of priority, based on your standard week and whatever else you have to do that day.
But here's where most business owners break:
They try to do too much.
They treat everything like it matters.
When in reality, your business only has three non-negotiable tasks;
Marketing (getting attention).
Sales (converting that attention).
Fulfillment (delivering what you sold)
If you did just those three things, every day?
Your business would grow. But don't do them?
Your business falls apart.
Hence, they are your non-negotiables.
And look, most of what fills your calendar? It's not growing the business or improving the customer experience. It's not even required. It's just low-leverage tasks that feel productive but change nothing.
So here's the rule:
If it doesn't grow the business or improve customer experience, you either eliminate it, automate it, or delegate it. You'll be shocked how much can go without anything breaking.
Once you've cut the fluff, dialled in your non-negotiables and built structure around your time, you focus on what creates asymmetric results.
That means just one strategic project at a time.
Not five.
Not three.
One.
Because momentum is a multiplier but only if it's focused.
When you divide your attention across too many projects, nothing moves forward and everything slows down. But when you focus all your energy on one high-leverage project - like improving fulfillment, rebuilding your offer, building systems or hiring - things move faster than you could imagine.
And then we fix how you work.
Because broken focus is a one-step journey to getting nowhere.
Almost every business owner is context-switching,
answering Slack messages while working on an important task,
jumping to emails every 12 minutes just to "be responsive."
and then wondering why the work that actually matters never gets done.
So here's the fix;
1) Deep Work Blocks:
1-2 hour blocks where you do one task, fully focused, zero distractions.
2) Distraction Removal:
Turn your phone off. Use Opal. Block websites, emails and slack during your deep work.
3) Daily Wrap:
Leave all fires, messages, and "urgent" problems till the end of the day. Yes, you can wait to reply. Yes, your business will survive. Yes, your team will learn to solve problems themselves.
Now systemise the business itself.
Map inputs, processes and outputs of the 4 core systems:
Marketing, Sales, Ops, Finance. Document and SOP the processes of each system.
Assign responsibility to your team.
Build scorecards to track performance.
And then, over time, improve the inputs to improve the outputs.
That's all a system is
It's not complicated.
But even once the systems are mapped, you'll probably realise you're still responsible for too much.
Still sending invoices, managing client onboarding, or involved in every part of sales and delivery.
And if you want to scale in 4 hours a day?
You have two options:
1) Eliminate the task, or
2) delegate the task.
There is no third option. Because if a task takes 1 hour... it takes 1 hour. And if you've got 8 of them, that's 8 hours. There's nothing you can do but eliminate or delegate.
So how do you know what to delegate?
Simple:
Look at your systems map.
Look at what you're still responsible for and then make someone else responsible for it.
That's it.
Who you delegate to depends on your business, your team, and the leverage of the role. But the principle stays the same: You're not just removing work.
You're installing ownership. And ownership creates freedom. Because the more responsibilities you hand off, the more your business runs without
This whole process
isn't a one-and-done.
Systems are not a magic wand.
But they make everything in business so much easier. They give you a feedback loop.
And when you install the loop, the business can grow and improve consistently and predictably. You review your systems and see what's breaking. You use the data to find bottlenecks. You track your time and compare it to your ideal week. You make one small change and test it.
That's how you build a business that grows
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