Where Does Your Time Actually Go?

This takes about 2 minutes. Think about last week, not a hypothetical ideal week. Move each slider to match where your hours actually went.

Think about a typical 50-hour work week. Divide your time across these four buckets. When you adjust one slider, the others will rebalance automatically. Don't overthink it - your gut feel is usually right.

Strategy
Operations
Admin
Other

Strategy and Growth

Thinking, planning, selling, business development, partnerships

25%

Operations and Delivery

Doing the work, managing the work, production, fulfillment, service delivery

25%

Admin and Firefighting

Email, HR issues, invoicing, things that broke, meetings that could have been emails

25%

Everything Else

The stuff that doesn't fit neatly anywhere - networking, learning, context switching

25%
Total 100%

Here's What This Tells Us

Bring these numbers to your walkthrough. This becomes one of the most useful parts of the conversation.

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