Effort & Energy Audit: The Ultimate Guide to Maximising Your Productivity and Results

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Hello and welcome back to another exciting day in growing your online business!

Today we’re focussing on Time Management:

👊🏼 The Power of Focus

🧠 Audit your time

🧑🏽‍💻 The 4 Types of Tasks

📄 Resource: Effort & Energy Audit

🚀 Use your Time Wisely

Let’s go 👇🏼

👊🏼 The Power of Focus

You are a solopreneur.

This means you’re probably a creative, self-motivated, and resilient risk-taker.

It also means you’re being pulled in a million different directions, regularly blinded by bright-shiny-object-syndrome, and aren’t always entirely clear where your focus is best spent.

Is this ringing the bells?

With a finite amount of time at your disposal, your focus is The Most Precious Resource you have.

So it stands to reason that what you focus on matters – like A Lot!

But let me ask you this –

• Do you often get to the end of a day and wonder what you’ve achieved?
• Are there things you know will move your business forward but you never actually get round to doing them?
• Do you know you’re spending too much time on stuff that doesn’t move the needle but feel unsure what to focus on instead?

If you’ve answered yes to any of these, your focus is in need of an Urgent Rescue – and this email is the secret weapon in your arsenal, ready to obliterate distractions and unlock your full potential.

🧠 Audit Your Time

The first step to knowing where your focus is going is to track it.

Because as the saying goes, ‘what get’s measured get’s managed‘.

If you don’t know what you currently spend your working time doing, you aren’t managing your business effectively.

So for the the rest of this week, write down every single task you do, timed from when you begin to when you finish.

📝 Log Everything!

If you pick up your phone to scroll social media, write ‘scroll social media 08:45 – 09:05’

If you sort out your inbox, write ‘inbox clear out 09:05-09:35’

If you have a client session, write ‘client session 10:00-11:00’

This may seem like a faff, but refer to the saying above.

Lots of things about managing a business feel like a faff or ‘take up too much time’, but these are often the things that make a business succeed or fail.

🧑🏽‍💻 4 Types of Tasks

Generally speaking, all the stuff we do in our business sits within 4 categories.

Being clear on what these are is the first step to regaining your needle-moving-focus.

And here they are:

Income Generating Tasks

The stuff you do that immediately attracts clients into your business, like hosting a discovery call or making offers.

Indirect Income Generating Tasks

The stuff you do that paves the way for clients to join down the road, pipeline building actions like social media marketing and sending regular emails.

Low Skill / Outsource Tasks

This is the admin stuff that you can standardise and pass on to someone else to do, like repurposing and scheduling content and creating graphics.

Procrastination / Time Drain Tasks

This is the stuff we all do that we know is a total waste of time, but for a variety of reasons we do it anyway, like learning without implementing, scrolling the socials and constantly tweaking what we’ve already got!

Having a proper understanding where you’re spending most of your time means you can make conscious adjustments to make sure your time is Best Spent.

Before you jump ahead, I’m gonna make this real easy for you by gifting you a lesson from  Five Figure Foundations  👇🏼

📄 Resource: Effort & Energy Audit

Knowing how you *spend your time is such a key part of running your business, it’s included in Module 2 of my online business builder program ‘ Five Figure Foundations ‘.

This module is called ‘Map The Plan’, and alongside a Profit Map, Business Model, SWOT Analysis and Planning Tool, there is ‘The Effort and Energy Audit‘.

Click the button 👇🏼 to get a proper overview of all the tasks that fall within the 4 Categories, and – using the time audit you do this week – work through the exercise to map where your time is being spent.

Then get ready for Complete Clarity on why you’re seeing the results you are, and what to do to move things to the next level.

Remember to make conscious adjustments by asking what changes you can make and getting specific on the actions you’ll take.

Here’s your gifted resource:

EFFORT & ENERGY AUDIT RESOURCE

*Isn’t the term ‘spend your time’ so interesting…we never think of our own time as an investment in our business, but that’s exactly what it is. Are you spending yours wisely, investing in it’s long-term success, or squandering it on the latest fad or short-stop strategy? How much more can you afford to waste?

🚀 Use your time wisely

Once you’ve done The Effort & Energy Audit there’s nowhere to hide.

You know exactly where your time and focus are going and you’ll also know what you need to start focussing on.

Now it’s decision time.

Are you gonna carry on letting your time drift by with no clear focus.

Or are you gonna invest it wisely on needle-moving tasks?

🔥 Hot Take: this isn’t an exact science, but I’d aim for a time allocation of 40% Income Generating; 40% Indirect Income Generating; 20% Low Skill (this may be higher until you can outsource); 0% Time Drain 😣

👋🏼 Want to work together?

As we’re focussing on business foundations, here’s a little more detail about  The Five Figure Foundations  program:

This is a comprehensive step-by-step program that turns your existing skills and content into coaching tools and programs that deliver reliable recurring revenue.

Inside the program you’ll find everything you need to get you and your business on rock solid ground, with 10 Modules broken down into bite-size lessons giving you all you need to create:

• Rock solid Business Owner Mindset; Comparisonitis-Busting Vision; Motivating Mission; and a Total Fear-Ass-Kicking!
• A simple, scaleable and sustainable Business Model that works for you.
• A unique Methodology and Approach that differentiates your business and offers and turns your gifts into tangible high-value offers.
• A proper Aligned Client Niche that brings forward the people you’re uniquely qualified to help and turns then into eager clients.
• Complete clarity on the Platforms and Containers you should focus on so you grow your profile and authority in the most effective and efficient way possible.
• Build out your Messaging Pillars and Pedestals and put them into a Content Catapult System that at least 10X every piece of content you create.
• Develop a solid Offer Journey to meet your clients where they are and guide them through to the best transformation option for them.
• Learn exactly how to host a coaching program, holding space for multiple clients at once, maintaining trust, energy and accountability so all of your clients have an exceptional experience achieving the result.
• Create your own Simple Client Pathway designed to guide your aligned clients through the journey to work with you.
• Learn how to effectively, and sustainably, launch and sell your offers without the financial rollercoaster and regular burn-out of live launches.

This program is the only place I teach all of this in detail, and enrolment includes TWO private mentoring sessions with me.

To find out more and enrol click here:

Five Figure Foundations Program

That’s it!

What did you think of today’s briefing?

I’m here to answer any questions that pop up.

😊 Have a great week!

Lostsa luv, Sally xo