You don’t have a time problem


​Reader,​

1. A quick word from Zach

If you keep getting to Friday exhausted but unsure whether you moved anything important forward, you may not need a longer week. You may need a clearer one.

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2. Something worth reading

Greg McKeown’s Essentialism is a helpful read for business owners who feel buried under good but low-value demands. It presses on the real issue: if you don’t decide what matters most, something else will decide for you.

3. Something worth thinking about

If you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will.

~ Greg McKeown, Essentialism

4. Something worth trying

Take 30 minutes right now. Look back at everything you did last week (not what you planned to do, but what you actually did) and mark each item as 'Owner Only', 'Delegatable', 'Automatable', or 'Kill'.


That's enough for this time. Remember, the drift of life rarely takes you where you'd choose to go. Go somewhere on purpose!

To thriving,

Zach Wise

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