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Set your time free through smarter systems so you can do more of your best work. Free Time launched in 2021 and releases on Tuesdays and Fridays. It's a Webby-nominated business podcast and winner of three W3 awards for best show and best host. Join Jenny Blake, author of three award-winning books—including Free Time: Lose the Busywork and Love Your Business and Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One—to explore our guiding question: How can we earn twice as much in half the time, with joy and ease, while serving the highest good? Subscribe now so you don’t miss an episode! Bonus: please leave a review and share with a friend—word-of-mouth is the most joyful way to grow the show :) Subscribe to theTime Well Spent newsletter at ItsFreeTime.com, and share this episode at pod.link/freetime. Check out Jenny's other podcast, Pivot with Jenny Blake, on navigating change at pod.link/pivotmethod.
258: To Do—A Small Business Owner’s Checklist (Rolling in D🤦🏻♀️h Crossover)
Free Time with Jenny Blake
17 minutes
1 year ago
258: To Do—A Small Business Owner’s Checklist (Rolling in D🤦🏻♀️h Crossover)
What’s on your business owner to-do list? Here’s a peek at mine, full of items large, small, and existential. This is another crossover from Rolling in D🤦🏻♀️h, a recent essay that was an unexpected runaway hit—the most popular to date in the six months since I started on Substack.
I had no idea (as usual) whether it would resonate or not when I hit “publish,” until my friend Adam texted to say how much he could relate. “Your comments are blowing up!” he said, sending a screenshot of other people letting me know that I wasn’t alone in my itemized anxiety.
Enormous thanks to those of you who have already subscribed, read, commented, and shared—it means the world to me!
📝 Permission
To reward yourself with something fun after you complete the most annoying #adulting item on your to-do list.
✅ Do (or Delegate) This Next
Delegate one thing you are dreading on your own to-do list.
🔗 Resources Mentioned
NaNoWriMo cofounder Grant Faulkner
Rolling in Doh: To Do—One Small Business Owner’s Checklist; An Honest Accounting Part One, Part Two, Part Three—Emojij Balance Sheet
Articles: Jennifer Egan’s “To Do”, Todd Sattersten’s publishing magic number for book sales, Julia Cameron’s Artist Dates
Cartoon: “Alice in Responsibilityland” by Liana Finck for The New Yorker
Apps: Substack
📚 Books Mentioned
The Art of Brevity by Grant Faulkner
Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business
Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
Life After College
🎧 Related Episodes
Free Time: 238: Why Revenue Goals Don’t Work (For Me)
226: Is your business a hot mess? If yes, let's celebrate — Rolling in D🤦🏻♀️h
236: Ignore the Odds — Rolling in D🤦🏻♀️h
250: Do what you love and the money will follow . . . IF you meet at least 3 of these 20 criteria
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Free Time with Jenny Blake
Set your time free through smarter systems so you can do more of your best work. Free Time launched in 2021 and releases on Tuesdays and Fridays. It's a Webby-nominated business podcast and winner of three W3 awards for best show and best host. Join Jenny Blake, author of three award-winning books—including Free Time: Lose the Busywork and Love Your Business and Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One—to explore our guiding question: How can we earn twice as much in half the time, with joy and ease, while serving the highest good? Subscribe now so you don’t miss an episode! Bonus: please leave a review and share with a friend—word-of-mouth is the most joyful way to grow the show :) Subscribe to theTime Well Spent newsletter at ItsFreeTime.com, and share this episode at pod.link/freetime. Check out Jenny's other podcast, Pivot with Jenny Blake, on navigating change at pod.link/pivotmethod.
