Free Time with Jenny Blake

102: 12 Systems-Thinking Steps for Moving from Friction to Flow


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Free Time for Your Future Self: For any area of your business that causes friction, run through these systems-thinking questions to inspire small steps today that will save time far into the future. 

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🌟3 Key Takeaways:

  • Prioritize designing processes for the critical systems in your business, and let the ‘nice to have’ systems be good enough for now. 
  • Break your calcified habits by stepping back (or jumping back in!) and looking at your processes with fresh eyes at least twice a year.
  • Freeing time is a muscle we build. It takes practice and adopting a way of thinking about how you document and delegate.

  • 📝Permission: To take a break or a walk. Solutions to our most vexing challenges don’t often come to us while we’re sitting at our desk, so get up and drop a bucket into the wishing well of your brain, then trust that it will pop up with solutions when it’s time!


     ✅ Do (or Delegate) This Next: If this, then what? For friction area in your business, consider what the trigger action is, what next step needs to happen first, and whether it can be automated through a service like Zapier


    📘Books Mentioned: Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One 


    🔗 Resources Mentioned

    • Free Time Toolkit, Private BFF Community
    • Automation tools: Zapier, IFTTT
    • Publishing Company: Get it Done

    • Related Podcast Episodes

      • 002: Eliminate Email with Cal Newport
      • 042: How I Run My Business Without Social Media (Pivot Replay)
      • 062: Made By Monday 🐸 On Content "Frog" Batching
      • 092: Train the System, Then the Person
      • 101: Run Your Business with Exquisite Greatness and Tiny Art Projects with Alexandra Franzen 
      • Pivot 076: On Plan Z, Creative Finish Lines and the Graceful No—with Alexandra Franzen
      • Pivot 183: Cultivating Opposites and Checklists with Alexandra Franzen

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