Free Time with Jenny Blake

206: 🦊 Celebrate the Small Fixes, aka Your Business Rose 🌹


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In 2021, I paid nearly a thousand dollars to hire a plumber to fix something that wasn't absolutely necessary and that no one would ever see. Why did I do that? And what on earth does it have to do with running your business? More on that in today’s episode, along with twelve examples of tiny things to celebrate in your business operations, even if they forever remain a secret to the outside world. Outside of big launches, awards, and accomplishments.


🌟 3 Key Questions
  • What’s one tiny thorn in your shoe (business)?
  • What is one friction area that no one would notice if you addressed, but that would allow the work to flow more freely in your business?
  • How can you make your business operations one percent better every day?

  • 📝 Permission: Celebrate (even as you may sweat) the small stuff: the invisible, incremental improvements, and the mere fact that you’re staying in the game!


    ✅ Do (or Delegate) This Next: Make a list of ten tiny improvements you’ve already made this year, that no one would be able to see from the outside.


    🔗 Resources Mentioned
    • Chair: Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman
    • Photos: Under the hood of Jenny’s sink: Before and After
    • Jenny’s secret pop-up project

      📚 Books Mentioned
      • Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear
      • The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupĂŠry
      • 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: 117: Tiny Marketing Actions with Pamela Slim, 102: 12 Systems-Thinking Steps for Moving from Friction to Flow, 183: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt with Madeleine Dore
        • Pivot: 336: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt with Madeleine Dore (Free Time Crossover), 297: Create a Failure Resume, Khe Hy: RadReads x Pivot & Free Time


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