The 1440 Method: How to Gain 3 to 30 Extra Hours Per Week - Different Hunger - Different Hunger

what is going on this is Matt cone with different hunger and I just want to provide you with a very quick little training that will help you easily gain an extra 30 hours per week using the 1440 method all right so if you're like most freelancers and agency owners then this is what a typical workday looks like

for you okay so you're spending about four hours or about half of your day on client work project management those types of activities okay next is random stuff you know Rand stuff always comes up especially when you don't plan in advance so that's about 60 minutes give or take a few right so after that we have of

course reading and replying to way too many emails chances are if you're like most people you have an over flooded inbox and you know you have to kind of sort through all that junk to get to the important emails okay so that's about 60 minutes next is about 30 minutes of messaging friends messaging team members messaging clients

on facebook or slack or wherever it is that that you communicate after that is actually planning your day right so if you don't plan your days in advance then you typically have to spend some time during the day you know around 45 minutes or so actually planning out what is going to get done and if you have

a team you have to plan out you know what what they're doing and then 45 minutes on actually growing the business you know it's it's crazy right like so many of the the freelancers and agencies that we talk to and that come to us to get help and to work with us are you know saying look I'm

struggling to grow my business and when I find out you know what their time looks like 75% of their time is being spent on client work and operations and delivery and you know the remaining maybe 10 or 20% is being spent on actually bizdev and actually growing the business right so you know 45 minutes might be a

little bit generous but that's that's the kind of number that we were working with here and then lastly is of course you know getting into sucked into the vortex social media YouTube Instagram you know whatever feeds it is that it has your attention that's about 30 minutes so that's what an eight and a half hour workday typically

looks like for most people that we hear from and most people that we've we've started working with so I want to provide you with an alternative workday right so this workday is about half as much time but it is more than twice as effective and here are the reasons why so ninety minutes of your day is spent

on sales and partner calls okay 45 minutes is spent on marketing and sales strategy right so after that you're working on focus work you know maybe it's 90-day goal type work 90-day project type work the next 30 minutes is spent on quality control and you know keeping clients happy so a much higher level of Management versus actually

doing the client work actually managing the projects yourself next 30 minutes spent on improving systems improving processes okay the next 30 minutes is you know once you have those processes down it's actually hiring and training people on how to use those internally so that you can continue to remove yourself from those operations and and client work right

next is replying to important emails right not sorting through thousands and hundreds of BS emails but actually just replying to the important ones next is taking 20 minutes to actually plan for the next day so you don't have to spend that time actually planning your day to day up and then lastly is 20 minutes of just random

stuff that comes up so that's about five hours of your time but as you can see here it's a much much more valuable use of your time so the eight hour workday the values associated with these and these these values are chosen based on how much it would take for you to outsource each one of these tasks

okay so you can see that there's lots of red on the eight-hour work day and because of that you have a very low value generated on your day and not only that but you're barely spent any time on marketing sales and the key business pillars that are required to grow okay so when you compare that to a

five-hour workday which you know at first glance it's like what the heck how can i how can I get more done in half the amount of time you know it might be like blowing your mind right now but you can see that these these activities are a lot more focused on leverage right these are focused on tasks

that create more time or more money within your business and another way to think of it is you're spending time today to save time tomorrow and and to make you even more time tomorrow and make you even more money tomorrow right so it's a very leveraged approach to your work right and so even though you're you're spending

less eat more than three hours less on the five hour workday you're generating nearly three times as much value based on the task that you are delivering right so so let's kind of dive into some of the problems here right again you're spending way too much time on client work you're spending too much time wasted because you

didn't plan out your day you're spending an hour in your inbox you're spending an hour messaging and on social media and and before you know it you've lost eight hours of your day so how do we fix this okay so to fix the four hours of client work what you need to do is you need to systemize

your services you need to systemize your delivery and then you need to automate or delegate that work out to a VA or two contractors when you do that you're going to gain an extra three hours next instead of wasting time because you're not planning plan every day the day before and after you do that you're going to

gain at least another hour and a half in your day-to-day after that an hour spent in your inbox you can actually outsource the entire email processing system and this is something I've done within my business and helped other people do as well when you do that you're gonna easily save 30 minutes probably closer to 60 minutes per

day and then lastly is when you actually advance schedule and advance prepare your day you don't get sucked into the vortex of social media because you actually have a plan that you're gonna stick to and follow and that will easily gain in another hour to your day so look after you've implemented these solutions you're looking at an

additional six hours that you've gained by implementing these I talk about all these successful people I interview and you know they don't all do the same 15 things those are just the most common things but what they all have in common is they truly I call it the power of 1440 you know there's 1440 minutes in a

day and that's the number that can change your life because when you realize just how valuable time is I mean money you can lose it and make it back even your health you can get sick and you can get healthy again even your relationships you can get divorced and remarry the love of your life but time I

mean once it's gone it's gone