Time Hacks All Business Leaders Need To Know

Steven Droege
3 min readNov 24, 2020

Do you know the ABC’s of wealth creation? I will show you how choosing A, B, or C catapults you on the road to success or leaves you broke.

I didn’t know I love fixing computers. My high school gifted me an old desktop running on Windows XP, without any money, learning to fix it became a necessary skill.

As I improved my skills, I wanted to start a business fixing computers around my town.

I was a one-person business, so there was no leverage because I thought I could do everything myself.

It made me feel burned out to do all of the work on computers myself.

The issue was that (just like everyone else) I have the same 24 hours a day. I thought the only way to make more money was to work more hours.

It wasn’t until ten years later that I learned a vital lesson…

Everything we do is either an A, B, or C task. Learning this lesson changed my perspective on how I spend time.

A Tasks: The essential items that need to get done. “A” tasks directly affect your health, wealth, and relationships.

B Tasks: These tasks are important but not mission-critical. For example, if an “A” task is to advertise, a “B” task is to create your brand logo. Branding has its place, but branding is not marketing and is not more important than paying customers.

C Tasks: This is all the nonessential work you don’t need to waste your time doing. Many professionals hang out in the C tasks and wonder why their business isn’t growing.

Continuing our example, if an “A” task is advertising, a “B” task is branding, a “C” task is spending hours changing your website’s colors and fonts.

Understanding these differences allowed me to multiply my time by focusing on “A” tasks.

Even though I became more productive than ever, I had a new issue…

The “B” and “C” tasks started piling up in my business and my life. I was productive in business, but my health paid the price, and my wife never saw me.

To overcome this issue, I woke up every morning and wrote down the top three “A” tasks I would accomplish that day. I then committed to delegating, eliminating, or automating all “B” and “C” tasks.

By only completing three vital “A” tasks per day, I had more time for my family, I got to the gym every day and got into the shape of my life, and I accomplished more in a day than I was completing in a week.

My family got me back from the grip of work, and I’ll never miss important moments in my family’s lives ever again.

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Steven Droege
Steven Droege

Written by Steven Droege

Steve is a passionate entrepreneur & founder of CashFlowMarketer: www.cashflowmarketing.net

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