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“A brilliant, insightful read.”
—MORI TAHERIPOUR, author of Bring Yourself

“Hustle is dead. It never worked very well, and now it's burning us out. Jenny Blake is back with a generous, helpful and more caring alternative.”
—SETH GODIN, author of This is Marketing

“Wildly, wildly helpful. A chill, introvert-friendly birthday party for business owners.”
—SARAH YOUNG, author of Expansive Impact

Time is not money. Time is life force.

Are you consistently doing the work that you and only you can do? Or are you burdened by busywork, the bottleneck blocking your company’s profit and potential?

Your time is far more precious than money. It is your presence, your memories, your quality of life. As a business owner, you are already paying a risk and pressure tax. For many, growth fueled by added stress is not worth the trade-off. You have an urge to simplify and streamline.

Free Time is not about working as little as possible. Nor is it about creating a lifestyle business purely for one’s own gain. It is about creating a life-giving business energizing every single person who is a part of it, from the owner to team members, to clients and community. Free Time is about making small investments now to create greater optionality in the future.

A more joyful business is within reach. Imagine:

Traveling, going off the grid, or handling family emergencies without panicking that everything will fall apart while you are gone.
Working 10- to 20-hour weeks, delegating the rest to a motivated, part-time remote team.
Answering questions with relief, knowing you don’t have to “own” the next steps.
Empowering your Delightfully Tiny Team™ to answer their own questions before they even have to ask you.
Harnessing your creative energy for the strategic projects that excite you most.

Jenny Blake, author of the award-winning book Pivot and co-creator of Google’s acclaimed Career Guru coaching program, is back with her signature blend of heart-based operating principles and practical tools. This book will teach you how to move from friction to flow through smarter systems and the three-stage Free Time Framework.™

Free Time is a playbook to free your mind, time, and team for your best work. This book will teach you and your team to operate efficiently and intuitively, while earning abundantly, so you can make your greatest contribution as a business owner.

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Santé et bien-être

Développement personnel

Entrepreneuriat

Business

Economics

Employabilité, métiers et formations

Small Business

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Publié par	Ideapress Publishing
Date de parution	22 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781646870790
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Advance Praise for Free Time
As Jenny Blake says in Free Time , how we bake is as important as what we make. Having run a multinational organization and now my own Delightfully Tiny Team, I know that Heart-Based Business is possible for organizations of any size, and we need it now more than ever.
-Howard Behar, author of The Magic Cup and former president of Starbucks Coffee
This book is a revelation-a detailed road map for building a business that fulfills you and serves the world, leaving anxiety and burnout behind. Jenny Blake s advice is both grounded and inspiring, and always connected to life as it is actually lived, at the human scale.
-Oliver Burkeman, author of The Antidote and Four Thousand Weeks
With heart and smarts, Jenny teaches us how to think big, be strategic, and make time for what really matters. Free Time is an essential guide to running a business without running yourself into the ground.
-Ximena Vengoechea, author of Listen Like You Mean It
Jenny Blake s phenomenal book Free Time taught me how to rethink my business, creating smart systems to focus on what matters most.
-Antonio Neves, author of Stop Living on Autopilot
The go-to manual for running Heart-Based Businesses with ease, joy, and financial abundance.
-Farnoosh Torabi, host of the award-winning podcast So Money
It is not about working harder, it is about working right-er. Bigger results, better flow, less effort; welcome to Free Time .
-Mike Michalowicz, author of Clockwork, Fix This Next , and Get Different
Wildly, wildly helpful. Free Time is a masterful blend of tools, tips, and frameworks to free your mind, time, and team-against a backdrop of pure delight. Imagine the most helpful entrepreneurial workshop you ve ever attended, but held in an ice cream store with an infinite array of flavors. Grab a copy for yourself and your business-owning best friends.
-Sarah Young, founder of Zing Collaborative and author of Expansive Impact
Hustle is dead. It never worked very well, and now it s burning us out. Jenny Blake is back with a generous, helpful, and more caring alternative.
-Seth Godin, author of This Is Marketing
Leave it to Jenny to come up with an ultra-simple, seemingly innocent concept and turn it into a profundity with many mind-expanding insights! Free Time successfully balances our brain and heart, rocking between the mental ah-ha! and the deep intuitive mmm-hmmm .
-Penney Peirce, author of Frequency, Leap of Perception , and Transparency
Stress is a systems problem. This was one of the more arresting statements I ve read in a business book in a long time. Jenny offers an important vision of entrepreneurship freed from burnout and overload.
-Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author of A World Without Email and Deep Work
After reading Free Time , I have gone from being semi-retired to relaunching my business. Jenny s wisdom shines through, especially as she presents the intersection of systems thinking and heart. I am truly inspired, but now, with a new path forward.
-Denny O. Clark, disability workforce inclusion advocate and co-founder of Pinnacle Performance Consulting
A brilliant, insightful read that provides an actionable framework for reimagining the way we work. Jenny s depth of knowledge from her corporate and entrepreneurial career provide a fresh perspective on company culture and value-centric time management.
-Mori Taheripour, author of Bring Yourself and faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania s Wharton School of Business
Jenny is openhearted, honest, and highly insightful. What makes her particularly unique is her willingness to pull back the curtain on her own business. Free Time is a delightful mix of grounding and spiritual strategies, plus uber-specific and systematic.
-Lindsay Pedersen, author of Forging an Ironclad Brand
A vision that knits together the aspirational, spiritual, and operational.
-Herb Schaffner, president of Big Fish Media
For any entrepreneur who has felt stressed out or overwhelmed-and dare I say, that s most of us- Free Time will come as a revelation. Her crystal-clear thinking, smart advice, and rock-solid systems will give your business a powerful boost, while maintaining your joy and sanity.
-Dorie Clark, author of The Long Game and executive education faculty at Duke University s Fuqua School of Business
A refreshing and informative outlook on how to create change in the world without sacrificing our soul.
-Petra Kolber, author of The Perfection Detox
For anyone who wants to keep their team tiny, their business elegant, and their life delightful.
-Michael Bungay Stanier, author of The Coaching Habit and How to Begin
Most entrepreneurs start their businesses in search of freedom; but to hold on to it, we have to protect our time. Free Time is a treasure trove of inexpensive, efficient ways to liberate ourselves from tasks that drain the life out of us-so we can reclaim our peace, freedom, and passion.
-Elaine Pofeldt, author of The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business and Tiny Business, Big Money
You may think having more free time is a fantasy; not with this book. This is Jenny Blake at her best, architecting the unique path for you to achieve Free Time . Your business can be freeing and lucrative-Jenny will show you how.
-Laura Garnett, author of The Genius Habit and Find Your Zone of Genius
This book will help you harness your innate strengths while recognizing how to work in a manner that leads directly to success. Jenny s frameworks are so practical and actionable that you will feel inspired by the work you want to do, while learning how to delegate and avoid busywork. All of us want to make certain our time is valued and not wasted. Free Time is your foolproof solution. I need more room on my bookshelf!
-Allison Kluger, lecturer of Organizational Behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business
free time
free time
Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business
JENNY BLAKE
Award-winning author of Pivot
Copyright 2022 by Jenny Blake
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from the publisher, except in the context of reviews.
Printed in the United States
Ideapress Publishing | www.ideapresspublishing.com
SPECIAL SALES: Ideapress Books are available at a special discount for bulk purchases for sales promotions and premiums, or for use in corporate training programs. Special editions, including personalized covers, a custom foreword, corporate imprints, and bonus content, are also available. For more details, visit www.itsfreetime.com/special-sales .
Cover and diagrams by Together Agency: www.gotogether.agency
Interior design by Together Agency and Jessica Angerstein.
Set in Freight with headings in Circular.
Free Time, Heart-Based Business, Delightfully Tiny Team, and Free Time Framework, are pending trademarks of Jenny Blake Enterprises, LLC.
Pivot Method is an exclusive registered trademark. All rights reserved.
Some names and identifying characteristics have been changed to protect the privacy of the individuals involved.
Image credits: Alexandra Franzen (iPhone screen), Mafaz Mousoof (Nodes)
ISBN: 978-1-64687-066-0 (hardcover)
ISBN: 978-1-64687-079-0 (ebook)
ISBN: 978-1-64687-080-6 (audio)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2021915430
Subjects: BISAC: BUSINESS ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship.
BISAC: BUSINESS ECONOMICS / Small Business. BISAC: BUSINESS ECONOMICS / Operations Management.
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To Jim Blake, aka Daddy-O: Your brilliant insights, contrarian comments, and laser-sharp edits make every book better. You are the ultimate Free Timer, filling your hours with learning and creative expression, morning, noon, and night. Thank you for being you, and for all that you do. These are the great times!
Work is love made visible.
-Khalil Gibran
Contents
Introduction
Business Stress Is a Systems Problem
The Check Is in the Mail
Heart-Based Business
Free Time Framework
Friction Versus Flow
The Missing Metric
High Net Freedom
Free Up Founder Time: Escape Velocity
Quiz: What s Your Free Time Escape Velocity?
Part 1 Align:
Overview
Values
Chapter 1: Embrace Agile Operating Principles: What s Your Wi-Fi Password?
Take a Stand: Even Over Versus Bland
Chapter 2: Create an Externalized Mind
Define Your Brand
Chapter 3: Systematize the Spirit of Your Business
Energy
Chapter 4: Set Purposeful Intentions
Chapter 5: Let It Be Easy, Let It Be Fun
Close The Loop: Indecision Is Your Decision
Chapter 6: Give Yourself Golden Hour: What s Your Job Today?
Free Up Even More Founder Time
Strengths
Chapter 7: Build Your Business Intuition
Chapter 8: Continuously Bust Bottlenecks
Techtuition: Stop the Bad at Technology Story
Chapter 9: Embrace Imperfection: Cookie Dough and Tiny Streaks
Refocus: Eyes on Your Own Paper
Align Resources
Part 2 Design:
Overview
Outcomes
Chapter 10: Invite Nonlinear Breakthroughs
Transcend Tug-of-War with Sacred Third Solutions
Chapter 11: Serendipity as Business Strategy
Chapter 12: Solve for Sisyphean Systems
Stop Sailing the Sea of Shiny Shoulds
Impact
Chapter 13: Always Be Listening
Chapter 14: Scale: Be Ready for a Big Break
Seven Scale-Building Levers
Chapter 15: Use Life-Giving Language
Process
Chapter 16: Design Deep Work Containers
How We Free Time at JBE
Chapter 17: Time Block and Bake in Batches
Bake in Batches to Eliminate Task Bloat
Chapter 18: Automate What You Repeat
Design Resources
Part 3 Assign:
Overview
Who
Chapter 19: Promote Yourself from Chief Everything Officer
Chapter 20: Construct Your Delightfully Tiny Team
Chapter 21: Double How Much You Delegate
Run a Hiring Pilot at Home
What
Chapter 22: The Fiji Test: Make Ourselves Replaceable
Chapter 23: Drained? Let s Discuss
Chapter 24: Frustrated? Take Responsibility
Invite Debate, Dis