Five-time entrepreneur Trevor Blake joins us for a second time on the podcast, this time to talk about how he’s achieved all that success working only 5 hours a day. He generously shares his method and how you too can adopt it for greater productivity and greater impact.
Trevor Blake built three successful startups and sold them for more than $300 million. Now he’s written a complete instruction manual that covers everything the budding entrepreneur or existing business owner needs to know to build the career or business of their dreams. Unlike the many purely theoretical guides, this is a practical handbook based on Blake’s wildly successful in-the-trenches experience. It incorporates leading-edge strategies that cover every aspect of running a business — including funding, developing systems, and marketing. Blake presents in-depth insight into managing effectively, maintaining cash flow, and adapting to the changing needs of customers in volatile economic times.
His proven methods provide readers the confidence to take the entrepreneurial leap and turn a winning idea into an efficient, profitable company. In the process, readers can not only say farewell to long commutes and tedious jobs but, more important, reinvent themselves and discover the satisfaction inherent in running a business that greatly benefits not only the innovator, but also the end user.
3 Key Points
- Taking traditional corporate time management techniques into working at home will increase burnout.
- You don’t need to put work ahead of everything. Before the industrial revolution, people put family first, spirit second, leisure third, and work fourth.
- When you leave the office, you need to leave work.
Quote
“I get most of my good ideas when I stroll around the garden and watch the dog play… I would never have had that idea if I was sitting in my office waiting for an email.”
What We Talked About
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- 01:50 – How have you trimmed your workday to only five hours?
- 06:30 – Tell us a little more about the structure of each day
- 07:50 – Task discipline and schedule discipline
- 10:45 – On making a priority-ranked task list
- 12:10 – How well does working for 2 hours straight work for you?
- 14:00 – On strict discipline to avoid time creep
- 17:35 – Why does this work so well?
- 20:00 – What does it mean to switch to a leisure activity?
- 21:37 – How do you deal with meetings and setting boundaries with others?
- 23:52 – On the failings of traditional business methods and structures
- 26:29 – In a conventionally structured company, can a leader still work a 5-hour workday?
- 30:05 – How do we maintain relationships in the evolving workplace?
- 34:00 – What skills do you need to shift to a 5-hour workday?
- 36:45 – How have these short workdays changed your impact?
Actionable Tips
Resources Mentioned
- Visit Trevor’s website and get a free download on the 5-hour workday.
- Trevor’s books:
- Secrets to A Successful Startup
- Three Simple Steps
- Tony Buzan’s work on memory.
- Work Alchemy program mentioned: Fierce Women Foru
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Ursula Jorch, Host of The Impact Interviews
Ursula Jorch is a business coach, speaker, and podcaster who shows women leaders how to turn their businesses into profitable agents for lasting change, global impact, and a force for good in the world.