This week on the podcast, I’m tackling the single biggest complaint I hear from business owners: “There are never enough hours in the day.”

I see you. You wake up already feeling behind, with a mental to-do list that’s a thousand items long. You spend your day in a blur of email ping-pong, putting out tiny fires, and feeling busy but achieving nothing. By the end of the day, you’re exhausted, overwhelmed, and wondering where all the time went. You’re left with that sinking feeling that you’re working harder than ever but your business isn’t actually moving forward.

Sound familiar?

Here’s the hard truth I’ve learned from nearly 30 years as an accountant and business fixer: The problem isn’t a lack of time. The problem is that you’re letting £10 tasks steal the hours that your £10,000 brain should be using.

In this episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on the time theft you’re accidentally committing against yourself. We’re moving past the theory and I’m giving you three concrete, battle-tested fixes from my Efficiency & Profit Framework that you can implement this week to reclaim your calendar and your sanity.

Let’s get your shift together.

In This Episode, We Cover:

🧠 The Shift Thought of the Week: "You don’t need more hours in the day; you need to stop wasting them on £10 jobs when your brain’s worth £10,000."

😩 The Vicious Cycle of 'Busy': A brutally honest look at why your days feel so chaotic, from the constant mental load to the productivity-killing interruptions that zap your focus before 10 am.

🌤️ From Chaos to Control: I paint a picture of what life looks like when you're truly in control of your time—making focused decisions, hitting your goals, and ending the day with a sense of accomplishment, not dread.

🧰 THE 3-STEP FIX TO RECLAIM YOUR CALENDAR:

The Weekly Reset: The simple 20-minute ritual that clears your mental fog and sets you up for a week of high-impact progress instead of reactive chaos.

The Ruthless Time Audit & 3D Method: How to track where your hours really go and use my simple Do, Delegate, or Delete filter to instantly eliminate time-wasting tasks.

Blocking Your 'Golden Hours': The non-negotiable strategy for protecting your most valuable time and achieving more in two f

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