[HNY!] …and why I knew this needed to be teachable
Pre-S: Bold choice, opening email today. Happy New Year!
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I want to rewind slightly and clarify something important about that period in my business – because it didn’t look clear to me at all while I was inside it.
Right before I rebuilt the operating system underneath my business, I couldn’t see the problem clearly.
I knew I was working a lot of hours.
I knew information felt scattered.
I knew I was carrying a lot in my head. (Where else would I carry it?!)
But it never once occurred to me that the absence of a strong operating system – for the business itself, for daily processes, for workflows – was the cause of any of that.
Not once.
While I was being taken through the process of setting up a new “business operating system,” I was deeply uncomfortable. I was skeptical. Honestly, I wasn’t convinced it would work.
It felt disruptive.
It felt unfamiliar.
And it felt risky to change how things were being held together when the business was already “working.”
It wasn’t until after the setup was complete – and I had lived inside the new system for two or three weeks – that the relief showed up.
Only then could I finally see what I hadn’t been able to see before.
In hindsight, it became obvious that I had been compensating for missing structure with hours, attention, and mental effort. But prior to that experience, I would never have described myself as having a “systems and processes” problem.
Which is especially ironic, considering I once wanted to major in Systems & Operations Engineering. (I couldn’t get past the prereq of getting a B+ in statistics. Grr.)
What surprised me most was how invisible the problem had been from the inside.
And I knew, if I couldn’t see this while I was living it, surely there were others in the same position.
People who enjoy what they do.
Who work hard.
Who care about serving clients well.
Who consider themselves organized, or at least mostly organized.
But who are missing a few critical pieces that pull everything together into a coherent operating system.
I remember thinking, I can’t be the only one.
And if I had to guess, probably half of my clients would benefit from this in the same way I had.
That was when I decided to capture what I had just learned and turn it into something teachable.
That’s what eventually became Simple Systems, Free Time.
In the next email, I’ll walk through what this system actually looks like in practice – and why it’s intentionally lightweight, finite, and designed to be implemented in a short, focused window.
If you’re not feeling too terrible, or are looking for an excuse to skip football and reorganize your brain instead, you can get a head start. (The Rose Bowl doesn’t start until 4pm anyway; you’ve got time!)
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