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What bill payment taught me about business
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One of the most valuable business lessons I've learned is also one of the easiest to ignore. It's about the small stuff. The tasks so tiny you barely think about them. Here's an example: For years, I would get my bills (internet, phone, hydro, etc.) and then spend 5 to 10 minutes paying them online. Log in. Check the amount. Enter the payment. Confirm. Done. Not a big deal, right? What's 10 minutes a month? Until you multiply it by 12. That's 120 minutes a year. Two hours. Still not a big deal. What's two hours over an entire year? But here's where it gets interesting. Start applying that same math to everything else you do manually: How much time do you spend scheduling appointments that could be booked automatically? How much time responding to the same questions over and over that an FAQ or automation could handle? How much time following up with leads manually when a sequence could do it for you? How much time copying and pasting the same messages, checking the same inboxes, doing the same admin tasks day after day? Each one feels like "just a few minutes." But stack them up and you're looking at hours every week. Days every month. Weeks every year. Time you could spend on revenue-generating work. Or with your family. Or doing literally anything other than repetitive tasks that a system could handle. The fix isn't dramatic. It's methodical. You look at the small stuff. The things you do daily or weekly that feel too minor to matter. And one by one, you automate them, delegate them, or eliminate them entirely. This is what systems thinking actually looks like. Not one big transformation. A hundred small ones that compound over time. HighLevel's End of Year Promotion runs through tomorrow. 50% off your first three months. New to HighLevel? Start here Already using HighLevel and want to upgrade? Go here Tomorrow is New Year's Eve. I'll keep it short. But I want to share something about why resolutions DO actually work (...even when people say they don't). Talk soon, Adam P.S. I know I'm showing up in your inbox more than usual. If you'd rather skip the holiday offers, click here and I'll see you in the new year. You'll miss a few good stories, but no hard feelings. |
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