$300/hour goals. $10/hour habits. (Oops.)
Jun 27, 2025If you’re the kind of expert who’s brilliant at what they do but is stuck doing everything, you’ll relate to Jon.
He’s one of our Smooth Sailing clients. And when he joined the program, his weeks looked a lot like what yours might still look like:
Client delivery. Admin. Sales. Inbox firefighting. Even fixing tiny tech issues no one else would touch.
He wasn’t disorganised. He wasn’t lazy. He was just drowning. And hitting a growth ceiling fast.
If you haven’t noticed yet, he sells toy cars.
But his real bottleneck wasn’t inventory. It was time.
And within 2 weeks of starting the program, that started to change.
We ran him through the first thing all our clients do:
A Time Audit. (Yes, it’s exactly what it sounds like. And yes... it changes everything.)
The goal? Free up 10 hours in the next 7 days, without breaking the business.
We mapped his week, identified his $10/hour tasks, and compared them to the $300/hour growth work he’d been neglecting.
He made his first hire within days.
And while reviewing the job description together, he said, “I didn’t realise how much I could let go of until I saw it written out.”
Now?
His calendar is lighter. His thinking is clearer.
And instead of drowning in the business, he’s steering it forward like a real CEO.
If you’ve been thinking, “I can’t delegate yet”… this is your sign. Maybe you can’t afford not to.
Join Smooth Sailing Systems™ now and take your business from survival mode to CEO mode.
Let’s chart a calmer, more profitable course... together.
Captain’s orders