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Why we picked it This is the cleanest lightweight recipe to just start: track in 30-minute blocks against six named categories (revenue, delivery, operations, admin, strategy, reactive) in a plain spreadsheet or notebook. The move that makes it work is writing down your guess for each category first, then reading the gap between what you assumed and what the log says. Most founders guess 20 to 30 percent on revenue work and find they are at 10 to 15, and that gap is the whole diagnosis.
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- Estimate your split across the six categories before you log, the gap versus reality is where the insight is
- A spreadsheet or notebook beats an app: the simpler the method, the more likely you finish the two weeks
- Don't try to behave better during the audit, the point is accurate data, not a clean-looking week