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“A brilliant, insightful read.” Bring Yourself “Hustle is dead. It never worked very well, and now it's burning us out. Jenny Blake is back with a generous, helpful and more caring alternative.” , author of This is Marketing “Wildly, wildly helpful. A chill, introvert-friendly birthday party for business owners.” Expansive Impact Time is not money. Time is life force. Are you consistently doing the work that you and only you can do? Or are you burdened by busywork, the bottleneck blocking your company’s profit and potential?  Your time is far more precious than money. It is your presence, your memories, your quality of life. As a business owner, you are already paying a risk and pressure tax. For many, growth fueled by added stress is not worth the trade-off. You have an urge to simplify and streamline. Free Time is not about working as little as possible. Nor is it about creating a lifestyle business purely for one’s own gain. It is about creating a life-giving business energizing every single person who is a part of it, from the owner to team members, to clients and community. Free Time is about making small investments now to create greater optionality in the future. A more joyful business is within reach. Imagine: Traveling, going off the grid, or handling family emergencies without panicking that everything will fall apart while you are gone. Working 10- to 20-hour weeks, delegating the rest to a motivated, part-time remote team. Answering questions with relief, knowing you don’t have to “own” the next steps. Empowering your Delightfully Tiny Team™ to answer their own questions before they even have to ask you. Harnessing your creative energy for the strategic projects that excite you most. Jenny Blake, author of the award-winning book Pivot and co-creator of Google’s acclaimed Career Guru coaching program, is back with her signature blend of heart-based operating principles and practical tools. This book will teach you how to move from friction to flow through smarter systems and the three-stage Free Time Framework.™ Free Time is a playbook to free your mind, time, and team for your best work. This book will teach you and your team to operate efficiently and intuitively, while earning abundantly, so you can make your greatest contribution as a business owner.

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"“A practical, commonsense guide for business leaders and beyond.” —Booklist ""An invigorating and informative time-management manual."" —Kirkus Reviews"

A comprehensive efficiency guide for solo entrepreneurs and small-business owners. Business owner/podcaster Blake, author of the career-development book Pivot (2016), makes a convincing case for working smarter, not harder, in a book centered around a compelling question: How can we earn twice as much in half the time, with ease and joy, while serving the highest good? When she set out to build her own business after working at Google, Blake faced the typical challenges of self-employment, but instead of succumbing to income deficiencies and overwork, she restructured her business based on her emerging belief that business stress is a systems problem. That belief is effectively the platform for this book, because Blake intelligently demonstrates how her own system-the Free Time Framework -can facilitate business success and also free up time. Its three stages ( Align, Design, Assign ) provide a natural structure for the book itself, whose three parts describe the stages in detail. Clearly, Blake understands the power of three, as each section is further subdivided into three overarching chapter concepts; for example, Align asserts that a business project must line up with one's Values, be compatible with how one focuses one's Energy, and draw on one's Strengths. At times, the book seems a bit too tightly organized, but Blake makes it work by weaving together short, engaging chapters that are chock full of relevant examples and useful sidebars. Particularly helpful are the initial overviews of each subsection and the concluding chapter recaps. The book's content is substantive, and each part delves deeply into its subject matter. Blake's suggestions always reinforce agility and efficiency. In Part 1 ( Align ), the author introduces one of her core principles: Each time you repeat a task, take one step toward automating it, which she discusses further in Part 2. Other worthwhile ideas in Part 1 include setting purposeful intentions, employing strategies for overcoming business bottlenecks, and learning how to embrace imperfection. Part 2 ( Design ) addresses how to establish and measure ideal outcomes and the potential impact of a project and how to design an efficient process. Serendipity as Business Strategy is an especially intriguing chapter, and a later sidebar, Stop Sailing the Sea of Shiny Shoulds, shares the story of Blake's and another entrepreneur's social media hiatuses and the positive effects they had on their businesses. Other concepts in this part, such as Blake's deep work windows, will surely resonate with overburdened business owners. The primary focus of Part 3 ( Assign ) is delegation-arguably one of an entrepreneur's biggest challenges. Here, Blake elegantly describes how to extricate oneself from being the Chief Everything Officer and how to build a Delightfully Tiny Team. She also covers several other useful techniques and tactics for maximizing time efficiency, such as building a task management system. All three parts of the book are well written, applicable, and actionable. Stylistically, Blake is a master of alliteration and rhyming; she's also adept at employing numbered and bulleted lists. Overall, she delivers an entertaining, instructive reading experience. An invigorating and informative time-management manual. -Kirkus Reviews

A practical, commonsense guide for business leaders and beyond. -Booklist An invigorating and informative time-management manual. -Kirkus Reviews

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Jenny Blake helps forward thinking organizations and individuals map what’s next. She is an international keynote speaker and author of Pivot: The Only Move That Matters is Your Next One, winner of the Axiom Best Business Books award in the careers category.  Jenny hosts two podcasts with over one million downloads combined: Free Time for heart-based business owners, and Pivot with Jenny Blake for navigating change.  After two years as the first employee at a political polling start-up in Silicon Valley, followed by five years at Google in coaching, training, and career development, Jenny moved to New York City in 2011 to launch her business. Originally from San Francisco, Jenny loves dogs, yoga, and buys too many books. She lives with her husband and their “angel in fur coat” German Shepherd.  Learn more at ItsFreeTime.com and PivotMethod.com.

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