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The 4 Levels of Time Everyone Should Know! #256 - 5 Minute Friday

Jordan Edwards Season 6 Episode 256

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Are you constantly putting out fires instead of building your future? This eye-opening Five-Minute Friday breaks down the four critical levels of time management that determine your productivity and success.

Most people get trapped in the lower levels of time usage. At Level 1 (Reacting), you're at the mercy of notifications, messages, and other people's priorities. Level 2 (Managing) feels productive as you follow up with contacts and schedule meetings, but often leads to burnout without real progress. The transformation happens when you reach Level 3 (Building), where you actively create content, develop relationships, and establish foundations for growth. The ultimate goal is Level 4 (Leveraging), where you implement systems and processes that multiply your effectiveness without requiring proportional time investment.

The secret weapon shared in this episode is the power of 90-minute focus blocks dedicated not to routine tasks, but to high-level strategic thinking. Working ON your business rather than IN it creates pivotal moments for breakthrough success. After listening, conduct your own time audit to discover where your hours actually go. The path to greater productivity isn't about working harder—it's about strategically shifting your time to higher-level activities. Which level are you operating at most frequently? Your answer might surprise you, and changing it could transform everything.

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This is 5-Minute Friday and we're going to talk about the levels of time. So there's level 1 is reacting, level 2 is managing, level 3 is building and level 4 is leveraging. And when you start to think about these levels of time, you're going to start to realize that we're not always using our time the best. So the way after this is you're going to do a time audit, and I really hope you do a time audit after this. But the thing we're going to start to dive into is what are the different levels? So level one is reacting. What is reacting? That's when you get text messages, emails, social media messages.

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This is all the inbound stuff that you're focusing on other people's calendar. What's level two Managing that's when we start to experience burnout. We're following up with people, we're trying to set meetings, we're trying to get everything situated. It feels productive, but it's not really that productive. Then what's level three? That's building. That's where you're leveraging your content, you're leveraging your prospects, you're trying to reach out to people, you're trying to get to know people, you're trying to see how you guys can connect and have synergies, example example.

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And then level four is leverage, and this is where you start to get scale. So this is maybe implementing a new system like Calendly or TidyCal for so you don't have to schedule meetings anymore and the follow-ups etc. And they just click the link and schedule. Maybe it's shooting content on a weekly basis so that you can batch out your content and continue to build. Maybe it's you continuing to grow who you are and gaining new skills.

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Regardless of what it is, it's important that you realize that there's four levels and take inventory of where you're spending your most time and, once you realize that you've got to figure out where the real growth occurs, where does that happen? And one of the biggest tips I shared with my group is that we did a 90-minute block of time, of focus time not working on work, but working on what they think is important not being in the business, but on the business and on the lifestyle and you start to realize that those 90-minute blocks are pivotable for your success. So, like I said, it's only five minutes. So what I recommend is you have to do a time audit after this. There's four levels there's reacting, managing, building and leveraging. Figure out which level you're on, figure out which level you want to be at and spending time at, and go after it, and I wish you the best and keep clocking in.

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