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Howdy rebel ideapreneurs 🦸♂️🦸♀️
Jane writes a newsletter about meal planning for busy families.
For years, she's fed her family of five real dinners on a tight grocery budget.
She's sure any tired parent can get a real dinner on the table without the nightly panic.
Jane's readers stare at the fridge every night with no plan and no time — they want a simple weekly plan, not another fancy cookbook.
⛳️ Problem:
Jane writes after her full-time job, from 8 to 10 at night.
But most of those two hours vanish into fiddly chores.
Formatting, resizing images, fixing links — and the actual writing barely happens. That stings.
Her struggle:
Her best two hours go to draining busywork, so the writing she loves never gets done.
🔥 The recipe
➡️ Buy back your time
Think about a chef stuck washing every dish and mopping the floor.
If that's where his night goes, he never actually cooks.
The best kitchens hand off the scrubbing, so the chef can do the one thing only he can.
Funny thing is — the cooking is all anyone remembers.
That's what Dan Martell teaches.
He founded and sold several software companies, and now runs an eight-figure coaching business.
His whole rule is to buy back the hours that drain you.
His method: track your week, and mark every task that drains you or that anyone could do.
Then hand those off — to a tool, to AI, to someone else — and guard the hours only you can fill.
You're not buying free time; you're buying back time for the work that actually matters.
The draining busywork will eat every hour you give it.
Offload it, and your best hours flow to the work only you can do.
🚗 So Jane tried it her way.
Back to Jane and her two nightly hours that kept vanishing.
Formatting and image-fixing were eating the time she wanted for writing.
So she bought those hours back. Let's see how.
Spoiler: the time was hiding in the busywork.
She tracked one week and marked every task that drained her.
Turns out, formatting, resizing photos, hunting broken links — none of it really needed her.
So she handed the whole lot to an AI assistant and one simple template.
The chores that ate her nights now took ten minutes, not two hours.
For the first time, her 8-to-10 window went to writing — the one thing only she could do.
Done.
She didn't magically find more hours in the day.
She just stopped handing her best two hours to chores every night.
And her best hours finally went to the work she actually loved.
🧸 Hand off the repetitive chores, and get your best hours back for the work you love.
The prompt below finds the draining busywork in your week and hands it to AI.
You just tell it how you spend your work hours.
🏄♀️ The prompt
Save this prompt as a Skill or add to Project in your favorite AI tool — build once, use often.
Update your input values in the prompt, or just run it as is. Your AI sidekick will use the example values and give you an output.
CONTEXT:
- (use what's available, fall back to the inline values)
- If my Voice Profile exists, write in that voice. Otherwise, write in a clear, warm, no-jargon voice — first-person, plain words, no startup-speak.
- If my ICP / Audience doc exists, target that reader. Otherwise, use the audience below.
- If you can see my calendar or task list directly, pull how my hours actually go from there. Otherwise, use what I paste below.
Inputs:
How I spend my work hours on this project (the tasks, big and small — list them here if you can't see my calendar or task list):
{e.g. writing, formatting the issue, resizing images, fixing links, scheduling, replying to comments}
The work only I can do — the part I actually love (the reason I started):
{e.g. the writing itself — the ideas and the words}
The tools I have (so we know what AI or automation could take over):
{e.g. ChatGPT/Claude, a newsletter template, Canva}
For Outcome: {e.g. the draining tasks to offload to AI, and how to protect my best hours for the writing}
Outputs:
1. The drain list — the tasks that drain me or that anyone (or AI) could do, pulled from my week.
2. The offload plan — for each drainer, exactly how to hand it to AI, a template, or automation.
3. The protected hours — how to ring-fence my best time for the one thing only I can do.
4. The first offload — the single most draining task to hand off this week, and how to set it up today.
Then name the ONE task I keep doing myself out of habit that's quietly stealing my best hours.
That's it, my fellow renegades!
Yours 'bringing you cheat codes for 12x faster business success' Vijay Peduru 🦸♂️