568 – A HIT Business Owner’s Guide to Time Blocking: Grow Your Strength Training Business Faster and Get More Free Time Back In Your Life (with Lawrence Neal)

Lawrence Neal

Are you a personal trainer or strength studio owner who feels pulled in too many directions while trying to grow your business?

This episode is your guide to time blocking, one of the most powerful tools you can use to grow your strength training business while getting back more free time for the rest of your life’s important things.

We’ll talk about what time blocking actually is, how you can adapt it to your business and your everyday schedule, why it’s so powerful, and real-world, practical steps to help you get started and seeing the benefits.

If you’re serious about making your strength training business work for you and not the other way around, then tune in to this episode and put this powerful tool in your arsenal.

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Show Notes

• 00:40 – Why Time Blocking matters
• 04:00 – A lack of structure WILL hold you back
• 05:19 – What Time Blocking can do for your business
• 06:21 – What exactly is Time Blocking?
• 11:02 – Why so many people say “I don’t have time!” (and why this isn’t true)
• 12:52 – How to do Time Blocking properly
• 16:21 – A practical example: create a time block to process email
• 18:39 – What to put inside each time block
• 20:28 – Use a timer
• 21:48 – When to time block: “plan tomorrow today”
• 23:42 – A well-planned day can still go off the rails, and that’s okay
• 24:32 – How big should your time blocks be?
• 25:10 – What Time Blocking allows you to achieve
• 27:00 – You don’t need to time block every little thing
• 28:07 – “Auto-pilot scheduling”

People Mentioned & Selected Links from this Episode

• Cal Newport | Official Website | Deep Work (book) | Slow Productivity (book) | Deep Questions (podcast)
• Jocko Willink | On X (Formerly Twitter) | Jocko Podcast | Echelon Front
• BNI – Business Networking International | HIB Episode
• EggTimer.com