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Most days slip away in small pieces. A report here, a chain of emails there, a recurring meeting that could have been a message. On their own each one feels too small to fix, and together they quietly eat whole weekends, whole evenings, whole years of the life you meant to be living outside of work.
This worksheet is a mirror. Fill it in honestly, in about ten or fifteen minutes, and you'll see the real shape of where your time is actually going, what it's worth, and what it could buy back for you on the other side.
Prefer a printable PDF? Download hereList the recurring tasks that eat your time. Think weekly or monthly rhythms, not one-off fires. Don't worry about being exhaustive, just start with what's loudest in your memory.
The totals update as you type. The dollar figure uses $100 per hour as a conservative baseline, because most small business owners' time is worth more, not less.
Start filling in the inventory and your numbers will appear here.
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Hours per month
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Dollar value per month
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At $100 per hour, conservative. Your actual hourly value is almost certainly higher once you factor in opportunity cost, deep-work time, and what you'd pay someone else to do this.
This is the part most time audits skip, and it's the part that actually matters. What would you do with those hours if you got even half of them back, not in your business, but in your life?
Finish these sentences as specifically as you can. Not "more time with my family," but Saturday mornings at the farmers market with the kids. Specific moments are what you're actually working for.
Not every hour lost hurts the same. Some tasks are merely inefficient, and others actually take something from you. This is where you mark the difference.
For each task you listed in the inventory, rate how much it actually stings to spend time on it. One dot means mildly annoying, five means you'd pay real money to never do it again.
A checklist of the most common time drains that small business owners miss in the first pass. Check any that apply, even if you didn't list them above.
If you check three or more of these, you're almost certainly sitting on six to ten hours a week that could be reclaimed with existing, off-the-shelf AI tools.
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The worksheet can sit in a drawer, or it can be the first 15 minutes of an AI assessment that turns every one of those drains into a specific, implementable fix. One 45-minute conversation, a custom report within 48 hours, a four-day plan, and a review call two weeks later. No retainer, no upsell pressure.