How to Save Time and Make More Money

Productivity is simply getting the results you want. If you get the results you want, then you are productive. If you don’t, then you’re not. Defining productivity in this way stops you from confusing ‘busy’ with productivity, which is what prevents many people from finishing their work sooner alongside them just being plain lazy.

There are usually two kinds of people who work: those who live to work, and those who work to live. What’s the difference?

People who live to work are motivated by the desire to achieve something important or unique, in order to attain a sense of self-accomplishment and satisfaction.

People who work to live create businesses with the purpose of changing their lifestyle, rather than for the sole purpose of making money. They focus more on the life rewards that come with enjoying and being passionate about what you do.

People who live to work invest productivity gains back into work while people who work to live invest productivity gains back into freedom.

Depending on your goals and future plans, you may be more inclined towards one of those two options, or you may be somewhere in the middle, like me. I work to invest so that I can make more money, but I also take a portion for my own personal enjoyment.

Regardless, this post will show you how to make as much money as possible in as few hours as possible, doing what you are already doing now unless it’s doing nothing.

How to Work Less

If you want to work less, you can do these two things:

Remove hours from the day – Get the same amount of work done in half the time.

Make each hour more valuable – Double your worth and work half the horus for the same money.

Remove Hours from the Day

Why a 1 hour project takes 3 hours:

Get the same amount of work done in half the time. Focus, focus, focus! Don’t let distractions cut into your work time. I’ve experienced this myself every day. Work that would take me two hours would take me five hours just because of YouTube, TV shows, games, messages, mindless scrolling, emails, and other distractions.

What you can do:

• Stop Distractions
• Limit Meetings
• Stop Multitasking
• Work During Peak Energy

If you eliminate the distractions that plague your mind, you can finish your work and then relax for much longer. You can then focus on other productive and enjoyable activities in your life, such as going to the gym, reading books or watching TV shows.

If you really can’t cut them out, here’s a method that I’ve found really helpful and which, when analysed, showed that people performed best with it. It’s called the 52/17 rule:

“The rule advocates for 52 minutes of concentrated work time followed by a 17-minute break. This cycle is based on the principle that alternating periods of intense focus with brief intervals of rest can lead to heightened productivity and improved cognitive function.”

Make Each Hour more Valuable

Working for 10 hours at $50 per hour will earn you $500, and working for five hours at $100 per hour will earn you the same amount. This is why I never understood people who choose a less intense blue-collar job that pays less than a more intense one when the latter pays much more but is more energy-consuming. If you’re going to spend the same amount of time working, why wouldn’t you choose the harder job for more money and invest that cash?

Apply 80/20 Principle

The 80/20 Principle (also known as the Pareto Principle) states that roughly 80% of results come from 20% of efforts. In the workplace, this means focusing on the most impactful tasks to maximize productivity and efficiency.

Identify which tasks, clients or projects generate the most value. For example, 20% of clients may bring 80% of revenue.

Focus on tasks that drive the biggest results, for example strategic planning, meeting with most important clients, advertising or whatever it is for your case.

Delegate, automate or eliminate low-value tasks, such as excessive emails or administrative work. Automation is useful for many things, as is paying cheap, high-quality labour from third world countries.

Apply the 80/20 rule to everything: 20% of causes often lead to 80% of issues; 20% of processes usually cause 80% of delays; 20% of clients provide most of the revenue; and 20% of your team likely delivers 80% of the results.

What’s important:

• It makes you the most money
• It is urgent
• It is high leverage
• It is high skill (can’t delegate)
• It removes obstacles
• Proactive, not reactive
• It is a (real) emergency
• Something you’d procrastinate on
• Brings you clovers to your goals in financial freedom

Provide & Communicate more Value

This is a tricky one because if you raise prices without justifying them or offering more than your competitors, you will fail.

Here are a few tricks I use to make my stuff more valuable, first of all change your proposition, for example instead of selling features, sell outcomes and transformations:

Instead of saying ‘My course teaches you how to use Facebook Ads’, say ‘My system gets you five high-ticket clients in 30 days without cold calling’. Then people will ask ‘What’s the ROI of your offer?’, and you can tell them that clients make $10k from this strategy. But what would they lose if they didn’t buy from you? You could say they would be wasting $2k a month on ineffective ads. You can change the value of your product simply by changing how you address it, the value of your product isn’t just in what it is, it’s how you frame it.

Delegate Work

Instead of doing something yourself, why not hire someone? Of course this is not ideal in case you are low on money or can’t find a good person to do it, but let’s say for example you’re a website developer and you got a lot of clients, and you charge 100$ per website, you can go on Fiverr, for example this guy creates websites for less than 10$ and has over 500 positive reviews. Of course his websites aren’t fit for some advanced designs, but you get the point, you can find someone who creates better ones for 20-30$, I am giving this as an example but Fiverr/UpWork and such platforms can surely find you talents for cheap money to do your work.

And if you need a website of your own instead of selling websites, but you don’t know how to create a good website or it takes you over 12 hours to build one, and the work you’re already doing pays you 30 dollars per hour, for example, you can just hire someone for up to 180 dollars to build an amazing website for you, as your time is worth more in this case as doing what you’re already making the 30$ with per hour will be more beneficial to you.

Remember that time is money. You are essentially trading your time for money whenever you work, in the same way that you exchange money for someone doing work for you. You should therefore make your time as worthwhile as possible.

On top of making profit of 70$ on your website you also keep the 1 hour of your time that is worth 30$ at the moment so in reality you still made 100$.

Automations/Building Systems

Automating and building automations are the key to any business or product to cut costs and time expenses. I am automating anything you can possibly think of, any website I have I create a huge FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) table alongside creating a support desk where I train the Ai on answering almost all questions people usually ask, for example I write to Ai “Whenever someone asks for paid plan answer with this {I provide an answer}” now whether someone asks “do you have a premium plan?” or “do you have a vip plan” the Ai will answer with what i’ve instructed it to unlike if it wasn’t an Ai, so Ai can be a huge time saver, on Hustlectory you can find very good lists of usefull softwares/ai’s for automations. Whenever I post on Twitter I use IFTT to automatically get it posted on my discord and telegram servers so that I don’t have to bother doing it myself, this way i save 5 minutes daily, which turns out into days of saved time per year (5 Minutes * 365 days = 1825 minutes which ends up over 30 hours of saved time!), I use an Instagram and Telegram version of automation app we talked in this post to automate most of my responses on Telegram on Instagram, whenever someone asks some basic stuff, like “How are you”, “Hi”, “hey” and so on, I’ve made the automation respond with several diffirent ways randomly to each message, this way I don’t have to spend my time responding to pleasantries.

Instead of scraping manga myself, I create crawlers that update everything automatically, allowing me to focus solely on marketing the websites. Each website I create I install FS Poster, this let’s me automatically post on like 15 social networks, I make few blogger accounts, few wix and other website builder accounts, few facebook, pinterest, reddit, twitter accoutns for them all to automatically post links of my new blog posts on all those networks so that the post gets indexed instantly instead of me wasting time and money on using Indexing tools. Automating anything and everything that can possibly be automated is the goal, the more time you save on those small tasks in your life the more time you have on other stuff that you enjoy doing.

How to Train your VA’s

There is also a risk when hiring cheap virtual assistants, as many of them are neither intelligent nor knowledgeable. Training and teaching each of them how to do their job would be a waste of time. A better approach would be to record videos of your work and create e-books to send to them. This way, you don’t have to train them; you can simply inspect their work to see who can do the job properly.

My Example

I had an e-book that I was selling. I mainly advertised it by posting a free version of it everywhere that had an ad for the paid version. I would spend 2–3 hours daily on it and it was generating 85% of my sales. The remaining 15% came from paid ads that I was constantly trying to learn, spending even more hours on them. Even worse, I was burning money on them. Was I wrong for trying to learn a new skill and profit from it? No, but I should have spent only one to two hours on them with far less money, while using the rest of the time to post my free e-book in more places to maximise earnings for less time spent. If I had done that, I would have made three times more money. You live and you learn.