You don’t need more time.

You need fewer leaks.

Because “busy” is usually just time bleeding out in places you don’t track.

Little drains.
Soft yeses.
Half-starts.
Phone checks that turn into 18 minutes.

You’re not behind because life is too full.

You’re behind because your week has holes.

Here are the 3 leaks that steal your week:

1) Phone leak
You don’t “use your phone.”
Your phone uses your attention.

One check becomes: messages, feed, email, one more refresh.
Now you’re mentally scattered and you call it “low focus.”

2) People leak
Random calls. Random favors. Random conversations.
You keep acting like accessibility is kindness.

It’s not.

It’s self-abandonment dressed up as being “easygoing.”

3) Task leak
You start things you can’t finish.
You keep too many “active” projects.
You do admin in the middle of deep work.

So nothing gets real traction.
Just motion.

The fix isn’t a new system.

It’s an audit. Then one hard cut.

Take a page. Make three columns:

PHONE
Write the top 3 ways your phone steals time. Be specific.
Examples: “bed scroll,” “mid-task checks,” “notifications,” “DM rabbit holes.”

PEOPLE
Write the top 3 ways other people steal time.
Examples: “instant replies,” “unscheduled calls,” “meetings with no agenda,” “helping when I’m overloaded.”

TASKS
Write the top 3 ways your tasks steal time.
Examples: “too many priorities,” “no defined first step,” “context switching,” “starting before scheduling.”

Now answer this one question:

What is the single biggest leak - the one that, if fixed, would change your week?

Circle it.

You don’t need to fix everything.
You need to stop the bleeding.

Pick the cut that matches the leak you circled.

If it’s PHONE:
Hard cut: Put your phone in another room for your first 60 minutes tomorrow.
No exceptions.
If you need an alarm, use a cheap one.

If it’s PEOPLE:
Hard cut: Create a “reply window.”
Example: “I respond at 11:30 and 4:30.”
Not all day.
And stop apologizing for having a life.

If it’s TASKS:
Hard cut: Limit active work to 3 tasks for the next 7 days.
Everything else gets scheduled or killed.
If it’s not in the 3, it’s not touched.

Concrete example:

I watched someone complain they “never have time” to work out.
Then they showed me their day.

They didn’t lack time.
They leaked it.

That’s over an hour.

Not stolen by life.

Voluntarily donated to leaks.

Do the audit. Pick one hard cut.
Then protect it like it’s rent.

Save this.
Run the Leak Audit today.
Make one cut before your week makes it for you.

NoFluffWisdom