Kit Barber, who manages over 100 team members, explains why constant busyness kills productivity. Before adopting his "3 Big Things" system, he was drowning in Slack messages and small tasks while his businesses stagnated. The practice forces you to pick three high-impact actions daily instead of reacting to endless interruptions.
I come back to all of the time. If you always do what you always did, then you'll always get what you always got. And for most business owners, what they've always done is wake up and immediately get sucked into everything that their business throws at them. Slack notifications, WhatsApp messages, team questions, phone calls, and before they've even had a coffee, the day has already flipping well taken over. I know this because I lived it. I've got over 100 team members across multiple businesses, and before I introduced the 3 Big Things, which I've been running every single day for 17 years now, I was completely torn. The phone was going off constantly and I never switched off even when I was supposed to be away. And the thing is, the businesses weren't moving forwards like I really wanted them to. I was working really flipping hard, but I was also stuck doing the small things instead of the things that actually generated income.
