This content was created by Mike Andes. This content was uploaded by Mike Andes. This is a YouTube video titled "Time Audit Yourself (Every 15min.) Here's What Happens 😳" created on September 22, 2025. It features a conversation with Mike Andes and other speakers discussing strategies for managing time effectively, delegating tasks, and setting success metrics for productivity.
Do you have email coming your phone right now?
I do, yeah. And when I open the app I get an anxiety attack.
No more email on your phone.
How can I hand something off when I don't even know what I'm doing? I'm like, yeah, I kind of did this and I kind of do that. Take care of it.
This is what I would recommend doing. I would do a time audit for a week. I want to know everything you're doing every 15 minutes you start to see all these massive holes in your day. Here's your checklist and then here's your video training. And you're going to make it a loom account or Google Drive and just literally have folders of email number one. So here's how I organize it. It could be a 60 second video, but you're going to make this list and it's going to be 30 things.
You don't want to tie the incentive or like their paycheck to watching the.
Videos because.
That'S not actually the outcome you want tie the incentive to the outcome. The outcome is I don't want voicemails. I want every call answered. I want emails processed in a timely fashion. So then I create success metrics around that. And those metrics are the thing I.
Incentivize checklist with training priorities. So like, which of these do I do first? And then success metrics.
I actually did delegate the admin stuff to a virtual assistant. So she's been on with us now for probably about a month. And man, and I'll tell you right now, that's a game changer. It's allowed me to buy like 15 hours of my time back a week. I feel like I'm in limbo. Like I was living this lifestyle for so long now that it's different. I'm like, what do I do now?