AI has bought me back at least 20 hours

a week, and it could do the same for

you. Think about what you could do with

an extra 20 hours. That's time with your

kids, time to finally get fit, time to

do that thing you keep saying you're

going to do, but you haven't even

started. It's why I've been able to

travel the world with my family for

weeks at a time, not being on meetings

that are always taking my time, and

running dozens of companies that

continue to grow without me. I didn't

hire more people or work harder. I just

learned how to put AI to work so it

bought me back my time every single day.

So, let's start with the fastest change

you can make, connecting AI to your

world. The better AI knows you, the

faster it can start buying back your

time because the more context it has,

the more details it has, the better the

decisions it can make on your behalf.

And I know what you're thinking. I don't

want to give AI my company information.

You already do. I'm pretty sure you use

Gmail. I'm pretty sure you're on social

media for your business, and their data

centers and their people, their security

team is way more secure than yours. So,

just let them use it so that you can

take advantage of it. So, here are two

of the fastest ways to feed the AI your

context. One is connectors. In the AI,

you hit the plus button, you go to

connectors, and you start connecting

every single app you got. I'm talking

Gmail, calendars, Notion, Slack. Put it

all in there so that when you're talking

about it, you don't got to copy and

paste things into it. You want to say

drive, don't repeat yourself. You don't

have to tell AI things that it can find.

So, that's how you feed it all the

context for things you've already done.

And then two, use your voice to dictate.

Use your voice to tell it more things.

Tell it about your vision. You can use

WhisperFlow, Super Whisper, or even just

the AI mic button. The more context you

give it, the better it's going to be

able to help you. I don't want to waste

time typing. I talk three times faster

than I type. So, why wouldn't I use my

voice to feed the AI? If you're using AI

every day, which you should, this first

step should save you at least an hour or

two a week. But this is just the start,

my friends. Now we need to buy back our

time with a framework I've been using

for years called the Buy Back Loop. And

the first step is to audit your time.

The easiest way to get hours back is to

see where you're losing them. Find out

what things you need to stop doing so

they can create the space to start doing

the things that make you more money.

Most business owners can easily get back

eight to nine hours of their week if

they stopped to audit their calendar, if

they stopped to slow down to say, "What

am I doing that I could automate with

AI?" What about all these meetings that

I'm in that I don't need to be in? What

if I took a 60-minute meeting, put it to

45 minutes, and the 45 to 30, and the 30

to 15, and the 15 to 5, and the 5 to a

text message? Doing that analysis used

to take me weeks. With AI, I can get it

done in 10 minutes. Couple months ago, I

had AI analyze my calendar. It noticed I

was spending a lot of time with this one

portfolio manager. It challenged me to

go from three meetings a week down to

one and just use my time to prep and

have them report so I don't have to be

on those calls. So then, I apply that

same process to everything else. If it

knows my goals, it knows where I want to

be, it knows where I should be at the

end of the quarter, then it can really

challenge me in regards to where I'm

spending my time to ensure I get those

things done. Because it has all the

context that I gave it earlier using the

connectors and talking, they can make

those suggestions in a way that nobody

else could see. So, how do you get AI to

audit your time? First, with AI

connected to your calendar, ask it this,

"Audit the last 2 weeks of my calendar

based on my quarterly goals doc in

Notion. You should have it. Tell me what

meetings I shouldn't be in, what stuff

my pay grade, and where I'm wasting my

time. Ask me better questions first to

get a better context." That's approach

it, by the way, having it ask you

questions to get clarity before it gives

you an answer. Second, then run this

prompt, "Based on that, build me a mock

calendar of what I actually should be

spending my time on and walk me through

your reasoning." See, I love the

reasoning because it's going to teach me

how it thought so I can use that same

reasoning myself in the future. And

third, lastly say these words. Now tell

me the top three things I need to focus

on to make this change happen and be

specific. Who on my team is involved,

what's the impact, and what's the plan?

Now the pro tip is automate the whole

audit so it runs every week. It catches

the problem before it becomes a problem.

See, I've set this up in my automation

so that it's always analyzing, it's

always suggesting. So at the end of the

week on Friday at 4:00, I get a

notification tell me the opportunities

to fix my calendar for the following

week. So if you do this whole process,

you're going to start noticing the

meetings you shouldn't be in, you're

going to notice where you're spending a

lot of time getting information that

somebody could just send to you, and

you're just going to find ways to just

be more efficient. Now I wrote a whole

book on this philosophy in my book Buy

Back Your Time. If you want to use AI to

help you with that, just tell it to go

use my frameworks to analyze your

calendar to give you feedback the way I

wrote about it. Then go get yourself a

copy if you're at it. Now if you're

business owner, running this audit will

show you everything that's broken. The

team structure, the team rhythms, the

things that are quietly costing you a

lot of time. That's exactly why I built

my scale your business workbook. Every

stage and every step that builds a

business that runs like a machine so

that you can finally buy back your time.

If you want it, just find me on

Instagram and DM me the words YouTube

scale and I'll send it over. So far

you've saved about eight to nine hours,

but we want 20. So how do we actually

get there? Step two, transfer the work.

So we've identified in your day where

there is a lot of stuff that's just

noise. It's not really work, okay? But

there are things that need to happen,

right? The inbox and the pings and the

same questions I get asked over and over

again, somebody's going to have to

answer them. And these are things that

can be easily handled by somebody else.

I read a study by Carleton University

that said people spend a third of their

time at the office just reading and

sending emails. That's 11.7 hours of

your time at work wasted on

And 30% of that time, those emails

aren't even urgent or important. And

that's just one example of a task that

you should just transfer. So here's how

we get that off your plate handled by AI

in a way that you don't freak out.

First, we have to capture the process

and there's a couple ways you can do

that. One, the camcorder method. This is

where you share your screen. I like to

use Zoom. You just share your screen on

Zoom, you record it, and you record

yourself doing your emails. You talk out

loud and you say, "Now I've got this

email from Bob and because he's in this

department, I do this." You record

yourself doing the thing cuz what you're

doing is you're building the training

that the AI can use to start doing that

work for you. Another way, and this is

what I highly recommend, is use your

connectors connected to your email

system and tell it to go through all

your emails to understand your tone and

your style and how you reply and who you

reply to and how you do it. You already

got the training, just have the

connector go do the heavy lifting to

pull the system out. Now you've got the

example, you've got the analysis of how

you do the email. Now you ask the AI to

turn that into a system prompt, which

means it's the instructions for how the

AI can actually process your inbox so

you don't have to do it again. Number

three, you hand it off to the AI. I

always say, "Token first, hire later."

Most people are saying, "I need to hire

somebody." It's like, "Or you just spend

some tokens, some AI to solve the

problem and see how much further you can

go without having to add a full-time

person to your team. If you can talk the

task, AI can do the task." I think most

people by default give things to a

person. I'm challenging you, before you

do that, try get the AI to do it for

you. Now I might just start by sorting

and writing drafts for you, that's

better than nothing, right? If you just

start there, you'll get half of that

time. And for whatever reason, if that

system doesn't work and you absolutely

need a human, then the cool part is is

that AI system prompt becomes the

playbook that person follows. This one

saves you a bunch of time. If you start

looking for these opportunities and

using AI to take these big pieces off

your plate, you will save at least 20

hours a week. Again, email could be 11.7

hours of that, meeting notes, writing

first drafts of things, following up

with people, checking things over and

over and over again, building yourself a

dashboard so you don't have to freak out

at night that you're missing something.

Okay? AI can do this for you, which then

should leave you with the question of,

"Hey Dan, if I do this, what am I

supposed to do with all this time?" Step

three, fill your time. AI just gave you

your time back. Awesome. But most people

waste it by going to the beach or

sitting around and watching Netflix or

picking up their phone and gabbing with

their buddy. Now, you want to pour that

time back into the business to grow it.

This is not the four-hour workweek. This

is not what I signed up for. The

subtitle of my book says, "And build

your empire." If you're here, you're an

empire builder. This is how we fill our

time to do the things that actually move

our business forward, not just busy work

that feels productive, that does

nothing. First, we want to look at all

the tasks we have left on our calendar

and ask ourselves, "Does the task make

me money? And does it light me up? Does

it make me feel good and I'm excited to

do it or do I hate doing it? Is

it an energy-draining task?" See, your

job in life is to continuously find

tasks that have both, things that make

you a lot of money that you enjoy doing.

Imagine if you woke up every day and it

was like all green, energy-creating

opportunities that made you a lot of

money. How quick would you run to the

office? For me, that's learning about

AI, learning about business, talking to

mentors, recruiting people. All of these

things I really enjoy, creating content.

I love it. Why? Massive leverage. I

could sit in a room and talk with 18

people on my team, and the unfortunate

part is it would just end with those 18

people. I come on here, I shoot a video,

it gets a million views. I know that

I've supported a lot of people. That

lights me up. And it creates opportunity

for the portfolio I have, for the people

on my team, and I think that's pretty

cool. So, the whole point is we got to

take those activities and block them

into our calendar, cuz if we don't,

trust me, if nothing's in the calendar

and our time is not committed, other

people will come in and take our time.

So, those things go in first, not

second. Now, here's a pro tip. Use the

time you bought back to learn how to use

AI, teach you how to get more time back.

I mean, there's levels to this game. If

you haven't gone deep on agents, big

opportunity there. So, use the time you

bought back with AI to go learn about AI

so you can buy more time back. Just

yesterday, one of my coaching clients

mentioned that he spent the last few

months really learning AI and deploying

it and activating in his business, and

now he has a multi-million dollar

company he spends less than 10 hours a

week on. Now, he's thinking about what's

next. He's looking at opportunities to

do things that really light him up. And

he didn't even know anything about AI

before he started. And you can do this,

too. So, now AI knows your world. It has

context. It's audited your time. It's

transferred the busy work to other

people. It's bought back time, at least

20 hours of your week, and you're

pouring those hours back into actually

the things that matter. They light you

up. They make you money. But, here's the

one thing. AI is not going to replace

you. It's just going to free up your

time so that you can focus on the most

important things. Don't sit there and

suffer and build a life you hate. Use AI

to build a life you want. So, drop a

comment below and just let me know, what

are you going to commit to? How are you

going to use AI to get even an hour

back, or two, or 11.7?

Below in the comments, let me know, what

would you do? I need to know. And

remember, if you want my scale your

business workbook, every stage and every

step to build a business that runs like

a machine, just find me on Instagram and

DM me the words YouTube scale, and I'll

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