We’re coming out of a long, cold winter, and I’ve gotta say, I’m pretty excited about it.

There was one point where we were all just feeling super sluggish — and more than just that kind of “it gets dark at 5pm” sluggish. Like a weird, can’t keep our eyes open, brain-foggy kind of sluggish. I didn’t think anything of it…until I went away on a trip and immediately stopped feeling it.

I Didn’t Understand What Was Happening

I started to think it was our environment, and from the depths of my brain, remembered that higher CO2 levels could cause brain fog and tiredness. So I got 2 air quality monitors for the house.

And you know what? Our CO2 levels were high. Not dangerously so, but definitely higher than they should have been. Luckily, there was an easy fix.

In Germany, they have a practice called  Lüften, where they open all the windows in their house for 5-10 minutes. This airs out the house, reduces humidity, prevents mold, and yes…exchanges CO2 for Oxygen. They do this even in the winter.

Once we started opening our windows (something we now precede by saying we must “Lüft”, the German word for “air”), things got better. We feel better, we sleep better. We manage to stay up to watch The Pitt after the kids go to bed.

All of this started because we tried to understand the problem by asking the question, “why do I feel sluggish when I sleep at home…but not in a hotel?”

Do You Understand Your Business?

Maybe you’re feeling tired and overwhelmed in your business. Simultaneously stressed about the work you do, but also that you don’t have enough income coming in.

Maybe it’s that you feel like you’re working through dinner or soccer practice. You haven’t seen your partner for more than 10 minutes because you have too much to do.

This is not a normal way to run a business — not even a solopreneur business where you feel like you have to do everything yourself. But you can’t fix it until you understand the problem.

Know Your Time, Tasks, and Tools

Luckily, I have a solution for you. It’s called The Solopreneur Sweep, and we look at 3 important aspects of your business to see what we can clean up:

1. Your Time, by reviewing your calendar
2. Your Tasks, by reviewing what you actually do in a week
3. Your Tools, by reviewing what you actually use vs. what is a distraction

Later this week I’m releasing a full video that walks through the entire method, but here’s the general idea. To protect your time to do the most important work, you need to:

1. Create chunks of uninterrupted time for you to do work
2. Make sure your task list isn’t dictated by other people
3. Assign jobs to your tools, and stop wasting money on tools you don’t use

The Solopreneur Sweep will help you understand the problems in your business so you can start to fix it.

It will be like a breath of fresh air.

Right now, I want you to start thinking about which of these three things (your calendar, your task list, your tools) are the biggest hurdle for you.

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