# The Golden Section™

align to the truth → decide → act
"The truth — aligned to and acted upon — can set you free." — Systems for Business
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## The Pattern

where your hours actually go — tap ⓘ on any panel for the model
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## The Flip

your week now → after you cut & hand off · classify tasks and watch it move
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## Decide & Act

edit any cell — recalculates live

### ★ Your Golden Section

Energy-giving · Telos · Growth · Visionary. Your genius zone — protect it and pour reclaimed hours back in here.

### ⚑ Red Flags — Cut First

Task | Hrs/wk | Energy | Proficiency | Tier | Function | Decide | Act | New owner | Handover |
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---

### ↻ Reinvest the hours you win back

Cutting and systemising is the funding, not the goal. Channel freed time into these:
Golden Section Scale Systemise Cut In progress Done — off the plate

## The Golden Section™

three steps to set yourself free

① Align to the truth. List every task and run it through four lenses — energy, proficiency, tier, business function. No judgement, just reality.

② Decide. Each task gets a verdict: X — Cut, S — Systemise (then Innovate or Optimise it), or Sc — Scale.

③ Act. For anything not staying on your plate: Automate, Outsource, or Delegate.

Almost everyone starts ~80% buried in operations, technician work and energy-drainers. The game is flipping that 80/20 toward growth, telos and energy you gain.

## Build the system

this task

Tailored to this task. Drop it into Claude (your OS project) to build the SOP/system — or turn it into a reusable skill.

## Energy

the most important lens of the four

For each task: does it give energy, sit neutral, or drain you? Roll it over a year and the maths is brutal — net-negative every week and you're accruing negative interest that compounds into burnout.

- 👍 Gives energy — you finish more alive than you started. Scale candidates.
- Neutral — fine, no charge either way. Usually a systemise candidate.
- 👎 Drains energy — you finish flat or depleted. Cut or hand off fast.

## Telos — Proficiency

from the Greek teleology: your highest purpose

Line up 1,000 people who do this task. Where do you stand?

- ① Telos — you love it and you're on the podium. Olympic-level. The gold.
- ② Excellent — you don't love it, but you're still top ~50.
- ③ Competent — middle of the bell curve. Average.
- ④ Despise — you dislike or hate it. Danger zone — get it off your plate.

## The 4 Tiers of Business Tasks™

difficulty & $ rise · urgency & repetition fall

- Growth 💡 — high-leverage work you do once that keeps paying (IP, marketing assets, strategy). Hardest, highest value, least urgent.
- Manager 💬 — leading people, meetings, decisions.
- Technician 🛠 — the hands-on doing. Where most owners get trapped — it quietly kills the entrepreneur.
- Admin ✅ — repetitive, low-difficulty, urgent-feeling busywork. Cut or automate first.

## Functions of the Business

the LeadFLOW org chart

Every task belongs to a seat. The hamster-wheel 80% lives in Sales / Operations / Finance; the visionary 20% lives in Marketing and up. We want to shift weight upward.

- Visionary — direction, IP, the future.
- Integrator — turns vision into plans, runs the machine.
- Marketing → Sales → Operations → Finance + Admin — the primary flywheel.