the 5 pillars of leverage: how to 10x your productivity
PT Kaliandra Multiguna Group
Business & Productivity Consultant
The 5 Pillars of Leverage: How to 10x Your Productivity
Deep Work
Cal Newport's 'Deep Work' revolutionized my productivity. Deep work is your time to work in your zone of genius - completely undistracted.
1 hour of deep work is better than 8 hours of shallow work.
Block out your time as soon as you wake up and remove all possible distractions:
- No phone
- No notifications
- Brain.fm playlist
I wake up at 6am and dive into 4 hours of writing, systems building, and automation. It's my time to tap into my zone of genius.
Build Your Founder Flywheel
Founders want every action to multiply the last. We want there to be compounding effects on everything that we do.
There are 3 laws to a flywheel, according to my good friend and founder of ConvertKit, Nathan Barry:
- Activities flow from one to the next
- Each cycle gets easier
- Each cycle produces more
The Founder Flywheel is a self-propelling system I invented to 10x the results of my efforts and rapidly grow my brands. It's how I grew an audience of 16M+ fans.
This attention then drove Founder OS from $0 to $280K/month in the last 12 months. Start by building an audience around your authentic personal brand. As this grows, word spreads, which kicks into a referral flood - an endless flow of customers.
The more they hear your story, the more they want to be a part of it.
Turn your audience into advocates.
Automate, Eliminate, Delegate
Never automate what can be eliminated. Never delegate what can be automated.
This system saved me 30+ hours a week. I calculated my hourly rate: $5K/hr. Anything below that, I delegated or automated. Now I focus purely on high-level strategy while my team handles the rest. The ROI of auditing your time is level-raising.
Some tools I use for my Automated Empire:
Loom
For SOPs
Kajabi
For websites
ConvertKit
For newsletters
Hyperlury
To schedule content
Seamless
To connect with fellow founders
Eliminate what's unnecessary, automate what you can, and delegate the rest.
Hire a Chief of Staff
The highest leverage hire a founder can make. A Chief of Staff manages my calendar, communications, and more so I can create.
They became my right hand, handling the daily so I could focus on the visionary. We align in a 15-minute daily standup, and they are given 100% access to my schedule. An expertly trained Chief of Staff runs my business as my second brain.
A game-changer for operational bandwidth.
Apply the 80/20 System to Everything
The Pareto Principle has become my decision filter. 20% of my efforts produce 80% of my results - I relentlessly double down on that 20%.
I solely focus on the needle-moving strategies. I determine which systems, tools, clients, and tasks I need to focus on. Leveraging your time to focus on the 20% drives unfairly outsized returns.
In the end, it's not just about the hours you put in. It's the impact of each hour.
I reshaped my life around effectiveness, not busyness. And you can, too. Now, I choose when to work and how to live. I've built a life where work serves me, not the other way around.
Take these lessons, mold them to fit your world, and watch as the impossible becomes your new normal.
Let's not just chase dreams; let's live them, 4 hours at a time.