You cannot afford to keep flying by the seat of your leggings. A known weekly schedule isn’t just a calendar filled with tasks—it’s the blueprint for your time, energy, and focus. It’s the foundation that keeps you in control rather than overwhelmed, steady instead of scattered. When you know what’s happening each week, you stop reacting to chaos and start building momentum. Your time becomes a tool for growth, not a burden. A solid weekly rhythm creates breathing room for your creativity, structure for your priorities, and most importantly, consistency that leads to predictable revenue. Your business isn’t just a side hustle or a hustle-hustle; it should be a serious, scalable machine, and your schedule is the system that makes it run smoothly. Let’s get into how that system supports your path to your first 6 figures.
Weekly Business Routines Increase Revenue. Weekly business routines are the non-negotiable, revenue-generating, CEO-level activities that must have a dedicated time slot in your week. Think marketing, sales, content creation, financial reviews, and client delivery. It’s the difference between saying, ‘I’ll get to it when I can,’ and actually getting it done. This is especially critical for solopreneurs who are juggling all the things. Without time-blocked business routines, you end up firefighting—scrambling to finish deliverables last minute, forgetting client follow-ups, and feeling like you’re always two steps behind. It’s that moment when you realize you’ve spent all week buried in client work but haven’t posted once on your business page, and your offer is gathering dust rather than making money. That chaos costs you revenue, plain and simple. A weekly calendar with dedicated business routines helps you shift from reactive to proactive, building consistency that drives your 6-figure growth—even when life is busy. For a great breakdown of essential business management routines you should apply across your business year, check out a past blog HERE.
Rest Routines Boost Business Revenue. If you think taking time off is something you’ll get to after you hit 6 figures, let me stop you right there. Weekly rest and recharge routines aren’t optional extras; they’re a core part of your revenue-generating strategy. You can’t pour from an empty cup, and burnout will drain your momentum faster than a dry funnel keeps you away from your revenue goals. Blocking time for rest recharges your mental energy so you can make sharper decisions, serve clients better, and create your best work. Without these slots on the calendar, you’ll catch yourself in that all-too-familiar loop: staring at your screen for hours, mentally exhausted, trying to force creativity or sales content that feels flat and uninspired. That’s the fast track to frustration and diminishing returns. Listen: rest is part of your profit plan, and your weekly calendar needs to reflect that reality.
Health Routines That Drive Revenue. Your business can’t outperform your body, period. To put it in very vital perspective, I saw a quote that went something like this, “You can have 100 important things to do, but when something goes wrong with your health, then you immediately only have one priority!” Weekly health-focused routines are the slots on your calendar that ensure you show up for yourself and your business at your best. This isn’t about perfection or spending hours at the gym; it’s about scheduling time to maintain your energy, focus, and resilience. If you don’t make time for health, your body will force you to make time for recovery. How many times have you tried to push through a week (head throbbing, back aching, feeling sluggish), telling yourself, ‘I just need to get through this project,’ while secretly knowing you’re not performing at 100%? When your body is drained, your brain slows down, your creativity tanks, and you end up making reactive, last-minute decisions instead of the clear, strategic choices that drive 6-figure growth. Your health isn’t a side quest, it’s the power source that fuels your business and your life.
Time Block Life Worth Living. Building a 6-figure business is important, but not if it comes at the cost of living your life. I always say, “Your business is supposed to fund your life; not BE your life.” Weekly time slots for lifestyle and living are a deliberate choice to fill your life with moments that matter, not just work that pays. This isn’t about slacking off or being lazy; it’s about creating a life worth the grind. Another quote from me, “You don’t get the life that you want. You get the life that calendar.” If you don’t intentionally create space for these moments, the business will consume every available hour. One day, you’ll look up from your laptop after months of hustling, only to realize you missed your kid’s recital, canceled every dinner date, and haven’t laughed in weeks. That’s not 6-figure freedom; that’s 6-figure imprisonment. When you calendar lifestyle time, you reconnect with why you’re building the business in the first place. It keeps you grounded, prevents burnout, and brings fresh energy and perspective back to your business, which—let’s be clear—drives revenue far more sustainably than running yourself into the ground. For ways to design your CEO life, check out this show’s first two seasons HERE.
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