Most founders don't have a time problem. They have a decision problem.

Every morning you sit down and think "what should I work on?" — and that question alone costs you 30-60 minutes of your best energy. Multiply that by 5 days and you've burned an entire workday just deciding what to do.

Here's the fix I use:

The 3-1-1 System:

• At the end of each day, write down 3 tasks for tomorrow

• Pick the 1 that would hurt most if it didn't get done

• Do that 1 thing first, before checking anything else

That's it. No Notion template. No color-coded calendar. Just a forcing function that eliminates the morning decision tax.

The key insight: you're not choosing what to work on. You're choosing what to ignore. The 3-1-1 forces that trade-off before you're in the fog of the day.

I've been running Founder Focus to share more systems like this — weekly breakdowns of what actually works for solo founders trying to scale past $10k/mo. If that's you, come check it out.