Clone Yourself: Leadership Hacks That Buy You Back 10+ Hours a Week

May 2, 2025

Let’s be real for a second…

You didn’t open an agency to work 80 hours a week babysitting your team, chasing tasks, and putting out fires.

But here you are—running around like a one-person circus, trying to do it all.

Here’s the truth:

If everything depends on you, your business isn’t scalable—it’s fragile.

So let’s fix that.

This week’s strategy:
CLONE YOURSELF.

🔁 Step 1: Use the “3D Delegation Matrix”

If you’re doing low-value tasks, it’s not noble—it’s expensive.

Ask these 3 questions:

Do I need to do this?

Can someone else do it 80% as well as me?

What happens if I just don’t do it?

Use this to sort tasks into:

✅ Do it
📤 Delegate it
🗑️ Delete it

⏰ Step 2: Time-Block Like a CEO

Start treating your calendar like real estate.

Block 2–3 hours a day for:

Training your team

High-leverage sales activities

Thinking time (yes, this is a real thing)

And guard that time like it prints money. Because it does.

👥 Step 3: Build Mini-Leaders

You don’t need a team of followers. You need a team of owners.

Start small:

Give them a metric they own (not just do)

Let them lead part of a team meeting

Hold short weekly 1:1s focused on growth, not just tasks

If they can’t make a decision without asking you first… you haven’t led them. You’ve just managed them.

Bottom Line:

You don’t need a clone.
You just need systems that give your team ownership…
So you can finally work on the business, not just in it.

Start with the matrix. Block the time. Train the leaders.
Do that—and you’ll get 10+ hours a week back without losing control.

You got this 💪
Zach