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What's your 11%?

Sent to the clurb · Aug 2025

Words taken out of context that apply to life:

"When you don't have time to do it right, what makes you think you'll have time to do it twice?"

- Five Duck Studio on YouTube

Is this you?

Most people think they need hours every day to make progress on their goals.

So they quit before they start…

Or quit because they don’t see how their progress is actually significant for their circumstances.

Simple theoretical pies using easy math to nuke your perspective:

Look at a day like this:

  • 33% sleep
  • 33% work
  • 33% “everything else”

Zoom in on “everything else” and split it into three bigass categories again.

33% Everything else means:

  • 11% People-ing
  • 11% Adulting
  • 11% Personal goals

If just 11% of your day is available for your personal goals, that 11% is your real 100% that you have to push for meaningful change in your life.

So out of that 11% if you hit:

  • 2% → you did something – scheduled an appointment or wrote an email asking for a refund on an overlooked subscription.
  • 5% → you crushed it – categorized your amazon transactions to get real with your financial state.
  • 11% → you maxed your capacity – spent a few hours learning coding lingo to bring your productivity app to life.

The Trap

People interested in personal development want 33% of their time to always be spent on making progress everyday, in every single area of your life.

This is asking to chug a glass of toxic productivity with a chaser of disappointment from unmet expectations.

You don’t need to improve everything all the time, all at once.

So how much of your 11% can you use? And what are you gonna use it on?

Simie ✌🏾

P.S. If you have no idea what to do with your 11%, or if you even have 11% to give, check out the Power Moves Workshop. We’re getting together again this Sunday, Aug 18th, for four hours to make progress on our focus area.


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