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Mark Evans DM
March 01, 2025

Welcome to Your 444 Newsletter!

Where energy, focus, and real business growth collide.

Most entrepreneurs believe success comes from effort alone—long hours, endless tasks, grinding day after day.

But here’s the truth:

Success isn’t about how much energy you spend—it’s about where you spend it.

4 Thoughts to Reflect On

  1. Being busy isn’t the same as being productive. A full calendar and long workdays don’t mean progress. If your effort isn’t generating real results, it’s wasted energy.

  2. Your energy is your most valuable resource. If you’re spending it on tasks that don’t actually move your business forward, you’ll burn out long before you break through.

  3. Your customers don’t care how hard you work. They only care about what you deliver. If you’re focusing on effort instead of outcomes, you’re missing the point.

  4. If you don’t control where your energy goes, someone else will. Whether it’s distractions, low-value work, or people pulling you in every direction—if you don’t protect your focus, you’ll never scale.

4 Lessons I’ve Learned

  1. Working harder isn’t the answer. If effort alone created success, every overworked entrepreneur would be rich. Smart strategy beats brute force every time.

  2. You can’t scale if you’re doing everything yourself. If your business relies on you being involved in every task, you don’t own a business—you own a job.

  3. Eliminate, delegate, automate. The highest-level business owners don’t ask, “How can I do more?” They ask, “How can I do less while achieving more?”

  4. Success happens when you free yourself up to focus on what actually matters. If your time isn’t spent on high-level strategy, growth, and revenue-generating activities, you’re stuck.

    Ready to get unstuck? Read the full breakdown here.

4 Challenges to Tackle This Week

  1. Track your time. For one week, write down every task you do. Then ask: Does this actually grow my business?

  2. Eliminate one task that drains you. If it doesn’t generate revenue or momentum, it’s time to cut it.

  3. Delegate one responsibility. Find one thing you’re doing that someone else can handle 80% as well as you—and pass it off.

  4. Systemize one recurring process. If you’re doing the same thing over and over, create a system so it runs without you.

"Don’t confuse movement with progress. Just because you’re busy doesn’t mean you’re actually going anywhere.”
— Denzel Washington

Most business owners stay stuck because they’re busy with the wrong things.

The ones who win? They focus their energy where it multiplies.

See you at the top,
Mark Evans DM

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