The REAL Reason You're Burned Out In Your Business
Next Level Pros
Chris Lee
4.7 • 165 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
If you feel burned out in your business, it’s probably not because you’re doing too much — it’s because you’re doing the wrong work.
In this video, Chris Lee breaks down The Impact Quadrant, the simple framework that shows every home-service and trades business owner exactly where their time is going… and why most of it is keeping them stuck.You’ll learn:- Why burnout has nothing to do with hours worked- How to calculate the real value of your time- The 4 quadrants every task falls into (and the one most owners get trapped in)- How to shift out of low-value work and into the high-value, high-energy work that actually scales your businessIf you want to buy back your time, get out of the day-to-day chaos, and finally step into the role of owner instead of operator — this is where it starts.
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| 0:00.0 | You're not burned out because you're doing too much. You're burned out because you're doing the wrong work. Every single hour you spend in your business falls into one of four quadrants. And most owners live in the one that's killing their growth. I've helped hundreds of home service and trades business owners buy back their time, scale their teams, and finally get out of the day-to-day chaos. And it starts right here with understanding the impact quadrant, the four quadrants of how you spend your time. |
| 0:23.3 | Before we talk about the quadrants, we need to define two words that run your entire schedule. One is energy. |
| 0:33.4 | The other is value. Energy is how the task makes you feel. |
| 0:39.2 | When you have high energy, you feel alive doing it. |
| 0:43.3 | You do it all day long. |
| 0:44.7 | If you have that low energy, you dread it. |
| 0:47.3 | It drains you before you even start. |
| 0:49.4 | Here's a simple rule. |
| 0:50.7 | What gives you energy moves you forward. |
| 0:52.8 | What drains you keeps you stuff. Now let's talk about value. |
| 0:55.8 | And this is where we bring math into it. Value isn't emotional. It's purely financial. |
| 1:01.0 | It's measured by what the task is worth per hour to you based on your income. This is how we calculate. |
| 1:07.5 | Whatever you made last year, we're going to go ahead and divide it by 2000. That's your rough hourly rate. So if you made last year we're going to go ahead and divide it by 2000 that's your rough |
| 1:12.2 | hourly rate so if you made a hundred k that means you made fifty dollars an hour if you made |
| 1:21.8 | two hundred thousand that means that you made $100 per hour. |
| 1:29.1 | Now here's the line that separates high value from low value. |
| 1:32.4 | Anything that costs less than 25% of your hourly rate is low value work for you. |
| 1:39.4 | So if you made $100 an hour, that would mean anything below $25 an hour. And if you were $50 an hour, that would mean anything below $25 an hour. |
| 1:45.3 | And if you were $50 an hour, that would be anything below $12.50 per hour would be considered that low value. |
| 1:54.6 | Hey guys, it's Chris. |
| 1:55.4 | If you're finding value in what you're hearing, go ahead and like and subscribe. |
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