Why The Best Leaders Always Plan on Sundays | Ep 294
Build with Leila Hormozi
Leila Hormozi
5 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Leila (@LeilaHormozi) explains the critical difference between preparation and repair in leadership. The best leaders never skip Sunday planning, and failing to prepare borrows time with heavy interest from your future self. There are always ways to avoid chaotic weeks, misaligned teams, and constant firefighting.
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| 0:00.0 | The best leaders I know never skip Sunday planning. If you skip preparation, you borrow time |
| 0:08.8 | from your future self. And with interest, right? And then what's the interest rate on that |
| 0:14.7 | borrowed time? It's high. What's up, guys? Welcome back to Build. And today I want to talk about something that every leader |
| 0:24.4 | faces, every leader deals with, whether they are aware of it or not, which is preparing versus |
| 0:30.0 | repairing. This is top of mind for me because today is Monday. And I love Mondays. I love Mondays |
| 0:36.7 | because I feel like I get so much stuff done and I get to |
| 0:39.3 | walk in my week and I'm like I have already, I feel like I've already conquered the day when I walk |
| 0:43.8 | into Monday and the reason is not because of what happens on Monday, but it's because of what |
| 0:48.4 | happens on Sunday. It's because of all the time I spend in preparing my weeks, preparing so that every moment I spend |
| 0:55.9 | during the week is focused on executing rather than debating, deciding, or planning. |
| 1:01.8 | And I was thinking about this this morning because one of my newer teammates said something to me |
| 1:06.4 | to the degree of like, you know, I did some Sunday planning and I realized like how much more |
| 1:09.9 | effective I was. And I was like, oh my gosh, like who plans Monday morning? Like, what are we talking about? But then I realized, |
| 1:16.2 | I was like, oh, wow, this person, you know, they're newer to leadership. They haven't been in this |
| 1:19.6 | position before. This is something I've been doing for gosh, like a decade. And so it's something |
| 1:24.1 | that a lot of people don't even know exists, and that is such a fundamental |
| 1:28.5 | practice of leadership, right? And the thing is, is this, as leaders, we're constantly making |
| 1:34.2 | decisions that either set us up for success or leave us scrambling to fix problems later. And so if we |
| 1:38.6 | don't spend time preparing, then by consequence, we just spend time repairing. It's like if we don't |
| 1:44.1 | take the time to plan, we have to take the time to fix. |
| 1:46.7 | And the cost of repair, whether it's going to be wasted time, whether it's damaged relationships, |
| 1:51.0 | whether it's lost trust or lost opportunities, is far higher than the time that we could |
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