Next Level Pros - The REAL Reason You're Burned Out In Your Business

Episode Date: November 21, 2025

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.COMING UP: HOW TO TRACK YOUR TIMECONNECT WITH ME ON SOCIAL MEDIATEXT ME: 509-905-4109INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/chrisleeqb/?hl=enFACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/chrisleeqb/TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@chrisleeqbPartner Spotlight: 1SEO Digital Agency: Join Our Free Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1Bmudi9HTK/At Next Level Pros, we teach you the best ways HOW to market your business. If you want additional hands-on help executing, we trust 1SEO, our marketing partner. They implement SEO, PPC, Google Local Services Ads, and high-performance websites that turn stronger operations into booked jobs. Learn more or book a consult: https://1seo.com/next-level-pros/

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.

Before we talk about the quadrants, we need to define two words that run your entire schedule. One is energy. The other is value. Energy is how the task makes you feel. When you have high energy, you feel alive doing it. You do it all day long. If you have that low energy, you dread it. It drains you before you even start.

Here's a simple rule. What gives you energy moves you forward. What drains you keeps you stuck. Now let's talk about value. And this is where we bring math into it. Value isn't emotional. It's purely financial. It's measured by what the task is worth per hour to you based on your income. This is how we calculate. Whatever you made last year, we're going to go ahead and divide it by 2,000. That's your rough hourly rate. So if you made 100K, that means you made $50 an hour.

If you made $200,000, that means that you made $100,000. per hour. Now here's the line that separates high value from low value. Anything that costs less than 25% of your hourly rate is low value work for you. So if you made $100 an hour, that would mean anything below $25 an hour. And if you were $50 an hour, that would be anything below $12.50 per hour would be considered that low value. Hey guys, it's Chris. If you're finding value and what you're hearing, go ahead and like and subscribe. That way people just like you can find this content for free here on YouTube. Now let's stop back in the show. Now here's the key. If you're spending your $100 an hour time doing $25 an hour tasks, you're literally paying yourself less to work harder. That's how

most business owners trap themselves. Now when you combine energy and value, every single thing that you do fits into one of these four quadrants. Quadrant one, this is the low and energy, low value. This quadrant is the trap. You hate it and it drains you and you literally could pay somebody else to do this work for a fraction of your rate. Emails, paperwork, scheduling, inventory, all this stuff that keeps you busy but not productive.

If you stay right here, you're always going to fall behind. Now quadrant number two is the high energy, low value. It doesn't make you money, but it feels. fills your tank. This is the good for your soul stuff. Time with your family, hobbies, organizing something that relaxes you. Don't eliminate these. Just recognize they're not your business growth activities. These are personal fuel. Now quadrant number three, this is low energy, high value. These ones are sneaky. You are really good at it. It pays well, but it completely drains you. You're the best closer, the best operator, the best technician, but you hate doing it

Now, that's okay. This is the quadrant that you're going to delegate later once you can afford someone equally skilled at this level. And last but not least, quadrant number four. This is the high energy, high value. This is your zone of genius. You love it. You're great at it and it moves the business forward.

Building relationships, setting strategy, driving revenue, leading people. This is the work that makes you an owner, not an operator. most owners live in quadrant one doing all the cheap draining work and they brag about quadrant three that i do it all i'm in the trenches that's not leadership that's survival you don't scale by working harder you scale by buying back more your time and spending more hours in this quadrant four so here's your challenge i need you to make a list of everything that you did in the last 48 hours label each one as high energy or low energy or high value or low value you're going to instantly see where you're leaking time and energy so in the next video i'm going to show you exactly how you're going to track 30 minutes of

every single day for a full week so you can see in black and white what you need to delegate first