Think back to when you first conceived of your business. What core products, services, or skillsets were you passionate about providing customers? Chances are, you've gradually lost touch with those original reasons for starting your company that used to energize you daily.

Instead, you find yourself drained by a daily grind of dealing with employee conflicts, endlessly chasing late payments, and descending into operational weeds. All passion and purpose gets drowned out, making it hard to remember why you became an entrepreneur.

To reclaim that foundational passion and focus on what truly matters, you have to liberate yourself from the avalanche of minutiae that saps your time and energy. Conduct a full audit of EVERYTHING consuming your days - meetings, procedures, troubleshooting processes, etc.

Identify antiquated systems, lack of team accountability, and other root causes creating needless drains on your schedule. Then systematically document and implement new streamlined processes, approval workflows, knowledge bases, or other solutions to permanently eliminate those time traps.

With recouped hours, purposefully block off time for delivering your core products/services. Have tough conversations with problem customers guzzling resources. Reset your own priorities, so your business operates in better service of the original vision that inspired you to begin this entrepreneurial journey.