Hi entrepreneur,
If you've spent even a few minutes looking at your year on one page, you've probably noticed something already:
Most days are already claimed.
A handful are still open.
For a busy founder, that's completely normal.
What matters isn't how busy you are... it's which days you've chosen to protect intentionally.
Here's the final step in the Pre-Loaded Year process, and it's the one that tends to reveal the most.
I call it the ratio test.
There are 365 days in a year.
How many of them are currently blocked (intentionally) for:
Not how many days you work.
Not how many days you intend to slow down.
How many days are actually reserved on the calendar.
The first time I did this, I didn't love what I saw.
At the time, I had an overwhelming number of days already committed to work.
Almost nothing set aside for real rest.
And far fewer days reserved for family than I was willing to admit.
My calendar didn't reflect my priorities.
It exposed them.
So I changed the ratios.
Not perfectly.
Not all at once.
But intentionally.
Today, when I glance at my year, I can immediately see something different:
- More days committed to family than to work
- Meaningful time protected for rest and recovery
It doesn't mean I'm not working on open days. I am.
It means the non-negotiables are no longer competing with everything else.
There's no ideal number you should aim for here.
The only question that matters is this:
How does your calendar make you feel?
If it feels balanced, that's a win.
If it feels heavy, that's information.
If it feels tight or fragile, that's a signal.
If you haven't finished the process yet, this is the moment to do it:
👉 https://scalable.co/preloadedyear
Count the days.
Check the ratios.
Then move the most important commitments into your real calendar.
That's how this stops being an exercise...
and starts becoming a system.
-Ryan
P.S. If this surfaced something uncomfortable... like realizing that everything still depends on you...
That's not a personal failure.
It's a business design problem.
That's the exact problem we help founders solve.
If you want to see what it looks like to build a company that actually supports your priorities (instead of constantly competing with them), I laid it out here →
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