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A Story of Cutting Back to Move Forward

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Hillman Lentz
Jul 29, 2025
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I once spent three weeks building a beautiful, elaborate dashboard to track absolutely everything in my business—leads, revenue, conversion rates, time on task, client birthdays, planetary alignments, you name it. It looked amazing. It was also completely useless.

You know why? Because I never looked at it.

It was too much. Too many tabs. Too many numbers…

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