After parking my car at the airport, I go to the tower to file the flightplan. Time of departure is filed about 40 min in the future.
After that, pulling out the bird from the hangar and the walkaround take 10-15 min. Then I prepare the charts, GPS, headsets, whatever... 5 min.
I load the baggage and passengers, start up the engine and do the flows like after-start, pre-taxi and radio contact. At this point I am working at least 20 min, probably around 30. For me it is the part of the big fun, why to make it shorter?
Now with the engine slowly warming up, I do the short taxi to the apron and brief the passengers while moving. Depending on number of passengers and their silly questions, it will take up to 5 min. The runway is closer and the pax seeing the seriousness of the situation, they usually stop talking
This is the right time to prepare the G1000 and do all the flows up to before takeoff. This is the serious one, 5-7 min with double checking everything.
Another short taxi to the holding point. The runup and before takeoff are done on the runway. It takes less than a minute, no problem with the traffic, this is a quiet place. Next minute we are airborne.
The 40 minutes are necessary for me, but this includes the overhead times like walking between the tower and hangar.
I do all the flows from memory. Skyhawk is simple and I can touch all the critical controls always in the same sequence so I will not miss one.
miroc