Wednesday, June 13, 2007
how to find time and energy to work ON your business
How to find the time and energy to work ON improving your business?
At the end of the day, you are probably burned out and tired, after putting out all the fires during the typical workday, so you don't really feel like working on improving the business.
Try this trick: Reverse your day. Start working ON your business THE FIRST THING OF THE DAY.
That gives you energy (because you won't be tired yet), and it gives you time (because you are doing it first, before anything else has the chance to interupt you or run into overtime and mess up your schedule.
What is really important?
For example: if you plan to take care of customer problems first, then work on your business once the "important" stuff is done, you'll most likely run out of time and energy, because the "important" customer stuff will take longer than you anticipated and run into your planned scheduled time to work ON improving your business (making your business run smoother so you have more time to grow, find new customers, etc.).
As little as 1 hour a day
Instead, work on improving your business first, even if it for only 1 hour, and that will give you a better chance of reducing the number of problems in your business, because instead of just fixing the problems, you are fixing the cause that is creating the problems.
Otherwise, you keep getting trapped in fixing problems, your list of things-to-do gets longer, it appears that there is no solution in sight, and you get depressed because your dreams are not coming true. Once you become depressed, you don't have the energy nor the desire to work on improving your business, because your business has become a prison that you start to hate.
The next post we will look at how to trick yourself into thinking differently about interuptions, so you can manage your actions to stick to your plan to get it done.
What are your thoughts on this article? Tell us if you are having this problem, have you tried this suggestion, has it worked for you, or where are you getting stuck?
At the end of the day, you are probably burned out and tired, after putting out all the fires during the typical workday, so you don't really feel like working on improving the business.
Try this trick: Reverse your day. Start working ON your business THE FIRST THING OF THE DAY.
That gives you energy (because you won't be tired yet), and it gives you time (because you are doing it first, before anything else has the chance to interupt you or run into overtime and mess up your schedule.
What is really important?
For example: if you plan to take care of customer problems first, then work on your business once the "important" stuff is done, you'll most likely run out of time and energy, because the "important" customer stuff will take longer than you anticipated and run into your planned scheduled time to work ON improving your business (making your business run smoother so you have more time to grow, find new customers, etc.).
As little as 1 hour a day
Instead, work on improving your business first, even if it for only 1 hour, and that will give you a better chance of reducing the number of problems in your business, because instead of just fixing the problems, you are fixing the cause that is creating the problems.
Otherwise, you keep getting trapped in fixing problems, your list of things-to-do gets longer, it appears that there is no solution in sight, and you get depressed because your dreams are not coming true. Once you become depressed, you don't have the energy nor the desire to work on improving your business, because your business has become a prison that you start to hate.
The next post we will look at how to trick yourself into thinking differently about interuptions, so you can manage your actions to stick to your plan to get it done.
What are your thoughts on this article? Tell us if you are having this problem, have you tried this suggestion, has it worked for you, or where are you getting stuck?
Labels: Time Management, too busy to sleep, Working ON the business
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