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What Running a Business is all about

Written by: Geoff Flemming

Article Overview: What does it take to get a business actually working for you? The management of more than just a business is the management of time and what happens in that time. It is also simply a matter of changing beliefs.

What Running a Business is all about

1. Believing that effort and results are directly proportional. In business effort is too often confused with results. Leverage in business is all about being effective – with work, time, family and simply having fun. Setting up a business that works is much more than just arriving early, staying late and working long hours.

2. Believing that the quantity of work is more important than the quality of work. The idea of managing your time and ‘discriminating’ over what needs to happen in business to get results that serve your life! Judging the value of your contribution by the hours that you work will lead to you doing what you have always done.

3. Believing that when changes occur working a little longer is always required until the situation is resolved. To allow any event to shape one’s working week leads to having little or no control – and frustration! Almost any change can be an excuse for poor time management if we choose it to be.

4. Believing that delegation never really gets the job done. Fear of delegation is the fear that no one is as competent to solve a problem as you are. Often fear of delegation usually results from the belief that others can perform tasks better than you. This can in turn lead to the fear of replace-ability – always being available and can be contacted 24 hours a day - and being disappointed when no one calls.

The process of continuous improvement is getting the business working – because your life is your only business!

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