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Small Business Coach - Increase Your Business Productivity - Find More Time!
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Article Overview: "Not enough time" is one of the biggest challenges for small business owners and people setting up home-based businesses in addition to their day job! As the economy tightens, that nasty feeling of 'frantic, panic, manic' has intensified for many people. The 'should, must and ought to do' lists are getting longer and the resources available seem to be shrinking fast. How we are used to working doesn't work for us anymore! (And maybe it never did...)
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Small Business Coach - Increase Your Business Productivity - Find More Time!
"Not enough time" is one of the biggest
challenges for small business owners and people setting up home-based
businesses in addition to their day job! As the economy tightens, that
nasty feeling of 'frantic, panic, manic' has intensified for many
people. The 'should, must and ought to do' lists are getting longer and
the resources available seem to be shrinking fast. How we are used to
working doesn't work for us anymore! (And maybe it never did...)
In this article I'm going to challenge your thinking. To lift the lid off the box you've been working in. To create new possibilities for your business, and most importantly, to help you unlock your business potential by finding more time for you to focus on what really matters.
So, why do so many of us feel we don't have enough time? After all, everyone gets the same 24 hours, 7 days a week, 52 weeks in a year. So how do some people achieve amazing outcomes seemingly effortlessly, whilst the rest of us slave away, working harder and harder and getting further and further behind?
As a business coach, I get to observe all sorts of business owners and many approaches to managing time. What I've observed is that the most productive and effective business owners aren't managing time - they are managing priorities! Time management is a myth!! It is activity management that really counts. So, here's five less obvious but simple ways that business owners can find "more time".
1. Plan ahead and prioritise according to your plan.
2. Use systems, structure and routines to free up valuable time.
3. Practice extreme self-care - put yourself first and you'll be in peak condition to perform at your best.
4. Stop doing tasks that others can easily do - automation and delegation are essential productivity tools.
5. Identify exactly where you add the most benefit to your business and spend 80% of your time working on those issues - your productivity and profits will skyrocket!
Learn to make haste slowly - doing this has enabled me to be so much more creative because there's actually enough space in my brain for the right dots to be able to connect!!
Related ArticlesIn this article I'm going to challenge your thinking. To lift the lid off the box you've been working in. To create new possibilities for your business, and most importantly, to help you unlock your business potential by finding more time for you to focus on what really matters.
So, why do so many of us feel we don't have enough time? After all, everyone gets the same 24 hours, 7 days a week, 52 weeks in a year. So how do some people achieve amazing outcomes seemingly effortlessly, whilst the rest of us slave away, working harder and harder and getting further and further behind?
As a business coach, I get to observe all sorts of business owners and many approaches to managing time. What I've observed is that the most productive and effective business owners aren't managing time - they are managing priorities! Time management is a myth!! It is activity management that really counts. So, here's five less obvious but simple ways that business owners can find "more time".
1. Plan ahead and prioritise according to your plan.
2. Use systems, structure and routines to free up valuable time.
3. Practice extreme self-care - put yourself first and you'll be in peak condition to perform at your best.
4. Stop doing tasks that others can easily do - automation and delegation are essential productivity tools.
5. Identify exactly where you add the most benefit to your business and spend 80% of your time working on those issues - your productivity and profits will skyrocket!
Learn to make haste slowly - doing this has enabled me to be so much more creative because there's actually enough space in my brain for the right dots to be able to connect!!
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