Many of the Business Owners I meet tell me that given more time they could develop their businesses to make them perform better.
“Well make time then” I tell them.
“Easy for you to say” they reply.
Well, in this case it is easy for me to say because I know how to make time to enable me to work on my business, creating lucrative opportunities, rather than working all day in it, just servicing the business I have already. I use a defaulted diary.
The Default Diary
I find it best to use Google’s or Outlook’s electronic diary. That way you can replicate planned use of time such as business development, marketing, finance, personnel, procurement, meetings, appointments, holidays, time off, personal plans, business goals, personal goals or dates etc, etc, that are planned weekly, monthly, and yearly way into the future. I also log all my tasks in my default diary, avoiding using a separate task list. I put tasks into the spaces I purposely leave as contingency time, allowing my planning to be flexible, and able to cater for unexpected events. Planning your investment of time in this way is critical to you being organised and focused on your objectives. You will also sleep better at night! Allocating regular titled, blocks of time to the aforementioned list, or your own, will result in you avoiding the following 3 thieves of time:
Distraction, doing stuff that is not urgent or important.
Delusion, tasks that are seemingly urgent but not important.
Demand, due to losing 66% of the time being distracted and deluded Business Owners find their selves instant managing, reacting to crisis in priority of who is shouting the loudest.
Time your most valuable asset. Money can be invested badly and still recovered. With time there is no second chance.
What tools are best for doing this? Come along to our Time Masterclass on November 10th and find out.