Your Business Is Simple, You Are Another Story
Starting something that is new is always a challenge. There are a lot of variables that go into a new business, new project or a new job. If you aren’t careful, uncertainty can take over and ensure that you never hit the ground running. It all starts with the following statement. “I don’t even know where to start.” Have you ever made that statement? It usually comes after you have taken stock of all that needs to completed in a project or in your business. The solution for most? Don’t do anything. Usually Our Problems Are Much Simpler To Solve Than We Think I learned a lesson about making the
When The Things You Don’t Have Time For Save You Time
“I don’t have time.” Sit on that statement for just a minute. How familiar of a statement is that for you as a business owner? I have already talked about how successful people have time so I am not going to go there again. What I do want you to consider are the types of things that you say you don’t have time for. Could some of the things that you don’t have time for actually save you time in the long run? I wrote an article for our My Business World newsletter recently about product creation. Creating products is one of those common areas where I hear business owners
Getting In Touch With God, Self and Business
A cool thing happened to me a couple of months ago, I welcomed my fourth daughter into the world. (My wife did most of the work but you probably already knew that.) Another cool thing is that my wife and I made a bet that if it was another daughter then I could buy a gaming system like Xbox, PS3, Wii etc. So I went ahead and picked up a PS3. As a gamer I really only like playing sports games. Madden, College Football, NHL Live etc. If EA sports puts it out, I probably like it. All this sounds great right? Except that I usually don’t play it when
A Simple Way To Stop Forgetting Important To-Dos
You are sitting at a coffee shop sipping on a cup when suddenly you realize that you forgot to put some work into a particular project. You tell yourself “I gotta remember to work on that when I get back to the office.” You go back to the office and have a great rest of the day. As you drive home you feel I little sick to your stomach because you just realized something. You forgot to work on that project that you thought about at the coffee shop. The problem with this scenario is sometimes we forget things and we don’t remember them for a few days or maybe
The Best Time To Work On Your Business
When I work with a business owner, one of the first things that I cover with them is their schedule. Specifically, I want to know when they work on their business. Most of the time, I just get a blank stare that lets me know that we are going to have to work on developing some habits. The best time to work on your business is in the morning. Before any calls. Before any employee interruptions. Before you get your day blown up by an angry client. This morning time for me is called a power hour and I use my power hour at times to ensure that I am
The People Pleaser’s Guide to Productivity
Being a people pleaser can be a blessing and a curse. It’s great because, deep down, a people pleaser just wants other people to be happy. Being a people pleaser becomes problematic when it causes you to over-commit yourself to projects and tasks. How can you as a people pleaser, make people happy and be productive? Before I get into the mind set, what does the downside to being a people pleaser look like in business? I worked with one person in particular who had a hard time with being a people pleaser and running an effective business. They were constantly over-promising on deadlines and under-delivering their finished product. They
What Should You Measure In Your Business?
How do we decide what results to measure in our business? The answers come in many different forms such as market research, asking a mentor, personal experience or observation from your business, client feedback etc. There are some things that all business owners can do today to get a better understanding of what results should be measured in your business. The first thing that entrepreneurs should measure is their time. Where you are spending your time and how you are spending can give you some important feedback on what structural needs and time management needs that you may have. Entrepreneurs can be notorious for spending time on things that don’t
External vs. Internal Accountability tools
Putting your accountability system in place requires looking at all the resources that you have at your disposal to keep us on track. There are 2 methods of tools that we need to think about to assist us in accountability- internal tools and external tools. External tools Your boss, if you are employed, is one tool for external accountability. As an employee we all need help getting to our goals and seeing new directions and good boss can help us do that. A business coach can help guide business owners in any number of business issues from sales and marketing to building your start up. Life coaching takes a holistic
Making the Best Use of Your Time
Time. We all have the same 24 hours in the day as everyone else. One thing that separates the successful people from those who struggle to find success is how they use their time. Making the best use of our time is one of the first steps to a solid accountability plan. I will spare you the old time cliches like “time is money”. In essence how you hold yourself accountable from a time management standpoint is how you are going to hold yourself accountable for others things in our life. When we waste time, we miss opportunities for sales, idea creation, networking etc. Pick a system for managing your
Systems For Making Your Day Productive
Whether you work for yourself or someone else, the one thing that is constant is the fact that you need to produce value on a day-to-day basis to get where you want to be in your career. We often overlook our daily production due to a lack of systems for making each day as productive as possible. If you want to learn about productivity/time management systems go here. Yesterday I talked about setting daily goals. Today I want to talk about how we assess our day when it’s all said and done. The first thing that must happen for this to work is for you to have your day mapped
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