Having been in business for myself for quite some time, I have come to understand that the most important thing I have done for myself would be to delegate the small stuff. Obviously, you need some control. However, control does not always mean overseeing each and every little detail. Control suggests that you give the directions as well as guidance for overall expectations then let it go. Then, employees and vendors could step up to do what needs accomplished and do their jobs with your best interest in mind.
Think about how much time you waste every day doing little things like posting social media, uploading photos in your hard drive, marking photos from events, entering cards in to the computer, and reading through email. Then, consider just how much your time is worth! When you realize how much cash you're throwing away by doing all these menial tasks yourself, you'll start delegating it to anyone you could pay someone under $100 bucks to get it done for you.
You can make so much happen for your company to spend your time and energy following up with clients, writing books, creating content, holding bootcamps, etc. Let somebody else run the charge card processing for you. Allow someone else edit and publish the book. Let someone else run the boot camp. Your task would be to bring in business towards the company. That's where the phrase 'work on your business as opposed to in your business' appears.
You can't continue to keep at the pace you're going and keep doing what you are doing. You have to manage your time as well as your circumstances. Better yet, get an executive assistant and/or virtual assistant to help you with managing your time and your circumstances. By having someone set appointments, arrange telephone calls, and place needed work in an order you're free to carry on and work on priority issues. By the way, priority should be conditions or clients that deliver profit.
You don't mean to be rude, however, you started a business to generate money, not give your time away free of charge as if you are a charity. For that reason, you must manage your time as well as delegate the nonproductive essential material to somebody else. Additionally, if you have too much time wasters in your life or your worker's life, then cut them out, too. For instance, junk email. Email is a major timewaster. My secretary Cindy has to delete a lot of uneventful email every single day.
While I delegate all that email stuff to her, I do not want to pay her to read junk mail every day either. Therefore, I told her to opt out of everything she can that we get spammed into coming from clients, vendors, friends, etc. We can't carry on and get all of that email from thousands of contacts we've got and have any work done whatsoever. I figure if they need to get a hold of me they'll call me or send me something tangible in the mail. That is how you will guard your valuable time.
Nonetheless, even delegating somebody to open up the mail can be quite a huge time saver. By the time, I would open each and every envelope and separate the mail into piles of importance and value, I'd be wasting more of my time. Better to have someone else sort and purge so that when it's time for me to address the problems at hand, I am able to do all of it at once and cross the job off my list. It's like rapid fire at this point. You start with the oldest and proceed. If it needs addressed by phone, email response, or package, it's written, arranged, and sent out, or I give them a call. Also, my responses are arranged. Evidently, I write my very own thank you letters, but, sending out packages or follow up emails could be delegated to somebody else. Although, I am going to admit, I enjoy addressing the packages with a personal note before they go out because I would like to maintain that personal touch. That personal touch is really important to me.
Think about how much time you waste every day doing little things like posting social media, uploading photos in your hard drive, marking photos from events, entering cards in to the computer, and reading through email. Then, consider just how much your time is worth! When you realize how much cash you're throwing away by doing all these menial tasks yourself, you'll start delegating it to anyone you could pay someone under $100 bucks to get it done for you.
You can make so much happen for your company to spend your time and energy following up with clients, writing books, creating content, holding bootcamps, etc. Let somebody else run the charge card processing for you. Allow someone else edit and publish the book. Let someone else run the boot camp. Your task would be to bring in business towards the company. That's where the phrase 'work on your business as opposed to in your business' appears.
You can't continue to keep at the pace you're going and keep doing what you are doing. You have to manage your time as well as your circumstances. Better yet, get an executive assistant and/or virtual assistant to help you with managing your time and your circumstances. By having someone set appointments, arrange telephone calls, and place needed work in an order you're free to carry on and work on priority issues. By the way, priority should be conditions or clients that deliver profit.
You don't mean to be rude, however, you started a business to generate money, not give your time away free of charge as if you are a charity. For that reason, you must manage your time as well as delegate the nonproductive essential material to somebody else. Additionally, if you have too much time wasters in your life or your worker's life, then cut them out, too. For instance, junk email. Email is a major timewaster. My secretary Cindy has to delete a lot of uneventful email every single day.
While I delegate all that email stuff to her, I do not want to pay her to read junk mail every day either. Therefore, I told her to opt out of everything she can that we get spammed into coming from clients, vendors, friends, etc. We can't carry on and get all of that email from thousands of contacts we've got and have any work done whatsoever. I figure if they need to get a hold of me they'll call me or send me something tangible in the mail. That is how you will guard your valuable time.
Nonetheless, even delegating somebody to open up the mail can be quite a huge time saver. By the time, I would open each and every envelope and separate the mail into piles of importance and value, I'd be wasting more of my time. Better to have someone else sort and purge so that when it's time for me to address the problems at hand, I am able to do all of it at once and cross the job off my list. It's like rapid fire at this point. You start with the oldest and proceed. If it needs addressed by phone, email response, or package, it's written, arranged, and sent out, or I give them a call. Also, my responses are arranged. Evidently, I write my very own thank you letters, but, sending out packages or follow up emails could be delegated to somebody else. Although, I am going to admit, I enjoy addressing the packages with a personal note before they go out because I would like to maintain that personal touch. That personal touch is really important to me.
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