Have you found yourself so BUSY in your business but NOT making any money?
I was looking at my calendar today and thought “Geez Louise I’m busy!” Zoom call after zoom call, emails and texts and before I know it, its 5:00 and I’ve accomplished nothing I had wanted!
Sound familar?
Looking and feeling busy can be ca common pitfall to entrepreneurship for a home based business.
No structure and co-workers sounds like a dream come true for many…and it is if you take the right approach.
You’ll hear me say there are a 1000 ways to solve any problem and finding the right one for you will take patience and practice!
I know waking up and journaling and praying is great but its not sustainable for me. I live and work in our RV so we can travel the United States. That means … I don’t have a lot of “private” space.
I’m realistic about what I can do. The first 15 minutes of my day I walk the dog and just spend a few minutes stretching as I get some sun on my face. (There is a belief the sooner you get sun in our eyes the happier and more energized you are. )
I walk or run first thing in the morning usually before I have coffee.
I eat a great breakfast high in protein before I sit down at my desk and open my email and/or start working.
I started saying no to calls or group zooms that don’t directly affect my business. Almost all of the calls are recorded and I can watch the replay and play back quicker if I need to. I almost never NEED to!
I have a non-negotiable list of things that have to be achieved daily.
- 1 hour of learning and taking action if I am in the middle of implementing a new strategy.
- 1 Marketing — can be a combination of what I am doing. My daily goal is to share my “offer” to at least 100 people 5 days a week.
I set weekly intentions — they are things I would like to achieve that I have no control over but when taking the right actions daily it will help me achieve the weekly intentions.
When I find myself “busy” I ask “Is what I am doing right now helping me get closer to my intentions for the week?” If I answer no then I stop doing it or I don’t do it at all.
Of course there are more tasks I complete daily/weekly. I set a timer and work in time chunks. I get more done in a few hours than what used to take me days or weeks to do without time chunking.
This helps me stay focused and clear on my tasks resulting in more efficiency overall! If/when I finish before the timer goes off, I get to cross something off my list, stretch and take a break.
It is said that when you stop and start any task it takes over 26 minutes to get back to where you left off.
These are just a few of the tactics that have worked for me. Let me know what you think by commenting below.
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