Time Management For Business 101 : Too Busy For Business

I was noticing that I was too busy for business these days.

• Phone calls.
• Emails to write.
• Meetings to attend.
• Proposals to write.
• Travel Time
• Setup Time
• Presentations
• Web sites to create

I found that I was caught in the same cycle that made my desk job so unbearable. Too much “busy work”.

Too busy handing other stuff to actually get anything done. We have all gone through days and found that we have gotten nothing accomplished.

So enough is enough. Here’s what I did to solve it…

I got out my note book and made a list of who I had to talk to and what I had to do for them. But more importantly – why am I doing this for them.

When I asked the “why” question, I found myself pushing calls and appointments back. Cancelling some calls and clearing out whole days of so-called work.

Now with the days cleared, I can concentrate on designing my life and business the way that it should work for me and not me for it.

What did it take?

Stopping. That’s right slowing down. Stopping and looking at the outcomes from the conversations that I am having or going to have and the actions and tasks that I am going to complete.

You can actually get more done by slowing down and thinking and planning before you act.

As I re-evaluated my schedule, if I saw no outcome, then I am not having the meeting. Simple as that. I can waste a whole day and not get anything done by handling the stuff of business and not getting down to business.

So if you are finding that you are always up against a deadlines and not knowing where the time went. I encourage you to take out a little notepad and track your time for a few days. In engineering, this is called a time study. You will be amazed at the amount of time that you spend doing tasks that amounts to nothing in the long run. All of those seconds and minutes add up to be the whole day.

Slow down, handle your business and enjoy more of your life.

You are in business to live. Not living to be in business.

-David Bullock