Face the facts. There is no way to manage time itself. You can't move 2pm to 9am just because you want to. You can't stretch an hour by 5 minutes. Oh, but I wish I could. And I bet that if you had the "magic power" you would manipulate time too. Management means that you can move things around and rearrange things. This is so not the case with time. It is what it is. A minute is a minute and they are whizzing by right now. The video below will give you a framework to think about time in a new way. This is two minutes well spent.
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?
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