How to Run Your Business in Just a Few Hours a Day
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
When you first imagined yourself running your own business, you probably didn’t imagine yourself getting chained to your computer for 18 hours a day. And yet that’s the unpleasant reality that many new business owners face.
Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be that way. You CAN run your business in just a few hours per day. The key is to get organized so you can follow your business plan without distractions.
Read on to discover how to do it…
Step 1: Prioritize and Organize Your Overall Business Plan.
You do have a business plan, right? If not, create your plan first, which should detail what you intend to sell, how you intend to create this product and how you intend to advertise and market it.
Once you have your overall plan, then organize this plan in terms of priority.
Example: You’ll want to start building a prospect list immediately (even before you finish a product). Meanwhile, a task like creating the autoresponder content for your customer list will be a bit further down the list, simply because you won’t even have customers until you have something you can sell.
Step 2: Create a Weekly To Do List.
Now that you’ve organized your overall list of tasks, you can break these tasks down into weekly chunks.
That is, what are you going to do each week for the next four weeks, eight weeks, twelve weeks and more to build your business?
Step 3: Craft a Daily To Do List.
Now that you know what you’re going to accomplish each week, your next step is to break down the weekly to-do list into a daily to-do list.
This is important. You see, you don’t want to just work off your weekly to-do list, because it’s probably a bit overwhelming. This can lead to paralysis, meaning you stop making forward progress.
Instead, break down your big tasks into bite-size chunks, preferably tasks that just take an hour or so to complete. That way you get a sense of momentum as you finish each task and cross it off your list, which keeps you moving forward.
Step 4: Get Organized.
You now know what you need to do every day of the week. So at the end of every work day, schedule 10 to 15 minutes to review tomorrow’s to-do list so that you can get organized and prepared for it.
Example: If you intend to create a video tomorrow, then get your camera, microphone, backdrop and lighting ready the night before.
Step 5: Stick to Your List.
You have a list – now your job is to stick to it! Because if you don’t stick to your daily to-do list, then you’re derailing your entire business plan.
Here are two tips to staying on track:
• Make your list visually exciting. For example, maybe you put your list on a whiteboard in your office. Or perhaps you make it the wallpaper on your PC desktop.
• Start with your least favorite thing. That’s right, start with the task you dread the most. Once that’s done, you can move forward quickly and enjoy the rest of your day.
In sum…
Listen, plenty of folks just gloss over these sorts of steps. Instead, they focus on the next bright and shiny product launch that hits their inbox.
They chase every opportunity that crosses their path. And maybe that’s why they spin their wheels for months or even years.
But not you.
YOU are different.
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. (Oscar Wilde)
Yours in Inspiration
Luca Datteo
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