So, where was I going with that last post?
I got a little personal, which I do from time to time, because I want you to know that I’m a real person. That hopefully reduces your fear of commenting in my blog, and posting to our community forums – if I can help and time permits me I will- if you’re a client of mine, I will make time. I’m a hands-on person.
Here’s where I was going.
When it comes to your business, no matter how small it is, one really tiny change in your outlook can help you succeed tremendously. That small change is, living like there is no tomorrow.
Let’s face it… just like in a regular job, try as you might, there are some things that just won’t get done. If you’re running the whole thing largely on your own, maybe you can’t give a personal response to each and every person you sell your book to, in order to make sure they got it. But you can set up an autoresponder.
Maybe you can’t create a special version of your site for each person who stops by. But you can let them personalize your site to suit them.
And perhaps you can’t be all over the web at once. But you can syndicate yourself.
So today the focus is going to be on saving and organizing time, and the tools that can help you do it. Most of them are free.
A very easy thing you can do, when you start your at-home workday is ask yourself, what has to get done today? Then ask yourself, what is most important, and what is most urgent? Then sort each list by what will take you the least amount of time.
In the 7 Highly Effective Habits of Highly Effective People, Steve Covey writes about this. It’s nothing new. But do you use it?
Myself, I forget sometimes. But that one little question, “what if there was no tomorrow?” helps me prioritze what to do today, what to do my best to get to when I can, and what to task to another person, if I can.
And day after day, the answer to that question is – I need to do the things that make me money, then the things that save me money, followed by the things that fulfill my life’s purpose. And now that my life’s work and my life’s purpose are the same thing, the first two things normally take care of the last one.
So what makes me the most money? Strangely, it takes the least amount of my time – completing the day’s consulting tasks, marketing my books and promoting any affiliate program I am in, usually in a 90:10 ratio. That is followed by what saves me the most money – aquiring the knowledge to run my business better.
Whether that means compiling Google research, or studying what else will get the most traffic to my site, with the least effort, I make sure I get the knowledge I need to do the best job I can.
What saves time and money more than that?
I’ll be back later with more of the tools I use that might help you as well.
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