Working ON your business and working IN your business
If I were to ask you right now to tell me your plans for growing your business would you be able to tell me? Not just your plans for fulfilling orders and making sales but your plans for GROWING your sales. How will you find more customers, sell more products, make...
The real reason you’re getting nothing done.
Have you ever had one of those weeks where you’ve been super busy all week but when it gets to Friday, you don’t seem to have accomplished anything? It’s easy to blame it on a lack of time but for the vast majority of us, we’re simply not using the time we already have available in the most productive way.
What to do when you’ve got FAR TOO MUCH TO DO
As solo business owners there are always more things to do than there are hours in the day. It can feel like we’re in a constant state of overwhelm. It doesn’t take a genius to realise that, when you’re overwhelmed, you need to cut back on some things. But which things do you choose when everything seems equally important? The fact is that most of us have a strange relationship with what is important. If asked, we know what is important to us, but the things we do on a daily basis often don’t correspond to it.
Four ways that planning can help you cut back on overwhelm and stop your business running you.
I’m guessing you’re feeling pretty exhausted right now. I’m writing this in December when most of us are on our last legs but even if you’re reading this in February, or June, or October, I’m willing to bet that you’re still tired and pretty stressed out. Maybe you’re struggling for sales and it feels like such a constant uphill battle to get your business off the ground. Maybe your business is growing and you’re struggling to cope with the extra work without help.
