3 Steps To Overcoming Your Overwhelm
April 24th, 2013 by Diane Conklin under Uncategorized. No Comments.
As an established business owner, you have a good idea what you need for success- systems for customer care, service/product management, cash flow, marketing and team communication. You know you need it.
But guess what is missing? Enough hours in the day to actually DO what you know needs to be done to run an easy-to-manage, profitable business.
Your biggest obstacle for success is TIME. How do you create more time when it doesn’t exist? How do you force yourself to slow down enough to get your systems in place when you are way too busy?
Feels like a never-ending battle, doesn’t it?
The truth is, you can’t put more hours in your day (certainly not if you want to be healthy, happy, and have people in your life who still want to have relationships with you).
Utilize these 3 key strategies to follow the only path out of chaos and incessant stress:
Strategy #1: Stop trying to serve everyone and focus on your ideal clients. In every industry, business owners tend to over deliver and help pretty much anyone who will pay them money. This is a mistake. Take the time to identify, find, and market to your ideal clients. Say no to those who are not ideal customers and you will free up time, energy and focus to attract a whole lot more of your ideal clients.
Strategy #2: Segment your work hours into blocks of very focused 90-120 minute sessions, followed by a break. Research shows that we can only focus well for 90-120 minutes and then we need a break. And working all the time does NOT produce better results. To the contrary, it makes us sick, tired, foggy in the head, and less productive. Don’t over think this. Start working 8 hours a day (or less) and work in focused 90-120 minute blocks followed by a break. My clients who are implementing this strategy of working less, and in focused segments, are reporting they are more productive, happier, and more energized. (Now, who doesn’t want that?)
Strategy #3: Stop trying to do it all yourself. You know you can’t do what you love in your business, whether it’s selling, practicing law, building houses, or something else and create, implement and oversee all the systems needed in your business to be successful and balanced.
Stop choosing just one – success or balance – and stop trying to pretend you can do it all yourself. You can’t.
Hire a business coach or consultant, who specializes in systems, to help you. Let them do the systems work, and help train your team to run the systems. You will be so glad you did.
~By Bria Simpson. For more information on how to streamline and systematize your business, sign up for Bria’s free report “Simple Steps to Quickly Transform Your Business into a Highly Efficient, Profitable, Well-Oiled Machine” at www.BriaSimpson.com
