Feel Like You Haven’t Got Your Shit Together?

Do you feel like everyone else has got their shit together and you aren’t even a ‘proper’ business owner?

Let’s be brutally honest here, that’s a load of bollocks! Just because you have limited time doesn’t mean you are any less of a business owner than someone who has all day, it just means you have to make use of the limited time you’ve got!

If you really want to get out of your own way and stop sabotaging your chances of creating a successful business, you need to set some good habits now

When it comes to actually getting shit done, try these three things:

Do a Brain Dump

Some people don’t like the term Brain Dump but I love it – just think of it like a download. This takes everything out of your head and on to a piece of paper. Every single task, every idea you have, write it down. Think about projects you want to do, what are the tasks involved

What happens is you’re literally freeing up space in your head so you’re not feeling so stressed that things haven’t been done. You now have this master list which you can use to prioritise the work that will move you closer to your goals and bring money into the business – we all want that don’t we?

This isn’t a complicated task, literally write down what’s in your head. For example, if you have a new product, what work do you need to do to launch it etc?

Prioritise Work

Once you’ve done your Brain Dump, I tend to split mine into three categories that suit my life – personal / home, home education, business

You then need to go through everything and prioritise the tasks that you need to be doing first. The key here is to ask yourself 2 questions:

• Will this bring money into the business?
• Will this move me closer to achieving my goal?

If the answer to either of those questions are no, then you don’t focus time at the moment for that task … or you delegate the work to get it done (or even delete it)

Congratulations, you’ve now created your to do list!

Break Your to Do List into Chunks of Time

Whether your children are at school, nursery, childminder or home, you only have a set amount of time each day to actually get stuff done!

One thing that my clients have found helped them so much is to break tasks down into small chunks that will take 5, 10 or 30 minutes to complete. They can then easily manage what work they can get done in the time they have available