Everyday – balanced work

EVERYDAY – Balanced

• Play to your strengths
  • Don’t try and be all things to all people. Focus on your strengths and outsource the others. Ex. If you’re not a whiz at accounts or graphic design, outsource them instead of wasting time to do it. someone is better than you in this context.
• Prioritise your time
  • You may have a to-do list with 50 tasks on it, so you need to prioritize those tasks into four categories:
    * Urgent and important
    * Important but not urgent
    * Urgent but not important
    * Neither urgent nor important.
• Know your peaks and troughs
  • Are you a morning person? If you are, assign tough, high-concentration tasks to the mornings. Don’t leave the tough tasks until its night time and vice versa.
• Have set work hours – and stick to them
  • Set work hours for yourself and do everything in your power to stick to them. Otherwise, before you know it, you’ll be working until midnight every night. You will fall in never ending process and will distrurb everyday schedule.
• Manage your time, long term
  • Create a timeline of your activities. Specific computer programs can help with this, or you can customize your own Excel spreadsheet or Word table.
  • Put dates across the top and activities down the side. Break each task into components.
  • Include family commitments – such as holidays, birthday parties, etc. – so you don’t forget that you are unavailable for work on those days
• Make exercise a must-do, not a should-do
  • It’s easy to cancel the gym, the evening run or the yoga class because a client wants something done yesterday.
  • Instead, ensure exercise is given as much priority as your clients and making money. A healthy body means a fresh mind, which means you will function better and complete tasks in less time.
• Tap into technology
  • Take time to make time
  • Invest in time-tracking tools
• Know and nurture your network
  • Prioritise growing your network and have a structured lead/conversion system in place so you can track the time/cost involved to grow your network.
• Set the benchmarks early on and learn the lessons early.
• Have that holiday
  • Make time for a holiday and book in breaks, at least quarterly. Even a long weekend every quarter is better than nothing.