Have you ever gotten frustrated because you felt you haven’t had the free time in your life you wanted to devote to your business?
Frustration arises when our reality differs from our expectations.
The honest truth is that the more time you have to spend on your biz, the faster it will grow.
But we all have time constraints, and the worst thing you can do is set yourself up for massive frustration & failure if your expectations don’t align with reality.
Don’t over-commit. Don’t over-plan.
Take an honest look at your life, and realistically decide how much time per day, week, and month you can actually spend working on your business.
Not how much you would like to spend, but how much time you can actually lock into your calendar every day. For most of us, these numbers will be different. Chances are that in the beginning, you’ll wish you had more free time to work on your biz!
But you can’t manufacture more time. The only way to create more time for your business is to remove other obligations from your life.
If you can do this – great! Learn how to say no to the things that don’t really matter to you – things that you’ve gotten stuck doing for other people, to fulfil THEIR desires, rather than yours – and carve out more time to fulfil your own dream.
If you can’t create more time because you are already only doing what you absolutely have to with your time, that’s okay, too. It’s just the way it is, and fighting against it, or wasting time feeling frustrated, are both a waste of your mental energy.
Once you get clear on the reality of the time you have, the key is deciding what the most high-leverage activities you can do are, and focusing on them.
That’s what the next few weeks of this Bootcamp will help you to achieve!
Action Steps
1. Make a list of all the obligations in your life that take up your time. Are there any that you can eliminate this year?
2. Once you’ve gone through this process, and freed up extra time (hopefully), break your time down into weeks and days, and schedule in ‘work time’ where it fits every day.
If you’re full-time self-employed already, this is just as vital a task as for those who have limited windows of time – because if you don’t allocate work time and rest time, you’ll end up working ALL the time, and that is not a healthy way to be!
