Prepare Your Business for 2012: Reconfigure Your Schedule
Posted by Marie on December 29, 2011
Previously:
I bet you are not ending 2011 the same way you began it. We live in a world of quick changes, and that is affecting both our business lives and our personal lives. We update our budgets. We update our goals. But our daily and weekly schedules are often overlooked.
As Julie Morgenstern says, time is like your closet. Thinking of time in a physical sense makes it easier to handle. When you add a garment to your closet, a certain amount of space is taken up. Nothing else can go there. And once the closet is filled up, everything else is overflow and creates a mess.
True, right? So start looking at your days, weeks, and year as a series of time blocks. What are you going to fit in those? Do you want to devote more energies into improving customer response times? Adding additional services? Getting a new logo? Or perhaps you want to simplify your processes. Maybe even take more time off.
All of that can be visualized with a working schedule. It does not have to be your hard-and-fast rule, but it can certainly keep you on track and avoid wasted hours.
When do you wake up? By what time are you at work? On what day do you send out invoices? Report sales tax? The act of plotting it all out really helps decision making and the process of realizing what is possible and what is not.
Give it a try and plot out a single day in your life. Then you’ll see what a difference a schedule can make in your productivity and sense of purpose.
Tomorrow, brainstorm and prioritize.
