time managementHow do you control employees and managers productivity in the company? You invent Time Management so you can speed up and cram more activities in a give clock space. Great way to get the most out of your employees… not so great if you are the business owner.

Time Management Mentality Trap # 1 that keep you trapped under piles of stuff.

Time Management Mentality Trap #1
The more hours I work the more productive I must be.

This is one of the biggest mistakes most entrepreneurs make and can cost them their business. You already reached the point where working more produces the opposite effect. You see diminished results for your efforts.

You must work long hours and work hard at the beginning of your business. But when you hit a certain level of success in your business, you need to flip everything you learned on its head. You reached the point where your success is no longer about time and effort.

Multiplicity of Stuff Syndrome occurs naturally in every success business. Customers generate it. That’s good… it means all those long hours… all that hard work paid off.

More customers = more stuff. More stuff = more hours trying to keep up. You can’t eliminate Multiplicity of Stuff. I guess you can if you get rid of your customers. And many solo entrepreneurs do just that. They find running themselves stretch beyond their limits. It’s just not worth all the long hours anymore.

This is a signal its time to change the way you run your business. The success of your business is no longer about time and effort. Your success is strictly a function of results.

Traditional time management does not deal multiplicity of stuff issue the solo entrepreneur faces. It wasn’t designed to… remember time management is for the employee. Time management encourages cramming more and more stuff into your calendar. The last thing you need to do at this point.

If you find yourself with "Too Much To Do" and not enough time to do it… pause and ask yourself… Do I really need to do this? Put the question on a post it note and attach it to your computer

Asking this simple question will help you gain more control over your day and eliminate unnecessary time draining tasks.

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