This question and answer series of articles provides scenarios for business owners to find answers to business frustrations.
Q: I know I have to put systems in my business but I don’t seem to have the time. It just seems like another thing I have to do. How do I overcome this challenge?
We have addressed the question before, but it is such a predicament in small business, it bears repeating.
The challenge is threefold: how do I find the time? Where do I start? And what the hell does a system actually look like?
As indicated by your question, the time issue is the big one. To paraphrase: you don’t have the time to put the things in place that will give you back your time. You know what the response is going to be. If you don’t find the time, who will? And if you don’t start putting these systems in place, what will change? The answer to that is: nothing will change. And six months, 12 months from today, you will be asking the same question. So what are you going to do about it?
Well, you can first examine everything that takes up your time and if you can’t free up at least one hour a day by delegating appropriately, I’ll eat my action plans. The next thing to do, is to ensure that when you have found that hour, you don’t fritter it on other ‘stuff’. Develop and document just one simple system. Do that each day and at the end of the week, you will have five ready to go. At the end of the month – twenty, and so on.
Watch for Part Twenty-Nine of the Q & A series…coming next week!
Until next time…
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