Procrastination comes in many forms and few of them serve us well.

Much of the time we will look for other things to do in order to put off doing the things we don’t want to do, but ultimately have to be done.

I recognized my inner procrastinator many years ago when I found myself on my knees, cleaning out the saucepan cupboard, when I should have been writing term reports for 38 nine year olds.

I came up with a few main life rules for dealing with this pest. Continue reading →

Assuming you already have employees on board, how well do you manage them?  Do you manage them or are they managing you?

Today, small  businesses have to make the most of limited resources, and that includes people.

My definition of managing people is easy; it’s simply to help the people who report directly to you to be the best they can be. Continue reading →

Focus. Systemize. Delegate.

Your productivity, your effectiveness, your ability to get more of the right things done and maintain your sanity while doing so all start with your mind set. That is – a productive mindset.

A mindset is a set of attitudes and beliefs and expectations you have about any given situation. I describe mind set as equaling results plus systems plus delegation.

Focus on results, systemize everything you can and delegate everything you absolutely don’t have to do yourself.

So let’s look at each of those.

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The rarest commodity in small business is Time.

There’s never enough of it and the biggest problem is that it is abused and not used. You’re too busy to even think about it.  Why is that? Well, usually it’s not that you’re doing too much work, it’s that you’re doing too much of the wrong kind of work.  For that reason, right now it’s difficult for you to see how to do more of the right kind of work or even what the right kind of work is.

How do you use your time each day and what can you do to maximize your productivity? Some people like to think of the process of dealing with this commodity as time management, but they are taking the wrong approach. Continue reading →

You hear every business owner saying that they need systems.

There’s no argument there.  Everyone knows that they need them and that healthy productivity of the business depends on them.  Problem is, few know what they really look like or how they work.

Before you can begin to create systems, you need to understand the thought process which will help you develop effective, trouble free systems in your business. Continue reading →