Your daily tasks may be getting in the way of building your business. 80 percent of my clients report they’re so busy they don’t have time to work on ‘growing’ their company.
Ironically when we uncover what they are spending their time on, it’s usually tasks that other people ought to be doing. Some of my clients will start delegating within a month and clear their decks. Others need to be weaned gradually.
Here’s the key question that gets them shifted off of “I have to do it myself” and onto “Jerry, let me tell you what I’d like you to take care of.”
Ask yourself:
“What are the 3 lowest risk items on my own To Do list?”
Be honest about it. If you can list 53, 15, or 5 items, there will definitely be a way to rank order them. You may have planned to do the ‘easiest’ first, or later when you have ‘free time.” Either way, you just found things that you can hand off in the next 48 hours.