Does your productivity ever get hampered by your desire to find the best possible solution?
You might be thinking that you need to wait to get it just right. Or, need to find the easiest. fastest way to get something started and done.
What usually happens is that you find yourself stopped entirely. Sometimes you may even do this on purpose, to keep from having to make a decision.
How do you take charge of your business – and get out of overwhelm and procrastination?
- Can you find more time?
Business productivity is…
1. Eliminating distractions and interruptions.
Before you get pulled away from what you’re doing, ask yourself:
- Can I take care of the interruption later?
– Ex: Can you unplug the phone, so that you can finish a project on time.
- Is this the best use of my time and energy?
– Ex: Is cleaning up your emails and responding to emails right now, a good time to do this?
- Is this moving me towards or away from what I want? (priorities, goals, vision)
– Ex: Are you allowing the distraction to be an excuse to avoid doing something?
2. Focusing on the high value activities.
Have you found that when you focus on one thing at one time, you can get so much more done?
- What if you planned a trip? You wanted to get there as quickly as possible.
– Would you stop at every store that looked interesting? And, maybe stay a bit longer at the hotel, so you can take a prolonged look at their blog and menus, etc?
- Not if you wanted to reach your goal of getting to your destination as quickly as possible, right? You would focus and stay focused on the right things you had to do.
3. Want unhampered productivity? Create and follow routines and systems so that you do the things that you want to get done on a regular basis.
- Do you have systems and routine in place to handle extra business? Or even just an extra busy day?
When you understand the strategy behind your business, you can take your ideas and IMPLEMENT them.
– Like having a strategy of growing your business by sticking with the things that work.
The process of being productive, is having a plan so that you are able to design your work and implement the step-by-step details for your daily activities and projects, so that they get done!
Productivity is created in the process of your business routines.
- When you are fully on board with your decision to have your successes, you can truly become unstoppable.
That means making a decision to be productive, become unhampered in your productivity, and stick to your plan for success.
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This is a great “checklist” for me. It is really about productivity, but doing it in a systematic format where you are attentive to your businesses needs and your own too! Thanks for sharing!
Jewel Williams recently posted..Day 4: Taking Action, Participating NOW
Thank you so much Jewel – This is a partner post it would seem to your Taking Action article 🙂 Hope to see you here more often – and let’s connect on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/AskCoachDonna
is there a measurable tool for productivity? sometimes i feel taking a break is the best way to increase decreasing productivity 🙂 nice perspective in this article.
Amar Naik recently posted..One Item or the Number One
So very nice to see you here, Amar Thank you for your comments – And, yes productivity is an elusive concept – I think knowing that we are moving forward and seeing our own results can be our own measure.
Donna,
You are right about this subject and I think that instead of trying to learn everything you can to make your business “perfect.” Face it nothing will ever be perfect. Entrepreneurs need to focus on things that are producing results.
Jason
Jason Power recently posted..5 Activities that are Underrated in Online Marketing
Love it Jason – We do need to keep focused on productive results – and discover what that is for us as our routines can help. So cool to see you back, thank you, Jason.
As a former caterer I have carried a system of productivity from my career into my home business.
Basically it is this: “If you touch it – deal with it!”
When you do everything you touch as it comes in you are never backlogged. Like opening the mail as it comes out of the mail box. Throwing away junk, putting bills in bill pile, etc.
Simple system that works for me.
Deb Bixler recently posted..Tips From the Top: Linda Sturdivant
I agree, Deb! I also learned a lot from being the Conference Center Director and being organized and having systems in place. Yep, carried it over into my business to grow more quickly 🙂 thank you so much for stopping by – hope to see you again! 🙂