As a small business owner, you likely consider yourself to be a self-starter who is willing to work hard. Initially, it felt terrific to have your own business. After all, you are your own boss. No more answering to somebody else. You have received good feedback from your customers. Business is picking up. Yet, something doesn't feel right. Lately, working in your business has not been fun.
You are working weekends and late into the night, just to keep your business afloat. You are doing everything in your business–advertising, bookkeeping, dealing with customers, ordering supplies, etc. You are seeing your business grow, but you dread it getting any bigger because you can't manage the demand now. You are making a common mistake of the small business owner–doing it all yourself.
That's right, being a hard working, self-starter has undermined you! Although you are doing all sorts of tasks yourself to save money, you are spending an incredible amount of time learning to do things that are totally new to you and outside your area of expertise. And, you have run out of time. There simply is not another hour in the day that you can find to do all those unfinished tasks for your business. Your spouse is fed up with your absence around the house. Your children have quit asking you to do things with them because they already know you are “too busy.”
Tragically, many businesses fail or fail to turn sufficient profit, not because the owner did not have a good product or service, but because of poor time management. Many business owners fail to consider that time is a precious, valuable commodity. As a business owner, you must think strategically about your time.
Begin thinking about your time like you think about money. Your time is more valuable than money because you cannot make more of it. Once it is gone, it’s gone.
Is it really the best use of your time to be doing everything in your business?
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