TIME HACKS!

TIME SUCKS IN YOUR BUSINESS AND HOW TO STOP THEM TODAY

You finally settle down to work on that big project for your business, to write that important email, or create some new products and then your email dings.

It’s an important message from a supplier, so you just take a moment to answer it right away.

Then you see that you have 15 new alerts on your Facebook tab, so you click over to see what those are about. Back to email. Oh! Someone retweeted you. That’s nice. Tweet them back to say thanks. And while you’re there, you see a really interesting article your friend tweeted, so you click through and start to read it. Half way through the article, you think you ought to pin it, so you hit the Pinterest button.

Your email dings again. Three new customer service emails. Gotta answer those right away. Then your phone buzzes to let you know you have a text from a business partner and—

Where did the day go?!?

You’re always busy in your business — sometimes overwhelmingly so — and yet, you never seem to get anything done! You’re so busy worrying about the little things that you never have time to focus on the big things that would actually move your business forward.

It’s a common question, and many people believe that the answer to plugging up those black holes that are sucking all their time away will come from a productivity tool — a system, a calendar, a planner a checklist…

But those aren’t the answer at all.

You don’t need another tool; you need clarity.

Getting clear on your goals for your business will help you cut the clutter and decide which tasks are essential, and which are just noise.

Too often, we get stuck on the little tasks that are the loudest, the ones that cry out for attention that are urgent, but not important, when instead, we should be focusing our attention on those tasks that ar