Lack of time is one of the biggest challenges of any SME business but would you like to know the solution?
The solution isn’t as hard to resolve as you might think. You could call it simple, but not easy. If it was easy every person could achieve it.
The key to enjoying an abundance of time in business is to make progress every day or week to change that situation.
‘Inch by inch anything is a cinch’
Enjoying more time is not going to happen in one day. It’s a target that will take time to see happen, but here’s a case study on that.
One client from Townsville who owned a company with 5 staff was working from 6am to 6.30pm 6 days in the week – i.e. over 80 hours every week. 10 short months later as a result of advising him he was working ZERO hours a week with a business that worked 100% without him.
His business then worked hard so he didn’t have to. In fact he hasn’t worked in his business for more than 4 years since, yet his business keeps paying him a passive income while he full time enjoys travelling with his family.
The details of how that was accomplished are contained in the training you receive from the full 7 month “Business Freedom Workshop Series” but lets look at the principles of this fantastic outcome here.
A commonly quoted definition of insanity is to “keep doing what you’re doing every day and expecting a different result”.
If you want more free time, in fact 50% or even 100% more free, you need to start to walk the talk. You need to prove by action you will commit to doing whatever is needed to do to achieve it. This is the most important first step. A half hearted commitment is no commitment.
Ever heard this quote … “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve”? This excellent quote by Napoleon Hill explains the 3 step journey of success.
Without conceiving you can obtain 50%-100% of your time back you won’t believe it, so therefore it’s impossible to achieve it. If you believe you will have a business that can work with 50% of your time only (or even 0% of your time) you’re right, you can. If you believe that’s impossible, you’re also right because… ‘Whatever the mind can conceive…’
Conceiving is planning and envisioning what you want so it becomes crystal clear, not a vague “want”. Most people “want” more time, not 100%, nor do they conceive what they would do with specifically more time. The key to success is to be
“Definite with the infinite”
Be specific, be definite about exactly what you want, otherwise it doesn’t come to life in your mind so you can believe in it (because it seems real)!
So assuming having 50% to 100% of your time is definitely achievable and you’re committed what next?
You need to begin with leveraging.
Leverage means doing work once that you profit from for years. The challenge is, you never benefit from leveraged work while you are doing it; there is always a delayed gratification. This is why is extremely hard for a business owner to do leveraged work activities. This includes learning anything more proactively about team building, selling, advertising, website optimising, measuring, understanding financials, spreadsheets etc etc – i.e. all the things that will lead to making you LOTS of money AND freeing up all your time.
Until you are doing leveraged work you aren’t making progress in business, you are virtually swimming with lead shoes ‘hoping’ you don’t drown, but there’s no land in sight. Sooner or later you get tired and stop swimming completely, slowly drowning (as you get older and more tired from the sheer effort of trying to keep your business going).
There are many forms of leverage in business depending on and how you can invest your time.
Most business owners are just spending their time; they aren’t investing it. They continually say, “I don’t have time, I’m too busy”, yet do nothing to free up their time in the future.
Here’s exactly what you need to do. We’ll start with low level leverage activities you can do and then add on higher leverage things.
Low level leverage
- Use 1-2 hours a week to train your staff proactively.
- Think about permanent solutions to your challenges, not temporary ones. If you can’t get customers, learn how to write better promotions, don’t keep writing your own if you haven’t learned how to, delegate it.
- Delegate, train and delegate some more. The more you delegate the more time you will free up.
- Learn! Learning is uncommon with business owners. This means not technical learning but sales, marketing, leadership, personality profiling, financial intelligence, gross and net profit margins, systems, etc. Attend workshops and pay to learn these subjects as you only pay for learning once to benefit forever.
Higher level leverage
- Put your prices up by 10%. This works 95% of the time with no detriment in profit. Sure you might lose a small number of clients but the profit increase will offset the loss of sales from a few customers not buying.
- Use the extra profit to employ more staff to free up your time.
- Write systems so you are carrying out work once and benefitting forever. Training an employee, who then leaves one day means you need to train someone else again.
- Empower your staff more to do what you think they can’t do now. If you pay them to carry out a job, it’s their challenge to figure out how to do it, not yours.
You can leverage time the greatest by letting a Business Freedom Trainer assist you at freeing up time and to make you money by guiding you through the process of leveraging.
Paying someone externally creates accountability and the strong reason for change. Without guidance and assistance with 7 months of training it is virtually impossible to ever have complete freedom and time with peace of mind.
The Business Freedom Workshop Series gives you that accountability with reviews of exactly what you have been given to implement to free up your time and make great progress as well as a LOT of money.
You can struggle for years or even decades or join the list of fantastic real world outcomes dozens of others have enjoyed thanks to this information. The testimonials prove this content works backed up by accountants who endorse it to their own clients. They wouldn’t do that unless it was the highest of quality as their own reputation both public and with clients is on the line.
Don’t wish or hope you had more time, that’s what everyone wants. Wishing or hoping never attained anything, but focus combined with education and dedication does.
So if you want a LIFESTYLE not 50 to 80+ hours of hard work for years, why procrastinate? Start your professionally assisted business development and entrepreneur training by registering for the “7 Steps to Business Freedom” newsletters, attend the Free Business Seminar and if you believe the content works from your introduction, attend the Workshop Series and apply the systems to your own business.
In 12 months you can still be talking about same things, saying how busy you are, or you can stop saying that and have all the time in the world, not just for you but your family and stop the stress and pressure of owning your own business. It’s your choice, what are you waiting for?