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I spent the last weekend in January at the NAMS conference in Atlanta. It was a really good experience and I walked away with a long to do list of things to tweak and new tasks to implement to get my websites to perform better.
Everyone at the conference was fired up on the last day, ready to go back and put what they learned to work.
That’s what normally happens when you learn something new — you get all fired up to put it into action, then real life interferes. It doesn’t matter how much encouragement you have from other people, once back to the day to day it gets a bit tough.
So what do you do? Well, just like anything else you are trying to accomplish in your business, put together a plan of action. You’ll be really chomping at the bit to get everything done at once, but cut yourself some slack. It all takes time. If you take one step at a time, you will ultimately complete what you set out to do. Set aside 30 minutes a day to accomplish your tasks. You’ll be amazed at how much you can get done.
Another approach you might want to consider is finding an accountability partner or joining a mastermind group. This can help keep you on track. An accountability partnership could be set up to do a check in once a week. In my masterminds group, all you have to do is ask for help and someone is there to respond — to help you through an issue or to help you be accountable to yourself. It works.
How do you manage getting things done when there are a million little pieces involved? Let’s talk about it.
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A small business owner since 1996,
February 18th, 2010 at 4:21 pm
Hi Denise,
My way is to do the following:
1) Break things up into small chunks and then check off and reward yourself as at all chunks (somewhat as your suggested instead of let’s do this 30 page writing, let’s write one page at a time).
And to keep motivated
2) Assume you’ll reach your goal fast. Stop thinking you’re business will be successful in 10 years later. Instead, hope to have a sustainable business within 1 year and X revenue in 2 (I don’t know why this is the case, but you’re mindset and actions completely change.
3) When you start, measure by how hard you work versus how much you accomplish. I know some people won’t agree, but I find if you start immediately on your accomplishments you get discouraged.
You will have to move past this stage eventually. But don’t pressure yourself: you’re hard work will pay off.
A side effect of this is that you won’t be as tempted to give you (e.g. measure by your results could quickly make you think “oh, this isn’t work, so I might as well just quit),
And to entrepreneurs: don’t worry, worst comes to worst, your business is proof that you work hard to future employers. And that’s worst outcome.
(Hope I didn’t sidetrack too much
). All the best!