This is aimed at Business Owners, but no matter who you are or what the size of your business is – if you use the term “I don’t have time”, you are either lazy, wasteful (much more accurately descriptive than ‘inefficient’) or you are both.
Time is the only resource we all have the same amount of – 24 hours in every day of our lives. There is no difference between your time, my time, Bill Gates’ time and President Cyril Ramaphosa’s time.
The difference is how we each choose to spend our time.
In my experience, if you claim not to have time for whatever it is that you say you don’t have time for, you are lazy, wasteful, both or, whatever you use that statement for is not important in your life.
Ask yourself this – Am I involved in activities, that I enjoy doing, and that have the greatest potential impact?
Most business owners will say they are absolutely involved in activities. But is it possible that you are involved in activities that other people in your team, or life, should be doing?
If so, why are you doing it? Why aren’t you holding them accountable for those activities?
How much of what you are doing are you enjoying?
Some of you will want to use “Work/Life Balance” as a reason for not having time.
As someone that spent 32 years in the corporate world, I get that.
As a business owner, that is BS.
I do not believe in so-called Work/Life Balance. I believe in Work/Life Integration.
Work/Life Integration simply means I spent my time on activities I want to, when I want to.
Personal experience (again) has taught me that most people that claim not to have time, don’t know what they want.
Yet, when we look at all the so-called great people that business books, blogs, vlogs, podcasts, and business schools refer to, all those owners had and have a personal vision. They know what THEY want.
Without knowing what you want, how do you know what to focus on? Because only when you know what to focus on, do you know what to prioritize. And only then do you know what to spend YOUR time on.
The question is – Are you involved in activities, that you enjoy doing, and that have the greatest potential impact?
Answer this question specific to each of the following areas of your life –
Your Role in Your Business;
Own Time – broken into (1) Fun & Recreation, (2) Friends, and (3) Family;
Your Personal Development and Goals;
Your Life Partner;
Humanitarian activities, and;
Community activities.
I can’t tell you what and who is important, less or more important, what to focus on, and what not to focus on.
What I can do is help you to at least get started to identify what YOU want.