As a business owner that works with business owners and leaders, one of my most outspoken subjects is Time.
It never seizes to surprise me when I hear business owners and leaders claim they don’t have time.
What a load of BS.
Last week I met a business owner that many of the “I don’t have timers” would label as the exception, or he is not in my industry, or he is not in my business.
This person owns every hour of his day. And he is one of the busiest people I have met this year.
His day starts at 5 AM, and he owns every hour until he goes to bed.
And no, he is not an exception.
Business books, podcasts, coaches, gurus and many more sources all agree that it is undoubtedly possible to own our time.
I for one own my time.
In my dealings with people in general, all people that own their time have at least this in common – they are crystal clear about what THEY want.
Because they know WHAT they want, they spend their TIME how THEY CHOOSE to.
They understand that if they don’t own their time, someone or something else owns it. They understand that when a person doesn’t own their time, it makes them passengers in their own lives.
They understand that when you don’t own YOUR time, it’s YOUR fault.
In a previous article I wrote that 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, or, you just don’t know what is important.
You see, time is the only resource we all have the same amount of – 24 hours in every day of our lives.
The difference is how we each CHOOSE to spend our time.
We are in June and in a month’s time we are at mid-year.
How much time are you going to spend on, one – reviewing the past 6 months? Looking at what worked and what didn’t.
Planning how to keep, and improve what worked and fine tune what didn’t?
And two – plan, using what you now know?
What needs to happen for you to wake up to the fact that your time belongs to you?
What needs to happen for you to realize that if you don’t own your time, you abdicate it to others? Giving them authority over your life?
This I know for a fact – it is possible to own your time. But it must be important enough for you to want to do so.