How to Decide Your Priorities

What comes first the chicken or the egg? What happens when you have four clients and everything on your desk is top priority, how do you decide where to start?
Step 1. Make a list of everything that needs to get done.
Step 2. Highlight every activity that is revenue generating.
Step 3. Only work on revenue generating activities. Starting with the largest payback.

This might sound serve but when it comes to the crunch, what is going to bring home the bacon.
How do you stay on top of the pile?

Dysfunctional Multi-Tasking

For many years multi-tasking has been considered a gift of womanhood. It is the ability to think about and do more than one thing at a time. From working with hundreds of women business owners over the last 10 years, I've come to the realization that multi-tasking is one of the key reasons women-run businesses do not do as well as they want, or could. I call this dysfunctional multi-tasking.

Regular multi-tasking is doing things such as talking on the phone while typing emails, making phone calls from the car and so on. Dysfunctional multi-tasking is trying to run multiple projects, companies and initiatives all at the same time; and doing them poorly.

When has multi-tasking gotten in your way and what did you do about it?

Leaders Know What Drives Results

I know that the concept of paying yourself first isn't new to most of us. But how many of us do it? Building a successful business, if that is your goal and I know it is, requires that you pay yourself first. As with any new skill, you may find this uncomfortable to do. I recommend opening a separate bank account, one that does not provide easy access to funds, but a place where you can skim 10% of everything you earn off the top. If that is too much right now, start with 5%. Just like you put aside the Good & Services Tax (GST) in a separate account (I hope!) you put aside 5-10% of all your revenues into this new separate account.

This money, as it accumulates is going to be where you give from and grow from. I want you to commit to paying yourself first both financially and physically.

Practice. Practice. Practice.

Once this has become a habit, which usually takes around 21 cheques (or infusions of money) you are going to want to increase the amount until you are pulling aside 20 percent. This is where the real fun starts and you will begin to see and feel the effects of your work. You will find that by taking care of yourself first, you will have more of everything. Then you can share it with others.

Share with me your tips that drive results for you.