Productivity Tip, 3 top task to move your business forward.
/Today in Office Hours I’m going to talk about productivity.
Can I ask how overwhelmed do you feel on a scale of 1-10 with everything you ‘think’ you ‘should’ be doing for your business.
Seriously I want you to comment in the post on a scale of 1-10. 1 being not overwhelmed and 10 being so overwhelmed it is disabling you.
There was a time when I thought I had to be doing it all at once and if I wasn’t I was failing, or not pushing the needle enough to make my business successful.
I was disabling my progress because I would see all the things other businesses were doing and compare myself to them and think I’m not doing enough.
Does this sound familiar?
I felt so overwhelmed by the to-do list or social media posts, Facebook posts, Instagram stories, emails to students, workshops, new student promotions, timetabling and the list goes on, and I am pretty confident you have a to-do list that is so long, that you just keep adding to and continue to be overwhelmed by.
I am going to share with you a brilliant strategy to remove the overwhelm, learn how to prioritize doing what really matters, and get that to-do list down to 3 things.
My first tip before we get into this life-changing is strategy is
STOP comparing yourself to other yoga businesses or teachers. STOP looking that their websites, or timetables or price list, or list of offerings.
I’ve heard it said the same when you are working on a yoga posture and looking at BKS Iyengar in what appears a perfect pose, and you are trying to achieve this pose, you have to think of everything he did to get to that position, and recognize that he is in a different stage of practice to you.
The same applies for business, you are at a different stage of business to those you are comparing yourself to, and thinning you should be doing what they are doing when they are 3 years ahead of you is not helpful.
This is distracting but also disabling STOP comparing.
Now I’m going to show you on my whiteboard but I want you to do this on an A5 piece of paper, after some practice, you will be able to do it with a sticky note size piece of paper.
Also, you are not allowed to do this sitting at the computer or with your computer anywhere in sight. This is a pen and paper activity for a good reason.
I have in the past attempted this with the computer nearby and partway through writing my list, I think I’ll just jump onto the computer and do that one task now so it is not on the list, before I knew it 45 minutes had passed and one thing led to another.
No computers. Just pen and paper.
Here it is.
Draw 3 columns
Wishlist
Must do
Actions
Once you have nailed this as I have, these days I just have a sticky note with the 3 top actions I will take for the day that is going to have the biggest impact on my business.
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