Give me a minute…… Trying to think about all the times that I have told myself “I’m stuck” and never finished a project. What I want to write a little about today is ways that I have learned to not say “I’m stuck“, but “I’M FINISHED!“.
Note: Some of this I am still learning and writing it down helps me retain the information. If you have more to add about anything, please do! I will take good and valid additions to this article and amend the article, as needed, with full credit given to the author with a do-follow link to your site.
Only 1 Person
You are only one person no matter how hard you try. Realizing and accepting that I couldn’t do everything was such a pivotal point in my life. Before realizing this, I would attempt to do every facet of the business and inevitably each business would fail. Why?
Simple! It is impossible for one person to run a business by themselves. If it is just you running everything, you don’t have a business. You have self employment.
You must be able to delegate tasks and make your system scalable. What I mean by this is that you need to be able outsource menial tasks that do nothing, but waste your time while making it possible to work less and getting more done. This is the path towards having a sustainable business that can grow without overwhelming you.
Project Management Software – Must Have
I would highly recommend is begin to use project management software to organize yourself and your team. There are distractions flying at us from everywhere at all times. Seems that we are always out of time. Projects just get “lost” in the confusion. Why is this happening?
Now with DeskAway.com, I can list all my projects with the ability to assign tasks to team members that I have designated on my account. It’s awesome software that you can try for no cost here.
Cutting Out Distractions
Special thanks to Mike Stenger for adding how important this it to getting things done.
Distractions are everywhere! Especially for someone like me that does the majority of my work online. Every link can lead to an hour long distraction if it’s clicked. And this is every second of my day.
Mike brought a great point on the importance of turning things off or on Busy. In the book ‘The 4 Hour Work Week’, Tim Ferriss points out that every time you are distracted it takes an average of 20 minutes to get back in the groove that you were in.
Most things that get sent to you or demanded of you throughout the day are NOT emergencies and need to be as such. Focus your most concentration on the highest income activity and cut out all the secondary distractions. That means turning Skype to Busy, closing Outlook (should only check twice a day anyway), closing social media tabs and applications and turning the phone on silent.
Conclusion
The main thing that has helped me the most is being organized. Organization has always been tough for me, but I have experienced that the more I put into being organized the results come back 10 fold.
Like I said before, I’m still learning to become unstuck and would love to hear other ideas on this subject. Let’s start a conversation. If you’re response is going to be long, write a blog post about it and link to this article. Then let us know about it below in the comment section.
