What if I don't have the time?
A common concern I hear from clients is, "What if I just really don't have the time?"
Time is the great equalizer. All of us - plants, animals, humans - have the exact same time each and every day.
Today, I'm going to give you some tools to help you find more time and more energy in your life.
How to Find More Time:
The first step to finding more time is tracking how you're spending it- be super detailed oriented for one week.
Be objective and document how you are spending every minute of every day.
When your week of detailed tracking is complete, look at your data and ask the following:
Delete:
Is there anything on here that I can delete?
Anything at all that is not my idea - that is not for the best interest of myself, my family, my business?
Anything at all that I can say, "No," to- even just temporarily.
Let it go.
Delegate:
Next, I want you to really think about what you spend your time on that does not require you personally to do it.
These are the things you decided were important enough to stay on the to-do list.
However, someone has to do them. Is it you? Does it have to be you that does them?
Now that you have deleted and delegated, these are the things that you are choosing to do yourself.
These are the things that you have said, "Janice. No one else can do these things. They're mine.
I have to do them."
None of us can make time. We all have the exact same time. Every day, every hour- it's the same; it's the great equalizer on the planet.
How to Have More Energy:
Do you have to do them with 100% of your abilities? Or is it possible that no one else could even notice, no one else would even care, if you got 70% on that performance?
Maybe you're like, "Janice, I've never gotten 70% on anything."
Great. I'll give you 80%.
Maybe even 85. How many things in your life were a 100% performance?
We want pilots to score 100% surgeons. You know, Olympiads are going for 100%.
Most of us, we're professionals, our autopilot is pretty great. So, 70 to 80% is probably going to get you by pretty well until you can get the energy boost that you need.
Your Next Steps:
This is what people mean when they say, "I'm going to make time." None of us can make time. We all have the exact same time. Every day, every hour- it's the same; it's the great equalizer on the planet.
So if you want to make time, what that means is that you need to:
Take things off your calendar that you can and take things off your to-do list which maybe don't belong to you anyway.
Are you doing everything?
I know your business is your baby and you love it. And you want to be part of every moment of that business. You want to be responsible for all the pieces and make sure that they get put in the right place, at the right time.
However, it is really important to try out some babysitters. To find some people you trust to support you and your business along this journey. That may be a colleague that you can barter with. That may mean hiring an employee.
Whatever makes sense to you in answering, "How can this thing perform maximally in two to three years?"
When I think about that long game, and then I look at where I am right now and where I want to be, What is the next step that can help me maximize my time so that the next step will be easier, so that the next step will be easier.
How do I give myself permission to care for myself? Because if I'm not okay, business is not okay.
Serve your business well.
That means serving yourself well.
Need some clarity on your next best steps? Schedule a Clarity Call with me.
Ready to end the cycle of overwhelm and burnout? Add some new tools to your toolbox.
AUTHOR
Janice Steinbach
The Wise Growth Coach
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