Is It Your Business or Busyness?
In business, there is a lot of busyness. Seldom is the busyness the serious matters that will make a noticeable difference in your performance or results.
To start taking your business seriously, plan your time. Be sure to include personal contact, strategic planning updates, and action items to accomplish. Plan your work and work your plan. Plan your busyness so it doesn’t become your business.
Make a quick list of all the busyness you have occupied your mind and time with today. Bet you cannot remember all of it because it was too mundane and unimportant to take up brain space. So what are the reasons you let it take up space in your calendar?
Time management is really self-management. We do not have control over time. There are sixty minutes in every hour and there is nothing we can do to control or change it. We do have control over ourselves and what we do with those sixty minutes.
Find sixty minutes today to make a plan and then follow it. Your busyness will be replaced with genuine business. Now that is something to take seriously!
This article originally appeared in Beverly Inman-Ebel’s newsletter The Exchange.
