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The excellent news about being a biz owner is you get to set your own routine. And the bad news? You get to set your own routine. If you’re like most business owners, no one trained you what effective routines you should be integrating into the day-to-day operating of your biz. Instead, you brought whatever working habits you discovered at either your last place of employment or maybe even from school.
And while those habits may have provided you at that time, you may be discovering they’re now keeping you back from improving your biz.So I want to share 3 highly effective routines you can begin doing right now to grow an effective, profitable business, without making yourself crazy.
Routine 1 — Start your day with a positive, grounding ritual. I don’t know any super-effective entrepreneur who jumps out of bed and instantly checks email. Everybody I know has some sort of ritual — it could be relaxation or journalism or imagining or some inspirational reading. But whatever it is, the point is to start your day strongly and at peace. Then you can check email. Look, I get it if you’re squirming right now. I was a large check my email first thing in the morning too. But for a year now, I’ve rather started my day with meditation and maybe some journalism, and I have to tell you, it’s actually assisted me stay centered and based no matter what goes on around me. I tend to get more done, be less anxious, and be a lot more focused. And you need to do this before you check email and start your day — the moment you jump into your day thinking you’ll get “back” to meditating — it never happens.
Routine 2 — Take the time to plan your day in advance. Now there are lots and lots of resources and techniques out there to help you framework your day, and it really doesn’t issue what system you use, just as long as you do anything. For myself, I take time generally on Friday to plan my week out and at least get the big rocks scheduled. And then each morning I revisit that schedule, and based on what I’ve gotten done, I then plan out what I need to do that day.
I’m definitely no expert at this and I also most-absolutely could have a better program, but the point is it does work for me. The days I don’t review my routine and plan my day are generally my least-productive days, so it’s absolutely worth it to take 5 minutes and put jointly my day’s to-do list...............read more at>>>>>Routines to Set for BIG Success in 2014