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Self-management is hard even with the most disciplined individuals. As a business life-coach I’ve coached hundreds if not thousands and the greatest construct that gets in the way of most success is self-governance. Learning how to set boundaries for “self” takes skill, time, and consistency. You cannot allow yourself to slack in many areas or risk a landslide of issues that takes even more time to regain structure.
Small-business owners love the freedoms of limited rules and structure, but should implement way more than most business types, why because there is often much more to be lost if not. Now, we could discuss business rules on a macro level, but I before we could do that let’s address business rules for self-governance on a micro level. I have witnessed many small business owners have great infrastructure in business, but lack the ability to make applicable structures in their day-to-day life.
Mini / micro elements in that contribute to higher productivity and work-life balance can grant amazing results. Here are some that I highly recommend:
Morning rituals! This is where you set in a daily pattern of actions that serves as a catalyst of success, structure, self-promise, and discipline. When it comes to setting a morning ritual this allows you to serve both God and your self first, not allowing for any other externals to rob you of your precious time. Now, you must find 5-10 actions starting off to set in motion for your morning rituals ex. morning grooming routine, make-up bed, journal entry, make coffee, meditation for 5-10 minutes, no music/social media/t.v./radio etc. for first hour, write daily blog, morning walk/workout, read, pray, etc.
Keep phone on silent! This is a major one for me and it keeps my stress level extremely low. As a business owner we are often putting out many mini fires daily, but you must create safe-guards, and boundaries that limit your immediate involvement. For me hiring staff has helped tremendously in this area keeps me sane. I can to realize that my greatest areas of stress came from daily emails, business phone calls, inbox messages on social media, and certain tech issues. Y’all it would bring me to my knees even to making me physically and mentally ill from stress. I had to set boundaries for myself in these areas and hence was able to set boundaries for customers and those reaching out. Once those boundaries were set others and myself could not violate, and a major part came from simply putting my phone on silent and not answering questions 24-hours a day.
Create hard-stops! Look, in business people can be draining and they will waste your time if you allow it. You must set a tone that allows you to manage time and productivity. Time is money, period. I am all about granting high value, but to do that you must be targeted and know how to execute to maximize the time when dealing with clients so that BOTH of you walk away fulfilled. DO NOT ALLOW FOR WASTED TIME! This is a must for people that are the consulting/coaching space especially. This is still hard for me, but I am getting better at calibrating and minimizing people pulling on me.
Saying no. Every dollar is NOT a good dollar. Some customers just need to go away, no matter how great of a sale may be you want to detour some people as much as possible. You will find that some people/sales bring more trouble and annoyance. Some customers are vipers and literally are the worst. I do NOT tolerate these types of individuals whatsoever! I’ve blocked IP address, emails, contacts, and even formally told people I can not service them and that we are not a good fit. I do whatever I can to detour from my business. Please be open to (but nicely) reject customers that bring annoyance and problems, if you don’t they will cause you money and a great deal of stress.
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In all the rules you set in life bleeds over into the rules you set in your business life. Establishing fluid, but strong rules that helps in your personal development simply will minimize stress, aggravation while maximizing self-confidence, productivity, and even profitability.
Your ability to earn is greatly rooted in your ability to be firm, stable, and well self-managed. If we can control our actions, we can most certainly control our business.
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