Do you feel you pull your hair out more than you should?

Perhaps every day is a juggling act for you, and you are not a clown!

Creating a sense of structure can alleviate that stress.

BUT HOW?

Here are 10 Top Tips which may assist you to alleviate and help you manage your busy business day…

1.  Diarise your Business Time.
Set aside time to do all of the necessary items such as checking emails, attending to social media, making marketing calls.  Stick to this set time.

2. Budget for attending networking events and seminars.
Easier said that done.  Every event seems like the one to go to.  Check your budget and also check for FREE events – they do happen.  You do not have to attend everything.

3. Re-connect.
Use your family, friends and old colleagues – this sometimes is an untapped source for either referrals or assisting you within your business.

4. Email Management.
Create folders and rules for your clients / networks and more.  It will make things easier to handle.

5. Automate Social Media
It is so easy to make your social media automated.  There are many programs available which allow you to even send posts and tweets while asleep.

6. Prepare your Blog Posts
Create a document where you outline your weekly blog posts.  Even if you don’t write them in full, it will be easy to expand because your weekly ideas are there already.

7. Accounting and Folders
Have a set of folders handy for your accounts.  It will ensure everything is handy and ready for inputting or handing to your accountant.

8. Learn to Outsource
Realise that you cannot do everything yourself.  Work out what you do not want to do or cannot do and get someone to assist you.

9. PR working for you
Use Sourcebottle as way of finding free PR for your business or create a spreadsheet of media you want to approach with dates and contact details.

10. Streamlined Filing
Paper filing and computer filing in sync will help you or anyone who assists you in your business file and find things easily.

Just creating some strategies and systems throughout your business can assist the relief of stress quite dramatically.

Take time out to revamp your business and become less stressed.

We can show you how.

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That is a hard question for most business owners

Business    or    Family?

Does there have to be such a split? 

Can’t you have both?

Another element of spreading yourself even thinner sometimes than what you are able.  Sometimes feeling the need to create more than one of you and wishing that there was a machine that could replicate you more than once to satisfy everyone, can take its toll.

When you get to that point, it is time to take TIME OUT.  Make a time for YOU.

Sometimes clearing your headspace and allowing yourself to sort out what needs to be done in business and in your personal life, setting up systems and diarising time for each element in your life, can only benefit YOU.

And if YOU benefit, then so does everyone and everything else.

BUSINESS

~ Learn to Prioritise
~ Diarise your Time
~ Set scheduled Meeting Times
~ Outsource items you cannot do or do not want to do

FAMILY

~ Have your Family Planner Calendar up
~ Record family member events
~ Diarise this time and family time
~ Work together to create more TIME

Once you have done this, you realise you can have both…. Yes, YOU CAN…

In our lives both FAMILY and BUSINESS/WORK are important and therefore we need to make TIME for both.

By ensuring you create a streamlined life for yourself, you will also create this in your business and personal lives – making everything flow, creating the FAMILY/BUSINESS balance that everyone is seeking.

If you don’t want a successful year in your business, then this article is not for you!

All business owners reach for the next level in their business but to find it you need to Start as you would Finish.

1. START – Educate yourself about what you want out of your business
and what your client needs.

2. MIDDLE – Keep on track, are your needs and your clients being met?

3. FINISH – have you accomplished what you set out to do?

Thomas A. Edison  said “I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”

If you have started your business this year with a plan in mind, although there may be some minor variations on the way, you can and should finish the year with the same plan completed successfully.

How?

1) Work on your business.

2) Keep educating yourself.

3) Be proactive in focussing not only on your expected outcomes, but expectations of your client.

4) Re-organise any aspect of your business which has been slowing you down.

5) Commit to what you can do, do not overwhelm yourself by taking on too much.

6) Outsource items in your business you find too difficult or you do not have the time to do.

7) Check your financials – are you on track?  Is there a profit?

8)  Are your clients’ paying your invoices?  Stay on top of this.

These are just some of the steps of how you can stay on top of your business, taking it from Start to Finish by working on the individual goals you have set in business.

Remember there is a Greek Proverb  “Well begun is half done…”  You need to Start and Finish well to achieve a whole job.

Still not sure you can achieve the whole job well in 2012, then feel free to contact us to find out how we can assist you through this.  Hazel of Assisting U Virtually is an Expert VA in educating business owners in admin, organisation and outsourcing.   Click through to see How We Can Help.