How to avoid this (big) enemy

When we talk about working independently, we initially think that this is equivalent to not having a manager. Having no third parties to give you directions can be a great advantage, but when we don’t know how to organize things can get chaotic: you don’t have schedules or a minimum (or maximum!) number of hours, you can spend to work, nobody organizes priorities and emergencies.

When you think time is infinite, it begins to slip away. And this feeling of freedom, not to react to third parties, turns into a feeling of limitation, not being able to comply with everything. Here I will help you with 3 super useful tips to avoid procrastination:

1- Get organized

put on Work schedules in which you devote yourself exclusively to one tasklike you have a boss waiting for you to bring him results at the end of the day.

So that you really give up this work plan Set “Moments” within the same schedule: Appointments for calls to your suppliers, customers and couriers. Another time to reply to messages on social networks or emails (this is very important: replying to messages at any time means that you are constantly open on social networks, and they are an inexhaustible source of distraction).

It is also important order weekly: It is important that you plan your week on Mondays, bearing in mind that the most urgent things come first; this will give you a feeling of relief on the second day of the week, because the essentials have already been solved! You can do the same with the things that bore you the most or like the least and solve the most pressing or boring ones on Monday itself.

At the beginning of the month, do the same exercise with assignments, meetings, deliveries, and any other tasks you have. This allows you to visualize which weeks you are busiest and which are more relaxed. This allows you to organize the unforeseen events that occur throughout the days.

Once you’ve set your work schedules, organized your week and month, comes the hardest part: Don’t get distracted, especially if you’re working from home. To do this, take some precautions, such as For example, turning down the volume on the landline phone, muting the cell phone, and not answering the doorbell when it rings. Don’t forget that you are working and being at home does not mean being available: during your working hours you are not there, even if you are.

2- Learn to delegate

“Time is not enough for me” is the sentence I hear most often in my courses and workshops. That’s because of something fundamental: when you intend to do everything that an enterprise entails, it’s impossible not to fall into procrastination.

Procrastination means that important tasks are postponed and replaced with less relevant ones.but when you fill yourself up with tasks, something worse happens: all tasks are important, all upcoming things are urgent and everything you had to solve yesterday is left for tomorrow.

Hence my recommendation that you only do what depends solely on you and put in the hands of a third party what should be done by someone with experience. How many hours do you waste taking a picture or engaging with your social networks?

Your company’s image is vital, so it’s better to take photos of your products with a photographer and delegate the management of your networks to a community manager.

Also delegate the shipping of the productssince you absolutely have to comply with them and would rather hire a cadet than not deliver: a satisfied customer is a loyal customer, a dissatisfied customer is unlikely to buy your products again.

Delegate what costs you the most, which is not going well for you and consumes many hours: Timely delegation is the kick to further develop your business without avoidable obstacles. Any task you allocate to yourself is hours of work and time and money to train yourself, time and money that you can invest to create and train yourself in what you are truly passionate about.

Everything you do takes time to get creative. Y The success of your company is precisely your creativity.

3- Use handy tools

Find the tools that are most useful to you. Organize your monthly, weekly and daily agenda. I’ll give you some ideas!

-Google Calendar: You will never overlap two activities and it is ideal for organizing all matters involving third parties since you can program it to send an email to you and the person with whom you have agreed to contact the to remember meetings.

– agenda planner: If technology isn’t your thing, turn to the traditional agenda. It is ideal if you have many activities per day as it allows you to organize every schedule in one place. Join her planner monthly and weekly on your desktop to have an easy overview of upcoming tasks.

– Post It and colors: This is the method I choose. If you can’t handle agendas, whether digital or traditional, turn your desk or workshop into a giant agenda. Choose important places to stick note paper, break your tasks into topics, and choose a different paper color for each one.

You are free to choose the colors of the traffic light: red for urgent and important, yellow for important and less urgent, and green for non-urgent. Sticky notes are a visual map of your work: when you are surrounded by sticky notes you have many tasks to complete, when they decrease it means your work is on track.

Conclusion

Entrepreneurial work has a uniqueness: you always feel that you are behind, you will always have work to do, but Knowing how to stop clarifies ideas and may be what you need to know in order to know where to go next.

Set achievable goals, meet those goals, and you’ll see your work begin to get organized. Finish one project before starting another I’ve learned to say noAlthough some suggestions can be very tempting, remember that the possibilities are endless, but our energy is drained.

So You have to choose where to put your energy for it to be effective.

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