| Isn't it funny that an average person in today's world | | | | The best way forward would be to break down your |
| does not have time to share a cup of coffee with | | | | goals and business plan into actionable items and |
| neighbors or watch the sunrise? We are all the time | | | | identify the tasks that have to be done on monthly, |
| running against time and running after money and can | | | | weekly and daily basis in order to reach your goals. |
| do only that much in a day. Though technology is | | | | This will give you a macro as well as micro picture of |
| supposed to have made our life's chores easier, we | | | | what you need to be doing daily. |
| find that we are becoming slaves to technology and | | | | Once your planner is ready with macro as well as |
| are still running short of time. | | | | micro level detailing, start keeping a log of your daily |
| There is good new for those of you who are working | | | | activities and time sheet and end of every day update |
| independently and who are entrepreneurs. You can | | | | and revise your action plan with realistic data and |
| now look to outsourcing all of your office jobs to virtual | | | | tasks as per your experience. This will help you fine |
| assistants and spend the time pursuing your dreams | | | | tune your planner and make it a real document that |
| and trying to achieve your goals. You are the lucky | | | | can help you plan, manage, control and review your |
| ones who can get time on your hand. Virtual assistants | | | | priorities. While doing this it is also important for you to |
| are available now on hourly basis or on work basis. | | | | determine those tasks that need you to be necessarily |
| They have the right experience and skill sets to do the | | | | involved and those, which can be done by others. |
| job and will work out quite cheap when you pay them | | | | Quantify the amount of work that can be done by |
| on per hour basis. | | | | others so that you can put a cost to it and look at |
| The initial stages of starting your business and until it | | | | outsourcing that part of the job. |
| reaches a stable level, you will find yourself running | | | | Now that your detailed planner is ready with all tasks |
| around doing all jobs of a boss as well as an assistant | | | | having been identified, next step would be to group the |
| and managing all tasks by yourself. All the time you will | | | | tasks and assign the order of priority for them. List the |
| be trying to catch up with the pending tasks and work | | | | tasks as per priority and identify constraints or |
| through the weekends. But as your business starts | | | | roadblocks that could effect their performance and |
| growing and things start getting stabilized, slowly the | | | | work to eliminate the road blocks. Also check out inter |
| realization dawns that you need to prioritize your | | | | dependencies of the tasks. This planner will help you |
| business and attend to important tasks by yourself | | | | not only with prioritizing your work but will enable you |
| and leave other administrative tasks to some one else. | | | | to quantify the work that is required to be done by you |
| Fining the solution to your problem involves first defining | | | | and the work that can be outsourced. Now you are in |
| your problem and analyzing all data and the situation in | | | | a better position to evaluate options to outsource the |
| its entirety. List out all the tasks and jobs that are | | | | work that need not be done by you and thereby |
| routine and specific. Make a log of your activities during | | | | invest your precious time to grow your business. |
| the day and time it to understand where you are | | | | This is the way every intelligent entrepreneur will work |
| spending time. List tasks that have to be done only by | | | | towards balancing and prioritizing his work to be able |
| you and assess the amount of work that need not be | | | | to focus on taking his business forward. The secret |
| done by you. | | | | lies in balancing your time, money and energy. |