If you Start, Commit to Finishing
Are you a chronic starter? If you are an entrepreneur, you are probably a starter. Most entrepreneurs are. Entrepreneurs can generate ideas, start projects and get others excited, as well as get businesses off the ground.
The problem, of course, is that too often they get excited about starting something NEW and generating NEW ideas, but that prevents them from finishing the “old” projects they already have in progress. Before you know it, they have four or five open projects on our plates at any given time or possibly four or five businesses they are trying to manage.
Too many business owners develop bad bad habits surrounding project completion. Instead of finishing anything, business owners often fall into the trap of working on one project for a few hours, then getting pulled over to another project and then switching to the next and then to the next. At the end of the day, they still have four or five things that haven’t been finished or worse, seemed to have gotten bigger, thanks to new ideas.
Can you relate?
Complete Tasks
In a business owner’s world, productivity doesn’t really have much to do with how many hours you put in. If fact I’d say if you are working too much, you are probably hurting your business. Productivity has to do with how often you’re completing work. In other words, the problem doesn’t lie with having multiple projects, the problem is having many unfinished projects.
So are you ready for this Ultimate Productivity Tip???
Do the Most Important Thing First!
Sounds so simple right? Yet, all too often it doesn’t get done daily.
If you do the most important thing first each day, then you’ll never have a day when you didn’t get something important done. This is so logical, so simple, that you’ll probably dismiss it as unnecessary.
Which is exactly why it’s important.
It’s not necessary to prioritize every task for your entire day. There is more value in finishing the most important thing than there is in ranking tasks two through ten.
Start each day knowing What THE MOST IMPORTANT activity is that day. Get it done. Watch your productivity sky rocket!
Give it a try and then share if it worked below.
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