From Steve Chandler:
"Anyone can free up an hour a day for anything. And you can put anything into that hour. Anybody has time to put something into an hour's time slot and devote the fully-focused hour to it. Without losing a beat. Without losing any efficiency at all. Or any relationships.
In fact, here's the irony: if you singled out an hour for something special, the other hours of your life would probably improve! They would become more efficient, not less.
If you took an hour away from your life today, you would become more efficient in the other 23 hours than you were before. Because you would pay more attention to priorities. You would become more awake to your precious time.
Work expands to fill the time allotted for it.
So give yourself an hour. Start today."
Steve is right - anyone can find an hour. We tell ourselves we can't, we are too busy or have too much to do. There are too many urgent things, questions, problems to solve, and everyone needs attention right this minute. WRONG.
Take an hour a day and focus on your business. Look at something different each day like, recruiting for your virtual bench, marketing, coaching people, having your weekly huddle, then have a flexible slot each week focusing that hour on an aspect of the business. One week may be reviewing your team and rating them, another may be writing some content for your marketing machine, and another may be talking to some customers about "how we are doing". You may even focus on an important project/Rock that needs to be worked on.
Block that hour at the same time every day to make it a habit. Don't answer the phone or do email - shut the door and focus on the task at hand. It is a proven fact you will get 3 times more done in that focused hour as a normal interrupted multi- tasking hour.
Don't let the voice in your head say you can't do this. Anything, other than a family emergency, can wait an hour. Block it and focus. Your business will get better and you will feel better about it.
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