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Optimize Your Most Valuable Asset… Time

Seeing as its Friday and I know that many of the “weekend warrior” entrepreneurs and business owners are just getting started on all the ideas they’ve had for the past five days. I thought I’d post some links to articles and exceptions to get you fueled up and ready to go for the weekend. Most entrepreneurs are entrepreneurs at night, on the weekends, after school but that doesn’t mean that our minds don’t creep around with thoughts during those other non-business activities.

I was reading through, Flush the Toilet, a Blog focused on entrepreneurs and mindset and found this quote…

…you will accomplish all the goals you’ve set forth for yourself, and there are plenty more in the horizon awaiting you, but coming from an ex-workaholic myself, make time for self personal growth — don’t bottle in your feelings for too long, it only leads to further frustration of self. And entrepreneurship is indeed a way of life, but it need not overtake your life, if you don’t want it to.

Source: Flush the Toilet

I know that many people in North America go nuts trying to keep up at times and I’ve thought from time to time that it’s pretty unhealthy. I mean, what are you trying to achieve in becoming an entrepreneur? If you are trying to become the richest guy on the block that may never happen or then again it may but that is an outcome of your efforts. Too many people take the fad diet approach and apply it to their businesses. They starve themselves to become healthier which actually makes them poorer, and then they work out like mad trying to catch up to the unattainable goal. After a while it feels like you need to hit the “reset” button on your life.

Developing a sense of play is allowing me to disconnect and come back to what I am doing much stronger and with better ideas (In my opinion). At some point anyone that has flirted with business and starting one has poured all their time into it and been sourly rewarded and the thing to realize is that if a business idea is good enough it can survive for you as you get ready for it, it can grow with you over years of time and it cannot be rushed.

How much energy do you waste or use towards foolish pursuits? Plenty probably and how do some entrepreneurs manage to raise strong businesses while others struggle? It’s like watching the kid who got straight A’s in class and never studies. The key is learning to manage and leverage certain tasks that take away from you running the business. That is how you grow a business and NOT a job. Most people cannot tell the difference… but I am sure that you can feel it. Does this sound familiar?

I remember Yaro Starak of Entrepreneur’s Journey and BetterEdit recommending a book a while ago and I haven’t had a chance to pick it up but I personally think that the type of thinking this book encourages is what most entrepreneur’s need and seldom find. It’s called “Living the 80/20 way” by Richard Koch. I think this is a book that I need to pick up personally. I don’t expect it to solve all my life’s problems but having some different tools and insights into managing sure couldn’t hurt.

Seeing a lot of people start out as bright and rush in pouring out massive amounts of work and time… they do what they do at work. It’s almost counter-intuitive to believe that having yourself slave away week after week is any different then what you do at work. There are different ways to do it. Remember that time is the most precious commodity that anyone has and yours is the most important to you.

Now… Recharge those batteries, read a book that inspires you and simply focused on the path ahead.

Lucas

Note: I am by no way saying that you should be lazy about what you are doing… just stop to really smell those roses for a bit and keep going on your path.