Being able to start and run your own business sounds cool. It makes you look like you have ore control over everything in your life. However, being an entrepreneur is not always cool. There are things you have to sacrifice especially your time and energy. You spend half of the day handling things regarding to your business. You also stay late more often than not just so you don’t delay the task on the next day. Workload is one of the challenges entrepreneurs should be ready to face for. Those who are not ready to be an entrepreneur most likely to be finding the workload overwhelming.
Reaching highest performance as entrepreneur
To be on the top is always one of the main priorities of entrepreneur. With lots of workload and responsibilities in running a business, you are required to always be in the best condition. It is not easy to maintain highest performance. However, it is not impossible for you to be a peak performer in running a business. Here are things you can do:
Be a more prepared entrepreneur. You can do it by creating a to-do-list for the next day a night before. Day-to-day to-do-list allow you to know what priorities to have or what tasks you should complete first. Lots of entrepreneurs choose to create a to-do-list in the morning after they wake up or when they are already in the office. However, it is considered as less efficient. Meanwhile, you can do it the night before. Thus, you already know what to do tomorrow in mind. When the morning comes, you will be more prepared to face the day.
Lessen multitasking and focus more on specific tasks. Lots of entrepreneurs claim themselves as good at multitasking. However, it is not truly an achievement. In fact, lots of studies show that multitasking results in less productive performance. The bad part about multitasking is that you are too focused on doing everything which ends up in doing nothing. It wastes more time than you think. Thus, it is much better to complete one task then go for another after completed. One step at a time is better rather than running and keep falling down.
Focus more on customers instead of sales. Lots of entrepreneurs focus more on their sales rate that they end up forgetting the real deal which is their customers. View your customers as mutually beneficial relationship. Make sure to listen to them more and view things from their perspective rather than just jump into getting out so much of the sale. When you gain trust form your customers, your sales rates will increase automatically.
Find your most productive hours. This is something most entrepreneurs failed to realize. Not all hours are the same so you have to find your own hours where you can perform the most productive. If your golden time is during morning, you can handle tasks in top priority. Then you can use your afternoon for power nap or manage more simple tasks.
Adam Walker