When working online, we have so many good intentions but sometimes we fail to do everything necessary for our business. I believe that we perceive time differently with working online. Things happen quicker, or so we believe. Thus, we come up with a business idea; perhaps it is a product for a niche we have discovered, or a new website, or ….. (you fill in the blank)
We expect that this product will produce instant results for us. We get disappointed when we work on a website for 2 days and it is still not indexed by Google! We expect things to happen quicker. When things don’t happen quickly, we get disheartened and sometimes give up or leave a project half completed.
We expect that if we complain about something, customer service should reply within minutes – 24 hours is just too long. However this works both ways. When a customer of yours emails you and you’re “not working”, can you give yourself free time and not reply? Or are you, like me, a slave to the iphone?
You need to allow time for you and your business. Set time out for work and time for you, otherwise time will have no meaning at all. One hour will blur into the other, one day into the next until your whole life is consumed by your business. You won’t be able to separate the you from the business.
Think carefully about your business and make sure you create a timetable of events each day so that you have time for everything!
To Your Success
Richard Butler
This is an excellent reminder of how we need to value our time. Thank you, Richard Butler, for supplying us with your incredible knowledge!
About Kelli Claypool
What a great post! It’s easy to get sucked up into work and not realize everything else that’s going on around you.