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Too little time; too many tasks
By: Eric Albertson
Succeeding in Business seems to have us always in a position of having limited time and resources, yet hundreds of tasks, to-do’s and opportunities.
The weakness that kills income
I don't know about you, but this seems to be the Achilles’ heel of most of us who are dependent on actual results to get paid.
A fast and easy fix
I recently came across a combination that is in the process of changing my life:
Here’s the process
First: Take your list of tasks and to-do's and get them all down on a single piece of paper.
Second: Rate each of them as being an A, B or C.
A = High leverage with the highest turn-around time to implementation.
B = Mid-sized projects that take planning
and thought, and could be considered
mini-projects.
C = Long-term projects that can take a long time before you see results.
Third: take only your "A" level tasks and re-rate them as A1, A2 and A3, based on the criteria you use to estimate how each one will impact your bottom line financially.
Fourth: Do this one more time, but this time, take only your A1 tasks and rate them in terms of A+, A or A-.
Fifth: Give this a hard look and get started! You can now move forward in your day and your business, knowing you are going to make the largest impact, with the most financial gain, in the shortest time.
Red-faced Caroline
Caroline tried this out and was shocked to find how few of the things she was doing in her day were actually directly impacting her financial situation. She felt sick.
A little help for the bottom-line
With the facts from the process above, in hand, Caroline got busy and hired a VA (virtual assistant). It was a stretch to afford this person, initially. Caroline showed her husband how his time was being spent versus how it should be spent, and her husband agreed (wise man). Even though it was initially a tight budget fit, they decided to hire the VA.
Love and hate affair
After a brief shake-out period, Caroline’s productivity began to soar. Not long after that, her income began, slowly, to take off. Today, things are really cooking for Caroline. The new VA not only loves doing the things Caroline hated, she is lightning-fast at it, as well.
Give me $6,000 and I’ll give you $1,200: DEAL
Caroline is now worth about $150 per hour. The VA costs about $40 per hour. Caroline’s monthly bill is only $1,200.00, while Caroline’s income is up about $6,000.00. Everybody is happy.
Call-to-Action
If you are really committed to making more, while working less, the recipe above may have a place in your life. You may also want to invest in my book, Making More While Working Less. It’s a kind of a “gimme- $97-, and-I’ll-give-you-another-$5K-or-more-every-year-for-the-next-five-years-IF-you-can-execute,” sorta deal.
Cheers,
Eric
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