CREATE TIME

 

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You are probably reading this because you feel you don’t have any spare time to follow the steps to come.  You don’t have time to analyse your situation, to write lists or make choices.  You know what you have to do, you are getting on with it and you have no time for anything else.

 

If this is true you are a victim of the Activity Trap and the unfortunate fact is that to get out of it you will have to allocate some of your scarce time to the task, whether you feel you have it not.  It could be that you are suffering from competing demands on your time, failing to meet deadlines, and, as a result, you are loosing some faith with clients, business partners and your family.  Most people fall into this trap at least once in their lives but there is a way out if you make solving this your goal and set aside some time to work on it.

 

Do you tell your clients that you don’t have any time to deal with their purchase?  If a client comes to you for service you will:

• Commit - take the order

• Do what it takes to provide the service

• Eventually you will be provided with income that will help you to improve your life

So you have proved that you can make time.  You have time for clients but not for yourself so you need to see yourself as a client.  All you have to do is: 

• Commit to the Activity Trap challenge

• Do what it takes to make some time available

• Eventually you will provide control of your time to help you improved your life

So, book Growth Plan into your diary, at least 2 hours per week and make it happen.  Use all the tricks you use to properly service your clients, to service yourself. 

• Don’t allow the Growth Plan time to be given to anyone or anything else

• Don’t allow calls to be put through during Growth Plan time

• Leave meetings that run over time if they will encroach on your Growth Plan time

• Focus your attention fully on the task at hand and don’t procrastinate

• At the end of the Growth Plan time decide what you will do in the next Growth Plan time and be clear on the first small task – write it down

Practice your good service skills on yourself

 

DO IT NOW

 

Your development is the best client you will ever have