I know I can do it!

 

Entrepreneurship is already a hard road not only for most but for all people that try to travel down it. I am not talking about the money-making part of entrepreneurship but the part of staying in and making the grind. Most people that join the entrepreneur lifestyle love the make your own hours part of it. But when it comes down to the part of working harder than you ever have to get your business going and making your brand, peoples confidence starts to waver. This is when confidence comes into play, knowing that you can do it will win or lose this fight is for the better

lifestyle.

Knowing that at the end of the day you know how to relax and enjoy time just being you and spend time with your family this will relax your mind, so you can stay focused. Do not worry though if you do need to take a small break from the life, it does not mean you gave up on your dreams but more of you lost your focus and need to obtain it again. How do you keep at a steady pace without burning yourself out you ask? Well keep reading...

Here are some tips to help you with that:

1.       Your time is valuable - It is said that people can only focus for a total of 6 hours per day, also people work better outside of their office. So, think to yourself, where do you focus better? Is it the park, coffee shop, or at your desk at home? Know your place and allocate your true grind work for that place so you can truly focus.

2.       Your mind is the most invaluable tool you have – Have you ever thought of your mind as a muscle? Just like your body when you go to the gym, your muscles need to be exercised and put to work to grow stronger. So, try this with your mind, if you are having a difficult time staying focused on your task then let’s do some mind exercises. Start with a small task and disconnect from everything else, not unplug but disconnect so you can stay focused on the task at hand. For those who don’t know disconnect is just silencing your phone and going to “your place” so you can focus. Unplugging is unplugging everything that could take your focus as in the tv, turn phone off, have family leave house or you leave house, etc. That is what I do every time I want to stay focused, I start with silencing my phone then putting on some music that I can think with. Everyone is different, but the idea is all the same!

3.       Difficult tasks go first! – We all know that most of us will do the simple task first, so we can feel like we accomplished something for the day. Then we save the most difficult task for last, but by the time that we get to that task we are already tired and done for the day. Then we stop during the difficult task to call it a day. So, what if we switched the order of those tasks? What would happen then is we complete the difficult task then the rest is downhill from there!

Hopefully these tips will help you further your work and help you stay focused on your tasks. Now you know how to stay focused so you can better your work, which will better your confidence as well! See how that happens? Everything is built off one another and will become a more streamlined system once you have your cycle finetuned and working best for you and your lifestyle.

The last thing I want to bring up is when you have your complex tasks and your simple tasks. Know how to separate the two, the more complex tasks are tasks that you yourself need to stay focused on and can take hours to complete.

The simple tasks are tasks that you can automate in your business. Automating these tasks will not only complete the tasks but also save you time to maximize your time that you can focus on the more complex tasks. The simple tasks can be everything from sending emails, making follow up calls, online marketing, and online branding. These are only a few of the simple tasks that most entrepreneurs complete daily. If you want to know a better way how to complete these tasks, I highly recommend you look at a couple of these programs to help you.

I am only speaking about these programs because I use them on a weekly basis as well, and I feel that they are a crucial part of my business now to simplify my day and increase the time I spend on completing all my tasks. For sending emails as in starting your sales funnel I use is GetResponse, yes, they have a free version if you are asking yourself that question. Get Response is great with returning all follow up emails, sales funnel emails, newsletter email campaigns, and have some more in-depth campaigns as well that could help you as well! For online marketing and online branding, I use is  Revive Social, this program assists in posting social media content to any page that you have on there. They even give some great free WordPress themes as well, and has a few tools that can assist you in building a stronger online following as well.

From their selections of having either full automation, some automation, or none at all. This gives you the options of how you want your online presence and brand to be built. This will be able to help you in your ever growing to do list, and the amount of time that it takes a person to post and deliver content to their audience takes crucial time that could be spent elsewhere. Last but never least you want to know how to help your business in returning phone calls. If your business does not have it already, you need this and that is a CRM system (Client Retention Management).

A great one to start with is Agile CRM, they have sales funnels and call funnels built into the software which is very helpful. They even have a chart that you can put your prospects in and move them along the chart depending on the level they are on in the process. These are programs that I use and have tested over the years to better my own businesses. There is a difference between a business owner and an entrepreneur, a business owner owns a business and goes through their day. But an entrepreneur is exactly that, not only a business owner but an innovative person that runs their business but always looks for a way to better their business and their sales funnel. Which one are you? Remember you want to spend as much time as possible on production, the better your business does the higher your confidence grows.

Everything is tied together like a circle of life so save your time, focus on your tasks, and watch your business grow!!