When it comes to managing an online business, often we become distracted due to being overwhelmed or from new ‘gadgets’, therefore we lose focus on the important things in our enterprises that actually create us income. This decreases our work rate and in worse cases can lead to procrastination.
Having said that, there are many simple ways to stay focused on having success in your business. In this post I am going to share what I believe are the 3 most important for any skill level of entrepreneurs:
1) Create a 90 day game plan – by failing to plan this, you have already planned to fail. This is where you want to start thinking about a realistic, simple goal that you can achieve in 90 days or less e.g. your first $1000. However it’s not just setting the goal, in this game plan include what you’re aiming to do in order to get the goal you set.
2) Design a daily ‘to do’ list – write down 5 simple tasks you want to achieve today in order of importance on Notepad, a piece of paper or anywhere that will be seen often. Write this before you go to bed so that subconsciously you will think about these ‘to do’ tasks. Here’s an example of mine I wrote the other day just before turning off my laptop:
- Write & syndicate blog post
- Return voicemails & call leads
- Read 20 pages of Think And Grow Rich
- Listen to MLSP webinar on MP3 player
- Shoot video in back garden
Also make sure that these are somewhat related to building your business, so don’t add ‘pick up Jimmy from day care’ to this list. Credit goes to Mike Dillard for this absolutely sound advice.
3) Overlook on what you’ve achieved in the past month – take a look at what you have accomplished that will contribute towards making you money in your business. Especially in terms of what has and hasn’t worked, as well as checking your progress towards your goal(s). At this stage you can readjust your targets if needed, and whatever has worked you can include in future marketing campaigns.
Above all, these three ways will keep you focused on achieving tonnes more in your business – work at it, but don’t work too hard!
-Seb Brantigan
