Ep. 171 - Find More Time to Grow Your Business

Thriving in Tandem: The podcast for married entrepreneurs

Time seems to be that asset that entrepreneurs don’t have a lot of. If you’re feeling like you’re so busy you don’t have enough time to get everything done than this episode is for you.

While no one can gain more time in the day, you can gain more margin. That takes doing less busy work and concentrate on more productive work. This can be hard as the less productive work are things that we face at the moment like emails, texts, and phone calls. Things that are right in front of us that we feel we need to address at the moment.

Meanwhile this pushes the more highly productive work like research and development, content development, and long term planning aside. When this gets done, who knows. So if you want to know how you can find more time so you can focus on more high priority items, than click on this episode.

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Key Takeaways:

• Can’t make time but you can gain more margin

• Be more productive and less busy

• My time wasters, social media, texts, taking appts, taking advantage of opportunities

• Says no to family time

• Not as effective with business

• Our culture is built around work, work, work

• Hustle and grind

• Side hustle

• Establish some boundaries and work within it

• For me, it was getting to bed by 11pm

• Make time your friend episode 156

• John Pencavel economists at Stanford research no difference between working 50 hrs/week vs 70 hrs/week

• Henry Ford did an assessment in his business and showed no difference in outcome between 40 hr/wk vs 50 hr/wk

• W.H.O. showed increase of heart attack for people working over 40 hrs/wk

• Avg business owner spends 70% of time on IN the business activities

• Need to focus more on ON the business activities

• Automate Delegate Eliminate

• Next episode is on money- creating greater profit margins