Book Available in Pre-release- Chapter 3 Excerpt

Time for another excerpt of the 2nd edition of my B.Y.O.B.- Build Your Own Business, Don't be Your Own Boss book as it is in the pre-production process as we speak.

One of the biggest enemies of any entrepreneur is time management. Although my work is all about encourage technology people to work their way into less tech work and more business operations work (the key to making more money and building business value), no matter how you currently run your business my time management chapter is a must read.

This is Chapter 3 in the B.Y.O.B.- Build Your Own Business, Don't be Your Own Boss book and it's towards the front for a reason. Below is a taste of that particular chapter.

Chapter 3
Time Management: Once It’s Gone, It’s Gone

Time is a rare something that you can never get back once it’s gone. It’s the key to:

• stress relief
• feeling accomplished
• being productive and effective
• being a great leader for both employees and vendors
• being respected by clients

For these reasons it makes it very important to go over this issue first and foremost.

In the introduction to this book I mentioned that people like us have a problem. We’re too smart for our own good sometimes. Time management is the key to not letting our brains get the best of us.

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You are Your Environment

Many entrepreneurs make the mistake of working in a highly unproductive environment. This is something that can, and really needs to, be controlled. A true entrepreneur can produce good or better results under adverse conditions, but you don’t want to put yourself in a position where that’s always the case.

In order to completely support an environment of productivity, you have to be able to exert control over your environment. In other words, you need to be in a position to stop or avoid interruptions. More light will be shed on this subject as we go on, but let me give you a better mental picture of this before I go forward with a quick example.

I’m sure you’ve heard of an open door policy. This is a great concept to keep employees and subcontractors from being “yes” people to you and literally fearing you. That’s a horrible way to have people that work with you think of you, by the way.

Well, the open door policy is really good stuff except for when you take it literally. Actually keeping your door “open” causes you to pay attention to things outside your office and it also promotes employees to just stop by and say hello and grab you for “just 1 second”.

Keep that picture in your head and I’m sure you can come up with a variety of other scenarios to avoid that will make your work environment unproductive and promote interruptions. And it doesn’t matter if you work in an office or out of a home office.



Multi-Tasking is a 4 Letter Word

Let’s get something straight right now. Multi-tasking is a bad word. As a matter of fact, it’s really not humanly possible. Here’s what happens when you do two work tasks at the same time:

Task 1 takes one hour to do. Task 2 takes one hour to do. Done separately this holds true. Do them at the same time and now I promise you it will take you over the two combined hours to finish these tasks together. Try it and track yourself. I promise you I’m not wrong.

Multi-tasking is not a skill to be proud of or to use so don’t fit it into your business world. By the way, there are only two places I know of where multi-tasking can be productive and they are not work related. One place is in the kitchen and the other place involves you, a call from mother nature, some reading material, and a small room. That’s it.

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The chapter continues on to talk about common interruptions and how to overcome them, scheduling versus task lists, and getting others to help you manage your time.

On the next excerpt we'll cover the Leadership chapter as it ties in directly to time management. There is a method to my madness on chapter layout as you will see.

With that said, get on the list for reserving a copy now for only $20 (retail price is $24.95). http://consultantscoach.com/byobbook.php


To Your Business Success-

George Sierchio
The Consultant's Coach