“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”
– William Penn
While you may know that you have to take time to do various tasks that are necessary for your MLM business to be successful, you also need to schedule your time so that those tasks can be performed. Don’t make the mistake of thinking you’ll find the time.
“You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.”
– Charles Roberts Buxton
If you’re just getting started in your MLM Business then you know that you were already using all 24 hours in your day and now you will have to give up time you were spending on something else to make the time for your business.
If you’re just getting started in your MLM you may have a job and you need to make sure that your job and your business don’t interfere with each other. You need to take time to relax, play or do nothing in order to maintain your health. Additionally you need to make time for your relationships, your family and your children which for many of you is the reason you got started with your MLM business. And then there are the household tasks that still need doing like grocery shopping, mowing the lawn, taking out the trash, gardening, etc. If you don’t make time for each of these including the household tasks, they will become a distraction for you that will lead to procrastination.
Ok, so where to begin making a schedule.
- Write down everything that needs to be done on a daily, weekly, monthly basis.
- Now divide these activities into like common themes — family, daily, weekly, monthly, work, business, fun, etc. You may find that some fall into multiple categories and thats ok.
- Estimate how long it takes to do each task and if some tasks must be done at a specific time or day then note that down too. For example, the garbage pickup is on Monday so I know that Sunday evening the trash needs to be put out.
- If you tend to procrastinate put all your activities down on a daily schedule so that you can’t skip doing a task or getting it done in the time allotted. For those that need more flexibility put things down on a weekly or monthly schedule.
Ok so now you’re done right? Wrong!
At best what you have is a tentative schedule. Now you need to see if it works. Its most likely you’ve underestimated how long it takes to do each task or that you’ve left something out. Don’t do what I did and forget to plan date night out with your wife into your schedule.
As you go through the next few weeks, write down each task that was forgotten and time yourself on each task so that you have a better estimate of how long each takes to do. You may find that you overestimated some and underestimated others. In addition timing the tasks let you see where time is being wasted and may lead you to come up with ways to optimize your schedule. For example, the weekly trip to get groceries might align itself well with your homeowner’s association meeting because both are held close by thus allowing you to combine two trips into one. Lastly this will show you how much or how little “spare” time you truly have and allow you to say No to some other tasks that others may want you to do.
Combining all this information allows you to put together a more realistic schedule and allows you to work your MLM business and spend time with the family without sacrificing either.
“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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