You can't do it all and you can't do little pieces of many things well, so . . . What do you need to STOP doing?
In Seth Godin's little amazing book, "THE DIP," he let's us know a lot about quitting, stopping and walking away from what is not our priority and what is wasting our time.Our time is chopped, diced, spliced, and frittered away every day. The important things don't get the attention they need and deserve due to too many interests (none of which get any attention either) or too many "shoulds" (usually stuff that doesn't matter or bring great paybacks, but cause a lot of unnecessary guilt.)
IN YOUR BUSINESS
Thoughts and activities that are not bringing you business . . . but you have some rule that you should be doing it? Make a list of how you spend your time each day for a week or two. You’ll easily find a project, club, colleague, job activity, referral group, organization, program, or something or someone that is taking up valuable time better spent on your BIG IMPORTANT PAYOFF work.
QUIT! STOP IT!
Eliminate one thing that is costing you time and NOT bringing you business.
Organize your time and energy around what brings in the best of the best, let go of the rest.
AT HOME
Same thing, right? What daily gnats are taking up your energy and time but bring back little or no payoff? One at a time, let them go and replace that time with work towards the bigger, more important outcome projects.
It’s uncomfortable at first of course, because we are habit seeking creatures. But, when you get past the addictive brain and behavioral patterns Jonesing to do the old activity, you’ll forget about it, see and feel the good about and from your prioritized activities.
You will also be learning to move from “time” management to “priority” management. A very important step.
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