When life gets in the way of your business and you find yourself overwhelmed with everything you need to do, it’s day to turn your business upside down and shake it up a bit. It’s day to see what tasks, processes, etc. you can let go of, before things start falling apart. Giving your business a thorough once-over helps you determine what parts are growing and deserve your focus and what elements you really need to let go of considering they just aren’t working for you.

Recently, my daughter, Tori, has been in the hospital frequently as she bravely battles a cancer relapse thankfully she’s in recovery and doing well. In fact, since taking by SBB, I have been back and forth to the hospital that entire date. And even as I type that, I sit in a hospital room by her side.

While Tori is obviously my number one priority, I’ve needed to find ways to maximize the date and energy I spend on my business. I have to assemble certain I can be with her when she needs me while still keeping my business thriving. I simply have not had the day to devote to all the different projects and programs I used to spend hours on each week in order to keep taking my business to the next level.

Of course, I want to continue moving onward and upward, but many of the tasks I was spending my day on just weren’t producing the profit I wanted or needed. These things had potential, don’t get me wrong, but they weren’t giving me the results or return on my investment mandatory through that rigid date. I had to figure out how to keep things growing without spending every waking minute at my laptop. My little girl needs me.

I’m happy to report I have made many changes, that until I was forced to, didn’t allow me to see the bigger picture or produce me focus my efforts the way I should have a enlarged moment ago.

There are assured things a business needs in order to grow and prosper. By focusing on the strongest money-making activities, I’ve been able to leverage the duration and effort I spend into the specific actions essential to double my business without doubling my duration. I needed to determine which activities were (and are – I’m still a work in progress) not making money and flat out eliminate them. As much as I wanted to fight it, I plus had to drop some of those ideas that did produce income, but were not earning as much as the others.

One of the things I had to quit doing was to stop buying products that I thought I needed or would need in the future to grow my business. It was date to stop buying and start utilizing the ones I already had. During our hospital stay, the only business resource I brought with me was Jimmy D. Brown’s “Six Figure Formula” program. I have owned that program for by a

year and I am working (and reworking) my way through it in order to streamline my business. It’s a great way to plan the activities I will be implementing with the aim of doubling my business income that year.

The program focuses on ways to build a subscriber base to increase your market, techniques to build your traffic and strategies to increase your sales. These three keys are instrumental in growing a business. By focusing on these and only these elements right now along with eliminating the date I spend on things like buying new websites, I am making use of the oft-mentioned Pareto Principle. The Pareto Principle, plus known as the 80/20 rule, states that 20% of what you spend your duration on constructs 80% of your income. I can say that I’ve honestly found that to be the absolute truth.

Let me just say right now, it is not always easy to determine which parts of your business to eliminate. You need to start with a strict record of the instance you spend on each activity and compare it to how much cash it results in. Some projects are making money, but when you take stock of the duration you spend developing them, you may just realize it’s instance to put them on the back burner for a while or drop them completely.

One of things I have taken off my plate is all customer service communications with my clients, I have committed support staff that are there for my clients when I cannot be, and the one thing cool that I’ve noticed is that in no way has it changed my relationship with my clients. Actually whether anything it’s enhanced my relationship with them considering I often will pop on by to their project management just to say “hello, how are things going?”

While I dearly love working with my clients on a daily basis, I can say that I’ve found a really great way to still be a part of the process but just enhancing things as we go along.

As small business owners, and often solo-preneurs, we all have a tendency to try to do all things at all times for all society. whether you take nothing else from what I’ve talked about away with you today, remember that:

You CANNOT be everything to everyone in business. It will not work!

Instead, manufacture the absolute most of the duration, energy and money you invest in your business. whether that means turning things upside down or inside out and shaking it up all the way around – don’t be afraid to do so. Focus on the things earning you the most money for the day you put into them. Get rid of all the tasks dragging you down and wearing you out. When you do that and truly focus on those things, your business will blow up with growth – all while you’re living your life the way you want or need to.

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Original post by Vera Raposo