Recapture Your Time

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I don't have enough hours in the day! is one of the most common complaints of business owners.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lack of time ranks far above lack of money as a barrier to growth. After all you can borrow money but your hours are fixed in number.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But this workbook book is not about time management. </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>You should focus not on saving time but on investing time strategically. </strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>• Where can you get the highest return on each hour of your time? </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>• What should you be doing to focus on growing your business to the size and profitability you want? </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The exercises in this workbook help you answer these questions.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I give you a 4-tiered approach to recapturing your time and using it strategically:</span></p><ul><li><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Level 1. Triage Your Time.</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Generate some right-now benefits. How can you stop the time hemorrhaging? Where can you recapture a small amount of time to give you the space to focus on longer-term improvements in your time use?</span></li><li><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Level 2. Recapture Your Time.</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Make some near-term improvements. Restructure the way you do things. How can you permanently change the demands on your time so that you can focus on strategic priorities?</span></li><li><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Level 3. Invest Your Time. </strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Undertake longer-term restructuring. See how you can leverage your time and creativity. Over the next year or so how can you restructure your business to help you make your greatest contribution to its success have the workstyle you want and achieve your long-term objectives?</span></li><li><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Level 4. Leverage Your Time. </strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Maximize the return on your creativity (ROC) by putting together products or services from your unique solutions to client problems and building an ongoing revenue stream.</span></li></ul><p></p>