Retail Self Management Tip
Tip #412 - Work on Your Business Not Just in Your Business
(6/10/10)
Dear Tip of the Weeker,
Natalie here. I'm sending you one of my favorite Tips while Bob and Susan are feverishly getting ready for this year's Retail Success Summit.
This Tip is an oldie-but-a-goodie from Bob and Susan's FIRST year of writing the Tip of the Week! It hits home because it's about investing in yourself as a business person - something Bob and Susan really believe in.
That's why they started the Retail Success Summit, to give retail store owners a place where they get away from their stores, recharge their batteries, and get the mental fuel they need to be hyper-successful.
Does investing in yourself sound good? There are still seats to the Retail Success Summit available! We can't stress enough how important this can be to your ultimate success as a business person.
On to the Tip....
The day-to-day details of running a business can quickly consume every available minute. We know – we live it every day just like you do!
However, to get ahead of the ballgame and decrease your stress levels you need to follow the advice of Michael Gerber in his fantastic book, The E-Myth...
TAKE TIME TO WORK ON YOUR BUSINESS, NOT JUST IN YOUR BUSINESS.
- Do some long-range planning as well as work on the sales floor.
- Create a strategic marketing campaign in addition to buying your best sellers.
- Attend workshops and find time for professional reading in the midst of handling the employee crisis of the minute.
These are the tasks that Stephen Covey, in his book The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People, labels important, but not urgent
It’s easy to get caught up in urgent tasks and neglect some of the really important ones. So we have Covey’s Time Management Matrix posted in our office. The goal is to move our daily work life into the quadrant of “effectiveness” – the work that’s important and not yet urgent.
