You stare at the walls of your office. Your mind swirls with a hundred different items on your mental To Do List. You haven't got a clue what to do next because everything seems important. By default you open up your email so at least you're keeping up with something. A couple of hours pass at the keyboard and your list is only longer. A sinking feeling leaves you even more overwhelmed and disappointed with yourself. Ugh! How do I go about organizing the business? How to do I get more focused and productive?
Admit it, you know this scenario all too well. And it bugs you because it is sabotaging your business, your dreams, and your finances. With so much on the line, you wonder, How can I be so stuck?
Over the decades of working with business owners, this pattern is most often associated with an ill-defined business - one being run from the head. While brilliant ideas abound in your brain, there's no blueprint to build the business. Would you hire a home builder to construct your house who didn't have blueprints? Yet, you'll build your business without a blueprint.
There's a reason most SOHO (small office, home office) business owners don't write their plans. It is called flexibility and responsiveness to opportunity. Unfortunately, keeping your options open typically results in a cycle of learning, but not one of earning. The secret to building your business is to create an economically efficient engine of profit. Once the engine is up and running, you can afford to invest in your other ideas. Depth, not breadth, is essential. This takes discipline and commitment... to a well designed, thoughtful, written plan.
You may think you have a plan. Candidly inquire of yourself, Just how is that plan working? If you're not getting the results of speed to market you want and profits, then please consider the SOHO: On-PurposeME relationship I've recently launched. The Trial program for a month of mentoring with me is just $176. Let me help you bring order, focus, clarity and direction to your business enterprise by guiding you as you document your business plan and model. Organizing the business is a couple of clicks and a few hours away.
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