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What's your routine?

What’s Your Routine?

What is your routine going to be? When are you going to work? When are you going to do paperwork? When will you play? When will you get everything done? Having a routine helps to motivate you and helps you get everything done as long as you know what needs to be done. A big part of the routine is time, a schedule. Lay out your schedule for the next day; lay out your schedule for the week. This helps to get everything done. You are in charge of all of this. When you don’t have a routine or schedule not much gets done because it’s easy to put off anything until tomorrow. Sit down and write out your schedule then put it into a routine so that everything gets done.

Starting the Dream

Starting the Dream

One of the first exercises to do to get your dream in motion is to write down why you want this dream. If you will right now take a piece of paper out and write down on one side of the paper the reasons you want this dream to come true. Let’s just fold the paper in half long ways and call one side the benefits and the other side fears.

In the benefits column put everything you dream of having for your business. For example: your hours, who your clients will be, what your office will look like, who will work with you, why you want all of this to happen, etc.

In the fear column put why you would be afraid or have doubts about your dream business coming true. For example: I’m not smart, no clients, too many hours, can’t find an affordable office space, not enough money, etc.

Now at this point you will notice the benefits column is filling up, your gaining confidence and in your heart you know you can do this. This dream is real and will happen. Keep this list and add to it. Always refer back to it and remember why you want this to happen. This exercise is a great one to do at the anniversary of each new year of business to see how your dream has grown and become more than you ever thought possible.

Emyth Mastery

I am reading the E-myth Mastery by Michael Gerber.  I truly love his writing and I believe every person thinking of starting his or her own business should read his books.  He gives it to you straight up.  He tells you how to build a solid company where you are working on the business not in the business.  I know most entrepreneur's think they don't need any help until they get out there and find out how much they did not know.  We all do it we start out as a technician and think we can run the whole company.  How many times have you sat in your job and thought oh I could do it so much better or what are they thinking up there in the offices not knowing what goes on down here where the real work gets done.  How many times??   We all think we know what to do and if they would just ask me I would tell them what they should do but nobody asked me.  As technicians we can only see one side the doing the work side which is a big side especially in a massage business.  Unfortunately the other aspects of the business fall by the wayside when all of your attention and time go to seeing clients.  There is also marketing, projections, keeping up with the bills, the payroll, the sheet guy, and everything else that goes into it.  Most of my time as a business owner was not spent doing the actual work of massage.  I did do some massage but mostly on a fill in basis as I was everything to everybody.  I found myself mostly working in my business instead of on it.  Trying to juggle everything to keep everybody else in the business happy is not the way to run a business.  Using Michael Gerber's book lets you see there is another way to see and do business.  I hope that each and everyone of you buys his book and uses it to its full potential.  He gives you hope and compassion for business owners.  He shares his passion about business and how to be great entrepreneur and excel at business.  He has written this book so that even if you have not started your business you will have good ground to start with and if you have been in business for along time you will be able to change what you are doing and get out of the rut and move forward to bigger and better things.