How Do You Decide What To Do Each Day

Have you ever started your day with this sort of question?

“What do I want to do today?”

If you have, then read on because this sort of question marks the start of an ineffective day.

Effective business owners don’t start out their day asking “what do I want to do?” They ask themselves a completely different set of questions.

They’ll begin with the question” What are the most important, highest leverage activities that need to get done?” and then they’ll produce a list of the most important activities that answer that question.

After that, they estimate the amount of time each activity should take.

Next, they examine the list of important activities that must be done and determine which activities they should do themselves and who they are going to ask to do the remaining activities.

Then when they start work they tackle the most important, highest leverage task or activity first. They do not ask the question of themselves “which one of these tasks do I want to do now?”

Remember no business owner is born effective. You have to cultivate effectiveness and you do that by practicing the habits of effectiveness. After all you wouldn’t want an employee who worked on what they thought they should work on. So you should respect your business at the very least as much as you want your team to.

The important thing here is to be conscious of the choices you make when deciding what to work on. The yardstick is to pick activities based on what your company needs from you.

If you pick the most important task to work on first you’ll be more effective, your company will be more profitable, and you’ll be able to work less so you can actually pick fun things to do outside of work instead of the poor substitutes you’ve been using to fill your work days.

So remember – it’s not what you want to do – it’s what your business needs done.