why being busy won’t help you
busy does not equal success. busy doesn’t mean you’re more important. busy means you’re bad at prioritizing.
busy: “crowded with or characterized by much activity.”
doing things never helped anyone.
what is VITAL to your business’s success? what is so vital that you can’t have anyone else do it? if you’re a wedding photographer, there should only be one thing that someone else can’t do for you. taking images.
is there stuff that you’re wasting your time doing that you could get someone else to do for you? maybe someone who’s time doesn’t cost as much per hour as yours does?
can you afford to pay yourself your own hourly rate?
when you’re busy you have a hard time prioritizing activities. an unimportant task takes up an hour in your day because you couldn’t be bothered to set up your workflow in a way that either cuts that activity out entirely or makes it simpler. important tasks get pushed to the back-burner because you are doing a bunch of comparatively small tasks.
take a step back and re-evaluate your workflow. can you get something out of your tasks that saves you 5, maybe 10 hours a week? how much is that worth to you? maybe paying yourself to do these things isn’t the final solution.
