Scott Cathcart

Entrepreneur | Impact Investor | Triathlete

Productivity Tips for the Busy Entrepreneur

Productivity equates to results and growth. As an entrepreneur, your business’ ability to scale and the rate it scales is directly correlated with your level of productivity. Here are three tips on how to be more productive as an entrepreneur.

Schedule Everything

Having a daily, or at least weekly, a schedule helps you keep up with all the tasks you need to accomplish. Whether it’s a late lunch with a client or a virtual business meeting with teams abroad, entrepreneurs are bombarded with a myriad of tasks every day that it’s impractical to trust your memory to remember everything. Write down every responsibility for the day, starting with high-priority ones. You want to make sure you finish larger and more important tasks instead of picking off the small, mundane ones that have little impact on long-term metrics.

Use the Two Minute Rule

This rule was created to combat procrastination, which is a huge productivity zapper in business and life in general. With the two minute rule, you allot two minutes of your time towards a task that you might otherwise procrastinate. For instance, if you need to write marketing content for your business’ blog, start by writing a paragraph in two minutes. In most cases, you’ll end up doing more than a paragraph in one sitting.

Learn to Say “No”

Entrepreneurs encounter a lot of decision forks every day. It could be in the form of a fellow entrepreneur asking you to review his/her product or a staff member asking for another week off to take a leisure trip. Although It’s good to collaborate with other entrepreneurs or give your employees a break from work occasionally, you need to draw the line. Otherwise, this bleeds through your overall productivity and output. Avoid giving unclear and indirect answers either – flat out say “No” followed by a concise but brief explanation as to why you can’t honor their request at the moment.

Keep in mind that continuously moving isn’t the same as being productive. You need to make sure that your efforts and resources are being spent on the right tasks and acquisitions that will create the most tangible positive impact.

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