It's not easy trying to find time to grow your business when you're just managing to get everything done in a day and working long hours as it is.

When your time is limited or if you want to avoid working long hours, evenings and weekends, it's important to know what works for your business.

Make sure you focus on the key activities that are really going to make a difference.

Many businesses will try anything and everything or simple try to do too much - wasting time on activity that has little benefit.

Stop wasting your time and energy. Focus on a few things at a time rather than stretching yourself and your resources too thinly.

Remember - 80% of your results will come from 20% of your effort. Focus on the 20% and you'll have more time for yourself.

Turbo-charge your business. Create one or two goals you'd like to achieve in the next month.

- Get x additional clients,
- Charge £££/$$$ billable hours,
- Book x training/work days,
- Increase business by £££/$$$.

Write down your goal. Set a target date for when you're going to achieve it and how you're going to measure it.

Now decide on the strategies you're going to complete each and every day or every week to enable you to achieve this goal. The importance is consistency. It's easy to lose track or get demotivated.

With a goal, plan of action and a burst of focused activity - you'll be surprised at how much you can achieve in a short space of time.

There are probably a number of strategies you already use but you might not be focusing on them consistently. Pick up to 10 activities that you can complete on a daily or weekly basis.

Create a checklist to work with over the course of the next few weeks. This will help you stay on track and plan better, so you feel you're achieving more each day.

Having clearly laid out steps and actions will keep you focused. Once you're focused you're more likely to achieve what you're aiming for. You'll be less distracted because you know exactly what you need to be doing each day to reach your target.

- Update your checklist.
- Plan and complete your actions.
- Review your progress daily.
- Celebrate your success.

At the end of each week review your successes and challenges. Update or modify your actions if you're not seeing the progress you expect. Have a clear plan of what you want to achieve, then follow it.

Apply this process to your personal life as well - improve your health and fitness, plan and organise your home life. Create a goal, set a target date and identify your daily actions.

You'll get everything you need to enable you to take your business forward and achieve one key goal in the Transform Your Business online coaching programme.

Find out how to plan your week, ways to stay focused and motivated, how to find the 20% and how to stay on track or you can email me to book up a free Strategy Session and see the difference it makes.

Until next month.