Business owners waste time on low-value tasks like coffee breaks and desk cleaning because they don't plan. The fix: figure out what matters, schedule it, and protect that time from interruptions. Treat recurring distractions as problems to solve.
So what is the biggest mistake that business owners make when it comes to managing their time? Well, not, not planning. Again, it's not knowing the common things that happen is, you know, you'll go and you'll have this big list. You'll go into work, you won't know what to do because you really have a lot of stuff to do. And then you start piddling, right? So you get a cup of coffee. You call a friend, you like clean the desk, you know, little things that just distract you to take you away from really saying, what do I need to get done? What do I want to get done? What is really important? And if I say that a million times, it's really understanding and analyzing where you are, where you want to be. And then how do I get there? And then scheduling your time accordingly in a systematic way, in bite-sized pieces or in big chunks, but scheduling it and not letting other things distract you, which, which is not always easy because some of those other things could be employees, they could be clients. And it's really deciding what the common denominators are so that you could work those out through problem solving.
