Question From A Reader...

Greetings Roxanne: My BIGGEST personal challenge in home business (besides the challenge of walking through the kitchen several times a day without stopping to snack) is: I know well how to organize my business, then I get too busy to "put it where it belongs", then I am too busy to clean that up - hence, piles of papers! I have the FAST TRACK tape named: IF YOU HAVEN'T GOT TIME TO DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME, WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO GET THE TIME TO DO IT AGAIN? - I have learned a few very good points from that tape which have helped, but not taking time to put the paper away is still my biggest issue. Funny how seeing it written here makes it seem so ridiculously simple: Don't put it down except where it belongs! Thanks again. Joy

callrox.com's Answer...

Ha! It seems you've discovered the answer all by yourself.

An alternative is to find a high school student or parent who wants part-time work a couple of days a week and pay them to organize for you which frees you up to find clients. If you hate doing something, it's almost assured it takes you twice as long as someone else who likes it. Therefore, you're draining your energy and resources to focus on things you don't like when you could focus on income producing activities that you do like where your professional skills are most valuable. To run a profitable business you have to think like a manager and delegate.

Another way to look at it is...
You only have so much time in a day. You can spend your time on the money making activity and be worth $50-$100 an hour, then pay someone $7-$10 an hour to do the lower level work. OR, you can split your time between money making and administrative work and reduce your per hour value in half. When looked at this way, you can see how paying someone else is actually saving your money OR enabling you to make more money.