I’m constantly trying to tame the beast that is my inbox…and when I asked a mentor of mine, who owns multiple companies, how he deals with email, he just laughed…
And his laugh spoke volumes…
But he went on to talk to me about ROIT – Return on Invested Time – and how the performance of this metric ultimately governs how excellent my product or service will become.
The purpose in creating boundaries is so you can have a sustained focus on 1-2 things every day…
If there are too many things occupying your mind, it will be scattered and your work sub-optimal. It’s about being ruthless; it’s about being an assassin with your time and boundaries.
Once you have your boundaries and processes set up then they’re on the chopping block every 90 days. It’s not just ‘continuous process improvement’, it’s the fact that you and I keep growing and changing and what worked last quarter may not be the right thing this quarter.
Know where the greatest return is on your time. The more successful you become the higher your skill level must be at saying ‘no’, rather than ‘yes’.
You must keep the main thing, the main thing.
Whatever stage you’re at in business, you need to be all over the numbers. In posts like this, we aim to offer bite-size food for thought – but in a few hundred words, we can only do so much.
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