“I do not have the time to do what I need to do, I am to busy doing less important tasks”

I have come to the conclusion that the most widely used over rated excuse to fail is ” I do not have the time to…..” We all do this, some more then others but we are all guilty of postponing important tasks in exchange for doing less important tasks, because we do not have the time…What a silly concept, yet oh how true.

So we never get to implement that  new marketing program, or we never get to design that training program or we do not have time to train, we do not have time to locate better vendors, can’t make that call to a new broker, no time to renegotiate a new lease with my landlord, can’t write a new business plan, no time, can’t, can’t, can’t, the second worst word in the English language, actually make that the first worst word.  It is the universal excuse for failing to do your job as best you can.

So what is the deal with this, why would we all put ourselves in harms way with such a lame excuse?

Human nature? Maybe, lets look at how we can end run this issue.

Here is what I do know. We are all more comfortable doing what we know how to do rather then forcing ourselves into new territory to do what is not as familiar. Ok so as long as we are busy doing what appears to be working, we can excuse ourselves from taking the next step to success as we have no time, we are busy doing the same thing we do every day, and getting the same results, no forward progress.

Here is the secret to eliminating this tired and worn out excuse.

Force he conclusion. Commit to not ding what you always do on Friday of every week. Simply put down your pencil, rip up your schedule, shut your door, put the phone on private and give yourself a whole day to do something you want to do but have no time to do it in.

Sacrifice, foregoing something that is pressing for something that has more value. Stop doing what ever it is you would have done, sacrifice, and do something that has more value…. this Friday.

In this one day you will do more new groundbreaking work then you can possibly imagine and the important  little secret you will discover is it made no difference what so ever if you took one day off from doing what you always do, fighting the same old battles over and over.

Do this and you will have the time to really solve some problems, create new opportunities, launch a new initiative, do whatever it takes to get you to where ever you need to go.

The amazing fact is, the time you take off from fighting your normal battles, will not be missed and will cause no interruptions in your business, and the time you allocate to new activity will bring huge dividends and results.

This one principal is strong enough to change your destiny, if only we had enough time to implement it!!!

Do it, see what happens, you will be amazed.

We do have enough time to explore the horizon, this Friday.