Are You Doing A Lot and Getting Nothing Done?

The other day I was discussing productivity and time management with one of my private platinum clients. She is a brand new client and after reading her application I noticed that although she is quite busy she rarely gets anything accomplished. This is the difference between activity in your business and accomplishment in your business.

Read on to learn more about the differences and how you can get more done!

As small business owners we need to be keenly focused on our ability to get things done and not just on keeping busy for busy sake.

When you are engaged in activity you are busy doing things all day long. You may move from one project to the next busily working. At the end of the day you feel that you worked your butt off. This concept of activity can be seen in most corporations especially where people are engaged in “meetings.” You have probably experienced this yourself if you have ever worked in a job. Meetings where nothing gets done; that’s activity!

Accomplishment is something very different. When you are focused on accomplishment, you are super attentive on a particular project or task and you complete it in the time allotted or until it is finished.

Unfortunately, accomplishment is rather rare whether it be in the corporate arena or in a small business. But those who accomplish stand out in the crowd; and those who stand out, succeed.

Those businesses that fail to accomplish will ultimately fail or worse yet will be nothing more than so many other businesses; frankly, they will be mediocre.