While I’m cooking up an article and some progress, here some stuff to read over the week.

Good article for time saving for bloggers

Fun Article- but interesting for social reasons.(LUG nerds auction)

How to not multitask

How to write down your goals

Continuously Increase Productivity by Embracing the Optimization Mentality

Notice: Im going to redo the action steps. I am currently entirely rewriting them. I decided that a few things really need to be in correct order. Sorry for the mess up. For now thou, I’m going to keep action step section of my blog open, till some progress is made.

Personal Hierarchy Chart Update

As per recommended by the book, E-Myth, I did my chart using a open-source program in Linux called Labyrinth Maps. Its a mind mapping program, but it suits the basic diagramming I need for this process. So I created several blocks, and in these blocks I named off positions for my company in order to stay afloat. I then proceeded to fill in every position with my name(how egoistical is that?) and what the position main duty is. I haven’t yet created performance agreements for each position(which would be the next step). This would be wise to do if you have a partner in your business. Right now, My wife isn’t part of my business operations, due to lack of time, so thats another person that might fill some spots in. It seems a bit silly to do so, but it makes the business more systematic than just doing it all and then later trying to fill these rolls with other when, if ever you get employees or a outsourced individual(s). Making a goal to have employees, is a great one to have, so you can start becoming an owner, not the self-employed worker. It also makes you concentrating how you can create your job to be re-doable by the staff you will hire by creating a system for it right down to the nitty-gritty details to what way your name tag should be placed.

If you need some help with positions here are some to think about- President, Vice-President, Sales Manager, Payroll, Bookkeeper and Human Resources. You could break it down even further to salesman and general labor(i.e: bag sacker, attendant, shipping clerk or personal assistant) if its called for. Go ahead and have some serious fun with this. Its cool to say, to yourself(but lets be honest, not to others) that I am President of my company – Positive Capitalism.

From here, if you haven’t yet decided on what to make your money in, now would be a good time.

Its now time for me to realize, I own a business and it needs to conduct business. Whatever holding you back, who cares, just keep in mind you need to conduct business or your business will fail now and I don’t want this to happen. It would make it a rather boring blog too. I know it seems like to some the moment you want to launch, you can’t because your car needs to be fixed or someone stole your wallet, or some other life threating event. Balance it out and still give yourself some time to dedicate to your business, even if it only 15 minutes a week.

Up next: real business work, not busy work. I am working on a 2 part series regarding what can keep you going and what real motivation works. A lot of what I read, needs to be used in the tested in the trenches as I go about working, so I’m going to see what really works, without saying this idea works, when it really doesn’t. Until then, stay classy..planet..earth.