Do you need more time in your week? Here is how you can find it!

Are you one of those people who are so busy that they cannot add one more thing to their schedule? Do you find that you have so much on your plate that you usually have things left on your to do list at the end of the day? Do you feel like you wake up to a slate that is so full there is nothing clean about it?

We all have the same 24 hours, but have you noticed that some people seem to get more done than others. There is a reason for that. Highly successful people make sure that they are focusing their time on things that will continue to make them successful and they delegate the rest.

So how do you become highly focused on what you are doing so that you can delegate some of the things that you are doing to others? How do you create time to make yourself more successful? The first step is by cutting the things that do not matter. So, how do you cut things from your schedule? The only way to do that is to know how you are spending your time? If you don’t know what you are doing, then you can’t make any productive changes.

Start by tracking yourself for a week. Carry a small notebook with you for that week and then set an alarm in your phone for every 30 minutes. At the end of each 30 minutes, write down a quick 1 line description of what you did the last 30 minutes. At the end of the week sit down and find out where you spent your time. This may be a revelation to you. Maybe you did not realize that you spent 15-25 hours a week on e-mails that really do not move your business forward. Perhaps you lose 5-25 hours a week in the death scroll of the internet. Maybe you spent more time in areas that do not help you move forward than you wanted to.

Now that you know where you are spending your time, you can cut those things out of your schedule. This will free up some time to allow you to start your self-storage real estate investing career. If you are already investing, then this will give you time to improve your business or create systems to save you more time.

Maybe you noticed that there are some things that you do on a regular basis that you can delegate. If so, spend some time to create a SOP for that item and then train someone to take over for you. That way you have more time to do what you do best. You are the only one who can take your business to the next level. Wake up and say, “I can make the changes that I need to make in order to be successful. I can find the time. I can do what I want to do with my life. I just need to start.” Let today be the day. As always, happy investing.