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Here are six suggestions to help the overworked entrepreneur manage the numerous duties she has on her plate.

Sort out your priorities

There will always be more tasks to perform than you have time for. You won’t be able to complete everything. Embrace it.

The most critical and urgent tasks must come first on the list of things to perform. Remember that urgent tasks frequently take precedence over essential ones. Stop this from happening. Make careful to pay attention to both.

Spend less time on tasks

According to the law of diminishing returns, working on a task for an hour may be a wise investment, but working on it for five hours may be a waste of time. Make sure to complete a few jobs in a restricted amount of time.

One of our colleagues uses social media to market his business for just one hour every day. The cause? He wants to avoid getting hooked into social networking, which may frequently be a time waster.

Eliminate perfectionism

We don’t mean to imply that mediocrity is okay. However, it is detrimental to keep working on something after the incremental effort stopped producing value. Additionally, it wastes your time and prevents you from doing other things that add value. Keep in mind that we only produce top-notch work for our clients. We indulge in perfectionism for our own benefit.

Exercise discipline

As a business owner, you cannot afford to neglect important responsibilities in order to spend time on enjoyable activities. Keep your attention on the tasks relevant to your business.

Outsource

Many tasks should be outsourced depending on your skill set. For instance, we discover that calling a specialist rather than attempting the remedy yourself is far more cost-effective when our computer network is malfunctioning. He completes what it would take us to generate the same amount of money in three days (at best) in just thirty minutes.

Sprint

This won’t work if you’re going to be the only employee for a long time. In order to establish a pace that is sustainable, use the advice from above. To push your firm over the finish line, you might be able to sprint for a brief amount of time (let’s say a few months) while working at an unsustainable rate. If it enables your company to make enough money to hire staff, then this could be successful. After that, you can assign work to others and slow down to a manageable pace.

It takes a lot of work to start and run a small business successfully, but by using the above advice, you can better manage your workload.

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