Scheduling time to work on your business, Now or Never Design

Working on your business.
How to schedule 60 business improvements each year

Have you ever felt like every part of your business is just sorted? Everything is filed beautifully, your paperwork is up to date, your brand visuals, website and packaging is perfection. Your marketing and socials are completely scheduled. Your dream clients just throw themselves and their coins at you? You can’t even imagine how you could make your business better? Nope? Me either.

I think this business nirvana is a non-existent destination sold to us by the ‘it’s easy to get rich on the internetz!’ club. And by the relentless social media imagery we see of businesses that ‘appear’ to be completely relaxed, well oiled, highly profitable business machines. We tend to feel like we’re behind and we should ‘have our shit together’ more. It’s overwhelming to think about how much we would have to work on to feel like we were completely organised. The to-do list when running a business is relentless and the time to work on it doesn’t seem to make itself known. We try and set aside time to work ‘on’ our businesses rather than ‘in’ it for more than five seconds but again and again we push it aside to do the paid work.

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Clarity - developing a crystalline vision

Essential groundwork: Find your clarity

Welcome to first Now or Never blog post. Thank you for taking the time to join me and I hope this is the start of an interesting, inspiring and valuable series for you. Let’s dive right in to a topic that can benefit us all, no matter the stage or size of your business.

 

Finding clarity and confidence in the vision of your business.

 

By having a clear and compelling vision for your future and the courage to act on that vision, you’ve set one of the most valuable pieces of groundwork required for building a successful business, brand and life.

One of the stand-out attributes in successful small business owners is their crystalline vision of their goals and dreams. They can see what it looks like, they can confidently articulate it, and there is a distinct lack of worry about it turning out any other way. Not only do they know what they want, but they believe that they will achieve it. The result is a brand so strong, easily distinguished and readily accepted for who or what it is. Each choice that business owner has made has been educated and measured against their vision and goals.

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