You Have TO Be REALLY, REALLY, REALLY Careful with time management, if you’re an entrepreneur…

Here’s my point, so you don’t have to wade through everything.

An entrepreneur is someone who solves problems at a profit. In essences, like peter Drucker said it’s “innovation and marketing.” SO basically, all an entrepreneur really does is create something that provides value to people that they are willing to exchange money for, and builds a system to serve that value again and again.

” The problem with time management is that you get efficient at doing things you shouldn’t be doing, when you should be focusing on building systems (either people systems or machine/technology systems) to do that work.”

-Andrew James (that’s the quote)

I believe focusing on becoming an effective person, manager of energy, and creative person is really the key.

Everything I have Said Has Basically Come From The Books Or People + My Own Thinking:

• The Power Of Full Engagement
• The E-Myth
• The 4-Hour Work Week
• Eben Pagen
• Rich Schefren

Rich taught me something extremely simple, yet profound.  Here are the two on going jobs of an entrepreneur:

1- Managing Projects (a small number of specific, high leverage projects)

2- Creating and optimizing systems (which is usually the project)

So there you have it.  You don’t need to become efficient at doing most of the work.  Yes there is stuff missing from this list.  My point is, start thinking in terms of VISION (which is the creative awareness find the problem and fix it stage), Projects (the set it up and make it work the first time stage), Systems (the get other people, processes or whatever in place to run it for you stage), and Optimization (continual incremental improvement around your greatest constraints and/or opportunities)

I know this was super short, and not very in depth.

If you want more information like this, or IF YOU DISAGREE WITH ME (that would be cool, really I would like a good conversation to ensue) then comment below and I will for sure do a video, podcast, or more posts to talk about it… And respond for sure!

Andrew James