The bee who shagged me…
I’m sitting in my office today, happily working away and minding my own business, when this damn bee comes and sits on my keyboard. Anyway, I know it’s not nice to kill anything, but even still I pulled my sandal off and gave it a big whack.
Guess what – I missed… and wary of an angry bee I spent the next 15 minutes chasing it around waiting for it to actually sit in a hitting position.
It eventually left the building.
Quite frankly that bee infuriated me and I’m sure I would have looked like the bad guy in a comical display of rage if I had of been featured on Seinfeld’s Bee movie, which I saw last year.
Why was I so annoyed? Because it wasted my time – and it doesn’t matter what you are selling, whether it be a product or service – when you’re in business…
TIME IS MONEY.
And I figure that bee wasted a quarter an hour of my time – and when I’m writing copy that’s worth at least $125 – which means that damn bee “”shagged me”"
for over $100.
But just how often do we let these parasites steal money from us on a daily basis: email distractions, surfing online without a purpose, conversations which go on too long, picking up the phone when we shouldn’t, etc.
And how much is that costing you? Want to find out?
Well, how much do you want to earn this year? $100,000? $200,000? $500,000? $1,000,000 +.
Let’s be conservative and say you want to turn over $200,000.00 with a 2 week holiday.
That works out to $4,000 a week… or $100 an hour based on a 40 hour week.
But you aren’t always working.
In fact, half your day probably gets taken up with administration, meetings and other things we do in business.
So let’s divide that by 2… which means you should value every hour as being worth at least $200 to you.
So the next time you are flicking through email for 15 minutes… or on a pointless phone call… see it as handing money over to this distraction…
15 minutes = $50.
30 minutes = $100
… and so on.
That will stop you procrastinating. That will get you back on track.
But make sure you also follow Peter Drucker’s advice:
“”There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all”" Peter Drucker
What he means by that is simple – make sure you invest your time doing tasks which are the most critical to making YOU money and growing your business.
And the most leveraged task you can be doing is marketing your business. Problem is, business owners hold off on this because they don’t know how to do it.
And that’s why you should move heaven and earth to get your hands on More Customers Made Easy to find out how easy it is.
Time is ticking. Don’t procrastinate. Remember, it’s only $37 a month and if you value your time, the step by step templates and examples are going to save you
this money 100 times over.
