Work for 15 Minutes a Day

As an entrepreneur, I have my hands in a lot of projects all at the same time. This often turns out one of two ways. Either I have all sorts of revenue streams and a constant flow of fun new ideas or I am confronted with tons of things to do and never any real progress made on any of the projects. This has left me very frustrated when results are not manifesting and my goals are not being accomplished.

The first thing to do is ask yourself why you have not been making progress. I took a careful observation of my life and work habits and noticed one major thing: I WAS NOT DOING THE DIRTY WORK. It takes working out forum post after forum post when marketing your website and cold call after cold call when selling your services. I just never seemed to be doing any of this. Too quickly would I get consumed with planning, communicating and just thinking about ideas. Believe me, I am all about proper preparation, but without execution, success will never manifest.

My solution, work 15 minutes a day on each project. I know you are thinking that sounds ridiculous, 15 minutes a day will never yield anything. It takes working 12 hours a day, every day to get anything accomplished. I’m not disagreeing that it takes serious work, however, when managing ten different projects, it really only takes getting one ‘dirty’ thing of work done each day to see results. If I work 15 minutes a day, each day then by the end of the week I will have 1.75 hours of dirty work in a project. That ends up being roughly 17.50 hours with all of the projects that I have going on (I know - ten, is this guy kidding?). Here is the beauty, that leaves another reasonable 40 hours a week to dedicate to the ‘big’ project at that time.

For the past few months, endlessroom has been taking up a significant amount of time (by the way we are only a few weeks away from beta launch - more on that later). I have been sacrificing all sorts of little projects, such as this blog, and have been very disappointed with myself. Hopefully this new approach will help me see progress in all of ventures, even if it is only a small amount.