Do not pass Go if…

I am in the home repair and improvement business.

If my company can’t do one job well, we shouldn’t try to do two, three or four in a day.  We will just make a mess.

Fix the one.  Do one job well.  When you can deliver on that, then go on to two at once.

You don’t want to scale a broken business.  You’ll be multiplying your problems.

Does your company excel at delivering “one”?

If they want it bad enough, money is not a problem.

The more your customers want it, the less money is an issue.  

The less they want it, the more money is an issue.

How do you make them want it?

Conduct a Friction Audit

Your company does things, but how fast and at what cost?  

Are there too many steps?  Too many people to approve things?  Too much bureaucracy?  

Does it take too long?  Do things have to wait a week on a list for something that takes 4 minutes?

Are there bottlenecks?  Are some people in the process unmotivated?

Remove the obstacles and take your foot off the brake of your business.

You don’t need confidence to begin

You begin, and confidence eventually comes.

Waiting until fear disappears to begin will have you sitting on the bench learning nothing forever.

You get experience and confidence by acting without it.

Jump in.

Focus is better than busy

Even the guy at the top is human.  We all think being busy is good.

We confuse being busy with being productive and using our time well.

Ask: what is MOST important?  Not what is most in your face, like ringing phones, texts, notifications, email, meetings, and a cluttered desk.

You can change/delegate/eliminate, reschedule/and restructure those things IF you feel they were keeping you away from the REALLY important things that would make tomorrow meaningfully better.

Prioritize. Your first priority is to determine what your priority is.

Then focus on that.

Do not fill your days with lower-value work when the highest-value work is left undone.

What is your one priority that, if done well, would really move the needle tomorrow?