Jul 25 2007
How To Be More Productive In Your YTB Home Based Travel Business
Most of us want to be more productive with our YTB travel business, but seem to be doing things the same old ways and not getting the results we have in mind. There is an old saying that if you don’t change the way you are doing things, you can’t expect different results. It seems that the easiest and first step for changes that will increase your productivity with your travel biz is a time management anylysis.
For example, let’s look at multitasking. Some people are good at it, but solid productivity goes beyond just working on multiple tasks at the same time.
To be more specific, outlined below are six productivity suggestions, that provide a few new approaches to getting through your to-do list and being more productive. This approach to increased productivity with your online travel agency is unique, because the message actually encourages people to get more done by slowing down to be focused rather than non-stop multitasking. Here’s why:
• Simply setting and having goals can be more important than the actual content of your goals. In this way, productivity is increased by achieving goals rather than keeping up with the traditional to-do list. This goes back to the old “big picture versus the little picture” scenario. We all need a few big-picture ideas about our YTB travel business, or we won’t be able to drive it.
Many do not set goals because they know things are going to change anyway, so why bother. They simply take each day as it presents itself and try to manage to the changes. Regardless of ongoing changes, goals aren’t as important as the process of setting goals and working to meet them. By knowing you can acheive goals for your travel mlm encourages you to establish more goals, which makes you more conscious with regards to thinking about what you’re doing. This may be the very core of productivity itself.
• Set specific times to gather information that will promote and drive your home based travel agency . Since most of us are knowledge workers, the individual who is best at taking in information and processing it will probably be more productive and successful with his YTB travel business. Set specific times to schedule information gathering and set limits on the amount of information you want to absorb. You don’t want this process to interupt your business, which really undermines productivity. On the other hand, the lack of gathering usefulf information and absorbing additional information about your travel business is a sure way to become obsolete in the business. In fact, it becomes difficult to answer questions from prospects who are considering joining YTB travel.
• Set achievable goals. Many of us become frozen due to daunting to do lists. Consider the scenario that each of us has two selves including the boss and the assistant. The boss self creates goals that are cool to do, as well as things that are awful to do but must get done. The assistant self has to do all of it. In addition, the boss self can make life very hard for the assistant self. For example, ideas that have no execution strategy, projects that have 30 or more steps, and administrative activities that aren’t essential all drive your assistant self to the wall. To lessen the event of this inner conflict, one must first look at how he is managing himself.
• Do things that you’re passionate about. By scheduling goals that you are passionale about on certain days or times during the day, you’ll get into the habit of getting the important things done. This productivity suggestion is to do something within your YTB travel business that you’re passionate about. This might be the recruiting aspect of your home travel agency . If you are passionate about this recruitng aspect of your YTB travel business, you are probably better at it and you don’t mind trying harder and putting more time into it.
• Try to complete important goals than urgent tasks. There is a difference between the important goals and the urgent tasks on your to-do list. For example, important goals might be learning new skills to promote and run your YTB travel agency, finding a new prospects for your YTB travel business, or planning a new project. In this case, ask yourself if what you are doing will really matter within 5 years. On the other hand, not answering an e-mail from an impatient person right that second most probably won’t matter in five years. To that end, it is hard to be productive if you’re wearing yourself down by spending too much time taking care of other people’s needs. If you decide that 10out of 20 tasks on your to-do list won’t really be important in the long term, you’ll be more productive completing important goals than endless, urgent tasks that really won’t matter 5 years from now. These are called time robbers. We all have them on a daily basis..
• Try to focus on results, or outcome from your daily routine and goal setting. Simply completing busy activities doesn’t necessarily mean that you are accomplishing value for your YTB travel business. In the long term, you’ll feel accomplished about the time you spend if you’re making a difference with the outcome and productive results. For example, we often create to-do list that take require more time to accomplish than they’re worth. An easy way to determine if completing these tasks are worth the time is to take the desired outcome, or value of the task and divide it by the activities or cost of completion and you have a return on your investment, which is time. Time is everything and this will help you waste less time on things that really won’t matter in the long run.
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