Agnese helps female entrepreneurs have thriving online businesses without 24/7 time investment.

We live in a hustle mentality where people are expected to work really hard to be successful and have lots of money. This is what Agnese is trying to avoid in her business, and help her clients to actually do less and NOT hustle.

Everyone is busy, busy, busy. So Agnese teaches her clients how to manage their business properly, and to “declutter” from all the distractions so that they can have real focus.

Task jumping is something that we do to “get things done”, but we actually waste up to 23 minutes when we jump from task to task, as our brain needs the time to re-focus. I got this fact from Rob Moore’s “Start Now, Get Perfect Later”, which is the perfect book for you procrastinators and perfectionists out there!

Focus is crucial to productivity, and therefore business success. In simple terms, when you do four things, your focus is split into 4, and therefore you can only focus at 25% on each task.

Agnese agrees that there's a total misconception around multitasking, where we’re often praised for multi-tasking, as if it’s something to be impressed by: “you're amazing because you can type an e mail and answer the phone while talking with a client”. Multi-tasking has often been glorified; much like business, and as something to be worn like a medal. 

This is why so many businesses struggle with burn out and overwhelm as they think they have to be everywhere for everyone. Most of us create a business and leave a 9-5 to have freedom and go for mid-week lunches and coffees; but then we end up working double the hours we worked in our 9-5.  

We think that multi-tasking equals productivity; but it’s actually counter-productive. So bare that in mind next time you jump from writing social-media posts, to doing admin, to doing your accounts, in the same half an hour slot.

On this note, task batching is another extremely effective way to get more done in a shorter period of time. As opposed to jumping from task to task; sticking to one task for as long as 50 minutes, which is what the Pomodoro technique recommends, increases productivity due to being laser-focussed when doing the task.

Starting a business is of course extremely scary, and because of this, we typically operate from a scarcity mindset. We throw everything at our businesses as we want it to work SO badly. We try to be everything for everyone, and as a result are reluctant to find a niche because we want to help everyone, which sounds great but is physically impossible. We also think that in order to make a big impact; we have to invest a lot of time on social-media and stressing ourselves out.

That’s why having clients on automation is so powerful and stress-reducing, because you can earn a passive income from an online course that you created once, but that keeps generating you money as people sign up. Time is our greatest asset and something we can never get back, so if we can utilise our time better and earn a passive income, it’s a win win! Entrepreneurs think they have to compromise on time in order to be successful, but it’s better to compromise with money, such as investing in a coach, as money is something you can get back.

Agnese says that if you're overwhelmed in your business, then you're doing something wrong, and you need to find what that is. You create a business to design your own life, to work on your terms and to have freedom, so why do we allow ourselves to fall into the trap of burn-out and overwhelm?!

Entrepreneurs can also have a fear of routine because they want to get away from their 9-5 routine so desper