When you’re in business yourself it’s easy to get sucked into doing the same day to day things. In this episode of The Tutor Podcast Neil explains the best and most effective way, that he’s found, to work in your business and not on your business.  

 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Become invisible for a day or two every month, get off of the grid and eliminate all of the distractions like phone and emails.
• I find that at home it’s harder to do thins and completely get away so I like to be completely away somewhere else in a different location.
• Clear a whole page in your diary and go into ‘total lockdown mode.’ As soon as it’s in your diary then commit to it.
• Ensure you have a plan. Book a venue where you can sit and get stuff done. Order food and drinks at specific times and plan when you will take breaks so that you know exactly how your day is mapped out.
• Structuring the day will help you to stay on course and get the work of great value to you done.
• Getting away from your usual surroundings can also help to clear your thinking which will bring new ideas to mind. Having a different place to work in can take the emotion out of the business.
• The location of where you go away should be far enough that you can just pop back home to do something.
• If You really can’t get out or away from your normal place of working, then hiding your car around the corner can be a good method of stopping people from distracting me.
• Make a habit of doing this every month so that you can get the really important work done.

 

BEST MOMENTS

‘Being busy can blindside us to working on instead of working in our business.’

 

‘It’s great to be wrong about stuff because being wrong gives you an update on your thinking and how you can do better.

 

‘If It’s really important, you will hear about it’

 

‘You’ll be surprised at how much easier it is to think when you’re away from your desk’.

 

‘Don’t be a busy fool’.

 

VALUABLE RESOURCES

The Tutor Podcast

Weird Things Guitarists Do book by Neil Cowmeadow

www.Neilcowmeadow.com

 

ABOUT THE HOST

Neil Cowmeadow is a maverick peripatetic guitar teacher from Telford with over 19 years’ experience in the business of helping people. Learn how to start, grow and love your business with Neil’s invaluable advice and tips without the buzzwords and BS!

 

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