Making the most of our precious time as entrepreneurs

Steve Jobs once said: “My favourite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.” How true, and as entrepreneurs we know just how precious time is and how we need to maximize our time and effort to make the biggest difference in our lives and businesses. Yet it’s not all about imposing impossible deadlines on ourselves - it’s more about how we manage our time more effectively. It’s human nature to adjust our efforts to fit the parameters and deadlines we set for ourselves, which can sometimes mean that we procrastinate and take the maximum time we have allowed for us to complete set tasks, instead of just getting the job done as quickly and efficiently as possible. So if we are genuinely going to make the most of our precious time as entrepreneurs, perhaps we should concentrate more on completing tasks as they arise, getting them out of the way, and then freeing up our time to do things that we really enjoy and which contribute to our quality of life and the future growth and development of our businesses.