What was the first thing you did when you came into work this morning?

The answer has a lot to do with your level of success in business.

Did you dive into the day-to-day, like so many business owners do? Did you get stuck into the work ‘in’ your business? Maybe you checked your emails or made a plan for the day?

If so, then that’s very dangerous to your long term success.

You see, the smart business owners started work this morning by focusing at least an hour of their time, uninterrupted, on the marketing of their business.

They worked ‘on’ their business not ‘in’ it – at least for an hour when they first got in. I know it can be difficult to make this happen. It’s a hard habit to establish -especially with so much to do and get on with.

But no one ever said achieving success was easy.

The fact is that unless or until you begin finding 60 -90 minute chunks of uninterrupted time several times a week your business won’t materially shift from wherever it is today. That’s why this is so important – and finding that 90 minute slot pretty much every day has definitely been one of the keys to my success in business. I tried leaving it till later in the day and doing the more urgent (but in truth less important) stuff first but it doesn’t work. Things get in the way, time whizzes by and it just doesn’t happen.

That’s why I spend 90 minutes every morning, before I open email, check voicemail, before I even say ‘good morning’ to my team, working ‘on’ my business, not in it.

I can’t recommend it strongly enough if you’re serious about success.

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