I’ve had cause to travel to London quite a bit recently and on most occasions I’ve taken the train. It’s Virgin trains that run from Birmingham International down to Euston and they recently introduced new Pendolino trains which do the journey in only an hour and ten minutes.

Now, when you’re going to catch a train, the first thing you do is check the timetable to see what time it leaves and when it will arrive and, this got me thinking about the timetable in my business. I do always do my marketing first thing in the morning so, from 7.30am to about 9.15am my door is shut, my phone is turned off, my email is not even opened up and I focus on the marketing for my business. It’s part of my timetable.

Any emails that require me to think before replying to them get filed in a Friday afternoon folder that I only do on a Friday afternoon. This helps give me efficient and not bogged down by other people’s agendas – there’s the message I think here. Who is setting your timetable?

Have you got the right slugs of time earmarked and closed off with brick walls around them for you to focus on what you need to get done to develop your business? Or, are you like most business owners when someone else is setting your agenda when, you spend all your days reacting to things that are happening, crises that occur, the demands and requirements of other people?

It’s not possible to be 100% in control of our own time, all the time but, it is something that we should be aiming to do as responsible entrepreneurs. The more we allow other people to set our agenda and decide what we think about, focus on and work on then the less successful we will become.

I am completely resolved to ensure that I control my timetable for enough hours in the week to ensure that I achieve and make progress towards all my goals.

I hope you do too?

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