In a few days I'll be self employed for a year. I've made more money running a personal training business this past year than I have ever before. I'm 24, a college drop-out and basically have taught myself through reading how to run a business. Sales and customer relations comes pretty natural to me.
Life isn't bad, I'm just about to crack 6 figs (far off from my ultimate goal), make my own schedule, charge a lot per hour and have a lot of time to do whatever I want during the week.
All that said I feel so disorganized and overwhelmed and I just cannot figure out how to prioritize.
My ultimate goal is to operate a bigger business where I employ trainers to do what I am doing now and just run the back end. Basically cater to corporate people over here in Manhattan and eventually other cities and make training as convenient as possible to customers with competitive prices and a few other things I offer that most of my competitors don't. I'm also becoming pretty niche.
Anyways, I have trouble finishing things because I have so many things to do.
-Currently on the table
-I have to write a business plan because I'm not organized. It's been much harder than I thought. I know what makes me different and why I stand out as a business, but I am having a hard time articulating it to sound good on paper. It's also going to take many hours of market research.
-I need to write a presentation for business to business events that I want to host. I will go into participating businesses to network by providing lunch-time talks about health to employees and offer promotions.
-I have a new website I paid someone a few grand to develop, it's the core of my business because of its functionality. I have yet to write all the content.
-I have programs for clients I need to update periodically and that requires a lot of thought and planning.
This might not seem like a lot, but it is. It's 4 separate projects all pertaining to the same project, plus I have a heavy client load at times so my actual job takes away time from things to better my business.
My issue lies that I've started all four of these things, and haven't completed a single one and don't force myself completing them at this rate anytime soon because I just don't know how to delegate tasks to myself, how to prioritize and how to maybe figure out the best action plan to get everything done.
Just looking for some advice from anyone that is good at organization and task planning.
I'm also a perfectionist and have a hard time writing things about my business at times because I'm always concerned "it's not good enough," and this takes up valuable time.
I have bad follow through with certain things. I am chock full of great ideas, at least people tell me they are, but don't follow through on many of them because I get overwhelmed and don't strategically plan.
On the flip side as said earlier, I am running a successful business that is opening up windows, growing and has a ton of potential. I just want to get better.
Life isn't bad, I'm just about to crack 6 figs (far off from my ultimate goal), make my own schedule, charge a lot per hour and have a lot of time to do whatever I want during the week.
All that said I feel so disorganized and overwhelmed and I just cannot figure out how to prioritize.
My ultimate goal is to operate a bigger business where I employ trainers to do what I am doing now and just run the back end. Basically cater to corporate people over here in Manhattan and eventually other cities and make training as convenient as possible to customers with competitive prices and a few other things I offer that most of my competitors don't. I'm also becoming pretty niche.
Anyways, I have trouble finishing things because I have so many things to do.
-Currently on the table
-I have to write a business plan because I'm not organized. It's been much harder than I thought. I know what makes me different and why I stand out as a business, but I am having a hard time articulating it to sound good on paper. It's also going to take many hours of market research.
-I need to write a presentation for business to business events that I want to host. I will go into participating businesses to network by providing lunch-time talks about health to employees and offer promotions.
-I have a new website I paid someone a few grand to develop, it's the core of my business because of its functionality. I have yet to write all the content.
-I have programs for clients I need to update periodically and that requires a lot of thought and planning.
This might not seem like a lot, but it is. It's 4 separate projects all pertaining to the same project, plus I have a heavy client load at times so my actual job takes away time from things to better my business.
My issue lies that I've started all four of these things, and haven't completed a single one and don't force myself completing them at this rate anytime soon because I just don't know how to delegate tasks to myself, how to prioritize and how to maybe figure out the best action plan to get everything done.
Just looking for some advice from anyone that is good at organization and task planning.
I'm also a perfectionist and have a hard time writing things about my business at times because I'm always concerned "it's not good enough," and this takes up valuable time.
I have bad follow through with certain things. I am chock full of great ideas, at least people tell me they are, but don't follow through on many of them because I get overwhelmed and don't strategically plan.
On the flip side as said earlier, I am running a successful business that is opening up windows, growing and has a ton of potential. I just want to get better.
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