How to Free Up Time By Embracing Systems

When you work for yourself, you will want to learn how to free up time by embracing systems because time management is still necessary when you work from home building an online business.

Many times the reason you want to build an online business to begin with is to make money, but it’s about more than making money just for the sake of making money. 

It’s what that money can ultimately provide you, which is freedom.

Freedom to work your own schedule, etc.

It’s time freedom so that you can do what you want, when you want and with whom you want. 

As a work at home entrepreneur, your ultimate goal is to work the least amount of time, with the maximum return possible.

This way, you are free to explore your passions and enjoy time with your family and friends. 

What’s the point of escaping employer control just to become your own cubicle prisoner overworking yourself in your own online business? 

This can happen easily because online entrepreneurs tend to be workaholics because they actually want to do the work on their online business and the lines get blurred when you work from home. 

It’s easy to end up working all the time.

If you’re not careful, losing a good work-life balance is even easier than when you work for an employer.

Unfortunately, what often happens is that your task list piles up and leaves you feeling as if you are drowning in your duties.

Fortunately though, over time you will become faster at what you do. 

You will master certain tasks and be able to slide through them compared to when you first started a task and had to learn the ropes. 

Again, time management is still something that will need to be managed, even as you get better at production.

As time goes on, you will also find better and easier ways of doing things than you originally did them. 

These developments will certainly help you free up more time and allow you to enjoy a sense of personal satisfaction from a better work-life balance.

But, if you want to go one step further when it comes to managing your time, then you can create systems and templates to assist you in cutting down on your task list and working fewer hours. 

Start by developing templates for any area of your online business where it makes sense.

For instance, this might be a blog post, an email autoresponder, a social media post, a sales page, etc. 

I have a template set up for various things, especially for blog posts.

I actually don’t even need to physically look at or use my templates much anymore because I have them memorized, from having used them so many times.

My fingers just know what to do now and what to click on, etc. 

Practice doesn’t make perfect because nothing is ever perfect in this world, but practice creates habits and muscle memory. 

Starting off, if you have a template to work off of, then it becomes a plug-in situation that moves much faster and more smoothly.

And then like I said, it becomes second nature after a while.

You will also want to create a systematic response for how you conduct your online business. 

This could be anything from your daily routine, such as checking and responding to your email, texts, private messages, replying to blog comments or engaging on social media first thing in the morning or last thing at night.

You decide what time is best for you. 

Everyone has their own way that they like to do things. 

When you start looking at your routines and habits on paper, you can often spot ways to combine tasks, simplify them, or help them make more sense.

And when I say “on paper”…I also mean digital paper like Google Docs, Notepad, etc.

I don’t use a lot of physical paper to make notes.

I have switched most things to Google Docs because it autosaves and can be synced with any device and accessed from anywhere.

Working on a computer is already hard enough on my neck issues and so looking down to write physical notes is even worse.

I do have a physical daily planner for personal stuff that I have to keep track of, but those are just quick little entries once or twice a day.

My online business related stuff all stays online, except passwords…I do have them physically written down in a spiral notebook as well because you should always have a backup.

Sure, you can reset passwords, but you will still need to make note of the new password.

Another tip is you might want to reorganize the order in which things are done.

You’re the boss, so you can decide what your “SOP’s” are…

If you don’t know what that means, it’s corporate speak for Standard Operating Procedures and half the time they are made up by the head honchos that have ZERO clue how the job is done anyway…lol.

Well, you are the head honcho of your own online business and you can create your own standard operating procedures that actually work and make sense for what you need to accomplish.

Another thing you may want to do when creating systems for your online business is to see where it makes sense for you to delegate or outsource to another individual.

Whether you hire someone to be your administrative assistant (this is actually referred to as a VA or Virtual Assistant), or outsource to a freelance service provider for certain tasks, this can benefit you in many ways.

You will no longer have to spend time on certain things that you don’t like to do, don’t have the talent to do or don’t have time to do.

The more tasks you can hand over to someone else, the more free time you’ll have to enjoy everything you’ve worked so hard to achieve.

Hopefully you can take some or all of these tips and truly create the freedom and success that you seek as an online entrepreneur.

Also see:

📲 Seize The Day – Time Management For Working At Home

📲 How Systems can Boost Your Business and Improve Your Life

📲 Daily Business Action Plan & Time Management

📲 Creating Or Using Systems For Work

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