What are you doing with your time?
Little rant for today
I get it you’re busy. Often really busy as a Partner of an Accounting firm. But what are you actually doing?
Is it low(ish) level work that others could do or high end work that only you can do?
Remember this phrase for the rest of your professional career....
“What you do with your chargeable time will create income today. What you do with your non-chargeable time should create wealth for the future”
It’s an oldie (in 1986 it was first told by Michael E Gerber in his seminal book - The E Myth) but a goodie - and it’s rock solid.... working ON your business vs IN your business. That’s why we have the hats.
Working IN time can be summarised as client work (charged or not charged), team management / queries / firm management and anything administration.
Working ON time is any task that creates leverage. So sales, leveraged marketing, writing, speaking at events, product development and leadership - as aposed to management.
The more you spend working ON your business the better your business will be, the less stressful, more profitable and more enjoyable.
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Your need to be brutal about your time. I bang on about this all the time. Partners should only be doing 3 things with their time:
You need great people around you. You need great systems and technology. And you MUST let go and delegate to the people around you. There are tens of thousands of great people out there to hire. There is great technology to use. You’ve just got to do it.
As the legendary Dan Sullivan once said “if you can write a check to solve the problem - you don’t have a problem”.
Until you bite the bullet, hire who you need to hire, outsource or just don’t do it you will always be busy. Start writing some checks and STOP being so busy.
Rant over.
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All the best?
Rob Nixon
Business Coach and HYPE GUY who helps you rewrite your business money story | Business Made Simple Coach | StoryBrand Certified Guide | Trauma of Money Certified Practitioner | College Professor
2 年Highly recommend that if you’re an accountant reading this to book that call with Wendy Miller. If you want to talk about an activity that you can do today that creates wealth in the future it’s a call with Wendy.
Business owner turned Accountant | Helps small business start survive and grow
2 年Hey Rob, interesting read which makes many good points. I would argue however the % is off, 60% sales seems too high vs not enough internal development of your team. With those % I reckon you grow to a certain point but would hit a ceiling due to not spending enough time developing internally.