How to easily boost business success the new way
I stumbled across an article which I believe could help us find a new way to easily boost business success, productivity and our wellbeing in today’s stressed out and distracted world. You see if you are like most people you are likely to find yourself getting distracted frequently during your day. Often, you only become aware when you sort of, literally wake up from flicking through your social media accounts or scrolling with no purpose through emails. Sometimes you might even find yourself wandering into the tea room in search of something to give you that instant reward. All of these supposedly trivial moments add up to eroding your business success and adding to the high cost of business success.
So, how can we boost business success with less effort?
Research advises us that our attention span has fallen to a mere eight seconds. Furthermore, with digital and visual distractions all around us, it’s almost impossible to keep our mind firmly focused on the task at hand. How often do you get distracted during your day? Ten, twenty times or have you lost count? So, it was with great excitement when I read about an exciting new way of working that might help get more done, boost business success and the best news, take more time off.
This new exciting way of running a business comes from Lasse Rheingans, a German business owner. He chose a radically different approach to run his business by transforming his hours of operating. However, before I tell you more, here’s a question for you.
What difference would it make to your life if you could double your productivity every day?
A question I believe that is worth pondering over. Not just because of how an increase in productivity could boost business success, but also in terms of what else you could fit into your day? That is the bit that excites me.
Imagine if you could work way less and maintain or boost your productivity and profitability
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Lasse Rheingans took a bold step and created a five-hour workday instead of the normal eight hours. He did this based on his own personal experience in his prior job, where he spent extra hours at work due to time-wasting activities such as checking social media and responding to reply-all emails. Now, to make this work and ensure he boost business success and maintain profitability, he created a few rules.
There is always a cost and consequence for every decision you make
- Productivity has to remain the same, as salaries remain the same.
- Employees are expected to start work at 8 am and are free to leave from 1 pm.
- Small talk during office hours is discouraged. Just imagine, no more of those pointless water fountain whinge sessions, where the same issue is rehashed day in and day out!
- Social media is banned.
- Phones stay in backpacks and company email accounts checked twice a day.
- Most meetings last only 15 minutes.
The result of this radical shake-up to the working day is that the company produces the same level of output for clients despite shorter days. Employees are happier and are delivering better work for clients. Ultimately, the keys to be able to boost business success.
Now, this doesn’t work for everyone. One company, San Diego’s Tower Paddle Boards began a five-hour workday in 2015. Initially, it allowed them to weed out unproductive people and reward productive ones. Eventually, he limited this to the summer months as he found it sapped some employees enthusiasm. Ultimately detrimental to being able to boost business success.
The question is, what would you do with the extra time you gain by increasing your productivity?
Whether or not this would practically work for your business, imagine increasing your productivity? What difference would that make to your life? Aside from the business results, what else would you do with the extra time? The possibilities are endless.
- A new hobby or a new sport.
- Time to cook healthy meals.
- Enjoying more time connecting with friends or family.
- Chill out time; gardening, reading or beach time perhaps?
- Furthermore, you might be able to book those hard to get appointments that fill up your precious weekend or after hours?
- It might even transform your relationship with your smartphone or watch that has to come along with you every nano-second of your life, merely to give you something else to give you that moment of pleasure in your long and busy day? You could leave it at home while you pursue more exciting pursuits. Ones that involve connecting with real humans!
What would you do with an extra three hours every day?
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Research has shown we are only productive for a few hours of the day anyway. Some research cites three hours, others five. So, I reckon it makes sense to work more effectively and spend less time working to gain time back for other pursuits? To be able to boost business success while working fewer hours.
A shift in Mindset is required to boost business success while working fewer hours
To achieve this, a shift in Mindset is vital. Additional strategies to keep focused, keep your energy high and focus on the task at hand are essential. A Champion Mindset and a laser focus. However, I am sure many people would willingly ramp up their discipline for more time off? Wouldn’t you?
Furthermore, imagine if it gave us a solution to the growing problem we have with ‘presenteeism,’ disengagement, stress, anxiety and loneliness? What if it afforded more opportunities to connect more with people? Moreover, keeping fit and looking after our health? We could have better relationships with our families, cook healthy meals, learn new skills or take up a new hobby. I reckon our nation’s wellbeing and health, mental and physical would improve instantly. As a consequence, it could be a critical key to boost business success.
Imagine mastering your day to achieve your tasks in just five hours
Now, I’m a business owner, so I have a lot of things to juggle in my business. While I have mastered a strategy for focusing on the tasks related to my business outside my coaching, and I always have time for myself in the morning, I haven’t as yet mastered keeping my working day to five hours. Yet! However, I am working on it! That is a great goal to strive for!
The only question for you to ask yourself is how can you sprinkle a bit of this philosophy and methodology into your business? What do you need to do differently, or less of to create space for more of the things that give you meaning, joy, pleasure and fulfilment in your life?
And that is a question worth taking time to ponder and answer!
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