Even if your business is new, establish the habit now and when you become busy it will be one less thing to take care of.
It will also prevent you from feeling scattered and frustrated when you have a lot to do every day.
Being organized often means having to rearrange your belongings, priorities and most importantly your habits.
The following are ten essential areas to be organized in a network marketer's life:
- Your physical space: This refers to the physical area where you will base your business.
This might be a a designated home office area or just a multi activity space in your home.
Wherever it is, it needs to be organized so you can conduct your business comfortably and efficiently.
- Your hard copy filing system: You will collect a huge amount of hand written notes, print outs and other information material as your business progresses.
Keeping this in order means you will know where to find what you are looking for when necessary.
- Your computer: This includes your computer filing system, email account and Internet usage.
Our computers are used more and more these days to conduct business so it is vital to keep this functioning simply and effectively. - Your time: Making sure you organize the time you have set aside for your business so you can get everything done you set out to achieve on a daily basis will support your business goals.
- Your prospects: Keeping track of who you speak to and what they tell you will help you to know where you are in the process with them.
It is ideal to move people through the initial prospecting phase efficiently so that you know whether you need to spend more time with them or not. - Your marketing: There are many ways to market and most times we use a number of these strategies.
Keeping this side of your business in check is essential so you can evaluate what is working and what needs to be changed going forward.
- Your business budget: Knowing how much money you have to spend and what you are actually spending on the various parts of your business makes it easier to make decisions about whether you need to spend more or less to get the results you desire.
- Your meetings: Meetings can take up far too much time whether face to face or phone meetings.
Keeping these organized according to an objective will mean you don't waste time unnecessarily.
- Your team: Unless you can organize your team and their needs you will end up spending too much time being interrupted and not getting on with growing your personal business further.
- Your head space: While this may sound like an odd thing to keep organized it is probably the most important as when you de-clutter your mind and can think clearly you will be in better position to be productive.