Give your fitness business an hour of power everyday

As fitness professionals you understand the need to move your body on a daily basis, eat right and get plenty of sleep. You’re consistent at fitting your workouts in no matter how hectic life gets and even when things do get crazy, you still find time to exercise. Am I right? If you can find the time to exercise then you can also find the time to work on your business. If you give your business an hour of power every day you would be amazed at how much you can accomplish. By giving your business the attention it deserves you will create business momentum and really start to make things happen.

So how do you give your business this hour of power? Well first you must schedule it in. But scheduling it in is not enough because you might be tempted to book a client in your hour of power or exercise or just skip it all together. When you schedule your hour of power you must stick to it. Think of this hour as being sacred and unless there is an all out emergency you will never miss it.

You must vow to yourself to work on your business during this hour of power. To be as efficient as you can during this time create a plan on which tasks, goals or objectives you would like to accomplish and then set a time line to get things done. Think of creating a lesson plan for your hour and what you intend to do during. Here’s an example for two days.

Donna’s daily hour of power!

Monday

10:00-10:15  Create a flyer for upcoming business coaching package

10:15-10:45  Write an article for my blog

10:45-10:50  Post the article

10:50-10:55  Check website traffic to the website

10:55-11:00  Organize files for coaching calls

Tuesday

10:00-10:45 Write an article for Fitness Business Canada

10:45-10:50 Update budget spread

10:50-10:55 Review marketing calendar

10:55-11:00 Organize files for coaching calls

I would create the same lesson plan for the rest of the week but each day the tasks will be different. You may notice I didn’t check email or return phone calls during this time. If the phone rings during this hour I let it go to voice mail. There should be no distractions when working in your power hour.

Being this specific about the tasks you intend to do and setting a timeline to accomplish them helps prevent procrastination. Or for some people, spinning their wheels and not actually getting anything done.

There are those of you out there that will probably feel this type of scheduling is too constrained. I agree that this system won’t work for everyone but before you discount its power, try it for a week and see how much you can accomplish once you are focussed.  If you have more time in your day then you can block off two hours or even three if you really want to see your business sky rocket.

So what are you waiting for, go block off your hour of power now and start today!