| Are you running your business or is it running you? | | | | your staff know their positions fully? Does your staff |
| There is a simple solution. | | | | put problems or situations on your plate that you need |
| One of the most common complaints that business | | | | to now solve? Does your staff get along or are you a |
| owners have today is that they feel their business is | | | | mediator to their continuous problems? Are you |
| running them and that they're being pulled in every | | | | working too many hours and lacking the return? Are |
| direction instead of really running the business | | | | you pounding the pavement to generate more |
| themselves. | | | | business with little to no success? Are you behind in |
| Well, I'd like to tell you, when I was first in business I | | | | your financial plans or goals? These are to name just |
| experienced the same thing. I was working too many | | | | a few of the common areas of concerns that |
| hours, not seeing my family as much as I should; my | | | | business owners face. Take a look at those things |
| staff always came to me looking for the solutions to | | | | that come to the top of your mind that concern you |
| day-to-day scenarios and so on. I found I was lacking | | | | the most. Then prioritize those things which are causing |
| the amount of time necessary to really do what I | | | | the most difficulty for you in your company or life. |
| needed to do in order to ensure the expansion of my | | | | It's easy to list out what may be going downhill, but the |
| business. | | | | ultimate question is how do you turn those things |
| After years of burning the wick at both ends, I decided | | | | around? |
| something needed to change quickly because my | | | | The way you do that is by becoming the very best |
| candle was getting ready to burn out. | | | | administrator possible so that you can manage, train |
| I realized that in the midst of running my business with | | | | and delegate in order to create the most effective and |
| all its stresses and being a husband and father, I | | | | efficient machine possible. What is an administrator |
| needed to get my priorities straight, re-evaluate my | | | | exactly? Well, per the Webster's College Dictionary |
| purposes and really become the very best | | | | "Administrator: n. 1. a person who manages the |
| administrator possible to make my practice and | | | | direction of a government, business, institution or the |
| personal life efficient and enjoyable again. | | | | like. (Latin- administrare to assist, carry out, manage the |
| You're probably thinking what you're going through is | | | | affairs of.) |
| normal or that's just the way it's always been or | | | | There is no other person in your business that is more |
| supposed to be. Well, I'm telling you it's not normal, | | | | responsible for your business than you. And when you |
| that's not the way it is and you don't have to live with | | | | assign that responsibility to someone else and detach |
| these administrative difficulties or be controlled by your | | | | yourself from it, you get into trouble. Now, I'm not |
| business. | | | | saying you should be handling all the positions in the |
| So, how do you change it and get off the | | | | office, because after all that's what is making the |
| roller-coaster ride? There are a few important factors | | | | business control you. What I am saying is you should |
| to look at in order to accomplish this. First, take a look | | | | know every aspect of the positions in your office and |
| at why you became a business owner in the first | | | | train those under you to handle certain tasks in their |
| place. Are you fulfilling that dream the way you | | | | entirety and then manage them from above. This is |
| envisioned it in its entirety? Now, look at everything that | | | | one of the most basic fundamentals of being a good |
| is not optimum or that you're experiencing that is not | | | | administrator and when you can successfully master |
| part of your dream. Look at things such as: Are you | | | | this fundamental you will be on your way to a happier |
| spending enough quality time creating a future for your | | | | life. |
| company? Do you spend time with your family? Does | | | | |