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