Worry about today – tomorrow can take care of itself

What can you do to help your business today?

Today's harvest is more important than next year's crop

Can you make a call, book a meeting, ask for a sale, run a job ad to take on help, or something.

It will amaze you to see how many friends and well-meaning people will advise you to spend more time working on the business and not in the business. This is a great throw-away line that is singularly unhelpful to anyone who actually runs a business as it doesn’t bring in cash flow in the short term.

Focusing on the present is a good way to stop panicking about tomorrow.

If we only focus on the big picture then we lose focus on what needs to be done now.

Doing your daily tasks should become automatic – just like breathing.

You will find time to examine the big picture and strategic actions, and funnily enough it is by doing the mundane day to day work that you get a clearer sense of what it is that needs to be done.

There are actions that help with sales (i.e. cash flows), then there is supervising and organising your company, and then there is how your company fits in with the competition and the broader market.

Forget tomorrow – what can you do today?