How to Avoid the Wrong Kind of Work
entrepreneurs never do it all yourself, but for us average business owner, this is a great temptation and costly. This means that we are doing the wrong kind of work (WKW).
Almost always, the justification for WKW’s interesting is to save money. “I do not have to pay for it,” or “I can do it yourself.” This is a sure way to beat. Here’s why.
Economic activities of all types have a certain set of values expressed in dollars. There are a certain number you can get the bookkeeping, weed farm fields, washing clothes, stock shelves, or caring for a retail store. There are different to what you can get by doing technical writing, graphic design, training development, or provides chiropractic care. Almost every industrial activity and the work scope. Great risk for entrepreneurs to come when you are choosing to perform activities of low value.
I tried to go into organic farming on two separate occasions. My reason is that I work out in my garden weeding, planting, harvesting, processing. I like physical activity, fresh air, quiet countryside. When I started, I realized I had to create an efficient production and marketing system, and do your best to do it. I feel that organic price increases, I get the money needed to maintain the small farmstead and live the dream.
It took me years to figure out what’s wrong with my ideas, work I love most the lowest value in the system. Planting, weeding, harvesting, processing and crafts, which I enjoyed, but of very low economic value. No matter how productive and efficient I’ll be, I really compete with agricultural workers, and there are not enough ways to make the economy work. What is required of agriculture was my job to focus on higher value, such as what the plant, crop prices, marketing, etc. This is intended to my company because it works I like most . I struggle to avoid the task, and instead, working with market gardens, meaning that most of my time spent on the payment of agricultural labor, although it is my own farm. While it is possible to live, I try to prosper. This method is not enough.
Here’s another example. A friend of mine is a physical therapist and after several years working in traditional office, he decided to work alone. (A great step in my book.) We discuss the operation of his business one day, and it turns out that in an effort to save money, he did all the laundry for business at night (two loads per night) and all of its own claims processing (several hours per night). In other words, in addition to running all day long practice, he worked all night! This is a sure recipe for eradication.
This is why WKW clear: He could have done for him by a laundry service for about $ 30 a week. Claims processing is a little more. If he dedicates time to get another patient or two, he will more than pay for the service within an hour of service provided to more patients. He gave up $ 150 per hour to operate (or a large spare time to pursue his own interests) to save maybe $ 10 per hour in fees. This is how business burn down.
In my own case, the understanding that the work I truly love can not be sustained forced a difficult decision: Instead of changes in a business market garden, I chose to go out of business and on it back to the hobby of gardening. I learned what it takes to keep the farm in the world, a lot of driving, marketing, sales, trade-awareness that is contrary to what I really dream-gardening, weeding, working in the field, and chose not to go that road. I have no regrets.
When you start small businesses, may have many reasons to get involved early in the WKW. You can have more time than money, and know what to do with all aspects of your business enables you to command others later. However, the employer is to search endlessly for the opportunity to outsource or delegate this work and replace them with activities that generate real income. Move can put your income in hyperdrive, and began to open up your dreams into your reality.
