Spring clean your business

09/03/11

Our business and life coach Rasheed Ogunlaru gives his tips on how to get a spring in your step and make positive changes to your life and business.

In the West we have cluttered minds and busy lives. Slowing down and reducing the content will bring you back in harmony with yourself and your health. From here you're well places to handle life's challenges and create your opportunities.

You can change your life over night. Simple systems, less time on email and one hour less TV at night, lunch breaks, dropping negative relationships, regular exercise and half an hour to yourself a day can create more time in your life, boost your business, reduce stress - and enable you explore and shape your future.

Seven business spring cleaning tips

Have a desk and file clear out: simplify, systemise, update your database, identify key leads
Restrict email, internet use and paperwork to set limited times and do key tasks first
Avoid squabbles and focus on your priorities and on winning and keeping customers
Arrive and leave on time - sounds simple - make it a habit
Start and end the day with a clear desk - this reduces ‘back to business phobia'
Go out of your work-space at lunchtime to ensure that you take a break – or you may break
Schedule time in your diary for your family, friends, interests and holidays – and put in regular time to work on your business. If you don’t move it forward it will fall back.