How do you keep up? I own an accounting firm, have 3 employees and over 100 clients. I worked on a project management system for months that didn’t work how it was intended. So we are having one being built out. We are piecing things together for now. But I just can’t keep up!
When I first started my business over 10 years ago, I gave clients my cell number because it was just me. I have so many clients texting and calling me directly I can hardly get anything done. I can’t turn it off because of my kids school.
I have been delegating as much as I can. But even for me to review stuff. I am just behind. I wish I could work after hours so I could actually get stuff done.
Idk what I am needing, I guess more venting. But I’ll take any advice you’ve got!
Practical advice - read a book on time management and exercise the 3 Ds (Do, delegate, defer). Don’t give out your phone number anymore and set an auto respond on your email explaining that everything will be dealt with in turn.
Philosophical advice - being really busy is good. It sounds like you’ve built a great business. The pressure you feel right now is a muscle that you exercise and you’ll only get better at dealing with it with practice.
I’ve read a few of them and have implemented some things from them. I do not give out my personal cell anymore and haven’t for a while. It’s just the clients I’ve been with for a while that still use it. But I am not going to answer anymore and then call them back from my work line. Hopefully over time they will only use that if I do not answer my personal.