Every morning you sit down at your computer with the best intentions. You’re all geared up for a productive day and ready to tackle the big ideas and strategic actions that are going to take your business to the next level.

But then real life intervenes. Your phone rings and doesn’t stop ringing. You’re dealing with customer enquiries and people needing to chat with you. You keep getting distracted by the huge amount of ‘urgent’ emails that flood your inbox. There seems to be so many demands on your time, regardless of how organised you started the day!

Distractions and interruptions will happen throughout the day – it’s an inevitable part of business and life. So finding a way that will allow you to quickly refocus on the day’s tasks and get back on track is key to you having a productive day. One way to do this is by allocating a theme to each day so that you know what your area of focus will be for that day.

That way when interruptions happen or if you have general daily tasks you need to deal with, you can then quickly refocus and get back on track with the tasks that will help move you closer to achieving your goals and taking business to the next level.

Focus is an important part of productivity and finding a way to create structure in your business and life can lead you to do more work in less time by working smarter not harder.

Everyone’s business and goals are different and so will your daily themes. Generally, your daily themes will match up with the projects and goals you have in place for your business.

Below is an example of what your daily themes could be:

• Monday – Management and Recruiting
• Tuesday – Product
• Wednesday – Marketing and Growth
• Thursday – Development and Partnerships
• Friday – Finances (both business and personal finances)
• Saturday – Self Care
• Sunday – Strategy and Preparation

On each particular day, you will know what your focus is, saving you time by avoiding context switching and jumping between various unrelated tasks. When you switch between tasks it’s hard to focus on one subject and then switch to a completely different one. It’s distracting and unproductive and keeping you from taking your business to the next level.

So, for instance, if your theme for Friday is Finances, you will deal with any requests from your bookkeeper, accountant, debtors, creditors, budgets, cash flows, reconciling accounts, completing BAS etc. on a Friday.

Theming your days also takes away decision fatigue and makes sure that each day you’re working on areas that will grow your business. It will also be easier for you to plan, organise and schedule your week as any appointments and meetings you have that relate to the themes are booked in on those respective days.

3 Actions To Help You Regain Focus

1. Consider what you are currently doing each day in your business?
2. How do you feel working this way? How is it effecting your productivity
3. What daily themes could you be implementing into your week?

Head over to the comments and let me know:

What daily themes have you implemented into your week? Have you been more productive? How has it effected your results?

Leave a comment below and let me know how you go!

P.S if you have friends, clients or colleagues who are struggling to use their time effectively in their business, forward this email. They’ll thank you for it!