Million Dollar Micro Business

03Time management

Perhaps the seed to start your own online course was planted long ago, or maybe it's a new idea. Either way most likely you're not someone with a surfeit of time and no idea how to use it.

‘I'd love to do this. I just don't have the time’ is the number one objection I hear. In reality, you have time for everything that's most important to you. We're all time poor because we humans always want to do more than the time we have available, so we find ourselves in this perpetual cycle of disappointment, running faster and faster as we try to do everything, yet our goals keep eluding us.

To master time you need to spend it doing the things that bring you the most joy and the most money, and either outsource, automate or simply eliminate the rest. I talk a lot about this in my book One Life: How to Have the Life of Your Dreams, where I recommend a structure to time audit your life. Many of us fall into the trap of spending far too much time on the things that don't matter and not enough time on the things that do.

Spending time on packaging your knowledge and expertise and creating an online course is such a good use of your time. It will help other people with what they seek to learn, while also returning a financial reward and helping create a legacy for you. But it's not enough that I believe it for you. You have to believe it yourself so you prioritise this work and get it done. And when you hit the mental roadblocks, your belief must be strong enough to help ...