Decluttering To Benefit Your Business
Decluttering is well recognized as producing great benefits in your home environment. But had you thought about applying those benefits to your business as well? There are two particularly compelling reasons to develop a declutter attitude in your workplace... How important is it to your business that you are decisive and purposeful? That you drive your business forward consistently? Business owners know that clarity of purpose and forward momentum are key to the success of their business. So how does clutter fit into the story here... When you think about it, clutter plays a distinctly subversive role when it comes to forward momentum. Clutter is, in fact, a manifestation of procrastination, however and wherever you come across it. All clutter exits either because you've deferred a decision about something, or because you've made the decision but not taken the action. Either way it's procrastination at play. For example, if you have a pile of papers cluttering your office floor, you will either be trying to ignore them in the vain hope that they will magically disappear under their own steam and you won't have to decide what to do about them. Or you will already have decided what you want (or ought) to do with the papers, but be postponing the action phase of the operation. Either way that pile of papers sits there on your office floor, cluttering up your workspace, draining your energy and making you feel bad for not having done anything about it yet. I'm sure you're well aware of the effects of procrastination, not only on your decisiveness as a business person, but on your general wellbeing and energy levels. Procrastination is an extraordinary energy drainer, capable of stopping you and your business in your tracks if you let it get a grip. So by dealing with your workspace clutter, you eliminate an enormous amount of procrastination and free up large amounts of energy. Makes sense doesn't it? The second reason for adopting a declutter mindset in your business is an entirely practical process of creating the space for new customers. If your workplace is stuffed with outdated rubbish, if your diary is heaving with 'ought to but don't want to' appointments, if your schedule is full of low grade clients who aren't paying you full price, where's the space for new business to come in? Nature abhors a vacuum. This means that if you declutter and create space in your business, it won't stay empty for long. The trick is to declutter and create space at the same time as setting an intention to attract new clients or customers to fill that space. Know what business you want to come your way and set about making the most inviting space for it you can. I know a number of people who swear by this technique. When business is quiet, or when they want to crank it up a notch, they take a look around their workplace and they ask themselves: What can I declutter today? Sometimes it's a bigger clear-out process and takes a bit of planning and a day or two to execute. But at the end of the process, invariably, they get that call, offering them the chance of exciting new business. So these are the two key ways in which decluttering can boost your business: 1. It cuts your procrastination guilt and clears the path to forward momentum. It's got to be worth a try hasn't it? |
