HOW “SAYING YES TO LESS” CAN GROW YOUR BUSINESS?

As a business owner, have you ever felt or do you often feel the urge to not only be good but also excel at everything in your business? The need and greed to get done a lot of things faster in a business is a very common phenomenon.

I am all for the ambition and drive to achieve more, but the truth of it is that to achieve more, you need to let go of more and understand the power of ‘less’.

Find Focus

Do you make a full to-do list of tasks and find your team burnout in an attempt to achieve them all? Start creating a ‘stop doing’ list and shift some of those chores to the new list.  

In the world of multitaskers, be a singletasker while devising the growth strategy for your business. Find the focus of your business i.e. what is your business’s strongest product/service. Now, start clearing all the distractions and bring yourself to focus on a single goal.

“64% of consumers are willing to spend more for simpler experiences.”

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Simplify the Solution

Once your vision is in place, get started with listing the small goals which will lead to the achievement of your vision. The catch is to keep this process as simple as you can. For example, developing a strong hiring strategy must be the most important step towards success in your business. But if you fall into the trap of jumping into the mindset of planning more products, more services, more quantity - your business might end up having a list full of partially completed projects at the end of the quarter! Refrain from committing this mistake. Choose solutions which simplify the process of achieving the bigger vision.

Declutter

It’s a cliched classic but decluttering your workspace can prove to be magical when it comes to effectiveness and efficiency. Now, imagine that your workspace is your mind. Start tidying up.

Start small, like eliminating the tasks which look necessary in the herd mentality of the fast-moving world but will not contribute to the bigger goals of your business. Get down to the essentials. Review the objectives of your strategy and evaluate what are the most urgent and necessary tasks which need to be executed. Knock the other things off your mind or put them in a ‘See you later’ box. Be ruthless.

Execute

After doing all the ‘less is more’ homework, you will begin to see the results during the execution process. Focused goals means less monitoring, less confusion, less stress, fewer metrics to measure the results, and more productivity, better quality, better outcomes and a bigger impact.

The bottom line is that knowing who you are in the industry and learning to say yes to ‘less vs more’ is the way to successfully scale a business and become an industry leader in the long term, and often more satisfying and peaceful than chasing dozens of tempting unnecessary goals.

Signing off until the next one

-Rajiv