Every Time I Do Something I Ask Myself, “Should I Be Doing This”?

I have an Executive Personal Assistant joining the team today. Somebody basically to help organize myself, my team, our projects and all around take a lot of things off of my shoulders.

Obviously it’s a position that, you know, the working relationship will no doubt grow over time, and my new assistant will have a lot of things to learn.

They’ve got some training to go through to learn our project management and task management system. There’s a lot to pick up on in this initial stage, before things will be really effectively up and running. But today the process begins.

It’s Quite A Fun Process Actually

What I’ve basically been doing and what I will be doing ongoing now every single day – is any time I’m doing something I’m gonna ask myself, “Should I be doing this?” I really only want to be saying “Yes” to the absolute essential things that I need to be focused on to drive this company forward.

Without the marketing being created or planned out by myself, there won’t be leads coming in. Without leads, there won’t be customers, without customers we won’t be getting client applications, which means the phone team is sat there without people to speak to.

Which means nothing’s really driving the business forward. As the team’s growing and as we begin to start taking the business forwards, it’s really important I’m focused on the most important things.

And so that’s basically the exercise I put myself through now. Every single time I’m about to start a new task I just say…

“Wait! Should I Be Doing This?”

And if I can’t say “yes” because I need to be doing it, then I need to then say, “Who should be doing this?” or “Who could be doing this?”

And so obviously now, you know, we’re in a position where we’re growing the team here at Internet Profits, and everybody’s got their set roles. We've got...

• Adam who who handles all things video, who’s the Videographer in the company.
• Chris who’s my Marketing Assistant, so publishing content, creating sales funnels; many, many tasks and responsibilities fall into that position for Chris.
• Obviously Louis, very important, the President of Client Coaching here at Internet Profits – basically heads up the coaching division.
• Glen "The Wizard" who assists Louis and runs some coaching webinars.
• Gloria and Sarah and Destiny in the US who cover customer and client care and happiness.
• John who heads up the phone division.

So everybody’s got their roles. And so what I’m getting at, is essentially we’re in a position where many roles within the business are fulfilled. People are managing or running those positions.

And so my focus has to be on...

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Why I Just Employed An Executive Personal Assistant

Big, big week ahead! I think every week right now is a big week with everything that’s going on here at Internet Profits. Expanding the team, expanding the resources, expanding all operations for growth, scale and systematization of the whole business.

I think probably the big news of last week was the fact that, on Friday I actually agreed terms and employed my new Personal Assistant, Executive Personal Assistant who will actually be joining us or starting with us one week today.

So this is now my final week without that person helping me and taking a lot of things off my of my plate – and managing those, running those, helping me with running our our team, helping me running our project management and task management system.

Just all-around taking a lot of my responsibilities that would be B or C grade responsibilities, allowing me, freeing me to just focus on…

The Most Important Of All Tasks

…so I can just begin focusing on the most important things that drive this business forward; product creation, devising the marketing plans, creating the products.

I’ll be in heavily focused in those two areas, because I’ll have that person taking on everything else.

So if you look at what we’ve done over the last six weeks. So much has happened:

• We’ve moved into the new offices – 2,500 square foot offices.
• We’ve got a training room – a 15-person training room.
• We’ve got a video studio.
• We’ve got the offices to work in.
• We’ve got Adam who’s joined the team – our full time Videographer.
• We’ve got Chris joining the team, my full-time Marketing Assistant.
• We have my new Personal Assistant, Executive PA starting in seven days time.
• We’ve already got obviously the phone division of the company.
• We have Destiny in the US who handles inbound/outbound customer care and also our social media, you know, our community group.
• We have Glenn, the wizard as we call him, who’s based remotely as well.
• John and the phone division, Sarah, Gloria.

So we quite a sizeable team now. It’s really beginning to grow, both internally in the office and virtually across the world. So we’re really now setting up a systematized company.

A company that ultimately can run with or without me there. That’s the goal, that’s the 12-month goal.

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