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Author: Efficiency, Sanity, And Profitability Go Hand In Hand
Your profitability and sanity rely on how efficiently your school is run. Setting up your school to be low-stress early on is a sure way to maintain both.
Running a martial arts school can easily become a high-stress nightmare for new instructors. At first when you just have a few students, it’s a piece of cake. However, once you start growing beyond a few dozen students the enormity of managing a school can sneak up on you, until one day you wake up and realize, “I have no life outside my school!”
Well, running a high-stress school is a quick path to instructor/owner burnout, and a good way to ruin your business. Stress and fatigue leads to burnout, burnout leads to complacency, and complacency will soon lead to an empty floor.
I’d like to help you avoid all that. Here’s how to avoid burnout by setting your school up to be low maintenance from the very beginning. Read the rest of this entry »
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Developing better time management skills will allow you to use your time more effectively – “leveraging” your time, if you will. This in turn will make you more productive, and can definitely have a positive impact on your income.
Mentally go through everything you did yesterday. How much time did you spend doing things that have no impact whatsoever on improving your quality of life?:
* Daydreaming
* Worrying
* Engaging in unimportant conversations
* Spending time with people you really don’t care for – aka, “energy takers”
* Letting others waste your time
* Starting projects, getting distracted, then starting them over again
* Reading frivolous and unimportant magazine or news articles
* Watching TV (for some, the biggest time thief – in my opinion, it’s also the main reason for the “dumbing down” of America…)
It can be pretty frightening when you think about how much time you actually waste in a day. Now, think about how much more efficient you would be, and how much more quality, unadulterated free time you would have if you managed your time better.
Instead of working extra hours in the studio, you might be out playing at the park, relaxing at the pool, going to see a movie with your friends and loved ones, and doing other fun stuff.
So, let’s work on some time management skills to see how to increase your productivity. The first step is to set priorities. Here’s how: Read the rest of this entry »
If you read my article on time management and setting priorities, you now understand what you need to be doing during peak activity hours.
However, what you should be doing before and after classes is what I want to address in this article.
The following are essential activities that should be done in your studio every day, before and after your classes: Read the rest of this entry »
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