Is Your Day Routine Or Random?

Get A Good Routine Going!

I decided to count the amount of clocks I own.  I have never seen a study of how many clocks the average person owns, but I think we would be surprised at the amount.  The room I am sitting in has a clock on the computer monitor face, there is another clock on each of our cell phones charging at their stations (that is two more), one on the wall next to me, one near our fish rank, one on the television monitor, one on my Nook, one on my heart rate testing device sitting nearby, one on the printer, one on a pen near my desk, one on my land line telephone, one on my answering machine, one on my DVD player, one on my stereo receiver and one sitting on a sofa table in the family room next to my desk.  That is 15 clocks in the area where I am currently sitting!  Now you see why I do not wear a watch!  I do not need one.  Time is everywhere.

I do not carry a cell phone like a lot of people do in this day and age.  I do not text often, check on line stuff and need to keep looking at the mobile device for information that is currently happening.  I use the cell phone to make important calls, follow-up here and there and to be reached if I am needed for some answers.  That is it.  I have come to appreciate the timer on my mobile device.  I use it often.  It reminds me when a particular task needs to be started or finished.  I use that feature a lot.  It is amazing how much we use our clocks.  Time is an important thing in the lives we lead.

Clocks help us to identify a lot of things.  One of the most common uses of a clock is to make sure we get to work on time and to let us know when we get to go back home.  I think the working world knows this much about a clock as any.  I suspect this kind of time checking is one of the most common segments of clock watching anyone ever does in this world.  They check the time to make sure they are not late to work and they check the time to see when they can be done with work for the day.  I think that is how a lot of clocks are used the most.

This brings up an interesting perspective.  The core of going to work and going home after work is a routine thing.  It is not a random pattern of happenings.  People do not often spend tomorrow going to work whenever they feel like it.  People do not decide to arrive to work at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday then show up at work at noon on Thursday in a random pattern of appearances.  This kind of work pattern does not set well in the employment world.  There is more structure to the pattern of work arrivals than this kind of random appearances.  Routine is king when we work our daily patterns of employment.  We go to work at certain and specific time slots.  The pattern is routine, not random.

In fact, most know exactly what would happen to their employment if they decided one day to begin a random pattern of showing up to work.  Instead of following the routine schedule they once were respecting, all of the sudden they begin to show up when they feel like it.  I wonder how well that kind of random appearance would work?  We all know the answer to that one.  Not well at all.  Random patterns are not one of the principles advised for producing good success.  Unfortunately, many business leaders have a strong tendency to do random stuff, often.  Many of them do these random acts as a subtle process to express some kind of personal freedom.  They show up to work one day and immediately decide they need to work on inventory controls.  It has been bugging them lately.  So they begin to ask questions in that department and they start doing some random checks on areas of inventory they suspect are incorrect.  They 'hit' the daily work trail with the new focus on inventory controls.  They randomly approach this new focus of work.

Business leaders who operate in this kind of fashion are the ones who do not produce the most favorable results.  If this kind of work leadership is somewhat close to your kind of management style, stop it.  It is killing your potential to produce great success.  In fact, it may even be helping to add failure to your business model.  Random leadership is only good when you use it to keep some other leaders honest.  That kind of leadership is an altogether different subject.  It is a whole topic all of its own.

Random leadership is dangerous leadership.  It is dangerous enough that not many people can practice it and produce good success results.  It is extremely rare to succeed well by using random patterns of business leadership.  The two do not mix well.  They work together like oil and water.  Try mixing them over and over and you will continue to get the same results.  Random patterns and business success are like unfortunate opposites.  If you possess the kind of personality that loves to play with your business in random leadership patterns, you are losing way to much profits to continue practicing those patterns for a very long time.  Stop it.  It is silently killing your success efforts.  Get better organized.  Develop a stronger respect for routine patterns of leadership work.  Quit taking down your hard earned efforts by randomly killing the results they could and should be enjoying.  Get closer to producing better routines of your business work patterns.  Allow your business model to receive a better chance at winning.

How do you know if your routine of leadership is random or routine?  What are the symptoms?  What are the signs?

Slap Random Patterns In The Face!

I have worked for many business leaders.  I have watched and helped many business managers do their work.  I have seen the good ones and I have seen the bad ones.  A lot of each.  I have seen how some win often as well as witnessed how some never ever seem to enjoy many success victories.  One thing is for sure, the ones who never find victory often enough were usually the most disorganized ones of the group of business leaders I have seen and met.  The ones who fail more often seem to always be the ones who had the most random patterns of approach to their business work.  It is very predictable.

If you are struggling to win in your business model, place the organized thermometer in the mouth of your leadership ways.  Check to see how random you perform your daily routines.  Does your clock tell you it is time to review your financials?  Does your clock tell you it is time to review your employee performances?  Does your clock tell you it is time to work on marketing and planning?  Does your clock tell you it is time for you to connect better with your customer work?  Does your clock tell you it is time to review the infrastructure for repairs, maintenance and attraction policies?  Does your clock become your reminder that you are wasting valuable time doing random stuff?  Somehow, having 15 clocks in the nearby region does not ensure that a routine pattern of work respect is going to be adhered to.  Clocks do not produce good routines.  They only keep the time.

I urge those of you who are business leaders to find better ways to produce more effective patterns and routines of work responsibilities.  Get more serious about watching the clock more often.  Make sure you do not spend half of your day doing some stuff that is not worth the return for doing.  Get more effective with the use of your time.  Become more respectful for the benefits a good routine provides.  Find what kinds of work you need to be doing and develop a routine pattern to make sure that important work is being tended to on a routine basis.  Quit worrying about how much freedom you are losing.  If you are random in your leadership patterns right now, your freedom is limited anyway by the random junk that steals your valuable time as a result of the lost leadership that is not going on.  It is already killing your aim for potential success.

Just for fun, I walked my house.  I counted the amount of clocks I have acquired.  Go do this exercise for yourself.  You might be surprised at how many clocks you actually own.  I found 36 of them.  I do not even own a watch!  Who needs one?

Clocks help us find our way through the time of efficiency.  They remind us when to and when not to do certain things.  Clocks help us to move on.  They click away the time so we can keep moving on to the next important duty we need to be doing.  Learn how to manage those 36 clocks.  Learn how to use that time more effectively.  This is not new news to anyone who has been searching for better ways to make their business efforts produce more.  There have been reams of material produced about this particular subject.  The truth remains, many of you are still waiting to learn how to become more routine in your business leadership ways.  Many of you have not fully accepted this kind of change into your business lives.  As a result you will continue to search for easier, more effective ways to improve your business results.  The lack of respect, the lack of discipline and the lack of honor to become better organized with a stronger pattern of routine ways to do your work will continue to hamper the better results from coming your way.  There is no getting around it.  My strong words of this truth are not slapping you, your results are.  I am just a simple messenger.

Get serious about finding a routine pattern that works your business success well.  Form how to do that pattern efficiently, with a clock in hand and time how you respect how that pattern works well.  Make sure you include all of the most important stuff to become part of the routine you develop.  It is just fine to become very predictable about how you plan to win.  I love it when my team understands what I do to help everyone win.  These are extremely good things to have happening in your business model.  Even your best employees find it worthwhile to have a sense of security knowing that the right kinds of things are routinely practiced in your daily patterns.  This is how leadership begins its best work.  This is where the better competitors do the work that hurts the competition greatly.  Winning is not an accident.  It has nothing to do with luck or good fortune.  Winning comes form the effort some business leaders produce in their daily routines of doing what needs to be done in the time that they are given to make those things happen.  The winners have the best clocks running.  They may not have 36 of them, but one of those clocks is doing its work well.

Is your day routine or random?  You know the truth.  Quit searching for a better way to ignore how important this kind of change has become to the health and success your business deserves.  Get an effective routine patterned in for the long haul.  Get more serious about winning.

Until next time...