If you had an extra hour a day available what would you do with it?

More client work?

More marketing and practice building activities?

More time off?

Would you start a new business project? Work on your hobby? Get in shape? Write a book?

It would be nice, wouldn’t it? It could be life-changing.

But it’s not going to happen. You’re never going to find an hour a day in your busy schedule.

Unless you decide to.

If you do, here are some questions to ask yourself that could help you free up that time:

• Look at your calendar and task list. What do you regularly do that you could safely stop doing or cut back on? Yesterday, I talked about eliminating unnecessary expenses. Why can’t you do the same thing with your time?
• What project are you working on you could indefinitely defer?
• What could you outsource or delegate? (Give this a lot of thought; it could free up days, not hours.)
• What could you do more quickly by improving your skills, acquiring tools or tech, or streamlining your work-flow or systems?
• What content, marketing collateral, or work product could you re-purpose or re-use (so you don’t have to spend time creating more)?
• What marketing activities (networking, presentations, podcasting, videos) could you eliminate, shorten, or replace with something simpler and less time-consuming?
• Do you have any services or practice areas that take up a disproportionate amount of your time and focus (and could be eliminated)?
• What meetings could you eliminate or shorten? What boards or committees could you step down from?
• Could you shorten the commute to your office? Could you work from home or a second office a couple of days a week?

It’s important to ask yourself these questions because you might like the answers.

And because one hour a day is 250 hours per year.

Extra.

What would you do with that time?

If you want some help finding an extra hour per day, let me know.