Consultants often find that running their own practices takes more time than their most pressing executive positions. Certainly they feel as if they are working most of the time, both as they build the business and as they enjoy their peak of success.

Time management and control of commitments becomes essential to the success of the business and to the success of the entrepreneur’s whole life.

“Whole life?” “What whole life?”

The whole life that you need to create early on, or starting now, or you will be a burn-out, or lose your family, or your health, and then the stress gets worse and threatens the business, and you.

In order to control your time, certain fundamentals need to be in place:

1. You need to want to control it.

2. You need to want your inner self’s identity to be more than your success at work.

3. You have to want and to create or participate in your personal life outside of your work-identity.

4. If your work and success is the pinnacle of your identity, read no further. Nothing else said here will matter.