#047 The Joy of Scheduling

In today’s episodes, Neil dives into the joys of scheduling and why scheduling is essential in both your tutoring business and in life. If you’re looking to impose order on the chaos, plan your activities and make your business fun. This episode is for you. KEY TAKEAWAYS Why is schedule important? If what you do is chaotic, you're going to be out of order, up to the range and stressed. For you to succeed in life you need to have a schedule in your life and as a result, everything will go as planned. Use a schedule to impose order on the chaos. We need enough order to keep things sort of predictable, so we have a sense of control and that’s why we need scheduling in our day to day activities. Scheduling helps you to work in a good environment; this should allow you to control your interaction. Scheduling helps you to be you because when you schedule correctly, you will be able to do the things you want to do in the right time and will have a lot of time to spend with yourself and even your friends and family. If it’s not fun you should not do it. Scheduling will help you plan your money and invest it in the right manner hence helping you to build your own business where you will be able to work from home, hence no booking appointments, damaging things, not wearing the car out while travelling from home to your workplace, not burning gas and not spending time in traffic and this should lower your overheads. You’re not spending money repairing a car so much, you’re not putting as much gas in the tank, you do not have to buy food while at work and that should make you more profitable. Scheduling helps you to do small jobs around the business. With scheduling, you are able to plan yourself and have things done very fast. Make what you do fun because if you make it fun, it will entertain a lot of people and you will make a lot of money from people by just entertaining them. Make it fun for your customers, it'll be fun for you and you'll stop working, you'll just hang out with your friends and do what you do and get paid for it. Aim to keep it fun, keep it entertaining, it then becomes for your customers more of a leisure activity. BEST MOMENTS “Everything you do is going to be a personal choice.” “If it’s not fun you should not do it.” “You can't put a price on your time” “Time is the most important and most limited resource we all have.” VALUABLE RESOURCES https://www.amazon.co.uk/Weird-Things-Guitarists-Do-Misconceptions-ebook/dp/B01M2YRARG/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 http://www.neilcowmeadow.com/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-tutor-podcast/id1369191372?mt=2 ABOUT THE HOST Neil Cowmeadow is a maverick peripatetic guitar teacher from Telford with over 19 years’ experience in the business of helping people. Learn how to start, grow and love your business with Neil’s invaluable advice and tips without the buzzwords and BS! CONTACT METHOD [email protected]