Welcome to the How of Business with your host, Henry Lopez, the podcast that helps you start,

run, and grow your small business. And now, here is your host.

This is Henry Lopez and welcome to the How of Business podcast. On this episode, I'm going to

highlight and introduce, for those of you who maybe are not familiar with it,

a very powerful time management concepts called Big Rocks. If you've ever felt like you're

always busy and not making meaningful progress, you're always working your to-do list,

then I think this episode might help. This is one component of time management techniques that

I think combined can help us as small

business owners be that much more effective and productive and efficient and actually grow

a small business to be profitable and allow us that freedom of time that I think is so important

for us as small business owners.

Learning how to identify, in this case, what I'm looking at as

weekly big rocks will definitely help you get to what matters most because you're going to be

purposeful about what you work on next or certainly what you focus on and allocate time to

on a weekly basis and not just what's next on your list so that you don't end up at the

end of the week feeling like you were busy extremely busy exhausted overwhelmed but did you make

any progress on the most important things that you move the needle that you really work on

the things that move the business forward or that solve the big problems, that's the big question. And often we

come to business ownership by being great task managers, by being people that get everything done

on the list. The reality is, though, that the small business owners for most of us, there's a lot of

chaos. And we could work seven days a week, 24 hours a day and not get through the

entire to-do list. There's always something getting added to the to-do list, not to mention

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