Planning is the outline of your business. It begins with the business plan, marketing plan and yearly vision. But it is more than this, it is a daily link between your goals and the plan of action to gain the desired results you want to achieve.

What is the difference between planning and organizing. Organizing is what many entrepreneurs may be doing. You have so many tasks to complete and so many different types of tasks to complete within different functions of the business. Then this would be organizing, you could spend a whole day organizing, but don't do it everyday.

So you need to implement systems in place for your business. This is where planning comes into place. You see you need to understand how your business is organized. There are certain tasks that are repetitive each day. If you can organize these tasks into a time-scheduled system yow will be better organized and can spend less time organizing and more time planning.

If you focus and function on the plan, it will be easier to implement. NO DOUBT, you may have to make changes to the plan as the market changes, customers change, competitors change and staff changes. You may even have to change the entire business model or products and services you sell. How can you manage all this? Some can, and some have systems and some work on what they enjoy, while others focus on the plan.

What is all this mumbo jumbo about mission, vision, goals etc. Well a successful entrepreneur aligns all of these into an action -oriented plan. Through the overall vision to the mission, desired action to a set of achieveable and reachable goals. So how can you organize all this so you spend less time organizing?