Any business, regardless of size or scale, will benefit from outsourcing services. This is especially true if you own a small business with tight budgets and limited access to capital. As a small business owner, you have to manage your costs in order to keep operations funded. Having tight funds will make it difficult to implement expansion programs. The focus of small business should not just be on cost reduction but on increasing savings as well. The best solution for small business owners is to outsource services to a virtual staff.

Whether you use GTD, Agile, Kanban, the Franklin/Covey Method, Leo Babauta’s Zen To Done, or some other approach to personal productivity — the key is to make sure that the approach allows you to treat everything that you need to do and want to do as personally as possible. By that I mean to treat your tasks with the highest level of attention and intention.

You need to decide whether the “in between” tasks are worth doing or not worth doing, otherwise you’ll wind up in a productivity black hole that can suck you in and overwhelm you.

This past weekend I decided to purchase a guitar. I’ve been thinking about it picking up the instrument for a while. What finally convinced me was hearing an interview with Grammy Award winner Steve Martin talk about learning to play the banjo. You could just hear the passion and excitement in his voice when he talked about playing music. I was convinced. I bought a guitar the next day.