You know you need to put in the hours to run your Face Painting or Children's Entertainment business effectively, especially if you intend at some stage to ‘give up your day job', but your other commitments elsewhere are such a drain on your time. You may have the additional responsibility of keeping home and bringing up the kids (if you have them) and sometimes it can all get too much. Oh yeah, and then there's your social life – social life I hear you say, what social life.

You need to set a discipline in the ever-feuding battle between ‘Organisation vs. Disorganisation'.

To become smartly organised and on top of your game in your Face Painting or Children's Entertainment business you need to think about everything, and I mean everything, that your daily and weekly life throws at you and devise a structured time management plan to help you through.

Sit down in a quiet room and make a comprehensive list of everything, yes everything that you do daily, weekly and monthly. This is the basis for your time management plan.

Your list would need to include all eventualities such as:

Time to focus on your business
Time spent in your employment
Time to get ready and prepare for work
Time spent with your significant other
Time spent with your children
Time spent with your family
Time for grocery shopping
Time for household duties
Time spent socialising with friends
Time to exercise, take a stroll, walk the dog
Time for shopping, window or other
Time to relax, chill out, watch TV, read
Time for short breaks and holidays
Time to sleep – ah!

Draft a 24/7 time plan with 30 minutes slots (a bit like an appointment diary), perhaps doing one page per day, and take every action above and feed it into the relevant time slots. Don't forget to include empty time and quality time.

By doing this will give you a clearer picture of how much actual time can be devoted to your Face Painting or Children's Entertainment business. If it turns out that you only have 14 hours per week available then you must make sure that you use that time effectively and prioritise each week by only doing actions in your business that are going to be wealth creation in order to move the business forward. Don't waste those valuable 14 hours doing un-necessary tasks that will keep your business stagnant.

So stop saying that you haven't got enough time – you probably have, you just need to make better use of it!

Sherrill Church is a small business coach and author of The Complete Book of Face Painting by Mimicks (Random House, UK) and Fantastic Fun Face Painting (Sterling Press, USA). She has just launched the much-needed ‘Face Painting For Profit' series, aimed at those wishing push the growth of their entertainment business onto the next level If you would like the first chapter for FREE, then please click here mimicks.co.uk

You can also grab a copy, by clicking the link, of her newly launched free report The Seven Wonders Of Your Business World mimicks.co.uk

Sherrill Church is a dynamic individual who is passionate about helping others to reach their ultimate dream of running a profitable and successful entertainment enterprise or home-based business. She consults with small business owners in a variety of creative industries who wish to build and grow a successful enterprise, like hers. Sherrill (formerly Leathem) is an International Published Author with her books: The Complete Book of Face Painting by Mimicks - Random House, UK and Fantastic Fun Face Painting - Sterling Press, USA. She has just launched the much-needed ‘Face Painting For Profit’ series, aimed at those wishing push the growth of their entertainment business onto the next level. For more information go to mimicks.co.uk She is a well-known Face Painter and Children’s Entertainment expert with over 19 years in the industry and has many successful businesses to her name.