If you’re a business owner, you know how it can feel like there’s never enough time in the day for you to take care of all of the things that you need to take care of. But because you can’t make more hours in the day, you’ve got to find ways where you can use your time as effectively as possible and leave the rest for other people, practices, or software to take care of for you.

To help you get to this point, here are three things you shouldn’t be spending your precious time on as a business owner.

Making Your Workspace Too Fancy

While it’s good to have a nice looking workplace, especially if you have a retail store or have customers or clients coming into your space often, there’s a big difference between having a place that looks good and is functional and making your workspace overly fancy.

Not only can spending a lot of time worrying about how your space looks take away from time that you’re able to focus on more important business tasks, but it can also have you spending unnecessary money on improvements that won’t actually improve your bottom line at all. So if you’ve fallen prey to this kind of thinking, try to find ways to help you reel things in.

Things You Can Easily Outsource

Even if you can’t afford to hire actual employees that you can delegate certain tasks to, you likely can afford to outsource some of the things that take up a lot of your time and energy but don’t give you a lot of bang for your buck.

Some of the things that you might want to start outsourcing could include things like loading and unloading your freight, your HR department, graphic design, administrative assistant work, and more. Once you have these kinds of things off your plate, you will have much more time and energy to devote to aspects of your business that require your individual touch in order to thrive.

A Shotgun Approach To Marketing

Marketing is something that every business owner knows that they need to be doing but that many aren’t exactly sure how to do. And when this knowledge is lacking, business owners might turn to more of a shotgun approach to marketing, where they put as much energy they can into any marketing that they can think of and just hope that something sticks.

Rather than doing this, you should put your energy into doing market research to see where you should really be focusing your efforts. This way, you can spend less time doing marketing, but the time and energy that you do put into your marketing will actually prove to be effective for you.

If you recognize that your time and energy is a finite resource for your business, consider using the tips mentioned above to help you determine some of the things that you should stop doing to best use these resources.