In my quest to help women run profitable businesses I stress that profitable means "making enough money for the hours that you put in". And that's a big sticking point. Hands up if you don't think you are making enough money to justify the hours. Yep, that's most of you.

Here's a little tool I found that will help you keep track of where you are spending all your time. Of course it can't trim your hours but when you discover where you are spending all your time you can make better decisions about what you do and what you don't do.

The tool is called Rescue Time and you can find it here. I've been using it for a few months and I love it. It cheekily asks "what have you been doing?", I was honest and told it the truth. I got a nasty surprise at the end of the week how much time I had wasted (browsing) and it helped me focus on doing proper tasks. Give it a try, it's free, fun and useful.