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Confronting Your Time Management Excuses

By Elena · Comments (20)
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
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Time Flies

In today’s guest post, Karen Southall Watts once again forces us to face the truth — no matter how painful — so we can achieve our business and personal goals.

The challenge of time management is not new. Increasing pressure to “do more with less” is the hallmark of modern life. At some point everyone faces issues about how much to do or how to prioritize the items on their to-do-list. And the resources we need are all around us. There’s a wealth of information on the internet (much of it free), thousands of self-help books and CD’s and legions of gurus willing to tell us how to get it all done.

So, what’s the problem?

Often we merely give into our excuses. It’s time to confront those ideas, thrash them and move on.

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Categories : Time management

Sleep Better and Save Time in Your Business

By Elena · Comments (7)
Monday, February 6th, 2012
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the Orchestration of Sleep
Sleeping allows us to refuel and restore our bodies. Sadly, we often deprive ourselves of needed sleep time, thinking that reducing this time is the only way to achieve more during the 24 hours that we have at our disposal each day.

But what if our sleeping time could help us save time during the workday?  Would we then permit ourselves to enjoy a full night’s sleep?

Time management expert Kathryn McKinnon has provided us with a strategy to make sleep work for us during the workday in her best-selling book entitled Triple Your Time Today:  10 Proven Time Management Strategies to Help you Create and Save More Time!

Kathryn introduced me to the possibilities that lie within this concept in her answer to a question that I posed to her on LinkedIn.  She said the following:

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Categories : Time management
Tags : Getting over overwhelm, Monique Y. Wells

Letting Go of Perfect

By admin · Comments (10)
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
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Time Spent on Trying to Be Perfect is Time WastedI have a confession to make:

I am a die-hard perfectionist.

Whew! Glad to get that off my chest ;-)

I think many entrepreneurs share this feeling of needing everything to be “just so” before we can send something off to a client or move on to the next project. I’ve talked before about how perfectionism affects your work-life balance, but it can also hold you back in your life and business if left to grow wild.

  • Are you waiting for your business to be in that “right place” before you start going for the clients you want to work with?
  • Are you waiting to get that “right project” before finally charging what you’re worth?
  • Are you waiting for your work-life balance to be “just right” before you finally take that vacation?

Pam Slim once said that, “The enemy of a new entrepreneur is endless planning and perfection.” And it’s true! If you keep waiting and trying to get to this imaginary place of perfection, you may blind yourself to the opportunities that are presented to you right now. As much as we want to plan and time everything right, life rarely follows a straight and narrow path. Read More→

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Categories : Business Coaching
Tags : business coaching, Dealing with perfectionism, elena verlee, getting ahead in business, Letting go of Perfect, perfectionism

Getting Over Overwhelm: Relief from the Wonder Woman Syndrome

By admin · Comments (13)
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
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Wonder Woman cartoonToday’s guest post is by Monique Wells – enjoy!

Not so long ago, I took on the responsibility for the PR and marketing for my husband’s book, Paris Insights – An Anthology.  Though I willingly stepped up to the challenge and followed Elena’s teachings and sage advice, I rapidly found myself in a state of overwhelm.

Why?

Because I was also running two home businesses and a small non-profit organization, and did not realize that I had just volunteered for a responsibility that would break the proverbial camel’s back. I imagined myself to be Wonder Woman – the invincible female force that was going to do everything for everyone and get it all right the first time!

I learned the hard way that it doesn’t matter how well you do things or how passionate you are about them if you have too many things to do.  I developed a stress-related illness and came dangerously close to burnout before I was forced to admit that I had to change my work habits and more importantly, my view of myself. Read More→

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Categories : Time management
Tags : business coaching, com, elena verlee, Getting over overwhelm, Monique Y. Wells, Paris Insights- An Anthology, Paris Muse of Time Management, Time management advice, time management coach, Understandingtimemanagement

The Entrepreneur Time Out

By admin · Comments (5)
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
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timeoutIt’s been a very busy summer for me. My PR company signed a bunch of new clients, ran several big campaigns and completely redesigned our website. Also, my 2 little kiddos have summer off from school so, in addition to running my company, it’s been a whirlwind of summer camps, soccer games and playdates.

Needless to say, I’ve been stressed out more than a few times since summer began.

I think one of the traits that all entrepreneurs share is the desire to accomplish as much as possible in one day. I know that I try to do as much as I can to make my family and my clients happy, but there does come a point where you need to step back before you burnout. I call this the “Entrepreneur Time Out.” Read More→

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Categories : Business Coaching
Tags : business coach, business coaching, coaching tips, elena verlee, entrepreneur stress management, stress management, stress relief tips, vancouver coach

How to Find Time to Begin Your DIY PR Campaign

By Elena · Comments (7)
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
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Many small business owners and solopreneurs have one-person marketing and PR departments. A common complaint I hear is the lack of time to do PR. What a shame! PR, done right, has far-reaching benefits. This is why I’ve invited Monique Wells, a time management expert and coach, to write a guest post for us today. Monique tells us how we can MAKE time for PR.


Find Time for PRSo you’re a small business owner who wants to begin a do-it-yourself public relations campaign! You’ve got Elena’s arsenal of PR weapons at your disposal, and you are ready to get started.

Or are you? What about the errands that need to be run? The invoices that need to be sent? The phone and e-mail messages that need to be answered?

Don’t worry! There is a way of dealing with these mundane, repetitive tasks so that you will have time to devote to your public relations project.

I recently interviewed Brian Tracy, a time management and productivity expert whose principles and practices I admire. We talked at length about the concept of delegation for the entrepreneur or solopreneur, and what value it can add to your business.

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Categories : Time management
Tags : Brian Tracy delegation tips, Brian Tracy time management tips, delegating PR, delegation for entrepreneurs, how to delegate PR, how to find time for PR, Monique Y. Wells, Paris Muse of Time Management

How I Rebuilt My Destroyed Confidence

By Elena · Comments (4)
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
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Cameron-HeroldI’m honored to again have as a guest, Cameron Herold, one of my mentors. Cameron is a coach to CEOs in large corporations all around the world. After helping build multi-million dollar companies, Cameron is now a sought-after speaker, coach, and mentor. But in this post, Cameron shares a past few of us would have imagined for him. However, the fact that he overcame his academic challenges is an inspiration to us all.

I’ve never been a good student. I got about 64% in both high school and university. I’ve never felt smart. I’ve often felt like I have no idea what I’m really doing. And I often feel like I must be doing something wrong otherwise how could it be so easy?

My mind would spin with thoughts of ‘How could someone that was always told by the education system they were a C or D student actually be smart enough to really teach CEOs how to grow companies?’

Something started to change for me about six years ago, when I was already 38 years old.

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Categories : Business Coaching
Tags : Backpocket COO, Cameron Herold, destroyed confidence, rebuilding confidence, rebuilding destroyed confidence

Focus on Your Natural Gifts

By Elena · Comments (6)
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
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Focus on Your Natural Gifts

I come from a family of race car drivers. My dad helped shape motor sports in the Philippines and my brothers are both champions and run a highly acclaimed racing school.

Me? Parallel parking brings on the sweats. I’ve backed my brother’s car into a fire hydrant and happily drove away without noticing it.

At first it really bugged me. I mean, shouldn’t this be easy? Shouldn’t this be in my genes?

But I’ve learned you can’t take things for granted. Even when something comes easy to someone else, don’t beat yourself up if it doesn’t come easily for you. You’re an apple, and they’re an orange.

The surest road to hell is the “comparison syndrome.”

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Categories : Business Coaching
Tags : comparison syndrome, focus on your natural gifts, your natural gifts

When A Fact of Life… Is Not

By Elena · Comments (2)
Thursday, November 25th, 2010
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When A Fact of Life Is Not

Many of us have a belief so powerful, it appears to be an unquestionable fact of life.

Some common examples are:

  • “I need to make a lot of money to be successful”
  • “My boss works late so I should be there too”
  • “If I want something done right, I have to do it myself”
  • “I have to be all things to all people”

Beliefs are assumptions we hold about how things should be, how people should behave and how the world works. It is a feeling of certainty we have about something. Often, we even blend together two facts into one disempowering belief.

The belief appears to be a fact of life and it’s not.

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Categories : Business Coaching
Tags : conscious control, elena verlee, empowering beliefs, limiting beliefs, pr, PR business, time energy

Living with a Life Sentence

By Elena · Comments (0)
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
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Living with a Life Sentence

Picture this. Two colleagues at work are given a challenging project. One holds the belief “I can learn what I want to learn.” The other holds the beliefs “I am not good enough. I am a fraud.”

Who do you think will do better?

The learner will approach the project with excitement. She will be confident, assured and eager to begin. She is not afraid of asking questions, does not feel threatened by getting others involved or exploring ideas.

The one who believes he isn’t good enough will act as if he isn’t good enough. Since that belief is firmly rooted in his subconscious, he will tackle the project more apprehensively, perhaps procrastinate or be unwilling to ask for help in case he gets “found out.” He will more likely interpret events in ways that are consistent with his belief of not being good enough. “There I go again, I knew I couldn’t do it. That’s just who I am.” As time goes by, he’ll continue to find ways of proving this to himself.

“Believing in yourself” is not just an everyday mantra. Who we believe ourselves to be significantly affects how we live our entire lives.

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Categories : Business Coaching
Tags : affirmations, core beliefs, elena verlee, life sentences, limiting beliefs, positive thoughts, self esteem
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