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Confronting Your Time Management Excuses

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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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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

Getting Over Overwhelm: Relief from the Wonder Woman Syndrome

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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

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

Time Management: Pick your Top 5 with Teamly

By Elena · Comments (4)
Thursday, October 28th, 2010
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I’m always on the look-out for the next great tool that can help me be more productive. With two businesses and two kiddos to take care of, my to-do list gets longer every day.

And I’ll admit, when I reflect back on my day, I find at least 4 or 5 things that I did that weren’t high priorities, like cleaning up the files on my desktop. These unimportant “busy” tasks are also the things that prevent me from doing the tasks that will move my business forward – like writing a client proposal.

So I’ve started using Teamly and have found it to be an incredibly simple and powerful tool for managing my productivity.

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Tags : Business Coaching, Teamly, Time management

Time Management Secrets for Busy Entrepreneurs

By Elena · Comments (16)
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
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Time Management for Entrepreneurs

A few months ago, I was speaking at an event for women entrepreneurs and the topic they wanted to learn most about was time management.  Whether you work for a company or run your own, I think this is a topic that resonates with most of us because time is something we never seem to have enough of!

The Truth About Time

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Tags : efficiency, elena verlee, self management, Time management, working moms

How to Be Productive: Leave Your Office

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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
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Today I had to renew my passport. With such tight security at the embassy, I was asked to leave my cellphone and computer behind at the front desk.

I was horrified! What will I do while I wait? Fuming, I grudgingly took out pen and paper and started making notes. In 90 minutes here’s what I achieved:

1. A clearer vision of company directions, products, status and next steps
2. A revised PR and Marketing plan for the next 30 – 60 days
3. Two blogposts written
4. One press release written
5. Most importantly, clarity on the bigger picture.

I’ve been stuck on a few things and having the time away without distractions of emails, calls, Twitter and my kids running afoot made space in my mind for ideas to come through and connect in a different way.

In terms of boosting productivity and time management, I learned sometimes the office is NOT the most productive place to get things done, especially as a WAHM.

I’ll be scheduling a “get out of the office day” with just pen and paper at least twice a month and looking forward to letting my brain “work out of the box”.

Won’t you join me?

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Categories : Time management
Tags : Add new tag, productivity, Time management, twitter, wahm

Time Management: Time Blocking To Prevent Entrepreneur Overwhelm

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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
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Clock and CalendarAs busy entrepreneurs trying to have it all, it’s really easy for things to get out of control. It’s therefore important to prioritize your most important tasks, and then set a schedule so you can be practical when planning your day. Try using a time management technique for entrepreneurs called time blocking if you have several large projects on the go.

Time blocking is about dedicating a fixed amount of time for a given task, then doing your best to complete it within the available time frame.

How to go about time blocking?
Set an amount per day to work on a project. For example, 30 minutes (or even 10 to 15 minutes as you wish) on a sales presentation. Set an alarm and when the alarm goes off, move on to the next project or task.

Even if you didn’t finish it and have to schedule it into another time box, it has allowed you to move forward one step. I find that entrepreneurs who are overwhelmed with so many things to do often become paralyzed and end up doing nothing but obsessing on what they need done.

Stop complaining, and take action!
Instead, use that obsessive energy to start ‘doing’ things. You’ll often find that when you start to take ACTION on something, anything, that feeling of helplessness lessens.

Of course, you can choose to complete your project in one go, just remember to take a few minutes break here and there. That way you focus on your end goal without overtaxing yourself mentally and physically.

The important thing in entrepreneurial time management is to follow your timer. For some reason, deadlines make it easier to focus. Think of when you know that you have to finish an important proposal in an hour because the submission deadline closes. Somehow you get it done!

Another variation is to work on a task until you achieve a specific output – laying out two pages of your product catalog, finishing the week’s expense report, or contacting 10 potential customers.

Don’t worry too much about finishing projects so you don’t get overwhelmed. Focus instead on giving undivided attention to each and every step.

What’s your favorite time management technique?

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Categories : Time management
Tags : entrepreneur moms, small business time management, Time management

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