Why Mentorship? Coaching Delivers These 5 Benefits
0Mentorship and coaching require an investment of both time and money, but the benefits generated can take you and your business to the next level. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says the best advice he ever got was to get a coach, and Bill Gates says everyone should have a coach. There are many benefits […]
3 Habits Successful Professionals Make Time for Every Day
0Success doesn’t happen by accident. Success requires action, but not necessarily the big, impressive acts that many people imagine. Successful people create small habits that help them get where they want to go. Over time, habits develop the building blocks of success. Here are 3 habits successful professionals make time for every day. Read. When […]
Don’t Let Tolerations Drag You Down
0Tolerations are those things on our list of things to do that never seem to get done. The list may be written down or they may be in the back of our mind. But we are aware of them. They range from major projects that may take hours or even days to those 5-10- minute […]
Need to Save Time? Delegate.
0Delegation is defined as “giving up responsibility to someone else; the giving of power, responsibility, or work to someone else.” It seems so easy, but it’s not for many people. The hardest part of delegating is letting go. “Nobody else can do it as well as I can.” “It will probably take me an hour […]
Is Procrastination Stealing Your Time?
0Neil Fiore, in his book, Overcoming Procrastination, defined procrastination as “a mechanism for coping with the anxiety associated with starting or completing any task or decision.” When my grandkids come up to visit I like to take them on a hike in the woods behind my house. Invariably we will come upon a fallen tree. […]
How to Overcome Interruptions to Get Time Back into Your Schedule
0Interruptions, if not the biggest time bandit, are at least perceived to be the biggest and can be the most stressful when you are working against a deadline. As mentioned earlier, interruptions can come from different sources, such as peers, clients, prospects, subordinates, supervisors, systemic interruptions, and interruptions by you. These interruptions cannot only result […]
Time Management: Use Negative Laws and Principles to Your Advantage
0In planning your day and week, there are two laws and principles that you can use to your advantage. Parkinson’s Law states that work expands to fill available time. Cyril Northcote Parkinson concluded that there is little or no relationship between the work to be done and the amount of resources devoted to it. He […]
Tools to Overcome Time Bandits: Part 2
0In the last post we looked at how the 4-quadrant time matrix can help us overcome time bandits. Today, we’re talking about time blocking, and how it can give us the focus and structure we need to manage our priorities. Time blocking is setting aside blocks of time each day to do specific activities. I […]
Tools to Overcome Time Bandits: Part 1
0In the last post, we looked at several strategies for dealing with time bandits — those things that steal your time and derail you from your mission. In the next few posts, we’ll look at specific tools you can use to overcome time bandits. The first one is the 4-quadrant time matrix first introduced by Stephen […]
The Power of Priorities: Overcome Time Bandits
0“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Theresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” — H. Jackson Brown That’s a pretty powerful quote. How do some people achieve so much with their allotted time while others are […]
