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Win Big - Monday, April 9, 2012 16:25 - 24 Comments
Start Small Win Big 2012: Your Wk 12 Action Plan
Congrats! You’ve made it to Week 12 of the Start Small Win Big entrepreneurial challenge. For the final step this week (April 9), read the April 2012 issue for Step 12: Track your time/demand a larger return. Then check your inbox for the April 9 Start Small Win Big newsletter.
This week’s assignment is about preserving your most precious asset– your time. We’ve all had those days where you look up, it’s already 5 p.m., and you’ve barely touched your to-do list. Don’t beat yourself up about it. Just figure out why you had one of those days.
For this week’s exercise, think of the last time you had one of those time suck days (maybe it was today!) and figure out why it happened.
- Sleep pattern disruption– Did you get more or less sleep than usual? Is it a Monday after a particularly busy weekend? Allow yourself the rest and wake up recharged for tomorrow’s productive day.
- Procrastination– Is there a large project you’ve dreaded starting? Identify a small task you can accomplish now for the project and get the momentum started.
- Social butterfly syndrome– Have you spent unmeasured time checking email, Facebook and Twitter? Choose certain times of day to monitor those accounts and set time limits on these activities keeps you from wandering.
- Running in place– Have you been everywhere and done nothing? Carefully schedule and map off-site meetings– the 20 minutes you take to map your routes and group adjacent meetings together will save you valuable time (and money) on the road.
- Before committing to time-suckers, ask yourself whether that time could be better spent. After a while, it’ll become a pattern and you’ll make better choices.
Join the conversation and share your worst time-suck day. How did you adjust to prevent it from happening again?
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Do you manage your day efficiently? Or do you, like most people feel stressed by the unfinished projects and tasks in your life? Take a quick honest assessment of your life: When you look around your office, do you see physical clutter: stacks of paper, file folders, torn pieces of paper with phone numbers you [...]
- 8 Secret Time-Wasters and How to Overcome Them
There’s a reason we send Seeds of SUCCESS at 2 p.m., CT, and not first thing in the morning. We follow the mantra of time management: Tackle your most important or difficult task first thing in the morning. So if you’re reading this newsletter to avoid doing something else more important on your to-do list, [...]
- What’s the Most Precious Resource You Waste?
Tick, tock, tick, tock. Think fast! Here’s a riddle: What resource is scarce—yet easily taken for granted, squandered or rationalized? It’s not money—because everyone could use more money no matter how much we have. And I’m not talking about good health or clean water or fossil fuels, although these could be plausible answers. Give up [...]
- Hardy: Success is Not About What You DO…
When it comes to comparing superachievers and everyone else, it has less to do with what they do and more to do with what they don’t do.
Saying “yes” is easy; saying “no” is much harder, but it is the master skill of success.
In a world where we are constantly being tugged on from a thousand different directions, your ability to be productive and ultimately achieve your big hairy audacious goals has more to do with all the things you DON’T do versus the things you do.
Put it this way: For everything you say “yes” to you are saying “no” to something else… and you only have so much time. For most people, the ability to do MORE is impossible; you are already overwhelmed and working yourself to exhaustion 24/7.
Doing MORE is not the answer. Doing less is. Saying “no” to more things so you can say “yes” to the right things is the key to…
- Priority 1: Stop the Chaos.
Priority 2: Live with Purpose.I’m a serious student of time management. I was hooked the first time I attended a Franklin-Covey seminar—I was 23. Using a system that included life planning (not just a calendar), I was able to get more done without feeling so scattered.
But since then, “more” has turned into a lot more. And it’s not just my stuff that that I have to keep track of… it’s my kids, my husband, work, school, writing deadlines, travel schedules, etc. Keeping everything organized in one online calendar helps, but the warning light on my mental-stress indicator was flashing OVERLOAD on a regular basis.
So it’s no wonder that the title of Patrick Lencioni’s book The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family caught my attention. Frantic is exactly how I felt. Maybe Lencioni and his book could offer some guidance for getting back to that not-so-scattered state.
It’s ironic that the day I was to interview Patrick Lencioni on the topic of frantic families, I realized I had a schedule conflict; I had to pick up my oldest son from driver’s ed. Lencioni was able to push the meeting back by 20 minutes, and when he called I was ready with my first question: Is frantic simply a way of life for today’s busy families, or is there a better way?
- My Secret Productivity Weapon Against a Roller-Coaster Day
by Amy Anderson Managing Editor Okay, so the fact that I scribbled the letter “B” on the back of my hand to remind myself to write this blog entry today should tell you just how much I need productivity strategies. I have a friend who jokes that my mind is like a steel sieve. That’s [...]
- Sharma: The Time Tactics of Leaders
One of the things the best of the best in business (and life) do staggeringly well is they leverage time to create spectacular results. We all have the same amount of time in a day/month/life. Those who use it poorly live half lives. Those who use it well become superstars.
- Workaholics Anonymous—A 12-Step Program of Recovery and Personal Transformation (Step 11)
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- Workaholics Anonymous—A 12-Step Program of Recovery and Personal Transformation (Step 9)
The Secret of Success Compression In a bygone era, which actually isn’t too long ago, you could only be reached by phone, mail or an in-person visit. If you had a task to complete, you could shut your door and have your calls held. Today, we have dozens of communication access points and devices that [...]
- Workaholics Anonymous—A 12-Step Program of Recovery and Personal Transformation (Step 8)
The Sharpening of Your Ax Winning is determined by what happens before the game. Discovering methods to achieve substantially more in your life—in the same or less time—is the purpose of this 12-step program. Each step offers solutions to do more with less effort and stress. In our current work culture, we create so many [...]
- Workaholics Anonymous – A 12-Step Program of Recovery and Personal Transformation (Step 7)
This step has been called “the greatest secret of the rich.” There is one force in our life that makes everyone equal. You are given the same amount as Richard Branson, Oprah Winfrey and Donald Trump. How you handle and treat this force is the single most important contributor to the income you will have [...]
- 3-Point Game Plan to (Way More!) Productive Meetings
I was interviewed this week by a journalist seeking input on how to schedule and hold more successful meetings. It is a very important topic, so I share these points with you… I think it would be a frightening statistic to know how much productive life force is squashed in unproductive, rudderless, meandering, ineffective, blathering, [...]
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