Category Archives: Productivity and Time Management

Parkinson’s Law

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You know it’s important to set goals for yourself and to work to achieve those goals. The problem is that you may have been working toward the same things for weeks, months, or even years. It’s not at all uncommon for me to hear that someone has been trying to start or succeed with a web business but hasn’t made any real progress over the course of several years.

If that strikes close to home for you, know that you’re not alone. For a variety of reasons, I didn’t find true success in online business right away either. Mindset has a lot to do with it, along with time management.

A huge part of the problem for many people has to do with a lack of deadline when working for oneself. I fully realize that even hearing the word “deadline” might make you cringe. You’re running your own business so you don’t have to deal with deadlines, and now I’m telling you that you need them?

Crazy, right?

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Simplify Your Life

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Life is so complicated these days. You’re pulled in all sorts of different directions. You have a lot to do at home and you have a lot to do in business. It’s great that we have all this technology and all these ways to connect with people with our work – but is it all really to your benefit?

In fact, for all the wonderful technology we have, it doesn’t seem to be helping with stress or even productivity. There’s always more work to be done. The work never ends – there are piles of work left over at the end of the day.

There’s so much work, so much to do, and so many internal and external distractions, but you really don’t feel like your business is growing as much as you want it to.

It seems next to impossible to manage your time in the right way.

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The Secret Word That Saves Time

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What if there was some kind of magical word that automatically saved time?  That would be a word worth knowing, right?!

Truly, there is such a word.  In fact, it’s a very short word with only two letters.  It can be a tremendously freeing word when used appropriately and timely.  That word is…

No!

One of the reasons that people get overwhelmed with too much to do is they have an inability to say “No”.  None of us have more than twenty-four hours in our day, so we simply cannot say “Yes” to everything!  And we don’t even need to say “Yes” to things that will overcrowd our schedule.

Learn this…

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How to Get More Done in Less Time

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As a business owner, you’re probably always looking for ways to get more done in less time. After all, if you work less while making even more money, then you’ve given yourself a nice pay raise.

But it turns out that cloning yourself is not an option, right? And that means that you’ll need to employ other methods to get more done in less time, starting with these tips…

  1. Create To Do Lists

Keep these tips in mind:

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A Foolproof Plan to Beat Procrastination

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A few days ago I ran for seven hours and eleven minutes without a break.  Let that sink in for just a moment to realize the magnitude of it.  That’s not a typo. I ran all day.  In extreme conditions.

When I woke up that morning, that’s what I intended to do.  I drove to the ultra race start zone.  Waited around with the other runners.  And then took off.  It was fully planned.

Here’s how I did it:  I took a step.  Then another step.  And then another step.

If I had gotten up that morning and said out loud, “I’m gonna run for over seven hours today”, I probably wouldn’t have done it.  That’s insanely daunting.

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