Category: Productivity
This is about being effective with your time and being focused on the right things to do each day or at each stage.
It could overlap with PM when we talk about your time on a project.
Win at business and still be a failure
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I want you to be a success at work. I want you to have the business you’ve dreamed of but lets be totally clear. If you win at work and aren’t a good parent, friend, spouse, partner I think you’ve failed. How many business articles have you read this week? How many business books have
You have no one to blame for your terrible job but yourself
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Why did you start your business? For most of us it was to gain more freedom. We were tired of following asinine rules. We were tired of working to put more money in the pockets of others as they collected on the value we provided. We wanted to spend more time with our kids and
How to stop being normal and break from average
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I had a dream last night. In this dream I was…average. I had 2.5 kids (so yes, half a kid). I had a nice car, but I couldn’t really afford it — I just could make the payments. I went into a decent job with a decent office and did okay work. Nothing earth-shattering, but
How I make my book reading work for me
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My reading goal this year is the same as the last two years — to read 60 books, 45 of them focused on personal improvement in some fashion. Even amongst people who identify as readers, that’s a lot of books. One of my friends recently scoffed at reading 45 books for personal improvement in a
How does my tracked time match with my plan?
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I’ve said before that billing by the hour is a bad idea. It allows your client to save money by insisting tasks should take less time. Therefore, if you want to earn more, then tasks need to take longer. While billing by the hour is a bad idea, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t track your
Want a successful business? Make sure you answer these 10 questions first.
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The life of entrepreneurship can, from the outside, look like a bed of roses. Yes, today I started work at 9 a.m. and read for two hours, then wrote for two hours, and am now writing more at 2:30 p.m., sitting in the living room watching my kids play in the snow. But that’s my
Its Time To Let Your Business Suffer
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Before Christmas I pre-sold Finding and Marketing to Your Niche and I had grande plans for how I’d treat my amazing pre-sale purchasers. They’d be getting regular emails from day one. They’d love me and angels would sing. There were probably unicorn tears in there somewhere as well. All of those plans went out the
4 Questions to Disruption-Proof Your Business
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Hundreds of years ago aluminum was the most precious metal. If you visited a king and were really important you got the aluminum dishes. Gold or silver dishes were for those less important. All that changed when new ways to get aluminum out of the ground were invented. With a fairly quick swoop, aluminum went
8 Irrefutable Laws of Running an Awesome Business
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In my original ideal world of freelancing I’d hang out my shingle and stellar clients would pour in. I’d have work to do all the time with no dry periods. All the clients would be willing to pay premium rates, beginning the day I started building sites. Yeah it sounds silly now, but it’s a
3 Reasons Coaching Isn’t Working for You
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Ever had a friend who was super smart, yet you could rarely ever understand them? I know I tend to be that person when I talk about computers. I have a friend who will smile deeply as I talk and then say: Dude all I’ve heard for the last 5 minutes is “I’m a big
