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.
If you want to build your dream business, know your 4 Quadrants
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We’re heading to 2017, which seems crazy to me. Every year seems to go by faster. This is the time of year many people begin to set their goals for the next year. If you’re not one of those, you should be. But before you set your goals for 2017 you need to know something
When bad things happen just after success, maybe you’ve hit your Upper Limit
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I don’t know anyone who wakes up and plans to have an unsuccessful day. Nobody plans to fight with their spouse or clients. No one plans to let projects run late or get sick or spend more than they earn. But these things happen all the time, and some of these things we can control.
How looking for benefits harms your business
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Are you susceptible to the ‘any benefit’ trap? Something new comes along, and you can only focus on a single alluring feature, completely ignoring the trade-offs (negatives) that may come along with it. The Any-Benefit Approach to Network Tool Selection: You’re justified in using a network tool if you can identify any possible benefit to
Defeat worry with these 4 questions
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Some of us have a problem with worry. It doesn’t matter what we’re worrying about — we can find a way to worry about pretty much anything. If business is bad, we worry how we’ll find new clients. If business is going well, we wonder which current client will end up being a problem, and
Why you shouldn’t change productivity systems
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A week doesn’t go by without a new productivity or project management system coming on the scene. While there are some that do have truly useful features to help you get more done, most of them are simply a new user interface for the same functionality. What’s more, our online mentors regularly talk about their
How I let my ego get in the way of success
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One of the many ‘jobs’ I’ve had is to run a live performance theatre. I put ‘job’ in quotes because I was in high school and this story comes from the drama club where I was the stage manager. I did also get paid to run the facility, but on one particular day I was
If you want to be successful you need a routine
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When I first began working for myself, I worked from home and my daily routine resembled that of a millionaire with more money than sense. The issue was that I was focused on exercising my new found freedom but didn’t yet have the money to maintain a routine like that. That desire to exercise my
You need to do this first if you want to run a good business
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So, you think it sounds great to run your own business. You get to sit in coffee shops working on interesting projects for people you love and you get paid well to do it. The people you meet at these coffee shops find you interesting and you have great conversations about the state of the
If you want to expand your mind, read this!
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If you’ve enjoyed my series on learning, then you’re going to love today’s post because I’m going to point you to a wealth of other resources on learning. Going through these is going to help you be a better learner. When you learn more and can execute on what you’ve learned, you’re going to run
How to embrace new ideas
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The whole point of learning is to embrace new ideas and use them in our lives/business. The problem is that most times we may get excited about a new idea, and then we become more afraid of the risks than excited about the benefits. We fear what we may lose by implementing a new idea
