Category Archives: Management

Are you ready to tap the magic of 26-hour days?

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During a virtual seminar that I taught with 20 small business owners attending, we discovered the secrets to creating more time and balance in work and home life. We identified feeling overwhelmed about having too many things to do, constantly put out fires where other people decide what we do, and spending all their time on business and taking little time for fun.

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According to Small Business Trends, business owners identified TIME as one of their biggest problems.
Few seem to have enough of it, even if they are working 60 hours a week or more. After working long hours for years, they begin to feel they have become a slave to their business … that it is running them rather than they running it.
If you are working more hours than you want and not feeling like it is getting any better, then consider some changes. What if you could initiate the 26-hour day?
Let’s not stop there. Why wish for only two more hours? Think bigger. Imagine having seven, 48-hour days each week. Would that make a difference in how you spend your time?
Carol Naff, Marketing Coach, taught that the first step is to think differently about time. What will it take to eliminate those days that are not productive? Eliminate those outside forces and external circumstances.
Become very clear about what needs to get done each day. Begin with the big picture of your vision and mission. Then write your plan of how to get there. Be certain to plan every 90 days and then continue to identify what strategies and tactics are most important and need to get done each week and each day. Choose to be responsible for how your day will go.
Then when you eliminate those days that are not productive, it’ll seem as though you have 48 hours in each day.
Strategy: Decide on only three things to do each week that will affect the impact on your vision the most. Identify your biggest problems in your business with this assessment at Marinerco.com
If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm.
– Norman Vincent Peale
If you are self-employed and not talking to people, you are unemployed.
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Apple Unveils iOS 7: Here’s Everything That’s About To Change On Your iPhone And iPad

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Apple just announced iOS 7, the new operating system for iPhones and iPads  that will be available as a free download later this year.

It’s a massive overhaul of the iOS you’re probably used to –– a top-to-bottom redesign.

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Getting What You Really Want for your Business

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Creative Connections is pleased to present

The WOW Factor

January 20, 2012, 9:00 – 10:30 a.m.

Getting What You Really Want From Your Business

Running your own business often means being run over by your business. Those great ideas and energies you employed to launch your enterprise are so easily swamped by day-to-day demands of operating a business. Is it any wonder that 400,000 small businesses close their doors every year?

What goes wrong? Why can’t entrepreneurs find a way to prosper and grow their businesses?

The WOW factor workshop is designed for participants to tackle issues of dissatisfaction by exploring, redirecting, and focusing their human capital. In the process, participants will understand how to more effectively and efficiently connect their signature strengths and passion with the operation of their business.

By gaining clarity and perspective, the net result is the development of a plan to maximize the owner’s strengths and passion. At the same time, reducing the business’s operational drag that can sap energy, enthusiasm, and spirit. Read more…  

Two experienced businessmen will introduce you to steps to utilize your strengths.

A Gift of Time

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Everywhere (in magazines, newspapers, email, Internet, and blogs), we are given tips and tricks to clear our clutter. We often think of that clutter as papers, books, and piles of stuff. While it is important to manage that clutter, consider for a moment that our time also can be cluttered. Give yourself a gift of time. Tackle time clutter for a stress-free life. Get a small timer and designate it for use as your business timer.

  1. Stay on Track. By setting your business timer as a reminder of your next event, you can focus totally on your project without having the distraction of constantly looking at the clock. You won’t waste time or energy constantly redirecting your attention. You’ll get more done in less time.
  2. Set time limits. Set your timer for 30 or 60 minutes or more. Completely focus on just one thing for that entire time. Then if you need more time for the project, add minutes as needed. If a project or task pops into your thoughts tempting you to move to that activity, jot a note on a paper to deal with that later. We are tempted to interrupt our focus because “it will only take a moment” and we don’t want to forget to do it.
  3. Email notification. Shut it off! Every time an email comes in and the ping sounds, it distracts you. Every distraction takes 5 – 15 minutes away from your project. You might set your timer to alert you a few times each day to check your email.
  4. Relaxation. Set the business timer for power naps or periods of relaxation to relieve stress. Then relax completely without having to worry about missing the next event.
  5. Avoid perfectionism. Work for excellence – get it 80% perfect and get the job done.

Strategy: Use these tips to enable you to focus and get more done in less time. That way you are giving yourself a Gift of Time. By clearing your time clutter, you will have more time to savor the moments.