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How bad do you really want relief and productivity?

I know you have a busy life. How badly do you really want relief and productivity? Now, those are not necessarily the same, but they kind of are the same. I hear, “I want relief and I want to be productive”. Relief and stress relief from that relentless To-Do list, and relief from being busy all the time.  Here’s the truth. You’re too busy for that. You’re too busy to do things needed so that you get the relief you desire. There’s a pretty cool book that I’ve been made

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What is the secret to getting IMPORTANT tasks done vs. procrastinating?

Let’s look at 2 familiar scenarios and how to harness your brain Today, this beautiful fall day, our topic is less sexy than the fall colors:  time and tasks. This cake slice lives on the third layer of the Productivity Success Cake -in the productivity layer. It’s  important because there are sometimes false ideas that to do a task, you just write down ‘Jones Project’ and you get ‘Jones Project’ done in your to-do list. NOT TRUE! I am going to show you two different methods to do this. Pay

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5 ways to ‘Get it Done’ without beating yourself up again

 Goldilocks decision making = gold You want to get it done, but you just can’t get started. You beat yourself up. What’s behind this beating yourself up…again? What’s behind this knowing that you’ve got stuff to do, but just feeling completely overwhelmed and just not doing any of it? Recently, I was in Arizona, and I watched my son experience this exact thing. He knew he had to open his mail, he knew he had to pay his parking tickets, he knew he had to deal with a lot of

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How to completely change decision overwhelm once and for all

 You want it all, yet, you are not doing any of it.  Are you finding yourself *overwhelmed* at times?  Decision Overwhelm is real. You may WANT change, and, you may be avoiding it. It may all feel like “too much” at times. In this article, we will get started, and tomorrow – Monday, October 2nd- we’re going to be diving much further into this at Wisdom Warriors and having an open discussion. One thing we will do for MONDAY is to introduce you to a powerful decision making “tool” so

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4 steps to focus after life gets in the way

Weather crisis? Health crisis? Name your crisis. Today, the topic is how to refocus after a crisis. Small or large, life will always get in the way of your big plans; it’s just the way it is.  In the last workshop that I did (Time management for the distracted entrepreneur), we talked about four things that will distract us. Those were: extreme weather, cash crunch, too much to do, but belt tightening, or some combination of these things.  Recently, I’ve had one of my community members cite that they had

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How to give your time to the projects that will bring income…and still stay creative

Boredom got you? Here is your solution One of my community members has reached out to me about managing your time so that you have the best income within the time that you have.  They write, “I have a problem with giving my time to the projects that will bring me the income now”.  What I’m hearing:  this person knows that they need to change their time management, such that they are being very deliberate about how they spend their time, so that they have the best income for the

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What are you committed to?

We are in love with our roadblocks, even when we say we are not. The truth about commitment: We love to talk about how we want to lose weight. We love to talk about ‘someday’. “I would like to get around to it, but not right now” or “I’m really busy doing …..”  Finally, you may say, “That’s it. I’m going to do this thing. I really want my next one hundred days/the end of the year to look different. I really do. I cannot stand tolerating this negative cash

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Why it’s so hard to say no, stay motivated, and get it done

And what to do about it…in these challenging times. Welcome to lesson two out of three of ‘Managing your time as a distracted entrepreneur’.  The first lesson helps you take your big idea, dream, or goal and utilize the  productivity success cake (a whole e-book!) framework to achieve it. You have seen this lesson. NOW, the second lesson we’re going to talk about diving deeper into what’s behind the Cake Process.  NEXT, lesson three is the live lesson on Tuesday September 5th 11am to 1pm EST, and you’re going to

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What to do when time blocking does not work

Quick solutions to daunting issues Today I am going to talk about time blocking, but not in the way that you might think I will be talking about it. Instead, I’m talking about it in terms of when you time block a task and yet time after time it doesn’t get done, and what to do instead.  There are many possible reasons for this. However, today we are zeroing in on the Environment Layer of the Productivity Success Cake. Here is the link for you to download the Productivity Success

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What’s your biggest challenge as an entrepreneur?

Time Management – Sleep “What’s your biggest challenge as an entrepreneur?” This question was asked recently in one of my groups. I was looking at the responses, and what I was noticing was there was a very large percentage of answers having to do with time management, focus, consistency, and believing in ourselves. Some of the responses were…. For this article, I am focusing  on time management: sleep because several people brought up SLEEP in their responses. In this series, time management for the distracted entrepreneur, this week we are 

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