4 practical tips for blocking out your time mindfully this summer
An easy way to focus and get things done We are officially past the summer solstice, which in the Northern hemisphere is the longest day of the year. It is timely, therefore, to put our attention on the summertime; this season is very short and very precious here in the Northeast US. On Monday, June 19th (which is Juneteenth in the United States: a holiday to mark the abolishment of slavery) I ran a workshop to expand the Time Management in Summer for the Distracted Entrepreneur topic. In this article,
5 steps to make sure that your summer is not overwhelming
Balance your time this summer, step by step Summertime! Shifts. There’s gorgeous greenery around me, even though right here in New Hampshire where I live, it’s been pretty rainy lately. We do get beautiful moments of sunshine, which I very much enjoy. So if you are like me, summer brings shifts. Those shifts bring different ways to manage our time, especially as entrepreneurs, and particularly when you are an entrepreneur who considers themselves periodically scattered. It’s easy to get pulled in one direction or another direction. Summertime! Push and Pull.
5 steps to make sure your summer is peaceful, productive and profitable
You don’t have to choose between profit and enjoyment We are right on the cusp of the longest day of the year, and some of the kids are starting to get out of school. Perhaps if you’ve got kids, you’re feeling it already – that the summer has started for you. Sometimes, as entrepreneurs, we are stuck in this funky place where we want to really enjoy our summer….yet we feel the “pull” of “omg I can’t leave my company in the dust!” Summer might look like spending a lot
Got a Summer Distraction? This will solve it.
It’s just about summer, and what I’m hearing from some of my clients is that it’s a little hard to stay focused on their goals (aka what they “said they wanted to do”) because it’s so beautiful out. I really can resonate with that. I remember, especially at the beginning of my business, 14 years ago, I would find it difficult to really stay focused on my work, and business. I realized that it wasn’t so much for me that it was summer, but that I wasn’t as dedicated to
Know anyone who tells you “life got in the way” of what they wanted?
Have you ever been going along just fine in your business and your life, and then all of a sudden an event occurs- seemingly out of nowhere? Maybe a loved one had an accident, maybe your spouse lost their job, maybe a snowstorm came in and you lost your electricity, or another natural disaster. I call this “life getting in the way.” On April 28th, life got in the way for me. On this date, I was informed that my father got into a big accident – a fall. It
How to break up with the ‘nice to do’ on your to do list
Today’s topic: breaking up with your nice to-do tasks. Sounds great, but why would you want to do that, anyhow? Well, often when we are trying to get ahead of our to-dos, we put our head down and to go through the list, and doing that results in a feeling of being depleted. Or, perhaps there are feelings of working a lot and not getting anywhere. It’s very demotivational. These things are un-fun – and as a result, we procrastinate and we get distracted. All of the things that we
How to cut your decision time from 20 days to 15 minutes and feel peaceful
Hello and welcome to ‘Nature Today’ with Carol. I recorded the video outdoors, and it is a beautiful May day here in New Hampshire.Today is about overwhelm and how it impacts decision making. When overwhelmed, decisions can be really hard. I just got off a call with a client and she was feeling rather overwhelmed with a big decision she had to make. She is in several courses right now to do several certifications. She needed to decide, do I go for my big certification in November, or do I
Meet Husain, the PhD, who could not find order
Hey everybody. Carol, back here with the second video lesson, I’m very excited to see you all. In this lesson I wanted to give you a real live example, and the example I want to really highlight today is somebody that- I’ll be honest with you – I never thought would would come into my world and be so blessed by me, and whilst he’s no longer a client, he was really a special person. Let me tell you what happened. Read on or watch the video. His name is
Opportunity in a recession
Today I’m addressing some big stuff. We are on the absolute brink -and some people may say we already are- in an economic crisis and doom and gloom and recession. And I’m here to state it and not to get caught up in it. And…with every problem there’s an opportunity and there’s a key point to learn. The key is to be prepared. Read on or watch the video I’m going to tell you a little story, and this story has to do with me, back in 2009 when we
Spring out of stuck
This strategy will surprise you How have you been feeling lately? Maybe you’ve been trying to get someplace and you just can’t get there. Maybe you’ve been trying to reach a new health goal, you’ve been trying to reach a new business goal, you’ve been trying to just get on, stuck in your life, and it’s spring and you’re feeling like you are ready to pop and want to do these things….but you’re not sure how. Read on or watch the video The Surprising Strategy I’m going to illustrate a