News Flash…You Can’t Do it All. BUT You CAN Do What’s Important!
I’m always asked about “time management”.
How do you manage time so that you can get what you want to do done? How do you manage to run your business and get your work done and also have time to live your life and have fun?
I have good news and bad news for you.
First the bad news, you can’t manage time. You have exactly 24 hours in a day, no more, no less.
Now the good news, you’re not alone, the Dali Lama, Mother Teresa, Thomas Edison and everyone on this planet also has exactly 24 hours in a day.
So what can you do to help you use that time to your advantage?
You see, it’s not about doing everything it’s about doing the things that will make the most difference and will help you move further along the path that you want to travel.
Here are five questions that my clients and I use every day to make sure that we’re focusing our attention on the most important things. Give them a try and see what happens. Read more
Calm the Overwhelm by Saying “No”
I received an email recently that summed it up best…
“I’m overwhelmed, over stimulated, interested in everything … recently got a promotion…have more responsibility that I don’t feel prepared to handle…feel like quitting and hiding from everyone. I’m spinning my wheels and not accomplishing anything…I’m burnt out to the point of avoiding everything, and not caring what happens and really creating a point of no return for myself.”
Overwhelm is everywhere. There are so many things that you think you should do, have to do, or want to do. How do you find your way through the maze of these ideas in order to accomplish anything?
For many people, especially entrepreneurs like myself, the overwhelm often comes in the form of ideas. It might be projects or programs that you want to create or take part in, ideas to follow up on, events to attend, people to connect with and even clients to work with.
New ideas are tantalizing. To me they symbolize “bright, shiny object syndrome” better than anything else. You find yourself reaching out and grabbing them. Unfortunately, the reality is that when you reach out and grab too many they end up sitting in piles on your desk, or muddled in your mind. The ideas aren’t bright and shiny anymore, in fact they get old and tarnished. Read more
5 Strategies to Stay Focused and On Track
Call it procrastination, distraction, lack of focus, being unproductive or whatever you want, bottom line is that there are things that you simply need to focus on and get done. Sometimes it’s quick and easy other times it seems near impossible. You know it has to be done but…How?
Staying focused and getting things done is a topic that comes up frequently as I work with my clients and even as I approach my own tasks.
Here are five strategies that my clients and I all use to help us get things done! Read more
Managing Your Email … Part 2
I realized that dealing with email is a two step process. The first step, which I wrote about earlier, is managing what actually comes in. The second step is handling or “doing” your email.
Step2: Five Strategies to manage the time you spend “doing” email. Read more
5 Strategies to Manage Your Email
I don’t know about you but when I click on “send/receive” I feel like I have to brace myself for the onslaught…I think “NO! Please don’t download any more!!!”
Recently one of my clients told me how excited she was because she brought the number of emails in her inbox down from 1,500 to 500. A consultant I was speaking with said that she went ahead and deleted 7,000 emails from her inbox without even looking at them. Frankly, I can’t remember any client where the subject of email management did not come up.
I get well over a hundred emails a day. I tell you this not because I think the number is so big or so small but because, whether you get 5 or 1000 emails a day, they add up and they add up fast. What’s more is that email management seems to take on a life of its own. We spend hours every day “doing email”. It’s a huge time sink. What happens with email is that everyone else’s demands, requests and even simple “hello’s” become equally important and take precedence over the things that you really want or need to do.
So how can you manage it? Here are 5 strategies for you to try. By the way, these are the same strategies that I use and that I recommend to my clients. Read more
How to Balance Fun with Work in Your Life
With so much you “have” to do everyday how to find ways to get some “me time” in too.
How to Go Through Piles Without a Sense of Dread
How to go through piles of clutter without the sense of dread and without the emotion.
How to Deal With Your Email
Carrie’s thoughts on the question of how to deal with the incredible amount of email that comes in every day.
Time, Energy and Procrastination…the Video
A client recently told me that her biggest challenge was “Time! Energy! Procrastination! Overwhelm!” See what you can do to conquer this challenge. www.CarrieThru.com
Dealing with the paper piles
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