3 New Coaching Spots Now Open…Video
I sent out an email last week about some openings in my coaching program. As I spoke with people about the program I kept getting the same questions so here’s a short video that answers them.
It’s just 3 minute long…enjoy!
To apply for the CarrieThru Coaching Program geared specifically for entrepreneurs send an email to Carrie @ CarrieThru.com. Let me know what’s going on in your business to day and where you want it to be. Make sure to include your phone number and email address so that we can talk and make sure this program is a good fit for you.
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
Your Weekend To-Do List
It’s Saturday morning and I woke up really early. My brain was really busy thinking about my “weekend to-do list”. It’s a mile long and frankly I couldn’t figure out what to do or how to do it.
Then I figured it out and decided to shoot a short video telling you about my weekend plans.
Go ahead and watch it…it’s only 4 minutes long. If I look a bit tired it’s because I am…that’s what happens when you’re trying to get too many things done.
I hope you enjoy the video…I’m off to enjoy my weekend!
Oh yeah…here’s the link I referred to in the video: www.CarrieThru.com/jumpstart
Jump Start to Getting Organized: Take Control of Your Time, Tasks and Things begins Wednesday June 16th…
Click here to learn more & join me
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
Managing Your Time By Adding Structure
Watch and listen as Carrie tackles the issue of how to deal with your time when there are no external deadlines
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
3-Real Life Strategies to Get Things Done
Diane felt overwhelmed every time she looked at her to-do list.
Diane knew that her to-do list was supposed to keep her on track, help her figure out what she wanted to do and keep her from feeling overwhelmed, but this wasn’t happening. Instead, every time she looked at her list she felt more overwhelmed then ever and even more convinced that she’d never get any of it done.
Diane worked really hard all day long. She’d knuckle down and spend her day busy and running from one thing to another. As the day wore on she’d anticipate finally crossing something off her list but, try as she might, she never could.
To figure out what was going on, during one of Diane’s coaching sessions we spent some time digging into the specific things that she had on her list.
Here’s just a sampling of what she listed:
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Final decisions on investments – act!
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Damned police report!
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Get oil changed!
Diane and I addressed each of these items in turn. As we discussed them we learned a lot and figured out why they weren’t getting done. Then based on the lessons we uncovered we formulated three strategies that she’ll be able to apply to all of her tasks. Here is what we found out. Read more
How to Get Motivated and Stay on Track
Watch and listen as Carrie addresses the issue…Getting motivated to do a task isn’t always easy and then once you finally do get yourself going how do you keep on task and stay at it?
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