Life of E's

Being a huge fan of teleseminars, both as a learner and as a business owner, each month I participate and host these high tech (but low tech) ways of learning and teaching. If you have not been integrating one or more aspects of telelearning and telecommunications as part of your strategy as an entrepreneur, then [...]

Tags: business development, business strategies, entrepreneurs, Products, profitability, teleseminars, webinars

Here is a question from one of our members: Q. Do you have a recommendation for an online meeting scheduler you like? Meggin’s Answer: I really like www.TimeTrade.com – I’ve just started my second year using that and I like it.  The more coaching clients I have, the better I like it!  It saves the [...]

Tags: coordinating schedules, managing schedules, on-line schedulers, planning, Productivity, scheduling meetings

Do you think any dust has accumulated under piles of clutter?  Is it possible that there is dirt somewhere in the midst of piles of stuff that need to given away.  Would you find any cobwebs around those places that haven’t been sorted lately? Let’s just agree that the answer is ‘Yes.’ A simple way [...]

Tags: clutter, distractions, energy, Productivity, tips

Delegating is an essential part of being productive both at home and at work. There are certainly tasks that I am sure you have done where you asked yourself “did I earn a master’s degree to qualify me to stuff these envelopes?” Other times, you wonder, “Hmmm….why am I doing this when a machine can [...]

Tags: delegate, distractions, Productivity, time, tips, work

As a leader, do you want to be considered a lion – or a sheep? I think I know the answer, but in case you need any additional encouragement, consider these characteristics of sheep: 1. Timid, fearful, easily panicked Hmm…are these words that you want to be used to describe you? Timidity in the face [...]

Tags: confidence, fear, leadership, positive, skills, stress, weakness

Money clutter is something that not many people talk about. Business owners will admit to paper clutter, digital clutter, mental clutter, but they rarely talk about money clutter. It’s time that we did because it can at least as debilitating to your business as the other types of clutter (which you also need to deal [...]

Tags: clutter, credit cards, money, overwhelm, overwhelmed, stress, tips

To be productive as a writer, you need to actually write. I know this doesn’t come as a shock, yet I also know how easy it is to let other tasks, projects, people, or any number of other distractions take us away from our writing. Consider using the following words to describe your writing time [...]

Tags: Productivity, Professors, success, tips, work, writing

Here is a question asked by one our the Life of E’s members. Q.What “end of the day/debriefing” strategies do you recommend?  As a follow-up to that question, what do you recommend doing when you are finished teaching a class (a single-day lesson)?  I mean end of class techniques to bring closure to the class [...]

Tags: educators, feedback, Professors, teaching tools

There are a variety of ways that your office, workspace (and home) end up partially cluttered with things that belong somewhere else (or to SOMEONE else). You can do some major de-cluttering just by designating a box or some other type of container labeled “belongs elsewhere.” Depending on your situation, this could be a rather [...]

Tags: clean-up, clutter, cluttered, relocating