Life Of E's

In a recent *E*mail *E*xtravaganza, one of our members asked me some great questions and I wanted to share those questions and my answers so that they might help you, too. Q. Dear Meggin, you suggest that we hire someone to do things that can be done by someone else. How does one assess how [...]

Tags: cost management, cost of time, delegate, hiring others, invest, spending money, time management

What happens when your calendar is just crammed? Should you quit using a calendar? Should you just pitch the calendar? No, of course not. You have to figure out how to make more room so you can get your projects done. The way that you make more room is by eliminating part of what is [...]

Tags: distractions, energy, focus, Productivity, stress, success, time, tips, women

In our last post we mentioned 5 Tips to help you in forming new habits to start your journey to a more productive future and today we’re sharing 5 more to help you get there. Take it one day at a time. You are making changes today. Tomorrow you can continue. Today, just focus on [...]

Tags: distractions, energy, focus, positive, Productivity, success, tips

You may have heard the quote from Mike Litman: “People form habits and habits form futures.” If you are ready for a future that is more productive, consider these first 5 of 10 tips to help you form your new habits – and thus, your future. Choose one habit to replace. It may be that [...]

Tags: distractions, energy, focus, positive, Productivity, success, time, tips

Learned about this great resource recently.  Love the name and love the concept: https://www.2placesat1time.com/index.aspx We all need to delegate and this looks like one resource that will give us some support!  Let me know your experiences with this group.  I’d be interested. If you want more ideas and direction on delegating, here’s a link for [...]

Imagine you are reading this blog post as a question and answer session…Just listen in (and this came in originally as a Life of *E*s Email Extravaganza (another of which I am getting ready to host again in a few minutes!): Q:  My current company is my original brand. I have invested a lot of time/money/energy promoting [...]

Tags: business, business growth, entrepreneur

Small business owners (as well as any other working person, which I hope is all of us!) often wonder how to hire help that’s not too expensive, but gets the job done. You might have had these questions, as asked by a Life of E’s member: Can you give us more information about using teenagers [...]

Tags: Delegation, teen employees, teen tasks, teenagers, teens, workers

If you are a business owner and you intend to have your business grow, then you need to be working on the tasks, commitments, and projects that ‘only you can do’ and delegate the rest. You might have a question like this one asked by a Life of E’s member: I would like to start [...]

Tags: credit cards, delegate, delegating, employees, trust, workers

Suggestion: Once again, I’m PUSHING all of you to hire a VA (virtual assistant). I have been listening (yet again) to a teleseminar about managing your life as an entrepreneur and the person cannot emphasize enough about why we all need to hire out our lower level tasks & responsibilities so we can focus on [...]

Tags: assistant, cybertary, secretary, virtual, virtual assistant

Article from Sharla Jacobs and Jesse Koren’s ezine (and some of this language is a little over the top for me, but I love the three steps and wanted to include all of what they had said): 3 Steps to Get the Help You Need Once you apply the 6 Figure Principles, you’re bound to [...]

Tags: divine vision, help, skills, work, workload