We’ve all done it – allowed ourselves to be distracted by email rather than getting busy with the task at hand. Email, while often productive and important, can steal time in the most creative ways. Try these techniques, and encourage your colleagues to do the same. Note: This article can be used as the topic [...]
Tags: distractions, email, focus, overwhelm, Productivity, time
Avoiding telephone time thieves involves being proactive. Implement the ideas in this article to avoid letting the telephone “steal” your time (and of course, it’s not the “telephone” that is stealing your time, now is it?) Do not answer the phone. If you are doing something that has your attention, don’t pick up the phone. [...]
Tags: distractions, focus, Productivity, time
Teleseminar: Time Travel: 7 Shortcuts to Maximize Your Time This must-attend teleseminar will be hosted by Meggin McIntosh and taught by Joelle Jay. Click here for more information and to register. By participating in this teleseminar, you will learn how to maximize time in several ways including ways to: save time spend time find time [...]
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Keep your email OFF for long periods of time each day. And note: This is not an anti-email post. It is a pro-productivity approach. We have all ignored priorities while we fiddled away your day…on distractions such as email. Believe me, I know this because I’ve done it myself (more than once!!) Let this post enhance your [...]
Tags: email, priorities, Productivity, time, timer
Could you use some tips for creating a sane and sensible schedule? Here are 5 great ones, shared with me by folks who wanted others to know what worked for them. Mickey Schafer: Set, respect, and enforce boundaries. I divide work and home as much as possible. My students know this up front. With others, [...]
In addition to the ASAR folder discussed in yesterday’s post, another one to help keep your inbox unclogged is “Waiting For” – and you use it for any email that you are not yet finished with because it has at least one more action associated with it, but you can’t go further with the [...]
Tags: action, email, Productivity, time, waiting for response
If you are looking for ways to diminish overwhelm, try changing the way you ‘see’ time. How do you view time at this juncture? Consider each of the following words/phrases and see if any of these sound familiar to you in terms of your viewpoint, particularly if you are in ‘overwhelm.’ There’s never enough time. Time [...]
Tags: just whelmed, overwhelm, perception, time, time quotes
Reframe Your View of Time Imagine reframing your perception of what time is. What if you saw time as… Fluid Plentiful Available Abundant A blank canvas Expansive Ready Free Your friend (rather than your enemy)… Imagine the difference in how you’d feel if one or more of the ones listed above was descriptive of how [...]
Tags: abundance, overwhelmed, perspective, time
Great Time Quotes Read through these great quotes. Find the one that you like the most and print it out and look at it often. I have a favorite…can you guess which one it is? Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. Jim Rohn Time [...]
I recently heard Rich Brooks speak at the NAPO Conference and he was EXCELLENT. I subscribed to his newsletters and now have access to a number of his special free reports. I suggest you also go to http://www.flyte.biz/ where you can sign up and access free articles, reports, etc. – including one on “10 Questions to [...]
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