Techniques and strategies to maximize your time using electronic and paper calendars.
As we are getting closer to the holidays – it’s time to start pulling our previous steps together. In step #4 you broke each activity that you participate in during the holidays into the smallest possible step. When you put the most recent post (Step #5) into action, you continued to delete some activities and delegate others. If you’ve just found the Stress Free [...]
Yesterday I posted that I was going through a feeling of overwhelm. Many time demands caused me to shift to choosing my priorities each day based on deadlines - not based on importance. Rush, rush, rush, rush, rush! UGGG! (Wondering what in the world I'm talking about? Check out yesterday's post!) So, like any good time strategy visionary, I implemented the A.W.E. principle to [...]
Many of my clients will ask – should I use an electronic or digital calendar? My answer – I don’t care, just use one! Early in my career as a time strategy visionary, I felt to be consistent with the image I was trying to project, I needed to use a digital calendar. I allowed myself 3 months to learn the new technology [...]
What would your perfect day look like? Where would you be? Who would you be with? What would you be doing? "How we spend our days is, of course, how spend our lives." Anne Dillard My perfect day involves the beach, a good book, sunshine, lemonade, and chocolate. (I’ll even let my husband join me!) When is the last time you enjoyed [...]
Do you have pages and pages and pages of items on your To-Do list? Or, do you have multiple lists? Or, maybe you have multiple lists WITH multiple items on each list. Goodness – feeling overwhelmed yet?! You can’t possibly complete every item on your list – nor should you! Here’s a quick hopefully!) method to help you start to narrow down [...]
When do you feel you are most efficient? How do you balance scheduled and unscheduled activities each day, week, month? Do you work with a regimented 15 minute scheduled calendar, or do you have a weekly task list, or something in between? What is your master strategy for effective time management? In the last 2 days, I participated in conversations with 3 different coaches on this [...]
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton. This is one of my favorite quotes - and I really can apply it to many, many, many situations! For today . . . RAIN = PLANNING RAINBOW = STRESS FREE SCHEDULE When you build in 10 - 15 minutes each day, and an hour at [...]
Here's a picture of the gas company digging up my yard looking for the second leak. (They found the first one right away!) I won't bore you with the details (really, who wants to hear about someone else's crappy home ownership challenges?!) I'll just give you the facts . . . Everyone is fine The leaks were both found The process took 2 days So, [...]
Yesterday was National "I Forgot Day". (Yes - yesterday - I say with a giggle! ) How many times do you feel like your life is running out-of-control, important appointments are falling through the cracks? Recently, I had a conversation with a client who is in a leadership position with a direct sales company . . . it went something like this . . . names have been [...]
