Welcome to another A.W.E Inspired post! "An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox." - Lao Tzu [tweetability]Are you moving forward today?[/tweetability] Try following this 3 step approach as you create change. A - Awareness Where are you today? W - Work How can you move forward today? E- Evaluation How can you improve your action today? Additional A.W.E. [...]
How do you choose your goals? When you decide it’s time to set goals – either for business or personal – what process do you use? Do you identify your #1 priority? Do you create a SMART goal? Do you break your new goal down into small action steps? Do you carve out 15 minutes each day to focus on your goal? [...]
This is Self-Improvement month. What a wonderful opportunity to choose one area in your life to work to improve in for the next 30 days. If you could be anything, do anything, accomplish anything – what would it be? Close your eyes – and just dream. What pops into your head? Will you commit to working towards this goal each day [...]
Did you know that last week was National Simplify Your Life Week. The perfect week to highlight my work as a time strategy visionary. (Goodness, I teach people effective time management strategies for a living - and one of the major components is to simplify . . . your calendar, your goals, your environment, . . . ) However, I found myself overwhelmed trying to decide which ideas to [...]
I'm a HUGE fan of the late Stephen Covey. His book, "7 Habits of Highly Effective People" was the first book on time management I read. Sometimes, even a time strategy visionary like myself can find herself feeling a little frazzled at the end of a day. When this happens, I return to the basics - Covey's 7 Habits to determine the adjustments I [...]
Procrastination! Distractions! Ahh . . . no matter how great you are at practicing time management strategies, sometimes even the most strategic individual falls into the deep, dark hole of procrastination. Or, possibly you are overcome with the distraction of flying "shiny objects"! Maybe you "lose" an hour on the computer updating your Facebook page. Or, possibly you decide to check email for "just a moment" and 30 minutes later you are still responding [...]
Yes - there really is an "All or Nothing Day"! Is approaching your life in an all or nothing way productive? My thought is "no". I often try to see both sides of an issue - however, I'm struggling to see the "YES" part of this question. (So if you are a proponent of All or Nothing Thinking - I urge you to post [...]
Behind the scenes with TeeMcBee on Indelible Impressions! I'm famous! Well - maybe not famous, but I did have the opportunity to be a guest on Indelible Impressions with TeeMcBee a few weeks ago. TeeMcBee (the business persona of Traci McBride) hosts a show geared towards empowering her viewers to increase their awareness around different areas of personal and professional growth. I've often wondered [...]
Source: Uploaded by user via Lisa on Pinterest Your time management strategy for today - just do things! I found this quote, "We have a strategic plan, it's called doing things" on Pinterest - and had a little giggle! (Especially because recently I participated in a 6 hour strategic planning meeting!) Sometimes accomplishing a goal or making the most of your time, really [...]
Monday is Creative Ice Cream Flavors Day! So - what does this have to do with time management? Nothing - I just want you to create your own flavor of ice cream. Just kidding! Today's post is about self-care. The number one way to increase your productivity is to work more - right? Let's take adding a new team member as our example. Pretend your close [...]
