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No matter what, there will always be 24 hours in a day. So why doesn’t that leave you with enough time to get everything done? Your to-do list is turning into a wish list, the family hasn’t seen you for weeks, and you’ve given up on sleep. Too much time is spent trying to cram in too many things, so how can you gain control of your time before it drives you crazy?
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What if you could wake up every morning with goals that truly energize you? Learn 3 ways to turn time-trapping goals into inspirational ones right now!
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There’s so much to do, build your list, write articles, get your website up, write invoices, make sales, create new content…you get my drift. How is one supposed to get it all done in those meager 24hrs in 1 day? How do successful six figure income solopreneurs do it? Are they superhuman?
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Did you know that we waste an incredible amount of time, energy, and money when we're disorganized? The National Organization of Professional Organizers says that it is around 180 hours a year in a business (that's more than a week). For a business mom, it's probably triple that. So, how can you organize your life and office to accomplish everything that matters to you personally and professionally in the most profitable way
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The real challenge for the woman entrepreneur isn’t how to deliver a great service but how to find time to market. Unfortunately, avoiding marketing only leads to feeling guilty or overwhelmed. Or worse, feeling downright scared because you’re cash flow is shriveling up. If you’re being totally honest you have to admit that the reason you don’t seem to find time to market is because you’re either not sure what the best way is to market your business, you don’t want to feel pushy or inauthentic, you’re not sure where to start or you’re afraid that it won’t work and you’ll have failed. Here are some simple tips to get you started.
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Our world is filled with change … all the time! Finding time to deal with the sudden changes that can present themselves to us is a difficult challenge that is compounded by the fact that, by definition, we are unprepared for them! What can you do to prepare? Here are 5 tips to help you keep sudden change from totally disrupting your time choices, your ability to take care of yourself … and manage your life.
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What if you could recharge your enthusiasm to reach your top goals? These 3 guidelines help you to redirect your energy for productivity and success.
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These time management skills fully deserve their universal popularity! Because time management tips develop your power to translate plans into actions right here and now, they help you align your energies with your values, making you more productive, happier and fully integrated.
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Are you a follow through kind of person? Or do you start a bunch of projects and ideas and complete none of them? Small and solo business owners with 6-figure incomes have learned a secret--- they make a lot more money by following through meticulously on their plans, strategies and ideas.
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It's become a routine with me, and I'm guessing millions of others, that every New Year, I reassess how I'm spending my time and if I'm "getting the most out of each day" -- in quotes since the definition of that phrase is different for each of us. We're always talking about "getting more done" or "getting things done" when what's really important is "getting the RIGHT things done" at any given time. So how do you know if something is "the right" thing to be doing?
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In my experience the biggest problem small business owners face is time management - getting stuck doing mundane tasks or putting out fires, instead of being the CEO, the one who develops and implements the strategy and uses their expertise delivering the services they are passionate about.
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Have you ever looked back at the end of the day wondering where the hours went and what you actually achieved? It can be frustrating when a day gets clogged up with unproductive tasks and you don’t get to the money making stuff that you really should attend to.
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For solo entrepreneurs, time management is one of the toughest parts of the job. You are a jack-of-all-trades: running the back office, fixing the computer, answering the phone, handling invoices, and, of course, doing the work that actually earns you revenue. It's easy to get so wrapped up in administrative tasks that it becomes difficult to grow the business without working longer and longer hours to keep up with paperwork and other demands. Here's how you can keep control of your time and make sure that you're earning what you're worth.
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What if you could set boundaries that paved the way to cooperation and success? Learn 3 tips to banish guilt and enjoy new boundary opportunities!
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What if you could transform deadlines into creative exercises that build your confidence? Learn how approaching them as boundary builders can open the door to new opportunities!
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What if you could say no to unwanted demands and distractions without feeling guilty? Learn how assertiveness can actually deepen and protect your primary relationships in 5 essential ways.
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Have you ever felt exhausted at the end of the day, knowing you worked your butt off and yet wondering what the heck you actually accomplished toward your goals or, worse yet, wondering why nothing has been crossed off your "to do" list? It's more than a little frustrating to say the least and can lead to a feeling of overwhelm. Here are seven "implement today, let's get things moving" strategies guaranteed to increase your productivity!
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What's the best way to sort out your demands at home from your demands at work? Learn how to establish boundaries that really work for you by exploring these pros and cons.
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What if you could visualize your way to greater clarity when setting boundaries? Let your intuition pave the way with this simple, expansive visualization.
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What if you could set boundaries that really stick without creating a backlash? It may be easier than you think, once you take the quiz and follow these 3 simple strategies.
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Finding time for what matters most to you is not a matter of magic. Not at all! Each and every one of us can develop the skills and apply the discipline needed to find time. Paula has compiled some tips and touchstones that will help you along your path to time success. Give them a try
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What if you could stay on track without distractions, regardless of what is happening around you? How much more would you accomplish! These 2 kinds of boundaries will definitely help you improve the flow of your day.
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What if you knew how to navigate through any crisis? These 5 time tips and survival strategies are universally helpful.
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What if you could transform even the most difficult challenges into priceless learning experiences? How would this affect your confidence and resilience? Learn how to take the essential first step right now.
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What if you could break the vicious cycle of aggression and retaliation that characterizes so many boundary battles? You can enjoy better results and better work relations by using these 3 assertiveness guidelines.
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What if you could approach any time problem with confidence, knowing you could succeed at every stage? Understanding the 6 Stage Model of Change well enough to initiate the all-important second stage is a great start!
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In building your business, it is important to be very clear about what you love to do and what you do best. When you are clear on what they are, you can focus your time on what you are uniquely qualified to deliver by leveraging your natural strengths.
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If it feels like it’s taking forever to get your website up, publish your newsletter or launch your first program or information product, then it’s likely procrastination is the cause. To get you into action, here are three simple tips you can use right now to stop procrastination from holding you back from marketing your business.
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Remember the commercial of the woman in a business suit top, pajama bottoms and bunny slippers while on a conference call? Way back when, I used to think that symbolized home office life. Ahhh, the joy of it. Once I started running my business from home, however, reality set in very quickly! So how do you handle it? Here are some tips that have helped insure my sanity over the years.
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How happy are you with your ratio of time spent online versus time spent enjoying friends and family? These 3 simple strategies will help you steer your life towards what matters most to you.
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What if you could get more done without multitasking? In fact, what if you could get still more done, and with less stress? For personal effectiveness & stress reduction, use these 3 time management tools instead.
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Most business-owners don't enjoy handling administrative tasks. We prefer to be brainstorming for that next big idea, executing our business plan, or out networking to build buzz. The good news is that there's a simple way to handle repetitive tasks more efficiently and make more time for the fun stuff. It's called batching. Here are five areas where batching makes sense.
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Do you feel like everyone controls your time except you? If you want to make time choices that work for you without alienating others, read on.
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What if you could banish impulsive detours from your life? Learn just how you can overcome major obstacles and boost your productivity with delay of gratification, as you keep these 5 important benefits in mind!
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What if you could transform even the most difficult challenges into important learning experiences? How would this affect your confidence and resilience? Learn how to take the essential first step right now.
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What if you could launch that dream project today and see it through to reality? Here are 3 priceless pointers to get you started right now.
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A key element to getting things done is delegating effectively. Delegating is a way to give yourself more time, more energy and more money. Here are some great tips on how to get started delegating.
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Never check email in the morning. That’s the title of a really great book about managing time by Julie Morgenstern and it’s pretty good advice. It may or may not be practical advice for you — you may have lots of reasons why you must check email first thing in the morning — but the truth is that these days, for most of us, email is a wonderful and indispensible tool — and the bane of our very existence at the same time. It’s the very thing that — more than anything else — keeps us from marketing our business. Here’s a brief summary of how I set up my email so that I can manage it more easily, with less stress, and I always have a clean inbox.
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How much time do you lose worrying instead of working? If you feel paralyzed by deadlines, learn a fresh approach for dealing with your fears.
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Don't wait another minute to bring more pleasure into your day. Try this simple five-step exercise for a month and experience 5 powerful lifetime benefits.
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Do you suffer from Musical Chairs Syndrome? If your priorities scatter and jostle for attention when the pace picks up, learn from 3 tips how to keep you in charge of your day.
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Are your projects sometimes blindsided by the intensity of others' demands? You can start to reclaim your productivity and your time by following these 7 proven tips.
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Do you feel like you are running in a squirrel cage? Can't keep up with it all? Learn how to utilize the X2 Rule, plus 5 powerful tips, to put you back in charge of your time!
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What if you could boost your planning power for your day, and enjoy extra productivity without the stress? It's simple when you use the 2 Column Method for Planning & Review!
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As you read this, did you think of perhaps one task that you routinely do (or that falls by the wayside because you can never just get to it) that you know is 'below your pay grade' and yet you continue to waste time and energy on it (even if that time and energy is just thinking about how you're NOT getting it done?)?
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Have you ever noticed that entrepreneurs will scrimp and save every dollar they can but then fritter away hours of their time on unproductive (and often un-fun) activities that add nothing to their income?
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Here are 3 more secrets to creating daily success, one of which is truly golden. If you do it consistently, be prepared for immeasurable success.
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One of the biggest challenges I see when I coach an entrepreneur is how they manage their time daily. I can give them all the success strategies in the world, but they won't work if the business owner doesn't make the time to put them into action.
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Keeping up with business and social engagements sometimes means sacrificing our personal hobbies and relaxation time. But making time for ourselves, even on a busy day, can and will help us feel better and function better. Although it's admirable to spend time taking care of work, friends, family, and pets, it's even more important to spend time taking care of ourselves.
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What if you could set time boundaries easily and effectively? How would that open up your day? Learn how to get off to a strong start using 3 simple strategies to set boundaries in a way that will be heard and respected.
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What if you could graduate from perfectionism to stress-free productivity? Learning these 3 unexpected lifetime benefits can mobilize you! Regain control of your life and your time right now.
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What if you could coordinate your strategies to set aside the time and the money you need? Use these questions and suggestions to focus your efforts and achieve success.
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“I’m a solo entrepreneur,” you say. “Why would I set up systems that might squelch the creative energy in my small business?” After all, you started your business because you wanted freedom, right? This is a great question! The truth is that while you may have left a more corporate environment with dreams of doing things your own way (having flexibility and freedom), there are some very good reasons for putting systems in place. In fact, I can name at least seven gifts you’ll receive when you systemize your small business.
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How often do you find yourself in this scenario? It's Monday morning and you're all geared up for a productive week ahead. You've got your to-do list (massive as it is) at the ready and you sit down at your desk to start checking things off. As you begin to read down your list, you start to feel something in your gut...
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Have you ever had the feeling of having so much to do that your head spins? Here's why: most of us have been taught to approach our tasks from only a head point of view. There's great productivity power in engaging your energy as a primary task-management tool so I want to share with you exactly how to do that!
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How would your life change for the better if you knew for certain that your best was enough? These 3 strategies will teach you how to overcome paralyzing perfectionism.
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What if you could enhance your effectiveness in applying time management techniques and money saving tips to your life? Learn 7 essential insights to bring new focus and success to your work.
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What if you could double your effectiveness by learning 6 essential stages of change? Simplify the big job of time management by breaking it into these 6 central components.
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What if you could free yourself from debilitating perfectionism by understanding yourself better? Start with 3 simple sentence completions to gain liberating insights.
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How does time get away from you, and how do you feel about it? What if your values were so clear, that you could live by your priorities and love the results? Want to start today? Learn how to create a Values Journal that simplifies your time choices.
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What if you could turn your daily dissatisfactions into lessons about how to supercharge your day? Use these 3 simple time strategies to jump-start your energy and enthusiasm.
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Here are some tips for overcoming the insidious paralysis of perfectionism.
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What if you could make the parts of your life "fit" like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle? It may be easier than you think! The first step is getting clear on your external values. Start now with a simple 3-step exercise.
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What work challenges do you face as an extrovert? Apply these 3 time tactics to increase your enthusiasm and effectiveness while overcoming your challenges.
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What if you could harmonize the parts of your life that clash? You can start right now, by clarifying your values to make the best time choices ever. To learn more about how, read on.
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What if you could use time management to not only increase your productivity but to safeguard your energy, too? Learn 3 simple but powerful strategies to enhance your vitality.
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What if you could recharge your energy and pleasure in your life right now, by basing your time choices on the power of gratitude? Use these 5 tips, and enjoy the benefits immediately.
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What if you could use what is hardest in your life right now to build a better life for yourself? This simple inventory exercise will help you maneuver through tough times.
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What if you could enrich your life by taking time to ask yourself a few important questions? Learn how reflection points add intentionality to your time choices.
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Time management tips can create transition effectiveness, and help you meet tough times with renewed confidence. What makes the difference between challenges you respond to with self-assurance and those that keep you paralyzed or sleepless at night?
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What if each day brought you fresh gratitude, brightening your outlook and energizing you? Begin with this very simple exercise that brings immediate benefits.
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Do you find yourself unable to finish tasks or continually ruminating about details that others might ignore? Are you hyper-critical of anything that you produce? When you reach the end of a project, do you feel compelled to do “just one more thing”?
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We all say we want more time, but each of us is doled out the same 24 hours each day – no more, no less. Despite this, each of us can have more time for important things. By using our time wisely, we can get more done and may even enjoy the time we are granted. To tackle your own time management makeover, try the following expert tips.
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Everyone procrastinates, it is a natural response to ambivalence. If you want to complete something, but feel stuck, try these steps. It's best to go through them with at least one trusted friend.
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The period between Thanksgiving and Christmas is a very busy time of year for everyone, but for overwhelmed and time-starved solopreneurs it can be even more challenging. Here are five tasks that you can delegate right now, so that you can claim back some time and focus on doing what you do best.
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There are hundreds, if not thousands, of books on time and productivity management and most of them appear to have been written by dedicated individuals who work in a vacuum -- they certainly aren't entrepreneurs building businesses from home offices with all the distractions that environment can bring. When I first started my business, I quickly realized that it was much easier for me to manage my time while in the corporate world than in the "spare bedroom" world.
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It's easy to let things slip over the summer - after all the weather's far too nice to be indoors organizing your office! However, the reality is when you do settle back into working after a break unless your office is organized you spend more time looking for files, business cards, papers, than you do working.
It's a lot of wasted time! Use my tips below and get your office schedule back on track.
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How to get focused is the #1 challenge most entrepreneurs struggle with. That used to be a big problem for me too, until I learned a few simple techniques. These will make a big difference in creating a high six figure home-based business.
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They always say that the teacher teaches what they most need to learn. Lately I've had a number of my coaching clients who are struggling with using time effectively. As a result they feel the frustration of not moving forward as quickly as they could.
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As a solopreneur there is always an endless list of projects that we want to work on or need to complete. Setting aside time in our schedule to work "on" our business is essential if we are to grow our businesses. Read on as I share five top tips with you so that you can plan for success.
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Every day we are bombarded with hundreds of emails, only a small percentage of which are necessary. Spam filters are great at filtering most of the unwanted emails but a small amount do get through, adding to the number we have to sift through!
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Spam. Those annoying, time-consuming emails that clog your Inbox and ruin your day. You wonder: How did it ever get so bad? While it’s not possible to completely eliminate spam, there are quite a few things you CAN do about the problem to reduce your burden.
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How do creative women entrepreneurs keep both creativity and order in harmony? The answers are easier than you might think. Here are three simple tips I use to keep my creative muse inspired and my office organized.
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We all say we want more time. We all have the same 24 hours each day. No more – No less. Using time effectively is about creating balance and working more productively rather than just being busy. When you’re really productive, you will find it takes much less time to get things done and you can really enjoy the time you are granted. Experiment with a time make-over.
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If you're anything like me, you start looking forward to summer as soon as the calendar flips to a new year. Take advantage of summer's slower pace and people's more casual attitudes and plan to not only take time off but to make some money while you do!
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Working less and making more may seem like a pipe dream to some, but for me and the people I inspire, it's become a reality. Learn how.
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Here are the 5 actions you can take to make starting and finishing projects possible.
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Here are 5 favorite tips for getting the MOST from the information and programs you purchase, so they put money IN your pocket.
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Here are 5 simple tips to organizing your work day so you gain some of the same advantages you would by hiring an assistant.
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Over time, I've figured out how to get the most important things done while still being able to focus the majority of my time on my family (after all, that's one of the reasons why I went into business for myself in the first place). Here are the top three things that are working for me right now.
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When you look around your office, what do you see? If youre like most solo entrepreneurs you probably see so much to do you dont know what to do first. Theres a leaning tower of papers on the desk, a stack of email in the inbox, a puddle of unopened envelops on the floor next to your desk. Its overwhelming. And not knowing how or where to start can completely drain your motivation to do anything.
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The number one question people ask Marnie Pehrson is "How do you do it all? How do you run 10 Web sites, raise six children, and write books?" She shares some secrets on how to maximize your time to accomplish more without getting out of balance.
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Learn why multi-tasking is a trap that will kill your business.
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Robert Middleton of Action Plan Marketing gives a few tips about time and getting the important things done that keep businesses moving profitably forward.
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Ten tips to help you get the most out of the time you have.
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