Some entrepreneurs think that their people and materials are their greatest resources, but in reality, their best asset is their own time. Plan, strategize and work – all in the proper time frame – and the business will succeed. Here’s a smart business concept. It’s called “The Zone”, and every entrepreneur should be in it,…
Read MoreTake Control Of Your Workload By Unlocking Time Mastery
Once you’ve taken the plunge and jumped into the whirlpool that is running a small business, the subject of time management moves from being an abstract concern to a matter of day-to-day survival. No matter what way you slice it, there are only so many hours in the day, and how best to employ them…
Read More3 Effective Time Management Tips To Start Using Today
We’re all granted the same 24 hours in the day to get things done. Why is it then that some people seem to pack years of results into just a few months, while others struggle to tick off a single task in the course of a working day? For all the hundreds of books on…
Read MoreBoost Your Productivity by Cutting out the Digital Noise
Regardless of your exact job, it’s probably safe to assume that you’re required to juggle complex tasks, shifting deadlines and a whole host of interactions with other people during the average day. The modern-day working environment is an inherently fluid one – hard to predict and with constantly changing requirements at every turn. Given this…
Read More4 Tips To Kick Your Inbox Into Shape
Think back to those dim and distant days of the early 2000s. A time when the email inbox was a relatively calm, sane and civilised environment. At best, you might have checked your mail once or twice a day in those happy faroff times. The arrival of a new message was generally cause for some…
Read More6 Tips To Stay Focused And Boost Your Daily Productivity
Busy, busy, busy. If there’s one thing we can say for certain these days, it’s that everybody is extremely busy. The real question though is not how busy you are but how much you’re actually getting done. We all have the same 24 hours available to us each day but have you ever noticed how…
Read MoreHow to Keep Calm in the Face of Last Minute Projects
One of the main bugbears of modern office life is that you are very rarely in total control of your working week. More often than not, just when you think you have your working week nicely scheduled and divided into manageable chunks, something large and unexpected will arrive in your inbox and leave those best…
Read More4 Steps To Tame Your To Do Lists With The Power Of Negative Thinking
Have you ever stopped to wonder what the most critical part of your day is? Or are you simply too busy fire-fighting to even consider the matter? Even posing the question is a useful exercise. It’s a pattern-interrupt that can pull you out of the hurly-burly of the present moment and force you to start…
Read MoreHow To Move The Needle By Managing Meetings Effectively
Let’s start with two simple questions: How much of your previous working week was taken up with meetings? A ballpark figure in hours will do. How many of those meetings were actually productive from your point of view? Are your answers a little unsettling? For many people, they will be little short of terrifying. It’s…
Read MoreThe Curse Of The ‘Quick Coffee’
As a small-business owner, it’s a question I’ve come to dread – How about we grab a quick coffee to discuss? Is it because I hate coffee? Hardly. That bitter nectar is the oil my all too hectic weeks run on. Is it because I hate people? Nothing could be further from the truth. It’s…
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