Every great athlete, high-profile business leaders and celebrities use coaches to improve everything from their health and fitness to their communication skills. They often use coaches to help them change habits, instill new techniques, and learn new options. Whether you choose a coach or consultant the intent is the same. Finding solutions and improving results. […] Read ( Reading Time: , words)
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Choosing What is Best – The Key to Time Management
I work with so many clients that feel overwhelmed and out of control. They believe the lie that if they just had more time, or if they managed their time better, that they would lose that feeling. The fact is that the feelings of overwhelm are rooted in a lack of clarity about what is […]
Benjamin Franklin said “time is money”. But if he meant “time = money” he was selling himself short, because surely Time > Money: if you spend your money, you can make some more, but once you spend your time, it is gone forever! And how much time do we have? Of course, we can never […]
I’ve been helping business owners and managers find better ways to manage their time for many years. That’s given me plenty of time to figure out what it takes for an owner to get the most from his/her 24 hours each day. The most valuable lesson I’ve learned over the years: There are three key […]
The right techniques make time management work. In the quest for better time management, we have been flooded with a large variety of gizmos, tools, and programs invented to help us more effectively manage our time. These tools and programs make great claims, but most fail to help us achieve that ultimate “nirvana” of time […]
Consider these: 1. To understand the value of a year, talk to a student who has failed an important exam. 2. To understand the value of a month, talk to a mother who has given birth to a baby a month prematurely. 3. To understand the value of a week, talk to the publisher of […]
At ActionCOACH, we like to say that time is your most valuable asset. After all, as a wise man once told me, you can always make more money, but when your time is spent, its gone forever……. So, how do you think about time? Can you really manage it or does it manage you? Why […]
Life is more complex than it has ever been, with increasing interruptions and demands on our time. As a business coach I see many business owners literally drowning under all these demands, their life and business is operating in chaos mode, each day is spent fighting “bush fires” and they are highly stressed, running on […]
Time mastery During the 1990’s, media attention was focused on the idea of productivity mainly because business owners and policy makers realized the benefits that had been gained over the preceding decade as a result of automation, computer technology and IT infrastructure. The goal of Time Mastery from the ActionCOACH perspective is to leverage both […]
20 percent of a business owner’s priorities will give him 80 percent of his production, if he spends his time, energy, money and personnel on the top 20 percent of his priorities. When a business owner does this, he can get a 400 percent or fourfold return in productivity. Every business person needs to understand […]
There are two things business people find very challenging: thinking ahead and doing things in order of importance. Doing these two things makes the difference between success in business and just surviving. And the same is true for all areas of our lives. Leadership trainer and author John Maxwell says, “Thinking ahead and prioritizing responsibilities […]
