Making the Best Use of Your Time
Time. We all have the same 24 hours in the day as everyone else. One thing that separates the successful people from those who struggle to find success is how they use their time. Making the best use of our time is one of the first steps to a solid accountability plan. I will spare you the old time cliches like “time is money”. In essence how you hold yourself accountable from a time management standpoint is how you are going to hold yourself accountable for others things in our life. When we waste time, we miss opportunities for sales, idea creation, networking etc. Pick a system for managing your
Habits of Successful People
“Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.” -Unknown Looking at what successful people do and how they behave is a tremendous resource for our own success. It’s not an accident that when you analyze these people that they all have similar behaviors that guided them through their daily lives. Building the right habits is a key to long term success. I ran across an old post about daily habits that I thought was excellent from the Change Blog. The post breaks
It All Starts With Now
What are you doing right now? What was your game plan for today? How are you doing so far? Putting a game plan and executing it is a winning habit that will take us where we want to go in our personal and professional lives. This post may motivate some to go out and change some behaviors…tomorrow. If we are really serious about changing how we go about our day, why not start now? Do you know anyone whose whole life seems incomplete? They have tons of unfinished business going on. They always use words like some day. Their life is in perpetual crisis. They never seem to get anything
Don’t Compromise Success
Has this ever happened to you? You are getting set to wind down a long day of work. You were really busy putting out fires, answering phone calls and finishing up paperwork. Because of this, your day got away from you and you didn’t do anything that you actually wanted to accomplish. What do you do next? Do you stay late and get some of things accomplished or do you walk away from it and tell yourself that you will get to it tomorrow? This scenario has happened to me more times than I would care to admit. If you have a boss, they may remind you that you came
Does the C-word Make You Uncomfortable?
Some say that men typically have this problem…. Some say that it’s a problem in society in general… It has to do with our problem with the word commitment. When it comes to our day, most us commit to one simple action item…trying. We can’t tell you that we will achieve a result, we can only tell you that we will try. Effort and try are noble words that when practiced carelessly, lead to failure. Daily success and achievement starts with a commitment to achieving our daily game plan consistently. Too often we go about our day with either no game plan or no real commitment to doing what we
Systems For Making Your Day Productive
Whether you work for yourself or someone else, the one thing that is constant is the fact that you need to produce value on a day-to-day basis to get where you want to be in your career. We often overlook our daily production due to a lack of systems for making each day as productive as possible. If you want to learn about productivity/time management systems go here. Yesterday I talked about setting daily goals. Today I want to talk about how we assess our day when it’s all said and done. The first thing that must happen for this to work is for you to have your day mapped
Easy Accountability Starts Today
We have goals. We have a plan. The trick is executing those in a manner that doesn’t take a lot of thinking so we can just go out and make things happen. As business owners, we can make things easy on ourselves by making our action items short, sweet and manageable. This means setting daily markers for ourselves so that we can manage our goals on a day-to-day basis. Most of us, if we have them written out, don’t manage goals and important items frequently enough. When we finally do look at them, it’s a huge ordeal because we waited a few months and now we don’t know where to
What is a “power hour”?
When we first talked about the concept of a “power hour”, we weren’t 100% sure that the concept would be understood right away. This is due to the “Hour of Power” church program and being college graduates, the knowledge of the power hour drinking game. Despite these references we decided to call our concept for a morning routine a “power hour” anyway. So what is a “power hour”? A “power hour” is a tool that we utilize each morning that dedicates one hour before we do anything else to focus on our mind, body and spirit. During this hour (give or take) time is spent reading, praying, meditating, writing, working-out,
Goals: The Ultimate Accountability Partner
It’s been a while since I talked about goals, here and here, but since I have been recently talking about accountability, goals are a big part of that. When built and used properly, goals can be a great accountability partner to help you build your business and make sure that you are on track for personal success. I am not going to go into how to set goals or why goals are important because there a ton of great resources to help you with that already. The problem that we sometimes have is actually doing something with our goals once we have them set. So how do we actually make
Need To Get Faster Results Out of Your Business? 2 Words… Soul Purpose
Soul Purpose and its’ place in business remain the primary core value of this blog. When it comes to getting coaching for your business, it’s not only important to understand your Soul Purpose but it’s critical that you understand other people’s Soul Purpose and why utilizing their purpose can enhance your business. This understanding of Soul Purpose will create better and faster results for your business. The use of a coach is recognizing someone’s unique set of talents and abilities and how they can work for you. Too many times we try to go the route of the “rugged individualist” and try to achieve maximum results on our own. The question
