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Digg it UP - Three Smart Ways To Plan Your Day For Higher Productivity
Is formal training important? After all we can all learn from other employees or from outside consultants we bring in can't we?Well, in my previous life as a consultant IT project director I noticed people would often be too busy doing their own job to learn the skills of an outside consultant too.That's despite massive efforts made to train people.But unless skills are used regularly after training they fade away.Learning from others in your own organisation can also be fraught.Learning by "sitting next to Nellie" as it's known can work. But it means that any weak custom and practise procedures are copied.These weak procedures may actually be the direct opposite of the company strategy.Also if you're learning from someone because they're just about t
In our efforts to find out why 99% of business plans are typically rejected, numerous venture capitalists, investors, bankers, and investment bankers have let us in on the things they look for. When the following rules are broken, it becomes a simple thing for the professionals to spot, thus helping them save time by quickly weeding out the business plans they will dump.Follow these rules and give your business plans a better chance of being seriously looked at.Rule 1: The business plan is the most important document in a business.The business plan, whether on paper or in your head, guides the company. It provides the basic framework of communicating the goals of the organization. Few documents are as important to the future of theenterprise. Unf
Numerous reports and studies focus on the rule of 80/20, stemming from the work of Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto. His 80/20 rule, often called the Pareto Principle, is how evolving research has found that, in general, 20 percent of efforts lead to 80 percent of results. (Indeed, many software management reports have discovered an even more disheartening finding of 90/10.)
Imagine the extraordinary results if you can devote dramatically more than 20 percent or even 30 percent (and more!) of your time to staying focused and productive!
A major cause of lost time and productivity is what I call Overwhelm. We are overwhelmed by too many meetings and unanticipated interruptions. We also suffer Self-Imposed Overwhelm that distracts us from our goals. We spend too much time with our cell phones and email. We suffer personal stress. We don’t avoid stress traps.
Here are three keys to planning your day for higher productivity.
KEY ONE: Find Your Peak Energy Time and Use It!
What time of day do you have the most energy? For many people, it’s mornings. I find myself freshest and ready to go in the morning, so I protect my Peak Energy Time by scheduling those hours for my most important work. I block out the time between 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. each day for focused work and long-term planning.
Instead of forcing myself into a time frame when I am most resistant to creativity and action, I take control by establishing my own time frame for my most productive hours. My stress levels plummet when I’m in control of my Peak Energy Time, eliminating procrastination, helplessness and the resulting frustrations that can erode focus and productivity. Block out at least two hours during your Peak Energy Time.
•An Early Morning Person? Block out two early hour mornings.
• A Mid-Morning Person? Block out 10:15am – 12:15pm
• An Early Afternoon Person? Block out two early afternoon hours.
• A Mid-Afternoon Person? Block out 2:45pm – 4:30pm.
Regardless of the time of day you schedule as your Peak Energy Time, there are two productivity skills you must use to maximize your results. 1. Adopt the 100% Responsibility Rule. Recognize that you are responsible for your time. Take pro-active steps to stave off interruptions during this period to maintain control of your time. 2. Protect your Time Boundary. No one else will protect the boundaries of your scheduled Peak Energy Time. You must be responsible for protecting Your time boundary. KEY TWO: Make Time for Marketing! If you skip creating time each d
The balance in potential business income is easy to understand, but hard to nail. If you provide a service that only requires one visit per customer or one visit every few years, you need to charge a rather high price just to keep yourself out of the unemployment line. But if you have a service or product that customers will constantly want or need, you can charge low because you know they will be back the next day or the next week.The best franchise opportunities to get into are the ones that can possibly serve each customer every day. Fast food vendors top the lists every time. Subway, McDonalds and the like actually have repeat customers on a daily basis. Janitorial services are also rather regular repeat business transactions. An office might require your services once a week and you migh
Imagine the extraordinary results if you can devote dramatically more than 20 percent or even 30 percent (and more!) of your time to staying focused and productive!
A major cause of lost time and productivity is what I call Overwhelm. We are overwhelmed by too many meetings and unanticipated interruptions. We also suffer Self-Imposed Overwhelm that distracts us from our goals. We spend too much time with our cell phones and email. We suffer personal stress. We don’t avoid stress traps.
Here are three keys to planning your day for higher productivity.
KEY ONE: Find Your Peak Energy Time and Use It!
What time of day do you have the most energy? For many people, it’s mornings. I find myself freshest and ready to go in the morning, so I protect my Peak Energy Time by scheduling those hours for my most important work. I block out the time between 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. each day for focused work and long-term planning.
Instead of forcing myself into a time frame when I am most resistant to creativity and action, I take control by establishing my own time frame for my most productive hours. My stress levels plummet when I’m in control of my Peak Energy Time, eliminating procrastination, helplessness and the resulting frustrations that can erode focus and productivity. Block out at least two hours during your Peak Energy Time.
•An Early Morning Person? Block out two early hour mornings.
• A Mid-Morning Person? Block out 10:15am – 12:15pm
• An Early Afternoon Person? Block out two early afternoon hours.
• A Mid-Afternoon Person? Block out 2:45pm – 4:30pm.
Regardless of the time of day you schedule as your Peak Energy Time, there are two productivity skills you must use to maximize your results. 1. Adopt the 100% Responsibility Rule. Recognize that you are responsible for your time. Take pro-active steps to stave off interruptions during this period to maintain control of your time. 2. Protect your Time Boundary. No one else will protect the boundaries of your scheduled Peak Energy Time. You must be responsible for protecting Your time boundary. KEY TWO: Make Time for Marketing! If you skip creating time each d
Fundraisers are a great way for a group to raise money. One of the most successful fundraisers you can do is to sell candy. There are many types of candy you can choose from. You can sell any type of sweets and have a hit fundraiser. Even though this fundraiser is done often it is still a hit due to the variety of candy you can sell. There are enough different candies to please any candy buyers taste.First you will need to decide what kind of candy you would like to sell. With such a wide variety to choose from this may not be an easy choice. Will you sell candy bars, and if so how many different kinds of candy bars will you offer? Do you want to sell boxed candy that can be given as gifts? Do you want to sell gummy bears and suckers? Once you have narrowed your choice of candy down you will need
KEY ONE: Find Your Peak Energy Time and Use It!
What time of day do you have the most energy? For many people, it’s mornings. I find myself freshest and ready to go in the morning, so I protect my Peak Energy Time by scheduling those hours for my most important work. I block out the time between 8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. each day for focused work and long-term planning.
Instead of forcing myself into a time frame when I am most resistant to creativity and action, I take control by establishing my own time frame for my most productive hours. My stress levels plummet when I’m in control of my Peak Energy Time, eliminating procrastination, helplessness and the resulting frustrations that can erode focus and productivity. Block out at least two hours during your Peak Energy Time.
•An Early Morning Person? Block out two early hour mornings.
• A Mid-Morning Person? Block out 10:15am – 12:15pm
• An Early Afternoon Person? Block out two early afternoon hours.
• A Mid-Afternoon Person? Block out 2:45pm – 4:30pm.
Regardless of the time of day you schedule as your Peak Energy Time, there are two productivity skills you must use to maximize your results. 1. Adopt the 100% Responsibility Rule. Recognize that you are responsible for your time. Take pro-active steps to stave off interruptions during this period to maintain control of your time. 2. Protect your Time Boundary. No one else will protect the boundaries of your scheduled Peak Energy Time. You must be responsible for protecting Your time boundary. KEY TWO: Make Time for Marketing! If you skip creating time each d
What is outsourcing? Just as the acronym 'IT' embraces anything from the electronic display system on a Boeing 737 to a Blackberry, so the generic term 'outsourcing' is an ever-expanding suitcase of options and opportunities. It's a term that has moved into normal business nomenclature without any very distinct definition. Even the Penguin English Dictionary struggles: 'to obtain components, services etc from outside suppliers.' Insofar as there exists a consensus among the experts, there is agreement that the key to successful outsourcing lies in differentiating a company's 'core' operations from those that could be easily contracted out to a third party and be managed elsewhere with little or no strategic impact.Back in the mists of time, this meant punch cards and the Payroll. Later, it was the
•An Early Morning Person? Block out two early hour mornings.
• A Mid-Morning Person? Block out 10:15am – 12:15pm
• An Early Afternoon Person? Block out two early afternoon hours.
• A Mid-Afternoon Person? Block out 2:45pm – 4:30pm.
Regardless of the time of day you schedule as your Peak Energy Time, there are two productivity skills you must use to maximize your results. 1. Adopt the 100% Responsibility Rule. Recognize that you are responsible for your time. Take pro-active steps to stave off interruptions during this period to maintain control of your time. 2. Protect your Time Boundary. No one else will protect the boundaries of your scheduled Peak Energy Time. You must be responsible for protecting Your time boundary. KEY TWO: Make Time for Marketing! If you skip creating time each d
However, how does such an embroidery design get onto caps, pullovers or pockets?At the beginning stands the idea of a design, mostly in the form of a company logo together with a slogan. If the idea only exists on paper, the design must be digitized into computer readable data. This takes place e.g. through reading in with a scanner. Then if the motif is available as a file, it must be converted into vector graphics. In this case, individual pixels are no more determining for the design but the lines, which separate a color field. One recognizes vector graphics also by the fact that one is able to enlarge them infinitely without quality loss, because the dividing lines always remain sharp.These vector graphics are loaded into the punch program. The semantics of the word is to be traced back
Here are a few ways to spend this crucial time of your day ... for you:
• Call or email clients or prospects. Shine the spotlight on you!
• Create a marketing campaign. Research, write and revise!
• Plan a workshop, a demonstration or a training session – or find out how you can make yourself a part of another event. Maximize your reach!
• Create a news release to send out to the media and to your database. Pick up a phone and call a member of the news media. Make yourself newsworthy!
• Create an online newsletter with interesting articles. Build your audience!
• Start a blog. Blogs are the hot, hip way to maximize the power of the Internet to publicize your name and your ideas, and also to attract wide feedback so important to knowing why and how to best grow your business. Blog away!
• Learn how to use an automated marketing system. This will help you SAVE time in keeping track of and responding to your client and prospect database and buyer purchases, and become the basis for successful marketing campaigns.
I use kickstart.com and recommend you visit www.kickstart.com to learn more about this time-saving, cost-effective automated marketing system. Kickstart.com will save you time and money, and make your profits grow!
• Learn how to capture email contacts. Capture emails of clients and prospective customers from your Web site, blog and e- newsletter by inviting readers to submit their name and email address in exchange for something valuable. For example, offer FREE access to your newsletters to obtain this information.
• Make time to attend Ruth Klein’s Branding & Productivity Success Boot Camp March 4-5, 2007, in Santa Monica, California. (See Ruth Recommends below).
Learn 25 ways to capture email addresses and build your marketing database, and
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