Waking Up Early: The Secret of Successful Entrepreneurs
Aside from managing your business, you also have a personal life. So you have to wake up early to enjoy it! It’s easy to get caught up in the many roles you have and hats you wear. Even simple things like exercising, meditating, having lunch with friends, playing with your kids or talking with your spouse can fall by the wayside. Almost all successful entrepreneurs and productivity gurus will tell you that getting up early is the key to success and reaching the level of productivity you desire. Utilizing your “golden hours”...
read moreTop Time Management Mistakes and Solutions
How well do you manage your time? How often do you find yourself missing opportunities and appointments? Do you work long hours, yet feel that there is always too much to do? Is your inbox overflowing? Or do you work during meetings since it seems that it’s the only time you have to get your work done? Do any of these sound familiar? Then you’re guilty of making time management mistakes. Most people, including business owners and entrepreneurs make time mistakes. When we make these mistakes, we have to learn from it. You have to...
read moreTurn Off Your Laptop and Increase Productivity
“A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.” – William Frederick Laptops, computers, smart phones and other gadgets are what we need to keep us productive. Can you turn it off and put it away from you for a couple of minutes, or an hour? Yes you can! Doing this can even improve your productivity! When you do something that is simple, yet totally different, you get productive afterwards. Yet these are ideas that most people, especially business owners and entrepreneurs, tend to ignore. If you’re...
read moreTime Management: Solution for Stress Relief
Are you a time-starved and stressed business owner? Do you feel that you are at war with time and you need to find stress relief solutions? Do you often feel that you are not accomplishing anything since several projects keep landing on your desk, emails are continuously popping up on your monitor, people are interrupting you with questions, or you cannot start working just because you are too pre-occupied with something else? Worse still, these lists go on and on. Work and daily routines keep us too preoccupied. There are instances wherein no...
read moreOvercome Procrastination, Be a Do-It-Now Person
“Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.” Make this quote by Napoleon Hill your motivation when you feel like procrastinating. Remember that procrastination has no place in your business. It is a major obstacle in your productivity and time management. It is something that everyone, including entrepreneurs and small business owners, needs to learn to deal with. Start now and beat this disease! The first thing you have to do is to discover...
read moreMake Time for Yourself as an Entrepreneur
Managing your own successful business is the fulfillment of a dream. You stick around for all the days of the week and all of the days in a year. You have to make sure of your business growth and see an increase in your profit. Your business is your blood and bones. Since it has become your life, you do whatever it takes to keep everything as smooth as possible; so much so that you start to forget about your own well-being. Can you see it? You’re happy and proud, yet at the same time, exhausted. You barely sleep for more than 4 hours...
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