Tag Archives: 'time management'

How to take a holiday from your business

How to take a holiday from your business

When I became self employed I received a lot of doom-and-gloom advice from presumably well-meaning people: - “It’s hard work from now on – you’d better kiss holidays goodbye.” - “Self-employment? Fine, if you like working [...]

Beating Procrastination – How to get the important things done

Beating Procrastination – How to get the important things done

Do you find yourself putting off the things you know you should be doing? Are you currently finding it difficult to get started on something even though you view it as being important? Do you feel [...]

Avoiding the feast or famine trap

Avoiding the feast or famine trap

It often seems that it’s the destiny of the independent professional to exist in a constant state of feast or famine. Either you are working day and night to keep up with client demands, or you’re [...]

Setting Up Your Business Voicemail: 7 Ways to Save Time

Setting Up Your Business Voicemail: 7 Ways to Save Time

The subject of voicemail greetings has gotten less attention over the years with the influx of email, texting, and social media. Still, in small business your clients, prospects and suppliers will still want a human connection. [...]

5 Simple Tips to Ensure You’ve Always Got Time for your Marketing

5 Simple Tips to Ensure You’ve Always Got Time for your Marketing

Tick-tock, tick-tock! Have you ever found yourself saying that you’ll get round to doing some Marketing ‘when you have more time’? That you’ve just got too much else on your plate at the moment, what with [...]

Are you wasting your marketing time?

Are you wasting your marketing time?

Last night, I was running my email marketing workshop for Merton Chamber of Commerce and one of the delegates asked me “If I only have an hour a day, what should I spending my time on”. [...]

No time for traditional planning – try a fresh approach

No time for traditional planning – try a fresh approach

Are you someone who finds forward planning and managing your time a breeze or do you constantly feel overloaded with tasks and struggle to arrive at meetings and get things done on time? If you fall [...]

Every minute counts – what can saving time do for you?

Every minute counts – what can saving time do for you?

When walking down the street the other day, I overheard someone say ‘I’m just killing time’ to a friend. It’s an expression I haven’t heard in a while and that’s because many of us are trying [...]

How to make the most of your time

How to make the most of your time

We are now at the final part of this time management education. Actually that is not completely true because mastering time management isn’t what you are aiming for. What you are aiming for is to understand [...]

Delivering results with time management

Delivering results with time management

In order to find ways to improve and accomplish more with the time you have, it was important to look at how you are currently spending your time. That was why in the previous article I [...]