Time Management
The 5 Minutes That Will Change Your Life
By Marcia Francois
How would you like to start every day off on the right foot? Wouldn’t you like to feel a sense of excitement as you start your day? You CAN if you do something for just 5 minutes a day.
This is not some crazy statement – it really is true. I promise [...]
Five Ways to Maximize Your Time When Social Networking
By Janet Barclay, MVA
Social networking has been around in some shape or form since the late 1970s, when users could dial into Bulletin Board Systems to communicate with others sharing common interests. With the development of the World Wide Web in the 1990s, these systems have been supplanted by more sophisticated systems, leading up to [...]
Get more done by doing this ONE thing
By Marcia Francois
There is a little-known secret that, once understood, will absolutely change the way you run your life.
That secret is using your natural energy cycles, or playing to your strengths.
When you work with your energy cycles instead of against them, you save time because you do things faster, with more clarity and with greater [...]
Taking Pause
By Niquenya Fulbright
Many people struggle with finding time to fit everything into their busy schedules. We often neglect our health and well-being in favor of completing tasks. We don’t exercise. We don’t eat right. We don’t even relax. We think that we just don’t have the time to take pause in the midst of so [...]
5 Steps to Deal With Overwhelm
By Marcia Francois
So many readers write in with this question: “how do I deal with overwhelm?”
A few weeks ago, I was dealing with my own overwhelm.
I had many meetings day after day after day (which means you get behind on the office stuff), my normal business activities plus I had to re-write a LOT of [...]
Making a List and Checking It Twice
By Angela Esnouf
Take Santa’s lead. Make a list. Check it twice.
If ever there was a season for lists, this is it. Whenever time is tight and there’s lots to do, lists can cut through to the nitty gritty and help you focus on getting things done. Learn from Santa and make [...]
Time Management For Solopreneurs
By Michael Charest
To create a thriving business you must stay in action and put time, energy and attention on the things that will generate the results you desire (ie: more clients!). Seems fairly obvious, right? Well then why is it so hard to DO?!?
Virtually all small business owners struggle with time management. They say, “There [...]
5 Reasons Why You Should Have a Master To-Do List
By Marcia Francois
There is something so powerful about a central place to store all of your ideas, thoughts and to-do items.
You don’t feel distracted and scattered because everything is in one place.
Whenever I start feeling overwhelmed, I make a master to-do list of everything I need AND want to do.
My current list contains [...]
Keeping Schedules
By Niquenya D. Fulbright
The easiest way to keep schedules is to keep a schedule. To-do lists are often ineffective because they are not prioritized nor timed. So the first thing you need to do is to get a good planner. It should be in weekly format with the first time slot starting as close [...]
Top 10 Ways a Virtual Assistant (VA) Can Save Your Business Money
By VAnetworking member Erika Martlew
Most small businesses or entrepreneurs do not have a large budget for hiring additional staff when demands warrant it. Often times, a business owner may think it is more [...]
