Goal Setting
Unanswered Questions of Being Productive With Bill Baren
November 12th, 2008 by Bill BarenIt has been a long road to the end of The Time Experts Telesummit, yet it feels like only the beginning of a great journey. I had an amazing time learning, practicing and sharing. I have learned so much from our experts and from so many of the people who have participated in the Telesummit. I am brimming with gratitude.
For the final session, my friend and colleague, Kris Carey, will be interviewing me to extract the unanswered questions of being productive and playing a bigger game. I can’t wait to see the tables turn with me being able to share my expertise freely instead of doing the interviewing.
I look forward to sharing with you my personal insights on time and how my relationship with time has improved. These changes have improved my personal and professional life in a deep and profound level.
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Please add a comment below sharing one or two main lessons that you can bring into your life or business from the teleseminar. This will serve two purposes:
- This will solidify your commitment to take action
- You will help others learn from you
Example –> xxxx is what I learned and xxxx is how my life will be different as a result.
I’m looking forward to seeing and responding to all of your comments…
Dream Big With Marcia Wieder
November 10th, 2008 by Bill BarenAccording to Marcia Wieder “passion is your greatest time management tool.” I really appreciate this approach to time management and have completely embraced this idea in my own work. It has truly transformed how I work, what I work on and created more satisfaction in my life.
Think about it - if you’re really passionate about what you are doing the traditional ideas of time management don’t apply. We only think about time when we’re NOT in the flow of what we’re doing. When we are passionate, we are so absorbed in what we do, time becomes so much less relevant.
Marcia Wieder, America’s Dream Coach is passionate about opening your eyes to unlocking the passion and making time for those dreams to become reality. In addition to being a charismatic speaker she’s the renowned author of four books dedicated to achieving your dreams, including “Making Your Dreams Come True”, which has also been translated into numerous languages.
Appearing several times on Oprah and The Today Show, she’s shared her message of a “passion-filled life” with millions of viewers. Equally exciting, was the PBS featured national television special, Making Your Dreams Come True, named after her popular selling book.
Marcia will be addressing balancing your soul and your ego when it comes to achieving your dreams and managing your time. The importance of slowing down to allow room for new dreams in your life and creating a frequent practice of “checking in with your soul.”
I would love to hear from you if you’ve “made time” to achieve you dreams. Or, perhaps you have a dream but something is stopping you? Is it a shortage of time or something else? What do you think about Marcia’s belief that “passion is your greatest time management tool?” Is this something that rings true for you in your current line of work or business?
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Please add a comment below sharing one or two main lessons that you can bring into your life or business from the teleseminar. This will serve two purposes:
- This will solidify your commitment to take action
- You will help others learn from you
Example –> xxxx is what I learned and xxxx is how my life will be different as a result.
I’m looking forward to seeing and responding to all of your comments…
Time Mastery with Andrea Lee
November 3rd, 2008 by Bill BarenAccording to the dictionary a master is “a person with the ability or power to use, control, or dispose of something.” Time “mastery” may seem daunting and even unattainable. Yet you are the master of time already - you just don’t know how to apply your super powers quite yet. Our next speaker Andrea Lee will show you how to release those powers and become a master of your time.
Andrea is an award-winning author, coach, consultant and online business manager to entrepreneurs on five continents. She is an author and thought-leader in the field of personal and business coaching and has helped build and manage one the most innovative coach training organizations in the world. Andrea helps businesses attain financial success while creating lives rich with meaning and laughter.
Do women have a harder time managing time than men? Or rather, do women just realize their weaknesses more then us men and want to improve on them? As our first female speaker in our series, this is a concept I am very eager to hear Andrea talk about. I’d also like to hear what you think. Do men and women manage their time differently?
I am also excited for her to share her concept of the “lint trap.” After this discussion I know that you will be cleaning your lint trap on a regular basis. Want to know what I’m talking about? Yeah, me too.
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Please add a comment below sharing one or two main lessons that you can bring into your life or business from the teleseminar. This will serve two purposes:
- This will solidify your commitment to take action
- You will help others learn from you
Example –> xxxx is what I learned and xxxx is how my life will be different as a result.
I’m looking forward to seeing and responding to all of your comments…
What Is Your Biggest Time Management Challenge?
September 30th, 2008 by Bill Baren“You can’t always get what you want.” I love this song by the Stones, but I do want to add one element to the lyrics. “You can’t always get what you want, unless you know what you want.”
Knowing what I want and knowing where I can push my edge to become better at something is the secret sauce in my life. And that’s exactly the formula I have followed to have a better relationship with time and it’s what lead me to organize the Time Experts Telesummit.
So I invite you to take one minute to describe a frustration or challenge you have with managing your time and being productive. This will allow you to know what you want to get better at and it will allow me to insure that we address this challenge during the Time Expert Telesummit and on this blog.
Just enter your thoughts into the comment form below. I’ll be doing the same.
Thank you for your “time.”
Confessing My Time Management Sins
September 29th, 2008 by Bill Baren
I have to make a confession…
Most of the people in my life have thought that I was successful. I had a full coaching practice. I had successful associate coaches. My workshops have done well. So what’s the problem?
Yet, I had this nagging feeling of something holding me back from moving to the next level and being of even more of service to my clients.
It finally hit me - I had major issues with time management and being productive.
I often procrastinated. I would do the least important thing first. I was addicted to checking email. I kept having more and more things to do, and was struggling to keep up.
Dealing with my productivity issues
It dawned on me - I have to deal with this. So I spent the next 6 months researching what the world’s greatest gurus on time, productivity, procrastination and work-life balance had to teach on these topics. I wasn’t just learning, I was implementing and getting the best practices of all the top time experts into my bones. I figured out what worked the best and what didn’t.
Things finally began to shift for me. I became more focused and I became more productive. I no longer procrastinated and I went to sleep every day knowing that I spent time doing the most important thing for that day.
It’s a great feeling!
In fact, I was able to launch a new company, expand my staff and start organizing the Time Experts Telesummit (more on that below). My world expanded and I began to feel more alive than at any other time in my life.
Clients join the fray!
Then I began to implement these practices with my clients, because in my research, I found that time management and productivity was the #1 challenge for my clients too.
And surprise! I noticed that their productivity was quickly shifting, too. One client’s business revenue grew by 25% in just a few months. One client decided that by implementing just 1 or 2 of the best time management practices in his business, he can actually take Fridays off and feel good about. And other clients had major time management breakthroughs.
So I couldn’t wait and sit on the sidelines anymore. I saw the opportunity to share this knowledge with the world. And I wanted to do it in a BIG way. So the Time Experts Telesummit was born.
Taking it out to the world
I couldn’t have imagined a few months ago that I would be organizing an online event that will draw thousands of people. I couldn’t have imagined being in conversation with the likes of Philip Zimbardo, Stewart Friedman, Genpo Roshi and Marcia Weider about how we can have a better relationship with time. It’s incredibly exciting.
I have never been more proud of an event in my life (and I used to be in the event planning business). I know that this is the ticket to help you be more productive, less stressed and more alive. So I urge you to participate. And I ask you to let all your friends know about it.
Please register now, as the free teleseminars will definitely fill up (we have a limited number of spaces). I can’t wait to “see” you at the Time Experts Telesummit!