Work Life Balance
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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- 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: Zen Master Genpo Roshi’s Perspective
November 5th, 2008 by Bill BarenToday’s session promises to be different from all of our other teleseminars. It we be more spiritual, more experiential and will turn our concept of time upside down. Get ready for a paradigm shift.
It’s vital to have the right tools for time management and productivity AND it’s important to shake up our perceptions once in a while. The interview with Genpo Rochi is gonna be of the shaking kind…
Genpo Rochi has over 35 years of Zen meditation practice and is an accomplished athlete, successful businessperson, and the respected author of 5 books. He is the creator of the Big Mind•Big Heart practice, and is the Founder and Abbot of Kanzeon Zen Center and Kanzeon Sangha International.
As a Zen Master, Genpo will give you a whole different perspective on time that you may have never considered before. Genpo believes that in order to overcome our barriers and struggles with time we must practice self-investigation. In His Big Mind•Big Heart Genpo helps participants overcome the unhealthy patterns that keep them stuck and hinder them from living a better, more fulfilling life. At the end of this teleseminar not only will you better understand a Zen Master’s approach to time but, you will have learned a little more about yourself.
“Zen” has abecome a marketing buzzword in many Western countries. Today, we’ll get a real taste of what Zen really means.
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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…
Peak Performance with Dr. Jim Loehr
October 27th, 2008 by Bill BarenWhen we were putting together the line-up for the Telesummit, I wanted to make sure that we approached time management from many different perspectives. So I was delighted to hear that Jim Loehr was joining us. When I read his book, The Power of Full Engagement, I was immediately taken with the notion that enegy, not time is the key to high performance and personal renewal.
It makes total sense that time and energy are completely related. It’s not how much time we spend on what we are doing, but how much energy we bring to the acitivity is the secret to a successful and fulfilling life. I love the notion of creating peak performance in our business and life.
Jim Loehr lets us know how to access our key sources of energy, how to balance our energy expenditures and the importance of creating specific, positive energy management rituals.
In his book Jim makes a point that really hit me - the amount of time you have available in a day is fixed but, how much energy we exert in our work and free time is totally up to us. We just have to learn to manage it effectively in order to make the most of the day itself. It is such a simple concept but I found it quite profound.
Dr. Jim Loehr is a world-renowned performance psychologist and many of his clients include famous athletes such as golfer Mark O’Meara and Olympic gold medal speed skater Dan Jansen as well as professionals in law enforcement and Fortune 100 executives. We may not be hardened athletes or stealth FBI agents but, if we could use their tactics for success think of how much you could get done and how great you’ll feel? If Jim can help those people harness and manage their energy then he definitely has some tools you’ll want to hear about.
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- 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…
Total Leadership with Stewart Friedman
October 22nd, 2008 by Bill Baren“I never have enough time for my friends, family or myself. All I do is work, work, work.” Does this sound familiar to you? We all know that taking a break from work and spending time with our loved ones and our selves is crucial to preventing burn out, frustration and stress. But why is it that we never make time for those things?
It’s definitely something I have been grappling with in my own life, as I significantly expand my coaching business and start new ventures (like this Telesummit). It’s also an issue that many of my clients have as well.
Reading Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life by Stewart Friedman was like a breath of fresh air for me. As I began to learn and implement his system, the various parts of my life no longer felt like they competed against one another. And now - my family, my business and my personal life feel a lot more integrated. And it just feels so much better to be inside my own life, living it fully and from a place of personal power.
As you can tell I am really excited to share Stewart’s wisdom with you. He has made a tremendous difference in my life and I am sure, you will learn a great deal on the call.
Stewart Friedman is the founder of Total Leadership. He is an innovator in both the leadership development and work-life fields. His most recent book Total Leadership provides groundbreaking insights into the theory of work-life balance. In the session, Stewart will share why he thinks that work-life balance is a myth and should be thrown out the window. He believes that seeing it as a balance means that we are constantly taking from one area and giving to another, which makes us feel rushed, stressed and guilty. When we’re spending time with friends and family we feel stressed because we’re not working. And, when we’re working too much and not making time for others we feel guilty.
I can’t wait for you to hear Stewart’s insights and the whole new approach to making sure you are successful at work while still spending time with those most important in your life.
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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 Stewart Friedman teleseminar. This will serve two purposes:
- This will solidify your commitment to take action
- You will help others learn from your example
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!