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Confessing My Time Management Sins
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!
September 30th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
I waste time checking out the lives of old and new friends on Facebook - it’s so fun and such a massive suck on time that has no real redeeming value.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:11 am
I waste my time thinking about all the great things I can be doing and then with the time that rest doing only very small steps towards actually can be done. I need to choose one direction and do everything I can. Probably I need to stop thinkig untill the previuos ideas have been acomplished.
October 1st, 2008 at 4:43 pm
I think my biggest problem is knowing what is the most important thing to do next. At any point in time as I consider what I might do, everything either seems equally enticing or equally distasteful.
I have trouble applying logic such as…you are ALMOST finished with project 1, why not finish it and deliver it to the client before you start cataloging 4,000 negatives? I think some of this has something to do with not being able to tell the difference between what I want to do, what I think I should do, and what I somehow have accepted as things I have to do but really don’t want to…do.
October 1st, 2008 at 5:32 pm
My biggest challenge is the combination of
a) deciding what is important and b)starting it and THEN sticking to it, so that I plan time for it and do it within those timelinmes, til I am FINISHED. I am easily sidetractked and leave many projects unfinished which results in omnipresesnt clutter. AH…